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S. 214. An act for the relief of Ahmet Suat

Maykut;

S. 223. An act for the relief of Mary Freida

Poeltl Smith;

S. 239. An act for the relief of Apostolos

Vasili Percas;

S. 352. An act for the relief of Isaac Glickman, Reghina Glickman, Alfred Cismaru,

and Anna Cismaru;

S. 388. An act for the relief of Petre and

Liubitza Ionescu;

S. 393. An act for the relief of Chieko

Suzuki;

S. 644. An act for the relief of Mecys

Jauniskis;

S. 730. An act granting the consent of

Congress to the States of Kansas and Oklahoma to negotiate and enter into a com- pact relating to their interests in, and the

apportionment of, the waters of the Arkansas River and its tributaries as they

affect such States;

S. 732. An act to promote public cooperation in the rehabilitation and preservation

of the Nation's important historic properties in the New York City area, and for other

purposes;

S. 987. An act to authorize the Secretary

of Commerce, acting through the Coast and

Geodetic Survey, to assist the States of

Maryland and Delaware to reestablish their

common boundary;

S. 1044. An act for the relief of Edward

Naarits;

S. 1189. An act to permit national banks to make 20-year real-estate loans, and 9-

month residential construction loans;

S. 1337. An act for the relief of Joseph

Vyskocil;

S. 1353. An act for the relief of Mrs.

Jeanette S. Hamilton;

S. 1367. An act for the relief of Antonio

Jacoe;

S. 1391. An act granting the consent of

Congress to the States of California and

Nevada to negotiate and enter into a compact with respect to the distribution and

use of the waters of the Truckee, Carson,

and Walker Rivers, Lake Tahoe, and the

tributaries of such rivers and lake in such

States; S. 1395. An act to amend the Joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to establish

a commission for the celebration 'of the

200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander

Hamilton," approved August 20, 1954;

S. 1397. An act providing for the convey- ance of certain lands to St. Louis Church

of Dunseith, Dunseith, N. Dak.;

S. 1415. An act for the relief of Anna

Mertikas;

S. 1522. An act for the relief of Lieselotte

Brodzinski Gettmen;

S. 1541. An act for the relief of Ernest

Fraenkel and his wife, Hanna Fraenkel;

S. 1581. An act for the relief of Constaninos Pantermalis;

S. 1681. An act for the relief of Cecile Doriac and her minor child;

S. 1759. An act to consolidate the Hatch

Act of 1887 and laws supplementary thereto

relating to the appropriation of Federal

funds for the support of agricultural experiment stations in the States, Alaska, Hawaii,

and Puerto Rico;

S. 1792. An act to amend the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954;

S. 1894. An act to provide for the participation of the United States in the International Finance Corporation;

S. 2088. An act for the relief of Ladislav

Mencl;

S. 2098. An act to amend Public Law 83,

83d Congress;

S. 2126. An act to extend and clarify laws

relating to the provision and improvement

of housing, the elimination and prevention

of slums, the conservation and development

of urban communities, the financing of vitally needed public works, and for other purposes;

S. 2198. An act to extend the period of restrictions on lands belonging to Indians of

the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, and

for other purposes;

S. 2260. An act granting the consent of

Congress to the States of Arkansas, Louisiana,

Oklahoma, and Texas to negotiate and enter into a compact providing for the apportionment of the waters of the Red River and its

tributaries;

S. 2270. An act for the relief of Nadia Noland and Samia Ouafa Noland;

S. 2295. An act to amend section 313 of the

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, with

respect to tobacco allotments;

S. 2296. An act to amend section 313 of the

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, with respect to tobacco allotments;

S. 2312. An act for the relief of certain

Korean war orphans;

S. 2575. An act for the relief of Mrs. Gertrud Hildegard Nichols;

S. 2604. An act to increase the borrowing

power of Commodity Credit Corporation; and

S. J. Res. 73. Joint resolution to establish a commission to formulate plans for a

memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

On August 12, 1955:

S. 541. An act for the relief of Martin

Aloysius Madden;

S. 550. An act for the relief of John Axel

Arvidson;

S. 756. An act to authorize the appropriation of accumulated receipts in the Federal

aid to wildlife restoration fund established

by the Pittman-Robertson Act and to authorize the expenditure of funds apportioned

to a State under such act for the management of wildlife areas and resources; S. 1077. An act to provide for settlement

of claims resulting from the disaster which

occurred at Texas City, Tex., on April 16 and

17, 1947;

S. 1849. An act to provide for the granting

of career-conditional and career appointments to certain qualified employees;

S. 2168. An act to amend the Fair Labor

Standards Act of 1938 in order to increase

the national minimum wage, and for other

purposes;

S. 2253. An act to reemphasize trade development as the primary purpose of title I of

the Agricultural Trade Development and

Assistance Act of 1954;

S. 2501. An act to provide grants to assist

States to meet the cost of poliomyelitis vaccination programs, and for other purposes;

and

S. J. Res. 82. Joint resolution to authorize

the Secretary of the Interior to execute a

certain contract with the Toston Irrigation

District, Montana.

On August 14, 1955:

S. 2039. An act to authorize the Secretary

of the Interior to lease any unassigned lands

on the Colorado River Indian Reservation,

Ariz., and for other purposes; and

S. 2576. An act to amend the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to authorize

the merger of street-railway corporations operating in the District of Columbia, and for

other purposes," approved January 14, 1933,

and for other purposes.

SENATE BILLS DISAPPROVED AFTER

SINE DIE ADJOURNMENT

The President of the United States,

subsequent to the sine die adjournment

of the Senate, notified the Secretary of

the Senate that, on the following dates,

he had disapproved bills of the Senate of

the following titles, together with his

reasons for such actions:

On August 5, 1955:

AMENDING THE SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL

ACT

S. 2171. I am withholding approval of

S. 2171, an act "To amend the Subsersive

Activities Control Act so as to provide

that upon the expiration on his term of

office a member of the Board shall continue to serve until his successor shall

have been appointed and shall have

qualified."

The language of this bill is incorporated in identical terms in S. 2375, which

I have approved today. Under the circumstances, approval of S. 2171 is unnecessary and would result in a nullity

and possible confusion.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 5, 1955.

FRED P. HINES

On August 12, 1955:

S. 204. I have withheld my approval

of S. 204, 84th Congress, an act for the

relief of Fred P. Hines.

The bill would direct the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay to Mr.

Fred P. Hines the sum of $778.78, which

sum represents the amount claimed as

the cost of private hospital and medical

expenses incurred in connection with

the treatment of a disability not connected with his active military service

in the Spanish-American War.

On July 20, 1953, I submitted a message to the Senate (S. Doc. No. 62, 83d

Cong.) returning without my approval

S. 152, 83d Congress, a bill identical to

this bill except that S. 204 eliminates the

payment of attorney fees in connection

with the claim. No new evidence has

been submitted in the interim, and the

legislative history of the current bill

contains no information which would

justify a change in my position in the

matter.

Under the circumstances and for the reasons set forth in my earlier message,

I could take no other action than to

withhold approval of S. 204.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 12, 1955.

AMENDING THE CIVIL SERVICE RErIREMENT ACT

S. 1041. I am withholding approval of

S. 1041, a bill to amend the Civil Service

Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as

amended, to provide for the inclusion in

the computation of accredited service of

certain periods of service rendered

States or instrumentalities of States,

and for other purposes.

This bill would provide additional retirement benefits to those Federal and

District of Columbia employees who also

have been, are now, or in the future may

become employees of the States or of

State instrumentalities on Federal-State

programs financed either wholly or in

part by Federal funds, in five types of

.agricultural programs and in programs

of vocational education.

The bill is not approved because it

would (1) make improper use of Federal funds to pay for selvices never received by it, (2) result in an unsound

shifting of fiscal responsibility from

State to Federal Government, (3) set an

undesirable precedent, and (4) constitute an unsound approach to a desirable

goal of increased employee mobility

First, and most important, these additional retirement benefits would not be

based upon Federal employment but on

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strumentalities are responsible for paying for services rendered to them, and

there is no assertion that such obligations are not met. Federal retired pay

is a basic element in the compensation

system provided by the Federal Government in exchange for work performed

by its employees. To provide additional

compensation payable out of the Federal

civil-service retirement fund on the

basis of work performed for another employer appears to be an unnecessary and

improper use of Federal funds.

Second, the financing principle followed in this bill is unsound. The Federal civil-service retirement fund has

been built up by contributions from

Federal employees and from the Federal

Government as an employer. Under the

bill the affected employees would now

pay retirement contributions for their

State service as if it had been Federal

service but since the ultimate annuity

payments would average several times

such contributions, the major portion of

the cost of this bill would be borne by

Federal taxpayers. This shift of fiscal

responsibility from the actual employer,

the State or State instrumentalities, to

the Federal Government would be accomplished with no corresponding transfer of funds. This unsound fiscal policy

could become an even more serious matter if the program were to be extended

to all employee groups having similar

claims.

Third, the bill appears to establish an

undesirable precedent for making similar payments on the basis of employment

in many other Federal-State cooperative programs. The record on the bill

indicates that over 80 such programs

have already been identified. Extension

of similar benefits to employees of all

such programs would lead far afield.

Fourth, although the bill seems to have

the sound objective of encouraging transfers of employees between State and

Federal employment, I do not believe

that it moves toward this objective in

a proper manner. A firmer, more acceptable step would be to extend the

Federal old-age and survivors system to

include Federal employees. With em- ployees of an increasing number of

States also covered under that system,

both Federal and State retirement systems would share a common base and

all OASI benefits would be preserved in

moving from one employer to another.

Recommendations to the Congress will

be made on this matter early in the next

session.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 12, 1955.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY AFTER SINE

DIE ADJOURNMENT ENTITLED

"SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES" (S.

REPT. NO. 1306)

Pursuant to the order of the Senate

of August 1, 1955,

Mr. FULBRIGHT, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, on August 10, 1955, submitted a report of that

committee entitled "Summary of Activities," which was ordered to be printed.

INTERIM REPORT OF ALEXANDER

HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION (S. DOC. NO. 89)

Pursuant to the order of the Senate

of July 30, 1955,

Mr. MUNDT, on September 20, 1955,

submitted an interim report of the

Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial Commission, pursuant to section 6, Public

Law 601, 83d Congress, to establish a

Commission for the Celebration of the

Two Hundredth Anniversay of the Birth

of Alexander Hamilton, which was

printed.

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES-REPORT

OF COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE

AND CIVIL SERVICE SUBMITTED

AFTER ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE

(S. REPT. NO. 1307)

Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina,

from the Committee on Post Office and

Civil Service, pursuant to the order of

the Senate of August 1, 1955, submitted

on September 23, 1955, a report of that

committee entitled "Summary of Activities," which was ordered to be printed.

APPOINTMENTS AFTER SINE DIE

ADJOURNMENT

Under the authority of the order of

the Senate of August 2, 1955, the Vice

President, subsequent to the sine die adjournment, made appointments to the

following commissions, joint and special

committees, and subcommittee authorized by law or resolution of the Senate:

To the Boston National Historic Sites

Commission: Mr. SALTONSTALL.

To the District of Columbia Auditorium Commission: Mr. Neely, Mr.

McNamara, Mr. Beall, Dr. George Johnson, Dean of Howard University Law

School, Mr. Barney Balaban of New

York, Mrs. Eugene Meyer of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. James H. Rowe, Jr.,

of Washington, D. C.

To the Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Memorial Commission: Mr. IvEs, Mr.

CASE of New Jersey, Mr. HUMPHREY, and

Mr. LEHMAN.

To the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial

Commission: Mr. O'MAHONEY and Mr.

MUNDT.

To the Joint Congressional Committee

on Construction of a Building for a

Museum of History and Technology for

the Smithsonian Institution: Mr. ANDERSON, Mr. SALTONSTALL, Mr. SMITH of New

Jersey, Mr. SYMINGTON, and Mr. MARTIN

of Pennsylvania.

To the Committee on Disarmament:

Mr. HUMPHREY, chairman, Mr. BARKLEY,

Mr. SPARKMAN, Mr. WILEY, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, and Mr. KNOWLAND, from the

subcommittee of the Committee on

Foreign Relations, as appointed by the

chairman of the Committee on Foreign

Relations; Mr. BYRD, Mr. SYMINGTON,

Mr. BRIDGES, and Mr. SALTONSTALL,

from the Committee on Armed Services,

and Mr. PASTORE and Mr. BRICKER, from

the-Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.

To the Special Committee on the Senate Reception Room: Mr. JOHNSON Of

Texas, chairman, Mr. RUSSELL, Mr.

MANSFIELD, Mr. MILLIKIN, and Mr.

BRIDGES.

To the Committee on Invitation from

the British Parliament: Mr. HUMPHREY,

Mr. MANSFIELD, Mr. BARKLEY, Mr. PAYNE,

Mr. CURTIS, and Mr. GOLDWATER.

To the Commission on Government

Security; Mr. Stennis of Mississippi,

Mr. Cotton of New Hampshire, Loyd

Wright, Past President of the American

Bar Association, of Los Angeles, California, and Dr. Susan Riley, Professor

of Education, George Peabody College,

Nashville, Tennessee.

CONFIRMATIONS

Executive nominations confirmed by

the Senate August 2, 1955:

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Harold C. Patterson, of Virginia, to be a member of the Securities and Exchange

Commission for the term expiring June 5,

1960.

DEPARTMENT Or LABOR

Newell Brown, of New Hampshire, to be

Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor.

REJECTION

Executive nomination rejected by the

Senate August 2, 1955:

POSTMASTER

The nomination of Margaret E. Smith to

be postmaster at Montreat in the State of

North Carolina.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1955

The House met at 11 o'clock a. m.

The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp,

D. D., offered the following prayer:

0 Thou God of all our days, may our

hearts expand with gratitude for the

many mercies which Thou hast bestowed

upon us.

Wilt Thou continue to give us the

glad assurance that no needed blessing

wilt Thou ever withhold from us if we

do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly

with the Lord.

We thank Thee for the high and holy

privilege we have had of working together

in the service of our God, our country,

and humanity.

Grant that when we come to the closing hour of this session of the Congress

we may receive the benediction of Thy

grace, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant."

May the Lord bless us and keep us;

may the Lord make His face to shine

upon us and be gracious unto us; may

the Lord lift upon us the light of His

countenance and give us peace.

Amen.

The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and approved.

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

A message from the Senate, by Mr.

Carrell, one of its clerks, announced that

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