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that not enough people are engaged in the productive process. withdraw any people from the productive processes we shall be shorter still. Our conscripted army should be raised as nearly as possible from the non-producers. And the way to get food is to force people to till the land. Our farm lands in many cases have not been maintained at a high degree of productivity, and many are no longer tilled. Such lands, having but little value, pay low taxes. Similar lands that have been maintained in a high productive state pay high taxes. Thus the thrifty farmer is penalized for his thrift, and the shiftless farmer is encouraged in his shiftlessness.

Equal taxation would lighten the burden on the thrifty, and force the shiftless to sell to one who was more thrifty. The tax on idle land should be so great that no one could afford to keep it in idleness. Land which was not tilled would, under such a law, soon revert to the State, and could be sold at a nominal price to those who could till it.

We are a nation of individualists. Each of us sees no harm in being idle if he has the means of obtaining support without work. We have not realized that every person has to be supported by his own labor or by that of others.

INTERNATIONAL

Mr. Fletcher of Florida: A bill (S. 2508) providing a method for those American citizens who have lost their citizenship by reason of taking the oath of allegiance to some other country allied with the United States to regain said citizenship; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Park of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 4896) disfranchising slackers; to the Committee on the Election of President, Vice-president, and Representatives in Congress.

Mr. Rogers of Massachusetts: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 115) requesting the Sec

retary of State to open diplomatic negotiation with certain Governments with a view to obtaining their approval and sanction for action by the United States permitting the inclusion in the armed forces of the United States of such citizens of the countries of such Governments as are within the United States; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Charles B. Smith of New York: A bill (H. R. 4802) to restore the citizenship of certain persons who entered the military or naval service of a foreign country; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Mr. Taylor of Colorado. A bill (H. R. 5079) to expatriate citizens who leave the United States to evade registration or selective draft; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Mr. Taylor of Colorado. A bill (H. R. 5111) to expatriate citizens who leave the United States to evade registration or selective draft; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Cary of Wisconsin: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 71) advocating the freedom of Ireland; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Cary of Wisconsin: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 72) advocating the freedom of the Boer Republics; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Flood of Virginia: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 65) providing for expenses of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Goodwin of Arkansas: Concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 12) congratulating the people of Russia on the establishment of a popular government; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Huddleston of Alabama: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 97) providing for the termination of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed January 11, 1909, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Hull of Tennessee: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 63) relative to an international trade agreement congress; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. La Guardia of New York: Resolution (H. Res. 82) sending a message of greetings and good wishes from the representatives of the free people of the United States of America to the representatives of the free people of Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Madden of Illinois: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 66) to authorize and provide for a joint assembly and meeting of representatives of the parliaments and national legislative bodies of the nations of the world in the United States, and to extend an invitation to said parliaments and legislative bodies, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Mansfield of Texas: Resolution (H. Res. 91) providing that the United States Government shall insist upon the independence of Bohemia at the close of the war; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Mason of Illinois: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 88) to declare the liberation of Ireland one of the purposes of the present war; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Sabath of Illinois: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 81) providing that it is the

sense of Congress that the United States Government shall insist as a part of the treaty of peace that Bohemia be given its freedom and independence; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Charles B. Smith of New York: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 82) to state the rights of nations and to lay the foundations for the establishment of a court of nations, a congress of nations, an international army and navy, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Charles B. Smith of New York: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 110) to appoint a commission to visit countries which are cooperating with the United States in the present war; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Sweet of Iowa: Resolution (H. Res. 98) relative to the aims, purposes, and poliIcies in the conduct of the war between the United States and the Imperial Government of Germany; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

MILITARY AND NAVAL

Mr. Barkley of Kentucky: A bill (H. R. 4628) to conserve the man-power and resources of the Nation, to increase the efficiency and safety of the Army, the Navy, and the people of the United States, to conserve the agricultural food products, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Blackmon of Alabama: A bill (H. R. 2607) to make further provision for the organization of native troops in the Philippine Islands; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Blanton of Texas: A bill (H. R. 8648) authorizing and providing for the construction of a military highway paralleling the Rio Grande border of that portion of the United States between Texas and Mexico, and along the entire border, or certain section thereof, of that portion of the United States between Mexico and the States of New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and appropriating money therefor; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Carter of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 4210) appropriating $500,000 for use of the Council of National Defense; to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Carter of Oklahoma: A bill (H. R. 8970) to organize 10 or more regiments of Indian Cavalry as part of the military forces of the United States, to be known as the North American Indian Cavalry; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Cary of Wisconsin: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 51) providing that in case of conscription men engaged in certain pursuits be selected first; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Hayes of California: A bill (H. R. 2787) to provide for the purchase of a site and for the establishment of a naval and aviation academy on the Pacific coast of the United States within 150 miles of San Francisco, and making an appropriation therefor; to the committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Hulbert of New York: A bill (H. R. 4702) to amend section 60 of the national defense act, approved June 8, 1916; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Jones of Washington: A bill (S. 1828) to promote the efficiency of the United States Army; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Jones of Washington: A bill (S. 1829) to promote the efficiency of the United States Navy; to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Mason of Illinois: Resolution (H. Res. 76) requesting the Secretary of War to furnish Congress a detailed plan for drafting the citizens of the United States into the military service; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Padgett of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 4038) for making further and more effectual provisions for the national defense, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Padgett of Tennessee: A bill (H. R. 4627) to promote the efficiency of the United States Navy; to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Penrose of Pennsylvania: A bill (S. 2278) to organize 10 or more regiments of Indian Cavalry as part of the military forces of the United States, to be known as the North American Indian Cavalry; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Siegel of New York: A bill (H. R. 8809) to indemnify the city of New York for expenses incurred in defense of the United States; to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Tillman of South Carolina: A bill (S. 1587) to increase the number of midshipmen in the Naval Academy; to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Mr. Vare of Pennsylvania: Concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 10) to withdraw the regulations requiring claim of exemption at the time of registration under the selective draft law; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Waldow of New York: A bill (H. R. 4245) authorizing the Secretary of War to establish and maintain an aviation training station at Buffalo, New York; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Wood of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 2768) for an act fixing the pay of enlisted men in the United States Army; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

NATIONAL DEFENSE

Mr. Adamson of Georgia: A bill (H. R. 4704) to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Mr. Britten of Illinois: A resolution (H. Res. 73) relating to certain restrictions upon American commerce with neutral countries; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Cary of Wisconsin: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 64) to permit the naturalization of aliens of German, Austro-Hungarian, Turkish, and Bulgarian birth, resident within the United States on the 6th day of April, 1917, who had before that day made a declaration, according to law, of their intention to become citizens of the United States; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Mr. Dillon of South Dakota: A bill (H. R. 4233) to further national security and defense by increasing food production; to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Emerson of Ohio: A bill (H. R. 4190) to abrogate the patent upon salvarsan; to the Committee on Patents.

Mr. Gallivan of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 3806) to grant citizenship to all aliens who have filed first papers and who have enlisted in the Army or Navy of the United States; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Mr. Goodwin of Arkansas: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 68) creating a commission to report a plan for the adoption of a national budget system; to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Gore of Oklahoma: A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 52) to prohibit and punish conspiracies in respect of transportation, handling, or dealing in food supplies, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

Mr. Gore of Oklahoma: Joint resolution (S. J. Res. 62) empowering the President to appoint a controller general of supplies; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

Mr. Jacoway of Arkansas: A bill (H. Ř. 4028) authorizing the President to take over transportation facilities and foodstuffs for the national security and defense in time of war; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Mr. Kalanianaole of Hawaii: A bill (H. R. 4616) to ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, creating a commission to increase, conserve, regulate, and control the food supplies of the Territory of Hawaii, and defining its powers and duties, and making an appropriation for the purposes thereof; to the Committee on the Territories.

Mr. Kitchin of North Carolina: A bill (H. R. 4280) to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes; from the Committee on Ways and Means; H. Rept., 45; debated.

Mr. Lever of South Carolina: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 75) to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products; to the Committee on Agriculture.

Mr. Lever of South Carolina: A bill (H. R. 4036) to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products; to the Committee on Agriculture.

Mr. Lever of South Carolina: A bill (H. R. 4188) to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products; to the Committee on Agriculture.

Mr. Lever of South Carolina: A bill (H. R. 4630) to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging agriculture and regulating the marketing and distribution of foods and other necessaries of life; to the Committee on Agriculture.

Mr. Miller of Minnesota: A bill (H. R. 4248) suspending during the present emerg ency all rights arising out of any patent granted by the United States upon any compound or medicine of which salvarsan is a constituent part; to the Committee on Patents.

Miss Rankin of Montana: A bill (H. R. 4049) granting to American women married to foreigners the right to retain their citizenship; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Mr. Rogers of Massachusetts: A bill (H. R. 8647) permitting the repatriation of certain former American citizens who have hitherto served or who shall hereafter serve in the armed forces of any foreign State engaged in war with a country with which the United States is at war; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

Mr. Taylor of Colorado: A bill (H. R. 4481) to provide for the common defense and general welfare by increasing the production of food upon public and private lands within United States reclamation projects, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands.

Mr. Webb of North Carolina: Joint resolution( H. J. Res. 62) authorizing the President to take over for the United States the possession and title of vessels of any subject or citizen of any nation with which the United States may be at war, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

Mr. Webb of North Carolina: Joint resolution (H. J. Res. 90) conferring certain powers on the President; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Mr. Webb of North Carolina: A bill (H. R. 4540) further to provide for the support of the Army by the prevention of the waste of the food products of the United States during the period of war and to prohibit their manufacture into alcoholic liquors, except in certain cases, to provide for the distillation of liquors in bond or heretofore manufactured, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Weeks of Massachusetts: A bill (S. 2277) to enable the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to enter into negotiations for the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce.

But over in Germany a traveler whom I need not identify more closely encountered the fathers of a million young men who were dead everywhere in Europe. "It isn't their death we deplore," said the million fathers, "but the fact that the end for which they died should be as far off as ever. Imagine-after forty years of preparation, after years of drill and discipline, with the best officers in the world, the heaviest guns, the most abundant supply of ammunition, they went into battle prepared . . Simeon Strunsky.

N view of the approaching visit of

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the American delegation to Russia to express the deep friendship of the American people for the people of Russia and to discuss the best and most practical means of cooperation between the two peoples in carrying the present struggle for the freedom of all peoples to a successful consummation, it seems opportune and appropriate that I should state again, in the light of this new partnership, the objects the United States has had in mind in entering the war. Those objects have been very much. beclouded during the last few weeks by mistaken and misleading statements, and the issues at stake are too momentous, too tremendous, too significant for the whole human race to permit any misinterpretations or misunderstandings, however slight, to remain uncorrected for a moment.

The war has begun to go against Germany, and in their desperate desire to escape the inevitable ultimate defeat those who are in authority in Germany are using every possible instrumentality, are making use even of the influence of groups and parties among their own subjects to whom they have never been just or fair or even tolerant, to promote a propaganda on both sides of the sea

which will preserve for them their influence at home and their power abroad, to the undoing of the very men they are using.

The position of America in this war is so clearly avowed that no man can be excused for mistaking it. She seeks no material profit or aggrandizement of any kind. She is fighting for no advantage or selfish object of her own, but for the liberation of peoples everywhere from the aggres

sions of autocratic force. The ruling classes in Germany have begun of late to profess a like liberality and justice of purpose, but only to preserve the power they have set up in Germany and the selfish advantages which they have wrongly gained for themselves and their private projects of power all the way from Berlin to Bagdad and beyond. Government after Government has by their influence, without open conquest of its territory, been linked together in a net of intrigue directed against nothing less than the peace and liberty of

the world. The meshes of that intrigue must be broken, but cannot be broken unless wrongs already done are undone; and adequate measures must be taken to prevent it from ever again being rewoven or repaired.

Of course, the Imperial German