1910~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 3169'·. mission over certain through rates (S. 5106 and :a:. R. 17536)­ of the American Revolution, of the State of New Hampshire, to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. for retention of Division of Information in the Immigration Also, petition . of · Frederic.k Burgess, of Garden City, Long Bureau-to the Committee on ·Immigration and Naturalization. Island, N. Y., for Senate bill 404, Sunday rest bill~to the Com- By Mr. SWASEY: Petition of Board of Trade and Mechan­ mittee on the District· of Golumb1n. -. · · ics' Association, of Bath, Me., against Senate bill 5106, that all Also, petition of New York State Assembly, favoring the build­ steamship lines having rail connections with rail-and-water ing of a battle ship in the Brooklyn Navy-Yard-to the Com- routes shall be subject to . the interstate-commerce law with inittee on Naval Affairs. reference to their port-to~port ti·affic-to the Committee on In­ ..Also, petition of ·citizens of Gloversville, N. Y., for repeal of terstate and Foreign Commerce. the Dick military law-tp the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, petition: of Eastern River Grange, of Dresden, Me., and Also, petitions of American Embassy Association of New York Topsham Grange, of Topsham, Me., favoring a national health and Rochester (N. Y.) . Chamber of Commerce, favoring House bureau-previously referred to the Committee on Agriculture. bill 15814, for consular buildings abroad-to the Committee on reference changed to the · Committee on Interstate and Foreign Foreign Affairs. Commerce. Also, petitions of John C. Orr Company and James H. Holmes, By Mr. W Al~GER: Petition of Commercial Exchange of of Bro(?klyn, N. Y., against House bill 21334, the Moon anti­ Philadelphia, against Senate bill 5106" and House bill 17536, injunction and restraining bill-to the Committee on the Judi- relative to port-to-port rates on steamships-to the Committee ciary. · on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, petitions of New York and New Jersey branches of Na­ By Mr. WASHBURN: Petition of Louis l\I. Friedmer, of tional Metal Trades Association, favoring House bill 15812, Worcester, Mass., against Senate bill 404, Sunday rest bill-to relating to liens on vessels for rep~irs, supplies, · and other the Committee on the District of Columbia. necessaries-to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. WEBB: Paper to accompany bill .for relief of Kate Also, petition of James M. McGee, of Philadelph~a, Pa., fa­ Loughran and others-to the Committee on Claims. voring repeal of the provision debarring widows who were not Also, petition of citizens of North Carolina, . urging legisla­ married prior to June 27, 1890, from pensions-to the Commit­ tion that will eliminate gambling in farm products by boards tee on Invalid Pensions. of trade, exchanges, and other speculators-to the Committee on · By Mr. :MADISON: Petition of citizens of the Seventh Kan­ Agriculture. sas Congressional District, favoring a law prohibiting shipment By Mr. WEEKS: Petition of Hannah · Goddard Chapter, of intoxicants into prohibition States-to the Committee on Daughters of the American Revolution, of Brookline, Mass., Alcoholic Liquo·r Traffic. favoring retention of Division of Information in the Bureau By Mr. MANN·: Petition of Engineers' Club of St. Louis, Mo., of Immigration and Naturalization-to the Committee on Im­ favoring a department or bureau of public works-to the Com­ migration and Naturalization. mittee .on Military Affairs. · By Mr. McCREDIE: Petition of Mary Ball and Virginia Dare Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Tacoma, SENATE. ~ash., against repeal of sectiOn 40 of immigration law as pro­ vided in the Hayes immigration bill-to the Committee on TuEsnAY, March 15, 1910. Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. ·MAGUIRE of Nebraska: Petitions of Omaha Real Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D. Estate Exchange, Board of County Commissioners, and Board N .A.MING A PRESIDING OFFICER.· of Park Commissioners, of Omaha, Nebr., for appropriation to Mr. KEAN called the Senate to order-and directed the Sec­ improve banks of the Missouri Riter-to -the Committee on retary to read a communication from the President pro tempore, Rivers and Harbors. - . which was read, as follows: · By ·Mr. o~CONNELL: Petition of Boston Fruit and Produee PRESIDENT PRO TE.l.iPORE, UNITED STATES SENATE, Exchange, for the. Lll.fean apple package and grade bill (H. R. March 15, 1910. 28338), providing for a standard basket clause-to the Commit­ To the Senate: tee on Agi-icu}ture. Being temporarily absent from the Senate, I hereby. appoint Senator By Mr. PRINCE: Petition of United Brotherhood of Carpen­ JOH~ KEA...'i to perform the duties of the Chair. • WP.1. P. FIUE, ters and Joiners of America, Local Union No. 360, of Galesburg, President pm te-mpore. 111., for the eight-hour bills (S. 5578 and H. R. 15441)-to the Committee. on Labor. Mr. KEAJ.~ thereupon took the chair as presiding officer and By Mr. R;EEDER: Petition of citizens of Kansas, against directed the Secretary to read ·the Journal of yesterday's pro­ gambling in farm products-to the Committee on Agriculture. ceedings. By Mr. ""RUCKER of Colorado: Resolution from the Sons of THE JOURNAL. Colorado, of Denver, Colo., signed by J. C. Twombly, president, The Secretary proceeded to read th~ Journal of yesterday's and H. Ruffner, secreta,ry, requesting the establishment of Estees proceedings, when, .. on ·request of Mr. CHAMBERLAIN and by National Park in Colorado-to the Committee on the Public unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed with, Lands. and the Journal was approved. · By Mr. RUCKER of Missouri : Petition of citizens. of tM Second Oongressional District of l\Iissouri, . against· the enact­ SENATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI. ment of a parcels-post law-to the Committee ·on the Post-Office Mr. MONEY. Mr. President, the credentials of the Hon. LE and Post-Roads. RoY PERCY, elected a Senator from the State of .Mississippi, have By l\Ir. .SABATH: Petition of Towarzystwo sw. Izydora been read and placed on the files of the Senate. Mr. PERCY is Oracza, Grupa 406, Zwiazku Narodowego Polskiego, of Chicago, now present, and I ask that the oath of office be administered Ill., again-st the Hayes immigration bill-to the Committee on to him. · · Immigration and Naturalization. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator elect will please Also, petition of citizens of Cook County, Ill., against in­ present himself at the desk. crease of postal rates on second-class matter-to the Committee l\Ir. PERCY was escorted to the Vice-President's desk by l\Ir. on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. l\IoNEY, and the oath prescribed by law having been adminis­ · By Mr. SPERRY : Resolutions of Abraham Lodge, No. 89, tered to him, he took his seat in the Senate. I. O. B. B., of Bridgeport, Conn., in opposition to the provisions OFFICERS OF THE REGULAR ARMY. of 1:J1e Hayes bill-to the Oommittee on Immigration and Nat- The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a commu­ uralization. - nication from the Secretary of 'Var, ti·ansmitting, in response to Also, resolutions of Paugassett Council, No. 28, Knights of a resolution of the 3d instant, a tabulated statement showing, Columbus, of Derby, Conn., in relation to fraternal publica­ as of January 31, 1910, the latest date for which complete re­ tions-to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. turns have been received from the army, the names of all By Mr. STEPHENS of Texas: ~e~ition of citizens of Sanger, officers of the army on detached service other than temporary, Tex., opposing the po tal savings-bank bill-to the Committee their rank, regiment or corps, etc. ( S. Doc. No. 429), which, with on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on · By Mr. SPIGHT: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Feleo Military Affairs and ordered to be .printed. Battes~previously referred to the Committee on Claims, ref­ erence changed to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. FINDINGS OF THE <:;OURT OF CLAIMS. By Mr ·SULLOWAY: Petition of Elsie · Cilley Chapter, of The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate communi­ Nottingham, and "l\Iary Torr Chapter; of Rochester, Daughters cations from the ·assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans- XLV-199 '3170 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. l\fARcH 15, mitting certified copies ()f the :findings of fact filed by the court H. R.16915. An act to direct that Jefferson street between in the following ca uses : Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue be stricken from the The Vestry of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, of Bowl­ plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of ing Green, Ky., v. United States (S. Doc. No. 435); Columbia; David C. Acuff, administrator of Caswell B. Derrick,. de­ H. R.16916. An act to authorize certain changes in the per­ ceased, v. United States (S. Doc. No. 434); manent system of highways plan, District of Columbia; John S. Mann, in his own right, and R. G. Johnson, adminis­ H. R. 19785. An act to authorize the extension of Columbia trator of Lewis W. Mann. deceased, v. United States (S. Doc. road NW., in the District of Columbia; and No. 433); H. R. 20164. An act authorizing the extension of Military Edward H. No1'ton and sundry snbnumbered cases (Ports­ road NW., in the District of Columbia. mouth (N~ H.) Navy-Yard) v. United States (S. ·Doc. No. 431); and PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Mary F. Smith, administratrix of John W. Bowling, de­ Mr. SCOTT presented a memorial of the Business lUen's Pro­ ceased, and sundry subnumbered ca es (Washington Navy- tective Association of Wheeling, W.