CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-SENATE. JULY 12 8936 ' By Mr. DYER: Papers fo a<;!company bill :i'.or pension for Mrs. Martine, N. J. Perkins Smith, S. C. Townsend Myers Pomerene Smoot Watson Catharine Hudson, of St. Louis, Mo., widow of the late John J. Nelson Rayner Stephenson Wetmore Hudson, who had served in the Marine Corps of the United Overman Sanders Sutherland Works States Navy; to the· Committee on Pensions. Swanson Also memorial of the Workingmen's Sick and Death Benefit ~:~~ter ~~~~~d. Thornton Associ;tion of America, Branch No. 71, of St. Louis, :Mo., against The PRESIDE~'T pro tempoi·e. Fifty-four Senators have passage of bills re.'3tricting immigration; to the Committee on answered to their names. A quorum of the Senate is present. Immigration and Naturalization. SENATOR FROM ILLIN'OIS. Also, petition of Slate and Tile Roofers Local No. 1, of the The Senate resumed the considerntion of Senate resolution ' International Association of America, favoring passage of the No. 315, submitted by l\Ir. LEA May 20, 1912, as follows: Clayton injunction limitation bill (H. R. 23635); to the Com- Resolved, That corrupt methods and practices were employed in the mittee on the Judiciary. eiection of WILLIAM Lom rnn to the Senate of the United States from Also, petition of the Brotherhood of Locom?tive Engineers, the State of Illinois, and that his election was therefore invalid. favoring passage of the workmen's compensation act, etc.; to Mr. LORIMER. Mr. President, at the cl-0se of my remarks the Committee on the Judiciary. yesterday I was discussing ihe attitude of the custodian of all Also memorial of the house of delegates of the city of St. the morals of the country, both public and private, he who Louis, 'l\10., favoring resolution introduced in the United States would not have contributions from those who pe>ssess predatory Senate asking forfeiture to the United States Government of wealth. The malefactors of great wealth could not contribute the Merchants' Bridge across the :Mississippi Rtver at St. Louis; to any campaign for his benefit. But I find in an account in to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. this morning's paper that the chairman of tile committee in By l\Ir. FULLER: Petition of the American Embassy As...<:o­ his campaign testified that $1,900,000 was contributed for his ciation favoring passage of the Sulzer bill (H. R. 22589) for campaign in 1904. Of course, that came from the common the co~struction of embassy, legation, and consular buildings, people, of whom this man is the great champion. No male­ etc.; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. factors contributed in that campaign, no trusts, no combina­ By 1\Ir. GRIEST : Memorial of the Aero Club of Pen~syl.vania, tions of great '\r°ealth, only the common people, of whom he is favoring national regulation and control of the riavigation of the guardian. the air by all forms of air craft; to the Committee on Inter­ In concluding his letter to Col. Roose\elt, President Taft said state and Foreign Commerce. what I shall rend. By the way, may I not state here that this By Mr. GUERNSEY: Petition of the Yarmouth Board of letter was written on the 6th of January, 1911? The record in Trade, Yarmouth, Me., favoring the passage of a parcel-post this case, I am informed, was delir-ered to the document room bill · to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. on the seventh day of that month, a day after the letter was By 1\Ir. MAGUIRE of Nebraska: Petition of citizens of first written, which to my mind would be evidence that any informa­ congressional district of the State of Nebraska, favoring pas­ tion which the President may have received on this subject sage of bill regulating express rates, etc. ; to the Committee on was from those who are supporting this prosecution. In con· Interstate and Foreign Commerce. eluding his letter to the Colonel he said: By l\Ir. MOORE of Pennsylvania: Memorial of the Aero Club I want to-win. So do you. of Pennsylvania, favoring regulating control of navigation of Win what? Win a contest? What ·sort of a contest? In the the air by all forms of air craft and the issuance of licenses open? A free field and a fair fight? Was the sword and shield by the Government to competent artators; to the Committee on handed to me, and was I then notified to defeo.d myself, that a Interstate and Foreign Commerce. battle was on? Oh, no; there was no opportunity, no knowledge By l\Ir. ROBINSON : Papers to -accompany House bill 25431, of what was coming; they were going to win, win, win. How? granting an increase of pension to Henry E. Everts; to the Sneak up like a thief in the dark, strike from behind with a Committee on Invalid Pensions. club in the back of the head, and destroy with no oppor­ By .Mr. RODENBERG: Memorial of 74 workers of Collins­ tunity to defend himself. And why, why all this? Why, Tille, Ill., against passage of bills restricting immigration ; to th~ for fear, said President Taft, that Senator BAILEY with his nn· Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. bounded logic and his matchless eloquence might plead the Bv l\Ir. RUCKER of Colorado : Petition of the Knights of St. dignity of the Senate of the United States. Cassimer's Society of Denver, Colo., protesting against the pas­ Oh, l\Ir. President, was mortal ever more completely sur­ sage of House bill 22527 for restriction of immigration; to the rounded by conspirators and inh·igue? The President of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. United States, William H . ~l'aft; Theodore Roosevelt, the ex­ Bv Mr. SA.BATH : Petition of Ilowmanian Lodge, No. 117, President of the United States; and the candidate of the Demo· and· Star Lodge, No. 59, Chicago, Ill., protesting against the cratic Party for President of the United States, William Jen· passage of House bill 22527 for restriction of immigration; to nings Bryan, the trust press of this country, all combined the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. and joining in the conspiracy to misstate the facts, because By l\Ir. SLOAN: Memorial of citizens of Deshler, Nebr., favor­ they could not have known them unless they read the record­ ing prohibiting of denominational garb in Indian schools; to the and not one of these men ever read it. They joined with the Committee on Indian Affairs. trust press of this country to poison the mind of the citizen· By Mr. TILSON_: Memorial of citizens of Bridgeport, Conn., ship of this Union in order that one man might be de troyed against passage of the Burton-Littleton bill ~or celebrating ~00 to satisfy the malice of the most corrupt set of newspaper years of peace with England; to the Committee on Ind~strml owners known to the history of this country. Arts and Expositions. l\Ir. President, I do not claim that anything I have said on Also petition of the Hebrew Veterans of the War with Spain, this subject is evidence of anything. It does not prove that my protestlng against the passage of House bill 22527 for restric­ seat was not corruptly-secured, but surely it shows that the men tion of immigration; to the Committee 011 Immigration and who are prosecuting this case are capable of conspiring to do Naturalization. anything against anybody they want to desh·oy, even to taking a life. It is because I know these things, and because when the SENATE. attention of the Senate is called to them they are all beyond any question of doubt proven, not by my word, not by what I FRIDAY, July 12, 191~. say, but in the documents, in the photo~raphs, in the letters, · ( Oontinuation of legislative day of Sat1irday, July 6, 1912.) in the affidavits that I have presented in this discussion, and with that I think I ha\e said enough about those who are ba~ At 10 o'clock a. m., on the expiration of the recess, the Sen­ of and aiding in this prosecution. ate reassembled. Now, we will come to the Helm committee. Who is the Helm Mr. SMOOT. l\Ir. President, I suggest the absence of a committee? What is the Helm committee? Senators of tlie quorum. State of Illinois, think you? Oh, no. They were creatures of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Utah sug­ Gov. Deneen and the newspaper trust of Chicago. The. Helm gests the absence of a quorum. The roll will be called. Committee. Were they senators, dignified gentlemen, men who The Secretary called the roll, and the following Senators had opinions of their own, who acted as their consciences dic­ answered to their names: tated? Oh, no. The Helm committee was Herman Kohlsaat Ashurst Brown Culberson Gamble and the Record-Herald, representing Victor Lawson, the Tribune, Bacon Bryan Cullom Gardner Gov. Deneen, and .John .J. Healy. .John .J. Healy was one of Bailey Burnham . Curtis Gronna Borah Burton Dillingham Johnston, Ala. the counsel representing your committee in this case. I do Bourne Clapp Dixon Jones not want to be understood as criticizing the committee for Bradley Clarke, ArL Fletcher Lea if Brandegee Crane Foster Lorimer employing Mr. Healy, because there be a man in _Illinois Bristow Crawfor<l Gallinger McCu.mber who knows aught about· the politics of our State and could 1912. CONGRESSIONAL REOORD-SENATE. 89.37 ferret out any corruption John J .. Healy is the man. In ad­ their attendance.