The Sidney herald., 1957-08-29
Representative
Leroy Anderson
Reports to You
August IA, 1857:


August IA, 1857:
Washington - l voted against
the bill to increase postal rates
by over a half billion dollars q
year, but it passed the House
anyway. / objected to raising
first class letters from Sc to &c,
postal cards from &c to Sc, and
airmail from &c to 7c. First class
mail showed a profit of S35 mil
lion dollars and airmail showed a
profit of $23 million dollars in
fiscal 1856. The new rates are es-
timated TO bring in another third
of a billion dollars from this first
class mail. These added funds
then will be used to furnish huge
subsidies to other classes of pos
tai service. Amendments, which
/ supported, to reduce the first
class rates and equalize the rates
for second and third class mail,
were defeated. We did, however,
succeed in putting in an amend
ment which will limit the second
class mail subsidy received by any
publication to 100000 a year. If
this provision survives the Senate
consideration, it will affect big
publications, such as where a
single magazine now, is receiving
about $40 million a year in sub
sides of its mail service. l could
have supported a fair postal rate
bill If 1t were a part of postal
pay increase legislation, which /
strongly supported and which
passed the House. When we treat
the two separately, / am afraid
the President will take the rate
increase and veto the pay raise.
HOSPITALS - The President
has signed my bill, H. R. 8O53,
and it now becomes Public Law
Isl of the 85th Congress. The
measure authorizes funds avail
able for construction of Indian
health facilities to be used to
assist in the construction of COM
munity hospitals which will serve
Indians and non-Indians. My coll
league, Representative Lee Met
calf, and our Senators Murray
and Mansfield, had active roles in
this legislation. SO far, more than
10000 bills have been introduced
in the House and Senate, so the
passage of a measure such as this
is considered a major Congress
sional accomplishment. The new
measure can be of special impor-
lance to Wolf Point, Poplar, Har-
lem and similar communities. /
Both community and Indian res {
.ervations can cooperate in the I
construction of excellent hospi- i
tails, rather than have duplicating, I
small, inadequate facilities. Z
BANKING - Along with other ,
members of the House Banking i
and Currency Committee, / have I
been participating for three weeks I
in a series of hearings aimed at {
to overhaul and |
Streamline the nations banking +
laws. Major figures in the bank S
ing field have appeared before '
US, and / participated in the COM {
mittee questioning. The 16 Au- !
gust issue of u. S. News and !
World Report included two pages !
Of testimony in which l partici- |.
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AMERICAN ENGINEER r
Featured in the August issue of q
American Engineer" is one by I
me in which / explain the value q
If engineering training to mem I
oers of Congress. AS a chemical
graduate of Montana i,
State College, Glass of 1927, with :
subsequent graduate work at CAL =
fornia Institute of Technology, l :
'eceived training which is prov .
valuable to me in represent =
ng the people of Montana in :,
congress. There are only a few 4
Professionally trained engineers n
Iere- The magazine, published by 4
he National Society of Profess Il
ional Engineers, stresses the i'm p
lortance of such people in legis- L
alton concerning roads, bridges, c,
tonic energy, reclamation, pol al
Ition, water problems and many fl
ther fields. Huge sums of money
re spent on these projects said
ne magazine and "the engineer
.gislator is well equipped to deal
18th these measures" fc
FEDERAL SPENDING POLL A
les - A joint subcommittee of M
ongress, concerned with fiscal eC
olicy, plans a comprehensive in
uiry into the impact of spend