July 25, 1917
l\lr. SHEPPARD. 1\1r . President, I desire to ask the chairman of the Committee on Commerce [l\lr. FLETCHER] if he will consent to have the pending bill temporarily laid aside in order that I may present a request for . unanimous consent for the fixing of a date for a vote on the nation-wide prohibition constitutional amendment? I think it will take only a few minutes. If it leads to any debate, I shall withdraw the request.
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l\Ir. KENYON. Considering the condition of some of the creeks and rivers which are proposed to be appropriated for in the pending bill, I should think that would be a very appropriate course. - e.
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l\lr. FLETCHER. I do not like to stand in the way of the Senator's request, and if it does not lead to debate I shall have no objection to his preferring it now ; but I am very much afraid it will lead to debate.
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1\Ir. PENROSE. 1\I.r. President, I have just entered the Chamber. Has the Senator from Texas asked unanimous consent; and if so, for what?
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1\Ir. SHEPPARD. I have a ked unanimous consent that the pending bill be laid aside temporarily in order to ascertain if unanimous consent can be granted to fix a date for voting on the joint resolution for a constitutional amendment for nation-wide prohibition. ·
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1\Ir . PENROSE. I desire to say to the Senator from Texas that I shall object }u t now to unanimous con ent. I understood from him that he would not call this matter up until later in the morning, when certain Senators were present.
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Mr. SHEPPARD. The Senators to whom the Senator from Pennsylvania refers have come in. It is for that reason that I have at this time made the effort to secure unanimous consent. 1\Ir. PENROSE. I was not in, and I object to the request at this.-time. I want to tell the _ Senator that I have no desire to filibu ter or to make continued opposition to the consideration of this measure, but I think it ought to be proceeded with in due course and in proper order.
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Mr. SHEPPARD. I was acting in entire good faith. I presumed that the present moment would be acceptable, the absent Senators having arrived .
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l\1r. PENROSE. I do not say the Senator was not acting in good faith.
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1\fr. SHEPPARD. Very well. I withdraw the request for the present.
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Texas withdraws his request.
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PETITIONS OF CITIZENS OF FOREIGN POWERS.
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1\fr. Sl\lOOT. Mr. President, will the Senator from Iowa yield to rue a moment?
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Iowa yield to the Senator from Utah?
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Mr. KENYON. I yield to the Senator.
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1\fr. SMOOT. 1\Ir. President, on yesterday the senior Senator from Illinois [l\!r. LEWIS]-! thought the Senator was in the Chamber when I rose or I would have waited for his presence, but I will present the matter anyhow-stated: · I present a petition signed by Edward de Valera, member elect of the British Parliament, and other officers of the Irish republican army, praying for the complete liberation of the Irish Nation. I a k that the petition be printed Jn the RECORD.
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There being no objection, the petition was ordered to IJe printed in the RECORD, as follows : .
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Then follows the petition, with the names of the signers.
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l\Ir. President, I mu t have been out of the Chamber when that request was· made or I should certainly have called attention to the Senate Rules and Manual, paragraph 5 of Rule VII of which says, in part :
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No petition or memorial or other paper signed by citizens or subjects of a foreign power shall be received ,- unless the same be tran s mitted to the Senate by the President.
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1\lr. President, I understand that this very petition was sent to the Vice President with the request that it be placed in the RECORD, and that the Vice President, referring to this rule, called attention to the fact that it could only be submitted to the Senate through the President of the United State . I pre ume some one has imposed upon the senior Senator from Illinois.
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1\Ir. President, as soon as the Senator from Illinois comes into the Chamber, I desire to - state now that I shall ask 'that the petition be expunged from the permanent REconn.
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