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670,081,151 | Mr. President-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 331 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,892 | 3,892 | 08181921.txt | 14 | 2 |
670,081,152 | I now yield to the Senator from Utah.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 332 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,893 | 3,893 | 08181921.txt | 37 | 8 |
670,081,153 | I yield to the Senator from New York.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 333 | Mi. KING | Unknown | KING | Unknown | Unknown | 3,894 | 3,894 | 08181921.txt | 37 | 8 |
670,081,154 | Surely the Senator does not mean to leave the impression that the War Department at that time contended that they did not have a surplus of trucks?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 334 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,895 | 3,897 | 08181921.txt | 147 | 27 |
670,081,155 | I think the Senator is right with reference to the first application. but there was a.second application here. There was a bill passed here. I think during: the last Congress. iiconnectioin with which that argument.was made.. and trucks havebeen digtributed since then..
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 335 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,898 | 3,902 | 08181921.txt | 270 | 42 |
670,081,156 | I think the Senator is mistaken. He probably refers to the bill which was passed directing the Secretary of War to turn over tractorsjust tractors.. Mn SIMMONS. Possibly the Senator is right. but I am not mistaken in supposing and in stating that the Senator. speaking for 11 War Department. every timue a contribution on the part of the Government of these war iaterials to the States was proposed. spoke in opposition to it. and in strenuous opposition to it at that. I am not mistaken about that. and I am not mistaken in the statement that each time the Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives have overruled that contention of the War Department. and have adopted as a policy the turning over of these materials to the States as soon as they becane .unnecessary for war purposes.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 336 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,903 | 3,930 | 08181921.txt | 805 | 142 |
670,081,157 | Mr. President. will the Senator yield?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 337 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,931 | 3,931 | 08181921.txt | 38 | 6 |
670,081,158 | We have recently reduced the Army. reduced it. I believe. 70.000 inen. and if the trucks and materials that were on hand before the Army was reduced were sufficientand nobody has denied their sufficiencythen there must be a surplus of trucks and a surplus of war materials when we have reduced the Army at least onethird. Now. Mr. President. the Senator admits that there are about 18.000 trucks.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 338 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,932 | 3,939 | 08181921.txt | 396 | 68 |
670,081,159 | Motor vehicles of all kinds.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 339 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,940 | 3,940 | 08181921.txt | 28 | 5 |
670,081,160 | Motor vehicles and trucks of all kinds. That would seem to me to be quite a large number. but I make no point about that. If there are not more than the War Department needs. this bill does not require theim to turn over a single one. I do not understandand I want to be very frank about it. and I should like to have the attention of the Senator from New York when I say thisI do not understand this attitude of the War Department with reference to turning over this material to the States for road construction. So far as the interest of the War Department Is concerned. that is safeguarded by the provision that they shall not be required to turn over any materials unless there is a surplus. Now. what interest has the War Department in attempting to thwart this policy of the Government? Can it be that the War Department insists that its privilege of selling these war materials shall not be curtailed? That is its only interest in the matter. The -department does not have to turn over a single machine or a single.iten of material if it is needed for war purposes. It is only in case it is not needed that this bill requires the department to turn it over. What objection can the War Department interpose to that policy of the Government. unless the War Department thinks that the privilege of selling these war materials is a valuable privilege with which it does not desire to part? I know that sometimes the right to sell these enormous supplies that were left on our hands when the war closed has been thought to be quite a privilege. and I am afraid fliat it is a privilege out of which great profits at times have been made without the same Inuring to the Government. I do not say that anything of that sort enters into this transaction. but I do say that I can see no reason why the War Department should interpose its objection here when its interests are absolutely safeguarded by the terms of the bill. unless it wants to preserve the right to sell these war materials.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 340 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,941 | 3,974 | 08181921.txt | 1,987 | 367 |
670,081,161 | Mr. President. will the Senator yield?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 341 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,975 | 3,975 | 08181921.txt | 38 | 6 |
670,081,162 | Does the Senator from North Carolina yield to tile Senator from New York?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 342 | The PRESIDING OFFICER | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 3,976 | 3,977 | 08181921.txt | 73 | 13 |
670,081,163 | I yield to the Senator. M-. WADSWORTH. Would it interest the Senator to know that the War Department has taken no attitude whatsoever on this matter. that I do not represent the War Department. and that I have not discussed it with the department. either with the Secretary or with other persons?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 343 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,978 | 3,983 | 08181921.txt | 296 | 52 |
670,081,164 | Then the opposition which the Senator makes here today is not at all inspired by the War Department?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 344 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,984 | 3,986 | 08181921.txt | 100 | 18 |
670,081,165 | It is not.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 345 | Mir. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,987 | 3,987 | 08181921.txt | 10 | 3 |
670,081,166 | I am glad to hear it.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 346 | MIr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,988 | 3,988 | 08181921.txt | 21 | 6 |
670,081,167 | It Is inspired by my own conviction as to the proper course to pursue.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 347 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 3,989 | 3,990 | 08181921.txt | 70 | 14 |
670,081,168 | I am glad to hear it. Now. Mr. President. let me pass from that.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 348 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,991 | 3,992 | 08181921.txt | 64 | 14 |
670,081,169 | Mr. President. would it interrupt the Senator-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 349 | Mr. KING | Unknown | KING | Unknown | M | 3,993 | 3,994 | 08181921.txt | 46 | 7 |
670,081,170 | Does the Senator from North Carolina yield to the Senator from Utah?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 350 | The PRESIDING OFFICER | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 3,995 | 3,996 | 08181921.txt | 68 | 12 |
670,081,171 | I do.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 351 | Mir. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 3,997 | 3,997 | 08181921.txt | 5 | 2 |
670,081,172 | The Senator will observeand I do not rise in a controversial spiritthat this section does not relate to the present and has no time of expiration. but it is a continuing policy. so that a hundred years from now. if this were not changed. and as often as there was any surplus property. the War Department would have to turn it over to the Department of Agriculture.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 352 | Mr. KING | Unknown | KING | Unknown | M | 3,998 | 4,004 | 08181921.txt | 365 | 67 |
670,081,173 | And while the Government is contributing to the construction of roads in the States.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 353 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 4,005 | 4,007 | 08181921.txt | 84 | 14 |
670,081,174 | Yes. Does the Senator think that it is a wise policy to pass general statutes requiring this department and all departments to turn over to the States any property they may happen to have that is surplus?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 354 | Mr. KING | Unknown | KING | Unknown | M | 4,008 | 4,011 | 08181921.txt | 204 | 37 |
670,081,175 | No. not as a general proposition. but this is a proposition to turn over the surplus of the War Department to the States for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a work in which the Government is an equal partner. Senators say that the States ought to pay onehalf of the value of these machines if they are turned over to them.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 355 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 4,012 | 4,017 | 08181921.txt | 335 | 64 |
670,081,176 | I hope the Senator does not impute that to me. I made no such statemient.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 356 | Mr. KING | Unknown | KING | Unknown | M | 4,018 | 4,019 | 08181921.txt | 73 | 15 |
670,081,177 | Well. that has been stated here. Mr. President. what would be the situation if the States and the Govermnet had no trucks. we will say. for the purpose of constructing good roads. and had to enter into the market and purchase those trucks anew? The Federal Government would have to pay onehalf of the price of each truck that might be purchased-. because it is a copartner on equal terms in the building of these roais. Fortunately the Government has on hand a large number of trucks available for this use. The Government. if it sells those trucks. will get only 50 cents in the dollar for then. Many of them are new. They are just as good as new trucks bought by the Government for this purpose. They will get only 50 cents in the dollar. Who will get the other 50 cents? Whly. the speculator will get the other 50 cents. The Government could not sell these trucks. worth a hundred cents in the dollar. if it put them upon the market. at more than 50 cents in the dollar. If they are sold that 50 cents must be given to the speculators. Why. then. should the Government hesitate to turn these trucks over to the States? It will get credit for fully onehalf the value of the trucks. and in that case the 50 cents will be given to the State instead of being given to a speculator. That is the way this transaction will work out. If you sell those trucks the Government will get half price. The Governnient is under obligation to pay onehalf of the expense of the construction of the roads. If this is a gift to the States on the one hand. the nlternative to that proposition. if the trucks were sold. would be a gift of that amount to speculators who might buy them.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 357 | Mr. SIMMONS | Unknown | SIMMONS | Unknown | M | 4,020 | 4,048 | 08181921.txt | 1,666 | 313 |
670,081,178 | Mr. President. will the Senator yield for just a moment? I will probably not impose upon him any longer..
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 358 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 4,050 | 4,052 | 08181921.txt | 105 | 19 |
670,081,179 | I will yield.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 359 | Mr. HEFLIN | Unknown | HEFLIN | Unknown | M | 4,053 | 4,053 | 08181921.txt | 13 | 3 |
670,081,180 | The Senator from Nortly Carolina has just said something about gifts to States. at least he used that expression. I desire his attention to this dispatch. which I am going to read. It appears in the Rutland. Vt.. Daily Herald of. Wednesday morning. August 17. It is headed. " Vernient will get share of explosive." I hope Senators do not think this is confined to trucks alone. The article reads: BURLINGTON. August 16. Information has been received by the agricultural extension service of the University of Vermlont from the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture to the. effect that 96.000 pounds of picric acid. a high explosive. has been allotted to Vermont. This explosive Is suitable for use in clearing stumps and stones from agricultural lands. No landowner can secure more than 1.000 pounds. The details concerning plans for distribution are now being sent to the Vermont county agents. That is done under this free distribution of materials useful in highway work.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 360 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 4,054 | 4,072 | 08181921.txt | 1,006 | 167 |
670,081,181 | With the permission of the Senator from Alabama. I would like to say. just in connection with that. because I happen to know something about the situation. that the Government has a great many of these explosives on hand. which were stored. and which it would cost about all they were worth to move down to some of those Southern States where they were. going to move them. They had a surplus on hand with practically no market for them. and it was suggested and understood that they were still intending to store them. The proposition was that those explosives should be used by the stumpland States and other States which required these explosives. and they are to be purchased by those States. The department fixes the price which shall be paid for this picric acid that is to be used in the States. I happen to know something about that. because I have had much correspondence about it. as has the Senator from Wisconsin. in obtaining these explosives. The object was to put them on the market. so that they could be purchased at the Government cost price. Or at 1 reasonable price. for use. instead of permitting their storage in these various places where they were stored.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 361 | Mr. TOWNSEND | Unknown | TOWNSEND | Unknown | M | 4,073 | 4,103 | 08181921.txt | 1,179 | 209 |
670,081,182 | Will the Senator state how it is that the Bureau of Public Roads has jurisdiction over it?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 362 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 4,104 | 4,105 | 08181921.txt | 90 | 17 |
670,081,183 | I do not know. I did not know that it had any jurisdiction over it.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 363 | Mr. TOWNSEND | Unknown | TOWNSEND | Unknown | M | 4,106 | 4,107 | 08181921.txt | 67 | 15 |
670,081,184 | The article states that.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 364 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 4,108 | 4,108 | 08181921.txt | 24 | 4 |
670,081,185 | I think the article which the Senator has read is entirely misleading. The control is in the Secretary of Agriculture. who. of course. is over the Bureau of Public Roads. and the Senator voted to keep him over the Bureau of Public Roads and over the other divisions of the Department of Agriculture. It is. however. the Secretary of Agriculture with whom these transactions are made.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 365 | Mr. TOWNSEND | Unknown | TOWNSEND | Unknown | M | 4,109 | 4,115 | 08181921.txt | 383 | 66 |
670,081,186 | Not through the Bureau of Public Roads?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 366 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 4,116 | 4,117 | 08181921.txt | 39 | 7 |
670,081,187 | I iever heard that that was the case before.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 367 | Mr. TOWNSEND | Unknown | TOWNSEND | Unknown | M | 4,118 | 4,119 | 08181921.txt | 44 | 9 |
670,081,188 | I admit that would put a very different light on it. but this dispatch seems rather authentic. stating how much of this explosive can be secured to blow up stumps.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 368 | Mr. WADSWORTH | Unknown | WADSWORTH | Unknown | M | 4,120 | 4,122 | 08181921.txt | 163 | 30 |
670,081,189 | I do not think there is any truth in that statement at all. I think it is entirely a mistake. either in print. or the mian who sent out that information did not understand the situation. o
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 369 | Mr. TOWNSEND | Unknown | TOWNSEND | Unknown | M | 4,123 | 4,126 | 08181921.txt | 188 | 37 |
670,081,190 | Mr. President. a few moments ago I made some remarks in regard to the proceedings in the conference committee which had under consideration what we commonly call the beer bill. It is the bill which proposes to deny doctors the right to prescribe beer to sick people. I. of course. was listened to with attention by the hired lawyer who usually occupies a seat in the gallery watching the proceedings of the Senate. I assume he was here today. At least he was not very far away. for he has prepared a statement for the press. and in order that it may be given early publicity I send it to the desk and ask to have it read.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 370 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,128 | 4,138 | 08181921.txt | 621 | 118 |
670,081,191 | The Secretary will read as requested. The reading clerk read as follows: ".The charge by Senator REED that I sat with the conferees on the beer bill on the date mentioned is not true." said Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel of the Antisaloon League. In spite of the fact that Senator STERLING denied this. Senator REED continued his speech on the theory that his charge was true. I went to the committee room when they closed their work for the day and urged them to agree on something in order to secure a vote before the recess and prevent the opening of the breweries. This Is what Senator REED and other wet Senators are attempting to accomplish in their filibuster on this bill. This amendment on search and seizure was evidently injected into the bill by the wets to muddy the waters and cause delay. The same beer interests that corrupted the politics of the Nation are back of this beer bill. One hundred thousand dollars worth of imported malt liquors in one lot is now ready for distribution if the passage of this bill Is delayed until after the recess and the beer regulations are issued. The invisible lobby back of this llibuster to force medical beer on the country does nbt seem to worry those who are vituperative and abusive of the dry advocates. who work In the open.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 371 | The PRESIDING OFFICER | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 4,139 | 4,160 | 08181921.txt | 1,286 | 231 |
670,081,192 | Mr. President. I dislike to take the time of the Senate on so small a matter. but I have concluded that I may be warranted in consuming a few minutes. I read to the Senate a clause from an article in the New York Times. stating that " Wayne B. Wheeler. spokesman for the AntiSaloon League. who was closeted with the conferees throughout the day behind closed doors. expressed the view." and so forth. I inquired of the Senator in charge of the conference report whether that was true. The Senator replied. in substance. that he did not sit with the committee on that day. I then asked whether he had sat with the committee or had been with the committee on any day. and the Senator declined to answer that qsuestion. There is no denial yet that this gentleman did not sit with the committee or see the committee or interfere with the committee. The denial is thatI went to the committee room when they closed their work for the day and urged them to agree on something. * * * This is what Senator REED and other wet Senators are attempting to accomplish in their filibuster. Again. he said: The charge by Senator REED that I sat with the conferees on the beer bill on the date mentioned is not true. " On the date mentioned." Mr. President. evidently this gentlenuin. Mr. Wheeler. has proceeded far enough in the study of the law to know that there is such a thing as a negative pregnant. but evidently not far enough to know that a negative pregnant is takeni as ass aflirmation. A negative pregnant is found when a man charges that A R at the hour of 1 oclock dd a certain thing. and the nsswer is. " I deny that at 1 oclock I (id thait plartiilar thing." It was an old dodge of the old pleader. and the courts exploded it. and said that that sort of a denial was not a denial. but amounted to an admission. Why. is it that this mas. who for 15 or 20 years has made his living as a lawyer. with this one clientthe AntiSaloon Leaguedoes not have the manhood to state in this paper that lie never at any time sat with this committee or the members of this committee. or that lie went to them and buttonholed them and interfered intheir work. that lie had the impudence to follow them to their counsel room? Why does lie not deny it in that way? Why does lie put out something in this form. which lie hopes will deceive the public? There is asn old definition of a lie. that it is something told witti the intention to deceive. It may be literally true upon its face. literally construed. but if it be put out to create a false impression it is none the less a falsehood. Just a word snore. Mr. Wheeler says in this statement: I went to the committee room when they closed their work for the day and urged them to agree on something in order to secure a vote before the recess. I repeat. what business was it of this man to go to the committee room to interfere in a conference. either during or be-. fore or after their deliberations. when. as we all understand. that is something that Representatives and Senators rarely. if ever. do? What was he doing there? This man talks about " the invisible lobby." The difference between the invisible lobby and the visible lobby. first. is that we can see the visible lobby in the person of this hired lawyer. who has been for 15 or 20 years making his living as a legislative agent. He is visible so often that lie can not deny his visibility. but if he had to pay a license tax of $10 a dsay to enter the galleries of the Senate I think it would snake heavy inroads into his salary. because lie is always here. He has just as much right here as a representative of the Standard Oil and no smore. as a representative of any interest and no more. He is a lobbyist. pure and simple. acting for pay. This lobbyist. this gentleman who makes his living lobbying. who probably has not had a dollar from any other source in the last 15 years. has the insolence to send out a statement charging that a filibuster has been carried on in the Senate and is being carried on against the beer bill. I charge that when he wrote that statement he wrote a deliberate. willful. premeditate. coldblooded falsehood. :nd lie knew it.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 372 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,161 | 4,237 | 08181921.txt | 4,156 | 783 |
670,081,193 | Mr. President-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 373 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,238 | 4,238 | 08181921.txt | 14 | 2 |
670,081,194 | Does the Senator from Missouri:yield to the Senator from Kentucky?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 374 | The PRESIDING OFFICER | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 4,239 | 4,240 | 08181921.txt | 66 | 10 |
670,081,195 | I yield.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 375 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,241 | 4,241 | 08181921.txt | 8 | 2 |
670,081,196 | The vote on that bill was taken at the instance of the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. BuoussARn] and others. upon the insistence of the Senator from Pennsylvania . who has never yet been charged with being a prohibitionist. and over the objection of the Senator from South Dakota . the Senator from Ohio. and the other proponents of this bill. who asked for delay. and the gentleman to whom the Senator refersI will not call him a lobbyistwas in the gallery at the time and knew it.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 376 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,242 | 4,250 | 08181921.txt | 479 | 87 |
670,081,197 | Well. if he is not a lobbyist. I would like to know what he is. He certainly is not a lawyer. that is. he is not practicing law in the ordinary sense.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 377 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,251 | 4,253 | 08181921.txt | 150 | 32 |
670,081,198 | Mr. President--
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 378 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,254 | 4,254 | 08181921.txt | 15 | 2 |
670,081,199 | Does tho Senator from Missouri yield to the Senator from South Dakota?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 379 | The PRESIDING OFFICER | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 4,255 | 4,256 | 08181921.txt | 70 | 12 |
670,081,200 | I yield.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 380 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,257 | 4,257 | 08181921.txt | 8 | 2 |
670,081,201 | I wish to correct a statement made by the Senator from Kentucky . I understood him to refer to the vote taken. Does the Senator mean the final vote o0n the bill by the Senate?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 381 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,258 | 4,261 | 08181921.txt | 175 | 35 |
670,081,202 | Yes. the final vote was taken at the instance of the Senator from Pennsylvania . who asked that the vote be taken. He insisted that a vote be taken. The Senator from Louisiana had an amendment that was pending. and the Senator from Missouri asked him to withdraw it. and the socalled opponents of the billnot the proponents of the bill but the proponents of the Constitution of the United Statesurged that the vote le taken that day or it would not have been taken that day. as the Senator from South Dakota knows full well and as the RECORD will show.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 382 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,262 | 4,271 | 08181921.txt | 552 | 102 |
670,081,203 | Does the Senator from Kentucky say that the Senator from Kentucky himself on the day he vote was taken urged a vote on the bill?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 383 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,272 | 4,274 | 08181921.txt | 128 | 25 |
670,081,204 | Oh. no. I did not say that.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 384 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,275 | 4,275 | 08181921.txt | 27 | 7 |
670,081,205 | I understood the Senator to say that.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 385 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,276 | 4,276 | 08181921.txt | 37 | 7 |
670,081,206 | I did no refer to the Senator from Kentucky. He is a small Dea in the dish.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 386 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,277 | 4,292 | 08181921.txt | 75 | 17 |
670,081,207 | The Senator said the proponents of the bill were opposed to the vote.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 387 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,293 | 4,294 | 08181921.txt | 69 | 13 |
670,081,208 | They were. and the RECORD Will Show it.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 388 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,295 | 4,295 | 08181921.txt | 39 | 8 |
670,081,209 | Mr. President. will the Senator yield to me?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 389 | Mr. BROUSSARD | Unknown | BROUSSARD | Unknown | M | 4,296 | 4,297 | 08181921.txt | 44 | 8 |
670,081,210 | I will yield to the Senator from Louisiana if the Senator from South Dakota is through.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 390 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,298 | 4,299 | 08181921.txt | 87 | 16 |
670,081,211 | If I am not mistaken the Senator from South Dakota objected to taking a vote at that time.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 391 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,300 | 4,301 | 08181921.txt | 90 | 18 |
670,081,212 | Mr. President. in order to get the record straight on this question I wish to read from the CONGRESSIONAL RECOli of August 8. 1921. just before the vote was taken. as shown on page 5184:
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 392 | Mr. BROUSSARD | Unknown | BROUSSARD | Unknown | M | 4,302 | 4,305 | 08181921.txt | 186 | 35 |
670,081,213 | Mr. President. I desire to ask the Senator from South Dakota if it is his purpose to press the bill to a vote this evening? There are a number of Senators who desire to discuss this rather important question. but I understand an executive session is desired.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 393 | Mr. WILIs | Unknown | WILIS | Unknown | M | 4,306 | 4,309 | 08181921.txt | 258 | 47 |
670,081,214 | No . I do not desire to push the matter to a vote tonight. SEVERA. SENATORS. Vote! Vote!
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 394 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,310 | 4,312 | 08181921.txt | 88 | 18 |
670,081,215 | I think I sh1a11 not press for a vote tonight.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 395 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,313 | 4,313 | 08181921.txt | 46 | 10 |
670,081,216 | OFFICER. The question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Missouri .
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 396 | The PRESIDNG | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 4,314 | 4,315 | 08181921.txt | 81 | 14 |
670,081,217 | lir. President. I merely wish to suggest to the Senator from South Dakota that for a week or more various Senators who desire to go away and others who have been away and have come back have had their inovements Interfered with by the uncertainty of having a vote on this bill. Certain Senators want to go away tonight and others tomorrow. I hope we can dispose of this measure tonight. I am willing to sit inte if tbe Senator desires further time. and I think we should dispense with an executive session this evening.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 397 | Mr. 1JRANDEGEE | Unknown | 1JRANDEGEE | Unknown | M | 4,316 | 4,323 | 08181921.txt | 519 | 95 |
670,081,218 | AMr. President-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 398 | Mr. PENROSE | Unknown | PENROSE | Unknown | M | 4,324 | 4,324 | 08181921.txt | 15 | 2 |
670,081,219 | I yield to the Senator from Pennsylvania. Mr. PENRosE. I sincerely hope that we can vote this afternoon. I concur in the view of the Senator from Connecticut. The Finance Committee adjourned in the midst of important hearings to permit the Members to come here on the assumption that they were to vote on various phases of the bill. That great committee is in session from 10 oclock in the morning until 5 or (. in the evening. and if they are to break up their meetings every 20 minutes to come to the Senate and vote. we siall never get through the gigantic task reposed in us. I sincerely hope that we can vote this afternoon.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 399 | Mr. SrERLING | Unknown | SRERLING | Unknown | M | 4,325 | 4,334 | 08181921.txt | 629 | 117 |
670,081,220 | I iardly expected to reach a vote on the bill this afternoon. I now ask the Senator from Kansas if It is desired to have an executive session? Mr. CuRTIs. We do want a short executive session . and I wish to have an amendment to a Senate joint resolution reconsidered and the joint resolution passed if possible. but I do not wish to interfere with the vote on the pending bill.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 400 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,335 | 4,341 | 08181921.txt | 378 | 72 |
670,081,221 | I will yield for the purpose of an executive session. Mr. UnoussARD. Mr. President. reserving the right to offer further amendments. I move that the bill be recommitted. and I suggest the absence of a quorum. So it will be seen that. in succession. the Senator from Connecticut . the Senator from Pennsylvania . and myself. all three of us opposing the ineasure. insisted that the vote be taken that afternoon.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 401 | Mr. STERLINo | Unknown | STERLINO | Unknown | M | 4,342 | 4,349 | 08181921.txt | 410 | 71 |
670,081,222 | Mr. President. if the Senator from Missouri will permit me-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 402 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,350 | 4,351 | 08181921.txt | 59 | 10 |
670,081,223 | Certainly.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 403 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,352 | 4,352 | 08181921.txt | 10 | 1 |
670,081,224 | That is a very strained construction that the Senator from Louisiana puts upon the RECORD as read by him. I am very glad. indeed. that he read the RECORD. for the RECORD does not show that I opposed or that any of the proponents of the bill opposed the vote on that evening on which the final vote was taken. For I time it was a question whether it was advisable to proceed to a vote on that evening. and I frankly state that. but I had not expected at any time during the day up until that time. the time of the colloquy to which the Senator refers. that there would be a vote on the hill that day. I did not expect a vote on the bill to be reached until the next day. when I fully expected a vote would be reached. It was something of a surprise to me that Senators should urge a vote on that evening. That is the fact.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 404 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,353 | 4,367 | 08181921.txt | 821 | 166 |
670,081,225 | While the Senator makes that statement which undoubtedly shows that so far as he was concerned he was willing to take a vote whenever lie thought the Members were present who ought to bd here. lie will also concede that there was not anything like the semblance of a filibuster at all.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 405 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,368 | 4,372 | 08181921.txt | 285 | 52 |
670,081,226 | Yes. and who in charge of a bill-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 406 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,373 | 4,373 | 08181921.txt | 33 | 8 |
670,081,227 | Would not do as the Senator did?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 407 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,374 | 4,374 | 08181921.txt | 32 | 7 |
670,081,228 | Is not likely to look around and see who is present?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 408 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,375 | 4,376 | 08181921.txt | 52 | 11 |
670,081,229 | Absolutely. The Senator had the right to do that. but the REcoiD shows that the other side were not trying for more time. but were willing to come to a vote. and the Senator in charge of the bill I am sure will say. as a fair man-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 409 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,377 | 4,381 | 08181921.txt | 230 | 48 |
670,081,230 | I never raised any question of that kind.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 410 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,382 | 4,382 | 08181921.txt | 41 | 8 |
670,081,231 | That there never was any semblance of a filibuster here.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 411 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,383 | 4,384 | 08181921.txt | 56 | 10 |
670,081,232 | Not at that time. There had been before. and I am not saying but that there has been since. It had ended at that time.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 412 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,385 | 4,388 | 08181921.txt | 118 | 25 |
670,081,233 | Mr. President-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 413 | Mr. KING | Unknown | KING | Unknown | M | 4,389 | 4,389 | 08181921.txt | 14 | 2 |
670,081,234 | Does the Senator froism Missouri yield to the Senator from Utah?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 414 | The PRESIDING OFFICER | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 4,390 | 4,391 | 08181921.txt | 64 | 11 |
670,081,235 | I do.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 415 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,392 | 4,392 | 08181921.txt | 5 | 2 |
670,081,236 | Upon the day in question. at an earlier hour in the day. I had taken the floor to speak briefly. not upon the bill but about lobbies and lobbyists and their pernicious and wicked activities in Washington in procuring and in suppressing legislation. While I had the floor opponents of the measure and. as I recall. one or two who were favorable to the measure asked me if I would not kindly desist so they could get a vote that evening. I yielded the floor. expecting to take it again when I could get the opportunity and conclude the observations which I desired to submit. I recall that the Senator from Kentucky . right in the midst of myspeech. asked if I had any objection to the beer bill being taken up and considerbd and a vote taken immediately. and I said no and promptly sat down.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 416 | Mr. KING | Unknown | KING | Unknown | M | 4,393 | 4,405 | 08181921.txt | 790 | 147 |
670,081,237 | I recall very well the fact to which the Senator from Utah refers and his courtesy in the matter. and I appreciated it very much.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 417 | Mr. STERLING | Unknown | STERLING | Unknown | M | 4,406 | 4,408 | 08181921.txt | 129 | 25 |
670,081,238 | Does the Senator from Missouri yield. and if so. fo whom?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 418 | The PRESIDING OFFICER | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Special | 4,410 | 4,411 | 08181921.txt | 57 | 11 |
670,081,239 | I will yield first to the Senator from Ohio.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 419 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,412 | 4,412 | 08181921.txt | 44 | 9 |
670,081,240 | If the Senator from Missouri will permit me. I think I should be allowed to say a word since my name has been brought into this matter by the Senator from Kentucky . I had forgotten the occurrence to which attention was called by the Senator from Louisiana . but I do now recall that I made the remark attributed to me on page 4740. I did ask the Senator from South Dakota whether it was his purpose to press for a vote. and I wish to state the reason why I asked that question.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 420 | Mr. WILLIS | Unknown | WILLIS | Unknown | M | 4,413 | 4,421 | 08181921.txt | 478 | 95 |
670,081,241 | Mr. President-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 421 | Mr. BROUSSARD | Unknown | BROUSSARD | Unknown | M | 4,422 | 4,422 | 08181921.txt | 14 | 2 |
670,081,242 | I have been considerably interested in this legislation-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 422 | Mr. WILLIS | Unknown | WILLIS | Unknown | M | 4,423 | 4,424 | 08181921.txt | 56 | 8 |
670,081,243 | Mr. President-
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 423 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,425 | 4,425 | 08181921.txt | 14 | 2 |
670,081,244 | Will the Senator permit me to finish this brief statement?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 424 | ir. WILLIS | Unknown | WILLIS | Unknown | M | 4,426 | 4,427 | 08181921.txt | 58 | 10 |
670,081,245 | Certainly.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 425 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,428 | 4,428 | 08181921.txt | 10 | 1 |
670,081,246 | I have been interested in this legislation and I had sat here hour after hour listening to the speeches of those opposed to the bill. There were some things I should have been glad to discuss but I refrained from speaking at length. in order to expedite the passage of the bill. I had in mind to make some observations upon the measure. and that is why I asked the Senator from South Dakota the question. but I should not like to have the idea go forth or have the purpose attributed to me of seeking to delay the passage of the bill. I willingly gave up the opportunity to indulge in extended debate upon the measure in order that there might be a vote.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 426 | Mr. WILLIS | Unknown | WILLIS | Unknown | M | 4,429 | 4,439 | 08181921.txt | 654 | 125 |
670,081,247 | Mr. President. will the.Senator from Ohio yield to me?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 427 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,440 | 4,441 | 08181921.txt | 54 | 9 |
670,081,248 | The Senator from Missouri has the floor.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 428 | Mr. WILLIS | Unknown | WILLIS | Unknown | M | 4,442 | 4,442 | 08181921.txt | 40 | 7 |
670,081,249 | Will the Senator from Missouri yield to me?
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 429 | Mr. STANLEY | Unknown | STANLEY | Unknown | M | 4,443 | 4,443 | 08181921.txt | 43 | 8 |
670,081,250 | I yield. gladly.
| S | 1921-08-18T00:00:00 | 430 | Mr. REED | Unknown | REED | Unknown | M | 4,444 | 4,444 | 08181921.txt | 16 | 3 |