The amount recommended to be appropriated for public buildings under the provisions of the act of May 25, 1926, as amended, is $17,513,500. This sum comprises a total of 99 projects of which 96 are submitted under the provisions of section 5 of the act and 3 are under section 3. The total limit of cost recommended to be fixed for such projects by the Budget estimates is $74,845,000, of which $2,175,000 is chargeable under section 3 of the act and $72,670,000 under section 5. All of the projects submitted have been recommended by the committee in a total limit of cost $74,532,000, of which $2,175,000 is chargeable to section 3 and $72,357,000 is chargeable to section 5. The net reduction made in the total limits of cost is $313,000. This sum is effected in the following manner: The limit of cost of the inspection buildings at Douglas, Ariz., and San Ysidro, Calif., are increased from $60,000 to $65,000, and $93,000 to $105,000, respectively, to make provision for Public Health Service activities not fully covered in the original submission and now recommended by the Treasury Department to be so included.

The limit of cost of the building at Salt Lake City, Utah, is reduced from $1,115,000 to $910,000, the difference in the amount of the total cost being due to a recommendation on the part of the committee that the enlargement of the present structure be made to provide for the same amount of space contemplated by the original submission but to be accomplished by an extension in a direction where the additional land can be acquired at less cost and the addition to the building effected without disturbance of the present ornamental and monumental portion of the building as originally suggested. The limit of cost of the building at Sterling, Colo., is reduced from $225,000 to $100,000, due to the elimination of provision made in the estimate for construction of court facilities. Federal court has been held at Sterling for only a very brief time, and it is the opinion of the committee that the court business, present and immediately prospective, is not sufficient to justify the additional expenditure. The appropriation is so made that the building will be constructed in such a manner that accommodations for the courts may be added later. These four changes constitute the only alterations made by the committee in the program submitted for consideration. The submission of additional public buildings estimates at this time was made possible by the act of February 24, 1928, which increased the total limit of cost of public buildings outside the District of Columbia under the present law from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000. The amount of appropriations recommended in this bill, together with those previously made, places to the credit of the Treasury Department a total of appropriations as great as it is now possible to make and still keep the expenditures within the annual limits fixed by public-buildings legislation.

SETTLEMENT OF WAR CLAIMS

The sum of $50,000,000 is recommended toward carrying into effect the provisions of the settlement of war claims act (alien property), approved March 10, 1928. Of this amount, $25,000,000 is to be allotted for the payment of claims allowed by the arbiter for German ships, patents, and radio stations seized by the United States, toward which, under the provisions of the act, partial payments may be made under tentative awards pending final decision. The remaining $25,000,000 is to be credited to the special fund from which will first be paid the American claims. Awards for the payment to American citizens are now being certified by the Mixed Claims Commission through the Department of State. The committee recommends the appropriation of the full $50,000,000, so that the settlement of claims that have been pending for many years may be disposed of as rapidly as determination can be effected.

CAPE COD CANAL BONDS

The sum of $6,230,000 is recommended for the payment of the $6,000,000 of 5 per cent, 50-year, first-mortgage bonds of the Cape Cod Canal Co., authorized to be purchased under the provisions of the river and harbor act of January 21, 1927.

Title to the canal passed to the United States on March 30, 1928. The earliest date on which the bonds can be called by the United States under the contract is January 1, 1929. The amount recommended includes $225,883.33 for interest on the bonds from March 30, 1928, to January 1, 1929, $4.116.67 for expenses of advertising, and $6,000,000 to cover the face value of the bonds.

ACQUISITION OF TRIANGLE PROPERTIES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

An estimate of $9,750,000 was submitted for the acquisition of additional property under the authorization of $25,000,000 in the act of January 13, 1928, for the purchase of sites for Government buildings, and other purposes, in the so-called triangle area. The committee recommends $5,000,000 of the sum estimated. The Treasury appropriation act for the next fiscal year contains an appropriation of $2,680,000 for this purpose, which, together with the sum granted herein, will make a total available the first year under the $25,000,000 authorization of $7,780,000, or approximately one-third. The committee is of the opinion that this amount is all that should be granted at this time, and is further of the opinion that the sum should be used to make the most advantageous purchases possible from all of the properties contemplated to be taken under the act. The committee is further of the opinion that acquisition of such property in full should not be proceeded with wherever condemnation is necessary until a more comprehensive and adequate condemnation law is provided. Such legislation is now pending in Congress.

MARINE CORPS

The sum of $2,353,747.69 is recommended for the Marine Corps, in addition to a reappropriation of $863,336.31, making a total of $3.217,084, on account of extraordinary expenses incurred during the fiscal year 1928 for keeping the expeditionary forces in China and Nicaragua. The force stationed in each place is approximately 3,750 men. In addition to the appropriations made available in this bill, there has been expended from current appropriations approximately $220,000, which would otherwise not have been expended, making the total extraordinary cost for this fiscal year on account of the two expeditions approximately $3,400.000, of which 56 per cent is on account of China and 44 per cent on account of Nicaragua.

FOREIGN AIR MAIL

The sum of $1,750,000 is recommended to enable the Postmaster General to carry into effect the provisions of the act approved March 8, 1928, authorizing contracts for the transportation of mail by air to foreign countries and insular possessions for periods not exceeding 10 years. This amount will supplement the sum of $300,000 already appropriated for the next fiscal year for foreign air-mail service. With the expenditure of the amount recommended it is contemplated to extend the existing lines into Cuba and the West Indies and to undertake the establishment of lines to Mexico and other Central American countries and possibly South America. Very little definite information is available at this time in connection with the proposed routes. The Government has recognized the necessity of taking a leading part in the inauguration of such a service and hopes to be able as soon as funds are available to proceed upon definite lines and secure contractors for carrying the mail over the proposed routes. The project is an essential one not only for the development of air navigation but very important from the standpoint of development of a more rapid means of communication between the United States and Central and South America.

ACQUISITION OF ADDITIONAL LANDS FOR FOREST RESERVES

The act of April 30, 1928, authorized the appropriation of $2,000,000 for the fiscal year 1929 for the acquisition of additional lands for forest reserves. Of this authorization the sum of $1,000,000 is provided in the agricultural appropriation act for 1929, leaving $1,000,000 to be provided in this bill to supplement that sum. The amount carried in the agricultural act is made immediately available and is already committed by projects now approved by the National Forest Reservation Commission and unless the additional sum is granted now, the work of the commission will be practically at a standstill during the next fiscal year so far as the initiation of new projects is concerned.

JUDGMENTS AND AUDITED CLAIMS

The sum of $2,879.412.45 is carried for the payment of judgments rendered against the United States by United States district courts and for the payments of audited claims settled and determined by the General Accounting Office. These judgments and claim allowances are final and binding on the United States and their payment should not be delayed or avoided. In connection with the appropriations for the payment of judg

ments the committee has inserted a limitation, upon recommendation of the Comptroller General, prohibiting the payment of interest on any judgment for a period in excess of 30 days after the approval of the act in which is contained the appropriation for the payment thereof. The Comptroller General advised the committee that frequently in cases where judgments bear interest at 6 per cent from date of rendition to date of payment, the judgment creditors are slow to request payment because of the unusual interest rate and of the security of payment due from the United States Government. The General Accounting Office is prepared to pay judgments promptly after the appropriation is made for them and the committee is of the opinion that a period of 30 days affords sufficient time in which to make payment, and that thereafter interest should cease. AMMUNITION STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION, WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS The bill contains a total of $3,108,159 for ammunition storage facilities and redistribution of ammunition at ammunition depots for the War and Navy Departments, of which the sum of $1,193,998 is recommended for the Navy Department and $1.914.161 for the War Department.

The recommendations contained in the bill are the conclusions of a special subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations and the history, explanation, and development of the items contained in the bill are fully and completely set forth in the following special report which the Committee on Appropriations has adopted in full:

REPORT OF THE SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ON AMMUNITION STORAGE, WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS

MAY 15, 1928.

From: Special subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations on the subject of ammunition storage, consisting of Messrs. FRENCH (chairman), BARBOUR, HARDY, TABER, CLAGUE, OLIVER, HARRISON, AYRES, and COLLINS.

To: Acting chairman Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives.

The special subcommittee, composed of the entire membership of the subcommittees charged with the consideration of the annual War and Navy Department appropriation bills, designated by our late chairman, the Hon. Martin B. Madden, to consider the report (H. Doc. No. 199, 70th Cong.) on ammunition-storage conditions of the Joint Army and Navy Board appointed pursuant to the provision contained in the first deficiency act, fiscal year 1928, authorizes me to present the following report:

HISTORICAL

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Following the cessation of hostilities with the Central Powers of Europe the need arose to house great quantities of ammunition of all classes. Existing storage facilities, both Army and Navy, were not adequate to shelter the accumulation without creating hazards to life and property, public and private. remained no alternative, however, if the material was to be preserved, and at a number of Army and Navy storage depots vastly more explosive material was permitted to be stored than good practice warranted. This situation continued, being somewhat ameliorated from time to time by service expenditures and deterioration and a certain amount of redistribution, until lightning occasioned a disastrous explosion at the naval magazine, Lake Denmark, N. J., on July 10, 1926, which resulted in bringing ammunition-storage conditions forcibly to the attention of all concerned.

The Congress was not in session when the Lake Denmark disaster occurred. The then chairman of the Appropriations Committee (Mr. Madden), however, assured the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy Department that he would support him in securing reimbursement of his then current appropriation for such reasonable and necessary expenditures as he might make in rehabilitating the Lake Denmark depot, removing certain high explosives and properly storing the same at a point where the hazard would be negligible. Accordingly, estimates later were presented totaling $927.000 and appropriations made in consonance therewith in the first deficiency act, fiscal year 1927.

Subsequently, estimates aggregating $3,122,681 were presented and considered in connection with the second deficiency bill, fiscal year 1927, for taking care of the Army's ammunitionstorage situation at Raritan, N. J., and Curtis Bay, Md. The Appropriations Committee did not include the items comprising the sum stated in the bill reported to the House. However, this bill, it will be recalled, did not become law.

At the commencement of the present session estimates aggregating $3,110,000 were again presented touching the ammuni

tion situation at Raritan and Curtis Bay for consideration in connection with the first deficiency bill, fiscal year 1928. Simultaneously, an estimate of $2.300.000 was presented for the rehabilitation of Picatinny Arsenal, N. J., to correct the situation there occasioned by or growing out of the Lake Denmark disaster.

The appropriation on account of Picatinny has been made in accordance with the estimate. However, again the committee did not recommend appropriations on account of Raritan and Curtis Bay. Instead, the first deficiency act, fiscal year 1928, carried the following provision:

The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, through a joint board composed of officers appointed by them, shall make a survey of the points of storage of supplies of ammunition and components thereof for use of the Army and Navy, with special reference to the location of such ammunition and components as are in such proximity to populous communities and industrial areas as to constitute a menace to life and property. The results of such survey shall be embodied in a joint report which the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy shall make to Congress not later than March 15, 1928, with their recommendations as to what changes, if any, should be made in such storage facilities and their points of location and the feasibility of the joint use thereof by the Army and Navy.

REPORT OF JOINT BOARD

The report of the joint board thus created was transmitted to the Speaker on March 9, 1928, and by him referred to the Committee on Appropriations on March 12, 1928. The report is exceedingly well prepared and is sound both in its premises and conclusions. Its perusal by all concerned is recommended. Paragraphs 4, 5, 6, and 8 of the report follow:

4. The most stringent laws on explosives in the United States are the laws of the State of New Jersey. These, together with the American Table of Distances, are the result of studies of the effects of every known explosion in the world since 1863 on which reliable data could be obtained. They are commonly recognized throughout the United States. Such few other States as have laws on explosives have generally copied those of the State of New Jersey.

5. The board has adopted the laws of the State of New Jersey, which incorporate the American Table of Distances, for its standard of safety. In the few cases not specifically covered by them, the board has adopted safety standards worked out independently-but with almost identical results-by the Army and Navy. All these safety standards are used as minima. As regards the " safety" of individuals and structures outside the boundaries of ammunition depots, the word "safety" is a relative term. No one is ever absolutely safe from injury. The average chance of the average individual of escaping injury has, by custom, been termed "safe." It is with such an understanding that the board uses the expression.

6. A common error, and an utterly unreliable safety guide in judging the safety of ammunition storage, is to assume that the danger is measured by the total amount of explosives stored. It is not the total amount in the depot that should be the guide but rather the amount in any one pile or building, the manner in which this is stored, and the kind of explosives that are stored in its vicinity. Certain explosives are merely fire hazards while others are explosive hazards; some are safe when stored by themselves and dangerous when stored with others; some are dangerous only when subjected to fire; the danger from practically all types may be greatly reduced by employing suitable methods of storage.

8. Military high explosives must, from the nature of their employment, be so insensitive to shock that they will withstand firing from cannon and so safe in storage that they may be carried year after year in the ships of the Navy. The board does not desire to convey the impression that military high explosives are not hazardous under certain conditions, but it does desire to point out that the hazard is relatively smaller than that of certain commercial explosives, such as dynamite, nitroglycerin, etc. The hazards of military explosives are fairly well known and can be removed or effectively controlled by following certain well-established principles, such as those adopted by this board for its guidance. A brief summary of the varying hazards of military high explosives follows:

The joint board states that stored ammunition creates three kinds of hazards: Fire hazard, explosion hazard, and missile hazard. Its recommendations are predicated upon the elimination to the extent practicable of all hazards and are designed, in addition to providing for the safety of life and property adjacent to the depots, to limiting by dispersion and proper storage any appreciable loss by fire or explosion of the ammunition reserve of our armed forces, which, from a national-defense standpoint, is of paramount importance.

In selecting destinations for ammunition to be moved

Again quoting from the joint board's report—

the board acted with due regard both to safety and to practical considerations, such as the correct strategic location of ammunition reserves, the vacant storage space and Government-owned land available, the ability to make peace-time ammunition shipments economically, the avoidance of storage conditions liable to cause excessive deterioration, and the reasonable limitation of the possible ammunition loss in a single fire or explosion.

The subcommittee wishes to direct especial attention to the personal interest of service people in the proper adjustment of this matter, as voiced by the joint board in paragraph 14 of its report, reading as follows:

14. The board does not consider it amiss to state that no agency has any more personal interest in the safe storage of military explosives than the personnel of the Army and Navy itself. The people who live and work in the ammunition depots are the officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army and Navy. Their families usually live on the reservation with them. No one is more vitally interested in safe storage than these persons who are most likely to suffer in case of explosion.

HEARINGS

The special subcommittee has held extended hearings, which have been printed and are presented herewith. All of the members of the Joint Army and Navy Board appeared before it, and in the consideration of the Navy's problems members of the Naval Affairs Committee aided to the fullest extent in working out a definite program with the view to getting it under way without delay. The Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Chief of the Naval Bureau of Ordnance appeared before the subcommittee, and the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with the subcommittee's request, furnished cost figures for making effective the joint board's recommendations with respect to naval-ammunition storage.

OBSERVATIONS

The subcommittee is impressed with the need for providing completely, properly, and promptly for the accommodation of Army and Navy ammunition. It is alive to the prevailing uneasiness in certain sections occasioned by the nearness of ammunition storage. It believes that the remedy lies in the compiete adoption of the primary recommendations of the joint board, except as to Raritan, N. J., and Curtis Bay, Md., hereinafter referred to. It sees no occasion for the abandonment of any of the existing stations. Each is necessary in the dispersion scheme, and some of these need to be enlarged in area, and each has a current mission or a potential one in time of national emergency. The joint board's recommendations are designed in the interest of safety to neighboring communities as well as to station personnel and property.

The subcommittee finds that the Navy is in a worse plight than the Army as regards ammunition storage. Particularly is this true as to east-coast storage and conditions in Hawaii. The establishment of additional depots would seem to be the only remedy.

The report of the joint board includes comment and recommendations with respect to naval ammunition storage points, but includes no cost estimates. These have been supplied to the committee by the Secretary of the Navy, as previously indicated.

Ammunition storage facilities, Army: Toward providing ammunition storage facilities (limit of cost, $3,316,505), in accordance with the primary recommendations contained in House Document No. 199, Seventieth Congress, except as to Raritan, N. J., and Curtis Bay, Md., as to which such primary recommendations are modified to call for a total expenditure on account of each of such places of $593,015 and $257,280, respectively, $1,914,161, including $204,000 for the acquisition of land, and such sum shall remain available until June 30, 1930.

NAVY

The subcommittee recommends the complete adoption of the joint board's primary recommendations. The Navy's chief problem in the United States is the lack of storage facilities for proper dispersion and housing, creating a condition in east-coast depots that should not longer be tolerated. The subcommittee concurs in the joint board's recommendation that the solution lies in the establishment of an additional depot and, since the fleet is maintained in the Pacific, believes that such a depot should be established at some isolated point served by transportation lines within a reasonable radius of the west coast. The joint board had the benefit of studies made by the Navy Deprojects were examined and particular attention was given to two sites that seemed most desirable-one at Secret Valley, Calif., and the other at Hawthorne, Nev. The latter was recommended by the joint board and has been recommended by the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives after extensive hearings (see H. R. 13682), the thought being, first, that it can be established at a saving of about $457.000 over the Secret Valley site; second, that the character of the terrain is conditions are as good, if not better. Your committee concurs considered to be more suitable; and third, that meteorological in the conditions recorded. The cost completely to establish the Hawthorne depot has been estimated at $3,500,000. (For details, see hearings, p. 171.) With such a depot the Navy would be enabled to relieve the situation on the east coast, where adjustments then can be made that will make all the depots along the Atlantic seaboard comply with the safety standards which guided the joint board in framing its recommendations.

NEW EASTERN DEPOT NOT RECOMMENDED

Your subcommittee considered the question of establishment of an eastern ammunition storage depot adequate for either the Army or the Navy, or both, and the possible abandonment of three or more of the existing depots in the East which

band, the First Battalion of the Sixteenth Field Artillery, the Sixth Field Artillery band, Tank Corps personnel with 48 tanks.

The marine and naval contingent comprised a regiment of naval men from Hampton Roads Naval Base; the Navy band; the Fifth Regiment of Marines from Quantico, Va.; the Marine Band; a detachment of troops from Marine Barracks and the navy yard in the District of Columbia.

As I watched the parade, with its display of uniforms, guns, machine guns, caissons, tanks, and all the accessories of war, I wondered if we were back in Germany or in France in 1914, inciting the populace to a World War under Kaiser Wilhelm or the French militarists, or whether we were in the United States in the year 1925, a few years after the war to end war, gazing upon one of the most impressive and colorful spectacles in a Nation populated by citizens devoted to peace and peaceful pursuits.

I grew sick at the sight of all these war paraphernalia. Mark you, there were 48 rumbling, trundling tanks. Not one, that might have been fairly paraded as evidence of the development of national defense, but 48 of them.

If guns and swords, bayonets, and machine guns, tanks, and all the man-killing and man-maiming instruments of modern warfare are to be exhibited to the gaze of a patriotic throng in attendance at the inauguration of their Chief Executive, why not complete the picture and satisfy the morbid, blood-thirsty beings hungry for such a spectacle by exhibiting as a part of the parade a few more of the instruments used in times past and present for taking human life.

In other words, if the inauguration of a President of the United States in a time of peace-at a time when the clamor of the whole civilized world is for the ending and the outlawry of war-if the inauguration features are to be overshadowed by a parade glorifying the wholesale murder and slaughter called war, why not do it up brown," why not make it complete, why not show it up in all its barbaric, satanic bestiality and gruesomeness?

Let some one impersonate Socrates drinking the hemlock. His life was snuffed out for bearing witness to the truth against the autocrats of his day.

Give us an arena, with real lions and animals dressed in the clothes of human beings torn to pieces by them.

Erect a replica of the Roman instrument of torture and killing, and have some soldiers nailing a human form to the cross and hoisting it in the air.

Let forms representing human bodies be dragged at the end of triumphant chariots.

Let us have a Procrustean bed and something representing a living human being that might be stretched to conform to the size of the bed, or might have its limbs sawed off for the same purpose.

The picture would be decidedly incomplete without a human torch in effigy. Let us have a burning at the stake. Of course, the gibbet must have a place in the procession. Let us have the trapdoor and all, with something representing a human form dangling in the noose.

Naturally, we must have a float showing some one being roasted alive over a real fire.

And if it should be difficult to secure anyone willing to enact this fiendish rôle, surely it should be comparatively easy to obtain a modern version of this hellish torture, an electric chair in which we roast and toast people alive in our would-be Christian civilization.

But the real features are neglected in the modern warfare exhibit. Let us have it in all its hideousness. We see the rifles, machine guns, artillery, and tanks; why have the barbed wire, the shattering grenades, the poison gases, the flame throwers, the trench daggers with metal knuckles, the numerous other death and terture dealing weapons and instruments been omitted from the spectacle? Give us a large float, with a miniature city populated by mice and guinea pigs, so that we may have a hint of what lethal gas can do and will do in the next war. Let us see war in its hideousness, with the wire, trenches, lice and vermin, reek and stench, disfigurement and gore, instantaneous death, and lingering death, and even living death. In short, if the parades at the inaugural ceremonies are to portray war instead of peace, let it not be simply glorification of war by giving us a picture of beautiful uniforms, gleaming ornaments, shining weapons giving off the sunlight's glint, prancing steeds with sleek coats and polished hoofs, medals and insignia, salutes, and martial music. Let us have a true picture, an honest portrayal of man's inhumanity to man, in the hundred different ways of torturing and killing our fellow humans.

I have cited but a few examples. I might insert a list of over 2,000 instruments of torture and killing employed by punitive groups from antiquity down to the present time. The vast majority of them, and the most inhuman among them all, the most devilishly devised, have had their origin in a so-called Christian civilization. And there are devices and instruments, methods and plans now being perfected which challenge our very imagination and our conception of wholesale death, which, if ever used, will make the World War shambles dwindle into the insignificant.

In the name of decency, in the name of humanity, in the name of every Christian in this Nation, in the very name of the Prince of Peace I solemnly protest against making our festive events and ceremonies--and especially the inauguration of our Presidents-the occasions for glorifying war and the taking of human life. If we want the world to believe us even half civilized, let the instruments of killing, of wholesale murder and slaughter, be banished forever from our public parades.

O, Mr. Chairman, I am not protesting against any and all participation in such ceremonies and parades by representative groups and detachments from each arm of our national defense. Certainly our well-drilled, well-equipped, well-disciplined troops are to us as citizens a matter of pride; we recognize their proper place in our scheme of Government, and any parade might well be considered incomplete without their rhythmic, swinging march.

And certainly those aged heroes of the more distant wars, who constituted the President's guard of honor, belonged in the position of honor which they were accorded in conformity with the President's wish. Yet they did not exhibit the weapons and instruments they used in their war to inflict death and torture, did they?

Nor do I protest against the military and naval bands which participated in the cavalcade. Our Army, Marine, and Navy bands are admittedly in the forefront of such musical organizations, and their stirring strains of marches and national airs could not well be dispensed with. Yet in time of war these musicians have a somewhat different task. Why not present some of them, if you please, with their stretchers, aid kits—yes, and their spades.

Why not equip the battalion of intrepid, well-groomed policemen who marched in the parade with their revolvers, bludgeons, black marias, and all their punitive instruments?

Had I the time I could easily point out a hundred different ways in which the parade could exemplify the pursuits of peace instead of war, in which it could be representative of all departments in the Chief Executive's branch of our Government, instead of a War Department field day. It should not be necessary. Visualize a parade showing the marvelous advance and progress in science, art, and invention, and in all fields of endeavor which make for progress in human liberty, mercy, and brotherhood. What limitless, endless opportunities for showing, not instruments for the taking of human life, typical of the human cruelty and hatred and revenge that finds its expression in the ghastly horror of modern war, but devices for conserving and prolonging human life, enhancing and furthering the pursuits of peace and the spirit of brotherly love between man and

man.

Whoever may be the one to be inaugurated as our next President, to whichever party he may belong, whatever be his nationality or his creed, I appeal to him, I adjure him-I believe I do so in the name of all liberty-loving, peace-loving Christian men and women in the Nation--I appeal to him to make his inaugural parade not a messenger of war, but a message of peace, so to arrange and order it that it shall conform to the views and opinions of the Christian civilization which he is chosen to represent, and yet shall give fullest expression to the citizens who set aside that day in which to pay their respects and to honor their new President. [Applause.]

Mr. BYRNS. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. SABATH].

Mr. SABATII. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD.

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

Mr. SABATH. Mr. Chairman, within a short time after the 1924 quota restriction law was enacted, civic organizations and, especially, the women's organizations of America, appealed to Congress that the law be amended by eliminating some of the extremely harsh and unjust provisions.

Extra and special appeals have been made to humanize the law, so as to enable the reuniting of families.

Such organizations as the national board of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, repre