6816 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-: HOUSE. Mr. GALLINGER. I move that the Senate adjourn. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The motion was agreed to, and (at 5 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned. until to-morrow, Tuesday, May 21, MONDAY, May ~o , 1912. 1912, at 12 o'clock m. The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. The Cllaplain, Rev. Henry .N. Couden, D. D., offered the fol­ CONFIRMATIONS. lowing prayer : Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate ~ May 20, 1912. 0 Thou who art the source of life, the fountain of wisdom COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS. ~e inspiration of all good, renew our life, imbue us plenteously Herbert W. Hawes to be collector of customs for the district with wisdom, and fill our hearts with purity that we may choose ~isely, act nobly, that our work may be well 'pleasing in Thy of Wiscasset, in the State of Maine. sight and redound to the good of mankind. In the spirit of the APPOINTMENTS IN THE A.BMY. Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. CAV ALBY ABM. '.rhe Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and To be second lieutenants. approved. Daniel Edward Murphy. CALENDAR FOR UNANIMOUS CONSENT. Kenna Granville Eastham. The SPEAKER. This is Unanimous Consent Calendar day, James Powers Yancey. and suspension of the rules, and so forth. George Elmer Arnemann. REMOVAL OF RESTRICTION FROM LANDS OF ALLOTTEES OF THE FIVE Raymond Eugene l\f cQuillin. CIVILIZED TRIBES. De Forest Willard Morton. F1~ancis Clinton Vincent Crowley. The first business on the Calendar for Unanimous Consent George Everett Adams Reinburg. wa~ the bill (S. 4948) to amend an act approved l\fay 27, 100 , George Herbert Timmins. entitled "An act for the removal of restrictions from part of the Daniel Allman Connor. lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and· for other Clarence Donald Lang. purpo$es." Philip Coldwell. The SPEAKER. Who is in charge of this bill? The Clerk FIELD ARTILLERY ARM. will report the bill. To be second lieutenants. The Clerk read as follows : Be it enactea, etc., That section 9 of the act approved May 27, 1908, Percy Deshon. entitled "An act for the removal of restl'ictions from part of the lands Julian Francis Barnes. of allottees .of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes," be Hai·old _Cornelius Vanderveer. amended by adding at the end thereof the following : " This section shall apply to the lands of all deceased allottees who died prior to the Clift Andrus. passage of this act," so that section 9 of the said act 1l.s amended will INFANTRY ARM. read as follows : "SEC. 9. That the death of any allottee of the Five Civilized Tribes To be second lieutenants. shall operate to remove all restrictions upon the alienation of said :Matthew John Gunner. allottee's land-- James Ripley Jacobs. Mr. STEPHENS of Texas. Ur. Speaker, this is quite a long Robert Scott Lytle. bill, and I ask unanimous consent that we discontinue the read­ Henry Terrell, jr. ing of the bill until the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. CARTER) Thomas James Camp. appears. This is his bill, and it is desirable that he be present Frank Cadle :Mahin. when the bill is considered. Lawrence Sprague Churchill. The SPEAKER. There are only a few more lines, and the Dale Francis McDonald. reading can be finished now and save trouble hereafter. Paul Kimball Johnson. The Clerk concluded the reading of. the bill, as follows: Edward Hiltner Bertram. Pt·ovided, That no conveyance of any interest of any full-blood In­ Hayes Adlai Kroner. dian heir in such land shall be valid unless approved by the court ha v­ Allen Stuart Boyd, jr. ing jurisdiction of the settlement of the estate of said deceased allottee : Provided fu.rther, That if any member of the Five Civilized Tribes of Bruce Wedgwood. one-half or more Indian blood shall die leaving issue surviving, born Harry Lewis Twaddle. since March 4, 1906, the homestead of · such deceased allotteo shall re­ John Henry Harrison. main inalienable, unless restrictions against alienation are removed therefrom by the Secretary of the Interior in the manner provided in Clarence Leonard Tinker. section 1 hereof, for the use and support of such issue during their William Robert White. life or lives, until April 26, 1!>31 ; but if no such i sue survive. then Donald Bridgman Sanger. such allottee, if an adult, may dispose of his homestead by will free from all restrictions; if this be not done, or in the event the issue Martin Francis Scanlon. hereinbefore provided for die before April 26, 1931, the land shall then William Hanson Gill. descend to the heirs according to the laws of descent and distribution Lee Hayne Stewart. of the State of Oklahoma, free from all restrictions : Provicled further, That the provisions of section 23 of the act of April 26, 1906, as Harry Gantz. amended by this act, are hereby made applicable to' all wills executed Herbert Edward Pace. under this section. This section shall apply to the lands of all de­ PROMOTION IN THE ARMY. ceased allottees who died prior to the passage of this act. INFANTRY ARM. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas [l\f r. STEPHENS] asks unanimous consent to pass over this bill informally with­ Capt William P. Jackson, to be major~ out prejudice until the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. CARTER] POSTMASTERS. comes in. CALIFORNIA. Mr. :MANN. I understand that passes it over for the day., l\fr. STEPHENS of Texas. I would rather have it passed Charles H. Bartholomew, San Diego. over to-day than to have it called up in the absence of the gen­ Ernest L. Blanck, Fellows. Clarence Edwin Kendrick, Barstow. tleman from Oklahoma [l\fr. CARTER] . Harry E. Meyers, Yuba City.- IlRIDGE ACROSS THE MISSOURI RIVE.R, N. DA.Jr. FLORIDA. The next business on the Calendar for Unanimous Consent Morgan E. Jones, Miami. was the bill ( S. 6160) to allow the Great Northern Railway Co. to construct a bridge across the Missouri River, in the State of ILLINOIS. North Dakota. Winfield S. Pinnell, Kansas. The Clerk read the bill, as fo1lows : MINNESOTA. Be it enacted, etc., That the Great Northern Railway Co., a corpora­ tion organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, Frank L. Walker, Alden. its successors and assigns, be, and they arc hereby, authorized to con­ struct, maintain, and operate a brid~e and approaches thereto across PENNSYLVANIA. the Missouri River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near the mouth of the Little l\Iissouri River, and not farther Fred V. Balch, Galeton. south than the south line of township 147 north or farther north than Ida M. Kaye, Monaca. the north line of township 148 north, of the fifth principal meridian, John H. l\Iartin, Clearfield. in the State of North Dakota, in accordance with the provisiom; of an act entitled "An act to regulate the construction of bridges over · J ohn Roland, New Holland. navigable waters." approved l\Iarch 23, H>06. Thomas Stephens, Coopersburg. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Bert L. Venen, Springboro. expt·essly reserved. 1912. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-.. HOUSE. 6817 The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The War soldiers; all of the survivors of that war are now over 75 Chair hears none. The question is on the third reading of the years of age. Senate bill. Mr. MANN. Is it not $30 a month? The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the Mr. FULLER. It is $30 a month to all Mexican soldiers in third time, and passed. the law that was recently passed. On motion of Mr. ADAMSON, a motion to reconsider the vote Mr. GARNER. There are mighty few of them left. whereby the bill was passed was laid on the table. Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Speaker, I think the provisions of this BRIDGE ACROSS THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER, MONT. bill are already covered by the general bill. Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that this The next business on the Calendar for Unanimous Consent bill may be passed over without prejudice. was the bill (S. 6161) to authorize the Great Northern Rail­ The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. l\IANN] way Co. to construct a bridge across the Yellowstone River, asks unanimous consent to pass over this bill without prejudice. · in the county of Dawson, State of Montana. Is there objection? The Clerk read the bill, as follows: There was no objection. Be it enacted, etc., That the Great Northern Railway Co., a corpora­ tion organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to con­ struct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across 'l'he next business on the Calendar for Unanimous Consent was the Yellowstone River, in the county of Dawson and State of Montana, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, and not farther south the bill S. 2117, an act to promote the efficiency of the Public than the south line of township 21 north of the Montana principal Health and Marine-Hospital Service. meridian, in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, without reading this bill, I would to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," ap­ proved March 23, 1906. like to reserve an objection. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Mr.