"9986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE: JULY 6; :Yr. WALSH of Ma:ssachu&.-etts. Mr. President-- SENATE. Mr. UNDERWOOD. I yield to the Senator from Massa­ chusetts. THURSDAY, July 6, 192!3. :Mr. WALSH of Massachusetts. How can there be any time (Legislative day of Tlwnday, AprU 20} 1922.) fixed to vote on this bilI when the committee have not com­ pleted their work yet? The committee are meeting every morn- 1 The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m., on the expiration of the ing and changing amendments and changing' this bill. How Irecess. can we fix; a time until the· committee fin~ly finish their work P.AY OF SENATE P~GES. on the bill? ; Mr. CALDER. l\fr. President, in· tlle general appropriation Mr. UNDERWOOD. The Senator is clearly correct. The I bill passed each year we include a provision for the payment of chairman of the committee has repeatedly stated to us on the ! the salaries of the employees of the Senate, but no provision ffoor that- from day to day the committee are meeting and pro- ' was made in the· last appropriation bill for the payment of sala­ posing new amendments and changing the· proposals _in the bill, ries of pages of the Senate after July 1 of this year. To take and yet it is nroposed by this. rule to say to your own com- I care of the matter the Senator· from Wyoming [Mr. WARRE~T, mittee at 12 o'clock noon on Friday next they shall labor no 1· chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, introduced a more and shall not give the bill fmther consideration, because resolution ( S. Res. 313)', which was refeITed to tbe Committee any proposals of theirs can not thereafter be considered. to· Audit and Control! the Contingent Expenses of tbe Senai:e-. I Mr. LENROOT. Mr. President, may I ask the· Senator an- 1 am dir:ected by that committee to report back tbe resolution other question? J favorably without amendment. The resolution· provides for the ~ir~ UNDERWOOD. Certainly. , payment of the 16 regular pages from now until the 1st of De- Mr. LENROOT. The Senator states that he hopes the bill 1cernber, or daring sueh days· as the pages may be employed. I can be passed. by. August. If that be· true, it will only be because 1 ask:· for its present consideration. debate is limited by action of the Senate or by the voluntary ! Mr. KING. Ml'. President, may I inquire what is the purpose action of Senators. Does the· Senator believe that Senators I of the resolution? upon his side of the aisle are now willing to curtail debate vol:. I Mr. CALDER. I will say to the Senator from Utah that in untarily·? !the passage of the regular' appropriation bill which takes care Mr. UNDERWOOI!>. I can not speak for- anyone but myself, of the pay of Senate employees the Senate neglected to provide and I do say that I hope debate- on items which are not of great I for· the payment of the pages of the Senate. No provision was importance can be curtailed to an extent so that we can get I made for any pay of the. pages. until' the next regular se ~ sion through by that time. I think it is necessary for us to reach a· 1of the Senate. We are taking care of them through this resolu­ conclusion, and yet, with· the great schedules of wool and cotton tion by providing for the payment of their salaries out of the and sundries, which carry taxation into every home in America, 1 contingent fund of the Senate. • yet undisposed of, I do not want anyone to think for a moment 1 The resolution was read, conside1·ed' by unanimous consent, that those sc.hedhles should be passed without reasonable con- and agreed· to, as follows~ sideration and fair debate. But I think that it' can be done. If Resolved; That the. Secretary of tbe Senate be, and he hereby is, au- 1~ t •t f · · " l th t ·t can thorized and directed to pay' from the miscellaneous items of the con­ the S enato rs 1ooa a · 1 rom my Yiewpomv run sure a 1 Itlngent fund of the Senate the .16 pages borne on the se sion rolls o! be done. I may make one or two other speeches on the bill; but the Senate from July 1, 1922, to and includino- the last day of the Ii am sure the time I take, if proportioned out to other Senators month in which the second1 session of the sirt.v-seventh Congress is on the floor, would not carry the passage of the bill beyond an ,adjourned sine die, at the rate of $2.50 per day each. ea:rly- date in. August. .ADDITIO:NA.L SEN.ATE P.A'.GES. I merely want to ay that of course you have your rights. Mr. CALDERc, I report back favorably without amendment, The rule is a.: part of the Senate procedure. If you can get' a from the Committee to Audit and1 Control the Contingent E)x:­ two-thirds majority you have a right to gag-us, and· you have a penses of th& Senate, Senate Resolution 314 to· provide for the right to-· cut off amendments and cut off debate and· throw this 'continuation of the five· additional pages who have been carried misshapen piece of legislation into the face of the country, but on. the pay roll for the last year and a half. I ask for the present I say you will' make a very serious· mistake if'you do so. consideration of the resolution. Mr. McCUMBER. Mr. President, I move that the Senate The resolution was. read, considered by unanimous con~ent, take a. reces~ , until to-morrow- morning at 11 o'clock. and agreed to, as follows:: MT. HARRISON. Mr. President, I suggest llie absence of a. Resoivea, That Senate Resolution No. 175, agreed to :NovembP.r 10, 'thd th st fo th pres t There are· 1921, authorizing and directing the Sergeant at Arms· of tbe Senate quorum. I WI raw e reque r e en · to employ five additional pages for the Senate Chamber at $3 per day just a few hours during which the rule can be discussed. each from the 1st day- of December, 1921, to the end of the second ses- Mr. M:cCUl\IBER. It can be discussed all day to-morrow. sion of the Sixty.-seventh Congress, to be paid from the miscellaneous 'I H ..• nnISON It ht t 0 b di d l'ttle1 thi ft r items of the contingent fund of the Senate, be, and the same is he1·eby l.~ r. n..n. .i: • oug e scusse a s a e - amended to continue their employment to and including. the last day of noon. I have here a speech which the Senator made in 1918, the· month· in which the second session of the Sixty-seventh CongrPss in which he said he w.as against C!loture and that an hour's Is adjourned sine die at the rate of $2.50 per· day each. debate was too little, and he argued against the rule at tbat. POLA:R FLIGHT OF EDWIN FAIRFAX NAULTY. time. I wanted to read it to refresh the memory of the Senator ' l\Ir. ROBINSON. Mr. President, some months ago tile im. from North De.kota as to tllat speech. Will he withhold his portance of Wrangel Island as an air base for flight routes motion unti1 I can read a part of that speech to him? across the Arctic was brought to the attention of the Senate in Mr. McCUMBER. The Senator can do that to-morrow. connection with a controversy respecting the priority. of rights ~fr. HARRISON. Very well;. the Senator will do it to- by discovery and occupation respectively accruing to the United: morrow. · States and Great Britain. Mr. Edwin Fairfax Naulty, re- ~fr. KING. Mr. President, will the Senator yield to me? nowned for his investigations in scientific.and practical aero- Mr. McCUMBER. I yield for a question. nautfcs, then proclaimed' the right of the United States to assert Mr. KING. I gave notice, or, ra.ther, I voted for the almond just prio.ricy tly actual discovery and continued occupation. paragraph and indicated at the time that. I would move. to re- Tl1e importance of tile controversy apparently was not fully consider the vote by which it wirs agreed to~ I just want realized at that titne by our Department of State. to submit the motion to reconsider and will' take· it up to- About one year· ago ~fr. Naulty formed and publi. hed a plan morrow. for a trans-.A:.rctic, transp·olar flight. This plan was definite in Mr. McCU~IBER. That can be done in the morning. all its details· and was illustrated on a chart supported by- Mr1 KING. To-day is my last day. known observations of ice drifts, current flow, known directions, l\fr. .McCUlIBER. No; it is not. W~ are still in the same known shallows and depths, and other data. This chart was· legislative day. deposited in a Government bureau and· no attempt was made Mr. KING. Very well. With that understanding I shall by l\:Ir. Naulty to maintain secrecy respecting big plans and submit the motion to-morrow. purposes. RECESS. The Washington Post of. August 2, 1921, the Pittsburgh Post- DiSJSatcb of August 4, 1921, the New York Times of September Mr.