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Said withdrawal was made in furtherance of the cooperative agreement between the United States and the State of Idaho providing for the consolidation of State land holdings in lieu of sections 16 and 36 within national forests.

In addition to the foregoing the following Executive orders, under said act of June 25, 1910, have been issued:

Executive Order No. 1786, dated June 11, 1913, temporarily withdrawing the public lands in T. 41 N., R. 2 W., G. & S. R. M., Arizona. Executive Order No. 1858, dated November 8, 1913, withdrawing a portion of T. 47 N., R. 7 W., N. M. P. M., Colorado, until March 5, 1915, in aid of legislation proposed in H. R. No. 5993.

Executive Order No. 1856, dated November 5, 1913, temporarily withdrawing 34,040 acres in Colorado, in aid of the legislation proposed in H. R. No. 1635.

Executive Order No. 1762, withdrawing certain described lands in Oregon, dated April 18, 1913, in aid of pending legislation.

Very respectfully,

CLAY TALLMAN, Commissioner.

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WEARING OF THE UNIFORMS OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AND MARINE CORPS.

LETTER

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF WAR,

TRANSMITTING

THE DRAFT OF A BILL TO PREVENT THE WEARING OF THE UNIFORMS OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AND MARINE CORPS BY PERSONS NOT ENTITLED TO WEAR SUCH UNIFORMS AND TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATION BY COMMON CARRIERS AND BY MANAGERS OF HOTELS, THEATERS, AND OTHER LIKE PLACES AFFECTED WITH A PUBLIC INTEREST, AGAINST OFFICERS OR ENLISTED MEN OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AND MARINE CORPS.

DECEMBER 19, 1913.-Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be

printed.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 17, 1913.

The SPEAKER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Washington, D. C.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the draft of a bill designed to prevent the wearing of the uniforms of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps by persons not entitled to wear such uniforms, and to prevent discrimination by common carriers and by managers of hotels, theaters, and other like places affected with a public interest, against officers or enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. The Secretary of the Navy concurs in the provisions of the proposed bill, and it is recommended that it be enacted into law at the earliest practicable date.

Very respectfully,

LINDLEY M. GARRISON,
Secretary of War.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for any person not an officer or enlisted man of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps to wear the duly prescribed uniform of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or any distinctive part of such uniform, or a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part of the duly prescribed uniform of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps: Provided, That the foregoing provision shall not be construed so as to prevent officers or enlisted men of the Organized Militia from wearing, in pursuance of law and regulations, the uniform lawfully prescribed to be worn by such officers or enlisted men of the Organized Militia; nor to prevent persons who in time of war have served honorably as officers of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, Regular or Volunteer, and whose most recent service was terminated by an honorable discharge, muster out, or resignation, from wearing, upon occasions of ceremony, the uniform of the highest grade they have held by brevet or other commission in such regular or volunteer service; nor to prevent any person who has been honorably discharged from the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, Regular or Volunteer, from wearing his uniform from the place of his discharge to his home within three months after the date of such discharge; nor to prevent the members of military societies composed entirely of honorably discharged officers or enlisted men, or both, of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, Regular or Volunteer, from wearing, upon occasion of ceremony, the uniform duly prescribed by such societies to be worn by the members thereof; nor to prevent the instructors and members of the duly organized cadet corps of a State university, State college, or public high school offering a regular course in military instruction from wearing the uniform duly prescribed by the authorities of such university, college, or public high school for wear by the instructors and members of such cadet corps; nor to prevent the instructors and members of the duly organized cadet corps of any other institution of learning offering a regular course in military instruction, and at which an officer or enlisted man of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps is lawfully detailed for duty as instructor in military science and tactics, from wearing the uniform duly prescribed by the authorities of such institution of learning for wear by the instructors and members of such cadet corps; nor to prevent civilians attendant upon a course of military or naval instruction authorized and conducted by the military or naval authorities of the United States from wearing, while in attendance upon such course of instruction, the uniform authorized and prescribed by such military or naval authorities for wear during such course of instruction; nor to prevent any person from wearing the uniform of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps in any playhouse or theater while actually engaged in representing therein a military or naval character not tending to bring discredit or reproach upon the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps: Provided further, That the uniforms worn by officers or enlisted men of the Organized Militia, or by the members of the military societies or the instructors and members of the cadet corps referred to in the preceding proviso, shall include some distinctive mark or insignia to distinguish such uniforms from the uniforms of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps: And provided further, That the members of the military societies and the instructors and members of the cadet corps hereinbefore mentioned shall not wear the insignia of rank prescribed to be worn by officers of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or any insignia of rank similar thereto.

SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, or the manager or any agent or employee of any common carrier, or the proprietor, lessee, manager, or any agent or employee of any inn, hotel, restaurant, theater, or other public place of entertainment or amusement to forbid or refuse transportation, admission, accommodations, or service to, or in any other manner make or cause to be made any discrimination against any officer or enlisted man belonging to the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, because he belongs to the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or because he wears the duly prescribed uniform of his grade in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps.

SEC. 3. That any person who offends against the provisions of this act shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than three months or both.

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2d Session.

No. 504.

APPROPRIATIONS, EXPENDITURES, ETC., DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

MESSAGE

FROM THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

TRANSMITTING

A STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, WITH ACCOMPANYING PAPERS, BEING AN INVITATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC TO THAT OF THE UNITED STATES TO SEND DELEGATES TO AN INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY TO MEET AT ROME ON FEBRUARY 24, 1914.

December 19, 1913.-Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

In view of the provision contained in the deficiency act, approved March 4, 1913, that

Hereafter the Executive shall not extend or accept any invitation to participate in any international congress, conference, or like event, without first having specific authority of law to do so.

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress and for its determination whether it will authorize the acceptance of the invitation, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, being an invitation from the Government of the French Republic to that of the United States to send delegates to an International Commission of Phytopathology to meet at Rome on February 24, 1914, and a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture showing the favor with which the Department of Agriculture views the proposed gathering.

It will be observed that the acceptance of the invitation will involve no special appropriation of money by the Government. WOODROW WILSON.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, December 19, 1913.

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