1950 (3) assumption by the fund of all of the Habilities of the Bureau as of the close of business on June 30, 1951, (b) The fund shall assume all of the ob- ligations and other commitments of the Bureau outstanding as of the close of busi- ness on June 80, 1951, (c) The fund shall include all property and other physical assets acquired by the Burcau except buildings and land, all amounts recoverable as provided in section 1 for the costs of work and services performed by the Bureau, and all other amounts receiv- able by the Bureau from whatever sources: derived, including all proceeds arising from disposition of any property or other assets acquired by the fund. (d) The fund shall be available without fiscal-year limitation for financing all costs and expenses of opernting and maintaining the Bureau subsequent to June 30, 10951. (e) Any surplus accruing to the fund in any fiscal year shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury as miscellaneous re- ceipts during the ensuing fiscal year’ Pio- vided, That any such surplus may be appuecd first to restore any impairment of the capital of the fund by reason of variations between the prices charged for work or services and the ampunt determined to be the actual cost of performing such wo1k or services, (f) A special deposit account for the fund shall be established with the Treasurer of the United States. The special deposit ac- count shall be credited with the sums made available by appropriations authorized in this act and with all receipts of the Bureau without the covering of such receipts into the Treasury. The balance in the special deposit account shall be available for making dis- bursements authorized on behalf of the fund jn accordance with the act of December 29, 1941 (55 Stat. 875), as umended, through the disbursing facilities of the Treasury De- partment. Sec. 3. The unexpended balances of all ap- propriations made to the Bureau for the fiscul years 1950 and 1951 shall lapse on June 30, 1951, and shall be transferred {m- mediately to the surplus fund of the Treas- ury. Sec, 4. The Secretary shall prepare and submit an annual business-type budget pro- gram for the Bureau. Sec. 6. There shall be installed and main- tained in the Bureau an integrated system of accounting, including proper features of internal control, which will (a) assure ade- quate control over all asscts and liabilities of the fund; (b) develop accurate direct and indirect costs of production of the Bureau for making recoveries of such costs on the basis of work requisitioned; (c) make provision for replacement of capitalized equipment and other fixed assets through the maintenance of adequate depreciation re- serves based on original cost or on appraised values as authorized in section 2 (a) (2); (ad) afford full disclosure with respect to the financial condition and operations of the fund according to the accrual method of ac~- counting; and (e) supply on the basis of accounting results the data for the annual budget of the Bureau with respect to the last completed fiscal year. The system of ac- counting shall conform to principles and standards prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United Stites to accomplish the purposes of this section, and shall be sub- ject to such review by the Comptroller Gen- eral as may be necessary to agsure its con- formance with the principles and standards prescribed and its effectiveness in operation. Sec. 6. The financial transactions, ac- counts, and reports of the fund shall be au- dited on an annual basis by the General Accounting Office and a copy of each report on audit shall be furnished promptly to the President, the Congress, and the Secretary. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 8xc. 7. Any power or authority conferred upon the Secretary by this act may be dele- gated by him to any officer or employee of the Treasury Department. Sxc. 8. (a) Section 1 of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry Civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for other purposes”, approved June 4, 1897, is amended by striking out the first proviso contained in the third paragraph under the caption “Engraving and Printing’ (30 Stat. 18; 31 U.S.C. 178). (b) Section 1 of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil ex- penres of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, and for other purpcses”, approved August 4, 1886, is amended by striking out the proviso contained in the third paragraph under the caption “Engrav- ing and Printing" (24 Stat 227, 31 U. 8. C. 176). (c) In the case of all other laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act, the provisions of this act shall govern, (d) This act shall take effect on July 1, 1951, The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and pasced, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table. The proceedings by which a similar Houre bill (H_ R. 8662) was passed were vacated, and the bill was laid on the table. SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS OF CERTAIN DECEASED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE GOVERNMENT Mr. KARSTEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of the bill (S. 3652) to facilitate the settlement of the accounts of certain deccased civilian officers and employees of the Government. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missour1? There was no objection. The Clerk read the bill, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That in order to facili- tate the settlement of the accounts of de- ceased civilian officers and employees of the Federal Government and of the government of the District of Columbia (including wholly awned and mixed-ownership Government corporations) all unpaid compensation due such an officer or employee at the time of his death shall be paid to the person or persons surviving at the date of death, in the follow- ing order of precedence, and such payment shall be a bar to recovery by any other person of amounts so paid: First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the officer or employce in writ- ing to recelve such compensation filed with the Government agency in which the officer or employee was employed at the time of his death, and received by such rgency prior to the officer's or employee's death; Second, if there be no such beneficiary, to the widow or widower of such officer, or employee; Third, if there be no beneficiary or surviv~ ing spouse, to the child or children of such officer or employee, and descendants of de- ceased children, by represcntation; Fourth, if none of the above, to the parents of such officer cr employee, or the survivor of them; Fifth, if there be none of the above, to the duly appointed legal representative of the estate of the deceased officer or employee, or if there be none, to the person or persons deter- mined to be entitled thereto under the laws 11289 of the domicile of the deceased officer or employee. Src. 2. For the purposes of this act the term “unpaid compensation” means the pay, salary, or allowances, or other compensation due on account of the services of the decedent for the Federal Government or the govern- ment of the District of Columbia. It shall include, but not be limited to, (1) all per diem in Meu of subsistence, mileage, and amounts due in relmbursement of travel ex- penses, including incidental and miscellane- ous expenses in connection therewith for which relmbursement 1s due; (2) all allow- ances upon change of official station; (3) all quarters and cost-of-living allowances and overtime or premium pay; (4) amounts due for payment of cash awaids for employecs’ suggestions; (5) amounts due as refund cf salary deductions for United States savings bonds, (6) payment for all accumulated and current accrued annual or vacation leave equal to the compensation the decedent would have received had he remained in serv- ice until the expiration of the period of such annual or vacation leave; (7) the amounts of all checks drawn in payment of such come pensation which were not delivered by the Government to the officer or employee during his lifetime or of any unnegotiated checks returned to the Government because of the death of the officer or employee. Sre 3. (a) Subject to such rules and regu- lations as may be prescribed by the Comp- troller General of the United States, the em-~ ploying agency shall cause the unpaid com- pensation to be paid to the beneficiaries, if any, designated by the officer or employee under section 1 of this act, or, if none, to the widow or widower of such officer or employee. (b) Accounts not payable under section 3 (a) (with the exception of accounts of em- ployees of the District of Columbia which shall be paid by the District of Columbia, and accounts of employees of wholly owned and mixed-ownership Government corporations which may be paid by such corporations) shall be payable on settlement of the General Accounting Office, except as the Comptroller General may by regulation otherwise au- thorize or direct. Src. 4, This nct shal] not apply to any bene- fits, refunds, or interest payable under the Retirement Act applicable to the decedent's service or to amounts the disposition of which is otherwise expressly preecribed by Fedcral law. Sec. 5 Officers and employees affected shall be notified by the employing ngency of the provisions of this act relative to the disposi- thon of such compensation in the event no beneficiary is designated by them, and of their right to designate a baneficiary or bene- ficiaries in accordance with its terms if they desire a different disposition to be made thereof. Designations £0 made may be changed or revoked at any time under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General. Suc. 6, This act shall be effective 120 days from the date of its enactment nas of which time section 2 of the act of December 21, 1914 (58 Stat. 845), is repealed. fc. 7, This act shall not apply to the accounts of officers sé1d employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad on the Isthmus of Panama, or to the accounts of officers and employees of the Federal land banks, Federal intermediate credit banks, production credit corporations, or the re- gional banks for cooperatives. The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table. The proceedings by which a similar House bill (H. R. 8621) was passed were vacated, and the bill was laid on the table.
11290 DR. IN SUNG KWAK Mr, REES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- mous consent for the immediate consid- eration of the bill (S. 2253) for the relief of Dr. In Sung Kwak. A similar House bill CH. R. 6760) passed the House earlier today. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Kansas? There was no objection. The Clerk read the bill, as follows: Be it enacted, ctc., That, in the adminis- tration of the immigration and naturaliza- tion laws, Dr. In Sung Kwak, or Norton, Kans., shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of the date of his last entry into the United States, upon payment of the required visa fee and head tax, Upon enactment of this act the Secre- tary of State shall instruct the proper quota- control officer to deduct one number from the appropriate quota for the first year that such quota is available, The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table, The proceedings by which a similar House bill (H. R. 6760) was passed were vacated, and the bill was laid on the table. DODGE COUNTY, WIS. Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin, Mr. Speak- er, I ask unanimous consent for the im- mediate consideration of the bill (S. 3585) for the relief of Dodge County, Wis. A similar House bill, H. R. 8394, passed the House earlier today. The Clerk rend the title of the bill. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Wis- consin? There was no objection. The Clerk read the bill, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior !s authorized and directed to pay, out of funds appropriated for the Fish and Wildlife Service, to the Wisconsin State Highway Commission for credit to the Dodge County allotment for State trunk highway Improvement, the sum of @37,638, in full settloment of all claims against the United States for compensation for the abandon- ment of that portion of the Marsh Road, known as STH No, 49, within the boundary limits of the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this act in excess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be un- lawful, any contract to the contrary not- withstanding. Any person violating the pro- visions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction there- of shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table. The proceedings by which a similar House bill (H. R. 8394) was passed were pacated, and the bill was laid on the e, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES Mr. HART. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- mous consent that the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries have until midnight Saturday to file a report on the bill H. R. 6061. Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Re- serving the right to object, Mr. Speaker, is a minority report to be filed on that i11? Mr. HART. None has been indicated, Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. I suggest that as a precaution the gentle- man modify his request to provide that the same time be allowed in which to file minority views. Mr. HART. That ts perfectly agree- able to me, Mr. Speaker, and I include that in my request. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from New Jersey, as modified? There was no objection. LACK OF AIR SERVICE FROM CHICAGO, ILL., TO SIOUX CITY, IOWA Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, on De- cember 19, 1946, the Civil Aeronautics Board issued a certificate to Parks Air- lines of St. Louis, to inaugurate airline service from Chicago, Ill, to Sioux City, Iowa, and serving such intermediate points as Rockford, Ill, Dubuque, Water- loo, and Fort Dodge, Iowa. Splendid airport facilities, costing lo- cal taxpayers and the Federal Govern- ment several millions of dollars, have long since been completed at most of these points yet not a single plane has operated to provide passenger and air- mail service in the nearly 4 years since the certificate of operation was granted and which has never been revoked. Myr. Speaker, unless immediate action is taken to provide regularly scheduled air service to this area I shall insist upon a thorough investigation of the Civil Aeronautics Board and the reasons for this unwarranted and costly delay. The SPEAKER. Under previous or- der of the House, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Douiiver] is recognized for 15 minutes, PROGRESS REPORT ON REORGANIZATION OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE FED- ERAL GOVERNMENT Mr. DOLLIVER, Mr. Speaker, toward the end of the first session of the Eighty- first Congress I made some remarks on the subject of reorganization of the exec- utive branch of the Government. I called attention to the substantial prog- ress that had been made in carrying out the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. I also pointed out that much remained to be done, Continued widespread and deep in- terest in this subject, in Iowa and throughout the country, leads me to at- tempt again to strike a balance sheet of accomplishments as of today and steps remaining to be taken. Mr. Speaker, the following is a sum- mary of my remarks on the reorganiza- JULY 27 tion of the executive branch of the Gov- ernment: First. What was done in the first ses- sion of the Eighty-first Congress. Second. Developments during the sec- ond session of the Eighty-first Congress. Third, Summary of remaining work to be done, I First, let me summarize briefly the more significant reorganization achieve- ments of the first session. The most important action was the passage of the Reorganization Act of 1949 (Public Law 109), under which the President was authorized to transmit re- organization plans to the Congress. Un- der the terms of this law, a reorganiza- tion plan goes into effect in 60 days un- less a majority of the total membership. in either House of the Congress disap- proves. During the first session the President transmitted eight reorganization plans, six of which went into effect and one of which was superseded by legislation |; one, the plan to create a Department of Wel- fare, was rejected by the Senate. The reorganization effected by these plans in- cluded (1) the transfer of the Bureau of Employment Security from the Fed- eral Security Agency to the Department of Labor; (2) the transfer of the Public Roads Administration from the Federal Works Agency to the Department of Commerce; (3) the transfer of the Na- tional Security Resources Board and the National Security Council to the Execu- tive Office of the President; (4) and im- provements in the internal organization of the Post Cfiice Department, the Civil Service Commission, and the Maritime Commission, Public Law 152 created the General Services Administration, upon which were conferred important powers with respect to the purchase, utilization, storage, and disposal of property, the keeping of official records, the manage- ment of Federal buildings and other housekeeping services. Public Law 73 strengthened the top management of the Department of State, This Department, under the broad re- organization authority vested in the Sec- retary, was substantially reorganized by administrative action during the session, Public Law 36 and Public Law 216, supplementing the National Security Act of 1947, pushed forward, along lines rec- ommended by the Hoover Commission, the unification of the armed services. During the first session the Congress also enacted important legislation with respect to the pay and reclassification of Federal employees. All in all, it has been estimated that nearly 25 percent of the Commission's recommendations were acted upon, by legislation, reorganization plan, or ad- ministrative action, during the first ses- sion of the Eighty-first Congress, a The outstanding development in ex- ecutive reorganization during the present session has been the transmittal of 27
1950 reorganizaticn plans to the Congress by the President. Nineteen of these are already in effect and one more will go into effect July 31. Six were rejected by the Senate and one by the House of Representatives. The plan rejected by the House—plan No. 27—would have created a Depart- ment of Welfare. A similar plan was rejected last year by the Senate. It is worthy of note that of the 35 reorgani- zation plans submitted by the President since the Reorganization Act was passed only this one plan has been rejected by the House. About one-half of this year’s reorgan- ization plans are concerned with im- provements in the general management of the departments and other agencies. It will be recalled that the first report of the Hoover Commission is fundamen- tal to all the other reports and recom- mendations, This report dealt with the general management of the executive branch. It called attention to the ab- sence of clear lines of command and re- sponsibility and to the consequences of the violation of this basic principle of good administration. It stressed the ne- cessity of concentrating authority and responsibility for administration in the President and heads of departments and agencies and of giving these top execu- tive officials adequate staff to assist them in the exercise of this authority. Many of the plans that have been sub- mitted this year are designed to carry out recommendations made in this first report. Plans Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 transferred to the heads of the depart- ments of the Treasury, Justice, the Inte- rior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, respectively, authority placed by law in subordinate officials and provided addi- tional top level staff to assist them in carrying out this authority. Plans Nos. 1 and 2, dealing with the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Agriculture, were rejected by the Senate, Plan No. 25 transferred the functions of the National Security Resources Board to the chairman of the Board. In the case of plan 2, referring to the Department of the Treasury, objection was made to transferring to the Secre- tary authority placed by law in the Comptroller of the Currency. Follow- ing rejection of this plan, the President transmitted to the Congress plan No. 26, which is similar to plan No. 1 except that it exempts from its operation powers conferred by law on the Comptroller of the Currency. This plan No. 26 went into effect July 31, 1950. Several plans are designed to improve the genera] management of the so-called independent regulatory commissions, Plans Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10, dealing re- spectively with the Interstate Commerce Commission (7), the Federal Trade Commission (8), the Federal Power Commission (9), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (10), authorized the President to designate the chairmen of these commissions and transferred to the chairmen responsibility for day-to- day administration. lan Nos. 11, 12, and 15, dealing with the Federal Communications Commis- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE sion (11), the National Labor Relations Board (12), and the Civil Aeronautics Board (13), transferred to the chairmen of these agencies responsibility for day- to-day administration. Plan No. 12 also transferred to the Chairman of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board certain duties assigned by law to the General Counsel. It should be noted that in the case of the three last-named agencies the President was already authorized to designate the chairmen. The Senate rejected plan No. 7, deal- ing with the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, and plans Nos, 11 and 12, deal- ing with the Federal Communications Commission and the National Labor Re- lations Board. The other plans 8, 9, 10, and 13 are now in effect. An important distinction was recog- nized in these reorganization plans be- tween the regular departments and the independent commissions and boards. In the case of the departments all au- thority placed by law in subordinate offi- cials, with specified exceptions, was transferred to the Secretary. In the case of the boards and commissions, only responsibility for day-to-day adminis- tration was transferred to the chairmen. Responsibility for administering the sub- stantive functions of these agencies re- mains in the board or commussion as a whole. Another group of plans, all of which are now in cffect, are designed to strengthen the General Services Admin- istration established last year by Pub- lic Law 52, Eishty-first Congress. Plan No. 15 transferred from the Gen- eral Services Administration to the De- partment of the Interior responsibility for public works projects in Alaska and the Virgin Islands, Plan No. 16 transferred from the Gen- eral Services Administration to the Fed- eral Security Agency certain functions concerning school assistance and water- pollution contro). Plan No. 17 transferred from the Gen- cral Services Administration to the Hous- ing and Home Finance Agency responsi- bility for the advance planning of non- Federal public works and the war public works program. The purpose of these plans was to rid the General Services Administration of functions which are not strictly related to its major purpose, that of serving as a central housekeeping agency. Plans Nos. 18 and 20 transferred to the General Services Administration im- portant functions with respect to build- ing and space management and mainte- nance outside the District of Columbia, and certain State Department duties with regard to archives and records. Plans Nos. 22 and 23 provided for a further concentration of housing func- tions in the Housing and Home Finance Agency by transferring to it the Federal National Housing Association and the lending authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation with respect to the production and distribution of prefabri- cated houses and components. Plan No. 17, as indicated above, also brought under 11291 the Housing Agency responsibility for the advance planning of non-Federal public works, and the War Public Works program. The Department of Labor was further strengthened by plan No. 19, which trans- ferred to it the Bureau of Employees’ Compensation and the Employees’ Com~ pensation Appeals Board, formerly in the Federal Security Agency, and by plan No. 14, which empowered the Secretary of Labor to coordinate the administration of labor standards under various statutes relating to Federal or federally-financed construction and public works. Plan No. 21 marks another important step in the concentration of responsi- bility for Federal transportation func- tions in the Department of Commerce. It will be recalled that by plan No. 7 of 1949 the Public Roads Administration was transferred to the Department of Commerce; now plan No. 21 of 1950 transfers to that department the func- tions of the United States Maritime Com- mission. The plan abolishes the Mari- time Commission. Some of its func- tions are transferred to a newly created Federal Maritime Board, in the Depart- ment of Commerce. The remaining functions are transferred to the Secre- tary of Commerce, to be administered through a newly established Maritime Administration. Plan No. 24 transferring the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to the De- partment of Commerce, was rejected by the Senate. The attention of the Congress during this session has been directed largely to the important task of giving careful consideration to the reorganization plans transmitted by the President. it has, in addition, enacted some reorgan- ization legislation, notably Public Law 507, establishing the National Science Foundation, recommended by the Hoover Commission, and Public Law 478, designed to facilitate and simplify the work of the Forest Service. Consider- able attention has also been given by committees of the Congress to legisla- tion concerning the reorganization of the Post Office Department and the re- vision of postal rates, the revision of personnel policies, changes in budgeting and accounting methods, records man- agement, and other matters. A substantial number of the recom- mendations of the Hoover Commission, perhaps 25 percent, can be put into ef- fect by administrative action alone, re- quiring neither reorganization plan nor legislation. A recent check-up by a subcommittee of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive De- partments indicates that most of the agencies and departments are giving serious thought to the recommendations of the Commission and that they have already put into effect a large number of these recommendations. The Bu- reau of the Budget and the agencies are cooperating in a management improve- ment program. This program has been greatly’ as- sisted by the appropriation in the Sup- plemental Appropriation Act for 1950,
11292 Public Law 358, of $1,000,000 for the President's special management-im- provement fund. The President has established an Advisory Committee on Management Improvement consisting of 12 top executives from industry and Government. The purpose of this com- mittee is to assist the President in cre- ating a Government-wide program for management improvement, in develop- ing a framework for the conduct of munagement activities, and in reviewing the progress of agency management improvement efforts. Significant changes in personnel poli- cies have been made by administrative action. The Civil Service Commission and several departments and agencies have already put into effect a number of the Commission’s recommendations , and have under consideration many others. Under authority conferred upon it by law the General! Services Administration has made real progress in coordinating Federal housekeeping functions. The State Department, the Defense Depart- ment, and the Post Office Department, among other agencies, have instituted important internal reorganizations in line with the Commission’s recommen- dations. There has been a considerable advance in performance budgeting, recommended by the Commission. Several agencies presented their 1951 estimates on a per- formance basis. But there is need of further progress in this respect. Many improvements, too, have been brought about in accounting and report- ing. The Bureau of the Budget, the Treasury Department, and the General Accounting Office, working together and with the departments and agencies, are gradually putting into effect a number of the Commission’s recommendations. ng The progress already made in the reor- ganization of the executive branch is commendable. It has been estimated that over 50 percent of the Hoover Com- mission’s recommendations have now been put into effect. Nevertheless, after almost 2 years much remains to be done. The prob- lems of reorganizing public works’ func- tions, land and water-resource func- tions, and lending and financing functions remain largely to be dealt with. Notwithstanding the substantial achievements in the fields of general management, personnel policies, the post office, and budgeting and account- ing, reorganization in these areas is still a long way from achieving the objectives set forth by the Commission. Many of these problems are continu- ing and the job in one sense will never be finished. At the same time, it is to be hoped that by the end of another year substantial progress will have been made in carrying out all of the major objectives of the Commission. This does not mean that each and every one of the Commission’s recom- mendations ought to be adopted in the precise form proposed. Careful study by the Executive and by the Congress may often suggest the desirability of modifying or in some cases even of re- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE jecting, the Commission’s recommenda- tions. The essential thing is that there be no slackening of the effort to remedy the major defects in our administrative structure. The current international situation adds emphasis to our impera- tive need for maximum efficiency in ad- ministering the affairs of Government, The continuing interest of the pub- lic generally in these reforms is most encouraging. It is important that a number of Nation-wide organizations are keeping abreast of changes that are being made in the executive branch of our National Government. Several States, including Iowa, have set up “little Hoover commissions” to examine and make recommendations for improve- ments in State governments. All these activities emphasize the im- portance of the efforts made already and emphasize the necessity of bringing the work even nearer completion in the Eighty-second Congress. The SPEAKER. Under previous or- der of the House, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Davis] is recognized for 30 minutes. POSSIBLE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS Mr. DAVIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, within the last few days I have heard rumors, as most of the Members of the House must have heard them also, that Congress may vote to adjourn on Au- gust 15. We are in the midst of one of the worst situations our Nation has ever faced since it came into existence, and if any such movement to adjourn is on foot, I shall oppose it and vote against it. We were not engaged in hostilities last year. We faced no necessity for priorities or allocations of critical ma- terials last year. We faced no emer- gency which called for a sudden and unexpected increase in military expend- itures amounting to one-fourth of the budget for the year, and faced no de- mand for a sudden tremendous increase in taxes. Last year we were holding our sessions in cramped quarters in the Ways and Means Committee room. This year we are back in our regular quarters in the House Chamber. Nevertheless, last year, when the af- fairs of this country were in far better condition in nearly every respect than they are at the present moment, Con- gress did not adjourn until October 19. It is incomprehensible to me that any- one should feel that Congress would be justified at this critical moment in the life of our Nation to vote to shut down the activities of both Houses of Congress, close their doors, and go home. Go home to what? To see the ques- tion written upon the faces of everyone we meet upon the streets, even though they may not ask it with their lips, “What are you doing to win this war? What are you doing to prevent the Ko- rean war from breaking out into world war TI? What are you doing to pro- tect us from Communists and fellow- travelers who are foot-loose and unham- pered here in the United States?” Any such plan of adjournment would carry with it the implication that Con- JULY 27 gress would transfer the obligations and responsibilities which properly belong to this body onto the shoulders of the Pres- ident, by voting to him supreme author- ity over the civilian as well as the mili- tary—to unload all responsibility upon him, and escape our own, when we vote to adjourn and go home. Have we come to the point where it is fitting for Members of Congress in effect to say: “I am of no value at the seat of Government in time of emergency. The proper course for me to take is to vote my powers into the Executive and go home.” Are we so little concerned with the gravity of the situation that we could be content to leave our post of duty and re- turn home at a time like this? Those American soldiers who died in battle on Korean soil, 7,000 miles from home, could not vote to adjourn and go home. Those Americans, greatly outnum- bered and fighting an enemy with far superior equipment, who had the mis- fortune to be taken prisoners, who had their hands tied behind them and were shot down by their barbarian con- querors, could not vote to adjourn and go home. Those Americans facing des- perate odds who have fought a retreat- ing fight all the way down and across Korea, to the point where they now face the threat of being pushed into the Pa- cific Ocean, cannot vote to adjourn and go home. What will be their reaction when word gets to them that Congress has voted to adjourn and go home? Within the next 12 months 295,000 of the members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force will reach the end of their terms of enlistment. Under their con- tract with the Government, solemnly en- tered into when they enlisted in the serv- ice, they are entitled to leave the Army, Navy, and Air Force and return to their homes when their terms expire, Yet on last Tuesday we, in this House, by our vote, took from them that right to leave the armed services and go home. By the action of this body, when concurred in by the Senate and the President, they will be required to serve 12 additional months and probably to face battle and even death itself. We, by our action, have made it impossible for these 295,000 to vote to adjourn and go home. What will they, and their fathers and mothers, and their wives and children, think if we vote to adjourn and go home, and the hundreds of thousands who will be drafted into service in the weeks and months to come? There is plen.y of legislative work for Congress to do if we stay. In this pres- ent crisis we are handicapped for lack of trained forces quickly available to go to the fighting front. If we had pre- viously enacted a plan of universal mil!- tary training and had coordinated that with a workable plan under which these trained men would be immediately avall- able in time of emergency, we would be much better prepared than we now are to meet the grave situation immediately ahead of us. We can stay in session here and perfect and enact legislation to provide universal military training, and that is sorely needed.
1950 There are now loose in this country a horde of Communists, variously esti- mated to number from 54,000 to 80,000 and a greater horde of fellow travelers, estimated to number more than half a million. We have no legislation on the books to confine these Communists where they will be unable to sabotage our in- dustries, to wreck our public utilities, and to aid Russia in any other way. Nor do we have laws to enable us to prop- erly supervise, control, or confine the fel- low travelers, each of which for all prac- tical purposes is nearly as great a men- ace as a member of the Communist Party itself. We sorely need legislation to take care of this situation, and we can devote our time and thought and efforts to that end also. Mr. Speaker, Congress is the voice of the people. It is through the voices of the Members of the House and of the Senate that the people of America can be articulate. In this forum, their causes can be pleaded, their desires made known, and their rights upheld. To close the doors of Congress at a time like this is to stifle the voice of the people. There is something else to consider in connection with this question. Some obligation rests upon us as Members of Congress to set an example of self-denial. The utmost in self-denial is now being practiced by our fighting men of the battlefronts. From one end of this coun- try to the other in weeks and months and possibly years to come men, women, and children will be called upon to prac- tice extremes in self-denial. Much of it will be the direct result of our actions here in passing legislation. We have an obligation resting upon us to set a good example. Insofar as we are able to do so, it is our obligation to in- spire patriotism in others. No battle was won when the patriots threw the tea into Boston Harbor, but their example was an inspiration to those who did fight the battles. Patrick Henry, so far as I know, earned no great reputation as a warrior. How- ever, his speech “Give me liberty or give me death” helped to inspire Washing- ton and his soldiers at Valley Forge and Yorktown. This crisis is not an occasion where the only responsibility is that of the sol- diers and the President. This war has a front here in Washington. We are a part of the Government. We hope this war can be confined to Korea, but we all know there js a possibility that it may break out at any time on other fronts, Indochina, Iran, Greece, or elsewhere. In battle all soldiers must be alert, and in war all departments and officials of Gov- ernment must be alert. How can we, a8 Members of Congress, say that we are alert, if at a time like this we close our doors and go home? How alert will we be at home, {f a second front in this war breaks out in Indochina or Iran? Mr. Speaker, in my opinion, our duty to keep faith with the members of our armed services and with the people of America requires that we remain in Bes- sion and stay constantly on the job here. I have taken this time today to state my position on this important matter, and I shall vote accordingly. XcVI——711 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE The SPEAKER. Under previous order of the House, the gentleman from Cali- fornia [Mr. Patiires] is recognized for 30 minutes. THE ENEMY IS RUSSIA Mr. PHILLIPS of Califorr.ia. Mr. Speaker, since the Republic of Korea was attacked by the Red-led North Koreans on June 25th, a great many speeches have been made, in and out of the Con- 6ress, denouncing the act as one of naked aggression, and calling for an immediate strengthening of our own military forces to meet the threat presented by that breach of the peace. The United States, acting for the United Nations, thus acts for all peace-desiring people, in this first test of world unity. Oddly enough, it is not fully evident from these speeches that we, in the Con- gress, have admitted to ourselves some- thing known and recognized by house- wives and merchants, by bootblacks and bankers, in fact by every thoughtful American in the land; that is, that the real aggressor, the well-spring, the source, the heart of all trouble in the world today leading to war, is Sovict Russia. Russia—the Kremlin—is the center of the cancer which is spreading through the troubled lands on the Asiatic continent and in the islands of the Far East. Until this fact is recognized offi- cially, the United States and her United Nations allies are powerless to do other than waste military strength in action in Korea, or wherever else thc Communist cancer erupts in action in Korea, or wherever else the Communist cancer erupts on the perimeter of Russia's sphere of absolute influence. This is what Russia desires and plans. Let us explore the present situation, By a successful combination of psycho- logical warfare, pressure politics, and the actual use of arms, Russia has, since 1945, brought almost a billion people under the hammer and sickle. The whole of China now belongs to Russia. Eastern Europe, much of Germany, most of the Balkans, are Russian-enslaved areas. Russia it- self is thus surrounded on all her vulner- able borders by buffer states, where pup- pet armies are maintained. Apparently Russia can create one in- eident after another, at will, to occupy our military attention. She can play her 10,000,000 puppet troops off against us, sapping our strength and substance in small but bloody wars, each at the end of a world-girdling supply line. While we waste our strength, she is bufiding her own, including the atomic weapons she was not supposed to be able to make for a few more years. It is also apparent that Russia will do everything in her power to involve the United States in actual conflict against the Chinese Communists. This is our greatest danger, and Russia's principal objective. Our protection was to help the legal government of China control the Red invaders, and through folly, or Com- munist sympathy in our State Depart- ment, we threw away that protection. Let there be no mistake as to the Rus- sian intention; she wants all of Europe, the Near East, and Scandinavia. 11293 The appraisal of the situation is fright- ening when we, as Representatives in the Congress, seriously analyze its mean- ing in terms of human and material cost. The appraisal is even more frightening when we realize that we have, if you and I and the average citizen can be identi- fied as being a part of certain areas of this Government, aided and encouraged the Russian Communists in their bloody and their bloodless aggression. We as citizens and voters are responsible for the administration in power in this country at any given time. The admin- istration is responsible for the policies of the administrative arm of the Gov- ernment, which includes the State De- partment, I do not need to review in detail the black events of these aggressions. They have been cited over and over again. One or two examples will serve to drive home the point. In 1945 we handed Russia the prize of the Orient, Manchuria, in ex- change for 1 week of needless military maneuvering against the already beaten Japanese. In 1949 and 1950 certain areas of our Government still failed to recog- nize the seriousness of the Russian Com- munist threat by allowing the adminis- tration to treat internal security matters as political matters. In 1949 and 1950 we still tolerate a practice by some of our “friends” in the community of non-Com- munist nations—the practice of grabbing our ECA aid with one hand and with the other hand trading in war materials to Russia or her satellites. In January—in fact, on January 24— Senator Maton, of Nevada, introduced into the REconrp a list of 95 trade agree- ments between Marshall-plan nations and the so-called iron-curtain countrics. Under these agreements, some of them highly secret, such materials as ljocomo- tives, Diesel engines, electrical equip- ment, heavy farm machinery, ball bear- ings, chemicals, machine tools, and the like, were shipped into the Communist arsenal, where they undoubtedly are be- ing used to consolidate subjected terri- tories or build the Soviet war machine for use against us. So far as I know, these agreements are still in force. On that same date Senate Joint Resolution 151 was introduced in the other body to stop any assistance on our part to any nation having trade agreements with, or assisting through trade, any Communist- controlled nation or area. That resolu- tion was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the other body. It is still there, Mr. Speaker, and that com- mittee has not yet held a hearing on the resolution. Furthermore, despite ample evidence that the Communists are get- ting materials of war even now from na- tions receiving aid from us, there has been no apparent action to shut off our bounty, and thus, even at this late date, prevent any further strengthening of our enemy. The enemy is Russia. Mr. Speaker, it is high time the Unitcd States officially recognizes the fact that the Soviet Union, and the Communist servants of that dictatorship, wherever they are, are enemies of the United Btates. Until that step Js taken, and this Nation undertakes measures to deal effectively with the treasonable elements
11294 in our own midst—to make them as im- potent as humanly possible, we will con- tinue to suffer from these subrosa activi- ties, internally or abroad. Until Russia is recognized as the root of the aggres- sive evil in this world, we and our allies of the United Nations, who are support- ing the Security Council’s decision to use force in Korea, can expect months and even years of inconclusive military waste, and the loss of American lives, on the perimeter of the real problem. Mr. Speaker, there are steps which this Government can take beyond the present decision to increase our armed strength. Increasing the strength of the armed forces; voting $10,000,000,000 or more in money, or increasing the powers of a Government already lean- ing toward centralization, will not meet the issue, without these steps which I am about to suggest. It is necessary that we square up the issues and place ourselves in a better position to deal with the events now being forced upon us as surely as winter follows the autumn. These steps are: First. We should announce officially to the world that the enemy is Russia. Recognizing this fact, we should at once take all measures necessary to meet that issue. Second. We should present this issue seriously to the United Nations, and should use all the influence at our com- mand to persuade the United Nations to recognize this issue, and to take the ap- propriate steps, all of which are outlined in the Charter of the United Nations, and which were anticipated when that charter was written and signed. I quote briefly from Articles 39, 40, and 41. Article 39 says that— The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat of the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, and shall make recommendations, or determine what measures shall be taken * * * to main- tain or restore international peace and security. Article 40 says: In order to prevent an aggravation of the situation, the Security Council may, * * ° call on the parties concerned to comply with such provisional measures as it deems neces- sary or desirable. * * * The Security Council shall duly take account of failure to comply with such provisional measures. I particularly call your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the next provision, in article 41: The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and may call upon the members of the United Nations to apply such measures. Now, Mr. Speaker, I particularly want to call your attention to the statement in article 41, of what these measures may ke: These may include complete or partial in- terruption of economic relations and of rail, gea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations. This, Mr. Speaker, I submit to you as the immediate and urgent requirement, The enemy is Russia. Russia should be as deliberately isolated, in the family of naticns, as a member of any human fam- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE ily, suddenly discovered to have a highly contagious disease, would be isolated as an individual. Observe please, that when the charter of the United Nations was signed, it contemplated not merely united military action, but it contem- plated ‘measures not involving the use of armed force’—and Hsted them as com- plete or partial interruption of economic relations, and specified “rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the sever- ance of diplomatic relations.” Third. My third suggestion is, in ef- fect, a duplication of my second sugges- tion. It is, however, an act against enemy aggression which the United States can put into effect, without wait- ing for action by the Security Council. The United States can insist that no nation, among the so-called Marshall- plan countries, shall use the money of the American taxpayers, directly or in- directly, to give military aid and comfort to the Soviet Union. It is sophistry to me, Mr, Speaker, to say that we are not paying for the aid sent the Soviet Union because the materials shipped are manu- factured in a Marshall-plan country, if at the same time, we are contributing in money or goods to the sustaining econ- omy of that country. Americans brought back, in their bodies, some of the scrap we sold to Japan before Pearl Harbor. Some Americans did not come back, because of that scrap iron. Is not it thoughtless today to put ourselves in the position of facing, in the Far East, shells and ex- plosives, made with American machine tools, and American chemicals shipped in the 84 ships which the Soviets were s0 generously “‘lent” during World War II—and which Russia now refuses to return—powered by American oil in American diesel engines, or of facing planes powered by jet engines from Great Britain? Let me give you a few examples, Mr. Speaker. I have taken only a few items from a long list of material the Marshall-plan nations are reported to have shipped the Soviet Union, or the satellite countries. In 1949, the United Kingdom shipped to the Soviet Union, or its satellites: Machine tools to the value of $5,138,000; machinery (including farm machinery) to the value of $45,172,400; electric gen- erators to the value of $11,986,800; ball and roller bearings to the value of $243,- 600. In 1949 France shipped to the Soviet Union and its satellites, and I mention only two items—machinery to the value of $10,272,238, and electrical equipment to the value of $2,015,239. It is much more important, Mr. Speaker, to observe that in the current year, during the first 3 months, the United Kingdom shipped to Russia, among other items, electrical equipment to the value of $6,800,000, and machine tools to the value of $1,087,000. Mr, Speaker, I wish also to include as an appendix to my statement a list which I have just received from the ECA of the exports of fuel, tractors, transportation equipment from ECA nations to the U. 8. 8. R. or the satellite countries. I par- ticularly call your attention to the fact JULY 27 that we have shipped quantities of re- fined fuels, of track-laying tractors, and, above all, Mr. Speaker, we have shipped over $12,000,000 worth of transportation equipment in the last quarter of last year, and that we are still today ship- ping from some half-dozen Marshall- plan countries equipment which became materials of war to the nation which js presently our enemy. Our enemy, Mr. Speaker, is Russia. ‘ Let me make here, Mr. Speaker, two very important observations. The first will surprise you. Upon inquiry, I learned that ECA, an agency of the United States Government, does not class machine tools as war material, and consequently has no objection to the shipment of machine tools to Russia or the satellites. Yet I call your attention to the fact, Mr. Speaker, that at the be- ginning of World War II, one of the greatest shortages in the United States and one of the greatest handicaps upon our own war effort, was the shortage of machine tools, and by a reverse process, it may be said today, that among the most important assets of a nation which has decided to disturb the peace of the world, will be the acquisition and own- ership of modern machine tools. Fourth. My next suggestion, Mr. Speaker, is a psychological suggestion. I think it is very important that quickly, and substantially, every nation which is signatory to the United Nations Charter, furnish both military and economic aid, to stop the Soviet Union in its present aggression. The enemy is Russia, I do not want the United States to be drawn into the position where we are fighting the North Koreans. This is, in truth, and in fact, a Urited Nations action, and to demonstrate it as a United Nations action for peace requires not only the economic sanctions I have recommend- ed in my suggestion No. 1, but requires evidence to all the world that the na- tions who signed the United Nations Charter meant exactly what they said, and will unite, with force, if necessary, to stop aggression. Fifth. I ar. a firm believer in the power of publicity. I think it is just as im- portant to publicize to all the world and to the people of the Soviet Union itself, the backgrounds of the present conflict, the responsibility for the aggressive movement into Korea, the unity of all nations (except Russia and the satel- lites) to preserve the peace, and the ef- fective force which is being gathered on the side of the free peoples. I think the world should know of the failure of Russia to keep previous agreements. A cursory examination fails to indicate to me a Single treaty or agreement, signed by the Soviet Union, which that nation has ever kept. I have mentioned the fail- ure to :eturn the ships loaned Russia dur- ing World War II. The world should know of Russia’s constant action, since World War II, to arm her satellites, as she has armed the North Koreans, not for peace, nor as simple agrarian move- ments, but to arm them for aggression. The world should publicize now its de- termined intention to stop aggression, just as we should publicize our determi- nation to see that the result of this con- flict shall be frecdom for the peoples in-
1950 volved, and not slavery, whether it be Communist slavery or Empire slavery. Sixth. Finally, Mr. Speaker, while this may be a simple statement, known to every American, I think we should make it clear that we are willing now, ag in all times in the past or the future, to think of peace and to talk of peace, but that neither this Nation, nor any nation signatory to the United Nations Charter, will discuss peace upon any terms except those which are favorable to the nations who want freedom, and that we will, un- der no circumstances, discuss peace while a single advantage, gained by the pres- ent aggression in Korea, remains to the aggressor. The enemy is Russia. Exports of fuel, tractors, and transportation equipment from ECA nations to U. S. 5. R. or satellites (In thousands of dollars| Refined fucls: Austria... 22.22.2222 eee 9 0 Belgium... $11 $22 0 12 ween &8 ®) wee e ee nen eeee 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 Mauly...----- a72 233 Netherlands. 280 3638 Norway..... 0 Portugal... 0 0 Bwoden..... 74 79 Switzerland 0 0 Stn Rare 0 0 Unite 184 ¢) Trock-laying tractors. 2 132 0 Italv..---- 125 635 Sweden........-. oH 89 United Kingdom... -.--.-...- 717 @) Transportation equipment’ Austria... 805 (!) Kelgium.. 976 192 Denmark. 0 88 France. ... 2, 865 1) Gerinany (west zone). 2, 265 1) Italy.. -.-2-22 eee 1,577 1,161 Netherlands. 2,016 343 Swedon..-....-.. 208 483 United Kingdom.......-.....- 2,316 Q) ‘Not reported. EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. POTTER (at the request of Mr. Do.iiver) was given permission to ex- tend his remarks. Mr. FURCOLO asked and was given permission to extend his remarks in two instances. Mr. GROSS asked and was given per- mission to revise and extend his remarks following his objection to the considera- tion of the bill H. R. 8201 and include a letter from the Texas Association of Pub- lic Accountants. Mr, BENNETT of Michigan asked and ‘was given permission to extend his re- marks, Mr. RANKIN asked and was given per- mission to revise and extend the remarks he made in Committee and include ex- traneous matter. Mr. MANSFIELD (at the request of Mr. Davis of Georgia) was given per- mission to extend his remarks and in- elude extraneous matter, Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts (at the request of Mr, Puxiires of California) was given permission to extend her re- marks and include a letter from the Veterans’ Administration. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE Mr. POAGE asked and was given per- mission to revise and extend the remarks he made in Committee of the Whole and include extraneous matter. Mr. HART asked and was given per- mission to extend his remarks and in- clude certain editorials. Mr. CLEMENTE (at the request of Mr. Hart) was given permission to extend his remarks in two instances and include in one a, letter, SENATE BILLS REFERRED Bills, joint resolutions, a concurrent resolution, and a resolution of the Sen- ate of the following titles were taken from the Speaker's table and, under the rule, referred as follows: 8 J Res.20 Joint resolution authorizing the President to issue a proclamation desig- nating October 81 of each year es Youth Honor Day, to the Committee on the Judi- Clary 8 J Res.150 Joint resolution designating the 3d day in September of each year as Children’s Day; to the Committee on the Judiciary S J Res.174. Joint resolution granting the consent of Congress to the entry, by the State of Missouri and the State of Illinois, into a compact or agreement between the Btate of Missouri and the State of Illinois creating the Bi-State Development Agency and the Bi-State Metropolitan District, to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8. J. Res. 193. Joint resolution to amend section 14 of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946, as amended, for the purpose of correct- ing an error in Public Law 591, Eighty-first Congress; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 8 Con Res 97 Concurrent resolution fa- voring the suspension of deportation of cer- tain allens; to the Committee on the Judi- Clary 8. Res. 317, Resolution for the relief of Walter P. Gardner, sole surviving trustee of the property of the Central Railroad Co. of new Jersey; to the Committee on the Judi- Clary 8S 289. An act for the relief of Tanta Tpolo and Lans Boulanovsky; to the Committee on the Judictary. 8.207. An act for the rellef of Ruggiero DiCostanzo; to the Committee on the Ju- dictary. 8 805. An act for the relief of Julio La- Atte; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.469. An act for the relief of Cornelis Ruhtenberg, also known as Cornelis Ruhten. berg Helmsing; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8. 619. An act for the relief of Spicer Ice & Coal Co.; to the Committee on the Judictary. 8. 815. An act to authorize the sale of in- herited interests in certain allotted land un- der the jurisdiction of the Crow Creek In- dian Agency, S. Dak.; to the Committee on Public Lands. 8 816. An act to authorize the sale of in- herited interests in certain allotted land under the jurisdiction of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 8. Dak.; to the Commit- tee on Public Lands. §. 827. An act to amend the act of June 16, 1984, to provide for allowances to the hoira, representatives, and agsigns of Frank J. Boudinot, deceased, in the event of fay. orable determination by the Indian Claims Commission of certain claims of the Chero- kee Indians; Committee on Public Lands, 8. 858. An act for the relief of Mrs. Ban. ford Pruitt; to the Committee on the Ju- aiciary. 8.918. An act for the relief of Clara Sogor; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8. 1064. An act to authorime the anle of land allotted to Mrs. Iris Huebner Marak 11295 of the Pine Ridge Reservation, 8. Dak.; to the Committee on Public Lands. § 1171. An act to prevent unauthorized acceptance or wearing of foreign decora- tions by officers of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary, 8 1222, An act to authorize the sale of inherited interests in certain allotted land under the jurisdiction of the Pine Ridge In- dian Agency, 8. Dak.; to the Committee on Public Lands. 8.1260. An act for the relief of Stefanos Stefanou; to the Committee on the Judi. clary. rd 1277 An act for the relief of Athanasios Elias Cheifotis; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 5 1281. An act to amend the Federal Air- port Act so as to make the United States share of costs for land acquisition the same as for other project costs; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 5 1288 An act for the relief of Collins Sterling Smith, ta the Committee on the Ju- diclary §. 1292 An act to amend section 82 (a) (2) of the Trading With the Enemy Act; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com- meroe 8 1844. An act for the relief of Gerda Moller Uldall and her son, Mikkel Moller; to the Committee on the Judiclary S 1420 An act for the relief of Antonio Garcia <iminez; to the Committee on the Judiciary, 8 1426. An act to authorize the sale of lands allotted to James Brown on the Crow Reservation, Mont; to the Committee on Public Lands. S 1457 An act to authorize the sale of lands allotted to George C Estes on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation, 8. Dak. to the Committee on Public Lands 8 1501. An act for the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Ray 8. Berrum; to the Committee on the Judiciary S 1568. An act for the relief of Anna Raj- mann; to the Committee on the Judiolary. 8 1800. An act for the relief of J. Don Alex- ander; to the Committee on the Judiciary 8.1819. An act for the relief of Azy Aj- dertan; to the Committee on the Judiciary. S 1858. An act to permit the admission of alien spouses and minor children of citizen members of the United States Armed Forces, to the Committee on the Judictary. § 1866, An act for the relief of Mra. Clayre Louise Forsyth; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.2178 An act for the relief of Giuseppe Moschetti and his wife, Dina Bartoli Mos- chetti; to the Committee on the Judiciary 8. 2204 An act for ‘the relief of Rudolph ¥Farcher; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8, 3847. An act for the relief of Freidoun dJalayer; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.2401. An act for the relief of Elizabeth Martha Haug; to the Committee on the Judi- clary. 8. 2423. An act to amend section 7 of the act of February 27, 1926 (43 Stat. 1008), re- lating to the Osage Indians of Oklahoma, to the Committee on Public Lands. 8, 2457. An act to ccnfer jurisdiction on the Oourt of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of A K Chahroudi; to the Committee on the Judi- clary. 8. 2650. An act for the relief of Arthur Henrik Sorensen, Maren Anderson Sorensen, and minor child, Evelyn Sorensen; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.2876. An act for the relief of Jeno (Bugene) Kupferstein; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.2599. An act for the relief of Arturo Benetti; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.2614. An act for the relief of O. O. Haugen, to the Committee on the Judiciary.
11296 S. 2617. An act for the relief of Ermalinda Mary Pizzuto; to the Committee on the Judl- elary. §. 2618, An act for the relief of Fred P. Hines; to the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 2625. An act for the rellef of Ivo Marsak; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8. 2633. An act to give effect to the Con- vention for the Establishment of an Inter- national Commission for the Scientific In- vestigation of Tuna, signed at Mexico City January 25, 1949, by the United States of America and the United Mexican States, and the Convention for the Establishment of an Inte>-American Tropical Tuna Commission, signed at Washington May 81, 1949, by the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. S. 2635. An act to amend the Soil Conser- vation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended: to the Committee on Agriculture. 8.2636 An act to amend the Soil Con- servation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended; to the Committee on Agriculture. 8. 2780. An act for the relicf of Jaime Riel; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.2791. An act for the relief of Jarmila Zitnikova; to the Committee on the Judi- clary. 8. 2801. An act to give effect to the Inter- national Convention for the Northwest At- lantic Fisheries, signed at Washington under date of February 8, 1949, and for other pur- poscr, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 8S. 2809. An act to provide for an agricul- tural program in the Virgin Islands; to the Committee on Agriculture. 8.2844. An act for the relief of Biagio Poidimani; to the Committee on the Judi- clary, 8. 2868. An act to incorporate the Future Farmers of America, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 2897. An act for the relief of Hyman D. Langer and Alta Jourard Langer; to the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 2929. An act to amend section 32 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended, 50 as to permit the return under such section of property which an alien ac- quired, by gift, devise, bequest, or inherit- ance, from an American citizen; to the Com- mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. S. 2930. An act to amend and clarify the District of Columbia Teachers Leave Act of 1949, and the District of Columbia Public School Teachers’ Retirement Act of 1920, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the District of Columbia, 8. 2954. An act for the relief of Agnes Biro and Anna Biro; to the Committee on the Judictary, 8.3000. An act to amend the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 8.3005. An act for the relief of Olga Had- dad; to the Committee on the Judictary, 8.3017. An act for the relief of Sgt. James C. Hollon and Bessie L. Hollon; to the Com- mittee on the Judiciary, 8.3059. An act for the relief of John J. Sebenick; to the Committee on the Judi- clary. 8.3097. An act conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to hear, determine, and render Judgment upon the claim of O. S, Rees; to the Committee on the Judictary. 8.8123. An act to amend section 5 of the act of February 26, 1044, entitled “An act to give effect to the Provisional Fur Seal Agreement of 1942 between the United States of America and Canada; to protect the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands; and for other purposes”; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 8,3129. An act to authorize the sale of inherited interests in certain allotted land CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE under jurisdiction of the Rosebud Indian Agency, 8, Dak.; to the Committee on Public Lands. 8.3180. An act to amend the District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act of 1947; to the Committee on the District of Columbia, §. 3238. An act for the relief of Dr. Freder- ick Damiel McDade; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.3289. An act for the relief of Hisako Okamoto; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.3308. An act to provide for the payment and collection of wages in the District of Columbia; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 8. 3825. An act for the relief of Isolde Bez- ner; to the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 3409. An act to establish a new Grand Teton National Park in the State of Wyo- ming, and for other purposes; to the Com- mittee on Public Lands. S 3446. An act to authorize the restoration of Edwin M. Rosenberg, lieutenant com- mander, retired, to the active Ist of the United States Navy; to the Committee on Armed Services, S, 3522. An act to amend section 824 of the Code of Laws for the District of ColumbDla; to the Committee on the District of Colum- bia, 8S. 3555. An act defining and regulating the practice of the profession of engineering and creating a Board of Registration for Pro- fessional Engineers in the District of Colum- bia; to the Committee on the District of Columbia, 8. 3579. An act for the rellef of Midship- man Willis Howard Dukclow, United States Navy; to the Committee on Armed Services. S 3584. An act to amend the act of June 9, 1906 (34 Stat. 227), entitled “An act grant- ing land to the city of Albuquerque for pub- lic purposes”; to the Committee on Public Lands 8 3610. An act for the relief of R. W. Harris, authorized certifying officer, Bureau of Fed- eral Supply, Treasury Department; to the Committee on the Judiciary, 8. 3611. An act for the relief of Dorrance Ulvin, former certifying officer, and for the relief of Guy F. Allen, former chief disburs- ing officer; to the Committee on the Ju- diciary. S. 3613. An act for the relief of certain Chinese stewards of the United States Navy; to the Committee on the Judictary. S. 3614. An act for the rellef of John B. Underwood, Jr., TMC, United States Navy; to the Committee on the Judictary. S. 3659. An act to amend title IV of the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, as amended, so as to provide for the issuance of dealers’ identification tags for use on trail- ers, to provide for the revocation and sus- pension of dealers’ registration and identifi- cation tags, to change the fee for dealers’ identification tags, to provide for the issu- ance of spectal use identification tags, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 8. 3698. An act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to furnish, upon a reimbursable basis, certain inspection services involving overtime work; to the Committee on Agri- culture. 8.3709. An act for the relief of certain disbursing officers and former disbursing officers of the naval service, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary, 8.8728. An act to relmplement Reorgan- ization Plan No. 20 of 1960 by amending title 1 of the United States Code, as regards pub- lication of the United States Statutes at Large, to provide for the publication of treaties and other international agreements between the United States of America and other countries in a separate compilation, to be known as United States Treaties and Other International Agreements, and for JULY 27 other purposes; to the Committee on Ex- penditures in the Executive Departments. 8.3796. An act to amend section 4474 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to the use of petroleum as fuel aboard steam vessels; to the Committee on Merchant Ma- rine and Fisheries. 8.3800. An act to amend title 18 of the United States Code, relating to the mailing of obscene matter; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 8.3875. An act to amend section 9 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949; to the Committee on Armed Services. 8.3898. An act to authorize a preliminary examination and survey for flood control and allled purposes of Las Vegan Wash and its tributaries, Las Vegas, Nev., and vicinity; to the Committee on Public Works. 8.3901. An act amending section 34 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of Cctober 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 411), as amended; to the Com- mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 8.3934. An act to amend the act of May 18, 1924 (43 Stat. 118), as amended, relat- ing to the United States-Mexican boundary; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED Mrs. NORTON, from the Committee on House Administration, reported that that committee had examined and found truly enrolled bills and a joint resolu- tion of the House of the following titles, which were thereupon signed by the Speaker: H.R 4390. An act to authorize the convey- ance, for school purposes, of certain land in Acadia National Park to the town of Tre- mont, Maine, and for other purposes; H.R 6073. An act to amend section 501 (b) (6) of the Internal Revenue Code; and H. J. Res. 613. Joint resolution to authorize the burial in the National Cemetery at Nash- ville, Tenn, the bodies of members of the Tennessee Air National Guard killed in a plane crash near Myrtle Beach, 8. C., July 23, 1950. ADJOURNMENT Mr. O’SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 6 o’clock and 20 minutes p. m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, July 31, 1950, at 12 o’clock noon. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive communications were taken from the Speaker’s table and referred as follows: 1594. A letter from the executive secretary, National Munitions Control Board, trans- mitting the semiannual report prepared by the National Munitions Control Board in accordance with the provisions of subsec- tion (h), section 12, of the Neutrality Act of 1939 (Public Res, 54, 76th Cong.); to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 1605. A letter from the Secretary of the Army, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated June 20, 1960, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers, on a preliminary ex- amination and survey of Taylors Landing, Worcester County, Md., authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved on March 2, 1945; to the Committee on Public Works. 1596. A letter from the Secretary of the Army, transmitting a report of claims paid under the Federal Tort Claims Act, as amended and codified (28 U. 8. C.), section 26738, for the fiscal year 1950; to the Com- mittee on the Judiciary, 1597. A letter from the Acting Attorney General, transmitting copies of orders of the
1950 Commissioner of the Immigration and Nat- uralization Service suspending deportation, as well as & list of the persons involved; to the Committee on the Judiciary, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of committees were delivered to the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper calendar as follows: Mr. CANNON: Committee on Appropria- tions. House Joint Resolution 612. Joint resolution making further temporary appro- priations for the fiscal year 1951, and for other purposes; without amendment (Rept. No. 2748). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. BYRNE of New York: Committee of conference. 8. 2655. An act for the relief of Mrs. Evelyn M. Hryniak; without amend- ment (Rept. No. 2749). Ordered to be printed. Mr. BIEMILLER: Committee of confer- ence. 5S, 2591. An act to amend the Public Health Service Act to support research and training in arthritis and rheumatism, mul- tiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and blindness, and other diseases, and for other purposes; without amendment (Rept. No. 2750). Ordered to be printed. Mr. DOUGHTON: Committee on Ways and Means. 8. 3380. <A bill to amend the act of August 9, 1939, to redefine the term “contra- band article” with respect to narcotic drugs, and for other purposes; without amendment (Rept. No. 2751). Referred to the Commit- tee of the Whole House on the State of the- Union. Mr. DOUGHTON: Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 7891. A bill to amend section 3224 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code, re- lating to the transportation of narcotic drugs; with amendment (Rept. No. 2752). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. DOUGHTON: Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 8992. A bill to eliminate the additional internal-revenue taxes on coconut oll coming from the trust territory of the Pacific islands, and for other purposes; with amendment (Rept. No 2753). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. BRYSON: Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 9229. A bill to amend the act of April 29, 1941, to authorize the waiving of the requirement of performance and payment bonds in connection with certain Coast Guard contracts; without amendment (Rept. No, 2754). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. FORAND: Committee on Ways and Means, H, R. 8278. A bill to amend section 22 (d) (6) (A) of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to involuntary liquidation and re- placement of inventory: with amendment: (Rept. No. 2756). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. MORGAN: Committee on Foreign Af- fairs. H.R. 8045. A bill to give effect to the Convention for the Establishment of an International Commission for the Scientific Investigation of Tuna, signed at Mexico City January 25, 1949, by the United States of Amertca and the United Mexican States, and the Convention for the Establishment of an Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, signed at Washington May 81, 1949, by the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica, and for other purposes; with amendment (Rept. No. 2757). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. HART: Committee on Merchant Ma- rine and Fisheries. H. R. 8847. A bill to aid the development and maintenance of CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE American-flag shipping on the Great Lakes, and for uther purposes; with amendment (Rept. No. 2758). Referred to the Com- mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of committees were delivered to the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper calendar, as follows: Mr. BYRNE of New York: Committee on the Judiciary. House Resolution 784. Res- olution for the rellef of Otho F. Hipkins, in- dividually, and Otho F. Hipkins; Cecil Clyde Squier; Conrad Reid; J. Thomas C. Hop- Kins, Jr.; and Isaiah Lawrence Paxton, as trustees of the Hipkins Traction Device Co.; without amendment (Rept. No. 2755). Re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole House, PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows: By Mr. BENNETT of Florida: H.R.9259. A bill to permit members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service, and their de- pendents, to occupy substandard quarters on @ rental basis without loss of basic al- lowance for quarters; to the Committee on Armed Services. By Mr, FORD: H.R. 9260. A bill to provide family allow- ances for the dependents of enlisted men in the Armed Forces of the United States; to the Committee on Armed Services. By Mr. RABAUT: H.R. 9261. A bill to amend paragraph 1615 (g) of the Tartff Act of 1930, as amended; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. VINSON: H R. 9262, A bill to provide family allow- ances for the dependents of enlisted mem- bers of the Armed Forces of the United States, and for other purposes; to the Com- mittee on Armed Services. By Mr. McGUIRE: H. R. 9263. A bill to amend the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H.R. 9264. A bill to provide for the receipt and adjudication of the claims of survivors of members of the Armed Forces of the United States who, as prisoners of war, were illegally killed in the Korean theater; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com- merce. By Mr. WIGGLESWORTH: H.R. 9265. A bill to assure the repair of vessels in the national defense reserve; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish- erles. . By Mr. HART: H.R. 9266, A bill to amend subsection (b) of section 10 of the act of June 26, 1884, as amended (U. 8. C., title 46, sec. 599 (b)); to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. By Mr. CANNON: H. J. Res. 612, Joint resolution making further temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1961, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. PRIEST: H. J. Res. 618. Joint resolution to authorize the burtal in the national cemetery at Nash- ville, Tenn., the bodies of members of the Tennessee Atr National Guard killed in a plane crash near Myrtle Beach, S, C., July 28, 1950; to the Committce of the Whole House on the State of the Union. 11297 By Mr. GUILL: H.J Res. 614, Joint resolution creating a bipartisan advisory committee to study agrt- cultural problems and make recommenda- tions for the establishment of a sound farm program; to the Committee on Rules, By Mr. JAVITS: H. J. Res. 515. Joint resolution to provide for the appointment by the President of a Mobilization Production Board and a Food Conservation Agency; to the Committee on Armed Services. Mr. MARCANTONIO: H. Res. 737. Resolution to investigate rent increases granted by the Office of the Housing Expediter; to the Committee on Rules, By Mr. BREHM: H. Res. 738. Resolution to authorize the Committee on House Administration to in- vestigate the subj-ct of guides for visitors to the Capitol; to the Committee on Rules, PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 1 of rule XXXII, private bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows: By Mr. BREHM: H R 9267, A bill for the relief of Kiyoko Matsuo; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. COLE of New York: H.R. 9268. A bill for the relicf of Miss Florida Giusti; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. D'EWART: H.R. 9269. A bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to Mabel Monroe Bonds; to the Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. KLEIN: H.R.9270. A bill for the relief of Velio Lucarint; to the Committee on the Judiciary. PETITIONS, ETC. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, 2290. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Hubert M. Harrison, East Texas Chamber of Commerce, Longview, Tex., “urging the enactment of legislation which will remove this cloud on titles to State-owned and pri- vately owned properties and which will end this threat of their being taken without com- pensation,” etc., which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. SENATE Fray, Jury 28, 1950 (Legislative day of Thursday, July 20, 1950) The Senate met at 12 o’clock meridian, on the expiration of the recess. The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, D. D., offered the following prayer; O Thou God of all races and nations, who hast made of one blood all men to dwell upon the face of the earth, send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead us, let them bring us to Thy holy hill. We are grateful for the mutual feel- ing of amity and good will that is in our hearts as we gladly extend the hand of fellowship to representatives of a great eastern nation, as today we declare friendship in this Chamber where once was declared war. Cleanse us, we be- seech Thee, from secret faults which
11298 may mar our public service, knowing that we cannot call mankind to put aside the weapons of carnage and de- struction if our own lives are arsenals of hatred, of prejudice, und of a selfish passion to rule. Make us vividly con- sclous of some freedoms which we may not exercise, the freedom to be self-indulgent; the freedom to satisfy our greed and leave others in need; the freedom to be soft, cynical, and selfish; the freedom to criticize others without accepting change in ourselves. May Thy kingdom of love and righteousness come within us that we may contribute worthily to mankind’s abiding peace. We ask it in the Name that is above every name. Amen. THE JOURNAL On request of Mr. Lucas, and by unan- imous consent, the reading of the Jour- nal of the proceedings of Thursday, July 27, 1950, was dispensed with. MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT— APPROVAL OF BILLS Messages in writing from the President of the United States were communicated to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his secretaries, and he announced that the President had approved and signed the following acts: On July 26, 1980: § 3809 An act to amend the Mutual De- fense Assistance Act of 1949; 8 2277 An act for the relief of George A. Voregarethsos (George Spiro Chatmos) ; 8 2296. fn act for the relief of Marie Cicerelll, and S 2676 An act for the relief of Kimle Yamada Ina and her daughter, Ritsuko Ina. On July 27, 1950; S 382. An act for the relief of Wong Suey Wing, S 841. An act for the relief of Michele Bartolomeo Marchisio; S 976 An act for the relief of Vartan Chamsarilan; S 1262. An act for the relief of Juliana Mendiola Alastia, and §.3937 An act to authorize the President to extend enlistments in the Armed Forces of the United States LEAVE OF ABSENCE On his own request, and by unanimous consent, Mr DONNELL was excused from attendance on the sessions of the Senate following the conclusion of today’s ses- sion until Thursday next. On his own request, and by unani- mous consent, Mr. Corpon was excused from attendance on the session of the Senate for the remainder of the after- noon. On his own request, and by unanimous concent, Mr WILEY was excused from attendance upon the sessions of the Sen- ate until next Tuesday. COMMITTEE MEETING DURING SENATE SESSION On request of Mr. McFarianp, and by unanimous consent, a subcommittee of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare was authorized to meet this afternoon during the session of the Senate. CALL OF THE ROLL Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secre- tary will call the roll. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE The roll was called, and the following Senators answered to their names: Brewster Hayden Maybank Bricker Hendrickson Mundt Bridges Hickenlooper Murray Butler Hil Myers Byrd Hoey, Neely Capehart Holland o'Conor Chapman Humphrey O'Mahoney Chavez Hunt Pepper Connaily Ives Robertson Cordon Jenner Russell Donnell Johnson, Colo Smith, Maine Douglas Johnson, Tex. Smith,N J. Dworshak Kefauver Sparkman Eastland Kem Stennis Ecton Langer Taft Ellender Lehman Thomas, Okla. Ferguson Lodge Thye Flanders Lucas Tydings Frear McCarran Watkins Fulbright McCarthy Wherry George McClellan Wiley Ginette McFarland Williams Graham McKellar Young Green Magnuson Gurney Malone Mr. MYERS. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico [Mr. ANDER- sON], the Senators from Connecticut [Mr. Benton and Mr. McManon], the Senator from Arkansas [Mr, FULBRIGHT], the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Jounston], the Senator from West Vir- ginia [Mr, Kricore], the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr Leauy], and the Sen- ator from Oklahoma [Mr. Kerr] are ab- sent on public business, The Senator from California Downey] is necessarily absent. The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Lone], the Senator from Idaho [Mr. Taytor], the Senator from Utah [Mr. Tuomas], and the Senator from Ken- tucky [Mr. WITHERS] are absent by leave of the S2nate. Mr WHERRY. [ announce that the Senator from Vermont [Mr. Arken], the Senator from Washington [Mr. Can], the junior Senator from Kansas [Mr. Darsy}, the Senator from California [Mr. KNow.tanp], the Senator from Col- orado [Mr. Miuirkin], the senior Sena- tor from Kansas [Mr. ScHOEpPEL], the Senator from New Hampshire {Mr. Tosey!, and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. VANDENBERG] are absent by leave of the Senate. The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Marti]! is absent on official business The Senator from Oregon IMr. Morse! and the Senator from Massa- chus2tts [Myr. SALTONSTALL] are neces- sarily absent, The VICE PRESIDENT. A quorum is present VISIT TO THE SENATE OF MEMBERS OF THE JAPANESE DIET AND OTHER PROM- INENT JAPANESE CITIZENS The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair wishes to announce that some distin- guished guests from Japan who are vis- iting the city are now in the Capitol. Six of them sre members of the Japa- nese Diet, and under our rules are enti- tled to the privilege of the floor of the Senate, The other members of the dele- gation are seated in the gallery. The Chair will ask the Senator from New Jerscy {Mr. SmirH] to escort the mem- bers of the Japanese Diet into the Chamber. The visiting members of the Japanese Diet, consisting of Mr. Chojiro Kuri- yama, representing the Liberal Party; (Mr. JULY 28 Mr. Tokutaro Kitamura, representing the Democratic Party: Mr. Kinjiro Ka- washima, representing the Socialist Party; Mr. Tokuyasu Fukuda, represent- ing the Liberal Party; Mr. Yasuhiru Na- kasone, representing the Democratic Party; and Mr. Shinichi Hayakawa, In- dependent member of the House of Councilors, escorted by the Senator from New Jersey |Mr. SmitTH], entered the Chamber and were greeted by applause, Senators rising, The members of the Japanese Diet took the seats assigned them on the Re- publican side of the aisle. The following is a list of the distin- guished members of the Japanese group seated in the gallery: Mr. Bunzo Akama, Governor of Osaka. Mr. Sachio Kishida, Governor of Hyogo Prefecture. Mrs. Kishida. Mr Tsunei Kusunose, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture. Mr. Sojiro Sugiyama, Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture. Mrs. Sugiyama. Mr. Torao Hayashi, Governor of Na- gano Prefecture. Mr. Iwakichi Hattori, Governor of Shiga Prefecture. Mr. Osamu Aoki, Governor of Mie Pre- fecture. Mrs Shinichi Hayakawa. Mr. Kiyomaru Kamei, president, Osaka Prefectural Assembly, Mr. Helichiro Yamada, president, Hyogo Prefectural Assembly. Mr. Torazo Inouye, vice president Hyogo Prefectural Assembly. Mr Rokuro Yamada, membcr, Hyogo Prefectural Assembly Mr. Shinso Hamai, mayor of Hiro- shima, Mr. Hiroshi Ohashi, mayor of Naga- saki, Mr. Chujiro Haraguchi, mayor of Kobe. Mr Kuzaemon Matsuhashi, mayor of Nagano. Mr. Seiichi Kawamoto, Hiroshima city council. Mr. Shoshichi Mochizuki, chairman, Nagasaki city council. Mr. Eiji Suzuki, chief, Osaka metro- politan police bureau. Mrs. Suzuki. Mr. Koichiro Murata, chairman, Shiga Prefectural educational] board. Mr, Taizo Ishizaka, president, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co, (largest in Japan). Mr. Naokazu Ishiguro, chief, public re- lations department, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co Mr. Ko Suzuki, president, Osaka bank, Mrs. Suzuki. Mr. Toraichi Ijuin, managing direc- tor, Tokyo bank. Mr. Gen Hirose, president, Japan Life Insurance Co. Mr Harue Yamane, president, Taisho Marine and Fire Insurance Co. Mr. Soichiro Ohara, president, Kura- shiki Rayon Co. Mr. Yuichi Yuasa, president, Yuasa chairman, Battery Co. Mr, Kiyoshi Ichimura, president, Sanai Department Store. Mr. Yasutane Sohma, president, Koshin Co,
1950 Mrs. Sohma, daughter of Mr. Yukio Ozaki, former mayor of Tokyo. Mr. Shoichi Enami, managing director, Kobe Management Association, Mr, Daiji Ioka, chairman, Osaka municipal workers’ union. Mr, Nishiki Kato, representative, labor unions of Kyushu. Mr. Katsuji Nakajima, executive, Na- gano metal workers’ union. Mr. Junichi Wada, Shiga Prefecture employees’ union. Mr. Marumichi Shimotaka, workers’ union. Mr. Yoshiyuki Kanagawa, chief, gen- eral affairs section, Japan Broadcasting Corp. Mr. Yoshio Takahara, special adviser, national resources section, GHQ, SCAP. Mr. Sen Nishiyama, special adviser, metal civil communications section, GHQ, SCAP, Mr. Takasumi Mitsui, chairman, Mitsui Foundation. Mrs, Mitsui Mr. Takayori Mitsui, youth represent- ative. The distinguished visitors from Japan were accompanied to the Senate by—. Mr, Jack K. McFall, Assistant Secre- tary of State, and Mr. Horace Smith, Senate Haison officer, State Department; Mr. H. Kenaston Twitchell, Mr. Basil R. Entwistle, and Mv. Albert H. Ely. The VICE PRESIDENT. As the Chair has previously announced, six members of the Japanese Diet and a large delega- tion of prominent citizens of Japan are now on a trip around the world to study economic, political, social, and other conditions in the various countries which they have visited and will visit, in order that they may take back to their own country any lessons they may learn from their associations and visits which may be of help to the Japanese people. Until the recent World War II the relationship between the Japanese Gov- ernment and the Government of the United States was most amicable and peaceful. Unfortunately that status was interrupted during World War II. We sincerely hope—and we trust it is like- wise the hope of the Japanese people and the Japanese Government—that we may resume our peaceful relations with the Japanese people and the Japanese Government, and that the friendship and comity which existed for nearly a whole century may not only be resumed but may be the permanent status of association and cooperation between the Japanese Government and the Govern- ment of the United States, and the Japa- nese people and the people of the United States, to the end that there may be brought about friendly cooperation among all nations and a permanent peace that will be just and fair to all peoples and all nations. It ts in that spirit that we welcome to the Senate of the United States not only the members of the Japanese Diet but also their colleagues on this mission around the world of investigation and study. We hope that what they observe and learn among our people and throughout the world may strengthen their desire for peace and strengthen their hand in bringing about prosperity and rehabilitation among the Japanese CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE People and a firmer cooperation and as- soctation between them and their Gov- ernment and our people and our Gov- ernment, and all peoples and all gov- ernments, in behalf of peace, justice, happiness, and contentment among the peoples of the world. In that spirit as President of the Sen- ate the Chair is happy to welcome the distinguished guests into our Chamber. {Applause.] The Chair recognizes the Senator from New Jersey (Mr Smrri}. Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr Presi- dent, it is a great privilege for me to introduce to my colleagues in the Senate the distinguished representatives of the Japanese Government and those who are traveling with them. It was my privilege last fall to visit the Far East and to make a study of the Japanese sit- uation there on the ground, as well as the situation in other countries. This group with us today is made up of some fifty or more leaders co, Japanese thought and Japanese action. In addi- tion to these eminent members of the Japanese Diet, the group includes the mayors of a number of cities in Japan, the governors of a number of prefectures in Japan, and some leaders of industry and some labor-union leaders. I note especially that in this group are the mayors and the governors of the prefectures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and members of the councils of those cities. That is an evidence of good will on the part of Japan toward the United States, and it lays the foundation of the friendship which we all believe must be established from now on, as the Vice President has so aptly said, between our country and Japan. Beyond that, Mr. President, it seems to me that Japan today, with its new ap- proach to world conditions, its new at- tempt to find out what is going on in the world, and the place it has in the world very significantly symbolizes what I found when I was in the Far East, name- ly, a yearning for freedom and a yearn- ing for peace. War is not wanted, but roads to peace are what the people seek. The people of the Far East desire to express their individuality, they wish to express the ability of the people to take care of themselves, the idea of having people free, not under the control of a dictatorship, not under the control of colonialism or imperialism, but imbued with a spirit of freedom. Here we have @ group representing those ideals and entertaining the earnest desire to ex- plore what is going on in the world. The first stop of this group in thelr trip from Tokyo was in Switzerland, where they attended the Moral Re- armament Assembly at Caux and got a picture of the spirityal foundations of and the spiritual approach to world peace. They went from there to Germany, where they studied conditions in Ger- many itself, a country in many ways comparable with thelr own, which had been at war with us, and where the neo- ple also are trying to find peace. They went from Germany to France and England, and then came to the United States. They visited the United Nations, where Ambassador Austin re- 11299 ceived them at Lake Success. The Sec- retary General of the United Nations, Mr, Trygve Lie, also received them, and they hadan opportunity to see the United Nations at work. It is very fitting, therefore, that we should open our hearts in welcome to them, as they come here to discover in what way the world can be reorganized and established in the ways of pe’ 1a-~ nent peace. Mr. President, I am very happy indeed to be able on this occasion to say this word of welcome to these distinguished guests. [Applause ] Mr CONNALLY. Mr. President, I cordially associate myself with the senti- ments expressed by the Vice President and the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. SmitH]. We are very happy to have with us the distinguished members of the Japanese Diet, and the prominent citizens and 1epresentatives of industry, labor, education, and other activities of Japan. It will be recalled that about 100 years ago the United States was instrumental in aiding the people of Japan to form contacts with the outside world. That was the beginning of her great advance and career as a powerful and industrial nation playing an important part in the economy not only of the East but of the world. It is true that we have recently been involved in a bitter and terrible war. I pray God that the people of Japan, hke the people of America, will want peace and will strive for it; that they will want to do away with the rule of the material- ists and of military masters, and will desire to set up and maintain govern- ments devoted to democracy and to the rule of the people. I have great hope that Japan will heartily and in entire earnestness turn her attention toward democratic government, toward govern- ment controlled by the people, toward freedom and toward enhghtened inter- national cooperation, to the end that in the future wars may be prevented and the course of the nation may be charted along the roadway of peace, and thus contribute to the welfare and happiness of all the people of the world. It was that particular idea I wanted to leave with our distinguished visitors on this occasion. We hope the people of Japan will * realize that the United States in the last war had no ambitions for territory, no desire for conquest, no wish to conquer other peoples to bring them under the rule of the United States. We had no materialistic desires. We never dreamed of imperialism. We fought simply to defend the things for which we have stood since the United States was first established, for democracy, for peace, for all the fine attributes that go with peaceful, democratic ways of life. We are happy to have you visit us. We are glad you have visited other coun- tries. We feel sure that your contacts on your journey will enable you to re- turn to Japan with new concepts of the life of the world, and with the firm be- lief that the United States wants noth- ing from you except justice and fairness and cooperation in the world’s efforts to achieve peace and to live under peaceful
11300 conditions. We welcome you. We wish your country well. We hope you can rehabilitate your broken enterprises and turn them all into the pathway of coop- eration and peace in behalf of all the peoples cf the world, [Applause.] Mr. FLANDERS. Mr. President, I should like to join in the words of wel- come to our friends from Japan, It particularly interests me that they have been concerning themselves with the spiritual basis of peace. That is a field which we have not yet fully explored. It is something which it is necessary that we should explore. It is a conviction of mine that wars, civil tumults, and all the ills which afflict mankind come from disobedience to the moral laws of the universe. We in America have to examine ourselves, you in Japan have to examine yourselves, all the nations of the world have to ex- amine themselves, to see whether they are working in accordance with the moral laws of the universe, under which alone can peace be attained and main- tained. I am particularly glad that you ladies and gentlemen from across the Pacific Ocean have been concerning yourselves with the troubles in which the world today finds itself. (Applause. ) Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President, some months ago we were honored by a visit of distinguished representatives of the Parliament of West Germany. On that occasion the Senate extended to our visitors a warm and cordial welcome. It gives me pleasure today t> join my colleagues in extending the same kind of welcome to these distinguished repre- sentatives of Japan. I hope that as they leave here they will feel that this wel- come on our part is a sincere one. We told our friends from Western Germany that we welcomed them as al- lies in our present efforts to preserve the Peace of the world. We welcome the people of Japan in the same world-wide effort. When I visited Japan in 1935, I met a number of outstanding Japanese who expressed warm friendship for the American people and for the United States of America, On that visit I also met some of the war lords, who were not friendly toward the United States. I think it is only fair to say that, in my opinion, events have proved that they were not friendly to their own people. They believed in a caste system; they believed in imperialism; and they had no objection at all to seeing the rank and file of the Japanese people occupy the status of peasants. Since General MacArthur has been in Japan, I think the Japanese people have come to realize that our chief aim in the present occupation there is to pro- tect the Japanese people from the type of government which led them into war and kept down the average man from achieving the status in life to which we feel every citizen should be entitled. Mr. President, we are very happy to know that the Japanese people have adopted a constitution which gives more rights to the working people and gives more rights to tie women of that coun- try and gives more self-government to the people of Japan. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE This delegation comes to us at a crit- ical period, but we are very glad they are here. Mr. President, I simply wish that the parliament of Russia would send a dele- gation here and would give us a chance to address them. As a matter of fact, if they did not wish to do that, I wish they would invite us to go over there. If they would do that, I believe evcry Member of the Senate would accept the invitation provided they would promise that each one of us would be permitted to speak for as long as 5 minutes to the Russian people and let them know what our real aims are. Again, Mr. President, I wish to assure our friends from Japan that we are sin- cere in telling them that we believe in the brotherhood of man, that we wish to cooperate with all friendly and peace- loving people of the world in striving to avoid another conflict which might de- stroy civilization, and that we wish to join with all other peoples in building up the nations of the world to the point where all may have a better opportunity to enjoy the kind of liberty and freedom which we in this country have been privileged to enjoy for many years. (Applause. ) The VICE PRESIDENT. After these expressions by Members of the Senate of their feeling of good will and their greetings to this distinguished delega- tion, the Chair wishes to state that he has been advised that one of the mem- bers of the delegation from the Japanese Diet, who is a member of the Liberal Party of Japan, a close friend and asso- ciate of Prime Minister Yoshida, and a representative of the Government of Japan on this mission around the world, desires to express briefly a response to the generous welcome which has been accorded to them. By unanimous consent, the Chair will recognize the Honorable Chojiro Kuri- yama, a member of the Diet of Japan, to express his sentiments. {[Applause, Senators rising.] Mr. KURIYAMA. Mr. President, honorable Members of the United States Senate: We are deeply grateful for the courtesy extended us today by the United States Senate. It is our sin- cere regret that Japan has broken al- most a century-old friendship between the two countries, In spite of this big mistake on our part, the magnanimous forgiveness and generosity of America not only have allowed Japan to survive, but are helping her recovery. It is gratifying to know that the lead- ership of America is rooted in Christian- ity. The lawless aggression in Korea is again involving America in terrible sac- rifices. We Japanese wholeheartedly support the action taken by the United Nations; and if you will permit us to do so, we pay highest respect to the coura- geous leadership of President Truman in this matter. {Applause.) I hope that Japan will be shown ways in which she can be of assistance in cooperation with the United States, Mr, President, as some of the distin- guished Members of this Senate have said, we went to Caux, Switzerland, in search of the true content of democracy. JULY 28 We found the ideology which will feed democracy in Japan, and at the same time which is the powerful answer to communism. Now here we are to study the true heritage of great America. I feel that it will be a source of the greatest happi- ness to the people in Japan if we Japa- nese can rebuild and reconstruct our na- tion on the same principles that you in America have followed, Although we have many things for which to thank America and Americans, on this occasion we just briefly express our sincere gratitude to the United States of America for its help and guid- ance. Mr. President, honorable Members of the United States Senate, thank you again for your courtesy and kindness. [Applause, Senators rising. ! The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will say to the six members of the Japa- nese Diet who have been received on the Senate floor, that they are welcome to remain here as long as their convenience may dictate. The Senate will now resume the con- sideration of legislative business. GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS, 1951 The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7786) making appro- priations for the support of the Gov- ernment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes, Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, on July 11 the Senate proceeded to consider the hill (H. R. 7786) making appropriations for the support cf the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes, which is the unfin- ished business of the Senate. I realize that a number of important extraneous matters were necessarily submitted to the Senate, and that long debates have taken place thereon. However, it seems to me that we ought to expedite con- sideration of the appropriation bill. As I understand, there remain practically only two or three amendments which are highly controversial. We are almost through reading the bill itself for com- mittee amendments, and I should hope we might procecd to the point where we could vote, perhaps this afternoon, on at least one of these controversial amendmenis, Everyone knows that with the new one-package approach to the annual ap- propriations, some time will be required in conference before the conferces agree. The quicker we get the appropriation bill into conference, the sooner we may be able to take at least some 3-day re- cesses for the benefit of the Senate as a whole. I sincerely hope that we shall expedite the appropriation bill, stay on the bill itself, and eliminate, so far as possible, speeches dealing with matters other than the appropriation bill. If we do that, and if we ~emain in session rather late this evening, until, say, 7 or 8 or 9 o’clock, we may accomplish quite a little in connection with the bill. I appeal to Senators on both sides of the aisle to cooperate to the end that we may gct along with the bill as rapidly as possible. I am not blaming anyone for the de- lay at all. I am only attempting to
1950 make a very sincere appeal for the ex- pedition of business, in order that the appropriation bill may go to conference &s s00Nn as possible. Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Illinois yield to the Sena- tor from Virginia? Mr. LUCAS. I yield. Mr. ROBERTSON. I wish to call the attention of the distinguished majority leader to the fact that the Banking and Currency Committee hope to have the new defense production bill ready for action on the floor of the Senate next Monday. We pian to work all of today and tomorrow, and we hope to finish it by tomorrow evening or tomorrow night. The majority leader, of course, knows that there will be many items of differ- ence between the House and Senate in regard to the appropriation bill, which, in its omnibus form, represents a new procedure, and that we do not yet know just how the conferees will be appointed and how they will act, whether there will be subcommittee conferees, and whether the various parts will then have to be consolidated, But in any event it will be quite a task to reach an agree- ment on this bill The majority leader knows there will be controversial matters in the defense production bill, he knows we have got to pass a tax bill, and he knows that every- one would like to get out of here by Labor Day. So it seems to me that, since we have been on the appropriation bill for so long and have spent so much time on extraneous and irrelevant matters, we could well afford to consider the three items that are before us now, which come under the head of general military meas- ures. Certainly there will not be any amendment seriously pressed to cut down the appropriation for the Defense Department. We shall then have ECA and several other matters, including the point 4 program and the so-called Bridges-Byrd amendment, which will have to be considered. All those matters could be handled today, if each Senator who wishes to speak on an amendment would confine himself to the amend- ments and try ta condense his remarks to not exceeding 10 minutes. I hope very much that the Senate will cooperate with the plea of the majority leader to finish consideration of the pending bill either today or in a night session tonight. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, I com- mend the Senator from Virginia for the statement he has made, especially in view of the fact that he advises the Senate that the Committee on Banking and Cur- rency will work tomorrow in order to expedite consideration of the measure now before them dealing with the war situation which exists in Korea. I am also glad that he agrees that we should move along. I do not want it understood that I am saying that the Senate of the United States or the Congress is anxious to ad- journ, We are going to stay here as long as there is anything important to do, and we are going to do whatever is neces- sary with respect to the implementa- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE tion of the effort dealing with the unus- ual Korean situation. However, it seems to me that probably after we move along with the appropriation bill, the confer- ence reports upon social security and other matters, as well as the legislation implementing our effort to deal with the Korean situation, we may at that time be able to take recesses of 3 days at a time, always ready to return at & mo- ment’s notice if the President or the Con- gress so desires. There is not a Member of the Senate who cannot be here within from 24 to 48 hours, irrespective of where he may be in the United States. RESUMPTION OF WORK ON THE SENATE CHAMBER Mr. CHAVEZ. Mr. President, in view of the statement made by the majority leader, I conclude, as chairman of the committee of the Senate which has charge of the remodeling of the Senate Chamber, that we might as well notify the interested partics that, so far as this particular year is concerned, the Senate will be here possibly every third day— and I would agree to that. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, I think the Senator’s conclusion is correct. I have not discussed this other than in a cursory way, with certain Members of the Senate, but I do not believe anyone wants to move back into the old Supreme Court Chamber. Mr. CHAVEZ. I would not want the work on remodeling the Senate Chamber resumed, I may say to the Senator from Niinois, unless it were expected that we would be gone for @ substantial length of time. On the other hand, I should not want to interfere with the work of the Senate, which probably would result, if it should appear likely that we would have to meet at least every 3 days. Mr. LUCAS. The Senator knows that we are operating more or less on a day- to-day basis with the world situation be- fore us, Mr, CHAVEZ, That is correct. Mr. LUCAS. Neither the Senator from Tlinois nor any other Senator can reach a definite conclusion as to what will be done. It seems to me, as a result of having talked with members of the Democratic Policy Committee and with Members on the Republican side of the aisle that we might probably take 3-day recesses for a short while, and in that way to give Senators an opportunity to return to their homes. Mr. CHAVHZ. The point I had in mind was that before the Korean situa- tion came up, it had been intended that when Congress adjourned, the contrac- ters would continue work on the Senate Chamber. But as I see the situation at the moment, I think we had better post- pone it for a while. Mr. LUCAS. Conditions are so in- definite and the contingencies are so great as to what may or may not happen, I think it is advisable for the Senator to proceed slong the line which the Sen- ator from New Mexico has suggested. TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE BUSINESS Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senators be permitted to submit petitions and me- morilals, introduce bills and joint reso- 11301 lutions, and present routine matters for the Racorp, without debate. Mr. TAFT. I object. Mr. LUCAS. If the Senator from Ohio objects, I withdraw the request. Mr. WHERRY. Myr. President, that does not foreclose each individual Sen- ator from asking unanimous consent. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE A message from the House of Repre- sentatives, by Mr. Snader, its assistant reading clerk, announced that the House had passed, without amendment, the following bills and joint resolution of the Senate: 8.2253 An act for the relief of Dr. In Sung Kwak; 8.8098 An act to amend section 104 of title 28 of the United States Code so as to create a Greenville division in the northern district of Mississippi, with terms of court to be held at Greenville; 8.3585 An act for the relief of Dodge County, Wis; 8 3652. An act to facilitate the settlement of the accounts of certain deceased civilian Officers and employees of the Government; 8 3653 An act to provide for financing the operations of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, and for other purposes; 8.3832 An act to approve a contract nego- tiated with the Ogden River Water Users' As- sociation, to authorize its execution, and for other purposes; § 3833 An act 1) approve a contract nego- tiated with the South Cache Water Users’ Association, to authorize its execution, and for other purposes; and 8 J. Res. 147. Joint resolution giving the consent of Congress to an agreement between the State of Missouri and the State of Kansas establishing a boundary between said States, The message also announced that the House had passed the following bills of the Senate, severally with amendments, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate: 8 4. An act authorizing the advanced training in aeronautics of technical person- ne! of the Civil Aeronautios Administration; 8 2018. An act to authorize advancements to and the reimbursement of certain agencies of the Treasury Department for services per- formed for other Government agencies, and for other purposes, and 8 3921. An act for the temporary appoint- ment of referees in bankruptcy, and for other purposes, The message further announced that. the House had passed the following bills of the Senate, each with an amendment, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate: 8. 2868. An act to provide for the expan- sion and disposition of certain national cemeteries; and 8. 8859. An act to authorize the President to control the anchorage and movement of foreign-fiag vessels tn waters of the United States when the national security of the United States is endangered, and for other purposes, The message also announced that the House had passed the following bills and joint resolutions, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 644. An act to provide for terms of court to be held at West Palm Beach, and at Fort Myers, in the southern district of Florida, H.R 651. An act for the rellef of Lt Col. Paul E. Queneau;
11302 H.R. 1662, An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to acquire on behalf of the United States Government all property and facilities of the Rainier National Park Co.; H.R.1749. An act for the relief of the town of Mount Desert, Maine; H.R, 1860. An act for the relief of Ken}! Takumi; H.R. 2401. An act to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the Btate of California; H.R. 3012. An act for the relief of the Wyo- ming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre; H.R.3314. An act for the relief of the estate of the late Eulogio Reyes Suarez, H. R. 4192. An act to amend title 18, United States Code, section 220, relating to receipt of commissions or gifts for procuring loans; H.R. 4266. An act for the relief of James A. G. Martindale; H.R. 4530. An act for the relief of Mrs. Anna L. De Angelis; H.R. 4579. An act to amend section 333 of title 28 of the United States Code to pro- vide for the attendance at judicial confer- ences of their respective circuits of the dis- trict judges in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, Hawaii, and Alaska; H.R. 4600. An act for the relief of the legal guardian of Janet Judith Kceninger, 8 minor; H. FP. 4629. An act for the relief of the Sonoma County Farmers’ Mutual Fire In- surance Co.; H.R 4891. An act for the relief of Albert E. Schefien: H.R.4915. An act to amend the act of December 24, 1942 (56 Stat. 1086; 43 U. 8. C., sec. 96b), entitled “An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands or interest in lands for the Geological Sur- vey”; H.R. 6083. An act for the rellef of Sister Maria Emelia (Anna Bohn); H.R. 5244. An act for the rellef of Lt. Col. Charles J. Trees, Army of the United States; H.R. 6810. An act relating to the furnish- ing of accommodations at Klamath Falls, Oreg., for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; H.R. 6195. An act for the relief of Carlo de Luca; H.R. 6228. An act for the relief of Dr. Chao-Jen Chen, Dr. Janet Wang Chen, and Eleanor Chen; H.R. 6242. An act to prevent the entry of certain giant snails into the United States; H.R. 6409. An act for the relief of Mrs. Grace A. Olson; H.R. 6522. An act for the relief of Louis R. Chadbourne; H.R. 6537. An act to provide funds for co- Operation with the Territorial school au- thorities of Nome, Alaska, in the construc- tion, extension, improvement, and equip- ment of school facilities, to be available to both native and nonnative children; H.R. 6640. An act to amend an act en- titled “An act relating to the disposition of public lands of the United States situated in the State of Oklahoma between the Cimar- ron base line and the north boundary of the State of Texas,” approved August 7, 1946, and for other purposes; H.R. 6969. An act for the relief of Floyd E. Dotson; H.R. 6929. An act to authorize the acqul- sition by the United States of the remain- ing non-Federal lands within Big Bend Na- tional Park, and for other purposes; H.R. 6959. An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interlor to iesue a patent in fee to William Watt; H.R. 6960. An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to issue & patent in fee to James Wilbur Watt; H.R. 6961. An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to Mary EB. White Watt; CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE H.R. 6962. An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to Minnie M. Watt Kopac; H. R. 6992. An act for the relief of Kirocor Haladjian, Tacouh! Haladjian, Gulunia Ha- ladjian, and Virginie Haladjian; H.R. 7019. An act for the relief of Aenny Blank; H.R. 7836. An act for the relief of Mrs. Fumie Ishibashi Akimoto; H.R. 7342. An act to provide for boundary adjustments of the Badlands National Mon- ument, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes; H.R.7871. An act for the relief of John Fleckstein; H.R. 7390. An act for the relief of Erika Kuebart and her minor son; H.R. 7393. An act for the relief of Fran- cisco Blanco and Mrs. Celine Smith; H.R. 7451. An act for the relief of Sumiko Fujita; H R. 7454. An act for the relief of Robert C. Watters, Mrs. Martha L. Watters, C. E. Nivens, E. O. Nivens, and the estate of J. W. Gillum, deceased; H. R. 7630. An act for the relief of Mrs. Wha Sook Lee Hong; . H.R. 7631. An act for the relief of Ot- tavia De Gaspare and Sandra De Gaspare; H.R 7641, An act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land in the District of Columbia to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church; H. R.7733. An act for the relief of Sisters Rita Pinto de Carvalho, Maria Leite da Silva, Carmelinda Lopes de Aguiar, Maria Adozinda da Fonseca Melo, Joaquine de Jesus, and Marta Luisa Pinto Carvalho; H.R.7773 An act to authorize the sale of certain allotted land on the Pine Ridge In- dian Reservation, 8S. Dak.; H.R. 7856. An act for the relief of Mrs. Teruko Tominaga Ikeuchi; H. R. 7869. An act to provide for the fur- nishing of quarters at Newman, Ga., for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; H.R. 7964. An act for the relief of the estate of Francis A. Waldron; H.R. 8062. An act for the relief of the legal guardian of Charles Spiller and Glenn T. Spiller, minors; H.R.8118. An act for the relief of the estate of the late Ismael Miranda; H.R. 8144. An act to authorize the sale of ® small tract of land at Great Falls, Mont.; H R.8158. An act to repeal certain laws as they affect the Territcry of Alaska; H.R 8184. An act for the relief of Michlyo Takada and her minor daughter, Michiko; one: R. 8258. An act for the relief of It Nai e; H R.8315. An act for the relief of Joseph F. Gallagher; H. R. 8384. An act for the relief of Setsuko Hori; H.R. 8401. An act for the relief of Mrs. Maurice N. Gcss; H R. 8452. An act for the relief of Ronald Mow and Angeline Cecilia Mow; H. R. 8463. An act to authorize the sale of certain small trects of Indian land lying to the south and east of the Tongue River in the State of Montana; H. R. 8533. An act for the relief of Mari- anna Gantschnigg and Merle Richard Gant- schnigg; H. R. 8583. An act for the relief of Emiko Nishimura; H. R. 8561, An act for the relief of Harriet T. Johnston; H. R. 8562. An act for the relief of Yukie Yabe and her son; H. R. 8576. An act to provide reimburse- ment of expenses incurred in connection with the burial of those who served in the military forces of the Commonwealth of the Philippines while such forces were in the armed forces of the United States pursuant to the military order of the President of the United States, dated July 26, 1941; JULY 28 H.R. 8597. An act to permit national banks to give security in the form required by State law for deposits of funds by local pub- lic agencies and officers; H.R. 8598. An act for the relief of Mrs. Chisako Shimizu Sheldahl and Ryoichi Shi- mizu Sheldahl; H.R. 8641. An act for the relief of Clyde L. Watson, Jr., and Laverne F. Andrews; H.R. 8686. An act for the relief of the Overseas Navigation Corp.; H.R. 8718. An act for the relief of Fred Hess; H.R. 8769. An act for the rellef of Ann- marie Stritter and her minor daughter; H.R. 9829. An act for the relief of Sisters Pasqualina Bova, Rosa Pellanda, Emilia Det Rossi, Speranza Zola, and Domenica La- padula; H.R, 8863. An act for the relief of Sachiko Mitoma; H.R. 8874. An act to authorize the sale of lands to the city of Flagstaff, Ariz.; H.R. 8887. An act to declare that the United States holds certain lands for the Seminole Tribe of Florida; H.R. 8901. An act for the relief of Mrs. Asako Ikeda Heaney; H.R. 8902. An act for the relief of Satoko Matsushima Hoglund; H.R. 8906, An act to repeal certain legis- lation relating to the Gallup Durango High- way and the Gallup-Window Rock Highway at the Navajo Indian Reservation; H.R. 8944. An act authorizing the Ogdens- burg Bridge Authority, its successors and As- signs, to construct, maintain, and operate a@ bridge across the St. Lawrence River at or near the city of Ogdensburg, N. Y.; H.R. e971. An act for the relief of Gertrude Hell; H.R. 8979. An act to provide for the trans- fer or quitclaim of title to certain lands in Plorida; H. R. 8987. An act for the relief of Setsuko Kato; H.R. 9002. An act to make certain increases in the annuities of annuitants under the Foreign Service retirement and disability system in view of the increased cost of living; H.R. 9023. An act to amend the Hatch Act; H.R.9044. An act for the relief of Mrs. Kayoko Suzuki Jensen; H.R. 9055. An act for the relief of Cynthia Anne Kane; H.R.9062. An act for the relief of Mrs. Willie G. Heath; H.R. 9074. An act to amend chapter 61 (relating to lotteries) of title 18, United States Code, to make clear that such chapter does not apply to nonprofit contests wherein prizes are awarded for the specie, size, weight, or quality of fish caught by the contestant; H.R. 9086. An act for the relief of Maria Luisa Mercado; H.R. 9087. An act for the relief of H. Dale Madison; H.R.9143. An act for the relief of Hum Nagano and her child; H.R.9145. An act for the relief of Tomoko Yamaya; H.R.9166. An act for the relief of Louis J. T. Hendrickx; H. J. Res. 490. Joint resolution to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the respective tribes, bands, and groups of Indians under his jurisdiction to deter- mine their qualifications to manage their own affairs without supervision and control by the Federal Covernment; and H. J. Res. 510, Joint resolution to exempt certain counsel employed by committee from certain Federal laws under Special Commit- tee on Campaign Expenditures, 1950. ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLU- TIONS SIGNED The message further announced that the Speaker had affixed his signature to the following enrolled bills and joint
1950 resolution, and they were sign Vice President: Gned by the H.R. 702. An act for the relief . Ethel N. Plunkett; of Mrs H.R. 1022. An act conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the district of Delaware to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Alvin Bmith, of New Castle, Del. arising out of the damage sustained by him as a re- sult of the construction and maintenance of the New Castle United States Army Air Base, New Castle, Del.; H.R. 1095. An act for the relief of Pitts- burgh DuBois Co.; H.R. 1626. An act for the relief of Mrs. A. H. Hull; H.R. 1697. An act for the relief of Mildred Smith Butler; H.R. 1854. An act for the relief of Ken- neth Everard Hadfeld; H.R. 2196. An act to authorize the elim- ination of lands from the Flathead Indian irrigration project, Montana; H.R. 2264. An act for the relief of C. H. Bolling; H.R. 2462. An act for the relief of Miju Iseri Tsuda; H.R. 2585. An act for the relief of Samuel J. D. Marshall; H.R. 2588. An act to confirm title in V. LeBlanc and C. Riccard to certain lands in West Baton Rouge Parich, La.; H. R. 2753. An act to amend section 2 of the act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 627; 43 U. 8. C., sec. 218), relating to additional homestead entries; H.R. 2808. An act for the relief of Grace G. Walker; H.R. 2851. An act for the relief of Carl L. Sexauer; H.R. 3169. An act granting permanent resi- dence to certain Spanish physicians residing in Puerto Rico; H. R. 8284. An act to authorize grantees of recreational demonstration project lands to make land exchanges relating to such proper~ ties, and for other purposes; H.R. 8305. An act for the relief of the estate of José Salgado Santos; H.R. 8316. An act for the relief of the estate of the late Franciso J. Cordova; H.R. 8330. An act for the relief of Therese Hohman; H.R. 3535. An act for the relief of Wil- Mam A. Cross; H.R.390€. An act to amend the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act, as amended; H.R. 8004. An act for the relief of John D. Lange; H.R. 4041. An act for the rellef of Parish Bros.; H.R. 4141. An act for the relief of Edwin FP. Shockley; H.R. 4809. An act for the relief of Mrs. Nellie K. Marlowe; H.R. 4843. An act for the relief of J. P. Acker; H.R. 4364. An act for the rellef of Mrs. Ruth B. Moore; John Robert Lusk III; John R. Lusk, Sr.; Mrs. Minnie P. Pruitt; and Mrs. Billie John Bickle; H.R. 4886. An act to amend section 2 (a) and section 7 of the Foreign Agents Registra- tion Act of 1938, as amended, to make failure of registration a continuing offense, and to continue the obligation of officers, directors, and persons acting as such, to comply with the act despite dissolution of a foreign agent; H.R. 4601. An act for the relief of Jeannette Passayanni-Capodistria; H.R. 5008. An act to provide for the ex- change between the United States and the State of New York of certain lands and inter- ests in lands at Manhattan Beach, Kings County, N. ¥.; H.R. 6110. An act for the relief of Janos (John Treber and Mrs. Katalin (Katherine) Treber; H.R. 6221. An act for the relief of Mrs. Maria Grazia Riccio DiPietro; CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE H.R. 6252. An act for the relief of W. M. Tindal; H. R. 6470. An act for the relief of Joseph A. Haddad; H.R. 6526. An act to authorize the Pres. ident to provide for the performance of cer- tain functions of the President by other officers of the Government, and for other purposes; H.R. 5628. An act to direct the Secretary of the Army to Convey certain land to the State of Rhode Island; H.R. 5799. An act for the relief of the Acme Finance Co.; H.R. 6849. An act for the relief of Samuel M. Kornegay; H.R. 5947. An act for the rellef of Alfio Batelli; HR. 5990. An act to provide for the con- struction, development, administration, and maintenance of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in the State of Maryland and ita extension into the District of Columbia as O& part of the park system of the District of Columbia and its environs by the Secre- tary of the Interior, and for other purposes; H.R. 6013. An act to amend an act fixing the price of copies of records furnished by the Department of the Interior; H.R. 6018. An act for the relief of Lubomir Mikulik and Villam Krajcirovic; H.R. 6198. An act for the relief of the First National Bank in Richmond, Calif.; H.R. 6247, An act authorizing transfer of land and improvements thereon by the Sec- retary of the Interior to New Mexico State Fair; H.R. 6270. An act to authorize the sale o. certain allotted inherited land on the Winnebago Indian Recervation, Nebr.; H.R. 6292. An act to provide that pay- ments to States under the Oi] Land Leasing Act of 1920 shall be made biannually; H. R. 6482. An act for the relief of Antonio Artolozaga Euscola; H.R. 6644. An act for the relief of Edwin F. Rounds; H.R. 6697. An act authorizing the issu- ance of a patent in fee to Howard H. Moran; H.R. 6699. An ct to authorize the sale of certain land on the Rosebud Indian Res- ervation, 8. Dak.; allotted to Susan Eagle Dog; H. R. 6708. An act to authorize the sale of certain allotted inherited land on the Rose- bud Indian Reservation, 8. Dak.; H.R. 6709. An act for the relief of Ed How- ard Russell; H.R. 6069. An act for the relief of Ralph E. Brown; H.R. 6971. An act to authorize the trans- fer of funds allocated for expenditure in cooperation with the New Jersey State High- way Department on State Highway Route No. 100 to State Parkway Route No. 4; H.R. 6994. An act for the relief of Karen R. McAndrews; H.R.7016. An act for the relief of Mrs. Margaret O'Donnell and Mrs. Arlene R, Shan- non; H.R. 7046. An act for the relief of C. W. Jacobs; H.R. 7072. An act for the rellef of Mrs. Young Ja Kim; H.R. 7074. An act for the relief of Hiroko Fujiwara Matsuoka and Mimiyo Matsuoka; H.R. 7078. An act for the relief of Mrs. Eiko Yamada Nagatoshi, Edward Takeo Na- gatoshi, and Frances Yoko Nagatosh}; H.R.7079. An act for the relief of Mrs. Gin Shibasaki Okafuji; H.R. 7204. An act for the relief of Maria Cristina D'Angelo; H.R. 7219. An act to authorize acquisition by the Administrator of General Services of certain land and the improvements thereon in the District of Columbia; H.R. 7260. An act to provide for the hold- ing of court and the furnishing of quarters at Rock Island for the United States District Court for the Southern District, Northern Division of Ilnoils; . 11303 H.R. 7314. An act for the relief of Yukie Nishimura Okubo; H. R. 7839. An act to abolish the Holy Cross National Monument, in the State of Colorado, and to provide for the administration of the lands contained therein as 8 part of the na- tional forest within which such national monument is situated, and for other pure poses; H. R. 7392. An act for the relief of Colum- bus Finley; H.R. 7414. An act for the relief of Teresa Gentile and Galliano Gentile; H.R. 7428. An act to admit Mrs. Erne Tvedt to the United States for permanent resl- Gence; H.R. 7564. An act for the relief of Maria Margareta Ries and Konrad Horst Wilhelm Ries; H. R. 7608. An act for the relief of Miteuko Morita; H.R, 7629. An act for the relief of Fumiko Arakawa and her child Rie; H.R. 7667. An act directing the transfer to the Department of the Interior by the General Services Administration of certain property in Boise Barracks, Boise, Idaho; H.R. 7675. An act to authorize the addi- tion of certain land to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in the State of Tennessee; H.R. 7706. An act for the relief of Ayako Kurihara; H R.7779. An act for the relief of Mrs. Stamatia Lymberopoulos and Leonidas Btav~ rou Limpecropoulos; H.R. 7783. An act for the relief of Mra, Donald Rafter; H.R. 7810. An act for the rellef of M. 8. Davis; H.R. 7815. An act for the relief of John Yee Horn; H.R. 7820. An act for the rellef of Ectko Uchida Duane and her minor child; H.R. 7809. An act for the relicf of Mrs. Michiko Nogami Cotter and Katsumi Cotter; H.R. 7916. An act to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to execute an ofl and gas lease on a certain tract of land in Park County, Wyo; H R. 7044. An act for the relief of Mr, and Mrs. Albert Chandler; H.R. 7961. An act for the relief of Chiyoko Yano; H.R. 7970. An act for the relief of Mrs, Regina Anderson and her minor child, H.R. 7977. An act to authorize the city of Buffalo, Wyo., to make additional uses of cere tain lands, and for other purposes; H.R. 7982. An act to abolish the Whecicr National Monument, in the State of Culo- rado, and to provide for the administration of the lands contained therein as a part cf the national forest within which such nu- tional monument 1s situated and for other purposes; H.R. 8055, An act relating to the collec tion, payment, and dishonor of demand items, and to the revocation of credit fur, and payment of, such items, by banks in the District of Columbia; H.R. 68067. An act for the relief of Mrs. Yup Boon (Joan) Kim Skanes; H.R. 8098. An act for the relief of Teruko Ishikawa; H.R.8119. An act for the relief of Midort! Obta (also known as Mary Stephen); H.R. 8125, An uct for the relief of Mrs. Hisae Kawauchi Kelly: H.R. 8158. An act for the relief of Chiyo Purumure Yoshida; H.R. 8180, An act for the relief of Parue K. Tsugami; H.R. 8183. An act for the relief of Asako Tsuchida; H.R. 8287, An act to authorize the Secre- tary of the Interior to issue duplicate of William Gerard's script certificate numbered 9, subdivision 13, to Lucy P. Crowell; H.R.6260. An act for the relief of Yee Baiche Yee;
11304 H.R, 8361. An act for the relief of Toshiko Mural; H.R. 8381. An act for the relief of Mrs. Joseph G. Grant; H.R. 8382. An act for the rellef of Mrs. Misao Hatanaka Deskins; H.R. 8451. An act for the relief of Yoshie Nozawa; H.R 8500. An act for the relief of Hatsuko Torikai; H R.8514. An act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for exemption from duty of certain sound recordings imported by the Department of State, and for other purposes; H.R 8519. An act for the relief of the es- tate of Archer C. Gunter; H.R. 8581. An act for the relief of Yasuko Higuchi Thomson; H.R 6583. An act for the relicf of Hisako Shimizu; H.R 8600. An act for the relief of Yuriko Aoyama; H.R 6604. An act to provide for the con- veyance of the Percy Jones General Hospital Gull Lake Annex, Gull Lake, Mich., to the W. E. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Mich.; H.R 8617. An act to amend title 14, United States Code, entitled “Coast Guard”; H.R 8709. An rct to change the designa- tions of Health Officer and Assistant Health Officer of the District of Columbia, respec- tively, to Director of Public Health and As- sistant Director c1 Public Health; H.R. 8722 An act for the relief of Jun Hin Lum; H.R. 8958. An act relating to the policing of the buildings and grounds of the Library of Congress; and H. J. Res. 461, Juint resolution to provide that South Parkersburg, W. Va., shall for the purposes of the Seventeenth Decenntal Cen- sus be treated as a part of Parkersburg, W. Va. REFORT ON LEND-LEASE OPERATIONS— MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following message from the President of the United States, which was read, and, with the accompanying report, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations: To the Congress of the United States: This is the thirty-first report to Con- gress on lend-lease operations, for the period ending March 31, 1950, furnished in accordance with section 5, subsection (b), of the act of March 11, 1941 (55 Stat. 32; 22 U.S. C., sec. 414 (b)). The Government of Chile, in February 1950, arranged to pay the entire balance on its lend-lease accounts, thus provid- ing for settlement in full of its lend-lease obligations. Efforts have been continued to complete the negotiation of settle- ments with the few countries which have not entered into final agreements for lend-lease, and to dispose of various claims, accounts, and other residual problems. Harry 8. TRUMAN. THE Wuite House, July 28, 1950. PETITIONS Petitions were laid before the Senate and referred as indicated: By the VICE PRESIDENT: Resolutions adopted by the Townsend Clubs of St. Petersburg, and Townsend Club, No. 2, of Orange County, Orlando, both tn the State of Florida, favoring the enactment of the so-called Townsend plan, providing old-age assistance; to the Committee on Finance. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE ASSISTANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED TURTLE MOUNTAIN BAND OF CHIPPEWA IN- DIANS—-RESOLUTION Mr. LANGER. Mr. President, I pre- sent for appropriate reference, and ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Recorp, a resolution adopted by the governing body of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, relating to assistance for the unemployed Indians in that band. There being no objection, the resolu- tion was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, and ordered to be printed in the Recorp, as follows: RESOLUTION OF THE GOVERNING Bopy oF THE TurRTLE MOUNTAIN Bano or CHPPrwa IN- DIANS (AN UNINCORPORATED TRIBE) Whereas this unincorporated tribe is an Indian organization as defined under the act of July 12, 1948 (Public Law 123, 78th Cong., 1st sess.); and Whereas the advisory committee is en- deavoring to seek employment and assistance for their members, but find that many of their members are having difficulties in securing employment in the Red River Val- Jey due to flood and lateness of the spring, and will be unable to earn enough money for winter subsistence: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the governing body of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians urges and requests the Congress and Indian Office to set up projects on the reservation to provide employment for the unemployed able-bodied Indian mon for the fall and win- ter month. Projects needed are graveling of all reservation roads, building of concrete culverts, clearing of land, drainage of swamps and sloughs, planting of trees, building cf log homes, etc. These projects would be bene- ficial to the reservation and would also serve to provide work and subsistence for the employable that need assistance, and further, these projects would not cost much more than the usual cost of relief during the winter months; be it further Resolved, That coptes of this resolution be sent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Area Director, United States Congressman of North Dakota, and the Governor of the State. CERTIFICATION I, the undersigned, secretary of the advisory committee of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, an unincorpo- rated tribe, hereby certify that the advisory committee is composed of elght (8) mem- bers, of whom five constituting a quorum, were present at a meeting thereof duly and regularly called, noticed, covened, and held this 5th day of June 1950; hat the fore- going resolution was duly adopted at such meeting by the affirmative vote of five mem- bers; and that the said resolution has not been rescinded or amended in any way. Dated this 5th day of June 1950. Henry R. LAFOUNTAIN, Secretary of the Advisory Committee. Attest: Norserr DAvis, Chairman of the Advisory Committee. Recommended for approval: Cc. H. Bsirzen, Superintendent, Turtle Mountain Con- solidated Agency, CONSERVATION AND VALLEY AUTHORITY LEGISLATION—RESOLUTION OF WIS- CONSIN SOCIETY FOR ORNITHOLOGY Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, I have received this morning a resolution from the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology rightly opposing valley authority legisla- tion as tending to weaken the adminis- tration and management of the fish and JULY 28 wildlife resources of our country by the respective States. I very definitely agree in opposition to further efforts to set up these super- states like the Columbia Valley Author- ity which has been proposed. The pres- ident of the Wisconsin Society is Charles Nelson, of Waukesha, Wis., the vice president is John L. Diedrich, and the treasurer is Carl P. Frister, both of Mil- waukee. The editor of the magazine of the society is N. R. Barger, of Madison, as- sociate editor is Rev. Samuel D. Robbins, Jr., of Mazomanie, Wis. I ask unanimous consent that the res- olution be appropriately referred and printed in the body of the REcorp. There being no objection, the resolu- tion was referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed in the Recorp, as follows: THE WISCONSIN Society FOR ORNITHOLOGY, July 25, 1950. The Honorable ALEXANDER WILEY, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: At the annual convention of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, held at Two Rivers, Wis., from May 5 to 7, the following resolution was passed with refer- ence to the reallocation of Federal responsi- bilities In conservation: “Whereas the reorganization of Federal conservation activities into valley authori- ties will critically weaken the administration and management of the fish and wildlife resources of the United States; and “Whereas we strongly oppose the delega- tion of these conservation activities to au- tonomous agencies responsible only to the President: Be it “Resolved, That the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology record the wholehearted oppo- sition of its membership to bills H. R. 894 and S. 1645 in the first session of the Eighty- first Congress; and that a copy of this reso- lution be sent to our uelegates in the House of Representatives and the Senate.” Respectfully submitted. Mary Donatp, Secretary. DEFENSE PRODUCTION—TELEGRAM FROM WISCONSIN' ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, we are all aware that the most significant legisla- tion which we are to shortly consider is S. 3936, the Defense Production Act— now being reviewed by our colleagues in the Senate Banking Committee. All those of us who are not members of that committee are following its work with closest attention, reviewing all of the elements in the controversy between those who contend that the bill goes much too far in regimenting our civilian economy and those who complain that it does not go far enough. Already many groups in our popula- tion have expressed their grave concern to me and to my colleagues that the Ko- rean emergency, while requiring tre- mendous support for our fighting troops, does not require the type of stringent dictatorial controls such as have been recommended by the President. My Republican associates and I feel that the Korean emergency should definitely not be used as a pretext to slip
1950 over on us totalitarian controls which may not be necessary. VOLUNTARY GELF-DISCIPLINE ESSENTIAL To the greatest extent possible, we want to encourage the voluntary self- discipline and cooperation of our patri- otic American people—cooperation to prevent runaway prices, The real estate profession of my State has been particularly concerned about title 4 of S. 3936, which it feels is dis- erlminating against them. As an indi- cation of its judgment, I ask unanimous consent that there be printed in the body of the Recorp the text of a telegram which I have just received from Mr. Al- fred E. Trenkamp, president of the Wis- consin Association of Real Estate Brok- ers, located in Milwaukee Mr. Tren- kamp rightly points out the need for Federal economy~—cutting down on non- essential spending. I thoroughly agree, but just yesterday when we attempted to do this, our economy forces were de- feated 28 for economy to 47 against. Obviously, Congress has not yet awak- ened to the need for economy in nones- sential spending. There being no objection, the telegram was ordered to be printed in the Recorp, as follows: Muwavkgs, Wis, July 27, 1950. Senator ALExaNnrR WILEY, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.: Wisconsin Association of Real Estate Brokers urges you to vote againat title Iv of Senate bill 3936 and companion House bill 9176 which we understand will control by Federal regulation all sales, values, leases, home sales, and real-estate transactions of all kinds and which authorizes Federal licensing of all real-estate transactions, etc. We object as a State professional group to being singled out for Federal control—if state of national emergency requires this step then 1t would seem apparent that all prices, wages, and all phases of our economy should be Nkewise restricted as 9 serious war emergency only with automatic provision re- pealing controls a8 soon as shooting stops Likewise, 1t would seem rational that if such mensures are necessary for defense that all Federal Government grants and aids to States and cites be suspended and withheld during emergency as such spending only serves to absorb scarce wartime materials and labor creating additional shortages. Urge your considered Judgment. AtrrepD £E. TRENKAMP, President, Wisconsin Association of Real Estate Brokers, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES The following reports of committees were submitted: By Mr. TYDINGS, from the Committee on Armed Services: H.R 210. A bill to authorize the convey~ ance of a portion of the United States mill- tary reservation at Fort Schuyler, N, Y., to the State of New York for use aa a maritime school, and for other purposes; with amend- ments (Rept No. 2180). By Mr. GEORGE, from the Committee on Finance: H.R, 7308. A dill to amend section 120 of the Internal Revenue Code; with amend- ments (Rept. No. 2181). By Mr. FREAR, from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: 6. 8963, A bill to amend Veterans’ Prefer- ence Act of 1944 with respect to certain mothers of veterans; with amendments {Rept. No. 2184). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE By Mr. WILLIAMS, from the Committee on Interstate and Poreign Commerce: 8 3960. A bill to amend subsection (b) of section 10 of the act of June 26, 1884, as amended (U. 8. C,, title 46, sec. 599 (b)); without amendment (Rept. No. 2185). GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS-—REPORT OF A COMMITTEE Mr. CHAVEZ, from the Committee on Public Works, to which was referred the amendment intended to be proposed by Mr. Watkins (for himself, Mr. McCarran, and Mr. Kerr) to the bill (H. R. 7786) making appropriations for the support of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other pur- poses, reported it without amendment, and submitted a report (No. 2182) thereon; and the amendment was re- ferred to the Committee on Appropria- tions. BILL INTRODUCED Mr, CAPEHART introduced a Dill (S. 3989) for the rehef of Robert O. Over- ton, Marjorie C. Overton, and the legal guardian of Sally Eitel, which was read twice by its title and referred to the Com- mittee on the Judiciary, GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS—AMEND- MENTS Mr. BRIDGES submitted an amend- ment intended to be proposed by him to the bill (H R. 7786) making appropria- tions for the support of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes, which was or- dered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr. WHERRY submitted an amend- ment intended to be proposed by him to House bill 7786, supra, which was or- dered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr. DOUGLAS (for himself, Mr. Kem, and Mr. Witirams) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by them, jointly, to House bill 7786, supra, which was ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL-..ID ROAD ACT—AMENDMENT Mr. LODGE (for himself, Mr. GREEN, Mr, McManon, Mr. Negery, Mr. Frear, Mr, Tart, Mr. Fercuson, Mr. Suitx of New Jersey, Mr. SALTONSTALL, Mr. Know- LAND, Mr, Bricker, Mr. Ives, Mr. Mar- vin, Mr. Witurams, Mr. HENDRICKSON, and Mr. Tosry) submitted an amend- ment intended to be proposed by them, jointly, to House bill 7941, to amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 355), as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the con- struction of highways, and for other purposes, which was ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. HOUSE BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS REFERRED OR PLACED ON CALENDAR The following bills and joint resolu- tions were severally read twice by their titles, and referred, or ordered to be placed on the calendar, as indicated: H.R. 644. An act to provide for terms of court to be held at West Palm Beach, and at Fort Myers, in the southern district of Florida; 11305 HR 681. An act for the relief of Lt. Col Paul EF Queneau; H.R. 1749. An act for the relief of the town of Mount Desert, Maine; H.R. 1860. An act for the relief of Kenji Takumi; H.R.2401. An act to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the State of California; H.R 3012 An act for the relief of the Wyo- ming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre; H R 3314 An act for the relief of the estate of the late Eulogio Reyes Suarez; H.R 4192 An act to amend title 18, United States Code, section 220, relating to recelpt of commissions or gifts for procuring loans; H R. 4256. An act for the relief of James A. G Martindale; H.R. 4530, An act for the relief of Mrs. Anna L De Angelis; HR 4579 An act to amend section 383 of title 28 of the United States Code to provide for the attendance at judicial conferences of their respective circuits of the district judges in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, Hawail, and Alaska; H R 4600. An act for the relief of the legal guardian of Janet Judith Koeninger, a minor; H R 4629 An act for the rellef of the Sonoma County Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insur- ance Co; H R 4891. An act for the relief of Albert E. Schefien; H R 5083 An act for the relief of Sister Maria Emelia (Anna Bohn); H R 5244. An act for the relief of Lt, Col. Charles J Trees, Army of the United States, H.R 6810 An act relating to the furnish- ing of accommodations at Klamath Falls, Oreg, for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; H R 6195 An act for the rellef of Carlo de Luca; H R 6228 An act for the relief of Dr. Chao- Jen Chen, Dr Janet Wang Chen, and Eleanor Chen; H R 6409 An Grace A Olson; H R 6522. An act for the relief of Louts R Chadbourne; BH R 6909. An E Dotson; H R 6902. An act for the relief of Kirocor Haladjian, Tacouhi Haladjian, Gulunia Haladjian, and Virginie Haladjian; HR 7019 An act for the relief of Aenny Blank; H R. 7336. An act for the relief of Mrs. Fumie Ishibashi Akimoto; HR 7371 An act for the relief of John FPleckstein; HR 7390 An act for the relief of Erika Kuebart and her minor son; H R 73938 An act for the relief of Fran- cisco Blanco and Mrs Celine Smith; FH R 17451. An act for the relief of Sumiko Pujita; H R 7454. An act for the relief of Robert C. Watters, Mra. Martha L Watters, C. E Nivens, E. O. Nivens, and the estate of J W Gillum, deceased, H OR. 7680 An act for the relief of Mrs. Wha Book Lee Hong: H R 7631. An act for the relief of Ottavia De Gaspare and Sandra De Gaspare; fH OR. 7733. An act for the relief of Bisters Rita Pinto de Carvalho, Maria Lette da Silva, Carmelinda Lopes de Aguilar, Marla Adozinda da Fonseca Melo, Joaquine de Jesus, and Marte Luisa Pinto Oarvalho, HOR 7856. An act for the relief of Mrs Teruko Tominaga Ikeucht, H.R. 7869. An act to provide for the fur- nishing of quarters at Newnan, Ga, for the United States District Court for the North- ery, District of Georgia: H.R 794 An act for the relief of the estate of Francis A. Waldron; act for the relief of Mrs. act for the relief of Floyd
11306 H.R 8062. An act for the relief of the legal guardian of Charles Spiller and Glenn T. Spiller, minors; H.R. 8118. An act for the rellef of the estate of the late Ismael Miranda; H.R 8184. An act for the relief of Michtyo T. kada and her minor daughter, Michiko, H.R 8258 An act for the relief of Il Nat Che; H.R 8315 An act for the relief of Joseph F. Gallagher; HR. 8384 An act for the relief of Setsuko Hori; H.R 8401. An act for the relief of Mrs. Maurice N Goss; H.R 8452 An act for the rellef of Ronald Mow and Angeline Cecilia Mow, H.R 8523. An act for the relief of Mari- anna Gantschnigg and Merle Richard Gant- schnige; H R €533 An act for the relief of Emiko Nishimura, H.R 8561, An sct for the relief of Harriet T. Johnston; H.R 8562. An act for the relief of Yukie Yabe and her son; H.R. 8598 An act for the relief of Mrs. Chicako Shimizu Sheldahl and Ryoichi Shi- mizu Sheldahl, H R 8641 An «ct for the relief of Clyde L Watson, Jr, and Laverne F. Andrews; H.R. 8686 An act for the relief of the Overseas Navigation Corp.; H R 8718. An act for the relief of Fred Hess; H R 8769 An act for the relief of Ann- marie Stritter and her minor daughter; H R 8829 An act for the relief of Sisters Pasqualina Bova, Rosa Pellanda, Emilia Dei Rossi, Speranza Zola, and Domenica Lapa- dula, H R 8863 An act for the relief of Sachiko Mitoma; H R 8901. An act for the relief of Mrs. Asako Ikeda Heaney, H R 8902 An act for the .ellef of Satoko Matsushima Hoglund; H R 8971 An act for the relief of Gertrude Hell, H R 8987 An act for the relief of Setsuko Kato; H R 9044. An act for the relief of Mrs. Kayoko Suzuki Jensen, H R 9055 An act for the relief of Cyn- thia Anne Kane, H R 9062, An act for the relief of Mrs. Willie G Heath; H R 9074. An act to amend chapter 61 (relating to lotteries) of title 18, United States Code, to make clear that such chap- ter does not apply to nonprofit contests wherein prizes are awarded for the specie, size, weight, or quality of fish caught by the contestant; H R 9086 An act for the relief of Maria Luisa Mercado; H R 9087 An act for the relief of H. Dale Madison; H R.9148. An act for the relief of Rumi Nagano and her child, H R 9145 An act for the rellef of Tomoko Yamaya; H R 9166 An act for the relief of Louis J T. Hendiick; and H J.Res 510. Joint resolution to exempt certain cqunsei employed by committee from certain Federal laws under Special Commit- tee on Campaign Expenditures, 1950, to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 1662 An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to acquire on behalf of the United States Government all property and facilities of the Rainier National Park Co.; H.R 4915. An act*to amend the act of December 24, 1942 (56 Stat. 1086; 43 U. B. C., sec. 86b), entitled “An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands or interest in lands for the Geological Sur- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE H R.6587. An act to provide funds for cooperation with the Territorial school au- thorities of Nome, Alaska, in the construc- tion, extension, improvement, and equip- ment of school facilities, to be available to both native and nonnative children; H.R. 6640. An act to amend an act en- titled “An act relating to the disposition of public lands of the United States situated in the State of Oklahoma between the Cimar- ron base line and the north boundary of the State of Texas”, approved August 7, 1946, and for other purposes; H.R 6929. An act to authorize the acquisl- tion by the United States of the remaining non-Federal lands within Big Bend National Park, and for other purposes; H.R 6259 An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interlor to issue a patent in fee to William Watt; H R 6960 An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to James Wilbur Watt; H.R 6961 An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to Mary E White Watt; H R 6962 An act authorizing the Secre- tary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to Minnie M. Watt Kopac; H R 7342 An act to provide for bound- ary adjustments of the Badlands National Monument, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes, H R 7641 An act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land in the District of Columbia to the New York Ave- nue Presbyterian Church; H R 7773 An act to authorize the sale of certain allotted land on the Pine Ridge In- dian Reservation, 8. Dak ; H R. 8144. An act to authorize the sale of @ small tract of land at Great Falls, Mont, H.R. 8158. An act to repeal certain laws as they affect the Territory of Alaska, H R 8463 An act to authorize the sale of certain smaii tracts of Indian land lying to the south and east of the Tongue River, in the State of Montana, H. R. 8874. An act to authorize the sale of lands to the city of Flagstaff, Ariz.; H R 8887 An act to declare that the United States holds certain lands for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, H.R 8906. An act to repeal certain legis- lation relating to the Gallup-Durango High- way and the Gallup-Window Rock Highway at the Navajo Indian Reservation; H R £979. An act to provide for the trans- fer or quitclaim of title to certain lands in Florida, and H. J. Res. 490. Joint resolution to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the respective tribes, bands, and groups of Indians under his jurisdiction to deter- mine their quallfications to manage their own affairs without supervision and control by the Federal Government, to the Commit- tee on Interior and Insular Affairs, H.R 6242. An act to prevent the entry of certain glant snails into the United States, to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. H.R 8576 An act to provide reimburse- ment of expenses incurred in connection with the burial of those who served in the military forces of the Commonwealth of the Philippines while such forces were in the Armed Forces of the United States pursuant to the military order of the President of the United States, dated July 26, 1941; to the Committee on Finance. H.R. 8597. An act to permit national banks to give security in the form requlred by State law for deposits of funds by local public agencies and officers; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. H R, 8944. An act authorizing the Ogdens- burg Bridge Authority, its successors and agsigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge acrozs the St. Lawrence River at or near the city of Ogdensburg, N. Y.; and JULY 28 H.R. 9002. An act to make certain increases in the annuities of annultants under the Foreign Service retirement and disability sys- tem in view of the increased cost of living; to the Committee on Forelgn Relations. H R.9023. An act to amend the Hatch Act, ordered to be placed on the calenda. OUR QUEST FOR PEACE—ADDRESS BY SENATOR CAPEHART [Mr CAPEHART asked and obtained leave to have printed tn the Recorp a radio address on the subject, Our Quest for Peace, delivered by him over radio station WGN, Chicago, Til, on July 22, 1950, which appzars in the Appendix | PROBLEMS CONFRONTING MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS MARKETING—STATE- MENT BY SENATOR HUMPHREY (Mr HUMPHREY asked and obtalned leave to have printed in the Recorp a statement made by him before the Subcominittee on Milk and Milk Products of the Senato Com- mittee on Agriculture and Forestry, which appears in the Appendix | WE CAN’T SELL OUR IDEALS ABROAD IF THEY DIE AT HOME—EDITORIAL FROM THE SATURDAY EVENING POST [Mr TAFT asked and obtained leave to «uve printed in the Rrcorp an editorial en- titled ‘“‘We Can't Sell Our Ideals Abroad If They Die at Home,” published in the Satur- day Evening Post of July 29, 1950, which ap- pears in the Appendix | SOUTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN PLATFORM TEXT {Mr MUNDT asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Recorp the Republican Platform text adopted at the South Dakota Republican Party Convention in Pierre, S. Dak, as published in the Daily Argus- Leader, Sioux Falls, S. Dak, which appears in the Appendix |] PAID FARMERS TO HEAR BRANNAN— ARTICLE FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD [Mr WILLIAMS asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Retorp an article en- titled “Paid Farmers To Hear Brannan,” which was published in the Times-Herald of July 27, 1950, which appears in the Appen- dix } DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE GANGSTERS IN THE KREMLIN—EDI- TORIAL FROM THE ASHLAND (WIS) DAILY PRESS [Mr McCARTHY asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Recorp an editorial entitled “Time for a Formal Declaration of War Against the Gangsters in the Kremlin,” which was published in the Ashland Datly Press, which appears in the Appendix | THE TYDINGS SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT— EDITORIAL COMMENT {Mr. McCARTHY asked and obtained leave to have printed in the REecorp two edi- torials commenting on the Tydings sub- committee report, one from the Monroe Times of July 21, 1950, and one from the Green Bay Press-Gazette of July 22, 1950, which appear in the Appendix } ELIMINATION OF GAMBLING AND RACKETS—ARTICLE BY JOHN WYN- GAARD ]Mr. McCARTHY asked end obtained leave to have printed in the Recorp an article entitled “Wisconsin Could Be Guide to Nation for Elimination of Gambling and Rackets,” written by John Wyngaard, and published in the Appleton Post-Crescent, of Appleton, Wis, which appears in the Ap- pendix. ]
1950 WHAT ARE OUR AIMS?—EDITORIAL FROM THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS (Mr. BRIDGES asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Recorp an editorial entitled “What Are Our Aims?” published in the New Hampshire Sunday News of July 23, 1950, which appears in the Appendix.} BENATOR TOBEY RAPS ADMINISTRA- TION-—-ARTICLE FROM THE MANCHES- TER (N. H) UNION [Mr. FLANDERS asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Recorp an article entitled “Senator Torry Raps Administra- tion,” published in the Manchester (N, H ) Union of July 26, 1950, which appears in the Appendix.} ENDORSEMENT OF REELECTION OF SEN- ATOR WILEY—EDITORIAL COMMENT [Mr. FLANDERS asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Recorp an editorial entitled “Reelect Wiiry,” published in Hills- boro (Wis) Sentry-Enterprise on July 20, 1950, and an editorial entitled ‘Senator Winery,” published in the Palmira (Wis ) Enterprise, on July 27, 1950, which appear in the Appendix.] THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION—STATE- MENT AND RESOLUTION OF THE MARY- LAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION [Mr. O'CONOR asked and obtained leave to have printed in the Recoap a statement and resolution of the Maryland State Bar Association relating to the genocide con- vention, which appear in the Appendix } CONGRATULATIONS TO SENATOR TOBEY FROM LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Mr. IVES Mr. President, I ask unan- {mous consent to have inserted in the ReEcorp the text of a letter recently re- ceived by our colleague, the Senator from New Hampshire [M:. Toxsey], from the distinguished author, Lloyd C. Douglas, one of our great contemporary novelists, who has written such books as The Robe and Magnificent Obsession. After listening to the Senator's remarks over a recent broadcast of Meet the Press, Mr. Douglas wrote this letter, which is s0 unusual and represents 50 well the apprehension which 1s felt in the country today over the way the ad- ministration has been conducting na- tional affairs that it merits inclusion in the Recorp. There being no objection, the letter ‘was ordered to be printed in the Recorp, as follows: Los ANGELES, June 17, 1950. My Dear Senator Tosey. The writer, un- known to you, is in semiretirement because of age and frail health. There 1s almost nothing that I can do for my country at present (aside from the payment of very high taxes) but to applaud the minority group of fearless and honest men who speak and act for us at the Capitol. Last night I heard you speak on the Meet the Press radio program. It must have given you much satisfaction to be able to face your inquisitors—and the whole Nation—with the reckless, 2-o’clock- in-the-morning courage that no man can afford to exhibit unless he comes to the altar with clean hands and a pure heart, You gave me a misty-eyed glow of pride that we are of the same race. Gratefully yours, Lioyrp C. Dova.as. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE BURVEY OF THE MERRIMACK AND CONNECTICUT RIVERS AND OTHER STREAMS IN NEW ENGLAND Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1950, which passed the Eighty-first Congress, was signed by President Truman and is now Public Law 516, contains the essen- tial provisions of the Lodge-Furcolo bill calling for a survey of the Merrimack and Connecticut Rivers and other streams in New England. This section is, of course, an authorization and in order to be effective requires the appro- priation of funds. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, my  col- league, Senator SALTONSTALL, addressed a written inquiry to the Acting Chief of Engineers and received from him a reply containing assurance that there is in the omnibus appropriation bill suf- ficient funds to commence the work. In fact, the letter contains an assurance that “the Corps of Engimeers will allo- cate funds to this investigation from whatever appropriation is provided.” In view of the fact that the figure of $6,500,000 is included in the bill, there is reason to believe that, in the words of the Acting Chief of Engineers, “good progress can be made on the New Eng- land investigation.” I ask unanimous consent that the letter of the Acting Chief cf Engineers to Senator Sa. Ton- stat. be printed in full at this point in the REecorp. There being no objection, the letter was ordered to be printed in the Recorp, as follows: DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF oF ENGINEFRS, Washington, July 17, 1950. Hon. LEvERETr SALTONSTALL, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. Dear SENATOR SALTONSTALL: Reference is made to your letter of July 18, 1950, in which you inquire whether the funds contalned in the omnibus appiopriation bill recentiy re- ported by the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee are sufficient to provide for the sur- vey of the Merrimack and Connecticut Riv- ers and other streams in New England as an- thorized in section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1960, Public Law 516, Eighty-first Con- gress. As provided in section 205 of the 1950 Flood Control Act, the survey of the New England rivers is to be financed from the regular appropriations made to the Corps of Engineers for carrying on authorized pre- liminary examinations and surveys for flood control and allied purposes. The amount which can be made available for the New England investigation will be allocated from the total amount contained in our appro- priations for preliminary examinations and surveys. The budget estimate for prelimi- nary examinations and surveys for fiscal year 1951 was 66,600,000. The appropriation passed by the House of Representatives re- duced this amount to $3,500,000. The Senate committee action restored the item to the full amount of $6,500,000 as shown on page 264 of the Senate Committee Report No. 1041. I can assure you that the Corps of Engi- neers will allocate funds to this Investiga- tion from whatever appropriation is provid- ed in the act as finally enacted. The exact amount will depend, of course, upon the amount finally appropriated inasmuch as all of the preliminary examinations and sur- veys throughout the country must be financed from this item. If the amount rec- 11307 ommended by the Senate committee is ap- propriated, good progress can be made on the New England investigation. If the ap- propriation is substantially leas than the #6,600,000 recommended by the Senate com- mittee, the progress of the investigation will necesserily be somewhat limited; but even in that event, we will make every effort to pro- ceed as rapidly as possible. Sincerely yours, J.8& Bracnon, Brigadier General, Acting Chief of Engineers. GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS, 1051 The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 7786) making appropri- ations for the support of the Govern- ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes. Mr. KEFAUVER, Mr. President, when page 364 of the pending bill was reached late in the afternoon, I was necessarily absent from the floor. I had pending an amendment, which I wanted to call up at that time, to reduce the appropriation provided for in line 2, page 364, by $100,000. The committee amendment provides the sum of $221,244,500 for civil functions of the Corps of Engineers. The purpose of my amendment is to re- duce that amount by $100,000, and to eliminate the item for planning the Dover Dam, which is found in the com- mittee report at page 237, as follows: Dover Lock and Dam, Cumberland River... ee eee $100, 000 Mr President, I think my amendment should be agreed to, and I hope it may be considered at this time. There are now pending in the Senate and in the House of Representatives bills to include the development of the Cumberland River in the TVA system, The matter has not been brought up for consideration at this session, because the TVA is making a re- port, upon instructions of the President. In addition, certain information will have to be furnished by the Corps of En- gineers. These reports will all be in be- fore the beginning of the Eighty-second Congress, so early in the next session we should be able to get action one way or another to determine whether the Cum- berland River will be further developed by the TVA or by the Corps of Engineers. Mr. President, it is usually conceded that if the lower part of the Cumberland River is developed by the Tennessee Val- ley Authority, it would not build the dam which this $100,000 would be used to plan. Below Nashville, between the Cheatham locks and the mouth of the Cumberland River near its confluence with the Ohio River, the Corps of Engi- neers originally planned one high dam, but later changed the plan so as to have two low dams: the Dover Dam, and a dam near the mouth of the Cumberland River. The TVA plan would follow the original intention of the Corps of Engi- neers with only one dam near the mouth of the Cumberland. The Dover Dam would be between the Cheatham lock and the mouth of the Cumberland. That dam would not be built if the de- velopment were taken over by the TVA. This $100,000 is for planning. The dam could not be constructed within the next 3 or 4 years, at least in the present emer- gency. There would be no substantial
11308 delay if Congress decided that the Corps of Engineers should build the Dover Dam; and I feel that the spending of this money should be delayed in order to give us an opportunity in the next session of Coneress to act upon the bill to deter- mine whether the futher development of the Cumberland River should be un- dertaken by the Tennessee Valley Au- thority. That is all I have to say in explana- tion, Mr. President. We can save $100,- 000 until the determination can be made, or we can run the risk of wasting $100,000 for plans which may never be used. I ask unanimous consent that the vote by which the committee amendment was agreed to be reconsidered in order that I may offer the amendment for consider- ation and action by the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request of the Senator from Tennessee? Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, Iam obliged to object. The matter came up yesterday and it was voted to continue the plan now established by which the engineers build the dam on the Cumber- land River and the TVA distributes the power. In my judgment, that has been found to be a very excellent way of build- ing up the valley. Several dams have already been constructed and TVA trans- mission lines have been built and the power is being distributed within the area, I hope the Senator will withdraw his amendment because it would interfere with the plans which have been carried out for many years. I have been living with the matter for 25 or 30 years. It started with the building of the dam at Muscle Shoals and it has progressed very well, My friend from Tennessee has a plan to turn the building of the dams on the Cumberland over to the TVA. TVA would have to start an entirely new pro- gram. It would be very much more costly to the American people. It would not be so efficiently done by the TVA as it would be done by the Corps of Engi- neers, who have done it so well in the past. In addition to that, this item has already been passed upon, and the Sena- tor’s motion is not in order. Mr, KEFAUVER. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? ti Mr. McKELLAR, I yield for a ques- on. Mr. KEFAUVER. I should like to say that my motion would not be determina- tive. Is it not correct to say that whether this dam is to be built by the TVA or the Corps of Engineers would be determined in the bill itself? In other words, would we not merely be delaying the matter of the expenditure of the money until the next appropriation bill? Is not that correct? Mr. McKELLAR. The committee passed on the matter at least 2 months ago. They are familiar with it. They reported it to the Senate. Now, on the floor of the Senate, like my distinguished friend from Tlinois [Mr. Dovatas) yes- terday, my friend from Tennessee has a plan of his own which he wants to work out. Why should a new proposal of this kind be started? That is something I cannot understend. I really cannot un- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE derstand the reason or motive for it. What is the reason? Does the Senator from Tennessee object because of his an- tipathy, if I may so express it, to the Corps of Engineers? Have the engineers failed, in the opinion of the Senator from Tennessee? Mr. KEFAUVER. Of course I have no antipathy toward the Corps of Engi- neers. I have always supported the Corps of Engineers, as vhe senior Sen- ator from Tennessee well knows. Mr. McKELLAR. But the Senator does not want the Corps of Engineers to continue with this particular work. Mr. KEFAUVER. I have very high respect for the Corps of Engineers, Since the electricity which is generated - at the da::s on the Cumberland is sold to the TVA, which has charge of the distribution of it, and the two rivers run almost parallcl and both empty into the Ohio no more than 10 mules apart; therefore, from the viewpoint of flood control, the development of that section of the South, and the operation of our electrical systems, greater efficiency in operation would be gained if one organi- zation operated both. That is no reflec- tion or criticism on the Corps of En- gineers. However, that issue would have to be settled when the pending bill is considered on the basis of the reports of the Corps of Engineers, the TVA, and also other evidence which will be brought before the committee. All I am asking in this amendment is that the expenditure of $100,000 for the planning of a dam, which the Corps of Engineers did not want to build, under the first report years ago, and which would not. be built if the Cumberland is turned over to the TVA, be delayed un- til we have had an opportunity to have the other bill considered. That is no reflection upon the Corps of Engineers Mr. McKELLAR. This matter affects Tennessee, Kentucky, and the adjoining States of Alabama, Mississippi, and pos- sibly also Georgia. It seems to me to be @ very expensive route to take. It seems to be an experiment, whereas the present situation by which the engineers build a dam and then turn it over to the TVA to sell the power and collect the money and put it in the Treasury of the United States is a very much better way of handling the matter. It has been quite a successful method, and I hope it will not be interfered with. It is true that one of our newspapers is very much in favor of making the change, although I have not been able to ascertain the reason for it. The Senate voted on the amendment yesterday. The Senator had ample opportunity. He was not taken by surprise. It was considered yesterday. He was present in the Chamber all day except at the time the vote was taken. I see no reason why we should give unanimous consent now. I shall object to the unanimous consent being given, and I hope the Chair will sustain my objection that the motion is not in order, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The senior Senator from Tennessee objects to the unanimous-consent request, Mr. KEFAUVER. I move that the Senate reconsider the vote by which it agreed to the amendment on page 364, JULY 28 line 2, in order that I may offer an amendment to reduce the appropriation by $100,000 for the purposes which I have stated, Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, a parliamentary inquiry. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator will state it. Mr. McKELLAR. Is the motion of the Senator in order? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- tion to reconsider 1s in order. Mr. McKELLAR. Very well. Does the Senator wish to make a statement? Mr. KEFAUVER. I have made my statement. Mr, McKELLAR. I appeal to the Members of the Senate not to interfere with this provision of the bill, which has already been passed. It has been re- ported by a committee which heard all the evidence with reference to the mat~ ter. Every opportunity was given to be heard on the matter. I hope the Senate will stand by the committee and by what has been done heretofore by the Senate. The Corps of Engineers is one of our best organizations. E do not see why we should turn them down because someone has another plan which he thinks is better than the plan now in existence Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr President, I suggest the absence of a quorum The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The roll was calied, and the following Senators answered to their names: Brewster Hayden Maybank Bricker Hendrickson Mundt Bridges Hickenlooper Murray Butler Hill Myers Byrd Hoey Neely Capehart Holland o’Conor Chapman Humphrey O’Mahoney Chavez Hunt Pepper Connally Ives Robertson Cordon Jenner. Russel) Donnell Johnson, Colo. Smith, Maine Douglas Johnson, Tex, Smith, N J, Dworshak Kefauver Sparkman Eastland Kem Stennis Ecton Langer Taft Ellender Lehman Thomas, Okla. Ferguson Lodge Thye Flanders Lucas Tydings Frear McCarran Watkins Fulbright McCarthy Wherry George McClellan Wiley Gillette McFarland Williams Graham McKellar Young Green Magnuson Gurney Malone The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hory in the chair). A quorum is present. The question 1s on the motion of the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. KeFAvvER] to reconsider the vote by which the com- mittee amendment on page 364, line 2, was adopted. Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. President, for the benefit of any Members of the Sen- ate who were not present when the orig- inal colloquy occurred with reference to this matter, let me say that the purpose of the motion to reconsider is to permit me to offer an amendment to the com- mittee amendment on page 364, in line 2, so as to reduce the figure ‘$221,244,- 500” by the sum of $100,000. The $100,- 000 has to do with funds appropriated for planning for the building of Dover lock and dam on the Cumberland River. Mr. President, there has been consid- erable agitation in regard to this matter. Originally the Corps of Engineers wanted
1950 to build one dam on the Cumberland River, near where it empties into the Ohio River. That would have been a rather high dam. There was some ob- jection to the building of the dam, be- cause of some bottom land which might be flooded. Thereupon the Corps of Engineers changed its plan, and decided that instead of building the one high dam near the junction of the Ohio and Cuniberland Rivers, to build a compara- tively low dam there, and also to build a dam between the Cheatham lock and dam and the dam near the Ohio. Of course, we do not know whether the Corps of Engineers will again change its plans in that regard. It is obvious that the $100,000 for the planning of the dam may never be used, because the dam may never be built. Even if the right to make the decision remains with the Corps of Engineers, it may return to the original plan, because there is a greater need for electricity. The one high dam would furnish more electricity than could be developed at the two low dams. There has been quite a change in sen- timent, in my opinion, among the people of the Cumberland Valley and among the people of Tennessee and Kentucky in regard to this matter. In my opinion, the great majority of the people who are interested in it wish to have only the one high dam built, and they wish to have the Cumberland developed by the Ten- nessee Valley Authority. Mr. President, there is now pending in the House and also in the Senate a bill for the inclusion of the Cumber- land Basin in the TVA system. The President of the United States has asked th Tennessee Valley Authority for a report in regard to the development of the Cumberland. An interim report has already been submitted; and within the next 6 weeks or 2 months we expect the final report to be submitted, It is anticipated and generally stated that the TVA will recommerd that, in- stead of building the two low dams, only the one high dam be built, as originally plannec by the Corps of Engineers. If that is done, this $100,000 for planning would be utterly wasted, because it would rcpresent money for plans for a dam v-hich would never be built. The reason for the change of attitude on the part of the business people and the citizens of this area is that with the industrial development of this section; with the development of the Arnold air- engincering development center at Tul- Jahoma, on the former site of Camp For- rest; and the development of other de- fensc plants, a great amount of elec- tricity must be developed on the Cum- berland. The industrialization of that section of the country requires more electricity, and these defense plants re- quire adequate amounts of electricity. Ev2n Mr. Harry Dyer, who is chair- man of the Nashville Chamber of Com- merce’s Cumberland River committee, end who formerly favored the building of the two low dams by the Corps of En- git.eers, now has made a speech in which he has said that he favors the inclusion of this project in the Tennessee Valley Authority system. The sentiment has XCVI——712 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE developed all through that section in like manner. Mr. President, this matter was sub- mitted by the Secretary of the Interior, in a letter dated July 14, to the chair- man of the Senate Committee on Public Works, the distinguished Senator from New Mexico [Mr. Cuavez]. The Secre- tary of the Interior recommends that the proposed legislation be approved and that the Cumberland be developed by the TVA. I ask unanimous consent that a copy of his letter may be printed at this point in the Rrcorp, There being no objcction, the letter was ordered ‘to be printed in the REcorp, as follows: U1 iTrp STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C, July 14, 1950. Hon Dennis CHAvEz, Chairman, Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Washington, DC. Dear SENATOR CHAvEzZ: This is in response to your request for a report on 8. 338, Eighty- first Congress, first session, entitled; “A bill to amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended, 80 ag to include there- under the Cumberland River and Cumber- land River Basin.” I recommend the passage of the bill with the following amendments: 1. To insert the following language at the end of section 2 of the bill: “All reservoir projects constructed, under construction, or authorized to be constructed in the Cumberland River Basin by or on be- half of the United States, and all use, control, and operation of such projects, together with all property, books, papers, data, contracts, equipment, and unexpended balances of ap- propriations, appertaining to these projects, and their appurtenant works, shall be trans- ferred to the corporation, together with such personnel as may be agreeable to the Corpo- ration and to the Secretary of the Army.” 2. To strike sections 4 and 6 of the bill. The following is in explanation of these recommendations: 1. The transfer of the Cumberland Basin projects to the Tennesee Valley Authority would eliminate unnecessary expense and in- sure continuity in the operation of the proJ- ects and the sale of low-cost power to ulti- mate consumers. (a) By prior acts of Congress, eight reser- voir projects have been authorized to be constructed in the Cumberland River Basin. Of these, one reservoir project (Dale Hollow) has already been constructed and is in op- eration; two projects (Center Hill and Wolf Creek) are still under construction; the con- struction of the remaining five projects (Three Islands, Stewart's Ferry, Old Hickory, Carthage, and Celina) has not yet started. Under section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 887, 890; 16 U. S. C. 825), the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to sell or dispose of “electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects under the control of the Department of the Army and in the opinion of the Secretary of the Army not required in the operation of such projects.” The statute requires that, in the sale of such surplus power, preference be given to public bodies and cooperatives; that the power be sold at rates fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and approved and confirmed by the Federal Power Commission, which would have regard to the recovery of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the investment allocated to power over a reasonable number of years; and that the transmission or disposition of the surplus power shall be in such manner as to en- courage the most widespread use thereof at 11309 the lowest possible rates to consumers cons alstent with sound business principles. (b) Acting pursuant to these directions, the Secretary of the Interior entered into negotiations with the Tennessee Valley Au- thority for the sale of the surplus power from the Dale Hollow, Center Hill, and Wolf Creek projects, and in anticipation of this sale the Tennessee Valley Authority con- structed a transmission lino which made possible the sale of Dale Hollow power at the bus bar and will provide such facilities as the other plants begin operation. This was the most practicable way of disposing of the surplus power to be generated at the Cum- berland projects in conformity with the re- quirements above stated, especially since (1) approximately 70 percent of the Cumberland River Basin Mes within the area now served with electricity produced at TVA plants, (2) approximately 80 percent of the electric- power requirements of the Cumberland Basin is being supplied by TVA, and (38) In its resource development program, which in- cludes the widespread distribution of power at low cost to consumers, TVA needs addi- tional sources of electric power in order to supply adequately the growing needs for electricity in its existing area, including that portion of the service area which lies within the Cumberland Basin, Because of the geographic position of TVA's power system, both the Department of the Interior and the Tennessee Valley Authority considered that the existing Cumberland projects and any additional projects to be constructed in the Cumberland Basin would contribute most effectively to the purposes of the Flood Control Act of 1844, if the entire power output of these projects were sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority and mar- keted over its system. Thus, the sale of power from Dale Hollow, Centor Hill, and Wolf Creek was intended as the initial step in the development of arrangements for the sale of power by the Department to the TVA. It was contemplated that, as additional proj- ects would be constructed in the Cumber- land Basin, the Department and the TVA would work out such amendments to the presently negotiated agreement as might be required to include the sale of power from such additional projects. (c) In conformity with the requirement that the disposition of power shall be such that the ultimate consumers might benefit by the lowest possible rates “consistent with sound business principles,” the Department has taken the view that all matters leading up to the disposition of the power be con- ducted in accordance with sound business principles and practices. Accordingly the negotiations with the TVA were conducted, so far as practicable, at arms’ length, and with due regard to the statutory standards, with the consequent expenditure of such time and effort as would be warranted by a transaction involving a sale of power at an average amount of $3,500,000 per year over & period of 20 years, or a total of $70,000,000. The rates arrived at were based on the full utilization of an unregulated annual stream flow; the average of 83,500,000 for the entire power output of the projects, with a total installed capacity of 441,000 kilowatts, was based upon the normal or average flow as indicated by the long-time stream-fiow records; and the variations in the annual payments were based upon deviations from the average stream flow. Prior to the execu- tion of the contract these rates were in- formally submitted to the Fedcral Power Commission for confirmation and approval, and considerable attention was given to these rates by the Federal Puwer Commis- sion, as well as by the staff in the Depart~- ment of the Interior. (a) The reason for the informal submis- sion of the rates to the Federal Power Com- miggion, and also the reason for the delay in