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House Resolution 659: The refusal of Robert Lehrer to answer questions before the

Committee on Un-American Activities.

House Resolution 660: The refusal of Alfred James Samter to answer questions before the Committee on Un-American Activities.

House Resolution 661: The refusal of Victor Malls to answer questions before the

Committee on Un-American Activities.

To the United States attorney, western district of New York:

House Resolution 662: The refusal of Sidney Turoff to answer questions before the

Committee on Un-American Activities.

House Resolution 663: The refusal of Sidney Herbert Ingerman to answer a question

before the Committee on Un-American

Activities.

To the United States attorney, district of

Massachusetts:

House Resolution 664: The refusal of Paul

Rosenkrants to answer a question before the

Committee on Un-American Activities.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND

MEANS-REPORT ON H. R. 11749

Mr. MILLS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on

Ways and Means have until midnight

August 5 to file a report on the bill H. R.

11749.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to

the request of the gentleman from Arkansas?

There was no objection.

PROVIDING FOR IMPROVED METHODS OF STATING BUDGET ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR DEFICIENCY AND SUPPLEMENTAL

APPROPRIATIONS

Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask

unanimous consent to take from the

Speaker's table the bill (H. R. 8002) to

provide for improved methods of stating

budget estimates and estimates for deficiency and supplemental appropriations, with amendments of the Senate

thereto, and concur in the Senate amendments.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The Clerk read the Senate amendments, as follows:

Page 2, line 2, after "expenditures.", insert "The President may include in the

budget with any such proposed limitation on annual accrued expenditures, proposals for

provisions authorizing the head of a department or establishment to make transfers,

within his department or establishment, between such limitations on annual accrued

expenditures; and such provisions may limit

by amount or by per centum the size of any

transfer so proposed."

Page 2, line 11, after "lapse", insert "except that whenever any liabilities are incurred within the limitation provided for

in any fiscal year (whether or not recorded

or reported in such fiscal year), nothing in

this section shall be construed to prevent

the making of payment therefor in any subsequent fiscal year."

Page 2, strike out lines 12 to 17, inclusive.

Page 2, line 18, strike out "(f)" and insert "(e)."

Page 3, line 1, strike out "(g)" and insert "(f)."

Page 3, line 1, strike out "(f)" and in- sert "(e)."

Page 3, lines 10 and 11, strike out "provisions pertaining to the availability of any

appropriations or funds previously made

available" and insert "to include in any such

bill or joint resolution provisions authorizing the head of a department or establishment to make transfers, within his department or establishment, between such

limitations on annual accrued expenditures;

and such provisions may limit by amount or by per centum the size of any transfer so provided for."

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to

the request of the gentleman from

Florida?

Mr. TABER. Mr. Speaker, I regard

this as one of the most dangerous bills

that has ever been proposed to the Congress, and I feel obliged to object and

I do object.

The SPEAKER. Objection is heard.

INDEPENDENT OFFICES APPROPRIATION BILL-VETO MESSAGE

FROM THE PRESIDENT (H. DOC.

NO. 429)

The SPEAKER laid before the House

the following veto message from the

President of the United States, which

was read by the Clerk:

To the House of Representatives:

I return herewith, without my approval, H. R. 11574, making appropriations for sundry independent executive

bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal

year ending June 30, 1959, and for other

purposes.

This is a major appropriation measure,

providing funds for operation of many

important agencies, and I withhold my

approval most reluctantly. I do so, however, because of my strong conviction

that Congress should reconsider its

action appropriating over half a billion

dollars not presently needed in the civil

service retirement and disability fund.

There is no sound justification whatever for adding unnecessarily over half

a billion dollars to a deficit which may

reach $12 billion this fiscal year.

If this appropriation had been required

to meet a current obligation of the Government, I would have requested it.

However, $8 billion is now on hand in

the fund. Receipts of the fund will exceed outgo during the current year and

for years to come. As provided by the

civil service retirement law, the departments and agencies of the Government

this year will make direct payments of

$645 million to the fund. This amount,

matched by employee contributions,

plus interest collected on the fund's balance, will provide total receipts of over

$1.5 billion to the fund in 1959. On the

other hand, payments of claims and refunds this year will total less than $800

million.

It is true that this favorable balance

in the fund will not continue indefinitely.

However, while there may be compelling

reasons for full funding of private pension plans to insure employees that they

will receive earned benefits even though

the employer goes out of business, no

such eventuality faces the employees of

the Federal Government. The Retirement Act promises to make certain payments under specified conditions, and

regardless of the size of the balance in

the retirement fund at any particular

time, these benefits will be paid because

the promise to do so is backed by the

Government. To assume otherwise is to

call into question the full faith and crediE

of the United States Government. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 4, 1958.

The SPEAKER. The objection of the

President will be spread at large upon

the Journal.

Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, I move

that the message and the bill be referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered printed.

The motion was agreed to.

AMENDING CIVIL SERVICE

RETIREMENT ACT

Mr. MURRAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask

unanimous consent to take from the

Speaker's table the bill (H. R. 4640) to

amend the Civil Service Retirement Act

with respect to payments from voluntary contributions accounts, with a Senate amendment thereto, and concur in

the Senate amendment.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The Clerk read the Senate amendment

as follows:

Page 1, line 6, strike out all after "provided" down to and Including "of" in line 9,

and insert "application for payment is filed

with the Commission prior to receipt of any."

Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, will the gentleman explain the amendment?

Mr. MURRAY. The Senate amendment is merely a clarifying amendment.

It in no way affects the substance of the

bill.

Mr. MARTIN. It does not change the

bill in the slightest?

Mr. MURRAY. Not at all.

Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to

the request of the gentleman from Tennessee?

There was no objection.

The Senate amendment was concurred

in.

A motion to reconsider was laid on the

table.

THE CONSENT CALENDAR

The SPEAKER. This is Consent Calendar day. The Clerk will call the first

bill on the calendar.

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF

SCIENTIFIC UNIONS

The Clerk called the resolution (S. J.

Res. 85) to amend the act of Congress

approved August 7, 1935 (Public Law

253), concerning United States contributions to the International Council of

Scientific Unions and certain associated

unions.

There being no objection the Clerk

read the resolution as follows:

Resolved, etc., That Public Law 253, 74th

Congress, Is hereby amended by striking out the figure "$9,000" in the section dealing

with the International Council of Scientific

Unions and inserting in lieu thereof the

figure "$65,000."

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