December 17, 1917

"No true American lle51tates to make any :necessary sacrifice, even the supreme sacrifice, . ifice, Jf need be; but sacrifices 'forced by discrimination are a different thing.

"I beg to assure you that l write for in:formation rather than for the purpose of criticism, and l know that if . your answe-r is wlm.'t con. fidence in the wisdom and fairness of my Government · assures ~ it ought to · be, it will strengthen the patriotic resolution of aiil industrial army of men to bear with fortitude the ills of the emergency measures

Yours, very truly,

F . A. CHURCHILL .

The statements 'made by 'Mr, Churchill demand consideration of the country. , He points out the 'fact, as we have recently done, in regard to the scarcity of coal and shortage of transportation and be says that while brewery sidetrack'S at Dayton, Ohio, are filled with cars loaded with coal the public schools of that city may be forced to close on account of lack of coal

We do not believe that the Government can get .away from a ques'tion which 'has been put • squarely "Qp to it in regard to cutting out the -entir-e Orewecy busi'ness and the handling of transportation of alcoholic liquors of all kinds as a war measure. Unless the Government cuts this business entirely out of all transportation and out of the use of coal it can .have no moral right to cut out transportation of anything else on earth or 'to require the closing of any plant for lack of fuel. The . production of coal, ot foodstuffs, of iron and steel and other things :needed for the war and the building of ships is greatly hampered by the fact that many of the men · working in these industries have their efficiency lessened by much drinking. '!'here can · be no possible argument in favor of permitting the continuation of the w-hisky .and brewery business when transportation and coal and foodstuffs are aU - so short. The use of these materials or of transportation fo'r the : pro­ · duction or the handling of beer or alcoholic drinks of any kind is . now a criminal waste which President Wilson and his advisers can not over . .lo'Ok. If the Government will cut this business entirely out, purely as 'a war . rueasme, leaving, if need be, to the f · future the :question of the moral issue, it will be rendering humanity · a service of inestimable 'talne.

Bearing on the use of coal and transportation, when both are acutely sho.rt, for the production of beer, Mr. E. D. Leacn, the assistant State fUel adruinistratGl' of Ohio, is .quoted as . saying :

"If the Lust.tania 'Were now floating the · Seas, tlle coal used annually in the manufacture of beer · in this country would furnish f.uel · for 726 round trips : for the giant ship · and transport 23,5.95,000 · tons of supplies to · the allies.

" Coal 'USed for the • manufacture of beer in Ohio alone would flll"'lisb more than ~6 round trips and carry nearly 2,000,000 tons of supplies - a year.

" It requires 180,000 oo.rs of coal, or R.OOO trains, to move the raw material to the breweries.

"We have heard a great deal about · the grain in the beeT and abOut the sugar in · the beer, cbut we have heard little about the -coal 'in beer. " Coal is one of the principal ingredients. It takes almost · exactly a · pound · of coal to :produ.ce -a pint of beer. ·

What is to be the Government's stand in · the . light of the facts presented as to the criminal waste ot .fuel or :food material alld of transportation? Dr. Garfield is urging that in private homes, on street cars, and in many other -ways :fuel · should • be saved to the utmost extent, but we have not yet -seen .any direct statement from Dr. Garfield insist· ing that the supply of fuel to the breweries shall be cut out. J'udge Lovett issued an order cutting :ou:t practically .all transportation of materials for building highways and S · streets, things which are absolutely -essential to the welfare of ' the country. :and more essential in war times than in peace. But we have not seen that Judge Lovett has refused the 1.1se of cars :for handling coal to breweries, 'the use of cars · for · race·track horses, .or the 'Use of cars for the :materials whlch enter into · the manufacture o! beer, l(}r :the nse , of .cars :for the . distribution of beer . and whisky. . ·

President Wilson Jias rightly appealed to th.e Nation for increased production of everything which enters into :the maintenance of tlle war, from foodstuffs to .ships. and also :the cutting down .ro the greatest extent . possible of the consumption of . foodstuffs. But we ha-ve .not yet noticed that President Wilson has taken a definite stand ~n .the cutting out -of the manufacture and the handling and the distribution of all brewery and other alcoholic products.

Where does the Government propose to stand on these great economic measures, even if we disregard for the time the moral issue involved?

LABOR SUPPLY CAN BE INCREASED, VICTORY IN WAR H.ASTENi>D, AND

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF 'SOLDIERS Kl!lPT FROM · DEATH .AJ.I."D BILLIONS

OJI' MONEY · SAVIlD.

We face a great shortage .of pig iron, indeed a famine, wit-h conS"Umers eagerly sc£ambling for iron without .finding an adequate supply.

We bav _ e a coal famine · upon us, with schools, chu:rches, do.m · domestic consumers, industrial plants, and iron furnaces unable to secure supplies equal to their immediate pr-essing needs.

We .have .a wood famine. and w.ith vast forests of timbers available .U 'is difficult at times to secure even a supply of kindling wood regardless of 1>rlce.

Our food production i wholly inadequate to our o~ needs, n.ntl farm labor is inadequate to increase the output sufficient to meet · the urgent <·all for grain and meat. ·

Transportation facilities by rail and water and highway have practic:llly colla p. t>d as measured by the· needs of the time, and . billions must be expended to increase transportation, or else all other things i that we . do will be in vain. .

· Th e world's s hippin g has been submarined to a fearful e.xtent, and the ships that hav e escaped this bell-devised weapon of murder are being overstrained and overworked. . - We must build ships to the utmost stretch of our power regardless of cost.

We must push iron and coal production to the last limit of our · capacity, and to do this riew coal and ore mines must be opened, new furnaces built, new coke ovens constructed, and existing plants must be crowded even to the danger point of overwork that the present !<itua tion may be relieved.

1-lhiplmllder · are calling for timber and steel and laborers ; the world is begging for more food and must keep on pleading for meat and bread long after the war has ended. Coal mines are short of labor. furnaces and steel works and lumber yards are hampered for lack of labor. Civilization an(} our existence as a free Nation hang in the balance for lack of labor.

An ample supply of labor working regularly and efficiently would solve every problem of increased coal output, of more rapid shipbuilding, and of larger food production, anll would greatly help to settle · the labor question as it affect the expansion of transportation facilities. There is a way in which this labor problem can to ~ very large extent be solved to t - h enormous benefit of the laborers. to tb increased efficiency of everything that makes for the welfare of the Nation, to the protection and safeguarding of our soldiers, , and to our ability to win th e war.

To fail to use such means would be an unspeakable crime against our soldiers: it would mean tile unnece ssa ry death of hundreds of thousands who oth«:>rwl e would be ·n.wd, the expenditure of many billions more than would be needed if we should adopt this measure; ; it would mean the lengthening of the war and pri..-ations in the way of less e netl food and fuel for a hundred million people.

Has the Nation the courage to meet the i ss ue?

Dare the Pre !dent and his advisers and Congress refuse to do that which would mean o much for humanity, while the failure to do it would I.Je a crime against Heaven and eart h?

Th e so solution of the problem i · to be found in national prohibition ()f the manufacture , sale. and distribution of alcoholic drinks of every kind as a necessary war measure,

This would save 2,000,000,000 to $3 , 000 , 000 , 000 now wast e d in drink. . .

It would va tly increa e the _ efficiency and regularity of work.

It would destroy the power for evil of the German-owned saloon, the hotbed of anti-American and antiwork activities, and it would turn hundreds of thousands of llrinl.:-cuned bells into blessed hom~~ of !'loln1ety and honesty.

It would cut · out the enormous amount of fuel and other materials Ul!led in the manufacture of beer. _

It would save the transportation of beer and beer-making materia l s man. and whisky for the needs or industry, now sadly hampered by la c k of transportn tlon. · .

It would provide half a million or more able-bodied workers for essential things instead of permitting them to curse the Nation as at present . ent with employment which · makes for t11e death of soldiers, decreasoo output o food , ships' iron and steel, and coal, and everything that i . essential. .

On one side stands national ,, fficif'ncy to the highest llegr e. on the ether drunkenness. inefficiency, delays in war , and th~ utmost power et !i'ro - German activities to bring death and defeat to our armies.

Federal reports show that there are nearly ~00,000 con ce rns in the T nited · States, including drug stores, that are licensed to sell liquors. Republic." There are about 46,000 drug stores. This would le . a..-e, in round num­ !Jerll, about 150,000 concerns licensed by the National Government in the country. It is safe to estimate that there are 300,000 men engaged iu saloons and hotel ba.I-roms: In 191~ there w ere more than 70,000 wage · ge earners, not counting ~mploytl'l'! and salaried men, engaged in the production of liquors. Ir to this number we ' should add the men employed in the manufacture of barrels and kegs and bottles and other materials that enter into the producti<m antl the handling of liquors lt is easily seen that the nnmlx>r of men thus engaged must exceed 500.000.

Every man thus employed could find work in some other line which would be useful to the country .

Here . is a drain of r>OO,OOO men. and of aU the influenc e connected T < with their work, which is a direct and deadly power against national ~fficiency and .national production to meet war needs. ·

Every saloon in existence is a use of :pro.Perty which could b~ better employed for some other purpose in the interest ot · tl1e country .

Every man aml woman connected with tile trade in all its wide ramification· could become a producer of things needed for tile winning of the war · rather than a producer er CJr a handler o! things which minimize our power to carry on war.

Will the Nation face this issue squarely, and while drafting men for the Army and . calling upon men for shi pyard s and for all other net! viti e: for 'the war, permit more than half a million men to continue to operate industries which specifically .and to a tremendous extent lessen the efficiency of all the other working forces of the country? If looked at purely as · a war measure, from the economic standpoint, , and entirely without regard to the moral issue, the Nation will be guilty of criminal ~bortcoming if it fails to cut out the entire liquor traffic-brewery and saloon interests. ·

Where do you stand, business man, laboring man, politician, states­ cating liquors. . man, Congre sman, Mr. President?

WHAT GE.N, PE.RSHING SAYS.

Tlif're was a time when it was a natural part of a soldier's existence to drink and carou e. That day is past, with the soldier sworn to defend his country's flag and representing the power and dignity of the Nation. Strong muscles, clear brains, high ideals in the soldier · increase the fighting efficiency of the army, and these qualities of the citizen insure the permanency of our institution·.

Gentlemen, I want you to listen to this:

Banish the entire liquor industry from the United States for the · duration of the war; close every saloon, every brewery: rigorously ' and l'igorou Jy enforce the law; suppress drinking by severe punishment to the drinker, . and, it necessary, death to the seller or maker, or botl1, as traitors, and the Nation would suddenly find itself amazed at its efficiency and startled at the vast increa e in its la.bor supply.

Mr. Speaker, we are now fighting a number of great enemies. We are fighting Germany and Austria; but my opinion i s that the most stealthy and dangerous enemy to om· country during the war is the liquor traffic. For God's sake, gentlemen of the House, let us not go through what England has had to go through on this question. This is what Lloyd George said, an<l I believe he is an authority of the Briti h Empire. Here is what he said: . d:

We are fighting Germany, Austria, and drink, and, as far as I can see, the greatest ol these three deadly foes is drink.

[Applause.]

It is true there, antl it is true in this country.

1\Ir. GRA.H.A._l\1 of Illinois. . Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. WEBB. I am sorry, but I can not yield. I would yield if I had the time. Mr. peake r, the American people, the Prohibitionists, the Christian people of · all section " · of this country were never more united and determined in their effort to llriYe the liquor traffic from the face of om· fair land. Never was ~ tlle Roman war cry " Delenua est urthago ! " more ceaseless antl remorsele s than that of the American Christian anr1 temperance people that the saloon. mu t be destroyed, and 1 110pe to-day's epochal vote will be the beginning of its de truction. [Applause.]

Drunken orgies undermined the character and stability of the Roman people and made them easy prey for the Goths and Vandals. We are determined b, the help of God that intoxicating liquors shall not undermine and de troy our people so that they ' will become a prey to German domination. · For more than half a century Bacchus has held wide . wav in the United States, but timing recent years the temperanc'P. people, including the brave and godly women, have awaken to the horror of his infernal reign.

We have learned that alcohol causes the death of more than GG,OOO human beings in our country every year.

We have l earned that nl co hol is a poison which paralyzes the white blood corpuscles, , gh-iug pneumonia and tuberculosis almost a free hand in their 1' morsele. attack upon a <1rinkiug We llaYe learned that the burden of drink is not borne bY the drunkard, but by the drunkard's children, and t.hat tller·e are in the United States 7,000 , 000 deficient school children, and 1 ss than 67,000 of the - ·e · are free from hereditary alcoholic taint .

\'\ With these facts before him a great thinker hail cried out, "We mu t settle the alcohol que ·tion within the next 10 years, or some more virile nation " will write the epitaph of this \Ve have learned that liquor and the liquor traffic · are the greatest crime breeders knO"l\'11 since the dawn of ci•ilizatiou and that 80 per cent o! the inmates of our penitentiaries were imprisoned entirely or partly on account of intoxicAting liquors. We have learned that tl1e principal agency by which tens o! thousands o! girls are led a. tray in th~ country ~ year is liquor :md the liquor traffic.

· we have learned that the greatest "cau e of commercialized vice is the use of intoxicating liquors.” · · ..

Will not these astounding revelations affect mankind? Will not hearts of adamant turn to flesh once more when they think o! the thousands of girls lured to their ruin; thousands of homes disgraced and in mourning for the lost child, gone out from the l1m·ental roof never to return , . garnered in the arms of Bacchus and buried in living, though forgotten, graves? ~ .

The thinking people of this country have . e . come to . agree with the great Gladstone's statement that the drink traffic has caused more suffering, misery, and death than all the famines, pestilences, and wars during the nineteenth century.

We have learned the truth of Judge Harlan's written opinion, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country are largely traceable · to the general use · of intoxiWe have learned the truth of a great editor's assertion when he said, ' Whisky finds a man full of · hope and courage and confidence in himself. It finds him with friends, receiving and giving affection, and one by one it takes these things from him. Have you seen a buzzard picking the skeleton of a horse? Whisky does its work as Yilely and as thoroughly . e.s d.oes the meanest buzzard. Bit by bit it pick from the man all that is worth while."

Little wonder is it, therefore, · that Bob Ingersoll in one of his .reflective moments should have cried out, "I do not believe anybody can contemplate the object without being preju<licctl against the liquor crime."

· ·. 'Vlw . tlefemls this traffic? The man who make money out of it nnu the · man who wants to raise revenue from it. But I submit that no person has the moral right to engage in this man-killing bu iness, much less has he any right to profit by it. And, as to the revenue, when the whole business is swept away our country, in the language of the great opinion of the Supreme 'ourt in the license cases, will be the gainer a tbonsam.lfolU in the health, wealth, and happiness of her people. ·' ' ~ith an the unanswered indictments against the liquor traffic ment. hefore us tell me why orie cancerous root of it should be left any"·here within our national confines.

I am filled with unspeakable happiness when r realize that we now have the traffic driven back to its last trench, surroun<lecl ln only 12 per cent of our national area, and I am 11rnying that one more drive will re ult in ending the business on om · shores forever.

The prohibitionists, and that includes practically all the great church nnu allied organizations, are fully alive to the evils of nlcoholi m and were · never more aggressive, active, and deter­ tion. mined in their united efforts to destroy the liquor traffic.

During one of the great battles fought by Mahomet, the tlng was shot . from the rampart . lt daring and devoted soldier immedintely seized it with his right hand and held it back on the rampart. Immediately his right arm was shot off, but, never falterino-, be seized the flag with his left hand, and that, too, \-vas instantly shot away, whereupon with his bleeding stubs he held the emblem in its 111uce until victory came. .

With a zeal and a determination akin to that \Yhicll animated this de,otee of the great Mahomet, let us wage a ceaseless battle nnd never henthe our words until our constitutional amendment i firmly adopted and the white banner of real effective prohibition proudly floats over every courthouse and city · hall throughout this the greatest Nation on earth. ·

America i the pioneer in the modern war . on the liquor traffic, . o let u. continue this g r eat crusade until the last vestige of the eYil-born bu in es.· shall have been swept away forever, and then we shall have “blazed out the path and made clear the B-arnhart way up which all the nations ot t he earth must come in God's own a11pointed time." [Applause.] · The SPEAKER. The 'Jerk \Yill report the re. olution for Black mnendm nt.

The Clerk rend as !ollo1"Vs: · · l':ECTIOX 1. The manufacture, sale, or tt·nn. portation ot intoxicatillg liquors within, the importation thereof into; or the erporbltion ' thl'reot' from the United States and all tenitory subject to the jurisdiction thereof to1· l>everage purpo~es is hereby prohibited.

The committee amendment was read, as follows: ·

On page 1 after section 1, ~trike out the wonl "The " and in. ert the w ords ·• after one year from the rati11cation of this article the," so that tJae ~~t ection a~ amended will read:

"SECTION 1. After one year from the ratilicntion of tbi!l article the manu!a ct ur-, sale, or tran portatlon of intoxicating liquors, etc."

The q ' uestion was taken, and the amendment -\va agreed to. The Ole1:k l'e~U. a follow~: .

Page 2 strike out sections 2 . and 3 and in~ert in lieu thereof the f«>llowing : ·

"SEc. 2. The Congres8 and the . eTeral States shall have concurreDt power to enforce this artrcle by appropriate Jegi~lation.

" SEc . . 3. This article shall be i1;1operatlve unless it shall han been • · atifletl as an amendment to the ConstltutioD by the legislatures of the "~veral States, as provided in the Constitution, within seTen year! !rom the date o! the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."

Ur. REA VIS. Mr. Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman will . state it.

lli. REA VIS. 1\lay we have a division of the vote on sections 2 and 3?

The SPEAKER I! anybody demands it.

lir. REA VIS. Well, I demand it, Mr. Speaker.

The SPEAKER. The question is on the first section of the amendment just read, which is: ·

SEC. 2. The Congre:ss and the several States shall have concurrent Decker · powe~ to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The question was taken, and the amendment was agreed to.

The SPEAiiER. The question is on the second proposition in the amendment, which is:

SEC. 3: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been Dixon ratified as an amendment to the Constitution b.Y the legislatures of the Doolittle several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from - the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congre:ss.

The question was tak,en, and the amendment : was agreed to.

The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment. The Clerk read as follows : ,·

Amendment by Mr. STEELE : Insert after line 17 the following:

·~ SEC. 4 . .Any State may recall its rejection or ratification ot this amendment at any time before three-fourths of the States have actually ratified the same." The que ·tion was tn ken, aml the amendment was rejected. ·

The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the next amendment. The · Clerk read as follows:

Amendment offered by Mr. LEA of California : Amend by adding at the end of section 1 the following:

Provided, This section shall not apply to wines containing rlot more than 14 per cent of alcohol or to beer containing not more than 3 per cent of alcohol, the power to permit, regulate, and prohibit the manufacture, use, and sale of which is t·esm·nd to the separate States."

The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. question was taken; and the Speaker announced that the noes seemed to have it.

1\Ir. CALDWELL. Divi sion, 1\fr. Speaker.

The House diviuctl; and there were-ayes 107, noes 232. · 1\Ir. JOHNSON of Kentucky. :Ur. Speaker, I U.emaml the yeas anu nays.

The yeas and nays were refused.

So the amendment was rejected.

The SPEAKER. The question is on _ agreeing to the r esolu ­ The . que tion was taken; and the Speaker announced that the ayes seemed to have it.

Ur. SABA.TH, Mr. STAFFouo, Mr. KonToN, and Mt·. WEnll uemandeu the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

The question was taken ; and there were-nyes 282, nay · 128, not voting 23, as follows :

YEAS-282.

Adamson Emer;oon King Russel! Alexander Esch Kinlmltl ~antlers, Ind. Almon Evans Kitchin ~antlers, La. Anderson Fairfield Knut5on ~anders, N. Y. Anthony Farr Kraus ::launders, Ya. Ashbrook_ Ferris Kreider Hchall Aswell Fess La Follette Scott, Iowa Austin Fields Langley :-;cott, 'h[lch. Ayre s Fisher Larsen Hears Racr Flood Lee, Ga. Sells Bank beau Focht Lenroot Sbacklf·forJ :Hark ley Fordney . Lever Shallenb · er~<'r

Foss Little Shouse

Beakes Foster Littlepage Hims Bell Frear I~obeck l-iinnott Hesblin Frencb J.undeen Sisson

Fuller, Ill. Lunn :-:lemp

Blaml Fuller, Mass. McClintic 8loan Booh er Gandy McCormick ~m1tb, l•la'ho Borland Garrett, Tenn. McCulloch Hmith, Mt r h. Bowers Garrett, Tex. licFaclllen Hnell Brand ' Glass ' McKenzie Snook Brodbeck Godwin, N. C. McKeown • · teagall Browne Good McKinley ::itedman lll'OWDing Goodall McLa ughliu, Mlch.Steenersou Brumbaugh (tould Mapes S t e phens,}li ss. Burnett Graham, Ul. Mays Sterling, Ul. '- Burroughs Green, Iowa Miller, llinn. Sterling, Pa. Butler f}regg Mon4lell Stevenson Byrnest.,S. C. Griest Montague Rtiness Byrns, Tenn. Hadley Moon . Strong Campbell, Kans. Hamilton, l\lich. Moor!'~, Inll. Humners Candler, Miss. Hamilton, K Y. Morgan Sweet Cannon Hamlin Mott Switzer Caraway Harrison, lliss. Nelson 'l'ayJor, Ark. Cal' lin Harrison, Va. Nicholls, S. C. '!'emplc Cartet·, Mass. Hastings Norton Thoma!! Carter, Okla. Haugen Oldfield Thomp. on Clark, Fl~. Hawley Oliver, Ala. Tlllma.n Claypool Hayden Oln~y 'l'imberlak!i Collier Helm Osborne 'l'owner Connally, Tex. IIelTering Overstre-et 'l'readway Connelly, Kans. Hensley Parlgett V P nablc Cooper, Ohio ­ Hersey Paige Yestal Cooper, 1\'. Va. Hicks Park Vioson Cooper, Wis. Hilliard Parker, N.Y. Volstead Copley Holland Peters Walker Costello Hollingsworth Platt Walton Cox Hood Polk Wison Cramton Houston Powers Watkins Crisp Howard Pratt Watson. Va. Curri<', Mich. Hull, Tenn. Price 'Venver · Dale, Vt. Humphreys Purnell Webb Dallinger Hutchinson Quin Welling Darrow Ireland Uagsdale Whaley

Jacoway Rainey Wheeler

Dempsey James Raker White, Me. Deriison Johnson, Ky. Ramseyer White, Ohio Denton J o.hnson, S. Dak. Raurlall Wflllami _Dicldnson .Tohnson, Wash. Rankin Wilson, Ill. Dill Jones, 'l'ex. Rayburn Wilson, La. Dillon Jones, Va. Reavis Wingo

Kearns Reed Wise

Keating Robbins Wood, Ind.

Dough ton Kehoe Robin on Woods, Iowa. Dowell Kelley, Mich. Romjue Woodyard Drane Kelly, Pa. Rose Young, N.Dak. Dunn Kennedy, Iowa. Rowe Young, •.rex. Elliott Kettner Rowland Zihlman Ellsworth Kless, Pa. Rubey Elston Kincheloe Rucker

NAYS-128.

Bacharach Buchanan Carew Cla _:r k, . Pa. Blackmon Caldwell · Cary Cia son Britten Cam pb ell, Pa. Chandler. N. Y. Comly Bruckner Can trill Chut·clJ Crngo

Cro scr ratl.am,Pa . McAndrews Saba.th Dale , N.Y. ray, Ala. 1cArthur Sanfo-rd Daviuson ray, N. J lll<'Laughlitl, Pa . Scott, Pa. Davis ~ reene, Mass. McLemore Sh rley Dent g~r~e, vt. Matlden Sherwood Dewalt Magee Siegel I>i<' ll a inlll Maher Slayden I>ominick Hardy Mansfield Sman Dooling ITa kell Martin Smith, C. B. Doremus H ea ton Meeker Smith, T. F. Drukh:er Heflin Merritt :?nyder Dup re H u d dleston Moore Pa. Stafford Dyer H ul b ert Morin Steele Ea ga n H ull, Iowa Mudd Sullivan Edm o nd s lgo e Nichols, Mich. Swift Est o pinal Juul Nolan Talbott Fa i r c hild, B. L. Kahn Oliv e r, N.Y. T e mpletou Fitz "' erald K e nnedy, R. 1. 0' haunessy Til on F)ynn Key, Ohio Ov e rmy l' r Van Dyke Fr hn ci s Lazaro Parker, N. J. Vare Fr ee man Lea, Cal. Pbelan Voigt Gall a gher Lehlbach Porter Waldow Garll Lesher Pou Walsh Garland Ltnthictun Ramsey Ward Ga r n e r London Riordan Watson, Pa. Gill e tt Lonergan Roberts Welt .. Gl y nn Lon~:WOrfh Rodenberg Wil on, Tex G or don Lufkin Rouse Winslow

NOT VOTING-23.

Bathrick Fairchild, G. W. L8:Guatdia Scully Blanton Gallivan Mann Stephens, Nebr. Capstick GuodWin. Ark. Mason Tague Chanul~r. Okla. Hayes Miller, Wash. Taylor, Colo . Curry, Cal. lT <' intz Neely Tinkham Eagle I : usted Rogers . S o (t f\ ' O- t hil'll · having voted in the affirmative) the resolution wn ~ u g reed to.

'l'J v:- Clerk a:rmounced the following pairs:

MT. GooDWil'i of Arkansas and Mr. M:tt.:i.ER of 'Vashington (for) with Mr · . TAGUE (against ).

Mr . NEELY and Mr . STEPHENS of Nebra ka (for) with Mr. GALLIVAN (ao-ainst).

1\Ir. TAYLOR <>f Col o rado and M r . GEoRGE W. FAIRCHILD (for) with l\fr . CtnmY of California (against).

The result Of the v ote w'li.S lUUiounced as above recorded.

1\Ir . MORGAN rose.

The SPNA.K.nR. For what purpose does the gentleman :t1·om Oklahoma rise?

1\Ir. l\lORGAtf. I d esire to tnake a statement relative to my colleague, Mr. CHANDLER. I understand that he left the believing that be had a pail•, , but that through some misunder­ same : standing the pair has been declared off. If he were present, he would have voted for the resolution.

· l\1r. NORTON" rose.

The SPEAK.ER. For what purpose does the gentleman from North Dakota rise?

Mr. NORTON. I move that the vote by which the res o lUtion was carried be reconsidered and that that motion be laid on table.

:\1r. WEBB rose.

The SPEAKBR. For what purpose does the gentleman from North Carolina rise?

l\1r. WEBB . If under the rules it is nece sary or permissible, I would like to make a motion to reconsider the vote and to lay that motion on the table.

T he SPEAKER. If there be no objection, the motion will agreed to.

There was no objection .

1\ Ir. NORTON. I made the same motion .

Mr. EAGAlj. Mr. Speaker; I would like to make a statement in regard to my colleague , Mr. SCULLY. He was unavoidably detained. if present, · ent, he " ' would have voted again s t the resolution.

l\1r. BROWNING. Mr. Speaker, my colleague, Mr. CAPSTICK, telegraphed me this morning to pair him against this resolution. We were unable to get a pair.

1\Ir. COOPER of West Virginia. Mr. Speaker, my colleague, 1\Ir. NEELY, was unavoidably detained. If he had been pres­ ne s; and ent, he would have voted "yea."

1\lr. SIEGEL. Mr. Speaker, I desire to announce that if my colle a gue, Mr. LAGUARDIA, bad been present he would have vote ( l ' no " on the resolution.

M r. HARRISON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I bad a pho ne message · from the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mt. GALLIVAN, asking me to state to the House that if he were ent he would have voted "nay" on the resolution.