5922 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE l\i.ARCH 4 Those. are the golden words that fell from the silver lips of The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Massachusetts asks my filibustering friend from the Smoky City of Pittsburgh, and unanimous consent to address the House for one minute. Is as I pay him that compliment the smiling countenance of my there objection? genial friend from New York [Mr. WADSWORTH], who will be There was no objection. with us but one minute more, rises before me. Mr. TRlllADWAY. Mr. Speaker, I have been so outrageously. Mr. PHIPPS rose. brutally, and inhumanly treated by the Western Union Tele­ Mr. HARRISON. I do not want that view to become eclipsed graph Co. in relation to the reception of cables that I wish to by the more-disturbed countenance of my .friend the Senator call attention to some extension of remarks I shall incorporate from Colorado. in the RECORD on the subject in the hope that other people may Mr. PHIPPS. Will the Senator yield to me? I want to not receive like treatment from that corporation. request that a letter be printed in the RECORD. Mr. BLANTON. Why not use the Postal? 1\Ir. HARRISON. I have beautiful thoughts and wonderful Mr. TREADWAY. I will say to the gentleman that the visions before me, when I contemplate the Senator from New Postal has treated me well and the Western Union rottenly. York [Mr. WADSWORTH], a man who in this body has made Confirming the statement that I haye just made to the effect a splendid record, has ingratiated himself into the hearts of that I have been outrageously, brutally, and inhumanly treated his colleagues, has so conducted himself as to win the confidence by the ·western Union Telegraph Co. in connection with the of the country. How sa.d! What a pity that now in these delivery of cable messages, I beg to submit the following fact . last few hours he would take unto himself such companionship I am doing this in the hope that in some way a correction of and so deport himself as to mar that record. this evil can be brought about, either through such condemna­ The VICE PRESIDENT rapped with his gavel. tion as I can visit upon the corporation or through official Mr. HARRISON. Oh, it is a shame to spoil a good speech action or com·t procedure. Nothing can excuse or justify my· like this. experience, but r. hope to be the means of preventing other FINAL ADJOURNMENT parents or friends of travelers suffering as my wife and I did for several weeks through the carelessness, laziness, and in­ The VICE PRESIDENT. It is customary for the Vice competency of Western Union employees. I apologize for plac­ President, at the beginning and ending of a session of Congress, ing in the RECORD my personal affairs, but in doing so feel I to audress the Senate upon an appropriate subject. The com­ am acting only as any public official should act under like ments the Chair has to make on this occasion will be very brief. circumstances. The facts are as follows : The Chair regards the results of the present legislative session My only son has been traveling through Egypt and Africa. as primarily due to the defective rules of the Senate, under He is very careful to send me a cable at least once e~ch week which a minority can prevent a majority from exercising their as to his whereabouts and well-being. I have received probably constitutional right of bringing measures to a vote. This is 20 cables in the last few months from him. My last mes ·age the only great parliamentary body in the world where such from him previous to the experience of which I speak was a situation exists. dated in Khartum February 1, and was promptly delivered to On this the closing day of the second session of the Sixty­ me by the Postal Telegraph Co. Knowing my son was proc-eed­ ninth Congress, the Chair commends to the Senate the remarks ing through the uncivilized section of Africa south of Khartum, upon the Senate rules which he made on the first day of the I made allowance for one week's failure to receive a message first session of this Congress. on the score of inaccessibility of telegraph communication. The hour of 12 o'clock having arrived, the Senate stands in This condition, however, continued for more than three weeks, adjom·nment sine die. and cables sent by me were reported undelivered from Rejaf. I which is in the southern part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. This only added to om: nervousness and worry. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I finally appealed to the good offices of the State Depart­ ment, and through the courtesy of Assistant Secretary Carr on FRIDAY, March 4, 19~7 Monday, February 28, received word that my son was in Nairobi, ahead of his schedule, and that he was well. Not (Legislative day of Thu.rsda.y, Jfarch 3, 1927) receiving a message direct from my son that day, by chance I The recess having expired, at 9 o'clock and 30 minutes a. m., inquired the next morning of the Western Union Telegraph Co. the House was .called to order by the Speaker. if there was any undelivered message for me in their posses­ RESOLUTION COMMENDING RON. C. A. NEWTO~, OF MISSOURI sion. Later in the day I received a letter from the office in Washington, and with it were a message received from my son 1\Ii'. COCHRAN. 1\fr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to that morning and one which had been received February 24, extend my remarks in the RECORD by printing a short resolu­ four days previous. A copy of this letter appears in my letter tion adopted by the Mississippi Valley Association with refer­ to the State Department appended hereunder. ence to the services of our distinguished colleague, Mr. NEw­ I ·ent for the signer of the above-mentioned letter and ex­ TON of Missouri, who voluntarily retired from the House. pressed to him very freely and forcibly my opinion of the com­ The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani­ pany he represe~ted. He acknowledged to me that no effort mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD by printing was made to deliver the cable of February 24. The following a short resolution adopted by the Mississippi Valley Associa­ day, March 2, I called up and asked if any other cables had tion with reference to the services of the gentleman from failed of delivery, and was then given two other messages, one Missouri [Mr. NEWTON]. Is there objection? of which had been receiyed here on February 9 and one on There was no objection. February 19. Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, under the leaYe to extend my It will thus be seen t11at three cables, all addressed to TREAD­ remarks in... the RECORD, I include the following: WAY, w·ashington, D. C., were undelivered, and the excuse for Resolved, That the Mississippi Valley Association herewith expresses nondelivery was the statement made in the manager's lette1· the appreciation of the citizenship of the Mississippi Valley for the that the name TREADWAY had not been registered at the price substantial, meritorious, and worthy work done in the past eight years of $2.50. I informed the gentleman that I was the only TREAD­ for the cause of waterways by the Hon. CLEVELAND A. NEWTON, leader WAY in Washington in the telephone book and had received a of the waterway forces in the House of Representatives, on the eve of great many messages during my term of service in Congress, so his retirement as a Member of Congress. The individual record of that there could be no excuse that I could not be found or was Congressman NEWTON during . his many years of service in public life not known. I had been solicited to have my name registereu, it is hoped will remain as a perpetual monument to his ability, enthusi­ but was not informed that the Western Union would make no asm, and perseverance in prosecuting a cause which not only ls of effort to deliver a message unless the name was registered. benefit to his immediate constituents but also to the vast population On further inquiry I find that neither the Western Union making up the citizenship of the entire Mississippi Valley territory. Co. nor the United States Government is a signatory party to Resolved further, Thaf the Mississippi Valley Association expresses the International Telegraph and Cable Regulations, which regu­ the hope that Congressman NEWTO::>; in his new undertaking in the law lations are cited as the excuse for nondelivery. An inteutional firm of which he is a member will secure the same high degree of deception and fraud is therefore apparent. success he has achieved during his congressional career. I wish further to call attention to the act of 1\Iay 27, 1921, Resolved further, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to entitled "An act relating to the landing and operation of subma­ Congressman NEWTON, the members of the Rivers and Harbors Com­ rine cables in the United States." In section 2 a direct refer­ mittee, and the Congress of the United States. ence is made to service in the operation and use of the cables. PERMISSION TO .ADDRESS THE HOUSE If there had been other serious abuses of the license privilege as in my case an excellent ground could be made for with­ l\Ir.