Mr. MORIN. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I am not going to object, but we have several bills that we would like to take up to-day. This is Calendar Wednesday and the Committee on Military Affairs is entitled to the day, but I shall not object to this request. Mr. HUDDLESTON. Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. CONNERY] not only on his patriotic record but on the "swiftness" of his witness. He certainly is a fine witness, but he a little bit overswore himself when he testified that the gentleman was not alone, as I had thought he was, in having rejected a commission, and that there were two others who were equally patriotic. I should have expected he would say that the gentleman was the only one he had ever known who was so patriotic.

I do appreciate the patriotism and self-sacrifice of any man who chooses to serve in the ranks instead of as a commissioned officer. I have had experience as a private soldier and I know what the difference is, and I want to say that the man who has done this can not be overpraised.

I am sure my friend Mr. CONNERY did not misunderstand the friendly and jocular-not "flippant "-spirit in which I called attention to his patriotism. No other Member misunderstood and no intelligent person could have done so. If it were not that this witness is his witness, and of my respect for Mr. CONNERY, I should say that not only is he a voluble witness but is asinine to have so misunderstood me. [Applause.]

PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE

Mr. BERGER. Mr. Speaker, I have probably taken less time of the House than any one here and therefore I ask unanimous consent, in order that I may explain various bills that have been introduced, that I may have 45 minutes in which to address the House next Saturday.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Wisconsin asks unanimous consent that on next Saturday after the disposition of matters on the Speaker's table and following the special orders, he may be permitted to proceed for 45 minutes. Is there objection?

There was no objection.

BILLS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

Mr. HAUGEN. Mr. Speaker, acting upon suggestions made, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks, by having

printed in the RECORD, a brief résumé of bills reported by the

House Committee on Agriculture in the nine years in which the Republicans have been in the majority, and of which I have had the honor to be chairman.

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

There was no objection.

Mr. HAUGEN. H. R. 7413, Public, No. 22, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-ninth Congress, which required the marking of the net weight on wrapped hams and bacon, thus guaranteeing full weight to the consumer and obviating deception; also requiring the inspection and marking of horse meat shipped in interstate commerce, which brings horse meat under the meat inspection law and affords protection to the consumer; also amending the United States warehouse act, and extending the Weeks Act by providing appropriation to purchase forest lands under that act. Also one repealing the so-called daylight savings act which worked such inconvenience, hardship, and injustice to the farmers, and city people as well, which was vetoed by the President, and finally passed over the President's veto.

H. R. 7893, Public, No. 450, Sixty-sixth Congress, by Mr. HAUGEN, a most important amendment to the food control act, to permit collective bargaining by any cooperative association of farmers, dairymen, gardeners, or other producers of farm products, which relieved farmers from persecution and unwarranted prosecution so unjustly imposed upon them from coast to coast; relieving them from fighting lawsuits at great expense, to justify or defend their right to make collective sales; for instance, farmers in California and Chicago in making collective sales of milk, were arrested, put through the third degree, were tried and finally acquitted, and in Ohio men in good standing were taken out of their beds in the middle of the night and placed in jail, and, as stated by Mr. John Miller in his testimony, they were put in hospital wards reeking with vermin, and served food that they could not taste or touch. In January, 1918, officers of farm organizations were indicted, required to give bail at a cost of from $200 to $300 premium to the surety companies, and it cost them $15.000 to fight their way out of the trouble. What was true in that case was also true in others. So far as I know, in every instance, all were acquitted. Evidently the prosecution was not to prevent profiteering, but simply to persecute.

H. R. 8624, Public, No. 63, Sixty-sixth Congress, by Mr. HAUGEN, the District of Columbia rent act, establishing a rent

commission to regulate rents in the District of Columbia, to hear complaints, and to adjust controversies, thus saving the tenants from the clutches of the profiteers.

H. R. 444, Public, No. 109, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-sixth Congress, dealing with the supply and price of sugar. Had the President availed himself of the opportunity to buy the Cuban sugar crop with the money and organization made available and at his command at the price offered, he would have saved the consumer from paying the exorbitant prices exacted. We would have had not only an ample supply of sugar but sugar at onehalf the price the consumers were compelled to pay.

It has reported and passed numerous bills extending loans to aid farmers and for purchase of seed in drought and storm stricken sections.

It has reported and passed numerous bills authorizing the acquisition of experiment stations.

H. R. 12272, Public, No. 234, Sixty-sixth Congress, by Mr. HAUGEN, the agricultural appropriation bill for 1921, reported by the committee, eliminated and reduced many useless appropriations, while on the other hand it increased many items of importance under which valuable work is being done by the department. As a whole, it carried a reduction of $2,185,327 under the bill of 1920.

The committee reported out the cold storage bill (H. R. 9521), Sixty-sixth Congress, by Mr. HAUGEN, which was passed by the House, and which limited the time foods could be held in cold storage to one year, also regulating the sanitary conditions of cold-storage warehouses, and requiring report on all foods held in cold storage.

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Also H. R. 10311, Sixty-sixth Congress, by Mr. HAUGEN. prevent the use of slack-filled packages, which has passed the House three times. A bill to protect the consumers against the use of containers misleading the consumers by exacting from them prices based on appearance rather than the true quantity, also to protect the manufacturers and dealers against unfair competition from the trade dealing in slack-filled packages.

Also H. R. 14667, Sixty-sixth Congress, reported out. To regulate grain exchanges, to require grain exchanges to admit to membership on reasonable terms cooperative societies and declare them to be public markets subject to public regulation.

Also H. R. 8086, Public, No. 513, Sixty-seventh Congress. To

prohibit the shipment of filled milk in interstate and foreign com

merce, stop the practice of mixing condensed skimmed milk and coconut oil or other fats or oils in imitation or semblance of milk, cream, or skimmed milk, thereby protecting the producers and consumers from the purchase of filled milk very often upon gross misrepresentation as to its food qualities.

Also H. R. 7401, by Mr. STEVENSON, Sixty-seventh Congress. Wheat grades, prescribing standards and grades for spring wheat, so that great losses by the farmers due to the practice of buying on grade at elevators and terminal markets where the grading was usually below the real milling value, and to determine the condition and quality of the commodity.

Also H. R. 11396, Public, No. 293, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixtyseventh Congress. To regulate foreign commerce in the importation into the United States of honeybees to prevent the importation of diseased bees from foreign countries, thereby protecting an industry in this country amounting to millions of dollars per year.

Also H. R. 11843, Public, No. 331, by Mr. Tincher, Sixtyseventh Congress. Grain futures act, for prevention and removal of obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in grain by regulating transactions on grain-future exchanges, thereby minimizing speculation, manipulation, and control of prices of farm products by transactions on the exchanges.

H. R. 12053, Public, No. 519, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-seventh Congress. A bill to define butter, and to provide standards therefor. Sets up a single standard of butter for the enforcement of the food and drugs act. The definition and standard set is as follows: "Butter" shall be understood to mean the food product usually known as butter and which is made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without additional coloring matter, and containing not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.

H. R. 14302, Public, No. 539, by Mr. FULMER, Sixty-seventh Congress. Establishes and provides for the use of official cotton standards, to prevent deception, and provides for proper application of the standards set, improves conditions and methods of classification in the buying and selling of cotton, so that commercial risks are minimized.

H. R. 13352, by Mr. Little, Sixty-seventh Congress, reported by committee. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase, store, and sell wheat and secure and maintain to the producer a reasonable price for wheat, and to the consumer a reasonable price for bread, and to stabilize wheat values, which would

result in the farmer getting at least the cost of production and the consumer secure his bread at a reasonable price.

H. R. 6320, Public, No. 51, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-seventh Congress, the packers and stockyards act. To regulate interstate and foreign commerce in livestock, livestock products, poultry, poultry products, and eggs, and for other purposes; to place under Government regulation and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, by giving exclusive jurisdiction over the stockyards as well as the packers, to encourage, to protect, to build up worthy and legitimate enterprise and activities in connection with the great packing industry, and thus safeguard the interests of the public and all elements of the packing industry from producer to consumer; to insure proper rates for the care of cattle at the stockyards and for feed furnished and of minor injustices caused shippers and producers. The Secretary is empowered to subpoena, conduct hearings, cause the production of books, papers, and documentary evidence, require attendance of witnesses to prevent packers and stockyards and all persons dealing on the stockyards from engaging in unfair, unjustly discriminatory practices or devices; to regulate and prescribe practices in stockyards to prevent abuses, award damages in redress; to regulate and prescribe rates, fees, and charges for services, including fees of commission men, yardage, feeding, watering, weighing, and handling livestock; to prescribe manner and form for keeping books and accounts; and provides penalties ranging from $500 to $10,000, or imprisonment of not less than six months nor more than five years, or both, and provides for the registration of all persons handling or carrying on business of a market agency or dealer at stockyards, and provides fines for failure so to do; provides penalties for violation of regulations relative to fees, rates, or other charges, and provides for court review of the Secretary's findings. Undoubtedly a most far-reaching measure, and extends further than any previous law into the regulation of private business, with the exception of the war emergency measures and possibly the interstate commerce act.

H. R. 5791, Public, No. 89, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-eighth Congress. A bill to free certain Southern States from the cattle tick.

H. R. 5946, Public, No. 87, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-eighth Congress. A bill for the protection of wild game. The bill is to protect the wild-game refuges and extend the protection afforded wild bird life on Government reservations to wild game, such as buffalo, elk, and other big-game animals.

H. R. 7111, by Mr. KETCHAM, reported out of committee and passed the House. A bill to provide American agriculture by making more extensively available and expanding the service rendered by the Department of Agriculture in gathering and disseminating information regarding agricultural production, supply, and demand in foreign countries, and promoting sale of farm products abroad; in other words, to give to the farmer all the information possible, not only with regard to agricultural production and demand at home, but foreign production and demand, which so largely affects the price received for his products.

H. R. 7113. Public, No. 156, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-eighth Congress. A bill to establish a dairy bureau in the Department of Agriculture for research, investigation, and dissemination of information relating to the dairy industry, and regulatory advice regarding the sale of dairy products.

H. R. 4088, Public, No. 268, Sixty-eighth Congress. A bill to establish the upper Mississippi wild life and fish refuge, comprising 300 miles of bottom lands, along the upper Mississippi, as a breeding place for migratory birds, wild birds, game animals, fur-bearing animals, and for the conservation of wild flowers and aquatic plants. The bill is a conservation measure of great interest in the preservation of wild life of all kinds and preserves the greatest natural fish-spawning regions in the United States.

H. J. Res. 127, Public Resolution 127, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixtyeighth Congress. Transfers to the Department of Agriculture control of reindeer in Alaska, which have become the chief source of food supply.

H. R. 8981, by Mr. BRAND, Sixty-eighth Congress. Reported out of committee a bill to establish standard weights for loaves of bread, and to prevent fraud in respect thereto, to prevent contamination thereof, to protect the consumers of bread from short-weight loaves.

S. 4224, Public, No. 565, by Mr. Lineberger. For the protection of forest lands, for reforestation of denuded lands, for the extension of national forests in order to promote the continued production of timber on lands suitable therefor.

H. R. 7893, Public, No. 450, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-ninth Congress. Establishes a division of cooperative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, which division, through research, educational, and service work, renders assistance to cooperative

associations through the dissemination of crop and market information.

H. R. 7818, Public, No. 180, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixty-ninth Congress. A bill amending the packers and stockyards act, so that any State, where the weighing of livestock at a stockyard is conducted by a duly authorized agency of the State, such department or agency may register as a market agency with the Secretary of Agriculture, and thereby become amenable to the requirements of the packers and stockyards act of 1921, which makes it possible for the department to control the operations of loading services at the stockyards in precisely the same way as control of operations of other market agencies in stockyards. H. R. 271, by Mr. WooDRUFF, Sixty-ninth Congress, passed Senate and House. Making appropriations for carrying out the Weeks Act, for the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, and increases the act to cover cut-over and denuded lands in the program of reforestation under the Weeks Act. H. R. 3890, Public, No. 799, by Mr. LUCE, Sixty-ninth Congress. Establishes a national arboretum, which is of special benefit to the agricultural interests, horticulture, and forestry, as the arboretum is to maintain a permanent living collection of trees and plants for the purpose of scientific research and education.

S. J. Res. 78, Public Resolution No. 14, by Mr. HAUGEN, Sixtyninth Congress. Amends the plant quarantine act to allow the States to quarantine against shipment therein or through the States of plants or plant products and other articles found to be diseased or infected.

H. R. 11768, Public, No. 625, Sixty-ninth Congress. To regulate the importation of milk and cream into the United States for the purpose of promoting the dairy industry in the United States and protect the public health. The bill is to protect the health of the consumer and to prevent poor milk from outside, lowering the health standards which our farmers have been forced to meet over a long period of struggle on the part of the health authorities.

H. R. 10510, Public, No. 712, by Mr. HARE, Sixty-ninth Congress. A bill to prevent the destruction or dumping without good and sufficient cause of farm products by commission merchants and others, to require them to properly and correctly account for all farm products. The bill prevents commission merchants and others from destroying, abandoning, or dumping fruits, vegetables, or other perishable farm products, and to prevent commission merchants and others receiving such products on consignment from making fraudulent report to the shipper concerning the handling, condition, quality, quantity, sale, or disposition of the products.

H. R. 15649, Public, No. 594, by Mr. PURNELL, Sixty-ninth Congress. A bill to provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer. The bill made appropriations available for the eradication of the corn borer, considered a serious pest and menace to the Corn Belt of the United States.

H. R. 9396, Public, No. 802, Sixty-ninth Congress. A bill to insure farmers' cooperative associations, comprised of producers, the right to own seats on boards of trade and exchanges, and thereby enjoy the benefits of economical and beneficial marketing. The bill extends to all boards of trade upon which agricultural products are sold, the same regulatory requirements respecting farmers' cooperative associations that is applied by the grain futures act.

H. R. 16470, by Mr. O'CONNOR, Public, No. 657, Sixty-ninth Congress. Amends United States cotton futures act. A bill to place the three cotton futures markets in the United States on the same basis in settlement of their contracts.

H. R. 405, by Mr. GARBER, Public, No. 278, Seventieth Congress. Providing for horticultural experiment and demonstration work in the southern Great Plains area, and contemplates a type of work to meet the need where families coming into the high plains to live from more eastern regions waste time, effort, and money in an effort to grow fruit and shade trees, and the establishment of effective shelter belts, so that fruits and vegetables may be raised to meet the current needs and to advantage.

H. R. 484, by Mr. HAUGEN, Public, No. 327, Seventieth Congress. To amend section 10 of the plant quarantine act, which gives authority to stop in movement quarantined articles which are pest carriers. Such movement in violation of plant quarantines is usually in ignorance of the restrictions, but involves the greatest danger of long-distance spread of pests. The amendment gives power to stop, inspect or search, and to seize, destroy, or otherwise dispose of articles moving interstate in violation of plant quarantines or entering the country in violation of the act or quarantines thereunder. The act provided for punishment, but punishment is of little value without this amendment, as it is of importance to dispose of or destroy infected commodities to prevent the spread.

H. R. 9495, by Mr. KETCHAM, Seventieth Congress. To provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of prior acts. The bill provides for the further development of cooperative extension work in agricultural and home economics with men, women, boys, and girls, inaugurated under the Smith-Lever Act, passed May 8, 1914. The bill provides funds for enlarging the extension service, will build up the efficiency of farming, and lower the cost of production. It will encourage cooperation, the growing of high-quality products, and the marketing of the same in an efficient manner. It aids considerably in providing further education of farm boys and girls.

H. R. 53, by Mr. GILBERT, Seventieth Congress, passed House March 7, 1928. To provide for the collection and publication of statistics of tobacco by the Department of Agriculture. The purpose of the bill is to make available to farmers. cooperative associations, and the tobacco trade generally more definite information as to the character and quantity of unmanufactured tobacco held by dealers and manufacturers. Tobacco is ordinarily carried over for a period of from two to four years in order to age properly and the lack of accurate statistics of stocks thus accumulated has an unfavorable influence on the market. Without definite information as to these stocks it is difficult, if not impossible, for tobacco farmers to regulate their planting.

H. R. 487, by Mr. HAUGEN, Seventieth Congress, passed House March 14, 1928. To amend an act entitled "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein." See H. R. 10311.

H. R. 7459, by Mr. MORGAN, passed House March 7, Senate May 10. Seventieth Congress. To authorize the appropriation for use by the Secretary of Agriculture of certain funds for wool standards, and for other purposes. The purpose of the bill is to make funds available for carrying on and extending the marketing-research work of the Department of Agriculture with respect to wool, making it possible to emphasize particularly the standardization of wool, so that the work for that commodity will be more comparable to work which has been done for other major commodities, such as fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meats, hay, and so forth. The purpose of the bill is to make possible an extensive educational work, by putting the standard grades into actual use, so that the wool producer can be educated to become familiar with the market value of his clip, which will contribute to the production of higher quality wool, through improvement of flock, and result in greater returns to the producer.

H. R. 8130, by Mr. REED, reported to House April 11, 1928, Seventieth Congress. Authorizing the creation of game refuges on the Ouachita National Forest. The lands now embraced in the Ouachita National Forest were once the home of an abundant supply of game and birds. The creation of game refuges serve as breeding places for wild life and permit restocking.

H. J. Res. 26, by Mr. HAUGEN, passed House April 2, 1928, Seventieth Congress. Authorizing Secretary of Agriculture to dispose of real property located in Hernando County, Fla., known as Brooksville Plant Introduction Garden. In 1911 the Government secured title to this property for the purpose of growing, testing, propagating, and distributing oriental bamboos, and for experimental work in such new crops for the South as found adapted to experimental work as dasheen, tropical yams, chayotes, arrowroot, edible cannas, and various other crop plants. Active work at the plant was discontinued in 1923, and there being no further use for the property, authority was granted the Secretary to dispose of the same.

tagious diseases of livestock and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish rules and regulations concerning their transportation and empowers quarantine against contagious diseases of livestock. Makes the above acts applicable to poultry. H. J. Res. 140, by Mr. HAUGEN, passed House March 7, 1928, Seventieth Congress. Amend sections 1 and 2 of the act of March 3, 1891, which provides for the inspection, safe handling, and safe transport of export cattle and amends the same so as to include horses, sheep, goats, and swine.

H. R. 10374, by Mr. WooDRUFF, passed House March 14, 1928, passed Senate May 10, 1928, Seventieth Congress. For the acquisition of lands for an addition to the Beal Nursery at East Tawas, Mich. Provides for additional lands for planting a future timber supply, and as a demonstration of practical forestry. Additional land needed to fill out the program of supplying trees and seeds to plant in the national forest, and fill out the planting program.

S. 1181, by Mr. WOODRUFF, passed House and Senate, Seventieth Congress, and through conference. Authorize appropriation to be expended under the provisions of the act of March 1, 1911, entitled "An act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams," and so forth, and is designed to create a fiscal policy covering the purposes of the Clarke-McNary Act, which amended the act of March 1, 1911, known as the Weeks Act. Approximately 5,000,000 acres of pine lands are to be secured under the above-mentioned acts, and the bill makes it possible to set up an established policy for obtaining and maintaining such lands to build up artificial reforestation, which is an exceedingly slow program, requiring more than 40 years for completion.

H. J. Res. 200, by Mr. ANDRESEN, passed House April 11, 1928, Seventieth Congress. Amend section 10 of the act entitled "An act to establish the upper Mississippi River wild-life and fish refuge." The bill makes it possible to continue the purchase of acreage to make up the total acreage intended for the refuge. Approximately 85,000 acres remain to be acquired, and the bill makes it possible to secure the additional acreage at higher values than the original bills provided for.

H. R. 10958, by Mr. HAUGEN, Seventieth Congress. To amend the definition of oleomargarine contained in the act entitled "An act defining butter; also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine.” The purpose of the amendment is to clarify the language of the act and include fish oils and fats, so as to bring a third class of fat compounds in addition to the two specifically enumerated in the existing law within the definition of oleomargarine, and therefore within the taxing and regulating power of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Markets of the United States in the past few years have been flooded with fat compounds made from coconut oil, imported, and peanut oil, under names and disguised as cooking compounds, but, in fact, are salted, colored, and put up in semblance of butter and often flavored with synthetic-butter flavor. The new definition is sufficiently inclusive to bring about a wholesome and complete protection of the public against the purchase of these compounds as or for butter or oleomargarine. To protect the producer in his legitimate market for his product, and the consumer against the fraudulent sale of a substitute lacking in nutritive value at exorbitant price.

H. J. Res. 215, Public Resolution 25, by Mr. HAUGEN, Seventieth Congress. To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to accept a gift of certain lands in Clayton County, Iowa, for the purposes of the upper Mississippi River wild life and fish refuge act, Public Resolution 25. Enable the Secretary to accept a gift of 488 acres, which embraces the famous Pikes Peak, an excellent lookout point. It fits in with the upper Mississippi wild life and game refuge act and goes far in accomplishing the aim of a bill introduced by Mr. HAUGEN in 1917 to establish a national park near Prairie du Chien, Wis., and McGregor, Iowa, to provide a suitable park on our Nation's greatest river and set aside a historic and picturesque spot on our greatest river, the Missis

H. J. Res. 89, by Mr. HAUGEN, passed March 7, 1928, Seventieth Congress. Authorizes Secretary of Agriculture to dispose of real property in Loudoun and Clarke Counties, Va., no longer required for observatory and laboratory purposes. Authorizes the disposition of property no longer required by the department and costing the United States about $2,000 per year in upkeep. H. J. Res. 112, passed House January 16, 1928, Seventieth Congress. Amends the act of May 29, 1884, as amended, the act of February 2, 1903, act of March 3, 1905, as amended, to include poultry within their provisions. The acts amended by this resolution provide for investigation as to the existence of con

rival that of the Rhine, the Italian lakes, and the fjords of Norway, and properly referred to by many as the Switzerland of America, one of the richest in scenic beauty. Historic Pikes Peak, dominating the landscape, most famous of the Mississippi hills, was the first land seen by white men on the discovery of the upper Mississippi, and overlooked the stirring events which took place about the confluence of the Wisconsin and the Mississippi Rivers in the beginning of our history. It was a favorite vantage point of the Indians and often a battle ground. 1805 Lieut. Zebulon Pike, the great explorer, shelved his boat on the pebbly shore at the foot of the hill which has since borne his name, climbed to the top, and planted there the first American flag raised in the Northwest.

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H. R. 11579, Public, No. 270, by Mr. JONES, Seventieth Congress. Relating to investigation of new uses of cotton. This bill authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce to engage in technical and scientific research in American-grown cotton and its by-products and their present and potential uses, including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for cotton and its by-products, and to diffuse such information among the people of the United States.

S. 2569, Public, No. 178, by Mr. WARREN, Seventieth Congress. Providing for horticultural experiment and demonstration work in the semiarid or dry-land regions of the United States. It will serve a territory of great area in the high plateau and mountainous country which is in great need of shade and ornamental fruit and shelter belt trees, shrubs, vines, and vegetables.

S. 2030, by Mr. COPELAND. Reported to House May 11, 1928, Seventieth Congress. To provide for research into the causes of poultry diseases for feeding experimentation, and for an educational program to show the best means of preventing disease in poultry. It is the intention of the bill, that an extensive investigation should be made into the causes of influenza, infectious bronchitis, white diarrhea, and other diseases of poultry from which great losses occur to the producers each year.

S. 3194, Public, No. 304, by Mr. COLTON, Seventieth Congress. To establish the Bear River migratory bird refuge. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to construct at Bear River Bay dikes, ditches, spillways, etc., for the establishment of suitable refuge and feeding and breeding grounds for migratory wild fowl. The river marshes, extending about Bear River, comprise the greatest area of this character in the Rocky Mountains, and form the gathering place for millions of wild fowl, such as ducks and geese during the north and south migrations. During each breeding season vast numbers of wild fowl rear their young in this area. Due to diversion of water for irrigation purposes the shallow waters in many parts of these marshes, during summer and fall of each year, become concentrated solutions of alkali resulting in myriads of fowl being poisoned and perish in enormous numbers. The construction of dikes, ditches, etc., will stop this loss.

H. J. Res. 237, by Mr. BUCHANAN, Seventieth Congress, passed House and Senate May 12, 1928. To provide for eradication of the pink bollworm and authorizing appropriation therefor. Makes money available to eradicate the pink bollworm, a very serious pest to cotton growth, ranking with the boll weevil in damage.

S. 757, passed House May 8, passed Senate March 14, 1928. To extend the benefits of certain acts of Congress to the Territory of Hawaii. Provides that future annual appropriations made to carry out the provisions of certain acts to establish and endow agricultural experiment stations provide for the participation of Hawaii in the benefits of such acts.

H. R. 12632, by Mr. PURNELL, passed House April 11, passed Senate April 24, 1928. To provide for the eradication or control | of the European corn borer. Authorizes appropriations to continue the work started last year for the eradication of the European corn borer, considered a serious pest and menace to the Corn Belt of the United States.

H. R. 12878, by Mr. WoODRUFF, reported to House April 21, 1928. To insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote 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. It will develop methods of utilization of waste matters from our pulp mills and plants, which have polluted our streams and destroyed our fish. It will make it possible for the country to use in a better way that vast section of our country which we call the forest area, and which comprises more square miles than do the lands now devoted to agriculture.

H. R. 13646, by Mr. VINSON of Kentucky, reported to House May 11, 1928, Seventieth Congress. For the prevention and removal of obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in cotton by regulating transactions on cotton futures exchanges, and so forth. Transactions in cotton involving the sale thereof for future delivery as contracted on cotton exchanges are affected with a national public interest. Such transactions are carried on in large volumes by the public generally and by persons engaged in the business of buying and selling cotton in interstate commerce, and the prices of such transactions are generally quoted and disseminated throughout the United States and in foreign countries as the basis of determining the price to the producer and consumer of cotton, and the transactions on such cotton exchanges are extremely subject to speculation,

manipulation, and control, and that sudden and unreasonable fluctuations in the prices thereof often occur as the result of such speculation, manipulation, and control, and the fluctuations are an obstruction to and a burden upon interstate commerce in cotton, and the bill removes and prevents such practices.

S. 3555, by Mr. HAUGEN, passed Senate April 9, passed House May 3, 1928, Seventieth Congress, sent to conference May 4, and conference report agreed to in House on May 14. Establishes a Federal Farm Board to aid in the orderly marketing, and in the control and disposition of the surplus of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce. The bill is similar in principle to the farm relief bill passed in the last session of the Congress, and the aim of the bill is to enable the farmer to market his commodities in his own way, at an American price level, and to afford him the benefit of a system which is the equivalent of the numerous protective laws that have been enacted, such as that restricting immigration, the Federal reserve act, and tariff acts, the Adamson Act, and many others. To give the farmer the benefit of the protective laws already established to make them effective to the farmer, as they are generally made effective to organized industry and labor.

To make the protective laws effective to the farmers as they are generally made effective to organized industry. For instance, the tariff is made effective to organized industry by pooling the whole production, by selling a portion of the prod uct at the American price level, the world price plus the tariff and other expenses incident to importation of the foreigu commodity, and to sell in the world market at the highest net price obtainable, and to equalize the price and pay the producer the equalized price, thus materially advancing the average price to every producer.

To create and finance a marketing board, and vest it with power to withhold or collect an equalization fee in an amount sufficient to equalize the price and the cost of marketing, so that each producer may contribute his ratable share of the cost of marketing and receive his proportionate share of the profits from marketing, so that the producer may have the opportunity to sell on the domestic market at the American price level, and to sell on the foreign market at the highest net obtainable price, and in this way materially advance the average price to each producer, and to wrest from exporters and operators on exchanges the power which they exercise in the manipulation of prices and the doctoring of grades, and thus reestablish the foreign market for agricultural commodities which was destroyed through the practice of manipulation of prices, doctoring of grades, and mixing of grain with dirt, screenings, and rubbish and selling it at grain prices. To mete out justice to agriculture and promote prosperity not only to agriculture but to all other citizens, and to do, as was requested by representatives of labor appearing before the committee, pleading with the committee, to report out legislation that might restore the purchasing power of the farmer, so that they might go back to work, and, as stated by Mr. Wallace, of the American Federation of Labor:

The farmers are our customers; when they have no money we can not work. We are the farmers' customers. Hence I think it is to the interest of all the workers. I can not see any hope for improvement except the farmers can buy. Those are the people on whom we depend. What does it profit us if we can get meat for 10 cents a pound, if we haven't the 10 cents?

To relieve the depressed condition in agriculture. To do for the farmers what was done for others by the enactment of the Federal reserve act, the railroad act, the Adamson law, the restricted immigration act, and the many acts extending aid, assistance, and relief to numerous other activities; to afford the farmer the advantages, aid, and opportunities extended to others. In short, a fair and square deal to all; nothing more, nothing less.

RESTRICTIONS IN LANDS OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES

Mr. LEAVITT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the bill (S. 4448) to amend section 4 of the act entitled "An act to extend the period of restrictions in lands of certain members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes, approved May 10, 1928. The Clerk reported the bill.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection?
Mr. MCKEOWN. I object.

MUSCLE SHOALS

Mr. MORIN. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House insist on its amendment to Senate Joint Resolution 46, relating to Muscle Shoals, and ask for a conference.

The SPEAKER. The Chair doubts whether that is in order.

Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Pennsylvania is quite within his rights. It is not a usual procedure, but a perfectly parliamentary procedure. It is seldom that the House has made such a request, but it has frequently been done in the Senate. If the Chair will indulge me, so far as I have been able to ascertain, the practice began in the Senate in the passage of the Dingley revenue bill in 1897. Following that it was the practice on revenue bills for many years. The present occupant of the chair I am sure will remember that what became known as the Payne-Aldrich bill, to the making of which he contributed so great a part, passed the Senate, and immediately on its passage the Senate moved to insist on its amendments and ask for a conference. So the gentleman from Pennsylvania is quite within his parliamentary rights in making the motion. As I say, it has frequently happened in the Senate, but not very frequently on the part of the House.

The SPEAKER. It occurs to the Chair that it is rather lacking in courtesy to the Senate. The Chair does not remember of its being done in the House since he has been a Member

of the House.

Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. I think it has occurred several times in the House, and frequently in the Senate.

The SPEAKER. The Chair is unable to see any particular advantage there would be in it-it might save possibly a day. It seems to the Chair that it is a little short of improper. The fact that it has been done in the Senate is no reason why it should be done in the House.

Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. It is not without precedent. The parliamentary situation created is that upon a conference report the other body would have to act before the House acts. That is the parliamentary situation it creates.

The SPEAKER. There is no disagreement yet between the House and the Senate.

Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. The House is proposing to make it.

The SPEAKER. It depends upon whether the Senate may or may not agree to the House amendment. It is assuming that by no possibility can the Senate agree to the House amendment, and the Chair does not know that.

Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. I simply repeat that it is not unprecedented.

The SPEAKER.

The Chair would prefer not to recognize the gentleman from Pennsylvania to make that motion. Mr. MORIN. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw it for the time being. Mr. Speaker, I call up the bill H. R. 13446, a bill to amend the national defense act, and I ask unanimous consent that it be considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole.

THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania calls up the bill (H. R. 13446) to amend the national defense act, and asks unanimous consent that it be considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. Is there objection?

There was no objection.

The Clerk read the bill, as follows:

Be it enacted, etc., That the act entitled "An act for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States," approved February 14, 1927 (44 Stat. 1095), which adds an additional paragraph to section 113 of the national defense act, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That there shall be held an annual competition, known as the national matches, for the purpose of competing for a national trophy, medals, and other prizes to be provided, together with a small-arms firing school, which competition and school shall be held annually under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War."

SEC. 2. The national matches contemplated in this act shall consist of rifle and pistol matches for the national trophy, medals, and other prizes mentioned in section 1 above, to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, National Guard, or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and District of Columbia, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and the citizens' military training camps, rifle clubs, and civilians, together with a small-arms firing school to be connected therewith and competitions for which trophies and medals are provided by the National Rifle Association of America; and for the cost and expenditures required for and incident to the conduct of the same, including the personal expenses of the members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the sum necessary for the above-named purposes is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually as a part of the total sum appropriated for national defense: Provided, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expenses than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress: Provided further, That in lieu of traveling expense and commutation of rations while traveling the sum of 5 cents per mile may be paid to civilian competitors, and such travel pay for the return trip may be paid in advance of the performance of the travel.

SEC. 3. For the incidental expenses of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, including books, pamphlets, badges, trophies, prizes, and medals to be expended for such purposes, the sum of not more than $7,500 is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually.

The SPEAKER. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed.

A motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed was laid on the table.

LEAVE TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE Mrs. KAHN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 30 minutes on Saturday next after the completion of the special orders heretofore granted.

The SPEAKER. The gentlewoman from California asks unanimous consent to address the House on Saturday morning next for 30 minutes after the completion of the special orders heretofore agreed to. Is there objection? There was no objection.

Mr. MORIN.

PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY

recognize commissioned service in the Philippine Constabulary Mr. Speaker, I call up the bill (S. 3463) to in determining rights of officers of the Regular Army, on the Union Calendar, and ask unanimous consent that it be considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. The SPEAKER. The gentleman calls up the bill S. 3463, and asks unanimous consent that it be considered in the House as in Committee of the Whole. The Clerk will report the title of the bill.

The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania? There was no objection.

The Clerk read the bill, as follows:

Be it enacted, etc., That in determining the pay period and rights of retirement in the case of officers of the Regular Army, active duty performed as an officer of the Philippine Constabulary shall be credited to the same extent as service under a Regular Army commission or other active duty recognized under the provisions of section 127a of the national defense act of June 3, 1916, as amended by the act of June 4, 1920.

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

A motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed was laid on the table.

Mr. McKEOWN. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman from Pennsylvania yield to me for a moment? Mr. MORIN. Certainly. Mr. MCKEOWN. Wainwright bill?

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Is the gentleman going to call up the

Mr. MORIN. No; we are not going to call up the Wainwright bill to-day.

ADDRESS OF HON. CORDELL HULL

Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD by inserting therein an address made by my colleague Hon. CORDELL HULL over the radio last evening.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection?
There was no objection.

Mr. GARRETT of Tennessee.

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Mr. Speaker, under the leave to extend my remarks I include the following address:

POLITICAL ISSUES OF 1928

The Nation will be governed during the next four years by either the Democratic or the Republican Party. The Democratic Party tenders its services this year with a reaffirmation of its original creed and the promulgation of a broad program of truly national issues. The claims of the Republican Party, in control of all branches of the Government since 1920, must rest upon its official record of omission and commission during this period. Each political party has a creed and serves the Nation by applying that creed to new and changing problems and conditions. The Democratic Party draws its inspiration and derives its principles from the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. They lie at the base of popular government, here and everywhere. Lincoln said: "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society, and it is no child's play to save them from complete overthrow in this Nation." The course of the Democratic Party was originally charted on lines broad enough, foundations deep enough, and structure sound enough for all time. Its ancient doctrine of equal rights will be as pertinent centuries hence as it is to-day.

Since the death of Lincoln the creed of the Republican Party has been bottomed on the doctrines of Alexander Hamilton-doctrines