S. 3456. An act allowing the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel, Medical Corps, United States Army, to the medical officer assigned to duty as personal physician to the President; S. 3556. An act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production,

and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects, and for other purposes;

S. 3565. An act to provide compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes;

S. 3699. An act for the relief of the land-grant railroad operated between the station formerly known as East Portland, in the State of Oregon, and Roseville, in the State of California;

S. 4034. An act authorizing the Calhoun Bridge Co., an Illinois corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Illinois River at or near Grafton, Ill.;

S. 4045. An act granting the consent of Congress to the Highway Department of the State of Tennessee to construct a bridge across the French Broad River on the Newport-Asheville (N. C.) road near the town of Del Rio in Cocke County, Tenn.; S. 4059. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near the mouth of Clarks River;

S. 4060. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Canton, Ky.;

S. 4061. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Smithland, Ky.;

S. 4062. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Egners Ferry, Ky.; S. 4253. An act authorizing H. L. McKee, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Lake Sabine at or near Port Arthur, Tex.; S. 4254. An act authorizing the State of Texas and the State of Louisiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway | bridge across the Sabine River at or near Pendleton's Ferry; S. 4288. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the South Fork of the Cumberland River at or near Burnside, Pulaski County, Ky.;

S. 4289. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Neelys Ferry, in Cumberland County, Ky.;

S. 4290. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Burkesville, Cumberland County, Ky.;

S. 4291. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Arat, Cumberland County, Ky.;

S. 4292. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Center Point, in Monroe County, Ky.;

S. 4293. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near Creelsboro, in Russell County, Ky.;

S. 4294. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the North Fork of the Cumberland River at Burnside, Pulaski County, Ky.;

S. 4295. An act authorizing the State Highway Commission, Commonwealth of Kentucky, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River at or near the mouth of Indian Creek in Russell County, Ky.;

S. J. Res. 119. Joint resolution granting an easement to the city of Duluth, Minn.;

S. J. Res. 125. Joint resolution authorizing the President of the United States to accept a monumental urn to be presented by the Republic of Cuba, and providing for its erection on an

appropriate site on the public grounds in the city of Washington, D. C.; and

S. J. Res. 129. Joint resolution to provide for eradication of pink bollworm and authorizing an appropriation therefor.

BILLS PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT

Mr. CAMPBELL, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reUnited States, for his approval, bills of the House of the followported that this day they presented to the President of the ing titles:

H. R. 126. An act to add certain lands to the Missoula National Forest, Mont.; and

H. R. 8105. An act to provide for the membership of the Board of Visitors, United States Military Academy, and for other

purposes.

LEAVE TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE

Mr. CRAMTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that on Saturday, after the reading of the Journal and the disposal of business on the Speaker's desk, I may be permitted to speak for 50 minutes on the Yosemite National Park and the HetchHetchy grant to the city of San Francisco.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Michigan asks unanimous consent that on Saturday, after the reading of the Journal and the disposal of the business on the Speaker's table, he may have the privilege of addressing the House for 50 minutes. Is there objection?

Mr. SNELL. Reserving the right to object, we have impor tant matters coming up in the latter part of this week.

Mr. CRAMTON. I have consulted with the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. TILSON]. That seems likely to be the best place for me to take this time. I feel sure I could get the time on the deficiency bill, but it might be that it would be a drag on that bill and would not be desirable.

Mr. TILSON. It is very important to finish the deficiency bill on Friday if possible. I should hate very much to take 50 minutes out of the time on Friday, for it might be just enough to prevent the completion of the bill. If, however, we have to run over into Saturday in any case, then there will be ample time, and it will not matter whether the gentleman takes his 50 minutes before or after the bill is finished. Since this arrangement will interfere least of all, I am for it on Saturday. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? There was no objection.

POST OFFICE NIGHT DIFFERENTIAL BILL

Mr. MEAD. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD on the night differential bill. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gen tleman from New York?

There was no objection.

Mr. MEAD. Mr. Speaker, of all of the activities of the Government, the one that touches most intimately every business, every industry, yes, even every citizen of the United States, is the Postal Service. It reaches out and binds 120,000,000 people. spread throughout the vast domain of the United States and its possessions, into a Nation. The welfare and progress of our industrial, commercial, and social life are dependent upon its efficiency.

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It is no idle boast but an indisputable fact that it is the best and most efficient service anywhere on earth, and at the time the American Postal Service is conducted at the lowest unit cost of any postal service in the world. This is so because of the high grade of intelligence, the conscientious and the intense loyalty among the men and women who up the postal personnel.

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Every day over 70,000,000 pieces of mail-letters, parcels, and newspapers are deposited in the post offices of the United States. The slogan of the Postal Service is, "Keep the moving," and from the time a piece of mail is deposited until it is delivered, it is the aim and the practice of this great ar y to keep it steadily on the move so that it will reach its destination within the shortest possible time.

Because over 75 per cent of the mail is deposited after 4 o'clock in the afternoon it is necessary for a great many of the post-office clerks to work far into the night in order that it may be properly routed and dispatched on the first train, boat, or airplane that will hasten it toward its destination.

These men are the trained distributors that must learn intri cate schemes of distribution involving a mass of train schedules, types of service, and connecting or junction points. Each dis tributor must know instantly the proper dispatch for each of from 3,000 to 10,000 post offices. He must also enter in his scheme the daily changes and familiarize himself with them. He is examined at least once yearly upon his knowledge of these schemes and upon his proficiency in them depends his chances

Our modern business world demands a 24-hour postal service. There must, therefore, always be night work in the post offices. It should, however, be reduced to the absolute minimum. When that is done, those men who are still required to work unnatural hours should receive consideration in the form of a shorter working tour or increased wages or both.

Private industry recognizes the hardship of night work and almost invariably grants shorter hours or increased pay or both for such work. During the war, the War Labor Board, a Government agency, invariably granted a differential in favor of the night worker. In the Government Printing Office and in the navy yards and arsenals, night workers received a higher compensation. In the Postal Service itself, as early as 1810, an extra allowance was made to postmasters in offices where there was distribution at night.

Regarding the reduction of night work, the representatives of the Post Office Department have assured the committee that everything possible is being done to reduce it to the minimum. Mr. Leo E. George, president of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, an organization embracing over 40,000 clerks in first and second class post offices, at the hearings on this subject before the Post Office Committee in the Sixty-ninth Congress, said in part:

It is generally recognized that night work is undesirable from every standpoint; that it deprives the worker of his normal mode of living, ostracizes him, so to speak, from his friends and family, and prohibits his taking his rightful part in the social and civic activities of his community; that it is more tiring than daywork and detrimental to the worker's health; that it is less efficient than day work.

We realize that the Postal Service is a 24-hour service, and that therefore there will always be some night work in the Postal Service. We believe, however, that the amount of night work can be materially reduced.

During 1920 the National Federation of Post Office Clerks instituted a nation-wide campaign in behalf of early mailing. Thousands of cir culars were distributed among the large mailers of the country urging the sending to post offices of large mailings during the early hours of the day rather than at the close of the business day, as is the usual custom.

The Post Office Department under Postmaster General Hays took up the early-mailing campaign, with some slight temporary success. It was found, however, that such a campaign to be effective must be continued incessantly. Some postmasters have undertaken such a continuous campaign and solicit regularly the cooperation of the mailing public through the medium of circular letters or bulletins or personal calls. Business houses in general, however, continue to send their mail to the post offices at their own convenience, usually at the close of the business day.

The present First Assistant Postmaster General, Mr. Bartlett, has shown a friendly interest in this problem, and under his administration there has been some curtailment of night work. Yet, according to the testimony of the superintendent of Post Office Service, Mr. Spilman, before the Committee on Appropriations, over 60 per cent of post-office work is still performed at night.

During the consideration of the postal salary bill in the Sixty-eighth Congress, Postmaster General New recommended a differential in pay for night workers. In his report for the fiscal year 1925, he made the same recommendation.

Mr. Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treasurer of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, in his report to the convention of that organization held at Kansas City, Mo., September 7-11, 1925, is quoted as follows:

The department at this time is committed to a pay differential for night workers. The views of the department are made known in the following letter from the Postmaster General, in reply to my request that the department recommend a time differential:

OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, Washington, D. C., April 7, 1924. Mr. THOMAS F. FLAHERTY, Secretary-Treasurer, National Federation of Post Office Clerks, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. FLAHERTY: I have your letter of April 3, 1924, asking that the department recommend to Congress the inclusion in any salary reclassification bill which may be considered, a provision for a time differential in favor of employees assigned to night work. This matter has been the subject of discussion and consideration in the department for some time.

While it is recognized that some distinction should be made in favor of the employee whose hours of duty are at night, the question of which of two methods of accomplishing this is the better, considering the interests of the employee and the service, is difficult of satisfactory conclusion in the absence of any experience. It is understood that the two

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other, increased rate of pay for the usual period of service-are in use in the industrial world. There appear to be advantages in favor of both plans, but after careful consideration of the matter, I have included in the draft of a bill submitted for consideration of the committees of Congress, a proviso for extra pay for work between 6 o'clock p. m. and 6 o'clock a. m., as follows: Eight cents per hour to employees whose salaries are $2,100 and $2,200 per annum; 7 cents per hour to those whose salaries are $1,900 and $2,000; 6 cents to those whose salaries are $1,700 and $1,800; and 5 cents to employees whose salaries are $1,600 or less. These rates are approximately 10 per cent of pay per hour. Very truly yours,

HARRY S. NEW, Postmaster General.

The delegates should consider carefully the preference of the department for a pay differential. It must be conceded that the placing of a punitive rate on night work will reduce its volume because the department, desirous of lowering operating costs, will eliminate much unnecessary night work. But the placing of a time differential will have the same effect. For the department will prefer to employ its clerks for 60 minutes an hour rather than 45 minutes an hour whenever possible, and to do SO the unnecessary night work will be eliminated.

Therefore, so far as the volume of night work is concerned, both plans will tend to reduce it to the bare necessities and thereby release many employees from night work. They are on a parity in this respect.

But the time differential has the further advantage of reducing the work requirements for those who must perform the necessary night duties and we will always have a certain amount of night work by the very nature of the postal industry. A time differential, by reducing the number of hours of work to be performed by those who must toil at night, will to that extent conserve the health and lives of the postal workers and is therefore to be preferred to the other proposed remedy.

I have quoted these statements to enlighten the membership of the House as to the attitude of the department as well as the men involved in this legislation.

While a time differential is preferred by the employees affected, and I believe would be a better form of relief as well as less costly to the department, the House has approved H. R. 5681, providing for a wage differential, and there should be no delay in granting to these faithful, overworked employees this small rocognition for the hardships of night work.

HAVE WE KEPT THE FAITH?

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend in the RECORD my remarks on matters of legislation generally.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Oklahoma?

There was no objection.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker and colleagues of the House, the record of the first session of the Seventieth Congress will soon be history, and while the achievements and failures of this session are due largely to the administration leaders, yet we can not escape the fact that the record of this House as a whole is only a combination of the records of 435 individual members.

Our forefathers very wisely decreed that a journal of all the votes and proceedings of Congress should be kept and published from time to time. Later this report of the official acts of Congress was increased to publish every word uttered on the House floor and in committee of the whole by each member, so that all might know the exact truth concerning the official record of each Representative. Thus we have the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, which official report is no small incentive for Members to keep the faith with the people who elect us as their Representatives at the National Capital. The people are entitled to know the absolute truth about the record of their Representatives here in Washington, and every voter should take advantage of every possible opportunity to learn the facts about the records of those who represent them.

This being my first term in the Congress, and knowing that a new Member is not expected to be heard too much on this floor, I have not presumed to address the House very often nor at great length. On the other hand, I have not failed to speak my sentiments on several important matters of legislation pending before the Congress. On January 6, I felt called upon to address this honorable body in demanding a thorough investigation of the sinking of the submarine S-4, where 41 brave men lost their lives. I also demanded safety devices and every possible precaution be made to prevent future naval tragedies.

The late Lieut. Commander Roy K. Jones of the S-4 was reared in Kingfisher County, Okla., the son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Jones, of Hennessey. And, Mr. Speaker, one of the saddest failures to be recorded against this session of Congress is the fact that no complete and impartial investigation of the tragedy of the S-4 has been made.

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A few weeks later I spoke again during the debate on the floor in opposition to a bill proposing to pension reserve-bank officials, some of whom receive $25,000 to $50,000 per year. that time I declared it inconsistent to talk economy at home and support such measures in Congress.

During consideration of a general bill to amend the World War adjusted compensation act, proposing to eliminate a lot of red tape in the present law and in which was included my bill to extend the time for war veterans and their dependents to file their claims for adjusted compensation, I again took the floor briefly in favor of our disabled soldiers, their wives, widows, and dependent children.

I have supported the American Legion's legislative program, including the Tyson-Fitzgerald bill for the retirement of disabled emergency officers on a parity with Regular Army officers. I made a few remarks favoring this bill.

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For several years I have advocated the passage of the universal draft law, proposing to draft money, materials, and industries, as well as man power in case of future wars. interest in the passage of such a measure did not die after my election to Congress, but I have done everything in my power for this bill. Hundreds have written me indorsing my speech in Congress favoring the conscription of every available resource in case of armed conflict. It is my purpose to carry on this fight for the universal draft law until it is ultimately written into the law of our land. What if such a law should dry up the springs of ill-gotten gains of American millionaire munition makers? It will turn those same streams of industry from death-dealing to life-giving channels.

When the McNary-Haugen farm-relief measure was before this body for consideration, I had the honor of closing the debate for friends of the bill. I urged you gentlemen to support this farm legislation, believing it to be a great step in the right direction. I did not hold up the McNary-Haugen bill as a panacea for all existing evils and inequality of the present deplorable conditions of agriculture, but gave the measure my full support and urged its passage, hoping that it would aid materially in relieving the dire distress of our farmers. To have turned my back on the only farm bill which had the slightest chance of passage would not have been, in my opinion, keeping faith with the farmers of Oklahoma, who have reposed in me their confidence and support for the past several years.

My last remarks delivered on the floor of this House were made concerning unjust freight rates and the Fordney-McCumber high tariff, both of which have robbed the farmer and business man, especially of the South and West, of millions of

dollars.

During the Seventieth Congress I have not introduced a great number of bills, but practically all those I offered have received every consideration at your hands.

Among my bills which this House has been kind enough to pass was one authorizing an appropriation of $40,000 for a much-needed dormitory at Riverside Indian School in Caddo County. This school had not been given a new building for more than 40 years. I also have bills pending to enlarge the Kiowa Indian Hospital and Fort Sill Indian School, in Comanche County, and the Concho Indian School, at Concho, Okla. Another measure of vital importance to the taxpayers of Oklahoma is my House Joint Resolution 267, which, if passed, would compel the Government to pay the actual cost of educating restricted Indian children in the public schools of our State. At the present time there are more than 57,000 Government wards in the public schools of Oklahoma and the Federal Government is not now, nor has it ever been, paying but a small part of the actual cost of the education of these Indian children. hereby give notice, Mr. Speaker, that I shall continue to press this resolution until the Government gives our people of Oklahoma a square deal.

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No more just bill passed the Seventieth Congress than my measure, H. R. 4084, known in Congress for the past several years as the Lawton fire bill. It appropriates $75,000 to citizens of Lawton, Okla., who were made homeless through no fault of their own at a time when the Government was using all of Lawton's water supply. Representatives of the Government, who were negligent, were absolutely responsible for the loss of this property.

This House has been kind enough to pass other small measures for my district, and others are still pending in Congress. For all the kind consideration I have received at the hands of this House I am deeply grateful.

In checking the compensation claims for the disabled former service men and their wives, widows, and orphans I find I have been able to secure payments to them from the Government since March 4, 1927, to date, totaling the sum of $48.135.85, and have many other meritorious claims pending. I have succeeded in collecting many other claims for those in distress, including 14 pension claims for aged, dependent, and needy citizens. Some of those collected have been pending several years. When I assumed my duties as Congressman from the sixth district of Oklahoma I learned that the Indian Bureau at Washington had been making plans for several months to combine the Indian agencies at Concho, Cantonment, and Colony, and it had been practically decided that the combined agency would be located in another district. Immediately I got busy, and with the cooperation of the live, progressive citizens of Canadian, Blaine, and Kingfisher Counties, who sent in hundreds of protests to the Interior Department against the proposed plan, the combined agency has been definitely located at Concho, in Canadian County, where it is going to remain.

I supported the tax reduction bill, as forced through the House by a majority of the Democrats and Progressive Republicans, to relieve the small business man of unjust burdens of Federal taxation. Included in this bill is the elimination of the Federal automobile tax, which touches not only our business men, but every automobile owner in America. After Secretary Mellon let it become known that the tax bill, as passed by the House, was unsatisfactory to the industrial East in general, and Wall Street in particular, the United States Senate revised the bill considerably and now it no doubt is more acceptable to the whims of one of the world's wealthiest men.

I have openly opposed the administration's war in Nicaragua, believing it is a war carried on at the behest of Wall Street. I maintain that the lives of the American boys lost in Nicaragua are worth infinitely more than all the money the American millionaires have invested in Nicaraguan properties. Many of my friends differ with me concerning this and other matters, but I feel that the people I am trying to represent are entitled to know my position on this and every other public question. Mr. Speaker, I have consistently opposed the widespread agitation, backed by foreign propaganda, to relieve the foreign governments of their just debts to America. European governments have already been relieved of entirely too much of these debts.

In August, 1927, I was accorded the honor of attending, as a delegate from the United States, the twenty-fourth annual conference of the Interparliamentary Union, held in Paris, France, where I met representatives of 41 nations of the Old World. I was profoundly impressed with the thought that our debtor nations of the Old World are more interested in being relieved of their just debts to America than in maintaining the peace of the world. While I was in Rome a few weeks later a high official of the Italian Government intimated very strongly to me that unless America canceled all of the balance the Italian Gov. ernment owes us, that country, as well as others, may repudiate her war debts. I stated on that occasion, and do not hesitate to repeat to-day, that if Italy, or any other country, attempts to repudiate her debt, she will ruin her credit, and it takes both money and credit to wage a war.

Only recently the President of France was reported as being very much displeased with the French war-debt settlement and we are told that Congress will soon be called upon, not only by France and Italy, but by all the foreign governments indebted to us, for a more favorable debt settlement to them. Now, we have given Italy 74 per cent of her debt, which she justly owes, and have canceled 51 per cent of that which France borrowed from us at a time when she could not borrow a collar elsewhere. Still neither government is satisfied and the Ameri can is held up and ridiculed in Europe as being a gouger and a Shylock. For my part. Mr. Speaker, I will insist, so as I am a Member of Congress, that the crowned heads of Europe be given to understand that they will be expected to pay every dollar they owe the American people.

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Again, Mr. Speaker, I have vigorously opposed the stager. ing demands of the Navy Department for the largest peace. time building program in the history of the world. In my first utterance on the floor of the House, in connection with the terrible S-4 disaster, I said in part:

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I have no quarrel with the Navy, nor am I a so-called pacifist. ! want not only a reasonably strong Navy, but an efficient one. it is an open secret that we have neither. Yet Congress has extremely liberal in the way of appropriations for support of the Navy. The other day we appropriated more than $13,000,000, without a roll call, to raise a few guns and repair a couple of old, slow, delapidated warships which would be practically useless in case of war, No because the Navy Department insisted on spending the money.

doubt these old, out-of-date, cumbersome ships will be taken out and sunk within a few years.

As a Member of Congress I have supported those measures which I have felt were for the best interest of all the people, regardless of the politics or creed of those who happened to be sponsoring the respective bills. In addition to the important measures already mentioned, I supported both the flood-control measure and the Muscle Shoals bill, believing them to be meritorious measures. Among the other important bills I have advocated and which appears doomed to defeat is a resolution introduced by Senator CARAWAY, of Arkansas, known as the antilobbying bill.

I am thoroughly convinced, Mr. Speaker, that the greatest menace to democratic government to-day is the professional lobbyist. So long as I am in public life I shall continue to oppose these carbuncles on society, these grafters who swarm about the Capitol, many of whom have the privilege of this floor, and employ every conceivable method of influencing their pet legislation for the special interests.

As we come to the close of the first session of the Seventieth Congress I find I have not succeeded in all the matters I had hoped to accomplish. It seems that I have only skimmed the surface, but have the satisfaction of knowing I have stayed on the job every day and have done my very best to honestly represent all the people of the sixth congressional district. More and more have I been brought to realize that a new man in Congress is greatly handicapped. And yet, I have found my many years of legislative experience in the State Senate of Oklahoma of incalculable value to me as a Member of the United States Congress, the greatest legislative body in the world.

In addition to this résumé of my record during my first term in Congress, permit me to say in conclusion that I have been impressed with the thought that in order to be a reasonably efficient Congressman it is essential for one to be a willing "errand boy." I am enjoying my work of doing errands for the good people of the sixth district and the many fine letters of appreciation from my friends at home, especially from those to whom I have been able to bring sunshine to their homes, are full compensation and reward. I would rather have it truly said of me that I had been instrumental in bringing sunshine and happiness into several homes where gloom and despair abounded, than to be known as the ablest Member of Congress or have all the wealth of the world, and yet know in my heart I had not kept the faith toward my fellow man.

ADJOURNMENT

Mr. TILSON. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn.

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 38 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to-morrow, Wednesday, May 16, 1928, at 12 o'clock noon.

COMMITTEE HEARINGS

Mr. TILSON submitted the following tentative list of committee hearings scheduled for Wednesday, May 16, 1928, as reported to the floor leader by clerks of the several committees:

COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY

(10.30 a. m.)

To amend the act approved December 23, 1913, known as the Federal reserve act; to define certain policies toward which the powers of the Federal reserve system shall be directed; to further promote the maintenance of a stable gold standard; to promote the stability of commerce, industry, agriculture, and employment; to assist in realizing a more stable purchasing power of the dollar (H. R. 11806).

COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS

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To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works (H. R. 13319).

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

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To provide for the use of net weights in interstate and foreign commerce transactions in cotton, to provide for the standardization of bale covering for cotton (H. R. 10303).

COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS (10.30 a. m.)

To provide for the popular election of the Governor of Porto Rico (H. R. 12173).

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
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To designate a building site for the National Conservatory of Music of America (H. R. 12290).

Authorizing conveyance to the city of Hartford, Conn., of title in site and building of the present Federal building in that city (S. 4035).

To provide a building for the Supreme Court of the United States (H. R. 13665).

COMMITTEE ON THE POST OFFICE AND POST ROADS

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To provide steel cars in the Railway Mail Service.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND

RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 2 of Rule XIII,

Mr. SNELL: Committee on Rules. H. Res. 207. A resolution providing for the consideration of H. R. 11725, a bill for the apportionment of Representatives in Congress; without amendment (Rept. No. 1665). Referred to the House Calendar. Mr. SNELL: Committee on Rules. H. Res. 208. A resolution providing for the consideration of H. R. 5773, a bill to provide for the construction of works for the protection and development of the lower Colorado River Basin, for the approval of the Colorado River compact, and for other purposes; without amendment (Rept. No. 1666). Referred to the House Calendar. Mr. REED of New York: Committee on Education. S. 1731. An act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories; without amendment (Rept. No. 1667). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. An

Mr. BRITTEN: Committee on Naval Affairs. S. 2802. act to provide for the appointment of midshipmen at large by the Vice President of the United States; without amendment (Rept. No. 1668). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

merce.

Mr. PARKS: Committee on Interstate and Foreign ComH. R. 11481. A bill to make certain portions of Bayou Bartholomew in Arkansas nonnavigable; with amendment (Rept. No. 1669). Referred to the House Calendar. Mr. CORNING: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 12895. A bill granting the consent of Congress to the New York Development Association (Inc.), its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the St. Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay, N. Y.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1670). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. HUDDLESTON: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13177. A bill granting the consent of Congress to the boards of county commissioners of the counties of Escambia and Santa Rosa, in the State of Florida, their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate, or to cause to be constructed, maintained, and operated, under franchise granted by them, a free bridge across the Santa Rosa Sound in the State of Florida; with amendment (Rept. No. 1671). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. HUDDLESTON: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13267. A bill authorizing the South Carolina and the Georgia State Highway Departments to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Savannah River at or near Burtons Ferry, near Sylvania, Ga.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1672). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. RAYBURN: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13292. A bill to extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, La. ; with amendment (Rept. No. 1673). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. RAYBURN: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13318. A bill authorizing the Val Verde County Bridge Co., its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Rio Grande at or near Langtry, Tex.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1674). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. PEERY: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13399.. A bill authorizing the Baltimore Gas Engineering Corporation, a Maryland corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Kanawha River at or near Dunbar, W. Va.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1675). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. HOCH: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13482. A bill authorizing the Interstate Bridge Co., its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Kans.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1676). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. ROBINSON of Iowa: Commitee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13501. A bill authorizing Henry Horsey, Winfield Scott, A. L. Ballegoin, and Frank Schee, their heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct and operate a

bridge across the Des Moines River at or near Croton, Iowa; with amendment (Rept. No. 1677). Referred to the House Calendar.

merce.

Mr. NEWTON: Committee on Interstate and Foreign ComH. R. 13502. A bill authorizing the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the St. Croix River at or near Stillwater, Minn.; without amendment (Rept. No. 1678). Referred to the House Calendar. Mr. NEWTON: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13503. A bill granting the consent of Congress to the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Hastings, Minn.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1679). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. PARKS: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13540. A bill granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at a point between the mouth of Saline River and the Louisiana and Arkansas line; without amendment (Rept. No. 1680). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. CROSSER: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13591. A bill authorizing the Ripley Bridge Co., its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Ripley, Ohio; without amendment (Rept. No. 1681). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. BURTNESS: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13592. A bill authorizing H. A. Rinder, his successors and assigns, to construct, maintain. and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Niobrara, Nebr.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1682). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. DENISON: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13593. A bill granting the consent of Congress to the city of Dundee. State of Illinois. to construct, maintain, and operate a foot bridge across the Fox River within the city of Dundee, State of Illinois; with amendment (Rept. No. 1683). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. HUDDLESTON: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13651. A bill granting the consent of Congress to the State of Alabama to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County on the highway now under construction from Dothan to Enterprise; with amendment (Rept. No. 1684). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. WYANT: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13652. A bill authorizing Elmer J. Cook, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Bear Creek at or near Lovel Point, Baltimore County, Md., and a point opposite in Baltimore County, Md.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1685). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. RAYBURN: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13687. A bill authorizing H. M. Wheeler, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Black River at or near Jonesville. La.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1686). Referred to the

House Calendar.

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Mr. PARKS: Committee on Interstate and Foreign ComH. R. 13689. A bill granting the consent of Congress to the State of Arkansas through its State highway depart ment, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across White River at or near Augusta, Ark.: with amendment (Rept. No. 1687). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. HUDDLESTON: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13705. A bill authorizing H. M. Wheeler, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Harrisonburg, La.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1688). Referred to the House Calendar.

Mr. CORNING: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13707. A bill authorizing Elisha N. Goodsell, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Lake Champlain at or near Rouses Point, N. Y., and a point at or near Alburg, Vt.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1689). Referred to the House Calendar. Mr. MILLIGAN: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. S. 4203. An act authorizing J. H. Haley, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at or near a point where Olive Street Road. St. Louis County, Mo., if extended west would intersect the Missouri River; without amendment (Rept. No. 1690). Referred to the House Calendar.

Volcanic National Park, in the State of California, and for other purposes; with amendment (Rept. No. 1691). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. ENGLEBRIGHT: Committee on the Public Lands. H. R. 12347. A bill granting all right, title, and interest of the United States to the piece or parcel of land known as the Cuartel lot to the city of Monterey, Calif.; without amendment (Rept. No. 1692). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. MCLEOD: Committee on the District of Columbia. H. R. 13461. A bill to provide for the acquisition of land in the District of Columbia for the use of the United States; with amendment (Rept. No. 1693). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. MERRITT: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 13644. A bill authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to sell at private sale a portion of the Pointe Aux Herbes Lighthouse Reservation, La.; without amendment (Rept. No. 1694). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

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Mr. ENGLEBRIGHT: Committee on the Public Lands. 4135. An act to conserve the water resources and to encourage reforestation of the watersheds of Los Angeles County by the withdrawal of certain public lands included within the Angeles National Forest from location and entry under the mining laws; without amendment (Rept. No. 1695). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. HILL of Alabaina: Committee on Military Affairs. S. 4235. An act to amend section 12 of the act entitled "An act to provide more effectively for the national defense by increasing the efficiency of the Air Corps of the Army of the United States, and for other purposes," approved July 2, 1926; with amendment (Rept. No. 1696). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. MERRITT: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. S. 4302. An act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey the Federal Point Lighthouse Reservation, N. C., to the city of Wilmington, N. C., as a memorial to commemorate the Battle of Fort Fisher; without amendment (Rept. No. 1697). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 2 of Rule XIII,

Mr. RANSLEY: Committee on Military Affairs. H. R. 11422. A bill for the relief of Samuel J. D. Marshall; without amerdment (Rept. No. 1663). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House.

Mr. REECE: Committee on Military Affairs. II. R. 11772. A bill for the relief of Charles Smith: without amendment (Rept. No. 1664). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House.

Mr. LEAVITT: Committee on the Public Lands. H. R. 1589. A bill to authorize the granting of certain privileges in the Lewis and Clark National Monument, and for other purposes; with amendment (Rept. No. 1698). Referred to the

Committee of the Whole House.

Mr. MCSWAIN: Committee on Military Affairs. H. R. 10457. A bill for the relief of Norman Dombris; without amendment (Rept. No. 1699). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House.

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, public bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows:

By Mr. ASWELL: A bill (H. R. 13777) authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River at or near Burr's Ferry; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

By Mr. HUDSPETH: A bill (H. R. 13778) authorizing Alex Gonzales, his legal representatives and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Rio Grande near the town of Ysleta, Tex.; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

By Mrs. KAHN: A bill (H. R. 13779) authorizing Carquinez Toll Bridge Co., its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Carquinez Straits at or near Port Costa, Calif., to a suitable point at or near Benicia, Calif.; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. SWANK: A bill (H. R. 13780) providing for the construction of a bathhouse in Platt National Park at Sulphur, Okla., and authorizing an appropriation therefor; to the Com