By Mr. BURSUM:

A bill (S. 2159) authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of the Gallup-Durango highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation and providing reimbursement therefor; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

A bill (S. 2160) to cede unreserved public lands to the several States; to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. Mr. BROOKHART. I introduce a bill dealing with inland waterways, which I ask to have referred to the select committee of which the Senator from Illinois [Mr. MCCORMICK] is chairman.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. At the request of the Senator introducing the bill, it will be referred to the select committee dealing with the subject.

By Mr. BROOKHART:

A bill (S. 2161) providing for the construction of certain public works, creating the inland waterways corporation, and for other purposes; to the Select Committee on Nine-Foot Waterway Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf; and

A bill (S. 2162) granting an increase of pension to William J. Coan (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Pensions.

By Mr. McNARY:

A bill (S. 2163) to authorize the erection of a Veterans' Bureau hospital in Portland, Oreg.; to the Committee on Finance.

Mr. NORRIS. I introduce two bills prepared by the Department of Agriculture proposing to amend certain laws, and ask that they may be referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

By Mr. NORRIS:

A bill (S. 2164) to repeal that part of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912," approved March 4, 1911, relating to the admission of tick-infested cattle from Mexico into Texas; and

A bill (S. 2165) to amend that portion of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908,” approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1260), commonly known as the "Meat inspection amendment"; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

By Mr. RANSDELL:

A joint resolution (S. J. Res. 66) to authorize refund of duties collected in excess of amounts provided by the tariff act of 1922; to the Committee on Finance.

UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.

Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. President, in the proceedings of the Tariff Commission the question has arisen as to whether members of the commission the members of whose families are financially interested in investigations and decisions of the commission shall participate in such investigations and decisions. I submit a resolution which I believe expresses the opinion of the Senate touching the public policy involved in that issue, and ask that it be printed in the RECORD and lie over under the rule.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolution will be received, printed in the RECORD, and go over under the rule.

Mr. LA FOLLETTE. Mr. President, I ask that the resolution introduced by the Senator from Arkansas may be read. The PRESIDING OFFICER. At the request of the Senator from Wisconsin, the resolution will be read for the information

of the Senate.

The resolution (S. Reg. 131) was read, as follows:

Whereas Commissioner H. H. Glassie, a member of the United States Tariff Commission, has publicly stated that his wife is the owner of 144 shares, par value $14,400, of stock in the Columbia Sugar Co., a Louisiana corporation owning and operating a sugar plantation and mill; and that the remainder of the entire capital stock of the aforesaid corporation-par value $200,000-is owned

by four brothers and one sister of the wife of Commissioner Glassie; and further, that one of these brothers is the manager of the plantation owned by the corporation; and

Whereas this corporation is directly and financially interested in the hearings now proceeding before the Tariff Commission under the so-called flexible provisions of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922 to determine what increase or decrease in the existing duties upon sugar shall be recommended to the President of the United States; and

Whereas the property interests of Commissioner Glassie's wife and her brothers and sister in the results of the Tariff Commission's investigations, findings, and recommendations concerning the sugar Schedule of the tariff act constitutes for him a disqualifying interest under the legal maxim that "a person can not be judge in his own case, and any interest in the subject of a suit will disqualify a judge to preside in the trial thereof "; and

Whereas "the rule of disqualification on account of interest in the subject matter or result of litigation extends to every tribunal exercising judicial or quasi Judicial functions" (Encyclopedia of Law and Procedure, vol. 23, p. 590); and

Whereas the Tariff Commission has declared in a case now pending before the Supreme Court of the United States that it is exercising quasi Judicial power and authority conferred upon it by statute"; and

Whereas Commissioner Glassie has asserted, after admitting the property interest aforesaid, that he is the sole Judge of his qualification, and that it is his intention to "continue to sit in this case and in this investigation"; and

Whereas Commissioner Glassie's right to sit in this case has been challenged by three members of the Tariff Commission; and

Whereas his further participation in the case is repugnant to every standard of justice, and will discredit any findings or recom mendations made by the Tariff Commission as a result of this investigation; and

Whereas the Tariff Commission has refused by a tle vote, with Com. missioner Glassie voting, to adopt a rule of conduct and procedure that no commissioner who has a private interest in any investigation should officially participate in any of the quasi judicial investigations provided for by the flexible provisions of the tariff law of 1922; and

Whereas the Interstate Commerce Commission and other Federal commissions conduct their proceedings under rules which prohibit any member from participating in the disposition of any matter in which he has an interest, financial or otherwise, directly or indirectly; and

Whereas the precedent established by Mr. Glassie under the circumstances would be destructive of the standards of justice and honor hitherto recognized by governmental bodies, and would tend to undermine the confidence of the American people and foreign governments in the findings of that commission: Now, therefore be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that, under the circumstances stated above, the proceedings of the United States Tariff Commission in the present investigation will not command public confidence, and that in order to accomplish the legislative purpose of the act creating the United States Tariff Commission it is necessary that the commission adopt and proceed under a rule which in substance disqualifies any member of the commission from acting in any investigation or making any recommendation or decision in a matter wherein either the commissioner or any member of his immediate family has a property or financial interest to be affected by such investigation, recommendation, or decision.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolution will go over under the rule.

THE WORLD COURT.

Mr. HARRISON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have inserted in the RECORD a speech that was delivered by the distinguished junior Senator from Utah [Mr. KING] and broadcast over the country a few nights ago on the world court. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. MOSES). Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. The speech referred to is as follows:

WORLD PEACE.

(By Hon. WILLIAM H. KING.)

The world hungers for peace as the arid soil thirsts for the lifegiving stream. This great Republic, under the providence of God, has been established to promote peace and justice and to aid in ameliorating the sorrows and sufferings of a war-torn world, It believes that the rules of conduct governing individual relations between citizens or subJects of a civilized State are clearly applicable as between enlightened nations, and that these rules can and should be expressed in terms of international law. At the close of the World War our country sought no territory or reparations; in the language of Lord Castlereagh, when opposing harsh terms of settlement at the close of the Napoleonic wars, "It was not our business to collect trophies but to try and bring back the world to peaceful habits."

And now the opportunity is before us to make an important contribution to the lasting peace of the world. Municipal law and its just enforcement make for domestic peace, and international law and courts to interpret it are essential to the peace and happiness of nations.

A world international court is projected, not as a vain but as a practical and rational scheme; and we are invited and importuned to let the voice of America be heard in the councils of the nations.

The Republics of Europe are as near to us as those of Latin America. The republican principle applied by the states of the Old World is as worthy of our approval and support as when applied to the states of the Western Hemisphere. We have no fear of European aggression upon American shores, either north or south or from east or west. We have no design or intention to enter into alliances against any country, government, or people in the world.

The righteousness of America and the strength of our free people are adequate to the protection of our political independence and territorial integrity. There are none who will deny or challenge this position. But we can not be truly happy by ourselves, we can not be content to hide the light of America under a bushel. The light of America must be exalted where all the world may see in our great country, not the strength of an aggressor against the rights of those whom we recognize as our equals among the nations, but shall see America revealed as the champion of peace and of justice in all that concerns the relations of equal states in the modern world. And if I were in a word to denote the aspiration of America in international affairs, I would say that the aspiration of America is for peace and for justice in all the world; and if I were to denote the objects for which the strength, the military and naval strength, and the prowess of America, in all that that word comprehends, were to be exerted and expended, I would say that the prowess of America should be exerted in the defense of peace and justice in the world. But justice is not a matter of arbitrament by the sword; nor is peace to be found among the alarms of war. Justice and peace are matters of law. They exist only in a state of public international order. The maxim "inter arma leges silent" states a profound truth, and it is, of course, true that in the clash of arms there is no peace as there is no law. If, therefore, we are to have justice, and have the peace of justice, and no other status of peace is worth having, then must we bring the disputations which provoke war into the forum of reason, to be settled by the judgment, not of men on horseback, clad in the armor of conquest and unrighteous force, but by the judgment of men who are learned in the principles of morality and the usages, customs, and comity of states, which are acknowledged by the community of civilized nations, and which rest for sanction upon the eternal precepts of Almighty God, as far as these have been revealed to the minds of men, and have enlightened the policy of governments. It is only in a great world court that these principles may be applied, and that international disputes may be resolved and settled by their application.

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The peace of nations means the concord of nations. The world court must accordingly be set up by the concord of nations. must be a process of peace. It must be a process of free national acts by uncoerced states. It is not an easy thing to bring the nations of the world into agreement. The will of independent states must be composed in this great project. It is not for powerful states to dictate terms to less powerful states. It is not for any state to interpose its separate will, arising out of traditional prejudices and racial antipathy, against the will of other states. The world must have the will to peace, and the separate will of the states must come into unison for the purpose of peace, and the projection and establishment of the processes of internal justice, from which alone peace may come to the world and good-will reign among the peoples of the earth.

The World Court can not be set up by any one nation; the constitution of this court must be the joint act of all the nations, it must arise out of the agreement of nations. To have brought the

nations into agreement upon a project of this kind is of itself a worthy consummation. Practically all nations have agreed, but our own Government hesitates to affix the national seal to the protocol of adherence to the constitution of the "Permanent Court of International Justice," which has been established at The Hague, and to the bench of which a distinguished jurist from among Our own countrymen has been elected. To refuse to ratify this protocol will by many be regarded as a repudiation of the projects for peace and justice, to which our country has been committed by those in authority, without regard to their partisan connections. The project for the Internal Court of Justice is an American project. originally proposed by our Government, and has had the express approval of Presidents Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge, and by the leading statesmen of our country. If these men can not speak for the country, to whom shall we listen? Surely not the discordant voices appealing for a constricted nationalism; surely not the strident voices of alien prejudice, which are heard in different quarters of the land, and have their impulses in passions

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which should have been left beyond the seas and not carried into the confines of this Republic.

Distinguished men from among our own people participated in the formulation of the articles which constitute this court. Captious objections and mere partisan opposition are not valid in the conditions which confront us. To say that the articles of the World Court are not perfect is not a valid objection. The articles of the World Court are sufficient to bring the nations together for the purpose of peace, and of justice without which there ought to be no peace, and if in the plenitude of experience it shall develop that these articles should be rectified and elaborated for their more effectual operation, the power resides in the nations to ordain proper emendations. We have only to realize that the Articles of Confederation brought the American colonies together for the establishment of our independence, and that after having accomplished this great thing, these articles were found not to be effectual in administration, and the Congress of the States in the Confederation passed an act calling a convention for the amendment of these articles; and this great convention, under the presidency of Washington, brought forth the Constitution of the United States, which is at once the glory and the strength of our country. From our Constitution have flowed the blessings of liberty and internal peace to all the generations of our people. We can not stand in the way of the establishment of a judicial institution from which the blessings of peace and justice may fow to all the peoples of the earth as they have organized the members into states and governments. The order of the world may be satisfied with nothing less than this. In this great business the will of the country and the enlightened opinion of our leading men must not be thwarted by partisan prejudice, jealousies, and passions. America must stand united before the world, and America may only stand united before the world upon the foundation of peace and Justice for all the world. It is enough for us to know that the project for the World Court of International Justice leads toward the light of liberty and peace, and in this light our footsteps must not falter, even though the goal is not, in its fullness, revealed to our vision. The course for progress toward peace is clear before us. We should go forward in agreement and coucord with the other States which we recognize as equals in the community of nations. To take another course would be untrue to our traditions, principles, and professions. Let us be true to the faith of the fathers in the ultimate establishment of an order of peace and justice in the world, and in this faith let us affix our accord to the Permanent Court of International Justice as the most immediate and potential means for this noble accomplishment.

THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN GENERAL STAFF. Mr. WADSWORTH. I ask unanimous consent to present to the Senate an article entitled The creation of the American General Staff," by Maj. Gen. William Harding Carter, with the further request that it be referred to the Committee on I'rinting, in order that that committee may consider the advisability of having it printed as a Senate document.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The morning business is closed. The calling of the calendar under Rule VIII is in order.

REENTRY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS-CONFERENCE REPORT.

Mr. SMOOT. I submit a conference report and ask for its immediate consideration.

The report was read, as follows:

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 82) extending the time during which certain domestic animals which have crossed the boundary line into foreign countries may be returned duty free, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:

That the Senate recede from its amendment numbered 2. That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 1, and agree to the same.

taken to Mexico in order to get feed for them. The time limit is extended to December 31, 1924.

Mr. ROBINSON. I understand that fully, but what is the effect of the agreement?

Mr. SMOOT. The first amendment receded from by the House conferees is a change in the measure, striking out the words "the first paragraph of," to correct a mistake in the joint resolution as passed by the House.

As to amendment No. 2, where the Senate conferees receded, the House provided that the tariff duties collected should be refunded, but did not provide for a direct appropriation for the purpose. The Senate provided a direct appropriation for the purpose, but the House conferees took exception to it and the Senate conferees yielded. The House conferees felt that it was the prerogative of the House to make the appropriation, and therefore the Senate conferees receded as to section 2.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the conference report.

The report was agreed to.

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED.

The following bills were severally read twice by their titles and referred as indicated below:

II. R. 657. An act granting the consent of Congress to the boards of supervisors of Rankin and Madison Counties, Miss.. to construct a bridge across the Pearl River in the State of Mississippi:

H. R. 3265. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge between the Boroughs, of Brooklyn and Queens, in the city and State of New York;

H. R. 3679. An act to authorize the building of a bridge across the Peedee River in South Carolina.

H. R. 3680. An act authorizing the building of a bridge across Kingston Lake at Conway, S. C.;

H. R. 3681. An act to authorize the building of a bridge across the Waccamaw River in South Carolina;

H. R. 4796. An act to extend the time of the Hudson River Connecting Railroad Corporation for the completion of its bridge across the Hudson River in the State of New York; and

H. R. 5196. An act granting the consent of Congress to the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande: to the Committee on Commerce.

H. R. 2878. An act to authorize the sale of lands allotted to Indians under the Moses agreement of July 7, 1883; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

H. R. 4121. An act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii; to the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions.

Lieut. Commander Richard E. Cassidy to be a commander in the Navy from the 5th day of October, 1923.

Lieut. Commander Riley F. McConnell to be a commander in the Navy from the 1st day of November, 1923.

Lieut. Commander Ralph R. Stewart to be a commander in the Navy from the 13th day of November, 1923. Lieut, Herbert K. Fenn to a lieutenant commander in the Navy from the 28th day of July, 1923.

Lieut. Paul Cassard to be a lieutenant commander in the Navy from the 26th day of October, 1923.

Lieut. Frank L. Johnston to be a lieutenant commander in the Navy from the 29th day of December, 1923. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Alexander Stuart to be a lieutenant in the Navy from the 31st day of December, 1921.

The following-named lieutenants (junior grade) to be lieutenants in the Navy from the 8th day of June, 1923: James Donaldson.

George O. Farnsworth.

Elmer J. Tiernan.

Lieut. (Junior Grade) Earle C. Peterson to be a lieutenant in the Navy from the 13th day of June, 1923.

Lieut. (Junior Grade) Henry L. Burmann to be a lieutenant in the Navy from the 29th day of June, 1923.

Lieut. (Junior Grade) John S. Hawkins to be a lieutenant in the Navy from the 7th day of July, 1923.

Lieut. (Junior Grade) Reuben F. Davis to be a lieutenant in the Navy from the 25th day of July, 1923.

The following-named ensigns to be lieutenants (junior grade) in the Navy from the 4th day of June, 1923:

Rhea S. Taylor.

George L. Richard.

George H. Hasselmann.

The following-named ensigns to be lieutenants (junior grade) in the Navy from the 5th day of June, 1923:

Carlton R. Todd.

John H. Willis.

Gunner Clarence M. Maloney to be a chief gunner in the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 24 day of July, 1923. The following-named gunners to be chief gunners in the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 24th day of September, 1923:

Edward H. Belknap. Louis G. La Ferte.

Edward F. Wilson.

Machinist Samuel A. Wilson to be a chief machinist in the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 2d day of July,

1923.

The following-named machinists to be chief machinists in the Navy, to rank with but after eusign, from the 24th day of September, 1923:

NOMINATIONS.

Excutive nominations received by the Senate January 22, 1924. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY.

Lieut. Commander Robert C. Giffen to be a commander in the Navy from the 24th day of August, 1923.

Harvey E. McNees to be postmaster at Winchester, Ind., in place of B. E. Hinshaw. Incumbent's commission expires JanCharlie E. Smith to be postmaster at Coal City, Ind. Office became presidential July 1, 1923.

KANSAS.

Vertie O. Booth to be postmaster at Bird City, Kans.. in place of Nellie Waters. Incumbent's commission expires January 23, 1924.

Elmer E. Hilton to be postmaster at Iumewell, Kans. Office became presidential April 1, 1923.

KENTUCKY.

Achsa Kinnett to be postmaster at Augusta, Ky., in place of V. H. Lytle. Incumbent's commission expired August-20, 1923.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Maud M. Miles to be postmaster at South Sudbury, Mass., in place of E. A. Hunt, resigned.

MICHIGAN.

Martin C. Mussolf to be postmaster at Tawas City, Mich., in place of M. C. Musolf. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Herbert S. Gray to be postmaster at Saginaw, Mich., in place of E. M. Cosgrove. Incumbent's commission expires January 26. 1924.

Samuel B. Brant to be postmaster at Pittsford, Mich., in place of S. B. Brant. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Benjamin F. Peckham to be postmaster at Parma, Mich., in place of M. B. Hawes. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Frank T. Swarthout to be postmaster at Laingsburg, Mich., in place of F. T. Swarthout. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Orville Dennis to be postmaster at Lake City, Mich., in place of G. S. Stout. Incumbent's commission expires January 26,

1924.

Floyd J. Gibbs to be postmaster at Ithaca, Mich., in place of F. J. Gibbs. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Clara Woodruff to be postmaster at Freeland. Mich., in place of Clara Woodruff. Incumbent's commission expires January 26. 1924.

Wilbert L. Nelson to be postmaster at Daggett, Mich., in place of John Duulam. Incumbent's commission expired July 28, 1923.

Harry E. McClure to be postmaster at Clinton, Mich., in place of A. W. Muir. Incumbent's commission expires January 26. 1924.

Frank E. Richards to be postmaster at Clarksville. Mich., in place of F. E. Richards. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Floyd Andrews to be postmaster at Clarkston, Mich., in place of Charles Myers. Incumbent's commission expires Jannary 26, 1924.

Abram A. Reger to be postmaster at Somerville. N. J.. in place of A. A. Reger. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924.

Lynwood C. Pine to be postmaster at Riverside, N. J., in place of A. F. Stecher. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924.

Charlotte S. Hurd to be postmaster at Dover, N. J., in place of C. S. Hurd. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924. Alonzo P. Green to be postmaster at Chester, N. J., in place of A. P. Green. Incumbent's commission expired September 10,

1923.

Alfred B. Gibb to be postmaster at Bernardsville, N. J., in place of A. B. Gibb. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924.

Laura B. Van Slyke to be postmaster at Avenel, N. J., in place of L. B. Van Slyke. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924.

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NEW YORK.

Jerome M. Slater to be postmaster at Attica, N. Y., in place of Frank Timm, deceased.

James Richtmyer to be postmaster at Windham, N. Y., in place of K. M. Cole. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

Nell S. Barclay to be postmaster at Hillsdale, N. Y., in place of C. S. Mallery. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924. William L. Fuller to be postmaster at Ellenville, N. Y., in place of W. L. Fuller. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

Stanley W. Parsons to be postmaster at Copenhagen, N. Y., in place of S. W. Parsons. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

Clare L. Masten to be postmaster at Athens, N. Y., in place of Norman Cooper. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

Jennie M. Steinhilber to be postmaster at Beaver Falls, N. Y. Office became presidential July 1, 1922.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Lat W. Purser to be postmaster at Vanceboro, N. C., în place of J. B. Brown. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924. Alexander B. Berry to be postmaster at Swanquarter, N. C., in place of William Watson. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Cyril L. Walker to be postmaster at Roper, N. C., în place of C. L. Walker. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

William S. Saunders to be postmaster at Roanoke Rapids, N. C., in place of G. N. Taylor. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Arthur B. Dickey to be postmaster at Murphy, N. C., in place of R. F. Crooks. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Charlie H. Murray to be postmaster at Middlesex, N. C., in place of J. H. Sanders. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

Theodore E. McCrary to be postmaster at Lexington, N. C., in place of S. W. Finch. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924. Wade H. McCotter to be postmaster at Grifton, N. C., in place of W. C. Mewborn. Incumbent's commission expires January 26, 1924.

NORTH DAKOTA.

William A. Andrews to be postmaster at Walhalla, N. Dak., in place of Hilliard Campbell, removed.

OHIO.

M. Margaret Searl to be postmaster at South Webster, Ohio, in place of J. W. Cole, deceased.

Charles F. Faris to be postmaster at Hillsboro, Ohio, in place of J. M. McMullen. Incumbent's commission expires February 24. 1924.

Elizabeth McNaught to be postmaster at Frazeysburg, Ohio, in place of J. S. Handstry. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, 1923.

OKLAHOMA.

William M. Underwood to be postmaster at Mountain View, Okla., in place of D. W. Wells. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924.

Gerald V. Underwood to be postmaster at Minco, Okla.. in place of N. L. Eggleston. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924.

Ralph P. Witt to be postmaster at Maud, Okla. in place of R. P. Witt. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924. James T. White to be postmaster at Howe, Okla., in place of O. R. Blassingame. Incumbent's commission expires January 28. 1924.

Ted R. Trolinger to be postmaster at Bluejacket. Okla.. in place of J. E. Smith. Incumbent's commission expires January 28. 1924.

Daisy E. Skinner to be postmaster at Adair, Okla., in place of D. S. Cumming. Incumbent's commission expires January 28, 1924.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Isaac A. Mattis to be postmaster at Millersburg, Pa., in place of C. W. Rubendall, resigned.

John L. Coldren to be postmaster at Manheim, Pa., in place of C. H. Young. Incumbent's commission expired August 5, 1923.

SOUTH CAROLINA,

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Jessie A. Gerrits to be postmaster at Wentworth, S. Dak., in place of J. A. Gerrits. Incumbent's commission expires January 23, 1924.

Jennie D. Hansen to be postmaster at Valley Springs, S. Dak., in place of C. E. Running. Incumbent's commission expires January 23, 1924.

CONFIRMATIONS.

1924.

Hugh H. Gardner to be postmaster at Ree Heights, S. Dak.. in place of H. H. Gardner. Incumbent's commission expires January 23, 1924.

Louis W. Carter to be postmaster at Highmore, S. Dak., in place of L. W. Carter. Incumbent's commission expires January 23, 1924.

TENNESSEE.

William T. McCown to be postmaster at Fayetteville, Tenn., in place of J. M. Eakin, resigned.

TEXAS.

Thomas H. Spilman to be postmaster at Mission, Tex., in place of C. E. Dutro, removed.

Thomas E. Williams to be postmaster at Matador, Tex., in place of Claude Warren, resigned.

John B. Vannoy to be postmaster at McLean, Tex., in place of J. F. Faulkner. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

Effie H. Briscoe to be postmaster at Hebbronville, Tex., in place of L. L. Luque. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

Cass B. Rowland to be postmaster at Hamlin, Tex., in place of C. B. Rowland. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

Leo S. Spencer to be postmaster at Crowell, Tex., in place of L. S. Spencer. Incumbent's commission expires January 31, 1924.

William T. McPherson to be postmaster at Ysleta, Tex. Office became presidential October 1, 1923.

1924.

Lawson B. Fulgham to be postmaster at Voth, Tex.

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became presidential October 1, 1923.

Charles D. Hathaway, Hugo. Zina N. Cleveland, Julesburg.

Henry E. Cannon to be postmaster at Shelbyville, Tex.

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became presidential October 1, 1923.

Robert Montgomery to be postmaster at Ponta, Tex. became presidential October 1, 1923.

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CONNECTICUT. James V. Golden, Noroton Heights. Albert E. Wellman, Torrington.

George E. Neese to be postmaster at Penelope, Tex. Incumbent's commission expired October 1, 1923.

DELAWARE.

Nora M. Kuhn to be postmaster at Paige, Tex. Office became presidential October 1, 1923.

Francis M. Bell to be postmaster at North Zulch, Tex. Office became presidential October 1, 1923.

Connie Stewart to be postmaster at New Waverly, Tex. Office became presidential October 1, 1923.

Beulah W. Carles to be postmaster at Muleshoe, Tex. became presidential October 1, 1923.

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William R. Williams to be postmaster at Montague, Tex.

Howard Schweitzer, Hartly.

KANSAS.

Stella Sommers, Athol.
Mattie L. Binkley, Brewster.
George G. Griflin, Clearwater.
Lewis S. Newell, Harveyville.
Harvey P. McFadden, Natoma.
Cliff W. Weeks, Osborne.
George D. Smith, Pretty Prairie.
Earl R. Given, Randall.

MARYLAND.

Hattie B. H. Moore. Marydel. Lafayette Ruark, Westover.

NEBRASKA.

Office became presidential October 1, 1923.

Lottie H. Rector to be postmaster at McCaulley, Tex. became presidential October 1, 1923.

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Nora C. McNally to be postmaster at Godley, Tex. came presidential October 1, 1923.

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NEW YORK.

Daniel B. Bynum to be postmaster at Eustace, Tex. became presidential October 1, 1923.

Elizabeth Hempel, Kilgore. Robert Greenwood, Nelson.