150. CONGRESSIO:NAL RECORD-SENATE ~llRCH-12 SEN.ATE Hurrah! hurrah for Dawe ! Hurrah . hurrah for this high-minded man! THURSDAY, lTfarch 12, 19CJ5 And when bis statue is placed on bio-h Under the dome of the Capitol ky, "' ' (Legislati're day ot T'uesclay, March 10, 1925) The great senatorial temple of fame, There with the gloriou general's name The Senate met in open executive e~sion at 12 o'clock merid­ Be it aid, in letters both bold and brioobt ian, on the expiration of the recess. "Ob, Hell an' Maria, be bas lost us the ftght." The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the treaty with Cuba relative to the Isle of Pine , on which the [Laughter.] enator from New York [1\Ir. CoPELAND] i entitled to the floor. The VICE PRESIDEN"T. The Chair can not refrain f1·om Ur. NORRIS. :Mr. Pre ident-- expre ·ing his appreciation of the delicate tribute. l\Ir. COPEL~"'D. I yield to the Senator from Nehra ka. Mr. NEELY. Mr. Pre. iclent, there seems to be a conflict of :Mr. NORRIS. I will ay to the Senator from New York t11at opinion as to how far the Vice President was from the Senate I would like to have the floor in my own right for about three Chamber last Tue day at the critical moment when his -,ote minutes. would ha-,e confirmed the Pre. id.ent' nomination of Mr. :Mr. COPEJJA1\1J). I am o-lad to yield to the Senator if it may Oharle. Beecher Warren for .Attorney General. An editorial hP understood that I am to have the floor when he :finishe . that appear in to-day's edition of that volu.minou chronicler The YICE PRE.:..IDFJNT. The Senator from Nebraska. of. alleged information, the New York Times, . peaks to the pomt, a. follows: COMMENTS THE YICE PRESIDENT'S .ABSEXCE TUE DA.Y 0~ It was not the fault of Genf.'ral Dawes that be was not in the cbnir Mr. NORRIS. 1\Ir. Pre..c;;ident, it is not my de.:ire to keep when tberf.' was a tie vote in the Senate on the Warren nomination. fre h in the mind~ of ~enator. any unpleasantnes that may He had been as ured that the matter would not be brqught to a te t have occurred a few days ~go, thing.~ that perhaps were better on Tu(' day. When one Senator led off in rebuttal with n speech four foro-otten than rem('mbered, but it eem. to me that I ought to hours long it certainly seempd a if there would be an endless debate. read to the Senate a hort poem given me by a friend. I under­ to the hard labor of listening to which no Yice Pre ·ident ought to be . tand that the author of the poem gained the idea contained in condemned excPpt on clear proof of crime. Yet it was a piece of bad the ver~e. from a remark which wa. made to him by a promi­ luck for the general that be chanced to be absent. On March 4 be nent Senator with whom he had lunch yesterday: began his hortatory remarks to the f'nate by , aying that the Vice rre ident bild notbing to do with party divisions in the Senate and Up from the f.'ast out into the day, wa not concerned in its legi lati1e action " save in that unusuai con­ Bringing to the W"illar·d fresh dismay, tingency where, under the Constitution, it becomes necessary for ]Jim The affrighted air with a shudder bore, to ca t a deciding vote in ca. e of a He." Within Ie s than a week Like a herald in ba te, to the chieftain· door, that unu ua1 coutinge:qcy became ::m actual fact, and the general was The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roa.r, 20 miles away from tlle battle. 'l'rlling the battle wa. on once m<>re, And Dawes fully fiftern blocks ·away. In the light of the foregoing it i. Yery re pectfully submitted thnt our Presiding Officer was not 15 blocks but 20 miles away . .ADd wider s11ll those billow!' of war l\fr. COPEL.A.~rn. Mr. Pre,·ident, I assume that the Yice Thundered along the hori:wn's bar; President, now .pre. iding ·o,er the Senate, has been here long And londc>r yet into the Willard rolled enough to realize that ~enator are. in the languaO'e of the Tl1e roar of that • enatc uncontrolled. treet. "hard-boiled e.17g .. " I have no doubt that ;,hat the Making the bloou of the listener cold, Yice President said about revi ·ing the rules is a thinO' whi<:h As be thought of the .·take in sen;ttorial fray, .appr~Yes hnt And Dawes fully fifteen blocks away. the couutry .. and which many Senators approve, I "·ould remmd h1m. If I may. thnt one of the unwritten ruleR But there is a street from the Will<lL'Il"s fcnst, flf the Senate is that the President of the Senate is supposed A goou, broad highway leading east, to be in the ehair, so perhaps it is not Senators alone who are And there,· through the flush of the fading ll~!:ht, di~a~reeable or fail to ti-,e up to the traditions of the Senate. An auto a black a tl1e teeds of night · However, unfortunate things happen both on the floor and in "Was seen to pas , as \1ith eagle flight, thE' <·hair. As if it knew tbe tel'l'iblP need ; 1\fE SAGE FROM THE PRI!:SIDElYr It stretched away witb its utmost ~peed: A me~. age in writing from the Pre ident c ·the United States Hills ro e nnd fell ; but it heart was gay, waR communicated to the Senate by M:r. Latta, one of his ecre­ With Dawe. now only ten hlocks away. tarie . Still !'\prung from tho. e swift wheels, thnndf'rin!! on, ISLE OF PINES TRE.ATY The dust. like smoke from the cannon· mouth ; Or the trail of a comet. Wf.' ping faster and faster, Tlle Senate, in open executive session and as in Committee Forebodino- to traitor. the doom of disa. ter. of the Whole. re:;umed the consideration of the treaty between the United States and Cuba, signed March 2, 1904, for the The beart of thP auto and the heart of thf' rna ter au­ Were heating like pri oners a:; aulting their wall , ju ·tment of title to the ownership of the I. le of Pines. Mr. COPELAND adfu·e. sed the Senate. .After having ~poken Impatient to answer tbe Senate's fi('rce call~; E>ery ner>e of tbe auto waR strained to full play, for some time, With Dawe now only five blocks away. NOMINATION OF CHARLES B. WA.RRE..~ Under its spurning wbeeJs the road ~1r. CUMMIXS. 1\.Ir. President, will the S.:nator from N"ew Like an arrowy Alpine ri>er flowed, York yield to me for a moment? , A.nd the Willaru 8p~>d away behind )fr. COPELAND. I yield "ith pleasure to the Senator from Like an ocean flying bf.'fore the wind, Iowa. And lbe auto, like a bark fed \Vith furnace fire, l\Ir. CUl\HIINS. lHr. President, I a k, as in closed executi"le Swept on, ·with its wild shriek full of il'e. ·e sion, that the nomination of Charles B. 'Varren for At­ But lo ! it is n~>aring it heart's desire; torne~' General of the United States be referred to the Com­ It is sniffing the smoke of tbe roarin"' fr·ay, mittee on the Julliciary. With Dawe now only two block$ away. The VICE PRESIDENT. If there be no objection, it will The first that tb general saw were t\1e gt·oup be o ordered. / NAVAL OIL LEA ES Of Senator , and tben the retreating oues. What was done? ·what to do? A glance told him both ; .A in legislatiYe :es ion, And striking his fi t, witb a tenible oath. 1Ir. WALSH. l\1r. President-- He da bed down the ai~le, 'mid a torm of huzzas, :\Ir. COPEL.-\.~D . I ~- iel<l to t11e Senator from Montana. And the wa1e of retreat checked its cour ·e there, because .:\fr. WALSH. I thank the Senator from New York for his Tbe sight of the master compeiiM it to pause. kindnes . With steam and with dust, the bla<:k auto was gt·ay )lr. President, it will be remembered that the counsel repre­ By the flash of it:; light anu ils t•ed fire's play, . enting the Go-rernment in the litigation to cancel the leases It seemf.'<l to the whole grpat Senate to . ay, on the naval oil re erve. uncovered some important testimony "I haw brought you Dawe all the \Yay concerning the hi. tory of the Continental Trading Co.: a cor­ From the Willard, clown to save the day!" poration organized under the laws of the Dominion of Can- 1925 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SEN ATE 151 ada. It appears from the contention of the Government's ~HE RESPONDE~TS CO~TENO counsel that this '''US a mere cover for the transfer of Liberty (1) That the Continental Co. was not an agent or em).)loyee t>f Mr. bonds to the amount of something over $100,000 from Harry F. Osler or of his client, and did not act as such.