The people's voice., 1959-10-09
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terest is concerned. The extra
spending for interest on the public
debt alone-extra spending due
solely to mismanagement by this
Administration-wo have built
the schools, the hospitals and the
houses we need-and left money
over for area development, high
ways. medical research and natural
resource development.
EDUCATION
Committees reported the bill under
which the Montana Congressional del
egation would require the federal gov
ernment to face up to its responsible
ity in helping meet the crisis IN our
classrooms. The House Education
Committee reported my bill to au-
thorize $41a billion for classroom
construction and teachers salaries in
the next four years. A Senate COM
mittee reported a $1.1 billion school
construction bill. Both are opposed
by the Administration. AS our chill
dren went back to school this fall,
education of some 10 million young
sters was being impaired to some
degree by the classroom shortage
and we were short almost 100000
qualified teachers.
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security subcommittee,
of which | am a member, heard pro-
posals. among them those supported
by Montanans in Congress, to add a
medical and disqualification section to
the Social Security program. Begin
ming early in November, we will study
the administration of the Social Se-1
curity Disability program. Next year
we can expect significant improve
ments in the Social Security program.
TAXES
Beginning in mid-November, the
Ways and Means Committee, on which
| sit. will begin hearings into needed
revision and equalization of the taxes
which all of us pay to do together
the jobs which we cannot handle in
FARM
At least in part due to a pair of
vetoes, this session of
Congress adjourned without having
met the farm problem, which Wayne
Darrow summed up in the Washing
ton Farmletter as "the impact on
farmers, farm towns, and on the U. S.
economy of an agriculture that is in
creasing it's productivity faster than
the growth of population, and its total
market outlets in the world"
Like Topsy, our national farm pol
icy just grew, until it has been de-
,cribed as consisting of ga series of
inconsistent and impro-
yised measures"
AS result of the piecemeal ap-
proach, we have seen farm program
costs skyrocket and surpluses mount
while the farmers income fell.
There have been economic and poll
tical attacks. which could have been
avoided by taking the time to con-
slider the whole program on a long
range basis. The Eisenhower-Ben-
SON "flexible"-actually, collapsible
price support program has fed on
the absence of an integrated farm
program, each part of which is re-
lated to every other part. | hope
for hearings next session on bills,
among them mine, to establish just
such a program.
Here is a summary of what hap
ened during the first session on:
AVIATION
Extended 52% corporate income
ak and excises on liquor, autos, auto
arts. accessories and cigarettes; re-
ealed tax on local telephone service
s of next June 30; cut tax on trans
of persons to $50 from 0%o
S of next June 80; life insurance
ompany income tax rates were ad-
usted and new levies imposed on {
profits and investment '
lcome to raise more than an addi- {
onal 5000 million;
President Eisenhower's request for
1 hc increase in the federal gaso- 7
ne tax for 5 years to continue the
ighway construction program at ap- 7
roximately its present level was cut t
, 1c until July 1, 1861, at which /