BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. May 5, 1920. Crow Indian Reser 40, p. 1653. of. Whereas it appears that because of droughts and adverse weather vation, Mont. conditions many purchasers and entrymen under Proclamation of Preamble. September 28, 1914 (38 Stat., 2029), and under Proclamation of Vol. 38, p. 2029; Vol. April 6, 1917 (40 Stat., 1653), of lands in the ceded portion of the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, are unable to make payment Additional time al of the required installments of purchase money, it is hereby ordered lowed to pay installand directed that additional time for the payment of sums now due ments for ceded lands and unpaid be allowed until the 1921 anniversaries of the dates of the sales and entries to all such purchasers and entrymen who, within sixty days from receipt of notice to be given them by the Register and Receiver of the district land office, make payment to the Receiver of such land office of interest on the amounts in arrears, from the dates when the amounts became due, to the said anniversaries, at the rate of five per centum per annum. The said officers will promptly serve notice on all such purchasers and entrymen of the extension of time for payments herein authorized, and that if such extension is not secured within sixty days from receipt of notice, by the payment of interest as herein provided, or if within such time payment is not made, without interest, of all sums in arrears, the said purchases and entries will be reported by them to the General Land Office for cancellation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 5th day of May, in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and twenty and of the Inde[SEAL.] pendence of the United States, the One Hundred and Forty-fourth. By the President: BAINBRIDGE COLBY WOODROW WILSON Conditions. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION May 14, 1920. Transportation Act, WHEREAS Walker D. Hines has tendered his resignation as 1920. Director General of Railroads to become effective the 18th day of Preamble. May, 1920: and WHEREAS such resignation has been accepted effective as of such date. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the power and authority so vested in me under the Transportation Act of 1920, the unrepealed provisions of the Federal Control Act of March 21, 1918, and the "Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, and for other purposes", approved August 29, 1916, and of all other powers me hereto enabling, do hereby appoint, effective the 18th day of May, 1920, John Barton Payne, of Illinois, Director General of Railroads in the stead of the said Walker D. Hines, and do hereby delegate to and continue and confirm in him all powers and authority heretofore granted to and now possessed by the said Walker D. Hines as Director General of Railroads; and do hereby authorize and direct the said John Barton Payne, or his 44282°-VOL. 41-PT 2-25 Ante, p. 1788. Appointing John tor General of Rail Ante, p. 469. Vol. 40, p. 451. Vol. 39, p. 645. Ante, p. 1789. successor in office, until otherwise provided by Proclamation of the President or by Act of Congress, either personally or through such divisions, agencies or persons as he may authorize, to exercise and perform, as fully in all respects as the President is authorized to do, all and singular the powers and duties conferred or imposed upon me by the said unrepealed provisions of the Federal Control Act of March 21, 1918, and the said Transportation Act of February 28, 1920, except the designation of the Agent under Section 206 thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE by the President in the District of Columbia this 14th day of May, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and [SEAL.] Twenty, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Forty-fourth. By the President: BAINBRIDGE COLBY Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON May 14, 1920. Transportation Act, 1920. Preamble. Designating John Barton Payne as agent of Federal control. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by Proclamation dated March 11th, 1920, Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, was designated as the Agent provided for in Section 206 of the Transportation Act, 1920; and WHEREAS the said Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, as aforesaid has tendered his resignation as said Agent, which has been duly accepted, effective as of 18 May, 1920: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United in actions arising out States, under and by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by said Act, and of all other powers me hereto enabling, do hereby designate and appoint, effective the 18th day of May, 1920, John Barton Payne, Director General of Railroads, and his successor in office, as the Agent provided for in Section 206 of said Act, approved February 28, 1920. Ante, p. 461. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE by the President in the District of Columbia this 14th day of May, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred [SEAL.] and Twenty, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Forty-fourth. By the President: BAINBRIDGE COLBY Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON May 25, 1920. Cereals and cereal products. Preamble. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel", approved by the Presi. dent on the 10th day of August, 1917, it is provided among other things as follows: Vol. 40, p. 276. That, by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential Statutory provisions, to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement of foods, feeds, fuel, including fuel oil and natural gas, fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel, hereafter in this act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, monopolization, hoarding injurious speculation, manipulations, and private controls, affecting such supply, distribution, and movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control of such necessaries during the war. such purposes the instrumentalities, means, methods, powers, authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are created, established, conferred, and prescribed. The President is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as are essential effectively to carry out the provisions of this act." For AND, WHEREAS, it is further provided in said act as follows: "That, from time to time, whenever the President shall find it essential to license the importation, manufacture, storage, mining, or distribution of any necessaries, in order to carry into effect any of the purposes of this Act, and shall publicly so announce, no person shall, after a date fixed in the announcement, engage in or carry on any such business specified in the announcement of importation, manufacture, storage, mining, or distribution of any necessaries as set forth in such announcement, unless he shall secure and hold a license issued pursuant to this section. The President is authorized to issue such licenses and to prescribe regulations for systems of accounts and auditing of accounts to be kept by licensees, submission of reports by them, with or without oath or affirmation and the entry and inspection by the President's duly authorized agents of the places of business of licensees." AND WHEREAS, by virtue of the above provisions certain public announcements were made by the President from time to time as a result of which the importation, manufacture, storage and distribution of certain necessaries were licensed. Vol. 40, p. 277. Announcing the li AND WHEREAS, a changed situation has been brought about by the present armistice in the war between the United States and Germany, and by the carrying out of the price guarantees made to producers of wheat of the crop of nineteen hundred and nineteen. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the censing of specified United States of America, by virtue of the powers conferred upon necessaries no longer me by said Act of Congress, hereby find and determine and by this proclamation do announce that it is no longer essential in order to carry into effect the purposes of the Act that the importation, manufacture, storage or distribution of certain necessaries be subject to license, to the extent hereinafter specified. Licenses heretofore required for the importation, manufacture, storage, or distribution of certain necessaries are hereby cancelled, effective June 1, 1920, with respect to the following: essential. Importers, etc., of ucts. All persons, firms, corporations or associations engaged in the cereals and their prod business of importing, manufacturing, storing or distributing corn, oats, barley, wheat, rye, flour, or any other product or by product of the foregoing named necessaries. Regulations canceled All regulations issued under the said Act covering licensees so from June 1, 1920, dealing in these commodities are hereby cancelled, effective June 1, Sugar not affected. This Proclamation shall in no way affect licenses heretofore required for the importation, manufacture, storage or distribution of sugar, or general or special regulations governing sugar licensees. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia, this 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-Fourth. By the President: BAINBRIDGE COLBY Secretary of State. WOODROW WILSON June 3, 1920. Anthracite coal min ing. Preamble. Ante, p. 1015. Appointing commis sion to decide wage dif BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, the wage scale of the anthracite coal operators and miners expired on March 31, 1920; and WHEREAS, the operators' and miners' wage scale committee has been in conference since early in March in an effort to negotiate a new wage scale; and WHEREAS, the committee agreed at the beginning of its sessions that any agreement finally arrived at would become retroactive to the first of April, 1920; and WHEREAS, Í addressed a communication to the scale committee on May 21, 1920, when a disagreement was imminent, in which I said that if the scale committee was unable to reach an agreement I would "insist that the matters in dispute be submitted to the determination of a commission to be appointed by me, the award of the commission to be retroactive to the first of April in accordance with the arrangement you have already entered into, and that work be continued at the mines pending the decision of the commission. I shall hold myself in readiness to appoint a commission similarly constituted to the one I recently appointed in connection with the bituminous coal mining industry as soon as I learn that both sides have signified their willingness to continue at work and abide by its decisions"; and WHEREAS, I have been advised that both sides have signified their willingness to accept and abide by the award of a commission thus constituted; and WHEREAS, the scale committee has further agreed as follows: "(1) The terms and provisions of the award of the Anthracite Coal StrikeCommission and subsequent agreements made in modifications thereof or supplemental thereto, as well as the rulings and decisions of the Board of Conciliation, will be ratified and continued, excepting insofar as they may be changed by the award of the commission. "(2) When the award of the commission is made it will be written into an agreement between the anthracite operators and miners in such manner as the commission may determine. "(3) It is understood that neither operators nor miners are in any manner bound by any tentative suggestions that have been made during the period of their negotiations and that either side shall use its own discretion in the presentation of its case in connection with matters at issue": NOW THEREFORE, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the ferences between oper- United States, hereby appoint William O. Thompson, of Columbus, Ohio, Neal J. Ferry, of McAdoo, Pennsylvania, and William L. Con ators and miners. |