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(Legislative day ot Tuesday, November 16, 1937)

The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration of the recess.

THE JOURNAL

On request of, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calendar day Tuesday, December 7, 1937, was dispensed with, and the Journal was approved.

CALL OF THE ROLL

Mr. LEWIS. Mr. President, before proceedings with the bill under consideration, it is necessary to have a quorum. I therefore suggest the absence of one, and ask for a roll call.

The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names:

Mr. LEWIS. I announce for the that the Senator from Washington [Mr. ] and the Senator from Delaware [Mr. ] are detained by illness.

The Senator from New Jersey [Mr. ] is detained by illness in his family.

The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. ] and the Senator from Montana [Mr. ] are necessarily detained from the Senate.

Mr. AUSTIN. I have been requested to announce that the senior Senator from Maine [Mr. ] is absent for the same reason stated yesterday.

The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-nine Senators having answered to their names, a quorum is present.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE

The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1937, which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Commerce.

REPORT OF RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION

The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from the Chairman and secretary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, reporting, pursuant to law, relative to the operations of the Corporation for the third quarter of 1937, and for the period from the organization of the Corporation on February 2, 1932, to September 30, 1937, inclusive, which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency.

PETITION AND MEMORIALS

Mr. COPELAND presented a memorial of sundry citizens of Hudson, N. Y., remonstrating against the making of reciprocal-trade agreements with European countries pertaining to textiles and shoes, and favoring a protective tariff on such goods, which was referred to the Committee on Finance.

He also presented the memorial of members of Allegany County (N. Y.) Pomona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, remonstrating against the enactment of the so-called Black-Cannery wages-and-hours bill or any similar measure, which was ordered to lie on the table.

He also presented a petition of sundry citizens of New York City, N. Y., praying for the enactment of the bill (H. R. 1507) to assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching, which was ordered to lie on the table.

BILLS INTRODUCED

Bills were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and referred as follows:

By Mr. OVERTON:

A bill (S. 3106) granting an increase of pension to Jennie Stubbs; to the Committee on Pensions.

By Mr. ANDREWS:

A bill (S. 3107) to amend the Inland Waterways Corporation Act, approved June 3, 1924, as amended, authorizing the Secretary of WSI to extend the services and operations of the Inland Waterways Corporation to Pensacola, Fla.; to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. CONNALLY:

A bill (S. 3108) for the relief of W. Connally Baldwin (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado:

A bill (S. 3109) for the relief of the widow of Joseph C. Akin; to the Committee on Claims.

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF—AMENDMENTS

Mr. POPE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill (S. 2787) to provide an adequate and balanced flow of the major agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and for other purposes. which was ordered to lie on the table and to be printed.

Mr. THOMAS of Oklahoma submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to Senate bill 2787, the agricultural relief bill, which was ordered to lie on the table, to be printed, and to be printed in the, as follows:

On page 82, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following new subsection:

"(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, in establishing a marketing quota for any farm, the economic situation of the farmer, whether owner, lessor, or sharecropper, shall be taken into consideration, and no marketing quota shall be established for any farm 1f the amount of the commodities which the farmer would be permitted to market under quota restrictions would not yield sufficient income to meet the normal needs of the farmer and his family, and to provide the farmer a reasonable return upon his farm investment: Provided, That to the extent that the total marketing quotas for any commodity may be increased for any year, as herein provided, then such marketing quotas for any such commodity for such year applicable to and established for any farm or group of farms in a common or single ownership producing on an average more income than is necessary to meet the normal needs of the owner of such farm or farms, LXXXII67