:3096· .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 15 677. Also, concurrent resolution, submitted 686. Also, petition of the Assembly of the in the House of Congress on the state of the James Fowles, clerk of the senate, house of California Legislature, respectfully memorial­ Union; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. representatives, Columbia, S. C., endorsing izing the President and the Congress of the 698. Also, petition of the Texas Dental Col­ the farm security program and urging its en­ United States to construct a dam on the lege, Houston, Tex., petitioning considera­ largement and continuation; to the Com­ upper reaches of the Stanislaus River in tion of their resolution with reference to Se­ mittee on Agriculture. order to retain the usual annual excess flow lective Training and -service Act and national 678. Also, house resolution submitted by of water of the Stanislaus River and protect d~fense; to the Committee on Military Affairs. J. E. Hunter, Jr., clerk of the house of rep­ the delta islands in the San Joaquin River 699. Also, petition of the Southern Trame resentatives, Columbia, S. C., memorializing below Stockton, Calif., which wm be used for League, Nashville, Tenn., petitioning consid­ the Pres:dent of the United States of Amer­ large armed forces due to the defense emer­ eration of their resolution with reference to ica and the Congress to take such immediate gency; to the Committee on Rivers and the St. Lawrence power and wat erway project; action as is necessary to put an end to strik­ Harbors. to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ing; to the Committee on Labor. 687. By Mr. MARTIN of Iowa: P.:tition of 700. Also, petition of Wesley K. Wiker, heir 679 . Also, resolution submitted by James the Forty-eighth General Assembly of the of M. R. Wiker, Niobrara County, Wyo., pe­ D. Walters, secretary-treasurer, Junior State of Iowa, urging the Congress of the titioning consideration of their resolution Chamber of Commerce, Columbia, S. C., re-. United States and the Federal Bureau of with reference to mining claims situated in questing the Senators and Congressmen Roads to liberalize the regulations governing Niobrara County, Wyo.; to the Committee from the State of South Carolina to spon­ the allocation of Federal funds to the various on the Public Lands. sor, endorse, and;or support such legislation States for the purpose of building farm-to­ in Congress as will prevent the stoppage of market roads and to particularly liberalize industrial production throughout our Na­ the rules limiting the highways upon which tion; and that congressional action be taken such funds can be expended for the improve­ immediately to prevent subversive activities ment thereof, and that the various States SENATE throughout our Nation as effectively a,s may through the appropriate authority created by be possible; to the Committee on Rules. them for that purpooe am• in Iowa particu.:. TuESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941 680. By Mr. GAVAGAN: Resolution of DiVi­ larly, the State highway commission, rather sion No. 2 of the Ancient Order of. Hiber­ than the Federal Bureau of Roads, be given The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phil­ nians, requesting favorable consideration by more authority to supervise the expenditure lips, D. D., offered the following prayer: the Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of such funds as may be allocated to a Resolution 150 and passage of said resolu­ given State for the construction of farm-to• 0 Thou, who art the author of peace tion; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. market roads; to the Committee on Roads . and lover of concord,· in knowledge of 681. By l-f,r. IZAC: Pet!tion of the execu­ . 688. By Mr. MERRI'IT: Resolution of the whom standeth our eternal life, whoSe tive committee. of the San Diego, Calif., United -Irish-American Association of West .. service is perfect freedom: Help us to branGh of the. National Women's Party, chester County, N. Y., heartily en~orsing Josephine Ir:ving, Mary Rlling, Cora Babbit House b111 1796, designating the Friday before show the reality of our: prayers by our en: Johnson, Irene ·Thull, Ella Robbins, Bessie Easter, in each year, as a legal holiday, and deavor to reaUze them. Let not the Bretz, Irene Clark, and Emily N. Ziegler, sec­ .urging its passage and enactment into law; power of any habit grow too strong for retary, requesting that their views in favor to the Committee oil the Judiciary. us; but· do Thou deliver us from bondage of the equal rights amendment be read into ' 689. By Mr. VAN ZANDT: Petition of· Rev. to our former ways by adjusting us to the the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, and that, ac­ Albert Allen Bird and members of the Pen­ means of grace and instruction which cordingly, immediate and favorable ~ction field Presbyterian Church, Penfield, Pa., urg­ be taken thereon; to the Committee on the -ing the safeguarding of the morals of the Thou hast placed before us. Judiciary. · young men inducted into milit.ary service; to Above all, make us ready and anxious 682. By Mr. KRAMER: Petition of the Sen­ the Committee on Military Affairs. to ·serve. Direct us in thought and feel­ ate and the Assembly of the State of Cali­ 690. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the city ing, that harmony and not dissonance fornia, requesting the President and the of Woodbury, N. J., petitioning consideration may characterize the response of our Congress of the United States to enact legis­ of their resolution with reference to addi­ ·uves to the- pleadings ·of mankind for lation proposed by Senate bill 710, as speed­ tional hospital facilities for veterans within peace. Teach us how to be fully and ily as possible; to the Committee on Indian the State of New Jersey; to the Committee Affairs. on World War Veterans' Legislation. heartily in the world, yet not of it; how 683. Also, petition of the Senate and the 691. Also, petition of the Board of Super­ to keep ourselves allied and responsive to Assembly of the State of California, request­ visors of Rensselaer County, N.Y., petitioning the Infinite, while yet no touch of mun­ ing the Congress of the United States to consideration of their resolution with refer­ dane sympathy is lost. replace the $35,000,000 reduction in appro­ ence to House bill 2245, concerning a vet­ Finally, do Thou gird us for the battle priations for the Surplus Marketing Admin­ erans' hospital in the Twenty-ninth Congres­ in behalf of trUth and righteousness, en­ istration with provision that this fund be sional District;· to the Committee on World allocated to fruit crops adversely affected War Veterans' Legislation. abling us to feel the sorrows and the bur­ by loss of foreign markets, and that the ap­ 692. Also, petition of the Scranton Build­ dens of humanity without losing aught propriation be increased by another $100,- ing and Construction Trades Council, Scran­ of the joy of service in Thy kingdom. 000,000 for the specific expansion of the ton, Pa., petitioning consideration of their We ask it in the name and for the sake of stamp plan, so that the underprivileged two­ resolution with reference to labor and na:­ Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. thirds of the Nation unable to afford ade­ tional defense; to the Committee on the quate diets can be assisted by the Federal Judiciary. · THE JOURNAL Government to the point of absorbing other­ 693. Also, petition of Edmond C. Fletcher, On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by wise unabsorbable surpluses of fresh, canned, of washington, D. C., petitioning considera­ and dried fruits; to the Committee on Appro- tion of his petition with reference to the unanimous consent, the reading of the priations. · impeachment of the Honorable D. Lawrence Journal of the proceedings of Monday, 684. Also, petition of the Carl H. Kren Post, Groner, Chief Justice of the United· States April 14, 1941, was dispensed with, and No. 1123, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Court of Appeals for the District of Colum­ the Journal was approved.·• the United States, requesting all Senators bia; to the Committee on the Judiciary . MESSAGE· FROM THE HOUSE and Representatives from the State of Cali­ 694. Also, petition of the Building and Con­ fornia to assist in the amendment of the struction Trades Council, Grand Rapids, A message from the House of Repre­ Selective Service Act so that ex-members of Mich., petitioning consideration of their reso­ sentatives, by Mr. Chaffee, one of its read­ · :the Navy and/or the Marine Corps may be lution with reference to labor and national ing clerks, communicated to the Senate ·granted such equal deferment as the Army defense; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and to begin any action necessary with refer­ 695. Also, petition of the Fort Worth Build­ the resolutions of the House adopted as a en::e to deferment in connection with the ing Trades Council, Fort Worth, Tex., peti­ tribute to the memory of Han. Morris Selective Training and Service Act; to the tioning consideration of their resolution with Sheppard, late a Senator from the State Committee on Military Affairs. reference to labor and national defense; to of Texas, and transmitted the resolutions 685. Also, petition of the Legislature of the the Committee on the Judiciary. of the House thereon. State of California, requesting the Congress 696. Also, petition of the Green Bay Build­ · The message announced that the House of the United States and the President of the ing and Construction Trades, Green Bay, Wis., had passed the following bills and joint United States to enact such legislation or to petitioning consideration of their resolution take such other steps as may be necessary to with reference to labor and national defense; resolution, in which it requested the con­ provide that meat and meat products in­ to the Committee on the Judiciary.