its very best at the present time to shake off the Ku Klux incubus which rests upon the breast of Alabama; and the enlightened elements of its population are giving all the aid and comfort to it that they can. SENATORIAL NOMINATION AND ELECTION IN NEW JERSEY The Senate resumed the consideration of Senate Resolution 232, submitted by Mr. CARAWAY. Mr. BRUCE. Mr. President, may I interrupt the Senator? Mr. BRUCE. The Senator knows, however, that the Federal grand jury in the State of Alabama refused to return a true bill against him. Mr. HEFLIN. Yes; I referred to that once before and stated that the chairman of the Republican National Committee in the State was a lawyer in the case, that he controls the Republican Mr. CARAWAY. I ask that the question be put on the adop- patronage in the State, and that the district attorney was rection of the resolution. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? Mr. REED of Missouri. Mr. President, I do not want to object to a vote on the resolution. I simply want to make a statement. This resolution, as drawn, proposes to delegate the work referred to in the resolution to the special committee that has been engaged in similar work, of which I have the honor to be chairman. Speaking for myself, I do not want this job. I should like to be excepted from the resolution if it is to go to the committee. I have spoken to two other members of the committee, and they have expressed themselves to me as not wanting to undertake this work. We want to wind up the work we have, and to be properly discharged. I hope that clause of the resolution will be stricken out. At least I want the Senate to understand that I do not want to be ordered to go on with the work mentioned in the resolution. Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President Mr. CARAWAY. Will the Senator from Alabama let us see if we can not get a vote on the resolution? It will not take more than a second. ommended for appointment by him; and he secured his appointment through this chairman who represented Priest O'Connor, and got a good fee for his services here at the Capital. Not only that, Mr. President, but this priest, Eaton, of Mobile, that the Senator talks about, and the Catholic bishop, and other Catholics got together and decided that man, Priest O'Connor, must not go back to Alabama. They said that the Catholic Church in Alabama would use all the power it had to keep him from coming back; that they had investigated the matter, and that he was innocent. Think of that! They had not heard the evidence in the case. They took the priest's side. So the Senator was defending a Catholic Church court trial, and trying to keep this priest from being tried in an American court of jus tice. So when this priest and bishop went to him in Maryland they seemed to know where to go to get somebody who claimed to be a Protestant to speak for them in this body, for the purpose of interfering with the instrumentalities of justice in other States-where a Catholic was involved. Mr. President, the Senator talks about my former able colleague who used to sit here, and whom I have always been fond of personally. If you ask me for my candid opinion, I will tell you that when Senator Underwood lined up the Alabama delegation for the Al Smith program in the Democratic National Convention of 1924, at New York, he hurt himself Mr. HEFLIN. I understand that we have to come back here greatly with the Democrats of Alabama. at 8 o'clock. Mr. CARAWAY. I know it. Therefore let us get the resolution passed. Mr. HEFLIN. If we can vote on it right now, very well. Mr. CARAWAY. There is not to be any further discussion of it. Mr. WATSON. Mr. President, does the Senator from Missouri say he will not serve on the committee if the resolution is agreed to? Mr. CARAWAY. No; he did not say that. Mr. REED of Missouri. I say I do not want to do it. I am not going to say that I will not do anything that the Senate commands me to do; but I am saying now that if the resolution goes through I shall ask in some way to be relieved. Mr. CARAWAY. Mr. President, I ask for a vote on the resolution. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the resolution. The resolution was agreed to. PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President, I am going to detain the Senate for only a moment. I was not here on yesterday when my colleague [Mr. BLACK] had a colloquy with the Senator from Maryland [Mr. BRUCE]. I concur in what my colleague has said to-day. He has very ably replied to the unwarranted attacks of the Senator from Maryland. It seems, from the general conduct of the Senator from Maryland in speaking in season and out upon the whisky question in this body, that he has come to represent that question in the country, and that they come to him with all of the hatchedout statistics they can find, and he belches them forth upon the Senate and the country, consuming time on such a topic, as my colleague has well and ably said, when we should be going on with legislative matters. Now he has gone out of his way to reflect upon our State. The Senator from Alabama, my colleague, did not start that controversy. The Senator from Maryland started it; and he is viciously attacking people everywhere who do not agree with him upon the whisky question. The Senator from Maryland has also shown beyond question by his own statement that the Roman Catholic machine of my State have selected him to be their leader and mouthpiece in matters here. When a priest was indicted down there for a felony-one of the worst crimes ever committed in the State, an attack on a member of his own church, the wife of a soldier-when he was indicted down there where the crime was committed, the Senator opposed our getting that Catholic priest back from Canada to try him for his crime in Alabama. The Senator from Maryland every day is giving the people of his State additional reasons for being irritated and offended at his conduct. He seems to be attacking every Protestant institution than he can lay his hands on. He is always ready to stand up and champion the cause of the Roman Catholic political machine that he seems to be doing obeisance to in Baltimore and elsewhere. He does not seem to remember that in Baltimore City, a Democratic city, they beat the Democratic nominee, a Roman Catholic, for mayor last year by 17,000 votes, and that in the city of Boston they beat the Catholic candidate, and in Chicago they beat the Catholic nominee; and in Detroit, Mich., where a Roman Catholic mayor had machine guns leveled on Ku-Klux Klan paraders, men, women, and children, the Protestants and Jews outside joined with the klansmen and they defeated that mayor and drove him into ignominious defeat. The Senator from Maryland stands here hurling these slurs and insults in the face of the South, attacking the great secret orders of the Protestant organization; but you never hear him say anything against the lawless liquor interests of the Nation, or against the Knights of Columbus and the Roman Catholic political machine, who tried to involve us in war with Mexico. He says nothing against these; but he seems to have become the mouthpiece of the other element. Let him hug these things to his heart and get all the consolation he can out of them. If he keeps this up, when it is all over he will say what Joe Brown, of Georgia, said after his debate in the Senate with John J. Ingalls, when Ingalls had romped on him as my colleague did to-day on the Senator from Maryland. The Georgia thought he ought to have a personal encounter with Ingalls. delegation asked him what he was going to do about it; they Senator Brown swelled out his chest and said, "Do? Do nothing. He brought it all on himself." [Laughter.] PENSIONS AND INCREASE OF PENSIONS Mr. NORBECK. Mr. President, I present the conference report on the Civil War widows' pension bill. The bill now carries considerably less than when it passed the Senate. The Senate receded to some extent. I ask for the immediate consideration of the report. The Chief Clerk read the report, as follows: The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 10159) entitled "An act granting pensions and increase of pensions to widows and former widows of certain soldiers, sailors. and marines of the Civil War, and for other purposes," having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 1. Resolved, That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate Nos. 45 and 50 to the bill (H. R. 12286) entitled "An act making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes,' and concur therein. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate No. 46, and concur therein with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following: "Naval fuel depot, Melville, R. I.: Toward replacement of boiler plant (limit of cost $150,000), $65,000." That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate No. 52, and concur therein with an amendment as follows: In lieu of the sum inserted by said amendment insert "$31,956,000." Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas. Mr. President, was the conference agreement unanimous? Mr. HALE. The conference report was agreed to yesterday. Under the rules of the House certain matters had to be voted on over there; that is all. I move that the Senate concur in the amendments of the House to the amendments of the Senate Nos. 46 and 52. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion of the Senator from Maine. The motion was agreed to. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Haltigan, one of its clerks, announced that the House had adopted a concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 36) requesting the President to return to the House of Representatives the bill (H. R. 9568) to authorize the purchase at private sale of a tract of land in Louisiana, and for other purposes, so as to permit the correction of an error in the enrolled bill, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate. LAND IN LOUISIANA-RETURN OF ENROLLED BILL Mr. TYDINGS. Mr. President, referring to the concurrent resolution that just came over from the House, the bill is now in the hands of the President; and the author of the bill tells me a mistake has been incorporated in it which will affect the title to a piece of land. I have been requested by the author of the bill in the House to ask for the immediate consideration of the concurrent resolution, in order that the bill may be recalled before the President affixes his signature to it, containing, as it does, the error to which I have referred. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 36) from the House of Representatives, which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed to, as follows: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the President is requested to return to the House of Representatives the bill (H. R. 9568) entitled "An act to authorize the purchase at private sale of a tract of land in Louisiana, and for other purposes," for the purpose of permitting the correction of an error in the enrolled bill. EXECUTIVE SESSION Mr. CURTIS. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business. After three minutes spent in executive session the doors were reopened. RECESS Mr. CURTIS. I move that the Senate take a recess until 8 o'clock p. m. The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 43 minutes p. m.) the Senate, under the order previously entered, took a recess until 8 o'clock p. m. EVENING SESSION The Senate reassembled at 8 o'clock p. m., on the expiration of the recess. The VICE PRESIDENT. Under the unanimous-consent order for this evening's session the clerk will call the calendar for the consideration of unobjected bills. ORDER FOR RECESS AT CLOSE OF EVENING SESSION Mr. JONES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate concludes its business for to-day it shall take a recess until 12 o'clock to-morrow. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered. THE CALENDAR The bill (S. 2447) for the relief of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Newton, Mass., was announced as first in order on the calendar. Mr. BRATTON. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 1939) granting pensions and increase of pensions to widows and former widows of certain soldiers, sailors, and marines of the Civil War, and for other purposes, was announced as next in order. Mr. NORBECK. Mr. President, I ask that the bill be recommitted to the Committee on Pensions. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair hears noue, and it is so ordered. BILL AND JOINT RESOLUTION PASSED OVER The bill (S. 2787) providing for the appointment of governors of the non-Christian Provinces in the Philippine Islands by the Governor General without the consent of the Philippine Senate was announced as next in order. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The joint resolution (S. J. Res. 1) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting war was announced as next in order, and that it had been reported adversely from the Committee on the Judiciary. SEVERAL SENATORS. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The joint resolution will be passed over. INVESTIGATION OF ALL PHASES OF CROP INSURANCE The bill (S. 2149) authorizing and directing the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate all phases of crop insurance was considered as in Committee of the Whole and was read, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to establish a unit with suitable personnel in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture for studying and investigating all phases of crop insurance and for making the results thereof available. SEC. 2. This unit is authorized (1) To acquire, analyze, and disseminate economic, statistical, and historical information regarding the progress, organization, and methods of writing crop insurance in this country and abroad. (2) To gather, tabulate, and analyze all available data pertaining to crop insurance, such as crop yields, crop damage, climatic, and/or other data needed and useful in measuring the natural and economic hazards incident to the growing of farm crops in the various sections of the country. (3) To study and devise plans and methods for writing crop in surance. (4) To promote the knowledge of crop-insurance principles and practices, and to cooperate in promoting such knowledge with educational, cooperative, commercial, and other agencies, whether governmental or private. (5) To publish and disseminate information the acquisition of which is authorized hereby. SEC. 3. The Secretary of Agriculture may make such rules and regulations as may be deemed advisable to carry out the provisions of this act, and may cooperate with any department or agency of the Gov ernment, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and may call upon any other Federal department, board, or commission for assistance in carrying out the purposes of this act; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees not in conflict with existing laws, and make such expenditure for rent, outside the District of Columbia, printing, telegrams, telephones, books of reference, books of law, publications, newspapers, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and other supplies and expenses as shall be necessary to the administration of this act in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000, to be available for expenditure during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1928, and the appropriation of such additional sums as may be necessary thereafter for carrying out the purposes of this act is hereby authorized. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. BILLS PASSED OVER The bill (S. 1414) for the prevention and removal of obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in cottonseed oil by regulating transactions on future exchanges, and for other purposes, was announced as next in order. Mr. COPELAND. Mr. President, we have an understanding regarding this bill, and I ask that it may go over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 1728) placing service postmasters in the classified service was announced as next in order. Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 1940) to divest goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined by convicts or prisoners of their interstate character in certain cases was announced as next in order. Mr. PHIPPS and Mr. METCALF. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 1462) for the adoption of the Columbia Basin reclamation project and for other purposes was announced as next in order. Mr. PHIPPS. Mr. President, I desire to perfect the pending amendment. In rereading it, it was found that it was wise to modify it. I ask to have the amendment perfected. I do not think there will be any objection to the bill with the amendment. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator's modified amendment will be stated. The CHIEF CLERK. On page 1, line 7, after the word "Interior," strike out the balance of the line, all of lines 8, 9, and 10, and on page 2, all of lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and insert the following: "be investigated as to feasibility and cost, and the appropriation of funds to make such surveys, investigations, and studies as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of the Interior to determine the economic feasibility of this project, and the best method for prosecuting the same, is hereby authorized from funds in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated." Mr. BRATTON. Mr. President, may I ask the Senator from Colorado if the amendment is agreeable to the Senator from Washington [Mr. DILL]? Mr. PHIPPS. I thought the Senator from Washington was on the floor. Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas. I ask that the bill may go over for the present. Mr. PHIPPS. I ask that the amendment in the form in which I have modified it may be the pending amendment. Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas. The Senator has a right to modify his amendment. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. DIVISION OF SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR The bill (S. 1266) to create in the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor a division of safety was announced as next in order. Mr. METCALF. Over. Mr. SHORTRIDGE. Mr. President, I rise merely to remark that I hope when this measure is called again those who as of now object will have looked into the report of the committee and will agree with me and the committee that the bill should pass. It is in the interest of men and women and children who toil in factories and mines and elsewhere and is designed to reduce the hazards inherent in industry resulting in loss of life and limb and health. I do earnestly hope that there will be no objection when it comes up again. Mr. SHORTRIDGE. Exactly. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. The Senate as in Committee of the Whole proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. 4012) for the relief of Charles R. Sies, and it was read, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That Chief Pay Clerk Charles R. Sies, United States Navy, retired, shall be advanced on the retired list to passed assistant paymaster with the rank and retired pay and allowances of a lieutenant on the retired list of the Navy. Such rank shall take effect on March 4, 1925, and such pay and allowances shall be paid from and after such date. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, Senate bill 151 is indefinitely postponed. BILLS PASSED OVER The bill (S. 2859) for the relief of Francis J. Young was announced as next in order. Mr. KING. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 2864) to establish the standard of weights and measures for the following wheat-mill, rye-mill, and corn-mill products-namely, flours, semolina, hominy, grits, and meals, and all commercial feeding stuffs, and for other purposes, was announced as next in order. Mr. TYSON. I ask that the bill may go over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 1093) to prevent the sale of cotton and grain in future markets was announced as next in order. Mr. METCALF. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The joint resolution (S. J. Res. 57) requesting the President to immediately withdraw the armed forces of the United States from Nicaragua was announced as next in order, and as having been reported adversely from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. METCALF and Mr. PHIPPS. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. ADJUSTMENT IN RATE STRUCTURE OF COMMON CARRIERS The joint resolution (S. J. Res. 99) to amend joint resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to take action relative to adjustments in the rate structure of common carriers subject to the interstate commerce act, and the fixing of rates and charges, was considered as in Committee of the Whole, and was read, as follows: Resolved, etc., That S. J. Res. 107, approved January 30, 1925 (Public Resolution No. 46, 68th Cong.), directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to take action relative to adjustments in the rate structure of common carriers subject to the interstate merce act, and the fixing of rates and charges, be amended by inserting in the last paragraph after the words "including livestock" the words and of fisheries." com. The joint resolution was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. BILLS PASSED OVER The bill (S. 2532) to provide for the designation of clerks or employees of the Department of the Interior to serve as registers and receivers in the land offices in Alaska was announced as next in order. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 2679) to limit the period for which an officer appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate may hold over after his term shall have expired was announced as next in order. Mr. REED of Pennsylvania. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 728) 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, was announced as next in order. Mr. ASHURST. Let that go over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 1263) to amend section 4 of the interstate commerce act was announced as next in order. Mr. JONES. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The resolution (S. Res. 173) expressing it as the sense of the Senate that Andrew W. Mellon should resign as Secretary of the Treasury was announced as next in order. SEVERAL SENATORS. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The resolution will be passed over. The bill (S. 1748) relating to the qualifications of jurors in the Federal courts was announced as next in order. Mr. BRATTON. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 3151) to limit the jurisdiction of district courts of the United States was announced as next in order. Mr. REED of Pennsylvania. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 1794) establishing additional land offices in the States of Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and South Dakota was announced as next in order. Mr. PHIPPS. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (H. R. 279) to amend section 8 of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Howard University in the District of Columbia," approved March 2, 1867, was announced as next in order. Mr. FLETCHER. Over. Mr. PHIPPS. Is there objection to the bill, may I inquire? The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Florida objected. Mr. FLETCHER. Several Senators are absent just now who wish to have the bill go over. Mr. PHIPPS. I would like to have it go over without prejudice. It is a case where we have been for years appropriating by items in the Senate. Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas. I understand the bill has gone over. I shall have to call for the regular order. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will go over, and the clerk will state the next bill on the calendar. The bill (H. R. 8298) authorizing the acquisition of a site for the farmers' produce market, and for other purposes, was announced as next in order. Mr. BRATTON. Over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. A bill (H. R. 10885) to amend sections 23 and 24 of the general leasing act approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. L. 437), was announced as next in order. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Mr. President, I observe that the bill has not been referred to a committee. I ask for an explanation of it. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair is informed that an identical bill was reported from the committee, and that this bill was passed once before and reconsidered. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Under the circumstances, inasmuch as there does not seem to be any member of the committee here to explain it, I ask that it may go over without prejudice. Mr. BRATTON. I think I can state to the Senator what the bill does. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. I withhold my request. Mr. BRATTON. I have not made a careful examination of the bill, but I am assured that what it actually does is to take soda of potash out of the general leasing act and put it under this special act, thereby placing it in the same classification with other minerals of a similar nature. Mr. LA FOLLETTE. I would like to have the bill go over until I can get a chance to look into it. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. MAY GORDON RODES AND SARA LOUISE RODES The bill (S. 126) for the relief of May Gordon Rodes and Sara Louise Rodes, heirs at law of Tyree Rodes, deceased, was announced as next in order. Mr. KING. Over. Mr. SHORTRIDGE. Mr. President, will the Senator be good enough to withhold his objection? Mr. KING. Very well. Mr. SHORTRIDGE. The bill is for the relief of the widow and daughter of a citizen. It was carefully considered by the Committee on Claims. Our Government made use of the patent of the deceased, whereby the committee finds that the Government saved perhaps some $17,000,000. It is true that the claim was for $142,000; but after a thorough examination and study of the case-and days were devoted to the subject-the committee reported in favor of allowing $35,750. I think I am warranted in saying that the committee was unanimous in believing it to be a just claim against our Government. I express the hope that the bill may pass the Senate, to be considered by the House. My advice is that the House committee has reported or will report as did the Senate committee as to the merits of the case and as to the amount to be awarded the widow and daughter of the citizen. Mr. STEPHENS. Mr. President, will the Senator yield for a moment? Mr. SHORTRIDGE. Certainly. Mr. STEPHENS. I do not know whether the Senator has called attention to this fact, but it is in evidence in the case that, due to this process, the Government saved the sum of about $17,000,000. I am on the committee and I am very familiar with the case. I know the facts. I have talked with several lumber people about the matter who are very familiar with the entire transaction; and I am very sure it is a meritorious case. The entire committee favored the passage of the bill in the sum mentioned in the amendment, and I hope it will pass. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? There being no objection the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (S. 126) for the relief of May Gordon Rodes and Sara Louise Rodes, heirs at law of Tyree Rodes, deceased. The bill had been reported from the Committee on Claims with an amendment, in line 7, to strike out "$143,000" and insert in lieu thereof "$35,750," so as to make the bill read: Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to May Gordon Rodes and Sara Louise Rodes, heirs at law of Tyree Rodes, deceased, the sum of $35,750, in full compensation for damages sustained by said Tyree Rodes, deceased. The amendment was agreed to. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendment was concurred in. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. BILL PASSED OVER The bill (S. 2505) granting increase of pension under the general law to soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and Navy, and their dependents, for disability incurred in service in line of duty, and authorizing that the records of the War and Navy Departments be accepted as to incurrence of a disability in service in line of duty, was announced as next in order. Mr. KING. Mr. President, I would like to ask the Senator from South Dakota if this is the bill we had up for consideration the other evening? Mr. NORBECK. No; this bill has never been discussed on the floor of the Senate. It has been considered by the committee. The purpose is to change some rates that apply to those who are regular soldiers, or of the Regular Establishment, we might say. Some forty-odd years ago these rates were fixed by law. For instance, the pension of a minor child is $2 a month. If the child's father was in the Spanish War, it gets $4 a month, and if he was in the World War, it gets $6 or $8 a month. This bill changes the rate from $2 to $4 a month. It makes several changes along that line. The bill carries about $670,000 in increases. But I want to move to strike out section 3. I would like to perfect that amendment. Then I am willing to have the bill go over if I may do that. I want to strike out section 3 because it provides that the records of the War Department and Navy Department shall be taken as to injuries and disabilities, and that really is taking it out of the Pension Bureau. Mr. KING. Will the Senator pass it over until to-morrow? To-morrow evening I shall join with him in asking to have the bill taken up. Mr. NORBECK. Let me have the amendment agreed to, striking out section 3, if I may, and then I am willing that that course shall be taken. There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Pensions, with amendments. Mr. NORBECK. I move that section 3 be stricken out and section 4 renumbered. The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The CHIEF CLERK. Strike out section 3, as follows: SEC. 3. That a record of the War or Navy Departments stating that a wound or injury was incurred, or disease contracted, in line of duty shall be accepted as sufficient proof of origin in service in line of duty, provided that said disability was not the result of the person's vicious habits. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. NORBECK. Then I move to add the following words to section 4: "Provided, That said disability shall not be the result of the person's vicious habits." The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment will be stated. The CHIEF CLERK. On page 3, line 13, after the word "pensions," add the words "Provided, That said disability shall not be the result of the person's vicious habits," so as to make the section read: SEC. 4. That the increase of pension under this act to all persons whose names are now on the roll shall commence at the rates herein provided on the 4th day of the month next after the approval of this act, and any further increase of pension other than for permanent disability shall commence from the date of the official medical examination made after formal application for increase has been filed in the Bureau of Pensions: Provided, That said disability shall not be the result of the person's vicious habits. The joint resolution (S. J. Res. 25) to declare the 11th day of November, celebrated and known as Armistice Day, a legal holiday was announced as next in order. Mr. BORAHI. Let that joint resolution go over. Mr. MAYFIELD. Mr. President, was objection made to the consideration of Senate Joint Resolution 25? Mr. KING. The joint resolution has been adversely reported. Mr. MAYFIELD. Sometimes we consider measures which have been adversely reported. The VICE PRESIDENT. Objection was made, and the joint resolution will go over. Mr. MAYFIELD. I ask the Senator from Idaho not to object to the joint resolution, which proposes to declare the 11th day of November, celebrated and known as Armistice Day, a legal holiday. I do not think the joint resolution will bring about any discussion, and all I ask on it is merely a yea-and-nay vote. I ask the Senator to withdraw his objection and give us a vote on the joint resolution. Mr. BORAH. The joint resolution has been reported adversely and would lead to some discussion. If proper discussion should be had on the joint resolution, I should not object to voting on it, but I shall have to object to its consideration to-night. The VICE PRESIDENT. Being objected to, the joint resolution will go over. BILLS PASSED OVER The bill (S. 1720) extending the classified civil service to include postmasters of the third class, and for other purposes, was announced as next in order. Mr. KING. Let that bill go over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (S. 742) to provide for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for other purposes, was announced as next in order. Mr. BRATTON. Let the bill go over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. The bill (H. R. 6669) fixing the salary of the Public Printer and of the Deputy Public Printer was announced as next in order. Mr. KING. Let that bill go over. CROMWELL L. BARSLEY The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 6152) for the relief of Cromwell L. Barsley, which had been reported from the Committee on Military Affairs with an amendment on page 2, line 2, after the word "shall," to strike out the words "be held to have accrued prior to the passage of this act and to insert accrue or be allowed on account of the passage of this act," so as to make the bill read: 66 Be it enacted, etc., That in the administration of any laws conferring rights, privileges, and benefits upon honorably discharged soldiers, Cromwell L. Barsley, who was a member of Company D, Fifth Regiment United States Volunteers, and Thirty-fourth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Nineteenth Regiment Infantry, United States Army, shall hereafter be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the military service of the United States as a private of Company I, Nineteenth Regiment Infantry, United States Army, on the 23d day of December, 1907: Provided, That no bounty, back pay, pension, or allowance shail accrue or be allowed on account of the passage of this act. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment reported by the committee. The amendment was rejected. The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed. EMPLOYEES OF PROHIBITION BUREAU The bill (S. 1995) placing certain employees of the Bureau of Prohibition in the classified civil service, and for other purposes, was announced as next in order. Mr. BRATTON. Let that bill go over. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be passed over. REGULATION OF THE PRACTICE OF THE HEALING ART IN THE DISTRICT The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (S. 3936) to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill has heretofore been considered. The pending amendment is that proposed by the Senator from Maryland [Mr. BRUCE], which will be stated. The CHIEF CLERK. On page 25, following line 11, it is proposed to insert the following: Any person who was engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the District of Columbia on or before January 1, 1928, may deliver to the commission within 90 days after the approval of this act a written application for a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia, together with satisfactory proof that the applicant is not less than 21 years of age and of good moral character, and had previously obtained a diploma from some legally incorporated school or college of chiropractic, and had been actively engaged in the practice of chiropractic for the past 10 years, or had previously obtained a diploma from some legally incorporated school or college of chiropractic recognized by the International Congress of Chiropractic Examining Boards. page 25. When the commission is satisfied as to the qualifications of the appli cant as aforesaid, it shall issue to him a license to practice chiropractic. Each license so to do shall show that it was issued on the basis of years of practice in the District of Columbia and without examination. Also to amend by adding the word "other" at end of line 14, The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection the amendment is agreed to. Mr. DILL. Mr. President, was the amendment proposed by the Senator from Maryland [Mr. BRUCE] adopted? The VICE PRESIDENT. The amendment was agreed Mr. DILL. Then, I object to the further consideration of the Mr. COPELAND. I ask the Senator from Washington, does he object to the passage of the bill because of the amendment proposed by the Senator from Maryland? bill. Mr. DILL. I object to the bill because of the amen to. dment. If the amendment shall not be adopted, I will not object to it. Mr. BRUCE. We can not possibly discuss the bill to-night. The VICE PRESIDENT. Under objection the bill will go over. BILL PASSED OVER The bill (S. 1215) for the relief of Helen F. Griffin was an nounced as next in order. Mr. KING. Let that bill go over. |