1939 .CONGRESSIONAL ;RECORD-. SENAT~ 627 By Mr. WOLCOTr: The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following H. R. 7591. A bill to limit the powers of the Reconstruction Senators answered to their names: Finance Corporation, Commodity Credit Corporation, the Adams Danaher .._ Johnson, Colo. Reed Andrews Davis King Reynolds First Export-Import Bank of Washington, the Second Ex­ Austin Donahey La Follette Russell port-Import Bank of Washington, and for other purposes; Bailey Downey Lodge Schwartz to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Bankhead Ellender Lucas Schwellenbach Barbour Frazier Lundeen Sheppard By Mr. RANKIN: Barkley George McCarran Shipstead H. J. Res. 392. Joint resolution making an appropriation Bilbo Gerry McKellar Slattery Borah Gibson McNary Smathers for loans and relief in the flood-stricken areas of Mississippi Bridges Gillette Maloney Stewart and Alabama; to the Committee on ~ppropriations. Brown Green Mead Thomas, Okla. Bulow Gurney Miller Thomas, Utah Burke Hale Minton Townsend PETITIONS, ETC. Byrd Harrison Murray Truman Byrnes Hatch Neely Tydings Under clause 1 of ruie XXII, petitions and papers were laid Capper Hayden Norris Vandenberg on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: Caraway Herring Nye Van Nuys Chandler Hill O'Mahoney Wagner 5812. By Mr. MARTIN J. KENNEDY: Petition of the Kings Chavez Holman Overton Wheeler County American Legion Welfare Committee, ·Inc., Brooklyn, Clark, Idaho Holt Pepper White Clark, Mo. Hughes Pittman Wiley N.Y., urging conference with the Administrator of the Works Connally Johnson, Calif. Radcliffe Progress Administration for the purpose of restoring recent cuts made in the Works Progress Administration; to the Mr. MINTON. I announce that the Senator from Wash­ Committee on Appropriations. ington [Mr. BoNE] and the Senator from Virginia [Mr. GLASS] 5813. ·Also, letter from the Maritime Association of the Port are detained from the Senate because of illness. of New York, urging consideration of the views of the Mari­ The Senator from Arizona [Mr. AsHURST] is absent because time Association of the Port of New York on that part of the of Hlness in his family. proposed Neutrality Act referring to American flagships; to The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. GUFFEY], the Senator the Committee on Foreign Affairs. from Oklahoma [Mr. LEE], the Senator from South Carolina 5814. By Mr. KINZER: Petition of 44 citizens of Chester [Mr. SMITH], and the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. County, Pa., urging that the United States of America do not WALSH] are unavoidably detained. become involved in the current European war; to the Com­ Mr. AUSTIN. I announce that the Senator from New mittee on Foreign Affairs. Hampshire [Mr. TOBEY] is necessarily absent. 5815. Also, petition of 197 citizens of Lancaster County, The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-seven Senators have an­ Pa., urg~ng that the United States of America do not become swered to their names. A quorum is present. involved in the current Europe·an war; to the Committee on ADDRESS BY SENATOR WILEY BEFORE LEIF ERICSON SOCIETY, Foreign Affairs. CHICAGO . 5816. Als·o, petition of 44 citizens of the Chestnut Level [Mr. WILEY asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Presbyterian Church, of Lancaster County, Pa., urging that RECORD an address entitled "Leif Ericson's Challenge to This the United States of America do not become involved in the Age," delivered by him on October 9, 1939, before the Leif current European war; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Ericson Society of Chicago, Ill., which appears in the Ap- pendix.] · ADDRESS BY HON. JOHN W. HANES BEFORE BOND CLUB OF NEW YORK SENATE [Mr. BYRD asked and obtained leave to have printed in the FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939 RECORD an address delivered by Hon. John W. Hanes, Under Secretary of the Treasury, before the Bond Club of New York (Legislative day of Wednesday, October 4, 1939) at New York City on October 18, 1939, which appears in the The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration Appendix.] · of the recess. EFFECT IN OREGON OF RECIPROCAL-TRADE AGREEMENTS The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the [Mr. HoLMAN asked and obtained leave to have printed in following prayer: the RECORD an article from the Oregon Voter of October 14, Eternal God, whose majesty is inscrutable and power in­ 1939, relating to the reciprocal-trade agreement with Canada, comparable, whose work is life, and whose love is grace:· We which appears in the Appendix.] bow the knee before Thee, for Thou art also our Father, of EFFECT ON BUSINESS OF TRADE SECTIONS OF NEUTRALITY whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named, be­ RESOLUTION seeching Thee that Thou wouldst grant us, according to the Mr. JOHNSON of California obtained the floor. riches of Thy glory, to be strengthened with might by Thy Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President-- spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in our hearts The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from California. by faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be yield to the Senator from Pennsylvania? able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and Mr. JOHNSON of California. I yield. length and depth and height; and to know the love of Christ, Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to which passeth knowledge, that we may be filled with all the have read by the clerk a letter from Mr. Joseph Kohn, presi­ fullness of God. And, as Thou dost indwell us, grant that dent of the Universal Dental Co., of Philadelphia, under date we may do Thy will as it comes to us in the stream of inci­ Philadelphia, October 19. It is a very short letter and will dents that bears us onward, and may it be our joy to find take but a moment to read. our inspiration in the fulfillment of the duties of this day. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection to the request Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. of the Senator from Pennsylvania? The Chair hears none, THE JOURNAL and the clerk will read. The legislative clerk read as follows: On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calendar UNIVERSAL DENTAL Co., day Thursday, October 19, 1939, was dispensed with, and the Hon. JAMES DAVIS, PhiladeZphia, October 19, 1939. United States Senate, Washington, D. C. Journal was approved. SIR: The following is a quotation from the New York Times of CALL OF THE ROLL October 19: . "As a means for further tightening the 'cash' requirements o! Mr. MINTON. I suggest the absence of a quorum. the cash-and-carry section, the Senators agreed that an amend­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. ment should. be inserted · to put individuals and governments on 628 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE OCTOBER 20 the same footing in the law. As presently framed, the trade sec­ for us to rise superior to any question of personal infiuence tions of the neutrality resolution relate to transactions between American nationals and foreign governments or their agents. The or of personal consequence and do the right thing, the just amendment sugges~ed today would eate the presumption that thing, not to France, not to England-it might be thought, • any goods purchased by a national of another country is pur­ sometimes, to hear people talk, that this was a Parliament chased for the government of that country." I respectfully call your attention to the injurious effects on of Great Britain-not to Germany, but to the United States business if such an amendment were passed. In our own particu­ of America. That is what I appeal for today-that we may lar case, we have been doing business with a British firm for the give to the United States of America the best that is in us; last 17 years and during that time our arrangements for settle­ that no man shall coerce us, no man shall say how we shall ment were on the basis of 120 days. If the amendment, as de­ scribed in the above quotation, were passed, it would mean a com­ vote or how we shall not vote; none shall be actuated in this plete disruption of our business relationship of the last 17 years forum except by conscience. If upon that basis we will deter­ and would create a hardship on our associates in England who un­ mine this question, then no man can ask more. doubtedly would not be able to adjust their finances in such a manner so as to comply with the intent of this amendment. I As the Democratic leader said yesterday, I have but one therefore call your attention to the possible injurious effects that lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of such an amendment may have on our business and I don't doubt experience. There is but one mode in which I can decide that there are thousands of other firms in the United States who this question, and that is in the pure light of reason and are in a similar position as ours and who would be gravely affected by such an amendment. the steady,- undimmed light of justice. Twenty years ago I personally am heartily in favor of the cash-and-carry principle we fought a great war, and our gradual entry into it in many and the repeal of the embargo as it affects relations between indi­ ways parallels the contest that is on us today. I shall not viduals and agencies of governments, but from my understanding it was never the intent that the act should interfere with the labor the causes of the great World War.