4588 OONGRESSION.A.L RECORD-SENATE. ~lARCH 27, Lawrenceburg, asking that Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals offer Harris McNary Rawson Underwood Harrison Moses Robinson Wadsworth be accepted ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Hitchcock Nelson Sheppard Walsh, fuss. 4833. By l\Ir. GALLIVAN: Petition Qf the Boston Chamber Jones, Wash. New Shields Warren of Commerce, opposing any action which will deprive the In­ Kellogg Oddie Simmons Watson, Ga. Keyes Overman Spencer Weller terstate Commerce Commis ion of the power to remove unjust King Page Stanley Williams qiscriminntion ao-ain t interstate commerce brought about by La Follette Phipps Sterling Willis the action of tate railroad or public utility commissions; to Lenroot Pittman Sutherland the Committee on Inter tate and Foreign Commerce. Lodge Poindexter Townsend 4834. By Mr. KISSEL: Petition of Metropolitan Post, Dis­ l\Ir. SUTHERLAND. I wish to announce that the Senator abled Emergency Officer of the World War, of New York City, from North J!akota [Mr. McCmrnER] the Senator from Utah N. Y., urging passage of Senate bill 1565; to the Committee on [l\Ir. S:uooT], the Senator from Vermont [l\lr. DILLINGHAM] the :Military Affair . Senator from Connecticut [l\fr. McLEAN], the Senator from - 4835. Also, petition of the Federal Councii of the Churches Kan a [Mr. CI.TRTisl, the Senator from Indiana [l\fr. WATSON], of Christ in America, of New York City, N. Y., urging relief and the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. FnELINGHUYSEN] are for Austria ; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. engaged in the work of the Committee on Finance. 4836. Also, petition of the American Industrial Leaders' As o­ l\fr. D_IAL. _I wish to announce that my colleague [Mr. ciation of Harrisburg, Pa., relative to certain legislation; to the SMITH] 1s detamed on business of the Senate. I ask that this Committee on the Judiciary. announcement may stand for the day. 4837. By l\Ir. l\1EAD: Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting ·1.'he VICE PRESIDENT. Fifty-eight Senators having an­ assembled in the Clermont Avenue Rink, Borough of Brooklyn, swered to their names, there i a quorum present. New York City, relative to the strength of the Navy and naval · l\fr. HITCHCOCK. l\Ir. President, on Saturday I gave way f~ctories; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. somewhat before I had finished in order that the Senator from 4838 . .AI o resolutions adopted by the Grand Army of theRe­ L?uisiana [Mr. RANSDELL] might make pi address. I merely • public of King. County, Department of New York, relative to WISh to conclude now by drawing attention to some additional pen!3ion. and the payment of pensions to Civil War veteran ; to confusion which bas arisen with rega1·d to the treatment of the ·the Committee on Invalid Pen ion . - treaties. 4839. Al . o, petition of the Barber ' Supply Dealers' ARsocia­ I do not know whether those in charge of the treaties will tion of America, prote ting against paragraph 258 of Hou. e bill so consider it, but it seems to me it is rather unu ual for such 7456, the tariff bill; to the Committee on Ways and Means. a radical difference to exi t between the President of the United 4840. .A.lso, petition of Metropolitan Post, Disabled Emergency States and the Secretary of State on these documents. There Officers of the World War, of New York City, urging the pas­ exi ts a differenee almost as notable as existed in the interpre­ sage of Senate bill 1565, making eligible for retirement, under tation of the four-power treaty itself, when the President of the certain conditions, emergency officers of the World War; to the United States interpreted it as not applying to the Japanese Committee on Military ..c\.ffairs. mainland, whereas his Secretary of State declared emphatically 4841. By l\fr. TOWNER: Petition of Alfred Osterland, jr., that it was drawn for the purpose of including within its terms and 844 other citizens of Brooklyn, N.Y., asking for the passage the Japanese mainland. of the Towner-Sterling educational bill; to the Committee on Now, I call attention to the difference which exists at the Education. present time between the President of the United States and the 4842. By 1\Ir. WATSON: Resolution passed by Pottstown Secretary of State with regard to the e treaties. The Secretary Council, No. 78, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, located at Potts­ of State, when the treaties were turned over by him and for­ town, Pa., favoring the Towner bill; also resolution passed by mally reported, declared that they were ·ix in number. The Ardmore Council, No. 86, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, located Pre ident of the United States, when be came before the Senate at Ardmore Pa., favoring the Towner bill; also resolution and presented the treaties to u , declared that they were seven pa ed by Fidelity Council, No. 39, Sons and Daughter of in number, and when he declared that they were seven in num­ Liberty, located at Ambler, Pa., favoring the Towner bill; to the ber a will be seen on page 10 of the printed document, be in­ vited the prompt approval of all of them. He did not invite Committee on Education. 4843. By Mr. YOUNG: Petition of l\Irs. Ira Heidelbangh, of the approval of six of them. but all of them, and all of them as Pleasant Lake, N.Dak., and 56 others, urging the revival of the listed by the President of the United States, certainly included United States Grain Corporation, too-ether with the fixing of a the declp.ration which the Senate on Friday entirely ignored. Not only that, but on page 11 of the President' addre s it guaranteed price for wheat sufficient to covet: the cost of pro­ duction plus a reasonable profit; to the Committee on Agricul­ appears that the President said: If to all of these the Senate will not advise and consent then 'it will ture. be futile to try again. ' 4844. Also, petition of the Indiana Bankers' Association, urg­ ing Congre to pass House bill 9950; to the Committee on Bank­ Evidently the President must have included in that the decla­ ing and Currency. ration which the Senate ignored on Friday last.. But while the President of the United States thus referred to the treaties as even in number, his Secretary of State, when be compiled them for transmi ion to the Senate of the United SENA.TE. States, treated them as only six in number, and be b ..mnd up ~foNDAY, 1Varch ~7, 19~~. with the document itself the declaration which relates to the four-power treaty. I did not personally examine the official (Legislafit·e day ot Thurs-day, March 16, 1922.) manuscript. When I applied to the executive clerk of the Senate to examine it, I found that it had already be~ returned to the The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration of White House, and therefore neither the four-power treaty nor the reces . the declaration which Secretary Hughe say i a part of it and SUPPLEME TARY FOUR-POWER TREATY. which the Presiclent say i a eparate treaty can be found The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senate resumes the considera­ within the posse ion of the enate at the present time. tion of Executive 0, the four-power supplementary agreement. This is rather a startling ituation, the Chief Executive of The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole and in open execu­ the United States declaring that th declaration i a separate tive . e sion, re nmed the con ideration of the agreement sub­ treaty, his Secretary of State declarino- that it belongs to and mitted by the Pre ident of the United States between the United is a part of the four-power treaty, one declaring that there States, the British Empire, France, and Japan supplementary are ix treaties and the other declaring that there are seven to the treaty between the arne four powers relating to their treaties, and ihe leader of the Republican majority of the insular po sessions and their insular dominions, and defining Senate declaring that the declaration is not even a part of the application of the term " insular possessions and insular the four-power treaty. Here is the Pre ident of the United dominions" as relating to .Japan. States signifylll.g that it is a separate treaty. Here i the Sec­ l\Ir. JONES of Washington. Mr. President, I suggest the retary of State giving it to u a a part of the four-power absence of a quorum. treaty. Here i the Republican leader on the floor of the Senate The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. declaring that it is not even a part of the four-power treaty The reading c~erk called the roll, and the following Senators and bas not the dignity of a treaty at all; that it wa. not answered to their names: signed officially by the repre entath·es of the Unite<l tate nor A hurst Cameron Cummins Fletcher by the representatives of any other country. He d c1ares that Ball Capper Dial France the interpretation which they therein expreRsed wa not offi­ Edge Gerry Borah Caraway cial but was merely perFonal, until hi~ attention -i drawn to Bursum Colt Ernst Gooding Calder Culbel' on Fernald Hale the fact that in making th interpret'ltion they <lo not aRf:ert 1922. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 4589 that it is their interpretation, but do assert that it is the int-er-, Mr. LENROOT. I wish, further, t<> ask the Senator whether pretation of the signatory powers themselves.