1907. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 67 Also, resolution of general assembly of Connecticut, for con­ SENATE. solidation of third and fourth class mail matter at third-class rate-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. TUESDAY, December 3, 1907. Also, resolution of Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, for a dry Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. EDWARD E. HALE. dock at Pearl Harbor-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. MoRGAN G. BULKELEY, a Senator from the State of Con­ Also, resolution of Pequot Council, Knights of Columbus, necticut, appeared in his seat to-day. against reclassification of rates _on second-class mail matter­ The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and ap­ to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. proved. Also, resolution of McKinley Camp, No. 9, Spanish War Vet­ SENATOR FROM ALABAMA. erans, of Norwalk, Conn., for restoration of army canteen; also :Mr. CULBERSON presented the credentials of Joseph F . of Allan M. Osborn Camp, No.1, U.S. W. V.-to the Committee Johnston, chosen by the legislature of the State of Alabama on Military Affairs. a Senator from that State to fill the vacancy caused by the By Mr. HUFF~ Papers to accompany bill granting a death of Edmund W. Pettus in the term beginning March 4, pension to William H. Altman, Michael Connor, James M. Daly, 1903. William Eberhart, Amos Feathers, Daniel Forrest, and Jaboch The credentials were read and ordered to be filed. Gaffney-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. _ Mr. CULBERSON. The Senator-elect is present in the By Mr. JENKINS: Joint resolution of assembly and senate Chamber and ready to take the oath of office. ) of Wisconsin, for repeal of tariff on lumber-to the Committee The VICE-PRESIDENT. 'rhe Senator-elect will present him­ on Ways and Means. self at the Vice-President's desk and take the oath prescribed Also, joint resolution of assembly and senate of Wisconsin, by law. for enactment of a uniform game law-to the Committee on the Mr. Johnston was escorted to the Vice-President's desk by Judiciary. Mr. CULBERSON, and the oath prescribed by lnw having been Also, joint resolution of assembly and senate of Wisconsin, administered to him, he took his seat in the Senate. for appropriation to improve upper Mississippi River-to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. Also, joint resolution of assembly and senate of Wisconsin, Mr. WILLIAM J. BROWNING, the Chief Clerk of the House of for appropriation to survey ship canal to connect Great Lakes Representatives, appeared and delivered the following message: with Mississippi River via Portage Canal, Wisconsin-to the .Mr. President, I am directed by tlie House of Representatives Committee on Rivers and Harbors. to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representa­ Also, joint resolution of assembly and senate of ·wisconsin, tives has assembled; that JosEPH G. CANNON, a Representative for law fixing uniform standard of grading and inspecting from the Strrte of Illinois, has been elected Speaker; that Alex­ grain-to the Committee on the Judiciary. ander McDowell, a citizen of the State of Pennsylvania, has Also, petition of 18 citizens of Osceola, Wis., against parcel­ been elected Clerk, and that the House is ready to proceed to post law-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. business. Also, joint resolution of assembly and senate of Wisconsin, Also, that a committee of three were appointed by the for law to elect Senators of the United States by direct vote of Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to join the the people-to the Committee on the Judiciary. committee appointed on the part of the Senate to wait on the President of the United States and to notify him that a quorum By Mr. LINDSAY: Petition of Rear-Admiral H. F. Picking of each of the two Houses has assembled and that Congress is Naval Garrison, No. 4, Erie, Pa., to equalize and fix pay of ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service-to the aud that 1\Ir. PAYNE of New York, 1\Ir. TAWl't""EY of Minne­ Committee on Naval Affairs. sota, and l\Ir. WILLIAMS of Mississippi were appointed such Also, petition of William J. Bryan, for appropriation for committee on the part of the House. Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition-to the Committee on Appro­ The message also transmitted resolutions of the House on the priations. death Of Hon. JOHN TYLER MORGAN and of Hon. EDMUND WINSTON By Mr. LOUDENSLAGER: Resolution of United States PETTUS, late Senators of the United States from the State of Weighers' Laborers' Benevolent Association, for law for in·· Alabama. crease of wages of weighers' laborers of the United States The message further communicated to the Senate the intelli­ Customs Service-to the Committee on Labor. gence of the death of Hon. GEORGE W. SMITH, late a Representa­ By Mr. OVERSTREET: Paper to accompany bill for relief tive from the State of Illinois, and of Hon. CAMPBELL SLEMP, of the estate of D. B. Sanders-to the Committee on War late a Representative from the State of VIrginia, and trans- Claims. mitted resolutions of the House thereon. · Also, resolution of United States Weighers' Laborers' Benev­ The message also announced that the Speaker had appointed olent Association, to support bill to be presented by Congress­ Mr. LORIMER, Mr. PRINCE, Mr. CHAPMAN, Mr. McGAVIN, Mr. man WILLIAM S. BENNET, of New YorK-to the Committee on FosTER, Mr. McDERMOTT, and l\Ir. RoDENBERG of Illinois, Mr. Labor. DAWES of Ohio, Mr. CHANEY of Indiana, Mr. RUCKER and Mr. Also, paper to accompany bill for relief of Cassius M. 0. RUSSELL of Missouri, l\Ir. MAYNARD of Virginia, Mr. STEENER­ Jones, John 1\f. Dickerson, Austin Daugherty, Orville P. Boy­ SON of Minnesota, 1\Ir. BRoussARD of Louisiana, and Mr. LE­ den, Wm. B. Downey, Geo. H. Barnes, Richard McCandless, GARE of South Carolina, n1embers of the committee on the part Jesse T. Power, W. C. McLaughlen, Saml. Hicks, Nelson F. of the House to attend the funeral of the deceased. Overmeyer, Florence Annetta Cox, Charles M. Montgomery, Jefferson Branham, Elias Shook, Charles W. Wheat, an.d John A. NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT. .1\Iiller-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. ALLISON and Mr. TELLER, the committee appointed on the Also, petition of Ralph De W. Hulbert et al., for legislation part of the Senate to wait upon the President of the United to equalize and fix pay of commissioned officers and enlisted States, appeared; _and men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Mr. ALLISON said: Mr. President, the committee of the two Service of the United States-to the Committee on Naval Houses appointed to wait upon the President of the United Affairs. States and inform him that the Houses are organized and By l\fr. 1\!cKINLEY of Illinois: Petition of H. J. Hamlin et ready to receive any communication he may have to make, have al., for a volunteer retired list for surviving officers of the performed that duty; and the President informed the commit­ civil war-to the Committee on Military Affairs. tee that he would immediately communicate to the two Houses By 1\Ir. PARSONS: Resolution of United States Weighers' in writing. Laborers Benevolent Association, of New York, for legislation PRESIDENT•s ANNUAL MESSAGE. looking to an increase of wages of weighers' laborers of the Mr. M. C. LATTA, one of the secretaries of the President of United States customs service-to the Committee on Labor. the United States, appear~d and said: By Mr. REYNOLDS: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Mr. President, I am directed by the President of the United David W. Conrath-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. States to deliyer to the Senate a message in writing. By Mr. SHERMAN: Paper to accompany bill for relief of The message was received from the secretary and handed to 'Valter C. Knight, Michael McCormick, John D. Moore, Mary the ViCe-President. P. Grindlay, Mary B. Dempster, and Mary H. Christian-to the The VICE-P:RESIDENT-. The Ohair lays before the Senate Committee on Invalid Pensions. the annual message of the President of the United States, which By Mr. STAFFORD: Resolution of Merchants and Manu­ the Secretary will read. facturers' Association of Milwaukee, for tariff commission-to The Secretary (Mr. CHARLES G. BENNETT) read the message, the Committee on Ways and Means. as follows: 68 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. DECEl\plER 3, To the Senate and House of Representatives:· those that wield tl}.em, as to make it a matter of necessity to .1.'0 nation has greater resources than ours, and I think it give to the sovereign-that is, to the Government, which repre­ can be truthfully said that the citizens of no nation possess sents the people as a whole-some effective power of super•i• greater energy and industrial ability. In no nation are the sion oYer their corporate use. In order to inslll·e a hen Jthy fundamental business conditions sounder than in ours at this social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held very moment; and it is foolish, when such is the case, for responsible by, and be accountable to, some so-vereign strong people to hoard money instead of keeping it in sound banks; enough to control its conduct. I am in no sense hostile to cor­ for it is such hoarding that is the immediate occasion of money porations.