2394 CONGR.ESSIONAL RECORD--SEN.A.TE. ~EBRVA.R. Y 11, Al "" o, memorial of Chamber of Commerce of ZanesYille, Ohio, Church of Newton, N. H., favorin~ national prohibition; to tlJ_(' n :latiYe to railway mail pay; to the Committee on the Post Ofiice Committee on the Judiciary. and Po t llon<ls. By 1\Ir. SNYDER: Petitions of Schenectady (N. Y.) Beard of Also, petition of Enterprise Furniture Co., of Glen Rock, Pa., Trade, favoring deeper harbors on Great Lakes as adjunct for and others, favoring tax: on <lyestuffs; to the Committee on 'Vnys preparedness; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. a n<l l\leu ns. By Mr. TILSON: Petition of Woman's Christian Temperance By l\It·. LOUD: Petition of 14 members of Larkin Grange, No. Union of Wallingford, Conn., favoring national prohibition; to 122:.!, of Michigan, against militia or naval expansion or in­ the Committee on the Judiciary. creased expenditures; to the Committee on 1\1ilitary Affairs. Also, petition of WalJingford Branch of the Congressionnl By 1\Ir. MOORE of Pennsyh-ania: Petitions of Pennsylvania Union for woman suffrage for the passage oi the Suther1ancl­ and Philarlelphia Branches of German-American Alliance, l\fondell amendment; to the Committee on the Judiciary. agninst prohibition in the District of Columbia; to the Com­ By 1\Ir. YOUNG of North Dakota: Petition of J . 1\I. Eberle and mittee on the District of Columbia. 74 others of Kulrn, N. Dak., favoring embargo on arms, etc.; Also, 11etition of Philadelphia Maritime Exchange, relative to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. to suspension of sections 3, 13, and 14 of seamen's bill and creation of Federal shipping board; to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. SENATE. Also, petition. of Methodist Preachers' 1\ieeting of Philadel­ phia, Pa., favoring national prohibition; to the Committee on FRIDAY, Feb1•um·y 11,1916. llieJ~~ar~ · By 1\.It·. NORTH: Petitions of Presbyterian Clmrcll, Edenlnu·g; (Co11tinuation of the legislati,;e day of lVcclnesday, Feb. 9, 1916.) Methodist Episcopal Church, Brookville; Clarion South Church ant112 citizens; 1\lethodist Episcopal Church and 26 citizens of EX.EC"C'TIVE SESSION. SummerYille; 26 citizens of Sligo; 4 of Indiana and Jefferson Tlle Senate reassembled in executive session at 12 o'clock Counties; nnd 35 of Jefferson, all in the State of Pennsylvania, meridian, on the e~-piration of the recess. faYoring national prohibition; to the Committee on the Judiciary. After 2 hours and 55 minutes spent in executive session the B.v Mr. OAKEY : Petition of Plantsville (Conn.) Woman's doors were reopened. Christian Temperance Union, favoring establishment of a Fed­ eral motion-picture commission; to the Committee on Education. WATER-POWER DEVELOP:llENT. Also, petition of Het·mann Roser & Son, of Glastonbury, Conn., The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. WALSH in the chair). The for House bill 702, the dyestuffs bill; to the Committee on Ways Chair la~s before the Senate the unfinished business, which the and l\lenns. Secretary will state. By 1\lr. OVERMY-ER: Petition of Hollinger Cutlery Co., of The SECRETARY. A bill (S. 3331) to amend a1-: act entitlell Ft·emont, Ohio, favoring tax on dyestuffs; to the Committee on "A.n act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable 'Vays and _Jeans. waters," approved June 21, 1906, as amended by the act a:)­ AI ·o. petition of Methodist Episcopal Circle of Fitchville and provell June 23, 1910, and to provide for the improvement and Fil·~t Universalist Sunday School of Norwalk, all in the State of development of waterways for the uses of interstate and foreign Ohio, fayoring censorship of motion pictures; to the Committee commerce. on Ellucation. 1\Ir. Sl\IOOT. I suggest the absence of a quorum. Also, petition of First Universalist Sunday School of Nor­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Secretary will call the roll. walk anll 1\lethodist Episcopal Church of Fitchville, all in the The Secretary called the roll, and f:le following Senators an- State of Ohio, relatiYe to amending pure food and drugs law; to swered to their names: the Committee on Agriculture. Ashm·st Hughes Norris Smith, 1\[d. Also, petitions of Fitchville Union Sunday Scllool and 1\letho­ Bankhead Husting O'Gorman Smith, S. C. Beckham James Oliver Smoot dist Episcopal Circle of Fitchville; 24 citizens of Fremont; 2G Borah .Tohnson,l\Ie. Page Sterling of Perubenille; citizens of Tiffin ; 1\iethodist Episcopal Sunday Brandegee Johnson, S.Dak. Phelan Stone School of 1\ew London; United Brethren Clmrch of Fremont; Broussard .Tones Pittman Sutherland Bryan Kenyon Poindexter Swanson First Presbyterian Sunday School of Fremont, all in the State Chamberlain Lane Pomerene Thomas of Ohio, faYoring national prohibition; to the Committee on the Clapp Lea, Tenn. ·Ransdell Vardaman Clark, Wyo. Lodge Robinson Wausworth JmUciary. Clarke, Ark. McCumber Saulsbury Walsh Al.'o, 11etition of the First Universalist Sunday School of Nor­ Colt McLean Shafroth Warren walk, Ohio, favoring prohibition in the District of Columbia; Curtis Martin, Ya. Sheppard Williams Fletcher Martine, N.J. Shields Works to the Committee on Ute District of Columbia. Gallinger . Nelson Smith, Ariz. By 1\Ir. .POWERS: Memorial of John G. Eve Post, No. ~21, Gronna Newlands. Smith, Ga. Grand Army of the Republic, asking that the peace of our coun­ lUr. Sl\IOOT. I desire to announce the unavoidable absence try be snfeguarded by having the strongest and best Navy in the of the junior Senator from Michigan [Mr. TowNSEND]. "·orld; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. The VICE PRESIDENT. Sixty-two Senators have answered Al ·o, memorial of directors of New Orleans Association of to the roll call. There is a quorum present. Commerce, a king that the question of railway mail pay be r eferred to the Interstate Commerce Commission for settle­ PROHIBITION I?'i THE DISTRICT. OF COLU~IBll (S. DOC. NO. 318). ment ; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. The VICE PB.ESIDENT laid before the Senate a communica­ By 1\lr. SNELL: P~tition of Rev. E. J. Goodell, Homer M. tion from the Secretary of the Treasury, calling attention to Labare, Maud Gilmore, Gertrude Hobbs, 1\Irs. Cecil Cashman, the fact that Senate bill No. 1082, to prevent the manufacture Kate Lillie, Augusta Cashman, Henry Cashman, Alfred Floyd, and sale of alcoholic liquors in the District of Columbia, an<l · J,ynn Hoff, Harry DeLong, -.Uthur Goodell, Cornelia McPherson, for other purposes contains no provision permitting the execu­ 1\Irs. Essie Hutchins, Mrs. Maria Welch. Mrs. E. E. Hoobs, l\Irs. tive departments ~f the Government to receive, store in the Florence Vorce, 1\Irs. Arthur Goodell, Mrs. Ed Cubit, :Mr. Ed District of Columbia, or issue grain alcohol for medicinal pur­ Cubit, W. W. McKinney, 1\Ir. Gilda Arnold, Mrs. Euna Smald, poses to Government stations ou~side the Distl:ict .of Columbin, F. L. Curry, Mrs. Grace Curry, Eld"~orth Curry, 1\irs. S. Curry, which was referred to the Committee on the D1stnct of Colum­ W. H. Coolidge, Mrs. ,V. H. Coolidge, L. L. 1\lcKinney, Mrs. W. W. bia and ordered to be printed. McKinney, l\Ii~s Sylvia McPherson, Miss Hazel Hindes, :Miss I,ottie Bond, E. E. Hobbs, Julia Dengate, 1\Ia.ggie 1\lcBreson, DISPOSITION OF USELESS PM>ERS. 1\Irs. Sarah Stafford, Mrs. R. ·s. Stafford, Carrie Goodell, Alonzo The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Sennte N. Hall, 1\lrs. Cora 1\l. McKinney, Charles Goodell, Mrs. E J . a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, transmit· Goodell, and Ruth Goodell, all of Ellenburg Center, N. Y., ting pursuant to law, lists of papers, documents, anll so forth, f:woring national prohibition; to the Committee on the Judi­ on llie files of the Navy Depa-rtment which are not neede<l in cim·y. the h·ansaction of the pub~ic business and have no permnnc11t By !Hr. STI::t\'ESS: Papers to accompany House bill 11239, value or historical interest. The communication and n<:com­ gr antin~ an increase of pension to Amelia S. Smith; to the panying papers will be referred to the Joint Select Committee Committee on Invalid Pensions. on the Disposition of Useless Papers in the E:x:ecuti \e Dep!lrt· B.r 1\II'. SlLLOWAY: Petition of Central Labor Union of ments, and the Chair appoints the Senator from YVa shiu~ton rm·tsmoutll. N. H., against national prohibition; to the Com- [1\lr. JoKES] and the Senator from New Jersey [l\11·. 1\Lu:TI~E] mittee on the Judiciary. members of the committee on the part of the Senate. 'l'he Also. petition: of First 1\lethodist Episcopal Church of Laconia Secretary will notify the Hou~e of Rcpresentuti...-es of the np· a nd En lenYor ...,ociety and Sunday school of First Christian pointment thereof. 1916. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. He also presented a petition of Camp No. 52, United Spanish A m~ssage from the House of Representatives, by J. 0. South, War Veterans; of Norristown, Pa., praying for the enactment of its Chief Clerk, an~ounced that the Jiouse had passed the follow­ legislation to pension widows and orphans of veterans of the ing bill and joint resolution, in which it requested the concur­ Spanish-American War, which was referred to the Committee on rence of the Senate : Pensions. H. R. 4701. An act to establish in the War Department and in He also presented a petition of Council No. 190, Sons and the Navy Department, respectively, a roll, designated as "the Daughters of Liberty, of For.ty Fort, Pa., praying for the enact; Army and Navy medal of honor roll," and for other purposes; ment of legislation to further restrict immigration, which was and referred to the Committee on Immigration.