6206 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 16 8278. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Louise Eovino, Cliff­ and that the House insisted upon its disagreement to the side Park, N. J., petitioning consideration of resolution with amendments of the Senate numbered 17, 20, 21, 37, 39, 41, 42, reference to House Joint Resolution 408, concerning a na­ 43, 60, 61, 65, 66, and 105 to the bill. tional referendum; to the Committee on Military Affairs. The message further announced that the House of Repre­ 8279. Also, petition of the Pontiac Industrial Union Coun­ sentatives had agreed to a concurrent resolution (H. Con. cil, Pontiac, Mich., petitioning consideration of their resolu­ Res. 67) providing that the two Houses of Congress assemble tion with reference to Senate bill 591, United States Housing in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 1 o'clock Authority program; to the Committee on Banking and p.m. today, May 16, 1940, for the purpose of receiving such Currency. communications as the President of the United States shall 8280. Also, petition of Constantin Doncca, 17217 Marx, peti­ be pleased to make to them, in which it requested the con­ tioning consideration of their resolution with reference to currence of the Senate. antialien bills; to the Committee on Immigration and JOINT MEETING OF THE TWO HOUSES Naturalization. Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I ask that the House Con­ 8281. Also, petition of Local Union No. 443, International current Resolution 67 be now laid before the Senate. Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, petitioning consideration The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate of their resolution with reference to United States Housing a concurrent resolution coming over from the House of Rep.;. Authority; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. resentatives, which will be read. 8282. Also, petition of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car The Chief Clerk read the resolution <H. Con. Res. 67) , as . Porters, New York City, N. Y., petitioning consideration of follows: their resolution with reference to the Dies committee; to the Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Se?ULte concur­ Committee on Rules. ring), That the two Houses of Congress assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Thursday, the 16th day of May 1940, at 1 p. m., for the purpose of receiving such communications as the SENATE President of the United States shall be pleased to make to them. Mr. BARKLEY. I ask unanimous consent for the present THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940 consideration of the House concurrent resolution and that it <Legislative day of Wednesday, April 24, 1940) be concurred in. The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request of the recess. of the Senator from Kentucky? Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. President, reserving the The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney · T. Phillips, D. D., offered the following prayer: right to object, may I inquire if, when the Senate returns to its Chamber and resumes the consideration of House bill Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, who at this moment 9243, I will be given the floor? dost call us by the providence of events to take a lowlier esti­ Mr. BARKLEY. The Senator from Colorado can proceed mate not of our tasks but of ourselves, that we may be the now, if he wants to do so. It is not intended that the Senate better fitted for the service of our high calling: Grant that shall proceed to the Chamber of the House of Representa­ we may never be unmindful of Thy great goodness to us as a tives until about 20 minutes to 1. people, and do Thou remember, Lord, no more our sins and The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will say to the Senator our iniquities. from Colorado that an examination of the RECORD this morn­ Make us, then, both thankful and humble as we Ioose the ing discloses that the Senator from Colorado has not com­ shoes from off our feet because the ground on which we stand pleted his remarks, and it is the purpose of the Chair to at this crisis of the world is holy ground and we can but wait recognize the Senator from Colorado to conclude his remarks. in hushed silence to hear what Thou wouldst say to us. Bless The adoption of the concurrent resolution of the House of our President with wisdom from on high as he leads our Na­ Representatives will not interfere with that procedure, if tion in these uniting days of a common anxiety, and help us there is no .ol:tjection. all to be the instruments of Thy purpose as we learn that tasks Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. I understand. willed in hours of insight can be fulfilled through hours of The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request gloom. In the Saviour's name we ask it. Amen. of the senator from Kentucky that the House resolution be THE JOURNAL concurred in? The Chair hears none, and the resolution is concurred in. On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calendar day Mr. BARKLEY. I will say to the Senator from Colorado of Wednesday, May 15, 1940, was dispensed with, and the that if he desires to proceed now and shall not have con­ Journal was approved. cluded his remarks when the Senate goes to the Hall of the House of Representatives, he will, of course, be permitted to MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE do so on the return of the Senate to its Chamber. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. I am anxious to proceed with Calloway, one of its reading clerks, announced that the my remarks, and if I shall not have concluded at the time House had agreed to the report of the committee of confer­ · of the recess, I desire to continue after the Senate returns ence on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the to its Chamber. amendment of the Senate to the bill <H. R. 7079) to provide The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Ken.. for the appointment of additional district and circuit judges. , tucky desire to move an order with reference to proceeding The message also announced that the House had agreed to the Hall of the House of Representatives? to the report of the committee of conference on the dis­ Mr. BARKLEY. I ask unanimous consent that at not agreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the later than 20 minutes to 1 o'clock p. m. the Senate proceed Senate to the bill (H. R. 8202) making appropriations for. to the Hall of the House of Representatives for the joint the Departmei1t of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending session of. the two Houses. June 30, 1941, and for other purposes; that the House re­ ceded from its disagreement to the amendments of the The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the re­ Senate numbered 6, 19, 40, 85, 90, 96, 100, 101, 102, 104, 107, quest of the Senator from Kentucky? The Chair hears and 111 to the bill, and severally concurred therein; that the none, and it is so ordered. House receded from its disagreement to the amendments of CALL OF THE ROLL the Senate numbered 8, 12, 13, 44, 45, 95, 99, 103, and 110 Mr. BARKLEY. I think we should have a quorum, and to the bill and concurred therein, severally with an amend­ I suggest the absence of a quorum. ment, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate, The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 6207 The Chief C!erk called the roll, and the following Senators RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION-PETITION answered to their names: Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. President, I ask consent to present Adams Davis Lee Schwartz for appropriate reference a petition to the Senate in the Andrews Donahey Lodge Sheppard Ashurst Ellender Lucas Shipstead form of a resolution from We the Americans, of Philadel­ Austin George Lundeen Slattery phia, Pa. I request that the petition may be printed in the Bailey Gerry McCarran Smathers Barbour Gibson McKellar Stewart RECORD, and also that ·Senate bill 3730, introduced by me, Barkley Gillette McNary Thomas, Idaho providing for the limitation of immigration, be printed in Bilbo Glass Mead Thomas, Okla. the RECORD. Bone Guffey Miller Thomas, Utah Bridges Gurney Minton Tobey The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so Brown Hale Murray Townsend ordered. Bulow Harrison Neely Truman Burke Hatch Norris Tydings The petition was referred to the Committee on Immigra- Byrd Hayden Nye VanNuys tion, as follows: · Byrnes Herring O'Mahoney Wagner WE THE AMERICANS, INC., Capper Hill Overton Walsh Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1940. Car a way Holman Pepper Wheeler Chandler Hughes Pittman White A PETITION Chavez Johnson, Calif. Radcliffe Wiley To the Senate of the United. States: Clarlt, Mo. Johnson, Colo. Reed Whereas conditions in the United States make it imperative that Connally King Reynolds immigration be restricted and, if possible, prohibited; and Danaher La Follette Russell Whereas immediate action to restrict or prohibit such immi­ gration is necessary: Now, therefore, be it Mr. MINTON. I announce that the Senator from Wash­ Resolved, That We the Americans, Inc., a national organization ington [Mr. SCHWELLENBACHJ is absent from the Senate for the protection of constitutional government and for other because of illness in his family. purposes, hereby petitions the Congress of the United States to adopt, without amendment or amendments, S. 3730, a bill to limit The Senator from California [Mr.