HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.


MONDAY, Decem. s, 1928.
Upwards of fifty memorials and petit
tions were presented to day. some of which
were from the Legislatures of States and
Territories, and were several!y referred.


A message was received from the Pre-.
sident Of the United States similar to that
in the proceeding Of the Senate ; which
when read, was referred to the committee
of ways and means.


A Resolution, "That provision ough,
TO be made by law, for deiraying the ex'
pense incident to the appointment ot All
,IAgent, or Commissioned, to GREECE
fIwhenever the President shall deem it ex
4 Ipedient to make such appointment, was
lIaid on the table.


et Mr.. Brent offered a Resolution. Tha
ythe Committee on the Judiciary be direct
Il ed to inquire into the expediency of 81
! Amending the laws of the United States a
,to abolish imprisonment for debt.
d On motion of Mr.. Brent, it was also re
solved, That the Committee on the Judi
/, ciary be instructed to inquire into the po
gIIicy and cxpcdiency of establishing Cri
: -|minal Code for the government OF the Y
Estates.


i. The Rev. Mr.. Bascom, of the State o
, Ohio, was elected Chaplain on the part o
this House.


TUESDAY, Decem. Q.


The following petitions, out OF the grea


humber of those which were presented
yesterday, seem to be worthy of specia


notice:


: A petition from manufacturers of Woo
sin the State of Massachusetts, praying 70
e an addition Of l2s per cent. to the duty o.


woollen gools.--Referred to the Com


mittee on Manufactures.
j. A memorial of the General Assembly q
J. the Territory of Arkansas, praying for a
It appropriation to extinguish the title of Gel
l. tain Indian tribes to land in that territory
(, Referred to the Committee on Way
+ and Means.


e The House proceeded to tho considt
G. ration of the resolution relating to the e,
h tending to the Circuit Court of the Unite
10 States into certain States. The questio
;|heing on the amendment, (Which exten,
n, ed the proposition from Alabama, to a
al .he States where no Circuits are now helt
'nIit passed in the affirmative; and thus ;
IImended, the resolution was agreed to.
IL WEDNESDAY, Decem. 10.
'e The following resolution was presente
'e by Mr.. MLane of Del. and ordered to u
II On the table one day:


e. Resolred. That the President of the [
N 'e States be required to communicate to tn
III House all such parts of the correspond
p ence with the government of Spain, toucl
h'|ing the Florida treaty, to the period off
an final ratification, which have not yet bee
ne communicated, and which, in his opinio
oh it may not be inconsistent with the publ
l. interest to communicate.


Mr.. Storrs of N. York, offered the ft


owing resolution:


IN Resolved, That the Post Master Gen
al raj be directed to communicate to Il


House statement exhibiting the amou


of postage received during the year I 8s
m at each Post office in the United Stat
on and the territories thereof.-Which re.


luton was ordered to lie on the table.
Of On motion of Mr.. Call, it was
der Resolved, That the Committee on Nj
on tary Affairs be instructed to inquire il
bill the expediency of fortifying the harbc


of Pensacola.