5640 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 21-, against the tariff on linotype machines-to the Committee on By Mr. :MORRELL: Petition of the Philadelphia Board of Way-s and Means. Trade, for consolidation of third and fourth class mail matter Also, paper to accompany bill for relief.of John Marshall, jr. to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. PATTERSON of Tennessee: Petition of the Memphi!; Also, petition of the Hubbard County Clipper, against the and Shelby County Medical Society, for Federal control of quar tariff on linotype machines-to the Committee on Ways and antine-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 1\Ieans. By Mr. REID: Paper to accompany bill for relief of John S. By Mr. BENNETT of Kentucky : Paper to accompany bill for Houston-to the Committee on War Claims. relief of Wheetley D. Cropper, James J. Perry, and Perry G. P. By Mr. . SMITH of California: Petitions of citizens of Escon Bruce-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. dido, Cal., against religious legislation in the District of Co Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of J. F. Skeens-to lumbia-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. the Committee on Pensions. 1\Ir. STEVENS of Minnesota: Petition of Camp A. R. Patter By Mr. BOWERSOCK: Petition of citizens of Linn County, son, No. 1, Minnesota Division, Army of the Philippines, for Kans., against religious legislation in the District of Columbia special medals to Philippine volunteers-to the Committee on to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Military Affairs. By Mr. CAPRON: Paper' to accompany bill for relief of Wil · By 1\Ir. WOOD of New .Jersey: Petition of the Beebe-Webber liam B. Douglas-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Company, of Holyoke, 1\Iass. ; Hanscom Brothers, of Fall River, By Mr. CHAPMAN: Petition of citizens of Carmi, White :Mass., and the Forest City Woolen 1\Iill Company, of Cleve County, Ill., against bill H. R. 7007-to the Committee on In land, Ohio, against bill H. R. 8988 (the metric system bill, Lit dian Affairs. tauer bill)-to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Meas By Mr. DARRAGH: Petition of Rock Elm Grange, of East ures. Jordan, Charlevoix County, Mich., for a parcels-post law-to Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Mary Clark-to the the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Committee on Invalid Pensions. Also, petition of citizens of Montcalm County, Cedar Lake, Reading, and Clear County, Mich.; against religious legislation in the District of Columbia-to the Committee on the District - SENATE. of Columbia. By Mr. DUNWELL: Petition of Gens. Green B. Raum, Craw SATURDAY, April Bl, 1906. ford, and Birney, for bill S. 2162, creating a volunteer retired The Chaplain, Rev. Enw ARD E. HALE, offered the following list for surviving generals of volunteers-to the Committee on prayer: Military Affairs. Let us now praise famous men ancl otLr fathers that begot Also, petition of citizens of New York State, for relief of the 1ts. The Lord hath wmught great glory by them through his landless Indians in northern California-to the Committee on great 1JO'We1· fmm the beginning. Leaders of tl~e people by thei1• Indian Affairs. counsels and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, Also, petition of the American Reciprocal Tariff League, fa w-ise and eloquent in their instructions. · voring a commission of an advisory character, of economic ex Let us pray. perts, to adjust the tariff schedules from time to time-to the Father, we thank Thee for the fathers who founded this na· Committee on Ways and Means. tion, and we thank Thee for those who went before the fathers Also, petition of the Christian Social Cl)lb, for relief of the who founded the colonies and made these States, for the men landless Indians of California-to the Committee on Indian Af who knew God and believed in God, and planted their State on fairs. the everlasting foundations, who knew no king but the King of Also, petition of Republican Club of New York, for the mer kings, and no Lord but the Lord of lords. We thank Thee that chant marine shipping bill (S. 529)-to the Committee on the such men and their children live to-day, that they are with Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Thee in bringing iu Thy kingdom, and we ask Thee that the By Mr. FLOYD: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Alex ' spirit tllat was in the fathers may be with us to-day, even in our ander Dixon-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. calamities ; that we may bear calamity as the children of the By Mr. FULLER: Petition of the Woman's IIealth Protective living God; in om··prosperity that we may give Thee the praise Association, of New York, for bills S. 50, H. R. 4462, and S. and not take it for ourselves: 2962, relative to child labor and a children's bureau in the Dis Be with the Congre s, Father. Be with all the States. Be trict of Columbia-to the Committee on the District of Co with the President. Be with all the nations, to bind all men lumbia. together in one. We ask it in Christ Jesus. By Mr. GARRETT: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy George T. Welch-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in By Mr. GILLESPIE : Petition of ladies of Weatherford, Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us ·our Tex., for preservation of Niagara Falls-to the Committee on trespasses as we forgive tho e who trespass against us. Lead Rivers and Harbors. us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is By Mr. GOLDFOGLE: Petition of "The Charities and The the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Commons," approving of legislation now pending on the sani Amen. tary improvement of the District of Columbia-to the Committee THE JOUR AL. - on the District of Columbia. The Journal of yesterday's procee~ings was read and ap- By Mr. GRANGER: Petition of the League of Impro-;,~ment Societies of Rhode Island, for forc.1t reservations in the White proved. · Mountains and the Southern Appalachian Mountains-to the THE EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. Committee on Agricultme. 1\Ir. PERKINS. Mr. Presi(lent, the cablegram of the vice By 1\I.r. HAMILTON: Petition of Kridler Post, No. 575, president of the Brazilian Senate to the Vice-President of the Grand Army of the Republic, for granting additional pensions United States and President of the United States Senate, ex to soldiers who were prisoners-to the Committee on Invalid pressing the sympathy of that body for the people of San Fran Pensions. cisco and other communities in California o>crtaken by a great By Mr. HOWELL of New Jersey: Petition of Golden Rule catastrophe, will be appreciated by the people of my afflicted Council, of Perinsville, N. J., favoring restriction of immigra State; and while voicing the sentiments of the Senate of -the tion-to the Committee on Immigration and Natmalization. United States, I desire also to make in their behalf heartfelt Also, petition of citizens of Watertown, N. J., for transporta acknowledgment. _ tion of mail matter in book form suited to the uses of the I must also take this opportunity to acknowledge the great blind for 1 cent per 4 ounces-to the Committee on the Post debt of gratitude due to the Government of the United States Office and Post-Roads. . for the large sums of money contributed in aid of sufferers and ""By Mr. KNOWLAJ\"'D: Paper to accompany bill for relief of the splendidly efficient manner in which the different depart Charles 1\I. 1\Iayberry-to the Committee on Military Affairs. ments are carrying on their work of relief ; and to the people of By Mr. LEE : Paper to accompany bill for relief of Marion the different States and cities of the Union who have con F. _ 9J1_d Dr. ?If. Westbrooks-to the Committee on Military tributed millions upon millions of dollars to assist the homeless, Affairs. . the hungry, and the suffering. I desire to say that California By Mr. LOUDENSLAGER: Petition of Berlin Grange, of will never be able to express adequately its deep appreciation. Camden ·N. J., against the ship-subsidy bill ( S. 520) -to· the Mr. President, in this same connection I want to thank the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. . great railroads of this country_ for the prompt and cheerful man Bv Mr. :McCALL : Paper to accompany bill for relief of Ed ner in which they have given precedence to supplies of all kinds ward T. Lincoln-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. that are being forwarded to the suffering people of my State. 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE. 5641
They have given precedence over all other business in order to copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of forward promptly the succor to the distressed. The two great Samuel W. Latta v. The United States; which, with the accom railroads entering my home city are carrying free the homeless panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and and destitute to other parts of the country, where they can re ordered to be printed. ceive food · and shelter. lie also laid before the Senate a communication from the Great disasters like that which has occurred on the Pacific assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a .certified coast bring out most strongly the fact that the different peoples copy of the :findings of fact :filed by the court in the cause of of tllis world are after all one in human sympathy, and that the Mary H. Corbett, granddaughter of Samuel Howard, deceased, differences of race and language are external only, which are v. The United States ; which, with the accompanying paper, was swept away by calamity, bringing. out clearly the ultimate fact referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. that all men are brothers, whatever portion of the globe they He also laid before the Senate a communication from the inhabit. As kindness and consideration are vastly helpful to assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified the individual overwhelmed ·by a great loss, so will the expres copy of the :findings of fact :filed by the court in the cause of sions of brotherly sympathy from the different nations of the Albert Buhner v. The United States; which, with the accom earth help my afflicted State to bear more easily her great bur panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and den of sorrow. ordered to be printed. I believe that our stricken city will recover from the blow He also laid before the Senate a communication from the with wonderful rapidity, and will justify the design of its offi assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified cial seal, which bears a phenix issuring, new born, from the copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of flames, with the motto, "Oro en paz, ferro en guerra," which Alice S. Jordan, widow of John W. Jordan, deceased, _v. The translated means "Gold in peace, iron in war." In her present United States; which, with the accompanying paper, was re war with the elements San Francisco will show her mettle, and ferred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. will surely rise again and continue to be the great metropolis of He also laid before the Senate a communication from th~ the Pacific Coast States. assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified Mr. President, I move that the Vice-President of the United copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of States and President of the United States Senate make to the Harriet C. Brown, administratrix of Thomas R. Brown, de Senate of the Brazilian Government proper acknowledgment ceased, v. The United States; which, with the accompanying of the cablegram received and laid before the Senate yesterday naper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered evening. to be printed. The motion was unanimously agreed to. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified FINDINGS OF COURT OF CLAIMS. copy of the findings of fact filed by the court in· the cause of The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica- John B. Briggs v. The United States; which, with the accom tion from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans- panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and mitting a certified copy of the findings 'of fact filed by the ordered to be printed. court in the cause of Julia I\f. Woods and Mary E. Hagan, He also laid before the Senate a communication from the daughters, Mary J. Edelen and William 1\1. Junkin, grandchil- assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified dren of David X. Junkin, deceased, v. The United States; which, copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee Henry H. Clark v. The United States; which, with the accom on Claims, and ordered to be printed. panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and He also laid before the Senate a communication from the ordered to be printed. assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified He also laid before the Senate a communication from the copy of the findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a _certified John Hubbard v. '.rhe United States; which, with the accom- copy of the findings of fact filed by the court in the cause o~ panying paper:, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and Edward K. Rawson v. The United States; which, with the ac ordered to be printed. companying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, He also laid before the Senate a communication from the and ordered to be printed. . assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified He also laid before the Senate a communication from the copy of the :findings of fact :filed by the court in the cause of assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified Stephen A. Norfleet, administrator of Ernest Norfleet, deceased, copy of the findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of v. The United States; which, with the accompanying paper, Alamena B. Bates, daughter of John A. Bates, deceased, v. The was referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be United States; which, with the accompanying paper, was re- printed. fen·ed to the Committee on Claim~, and ordered to be printed. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the He also laid before the Senate a communication from the a sistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified assistant clerk of the -court of Claims, transmitting a certified copy of the findings of fact :filed by the court in the cause of copy of the :findings of fact :filed by the court in the cause of Ira C. Whitehead v. The United States; which, with the ac- Maria S. Wright, sister of Arthur_ H. Wright, deceased, t . 'I'he companying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, United States; which, with the accompanying paper, was re- and ordered to be printed. ferred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the He also laid before the Senate a communication from the nssistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified as istant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court ih the cause of copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of Mabel G. Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith, deceased, v. The Mary H. Nicholson, widow of James W. A. Nicholson, deceased, United States; whiclJ~ with the accompanying paper, was re- v. The United States; which, with the accompanying paper, was ferred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the as- He also laid before the Senate a communication from the sistant clerk of tlle Court of Claims, transmitting a certified assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified copy of the findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of George G. Clay v. The United States; which, with the accom- Robert H. McLean v. The United States; which, with the ac panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and companying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, ordered to be printed. and ordered to be printed. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the He also laid before the Senate a communication from the assistant clerk o't the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of John l\f. Steele v. The United States; which, with the accom- Mrs. George C. Hagan, widow (remarried) of John G. Mitchell, panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and deceased, v. The United States; which, with the accompanying ordered to be printed. paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to He also laid before the Senate a communication from the be printed. assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified He also laid before the Senate a communication from the copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified Horatio L. Wait v. The United States; which, with the ac- copy of the :findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of companying paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims, Caroline H. Broadhead, widow of Edgar Broadhead, deceased, v. and ordered to be printed. The United States; which, with the accompanying paper, was He also laid before the Senate a communication _from the j referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified He also laid before the Senate a communication from th~ 5642 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 21, assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified S. 1352. An act granting an increase of pension to Michael copy of the findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of the Scannell; Trustee of the Baptist Church of Cnlpeper, Va., v. The United S. 1354. An act granting a pension to Lydia Jones; States; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to S.1376. An act granting a pension to Adam Werner; the Committee on Claims, and· ordered to be printed. S. 1377. An act granting aii increase of pension to John R. He also laid before the Senate a communication from the Brown; assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a certified S. 1398. An act granting an increase of pension to Edmund copy of the findings of fact filed by the court in the cause of Morgan; Marianne D. Lemelle, administratrix of the estate of Rigobert S.1406. An act granting an increase of pension to Moses Hill; Lemelle, deceased, v. The United Stares; which, with the accom S. 1407. An act granting a pension to John 1\IcCaughen; panying paper, was referred to the Court of Claims, and ordered S. 1415. An act granting an increase of pen ~ ion to Alexander to be printed. Esler; MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. S. 1434. An act granting an increase of pension to S::unuel Derry; A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. C. R. McKENNEY, its enrolling clerk, announced that the House had S. 1-4:35. An act granting an increase of pension to Lewellen passed a bill (H. R. 4599) to remove the charge of de ert:ion T. Davis; from the military record of Wakeland Heryford; in which it S.161-t. An act granting a pension to Kate E . Young; requested the concurrence of the Senate. S. 1667. An act granting an increase of pension to John A. The message also announced that the House insists upon its Stockwell, alias John Stockwell; amendments to the bill ( S. 4250) to further enlarge the powers S. 1733. An act granting an increase of pension to George W. and authority of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Serv Trice; ice, and to impo e further duties thereon, disagreed to by the S. 1884. An act granting an increase of pension to Frederic Senate, agrees to the conference asked for by the Senate on the W. Swift; disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and had appointed . S. 1910. An act granting an increase of pension to Theodore 1\lr. HEPBURN, Mr. WANGER, and Mr. BARTLETT m::umgers at the McClellan; conference on the part of the House. S. 1919. An act granting an increase of pension to Louise M. Wynkoop; ENBOLLED BILLS SIGNED. S. 1952. An act granting an increase of pension to Jesse Alder· The message further announced that the Speaker of the House man· had signed the following enrolled bills and joint resolutions ; and S. l953. An act granting an increase of pension to Charles M. they were th~reupon signed by the Vice-President : Benson; S. 97. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas F. - S. 1962. An act granting an increase of pen ion to Julia Bald· Carey; win; S. 98. An act granting an increase of· pension to Doris F. S. 2033. An act granting an increase of pension to David Clegg; Tremble; S. 230. An act granting an increase of pension to Alfred S. 2050. An act granting an increase of pension to Jotham T. Y/oodin; Moulton; S. 249. An act granting an increase of pension to Alfred F. S. 2077. An act granting an increase of pension to Alice A. Sears; . Arms; S. 306. An act granting a pension to Cassy Cottrill ; S. 2094. An act granting an increase of pension to Rodney W. S. 337. An act granting an increase of pension to Lydia Ann Torrey; Jones: S. 2102. An act granting an increase of pension to George W. S. 45.0. An act granting , an increase of pension to James Lucas; Flynn; S. 2115. An act granting a pension to Carrie E. Costinett; S. 487. An act granting an increase of pension to William S. 2287. An act granting an increase of pension to James V. Sprouse; . Pope; S. 518. An act granting an increase of pension to William T. Godwin; S. 2378. An act granting an increase of pension to Maria S. 520. An act granting an increase of pension to William D. Leuckart; Johnson; . . S. 2452. An act creating an additional land office in the State S. 524. An act granting an increase of pension to Lestina M. of North Dakota; Gifford; S. 2507. An act granting an increase of pension to William S. 558. An act granting an increase of pension to Abijah Wheeler; Chamberlain ; S. 2540. An act granting an increase of pension to Benjamin S. 563. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas S. Miller; Martin; S. 2549. An act granting an increase of pension to George W. S. 657. An act granting an increase of pension to Mary J. Boyles; Reynolds; S. 2552. An act granting an increase of pension to Louise J. S. 674. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas A. D. Leland; ·agur; S. 25G8. An act granting an increase of pension to Noah C. s. 829. An act granting an increase of pension to James Gan Fowler; non; S. 2574. An act iranting an increase of pension to Parker · S. 835. An act granting an increase of pension to John W. Pritchard; Scott; S. 2575. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas W. s. 914. An act granting an increase of pension to Edwin R. Waugh; Hardy; S. 2577. An act granting an increase of pension to Francis 1\f. S. 920. An act granting an increase. of pension to Abraham S. Lynch; Brown; S. 2638. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas B. s. 975. An act granting an increase of pension to James Whaley; . Shaffer; . S. 2G67. An act granting an increase of pen ion to Benjamin ·s. 1012. An act granting an increase of pension to Samuel H. W. Valentine; Foster; S. 2G70. An act granting an increase of pension to .1\Iarie J. S. 1105. An act granting an increase of pension to Harriet Spicely; Williams; S. 2689. An act granting an increase of pension to .Alonzo M. s. 11G2. An act granting an increase of pension to Nelson Bartlett; Cook; S. 2725. An act granting an increase of pension to John S.l165. An act granting an increase of pension to James Mather; Moss; S. 2'733. An act granting an increa-se of pension to Charfes S. 1203. An act granting a pension to Albert B. Lawrence; Crismon; S. 1302. An act granting an increase of pension to William A. S. 2736. An act gl'anting an increase of pension to James 1\Iurray; Williams; s. 1338. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas S. 2745. An act granting an increase of pension to Zerelda N. Claiborne; 1\IcOoy; S. 1349. An act granting an increase of pension to Daniel C. S. 2772. An act granting an increase of "pension to Charles H. Earle; Niles; 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. fi643
S. 2790. An act granting an increase of pension to William J. S. 3839. An act granting an increase of pension to John T . . Millett; Brothers; S. 2795. An act granting an increase of pension to John H. R. 5976. An act to provide for the final disposition of the Albert; affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and S. 2832. An act granting a pension to Susan Penington; · for other purposes ; S. 2952. An act granting an increase of pension to William A. H . R. 16133. An act to simplify the issue of enrollments and Gipson; licenses of vessels of the United States ; S. 2953. An act granting an increase of pension to Mary L. H. R. 17135. An act providing that the State of Montana be Burr; permitted to ,relinquish to the United States certain lands here S. 2970. An act granting an increase of pension to Thomas E. tofore selected and select other lands from the public domain in Keith; lieu thereof ; S. 2973. An act granting an increase of pension to Minard Van H. R. 18334. An act making an appropriation to supply a de Patten ; ficiency in the appropriation for bringing home remains of offi s: 3024. An act granting an increase of p~nsion to David S. cers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die abroad; Trumbo· S. R. 46. Joint resolution to fill a vacancy in the Board of S. 3035. An act granting an increase of pension to Charles W. Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; and Shedd; S. R. 49. Joint resolution construing the joint resolution ap S. 3112. An act granting an increa·se of pension to James H. proved .April 19, 1906, entitled "Joint resolution for the relief Gardner; of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific S. 3182. An act granting an increase of pension to Walter coast." Lynn; PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. S. 3222. An act granting an increase of pension to Henry The VICE-PRESIDENT presented the petition of John M. Golder; Kairies, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., praying that an investigation be S. 3232. An act granting an increase of pension to Mary Jane made of the losses sustained by him through his having been Schnure ; expelled from Russia by order of the Russian Emperor; which S. 3252. An act granting an increase of pension to David F. was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Cramptcn: Heal~ presented the petition of F. E. Garner, of Union, Miss., S. 3254. An act granting an increase of pension to Anna praying for the enactment of legislation to require manufac Frances Hall ; turers and shippers of foods for interstate shipment to label s. 3257. An act granting an increase of pension to Walter their foods and print the ingredients contained in them on each Green ; package thereof; which was referred to the Committee on In~ S. 3284. An act granting an increase of pension to Charles B. terstate Cotnrnerce. Fox; Mr. CULLOM presented a petition of Kishwaukee Lodge, No. S. 32DG. An act granting an increase of pension to Patrick 310, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, of Belvidere, Ill., and Burk: a petition of Aurora Division, No. 32, Brotherhood of Locomo~ S. 297. An act granting an increase of pension to George tive Engineers, of .Aurora, Ill., praying for the passage of the Conklin; so-called " employers' liability bill ; " which were referred to S. 3~ 08 . An act granting an increase of pension to John B. the Committee on Interstate Commerce. Ashelmnn; Mr. GALLINGER presented a petition of the Wolfeboro Na S. 32CO. An act granting an increase of pension to Lorenzo D. tional Bank, of Wolfeboro, N. H., and a petition of the Hubbard Huntley ; & Moffitt Commission Company, of St. Louis, Mo., praying for S. 3303. An act granting a pension to Harriett B. Summers ; the adoption of a certain amendment to the present bankruptcy S. 3-119. An act granting an increase of pension to Joseph H. law; which were referred to the Committee on Finance. Beale; He also presented petitions of the New Hampshire State S. 3-lG5. An act granting an increase of pension to John T. Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Peterboro, and of sundry Vincent : citizens of Keene and Whitefield, all in the State of New Hamp· S. :}-:134.:. An act granting an increase of pension to J acob A. shire, praying for the enactment of legislation to remove the Fiel Mr. McCUMBER introduced a bill (S. 5798) granting an in Commerce Commissioners, both collectively and individually, are crease of pension to Charles Hunsley; which was read twice on record as favoring the broadest judicial review, without any by it tiL_, ami, with the accompanying paper, referred to the limitation on the right of the conrts to grant preliminary in Committee on Pensions. junctions. As a matter of fact, the member of the Commis 1\fr. BURKETT introduced a bill (S. 5799) to establish the sion, although they have at times been charged with seeking true tutus of the Nebraska Territorial Militia; which was undue power, have never sought to have conferred upou them read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Mili the despotic and autocratic authority over the transportation tary Affairs. business and commerce of the counh-y that orne of the proposed 1\lr. OVERllAN introduced the following bills; which were amendments to the Hepburn bill seek to confer upon them. severally read twice by their titles, and referred to the Commit The act to regulate commerce, constituting the Commission, tee on Pensions : specifically requires it to make such recommendations as to A bill (S. 5800) granting an increase of pension to James N. additional legislation as it may deem nece sary, and the Com Da-vis; and mission bas never failed to carry out this requirement. A bill ( S. 5801) granting an increase of pension to Andrew Jackson Parris. NEVER SUGGESTED ABRIDGMENT. TA.BIFFS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES. In all of its recommendations in favor of legislation confer Mr. IIE1.'BURN submitted an amendment proposing to ap ring the rate-making power, howe-ver, it has never sug~ested propriate $3,500 for the collating and arranging of the tariffs that the power of the courts to review its orders should be of foreign countries In form tor distribution, etc., intended to be abridged in any way. On the contrary, its suggestions as to proposed by him to the legislative, executive, and judicial appro legislation, whenever put into concrete form, as in the bill pre priation bill; which was ordered to be printed, and, with the .pared at the beginning of this ses ion, and a voiced by tlle in accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on Appropria dividual members of the Commission before Congretsional tions. committees, have contemplated the exercise by the courts of broad powers of review without any restriction upon the right of PRESERVATION OF NIAGA..RA FALLS. a reviewing court to issue preliminary injunctions or any other On motion of Mr. CULLOM, it was orders ordinarily employed by t.be courts. It might be expected Ordered, That the hearings before the Committee on Foreign Rela that the recommendations of these men, who are devoting all tions o! the United States Senate in regard to the preservation of Niagara Falls be printed as a Senate document. of their time to the study of transportation problems and of the JUDICIAL REVIEW BEGA.BDING RAILROAD RATES. best means of correcting abuses, especially when those recom mendations relate to the powers to be exerci ed by them, would 1\fr. LODGE. Mr. President, a very brief article appeared in have great weight with Congress. Especially might it be ex the Washington Post of yesterday containing a summary of the pected that the legislative branch of the Government, always different views expres ed by the Interstate Commerce Commis jealous of encroachments on the part of the executive, might sion on the question of rate review. It is a very valuable and be reluctant to confer upon administrative officials, re ponsible . a brief compilation. I ask that it may be printed as a Senate only to the President of the United States, a large mea ure of document, and that it also be placed in the RECORD. legislative power without surrounding such grant of authority The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from l\fassacbusetts with every possible safeguard and restriction. It is scarcely asks that a certain compilation from the Washington Post of to be expected that Congress will deliberately go further in the :resterday be printed as a document and also in the RECORD. Is direction of conferring autocratic powers on administrative offi there objection? cials than those officials themselves have recommended. Mr. ALLISON. I should like to ask the Senator from Massa chusetts if the subject of the compilation is not in the te ti THE COM:\iiSSfONERS' BILL. mony taken by the Committee on Interstate Commerce, which The late t and most specific recommendation of the Interstate bas been reported to the Senate? Commerce Commi ioners is contained in their draft of a bill l\fr. LODGE. It is entirely selected from the testimony, but submitted to the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce at will saye a great deal of time in the matter of reference. the beginning of the pre ent session of Congre s. In tmt bill IU~·. SCOTT. It is brief. they ask Congress t6 provide that "any carrier may, within Mr. LODGE. It is brief. It comprises only two columns. thirty days from the service upon it of any order, other than an lt takes out certain extracts from the testimony and places order for the payment of money, begin in the circuit court of them in a form which will be very convenient for reference. the United States for the district in which its principal oper l\fr. ALLISON. I have no doubt of that. I do not object ating office is situated, proceedings to set aside and vacate such to the reque t. order. * * * Such proceedings shall be begun by filing on the Mr. LODGE. . It is all in the testimony. equity side of the court a petition or bill in equity, which shall Mr. ALLISON. I only wanted to know that it was taken brie:fiy state the matters embraced in such order and tlle par from the testimony. ticulars in which it is alleged to be unlawful, and in such pro Mr. MONEY. I ask if the matter the Senator from Massa ceedings the complainant and the Commission shall be made chusetts has introduced and asked to have printed has been defendants." referred to the Committee on Printing for an estimate of the There is no suggestion here as to the limitation of the juris-. cost? - diction of the court in any way or of any restriction on the Mr. LODGE. It does not have to be estimated for. It does powers of the court to issue a preliminary injunction or any not cost anything like the amount allowed by the rule. It other order. Further, the bill proposes to provide explicitly that comprises only a couple of columns, and the cost will be far "upon the filing of such a petition the circuit court may, upon Inside the limit. It would not cost $10 to print it as a docu such notice to the complainant and to the Commission as the ment. court deems proper, extend the time within which such order Mr. MONEY. Mr. President, I am not trying to play econo shall take effect, not to exceed in all .sixty days from the date mist. I have no doubt the Senator from Massachusetts knows of service of the order upon the carrier." It also prop o ~es to very well what be is doing, and I have no doubt that it is what provide explicitly for the issuance of preliminary injunctions by I approve; but I asked for some printing here of a most val the provision that "the court may also, if it plainly avpears uable character, which was rejected because it would cost that the order is unlawful, and not otberwi e, suspend the oper something. It always costs ~ometbing to print. ation of the order during the pendency of the proceedings or The VICE-PRESIDENT. 1s there objection to the request until the further order of the court." of the Senator from Massachusetts? The Chair hears none, PROVISIONS AS TO FINES. and it is so ordered. Under this bill it is only in the event that no proceedings are The matter referred to is as follows : taken to vacate an order within thirty days or that sucb pro JS:ROAD RATE REVIEW--- their God in their own way and according to the dictates of tion father and son fought side by side in the Continental their own conscience. Army. At the close of the war John Platt settled in Washing " Small time had they then for the mere ideal ; ton, Conn., and here David Gould Platt, the father of the future Theil· love was truth. their present life all real. Senator, was born, and in 1817 married Almyra Hitcbcock. '.rhey walked the world, faith's vision never dim ; Saw not God's works, they only gazed on Him." Their borne can be pictured as one common in Connecticut rural communities. I find its inmates described as "plain, _un These men, Pilgrim and Puritan alike, w~re well equipped assuming, good farming people of the sturdy New England type, for the Master's work which they had undertaken and to which in whose home were fostered intelligence and piety." A.notber they had devoted tlleir lives. Their religious enthusiasm and writes: their unbounded faith inspired them with undaunted courage " I was at home in your father's house. He is one among the early to stru_ggle with privations and adversities, to conquer the wil abolitionists who is silhouetted on my memory most vividly. Your derne s and the treacherous foes with whom they were sur mother was a heroic soul-one in ten thousand." rounded and constantly contending in their new settlements Slavery had existed in Connecticut since early in the seven The Jove of liberty, strengtllened by the remembrance of the teenth cen~y; uns?ited to New Engl~d surroundings, it was tyranny from which they had escaped, actuated them to con gradually d1sappearmg from the State; the antislavery ·senti ceive and inaugurate a government of the people, so beneficial ment was just beginning its struggles, and the borne of Platt in its character, so ideal in its simple mechanism, so perfect and his associates were the centers in which the leaders gath in workings that it bas been banded down from generation to ered to forward the cause in which they had enlisted. Tiley generation, modified in its organization, but its principles and were denounced from the pulpit, osh·acised in society, and per its integrity preserved. secuted in their business; pupils were withdrawn from the acad The compact signed in the cabin of the Mayflower, followed emy on account of the views of its teacher until its numbers by the written constitution framed by the founders of the were so depleted that its doors were closed, and as a final pun Connecticut colony, and confirmed by royal charter, was the ishment PLATT, the teacher Gunn, and those interested in tile foundation of wl'itten constitutional government throughout new movement withdrew or were dismissed from the churcil. tlle world, and under these governmental concessions Con ORVILLE HITCHCOCK PLATT was born July 19, 1827, in the necticut, both as a Colony and a State, lived for nearly two town of Washington, Conn., in the Ilome to which I have al cenhu·ies. _ luded. The traditions of the State, the lives and example of its 'l'he religious element in these new-founded settlements for founders of colonial and revolutionary times, the godly influence a long time naturally predominated in public as well as in of the home life, and the daybreak of the awakened struggle for churchly affairs ; church and state were clo ely allied through lil.Jerty were his priceless heritage. . out the formulative period of colonial life, and the influence His early education was in the primitive district school, from of the pastors was almost unlimited; they were the teachers wbic.h be graduated to enter the academy, taught by his father's us well as the mini ters, supervised the educational privileges abolition friend, for instruction in the higher branches, and later of their several communities-simple tbougb they were in the became associated with Doctor Gunn as assistant. It was this early day&-and frequently filled the place of the good physi close association as pupil and teacher with this courageous cian and counselor. heroic spirit that gave the directing motive to and marked out 'l'he meetinghouse was the active center of the community his future career. life. Within its doors all public interests were discussed and With the closing of the academy, Doctor Gunn, witil bis action determined. It was often used as a place of refuge for assistant, PLATT, removed to Towanda, Pa., the home of David protection and defen e, and on the Sabbath for a place of Wilmot, the author of the Wilmot proviso, and where to l.Je an worship; tlle meetin!"house and the schoolhou e grew up side abolitionist did not subject a man to obloquy, and reentered by side, and over both the pastor ordinarily pre~ided. . tbeir work. After a few months PLATT returned to Connecticut, Of the men of the times of which I have spoken it is appro entered the law office of Gideon H . Hollister, at Litchfield, Conn., priately written on a memorial tablet erected to commemorate and in 1850 was admitted .to practice. Returning. to Towanda, the lives of the first settlers of one of our ancient Connecticut be completed Ilis legal studies in the-office of tile Hon. Ulysses towns, among whom were numbered Richard Platt and iary, S. Mercur, afterwards Chief Ju tice of the Supreme Court of his devoted wife, the ancestral beads of the family in America: Pennsylvania, and was likewise admitted to practice in th:lt "God sifted a whole nation that be might send choice grain into the State. While residing at Towanda, be was married to :Miss wilderness." Annie Bull, .and who died in 1893. In April, 1897, be married Men of such character and abilities, founding such institu 1\frs. Jeannie P. Hoyt, nee Smith, daughter of the Hon. Truman tions as they established, religious, governmental, and educa Smith, his early friend and adviser. tional, could not fail to leave the impress of their lives upon Retaining his love for his native State, be determined to again· their own times and upon the generations of men that were 1;o locate there and make it his future home, and, acting on the follow them. I venture the thought that from the colonial life advice of bis friend, Hon. Truman Smith, a member of the and works of these men our great Senator gathered the in Senate, and who-e successor be proved to be in later years, spiration and power which controlled his own long and useful the young attorney selected one of the struggling inclush·ial life. In an impres ive historical adfu·ess, delivered on the communities as a promising field for his future \"York, and made occasion of tile one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of tile then town of Meriden, Conn., his lifelon'"' home. •:rile pro tbe first church of the town in which he lived, having in mind fessional life of the country attorney at this period failed to the early days and their influence upon the present, be spoke yield even a reasonable pecuniary reward, as clients were few these words : and fees necessarily limited; but these conditions did not " There is one word in our language of wonderful significance, which discourage the young lawyer; be had determined to be a mas no definition that has been written completely expresses ; that is ter of his profession and to win his way to the confidence and ' influence.' I like to believe, and do believe, that no good deed was support of his fellow-townsmen. ever· done, no good word was ever fitly spoken by any ·human being that is not to-day a living fOrce and power in the world ; that the world His leisure hours furnisbed ample time for study and to par is what it is because of the deeds done and the words spoken by those ticipate in the various interests of the developing town. lie was who have gone before, not only by the remembered great, but the hum known as a public-spirited citizen, and everytlling that pertained ble unremembered souls sleeping in unknown graves. If man is immor tal: he as ntt.J.ly lives in the. J?aS~ as he will in the future. We bury to tile general welfare received his enthusiastic investigation the body, but the unbound sp1r1t hves and labors. Thoughts are forces; and merited support. He was conspicuous in the organization words are agencies; deeds are power." of nearly every industrial corporation that came into existence; Of the life of the settler-immigrant and his immediate de be perfected the charter, and set in motion the municipal gov scendants written history gives but little record, but we find that ernment of the city of Meriden. He connected himself with Richard Platt, with his wife Mary, with their children, arrived the First Congregational Church and became interested in all its from England and located in the New Haven colony. It is work. A pupil in bis class in the Sunday school has wTitten reasonable to assume that he was dissatisfied with governmental me : or religious conditions-in this colony they were closely united " Oftentimes he would become so intensely interested in his subject for in 1639 be, with sixty others, organized a new church that he would seem almost inspired." society and remoyed to and settled the town of l\1ilford, wbere Amid the hours of his busy life be found time to gratify bis be lived throughout his life. It is well to remember that dif love of nature acquired in bis boyhood days, and a tramp ferences in doch·ine and practice led generally to the formation tbrough the woods, or a day on the brook, or with his gun, gn.ve of a new cburch ociety and eventually to the settlement of a bim ample hours for recreation; and these pastimes were his new town, to which tile- disagreeing element would remo,·e. delight through bis life. . Richard Platt and his descendants were prominent factors in The educational interests of the town were bis constant tudy, the communities in whlch they lived, served their fellows both and to their broader and modern development he ga.-ve the bene in civil and church office, and were often honored with military fit of his resourceful mind and enthusiastic SU!1port. In later r ank in the local train-band. During the war of tbe Revolu· years he gave expression to the success of tile educational sys- 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 5647 tern that had been fostered in Connecticut in an address at the been joined by the great military leaders, transferred fr om the dedication of a free public library : · field to the forum, to assist through peaceful legislation the "We have been wont to glorify the common school as the foundation great work of reconstruction, and to work out the intricate and means of our common growth. Our nation could never have been problem Qf the future of the Republic. what it is to-day, nor what by faith we perceive to be its future, without its rare development of the educational spirit. Education in A generation nearly has passed; one by one the names that its widest sense is the corner stone of our national temple. The free illumined the roll of the Senate have been eliminated, and to public library is. but the advanced common school. Its opportunity is day but three of its then members remain to respond to its roll not a privilege; it is a common right. True men and women con tinue to acquire knowledge while they live. When education is finished call and participate in these memorial exercises. growth ceases, decay commences. The soul is dead that slumbers, the Determined to be a master in his work, he entered npon living is the only growing soul, and without books the soul would starve it with the same enthusiasm and spirit that enabled him to win and die." · his way in his early professional career. Accepting an assign The moral atmosphere of the town felt the elevating influence ment upon the Committee on Patents, on which he remained as of his personal life. He was an open and consistent adherent member and chairman for nearly the whole period of his Sena to the cause of temperance, which throughout his long life he torial service, he was enabled to render material assistance to never ceased actively to advocate and encourage, both in private, his inventive and ingenious constituency in perfecting and and in public legislation. strengthening the laws which to them were of so great material His political principles and party affiliations were ·already interest and the groundwork of a large degree of their pros firmly established; his associations in his early home with the perity. As chairman and member of the Committee on Terri leaders of the antislavery agitation had inspired him with a tories, he familiarized himself with the needs of the great de love for his fellow-men and their inalienable right to life, lib veloping sections of the country, and was an active participant erty, and the pursuit Qf happiness with which they were en in the legislation for the admission into the Union of the States dowed. He recognized the effective power of principle as suc of Montana, Washington, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, cessfully exercised by the infant antislavery or liberty party in and Idaho. As chairman of the Committee on Cuban Relations, a Presidential campaign, its first appearance as a political factor. be formulated the initial work that carried the blessings of lib He had seen new territory acquired which gave fresh impetus erty to the oppressed, and in what is now known as the" Platt to the struggle between freedom and slavery. In the Presiden 3)llendment," cemented friendly relations with the newborn tial election of 1848 he cast his first vote, and identified him Republic. He gave his best thought and untiring industry to self with the Free Soil Party and gave his influence and support all matters of legislation and gradually won his own place in to its candidates. the front rank. He had high. ideals Qf the duties and responsi Gradually but surely the young attorney had succeeded in bilities of governments, and in an earnest discussion of the cur winning the confidence and respect of his fellow-townsmen, rency question, involving, to his mind, the honor of the nation, which was his chosen standard by which to measure the . suc uttered this sentiment: cess of his work, and naturally he became a leader in the re "Governments, llke individuals, have characters; and if there is any ligious, business, and social life of the community. grander sight in this world to behold than the character of an upright, honest man, built up by acts or integrity and honesty and uprightness, :Mr. PLATT was not an avowed candidate for public office, but, it is the character or a government built up from its beginning by acts a<;:cepting a nomination in 1853, was for three successive terms of integrity and honor and honesty, with no blQt on its record; and if chosen judge of probate, and in 1855 clerk of the Connecticut there is anything sadder in this world than to see a man who has achieved such a character throw it to the winds by a single dishonorable senate, and in 1857 secretary of state. He was prominent in act, it is to see a great government that has built up a name for hon the organizatiQn of the Republican party, and was closely as esty, integrity, and nobility or character throw it to the winds by a sociated with its leaders, and to its principles and purposes he single dishonorable act. God grant that that blot may never be put was a devoted adherent the remainder of his life. Repeatedly upon the character of our Government." selected to represent his town in the General Assembly of the Senator PLATT was not a great orator. I would rather liken State, serving in the Senate 1861-1862 and in the house of him to and recall him as the Roger Sherman of our own times, representatives 1864 and 1869, he was accorded the party as I find Sherman described in a glowing history of the Con- leadership and as speaker and chairman of the Judiciary Com tinental Congress : ' ID.ittee conducted the legislation with CQnservatism and marked "No man surpassed him in capacity, Influence, and strength. He was neither eloquent nor impassioned. As of St. Paul, it might have been ability. Professional demands were now more requiring; his said of him, ' his speech' was ' of no account,' and yet, like St. Paul, extensive law practice called for his constant personal super his words carried weight far sm·passing those of the mere orator vision, and had for him greater attractions than public office, words that will guide and inspire mankind to the latest time. "There was in him kind-heartedness and industry, penetration and and for a time he declined to accept further political honors. close reasoning, an unclouded intellect, superiority to passion, . in In 1877 he was appointed to the responsible position of State trepid pariotism, solid judgment, and a directness which went straight Attorney for New Haven County, which office he held until his to the end. " He lacked magnetism, but though he did not possess genius, he had election as United States Senator in 1879. gift of accomplishment, which is greater than genius. He never trum Mr. PLATT was nominated and chosen Senator by the General peted his own praises. He seemed to be indllrerent to the applause of 'Assembly of Connecticut January, 1879. One of the leading his fellows, and to have never thought that his own work entitled him to credit or praise. One act done, he proceeded quietly to the doing of contestants for the position was his old-time abolition friend, another. Common sense, integrity, lofty purpose, unfaltering persist Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, who two years later he welcomed as a ence, supplemented by wide knowledge and intense patriotism, seem to Senator, and for twenty-four years they remained as colleagues have been his distinguishing traits. He took up his life as a humble (shoemaker) attorney; be laid it down as (our) Connecticut's national in this body. lawgiver." The results of the caucus came as a surprise to the people His confidence in the great mass of the people to maintain of Connecticut, but recognizing the abilities displayed in the our representative form of government was absolute. He ap service of the State by the newly elected Senator, justified the preciated the sacrifices which the fathers endured to establish choice. The citizens of his home town, gratified at the new ·and the enthusiasm with which their descendants rallied to honors which had come to their fellow-townsman, joined re preserve and perpetuate its blessings. In his own words: gardless of faction or party in a remarkable demonstration of "Liberty meant in Revolut ionary days, as it means now, all that men their admiration for the man. In response to the greetings of hope for, either for themselves or for posterity, and the self-governed his townsmen, he announced · the simple principle that would state meant an enjoyment of all the blessings of liberty. Remember, too, that in all ages lines of human liberty have been advanced by the guide his action : poor and lowly." " J ust now everything is new and seems unreal. I can scarcely ap The Senator's presence and participation Qn public and his preciate the future. How I shall walk in the new part in which I am set time will show. I do know that I shall try to do right as I see the torical occasions was eagerly sought, and to such requests he right." willingly acceded so far as his official duties and strength And this rule was the magnetic needle that directed and would permit. His addresses were word pictures and realistic marked out the course of his Senatorial career. delineations of the historic men and their times and the heroic He took his seat at the extra session of the Congress, March acts and generous lives of the founders and patriots of colonial 18, 1879, well equipped for the new obligations which had so and revolutionary days, the influence of whose life and acts, he unexpectedly been thrust upon him. Connecticut institutions felt, was ever inspiring. in town and State organization were a school of political edu The dignity of his presence always gave an added interest to cational life; in the school district, church society, and town the gatherings of the people, the earnestness of his manner meeting the people were accustomed to discuss and to direct all commanded the close attention of his bearers, and the moral les. ,.local affairs and interests, and in the General Court of the sons which he never failed to inculcate, and the influence of a CQlonial and the Assembly of modern times the representatives godly Christian character, which be deemed so essential to the of the people fitted themselves for advanced legislative work in welfare of society and for which his own personal life was so the council chambers of the nation. conspicuous, furnished ample food for thought and reflection. Be found as colleagues the master spirits Qf legislation Qf The prople of Connecticut never failed in their confidence or both Houses of Congress throughout the war period, who had loyalty: to their Senator. His whole public life of untiring 56t8 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 21, - indush·y, sterling integrity, and devotion to duty realized their Meriden, he should have said, as just quoted, that be was about E:':l.-pectations '"hen they selected him from their own ranks to to enter upon his service in this body with distrust of his own repreEent them in the council chamber of the nation, and con ability to discharge the new duties imposed upon him. I can firmed his own declaration at the outset of his Senatorial life- understand how one would so feel who bad ne>er before Eerved . " I shall try to do right as I sea the right." in either House of Congress; but his pledge then given to bis · Senator PLATT rounded out his service in this body as chair fellow-townsmen, that be would try to do the right as he S!,l.W the man of the Judiciary Committee, of which he bad previously right, was fully redeemed in his twenty-six years nf service here. been a member, and as yonr presiding officer on one of those It has been the rule in the Senate, with few exceptions from rare occasions in the history of our country that this Senate has the foundation of the Government, that seniority in service hall been called upon to exercise its constitutional judicial functions. govern in the · selection of committees. So that, as has been His work of accomplishment ended with the Fifty-eighth· Con truly said by the Senator from Connecticut, when Senator gress and the short executive session that followed. He clo ed PLATT came here he found the positions on the most important his great career with an unsullied record and reputation, the committees already taken by Senators who by reason of their peer of the honored Connecticut Senators, Ellsworth, Sherman, long service bad become prominent in this body and in a greater Johnson, Trumbull, Buckingham, and others that preceded him. or lesser degree prominent in the country, so that in his first His last public act was to participate in the legislative term of service conditions required that he should take po itions memorial exerci es· at the State capitol, in Hartford, in memory on minor committees. of his long-time friend and colleague; friends when- During the early years of his service he was appointed on the " creeds could not bind the consciences of such men. They found a two important committees of Territories and Patents, and be law higher than creeds ; they inquired only their duty to God and man, served on the Committee on Territories for twelve years con and did their duty as the saw it." · tinuously, and in 1887 became chairman of the committee. . His none too rugged frame bad wearied in its work, the This committee had important work to do during the whole throbbing heart pulse was to him the prophetic warning of a period of his service, and especially important during the years near reunion and renewed activities in the life beyond, as be of his chairmanship. In 1889 four new States were brought depicted in loving, tender words his graceful tribute to the l~fe into the Union under the leadership of Senator PLAT!', namely, and character of Connecticut's idol soldier and statesman· that North and South Dakota-the old Territory of Dakota being had already entered into the new life; it was· a "good-by" and divided in order to make two States-and Montana and Wash not a farewell. ington. During the following year, under his guidance as chair The needed rest and recreation he sought in his borne in his man, Idaho and Wyoming were also admitted. He had broad native town, "little Washington," as he would designate it, but views on the ubject of the admi sion of new ·states, believing the coveted rest never came until " he slept with the father ." that this great northwest country, then being rapidly developed He bad honorably filled his own place both in private and through railroad extensions, would become an important portion public life, and left behind an imperishable name to illumine of our Union as respects its agricultural, indu trial, and min the annals of his State and nation. He had fought the good eral development. So that under his influence and guidance fight and kept the faith; with an unclouded mind, with a char twelve additional Senators were admitted here. This expecta acteristic faith, and an undimmed eye be had seen in an awak tion has already been abundantly realized by the rapid progl.'ess ening vision- and development of those States since their admis ion. "An angel, writing in a book of gold; During his service on the Committee on Patents he brought Exceeding peace had made hlm (Ben .Adhem) bold. forward and secured the passage of important llleasures affect And to the presence in his room he said, • \V"bat writest thou?' The vision raised its head ing the interests o! in>entors, and also secured a radical and And with a look made all of sweet accord needed reform of our copyright laws. In the discussion of the Answer'd : ' The names o! those who love the Lord.' questions involved in these measures he displayed full and com 'And is mine one?' said he. (.Adhem.) 'Nay, not so,' Replied the angel. He spoke more low, plete knowledge o! the history of our copyright laws and the But cheerily still, and said: ' I pray thee, then, necessity .for their improvement. His ·work in revi ing these Write me as one who loves his fellow-men.' patent laws, as well as his achievement in ecuring, during his The angel wrote_a.nd vanished. The next night It came again, with a great wakening light, chairmanship of the Comr.;:.ittee on Territories, the admi sion And show'd the names whom love o! God had bless'd, of the six States I have named, merits for him high distinction And lo! his (Ben Adhem's) name led all the rest." in the a.nnals of the Senate. · He fell asleep. It is well known to Senators, though not apparent often to the April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five, general public, that there is a. large amount of what might be Washington, Connecticut. called "drudgery work" necessary to be done in the committees and in the Senate, which is very important but not of uch Mr. ALLISON. .Mr. President, I esteem it a great privilege general public interest as to attract the attention of the country. to be permitted to pay a brief tribute to the lite and character This work must be done by those competent and faithful in the of the late Senator ORVILLE H. PLAT!', who died one year ago discharge of their public duties. to-day at bis borne in Connecticut, where his birth took place When the committees o! the Senate were reorganized in 1887 seventy-eight years before. I regret that my own occupation Senator PLATT was, rather against his will, as I remember in matters of pressing public duty has prevented me from mak very well, persuaded to take a place upon the Committee on ing suitable preparation to speak in fitting terms of his life and India.n Affairs-a hard-working committee with most impor public services, but the portraiture of the senior Senator from tant duties to perform affecting the Indian tribes and Indian Connecticut [1\fr. BULKELEY] has so well delineated the char re ervations. At each succeeding Congre s, though anxious to acter of our late colleague that it seems almost unnecessary for retire from the committee, because its work w:is exacting and me to speak of any special trait. difficult in connection with other committee a signments, but the Senator PLATT came here on the 18th day of March, 1879, and importance of the work was so great, and his great ability was at that desk took the oath of office. He served until within a so recognized in its performance, that he was persuaded to few days of the time of his death, including the entire extraor continue in this important service for sixteen years, and was dinary session of the Senate which convened on March 4, 1905. relied upon to prepare and formulate important legislation re I was present when that oath was taken and sen-ed with Sen lating to these affairs. ator PLATT during the twenty-six years of his service here. It He gave his attention to proposed legislation coming before goes without saying that Senators who serve here for a long that committee with absolute fidelity, care, and industry. The period of time come to know each other well; and it was my most important legislation was necessary during the mo. t of fortune to know Senator PLATT intimately and to love him for this period, affecting the relations of the Fi>e Civilized Tribes his many beautiful traits of character. in the Indian Territory to each other and to the Government. I shall. not speak of what he did or what he was before he To this subject Senator PLATT gave unremitting attention and entered· this Chamber; this story has been graphically por consideration, visiting the Territory on two different occasions trayed by the senior Senator from Connecticut to-day. I shall, ·with subcommittees. During one of these vacations nearly the in a brief way, undertake to speak of his services here and the whole summer was occupied in the work of preparation of a work he did here and the just fame he acquired here. bill relating to the Five Civilized Tribes, which became a law Whilst there may have been others more brilliant and more and is the basis of the final settlement of the relations of the e eloquent in speech, no Senator during his term performed a n·ibes to the Government. These questions were of the utmost larger measure of service in this body than did Senator PLATT. importance, requiring the best ability to solve. His whole serv-. I think the instances are rare in our history at any time where ice of sixteen years was arduous and freely given, though not any Senator bas served more faithfully, industriously, effect an attractive one. ively, or more to the advantage of his State and his courihy. , But the most signal service in Senator PLATT's career here I am not surprised that, in reply to his fellow-townsmen at was performed in three committee rooms-those of the Com-. 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. ·5649 mittee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Finance, and the exhibition here on many occasions, was able to convince the Committee on Cuban Relations. Nothing better illustrates· the Senate that he had at least the .qualifications of an orator. value of Senator PLATT's labors here than the fact that be was Mr. President, I have only briefly outlined the iong-continuoo selected to deal with the great public questions coming before services of Senator PLATT in order to show that he well merited those important committees. the right to be named one of the leaders of the Senate. He became a member of the Committee on Finance in 1895. In all his public service he was conscientious in the examina Tba t was a period of monetary and industrial depression. It tion of subjects committed to his care and in the preparation was believed at that time that Congress should attempt to do of legislation brought before the Senate. something to alleviate those conditions; and Senator PLATT I knew him well· and served with him on some of the com entered upon that work,. in connection with other members of mittees I have named for months at a time. I learned to the Finance Committee, with a patient industry and interest appreciate his simple, quiet character and to admire his acute which finally resulted in the passage of what is known as the and discriminating intellect and well-instructed mind. When "Dingley law." Whatever may be said o_f the fruits of that the annals of the Senate shall be written, it will be found that law by its friends or its critics, it is certain that it was a most the name of Senator PLATT will occupy a deservedly high place. important and valuable piece of legislation, which occupied the We all mourn his departure; we shall miss him much as a Finance Committee for many months and the two Houses for member of this body and in all the relations of life. the extra session of 1897, called by President McKinley for I regret, Mr. President, that I have· been unable to pay a more that purpose. fitting tribute to the character of our departed colleague, but At a later period Senator PLATT became a member of the sub could not allow. the occasion to pass without a brief· expression committee which prepared with great care the bill known as of appreciation of his great attributes as a legislator and states "An act to define and fix the standard of values, to maintain man worthy of the first rank in the history of the Senate. the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes." That Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, as one of the three Senators act is, perhaps, next to the resumption act, the most important remaining in this body who were the colleagues of Senator law with reference to our finances that bas been passed since the PLATT in his entire career in the Senate, an opportunity is close of the civil war. It undertook to make permanent and afforded me that I never expected to have, and a melancholy effective our imperfect monet-ary system as respects metallic duty of recalling to the Senate and the country the wave of money and as respe"ts our currency, making effective provision national sortow that followed his departure hence, and the for the convertibility of all paper money, issued directly or in more agreeable privilege of pointing to his excellent example as directly, into gold. a memento that is gratefully cherished by the Senate. Senator PLATT, associated -yvith Senator ALDRICH, chairman, The sorrow and regret of his personal associates who re and others, gave the summer of 1899 practically to the consid main, when any good man dies, is like a cloud that reflects in eration and preparation of that great measure, which passed greater splendor the higher lights that are above it and then here, I believe, without any very serious debate, although tbere dissolves in tears, or is swept away. So our bereavement at the was criticism of it at the time as to its effectiveness to accom loss of Senator PLATT is compensated to the Senate and the plish the purpose intended. But the six years that have elapsed country by the memory of his virtues that we are now proud since that measure became a law have certainly justified the to record._ wi dom of its passage. It is high eulogium to say of anyone who bas served in the The mo t important single statute, however, in which Senator Senate that his moral worth, his loyalty to h·uth and justke, PLATT took a conspicuous part and of which .he was .the author his learning and abilities, his conduct and example are worthy was that concerning our relations with Cuba after the close of of a tribtmal that is endowed with the broadest and highest the war with Spain. After the cl.ose of the Spanish war it be powers of constitutional government. It is no less praiEe of came apparent in this body that our relations with Cuba were such a man to say that, in common with American people, his then, and were likely to continue to be, of such consequence as love and devotion to the country, its institutions, and its organic to require a committee of this body to deal with them. The law, was pure, and was inspired with the single motive of pa Senate in 1899 provided for a Coriunittee on Cuban Relations, h·iotic duty. which committee was, in its personnel, composed of the older Posterity, through coming generations, will say such things and most experienced members of the Senate. Senator PLATT without reserve or qualification about the service in the Sen by common consent was selected as the chairman of that com ate and in the councils of State of the great Senator from mittee. How wisely and how faithfully those duties were per Connecticut; and that is his fitting eulogi.um that none can formed by the committee and by its chairman is well known to now pronounce in its full meaning. the people of this country and to the people of Cuba. . His great services " 'ere not performed in some conspicuous 'l'be Platt amendment, so called, which was placed upon the acts of the m,ost vita). importance, though these are not wanting Army appropriation bill, was one of the most important pieces to accentuate a career that was still more excellent because of of legi lation which has been enacted in our parliamentary his his modest, earnest, and faithful observance of every duty. His . tory, dealing, as it did, with our relations to another country, forceful, successful, and controlling leadership in the Senate with which we were associated, but which had not been taken without any manifestation of ambitious impulses or purposes, into full accord with our system of government. New and signalizes Senator ORVILLE H. PLATT as being a model American wholly novel questions were involved. Senator," whose example, now that be is go.ne, is worth ·nearly Senator PLATT and his committee prepared that measure, and as much to the Senate and the country as his unfailing labors offered it in this body to be placed on the Army appropriation -were worth while he lived. ' bill of 1901. I do not give him, and I think it would not be The example lives and will long live in the Senate, like the quite just to give him the sole credit of originating that meas still small voice that is ever present in honest hearts, to \Those ure. It originated in the Committee on Cuban Relations, of admonitions none can turn a deaf ear without giving offense which he was chairman. His legal and analytic mind was a to the public conscience. There is great and national reason potential force in its preparation, and he may be fairl;x con for congratulation that his example in the Senate remains to sidered its author. It is well to note that this legislation was us as a priceless legacy. It is not always so conspicuous in its considered so important that, by unanimous consent, it was grandeur as to attract public admiration with its splendors, placed on the Army appropriation bill and was not considered but it is always true as a guide to such as are seeking to con as an independent measure. Such measures are only put upon tribute their ·labors as honest and diligent workers for the appropriation bills when imperative necessity so requires, and general welfare and for the safety of a self-governing people. when both, or all, political parties recognize the importance of It is a warning against excesses in the use of the authority of the measure. . their own laws, in derogation of the true majesty of their own These are some of the great measures which Senator PLATT sovereign powers. It is a remonstrance against overzealous originated or participated iu the framing of, and were placed in aggression that bas ofterl turned a good cause into a licentious our statutes. They will live in the history of our country so oppression. long as that history shall survive. Such tendencies are prevalent in many movements that are Senator PLATT was constantly in attendance here. He was called "popular demands,. for the reform of our orgmdc laws. faithful in tlle performance of every duty, whether in committee The memory of Senators, among whom he was abreast with the or in the Senate itself. He was an able debatei·, although, as foremost, still fills the Senate Chamber with affectionate admo bas been said by the Senator from Connecticut, be was not con- nitions to their successors to guard with fidelity the essential -sidered one of the orators of the body; but if in dealing with rights of the people and . the States. These will not go tm, any subject plain, logical, and concise statement and keen beeded, whatever may be the clamors or the traductions against analysis are elements of oratory, then Senator PLATT, by tlleir the Senate of the United States. XL--354 5650 OONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN.A.T_E. APRIL 21, One voice that is no longer audible ln this Chamber, a voice He was industrious, painstaking in his work, and when he bad of sympathy and courage, still speaks to us through the voice secured the necessary facts on which to base his opinions lle less air, like the message froin a distant shore that was tele was persi-stent in maintaining them, which he did with a logic graphed to our ships far out on the Paci.fic Ocean, and cailed and force that usually carried conviction, and thus he oon them to the rescue of humanity when San Francisco perished. became an influential member of this body. We hear and will obey the can to duty, whispered to ou.r He was assigned to the several committees with which new hearts from the invisible shores of eternity, and the Senate will members of this body must be content. He accepted such as still stand steadfastly in support of the Constitution of the signments without complaint, and immediately interested him United States, under our oaths to God. To Him we will bow self with zeal in the work of the committees to which he bad in submission, as our Pacific coast is kneeling in sackcloth and been assigned. His thorough examination of all matters com ashes ; but no man's authority will be accepted as a release ing before the committees of which he was a member made him from our vows, whatever may betide u·s. at once a valuable member, not only of the committee, but' o.f ORVILLE H. PLATT, with a host of other great and noble Sena the Senate. His careful attention to matters before the Sen tors who have passed away since I first took my seat in this ate and his positiveness of conviction as to matters he had con body, is here in spirit, with the same words to encourage us sidered soon brought him to an active participation in the work that were spoken in his every utterance and were true in every of the Senate, and he continued to hold that relation to the Sen act: '"Be faithful to duty in the fear of God." ate up to the close of the last session in which he participated, Senator PLATT was, in outward seeming to those who did not a few weeks before his death. know the shrinking modesty of his nature, a man-of marble, He was a party man with a strong partisan spirit, becam:e cold and polished in statuesque dignity, with 'little love for his he believed his party was best calculated to secure the higbe t kind. In fact, he was so tender a lover of all who were suffer degree of progress and prosperity it was possible for a nation ing affiiction or were in danger of the visitations of wrong and to attain. While he was a partisan and defended the principles injustice that his chief joy in life was in giving them comfort of his party with intelligence and vigor he recognized that there and strength, and in lifting their hopes above despair. . were two political parties in this country, and that there might As the great and proud race of Indans are disappearing be both wisdom and patriotism in those differing with him. from their fatherland, which no Indian would ever desert nor He was a good ty_pe of Americanism, and his aspiration for his be driven from it by forces that made death the penalty of re country was for aU parts and all the people within its borderR. sistance, none of them will forget · the sympat~ of Senator For a little over twenty-six years he represented the StatE> PLATT in his patient, just, and humane devotion to the rights of Connecticut in this body, and dming that time maintained not that remained to them after more than two centuries of war only the confidence of the people of the State that- sent him fare for the maintenance of their original indepenaence. He here, but of all the people of other States, and he was recog provided for them in their necessitous condition almost as a nized as one of the leading members of the Senate. During father would provide for his family. His great abilities and these many years of service in this body he stood for what he industrious labors were always engaged in their service when believed to be right, and, whether losing or winning, was always needed, so that none were neglected; and the records of the courteous and considerate of his opponents. Senate are a history of his work· that carries honor to his While he was a member of this body seven States were ad memory on every page that relates to Indian affairs. ' mitted to the Union, and, as he was a member of the Committee His only possible reward was the consciousness of duty well on Territories, he prepared three of the reports favoring suc:h and honsetly performed. action, and gave his cordial support to the admission of each and . The proud and silent nod of the grateful Indian in approba every one. tion of the equally proud and silent assistance of the great His length of service here was much beyond that w:hich Senator was the only token of friendship between men wbo usually falls to tho e becoming members of this body. Only were sternly just in their actions, and neither of them asked nor few persons in our history of over one hundred years have hehl expected nor granted favors. the distinction of serving twenty-six years in the United States Old Geronimo, the Apache king of the desert, whose courage Senate. I believe the number is only twelve. and blood has burnished the epaulettes of generals whom he Of the seventy-six Senators who were members of the first has fought from ·Obscurity into distinction, is dying in his tepee session of the Forty-sixth congress only three are now members in Arizona. He has become a devout and faithful Christian of this body, and only thirteen others are living. man, under such tutelage as Senator PLATT has encouraged. The death of one of our members who has so many years When recently asked if he desired longer to live, he an been an active and influential member may properly be said swered: "Yes; I am still of some use here." He said that he to be a national lo s, and I am sure every member of this body had some battles yet to fight for his tribe under a new King; in his death felt that he had suffered a personal los . that his enemy was no longer the white man, but the prince ·of We can do nothing to add to his fame or reputation, but we darkness, who had destroyed many thousands of red men in can bear willing and loving testimony to his high character, wars with white men. He said his tribe had gone on a new his many valuable services to State and nation, and express warpath and he wanted to lead them against the doer of all our profound grief at his death. evil. On being assured that llis death would lead them to the land of eternal rest, where they would follow him, he said: "Yes; I will go to that land of rest, where Christ is expecting l'tfr. ALDRICH. Mr. President, twenty-five years of inti me, but a poor old Indian can serve Him better here, in fight mate and unbroken friendship and of the closest association in ing the evil one, than he can in heaven, where he is not needed, the public service and the examination of public questions and I hope God will give me a little more time." gave me an ample opportunity to know and appreciate Sena If there was one thought of regret in the mind of the great tor PLATT's character and public services. When the history of Senator as he was passing from death into life it was like that our time (an eventful period of remarkable national develop which inspired the petition of Geronimo when he prayed that ment and expansion) is written, the historian must a sign Sena God would still give him greater length of days that he might tor PLATT a place in the very first rank of constructive states- help his people. ·men. His advice and counsel in the consideration of grave ques Honors like these~ won in the path of duty, cluster about the memory of Senator PLATT. They proclaim his Tight to the tions of public policy were ·invaluable, and nearly all of the homage that the Senate now offers in memory of a man who was great legislative acts adopted during his service in the Senate truly great and good. bear the impress of his mental vigor, constructive ability, and strength of character. Blessed are the dend who die in the Lord ; yea, salth the spirit, for evermore, for their works do follow them. In the presence of his associates, and after the statement to which you have listened, it is not necessary for me to enter Mr. TELLER. Mr. President, my personal acquaintance with into the details of his work in the Senate. That portion of Senator PLATT commenced when he entered the Senate in the his work which was, perhaps, best known to the public, although Forty-sixth Congress, March 18, 1879, with a well-earned repu not by any means the most valuable to the country, was con tation as a lawyer and legislator. He had erved the people nected with the solution of the perplexing problems growing of his native State in the capacity of secretary of state, as out of the Spanish-American war, and especially the adoption speaker of the hou e of representatives, and as a member of of the Platt amendment. the State senate. His executive and legislative service at home His valuable services as chairman of the Committee on Terri and his legal ability especially fitted him for the proper dis tories and as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs are charge of his duties as a member of this body. Modest and familiar to the Senate. Although Senator PLATT was for many unassuming in his intercourse with his fellow-members, he im yenrs a leading member of the Judiciary CommitteE>. ancl at tlJe mediately secured their confidence in his ability and sincerity. time of his death its chairman, a large portion of his more 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 565.1 important work was upon practical questions not connected naturally extremely apt to recei\e the impress ~~f their influ witll this committee. ence, and these two men stamped tllemselves deeply upon· the Representing a constituency with widely varied industrial in modes of thought and upon the instinctive mental attitude to terests, be naturally took an active and important part in the ward great questions of the people of CoQnnecticut who bad given preparation and discussion of tariff legislation. In the debate them to the nation and to the public service. Those who came upon the tariff act of 1883 his wide knowledge of practical after them insensibly followed the path their great predeces ors affairs and sound judgment impressed the Senate. He took an had marked out, and although questions changed and new issues even more prominent part in the tariff discussions of 1890 and arose the habit of mind and mode of thought remained unal 1804. . tered. Nature, we are told, is careful of the type no matter In 18!>5 be became a member of the Senate Finance Committee,.. ·how indifferent she may be to the individual, and certain it is and was an active and influential member of the subcommittee that in communities of strong character and salient qualities that prepared the amendments to the act of 1897 which were of intellect habits of thought not only endure, but the type is adopted by the Senate. No man gave to the country more reproduced. The type may not be continuous, but it is almost valuable service in connection with the adoption of these im unfailingly recurrent. portant legislative acts than the Senator from Connecticut. It always seemed to me as I watched Senator PLATT, listened Senator PLATT was a true son of New England, whose teach to his speeches, and passed in my relations with him from ac ings and traditions were exemplified in his life and character. quaintance to friendship that I recognized in him the qualities lie was conservative and at the same time fearless; he ilad and the statesmanship of Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth. none of tile arts of the demagogue, and never swerved from the 'Vhen a few years ago I ilad occasion to make a study of Ells clear path of public duty on account of popular clamor. He worth's career, I felt sure that I understood llim and realized was a careful and conscientious student of all public questions, what manner of man he was because I knew Senator PLATT. and to my mind in every respect an ideal Senator. He was This type, which I bad thus found in history and then met in simple and just by nature, able, intelligent, courageous, and daily life, is as fine as it is strong, and comes out as admirably wise with the wisdom that dominates and controls. in its modern exemplar as in those which illustrated the great Although be was by nature intensely practical and shrank period of Constitution making and of the upbuilding of the instinctively from anything like pretense and cant, yet in National Government. Senator PLATT was conspicuously a man thougilt and action lle always adopted the highest possible of reserved force and of calm reason. I bave seen the calmness standards and invariably followed the highest ideals. I ven disappear in the presence of what be believed imported either ture the assertion that no man ever held a membership in tlle evil to the Republic or wrong to man, but I never saw tile wis Senate who bad to a greater extent the confidence and esteem of dom of his counsels, no matter how much he may have been his associates tban the late Senator PLATT. moved, distorted, or disturbed. Naturally a lover of all the I can not refrain from saying a few words with reference to traditions of ordered liberty and obedience to law in wilicb be our personal relations. The fact that we represented adjoining ilad been reared, and which were ingrained in llis nature, be States, whose industries and material interests were practically ,-.,ras as far removed as possible from the stagnation and reac identical, was not the cause, but rather an incident to our warm tionary tendencies which too often injure and discredit conserv personal friendship. '.rllroughout its existence there was, on atism. Because he clung to that wilicb was good was never a my part, a constant growth of admiration and affection for the reason with him for resisting change. On tile conh·ary he man. In every phase of my work here I found hls counsel most sought and urged improvement always. The service he ren llelpful. In his death I am conscious of the loss of a dear dered in the case of tile copyright law was but one illSt.:wce friend, who was, all in all, the best man I ever knew. among many of his well-directed zeal in beilalf of civilization and of an e:aligbtened progress which silould keep pace with Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, among the remarkable men who the march of events. His mind was too constructive ever to - framed the Constitution of the United States two of the most be content with immobility or to accept the optimism satirized conspicuous were Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, dele- by Voltaire, that "whatever is, is right." He wished to make gates from the State of Connecticut. To tilem and particu- the world better and the lives of men happier, and he knew larly to the former was due the great compromise which pre- tilis could not be done by doggedly and unreasoningly resisting served the power of the States in the new system by securing all change and all advances merely becam:e be revered the to them equality of representation in the Senate, to which principles long ago established and bad abiding faith in the . was due more than to any other one condition tile success foundations of free government laid deep and strong by the of the Philadelphia convention and its complete but narrow fathers of the Republic. In nearly all the important legisla escape from failure and defeat. The provision thus ado11ted in tion which went to enactment during his long career of public eegard to the basis of representation in the Senate and the HouEe service, those who will take the trouble to studv the records was known as the Connecticut compromise, in ilonor of the men · will find the sure trace of his unobtrusive, but strong and sh:-tp wbose skill, foresight, and ability brought it into existence. ing hand. One great acilievement of constructive statesmanship Both Sherman and Ellsworth subsequently became Senators wllich is not only fixed among our laws, but which has become and helped to organize the new Government which the Consti- part of the constitution of anotiler country bears his honored tution bad called into being. To Ellsworth, who was after- name. Yet there are many more like unto it and scarcely less wards Chief Justice and one of the commissioners who made important in ,-vbicb he bore a leading p:1rt or which were due the peace with France, we also owe the judiciary act. a law to him alone that have no name attached to them and the true which bas so long withstood the test of time and of cilanging authorship of whicil will only be re1ealed to the future student conditions that it seems to-day to possess almost the fixity and of history when he is delving for material among the dry dust sanctity of the Constitution itself. of dead debates. . . . . Neither Sherman nor Ellsworth was a brilliant orator like To be anonymous m bts w?rk .was much more characteristic Pah·ick Henry nor a ~reat administrator and leader like of 1\fl:- PLATT than to affix hls stgn::tture where all men migllt Hamilton, nor ; consum~ate party chief and political manager I r.e~d It. He seemed to me not o_nly t:> care less for self~adver like Jefferson. They were public men of large ability and strong tismg, b~t to be more averse to It tilan almost any pubhc. ml;ID character, preeminently consh'Uctive state men of the Hamil- I :ver knew: He longed for. _r~sults, and w~s fi~ely 1_n~If~ t:mian school, who left enduring monuments of their wisdom fetent wh~n ~t came to the p~n tlhon ?f the credit for o~tamm::. and foresight in the Constitution, which they helped to frame, them_. Tllu; Is a phase of mmd, ~ k~n~ of pe.r~oD:al prtd~ and and in -the laws which they placed upon the statute book. self-r_~spect, not unworthy of consideratw_n, for It IS sufficiently Men, however, of such unusual character and strong men- rare m these days of. o':rs, so flooded wtt? news and so over tal qualities as Sherman and Ellsworth leave their mark wilelmed by easy prmtmg. I do not tilmk. Mr. PLATT eyer not merely upon the legislation and the history of their time, reasoned the matte~ out an? th:n rested, ~absfied tilat .last~ng but upon the minds of the communities in which they live, a fame and a place I!l the hi.~tOiy of the- tim~ bad no r~lati?n very lasting memorial, for habits of mind, although as impal- wilate~er to the. nOisy D:oto_n e~ of ~ile passmg hou~, With Its pable as air are often more imperisilable than stone or bronze. deaf~mng clamors ever rmgmg m ol!r e~rs. I.t was Simply part ' of his own nature, because oste::1tat10n m all Its forms was dis- :Not marble, nor the gilded monuments tasteful to him and because he shrank from exhibiting himself, Of princes shall outlive the powerful rhyme- ilis emotions, or bis works as sedulously as some men strive said the greatest of all poets. The rhyme of the poet is but to avoid anything which re~embles retirement or privacy. His words, words are but the thoughts of mE:>n grown articulate, and industry was unflagging, and again, in small tilings as in great, yet be who silapes and influences the thoughts and imagination in defeating a doubtful claim as in building up a great law, he of men leaves in his due proportion a monument which will 8ought results and nothing else. If he could pass the measure endure when iron bas rLsted and marble crumbled away. be desired, be was more than glad to dispense with making a The community which produced Sherman and Ellsworth was speech. If be could defeat an obnoxious bill by an objection, 5652 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~ENATE. A PRIL 21 , or throw out a bad amendment on a point of order, he was quite ally, silently, and yet with· unerring- regularity, almost precise, content to avoid debate; but if debate was nece sary h~ was as the diminution comes. The accretions of population come, too, formidable as a lucid; trained, legal mind, coupled with full in- and in the ordei: of nature in excess of· those who depart. So formation and a power of vigorous, clear statement, could make the main body of society generally presents the ailpearance of him. He was thorough in all be undertook-as effective in the health, vigor, and continuous progress. Here, indeed, no chair endless complications of a great tariff. as in guarding against is long vacant. Flowers that welcome the newcomer have often the perils which beset our Indian legislation. Outside this marked the black-veiled seat where his predece sor sat. "The Chamber his services to the Indians, and to the good name and king is dead! Long live the king! " This speaks the . state of credit of the United States in its dealings with those difficult power where succession is instantaneous. Likewise in all offi· and helpless savages, performed during many years of unremit- cia1 lives the office and he who is to fill it make quick connection. ting toil as a member of the Committee on Indian .Affairs, will Nevertheless, the stroke that removes one wllo has long inter never be rightly valued or understood. It was the kind. of hard, woven his life in the work of a great public body, who has self-sacrificing work for the sake of the right and to help others bound himself in associations of friendship and cooperative which must be in itself and in the doing thereof its own. great tasks with his companions, who has become a part of the busi and sufficient reward. ness of many constituents, who has stood forth as the repre. I have tried to indicate very imperfectly those qualities which sentative of a great State and as the champion of ideas, and, seem to me especially to distinguish Senator PLATT as a states- indeed, has translated his being into law and doctrine-such a man, for a statesman of high rank he most certainly was. But stroke suddenly snaps many ties and dissolves many vistas of I am-well aware that I have dwelt almost exclusively upon his pleasant and instructive contemplation. effectiveness, his indiff.erence to self-advertisement, and his unre- It must be to many, and it seems to all, as if a landmark of mitting pursuit of results and have passed by many of the quali- memory and hope and faith and affection had suddenly crum· ties which went to make up the man and to account for his large bled to the dUBt. If we lift our gaze from the tomb of a single success. His great ability_, his power of work, his knowledge, one who has departed to survey the scene of desolation which his sense of justice, his fearlessness in the battle with wrong, a few years make in the ranks of a body like this, we are well· his capacity for working with other men, were all conspicuous nigh appalled to realize how swiftly and surely death consum in Mr. PLATT, and all necessary to the distinguished achieve- mates its work of change and dissolution. ments of his life. He posse sed also a very much rarer gift in A short time since I heard the venerable ex-Vice-President his complete retention of that flexibility which is so apt to of tlle United States, who worthily filled from 1889 to 1893 the diminish as men advance in life. The mind, like the muscles, chair which you, 1\Ir. President, now occupy, declare that since tends to stiffen as we grow older, and only too frequently no be left this seat forty of those who were Senators during his effort is made to avoid the consequent rigidity: Both mind and term of service had responded to the last roll call. We almost muscle will go on performing most admirably the particular seem to hear the voice that says : functions to which they have been accustomed, but they both I am the Reaper. alike recoil from a new idea or an unwonted exertion. From All things with heedful hook all this Mr. PLATT was extraordinarily free. Neither his age ~~e~~o:;e;ai~:~hed with the spring, nor his natural conservatism hindered the movements of his Tall corn In summer, mind or made him shrink from a new idea or tremble and Fruits rich with autumn, and frail winter blossoms- draw b ac k fr·om an unexpect e d Sl• tua tion . In the 1as t t en years Reaping,All things still with reaping- heedful hook of his life be saw sudden and vast changes in tlle relations of Timely I gather. the United States to the rest of the world and in our national To-day, Mr. President, is the anniversary of the departure for· re ponsibilities. He did not hide from them or shut his eyes ever from the scenes of life of one who was long connected with and try to repel them. He met the new conditions not only with this body. That he is freshly remembered now is only a token the flexibility, but with the keen interest of youth, while at the of that further remembrance which will follow. ORVILLE H.rrcH· same time he brought to the solution of the new problems all cocK PLATT, the senior. Senator from Connecticut, has left us. the wisdom of a long experience. He did not turn away with He and Joseph Roswell Hawley were for well-nigh a. quarter of dark forebodings from the startling changes which the rush of a century associated here. They were well mated, worked in hurrying events swept suddenly upon us, but confronted them unison in the tasks committed to• their hands. with a cheerful lleart, a smile upon his lips, and a firm faith The former took his seat Uarch 18, 1879, and was reelected in in the future of his people and of his country. 1885_, in 1890, in 1897, and in 1903. The latter became a Rep- We knew him not? Ah, well we knew resentative in the Forty-second Congress to fill a vacancy, was The manly soul, so brave, so true, reelected to the Forty-third and the Forty-sixth Congresses, be. 'l'he cheerful heart that conquered age, came a Senator Mar t,) do. I became familiar, also, with his marked traits of and the masses strengthened their organic faculties by continu character, an Christ said, "Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she shaping the destiny of the Republic. The privations, difficulties, loved much," He showed not only "the quality of mercy which dangers, and obstacles which were encountered and overcome is not strained," but He also showed that divine comprehension by the men and women of Connecticut's early days developed which knows that error often flows from the very intensity of those qualities of highest manhood and womanhood which are the highest and noblest attributes of man's nature. universally attributed to New England. The weak, the vicious, It b as been said by several of Senator PLATT's friends here and the dishonest could not withstand the cruel experiences of and no man can ponder this strong man's long service and con those years of conilict with savage nature and savage man. stant devotion to his tasks of duty and fail to realize it-that he They of necessity went to the wall, and there survived that was an idealist. Not one with thirst for the vain shows and brave and sturdy stock who e influence bas been as a leaven pomps of life; not one with prurient ambition for ostentatious throughout the length and breadth of the land ·from the founda title nor for place and power. Rather was be the man of tion of the Republic to the present day. We may truly say of rigorous ideals of personal conduct and of public ends ; not a Senator PLATT, as he said of a deceased colleague not many visionary indeed, but one who kept realities in view and steered years ago : his course to sub erve them. A man who followed those ideals We are proud of our blood, as if it were blood alone to which we are patiently, sturdily, and steadily from month to month, from indebted, often forgetting that ancestral character as transmitted to year to year, from generation to generation, until old age called us wa_s built ';JP litt_Ie by little, slowly, steadily, but surely, by the sur bini to re ~t from his labors bespoke by his deeds the sincerity roundmgs am1d . wh1.;h our ancestors. wrought and fought and died, so that as generation succeeded generation each took on something which that was in him and gave back to those who uplifted him the it derived from nature and the struggle with nature. • • • Henry best fruits of his toil. Ward Beecher, in speaking of the New England farmers most truly - It is in this character that I am pleased to think of him. said: "They made the farms, and the farms made the men'." 1\fen who fight the battles of a people, whether it be on the And the manhood thus acquired was, two h~dred years after bloody field or in the forum, or wheresoever duty may lie, learn wards, represented in and characterized Senator PLATT. In to consider and to respect the opinions and worthy actions of this same eulogy Senator PLAT"I' referred to the need in the others. If to-morrow there were one of us who sought to leave United States Senate not only of men of commanding intellect, a point of honor to men who would decide it with a firm desire genius, eloquence, and brilliancy, but of those men of strong to decide it right, we would as soon select a champion from sense, industry, and unswerving devotion to principles, " whose those to whom we are politically opposed as from many who general characteristics can be best described by three grand have been by our side. words-sturdy, faithful, true;" and be then said that bEt So, l\lr. President, it affords me a mournful satisfaction to thought be would rather it should be written on his tombstone join with my colleagues here in paying sincere respect to the "He was sturdy, faithful, and true" than to haV"e it written memory of this brave American citizen, this honest and faithful "He was eloquent, learned, and great." American statesman. That those words, so expressive of steadfast honesty, courage It was my privilege, as a member of the Senate committee, and high intention, will be his best epitaph no one can disput~ to follow him to his grave. When he died be lived in the same for we who knew him here know that .to the consideration of town where he was born, amongst the grand and rugged bills of every question he brought to bear all those great qualities Litchfield County, from which he went forth as a farmer's boy, which make a man sturdy, faithful, and true. From the time and to which he returned ere his days had been numbered, as a he first held a political office in 1857, Senator PLATT distin distinguished and widely known American statesman. guished himself as one of the men who approached all public It must have been a solace to his heart to die at borne, amongst questions in a spirit utterly devoid of all self-seeking and with those who bad loved and cherished him, who had watched his a single desire of promoting the public good. It was this spirit course, and rejoiced in his successes. His funeral was con which gained for him the confidence, respect, and love of the ducted in the most simple and unostentatious form. The people people of Connecticut and which led them to insist that be of the State whom he bad served, and the friends that be had should take an active part in shaping the history of his own knit to him by long years of companionship, gathered together State and of the nation. The qualities of mind and heart which to see tile last of him. They showed every fitting civility and endeared him to his colleagues "in this Chamber and which com hospitality to the committee of the Senate who· took part in the pelled them to seek his counsel and rely upon his judgment local exercises by its order. The services were conducted with were those of a man sturdy in the maintenance of the right, religious rites; in which the old prayers were said and the old faithful to his high ideal of duty, and true to the spirit of the familiar hymns were sung in the village church. Then the pro Republic. cession filed to the village cemetery, and he was laid to rest We all know the ~ingleness of purpose with which he grap amongst the tombs of his people and his kindred, whom be had pled with all great que tions. The patient study that' he devoted served so long and well. to them was for the sole purpose of arriving at tb tn1th, for, The sun was. low in the west as " earth to earth and dust to like tile trained scientist, be knew that truth alone will make dust" was spoken; but the heavens were bright and the skies a stable foundation for legi lation, and that without truth at were blue above us, and the western hills were bathed in the the bottom all legislation is worse than the falsehood upon splendor of the gorgeous sunset. Presently darkness and night which it is based. This was the cause of that laborious, patient, fell upon tlle scene. The light of a faithful life dies not with unceasing study of financial, social, and political problems him who lived it. Like the light of the departed sun it shines which come before us for solution, and was the means of stor on undimmed, and renews its cheering radiance as day by day ing his mind with facts which served as signposts on the road it is revived to the children -of men. to tilat goal which he always sought-the best interests of the people of the United States. It was this quality of thorougbne s l\fr. PERKINS. Mr. President, one of the saddest duties which made him a guide in whom all could place confidence wilich fall to the lot of members of this body is to express tileir and whom we could follow with the a surance that we could sense of loss at the death of one of their colleagues. In the not go far astray. I think every Senator will say that during death of O&HLLE II. PLATT the Senate has met with a loss whose his service here with ORVILLE H. PLATT be bas observed no magnitude will be the more fully realized as time passes, for he one of his colleague who was so vigilant in watclling the wa one of the oldest in service here, and on his long experience cour e of legislation, so sure to discover dangers, and so prompt in national affairs and on his trained judgment we who came to apply remedies. In his treatment of measures, as of men, after him were accustomed to rely. It is with the sincerity be was absolutely fair and impartial, which commanded for which is compelled by long and familiar acquaintance with a him the highest respect of Senators of all parties, for his efforts man simply honest and upright that we recall the attributes of were always for the good of all the people, and in them par our deceased colleague, and as be here said on a similar oc- tisanship bad no place. At those times when legislation of vital ca ion: character was before the Senate, Senator PL TT was clearly There is no business more important, no hours more wisely spent, seen to be far above party and to be a statesman in the truest than those which we devote to the consideration of the services and sense of the term. To him the country owes some of the most virtues of departed Senators. 'important legislation of recent years-legislation affecting us Few of tho e who have been members of the Senate have as a nation-to which Democrats as well as Republicans gave rendered equal services to their country, or have exhibited so most hearty assent. I know that he bad among those who many and such lofty virtues as did ORVILLE H. PLATT. He was belono-ed to the opposite political party as sincere admirers :mel born in a State whose founders transmitted to their descendants as warm friends as among his colleagues on his own side of the the qualities which stamped him as one of the strong men of Cllamber. His honesty, sincerity, and patriotism broke down the nation. The early settlers of Connecticut must needs ll~ve the barriers of party, and be was acknowledged here to be, as had strength, indomitable courage, character· of the higbe t lle sougllt·to be, a Senator of the United States. order, faith, perseverance, and determination to have built up But Death wields his scythe here ns elsewhere, and cuts the Commonwealth which bas been so powerful a factor in down the greatest and most useful public men as be does the 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 5655 humblest citizen. The sentence which he executes impends He came of good English ancestors, who settled in his native over all who Ii>e, and from it there is no escape. But in those State during the first half of the se>enteenth century. Gifted who have lived wisely, purely, and unselfishly there is no fear, with more than ordinary intellectual abilities, he bad the ad &nd men like ORVilLE H. PLATT go to their rest with the vantages of the training in one of the best of the famous New quietude of tho e who retire to sleep after a day's work well England academies of the first half of the nineteenth century. done. Others will come forward to take the places thus made This training be supplemented with a thorough preparation for vacant. Many will be eloquent, many brilliant, many learned, the profession of a lawyer. He was an able, conscientious, thor many strong and powerful, but none will have a higher ambi ough, and successful lawyer. tion, or attain it more completely than ORVILLE H. Pr.ATT, who He entered the public service of his State in an administrative in his life work developed those great qualities that be so capacity at an early age. He served in both branches of the re-vered in others, and which made him in truth a man sturdy, State legislature, and served one term as speaker of the lower faithful, and true. house. It is such men as the late Senator PLATT who set the high In March, 1879, be first took his seat in the United States Sen standard which e>ery member of the United States Senate ate, and he was four times reelected. His last term would have should seek to reach, and none of those who have gone before expired March 3, 1909. He was a member of this body for up are more worthy of emulation than he whose memory we now ward of twenty-six years, and during that time .b.e served honor. His honesty and absolute fairness are observable in all eighteen years on the Committee on Patents, eight of those his work, and it is this quality which made his opinions guides years as chairman. He was regarded by all as the best author for legislation, and often they were enacted into legislation ity on patent law in the Senate. itself. Not a sign of sellishness or self-seeking of any kind ever For sixteen years be was a member of the Committee on In appeared in what he said or did as a Senator. He obliterated dian Affairs, where he rendered most valuable and efficient serv himself in the work he had to do, with the result that that ice. No one was better versed than be in all the intricacies of work is his greatest monument. It was in the times following Indian legislation, and no one was more alive than he to the the Spanish-American war that he showed himself greatest, true welfare of the Indians-always on guard to protect and de when he enunciated the policy which should govern our relations fend them against open and insidious inroads on their rights to Cuba, and placed that young nation beyond the reach of the and interests, but never a block or impediment to the opening selfish aggression of foreign or domestic foes. The great Platt and settlement of our vast public domain. His heart went out r..mendment marks the time when the last lingering desire to to the frontiersman, as well as to the Indians. He had none of secure Cuba for exploitation by Americans became impossible of those hazy and transcendent notions of so-called " Indian rights " attainment, and Cuba was made absolutely free and il,ldepend or " Indian character " possessed by a school of closet reformers. ent, with untrammeled opportunity to work out her destiny in He gauged the Indian at his true worth and at his real apti her own way. We aU know how easy it would have been to tude and ability, and hence he was the most practical and useful have changed entirely the future of Cuba; how easy it would friend the Indian had. have been to allow selfishness to dictate national pOlicy at a For twelve years he was a member of the Committee on time like that But the innate justice and broad charity of Territories, six years as chairman, and while such chairman Senator PLATT would countenance no temporizing with national six States were admitted into the Union, to wit: North Dakota, honor, and the Senate stood with him on the pjgh grounQ. :Qe had South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming; chosen, and the result is the admiration and respect of the world all prosperous, growing, and progressive States. for the work performed. For ten years, and up to the time of his death, he was a That broad statesmanship which characterized Senator PLATT, member of the Committee on Finance, and as such was ap ac Senator Hoar, and others of the great members of the body who tive and resolute participant in the enactment of tpe Dingley have ceased their labors here, should be for all-of us an in tariff law. spiration and a guide. No narrow views should here dictate our For four years he was chairman of the Committee on Cuban action, no selfish ambitions should swerve us from the straight Relations, and was partly the author, and the father, of the path of duty to the whole people and to the people as a whole. noted Platt amendment-that great bulwark and mainstay of Domestic laws and foreign policies should first go through such the Cuban Republic against foes, foreign and domestic. crucible purification as they were accustomed to encounter at He was for twelve years a leading member of the Judiciary Com~ the hands of Senator PLATT. As he did, so should we consider mittee, and at the time of his death was the chairman of the without haste, deliberate without passion, weigh in the scales cmlllllittee. On this great committee, on account of his skill of justice, and decide in the spirit of great love all questions and learning as a lawyer and on account of his industrious, which come before us here. The conser·vatism of such men as prudent, and conservative character, he was one of the most ac he is tlie crowning glory of a great mind, and without _such tive, useful, and safe members, favorable to all reasonable in minds legislation i~ a body like the Congress of the United novations, but sternly set against visionary, revolutionary, or States would present anything but the orderly progress of re doubtful schemes and measures. publican government, which we have, up to this time, been en The last great service he rendered in this Chamber wns in abled to boast of to the other nations of the world. It is from presiding over the Senate as a court of impeachment in the such minds that come the words of warning that prevent the case of Judge Swayne. The care, dignity, and impartiality hasty adoption of ill-judged measures or the subservient con with which he performed this great task is fresh in our mem sideration of novel policies. It is only such conservatism ories and familiar to us· all. as was constantly exhibited by Senator PLATT and others But all this is but a scant outline of the man, his character, who live on the same high plane that will safely pilot the his worth, and his work. For more than a quarter of a century ship of state through the shallows and among the rocks the Senate was the great field a:p_d forum of bis task and work. wbicb lie in its course in these times of mental stress and Here he wrought incessantly, thoroughly, and most effectively. change. And until we have safely passed these dangers, I do He did not shine with the meteoric splendor of the ardent and not think that any member of this body-certainly not one of finished orator. He nev-er heralded his speeches, nor posed for the older members who worked long with Senator PLATT-will effect, nor kept his eyes strained on the galleries. But in the. cease to feel the great loss of his guiding judgment and advice. bard, laborious, and oftentimes thankless work of scanning And it was those very qualities which he so admired in others, and formulating legislation, and in expounding the merits and and which he possessed in such marked degree, that made him defects of measures, be exhibited a thoroughness and skill one of the strong men of the nation-one on whom the people 'truly rare, and second to, none. He had the full confidence of could, rely to sink himself in his work for them, for they knew every member of this body, and his opinion and judgment of that he was in very truth a man sturdy and faithful and true. measures was always regarded as a safe guide and well-nigh I would ask no higher tribute to be written as my epitaph infallible. He was a fairly good debater, · and could give and if it could be truthfully said of me, as it can of him whose take blows, though there was nothing pugnacious in bis- make memory we to-day honor-than "In whatever position be was up and nature. He never talked for mere effect, but rather as placed, be always endeavored to honestly do his duty." a duty which he owed to his subject, to himself, and to his associates, and hence his remarks were always instructive, al . Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, a year ago to-day Senator ways confined to the real point at issue, and always listened PLATT, one of the veterans of this body, closed his earthly ca to and heeded. While be was always zealous to promote and reer and entered the realms of eternity, to join the ranks of that press good measures, he was equally zealous and firm as a ever-increasing phalanx of immortals. rock in checking and barring any sch{'me or measure which be He was when he passed away not only a veteran in years and deemed bad, or detrimental to the w-elfare or best interests of in public service, but he was also a veteran in all the higbest our country. and best qualities of a statesman and legislator. Few, if any, He ·was patient. thorougb, and painstaking at all times. and excelled him as such. under all circumstances, and ever Jrept a vigilant eye on the 5656 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. SENATE. - APR1L 21, ~ whole field of legislation. 1\!ost of us are content and feel that no one shed a brighter or clearer luster upon the tone, the. we perform our duties fairly well if we familiarize ourselves spirit, and character of the Senate. with and keep track of the work of the committees of which we He is with us no more, but his life, his work, and his example are members, but he, even though he excelled us in this, was will be a beacon and an inspiration to us in the days to come, not content with such a limited sphere of work. Like the late and thus, "though he be dead, yet he still liveth." Senator from Missouri [l\Ir. Cockrell] he had his eye upon and scrupulously took the measure of every important bill upon the Mr. BEVERIDGE. Mr. President, I -wi b to speak not so the Calendar, so that when it was taken up for consideration much of the exalted character and wonderful intellect of this he was prepared to intelligently discu8s it and point out its great man as of his fundamental p:ublic principles. I wish to merits and defects, and if the bill was a meritorious one it speak of ORVILLE H. PLATT, of Connect~cut, as the typical fotmd in him a most valuable ally and supporter, but if in his American statesman. Of Connecticut? No; of the Republic. opinion the bill was unwise or meretricious he never hesitated No State is great enough to claim a man like him exclusively to attack it and point out with inflexible persistence and clear as its own. He loved Connecticut with a passion which lesser ness its defects. And .this he did, not through a spirit of per men could never Understand ; and yet no man so earnestly de sonal hostility to the father of the measure, but through a strong nied the consequence of a State compared with the nation as sense of duty which he conscientiously felt he could not shirk; did ORVILLE H. PLATT. To him the American people was every And it was this attribute and characteristic of his that made thing ; to him the glory of the people of Connecticut was that him such a useful and influential member of this body. He they are citizens of the great Republic. was trusted and relied upon in every great legislative emer For Senator PLATT was a state man of the nation. He be gency, for his wisdom and conservatism was so pronounced and lieved that a member of this body is what the Constitution calls so familiar to all. He was the fairest legislator I have ever him-a Senator of the United States from a State, and not the met, modest and without any personal pride. It sometimes Senator of a State, not the envoy of an independent entity, not happened, though less often than with other men, that be, in the ambassador of a separate power. Moreover, be looked on the first instance, might misjudge or misapprehend the merits all American industry and business as so interlaced and inter of a measure, but if he did, he was ever ready to be corrected, dependent that they are one and the same. He. regarded the and when convinced of his mistake he was not merely content present and future welfare of the entire American people from to acknowledge the mistake, but he became zealous to make ocean to ocean as his personal concern and that of every Sena full amends, and this was a trait that endeared him to so many tor. And so it was that be was the statesman of a people and of his associates, e pecially to new and struggling members. not the politician of a locality. He was never surcharged with that Senatorial dignity so chill And this is the first principle of American statesmanship. For ing and oppres ive to a new member,. but always met such a if Senators are merely attorneys for their State and section; if member more than halfway and with a kind and helpful spirit. the welfare of one Commonwealth is inconsistent with the wel We of the great and growing States of the West, who caill.e fare of other Commonwealths ; if legislation is to be a conflict of here with no end of important and meritorious local measures hostile interests, and policies a composite of warring industries, o'n our bands to promote and pass, which you of the older our laws will be increa ingly weak and inconsistent, and the ulti States are not burdened with and have but a scant concep mate dissolution of the Republic the necessary result of the tiorl of, are happy indeed to meet with some of our older ceaseless battle of irreconcilable forces. -. brothers here in the East who can appreciate our task and who But if Americans are one people ; if the Mississippi flows are willing to help and guide us in our efforts, which to older through a common country and our transcontinental trains and more experienced Senators may oftentimes seem crude whirl from Boston to Seattle, never once stopping at a foreign and awkward. Such a brother and helper was Senator PLATT. boundary or passing under a foreign flag; if the welfare of His kindly, sympathetic spirit was extended to us in full meas Maine and Oregon, of Georgia and Wisconsin, of Texas and ure in word and in deed. I · know how helpful he was to me New York, is a common warfare; if it is imposible that one on many an occasion in my early days in the Senate. Indeed, State or section, one class or·industry, can thrive by any policy his helpfulne s abided with me during all my association with or law not good for the whole land; if the motto of the Re him in this body. He seemed my . friend from the very start. public be true that "United we stand, divided we fall; " if and so he always remained, without ostentation, ever kind and Senators are statesmen of the Republic as a whole, sent from helpful, to the end. He seemed to delight, not in exploiting his States to hold council for the nation as a unit; if this be the own merits, but rather in helping men and measures that were true philosophy of our Government and the just conception· of meritorious and needed his help and assistance. And this came our duty as Senators, then the Republic will be immortal-made in part from hi~ modesty and in part from his earnest and sin so by the solidarity of the American people, made so by every cere zeal for the public service. The merits of the cause rather American considering the welfare of all Americans and every than his own glory seemed uppermost in his thoughts. He took section the interests of all sections, in which alone is found real · no pains to exploit his own eminence and ability, and hence while wisdom for the individual man or section. here in this Chamber and among his associates he justly ranked And this was Senator PLATT's ruling principle. That Senators, among tile very highest and the best. He bad not as great a repu and especially the newer Senators who did not know him, may tation and was not as noted in the great world at large as many understand the great conception that guided him in all his pub men of inferior ability and of much less merit. But while he lic work, I wish to read an extract from perhaps the greatest may not have figured in the lime light of the public press as ex speech be ever made. In his notable deliverance on December tensively as some other men in public lif~, and while no blow 19, 1898, he said : ing of horns and beating of cymbals accompanied him or her Mr. President, this is a nation. It has been called by various names. alded his efforts and his work, yet he wrought faithfully, he It bas been called a Confederated Republic, a Federal Union, the Union roically, and well and was content with the consciousness that of States, a League of States, a rope of sand; but during all the time these names have been applied to it it bas been a nation. It he had performed his duty and served the public weal to the was so understood by the framers of the Constitution. It was so best of his ability, and thus he proved a most instructive ex decided by the great judges of the Supreme Court in the early days of ample to those of less modesty and to those more disposed to the Constitution. It is too late to deny it, and, Mr. President, it is also too late to seek notoriety than substantial results. admit it and not have faith in it. Intellectual assent to the doctrines The moral influence of Senator PLATT was even greater than of Christianity does not make a man a Christian. It is saving faith his intellectual force and power. He impressed everyone who that makes the Christian. And a mere intellectual assent to the doctrine that we are a nation does not make the true patriot. It is high time came in contact with him that he was actuated by the highest' that we come to believe without qualification, to believe in our hearts, and noblest motives in all his efforts. No one ever questioned or in the exercise of patriotic faith, that the United tates is a nation. doubted his honesty, his integrity, and the purity of his motives. When we come to believe that, Mr. President, many of the doubts and There was a serene calmness, coupled with clearness and ear uncertainties which have troubled men will disappear. ne tness, in his deliberations and in his speeches. He was no By this principle he solved vexed questions, wrote wise stat legislative peciali t with only a single bobby or a single line of ute , interpreted the fundamental law. He regarded the Consti work. He was equipped for and devoted to every great line of tution not as a compact between independent state , but. a legi lative work in a greater measure than most of his col l\far hall called it, an "ordinance of national life" established by leagues; and above all he gave his entire heart and energy to an undivided and indivisible people. To him the sovereign the work in hand. All that was his be gave to his country with words of the Constitution are the first three, "We, the people." a whole heart and without any reservation. He was faithful in And so, like Marshall, like Story, like Web ter, like J efferson small things as well as in those of greater importance. He left (who, declaring that we had no express constitutional power to a vacuum in the Senate that is bard to fill. His death was not do so, yet made the Louisiana purchase), lih:e Jackson, like Lin only a great loss and bereavement to his family, to his State, coln, like all American statesmen great enough to be yet vi ible and to the nation, but also to his associates here in this body, for above the receding horizon (aye, and like the American people 190£). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENA-TE. 5657" tbemseh·es), Senator PLATT believed that the Constit-ution shall be-converted to. the cause of free government, and I believe the United States is a providentially appointed agent for that purpose. grows-grows by interpretation, grows by the use of implied 'l'he day may be long in coming, and it may be in the far· future, but he powers not needed till emergency calls them into action, grows who has studied the history of this western world f1·om the 22d day· of by the larger meaning which events and our advancing Ameri December, 1620, to the present hour must be blind indeed if he can not see that the cause of free government in the world is still progressing can civilization read into its formal phrase, grows as the and that what the United States· is doing in the Philippine Islands is · American people grow. . in the extension of that beneficent purpose. (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, · He had no fear of the results of such a constitutional phi February 11, 1902.) losophy. He stood in no terror of the American people. He did I read this, Mr. President, not to show his particular opinion not believe that the strict construction of a formal word, writ upon this public question, but to show the youthfulness, the ten four generations ago, when th_e Republic contained but hopefulness, and .the almost prophetic nature of his amazing 4,000,000 souls, the nation was only in the b¢ginnings of its mind. It was with this youthful vigor, vision, and undoubtingness . making, the uses of steam and electricity unknown, Pittsburg that · Senator PLATT solved the Cuban question. There was no farther from New York than Chicago is from the Orient to-day, precedent. He made one. I understand the philosophy of city congestions undreamed of, and the modern methods of pro precedent, the absolute necessity in a free government of estab duction and distribution unimagined-he did not think that rigid lished forms and methods. But it requires no special ability to sentences written under such cir~um~tances a · hundred and follow the blazed trail. Ordinary intelligence can cite prece thirty years ago bave necessarily the same meaning now as then, dents and apply decided cases to like situations. It needs ·or that the safety and happin~ss of the nation's 90,000,000 of greatness to create by sheer thought solutions of unheard-of Americ::tns to-day and 200,000,000 of Americans to-morTow is to problems. And that is what Senator PLATT did in the im be found in the Constitution's lifeless word so much as in it<; mortal -Platt amendment, which, written in our statutes and living spirit giving intelligent meaning to its letter. incorporated in the Cuban constitution, established over t'Qat . For Senator PLATT believed in the American people. He island the indestructible suzerainty of the Republic-all for the did not believe that· they are or ever will be decadent . and de good and safety of the Cuban and the American people alike. generate. He believed that the masses are growing wiser and To those who asked where in the Constitution such power is purer; knew that this must be so unless our.whole American civ given Congress, be answered by the counter question, "Where ilization is a failure. He realized that the nation is constantly is such power denied?" For he believed that the United States renewing itself, each generation facing with new thought the may do all that any other nation can do, unless the C0nstitution new problems that the very progress of their parents brought forbids it. Here . is what he said in a great debate in this to them. He went upon the theory . that· our children will be bamber: abler, sh·onger, nobler than ourselves; knew that if this is ·t t· I maintain that the United States is a nation ; that as a nation it not true our schools and our chm·ches, our free inst 1 u !ODS, possesses every sovereign power·not reserved to the States or the people; and the whole of modern life is -a tragic mockery. that the right to acquire territory was not reserved and is therefore . And this is the necessary view .point and attitude of states- an ittherent sovereign right; * * _* that in certain instances the ld right may be inferred· from specific clauses in the Constitution, but that mansbip under free institutions; we individuals grow o it exists independimt of these clauses; that as the right to acquire is a with frightful speed; we retain our life's first impression sovereign and inherent t··ight, the right to govern is a savereign right unmindful of the profound changes in the world about us; we not limited in the Constitution. keep on tllinking the thoughts of our youth, long since grown Whether all Senators agreed to these views or not, when it ancient to our children; we reason in the old formulas and came .to adopting the Platt amendment, so deeply wise, so .im speak a nomenclature of a day that is gone. But all about us minently necessary, wa-s that historic creation that although con millions of young men and young women have grown up amid stitutional doubts filled the air and a single speech would have conditions unlike those that we were reared among, and they defeated it, since Congress was expiring even as it passed, yet are thinking thoughts and learning facts we never knew and not one voice was openly raised against it. And thus entered speaking a tongue we never heard. It is a new nation that into the law and life of-two peoples, and into their intertwined surrounds us; a nation of millions upon millions of fresh and history, the fifth eternal writing produced by American states vital-minds yeasting with ideas; a nation of millions upon mil- manship--the first four being the Declaration of Independence, lions of new and unexhausted hearts full of faith in God and the Constitution of the United States, the Ordinance of 1787, the the Republic-aye, and full of the daring of that faith. Emancipation Proclamation, and, last, this indissoluble bond The statesman of such a .nation must have a mind and heart uniting forever the destinies of Cuba -and the American Re of perennial youth, or he ceases to understand his people, begins public. . to doubt and then to fear them, and, without knowing it, be- An American statesman should be as brave and unqualifiedly_ comes their enemy. And just such a mind and heart was that frank as be is incorruptible. Frankness-even aggressive open of Senator PLAT'r. ness-is necessary in the public men of a free people. Not only ·All who knew him intimately were agreed that the amazing the people at large, but the vast business and financial interests youthfulness of his mind was by far his most notable mental need to know at the earliest possible moment the opinions and characteristic. Old as be was, be attacked new problems with purposes of statesmen. He who conceals his views is danger the eager strength of young manhood's mental vitality, solved ous; be who bas none is unworthy. Senator PLATT was to his them with young manhood's faith. He never doubted the wis- people and to all men a speaking voice, an open book. On dom, righteousness, and power of the American people. He be- gravest industrial questions, which make the mere politician lieved devoutly, unquestioningly in their mission and destiny in who .masquerades as a statesman tremble and pale with fear, the world. Who that heard will ever forget his instantaneous ORVILLE H. PLATT told where be stood and then stood there and unprepared reply to the venerable Senator from Massachu- fighting with the. courage of his wisdom. . setts on our duty in the Philippines and our certain future in the For example, the farmers of Connecticut petitioned him to Orient and the world? How like a prophet of the olden time be support a certain bill ; be refused, because be thought that seemed that evening, as with eyes glowing with religious fire and measure not good for the Republic. The laboring men of Con- . voice ringing trumpet-clear as the voice of youth, he delivered necticut asked for mea~:;m·es be thought unwise for the Nation; with passionate earnestness that inspired speech. Here is the he told them so and then acted on his tho-qght. Moneyed inter way he closed this extemporaneous address, delivered about 6 ests in Connecticut demanded certain action ; he declined be o'clock in the evening: cause he thought it hurtful from the view point of all tbe peo- We are under the obligation and direction of a higher power with pie. All of the people and not some of the people, ...the whole reference to our duty in the Philippine Islands. The United States of C belie\ed that the American people are directed by divine wis time, space, and eternity, but no man can conceive of them. dom. How splendid such a conception of national destiny ! We pronounce the word " Infinity," and when we attempt to The Ruler of the univer e brought a new force into play in the define it the intellect sprawls helplessly! The mystery of ex evolution of the human race when he established on this new istence, of chaos, of the primordial, and of the finality was the continent the American people, and of that people ORVILLE H. mystery of the past, is the mystery of to-day, and will continue PLATT was a sage and prophet. the mystery of the future. It is immut~ble, inexorable, un He is gone, this mighty one. Not many now remember him fathomable! 1\Ir. President, the two momentous words of or his priceless services to the State. Only one vast achieve human speech are "Whence" and "Whither." The brain will ment-the Platt amendment-will perpetuate his name- Such never answer these questions. The human heart may. We is oblivion's remorseless wisdom. There are so many swarming know very little. We feel very much. How very little we millions of human beings, such numberless events in the lives know! We distinguish life from death, but are in gross igno of each, such flowing oceans of circumstance that the world rance of the cause, the origin, or the termination of both. can not, for long, remember any one. Time is a prompt stage Among mysteries one inexplicable thing is no more remark mannger-he thrusts us on and calls us from this human stage able than another. One may affect our emotions more than on the hour, and not one instant in our entrance or exit may we another, but fundamentally all are equally incomprehensible. tarry. Men plan and speak and do-and think that to-morrow Why should a seed sprout? Why should like produce like? other men will heed or remember ; but the other day an unknown Why should nature be uniform and constant? Why should and unheard of city was unearthed by accident, which had matter attract matter according to the law of gravitation? a splendid history of great men and glorious deeds, of wise Why should opposite electric poles attract each other? What laws md polite culture five thousand years before Christ. is electricity? Why do certain forms of matter crystalize So all that a man does must be with different motives in certain shapes? What is chemical affinity? Why does the than to-day's applause or to-morrow's remembrance. Your deed human race exist, and what is its purpose and end? Why the for the deed's sake-for the good it may do although utterly universe? No one of these inquiries is more or less difficult unnoted like a single furrow among its million fellows. This is than the other. All nature is an impenetrable mystery. Science the only conception of duty that makes man's best efforts worth may collate statistics, may observe and tabulate phenome1;1a, but the while. And this was the conception that inspired Senator it will never render a satisfactory response. But from the PLATT through all his years. It was nothing to him that men dawn of history we know that the heart has answered that sl10uld remember or observe what he said or did; it was every which the brain_might not know. The heart has faith to be thing to him that his word and deed accomplished something lieve that, knowledge or no knowledge, if a man be true to his for his country. And so he was fearless and pure and wise and own conscience he may stand before his maker justified and brave; his life without stain, hi course without variableness or without fear. And to-day we speak of such a man. How shadow of turning. It was this conception of duty, vitalizing great he was! His character, like his statue, should be de and consecrating his great intellect, that made him the ideal lineated in heroic lines. Like Abraham of old, ORVILLE HrrcH statesman of the American people. cocK PLATT stands out from the multitude. He was a leader. He did not lead because he tried to lead, but because the people Mr. KlDAN. 1\Ir. President, I can not let this occasion pass followed him. He did not lead because he pretended to be the without saying a few words. special friend of the people, as demagogues are wont to do, but The services that Senator PLATT rendered to his State and because he laid his course by his own compa. s and that compass country have been so well recounted by those who have preceded always pointed to the true pole. In the long run the people can me that I shall not do more than say a few words as to the always be relied upon to distinguish between a demagogue and great loss sustained by this body and the country at large. a patriot, and they always did so in the ca e of 1\Ir. PLATT. Words -can add nothing to the fame or virtue-s of the dead. Five consecutive times the people of Connecticut accredited him · His actions alone are the highest prai e--all other eulogies fail. as their ambassador to this great conclave of the representatives It is true when he came· here twenty-six years ago he was un of the overeign States of this Republic. For twenty-six years known to the nation, but when he died no Senator was better he sat in this Chamber and fearle sly, faithfully, and nobly dis known. 4-ttention to duty made him thoroughly familiar with charged that trust. If that may truthfully be said of any man, all legislation. He gave great thought and care to nll the in it is, in my opinion, the highest encomiUip. that can be pronotmced. tE-rests of the country. He had studied closely the history of upon him. There is not, engraved upon bronze nor carved legislation, and, possessing great legal attainments, was always in marble, in the Valley of the Nile or of the Tigris or of the alert to achieve the best to be accomplished. Eupllrates or of the Ganges, nor in the Pantheons of Rome, In his death we have lost a friend and companion always Carthage, or Greece, an epitaph of achievement fraught with ready to aid and assist those younger in years than himself, greater blessing to humanity than a quarter of a century of and I can not fail to express my high appreciation and deep re able, courageous, and conscientious work in this great parlia gard for th,e kindness shown me as a new member of this body mentary body. and the great personal loss I feel at his death. Senator PLATT consecrated one-third of his entire life to this He died at home, as every wise man should wish to, in the lofty ministry! .Mr. Pre ident, how easy it is to say that, and midst of those who loved him, and is buried among the hills of yet how. utterly hollow and unsatisfactory it is and how meager the State that knew and honored him and which he loved. and shallow it sounds! What a fullness and completeness I know no words more fitting to describe Senator PLATT than there was to that great and lengthy service! With what a those of Robert Browning : multitude of events and cares and duties it was crowded! One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward ; With what perplexities, with how great anxieties, with how Never doubted clouds would break, innumerable responsibilities, always splendidly met, it was Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph; filled! Held we fall to rise, are baffied to fight better, It is beyond the power of speech, or pen, or art to epitomize Sleep to wake. such a career in the compass of a few strokes of the Pfn or in :Mr. BRA1\"TI1DGEEJ. 1\Ir. President, the traditions of the Sen the brief period of t~me devoted to this occasion. We all feel ate direct that I should pronounce the final words in the e sad the inadequacy of mere words to express what we to~day feel ceremonies. I realize that it is impossible to add anything to and what but yesterday he was. And yet we fain would strive what has already been so eloquently and sweetly said by the to record somewhat of the love which we his friends an sued no chimeras. He insist~ upon the facts. He was virile announcement of my political views. I have in the course of my life dealt and received many bard political blows, but I have always tried and powerful, mentally and physically. His appearance was to act right and shall so continue. I thank you again for your kind most impressive. He was cast in the patriarchal mold. He ness, and I trust that all your expectations with reference to me will towered to a heigllt of 6 feet and 4 inches, and his frame and not be disappointed. Good night. head \Yere as mns iT"e and rugged as the granite ledges and How clearly and beautifully his character shines through crags of his natiT"e Litchfield County. these simple and informal remarks to the friends and neighbors llis features wer·e large and somewhat furrowed, and to those who had gathered to do him honor, and how abundantly and who saw him for the first time his countenance was apt to con splendidly he justified the confidence which bad been reposed vey a suggestion of austerity. But this effect was relieyed by in him! the saving grace of a delicious sense of humor and an "inimitable Mr. PLATT was a progressive and constructive legislator. He twinkle of the eye. llis manner was deliberate, and he was made no pretense to oratory, and yet his clear thought was well balanced and at all times perfectly self-controlled. He wns couched in terse Saxon phrase and deliyered with an earnest patient, industrious, kindly, cautious, and sound. He was pre force which was closely akin to eloquence and carried greater eminently safe and sane. His judgment was excellent and his conviction. Whatever attitude be assumed upon a public gift of common sense approached to genius. His temperament question was the result of his honest, deliberate judgment, and was judicial, and he clearly perceived and carefully weighed this was evinced in every tone, jesture, and look. He had an every phase of a question. With his clear vision he penetrated abiding faith in the institutions, the people, and the destiny of the heart of every problem and discriminated with unerring this country, and, in turn, be was loved and trusted by the preci ion between the vital principles upon which a correct people whose confidence he always retained. He cared nothing solution depended and the irrelevant and delusive matters which for wealth, but everything for men: He was liberal, tolerant, confuse other minds. He was possessed of an intuitive sense charitable, sympathetic, and of infinite patience and unflagging as to the wisest course to pursue, which was so accurate as to zeal. His influence upon men and measures was always help amount almost to prescience. He despised shams; hypocrisy, ful and salutary. The loss of such a man is indeed a public and pretense. He was straightforward, sincere, and reliable. calamity. But his character and the lesson of his career are He was a man of sterling integrity, and was as honest with immortal and invaluable. We revere the memory of such himself as with his fellows. It was as impossible to deceive men, not only for what they did, but· for what they were. We him as it was for him to attempt to deceive others. He was need not wait for posterity to look backward through the vista inspired with high ideals and was endowed with a deep re of time for a just appraisal of that character or that life work. ligious nature. His logical mind moved with the mathematical He was long ago crowned with the affection of his colleagues accuracy of an adding machine, and the most complicated ques and the admiration and gratitude of his constituents. Less tions were reduced and clarified in the fervent crucible of his than two years before his death the people of his State, irre intellectual analysis. He was intensely human and was al"ays spective of party or sex, gathered at our beautiful capitol glad to cloak the faults of others with the broad mantle of building in the fair city of Hartford and rivaled each other charity. He was pas ionately fond of nature. The sound of in testifying their affection for him at a great reception given the brooks tumbling down their rocky beds, the rustle of the in his honor. To-day we have beard tributes of respect and leayes in the woods, the songs of birds, the voices of the wild the loving words which have been spoken by his friends and things, the Yariegated tints of the foliage, the odors of flower associates in this great body. Unconsciously we are carried and fern and moist glade, the sunshine and shadow, the dying back at this time to the scene in that same capitol at Hart monarch of the forest and the springing bud, the sunset skies, ford just one month before the death of Senator PLATT, when be the majesty of the snow-capped mountain, the abyss of the dark stood by the bier of his beloved colleague of a quarter of a cen canyon, the rolling prairie, the river sweeping away into the dis tury, Senator Joseph R. Hawley. Senator PLATT said: tance, the vast and heaving ocean, aU these spoke to him in a Is he dead? No. By our most earnest hopes, by all of our devoutest language of music and poetry to which every :fiber of his soul faith, no. He has but begun to live. In those subterranean ceme teries under the ancient city of , Rome-in the catacombs-there are was attuned and to which it responded with joy and gratitude. thousands and hundreds of thousands of inscriptions on the slabs which Among all the honors, the battles, and the triumphs of his close the resting places of those early martyrs, the faithful ones, or life, continued far beyond the three score years and ten al scratched rudely in the plaster above them ; but of all those inscrip lotted by the Psalmist, the home of his boyhood and the wild tions which tell of the triumph of faith, of the beyond, one has always seemed to me most significant. It is this-these simple words--:-"He scenery and stalwart people of his native Litchfield County lay entered into life." That is what General Hawley has done. We are closest to his heart. In the free, open air of this beautiful sec not here so much to mom·n his death, as, it seems to me, to celebrate tion, as be whipped the brooks and hunted its game, he devel his birth into a new and a better life; into a field of greater, larger, and more spiritual activities. It is a birthday, not a death day, after oped that magnificent character which never knew a stain and all, which brings us together, which knits all hearts in love and sym that splendid om·age which never surrendered a principle. pathy. Henry Ward Beecher so often spoke of death as a coronation. Here he imbibed that wholesome nature, that childlike faith, It is. He is crowned now, this friend and comrade of ours, crowned, . in the wonderful language of inspiration, by the Almighty " with glory that moral standard and stamina, that indomitable will, that and immortality." Why, then, should we weep? So we will not think :fine perception, that shrewd insight, that independence and of him as dead, but living, and we will think of him as we think of love of personal liberty, which made him a tower of sh·engtb friends whom we sometimes go down to see as they sail away in ships for foreign lands, never expecting to see them with our eyes again, and a very present help in time of trouble. but knowing that they are still in life and in other fields exerting the 1\Ir. President, in the death of Senator PLATT Connecticut activities of life. We will say farewell to-day as we commit him to lost her a blest and most distinguished public servant, this body the earth-no ; not farewell, but that better word, " good-by "-God be with you-good-by. We will whisper that word "good-by," for the one of its wisest and most trusted counselors, and the nation heart feels most, and the lips move not, and the eye speaks the gentle one of its soundest statesmen. He always dared· to act as he "good-by." believed. He never compromised with expediency. He was a Within a span be, too, bad embarked, and we think of him as great man-in stature, in brain,· in character, in influence, in he thought of Hawley. He bad spun life's web to the finish; deeds, and in righteousness. Upon his :first election to the Sen the fabric was complete. ate, now twenty-seven years ago, at a reception given him by Let us take to ourselves a lesson, his friends and neighbors in the city of Meriden, he spoke a No lesson can braver be, few simple words which can not fail to touch us deeply now, Of the ways of the tapestry weavers, and which formed the mainspring of his public and private life. On the other side of the sea. He said: Above their head the pattern hangs, I thank you, my friends, for this kind reception. This is neither the They study it with care, time nor the place to make a speech, and yet I think I would be lack The while their fingers deftly weave, ing in the common feeling of humanity if I did not express to you in Their eyes are fastened there. some way the gratitude I feel for the respect you have ever shown me. They tell this curious thing besides, It touches me, coming as it does from you who have known me longest Of the patient, plodding weaver, and best-the men I have lived with these twenty-eight years. I have He works on the wrong side evermore, lived a somewhat transparent li!e. You know what I have done and But works for the right side ever. what I have failed to do. It is this that makes this demonstration the more acceptable and touching to me. I think no man could have It is only when his work is done, li-ved in a place so long and have been more sensible of the kindly And the web is loosed and turned, feeling e:atertained toward him than I. I want to thank all my friends, That he sees the real handiwork but especially my Meriden friends. They were not politicians, but His marvelous skill bas learned. were full of love and devotion and labored for my welfare without Ah, the sight of its delicate beauty! hopo. of reward, and such kindly feeling and disposition touches me to the heart. Their faith makes me rejoice more at their gratification How it pays him for all its cost! than my success. Just now everything is new and seems unreal. I No rarer, daintier work than his can scarcely appreciate the future. How I shall beat· myself, how I Was ever done by the frost. shall \-vall( in the new path in which I am set, time will show. I do The years of man are nature's looms, know that I shall try to do right as I see the right and I have faith Let down from the place of the sun, to believe that this will bring me through to the end without discredit Wherein we are weaving alway, to you, to myself, or to the State. My friends, this is no place for an Till the mystic web is done. 5660 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. APRIL 21, Sometimes blindly-but weaving surely, approYed April 20, 1906, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money Each for himself his fate; in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000 or so We may not see how the right s1de looks, much thereof as may be nece~sary ; and authority is hereby specifically We must often weave--and wait. given to the Secretary ot War to use this sum :wd the former app Alameda, and such other cities- on the Pacific coast as may have sus the statement which bas been submitted-the aggregate value tained damage. of the supplies already taken out of the Government store "Be it turthet· resol'IJed, That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre tary of the Navy, and Secretary of Commerce a.~d Labor- ~re her:eby di houses-amounts to about $1,492,000. rected to cooperate with the Secretary of War m extendmg rehef and This appropriation is for the purpose of enabling the Secre assistance to these stricken people herein referred to, to the extent of the use of the naval vessels, revenue cutters, and other vessels and tary of War to replace those supplies which have been thus Government supplies under their control on the Pacific coast. taken from the storehouses and warehouses under the juris aBe it turthe1· resolved, That to enable the Secretary of War to execute diction of the Secretary of 'Var. The purchases authorized by the provisions of this joint resolution there is hereby appropnated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of the resolution will have to be made in accordance with the $1,000,000, to be expended under the direction and under the discretion provisions of law governing such purchases. In other words, of the Secretary of War." about $1,492,000 is necessary to replace the supplies that have On the 2flth, at my suggestion, the resolution was amended so as to include medical supplies, as follows : . already been shipped from Government storehouses, and these u Resolved, That the appropriation of $1,000,000 made by jomt reso supplies will have to be purchased under the same conditions, lution approved the 19th instant, entitled 'Joint resolution for the re under the same law that the original supplies were purchased. lief of sufferers from earthquake nnd confiaj5"ration on the Pacific coast,' shall be available, under the discretion of tne Secretary of War, to pro Mr. UNDERWOOD. I grant the gentleman all that. cure medical supplies, in addition to such supplies belonging to the m1li Mr. TAWNEY. So that the Qoyernment is amply protected, tary est!lblishment, and issue the same in like manner as the subsistence and the report will have to be made of these purchases under and quartermaster·s supplies specifically· mentioned in the joint resolu the law as is required in other cases. tion aforesaid." I have the honor to recommend that Congress be requested to appro Mr. UNDERWOOD. I do not understand the law that way. priate $1,000,000 more, in order to meet the· cost already incurred over This is a specific appropriation for an emergency, and, as I and abo'\e the $1,000,000 appropriated, and to enable the War Depar·t ment to purchase such additional supplies as may be needed for the understand it, there is no law that would require the Secr·etary purpose. of War to report the expenditure of this money back to Congress. The present resolution authorizes the expenditure of money for the l\fr. TAWNEY. If the gentleman will permit me, I will say relief of San Francisco. The supplies which have been sent have been taken out of the regular Army depots, and were necessary for the sup this: He is aware of the fact that the supplies which the Secre port and use of the Army. I respectfully suggest therefore that in the tary of War has already shipped to San Francisco were pur next resolution, which I hope Congress may pass, specific authority be chased by appropriations made in the general appropriation for given to the Secr·etary of War to use both the $1.000,000 already ap propriated and the amount which may be appropriated in the recom that purpose. Now, this resolution authorizes th~ Secretary mended resolution, either to purchase supplies for the relief of San of War to use so much of this million dollars as is carried by Francisco or to replace by purchase the supplies taken from the regular thi. resolution, and all of the appropriation carried by· the pre Army stores for such relief purposes. vio1L'3 resolution adopted by Congress in the purchase of sup I inclose the form of resolution which will accomplish the result sought. plies, under existing law, to replace those which have been I attach the memorandum of the Chief of Stafl', the report of the taken out. So it leaves a little over $500,000 which the Secre Quartermaster-General, and the report of the Commissary-General, with tary of War would be able to authorize to use for the relief of their accompanying telegrams and estimates. I also attach a memo randum from the Surgeon-General as to his operations and needs. these people, and a report of that expenditure will unquestion The loss of the valuable subsistence, quartermaster's, and medical ably be carried in the annual report of the Secretary. stores assembled in the depot at Sun Francisco for use at the Pacific Mr. UNDERWOOD. The gentleman from Minnesota does not posts and in the Philippines will require a· very. considerable deficiency estimate in order that they, in addition to the stores now being used understand my proposition. . for the relief of San Francisco, may be replaced. Mr. TAWNEY. I am afrajd that the gentleman from Ala The loss may be approximated as follows: bama: has not comprehended my statement. Commissary stores------$150,000 Mr. UNDERWOOD. I understand that a great deal of the Quartermaster's stores ------2, 94.t, 4 72 Medical stores ------357, 391 supplies that have been purchased and are to be shipped for the relief of these people are already the property of the Govern Total------3,448,863 ment and that new supplies are to be purchased in place of I shall submit estimate for these at a later date. Very respectfully, yours, them, and we want to know where the supplies are sent, who WM. H. TAFT, Secretary ot War. gets the benefit of them, how they are distributed, who iS' re The PRESIDENT. sponsible for the distribution; and that report should be made Mr. UNDERWOOD. Will the gentleman from Minnesota to Congress, not only in the matter of honest administration of yield to me? the Government, but as a matter of protection to the people Mr. TAWNEY. ~ will yield to the gentleman from Alabama for whom the money is being spent. five minutes. 1\Ir. TAWNEY. l\1r. Speaker, I do not think that that is at Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I am heartily in favor of alf practical or necessary. The people of the United States, this resolution. I think that the American people will thor who are to-day contributing millions of dollars for the relief of oughly approve of the action of Congress in making this appro the people of San Francisco and neighboring cities, are not priation and the one that was made the other day. But in exacting an itemized statement from the people of San Fran making the appropriation I think Congress, even in case of an cisco to show the persons to whom they are giving relief and I emergency of this kind, should look to its duty and protect tlle do not think the Government of the United States should do it. money of the people. Now, I have the very highest regard l\lr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? and admiration for the gentleman who is Secretary of War. I The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman from Minnesota yield believe thoroughly in his honesty and integrity, but I do be to the gentleman from New York? lieve that when the Congress of the United· States makes an l\fr. TAWNEY. I yield to the gentleman from New York. appropriation of a large sum of money, not only for our pro l\Ir. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the gentleman tection but for the protection of the people for whom we have from Minnesota [Mr. TAWNEY] if it is not a fact that every made the appropriation, we should see that it is properly ex-. dollar of this expenditure will be audited by the Auditor and a pended for their benefit. Under these circumstances, this being report made to him as to the entire expenditure, and every an emergency resolution, I would not offer, and I do not think dollar of it will pass through the same ordeal as every dollar it would be proper that it should come from this side of the of the hundreds of millions that we appropriate to be expended House or from that side of the House, to interfere with the by the Departments from year to year? gentleman from Minne ota by offering an· amendment to an Mr. TAWNEY. It will, unquestionably_ emergency resolution of this kind. I appeal to him to do this ; Mr. PAYNE. So there is no occasion to make this a special here are $2,000,000 that we appropriate for a specific purpose to case in that respect. help these suffering people. I think this resolutien should Mr. TAWNEY. And I want to say further that the Secre clearly carry a provision that after it is expended the Secretary tary of War informed the committee this morning that not a of War should report to the Congress what bas been done with dollar of this· money will be given to anyone to expend except that money and how it has been expended. I think that is not the bonded officials of the Government of the United States who only in the interest of good government, but I think it is in the are engaged in the distribution of the quartermaster's stores and ·intere t of the people for whom we are making the appropriation, supplies under the control of the Army. in order that it may be safeguarded and see that it goes to them l\Ir. GAINES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman and no one else. I do not offer an amendment, -tmt I offer the yield? suggestion to the gentleman from Minnesota in charge of the l\1r. TAWNEY. I yield to the gentleman. , hill. l\Ir. GAINES of Tennessee. l\1r. Speaker, one of the points, Mr. TAWNEY. Mr. Speaker, all of the money that bas been and I think the main point, th~ gentleman from Alabama [l\Ir. appropriated or will be appropriated by this resolution, except UNDERWOOD] makes is this: No one objects to the appropria $500,000, has already been ex;pended in this way. The Secretary tion-no one could do it under the circumstances-but it is to of War immediately en receiving the news of this terrible dis see thn.t the money that we appropriate is actually used and aster, ordered supplies, quartermaster's stores, and medical sup certainly used to help the people that need the help. In other plies shipped to San Francisco. The aggregate value shown by words, that no middleman gets in and gets the benefit of the 5662 OONGJ;tESSION_AL RECORD- HOUSE. .APRIL 21 , money and that the 'Victim of the earthquake gets it. That is created in the House and acceded to by all ru·ound, growing out the point be makes. of a statement made by gentlemen who apparently knew, that Mr. TAWNEY. If the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. the judges of these courts, each of them, had three baili(fs and GAINES] had listened to my statement to the gentleman from one crier. I understand that the gentlemen who made that Alabama [1\fr. UNDERWOOD)-- statement on yesterday have been advised that they were en 1\Ir. GAINES of Tennessee. I listened, and I am always glad tirely mistaken about it and that the courts in this District, to listen to the gentleman. none of them, have a bailiff or a crier, or have in the past llad Mr. TAWl\TEY. He would know that $1,500,000 worth of eitller, and I therefore ask unanimous C9nsent to go back and supplies, the property of the Government, bas already been llave- that matter reviewed as to that proposition so that tlle~e shipped and is now on the way to San Francisco. judges may have the messengers who are absolutely essential Mr. GAINES of Tennessee. No one disputes that. to the conduct of the court. I wish to say also in that con Mr. TAWNEY. And $1,500,000 of the $2,000,000 which we nection that the messengers they have bad bitilerto have acted will have appropriated by this resolution will be used in the as criers; that they take charge of juries; and that there purchase of supplies for the Army to take the place of those are no bailiffs at all and neyer have been in these court . supplies which the Army bas thus shipped. There is a section of the code (188 as I now recollect) that Mr. GAINES of Tennessee. I fully understand that. provides for bailiffs, but none were ever appropriated for, as I Mr. TAWNEY. Those purchases must be made under exist understand it, and none were ever appointed and there are none ing law by adyertising. now and there will be none unless we appropriate for them. Mr. GAINES of Tennessee. I understand that. If we appropriate for one messenger for one court, be will Mr. TAWNEY. And there is no question about the expendi- serve the court and take charge of the jury and do the errands ture of the money at all. . of the attorneys trying cases and all the other necessary things Mr. GAINES of Tennessee. Who is going to see that the to be done. · I under tand, and I thin!{ it will not now be dis victims get the benefit of this money? That is the point of the puted, that we acted entirely under the impre ·sion, both in the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. UNDERWOOD]. Committee on Appropriations and in this House, that they bad Mr. TAWNEY. The men in charge of distributing supplies criers when we cut the messengers down to three--three having of the Quartermaster's Department, under the command of the to serve six courts in different rooms, all divided, and some of Army officers in charge or in command at San Francisco, will the court rooms are on different floors, making it absolutely have to distribute these supplies, and we are informed by the impossible for three messengers to· perform the duties that are Secretary of War that his organization there is amply sufficient usually required and ne-cessary for the conduct of the courts. for the di h·ibution of these supplies to the people who are in Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to need of them. object, I wish to make a very brief statement in reply to the Mr. GAINES of Tennessee. Just a moment more and then gentleman from Ohio. In the sundry civil bill a year ago, I am done. Is there a law now requiring that officer who dis appropriating for the ensuing fiscal year, there is a }>rovision tributes on the ground floor this food and raiment to make a to defray the expenses of the supreme court of the District and report to the Secretary of War or Congress? circuit courts of the United States, including the district court Mr. TAWNEY. Certainly. The Secretary of War will re of tile Territory of Hawaii and the supreme court and court of quire a complete detailed report. appeals of the District of Columbia, and other courts, and among Mr. SLAYDEN. ·_Mr. Speaker, I will say to the gentleman the things appropriated for these various courts I find the from Minnesota [l\Ir. TAWNEY] that it was impossible to bear following: all tllat was said over here, but I think, so far as I could catch For pay of bailitrs and criers; not exceeding three bailitrs and one his reply, he was undertaking to_explain to the gentleman from crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York. Alabama [Mr. UNDERWOOD] and to the House that all of the In the sundry civil bill as brought into the House last year details of the expenditure of this appropriation will be made tile Committee on Appropriations had inserted a provision tilat in the usual way by the bureau chiefs under whom it will be the expense of the supreme court of the District of Columbia expended. Am J correct? and court of appeals, and for all the expenses, " including pay of Mr. TAWNEY. Yes. bailiffs and criers," should be borne, half by the Dish·ict of l\Ir. SLAYDEN. And that this is merely an emergency ap Columbia and half by the Federal Government. That provision propriation to supply a deficiency which will be created in the went out on a point of order, so tha_t the expen es are still pro Quartermaster's Department and the Medical Department, and vided by the Federal Government. In the legislative bill just so on, and that we will have the usual military reports from passed the House there is a provision for six stenograpilers the bureau chiefs, itemized in every particular. one for the chief justice and one for each justice of the supreme Mr. TAWNEY. Yes; and audited by the Auditor of the War court. There is authority of law, and appropriation has been Department: made for three bailiffs and one crier in these courts, and if they The SPEAKER. The question is on the engrossment and haYe not got them it is no fault of this House or of Congress, - third reading of the joint resolution. and for tba t reason-- The question was taken ; and the joint re olution was ordered Mr. KEIFER. I want to ask the gentleman whether he pre to be engrossed and read a third time, read the third time, and tends to say now-I understand his excuse for the statement of passed. yesterday-that any of the courts of the District of Columbia On motion of Mr. TAWNEY, a motion to reconsider the last ever had a bailiff? -rote was laid on the table. Mr. FITZGERALD. I say now that Congress has specifically DISTRICT OF coLuMniA APPROPRIATION BILL. appropriated for three bailiffs and one crier for each court in Mr. GILLETT of :Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I move that the Disti-ict. tile House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole Hou e Mr. KEIFER. In that the gentleman is mistaken, but it was for tile further consideration of the bill H. R. 18198--the Dis- sufficient excuse for his statement of yesterday. trict of Columbia appropriation bill. Mr. MUDD. Mr. Chairman, I move to sh·ike out the first 'l'be motion "\\3S agreed to. word; I can not move to strike out the last "\\Ord. Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee of I .Mr. KEIFER. . 1\fr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to go the Wilole House on the state of the Union for the further con- back-- · sideration of the District appropriation bill, with Mr. DALZELL in I Mr. FITZGERALD. I object to the request of the gentlem~m tlle chair. from Ohio. 1\Ir. KEIFER. 1\fr. Chairman-- 1\Ir. KEIFER. I think the gentleman ought not to do that, in Mr. MUDD. 1\Ir. Chairman, I want to say before the Clerk view of what be put in the RECORD yesterday, and I know on beO'ins the reading of the bill I want to offer a formal amend- tile best authority, which I ask him to see, that there were no 1111~nt to llave a letter read. bailiffs in past years and there are none now. .Mr. KEIFER. I "\\Ould yield to the gentleman for a request, 1\Ir. FITZGERALD. If I may have permission to say so-- but not for the purpose of reading. I want to call attention, 1\Ir. KEIFER. The gentleman did say it yesterday. :Mr. Cilairman, to the inadvertent action, as I understand it, of 1\fr. FITZGERALD. If I may have permission, I wi:-h to the Honse last evening in the matter of messengers for the six nulJ\:e one statement to the gentleman from Ohio. courts of the District of Columbia. I am not certain whether Mr. KEIFER. I do not object. it is subject to :1 motion to amend or not, but it is proposed to :Ur. FITZGERALD. The gentleman states that I made an muend a part of tlle paragraph under the head of" Court-houses, erroneous statement. I repeat again for tlle benefit of the District of Columbia," so as to provide for seven messengers gentleman, who does not seem to be able to appreciate thr. instead of three. What I wi h to say is that when this matter force of the statement, that I have here the sundry civil appro· was under discussion yesterday there was a wrong impression priation bill for the present fiscal year, in which there is a IJl'O- 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. f)663 vision for not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each of Congress for more than ·twenty-four years, one for each separate court. To t hose of us who are familiar with the descriptions of court officers the e courts. in t he sevet·al States, they would be more properlv called "bailiffs" l\1r. KEIF ER. That was not your si.o'ltement of yesterday. as there are no bailiffs provided by law lor the co.urt and these men 1\lr. NORRIS. I would like to ask the gentleman a ques di ch arge such d uties as ru·e performed bv bailiffs, in addition to nu merous other dut ies. F or example, t hey C: lean and care f or the rooms tion. of t he in dividual judges; go to the law library for books for use in Mr. FITZGERALD. Certainly. court ; rnn. err.ands d uring trials fer t he judges . and counsel; attend Mr. NORRIS. The gentleman stated yesterday that each to the ven:tilation of the court-rooms; put water m the coolers ; assist m preservmg order in the court, and get the lunches for the respective one of these judges bas a p:ri vate stenographer besides tbe one judges at noon, the recess taken being too short to enable us to leave that reported the cou1i: proceedings. Does the sundry civil bill t he building. In short, they are busy from the time court convenes un say that al o 1 t il it a_dj ourns wit h the numberless duties which the conduct of litigated cases Imposes. l\1r. FITZGERALD. No, it does not. Until this ~ear thes~ If the committee would take the pains to investigate, it would find P.rivate stenographers were p!f.id out of the appropriation for I am satisfied, that the courts of this District have a much smalle1! misce1laneous ·expenses. This year in the legislative appropria number of court officials than the courts of any other city in the country. To take ~way tbes~ court messengers, who receive the small tion bill, which bas already passed the House, provision is salary of $60 per month, half of which is paid by the District would made for ~ese six stenographers; one for the chief justice, and be to sacrifice the convenience of litigants, lawyers, and judges. To one for each other justice, at $900 each. reduce the number from seven to three would be equally unreasonabl as there are six courts in continuous liession and each requires ~ Mr. NORRIS. Are these in addition to the regular court messenger. The s~~enth . is for the. use of the marshal's office, and reporters? surely no one familiar with the busmess there transacted could ques Mr. FITZGERALD. They are private secretaries. They tion the necessity of a man for that office. You may use this letter as you please. are private secretaries to the judges. Very sincerely, AsHLEY M. GoULD. Mr. NORRIS. 13ut do these reporters report the court pro ceedings! Mr. MUDD. Now, Mr. Chairman, just one word. It occurs Mr. FITZGERALD. They are private secretaries. to me possibly there may have been some mistake in this matter, Mr. KEIFER. I have the authority of the judges themselves arising out ot the fact that the District courts are not only that these stenographers do all the reporting and that there is United States courts, but perform the functions of the ordinary common-law courts. Possibly somebody has made a construc no other report~. Mr. FITZGERALD. The gentleman's information is so much tion under which the provision of the sundry civil bill that at variance with mine that -we evidently will not be able to has been referred to may have not been applied to the salaries agree. I object to his request. of these bailiffs. At any rate, the bailiffs have never been Mr. KEIFER. I asked the gentleman to go and talk with provided. In addition to the information contained in the the judges about it, but he would not do it. letter which has been read, the chief judge of the supreme com·t The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York [Mr. Justice Clabaugh, bas informed me that they never had bailiffs' FITZGERALD] objects to the request for unanimous consent made and certainly they could not have had them, or he and his asso: by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. KEIFER]. · ciate, Justice Gould, would not have so stated. The Clerk will read. :Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, what are the vocations of Mr. MUDD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the first these officers that are standing around in the District courts word. I can not strike out the last word, because that is a and performing the duties of bailiff! What are they called 1 part of an amendment that has been agreed to. Now, Mr. Mr. MUDD. That letter states that these are messengers, and Chairman, in order to bear out the contention which I made are known as such, but they act as baili1Is, ·and· that letter states yesterday afternoon, and which is made by the gentleman from the absolute facL Ohio [1.\Ir. KEIFER] this morning, I wish to take this oppor Mr. PALMER. There are three or four officers standing tunity to put in the RECORD a letter which I have received from around doing the duty of bailiffs; I do not know what they one of the judges, .and I want to say that the letter was received are called, but they are there, for I have seen them there myself. in re ponse to a request for information made by myself. The The CHAIRi\lAN. The time of the gentleman from Maryland judges have not been hanging around this building; they have has expired. not been having these attendants running around as if they Mr. MUDD. I ask two minutes more. were " pets," as some gentleman was gracious enough to say Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I object to any further dis yesterday afternoon; but the information \vas given to me, as cussion. shown by the letter, in response to a request which I made on Mr. :MUDD. I mov.e to strike out the last two words. my own volition. The CHAIRMAN. ~he Ohair will state that on yesterday, The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read the letter. by. order of the conumttee, all debate on this paragraph and Mr. BUTLER of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, a parlia amendments was closed. mentary inquiry. Mr. CRUMPACKER. I desire to offer an amendment, Mr. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. Chairman, to the paragraph. I understand the paragraph Mr. BUTLER of Pennsylvania. Did not we pass upon this under the title of " Court-house, District of Columbia," is the section yesterday 1 one ·that was read last. I move to insert after the word "each " 1\lr. MUDD. We did not finish it. on line 18, page 65, this language : ' Mr. BUTLER of Pennsylvania. Is there a motion to set And six messengers, at $720 each. aside what we did on yesterday! The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Indiana offers an The CHAIRMAl~. Unanimous consent to set aside our action amendment, which the Clerk will report. of yesterday was refused. The gentleman from Maryland is The Clerk read as follows : now speaking to an informal amendment. The letter will be read After the word " each," line 18, page 65, insert " anti six messengers in the gentleman's time. at ~720 each." • 1\lr. WILLIAMS. Is the matter that the gentleman from 1\fr. FITZGERALD. I raise the point of order against that Maryland desires to put into the RECOBD relative to the matter amendment. The committee has already passed upon that about which the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. ..K.E!FER] asked que tion. unanimous consent 1 The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state his point oi Mr. MUDD. That is true. order. Debate has been ordered closed. 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The gentleman .from Maryland is speak Mr. FITZGERALD. An amendment was offered to insert ·ing to an amendment to strike out the first word, and he asked three messengers. An amendment to that was offered substi to have the letter read by the Clerk in his time as part of his tuting seven for three. The committee defeated the amend remarks. The Clerk will read. ment to the amendment, and adopted the original amendment. The Clerk read as follows : Now, if the gentleman wished to amend the original amend SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ment, his amendment should have been offered before the vote JUSTICE'S CHA.MBEBS, was taken upon the original amendment. The committee hav Ron. S. E. MUDD, April £O, 1906. ing inserted as a new provision, after attempt at amendment, House of Rept·esentatives. a provision for three messengers, H is too late for the gentle M Y D EAR SYDNE Y : Referring to your inquiry in regard to the " as man to offer his amendment. An amendment wa.s offered and sistant messengers," as they are designated in the appropriation bill pending, to which an amendment was offered. That amend I have to say that these employees are improperly described in said bill' ment to the amendment was defeated. The gentleman then They are "messengers for each court in special term" and are so desq~·i bed by the ~ct .of ,~ongress. appr·oved March 3, 1901, known as had his opportunity to offer further amendment; but not claim the Code of the D1stnct. . By th1s act the court is authorized to appoint ing that right, the committee proceeded to adopt the original a ·messenger for each court. ~'here at·e six courts-two equitv two amendment, and I submit it is too late now to offer it. criminal, and two law-sitting separately all the time exceptm.,. ·during ths summer vacation, when the several judges take turns in.,holding The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York under:. the ·several special .terms. These messengers have been -provided by stands that the amendment offered ·by the _gentleman from J.nr. 5664 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE. APRIL 21; diana is not an amendment to· the amendment which was disbursed by the disbursing ·officer of the District of Columbia upo·n adopted. but is an independent amendment to the text. itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District, in the manner now prescribed by law: P1·ovicled further That Mr. li.' ITZGER.ALD. I make the further point that they are nothing herein contained shall in any way affect or alter the meti1od of not authorized by law. The bill now bas a provision for three settlement and payment now existing between the District of Columbia messengers. and the Treasury Department of the United States for reimbnrsiil"' appropriations payable wholly from the revenues of the United States hlr. CR UMP.ACKER . I desire to correct my amendment and for expenditures on account of tbe care, support, maintenance and edu in ·ert tl.te word "four" instead of. tlle word "six;" so as to cation of patients, inmates, and pupils belonging to the District of read "four messengers, at $720 each." Columbia at the G<>vernment Hospital for the Insane, the Freedmen's Hospital and .Asylum, the Reform School, District of Columbia and. the The CHAIRU.A.l~. Without objection, the amendment will be Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, which expendihues ·are corrected. chargeable to District of Columbia appropriations. The Clerk read as follows : Mr. GROSVENOR. :Ur. Chah~man, I make the point of After the word " each " insert "and four messengers." order against so much of the paragraph as begins on line 15, Mr. CRUMP.ACKER. Now, Mr. Chairman, on the point of page 66, and ending at line 12, page G7, on the ground that it is order, tllis amendment is an independent, substantive amend confessedly new legislation. · ment. It may not, if it shall be adopted, be the best grammar The CHAIRMAN. The Chair sustains the point of order. or rhetoric, but tlle paragraph now stands providing for three It is clearly new legislation. messenger··, at $720 each. I propose a new and independent The Clerk read as follows : amendment, after the word "each," in line 18, to provide for REFORM.A.TORffiS .A.ND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. four messe'-gers, at $720 each, so. the paragraph will read, if For Washington Asylum: For superintendent, $1,500; visitin.,. phy this amendment shall be adopted, " four messengers, $720 each; sician, $1,080 ; reside~t _Physician, $480 ; Clerk, $840; property"' clerk, $840; baker, ~600; prmc1pal overseer, $1,200; fifteen overseer,s at $GOO three messengers, $720 each." It is not an amendment to an each; engineer, $600; assistant engineer, 4 0; second asslst~nt engi amendment. I do not 8ee why that 'vouJd not be good legisla neer, $3GU; eng!Jleer at hospital for seven _and one-half. months, at $5'0 tion, though it should be rather poor grammatical arrangement. per month ; engmeer at new workhouse for seven and one-half months at $50 per month; two watchmen, at $480 each ; two night watchmen·' at . I think the point of order made by the gentleman from New $548 each; blacksmith and woodworker, 500; carpenter, 500 · driver York is not well taken, and it seems to me that the am~ndrnent for dead wagon, $365; hostler and driver, $240; keeper at female work is in order. house, $300 ; keeper at female workhouse, $180 ; hospital cook $(l00. · chief cook for workhouse, $600 ; four assistant cooks, at $1 0 each : .Mr. FITZGERALD. The gentleman can not do by indirec trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, $600; two tion what he can not do directly, and the ·effect of the attempt graduate nurses, at $365 each; graduate nurse for receiving ward to amend the provision regarding messengers was determined $365 ; two nurses for tuberculosis wards, at $365 each; siX orderlies at $300 each; pupil nUl'ses, not less than twenty-one in number $1.500 · yesterday by the committe~. The gentleman bad his opportu registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, $720 ; gardener: . nity at the proper time to offer an amendment to the original $540; herdsman, $365 : florist. $300 ; tailor, $120; temporary labor not amendment to incorporate into the bill the provision for mes to exceed $3,000 ;· in all, $34,561. ' sengers. lie has lost the right by not taking advantage of his Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out th-e . right at the proper time. last word. I see there is a provision in the bill for various ap The CHAIRMA.N. The Chair. thinks the amendment offered propriations for "a new workhouse," "keeper at female wo.rk by the gentleman from Indiana is an independent amendment. ho·use," and various references are made for the appropriation Whether it makes consistent text or grammatical text or any for "a workhouse." I would like to ask the gentleman what thing else is not a question of order that the Chair can deter criminals are sentenced to the workhouse and what kin-d o1' min~, but is a question of good sense, to be determined by the work is required of them? From an examination ·of the Code eommittee itself. The Chair therefore overrules the point of of the District of Columbia, adopted by Congre s, I see tlln.t the order. The que tion is on the amendment offered by the gen- police court tries persons accused of petty offenses without a tleman from Indiana. . jury, and it bas the rignt under the laws of the United States The question was taken ; and on a division (demanded by to sentence persons convicted in such courts to jail or work Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts) there were-ayes 42, noes 66. bouse. I see further, by section 1192 of the Code of the Dis So the amendment was rejected. trict of Columbia, that prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. the jail or the workhouse may be employed at such ·labor uri Macon and other cities in Georgia prescribe a punishment 1\Ir. GROSVENOR. I dD not want to have any new legisla similar to that provided for in the District of Columbia by the tion introduced into this bill. laws of Congress. l\Ir. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Tbe gentleman simply does [Here the hammer f{'ll.] it for the technical reason that it is new legislation? 1\Ir. BAll.'.rLETT. Mr. Chairman, I would like two minutes Mr. GROSVENOR. Yes. more. l\Ir. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Of course, that is the gentle- The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Georgia asks that man's right if be wishes to take the responsibility. his time be extended two minu-tes. Is there objection? The CHAIRMAN. · The Chair sustains the point of order. There was no objection. The Clerk read as follows : 1\lr. BARTLETT. I desire to call attention to this, because For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be I want the people of the country to know that in spite of the made with the German Orphan Asylum uy the board of charities not attack that has been made upon this system of punishment to exceed $1,000. similar to the one that is inflicted here for the violation of city Mr. BARTHOLDT. Mr. Chairman, I desire to offer an ordinances in the police court at Washington, the capital of the amendment, which I send to the desk and ask to have read. United States, such punishment is not an unusual one. It is ~~be Clerk read as follows : one that is administered all over the country and by the police In line 13 strike out " one thousand " and insert " twelve hundred." courts of most of the cities of the land. ~'bat was my purpose Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. 1\fr. Chairman, we will in seeking for the information, and I am glad that I have got it accept the amendment. before the country, so that the people may know that in dispos The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the amend- ing of the criminals in cities for the section of the country ment offered by the gentleman from Missouri. where I live we do not violate the law of the land or the custom The question was taken ; and the amendment was agreed to. in administering the laws. We simply follow that well-known, The Clerk read as follows : well-established rule which exists in England, and has existed For tempcmi.ry Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand Army all over the land, in all the cities of the land, and these petty of the Republic, namely: For superintendent, $1,000; janitor, $360, and cook, $360 ; maintainance, $3,280; in all, $5,000, to be expended misdemeanors, violations of the city ordinances, are punished under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in Washington just like they are punished in 1\lacon, Ga. and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war shall also be admitted to the Home. MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Chairman, I submit the following amend The committee informally rose; and Mr. CURRIER having ment, which I send to the desk and ask to have read. taken the chair as Speake·r pro tempore, a message, in writing, The Clerk read as follows : from the President of the United States was communicated to Page 75, line 25, after the word " thousand," strike out the words the House of Representatives by Mr. BARNES, one of his sec " two hundred and eighty " and insert in lieu thereof the words _ "seven hundred and eighty," so as to read, "three thousand seven retar~es. hund1·ed and eigllty dollars." DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Chairman, the amendment I propose sim The committee resumed its session. ply restores the amount that they received under the last bill. The Clerk read as follows : They very much need this money. They are already compelling MEDICAL CIL\..RITIES. , the old soldiers to live on short rations so that they can have To enable the board of charities to provide for care and treatment of, money enough to carry them through the present year. They and free dispensary service to, indigent patients, under contracts or need every dollar and more. I hope the amendment wm be agreements to be made with hospitals and dispensaries, and in carrying into effect this appropriation the board of charities may contract with agreed to. any hospital or dispensar y exis~ing in t~e District of Columbia .April 1, l\Ir. GILLETT of Massachusetts. We will accept the amend 1906 and organized or established pnor to that date, and w1th no ment. othet:s $104,000 ; and the board of charities shall report to Congress at the' beginning of its next session the terms of all contracts or agree The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the amend ments made hereunder up to December 1 next, the institutions with ment offered by the gentleman from Michigan. whom made, and the amount per annum involved in each contract or The question was taken; and the amendment was agreed to. agreement. . The Clerk read as follows: Mr. KEIFER. 1\Ir. Chairman, I offer an amendment, which I send to the desk and ask to have read. W .A.TER METERS. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters to be The Clerk read as follows : placed in · such ·private residences as may be directed by the Commis Page 71, line 20, after the word "dispensar~es," insert "including the sioners of the District of Columbia; said meters at all times to remain Home for Incurables." the property of the District of Columbia; to be repaid from revenues of the wa ter department at the rate of $20,000 per annum, beginning with Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, we have no the fiscal year to end .Tune 30, 1908, $100,000. objection to this amendment. The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the amend l\Ir. SIMS. 1\lr. Chairman, I would like to have an explana ment. tion of this from the chairman of the subcommittee. The question was taken ; and the amendment was agreed to. Mr. GILLETT of l\Ia ~ acbusetts. 1\Ir. Chairman, the present Mr. KEIFER. Now, Mr. Chairman, affecting only the· same condition of the water service in the District of Columbia is thing, after the word " dispensary," in line 22, add the words such as to make the Commissioners apprehensive that in a very "or said home," simply to make it harmonious. short time, unless the use of water can in some way be dimin Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I have no ished, there will be compelled to be a new reservoir and new objection to that amendment. . aqueduct. It was also brought before the committee that at The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the amend- present the use of water in Washington is 220 gallons per per ment. son per day, which is three or four times as much as is con The question was taken; and the amendment was agreed to. sidered necessary, and very much more than ordinary cities The Clerk read as follows : a\erage. It appeared to us that the only way in which we could diminish this wasteful use of water was to put in meters, That the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the agent of the board of children's guardians, upon which are very simple and reliable contrivances. This will not requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Co increase the cost of the water to the users, and they will ulti lumbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District mately be paid for by the users of water, although originally of Columbia may require of said agent, sums of money not exceeding $200 at one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting paid for out of the District fund. children, or traveling on official business of the board, to be accounted Mr. DRISCOLL. 1\Ir. Chairman, bas the gentleman inquired for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers .of the Dis what the practice is in other cities-whether or not the con trict of Columbia. sumers pay for the meters in the first instance? 1\lr. GROSVENOR. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of order 1\Ir. GILLETT of l\Ia sacbusetts. Generally they do in other against the paragraph beginning at line 13 on page 73 and -cities, but we thought it was fairer here to have the Di":;trict ending at the end of line 22 on the same page. It is new, dis pay for them in the first instance, and for this reason : That to tinctive, and substantive legislation. compel poor people to pay the whole expense of a meter-from Mr. GILLETT of l\Iassacbu etts. Mr. Chairman, will the $10 to $20-at its original insertion will be quite a burden upon gentleman allow me to ask him a question? them, whereas if at first the District put it in and the consumer The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman yield? ultimately paid for it it would be a fairer method. Then we Mr. GROSVENOR. Yes. also understand that it would improve the quality of the water 1\Ir. GILLETT of Massachusetts. MJty I ask the gentleman that we are now u.sing; that the water which is used through why he strikes that out? I can not conceive of any objection a filh·ation plant when that plant is used nearly to its limit is to it. apt to be impure if the supply is largely diminished, and if it ·is XL--355 5666 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. APRIL 21, not used nearly up to its limit the water is of much better quallty. Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I agree with the gentleman So, both for the quality of the water and the economy of the heartily. water, we thought this was nece sary, and it · ~eemed to us it 1\Ir. SIMS. I would like to hear from the gentleman from was exceedingly necessary that it should be done now, be Illinois [Mr. MANN] on that. cause in the last year there were times when we reached The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. the limit of supply and the use on some days really was greater l\fr. 1\IANN. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent tbat the than the aqueduct was bringing into the city. gentleman's time be extended fiye minutes. Mr. DRISCOLL. Is it intended under the operation of this The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the time of the gentle law that the consumers shall pay a certain proportion each man will be extended. year, so that hereafter, in a certain number of years, they will There was no objection. finally own the meters? Mr. BURTON of Delaware. About what is your estimate of Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. No. The consumers do cost per thou and gallons by the meter system? not pay it. The city advances the money. Then the consumers l\Ir. GILLET'!' of Mas acbusetts. I can not tell the gentle pay water rent, and those rents will be made slightly larger, so man that. that ultimately the meters will all be paid for out of the water l\Ir. MADDEN. About 8 cents. rent and the city will stlll own the meters, but the u ers will Mr. BURTON of Delaware. Do I understand you to say that have paid for it by a very slight increase upon their water taxes. no family would be deprived of all the water they wanted to Mr. SIMS. Mr. Chairman, what would be a reasonable use? amount of water a day? l\Ir. SI IS. That is what I wanted to know. 1\fr. MADDEN. Sixty gallons. Mr. FITZGERALD. If the Chairman will permit, the Com Mr. SIMS. For a family? missioners stated they bad placed meters in their own houses Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Sixty gallons for each per- as a test, and they found out by the use of the meters in their son-per capita. own houses their water bill had been slightly reduced from tho. Mr. Sil\IS. What about business houses where- charges that had been fixed for a hundred or a thousand gal Mr. BURLESON. They have meters now. lons, or whatever it was, and from what it had been at the Mr. GILLETT of 1\fassachusetts. And hotels. rate fixed by frontage, and that they had ample supply of Mr. SIMS. And they are charged according to the water water,. without any effort to unreasonably curtail it; and they tlley use? averaged about 60 gallons per capita. Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Yes. Mr. MANN. The Commissioners' test in their own houses is Mr. SIMS. This applies only to private residences. pure nonsense. A great many tests have been made in the Mr. BURLESON. I desire to supplement the statement·made country that are much fairer than the test made by the three by the gentleman from Massachusetts by this statement : The District Commissioners by putting water meters in their own information was brought to us that in the larger residences private residences. They were watching themselves and in during the ·winter time frequently the faucets were permitted tending to make no difference in the use of water. Wherever to be open and the water to run all the night in order to prevent they use meters in the large departmen.t buildings throughout the freezing of the pipes, and that in the small residences dur the country the owners take every poss1ble method to prevent ing the summer time the faucets were permitted to remain open the use of water. in order that the occupants might have cooler water, resulting Mr. SIMS. Does the gentleman have any knowledge of in a terrific useless waste of waterA whether or not water meters have tended to such decrease in Mr. PALMER. What is the average daily consumption? the use of water as to produce unsanitary results? Mr. BURLESON. Two hundred gallons per capita. Mr. MANN. That is a matter of opinion. 1\ir. DRISCOLL. Who owns the meters already installed? Mr. MADDEN. Here is a question that was asked of the Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. In the large apartment Commissioners about the cost of the water that went through houses the people themselves put them in. the meters: Mr. MADDEJ::-i'. How much per thousand gallons do . you charge where Mr. DRISCOLL. I do not believe in the city paying for the water runs through the meter? meters. · Commissioner BIDDLE. Three cents a thousand gallons. Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. The city does not pay for lie said 3 cents per thousand gallons. Ordinarily they charge them ultimately. 8 cents, but at this place they charge 3. Mr. SIMS. This is what I am concerned about: Wiii the use l\Ir. MANN. Ordinarily they charge 8 cents for 10,000 gal of meters and the paying for water in proportion to the water lons. used have a tendency to reduce the proper and normal use of Mr. DRISCOLL. How much does that come to for an or water among the poor people so as to affect sanitary conditions? dinary family? Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I do not think it will. l\Ir. MADDEN. Suppose that a family should use GO gallons Mr. MANN. Everybody knows it will. Of course it does a day for each person in the family, and there were five wherever it is tried. people in the family, that would be 300 gallons, and that multi Mr. SIMS. That bas been my theory, and I do not think we plied by 365 would make about a hundred thousand gallons ought to do anything to bring about such a condition. would it not? ' Mr. MANN. It prevents the use of water in bath tubs and Mr. DRISCOLL. How much does that come to per year? elsewhere wherever tried. Mr. MADDEN. That would be about $3 a year. Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Our theory was this: The Ur. l\IANN. They charge three times as much here for increased cost will be so very slight that it will not prevent any water as they do in the city of Chicago, where th&,y use meters family from using all they need, but it will simply prevent and the meter rate in Chicago is nearly twice or tbree ti'mes a~ leaving spigo1;'3 open all night or all day. That is the only way much as the frontage rate. that the enormous use of water can be prevented. l\Ir. SIMS. What will it cost an ordinary dwelling bouse to Mr. SIMS. But the spigots are left open in hot weather by have these meters? poor people in the summer time. l\Ir. MANN. In an ordinary dwelling house, that is fitted Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. They are left open in cold with bath tubs, in this city, where the bath tubs are used, with weather, too. the ordinary wastage and plumbing, it will cost $20 a year. Mr. SIMS. But the larger houses leave them open in cold Mr. SIMS. With the meter? weather to keep the pipes from freezing. Mr. MANN. With the meter. Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Small houses have more Mr. MADDEN. Here is what is said in the hearings : danger of the freezing of pipes. Mr. FITZGERALD. Take a house 25 feet wide and three stories high. Mr. SIMS. That is the statement of the gentleman from Can yon give an idea of the water t'ate for that? ~ex as. Colonel BIDDLE. About '7.50. 1\fr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I do not agree with him on Mr. GILLETTE of Massachusetts. You now mean? that. I n reply to that he said that it would be reduced, if the meter Mr. SIMS. The poorer classes leave them open in summer in was introduced, from $7.50 to $5. order to ha've cooler water to drinlr. Mr. SIMS. Do they not have to include an extra charge to Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I understand that both pay for this meter? classes leave them open. l\Ir. l\IADDEN. No. I asked this question : Mr. SIMS. These people who want cool water to drink, I Ilow much per thousand ,gallons do you charge wl::erc the water runs understand, are so poor they can not afford to buy ice. I am in tlu·ough the meter? favor of economy in a proper way in all these kind of things, Colonel Biddle replied: Three cents per 1,000 gallons. I may state that when I lived in but I am opposed to any regulation that will tend to produce Nashville I paid $24 a year water rent, and now in Washington, while insanitary conditions. I am occupying a house about the same size, I pay only $7.50. 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5667 :Mr. SIMS. He does not pay by meter here. Mr. MANN. But if you have the rains as we have them now'i Mr. IADDEN. He does. Mr. FITZGERALD asked him this 1\Ir. WILEY of New ..Jersey. You will get muddy water i1 question: you do not use the coagulant. But you were not Commissioner when you lived in Nashville? Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. May I make a suggestion [Laughter.] to the gentleman? And Mr. Macfarland said: l\Ir. SIMS. Yes. I would like to say for the record that while I am strongly in favor Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. The gentleman seems to of putting in meters in all residences, I would like very much to see be h·oubled with the idea that in any event we are only post the entire National Government service metered just as the large busi poning for a short time the installation of a duplicate water . ness establishments are. I do not believe the excessive consumption is by the private water takers. plant; but it seems to me that, as a matter for mathematical Mr. SIMS. I want to ask this question about that. Sup calculation, we are now using 220 gallons per capita. If were pose this $100,000 is expended; bow long will it be until we have duce that to 70 gallons per capita, which is a reasonable amount, to increase the permanent water facilities anyway? that is only a third as much. Therefore the water which now 1\lr. l\IADDEN. A fair estimate is that if all the houses in supplies our city, only a third of it being used, will supply :1 the District secured their water by meters now, it would add city three times as big as this; so that the present water sup four times the pre ent capacity to the water plant. It would ply will be sufficient for the city until it is three times as big make the plant four times bigger than to-day, because they as as it is now, or, say, twice as big as it is now. That will cer sume that 60 to 65 gallons per capita would be the quantity of tainly be a great many years hence, and considering the enor water used, whereas to-day it is 220 gallons. mous expense--and a new water supply is one of the most Mr. SIMS. l\Ir. Chairman, I saw this morning-- frightful expenses any city ever· bas to pay-if we can save it 1\Ir. MANN. I ask unanimous consent that the time of the by such a comparatively economic system as this, it seems to gentleman from Massachusetts be extended for five minutes. me it is extremely desirable. Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I do not care to occupy 1\Ir. MANN. Will the gentleman yield for a question? further time. 1\Ir. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Yes. Mr. SIMS. I noticed this morning in the newspapers that a Mr. :MANN. What proportion of the houses in Washington bill had been reported in the Senate for $1,000,000 to buy some would this appropriation supply with meters? park extensions, and while we are adding to our free shade Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I do not know, but I un area, which is extraordinarily large already, I am consh·ained derstand about 10,000 houses. to say that 'I do not think we ought to reduce the free use of 1\Ir. 1\fANN. It would not supply 10,000 at the rate the gen water ; and therefore I make the point of order against the tlE,man says they cost. I will say to the gentleman that they section. can not install meters at $10 apiece, or anything like that. The CHAIRMAN. It is too late to make the point of order. Mr. FITZGERALD. I do not think we can. 1\fr. SIMS. Was not that agreed to, that there was to be no 1\fr. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Say $15 apiece. advantage taken of it? Mr. MANN. It will cost $10 apiece to put them in, and then Mr. GARDNER of Michigan. I would like to say to the gen there would be the comparative cost between the few who bad tleman-- the meters and the people who did not have the meters while l\Ir. SIMS. I wish to reserve the point of order for further this system is being installed. discussion of this question. · Mr. FITZGERALD. If the gentleman will permit me to ex l\Ir. GARDNER of Michigan. The whole object of this meter, plain just what this amendment does. At present all of the I say to the gentleman from Tennessee, is not to deprive the revenues from the water service are appropriated indefinitely people of all the water that they would properly use. It is for a continuation of the water service of the District. Five simply to prevent an improvident waste of water on the one thousand dollars was heretofore appropriated to install meters band, instead of incurring a large expense for new service, in private residences, and that bas been done. The result bas new conduits, new reservoirs, which, if the water is not wasted, been satisfactory, not only to the officials, but to the people in will not be needed for years. whose residences the meters have been installed. .1\fr. SIMS. How many years? The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Michigan Mr. GARDNER of Michigan. Why, in the opinion of the .has expired. engineer before the committee, he said an indefinite time; but 1\fr. FITZGERALD. I should like to have the time of the certainly for a number of years. Otherwise, if it is not done, gentleman from Michigan [Mr. GARDNER] .extended five minutes, an appropriation must be made at once for a resurvey, if we so that I can complete my statement. [Laughter.] allow the people to go on wasting the water that they do not Mr. MANN. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. SIMs] bad use and do not pay for. They take advantage here, as in many the floor. , other things, of the liberality of those controlling the water The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from 1\Iichigan [Mr. GARD system to waste it, not to use it. This is simply to prevent NER] was recognized. Unanimous consent is asked that he may waste. be allowed to proceed for five minutes. Is there objection? Mr. SIMS. Mr. Chairman, I am not in favor of wasting the There was no objection. water, but wou~d rather have some waste than an insufficient Mr. FITZGERALD. The Commissioners now ask that this use of the water, and that is what I am afraid of. I have no action be taken. The water revenues at present are required objection to legislation on an appropriation bill, but I do not for the necessary extensions of mains, and they ask that the want anything that will have a tendency to cause the poorer Federal Government advance $100,000 to the Disb.·ict, so that people t9 be cut off from the fullest use of water for drinking, water meters may be installed, and that the District repay that bathing, and for cleansing purposes, or any other possible health $100,000 out of the water revenues in five payments. Now ful use of it. the committee were satisfied-- ' Mr. GARDNER of Michigan. The proposition is not to cut Mr. MANN. This is a good deal worse than I supposed it was. it off from the poor people, but to cut off the waste. Mr. FITZGERALD. Oh, no. Mr. SIMS. If they are so poor that they can not buy ice, and Mr. MANN. The Federal Government is to make a loan to let it run so as to get it cool, certainly they would not use the water department. enough for proper, healthful purposes. If this $100,000 is ap 1\Ir. GILLETT of Massachusetts. I do not think that state propriated, you have got to wait until that money is returned; ment is entirely accurate. It comes out of the appropriation. and it is only a little while before you will have to have in Mr. FITZGERALD. It comes half from the District and creased water facilities. It is only a little while ago since we half from the Federal Government. The advance is made by spent an immense sum of money for a filtration plant, ·which the District and Federal Government to the water-revenue was represented would be entirely sufficient to give an abun fund. The committee was satisfied that either one of two dance of good, pure, and healthful water. Now that filtration things had to be done : Either they had to commence to con plant has hardly been put in operation, and hardly had an op sider now the advisability of duplicating the present aqueduct portunity for the preliminary filtration plant to be h·ied, before system-that is, building a new aqueduct from Great Falls, we are asked for another. addition to the filtration plant. It is with the necessary increase in reservoir accommodations-or reported to us that that filtration plant, which was represented else attempt by some means to reduce the consumption of the to us would be sufficient, bas proven insufficient water. It was shown that the per capita .consumption per Mr. WILEY of New .Jersey. The gentleman is mistaken about day here is 220 gallons; that in other cities a reasonable con that. It has not proven to be insufficient, but in case of a sumption per capita is 60 to 70 gallons. From the experience flood-which we have not bad for the last few years, in case we already had, it is believed that the installation of the meters had one--it would not be sufficient. would reduce the consumption and at the same time, with Mr. SIMS. Then it is ·proved that it is not sufficient the people using all the water that was necessary, the cost of Mr. WILEY of New .Jersey. Sufficient foi· the present. water to the consumer would be slightly decreased. n668 CONGRESSIONAL REQORD-HOUSE. APRIL 21, l\fr. WALDO. Mr. Chairman,. r' desire to say that I know a meter. There is no other way of getting at the consumption there is now a bid to furnish water meters in the Isthmian of the amount as there is in a private family by the front foot. anal Zone, as good meters as can be had in the market, at $7 Mr. DRISCOLL. But if they pay so much a year it makes apiece,. delivered at the Isthmus of Panama, and T believe they no difference in the cost to them whether they use 100 gallon-a can be delivered and installed here at certainly not to exceed or 1,000,000 gallons. $10 apiece. They certainly could be installed here for $10 in- Mr. PERKINS. No; but when they have a meter they do stead of $15 apiece. not u~e as much as when they pay a lump rate. l\fr. MAl\~. l\fr. Chairman-- Mr. DRISCOLL. I wanted to know whether they were put in The CIIAIRM.Al'f. The gentleman from illinois [l\1r. MANN] by themselves for the sake of economy or whether they were is recoO'nized. forced upon them. 1\Ir. MA.i'l'N. l\Ir. Chairman, it is probably true that the water 1\Ir. MANN. The District requires them to put in meters, consumption in the District of Columbia is comparatively large. because there is no way of ascertaining the amount of water It is to that fact that we owe the beauty of the District. The used in a livery stable except by a meter. gentleman from Tennessee is afraid that the putting in of l\fr. KEIFER. I would like to ask the gentleman from Illi meters will have an insanitary effect. I will tell the gentleman nois by what authority be state that it is ea y to measure the from Tennessee that it will have a much wider effect than that. use of the quantity of water in private families where they own The moment that you install meters in a city, as a rule, they front lawns and one man and the members of his family may quit sprinkling the lawn. Why should a man who has a lawn keep the bose going all day? and wants to keep it green pay for an extra amount of water I know eases where they use twice as much water on one at the same rate that the man pays for water consumed in the lawn as they do on the next adjoining. family? · The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Illinois 1\Ir. 1\fA.DDEN. I would like to ask the gentleman if he does has expired. not know it to be a fact that in the city from which he comes Mr. ~lA.."'\TN . lli. Chairman, I ask for 1i"ve minutes more. the authorities charge the householder for the use of the hose, The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Illinois ask unani- ~~ ~~ilition to the price paid for the water when they us-e the mons consent to proceed for five minutes. Is there objection? There was no objection. Mr. l\IA.NJ'i. They charge $3 a year for the use of the bose, l\I MANN · but the amount of water that is con umed at the meter rates r. · I did not say it was easy to ascertain the amounts to $10 or $15 a year. I took up this matter once before amount.. I made no such statement as that. and made an investigation of it. There is not a place where a Mr. KEIFER. Tl;le gentleman said sub tantially that. water meter is put in but thnt it does not restrict the use of 1\lr. MANN. Ob, 1 beg the gentleman's pardon. I made no water for legitimate purposes, whether it be for tlie lawn or the such statement as that. The gentleman is usually wrong when be quotes me. bath tub. The principal waste of water, let me say, is not let- ting the water run in the summer time in order to get it cool 1\.lr. KEIFER. And the gentleman from Tilinois is usually nor in the winter time for the purpose of preventing it freezing. mad when he finds be is in a hole. [Laughter.] That is an exceptional thing. They let it run a little while in 1\lr. MANN. Ob, the gentleman from Illinois never could get the summer time to let the hot water out of the pipe and they mad at the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. KEIFER], whatever else let it run in some eases, perhaps, in the winter time, but the he got mad at. principal waste is through improper plumbing. I will guarantee l\fr. KEIFER. Yes; he does, for I was in good humor. that there are more than 60 per cent-yes, 75 per cent--of the [Laughter.] clo ets in this town to-day leaking water all the time and no l\Ir. MANN. Well, it is so exceptional that the gentleman is effort made to stop it. The water running continuously either otherwise that of course he must nave been in good humor. through the faucets or through the clo ets is where the·· waste The gentleman always insinuates that somebody else is mad, of water comes, and the District makes no effort to stop it in and he is about the only man in the House I have ever seen the inspection of plumbing or in any other respect. really angry. [Laughter.] Mr. DRISCOLL. Is it not true that the people, if they have l\1r. KEIFER. I don't know when that was, and I would like to pay for water through meters, if there is defective plumbing to have the gentleman call the witnes~es. will see .to it and correct it themselves? They will have the Mr. MANN. Oh, they are here and there and everywhere. plumbing repaired and look after it more carefully. Water What I said was that there was no other way of measuring flowing into the sewetlS because of defective plumbing is waste, the amormt to be charged at livery stables or hotels. .At houses is it not? they measure by the frontage and the size of the bouse, and Mr. MANN. That is pure waste, but this is not the only way while it is true that does not measure the amount of water used, to correct that waste. That can easily be corrected by .any sort it is some basis of measurement, whlch can not be used at a of inspection. livery stable or at a hotel with any fairne s. Now, I do not say l\1r. DRISCOLL. Each individual Should. inspect his own that water meters ought not to be installed, but I say that this plumbing. matter has not received the consideration that it ought to have, l\Ir. MANN. That is true. because it is a serious problem. Provide water meters, and you Mr. HEPBURN. I would like to ask the gentleman a ques- cut off four times out of five the use of water for either sprin- tion. · , kling the streets in front of the houses or for the lawns in front of l\1r. MANN. I will yield to t he gentleman from Iowa. the houses or for the care of the plants around the hou e which l\lr. HEPBURN. I would like to a k the gentleman if be is one o:f tbe beauties of Washington. Water ought to be and doesn't think that the committee made a mi take and com- is cheap. Air is cheap, and we ought to be able to proviU.e the menced at the wrong end with the meters? ""Why not put the people with fresh air in the city of WashinO'ton and wit h fresh i:neters at tl1e hotel and liYery tables? water-good, clean, wholesome water-the cheapest thing that l\Ir. FITZGERALD. They are there now. we can give. l\lr. MANN. All of the large establi hments have meters. A l\Ir. SIMS. l\Ir. Chairman, this is a matter that can be few years ago I put a meter in an np~rtment building in the brought up in a separate bill and be beard, and then everybody city of Chicago, and I pay more in that building for water for will bn:ve an opporumity to inform himself. I am not informed. a little fiat than you pay for a boust: in this· town, or for a The only information I have is what I got here to-day. I am sin bouse in Chicago, for that matter. r do not know but tbnt cerely afraid that it will affect the health of the District. We there ought to be a sy tern of meters in tailed gradually, hut baTe b~d an immense amount of typhoid fever, which we seem the water rate ought to be lowered .\t the same time when to have in part got rid of by the filtration plant Therefore, I the meter is put in. 'rile water r ate r··here a meter i put in reluctantly insist upon the point of order. will average tln·ee times tile amount th tt i paid on the front· The CHAIR!\IAN. The Chair will state to the gentleman that aO'e rate. and if we inRtall meter. we , hould put down the no point of order was reserved. rate , ~o that pe~ple will be enc ur- ged to u the water. Mr. SHIS. Oh, I think I withheld the point of order. !r. DRISCOLL. I would like to in(iuire why the water Mr. KF.JFER. ~1r. Chairman, I make the point that the gen- meters have been in,talled in the hoteL and apartment bouse. tleman made his point too late. nnd livery stables--whether they were installed by the people Mr. G LLETT of ~I assacbusetts . Mr. Ch:1irman, out of fair themselves for economy·s sake or whether tbey were forced upon ness t the gentleman I mu t say this, anJ I h'ust no Member of them? the II u e will interfere with the agreement I made with the Mr. PERKINS. It stops waete. gentl ema~ that I made an agreement with the gentleman from 1\fr. ~!ANN. t can tell the gentleman. Tbere i. no way to Teone :-:~ee that when this came up be should ask a question, and measure water in a large hotel or liv ry stable except through 1 that if later be wished to raise the point of order, even after 1906. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 5669 di cussion, I would not then raise the point that it was too late. the District of Columbia appropriation bill-and had instructed Tllerefare I trust tllat no other Member will do it now. llim to report the same back with sundry amendments, with l\1r. KEIFER. 1\lr. Cllairman, I insist tllat long after this the recommendation that the amendments be agreed to and the was under discussion the point of order was made. I don't bill as amended do pass. know anything about this private agreement. The SPEAKER. Is there a separate vote demanded upon Tlle CHAIRl\IAN. The Chair will state that general debate any of the amend.Ipents? If not, the vote will be taken on the had been had before any suggestion was made as to a point of amendments as a whole. order. The Cllair can not be mistaken about that for this The question was taken ; and the amendments were agreed to. reason : Before this paragraph was reached the Chair suggested The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read to the clerk at tlle Speaker's table that there might be a point the third time; and it was read the third time, and passed. of order raised to this paragraph, and both the Chair and tlle On motion of Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts, a motion to re clerk at the Speaker's table were waiting alert to ascertain consider the last vote was laid on the table. whetller such a point would be made or reserved, and it was neitller made nor reserved. Tbe Reporter's notes further b.ear MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. out the statement of the Chair. The SPEAKER laid before the House the following letter · Mr. SIMS. Oh, the Chair is correct about -that. from the President of the United States, which was read, and 'l'he CHAIRMAN. The first sentence uttered by the gentle referred to the Committee on Appropriations: man from Tennessee, according to the Reporter's notes, was : To the Senate and House of Representatives: \~ Mr. Chairman, I would like to have this explained by the chairman I submit herewith a letter of the Secretary of War, with accompanying of the subcommittee. documents, including a form of a resolution suggested for passage by the Congress. 1\fr. SIMS. 1\lr. Chairman, the Chair is entirely correct, but This letter refers to the appalling catastrophe which has befallen I notified the gentleman in charge of the bill, the gentleman f-rom San F'rancisco and neighboring cities, a catastrophe more appalling Massachusetts [Mr. GILLETT], chairman of the subcommittee, than any other of the kind that has befallen any portion of om· country during its history. I am sure -that there is need on my part of no beforehand that I was going to make a point of order ; that I more than a suggestion to the Congress in order that this resolution was not satisfied about it. He then suggested that I do not may be at once passed. But I urge that instead of appropriating a raise the point of order, but that I give him an opportunity to further sum of $1,000,000 as recommended by the Secretary of War, the appropriation be for a ·million and a half dollars. The supplies explain it. I told him that I might not object to it after hear _already delivered or en route for San Francisco approximate in value a ing it explained. He asked me if I would not refrain from million and a half dollars, which is more than we have the authority in doing it, and said after explanation I might do so. I said, " It law as yet to purchase. I do not think it safe for us to reckon upon the need of spending less ·than a million in addition. Large sums are will then be too late." He said, "I think not. ·Nobody -can make being raised by private subscription in this country, and very generous it but you, but you can make it." Now, ·I have done this in the offers have been made to assist us by individuals of other countrles, utmost good faith, and notified the subcommittee beforehand, which requests, however, I have refused as in my judgment there is no need of any assistance from outside our own borders-this refusal of and I have acted in accordance with tbe agreement with the course in no way lessening our deep appreciation of the kindly sympathy committee. Of course if the Chair can not carry out that agree which has prompted such o-ffers. ment, why, then, the Chair is not to be held responsible; but I The detailed .account of the action of. the War Department is con tained in the appendices to the letter of the Secretary of. War. At the did this through a solemn agreement and upon tlleir request. moment our concern is purely with meeting the terrible emergency of The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will state that the House can the .moment. Later I shall communicate with you as to the generous not be bound by an ag1·ee.ment of gentlemen. part which I am sure the National Government will take in meeting the more permanent needs of the situation, including of. course re l\1r. SIMS. Oh, well, I know that, Mr. Chairman. Does any building the great governmental structures which have been destroyed. gentleman in this House want to put the committee in that I hope that the action above requested can be taken to-day. attitude or me in that attitude? T:a.EODORE ROOSEVELT. 1\Ir. GILLETT of Massachusetts. The gentleman has stated THE WHITE HOUSE, A.priZ 21, 1906. what I tried to state, but the Chair did not understand me. It ·TRANSPORTATION OF DUTIABLE MERCHANDISE WITHOUT APPRAISE· ;.was an explicit agreement between the gentleman and myself, MENT. and the gentleman agreed be would not make the point of order Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, I desire to call up the bill at first, and I agreed if be made it afterwards I would not raise H. R. 11037 as a privileged bill .and ask unanimous consent to the point of order, and 1 hope no ·other Member will. There have it considered in the House as .in Committee .of the Whole. fore, I ask unanimous consent that the gentleman now be al The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New York calls up the lowed to make the point of order, and I trust nob-ody will object. following privileged .bill, the title of which the Clerk will report. Mr. CRU:MPACKER. Mr. Chair]Jlan, in the interest of or The Clerk read as follows: derly procedure and to avoid embanassment on ·these questions A bill ·(H. R. 11037) relating to the transportation of dutiable I think it ought to be understood there is but one method to merchandise without appraisement. raise the point of order. If we are to re pect agreements be The SPEAKER. The genteman from New York asks unani tween Members of the House it will lead to no end of trouble mous consent that the bill may be considered in the House as in and embarrassment. the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wl\I. ALDEN S:MITH. And a private agreement at that. Is there objection? Mr. CRUMPACKER. And a personal agreement at that; and 1\Ir. WILLIAMS. Mr. ·Speaker, I will be compelled to object. I accordingly object to changing the rule. 1\Ir. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House re ·The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Mas achusetts asks solve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state unanimous consent that the point of order to thls paJ·agraph be of the Union for the purpose of considering the bill H. R. 11037. allowed to be made at this Hme, and to that the gentleman The SPEAKER. The gentleman ·from New York moves that from Indiana objects. the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House l\1r. GILLETT of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I think for the consideration of the bill indicated. there is but one thing I can do to keep good faith with the gen The question was taken, and the motion was agreed to ; and tleman from Tennessee, and although I heartily am in favor of the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole this paragraph and am very sorry to have it go out, I move House on the state of the Union for the GQnsideration of the that the paragraph be stricken out. [Applause.] bill (H. R .. 11()37) relating to the transportation of dutiable Mr. PAL.MER. It depends upon the committee whether you merchandise without appraisement, Mr. HINSHAW -in the chair. do that or not. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the bill. Tlle CHAIRMAN. The .gentleman from Massachusetts moves that the paragraph be stricken out. The Clerk read as follows : Be it enacted, etc., That the privileges of the first section of the act Tile question was taken; and the Chair announced that the approved June 10, 1880, relating to the transportation of dutiable noes seemed to have it. me1·chandise without appraisement, be, a.nd the same are hereby, ex On a division (demanded by Mr. GILLETT of Massachusetts) tended to the port of Buffalo, in the State of New York. there were--ayes 38, noes 16. l\.Ir. ALExANDER. l\1.r. Cbalrman, the object of thls leg So the amendment was agreed to. . islation is to enable merchandise, and especially cattle, shipped The Clerk resumed and concluded the reading of the bill. from Canada to ports in · this country to pass immediately l\1r. GILLETT of Massachusetts. 1\fr. Chairman, I moYe that through Buffalo to the place of destination without being the committee do now rise and report the bill and amendments stopped in Buffalo for appraisement. In other words, it al to the House with a favorable recommendation. lows goods intended for shipment abroad to pass from Canada The motion was agreed to. through to New York without being held up .at Buffalo for Accordingly the committee rose; and the Speaker having re appraisement It seems to be quite necessary that live stock sumed the chair, 1\fr. DALZELL, Chaionan of the Committee of arriving in 'Buffalo under these conditions should not be un the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported that that loaded on the way. committee had had under consideration the bill H . .R.. :18198- 1\fr. BUTLER ._of Pennsylv:ania. It obv.Jates delayl "5670 CONGRESSIONAL REOOR.D-HOUSE. .APRIL 21, Ur. ALEXANDER. Yes; that is the real object to be S. 5639. An act to provide for the erection of a public build gained. ing at San Juan, P. R.-to the Committee on Public Buildings 1\!r. MANN. How does that benefit Buffalo? and Grounds. Mr. ALEXANDER. This bill simply places Buffalo within ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION SIGNED. section 1 of the act of June 10, 1880. All of our large ports are The SPEAKER announced his signature to enrolled joint now within this section, and it aids shipments passing through resolution of the following title: Buffalo. ' . S. R. 49. Joint resolution construing the joint resolution-ap Mr. PAYNE. I understand from my colleague that he is proved April 19, 1906, entitled "Joint resolution for the relief working for the general interest of the United States and not of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific for the city be represents. coast." 1\fr. MANN. That is what I could not understand. [Laugh ter.] LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 1\fr. ALEXANDER. I may say that Buffalo wants it. Mr. STEVENS of Minnesota submitted a request for leave of 1\lr. Chairman, I move the committee do now rise and report absence for two weeks, on account of impgrtant business. the bill to the House with a favorable recommendation. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The motion was agreed to. :Mr. \VILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I object. The committee accordingly rose; and Mr. HINSHAW, Chair The SPEAKER. 'l'be question is on granting the leave of man of the Committe-e of the Whole House on the state of the absence requested by the gentleman from Minnesota. The Union, reported that the committee bad had under_ considera Chair supposes this would require a motion. tion the bill (H. R. 11037) relating to the transportation of Mr. SMITH of Kentucky. I make the motion that the gen dutiable merchandise without appraisement, and directed him tleman from Minnesota be granted the leave of absence re to report the same to the House with the recommendation that quested. the ~arne do pass. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Kentucky moves that The SPEAKEJR. Without objection, the bill will be consid- the gentleman from Minnesota have the leave asked. ered as engrossed and read a third time--- The question was taken ; and the motion was agreed to. 1\fr. WILLIA~fS. Mr. Speaker, I will be forced to object. l\fr. PAYNE. I move that the House do now adjourn. The SPEAKER. That is within the gentleman's province. The question was taken; and the Speaker announced that he 'l'be question was taken on the engrossment and third read- was in doubt. ing of the bill. The House divided; and there were--ayes 56, noes 43. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time ; l\Ir. NEEDHAM. I demand teller'S. and it was accordingly read a third time, and passed. The SPEAKER (after counting). Twenty gentlemen have On motion of Mr. ALEXANDER, a motion to reconsider the last arisen; not a sufficient number; tellers are refused; and the vote was laid on the table. House stands adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE CALENDAR. Accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned. Mr. MILLER. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask unanimous con sent that this day may be designated as Friday, or in place of a Friday, for consideration of bills upon the Private Calendar. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, the following · executive com Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I shall be forced to object. munications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: TRADE WITH CHINA. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a 1\fr. GRIGGS. Mr. Speaker-- copy of a letter from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor The SPEJAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman from submitting an estimate of appropriations for a light-vessel at Georgia rise? Oxford Reef, Oregon--to the Committee on Interstate and For 1\fr. GRIGGS. To present a privileged report and resolution. eign Commerce, and ordered to printed. The SPEAKER. The gentleman froD;l Georgia presents a A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, with privileged report and resolution, which the Clerk witl read. a copy of a letter from tbe·governor of 1\T.ew l\fexico, a copy of a The Clerk read as follows : proposed amendment of the law relating to certain lands-to Resolved, That there be printed and bound in _{)aper covers, for the the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. use of the House of Representatives, 10,000 copies of the report on " Trade with China : American Methods and ~rrade Opportunities in A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, submit the Markets of tbe Orient," by Raymond F. Crist and Harry R. Burrill, ting an estimate of appropriation for furniture and repairs of special agents of the Department of Commerce and Labor, from Monthly public buildings-to the Committee on Appropriations, and or Consnl~r and Trade Reports for January, 1906, to be distributed through the folding room of the House of Representatives. dered to be printed. The following amendment was read: Strike out the word "ten," in line 2, and insert in lieu thereof the REPORTS OF COl\fl\fiTTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND word " five." RESOLUTIONS. The SPEAKER. Is the report from the Committee on Print Under clause 2 ·of Rule XIII, bills and resolutions of the fol ing? lowing titles were severally reported from committees, deliv Mr. GRIGGS. Yes, sir. ered to the Clerk, and referred to the several Calendars therein Mr. P AYNEJ. I will ask the gentleman if there is any esti named, as follows : mate of the cost. Mr. PERKINS, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to Mr. GRIGGS. Yes, sir; $80. which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 6018) to enable The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolu the President of the United States to call an international con tion as amended. ference for the purpose of securing an international agreement The resolution as amended was adopted. relative to the regulation of the emigration of aliens to the ORDER OF BUSINESS. United States, reported the same with amendment, accompanied 1\fr. P AL~fER. Mr. Speaker-- by a report (No. 3400) ; which safd bill and report were re The SPEAKER. For what purpose does the gentleman rise? ferred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 1\Ir. PALMER. To call for the regular ·order. Union. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania calls Mr. CRUMPACKER, from the Committee on the Census, to for the regular order. which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 13671) to pro vide for the taking of a census of agricultural statistics in the SENATE BILLS REFERRED. year 1906 and every tenth year after the year 1905, reported the Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, Senate bills of the following same with amendment, accompanied by a report (No. 3402); titles were taken from the Speaker's table and referred to their which said bill and report were referred to the Committee of appropriate committees, as indicated below: the Whole House on the state of the Union. S. 1274. An act to provide for th2 purchase of a site and tbe erection of a public building at Washington, N. C.-to the Com mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON. PRIVATE BILLS AND S. 3139. An act for the relief of Lorenzo A. Bailey-to tbe RESOLUTIONS. Committee on Indian Affairs. Under clause 2 of Rule XIII, private bills and resolutions of S. 4774. An act relating to the movements and anchorage of the following titles were severally reported from committees, vessels in Hampton Roads, the harbors of Norfolk and New delivered to the Clerk, and referred to the Committee of the pOlt News, and adjacent waters, in the State of Virginia-to Whole House, as follows : · the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 1\fr. GREGG, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whi<'h 1906-. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE. 567 1 :was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 7676) authorizing the of pension to William W. Wertman- to the Committee on In ~ppointment of Allen V. Reed, now a captain on the retired list valid Pensions. ()f the Navy, as a rear-admiral on the retired list of the Navy, By Mr. S~IYSER : A bill (H. R. 18519) granting a pension reported the same with amendment, accompanied by a report to Benjamin W. McCray-to the Committee on Invalid Pen (No. 3401) ; which said bill and report were referred to the sions. Private Calendar. Also, a bill (H. R. 18520) granting an increase of pension to Joseph G. Shank-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. PU13LIC BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS. Also, a bill (H. R. 18521) granting an increase of pension to Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, bills, resolutions, and memo Katherine 1\Icl\Ionigal-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. rials of the following titles were introduced and severally re Also, a .bill (H. R. 18522) granting an increase of pension to ferred as follows : Charles· D. Ferrell- to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. SULZE R: A bill (H. R. 184!)8) for the purpose of By Mr. SULZER: A bill (H. R. 18523) granting an increase carrying out the provisions of General Orders, No. 195, War of pension to Hugh Reid- to the Committee on Invalid Pen Department, June 29, 1863, for the presentation of medals-to sions. the Committee on Military Affairs. · By Mr. WEBB-: ·A bill (H. R. 18524) granting an increase of By Mr. GARDNER of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 184!)9) pension to Julius Rector- to the Committee on Invalid Pen authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a sum of sions. money to the Whittier Home Association, of Amesbury, Mass. to the Committee on the Library. CHANGE OF REFERENCE. By Mr. BRADLEY: A bill (H. R. 18500) to authorize the Under clause 2 of Rule XXII, committees were discharged Pr&Sident of the United States to appoint a commission to con from the consideration of bills of the following titles ; which sider and recommend a system '()f national parks for military, were thereupon referred as follows : historical, and for other purposes-to the Committee on Mili A bill (H. R. 18311) granting an honorable discharge to Lewis tary .Affairs. Presley-Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and re By 1\Ir. ELLIS : A bill (H. R. 18501) to authorize the con ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs. struction of a bridge across the Missouri River, and to estab A bill (H. R. 9236) granting a pension to Albert I Merrill lish it as a post-road-to the Committee on Interstate and For Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the eign Commerce. Committee on Pensions. By Mr. PARSONS: A bill (H. R. 18502) to empower the A bill (H. R. 9771) granting a pension to George A. Cooper Secretary of War, under certain restrictions,. to authorize the Committee on Invalid Pensions discharged, and referred to the construction, extension, and maintenance of wharves, piers, Committee on Pensions. and other structures on land':! underlying harbor areas and navigable sh·eams and bodies of water in or surrounding Porto PETITIONS, ETC. Rico and the islands adjacent thereto-to the Committee on Insular Affairs. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, the following petitions and pa By 1\Ir. BURTON of Delaware: A resolution (H. Res. 411) pers were laid on the Clerk's desk and refelTed as follows : providing for the printing of the accounts, papers, and docu By the SPEAKER: Petition of Local Union No. 80, of the ments in the case of Henry Fisher''S services 1.·endered to John International Union of Flour and Cere!].l Mill Employees, of Paul Jones-to the Committee on Printing. Los Angles, Cal., for a fair trial of the officers of the Western Federation of Miners now under arrest- to the Committee on tlle Judiciary. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. By .Mr. AIKEN : Paper to accompany bill for relief of Martha Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, private bills and resolutions of A. Dunlap--to the Committee on Pensions. the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as By 1\Ir. BATES: Petition of Picking Garrison, No. 4, Army follows: and Navy Union, of Erie, Pa., favoring bill for retirement of By Mr. BENNETT of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 18503) grant noncommissioned officers and men in the Army, Navy, and Ma ing an increas.e of pension· to John Burns-to the Committee on rine Corps-to the Committee on Military Affairs. Invalid Pensions. By l\Ir. BURKE of Pennsylvania : Petition of Mrs. Alice B. By Mr. BROWNLOW: A bill (H. R. 18504) granting an in Montgomery, chief probation officer of the juvenile court of Alle crease of pension to James T . Rambo-to the Committee on In gheny County, Pittsburg, Pa., for the bill granting second valid Pensions. · class mail privileges to certain charitable, educational, and re By 1\.fr. COLE: A bill (H. R. 18505) granting an increase of ligious publications-to the Committee on the Post-Office and pension to M. Belle May-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Post-Roads. sions. · By l\Ir. BENNETT of Kentucky: Paper: to accompany bill for By l\Ir. GUDGER: A bill (H. R. 18506) granting an increase relief of Perry G. P . Brull-to the Committee on Invalid Pen of pension to 1\lahala Jones-to the Committee on Pensions. sions. By 1\fr. ·HALE: A bill (H. R. 18507) granting an increase of By Mr. BURTON of Delaware : Petition of Lavinia V. Rod pension to Bailey P. Smith-to the Committee on Invalid Pen ney, asking that all accounts, papers, and documents relating to sions. claim of her great-grandfather, Col. Henry Fisher, be sent to Also, a bill (H. R. 18508) granting an increase of pension to Congress and printed-to the Committee on Claims. 'J'ames F. Faster-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. DE ARMOND : Paper to accompany bills for relief of By 1\fr. HEDGE : A bill (H. R. 18509) granting an increase Elizabeth F. Snyder and Thomas M. Montgomery-to the Com ~f pension to Ellen L. Stone-to the Committee on Invalid Pen mittee on Invalid Pensions. . sions. By Mr. DOVE~TER: Petition of the Woman's Literary So By 1\fr. JOHNSON: A bill (H. R. 18510) granting an increase ciety, of Wheeling, W. Va., of the General Federation of of pension to Hugh R. Rutledge-to the Committee on Pensions. Women's Clubs, for an appropriation to investigate -the indus By 1\fr: KLEPPER : A bill (H. R. 18511) for the relief of trial condition of women in the United States-to the Commit Samuel R. Couch-to the Committee on War Claims. · tee on Appropriations. By Mr. KLINE: A bill (H. R. 18512) granting a pension to Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Tony Verrosso--to Lucian Potteiger-to the Committee on Invalid Pensioris. the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By 1\Ir. LACEY: A bill (H. R. 18513) granting an increase By Mr. DRAPER : Petition of Edwin A. Abbey and 64 other ·of pension to Sarah Watts-to the Committee on Invalid Pen- artists of America, for repeal of the duty on art works-to the ~~ . Committee on Ways and 1\fean-s. By 1\Ir. McLAIN: A bill (H. R. 18514) for the relief of D. H . By 1\fr. ESCH : Petition of Edwin A. Abbey and 64 other Chamberlain and Pauline Chamberlain-to the Committee on American artists, for repeal of the duty on art works-to the iWar Claims. Gom.mittee on Ways and Means. . By 1\fr. RICHARDSON of Kentucky~ A bill (H. R. 18515) By l\Ir. FULLER: Petition of Edwin A. Abbey and 64 other granting an increase of pension to Martin Johnson-to the Com artists of America, for repeal of the duty on art works-to the mittee on Invalid Pensions. Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. · Also, a bill (H. R. 18516) granting an increase of pension to By l\Ir. GRANGER: Petition of the League of Improved So 'Jacob T. Wood-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. cieties of Rhode Island, for preservation of Niagara Falls- to Also, a bill (H. R. 18517) to remove the charge of desertion the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. from the military record of Ishmael H . Smith-to the Committee By Mr. GRIGGS : Petition of the Democrat, against the cn.l\Iilitary Affairs. tariff on linotype machines-to the Committee on "\Ynys and By Mr. SAMUEL : A bill (H. R. 18518) granting an increase Means. · 5672 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. APRIL 22; By :Mr. HIGGINS: Petition of the Saturday Club,· of New· The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and ap ~ London, Conn., for an appropriation to investigate the industrial proved. condition of women in the United States-to the Committee on EULOGIES ON THE LATE HON. GEORGE A. CASTOR. Appropriations. 1\!r. ADAMS of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I offer the fol~ By Mr. HOUSTON: Petition of the Rutherford County lowing resolutions and move their adoption. (Tenn.) Medical Society, indorsing the control of maritime and The Clerk read as follows: inter tate quarantine by the Federal Government-to the Com Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that op mittee on Inter tate and Foreign Commerce. portunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. GEORGE A. By 1\Ir. JOHNSON: Paper to accompany bill for relief of CASTOR. late a Member of this House ft·om the State of Pennsylvania. R es olved, '.rhat as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the Hugh R. Rutledge-to the Committee on Pensions. deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished career, the House, at By l\Ir. KNOPF: Petition of the Scandia, against the tariff on the conclusion of tbe exercises of this day, shall stand adjourned. linotype machines-to the Committee on Ways and Means. R es olved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. By Mr. LACEY : Paper to accompany bill for relief of Sarah Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the Watts-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. family of the deceased. By Mr. LEE: Paper to accompany bills for relief of the Da 'l'IJe question was taken; and the resolutions were unani mascus Baptist Church, of Gordon County, Ga. ; the Oetbcalega mously agreed to. Baptist Church, of Adairsville, Barton County, Ga.; the Cal 1\Ir. ADAMS of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous houn Baptist Church, of Gordon County, Ga., and the Calhoun consent that 1\Iembers have leave for thirty days to print on the Presbyterian Church, of Calhoun, Gordon County, Ga.-to the memorial services· of this day. Committee on War Claims. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsyl By Mr. LILLEY: Petition of the Troy Gazette-Register and vania asks unanimous consent that Members desiring to print tlJe Mirror, against the tariff on linotype machines-to the Com on tlJe memorial services of this day shall have leave to do so. mittee on 'Vays and Means. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair bears none. By l\Ir. LINDSAY: Petition of Samuel Irwin, for bill H. R. 5335, for relief of retired naval officers-to the Committee on Mr. ADAMS of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, it was my sad Naval Affairs. duty on the 20th of February to announce the death of my col Also, petition of Mrs. Fannie T. Horen, president of the league, Hon. GEORGE A. CASTOR, of the Third district of Penn National Association of Army Nurses, for increase of pension sylvania, and to announce that another time I would ask that a for nurses of the civil war-to the Committe~ on Invalid Pen day be set apart for proper consideration of his public senices sions. and character. By a special order of the House this day was Also, petition of Edwin A. Abbey et al., American artists, for set apart for that purpose. repeal of the duty on art works-to the Committee on Ways The change to holding these memorial services on a Sunday and Means. has been a good one. The excitement and interest in pending By Mr. LITTLE: Paper to accompany bill for relief of J. M. legislation was frequently not ignored sufficiently, and the serv Wright-to the Committee on War Claims. .. ice lacked that repose and sanctity that belong to the memory ·By Mr. McCALL : Petition of Rufus F. Herrick, of Win of those gone before. . chester, Mass., for the metric system (the Littauer bill)-to the Mr. Speaker, our late colleague was born at Holmesburg, a Committee on Coinage, VleiglJts, and Measures. part of the city of Philadelphia, on August 6, 1855, of bumble By Mr. MORRELL: Petition of Edwin A. Abbey et al., artists but highly respected parentage. He attended the puulic of the United States, for removal of the duty on art works-to schools of the village, but early in life entered a cloth house t ... e Committee on Ways and Means. in the city. With that energy which characterized and made By l\Ir. NEEDHAM: Petition of citizens of North San Juan, a success of his life, be at once proceeded to master the details Cal., against religious legislation in the District of Columbia of the business, and before long gained the reputation of being to the Committee on the District of Columbia. the best judge of cloth in the country. This knowledge became By Mr. RHINOCK : Paper to accompany bill for relief of An of vital importance ~hen be determined to enlarge his busine s nie Dinan (previously referred to the Committee on Invalid as a merchant tailor. This his experience and energy so de Pensions)-to the Committee on Pensions. Yeloped that he soon bad large establishments in New York By Mr. SULZER: Petit~on of Charles Dersch and Fred W. and Boston· in addition to his Philadelphia llouse. Succe s Hotz, for relief for heirs of victims of Gene1·al Slocum disaster crowned his efforts, and at the expiration of some twenty years to the Committee on Claims. he retired with a moderate fortune, which by his excellent Also, petition of the American Free Art League, No. 50 State judgment in investments he greatly enlarged in later years. street, Beston, and 66 leading artists of the _country, for repeal GEORGE A. CASTOR is a striking example of a class of men of of the duty on works of art-to the Committee on Ways and wlJieb our country has too few. Instead of retiring and enjoy Means. ing that ease his work had made possible, he felt he owed some duty to his city and country, and began to take an active part HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. in public affairs. A Republican in principles, be became an active worker in the organization of that party. He serYed on SUNDAY, ·Aprt122, 1906. the city committee for fifteen years, his popularity in his dis- . The House met at 12 o'clock m., and was ca1led to order by trict insuring his continued reelection. On the death of Hon. Hon. ALEXANDER McDoWELL, Clerk of the House, who directed Henry Burk, representing the Third Pennsylvania Congres the reading of the following letter : sional district, some difficulty was experienced in finding a candidate. SPEAKER'S ROOM~ HOUSEl OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. 0., ApriL 22, 1906. The Third Pennsylvania district occupies a peculiar place in I hereby designate Hon. Jo.Ii:N DALZELL, o! Pennsylvania, to act as American politics. It is peculiar in the history of our coun Speaker pro tempore this day. try, owing to the record of Samuel J. Randall. WitlJ the J. G. CANNON~ Speaker. strong conviction for the doctrine of protection wlJich existed Mr. DALZELL accordingly assumed the chair as· Speaker pro in the city of Philadelphia, Randall stood as the exponent of tempore. that wing of the Democratic party which believed in moderat~ The following prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Rev. protection. He had so stamped his impress on this di trict, HENRY N. COUDEN, D. D.: which, though probably by conviction its constituents were Re Infinite source of life and light and love, we thank Thee for publicans, with high protective ideas, that IJis strong per on that deep and abiding faith which holds us ·close to Thee through ality, honesty, and integrity bad broken down party line~ to all the vicissitudes of life, for the star of hope which illumines such an extent that for nearly thirty years be was elected an our path when sorrows and disappointments gather thick and honored l\Iember to this House. Party lines were severed, and fast about us, for the ties of affection which bind us together it was known as "the Randall district." into families and friendships which time nor space can se\er; I state this fact because at the death of Henry Burk there and as we gather here to-day in memory of those who made for was some difficulty in finding a candidate who would be sure themselves a place in our hearts we thank Thee that tbeir char to be returned as a Representative fully convinced of the sound acters their works, their influence remain an inspiration to ness of the great doctrine of protection. Many were can those 'who knew and loved them. Let the everlasting arms be vassed, and finally the selection was made of our late colleague, about the dear ones who mourn their absence, and comfort them GEORGE A. CASTOR. It takes certain. qualifications to carry with the blessed hope of a reunion in a world where sorrows that district, owing to the peculiar conditions to which I have ne•er come. Hear us, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ our referred. .Mr. CASTOR was chosen, first, for his strong support Savior. Amen. of the doch·ines of the Republican party; second, on account