1917. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 6039 '-' osteopathic physicians for service in the Army and Navy; to the A bill (S. 2786) to authoriZe the President of the United Committee on :Military Affairs. States to-appoint Andrew JV. Jackman first lieutenant of Coast AJso, petition of the Interstate Sp9rtsmen's Protective Asso­ Artillery ; and ciation headq-uarters, Kansas ·city', Mo., opposing the "pending - A ·bnl (S. 2787) for' the ·relief of First Lieut: Sydney Smith, migratory-bird treaty act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. retired; to the Committee on 1\Iilitary Affairs. By Mr. GORDON: Petition of Kurt Schultz and 32 other citi­ By Mr. PHELAN: ' . zens of Cleveland, Ohio, protesting ·against the passage of the A bill (S. 2788) for the relief of Edward W. Terry; to the Sheppard prohibition resolution; tQ the Committee on the Judi- Committee on Military Affairs. Ciary. · · · - · By l\1r. MYERS : By l\fr. RAKER: Petition of E. H. Cleveland, Long Beadi; A bill · ( S. 2789) · for the better safety and welfare" of tl1e l\fiss Irma li. Cahen, Sacramento;· Long . Beach' Chamber of United States, and the Government thereof, in time of war; Commerce, Long Beach; and James H. Garlick, Sacramento, all to the Committee on the Judiciary. in the State of California, favoring the passage of the purple­ By 1\fr. KNOX : cross bill; to the Committee on Military Affairs. A bill. ( S. 2790) granting an increase of pension to Lillian v. - By Mr. ROWLAND: Petition of ·Tribe No: 224, Improved l\Ianger (with accompanying papers) ; to the Committee on Order of Red Men, Berwindale ; Tribe No. 349, Improved Order Pensions. of Red Men, Clarence; and Tribe No. 509, Improved Order of By 1\fr. CALDER: Red l\feri, Westover, all in the State of Pennsylvania, favoring A bill (S. 2791) for the relief of John l\1. Francis; to the Senate joint resolution No. 84; to the Committee on Military Committee on Claims. Affairs. · By Mr. SHIELDS : ~ By :Mr. SHERLEY: Petition of the members and friends of A bill ( S. 2792) to declare Nonconnah Creek, Shelby County, the Jefferson County campaign committee of the Socialist Tenn., navigable; to the Committee on Commerce. Party, Louisville, Ky., urging the passage of the Susan B. By Mr. NELSON: Anthony amendment; to the Committee on the Judiciary. A bill (S. 2793)· granting an increase of pension to W. H. · By Mr. TEMPLETON: Petition of Heights Council. No. 861, Nichols; to the Committee on Pensions. Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Wilkes-Barre, and By Mr. STONE: ·the Col. H. B. Wright Council, No. 896, Junior Order of United A bill (S. 2794) granting a pension to Matilda J. Wilson; and American Mechanics, Slocum, all in the State of Pennsylvania, A bill (S. 2795) granting a pension to Mrs. Thomas Kelly; to favoring irpmigration restriction; to the Committee on Immigra- the Committee on Pensions. tion and Naturalization. · . By 1\Ir. LODGE: . AJso, petition of Forty Fort Council, No. 190, Sons and Daugh­ A bill (S. 2796) to permit American citizens to wear medals ters of Liberty, Kingston; Kiowas Tribe, No. 120, Improved or decoratiQns received from certain foreign countries on enter­ Order of Red 1\Ien, Hazleton; and Mahantango Tribe. No. -156, ing the military or naval' service of tl:ie United States; to the Improved Order of Red Men, Nanticoke, all in the State of Committee on Military Affairs. Pennsylvania, favoring Senate joint resolution No. 84; to the Committee on Military Affairs. ' · PEACE BASES. 1\Ir. SHERMAN. Mr. President, I offer the following --resolu­ tion and ask that it be printed and go over under the rule. SENATE. · The resolution (S. Res. 115) was read, as follows: Senate resolution 115. WEDNESDAY, Augus't 15, 1917. ResoZ·vea, as an expression of the Senate, that the following purposes are the poJicy of the people of the United States of America, to be at­ The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered the tained by the war and embodied in any treaty of peace concluded : following prayer : . · First. Terms of peace agreeable to the United States which would be the basis of a permanent world peace are set forth by the President AJmighty God, we seek Thy guidance and blessing every day in his messages and public documents from time to time preceding the in the task that has been committed to our hands. We try to declaration of war, which teriiJS and principles declared by the same unite our hearts with the hearts of millions who are seeking Thy have been formally ratified and approved by Congress. Second. The Senate of the United States declares it to be its belll'f guidance and blessing upon our Nation in this critical time. that the solemn purposes of the American people in declaring war is 'Ve pray that here in this Senate we mny. be found in accord not to attempt the conquest or dismemberment of any enemy nation nor with the highest spiritual ·interests, and with soul~ that are the annexation of its territory, or exacting indemnities, or interference 'Yith such f<?rm of government. as it may see proper to continue, estab-· ever in communion with God that we may be united not only hsh, or mamtain, or to readjust or change the boundaries of any in our efforts but in our prayers and in our personal relations to European nation or other powers which may be either directly or in­ God and in our desire to exalt the name of our God in the midst directly involved in or affected by the war-all such questions are not considered cause or causes to continue to wage war by the American • of the people. Hear us in our prayer this morning. Guide us people if the guaranties and principles herein declared shall be ac­ in the deliberations of this day. For Christ's sake. _..ft.men. knowledged and established. The Journal of the proceedings of the legislative day of Mon­ Third. The independence and integrity territorially and politically of all nations at war ·shall be recognized and secured in a.ny treaty of peace day, August 13; 1917, wa~ read and approved. concluded; no smal1er State shall be despoiled of territory nor op­ PETITIONS. pressed in such terms of peace, but shall be jointly guaranteed the right of separate existence and development peaceably to pm·sue with-· 1\lr. KNOX presented petitions of sundry organizations, all in out interference :Its own course. Fourth. The high seas of the world beyond marginal or territorial the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the enactment of legisla­ waters of nations are tleclared to be of common right and open to all tion authorizing the drafting of aliens, except alien enemies, civilized powers without exclusive right or authority claimed or ex­ into the ,military service of the United States, which were ercised and without any r-estrictions ln their free navigation except such as shall be imposed and applied by the laws of civilized power and ordered to lie on the table. _ such as are incident to proper search; seizure, and capture consistent 1\Ir. NELSON presented a petition of sundry citizens of the with the laws of humanity heretofore announced by the President. State of Minnesota, praying for the enactment of legislation Fifth. Blockades of and creation of war zones on the high seas to the exclusion of neutrals as practiced by Germany shall be abandoned . to render possible the return of the bodies of our soldier dead anu not resumed nor insisted on by any of the nations concluding to their home burial grounds in a sanitary and recognizable peace, and the principle shall be announced and adhered to by such condition, which was ·referred to the Committee on Military nations 'that the high seas are not subject to blockade or similar inter­ ferences by any nation or nations. Affairs. · Sixth. Submarine warfare as now conducted shall be declared piracy Mr. ·PHELAN pi-esented a telegram in the J;lature of ·a peti­ and be abandoned anu prohibited for the future except within the tion from the directors of the farm-loan bureau of 1\Iercen territorial or marginal waters of the respective nations of the world. Seventh. The nations concluding peace shall bind themselves in the County, Cal., indorsing the report of Herbert C. Hoover to Presi­ event of future wars that vessels shall not be sunk on surrender or - dent Wilson relative to food control, which was ordered to lie capturt- i( the persons so captured submit, unless provision be made on the table. for the safety of passengers and crew and all who shall surrender and be made or shall themselves offer to be made prisoners of war shall BILLS INTRODUCED. be · deemed such ; nor shall any such persons taken at sea be denied such safety or be abandoned to perish by the elements. Bills were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous Eighth. War shall not be waged against civilian, noncombatant consent, the second time, and referred as follows : population, not being in fortified or ~litary posts, nor shall hospital agencies on land or sea be subject to .. tack or injury. By Mr. RANSDELL: Ninth. Water courses, food, and edical. supplies shall not be A bill (S. 2785) to authorize and empower the Southwest poisoned. nor shall poisonous instruments, implements, or means be Louisiana 'Vaterways Association, of .the State of Vmisiana, employed in waging war. - :. · . Tenth. An enemy on land or sea who in good faith ceases all furtP..er to construct a lock and dam in 1\IermeJltau River, in the· State combat and yields to his captor shall be deemed a prhmner of war and ·of Louisiana; to the Com_mittee on Commerce.
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