1909~ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1497 By 1\Ir. LOVERING:· Petition of T. S. Howes and others, of insecticides and fungicides in interstate commerce (H. R. Dennis Grange, No. 260, favoring a national Wghways commis- 21318)-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. sion-to the Committee on Agriculture. · Also, petition of board of directors of New Jersey Chapter of By l\Ir. McLAUGHLIN of Michigan: Papers to accompany American Institute of Architects, favoring integrity of the plan bills for relief of Martin J. Cole and Eli D. Johnson-to the for improvement of Washington by placing the Lincoln me­ Committee on Invalid Pensions. morial at west end of the 1\iall-to the Committee on the By l\Ir. l\IALBY: Petition of Gouverneur (N. Y.) Grange, Library. favoring creation of a national Wghways commission-to the Also, petition of Hamilton Grange, No. 79, Pah·ons of Hus­ Committee on Agriculture. • bandry, of Hamilton Square, N. J., favoring establishment of By Mr. l\IANN: Petition of employees of Isthmian Canal postal savings banks and a parcels post-to the Committee on Commission and Panama Railroad Company, against action on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. part of United States Government or Isthmian Canal Commis­ sion curtailing commissary privileges-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. SENATEG . Also, petition of Fort Worth (Tex.) freight bureau of Texas Hardware Jobbers' Association, favoring H. R. · 22901, 22902, THURSDAY, January 28,1909. and 22903, relative to interst..'lte-rate requirement-to the Com­ Prayer by ·the Chaplain, Rev. Edward E. Hale. mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yesterday's . Also, petition of Omaha workingmen, against legislation to proceedings, when, on request of l\fr. ELINT, and by unanimous exclude Asiatics-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. consent, the further reading was dispensed with. · By .Mr. NORRIS: Petition of Benson (Nebr.) Commercial The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Journal stands approved. Club, favoring payment Qf expenses of railway mail clerks while away from their initial terminal-to the Committee on CREDENTIALS. the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mr. FLINT presented the credentials of GEoRo·E C. PERKINS, By .Mr. RiCHARDSON: Papers to accompany bills for relief chosen by the legislature of the State of California a Senator of Mary A. Precise, Levi C. Roberts, Samuel Potter, and Nancy from that State for the term beginning March 4, 1909, which Shelton-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. · · were read and ordered to be filed. By Mr. ROBERTS: Petition of commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, against consolidation of pension agen­ Mr. RAYNER presented the credentials of JoHN WALTER cies-to the Committee on Appropriations. SMITH, chosen by the legislature of the State of Maryland a By 1\lr. RYAN: Petition of Fort Worth freight bureau, favor­ Senato1· from that State for the term beginning March 4, 1900, ing H. R. 22901, 22902, and 22903, all relative to authority of which were read and ordered to be filed. · Interstate Commerce Commission touching changes in freight FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF . CLAIMS. rates-to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, petition of New York Board of Trade and Transporta­ The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ tion, favoring reconsideration of railway-rate law-to the Com­ tion from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims, trans­ mittee on Interstate and Foreign -Commerce. mitting a certified copy of the findings of fact filed by the court Also, petition of Cheyenne Brotherhood of Railway Postal in the cause of Susan J . Keesee, administratrix of the estate of Clerks, against H. R. 21261 (retirement prov-ision for super­ George R . Johnson, deceased, v. The United States ( S. Doc. No. annuated employees)-to the Committee on Reform in the 685), which, with the accomp·anying paper, was referred to the Civil Service. Committee on Claims and ordered to be printed. Also, petition of trustees of the New York Public Library, of MESSAGE F.ROM THE HOUSE. New York City, against increase of tariff on books and removal from. free list of books thereon-to the Committee on Ways and A message from the House of Representatives, by 1\ir. W. J. Means. Browning, its CWef Clerk, aimounced that the House had By Mr. SABATH: Petition of Chicago Public Library, against agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the dis­ a tariff on books for public libraries, etc.-to the Committee on agreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Ways and Means. Senate to the bill (H. R. 21957} relating to affairs in the Terri­ By Mr. SLEMP: Paper to accompany bill for relief of Francis tori~s. M. Kaylor-to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. The message also announced that the House had passed the By Mr. SMITH of Arizona: Memorial of Arizona legislature, joint resolution (S. R. 118) to enable the States of Tennessee urging statehood-to the Committee on the Territories. and Arkansas to agree upon a boundary line and to determine By Mr. STEENERSON: Petition of M. Christensen and other the jurisdiction of crimes coinmi.tted on the Mississippi River citizens of Fosston, Minn., against duty on tea and coffee-to an·d adjacent territory. the Committee on Ways and 1\Ieans. The message further announced that the House had agreed Also, protests of Oen Mercantile Company, of· Thief River to the concurrent resolution ( S. C. Res. 57) of the Senate pro­ Falls, Minn., and Beall & McGowan, of Fergus Falls, Minn., viding for the counting of the electoral vote for President and against proposed tax on tea and coffee-to the Committee on Vice-President on February 10, 1900. ·ways and Means. The message also announced that the House had passed the By Mr. STURGISS: Petition of J. R. Adamson, of Onego, following bills, in whi<;h it requested the concurrence of the \V. Va., for a good-roads commission-to the Committee on Senate: . Agriculture. H. R. 26073. An act to legalize a bridge across the Indian Also, petition of Evening Star Grange, No. 206, and others, of River North, in the State of Florida; and Gandeeville, W. Va., for a national highways commission-to H. R. 26305. An act making appropriations for the service of the Committee on Agriculture. the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, By l\Ir. TALBOTT: Petition of Tawneytown Grange, asking 1910, and for other purposes. for the enactment of a law creating a national highways com­ ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED. mission-to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, petition of :Medford Grange, No. 188, Patrons of Hus­ The message further announced that the Speaker of the bandry, favoring parcels-post and postal savings banks laws-to House had signed the following enrolled bills, and they were the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. thereupon signed by the Vice-President: By Mr. TOWNSEND: Petition of citizens of Belleville, Mich., H. R. 4166. An act to relieve George W. Black and J. R. Wil­ against passage of Senate bill 3940-to the Committee on the son from a certain judgment in favor of the United States, and District of Columbia. · to relieve George W. Black, J. R. Wilson, and W. M. Newell of Also, petition of Raisinville Grange, No. 410, of Dundee, a certain judgment in favor of the United States; Mich., favoring parcels-post and postal savings banks laws-to H. R. 19859. An act to provide for the payment of certain vol­ the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. unteers who rendered service in the Territory of Oregon in the By 1\fr. WILSON of Pennsylvania: Petitions of Odin Grange, Cayuse Indian war of 1847 and-1848; No. 1254, of Odin, Potter County, and Covington Grange, of H. R . 2112~. An act.to provide for refunding stamp taxes paid Tioga County, both in the State of . Pen~sylvania, for a national under the act of June 13, 1898, upon foreign bills of exchange highways commission-to the Committee on Agriculture. · drawn between .July 1, 1898, and .June 30, 1901, against the By Mr. WOOD: Petition of New Jersey State Horticultural value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign Society, favoring legislation regulating standard and sale of countries and authorizing rebate of duties on antllracite coal 1498 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. JANUARY 28, imported into the United States .from October 6 1902 to Jan-! are entitled under the Constitution our forefathers have handed down · ' ' to us· and uary-15, 1903, and for other purposes; and Wh~reas Congress has now under consideration the admission ot H. ll. 25405. An act to change and fix the time for holding certain Territories, all of which are urging their claims : Be it the circuit and district courts of the United States for the east- Re_solved, Th~t this .legi~lature as};>s that you give our :titn~ss a fair ern and middle districts of Tennessee. ~f~lfe~~oi~yanad'Ig; f{~~~~~~ less VItal, and grant Arizona rmmediate PETITIONS AND MEMORIAS. Resolved.,. That the chief clerk of the house is hereby_instructed to The VICE-PRESIDENT presented a joint memorial of the transmit tn.is memorial by .wire to the Hon.. MAI:K A. S:-.UTH, Arizona Delegate. legislature of Washington, which was referred to the Commit- BEN R. CLARK, Ohief Olerk. tee on Territories and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as . Mr. GUGGENHEIM presented sundry affidavit , to accompany follows: the bill ( S. 6755) granting an increase of pension to Wilbert B. Senate joint memorial 2. By Senator Potts.