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H. R. 4305. Ida F. Grant.
H. R. 4307. Ellen R. Stebbins.
H. R. 4308. Cornelia M. Jandro.
H. R. 4310. Elizabeth Connor.
H. R. 4312. Johanna Patterson.
H. R. 4315. Mary E. Tredo.
H. R. 4325. Jean Duckworth.
H. R. 4336. Isabelle Chalfant.
H. R. 4340. Lizzie Rankin.
H. R. 4342. Sarah A. Gee.
H. R. 4344. Martha McCormick.
H. R. 4346. Perry Anne Waldeck.
H. R. 4355. Manda McFarland.
H. R. 4364. Elizabeth A. Mahan.
H. R. 4384. Mary A. Kretschmar.
H. R. 4385. Ellen N. West.
H. R. 4398. Rebecca Mauger.
H. R. 4410. Elizabeth J. Hall.
H. R. 4415. Huldah Marshall.
H. R. 4434. Mary A. Brick.
H. R. 4500. Mary A. Shrider.
H. R. 4501. Maria McKinney.
H. R. 4503. Mary Ann Jones.
H. R. 4513. Mary P. Ripley.
H. R. 4522. Annie Light.
H. R. 4524. Lizzie Cooper.
H. R. 4525. Annie Buckius.
H. R. 4532. Sarah Hurlburt.
H. R. 4543. Margaret Roush..
H. R. 4545. Mary J. Wilson,
H. R. 4580. Mary E. Thomas.
H. R. 4644. Mary E. Neff.

H. R. 4677. Margaret A. Banks.
H. R. 4709. Rebecca J. Green.
H. R. 4713. Levarah A. Jenkins.
H. R. 4721. Jennie P. Alexander.
H. R. 4722. Josephine Kelley.
H. R. 4723. Sarah E. Howard.
H. R. 4726. Minnie R. Goldsberry.
H. R. 4727. Lizzie Bowen.
H. R. 4734. Mary E. Bradeen.
H. R. 4738. Mary F. Robinson.
H. R. 4750. Salena J. Martin.
H. R. 4751. Catharine Grubbs.
H. R. 4753. Harriet Griswold.
H. R. 4754. Laura Haynes.

H. R. 4758.

H. R. 4759.

H. R. 4761.

Eliza Loving.

Sarah E. Niuffer.
Margaret L. Huffman,
II. R. 4768. Johanna Smith.
H. R. 4478. Caroline Clark.
II. R. 4782. Elizabeth Orff.
H. R. 4795. Edwina B. Vaughan.
H. R. 4797. Louise E. Ort.
H. R. 4816. Maria Aherns.
H. R. 4817. Mary Gregg.

H. R. 4828. William A. Alexander.
H. R. 4831. Susan Beaty.

H. R. 4832. Martha E. Smith.

H. R. 4834. Jennie Scholes Archer.
II. R. 4851. Fannie M. Allsheskey.

II. R. 4855. Kate Sloane.

H. R. 4858. Sarah J. Gibson.

H. R. 4861. Mary S. Walter.

H. R. 4873. Matilda M. Long.

H. R. 4874. Emma E. Stevenson.

H. R. 4875. Bethenia A. Johnson.

H. R. 4876. Anna Sparks.

H. R. 4877. Rachel Graham.
H. R. 4878. Mary G. Benn.
H. R. 4881. Eliza J. Haines.
H. R. 4883. Mary Schreel.
H. R. 4884. Nancy E. Meeks.
H. R. 4885. Margaret Boggs.
H. R. 4886. Josie Ranes.

H. R. 4950. Elizabeth Hedrick.
H. R. 4957. Mary J. Murray.

H. R. 4959. Eliza Evans.

H. R. 4998. Jennie Sheets.

H. R. 5009. Jane N. Geer.
H. R. 5020. Sarah A. Sloan.
H. R. 5029. Margaret Powell.
H. R. 5035. Minnie P. Hawley.
H. R. 5041. Sarah A. Cheesman.
H. R. 5049. Joanna Crabtree.
H. R. 5081. Sarah B. Metcalf.
H. R. 5082. Abbie E. Fisher.
H. R. 5086. Clarina Hammons.
H. R. 5089. Emma J. Blackburn.
H. R. 5090. Susan Ziegler.
H. R. 5091. Sarah A. Zeigler.
H. R. 5092. Elizabeth Ann Wilkin-

son.

H. R. 5094. Annie Wagner.
H. R. 5104. Harriett E. Snyder.
H. R. 5105. Henrietta Stine.
H. R. 5152. Susan C. Englebert.
H. R. 5155. Carrie Good.

H. R. 5234. Emma B. Chenoweth.
H. R. 5268. Anna M. Schlaudecker.
H. R. 5271. Ellen Green.

H. R. 5274. Julia Ann Smallwood.
H. R. 5277. Mary J. Beatty.
H. R. 5305. Catherine Patton.
H. R. 5339. Frances A. Tower.
H. R. 5433. Mary E. Sanders.
H. R. 5436. William R. Lewis, alias
William W. Lewis.
H. R. 5437. Mary E. Matheney.
H. R. 5440. Annie E. Fawver.
H. R. 5441. Jane F. Smith.
H. R. 5451. Harriet A. Reed.

H. R. 5906. Ellen L. Russell.
H. R. 5907. Eliza J. Alton.
H. R. 5912. Elizabeth A. Blazer.
H. R. 5921. Lucy C. Ratliff.
H. R. 5937. Harriet Ollom.
H. R. 5938. Catherine Burlingame.
H. R. 5940. Delilah Root.

H. R. 5942. Mary A. Helmenstine.
H. R. 5956. Catherine Sage.
H. R. 6003. Ellen Taylor.
H. R. 6109. Emily A. Kelley.
H. R. 6115. Frances J. Robinson.
H. R. 6132. Emma D. Phelps.
H. R. 6189. Catherine T. Pickett.
H. R. 6198. Esther H. Kendall.
H. R. 6211. Rebecca E. Claflin.
H. R. 6212. Catherine Woessner.
H. R. 6214. Harriett E. Mereness.
H. R. 6223. Henrietta Sinclair.
H. R. 6224. Eva A. Lee.
H. R. 6255. Annie E. Hastings.
H. R. 6265. Sarah B. Yarnell.
H. R. 6290. Manerva J. Merrill.
H. R. 6294. Margaret J. Lawrence.
H. R. 6296. Sarah A. Lane.
H. R. 6297. Caroline Hoagland.
H. R. 6300. Amelia Hartupee.
H. R. 6301. Laura E. Hancock.
H. R. 6304. Mary A. Dewitt.
H. R. 6307. Mary A. Clements.
H. R. 6311. Margaret R. Batch.
H. R. 6312. Martha Barrick.
H. R. 6313. Sarah M. Barrett.
H. R. 6318. Permelia E. Williams.
H. R. 6320. Eliza J. White.
H. R. 6323. Mary E. Swick.
H. R. 6326. Eliza Schoonover.
H. R. 6330. Sarah J. Prame.
H. R. 6331. Mary J. Mahurg.
H. R. 6335. Helena Farmer.
H. R. 6336. Sarah Rutter.
H. R. 6338. Mollie Yocum.
H. R. 6344. Isabella F. Barton.
H. R. 6346. Lydia Lefferts.
H. R. 6401. Mahala Ford.

H. R. 7778. Kit Dougherty, alias
Kit (Christopher)
Dougherty.

H. R. 7785. Melissa Gill.
H. R. 7787. Sarah Rice.
H. R. 7789. Hannah B. Troup.
H. R. 7794. Lydia A. Ingerson.
H. R. 7813. Sarah C. Brown,
H. R. 7817. Rebecca Berry.
H. R. 7830. Nannie F. Flenner.
H. R. 7859. Katharine Lochbaum.
H. R. 7860. Maria E. Hall.
H. R. 7869. Caroline F. Snyder.
H. R. 7874. Hannah J. Wright.
H. R. 7884. Lavina C. Hicks.
H. R. 7885. Addie Hursey.
H. R. 7993. Mary A. Hubbard.
H. R. 8011. Minnie Starmer.
H. R. 8014. Vashti Rogers.
H. R. 8020. Jane C. Bishop.
H. R. 8036. Hannah Bryant.
H. R. 8064. Caroline Hetzel.
H. R. 8102. Amanda Kelley.
H. R. 8163. Sallie Coleman,
H. R. 8210. Annie Evans.
H. R. 8214. Mary W. D. Perkins.
H. R. 8242. Sarah Henderson.
H. R. 8245. Mary J. Irvin.
H. R. 8264. Sarah M. Gross.
H. R. 8266. Virginia E. Gates.
H. R. 8345. Manervia Ann McClain.
H. R. 8347. Josephine L. Pierce.
H. R. 8351. Alice A. Wing.

H. R. 8353. Mary Trower.

H. R. 8459.

H. R. 8460.

II. R. 8461.

H. R. 6449. Rebecca J. Bitner.

H. R. 8466.

H. R. 8467.

H. R. 6452. Mary Clem.
H. R. 6455. Lydia Jones.
H. R. 6456. Ellen Shannon.
H. R. 6458. Sarah Writenour.
H. R. 6537. Mary I. Converse.
H. R. 6541. Martha J. Harris.
H. R. 6542. Carrie C. Stilwell.
H. R. 6571. Emma Short.
H. R. 6617. Cathrine Moore.
H. R. 6629. Mary E. Sheets.
H. R. 6631. Nancy J. Payne.
H. R. 6695. Mary E. Cline.
H. R. 6710. Mary J. Smith.
H. R. 6713. Gertrude Palmer.
H. R. 6746. Nina Hart.

H. R. 6770. Sarah E. Alexander.
H. R. 6779. Sarah Gaston.
H. R. 6791. E. Adelia Dann.
H. R. 6792. Rachel U. Vansice.
H. R. 6794. Julia A. Foltz.
H. R. 6795. Susie C. Bales.
H. R. 6797. Mary E. McCord.
H. R. 6807. Joseph Mielke.
H. R. 6813. Mary E. Hall.
H. R. 6838. Cyrene Younkin.
H. R. 6895. Mariette Hawley.
H. R. 6910. Rebecca Weaks.
H. R. 6920. Martha J. Turpin.
H. R. 6947. Adelbert E. Bigelow,
H. R. 7042. Alice T. Rawlings
H. R. 7049. Celia B. Se Cheverell.
H. R. 7052. Maryett C. Snyder.
H. R. 7057. Lida B. Elkins.
H. R. 7071. Fannie King.
H. R. 7086. Ellen M. Willey.
H. R. 7103. John H. Sarrett.
H. R. 7106. Catherine Burkhart.
H. R. 7132. Sallie E. Masmar,
H. R. 7172. Bell Doll.
H. R. 7260. Sarah J. Lowe.
H. R. 7261. Mary E. Hambright.
H. R. 7262. Louise K. Helle.
H. R. 7275. Flora A. Slenker.
H. R. 7285. Myra A. Murphy.
H. R. 7313. Lydia I. Chrisman.
H. R. 7326. Amanda J. Foster.
H. R. 7379. Anna M. Rowe.
H. R. 7388. Mary E. Carey.
H. R. 7395. Hannah B. Mead.
H. R. 7408. Sarah E. Mitchell.
II. R. 7416. Jennie E. Powell.
H. R. 7426. Bridget M. Brashna.
H. R. 7430. Anna Cox.
H. R. 7435. Evaline Harris.
H. R. 7431. Catherine Leonard.
H. R. 7481. Honora Taylor.
H. R. 7488. Mary J. Jones.
H. R. 7493. Eliza Williams.
H. R. 7509. Sallie H. Murphy.
H. R. 7514. Mary A. Donston.
H. R. 7529. Amanda Pierson.
H. R. 7547. Elizabeth Davis.
H. R. 7699. Margaret S. Butler.
H. R. 7710. Elizabeth Mulford.
H. R. 7766. Mary P. Dudrow.
H. R. 7767. Lucinda A. Fortney.
H. R. 7769. Nancy Baker.

H. R. 9304. Ella C. Baker.
H. R. 9308. Amanda C. Long.
H. R. 9311. Ella E. Clark.
H. R. 9312. Mary Ann Zebley.
H. R. 9314. Millie I. Croco.
H. R. 9375. Margaret A. Walters.
H. R. 9378. Fannie A. Davis.
H. R. 9384. Elizabeth Rose.
H. R. 9407. Ellen R. Phillips.
H. R. 9435. Jane Walker.
H. R. 9438. Rachel Masker.
H. R. 9440. Christina Nauman.
H. R. 9441. Elizabeth Brady.
H. R. 9442. Susie T. Coleman.
H. R. 9443. Martha Bogert.
H. R. 9446. Elizabeth Clark.
H. R. 9454. Susan Rettinger.
H. R. 9458. Lucinda J. Mayes.
H. R. 9459. Isabell Kennedy.
H. R. 9462. Mary E. Collins.
H. R. 9468. Catharine Hall.

H. R. 9518. Julia Van B. Parsons.
H. R. 9534. Mary A. Rogers.
H. R. 9538. Sarah E. Prior.
H. R. 9542. Elizabeth B. Huffman,
H. R. 9627. Amanda S. Fano.
H. R. 9708. Elizabeth Grigory.
II. R. 9726. Anna M. Shoop.
H. R. 9731. Mourning Sisemore.
H. R. 9733. Stella C. Cole.
H. R. 9741. Martha M. Searles.
H. R. 9745. Lydia M. Rice.
H. R. 9746. Mary Armentrout.
H. R. 9788. Louisa A. Parker.
H. R. 9792. Clarinda Mason Smith
H. R. 9794. Rosa Matheney.
H. R. 9797. Susie O'Neal.
H. R. 9798. Amanda J. Gilliland.
H. R. 9799. Manerva Hedges.
H. R. 9805. Catherine Donald.
H. R. 9818. Emma J. Bull.
H. R. 9888. Mary E. Sharp.
H. R. 9894. Maggie Barr.
H. R. 9895. Anceline D. Lazenby.
H. R. 9896. Mary E. Taylor.
H. R. 9900. Martha Murrell.
H. R. 9910. Mary E. Haverfield.
H. R. 9941. Lydia Waggoner.
H. R. 9990. Emily B. Renshaw.
H. R. 9991. Kate Searer.
H. R. 10006. Helen M. Freeman.
H. R. 10012. Anna M. Bircher.
H. R. 10040. Harriet R. Yule.
H. R. 10046. Lovicy A. Lee.
H. R. 10054. Rachel Jane Oyster.
H. R. 10060. Nancy Collett.
H. R. 10096. Henrietta H. Gordon.
H. R. 10105. Elizabeth S. Havens.
H. R. 10110. Julia A. Queen.
H. R. 10113. Margery Trimmer.
H. R. 10184. Lillian V. Mauger.
H. R. 10189. Christena F. Bennett.
H. R. 10201. Anna A. Enos.
H. R. 10209. Hannah Morgan.
H. R. 10214. Martha E. Acton.
H. R. 10233. Sophrona Hotchkiss.
H. R. 10235. Elizabeth Couch.
H. R. 10240. Charlotte Hartsell.
H. R. 10252. Nellie Shout.
H. R. 10259. Mary A. Denning.
H. R. 10260. Mary A. Steck.
H. R. 10278. Mary A. E. Clark.
H. R. 10311. Emma W. Smith.
H. R. 10314. Delia M. Yeager.
H. R. 10320. Julia L. Sparks.
H. R. 10329. Chester R. Stroud.
H. R. 10339. Sereny C. B. Babb.
H. R. 10341. Lucy A. Stubbs.
H. R. 10356. Sarah R. McGinnis.
H. R. 10357. Clara J. Horner.
H. R. 10384. Majoria E. Wilburn.
H. R. 10385. Mary S. Waugh.
H. R. 10394. Melissa A. Delawter.
H. R. 10407. Mary A. Simpson.
At- II. R. 10414. Cynthia Kelley.

H. R. 8356. Catharine A. Campbell.
H. R. 8378. America Hamilton.
H. R. 8409. Christina Hildinger.
H. R. 8410. Jane L. Crysler.
H. R. 8411. Ellen Treadwell.
H. R. 8412. Rose Lapier.
H. R. 8425. Elizabeth Johnson.
H. R. 8432. Nola F. Frank.
H. R. 8434. Sarah E. LeValley.
Jane Cattrell.
Grant Cowen.
Margaret A. Schofield.
Tillie Conrad.
Mary M. Freeston.
H. R. 8478. Mollie Rambo.
H. R. 8489. Lucinda Baker.
H. R. 8493. Louise J. Covel.
H. R. 8496. Clara J. Crozier.
H. R. 8497. Mary F. McCombs.
H. R. 8502. Mary Flanigan.
H. R. 8510. Anna K. Vibert.
H. R. 8570. Esther L. Sweet.
H. R. 8576. Angeline Stanley.
H. R. 8580. Angeline R. Davis.
H. R. 8591. Ellen Lawler.
H. R. 8600. Jennie Stutzman.
H. R. 8622. Sarah D. Brownell.
H. R. 8631. Phoebe J. Hickman,
H. R. 8632. Elizabeth A. Smith.
H. R. 8636. Esther Van Buskirk.
H. R. 8654. Thomas Ward.
H. R. 8660. Addie Decker.
H. R. 8662. Frances A. Hill.
H. R. 8663. Hannah Breen.
H. R. 8668. Elizabeth Roche.
H. R. 8692. Hettie C. Graves.
H. R. 8699. Margaret Gillfillan.
H. R. 8700. Susannah M. Scott.
H. R. 8702. Elizabeth Adams.
H. R. 8708. Mary J. Brown.
H. R. 8754. Betsey Crandall,
H. R. 8763. Addeline Stewart.
H. R. 8773. Sarah B. Platt.
H. R. 8774. Carrie Stepp.
H. R. 8802. Elizabeth Riley.
H. R. 8840. Mary E. Gilbert.
H. R. 8843. Rosanna J. Peters.
H. R. 8850. Pauline Snyder.
H. R. 8853. Sarah E. Phillips.
H. R. 8873. Harrison Ogle.
H. R. 8933. Maxey A. Dow.
HI. R. 8935. Margarette E. G.
kinson.

H. R. 8936. Lavina Prentice.
H. R. 8939. Pricilla Hillegas.
H. R. 8948. Mary Jarrell.
H. R. 8960. Maggie E. Rose.
H. R. 8969. Mary V. Pierce.
H. R. 8971. Anna Hicks.
H. R. 8995. Ollie Painter.
H. R. 8996. Elizabeth Day.
H. R. 8998. Margaret A. Davis.
H. R. 9013. Clara B. Holbrook.
H. R. 9066. Ruth Nelson.
H. R. 9089. Maggie Shaw.
H. R. 9101. Elizabeth Kagan.
H. R. 9109. Sarah E. Harrison.
H. R. 9111. Cahterine Rarick.
H. R. 9120. Elizabeth Hamacher.
H. R. 9164. Sarah Green.
H. R. 9212. Lucinda M. Melson.
H. R. 9223. Polly A. Smith.
H. R. 9235. Cynthia C. Eaton.
H. R. 9243. Dillie Shuman.
H. R. 9245. Mary A. Moore.
H. R. 9261. Alice F. McMullan.
H. R. 9262. Hulda E. Lamott.
H. R. 9265. Clara L. Stanbrook.
H. R. 9274. Falinda Austin.
H. R. 9275. Lida O. Craig.
H. R. 9299. Emma Willits.

H. R. 10455. Carrie Hemingway.
H. R. 10499. Clara A. Cobb.
H. R. 10500. Mary S. Walker.
H. R. 10513. Agnes Folger.
H. R. 10532. Sarah E. Barr.
H. R. 10533. Florence Witt.
H. R. 10538. Alice A. Ferguson.
H. R. 10577. Margaret Mead.
H. R. 10582. Ida K. Lauderback.
H. R. 10600. Sarah Fuchs.
H. R. 10618. Mira P. Brown.
H. R. 10626. Anna E. Allen.
H. R. 10627. Amanda Lightfoot.
H. R. 10633. Anna Liza Manring.
H. R. 10661. Herbert M. Pierce.
H. R. 10662. Emma Smith.
H. R. 10684. Mary C. Conley.
H. R. 10688. Laura E. Bullock.
H. R. 10690. Sarah McGinnis,
H. R. 10727. Ann P. Brown.
H. R. 10748. Jennie E. Forsyth.
H. R. 10749. Harriet E. Granger.
H. R. 10769. Anna Hilbert.
H. R. 10782. Zippora B. Sowards.
H. R. 10794. Rebecca B. McCon-

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H. R. 10827. Susan A. Riffle.
H. R. 10837. Catharine Grace.
H. R. 10845. Harriet I. Inman.
H. R. 10856. Jennie Hollern.
H. R. 10889. Sarah E. Woodall.
II. R. 10896. Susan F. Pierceall.
H. R. 10899. Rebecca L. Huff.
H. R. 10904. Bertha C. Harper,
H. R. 10915. Melvie A. Reed.
H. R. 10922. William I. Jones.
H. R. 10925. Isabelle Teel.
H. R. 10945. Mary A. Ashcraft.
H. R. 10946. Elizabeth Heironimus.
H. R. 10984. Sarah H. Day.
H. R. 10985. Susie E. Brown.
H. R. 10986. Missouri Bunch.
H. R. 10987. Christena Figgemeier.
H. R. 10997. Alice R. Husted.
H. R. 11002. Louesa F. Wagaman.
H. R. 11011. Martha E. Twaddle.
H. R. 11012. Rosanah H. Bradley.
H. R. 11016. Judith F. Whiteford.
H. R. 11029. Katharine Grannis.
H. R. 11051. Nancy King.
H. R. 11052. Rosa M. Able.
H. R. 11062. Ellen E. Whitmer.

II. R. 11972. Fanny G. Pomeroy.
H. R. 12006. Mary Ann Brought.
H. R. 12011. Mary E. Fry.
H. R. 12013. Edith A. Fuller.
H. R. 12025. Halana Schlick.
H. R. 12026. Alice Morgan.
H. R. 12028. Jennie A. Pyle.
H. R. 12052. Carrie I. Crane.
H. R. 12054. Levary E. Powell.
H. R. 12061. Elizabeth Scott.
H. R. 12071. Eleanor I. Jordan.
H. R. 12073. Mary E. Fisher.
H. R. 12078. Elinor A. Taylor.
H. R. 12081. Elizabeth Nall.
H. R. 12089. Lucy M. Ford.
H. R. 12096. Margaret Holcomb.
H. R. 12121. Mary L. Riggs.
H. R. 12122. Naomi S. Brinegar.
H. R. 12123. Martha A. Wykle,
H. R. 12127. Emma C. Pardee.
H. R. 12128. Marion F. Wilber.
H. R. 12129. Fanny A. Frank.
Ellen T. Richey.
John H. Blackburn.
Moses Dashnow, alias

H. R. 12142.

H. R. 12153.

H. R. 12193.

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H. R. 11099. Bell Ward.
H. R. 11118. Mary Constine.
H. R. 11160. Eliza Hagenbach.
H. R. 11218. Maggie Stewart.

H. R. 11219. Amanda J. Marshall.

H. R. 11220. Mary E. Louck.

H. R. 11228. Lucy L. Heritage.
H. R. 11233. Phoebe Pierce.

H. R. 11234. Jane Martin.

Dashman.
Calista Ferris.
William Bailey.

H. R. 12252. Helen L. Huff.

H. R. 12269. Margaret J. Humbert.
H. R. 12281. Mary Mauller.

H. R. 12338.
H. R. 12341.

H. R. 11235. Lovina A. Cunning

H. R. 12344.

ham.

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H. R. 11642. Julia Pleffert.
H. R. 11661. Clara L. Ross.
H. R. 11662. Charles T. Smith.
H. R. 11664. Isabell Critchfield.

H. R. 11675. Ellen Higley.

H. R. 11676. Anna M. Orcutt.
H. R. 11702. Minnie C. Holland.
H. R. 11711. Harriette J. Cochran.
H. R. 11718. Sarah Gallagher.
H. R. 11730. Charlotte C. Bran-
dau.

H. R. 11733. Emma P. Tracy.
H. R. 11740. Tildy J. Hamilton.
II. R. 11742. Gondelia Randall.
H. R. 11743. Ida F. Moore.
H. R. 11744. Plymouth Weeks.
H. R. 11747. Mary L. Goodman.
H. R. 11769. Ella B. Craft.
H. R. 11770. Libbie Jump.
H. R. 11771. Hannah Geibig.
H. R. 11777. Ella D. Wilkinson.
H. R. 11811. Jessie M. Williams.
H. R. 11814. Nannie Lindsey.
H. R. 11816. Malissa E. Tibbetts.
H. R. 11840. Martha B. Johnson.
H. R. 11842. Louisa Roach.
H. R. 11843. Lucinda J. Foltz.
H. R. 11845. Mary L. Kirlin.
H. R. 11856. Margaret

Creamer.

W.

H. R. 11880. Mary T. Fitzgerald.
H. R. 11883. Mary F. Leavitt.
H. R. 11900. Ballard P. Pettry,
alias B. P. Petrey.

H. R. 11901. Ada Lee Ritter.
H. R. 11906. Mary Kitchen.
H. R. 11911. Caroline D. Owens.
H. R. 11912. Ethel V. Sweetser.
H. R. 11927. Melissa Bemis.
H. R. 11937. Mary E. Massey.
H. R. 11939. Emma Bellew.
H. R. 11962. Flora Young.

H. R. 12282. George C. Adcock.
H. R. 12299. James A. Ray.
H. R. 12303. Mary Ellen McGuire.
H. R. 12308. Annie E. James.
H. R. 12314. Frances H. Fowler.
H. R. 12328. Mary M. Wilson.
Ann Crow.
Anna C. Tway.
Minnie Leeper.
Susan Maynard.
Annie L. Thomas.
Gertrude R. Hammill.
Caroline M. Loomer.
Myrta M. Clements..
Mary E. Lowther.
H. R. 12377. Ellenora Stump.
H. R. 12426. Amy D. Lampman.
H. R. 12429. Hanorah Barry.
H. R. 12436. Louisa Debuke.
H. R. 12465. Ida Hazlett.

H. R. 12345.
H. R. 12346.
H. R. 12357.
H. R. 12358.
H. R. 12360.
H. R. 12373.

H. R. 12476. Elizabeth E. Fisher.
H. R. 12477. Nancy Mayes.
H. R. 12488. Nimshi Nuzum.
H. R. 12490. Ada P. Thompson.
H. R. 12503. Mary A. Worden.
H. R. 12505. Julia A. Woodruff.
H. R. 12511. Olive Pitcher.
H. R. 12514. Melissa Bailey.
H. R. 12515. Ernest H. Lewis.
H. R. 12543. Sada N. Willson.
H. R. 12544. Margaret E. Sanders.
H. R. 12545. Martha Metz.

H. R. 12547. Aurora C. B. Kinney.
H. R. 12552. Mary O. Putuam.
H. R. 12562. Lulu Gay.

H. R. 12580. Mercy A. Wilson.
H. R. 12586. Sarah A. Lansing.
H. R. 12588. Amy C. Kolb.
H. R. 12590. Jennie G. Murphy.
H. R. 12591. Nora Catheart.
H. R. 12614. Sarah M. Brady.
H. R. 12635. Delia B. Crafts.
H. R. 12636. Mary Ruckle.
H. R. 12645. Abby Fordyce.
H. R. 12647. Louisa S. Pease.
H. R. 12673. Lorena Bartle.
H. R. 12698. Nancy Ellis.
H. R. 12709. Mary W. Plank.
H. R. 12717. Elzabeth McCuen.
H. R. 12718. Helen M. Barnes.
H. R. 12720. Nora Porter.
H. R. 12729. Susan Lewis.
H. R. 12742. Lana Titus.

H. R. 12752. Martha L. McSurley.
H. R. 12756. Martha J. Lambier.
H. R. 12757. Susan H. Mann.
H. R. 12784. Alice Brookman.
H. R. 12795. Martha J. Simmons.
H. R. 12796. Magnolia A. Simmons.
H. R. 12797. Lilly O. Weaver.
H. R. 12804. Susan Lewis.

II. R. 12833. Frances A. Dodsworth.
H. R. 12842. Jesse M. Mansfield.
H. R. 12843. Matilda J. Price.
H. R. 12846. Sarah A. Elliott.
H. R. 12850. Martha J. Gallop.
H. R. 12858. Sarah E. Campbell.
H. R. 12860. Ellen Ellison.
H. R. 12866. David Marple.
H. R. 12872. Sarah P. Richardson.
H. R. 12873. Mary J. Wood.
H. R. 12880. Susanna Hallman.
H. R. 12923. Sarah J. Draper.
H. R. 12928. Homer Dye.
H. R. 12929. Mary Shotwell.
H. R. 12935. Margaret McCarty.
H. R. 12945. Mariah Detherage.
H. R. 12964. Sarah A. Carlin.
H. R. 12977. Matilda T. Plotts.
H. R. 12978. Caroline Brown.
H. R. 12980. Martha Baggs.
H. R. 12981. Julia Wittich.

H. R. 12994. Ella J. Wilson.
H. R. 13000. Kate C. Kingston.
H. R. 13025. Alma McGuire.
H. R. 13029. Martha E. Waterman.
H. R. 13042. Nancy E. Dietz.
H. R. 13046. Emma M. Paxson.
H. R. 13054. Louisa Ackley.
H. R. 13056. Pearl Massay.
H. R. 13058. Polly McIntosh,
H. R. 13072. Pearl S. Brown.
H. R. 13076. Lydia L. Reid.
H. R. 13077. Eliza A. Praul.
H. R. 13078. Louisa McIntyre.

Mr. W. T. FITZGERALD.
ing amendments:

The Clerk read as follows:

H. R. 13083. Rebecca J. Sawyer.
H. R. 13098. Annie E. Springer.
H. R. 13138. Mary M. Edmonds.
H. R. 13160. Willis Castle.
H. R. 13184. Mary E. Gnau.
H. R. 13193. Joseph Miller.
H. R. 13196. Susan R. Holmes.
H. R. 13219. Mary Ker.
H. R. 13257. Kate Neal.
H. R. 13351. Nancy E. Rose.
H. R. 13358. Kate B. Frederick.
H. R. 13364. James W. Chapman.
H. R. 13438. Catherine D. Jones.
Mr. Speaker, I offer the follow-

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H. R. 1942 (Rept. p. 61). Mae Washburn. The beneficiary in this case is deceased.

Page 60, line 26, after the word "of," strike out the numerals "$50" and insert in lieu thereof the numerals "$30." And on the same line, after the word "month," strike out the words "in lieu of that she is now receiving."

H. R. 3188 (Rept. p. 105). Dianna C. Alters. The claimant in this case is not now receiving a pension, and the committee recommends $30 a month which is the usual rate in this class of claims.

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H. R. 3778 (Rept. p. 128). Eleonora B. Beatty. The beneficiary in this case is deceased.

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H. R. 10782 (Rept. p. 290). Zippora B. Sowards. The beneficiary is now receiving pension at the rate of $50 a month under the act of July 3, 1926, she having been the wife of the late soldier during his service in the Civil War, and the committee recommends her pension be increased to $70 a month, to include $20 a month to the helpless and dependent son, Charles M. Sowards, subject to the usual provisions and limitations of the pension laws.

Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the ~ amendment for the purpose of making an inquiry of the chairman of the committee in charge of the bill. I want to know

for my information and the information of the country what is the rule of the committee with reference to the allowance of $50 a month for widows? I want particularly to direct attention to the inquiry as to the date of marriage. Are there a number of special pensions for widows of the Civil War veterans included in this bill where the marriage has been subsequent to June 27, 1905?

Mr. ELLIOTT. In answer to the gentleman's question I will say that the present law provides that widows who were married to soldiers prior to June 27, 1905, are eligible for pensions under the existing law provided the husband had 90 days' service in the war and was honorably discharged. We have been granting pensions to widows who were married between June 27, 1905, and June 27, 1915, where it was shown that they were in destitute circumstances or where they were very much in need on account of the lack of money or were not in good health.

Mr. HASTINGS. I want to ask if you have allowed pensions to any widows where the marriage took place after June 27, 1915? I thought I noticed in the last report a case or two of that kind.

Mr. ELLIOTT. I do not remember of any case of that kind. Mr. HASTINGS. I am making the inquiry not on account of any opposition to such legislation, but I have to write to my constituents on the policy of the committee, and I therefore make the inquiry so that I may inform them correctly about it. As I understand it, it is the policy where they are shown to be in destitute circumstances to allow some increase where the marriage took place after June 27, 1905, and not later than June 27, 1915.

Mr. ELLIOTT. As I understand it, the gentleman from Oklahoma has one case in this bill-I can not recall the name of it at this time-where the widow was married some time between June 27, 1905, and June 27, 1915.

Mr. HASTINGS. I want to know whether or not a pension in any case so far has been granted where the marriage took place after June 27, 1915.

Mr. ELLIOTT. I do not know of any case of that kind. It is the policy and the rule of the committee that they must be married prior to June 27, 1915, in order to get a pension by special act. The gentleman asked another question in regard to

the increase of the widow's pension, where the widow is now on the rolls at $30 per month. Here is the rule of the committee in regard to that:

(b) No bill proposing to increase the pension of a Civil War widow now receiving the maximum rate provided by existing law will be favorably considered unless it is clearly established by competent testimony that the applicant for such increase is old and helpless and dependent; and where any such widow is the owner of a comfortable home or possessed of a substantial income aside from her pension, no recommendation will be made by the committee to increase such widow's pension over the rate allowed by existing law to the thousands of other widows of veterans who may be less favorably situated.

Mr. HASTINGS. The reason I ask now is that I do not want to be writing erroneously to the people whom I represent in my district. I want to know whether that is a fixed rule of the committee.

Mr. ELLIOTT. I suggest to the gentleman that there are printed rules of the committee which he can procure at the committee rooms, and he can send them out to people who make inquiries, if he desires.

Mr. HASTINGS. And also I want to know whether the rules are adhered to.

Mr. ELLIOTT. They are.

Mr. BANKHEAD. Mr. Speaker, I move to strike out the last word. Just a few days ago I had an inquiry from a widow of a Union veteran, and I made inquiry at the Pension Office to find out if she was eligible for a pension. She married the veteran in 1907. The Pension Office replied that under the law she would not be eligible to a pension. They did not tell me that she might come within the provisions of the rules of the committee and be eligible under a private bill. The gentleman said that if it could be shown that the widow is in destitute circumstances, that the committee would go beyond the law and grant a special pension if the marriage occurred prior to 1915. Is that true?

Mr. ELLIOTT. Yes.

OKLAHOMA-ITS THIRTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY

Mr. HOWARD of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD on the subject of the thirty-ninth anniversary of the first opening of public lands of Oklahoma to white settlement. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? There was no objection.

Mr. HOWARD of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker and Members of the House: Thirty-nine years ago, on the 22d day of April, several thousands of sturdy pioneers engaged in a mad race for homes in a most virgin part of this country that was the first opening to white settlement of public lands, and marked the beginning of what is to-day one of the greatest States of the Union. That race for homes was the start of the construction of the great State of Oklahoma. That fertile country which was inhabited in the morning by the occasional cowboy and coyote, at eventide of that same day boasted of cities of thousands and a population running nigh to the hundred thousand mark. Thereafter there was opened to settlement in succession the Cheyenne and Arapaho country; the Sac and Fox Reservation; the Cherokee Strip; the surplus lands of the Pottawatomies and the rich and fertile Kiowa and Comanche domain. After that for about six years Oklahoma was one of the bright young territories of this Nation. Then in 1907 by act of Congress this great domain, comprising what is now the western part of the State of Oklahoma, was merged with that great country, famous for its fertile valleys and prairies, known then as the Indian Territory, and through that merger there came into the Union the forty-sixth State of the Nation, and there was formed what is to-day probably our richest State in agriculture and mineral products. The name of Oklahoma was selected for this great State and very appropriately so, the word Oklahoma being of Indian origin and meaning "Happy Home of the Red Men."

About the first history we have of this great country was from the pen of Washington Irving, who during his celebrated

Mr. BANKHEAD. In all cases where destitution or poverty tour of the prairies told the outside world of the wonders of is shown?

Mr. ELLIOTT. In all cases where she would have been entitled to a pension under existing law, if she had been married to her soldier prior to June 27, 1915.

Mr. BANKHEAD. What is the character of proof required by the committee on the showing of poverty or destitute circumstances? Does the committee refer that to an inspector?

Mr. ELLIOTT. No; that is proved by affidavit. We have blank affidavits in the committee which the gentleman can procure and send out and get this evidence from the people who know the conditions.

Mr. BANKHEAD. I have very few of these cases. I am not familiar with the law. My inquiry is purely for information. Mr. ELLIOTT. If the gentleman would go to the clerk of the committee, he could have the matter cleared up.

Mr. HASTINGS. What is the status of the bill that was passed by the House and sent to the Senate increasing the pension of widows in all cases to $40 a month?

Mr. ELLIOTT. The Senate passed that bill last night, and as I understand it as the Senate passed it, it gives a pension of $40 per month to all of the widows who are now entitled to a pension under existing law, provided they have arrived at the age of 72 years.

Mr. HASTINGS. And 75 years was the limit in the House bill. That is the only difference between the House bill and the

Senate bill?

Mr. ELLIOTT. I think so.

Mr. HASTINGS. That is a matter of three years.
Mr. ELLIOTT. Yes.

Mr. COCHRAN of Missouri. Can the gentleman tell the House whether the House committee proposes to accept that amendment?

Mr. ELLIOTT. I could not tell the gentleman at this time. Mr. COCHRAN of Missouri. The sentiment is very strong for that.

Mr. ELLIOTT. That is a matter that we have not had a chance to take up. We will take it up in due time.

Mr. TIMBERLAKE. Under the provisions of the bill which the gentleman said the Senate passed last night, will this increase to $40 to widows now receiving $30 be automatic with the department?

Mr. ELLIOTT. I think that they have to prove their age. The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the committee amendments,

The committce amendments were agreed to.

The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed.

On motion of Mr. ELLIOTT, a motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed was laid on the table.

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Oklahoma 96 years ago. But the Oklahoma he knew was a land of varied forests, mountains, and plains, populated with wild Indians and the habitat of roaming herds of buffalo.

A short time before his death, in speaking of the great State of Oklahoma, the Hon. Champ Clark said:

Of the many things I have done in my 26 years of service in the House there are many upon which I look back with pride and pleasure. One of these is that for years I did my best to bestow the boon of statehood upon Oklahoma. Two of the most pleasant weeks of my life were spent in that beautiful land hunting and fishing. I drove over it in a spring wagon and viewed the landscape o'er with ever-increasing delight. Anybody could tell that it would some day be a great agricultural State, but the chances are that in that far-away day even the most imaginative and enthusiastic of boomers never dreamed what a rich and mighty Commonwealth she would become within two decades, with fair prospects of becoming one of the greatest and wealthiest States of the Union. Neither Jules Verne nor any other novelist ever wrote a tale so fetching as the history of Oklahoma. Her population is composed of the very cream of the peoples of the older States-the young, the vigorous, the adventurous, the daring.

The story of Oklahoma by these two great men was the story of it before it had an opportunity to respond to the industry of which I want to direct your attention is the story of its 39 years men and the advance of civilization. The story of Oklahoma to of development.

In 1889 Oklahoma was a virgin wilderness, only a few thousand tons of coal being mined each year at McAlester, in the Choctaw Nation. At the beginning of the present century the mineral production of this region amounted in value to less than $4,000,000 a year. To-day it is over $500,000,000, or an increase of 12,500 per cent. Only two States-Texas with four times our area and twice our history, and Pennsylvania with 200 years of civilization and her vast stores of anthracite coal-exceed Oklahoma to-day in new wealth per year from the two great basic industries-agriculture and mining. Yet our resources have scarcely been tapped.

In 1907, when Oklahoma became a State, Louisiana had been a State for 95 years, Missouri for 86 years, Arkansas for 71 years, Texas for 62 years, Iowa for 61 years, Kansas for 46 years, and Nebraska for 40 years.

To-day Oklahoma leads the Nation in the value of diversified crops; is second in the value of minerals produced each year; is second or third each year in the production of cotton, and produces more broomcorn than all of the other States in the Union combined.

One county in Oklahoma, Ottawa, produces more zinc than the rest of the United States.

Mining coal to-day at the rate of 3,000,000 tons a year, at that rate we have a supply of this fuel which will last for 25.000 years.

For 8 of the last 11 years crude oil produced in Oklahoma was worth more at the well than the output of any other State. In 1926 the State of Oklahoma produced more oil than Russia and Mexico combined. This State is first in the Union in wealth derived from petroleum, and its two allied products, natural gas and casing-head gas. There are more than 100,000 producing oil and gas wells in Oklahoma, located in more than 100 separate fields in 40 of the State's 77 counties.

But we should not permit the State's vast mineral production to overshadow the unexampled progress of the Oklahoma farmer.

In three and one-half decades 197,218 farms, averaging 156 acres, have been opened and are operating to-day. This land is valued at $897,334,827; their farm buildings at $169,422,459; livestock on these farms is worth $102,998,393, and the implements, $58,379,199.

Oklahoma has a growing season of 209 days with a soil and climate adaptable to a variety of crops. Significant is the fact that in 1926 this State produced cotton worth $95,550,000 and wheat worth $87,019,000. What other State ranks as high in the production of these two all-important crops?

Yet, that is but a small part of the story. That same year Oklahoma produced 61,178,000 bushels of corn, 38,304,000 bushels of oats, 6,856,000 bushels of peanuts, and tame and wild hay valued at $13,672,000. Oklahoma alfalfa was shipped as far east as South Carolina, and other dairy feeds, such as grain, sorghums, oats, corn, by-products of wheat and cottonseed meal, were shipped to distant points in Scotland, France, Germany, and Denmark.

Each year Oklahoma's dairy products are valued in excess of $18,000,000.

In 1924 at the International Exposition at Chicago, Oklahoma won more championships on lard hogs than all other exhibitors combined. The highest-price brood sow sold in the United States in 1927 was produced in Oklahoma.

The first year Oklahoma entered into national egg-laying competition it ranked third in the United States in the average production per hen, and in the second year the winning pen in the State contest ranked as the highest-producing pen in the United States for that year. The State has a poultry population of 13,023,482, with commercial poultry plants springing up to build up this new industry.

Oklahoma is known as one of the billion-dollar States, deriving that income from three sources-$500,000,000 from agriculture, $500,000,000 from minerals, and $400,000,000 from manufactured articles.

Oklahoma is over 400 miles long from east to west, extending from the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Its elevation slopes from 4,000 to 400 feet. It has many kinds of soils, and the precipitation varies from 55 inches on the eastern border to 20 inches on the west border. It overlaps the grain and livestock regions of the North and the cotton regions of the South. It is the meeting place and overlapping grounds of all crops, all conditions, all peoples. From each region have come pioneer men and women to seek homes in a new and growing country. This mixing of peoples and interchanging of ideas has resulted in a condition that has been very beneficial. Development has been fast and permanent, and conditions are so favorable and the resources of the State so great that there is no question but that development in the future will continue perhaps even more rapidly than in the past.

As a result of legislation passed by this session of Congress there will be placed upon the markets within the next two or three years hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin, fertile, and productive lands to which I have referred. No doubt thousands of citizens from other parts of the Union, seeking new fields and new homes, will take advantage of the opportunity that will be offered. Let me say to them that from the progressive, patriotic, and industrious citizens of Oklahoma they will receive a royal welcome and will find there a people whom they will be delighted to live among.

No spot in all the world has undergone a similar transformation in the last 39 years. Illustrations of this are plentiful, but one will suffice to indicate many others. It is: Twenty-five years ago Tulsa, which is my home city, was a struggling village of a few hundred inhabitants. Neighboring villages laughed at the city of Tulsa for building a 48-room hotel. To-day that same village has grown into a city of 150,000 people. It is known for its progressiveness throughout the civilized world. It is the oil capital of the world, and in contrast to the 48-room hotel of 25 years ago it to-day possesses

more rooms and finer hostelries than any city of the great Southwest, regardless of size. Twenty-five years ago its country banks boasted of deposits of a few thousand dollars. To-day the deposits in its banks average daily more than $100,000,000. All other lines of commerce and trade have kept pace, while in its schools and churches few, if any, cities of equal or larger population measure up to the high standards in these matters set by the city of Tulsa.

Mr. Speaker, this is only a brief and hurried outline of the story of the settlement, development, and accomplishments of the great State of Oklahoma. It has taken its place as one of the great States of the Union. Her hills and valleys are dotted with schools and churches where the children of these sturdy pioneers, and those who came after them, are being educated, according to the highest standards, and where we worship God according to the dictates of our own beliefs. Her citizens are comprised of the very best blood from the East, from the West, from the North, and from the South, and to those others who decide to make Oklahoma their home they extend a friendly and welcoming hand. They are not jealous of their blessings and prosperity, and those who journey there will find a wide field before them, for their efforts, if they are industrious, ambitious, and honest, will be crowned with success in Oklahoma, the land of happy homes, if they but persevere. THE M'NARY-HAUGEN BILL

Mr. EDWARDS.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks on the subject of farm relief. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? There was no objection.

Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, the McNary-Haugen bill has been sent to a certain veto, and by whom? By those claiming to be the only Simon-pure friends of the farmer. They have insisted upon the objectionable and unconstitutional equalization fee being placed upon cotton, tobacco, hogs, cattle, and other farm products. It has deliberately and knowingly been sent to a certain veto, for the President vetoed it before because of this tax, and everybody knew he would veto it again. I voted for the bill with the fee stricken out. I, of course, could not vote for the tax that it proposes to levy on every bale of cotton, each pound of bright-leaf tobacco, every pork and beef, as well as other agricultural products, with its fixed penalties to be exacted in the United States courts if not paid.

VOTED FOR FARM RELIEF BUT AGAINST TAXES

and if the so-called "friends of the farmer" had been in earnest No one can truthfully say I have not voted for farm relief, they would have joined in and helped pass the bill without the fee, and in this way we would have made available $400,000,000 as a revolving fund that would have benefited the farmer, and it would have carried no tax or fee upon his products. Likewise, it can also be truthfully said that I have voted to protect the southern cotton and tobacco farmers against the greatest nuisance and injustice that has ever been proposed in Congress, and that is the levy and collection of the proposed equalization-fee tax on their products.

WHAT SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC LEADER THINKS

Congressman FINIS J. GARRETT, of Tennessee, the Democratic floor leader in the House, in speaking on this bill on April 30, 1928, said:

I have never been able to bring myself to the belief that the complicated system which it is proposed to found upon the stabilization fund, which fund is to be created by the levy of a tax, called an equalization fee, will prove workable in fact or beneficial to the farmer. Upon the contrary, it has been and is my firm belief that such a system would subject the agricultural interests to an exploitation exceeding anything that we have ever witnessed, and not only that, but I fear it would lead almost if not quite to revolution.

Thus it will be seen that Mr. GARRETT, a southern Democrat, and one of the most sincere, fearless, and able men in public life, predicts that the levy and attempts to collect the proposed tax on each bale of cotton, each pound of tobacco, each pound of meat, and other products would perhaps lead to revolution. The people would not submit to it. Why try to deceive them when we know what would result if it happened to go into effect?

SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRAT AND FARMER AGAINST THE FEE

Congressman STEVENSON, of South Carolina, one of the ablest men in Congress, in discussing this bill on April 30, 1928, in his opening remarks said: The only industry I have, outside of being a politician, is being a farmer.

I happen to be one of the class they are trying to relieve.

In speaking of the application of the fee to keep up the revolving fund, by putting the tax on cotton, tobacco, and other farm products, Mr. STEVENSON said:

You are not going to have the money to do this unless you take it out of the farmer who is selling his cotton upon the market, and what will be the result? There will be the devil to pay by the time you get through with it, I will tell you that right now, because they are not going to stand for it, and I do not blame them.

I have belonged to cooperatives, and, as I have said, I have no stones to throw at them. They had a difficult problem, but I will tell you now you can not force the American farmer, as I know him, into belonging to a cooperative if he does not want to any more than you can force him to belong to the Catholic Church or to the Ku-Klux Klan. [Laughter and applause.]

Mr. STEVENSON, continuing in the same address, with reference to forcing all the farmers into the cooperatives, said:

I tried the cooperatives. My croppers said that we prefer to sell it on the market, and do you know what my colored men did? I am not saying it disrespectfully, but they beat the cooperatives 3 cents a pound for three years in succession in selling cotton, and when the colored people on my farm can do that I said, You go to it, boys; I am not in the cooperatives any more," and I told the cooperatives so. Mr. SCHAFER. The gentleman had better cotton.

Mr. STEVENSON. No; I did not-the cotton went to the gin side by side. The cropper and I got alternate bales. My colored men sold their cotton for 3 cents a pound higher on the average than it brought by putting it into the cooperative.

THE BILL FORCES FARMERS INTO COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS

The bill provides that whatever funds that might flow from the revolving fund, whether it be the fund appropriated by Congress or as built up through the tax on cotton, tobacco, and other farm products, must and shall be through the cooperative associations. In Georgia there are less than 6 per cent of the farmers in the cooperative associations. About 94 per cent of the farmers have not joined. I have nothing to say against the cooperative associations. The general idea of cooperative marketing is good, but for some reason the farmers in Georgia have not seen fit numerously to join the association. While the bill was up under the five-minute rule on May 3, Congressman BRAND of Georgia, a gentleman of long legislative experience and splendid ability, offered an amendment, and I quote from the RECORD, as follows:

The amendment is to that part of the bill which provides for cooperative associations creating corporations to be controlled by them. I add to it this [reading]:

"or corporations created by the laws of any State, members thereof to be composed of bona fide farmers who are not members of any cooperative association or any corporation created by a cooperative association, provided such corporations created by the laws of the State are given no more or other authority than the cooperative associations possess."

In Georgia, for instance, and it is true of almost every cotton-growing State, we have not 30 farmers out of a thousand who belong to a cooperative association. Nine hundred and seventy farmers out of a thousand will not get the benefits of this bill in so far as the loan privileges are concerned unless you adopt an amendment like this or something similar to it, so that they can, under the laws of Georgia, form a corporation and become eligible to receive the full benefits of this bill.

What went with this splendid amendment providing that not a few but all the farmers might get the benefit of whatever relief funds we might appropriate? It was immediately voted down by the Corn and Wheat Belt machine. They are driven by the cooperatives and are determined that the American farmer must join the cooperatives whether he wants to or not. bill would force them in.

NO DEFINITE ALLOCATION FOR COTTON

This

As I stated in my address in the House on May 2, 1928, the revolving fund could all be used for wheat and corn to the exclusion of cotton, tobacco, and other southern crops if the board so decided. To correct this, Congressman W. C. WRIGHT, of Georgia, another experienced and able legislator, offered an amendment to allocate or set aside a part of the fund for the use of cotton producers, which was as follows:

Amendment offered by Mr. WRIGHT: On page 57, line 4, after the figures "$400,000,000," strike out the period, add a colon, and insert the following: “Provided, That at least $200,000,000 of said revolving fund is hereby made available and shall be used as a stabilization fund for financing the purchase, withholding, or the disposal of agricultural products in the event that a marketing period shall be declared for one or more of such products as herein before authorized, and that said fund shall be allocated ratably to the stabilization funds of the

several products according to the values of their respective exportable surpluses."

The CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia.

The question was taken, and the amendment was rejected.

This wise, just, and helpful amendment went "up the creek,” just as Judge BRAND'S amendment went. The Wheat and Corn Belt, from which the South buys flour, meal, and meat, is not keenly interested in doing what will materially help the cotton producers. Those western people want cheap cotton and tobacco, but they want to sell the South their flour, meal, corn, and bacon at as high a price as possible. It is that selfishness that is found in all people, each taking care of his own section and his own products. I cite these two worthy amendments offered by these Georgia statesmen to show the attitude of the Corn and Wheat Belt machine toward the South.

THE TAX IS CERTAIN, UNLIMITED, AND COMPULSORY

If there is any doubt about the tax on cotton, tobacco, and other agricultural crops being unlimited and compulsory, listen to what Leader GARRETT said:

Let it be borne clearly in mind that the proposal of the bill is to clothe a board of 12 men with the power to levy a tax upon every bushel of wheat or corn, upon every bale of cotton, upon every pound of meat-in short, upon some unit of every product of the farm. There is no limit placed upon the board's discretion as to the amount which it may levy, and the fund thus created is to be expended by the very board which levies it.

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This fee is to be compulsory; it is not a matter of free action on the

part of the farmer entering into a contract as he does when he joins a

cooperative marketing association or other farm organization. It is to be levied upon him by a board and collected from him by the agencies of law.

Surely no one will deceive himself into the belief that this fee will not come from the farmer himself. It is immaterial at what point in the handling of the product the tax may be imposed, whether at the time of the first sale or when it is transported or when it is processed, it will be paid by the farmer who grows the product.

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Is it possible that there are any considerable numbers of people in America who believe that the farmers are ready to have their farms and industry placed in the category of a public-service corporation and made subject to governmental regulation and control?

If so, they will be rapidly undeceived once the effort is made. No man has yet denied what Mr. GARRETT, the great Democratic leader, said. There is no wiser man in or out of Congress than Congressman GARRETT. The whole country and men of every party respect his opinions and admire his ability as a statesman of the very highest order. It is the general opinion in Washington he is the ablest man in Congress and he ranks as one of the greatest thinkers in the United States.

IS THE TAX ON COTTON AND TOBACCO UNLIMITED?

While the bill was under consideration I interrupted Congressman LANKFORD, who has shown great interest in trying to bring about farm relief, with two questions which, with his answers, convince me the tax on tobacco and cotton, two of Georgia's leading crops, is unlimited. The questions and answers were as follows:

Mr. EDWARDS. Is the equalization fee on tobacco limited or unlimited in the bill?

Mr. LANKFORD. It is unlimited.

Mr. EDWARDS. The same is the case with cotton?

Mr. LANKFORD. Yes. Some people say that it will not be very high. If it is not going to be high, why not put a limit on it? Tobacco, of all farm products, has borne a greater burden of taxes in the past than any other one farm commodity. Ever since the Civil War there has been a tax on tobacco. It has always been borne by this commodity, and under this bill you seek to put a heavier and more direct tax on tobacco than upon any other one commodity. It is not fair, it is not just. I will not vote for the bill if it stays in. [Applause.]

This was in the presence and hearing of Mr. HAUGEN and others advocating the fee on agricultural crops. No one rose then, or at any other time, to deny what Mr. LANKFORD said, and it is true that these taxes are unlimited and compulsory. Do the people of the South want these taxes levied upon them? I think not.

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