1911. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE. 65 men into office; to the Committee on Election of President, Vice officers be reappointed at the expiration of their terms; to the President, and Representatives in Congress. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Also, resolution of Grange No. 328, of South Bethlehem, Pa., Also, memorial of survivors of Kearney's First New Jersey relative to banking laws; to the Committee on Banking and Brigade, urging pension legislation now pending; to the Com­ Currency. mittee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. POWERS: Papers to accompany bills for the relief Also, petition of Local Union No. 155, United Brotherhood of of R. l\I. Bass and William Younger; to the Committee on In­ Carpenters and Joiners of America, urging passage of House valid Pensions. bill 5601; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ By Mr. RAINEY: Petitions of Dr. Charles A. Johnson and 34 merce. other citizens of Barry, and l\I. A. Atterberry, of Mason County, Also, memorial of Atlantic City B1·ancb, No. 370, National Ill., in opposition to parcels post; to the Committee on the Post Association of Letter Carriers, indorsing House bill 9242; to Office and Post Roads. the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. Also, petition of Capt. L. P. Owen and 50 other citizens of Also, petitions of sundry citizens of New Jersey, protesting Jacksonville, Ill., favoriug the militia pay bill; to the Com­ against extending the parcels-post service beyond its present mittee on Military Affairs. limitations; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Also, petition of Benjamin Hull and other citizens of Kinder­ Roads. hook, Ill., favoring pension legislation; to the Committee on Also, m~morials of Bayard Post, No. 8; James B. Morris Post, Invalid Pensions. No. 46; and John G. Tolmie Post, No. 50, Grand Army of the By Mr. REILLY : Memorials of Business Men's Association Republic, urging the passage of the Sulloway pension bill; to of Derby, and Chamber of Commerce of New Haven, Conn., the Committee on Invalid Pensions. urging amendment of corporation-tax law; to the Committee By Mr. UNDERHILL: Petitions of Stanford-Crowell Co., of on Ways and Means. Ithaca; New York Leather Belting Co., of New York; Defender By l\Ir. REYBURN: Memorial of E . .D. Baker Post, No. 8, Photo Supply Co. ; Taylor Instrument Co., of Rochester; and Grand Army of the Republic, opposing the incorporation of the C. W. Snow & Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., favoring 1-cent Jetter Grand Army of the Republic; to the Committee on Military postage; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Affairs. · Also, memorial of Assembly of the State of New York, favor­ Also, petition of State Board of Education of Pennsylvania, ing the establishment of an Army post in the city of Albany, favoring passage of Senate bill No. 3; to the Committee on N. Y. ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Appropriations. Also, memorials of Park First Baptist Church and Hedding ..d.lso, memorial of committee of deputy collectors of internal Methodist Church. both of Elmira, N. Y., relative to shipment of revenue, urging that deputy collectors be placed on same basis liquors into prohibition territory; to the Committee on Inter­ as all other employees in the classified service; to the Committee state and Foreign Commerce. on Reform in the Civil Service. Also, petitions of B. G. Smith and others of Elmira, N. Y., Also, memorials of Lodge No. 492, B'rith Abraham; Lodge No. urging reduction in duty on raw and refined sugars; to the Com­ 592, Independent Order B'rith Abraham; and Lodge No. 62, mittee on Wa3)s and Means. Independent Order B'rith Sholom, urging the abrogation of the By l\fr. WEDEMEYER : Papers to accompany bills for relief treaty with Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. of Alice G. Brown and Mathew Cook; to the Committee on By l\Ir. RUCKER of Colorado: Resolutions of United Lodge, Invalid Pensions. No. 264, Independent Order B'rith Sholom, of Denver; Denver Also, papers concerning case of Sarah Babcock ; to the Com­ Lodge, No. 333, Independent Order B'rith Abraham; Congrega­ mittee on Invalid Pensions. tion Schearth Israel, of Denver; Queen City Lodge, No. 113, Order B'rith Abraham, of Denver; and Congregation Zera Abra­ ham, of Denver, a.11 in the State of Colorado, remonstrating SENATE . against the treatment accorded American citizens by the Gov­ THURSDAY, December 7, 1911. ernment of Russia ; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. STEPHENS of California : Memorials of Lodge No. The Senate met at 2 o'clock p. m. 414, Order B'rith Abraham, and numerous citizens of Los Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. Angeles, Cal., urging the abrogation of the existing treaty with THoM.A.S P. GoRE, a Senator from the State of Oklahoma. and Russia: to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. HENRY F. LIPPITT, a Senator from the State of Rhode Isl and By Mr. STEPHENS of Mississippi: Petition of Harvey Nich­ appeared in their seats to-day. ' ols, of Marshall County, l\IiEs., praying reference of his claim to The Journal of the pro~eedings of Tuesday last was read the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Bowman Act; and approved. to the Committee on War Claims. NATIONAL FOREST RESERVATION COMillSSION (S. DOC. NO. 137). By l\fr. STEPHENS of Texas : Petition of William H. Fugua The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com­ and other citizens of Amarillo, Tex., asking for the deepening munication from the Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant of the channel at Aransas, Tex.; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. to law, the report of the National Forest Reservation Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, which, with the accom­ By Mr. STERLING: Petition of old soldiers, relative to pen­ panying paper, was referred to the Committee on Forest Reserva­ sion legislation; to the Committee on Invalid Pensione. tions and the Protection of Game and ordered to be printed. Also, petition of numerous citizens of Illinois, against parcels post; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES (S. DOC. NO. 123). By l\fr. SULZER: Several memorials of Gambrinus Unter­ . The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate .a com­ stuetzungs, consisting of 247 members, and Socialer Turn munication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, Verein, consisting of 360 members, urging investigation of ad­ pursuant to law, a statement of the expenditnre of funds an­ ministration of immigration office at Ellis Island; to the Com­ propriated for the support of colleges for the benefit of ag1:-i­ mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. culture and the mechanic arts, which was referred to the Com­ Also, memorials of Lodge No. 18, Independent Order .A.hawas mittee on Agriculture and Forestry and ordered to be printed. Israel; L9dges Nos. 24, 42, and 126, Independent Order B'rith ANNUAL REPORT OF LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS (H. DOC. NO. 147). Abraham; Lodge No. 243, Independent Order B'rith Sholom· The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the and Lodge No. 51, Independent Order Free Sons of Judah, urg~ annual report of the Librarian of Congress, together with the ing abrogation of existing treaty with Russia; to the Commit­ annual report of the Superintendent of the Library Building tee on Foreign Affairs. and Grounds, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, which Also, petition of Equitable Life Assurance Society of the was referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to United States, in support of the Esch phosphorus bill· to the be printed. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. ' By Mr. TILSON: Resolutions of Lodges Nos. 61 and 68, Inde­ REPORT OF COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY (H. D-00. NO. 125). · pendent Order B'rith ..itbraham, urging termination of existing The PRE.SIDENT pro· tempore ltlid before the Senate the treaty with Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Forty-ninth Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency By Mr. TUTTLE: Resolutions of citizens of Plainfield, N. J., for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1911, which was referred also of Lodges Nos. 375 and 627, Independent Order B'rith to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed. Abraham, urging the abrogation of the existing treaty with CONVENTION OF AMERICAN INSTRUCTORS OF THE DEAF ( S. DOC. Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. NO. 139). Also, memorial of survivors of Kearney's First New Jersey The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com­ Volunteer Brigade, urging that where first and second class munication from the president of the Columbia Institution for post offices are now filled by veterans of the Civil War these the J?eaf, of Washington, D. C.• transmitting, pursuant to law, -XLVIII-5 66 CONGRESSIONAL REOORD--SENATE. ;DECEl\IBER 7, the proceedings of the nineteenth meeting of the Conventlon of PETITIONS AND MEMORIA.LS. American Instructors of the Deaf, which, with the accompany­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore presented a petition of the ing paper and illustration, was referred to the Committee on the Ministe~ial ~ssociation of. North Yakima, Wash., praying for District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. the ratific3;tion of all arbitration n·eaties pending before the COTTON-GOODS TRADE IN ENGLAND (H. DOO. NO. 233). Senate, which was ordered to lie on the table. He also presented a petition of the committee on temperance The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com­ of the Christian Endeavor Societies of the Methodist Protestant· munication from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, trans­ Church of Libertytown, Md., praying for the enactment of leoois­ mitting, pursuant to law, a report by Commercial Agent J.