urging a higher tariff on sugar; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 17. By Mr. HOWARD: Petition signed by Goldie Farrar, of Belgrade, Nebr., and 160 other citizens of that community, protesting the calling of an international conference by the President of the United States or the acceptance by him of an invitation to participate in such a conference for the purpose of revising the present calendar, unless a proviso be attached thereto definitely guaranteeing the preservation of the continuity of the weekly cycle without the insertion of blank days; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 18. Also, petition signed by H. P. Solomon and 200 others of Crofton, Nebr., protesting the calling of an international conference by the President of the United States or the acceptance by him of an invitation to participate in such a conference for the purpose of revising the present calendar, unless a proviso be attached thereto definitely guaranteeing the preservation of the continuity of the weekly cycle without the insertion of blank days; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 19. Also, petition signed by Andrew Johnson and 18 other citizens of Omaha, Nebr., pleading for the passage of House bill 14676, which will work for the welfare of the disabled SpanishAmerican War veterans, and asking for early consideration of this bill by the Congress; to the Committee on Pensions. 20. By Mr. O'CONNELL of New York: Petition of the Richard Hudnut Co., New York City, opposing an increase in duty on nonedible blackstrap molasses; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 21. Also, petition of the Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Co. (Inc.), protesting against the proposed duty on Canadian lumber, lath, and shingles; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 22. Also, petition of the Clay-Adams Co. (Inc.), New York City, favoring certain duties on surgical instruments; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 23. Also, petition of J. U. Parsons, New York City, favoring an increased duty on straw hats; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 24. Also, petition of the New York & New Jersey Lubricant Co., opposing the proposed duty on industrial oils and fats; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 25. Also, petition of Penick & Ford (Ltd.), New York City, favoring certain duties on tapioca and sago flours; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 26. Also, petition of Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, New York City, opposing the removal from the free list of works of art more than 100 years old; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 27. Also, petition of the Catskill Chamber of Commerce, Catskill, N. Y., favoring a reasonab e tariff on cement not less than the difference between foreign and American labor costs; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 28. Also, petition of the Building Material Men's Association of Westchester County, N. Y., protesting against the proposed duty on lumber, shingles, and lath; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 29. Also, petition of the Cut and Uncut Pile Manufacturers' Association of Philadelphia, Pa., favoring an increase in duty on cut and uncut pile fabrics; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 30. Also, petition of the National Almond Products Co. (Inc.), of Brooklyn, N. Y., opposing a higher duty on shelled nut meats; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 31. Also, petition of the Association of American Weighmasters (Inc.), of New York City, protesting against any legislation which will in any way tend to reduce or adversely affect the importation of sugar from the Philippine Islands into the United States; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 32. Also, petition of the Upholstery Weavers and Workers Union, Local No. 1525, of Mount Holly, N. J., favoring an increase in duty on drapery and upholstery fabrics; to the ComImittee on Ways and Means. 33. Also, petition of Jacob De Jong, president Artificial Flower Industry of America, favoring an increase of duty at least sufficient to cover 50 per cent of the difference in wages in the artificial flower trade; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 34. Also, petition of the National Association of Men's Neckwear Manufacturers of New York, requesting a separate classification of men's neckwear manufactured out of fabric composed wholly or in chief part of silk, and an increase of duty provided under the act of 1922; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 35. Also, petition of the Surplus Control League of the Pacific Northwest, Garfield, Wash., favoring to the producer the 42-cent tariff on wheat; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 36. Also, petition of the State of Georgia Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga., with reference to oleomargarine; to the Committee on Agriculture, 37. Also, petition of the Legislature of the State of New York, memorializing the Congress to enact such appropriate legislation as will grant the citizens of Porto Rico the right to elect their own governor by popular vote and the power to select the members of his own cabinet; to the Committee on Insular Affairs. 38. Also, petition of E. Clemens Horst Co., San Francisco, Calif., concerning national farm relief; to the Committee on Agriculture. 39. Also, petition of John Reese, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Broken Bow, Nebr., requesting that pension legislation be considered during the special session; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 40. Also, petition of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, Spokane, Wash., favoring the passage of the Furlow bill for a survey, map spotting, and proper marking of landing fields along an aerial route between the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle, Wash.; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 41. Also, petition of the Children's Welfare Federation of New York City (Inc.), favoring the proposed Federal legislation required for the continuation of a child-welfare extension service similar to that provided for under the Sheppard-Towner Act; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 42. Also, petition of the American Legion of the State of New Mexico, opposing plan toward the abandonment of the United States Veterans' Bureau hospital at Fort Bayard, N. Mex.; to the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929 The House was called to order by the Speaker. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and approved. COMMUNICATIONS Communications, pursuant to clause 2, Rule XXIV, were referred as follows: 1. A letter from the chairman of the national legislative committee of the American Legion, transmitting the annual report of the American Legion for the year 1928; to the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. 2. A letter from the chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, transmitting a copy of the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America (H. Doc. No. 2); to the Committee on Education and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. MEMBERS SWORN IN Mr. RICHARD S. ALDRICH, a Member elect from the second district of the State of Rhode Island; Mr. SAMUEL S. ARENTZ, a Member elect at large from the State of Nevada; Mr. CHARLES H. BRAND, a Member elect from the eighth district of the State of Georgia; Mr. GORDON BROWNING, a Member elect from the eighth district of the State of Tennessee; Mr. CHARLES L. GIFFORD, a Member elect from the sixteenth district of the State of Massachusetts; Mr. ALBERT JOHNSON, a Member elect from the third district of the State of Washington; Mr. WILLIS G. SEARS, a Member elect from the second district of the State of Nebraska; Mr. WILLIAM F. STEVENSON, a Member elect from the fifth district of the State of South Carolina; and Mr. ALBERT H. VESTAL, a Member elect from the eighth district of the State of Indiana, presented themselves at the bar of the House and took the oath of office prescribed by law. TO ADMINISTER AFFIRMATION OF OFFICE TO A MEMBER Mr. DARROW submitted the following resolution, which was considered and agreed to (H. Res. 15): Whereas W. W. GRIEST, a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania, from the tenth district thereof, has been unable from sickness to appear in person to be affirmed as a Member of the House, and there being no contest or question as to his election: Therefore be it Resolved, That the Speaker, or a deputy named by him, be, and he is hereby, authorized to administer the affirmation of office to said W. W. GRIEST at Lancaster, Pa., and that the said affirmation, when administered as herein authorized, shall be accepted and received by the House as the affirmation of office of the said W. W. GRIEST. Thereupon the Speaker designated Hon. Charles I. Landis, judge of the county of Lancaster, Pa., to administer the affirma tion of office to Mr. GRIEST. REPORT OF COMMITTEE NOTIFYING THE PRESIDENT Mr. TILSON, on behalf of the committee appointed to wait upon the President, reported that the committee, appointed by the Speaker on the part of the House to join a like committee on the part of the Senate to inform the President that a quorum of each House is assembled and that Congress is ready to re ceive any communication he desires to make, had performed that duty, and that the President had informed the committee that he would communicate to the House a message in writing. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT-ANNUAL MESSAGE A message in writing from the President of the United States was communicated to the House by Mr. Latta, one of his secretaries. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The SPEAKER laid before the House the message from the President, which was read by the Clerk, as follows: To the Congress of the United States: I have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election-farm relief and limited changes in the tariff. The difficulties of agricultural industry arise out of a multitude of causes. A heavy indebtedness was inherited by the industry from the deflation processes of 1920. Disorderly and wasteful methods of marketing have developed. The growing specialization in the industry has for years been increasing the proportion of products that now leave the farm, and in consequence prices have been unduly depressed by congested marketing at the harvest or by the occasional climatic surpluses. Railway rates have necessarily increased. There has been a growth of competition in the world markets from countries that enjoy cheaper labor or more nearly virgin soils. There was a great expansion of production from our marginal lands during the war, and upon these profitable enterprise under normal conditions can not be maintained. Meanwhile their continued output tends to aggravate the situation. Local taxes have doubled and in some cases trebled. Work animals have been steadily replaced by mechanical appliances, thereby decreasing the consumption of farm products. There are many other contributing causes. The general result has been that our agricultural industry has not kept pace in prosperity or standards of living with other lines of industry. There being no disagreement as to the need of farm relief, the problem before us becomes one of method by which relief may be most successfully brought about. Because of the multitude of causes and because agriculture is not one industry but a score of industries, we are confronted not with a single problem alone but a great number of problems. Therefore there is no single plan or principle that can be generally applied. Some of the forces working to the detriment of agriculture can be greatly mitigated by improving our waterway transportation; some of them by readjustment of the tariff; some by better understanding and adjustment of production needs; and some by improvement in the methods of marketing. An effective tariff upon agricultural products, that will compensate the farmer's higher costs and higher standards of living, has a dual purpose. Such a tariff not only protects the farmer in our domestic market but it also stimulates him to diversify his crops and to grow products that he could not otherwise produce, and thus lessens his dependence upon exports to foreign markets. The great expansion of production abroad under the conditions I have mentioned renders foreign competition in our export markets increasingly serious. It seems but natural, therefore, that the American farmer, having been greatly handicapped in his foreign market by such competition from the younger expanding countries, should ask that foreign access to our domestic market should be regulated by taking into account the differences in our costs of production. The Government has a special mandate from the recent election, not only to further develop our waterways and revise the agricultural tariff but also to extend systematic relief in other directions. I have long held that the multiplicity of causes of agricultural depression could only be met by the creation of a great instrumentality clothed with sufficient authority and resources to assist our farmers to meet these problems, each upon its own merits. The creation of such an agency would at once transfer the agricultural question from the field of politics into the realm of economics and would result in constructive action. The administration is pledged to create an instrumentality that will investigate the causes, find sound remedies, and have the authority and resources to apply those remedies. The pledged purpose of such a Federal farm board is the reorganization of the marketing system on sounder and more stable and more economic lines. To do this the board will require funds to assist in creating and sustaining farmer-owned and farmer-controlled agencies for a variety of purposes, such as the acquisition of adequate warehousing and other facilities for marketing; adequate working capital to be advanced against commodities lodged for storage; necessary and prudent advances to corporations created and owned by farmers' market ing organizations for the purchase and orderly marketing of surpluses occasioned by climatic variations or by harvest congestion; to authorize the creation and support of clearing houses, especially for perishable products, through which, under producers' approval, cooperation can be established with distributors and processors to more orderly marketing of commodities and for the elimination of many wastes in distribution; and to provide for licensing of handlers of some perishable products so as to eliminate unfair practices. Every penny of waste between farmer and consumer that we can eliminate, whether it arises from methods of distribution or from hazard or speculation, will be a gain to both farmer and consumer. In addition to these special provisions in the direction of improved returns, the board should be organized to investigate every field of economic betterment for the farmer so as to furnish guidance as to need in production, to devise methods for elimination of unprofitable marginal lands and their adaptation to other uses; to develop industrial by-products and to survey a score of other fields of helpfulness. Certain safeguards must naturally surround these activities and the instrumentalities that are created. Certain vital principles must be adhered to in order that we may not undermine the freedom of our farmers and of our people as a whole by bureaucratic and governmental domination and interference. We must not undermine initiative. There should be no fee or tax imposed upon the farmer. No governmental agency should engage in the buying and selling and price fixing of products, for such courses can lead only to bureaucracy and domination. Government funds should not be loaned or facilities duplicated where other services of credit and facilities are available at reasonable rates. No activities should be set in motion that will result in increasing the surplus production, as such will defeat any plans of relief. The most progressive movement in all agriculture has been the upbuilding of the farmer's own marketing organizations, which now embrace nearly 2,000,000 farmers in membership and annually distribute nearly $2,500,000,000 worth of farm products. These organizations have acquired experience in virtually every branch of their industry, and furnish a substantial basis upon which to build further organization. Not all these marketing organizations are of the same type, but the test of them is whether or not they are farmer owned or farmer controlled. In order to strengthen and not to undermine them, all proposals for governmental assistance should originate with such organizations and be the result of their application. Moreover, by such bases of organization the Government will be removed from engaging in the business of agriculture. The difficulties of agriculture can not be cured in a day; they can not all be cured by legislation; they can not be cured by the Federal Government alone. But farmers and their organizations can be assisted to overcome these inequalities. Every effort of this character is an experiment, and we shall find from our experience the way to further advance. We must make a start. With the creation of a great instrumentality of this character, of a strength and importance equal to that of those which we have created for transportation and banking, we give immediate assurance of the determined purpose of the Government to meet the difficulties of which we are now aware, and to create an agency through which constructive action for the future will be assured. In this treatment of this problem we recognize the responsibility of the people as a whole, and we shall lay the foundations for a new day in agriculture, from which we shall preserve to the Nation the great values of its individuality and strengthen our whole national fabric. In considering the tariff for other industries than agriculture, we find that there have been economic shifts necessitating a readjustment of some of the tariff schedules. Seven years of experience under the tariff bill enacted in 1922 have demonstrated the wisdom of Congress in the enactment of that measure. On the whole it has worked well. In the main our wages have been maintained at high levels; our exports and imports have steadily increased; with some exceptions our manufacturing industries have been prosperous. Nevertheless, economic changes have taken place during that time which have placed certain domestic products at a disadvantage and new industries have come into being, all of which creates the necessity for some limited changes in the schedules and in the administrative clauses of the laws as written in 1922. It would seem to me that the test of necessity for revision is in the main whether there has been a substantial slackening of activity in an industry during the past few years, and a consequent decrease of employment due to insurmountable competition in the products of that industry. It is not as if we were setting up a new basis of protective duties. We did that seven years ago. What we need to remedy now is whatever substan tial loss of employment may have resulted from shifts since | lin W. Fort, of New Jersey; Franklin Menges, of Pennsylvania; that time. No discrimination against any foreign industry is involved in equalizing the difference in costs of production at home and abroad and thus taking from foreign producers the advantages they derive from paying lower wages to labor. Indeed, such equalization is not only a measure of social justice at home, but by the lift it gives to our standards of living we increase the demand for those goods from abroad that we do not ourselves produce. In a large sense we have learned that the cheapening of the toiler decreases rather than promotes permanent prosperity because it reduces the consuming power of the people. In determining changes in our tariff we must not fail to take into account the broad interests of the country as a whole, and such interests include our trade relations with other countries. It is obviously unwise protection which sacrifices a greater amount of employment in exports to gain a less amount of employment from imports. I am impressed with the fact that we also need important revision in some of the administrative phases of the tariff. The Tariff Commission should be reorganized and placed upon a basis of higher salaries in order that we may at all times command men of the broadest attainments. Seven years of experience have proved the principle of flexible tariff to be practical, and in the long view a most important principle to maintain. However, the basis upon which the Tariff Commission makes its recommendations to the President for administrative changes in the rates of duty should be made more automatic and more comprehensive, to the end that the time required for determinations by the Tariff Commission shall be greatly shortened. The formula upon which the commission must now act often requires that years be consumed in reaching conclusions where it should require only months. Its very purpose is defeated by delays. I believe a formula can be found that will insure rapid and accurate determination of needed changes in rates. With such strengthening of the Tariff Commission and of its basis for action many secondary changes in tariff can well be left to action by the commission, which at the same time will give complete security to industry for the future. Furthermore, considerable weaknesses on the administrative side of the tariff have developed, especially in the valuations for assessments of duty. There are cases of undervaluations that are difficult to discover without access to the books of foreign manufacturers, which they are reluctant to offer. This has become also a great source of friction abroad. There is increasing shipment of goods on consignment, particularly by foreign shippers to concerns that they control in the United States, and this practice makes valuations difficult to determine. I believe it is desirable to furnish to the Treasury a sounder basis for valuation in these and other cases. It is my understanding that it is the purpose of the leaders of Congress to confine the deliberations of the session mainly to the questions of farm relief and tariff. In this policy I concur. There are, however, certain matters of emergency legislation that were partially completed in the last session, such as the decennial census, the reapportionment of congressional representation, and the suspension of the national-origins clause of the immigration act of 1924, together with some minor administrative authorizations. I understand that these measures can be reundertaken without unduly extending the session. I recommend their consummation as being in the public interest. HERBERT HOOVER. THE WHITE HOUSE, April 16, 1929. The message was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. MAJORITY MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES Mr. TILSON submitted the following resolution, which was considered and agreed to (H. Res. 16): Resolved, That the following Members be, and they are hereby, elected members of the following-named standing committees of the House, to wit: Ways and Means: Willis C. Hawley, of Oregon (chairman); Allen T. Treadway, of Massachusetts; Isaac Bacharach, of New Jersey; Lindley H. Hadley, of Washington; Charles B. Timberlake, of Colorado; Henry W. Watson, of Pennsylvania; James C. McLaughlin, of Michigan; Charles C. Kearns, of Ohio; Carl R. Chindblom, of Illinois; Frank Crowther, of New York; Richard S. Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Harry A. Estep, of Pennsylvania: C. William Ramseyer, of Iowa; Frederick M. Davenport, of New York; and James A. Frear, of Wisconsin. Agriculture: Gilbert N. Haugen, of Iowa (chairman); Fred S. Purnell, of Indiana; Thomas S. Williams, of Illinois; Charles J. Thompson, of Ohio; John C. Ketcham, of Michigan; Thomas Hall, of North Dakota; Harcourt J. Pratt, of New York; Frank August H. Andresen, of Minnesota; Charles Adkins, of Illinois; John D. Clarke, of New York; Clifford R. Hope, of Kansas; Elbert S. Brigham, of Vermont; and Victor S. K. Houston, of Hawaii. Rules: Bertrand H. Snell, of New York (chairman); Thomas S. Williams, of Illinois; Fred S. Purnell, of Indiana; Earl C. Michener, of Michigan; Harry C. Ransley, of Pennsylvania; Franklin W. Fort, of New Jersey; Joseph W. Martin, jr., of Massachusetts; and Lloyd Thurston, of Iowa. MINORITY MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES Mr. GARNER submitted the following resolution, which was considered and agreed to (H. Res. 17): Resolved, That the following-named Representatives be, and they are hereby, elected members of the standing committees of the House, as follows: Ways and Means: John N. Garner, Texas; James W. Collier, Mississippi; Charles R. Crisp, Georgia; John F. Carew, New York; Henry T. Rainey, Illinois; Cordell Hull, Tennessee; Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina; Heartsill Ragon, Arkansas; Samn B. Hill, Washington. Agriculture: James B. Aswell, Louisiana; David H. Kincheloe, Kentucky; Marvin Jones, Texas; Hampton P. Fulmer, South Carolina; Thomas A. Doyle, Illinois; William W. Larsen, Georgia; William L. Nelson, Missouri. Rules: Edward W. Pou, North Carolina; William B. Bankhead, Alabama; John J. O'Connor, New York. COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS TO SIT DURING SESSIONS Mr. HAWLEY, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution, which was considered and agreed to (H. Res. 18): Resolved, That the Committee on Ways and Means is authorized to sit during the sessions and recesses of the present Congress, to employ such expert, clerical, and stenographic services and to gather such information, through Government agents or otherwise, as to it may seem fit, in connection with the consideration and preparation of a bill or bills for the revision of the tariff act of 1922 and other customs laws; to purchase such books and to have such printing and binding done as it shall require, in addition to requiring the attendance of the committee stenographers; and to incur such other expenses as may be deemed necessary by the committee. All expenses of the committee incurred for any such purposes shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on the usual vouchers submitted by the chairman of the committee and approved by the Committee on Accounts. PRINT AGRICULTURE BILL IN THE RECORD On motion of Mr. TILSON, by unanimous consent, the bill (H. R. 1) to establish a Federal farm board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries, was ordered to be printed in the RECORD. PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE On motion of Mr. BLACK, by unanimous consent, Ordered, That on to-morrow, immediately after the reading of the Journal and disposition of business on the Speaker's table, he be permitted to address the House for 30 minutes. LEAVE OF ABSENCE By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted- ADJOURNMENT On motion of Mr. TILSON, at 12 o'clock and 49 minutes p. m., the House adjourned. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 3 of Rule XXII, public bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows: By Mr. CRAMTON: A bill (H. R. 699) to prevent fraud, deception, or improper practice in connection with business before the United States Patent Office, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Patents. By Mr. GAMBRILL: A bill (H. R. 700) to amend section 210 of the World War veterans' act, 1924; to the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. Also, a bill (H. R. 701) relating to length of service of professors of mathematics in the United States Navy; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. HAWLEY: A bill (H. R. 702) authorizing J. C. Ten Brooks, his successors and assigns (or his heirs, legal representatives and assigns), to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Columbia River at or near Astoria, Oreg., to connect Roosevelt Military Highway in Oregon with Washing ton Ocean Beach Highway; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. HOFFMAN: A bill (H. R. 703) to authorize a uniform and equipment allowance for officers of the Army; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 704) to grant relief to those States which brought state-owned property into the Federal service in 1917; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 705) to apply pension laws to the Coast Guard; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. BEEDY: A bill (H. R. 706) to permit the granting of l'ederal aid in the improvement of highways which lead directly to or from publicly owned bridges which are operated as toll bridges until the cost of their construction is reimbursed; to the Committee on Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 707) to authorize an appropriation for construction at Fort McKinley, Portland, Me.; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. BOYLAN: A bill (H. R. 708) to provide additional leave of absence to postal employees; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By Mr. FISHER: A bill (H. R. 709) in reference to members of the Officers' Reserve Corps, United States Army; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 710) to amend section 259 of the Judicial Code; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. SUMMERS of Washington: A bill (H. R. 711) to establish the Wright transcontinental airway; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. GIBSON: A bill (H. R. 712) providing for a 44-hour week for certain Government employees; to the Committee on the Civil Service. By Mr. GLOVER: A bill (H. R. 713) to control the orderly marketing of agricultural products; to the Committe on Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 714) to purchase a site and the erection of a public building at Stuttgart, Arkansas County, Ark.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 715) to prevent the sale of cotton and grain in future markets and to aid agriculture; to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 716) to purchase a site and the erection of a public building at Malvern, Hot Springs County, Ark.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 717) to enlarge the Army and Naval General Hospital at Hot Springs National Park, Ark.; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 718) to purchase a site and the erection of a public building at England, Lonoke County, Ark.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 719) to provide for the making of loans to drainage or levee districts which form a part of the flood-control system, and for the purpose of aiding agriculture; to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. By Mr. GLYNN: A bill (H. R. 720) providing for the purchase of certain inventions, designs, and methods of aircrafts, aircraft parts, aeronautical and aviation technique of Edwin Fairfax Naulty and Leslie Fairfax Naulty, of New York; to the Committee on Patents. Also, a bill (H. R. 721) providing for the purchase of certain inventions, designs, and methods of aircraft, aircraft parts, aeronautical and aviation technique of Edwin Fairfax Naulty and Leslie Fairfax Naulty, of New York; to the Committee on Patents. By Mr. JOHNSON of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 722) to provide for the return of unused premiums collected on policies issued on the lives of seamen during the World War; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 723) to provide for the payment of compensation to World War veterans in certain cases; to the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. Also, a bill (H. R. 724) to increase the minimum rate of invalid pensions; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 725) providing for a mine rescue station at Terre Haute, Ind.; to the Committee on Mines and Mining. Also, a bill (H. R. 726) for the repeal of the provisions in section 2 of the river and harbor act approved March 3, 1925, for the removal of a dam at Grand Rapids, on the Wabash River, Ill. and Ind.; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. By Mr. KEMP: A bill (H. R. 727) authorizing an exchange of properties for the purpose of the erection of a new Federal building at Baton Rouge, La.; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. COYLE: A bill (H. R. 728) to amend section 2 of the act relative to naturalization and citizenship of married women, approved September 22, 1922; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. McLEOD: A bill (H. R. 729) to protect the title of motor vehicles within the District of Columbia; to provide for the issuance of certificates of title and evidence of registration thereof; to regulate purchase and sale or other transfer of ownership; to facilitate the recovery of motor vehicles stolen or otherwise unlawfully taken; to provide for the regulation and licensing of certain dealers in used and secondhand vehicles as herein defined; to prescribe the powers and duties of the director of traffic hereunder; and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions hereof; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. MAPES: A bill (H. R. 730) to amend section 8 of the 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, and for other purposes," approved June 30, 1906, as amended; to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 731) for the improvement of Holland Harbor and Black Lake, Mich.; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Also, a bill (H. R. 732) for the improvement of Grand Haven Harbor and Grand River, Mich. : to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Also, a bill (H. R. 733) to provide for a deep waterway for ocean-going vessels for the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River and the Welland Canal; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Also, a bill (H. R. 734) to exempt veterans of the World War from payment of the fee for the issuance of a passport; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. PRALL: A bill (H. R. 735) granting increased gratuity pay and pensions to widows or beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men who are killed or disabled in time of peace while engaged in hazardous occupations; to the Committee on Pensions. Also, a bill (H. R. 736) to authorize the cession to the city of New York of land on the northerly side of New York Dorp Lane in exchange for permission to connect Miller Field with the said city's public sewer system; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. SCHAFER of Wisconsin: A bill (H. R. 737) to amend the national prohibition act; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. SIMMONS: A bill (H. R. 738) authorizing amendment of the existing contract between the United States and the Northport irrigation district; to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. By Mr. SNELL: A bill (H. R. 739) to amend section 5 of the act of March 2, 1895, relating to official bonds; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. SPROUL of Illinois: A bill (H. R. 740) to increase the salaries of certain postmasters of the first class; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 741) to provide for sending certain mail matter by air mail by Members of Congress and certain other persons; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By Mr. WAINWRIGHT: A bill (H. R. 742) to prevent desecration of the flag and insignia of the United States and to provide punishment therefor; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. WATSON: A bill (H. R. 743) to prohibit the sending of unsolicited merchandise through the mails; to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By Mr. WRIGHT: A bill (H. R. 744) to authorize and direct the Secretary of War to execute a lease with Air Nitrates Corporation and American Cyanamid Co., and for other purposes; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. JAMES: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 28) for the appointment of a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives to investigate the pay allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service; to the Committee on Rules. By Mr. COCHRAN of Missouri: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 29) authorizing the President to appoint A. Campbell Turner to the Foreign Service of the United States; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. GOLDER: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 30) proposing an amendment to the Constitution abolishing the immunity of Members of Congress for speeches and debates in either House; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. McLEOD: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 31) authorizing the appointment of a commission to study the causes and Also, a bill (H. R. 181) to amend the national prohibition act; By Mr. PORTER: A bill (H. R. 182) to provide for the re- Also, a bill (H. R. 183) making the physician in charge of By Mr. BACHARACH: A bill (H. R. 184) for the protection By Mr. BURTNESS: A bill (H. R. 185) to amend section 180, Also, a bill (H. R. 186) to authorize the Secretary of Agricul- ture to provide for licensing laboratories for making determina- tions of protein in wheat and oil in flax, to maintain laboratories to pass on appeals from determinations of licensed laboratories, to acquire and disseminate information relative to protein in wheat and oil in flax, and for other purposes; to the Committee Also, a bill (H. R. 187) providing for the calling of adverse parties for cross-examination in actions at law or equity; to the Also, a bill (H. R. 188) granting the consent of Congress to By Mr. CARLEY: A bill (H. R. 189) repealing the adoption of project for improvement of waterways connecting Gravesend Bay with Jamaica Bay; to the Committee on Rivers and By Mr. CANNON: A bill (H. R. 190) to establish a Federal farm board to aid in the orderly marketing and in the control By Mr. CROSS: A bill (H. R. 191) to provide for the preven- tion and removal of obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in cotton, by regulating transactions on cotton fu- tures exchanges, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 192) to provide for the stabilization of the prices of cotton by taking the surplus or a sufficient portion thereof off the market during years of overproduction and placing it back on the market during years of underproduction; to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. DICKINSON: A bill (H. R. 193) to amend the grain futures act; to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 194) to provide for research work in con- nection with the utilization of agriculture products other than forest products, and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. DOUGLASS of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 195) to amend the immigration act of 1924 by the repeal of the na- tional-origins method of establishing immigration quotas; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. FULMER: A bill (H. R. 196) to provide for the use of net weights in interstate and foreign commerce transactions in cotton, to provide for the standardization of bale covering for cotton, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture. Also, a bill (H. R. 197) to provide for research work in con- nection with the utilization of agricultural products other than forest products, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 198) to regulate shipments of cotton, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Also, a bill (H. R. 199) to enlarge the fish-cultural station at Orangeburg, S. C.; to the Committee on the Merchant Marine By Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 200) granting the consent of Congress to compacts or agreements between the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming with re- spect to the division and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado, Green, Bear or Yampa, the White, San Juan, and Dolores Rivers, and all other streams in which such States or any thereof are jointly interested; to the Committee on Irriga- Also, a bill (H. R. 201) granting the consent of Congress to Also, a bill (H. R. 202) granting the consent of Congress to Also, a bill (H. R. 203) to provide for the approval of the Also, a bill (H. R. 204) to amend the tariff act of 1922; to Also, a bill (H. R. 205) to amend the tariff act of 1922 in Also, a bill (H. R. 206) to amend tariff act of 1922; to the Also, a bill (H. R. 207) to amend section 4 of the interstate commerce act; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Also, a bill (H. R. 208) to add certain public lands to the Leadville National Forest, Colo.; to the Committee on the Also, a bill (H. R. 209) to establish an additional United Also, a bill (H. R. 210) granting 50,000 acres of land to the Also, a bill (H. R. 211) to provide a summer residence for the President of the United States; to the Committee on Public to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill (H. R. 213) authorizing the appointment of mid- Also, a bill (H. R. 214) to establish a free guide service for the Capitol Building; to the Committee on Accounts. By Mr. VINSON of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 215) for the pre- vention and removal of obstructions and burden upon interstate commerce in cotton by regulating transactions on cotton-futures exchanges, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agri- By Mr. FULMER: A bill (H. R. 216) to authorize the Secre- tary of the Treasury to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, such additional land in the city of Sumter, S. C., as may be necessary for the extension and remodeling of the post-office building of said city, to cause said building to be extended and remodeled, and authorizing an appropriation therefor; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also, a bill (H. R. 217) for the construction of rural post roads, exclusive of those now included in the system of Federal aid for construction of post roads; to the Committee on Roads. Also, a bill (H. R. 218) to authorize an appropriation to en- able the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau to pro- vide hospital facilities at or near Columbia, S. C.; to the Com- mittee on World War Veterans' Legislation. Also, a bill (H. R. 219) authorizing the establishment of the South Carolina migratory-bird refuge; to the Committee on Also, a bill (H. R. 220) to establish and maintain a pecan experiment station at or near the city of Orangeburg, S. C.; to Also, a bill (H. R. 221) authorizing an appropriation of $2,000 for the erection of a tablet, or marker near Leesville, S. C., to commemorate the burial place of Capt. James Butler, sr., James Butler, jr., and the 20 American soldiers killed and massacred in the Battle of Clouds Creek in 1781; to the Committee on the Library. Also, a bill (H. R. 222) to amend an act entitled "An act to and the western district into five divisions," by adding a new division to the eastern district and providing for terms of said court to be held at Orangeburg, S. C.; to the Committee on the Also, a bill (H. R. 223) to provide for the making of loans to drainage or levee districts, and for other purposes; to the |