1916. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- IfOUSE. H. R .. 15005. An act. to ·appropriate $200,000. for trainirrg: the Harry-Ezekiel Isruresi Organized Militia of-any State; T~rritory; or of the Dlstrict: ~ J'ohm Willi3lii: Sins , Columbia, was read twice by _its title and referred to the. C0llh Elliott Cn.rr Cutler: mittee on Military A1:fa.irs. · Albert Alphonso Wood Gfi.o~:eyeb. EXECUTIVE SESSION. Fredertc- Angns:tn:s Washburn. Mr. BANKHEAD. I move that-the Senate proceed to the con­ Jacoli Terame S.teinfelder. sideration or executive business. Edwin: I. Bmrtlett. The motion was agreed to-, and the Senate proceeded to the Theodore Caldwell Janeway. con ideration· of executive business. After 25 minutes: spent- in:. Daniel Webster Prentiss. executive session the Senate, in executive session (at- 4 o'clo·ck­ Howard Thomas Karsner. and 30 minutes p. m.), took a recess-until l\fonday, May-8, 1916, Charles Walter Stone. at 11 o'clock a. m. Albert Cliffo:t:d Hirshfield.· Harold Colton Herrick. Wilson, George Smillie. NOMINATIONS. Charles Booth. Spruit. J'ose Penteado Bill. Executive nomJnatiO"'M •received.. by the Senate Mwy· 6 (legisla­ Harold Everett Eggers. tive aav of May 5), 1916. Eben Winslow Fiske. UNITEn STATES DISTRICT JunGE. Archibald McKay Fraser. J. WaTren Da'Vis, of Trent-on, N: J:, w be United States (liS­ William Joseph l\lcDonald. trict judge for the district of New· Jersey. .(Additional position, Samuel Clark Harvey. created by the act approved April 11, 1916.) · Mortimer Edwin Danforth. PROMOTIONS IN IRE ARMY. Ul\-r:ITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Charles F. Lynch, of Paterson, N. J., to be United States COAST ARTILLER¥ CORPS. attorney for the district of New Jersey, vice J. Warren Davis, First Lieut. Sidney H. Guthrie to be captain. nominated to be United States. district judge for tbe district of 1 Second Lieut. Edward Roth, jr., to be first lieutenant. New Jersey. INFANTRY ARM. Second Lieut. l\lartin n Sh~lenberger to tie first lieutenant. CONFIRMATIONS. CORPS OF ENGINEERS. Executive nominations oo1t/i1me(i by the Senate May 6 (legisla­ Second Lieut. Oscar 0. Kuentz to ba first lieutenant. tive day of May 5), 1916. Second Lieut. 'Villiam El. R. Covell to be: .first lieutenan~ Second Lieut. Edwin R. Kimble to be first lieutenant. A.PPOINT:MENTS IN THE.. A.ru.!Y. Pos:rMASTEBS. 1>IEDICAL RESERVE CORPS. INDIANA. 'Jio be first l-ieutenants tvitlt r:wnk trom; Ap1·il 12, 1916: Aluen H. Baker, Westfield. Howard James Knott. George P. DeHoff, Winona Lake. Edwin Roy Tenney. Simeon L. Frost, Orleans. Edmund McCollam Connely. Daniel A. Riley, Greentown. Marion Cherigny Palmer~ William F. Wake, Roanoke. Alonzo Bolen Middleton. Warren David Calvin. ILLINOIS. Edwar<t Cnchrane Gow. Charles J. Paar, Warsaw. J ohll' Kelso Ormond. .Jessie J. Wesse, Dolton. Frank Nicholls Deuly. M.ICB:IGAN. Frank· Marion.. Barke~ Harold 1\.furphy, Harbor Beach. Frank Lawrence Putman. 'Vlllinm P. Nisbett, Big· Rapids. Harry. Emenson Foster. George Ross Winters. MINNESOTA. John Charles Calhoun. M. H. Bask:field, Zumbrotn: Henry Norton Torrey. J. M. Benson, Lindstrom. Charles Willard Selover: H. J. Essler, St. Peter. Luctus· Wales llotchkiss. 0. .J. Rea, Tracy. Jesse Irving Sloat. NRW JERSEY. Joseph Leidy. John Y. Bellis, Clinton. Charles Venable Cat•rington. Oliver R. Kugler, Frenchtown. Paul Hudson Z1nkhan. NEW YORK. Carrington Williams. Edward' Douglas Piper. John· F. Gilmartin, East Hampton. John Staige! Davis. - 'll Benson Smith, Freeport. Austen Fox R1ggs. NORTH DAKOTA. Emil Altman. H. S. Davies·, Devils Lake. Arthur· Bradley Eisenbrey! POR'fO niCO. Frederick Tilney. William Evans Bruner; E. W. Keith, San Juan. Gordon Niles Morrill. Harry Roswell Wahl. John Eugene Brooks. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Robert Leland Maynard. SATURDA-Y, lffay 6, 1916. Joseph Edgar Rowan. George Alden Lewis. The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. Sydney Robotham Miller. The Chaplain, Rev: Henry N. Oouden, D. D., offered the fol­ Henry Richmond Slack, jr. !lowing prayer:: Ralph R. Ryan. We bless Thee, our Father in heaven, for every life that has Thomas Caldwell Savage. pom·ed itself_ out for the betterment of mankind,_whether in William Robert Cubbins. ! science, literatnr. e, art, statesmanship, or religious endeavor; David Melvin Davis. 1for these are_· the· human· dynamos that move the wheels of Peregrine Wroth, jr. progress- toward the ideal civilization for:. which every h~ue James Ely·Talley. 1 heart rongBj and-for the full appreciation accorded to sucJ.l men Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper. in the hearts. of their fellows. We tllank Thee for the recogni- l\1orrlecai Robert Bren. 1 tion of tlie long and faithful service of· one who stands to-day George Nicholas Acker, 2d. on the tln'eslioltl of his eightieth- birthday, who; for half of his, Samuel Swift. llfe, has been a conspicuous figure _<J1l the floor o:f this House; a George Roger Dempsey. 1leader, wise in his counsels, a strong advocate of every measure 7524 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. ~fAY G, for the betterment of popular government, known throughout I am now concluding my seventh term as a 1\Iember of Con­ the length and breadth of the land for his strong personality, gress, and during my service here I have often been profoundly· independent thought and action, affectionately esteemed by all impressed by the fact that nowhere is the doctrine of the for faithful service to his counh·y. May Heaven's richest bless­ " survival of the fittest, better exemplified than in this Cham­ ing attend him and bring him at last to that immortal youth ber. Here every man is measured at his real worth. an<l the where a fuller service waits on the faithful. So may Thy bless­ measurement is always true and accurate. The Houi e hns no ing attend every :Member and crown his efforts with successful difficulty in separating the wheat .from· the chaff, and is n. • ervice, and Thine be the praise forever. Amen. q~ck to applaud merit and industry as it is to condemn . ham The Jouroal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and np­ and pretense. .The prestige of the man of intellectual integrity proved. is as lasting as that of the demagogue is fleeting. CALL OF THE HOUSE. Leadership in this House is never accidental. On the con­ 1\Jr. l\fANN. Mr. Speaker, I make the point of order that there trary, it is always natural and entirely logicaL Length of is no quorum present. service may place a l\fember at the head of one of the great The SPEAiillR. The gentleman from llliJiois makes the point committees of the Hon e, but the chairmanship of a committee, of order that there is no quorum..present, and evidently there is no matter bow important, does not carry leadership with it. not. It requires something else to be a leader and a man of genuine 1\fr. KITCHI.l~. I move a call of the House. influence. The real leaders in a legislative body such ns this A can of the House was ordered. are the men who uo not adjust their sails to catch every passing The SPEAKER. The Doorkeeper will lock the doors, the Ser­ breeze, but who, when the storms of critici ·m beat and the geant at Arms will notify absentees; and the Clerk will call the wayes of opposition roll, "stand foursquare to all the winds that rolL blow," let come what may. [Applause.] The Clerk proceeded to call the roll, when the following Mem­ If there be·one such man among us, if there be one man who bers failed to answer to their names : ha steadfpstly pur ned the path of public duty, and who, at all times and under all circum tances, in good and ill report, has All~n Flynn Langley Ragsuale Anthony Focht Lee :Rain~y had the superb courage t.o give e:xpres ·ion to honest coiwiction, Bacharach Fordney Lehlbach Riordan that man is he whom we delight to honor to-day. the "rand old· Barchfel!l Gardner Lesher Roberts, Mass. Barkley Garland Lieb Rowe hero of a thousand legislative battle , JosEPH G. CANNO~, of Beales Godwin, N.C. Liel el Howland Illinois. [Prolonged applau e.] Bennet Goodwin, Ark. Lindbergh Saunders For almost 40 years the calcium light of publicity bas been Browning Gould Linthicum Schall Bruckner Graham Littlepage Scott, l'a. turned full and fair upon him ; and the ·tronger and the brfghter Brumbaugh Gray, N.J. Lobeck Scully tlle·Jight, the ·more it has served to reveal to all the world those Burke Green, Iowa I..oft Hears sterling qualities of head and heart that haYe giYen llim an en­ Burnett Griest l.tOngworth ;ens Byrnes, S. C. Griffin McDermott Hhouse during place among the ablest and mo t cou'rageons state.·men Caldwell Guernsey McFadden Sinnott of his day and generation. He has made mistakes--of course Candler, Miss. Hamill Maher Sloan he has. To err is·hnman, and U - C'LE JoE has· at all time· been Carew llam11ton, N.Y. Martin Smith, Mich. Carter, Okla. Harrison Miller, Minn. Snell inten ely human; but no man, HYing or dead, eYer saw him lower Casey Hart Miller, Pa. Snyder his color· or hoist the white ftag of surrender. No matte1· how Chandler, N.Y. HaskelL Mooney Sparkman fast or· furion the conte t, he was never kno ·n to a k f01· quar­ Church Haugen Moore, Pa.' Stafford Coady Heaton · Morin · Stout ter, but, tllrowing his warlike shield before him, he bade <1e- Coleman Helm Moss, Ind. Hutberlantl . fiance to the enemy, shouting: · Conry Helvering Moss, W.Va. Swift Costello Henry Mudd Switzer Lay on, :Uacuutr, Cox Hinds Neely Tague A.nu damn'tl be him that fir t erie~ " llold, enough! " CuUop HulbeJ:t Nichols, ~t:i ch.