1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 10381 and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interstate and The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the following Senators Foreign Commerce. answered to their names: By Mr. STEAGALL: Adams Ellender Lodge Schwellenbach Andrews Frazier Lundeen Sheppard H. R. ·10361'. A bill to provide for increasing the lending Ashurst George McCarran Shipstead authority of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and Austin Gerry McKellar Smathers for other purposes; to the Committee on Banking and Barbour Gibson McNary Smith Barkley Gillette Maloney Stewart Currency. Bone Glass Mead Taft Bridges Green Miller Thomas, Idaho Brown Guffey Minton Thomas, Okla. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Bulow Gurney Murray Thomas, Utah Burke Hale Neely Tobey Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private bills and resolutions Byrd Harrison Norris Townsend were introduced and severally referred as follows: Byrnes Hatch Nye Truman By Mr. McLEOD: Capper Hayden O'Mahoney Tydings Chandler Herring Overton Vandenberg H. R.10362. A bill for the relief of Fred W. Melle; to the Chavez Hill Pepper Van Nuys Committee on Claims. Clark, Idaho Holman Pittman Wagner Clark, Mo. Holt Radcliffe Walsh By Mr. BARRY: _ Connally Johnson, Calif. Reed Wheeler H. Res. 569 (by request). Resolution to provide for an in­ Danaher Johnson, Colo. Reynolds White Donahey King Russell Wiley vestigation of the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry of the Downey Lee Schwartz United States Army in the case of Capt. William R. F. Bleak­ ney; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. MINTON. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. BAILEY], the Senator from Alabama [Mr. BANKHEAD], the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. BILBO], the PETITIONS, ETC. Senator from Arkansas [Mrs. CARAWAY], the Senator from Delaware [Mr. HUGHES], and the Senator from Illinois [Mr. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions and papers were SLATTERY] are necessarily absent from the Senate. -laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: The Senator from Illinois [Mr. LucAs] is in camp with 9171. By Mr. CARTER: Resolution of Bayshore Local No. the Illinois National Guard, and is, therefore, unavoidably 255, International Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and Paper detained. Mill Workers, American Federation of Labor, urging the Mr. AUSTIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsyl­ enactment of proper legislation for the control of the "fifth vania [Mr. DAVIS] is absent on public business. column" operating in our country; to the Committee on Im­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Eighty-seven Senators migration and Naturalization. haVing answered to their names, a quorum is present. 9172. Also, resolution of the Central Labor Council of Ala­ EDITORIAL POLICY OF WALLACE'S FARMER AND IOWA HOMESTEAD-­ meda County, Oakland, Calif., urging that Congress legislate PERSONAL STATEMENT curbing subversive elements in our country; to the Committee Mr. GILLETTE. Mr. President, day before yesterday I on Immigration and Naturalization. asked unanimous consent, which was granted, to have in­ 9173. By Mr. REES of Kansas: Petition of the Lions Club, serted in the RECORD an editorial from the current issue of district 17 of Kansas; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, which is published 9174. By Mr. THOMAS of Texas: Letter of Louis Garland in my State, at Des Moines, Iowa. Several Senators have Bailey July 29, 1940, of Houston, Tex., on compulsory mili­ inquired whether the editorial in any way reflected the views tary-tfaining law; to the Committee on Military Affairs. of the candidate for Vice President on the Democratic ticket, 9175. By Mr. VAN ZANDT: Petition of the Junior Order the present Secretary of Agriculture, or whether he has any­ of Mechanics, Warren G. Harding Camp, No. 372, Altoona, thing to do with the editorial columns of the publication. Pa., expressing opposition to the compulsory military-train­ In fairness to him, I wish to state publicly that he has noth­ ing bill; to the Committee on Military Affairs. ing to do with the editorial policy of that publication, and I 9176. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Morris Ivry, of Brook­ am sure that the editorial statement which I placed in lyn, N.Y., and others, petitioning consideration of their reso­ the RECORD does not reflect the views of the Secretary of lution with reference to naval ships and destroyers; to the Agriculture. Committee on Naval Affairs. DISPOSITION OF EXECUTIVE PAPERS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate letters from the Archivist of the United States, transmitting, pur­ SENATE suant to law, lists of papers and documents on the files of the Departments of the Interior, of Agriculture, the United States THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940 Civil Service Commission, the Federal Works Agency, Work <Legislative day of Monday, August 5, 1940) Projects Administration, and the United States Housing Au­ thority, which are not needed in the conduct of business and The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration have no permanent value or historical interest, and requesting of the recess. action looking to their disposition, which, with the accom­ Rev. Duncan Fraser, assistant rector, Church of the panying papers, were referred to a Joint Select Committee Epiphany, Washington, D. C., offered the following prayer: on the Disposition of Papers in the Executive Departments. 0 Lord, our God, support us .all the day long until the The PRESIDENT pro tempore appointed Mr. BARKLEY and shadows lengthen .and the evening comes, and the busy world Mr. ToBEY members of the committee on the part of the is hushed, the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Senate. Then, in Thy mercy, grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS and peace at the last. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the THE JOURNAL _ petition of Charles Forney, of Norfolk, Va., praying for an in­ On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, the vestigation as to certain financial transactions concerning the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calendar day Newport News (Va.) Ship Building and Dry Dock Co., which of Wednesday, August 14, 1940, was dispensed with, and the was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency. Journal was approved. He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the fifteenth annual convention of the Police Conference of the CALL OF THE ROLL State of New York, favoring an adequate national-defense Mr. MINTON. I suggest the absence of a quorum. ·program so as to meet any threat to the freedom of the United Tl_le PRESIDENT J?ro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. States, which was ordered to lie on the table. 10382 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE AUGUST 15 Mr. VANDENBERG presented memorials of sundry citizens The language of S. 4164 seeks to do this for all conscripted of the State of Michigan, remonstrating against the enact­ persons, but it does not apply to those Reserves who are now ment of compulsory military training legislation, which v.:ere in the Reserve force but not on active duty and who may ordered to lie on the table. enter active duty from the regular Reserve forces. Mr. HOLT presented the memorial of members of the Bap­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment of the tist Young People's Union of the Baptist Temple, Charleston, Senator from Massachusetts will lie on the table and be W.Va., remonstrating against the enactment of any form of printed. · compulsory military training legislation, which was ordered SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL NATIONAL DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS­ to lie on the table. AMENDMENT He also presented a resolution of the executive board of Mr. MILLER submitted an amendment intended to be Labor's Non-Partisan League, Marion County, W. Va., pro­ proposed by him to the bill (H. R. 10263) making supple­ testing against the enactment of pending compulsory mili­ mental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal tary-training legislation or any other form of peacetime con­ year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes, which was scription, which was ordered to lie on the table. referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to . REPORTS OF COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION be printed, as follows: Mr. MALONEY, from the Committee on Immigration, to SEc.-. The Secretary of War may allocate to the Corps of Engi­ neers any of the construction works required to carry out the which was referred the bill <H. R. 4954) for the relief of Rosa. national-defense program and may transfer to that agency the Paone, reported it without amendment and submitted a re­ funds necessary for the execution of the works so allocated. Funds port <No: 2008) thereon. thus transfer:r;ed may be expended in the prosecution of said works, Mr. AUSTIN, from the Committee on Immigration, to including the acquisition of lands therefor, in the same manner as funds regularly appropriated for maintenance and improvement of which was referred the bill (H. R. 8551) for the relief of rivers and harbors, and the statutory authorities and rules and Xenophon George Panos, reported it without amendment and regulations applicable to the maintenance and improvement of rivers submitted a report <No. 2009) thereon. and harbors shall apply likewise to the construction works allocated Mr. HERRING, from the Committee on Immigration, to to the Corps of Engineers pursuant to this section. which was referred the bill <H. R. 8830) to amend the records ADDRESS BY SENATOR VANDENBERG ON NATIONAL DEFENSE at the port of New York to show the admission of Steve [Mr. VANDENBERG asked and obtained leave to have printed Zegura, Jr., and B. Dragomir Zegura as aliens admitted for in the RECORD an address delivered by him at Lansing, Mich., permap.ent residence, reported it without amendment and August 14, 1940, on the subject of national defense, which submitted a report <No.