1925 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE 1325 By Mr. THOMAS: A bill (H. R. 6344) gran~ing an increa~e Government of the United States in the Philadelphia conference of pension to Sarah Emily Copp; to the Committee on Invalid in 1926 upon narcotic education, in which it requested the con­ Pensions. currence of the Senate. By Mr. TINCHER: A bill (H. R. G345) granting a pensiOn ENROLLED JOI~T R.ESOLUTIOX SIGXED to Ellen B. Coffland; to the Committee on Invalid Pensio?S. Also, a bill (H. R. 6346) granting an increase of pensiOn to The message further announced that the Speaker of the House Susan C. Kidd ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. had Signed the enrolled joint resolution ( S. J. Res. 28) to de­ By Mr. TINKHAM: A bill (H. R. 6347) grW:ting an increa~e clare Saturday, December 26, 1925, ·a legal holiday in the Dis­ of pension to l\1ary Chapman; to the Comnnttee on Invalid trict of Columbia, and it was thereupon signed by the Vice P ensions. President. By 1\:Ir. VAILE : A bill (H. R. 6348) for the relief of Roger REPORT OF THE W.AR llTNANCE CORPORATION Lewi Halden · to the Committee on Naval Affail·s. Also, a bill' (H. R. 6349) granting a pension to Clara 0. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate, pursuant to Parker ; to the Committee on Pensions. law, the eighth annual report of the War Finance Corporation Also, a bill (H. R. 6359) granting a pension to Catherme for the year ended November 30, 1925, which was referred to Shean ; to the Committee on Pensions. the Committee on Finance. By l\1r. VESTAL: A bill (H. R. 6351) granting a pension to PETITIONS Susan Reede · to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. ZIHLl\1AN: A bill (H. R. 6352) granting an increase 1\Ir. CURTIS presented a petition of sundry citizens of Cof­ of pension to Florence V. Hawken; to the Committee on Pen­ feyville, Kans., praying for the enactment of legislation to re­ sions. move or reduce the tax on industrial alcohol, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. He also presented a resolution adopted by the State Board, PETITIONS, ETC. / Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, at Manhattan, Kans., Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid favoring the making of an appropriation for the erection in on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: Washington, D. C., of a national gallery of art, which was re­ 210. By Mr. CULLEN: Petition of Central Union Label Coun­ ferred to the Coininittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. cil of Greater New York, in re Federal investigation of propcsed l\Ir. JOHNSON. l\Ir. President, I present a memorial from bread trust, by Mr. Charles E. Sinnigen, secretary; tv the certain citizens of the State of California constituting the Chi­ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. nese-American Citizens' Alliance and ask that it may be printed 211. Also resolutions of United Spanish War "Veterans', by in the RECORD and referred to the Committee on Immigration. Arthur McA.rthur Camp No. 1, Minneapolis, Minn., indorsing There being no objection, the memorial was referred to the bill granting relief to Spanish War veterans and widows and Committee on Immigration and ordered to be printed in the dependents ; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. REconn, as follows : • 212. By l\fr. MOREHEAD : Petition of sundry citizens of Memorial and petition of the United Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden Wa hington, D. C., favoring the reduction of tax on industrial State, Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, to the Senate of the alcohol; to the Committee on Ways and l\Ieans. United States, praying for an amendment to the immigration act of 213. By Mr. THOMPSON: Petition of sundry citizens of 1924, for the relief of a certain hardship imposed by said act upon Washington, D. C., favoring a reduction of tax on industrial citizens of the United States of the Chinese race alcohol; to the Committee on Ways and Means. To the Honorable the Pres!dent and the Members of t1WJ Senate of the 214. By Mr. YATES: Petition of Illinois Press Association, by United States: H. L. Williamson, secretary, protesting against printin.g of stamped envelopes by the Government; to the Committee on Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States bas decided that the Post Office and Post Roads. the immigration act of 1924 bars from admission into the United 215. Also, petition of Illinois Auto Club, by E. 0. Thornton, States the alien Chinese wives of citizens of the United States, holding Darkville, for full repeal of automotive excise tax; to the that subdivision (c) of section 13 of said act renders them ineligible ru., to admission, notwithstanding the fact that subdivision (a) of section Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. 4 of said act classes the wife of a citizen of the United States as a 216. Also, petition of Joseph R. Noel, president Noel State so-called " nonquota " immigrant, admissible to the United States Bank, Chicago, favoring the adjustment of increased ~evenue irrespective of the so-called " quota " provisions of said act ; and equally upon the various classes of mail ; to the Committee on Whereas the said act as so interpreted and construed by the Supreme the Post Office and Post Roads. Court separates permanently from their wives many, and perhaps a majority, of the citizens of the United States residing therein who are of the Chinese race, for the reason that most of said citizens are SENATE married to alien Chinese women resident in China, the number of TUESDAY, Decernoe1· f32, 1925 Chinese women in the United States being too sniall to supply wives for most of said dtizens, who naturally and properly marry among The Chaplain, Rev. J. J. Muir, D. D., offered the following women of their own race ; and prayer: Whereas the hardship and the injustice of the situation which has We give Tllee thanks, Almighty God, this morning for the arisen by virtue of and under the said subdivision (c) of said section 13 of said act, as It affects and bars from admission to the United wonderful, unspeakable gift of Thy grace to ·US in the person of Thy Son. We thank Thee for all that has come to us in the States the wives of citizens thereof, is so apparent as to require ·no varied relations we sustain in life as the result of that WQn­ argument and is so contrary to natural law and to natural justice, derful gift, and we would pray Thee at this time that as we and to the obligations of common humanity, and to American institu­ think of separation temporarily there may be realized by us tions, and to the sacred institution of matrimony, and to the well­ a greater responsibility in view of that wonderful gift. l\Iay recognized and time-honored American principle and doctrine of the we find our elves following in the line of His example and so unity of husband and wife, and to the spirit and fundamental prin­ ciples upon which the Government of the United States is founded, as vindicating truth in our fulfillment of duty that we shall receive Thy benediction. Be with each home and where there may be to call for immediate relief; and the cry for the touch of a vanished hand, for the sound of a Whereas the hardship and the injustice of the said situation was con­ voice that is still, Oh fill the vacancy with Thy presence in sidered and discussed at the national convention recently held at Chi­ these days. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. cago by the Native Sons of the Golden State, Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, an organization composed of American citizens of the Chi­ The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's nese race, which said organization has for its aim and object and proceedings, when, on request of l\lr. CURTIS and by unanimous purpose the fostering of American citizenship, the said convention con. ent, the further reading was dispensed with and the Jour­ being held a.s the United Parlor of the said order, which is the supreme nal was approved. or grand lodge of said order ; and MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Wh ereas the members of said organization, feeling keenly the Injus­ tice and the hardship of said situation and the virtual discrimination A message from the House of RepresentatiYes, by Mr. Farrell, in the said act against them as .A merican citizens, the alien wives of its enrolling clerk, announced that the House had passed the other Americdn citizens being eligible to admission to the United joint resolution ( S. J. R"'e'S: 20) providing for the filling of a States under said act, and believing that the situation complained of vacancy in the B"oard of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution was due wholly to inadvertence in the preparation and consideration of of the class other than Members of Congress. the said act, have full confidence in the Congress of the United States The message also annotmced that the House had passed a and a firm and abiding conviction that it will do full justice to them in joint resolution (H. J. Res. 65) for the participatio!! of the ~e premises ; and 1326 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE DECE1\fBER 22 Whereas the Natlve Sons of the Golden State, Chlnese-Amerlcan Mr. FLETCHER. 1\Ir. President, I offer an amendment to Citizens Alliance, assembled in Chleago 1n said national convention as the bill ( S.