5758 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JUNE 30 Seventy-seventh Congress, first sesSion. Res­ By Mr. STEARNS of New Hampshire: tion of their .resolution with reference to the olution creating a Select Committee to Inves­ H. R."7328. A bill for the relief of Robert M. unjust criticism of our Congress; to the Com­ tigate Air Accidents; without amendment Crain; to the Committee on Claims. mittee on Ways and Means. (Rept. No. 2297). Referred to the Commit­ 3158. Also, petition of the State, County, tee of the Whole House on the state of the , and Municipal Workers of America, Congress Union. PETITIONS, ETC. of Industrial Organizations, Local 246, peti­ Mr. NICHOLS: Select Committee to Inves­ Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions tioning consideration of their resolution with tigate Air Accidents. House Resolution 125, and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk reference to House bill 7144; to the Commit­ Seventy-seventh Congress, first session. Res-· tee on the Civil Service. elution creating a Select Committee to Inves­ and referred as follows: 3159. Also, petition of the Middletown Post, tigate Air Accidents; without amendment 3145. By Mr. CULKHif: Petition of members No. 218, the American Legion, Middletown, (Rept. No. 2298). Referred to the Commit­ of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Ohio, petitioning consideration of their reso­ tee of the Whole House on the state of the of Pulaski, N.Y., urging the passage of Senate lution with reference to the Social Security Union. bill 860; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Act; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 3146. Also, petition of approximately 82 3160. Also, petition of Samuel D Chabet, of residents of the Thirty-second Congressional Flint, Mich., submitting further request PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS District of New York, urging the passage of omitted from original petition sent to Con­ Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public · Senate bill 860; to the Committee on Military gress and enter~d in CONGRESSIONAL RECORD bills and resolutions were introduced and Affa~s. · as No. 3100, June 18, 1942; to the Committee severally referred as follows: 3147. By Mr. CUNNINGHAM: Petition of on the Post Office and Post Roads. Rev. W. Scheurermann, Methodist minister, By Mr. POWERS: and 70 other citizens of Indianola, Iowa, H. R. 73:x>. A pill to prov:de for a tempo­ urging passage of legislation providing for rary increase in the rate of compensation of the abolishment of liquor traffic as an aid to certain employees of the Department of the an all-out war effort; to the Committee on SENATE Navy; to the Committee on the Civil Service. Militliry Affairs. By Mr. LANDIS: 3148. By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of 2,527 TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1942 H. R. 7321. A bill to provide that enlisted adult "itizens of Beaver County, Pa., re­ members of the armed forces of the United questing Members of the Senate and House (Legislative day ot Monday, June 29, States shall be allowed at least two furloughs of Representatives to keep the Sheppard bill 1942) each year for periods of at least 1 week each; (S. 860) from becoming law; to the Commit­ to the Committee on Military Affairs. tee on Military Affairs. The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m., on By Mr. FENTON: 3149, By Mr. HEIDINGER: Petition pre­ the expiration of the recess. H. R. 7322. A bill to provide for a national sented by Florence Moore, of Flora, ill., and Rev. Edward G. Latch, pastor, Metro­ cemetery in the eastern section of Pennsyl­ signed by 20 residents of Clay County, Ill., politan Memorial Methodist Church, vania; to the Committee on Military Affairs. urging the passage of Senate bill 860 as a Washington, D. C., offered the following By Mr. O'BRIEN of Michigan: part of our national defense program; to the prayer: H. R. 7323. A bill to provide temporary ad­ Committee on Military Affair.s. ditional compensation for employees of the 3150. By Mr. HOFFMAN: Petition signed 0 God, our Father, the Eternal Rock of Post Office Department of the United States; by sundry citizens of Cassopolis, Mich., with Thy people in time of trouble and their to the Committee on the Post Office and Post reference to Senate bill 860; to the Commit­ Refuge in every hour of need, unto Thee Roads. tee on Military Affairs. By Mr. VINSON of Georgia: do we lift up our hearts. We are Thy 3151. By Mr. KRAMER: Resolution of the in H. R. 7324. A bill to amend the act approved California State Council of Defense, relative children, created Thy image, re­ August 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 864), entitled "An to the passage of legislation providing for a deemed bY Thy grace and sustained by act increasing the number of naval aviators system of compenEation insurance for all Thy spirit. Assure us always of Thy in the line of the Regular Navy and Marine trained and certified volunteers engaged in presence, we beseech Thee. Corps, and for other purposes; to the Com­ the carrying on of essential civilian protec­ Grant unto us and unto all our people mittee on Naval Affairs. tion activities for official city and county de­ a clearer understanding of Thy will for By Mr. HOFFI\!IAN: fense councils; to the Committee on Ways our Nation, and may we have the cour­ H. J. Res. 328. Joint resolution requiring and Means. age to do Thy will and the confidence to filing of information for a Federal Who's Who; 3152. Also, resolution of the Pacific region walk in Thy way. to the Committee on Expenditures in the of the North American Gasoline Tax Confer­ Executive Departments. ence, relative to the exemption from State Save us from diScord and confusion, By Mr. RAMSPECK: taxation by persons connected with contracts from pride and prejudice. Fashion us H. J. Res. 329. Joint resolution extending for national defense, etc.; to the Committee into a body that Will agree to di:fier yet the period for which overtime rates of com­ on Ways and Means. determine to love and be united to serve pensation may be p~id under certain acts; to 3153. Also, resolution of the Joint Commit­ Thee and our country faithfully and well. the Committee on the Civil Service. tee on Water Problems of the California Leg­ We pray through Jesus Christ our Lord. By Mr. MAY: islature, relative to securing sufficient appro­ Amen. H. Con. Res. 73. Concurrent resolution au­ priation to relieve the steel shortage in order thorizing the printing of additional copies of to faci1itate completion of the Central Valley THE JOURNAL the report (H. Rept. No. 2272~ of the Com­ project, etc.; to the Committee on Military On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by mittee on Military Affairs relative to the prog­ Affa:rs. unanimous consent, the reading of the ress of the national defense program; to the 3154. By Mr. LECOMPTE: Petition of the Committee on Printing. Reverend Clifford Carter, pastor at Seymour, Journal of the proceedings of the calen­ By Mr. COLLINS: Iowa, and citizens of Seymour, Sewal, and dar day Monday, June 29, 1942, was dis-­ H. Res. 513. Resolution providing for the Lovilia, Iowa, urging the House of Repre­ pensed with, and the Journal was ap­ amendment of rule X of the House of Repre­ sentatives to vote for legislation which will proved. resentatives; to the Committee on Rules. provide the largest possible protection for the MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE men in our Army and Navy against the insidi­ ous influence of vice and intoxicating liquors, A message from the House of Repre­ PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS especially asking for the passage of the Shep­ sentatives, by Mr. Chaffee, one of its Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private pard bill (S. 860) at an early date; to the Com­ reading clerks, announced that the House bills and resolutions were introduced and mittee on Military Affairs. had receded from its disagreement to 3155. By Mr. MILLER: Petition of John W. severally referred as follows: Allen and 59 other citizens of Luzerne County, the amendments of the Senate numbered By Mr. GORE: Pa., urging the prompt passage of Senate bill 21 and 23 to the bill Delaware, praying for the propriations to provide war housing and BREWSTER], the Senator from Illinois enactment of the bill (S. 860) to provide for war public works in and near the District of [Mr. BROOKS], the Senator from North the common defense in relation to the sale of Columbia; and Dakota [Mr. LANGER], and the Senator alcoholic liquors to the members of the land H. J. Res. 324. Joint resolution making ap­ from Massachusetts [Mr. LODGE] are and naval forces of the United States"and to propriations for work relief and relief for the necessarily absent. provide for the suppression of vice in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943. The VICE PRESIDENT. Sixty-nine vicinity of military camps and naval estab­ ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED Senators have answered to their names. lishments; ordered to lie on the table. A quorum is present. REPORT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS COM­ The message further announced that MITTEE the Speaker had affixed his signature to EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. Mr. SCHWARTZ (for Mr. KILGORE), the following enrolled bills, and they The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the were signed by the Vice President: from the Committee on Military Affairs, Senate the following letters, which were to which was referred the bill (S. 2619) H. R. 2014. An act for the relief of Carl L. referred as indicated: Jones; to amend Article of War 114 so as to H. R. 6295. An act to suspend the require­ PERSONNEL OF THE LAND FORCES broaden the power to administer oaths ment for the performance of annual labor A letter from the Secretary of War, report­ and to take acknowledgments, reported it on certain mining claims; ing, pursuant to law, relative to the person­ with an amendment and submitted a re­ .H. R. 7184. An act to establish the com­ nel of the land forces; to the Committee on port New Jersey? jection, the nomination is confirmed. time said, are about to undertake to scut­ Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, there The legislative clerk read the nomina­ tle the Smaller War Plants Corporation are a number of other nominations on tion of Harry L. Griffin to be State di­ from the inside. Such can be done very the calendar. I ask unanimous consent rector for the Office of Government Re­ easily. That ship can be scuttled just as that they be disposed of before taking up ports for the State of North Carolina. an American vessel manned by German the Meaney nomination. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ sailors could be scuttled. Just appoint The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob­ jection, the nomination is confirmed. the wrong men as directors and as deputy jection? The Chair hears none. The The legislative clerk read the nomina­ and all we have done goes for naught. clerk will state the next nomination. tion of John E. Walsh to be State di· 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5771 rector for the Office of Government Re­ I shall be compelled to do that is that, nominated to be Federal district judge. ports for the State of Vermont. as I understand the question now at issue, So that he resigned a position paying him The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ it is a question of machine control, and $15,000 a year, which was not salary jection, the nomination is confirmed. I think when we look ove1· the vacant ·enough, and is making a bitter struggle The legislative clerk read the nomina­ seats we can-accept the situation as an to get this position, which will pay him tion of Michael Francis Prendergast to illustration of machine control. only $10,000 a year. That is a circum­ be State director· for the Office of Gov­ Mr. President, as I see it, this is an stance worth considering. ernment Reports for the State of Mary­ important question. The confirmation 1t is said by those who advocate the land. or rejection of the nomination of Mr. confirmation of Mr. Meaney that the The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ Meaney is a national question. It is not Federal judgship will be a life position, jection, the nomination is confirmed. a local question; it is not a question and that the place on the common pleas Mr. BARKLEY. I ask that the Presi­ affecting New Jersey alone, but it is a bench was not. For all practical pur­ dent be immediately notified of all question atfecting the entire United poses, the position he held before was a nominations confirmed today. States. In this question California, life job. I believe the law of New Jersey The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ Florida, Maine, Michigan, Louisiana, and provides that the judges on the court of jection, the President will be immediately all the intervening States are Vitally in­ common pleas, the court over which notified. terested; and they know about it, Mr. Meaney presided, must be divided be­ NOMINATION OF THOMAS F. MEANEY President. The question involved is tween the great political parties. At whether the Hague machine, which is one least, that has been the practice; I do not The Senate resumed consideration of of the most disreputable, demagogic, know whether it is the law. The Sena­ the nomination of Thomas F. Meaney to political machines that ever existed shall tors from New Jersey can correct me if I be United States district judge for the extend its power beyond New Jersey and am wrong about that. Even though an District of New Jersey. take in the Federal Government. anti-Hague man, as is the case now, had Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I should It is said that there is no politics in this been Governor of New Jersey, he could like to inquire whether the Senator from question, but, Mr. President, there is, not have appointed to fill a vacancy on New Jersey [Mr. SMATHERS] wishes to there always has been, and there always the court of common pleas a man of his proceed with his remarks. will be. If Senators think that the set­ party, if the vacancy belonged to the Mr. SMATHERS. No. tlement of this question and the con­ other party. So, as a matter of fact, Mr. NORRIS. Very well, Mr. Presi­ firmation of the nomination of Mr. Meaney resigned a $15,000 job in order dent; I shall .Proceed with · mine. The Meaney will quiet patriotic people all to get a $10,000 job. Senator from New Jersey was to have over this Nation, they have another guess Hague had a large measure of control opened this debate. However, he has coming. It is impossible to keep this over New Jersey and over all the officials declined to do so, and the other side will question out of politics, and my Demo­ of the State. He owned and carried in probably have to go ahead. cratic friends are going to meet it on his pocket the city where he lived in Mr. NYE. Mr. President, will the Sen­ every st1,1mp in America if they vote Hudson County. Senators now present ator yield to me for the purpose of sug­ solidly for the confirmation of Mr. and those who are not present know of gesting the absence of a quorum. Meaney's nomination. It is well known some of the t'hings which happened in The PRESIDING OFFICER courts of New Jersey. Mr. Hague LENDER in the chair). Does the Senator particularly that Meaney is a represent-a­ was not satisfied._ with being ruler of a from Nebraska yield to the Senator from tive of the Hague machine. That is not city and State. He is now extending his North Dakota for that purpose? denied, so far as I know. No one ques­ authority, through the means of this ap­ Mr. NORRIS. I yield. tions the fact that Mr. Meaney is the pointment, into the domain of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The selection of Mr. Hague for a judicial United States Government. clerk will call the roll. position for life. Sometime ago, when Mr. Hague was The legislative clerk cailed the roll, and Mr. Meaney was formerly common }:leas carrying on his rule in Jersey City, when the following Senators answered to their judge in New Jersey, drawing a salary of he was prohibiting men from making names: $15,000 a year. He quit that position be­ speeches, when he was interfering with Aiken Gerry Pepper cause, he said, it did not pay sufficient the right of assembly and free speech, it Andrews Gillette Radcliffe became necessary, in order to insure Bailey Green· Reed money, and that is the report we have Ball Gurney .Rosier from the Judiciary Committee submitted citizens liberty, that an injunction be Bankhead Hatch Russell by the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. issued. A case was commenced against Barbour Hayden Schwartz Hague to enjoin him from interfering Barkley Hill Shipstead SMATHERS]. As a matter of fact, what Bilbo Hughes Smathers happened was that Mr. Hague's son was with the liberties and the rights of Bridges Johnson, Calif. Smith desirous of going on to the Supreme Court American citizens. Burton Lee Stewart The man then sitting in the United· Butler Lucas Taft of New Jersey. He was not a lawyer; so Byrd McCarran Thomas, Idaho far as I know he had never run for a States district court, Judge Clark, was Capper McFarland Thomas, Okla. political office or anything of that kind; one Hague could not handle and could Caraway McKellar Thomas, Utah but a member of the supreme court, the not control, and Judge Clark issued the Chavez McNary Truman Clark, Idaho Maybank Tunnell court of appeals and errors, had to resign injunction, and on the trial of the issue Clark, Mo. Mead Tydings in order to make a vacancy. So Mr. made it final. The case went to the Connally Millikin Vandenberg Meaney resigned; young Mr. Hague was Supreme Court of the United States, and Danaher Murdock Wagner Davis Murray Walsh appointed to the court, ahd is there now. the decision was affirmed. So there was Doxey Norris White But something had to be done for tl;le one loophole which Hague had not closed, Ellender Nye Wiley man who resigned. and confirmation of this nomination George O'Mahoney Willis A vacancy had to be made for him, and would close it. Who will say that if The PRESIDING OFFICER oner or later, maintaining the dicta­ ing and setting of the sun. I think it tor's favor, he may go on to a higher bench, tified and was cross-examined. His letter or at an appropriate time may resign to take should be so. People will not often con­ is dated May 16, 1942. On the letter­ charge of some lucr.ative bankruptcy case? demn a man merely because he is a can­ head appears: Many of the editors of the ·best newspapers didate for public office, but if one is iden­ State of New Jersey, Executive Department. ln New Jersey are so uncertain of the answers tified as a Hague candidate, backed by to these questions;· thousands of our citiZens the Hague machine, that in itself is The letter is as follows: are so dubious of the quality of justice they enough to condemn him in the eyes of MY DEAR SENATOR NORRIS: From the day will obtain under these auspices that, if for the American people. when his name was first mentioned, I have no other reasons, I believe the United States I do not claim to have any ability as a opposed the appointment of Mr. Thomas F. Senate would be justified in withholding Meaney for Federal district judge in New Jer- · confirmation. · prophet or a judge of the reactions of sey, and I still oppose it. Not because I have I beg you to believe me that this opposition people, and I shall not charge anything any personal antipathy to him-for so far as I of mine is no mere political dispute; it is a for the judgment or the prophecy wi1ich know I have never met him-but because he deep conflict of principle. I hold that no I am about to make, but if I know any­ represents an attitude toward the · judicial man should ascend the bench ~o P!!-SS upon thing about human nature and the Amer­ office which is to me repulsive, and is and ever the rights, even the lives, of other men when ican people, I say to you, Mr: President, will be, I hope, repulsive to all Americans. he is obligated to a political boss, when, 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5773 worse, the judge has been a part of unsavory the Governor is not paying his debts for Constitution. We are wrong when we toil political-judicial moves. Still worse, it seems election support? and spend our money to pay taxes and to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that Mr. NORRIS. I suppose that is the let our boys go into the trenches and fight and acts as if the law begins and ends with attitude. - for that freedom which we say is neces­ himself. This kind of dictatorship ought, Mr. President, there may be no doubt sary to save free democratic government. tn my judgment, to be entirely foreign to that Hague supported the Governor, who If that theory be sound, we are all wrong. the American judiciary. had the regular Democratic nomination. What good does it do, Mr. President, for I beg you to believe that, in my opposition Hague represents a regular Democratic a man to gain the whole world if he loses to this appointment, I do not, as Governor machine. But, Mr. President, the Gov­ his own soul? If our boys across the sea of New Jersey, seek to impose any man of ernor is abused because he ran on the succeed in bringing victory to our arms my choice upon the Federal judiciary. I and crushing the dictators, will we not have sought during my te:r:m as Governor to Democratic ticket and Hague supported improve the quality of the State bench to him, and now he has the audacity to say feel embarrassed to have them come back provide a brand of justice free from the that he will not bend the knee and bow home and have to confess to them that, taint of boss dictation. I have reason to his head at the command of the dictator while they saved freedom abroad, we believe that the people of the State have chief, Hague. passed it on to political machines like · approved these efforts. I cannot now stand What is the theory of that kind of a Hague's in their home country? idly by and see a Federal judge appointed doctrine? Where will it logically lead In a speech which he made some time to pass upon the rights and lives of our citi­ later, in honor of the homecoming of zens when the nominee appears under the us? Because Hague supported him, most dubious auspices. I could not answer therefore he must obey Hague's demands some crippled veteran, the Governor to my own conscience if I remained silent and must support every man whom said, in substance, that he wanted to while he was appointed, and then if at some Hague suggests. It is treason to Hague preserve this country for freedom and future time a judicial scandal rocked the to refuse to support the confirmation of righteom:ness, so that he could say to Federal court in New Jersey. Mr. Meaney's nomination. If that is the the boys when they return bearing the My opposition to this nomination is not doctrine which must prevail, then it is banner of victory, "Here is your country. intended to be, and I will not have it dis­ only a question of time until democracy S3.ve it as you have saved it in foreign torted into being, any criticism of the Presi­ dent's policies or of his conduct of the war. on this earth shall have perished. lands. Here the seeds of liberty and I am in fact so anxious to see his policies All Senators know that sometimes freedom grow and blossom. While you carried out and the war successfully prose­ among their political supporters for pub­ have been on the battlefields defending cu~.:!d under his direction that I deplore the lic office are their enemies, men who be­ it, we have defended it in our legislatures, mistake of this nomination-which obviously lieve in principles and philosophies of our courts, and all our civil tribunals in must have been made without the full facts government for which they cannot stand. your homeland. We give to you the same having been presented to him-as hazardous Unless a candidate for office makes a freedom which you possessed when you to morale in these times of supreme national went away to bring new laurels and honor effort. promise, I do not see why he should be if to your country as a result of your efforts The Judiciary Committee, bearing in mind bound, he should happen to be elected, the high reputation of the courts of the even though such support were necessary and your sacrifices." United States, will, I trust, carefully con­ to his election, to still his conscience and In my humble opinion, if we now tres­ sider and investigate this man further be­ say to the boss, "I am your slave. Give pass upon that sacred right of freedom fore they report his name to the Senate. The me your commands," or to kneel down by tarnishing the courts of the United quality of justice is of such overwhelming with bowed head in his presence and say, States, we shall destToy the very thing importance to the morale of the people in "I will carry out your orders. What a:re we have asked our boys to fight for these times that no hasty act should be taken they?" abroad. that might conceivably impair it. Sincerely yours, According to the testimony, at a certain Mr. President, of all the departments of CHARLES EDIEON, Governor. meeting at which a Member of the other government, especially in a free country, , House, now chairman of the Democratic the highest, and the one which we ought Mr. President, the Governor appeared Committee, was present, Hague sat on most to revere, is the judiciary. We may as a witness before the subcommittee of the platform, and the Governor said in hr..ve a perfect President, a perfect Sen­ the Committee on the Judiciary and tes­ his s:p2ech: ate, and a perfect House to make and tified. In due time, when I take up the If I am elected Governor of New Jersey, I enforce our laws; but if we have corrupt evidence before the Judiciary Commit­ will be beholden to no man. I will follow the and dishonest courts they can nullify tee and comment on it, I shall refer to, convictions of my conscience. everything we do. So the most important and perhaps read, for it was not long, all thing to preserve our liberties and rights his testimony and some of the questions I do not know what more he could have as citizens is to keep on the bench judges which were asked him, so as to show how said. Even though a man who repre­ who have ideas of right and wrong, who the opponents of the Governor tried to sented a machine which was distasteful have the courage to enforce them, and take away attention from Hague and to him as a candidate sat on the platform, who will not be interfered with by the Meaney and put the blame on the Gov­ in order to clear his skirts would he have mandate of any boss on earth. They will to denounce him then and there and· to ernor. It was charged that the Governor. do what Governor ~dison said he would elected on the Democratic ticket, was say that he did not want his support? do if he we:t·e elected Governor. They will obligated to Mr. Hague. It seems to me How many Senators have done such a foliow the d:ctates of their conscience. thing when they were campaigning? The that no pretense was made by the friends Mr. President, I have before me a letter of Mr. Meaney of doing away with the Governor did go so far as to say, in the presence of Hague, that if he were elected written by a man in the service. He is a charge that Hague is the real man here, New Jersey boy. He left his mother in because it was said to the Governor. Governor he would be the Governor. He said: · ·New Jersey. He says in substance that ''You received the support of Hague in under the control and domination of the the election for Governor." Some have I will do only what my conscience tells me Hague machine Jersey City has so de­ said, "You could not have been elected I ought to do. generated that even the ordinary citizen without Hague's support. Now you a~· e It seems to me that that was far enough is likely to lose everything because of the guilty of ingratitude in opposing the for him to go. That was an honorable huge expenses brought about by this ma­ confirmation of the man whom Hague thing to say. If there ever was any chine. From another ·source I have a wants for judge." There is no question greater pledge than that, I have never table which gives a comparison of the about that attitude . . heard it. I have never made any pledge taxes in quite a large number of cities Mr. SHIPSTEAD. Mr. President, will beyond that; and yet the Governor is now comparable in size with Jersey City. Jer­ the Senator yield? denounced e.s having gone back on his sey City leads them all with a tax burden The PRESIDING OFFicER (Mr. MUR­ plans and opposed the man who repre­ of more than $170 per capita. RAY in the chair). Does the Senator sents the most disreputable political ma­ The same report-and if I get to it I from Nebraska yield to the Senator from chine on earth. probably shall read from it-shows that Minnesota? If that is the proper doctrine, then we in many instances in Jersey City houses Mr. NORRIS. I yield. are wrong in sending our boys across the and other buildings cannot be rented for Mr. SHIPSTEAD. Would we be justi­ seas to fight for that liberty and freedom enough money to pay the taxes. This fied in considering that as a charge that which we thought was guaranteed by our young man in military life says, I think, 5774 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JUNE 30 that his mother pays as much as $100 a swered the bank charge in the following man­ -10-day banking period were connected with month in taxes on the home in which she ner (p. 48): the Hague organization in Jersey City, or "I should like to say, so far as the charge were directors or counsel for the banks, or lives. I read the second paragraph of his of my having suppressed records, that that is had similar conne:ing De­ not deal with other reasons for not con­ partment, is that the withdrawals of $1,000 "On February 1, 3, and 8, conferences were firming the nomination of Mr. Meaney, or more totaled $1 ,746,512 (see pp. 69 to 79, held with the bank; on February 5 _a letter inclusive). from Mr. Crowley to President Gardner of reasons presented at the hearing, but is the bank, denied a loan or an agreement to confined to the single subject of non­ That amount does not include any purchase the assets of the bank. This was feasance as counsel to the liquidator. I withdrawals of less than $1,000. principally because of the contingent lia­ think I have explained that Meaney was bilities on mortgages which would follow the common pleas judge, and that when it A further undisputed fact is that of these transaction. Thereafter the only solution withdrawals, there were 73 separate with­ was to close the bank." was necessary to get a place for the man drawals of over $5,000 each (pp. 83 and 84). who had been one of the supreme court While it would seem logical beyond ques­ Many of those who withdrew $5,000 or more tion to assume that Meaney, as counsel to judges, but who had resigned in order to also withdrew smaller amounts, as shown on the liquidator, was familiar with these sus­ let young Hague have a job there, it was the more complete list of withdrawals on picious withdrawals in the last 10 days, there found necessary for Meaney to resign in pages 69 to 79 of the printed record. can be no doubt of his actual knowledge, order to provide a place for the judge who I should state here, because it wm fig­ because a depositor instituted a discovery had resigned; and then Meaney was ap­ ure all through the evidence about with­ proceeding in the Court of Chancery of New pointed as attorney to the liquidator. Jersey in August 1939, charging that there drawals, that under the law which we had been · improper wit hdrawals, and de­ I read from the memorandum, as fol­ passed, administered by the F. D. I. C., manding that Meaney take action or that lows: there was a guaranty of all deposits of he make discovery of the withdrawals so that In the three-way judicial struggle referred less than $5,000. We all ~·emember that the depositors could take action. to in the testimony (see p. 54, for exam­ that is the law. The withdrawals which There was no answer filed to this suit until ple) which resulted in Frank Hague, Jr., be­ took place during the 10 days, in a great December 1939, when Meaney filed an answer coming a Judge of the Court of Errors and stating that the withdrawals in the last days Appeals in New Jersey, Meaney resigned as many cases, if not in a large majority of of the bank were in the regular course of Commo.n Pleas Judge of Hudson County and them, left in the bank an amount of business and that he had been unable to was appointed counsel on February 21, 11J31J, either $5,000 or less, so that the persons ascertain sufficient facts to bring ~uit agaim:t to Louis A Reilly, Commissioner of Banlring · making the withdrawals took out of the depositors, and he denied the list of with­ and Insurance of New Jersey, and liquidator bank only the mom·y which was not drawals to the complaining depositor in that of the closed ban!{, designated in the course guaranteed by law. It is interesting to suit. Meaney continued as counsel to the of the hearing as "a Hague Banking Commis­ remember that fact. liquidator for 2 Y2 years after he had notice sioner" (p. 49). He continued as counsel through this suit of the charge concerning until he was removed by Reilly's successor, The memorandum continues as fol­ the withdrawals, but took no action in the Dr. ll;ugene E. Agger, in 1942. Meaney re­ lows: matter. ceived $20,000 salary annually for 3 years. He It is interesting to note that practically When Meaney appeared before the Senate also applied for and received an additional all of the withdrawals were in round-figure subcommittee on May 13, he deliberately at­ allowance of $10,000 from the Court of Chan­ amounts. Another obviously suspicious cir­ tempted to deceive the Senators by misrepre­ cery of New Jersey (pp. 64 and 65). cumstance is that several of the individuals senting the number and nature of the with­ In his testimony before the Senate com­ and companies making these withdrawals drawals in question. The testimony and the mittee on May 13, 1942, which was 6 days made a series of them a day or so apart. records of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor­ before Governor Edison issued his first public There was no attempt to contradict the poration and the New Jersey Banking De­ statement opposing the appointment of significant testimony that a great number partment completely unmasked his decep­ Meaney as Distlict Court Judge. Meaney an· of those making large withdrawals 1n the last tion. In the face of this evidence, Meaney 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5775 did not offer himself aga.in as a witness, or to me by Mr. Seavey. The letter is dated job for that specific purpose and performed present new testimQny that would rebut the June 11, 1942: acoordlllgly. charge that he stood idly by without at­ tempting to recapture the large sums with­ DEAR SIR: According to Associated Press dis­ Further he says: drawn by officers, directors, and co•msel of patches in today's (Thursday's) newspapers, How can a person who has for the past the bank. as well as others. Senator SMATHERS, of New Jersey, resents quart~r of a century been a willing and pli­ Instead, he offered a statem:nt ·through a criticism by nine members of the Harvard Law able mstrum.ent of a vic.ious pQlitical ma­ witness appearing at the close of the hear­ School faculty of the appointment of Thomas chine suddenly cleanse his soul and mind in ing, in which he entirely evaded the charges F. Meaney as Federal judge. order to, with proper dignity, fulfill the obli­ made against him and the proof supporting gations of a judge of a United States court? these charges. In this statement ·he said I shall not read what follows. in the let­ ter, because it refers to matters of which • • • • (p. 166): My candid opinion is that the confirmation "Something has been said about a with­ I have no knowledge, but I call attention of Mr. Meaney will create the impression in drawal of funds by certai.n depositors in the to this statement in the letter: the minds of the publi adviser, associate, campaign shocking confiscat:.on. bank- treasurer, and owner of Boyle's Thirty Acres Your committee should know that these Clement K. Corbin- of Dempsey-C\lrpentier fight fame. Boyle things could not be without a controGed owned the Hudson Dispatch, a Hague-con­ judiciary. It is in New Jersey that the courts Who was a member of the law firm­ trolled newspaper, now run by the Boyle have held that the legislature cannot inquire personally withdrew $21,000 from the banlt's estate. John Milton was and is executor of into criminal acts by public officials but may that estate. On February 7, Mary Boyle, only investigate legal acts. It is in New Jero.ey main office. Edward A. Markely- John Boyle's daughter, withdrew $12,600 from that a court has held it permissible by law, Another member of that law firm­ in the investigation of ballot frauds, to open the main office, and thereby left a: balance the ballot boxes in connection with a Hudson drew $2,000 from the same office on February of exactly $5,000 to her credit. County election, but that it is not permissible 3, and his wife drew $2,700 on the same ·day. Joseph Newman, Inc., is an electrical con­ to loolr at the ballots after the boxes have In addition, on February 7, 8, and 9, the firm tracting company handling a great deal of been opened. of Collins & Corbin withdrew an aggregate work for Jersey City. On February 11 that sum of $5,594. corporation withdrew $14,000 from the Jour­ The court held that it was proper for In addition to being a director in the bank nal Square branch. the committee of the legislature to open and a partner in the law firm Edward A. Charles Hershenstein is personal counsel the boxes for ipspection, but that those Markley was and is president and instructor for Mayor Hague. On February 11 his daugh­ inspecting them could not take them out of John Marshall College of Law. On Febru­ ter, Lucille Hershenstein, withdrew $3,500 with their hands, they could not look ary 9, John Marshall College drew $3,000 from from a savings account in the Bergen branch. the Journal Square branch, and on February George Siegler Co. is a building concern them over. They could stand off and 7 drew $8,039 from a savings account in the specializing in Jersey City contracts. Be­ gaze at the open ballot boxes, but could same branch. tween February 9 and 11 the firm withdrew not go any further. an aggregate of $23,414, of which $15,214 was Your committee must know that it re­ Senators must understand that the withdrawn from a savings account in the quired the mandate of the United States New Jersey Title Guaranty & Trust Co. Journal Square branch. Supreme Court to assure to the people of had five or six branch banks. On Saturday, February 11, 1939, a legal Jersey City the exercise of their constitu­ The dean of that law school was and is half holiday, and the last day upon wh:ch tional right of free speech. Judge Alexander F. Ormsby, of the Hudson the bank transacted business, Helen, Fred­ Your committee should know that the County Court of Common Pleas. erick, Albert, and F. W. Rader, connection mass appearances in favor of Mr. Meaney be­ In 1939, A. Harry Moore was Governor of unknown, withdrew an aggregate sum of fore this subcommittee at the last hearing New Jersey. In its issue of February 14, 1939, $79,955 from the Bergen branch. Helen on May 13 was not a spontaneous and honest the first business day on which the bank was Rader's balance thus became $4,803; Albert response to his appointment, but was a closed, the Jersey Journal stated that Gov­ Rader's, $4,291.24; and F. W. Rader, $4,712.46. practical demonstration of an efficient politi­ ernor Moore was listed among 17 directors of What was left, being less than $5,000, cal dynamo manufacturing a demonstration the bank. On the next day the Jersey Jour­ as though Goebbels himself had set the st age. nal said: was insured under the guaranty of bank And for another illustration of this pract ice, "Governor Moore was a director of the banl{ deposits. your committee should know that during until December 31, and his name appears as Between Febru::try 3 and February 11 the this past week end this same Hague machine a director on the latest financial statement, Kiernan-Hughes Co. and James M. Kiernan, controlled a convention of the New Jersey but he announced in Trenton that he had one of the owners and Hague politician, State Bar Association in Atlantic City by pay­ resigned on January 1." withdrew $10,083 from the main office. ing membership fees and railroad fares for On the date of closing, A. Harry Moore was J. I. Hass Co., Inc., painting contractors new members in order that they might domi­ and still is a member of the board of trustees for the city of Jersey City, withdrew $26,000 nate the will of the honest majority of that and instructor in ethics in the same John between Febrw1ry 1 and February 11. association. Marshall College of Law. On February 11, Among the largest withdrawals made in the Because of the governmental, economic, Jennie Moore, wife of A. Harry Moore, with­ various branches of the defunct bank during and personal devastation caused l:ly this cor­ drew $2,500 from the bank's Lafayette branch. its closing days, many of which were made on rupt political machine in Jersey City, the city Among the other directors of the defunct the last day of business, are the following: affairs committee was organized, and we bank were James B. Throckmorton, George Frank Gardner, $41,000; Dr. George H. Meul­ have spoken and we propose to speak for the R. Beach, and George F. Perkins. At the ler, $23,200; A. M. Dietrich, $46,000; Air Re­ inarticulate thousands of Jersey City citizens same time Mr. Throckmorton was president duction Sales Co., $73,671; Bowe Construction who have been momentarily silenced by a and a member of the board of the Provident Co., Inc., $50,500; Standard Laundry, $31,200; fear that is no less menacing than that of Institution for Savings, another Jersey City Charl.es F. Mueller, $20,000; W. Graham and the concentration camp. bank, while Mr. Beach was vice president and Marian L. RendeH, $38,700; Andyck Corpora­ In the course of the last hearing serious a member of the board, and Mr. Perkins was tion, $33,446; R. H. Perry & Co., $29,600; charges were made to the effect that Mr. a member of the board. Between February 1 George H. Blake, $39,500; Frank McLoughlin, Meaney, while acting as counsel for the and 11, 1939, the Provident Institution for $30,000; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New­ defunct New Jersey Title Guaranty & Trust Savings withdrew $50,309 from the Bergen ark, $50,000; All Saints Church, $44,417; St. Co., suppressed facts concerning large with- branch of the title company. Ann's Polish Catholic Churcrh, l!l53,500; St. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5777

Anthony~s Roman Catholic Church, $25,000; I am vitally interested tn the preservation reading tt..e Senator's statement in the Church of Christ the King, $29, 750; Grand of democracy. To that end, I believe we must RECORD. Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of not alone fight for democracy abroad but we Mr. NORRIS. Oh, no; the question is N~w Jersey, $10,000; American Numismatic must bend our efforts to defend it from attack Association, $22,500; trustees of Jersey City here at home as well. perfectly proper, and I find no fault with and Harsimus Cemetery, $26,000; H. E. Salz­ As a citizen of Hudson County, I have had ' it. The man who appeared for the city berger Co., Inc., $20,600; the Donander Co. in opportunity to observe the Hague machine affairs committee was Paul A. Doherty, Liquidat ion, $20,700; Meadox Weaving Co., in action at close range. I, for one, have who was a member of the board of trus­ Inc., $20,300. Witneesed its cruel reprisals against any cou­ tees of the committee. He appeared be­ Despite this overwhelming evidence to the rageous soul who may have the intestinal fore the subcommittee and presented to contrary, on May 13 Mr. Meaney testified be­ fortitude to oppose it. I have seen every basic the subcommittee the record itself from fore your committee that the only with­ concept of American freedom and fair play d.i"awals were by a Masonic Lodge, a Polish flouted by tllis brazen, dictatorial organiza­ which I have read. I have inquired of Catholic Church, and a Dr. McLaughlin. tion. other persons I know, persons who I think It is inconceivable to the City Affairs Com­ Good citizens of both parties, regardless of are respectable and fine citizens, about mittee that Mr. Meaney was unaware, at politics, scorn Frank Hague and hold him up the committee; and I received the im­ least in part, of these record facts. And if as a symbol of civic corruption. His vast ma­ pression that it is composed of business perchance he had no knowledge of the condi­ jorities in this place are due to the fear and and professional people of the 'City who tions complained of, he should have so stated terror whkh his very name strikes into the hearts and minds of the people. As a gen­ have, as is said in the statement, taken to your committee. an interest in the enforcement of law There is little that your committee can do eral practice, business and professional peo­ to correct governmental miSmanagement in ple are intimidated into silence and assent. and the preservation of law and order in Jersey City, but it is solely within your power We in this county are living under a virtual the city. I judge that the committee is to prevent judicial abuse. American fascism. composed of a very high-class group of We are constrained to view Mr. Meaney's To confirm Thomas Meaney, particularly citizens. conduct and political spon.Charles Edison. . Mr. NORRIS. I do not know whether confirmation. Moreover, to confirm Meaney would be ·I gave that information or not, but equivalent to putting Hague himself on the ADDENDA somewhere in the record appears the Fed~.ral bench. It would be an endorsement George T. Smith was chairman of the bOard from the United States Senate of all the information that the committee suc­ of directors of the defunct bank. He was also sordid, un-Ameri~n things which Boss Hague ceeded another organization of citizens on the board of the Provident Institution for stands for, not only in the daily life of this which was formed quite a number of Savings. On February 6 his wife, Hattie state but in the eyes of the whole American years ago. When or how the particular Smith, withdrew $10,000 from the main office. people. name of the committee was adopted, I On February 3 he himself drew $1,100. I appeal to you and your committee to do not know. Let me ask the Senato1· On February 8 George F. Perkins, member reject Mr. Meaney. By doing so you will be of the boards of the closed bank and of the preserving the freedom and honor of our Fed­ from Ohio if he knows. Provident Institution, withdrew $4,000 from eral courts. Mr. BURTON. No; I do not know. the Bergen branch. On February 9 Louise Respectfully, Mr. LUCAS; If the Senator from Ne­ Perkins drew $2,4{)0 from the main office. JosEPH I . GoRDON. braska will indulge me, let me ask the Howard Cruse was title officer and vice Senator from New Jersey if he can give pr£sident of the New Jersey Title Bank. He Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, will the was at the same time the highest State om.cial Senator yield? us the information. in the Ancient Free and Accepted Orner of The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. TuN­ Ml'. BARBOUR. Mr. President, will Masons. On the bank's last day of business NELL in the chair). Does t:t:e Senator the Senator from Nebraska permit me to the Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted from Nebraska yield to the Senator from reply to the Senator from Illinois? Masons of New Jersey, withdrew $10,000 from Mr. NORRIS. Yes. its main office savings account. Dlinois? Willard L. Brown was vice president of the Mr. NORRIS. I yield. Mr. BARBOUR. I have already talked defunct bank. He was also otficial of Union Mr. LUCAS. While the Senator from to the Senator from Dlinois about the TOwel Supply Co., which _on the closing day Dlinois was in the chair for a few mo­ citizens' committee about which he has drew $4,600 from the main office. ments he heard the Senator read a long just inquired. The present organization William Cahill is assistant prosecutor of list of grievances against the nominee for is a comparatively new one, as I under­ Hudson County and held that position at the the Federal b3nch. As I understand, the stand. It is made up of business and time of the bank's cessation of business. On statement was signed by the City Affairs professional people. I know ·some of its last day he drew $1,200 from a main-office savings account. · Committee of Jersey City. them by name and am casually ac­ · On February 7 the Rotary Club withdrew Mr. NORRIS. Yes. quainted with others of them. As I told $1,200 from an ordinarily dormant savings Mr. LUCAS. Can the Senator give me the Senator awhile ago when we had account. any information as to who compose the our little personal colloquy on the sub­ City Affairs Committee of Jersey City? ject, I do not pretend to be very familiar All that evidence, Mr. President, came Mr. NORRIS. Of course, I have no with the organization. On the other out before the subcommittee which took personal knowledge. hand, I am quite sure that no one can the evidence. Whether it was examined establish for a moment that it has any by the subcommittee or the full commit­ Mr. LUCAS. Does the Senator have any information in his file which would sinister origin or purpose. I know, and tee, it is all in evidence. That is not all. everyone else in New Jersey knows, that I think it will be found that others who show who they are? Mr. NORRIS. I can state what they the persons who are most alarmed about held positions of profit and trust in con­ Hudson County are those who live in nection with this bank drew out large said they were. Mr. LUCAS. That will ~e sufficient. Hudson County, because they have every sums. justification to be alarmed. Jersey City I wish to read a letter dated June 3, Mr. NORRIS. I myself made the in­ quiry of other persons. That fact does has a higher tax rate than any other city 1942, from Joseph I. Gordon, a business­ in the United States which has a popu­ man of West New York, N. J.: not appef!,r in the record. Of course, I should not have presented the statement lation of over 100,000. There are many TRICO DISTRIBUTORS, here if I had not thought or believed that persons who cannot leave Jersey City West New Yor k, N.J., June 3, 1942. or Hudson County simply because they Han. G EOP.GE W. NoRRIS, it was proper. Unit ed States Senate, Mr. LUCAS. I know the Senator cannot abandon what they have there. Washington, D. C. would not have presented the statement As the Senator from Nebraska sald, I MY DEAR Sm: May I add my protest to the unless he thought so. I was not in the think there was a prior organization, growing numbers of letters you are daily Chamber when the Senator began his civic in nature, and very much of the receiving, according to your press statement, statement. Perhaps he did state the same sort as the present organization. in opposition to the confirmation of Mr. As a matter of fact, I think there have Thomas F. Meaney, whose appointment to the background of the City Affairs Commit­ United St ates district court is now pending. tee before I entered the Chamber. If he been several such organizations. I can­ This writer is an independent business­ has done so, I withdraw the question, and not give offhand the names of the officers man, who has no ax to grind politically. But shall obtain the information I seek by of the comrpittee. I am sure that the 5778 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JUNE 30 information can be obtained. My col­ Mr. NORRIS. Ob, no; I do not think eral court, a branch of the Federal Gov­ league, the senior Senator from New Jer­ anything of that kind is the case. ernment, is trying to put on the bench sey [Mr. SMATHERS], may have the in­ Mr. SMATHERS. Mr. President, my as a Federal judge, one of his tools, who formation. impression is that the organization came would occupy the same place as that However, let me ask what is the nature into existence in the last few months for which Judge Clark occupied when he is­ of the inquiry in this connection by the the purpose of fighting this nomination sued the injunction. Hague wants to Senator from Illinois. and is a paper Qrganization composed of stop up that loophole. Mr. LUCAS. Let me say to the Sena­ a few soreheads who ran for office in Mr. ELL-:ENDER. Mr. President, will tor from New Jersey that the charges Jersey City and were ignominiously the Senator yield? and grievances presented by the com­ defeated. [Laughter.] Mr. NORRIS. I yield. mittee against the ·applicant for the Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, that is Mr. ELLENDER. Does the Senator judgeship are so ·serious that I merely a charge which can very easily be made. know how lomi ·Judge Meaney has been rose to make inquiry as to who might There is no evidence to sustain it. presiding over some of the State courts be the officers of the city affairs com­ While of course I am not personally of New Jersey? mittee which was making the charges. acquainted with the organization, -and Mr. NORRIS. A great many years. Now I find that the Senator from New do not know it, there is in the record a Mr. ELLENDER. Does the record Jersey does not know who they are. statement as to when the preceding show that any- charges of misconduct Mr. BARBOUR. What the Sen.ator organization, an organization with a dif­ ever were made against·him? from Illinois says is not entirely. correct; ferent name, was organized, and it was Mr. NORRIS. No; the record does I just told him the nature of the organi­ continued by the present organization not show anything of the sort. zation. with its name changed. The organiza­ Mr. ELLENDER. What does the rec­ Mr. LUCAS. I think I am entitled to tion which preceded the present one was ord show in that regard? the information I have requested. If in existence for quite a number of years. Mr. NORRIS. It does not show any­ any organization makes a charge against I think the date was given, but I do not thing. me, I should like to know what the or­ remember it. The present organization Mr. ELLENDER. It must then be as­ ganization is, of whom ft is composed, grew out of that one. It is a civic-affairs sumed that he has a good record. Do and just what its objects and purposes· organization. I have stated to the the hearings show the manner in which may be. Members of the Senate the name of the Judge Meaney was selected for the Mr. NORRIS. I am not questioning man who appeared before the subcom­ judgeship in New Jersey which he has· the Senator's right to that information, mittee as a member of the organization's held for the many years that he has or his purpose in asking the question. board of trustees. His testimony stands served in the State courts? Mr. LUCAS. I know the Senator is as a part of the record uncontradicted. Mr. NORRIS. He was appointed by not, and the Senator has very frankly I think that not a statement in it has the Governor. answered in reply to the question. How­ been contradicted in any way by Mr. Mr. ELLENDER. Were any charges ever, the Senator from New Jersey asked Meaney or by Mr. Hague or by any other· ever lodged against Judge Meaney when why I rose; and I have stated that I am witness whom they produced. If the selected by the Governor? . endeavoring to obtain information. organization is a disreputable one, com­ . Mr. NORRIS. No. I have said, and Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. President, I posed of soreheads, I should think that I repeat, that no charges ever were tried to answer the Senator's question. after the evidence was offered by the brought against him. He stands unsul­ In any event, I do not believe I can an-: organization, either Mr. Meaney or Mr. lied. No one ever accused him of stealing swer it satisfactorily to the Senator; be­ Hague would have produced any evi­ or of robbery or of anything of the sort. cause I do not believe he wants to have dence they might have had as to the dis­ There is much that might be said on the committee identified as a reputable reputable nature of the organiz!:ition. that point. I have not said it; I have one. I say that without any reflection It seems to me that such evidence would not gone into it; I do not want to go on someone of whom I am very fond . . have beei'l. produced either on cross­ into it. I know that a boss like Hague, I admit that I cannot state the names examination of the man who testified or when he has his tools carrying out his of the officers of the committee. I have otherwise. orders, does not have to send an order to heard about it. I know other civic­ Mr. LUCAS. I am very grateful to the them every day. lie is not a fool. When minded persons who are alarmed and Senator. he puts a man on the bench he does not who are taking an interest in their county Mr. NORRIS. The present situation interfere with what the appointee maY and everything having to do with it. is rather an illustration of what I sup­ be trying to do, and the appointee maY Of course, the names of the officers of pose will happen to me, and of what will make a good judge until Hague's machine the committee can be furnished, if that happen to my brother Senator who sits comes in and then the judge redeems his Is what the Senator is interested in. beside me, after he speaks, and of what pledge. · Mr. LUCAS. In all fairness, I should will happen to the junior Senator from Mr. ELLENDEI?,. Mr. President, will state that I rose for the sole purpose of New Jersey after he speaks. If any per­ the Senator further yield? trying to ascertain the source of the in­ son confronts this contemptible, crooked The PRESIDING OFFICER. . Does the formation relating to the charges. The machine with any accusation, that per­ Senator from Nebraska yield to the Sen­ Senate is called upon to make a very seri­ son is accused of being a sorehead, or a ator from Louisiana? ous decision. The charges laid in the disappointed office-seeker, or of having Mr. NORRIS. Yes. long letter read by the Senator from Ne­ violated a pledge of duty which he owed Mr. ELLENDER. I am glad to hear braska are very serious, and I listened to Hague because Hague supported him the Senator say that the record of Judge to the Senator read them when I was in when he ran for office. That is the an­ Meaney is unsullied. Does the record the chair a moment ago. My only swer to these accusations; and so we all show who appointed Judge Meaney as thought was to ascertain who were the shall have to take our share -of it and judge of a State court? individuals responsible for the charges, admit our responsibility, and go to the Mr. NORRIS. The Governor of New and to ascertain the purpose and object concentration camp, and suffer. what­ Jersey appointed him; I do not know who of their organization. In other words, ever humiliation may be inflicted upon he was. any corporation, association, or club has us, merely because we have asserted our Mr. ELLENDER. I should have been certain objects and purposes for its for­ rights as citizens. It took a courageous more specific; I meant what Governor? mation, and I was attempting to obtain a judge in New Jersey, Judge Clark to en­ Were there not some Republican Gov­ brief history of the backgr<;mnd of the join this culprit from depriving citizens ernors who appointed him? organization referred to. When I made of the United States of their rights of Mr. NORRIS. This machine, like other inquiry of the Senator from New Jersey, liberty and freedom, and Judge Clark's Democratic machines, does not depend he apparently did not know anything action had to be supported by affirmation entirely upon Democrats. It is tools and about the organization either; and the of the Supreme Court of the United not merely Democrats. It is bipartisan. senior Senator from New Jersey states States. Now this man Hague, recogniz­ It has many Republicans in its organi­ that he thinks it is a mythical organiza­ ing the existence of that loophole which zation, just as every Republican ma­ tion. prevents him from controlling the Fed- chine has Democrats in its organization. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5779 They do not care whether one is a Re­ he is challenging and which we are asked tracks; and that is what Hague does. It publican or Democrat if he will perform to confirm. is impossible to prove it. I do not sup­ their commands. Mr. NORRIS. The Senator from pose the evidence exists that he got his Mr. ELLENDER. Mr. President, will Lousiana can draw his own conclusion, son appointed to the supreme court the Senator yield further? and that is, of course, the conclusion bench by demand that the judge who was Mr. NORRIS. I yield. Hague would draw. on the bench resign in order to make a Mr. ELLENDER. I have not read the Mr. -ELLENDER. It is, however, true, place for his son. It cannot be proved by entire record from cover. to cover, but I is it not? direct evidence that he went to the Gov­ am informed that the evidence shows Mr. NORRIS. He would say, "I put ernor and said, "Here is the place that I that Judge Meaney served very com­ him on; he is my man; but I never asked fixed up; put my boy there." I do not mendably and that there is nothing in him to do anything." But wait until the suppose any such evidence exists. No one· the record to the contrary. Would the time comes when he wants something is hunting for it, and I have not tried to Senator state if that is true? done. do so. I do not want in making this fight Mr. NORRIS. I will state that there Mr. ELLENDER. Mr. Meaney has not to make personal charges against men. is nothing in the record to the contrary. done wrong in the past. I would not say this if it had not been That ought to be sufficient; that is as far Mr. NORRIS. Yes. For instance, he brought out by the objections. I have as I will go. resigned to make room for another judge; had plenty of opportunity to produce evi­ Mr. ELLENDER. The only point the he resigned to make a job for Hague's dence. I would not do it; I have not done Senator makes is that since Hague is son to go on the court. it. I do not know whether it is true, as I. backing the nomination of Mr. Meaney Mr. SMATHERS. Mr. President, will do not know about other matters. I have and has asked that his nomination be the Senator yield there? not any personal knowledge about it, but confirmed, the Senate should not confirm Mr. NORRIS. Yes. I have had statements in writing, which him. Mr. SMATHERS. Will the Senator I can show to the Senate, proving a set Mr. NORRIS. Yes. I repeat what the state where there is any proof of the sug­ of circumstances that would make one's Governor of New Jersey. said, namely, gestion or charge that there was a shift­ hair curl. · . that the confirmation of Meaney would ing of judges around? I should like to Mr. ELLENDER. Does the Senator be like putting Hague on the Federal have one iota of proof. · mean as to this nomination? bench. Hague has his son on the Su­ Mr. NORRIS. Proof of what? Mr. NORRIS. Yes; as to this nomi­ preme Court of the State, and I suppose Mr. SMATHERS. Of the suggestion nation. we ought to put him on the Supreme that this man is a tool of Hague or that Mr. ELLENDER. Why does not the Court of the United States. he moved off the bench and left a job Senator produce it? Why did he not Mr. ELLENDER. How can the Sena­ paying $12,000 a year. submit the proof to the committee? tor· take such a position when the record Mr. NORRIS. No; and I cannot offer Mr. NORRIS. I did not produce it be­ shows that during the past 13 or 15 years any proof, either, that Hague went to cause I am not fighting the confirmation Meaney has conducted himself beyond Meaney and said, "Resign"; but I can in that way. I would not have men­ reproach, if I may put it in that way? offer proof from the record that he did tioned it if the Senator himself had not Mr. NORRIS. I do not want to charge resign and that Hague's son was put on aslt:ed the questions. I think the Senator and I will not charge that he is a corrupt in his place. I cannot offer any proof is wrong about his white-robed angel; he man. that anyone got any money for it, or that is not white to me, but I have not any Mr. ELLENDER. But is that not the Meaney did it willingly. He might say proof that he is a thief or a robber or a issue? it was just accidental; he merely hap­ murderer. I have not any proof that the Mr. NORRIS. If the head of a ma­ pened to think of it; but he resigned Hague outfit, or t:t..at Hague, has pulled chine puts his tool on the bench, and he [laughter]; and perhaps it was also an the strings and made Meaney dance or has not anything for him to do, and he accident that Hague prevailed on .the made him jump at the whistle; but if the goes on and is not interfered with, then, Governor to appoint his son to that Senator is so naive and so partial that he it may be said, he has not done anything place. does not know a political machine when bad while that situation was continuing. Mr. SMATHERS. Is the Senator will­ he sees it-and coming, as he does, from Meaney did resign as a judge of the com­ ing to say, in the absence of any proof Louisiana, I should expect him to know mon pleas court, where he drew a ~alary to that effect, that this man Meaney be­ that, anyway UaughterJ-then, I have of $15,000. I cannot go on the witness cause he gave up a $12,000 a year job to nothing to say about it. stand and testify that he resigned be­ take a $20,000 a year job was doing some- Mr. ELLENDER. All of that is beside cause Hague told him to do so, but it is thing for Hague? . the question and I do not propose to en­ well known that he is a Hague tool; it Mr. NORRIS. No; but I can tell what gage in personalities. The Senator states is well known that he got a $20,000-a­ the Senator said before the Judiciary that he has proof that would make one's year job later, and h _ gave as a reason Committee, that Hague resigned and he· hair curl-why does he not produce such for resigning from the New Jersey court told him it was because he was not get­ proof? That would be pertinent, but to that it did not pay him salary enough­ ting salary enough. argue here that because a man named only $15,000-and that he could not live Mr. SMATHERS. The Senator means Hague is backing the nominee and then, on it, but now he is moving heaven and Meaney, does he not? an admission on his part that the nomi­ earth to get a job paying $10,000 a year. Mr. NORRIS. Meaney, yes, but it does nee has a record as a State judge that Mr. ELLENDER. It is a somewhat not make much d ~ fference whether it is remains unsullied to this moment, is not more stable position, is it not? Hague "r Meaney; it is all the same. consistent. Hague is not up for confir­ Mr. NORRIS. I referred to that a [Laughter.] I suppose the Senator mation. little while ago. meant that; I took him at his word; I Mr. BURTON. Mr. President­ Mr. ELLENDER. It is a life job, is it believed him; I thought then and thinlt: The PRESIDING OFF'ICER (Mr. TuN­ not? yet that he told the truth about it, but NELL in the chair). Does the Senator Mr. NORRIS. I discussed that some that is what Meaney told him. If I from Nebraska yield to the Senator from time ago. Of course, I do not expect the should ask a man who stole my automo­ Ohio? Senator to stay here and be persecuted bile, "Did you steal my automobile?" Mr. NORRIS. I yield. by my remarks, and I am not finding would he say "Yes; I stole it"? Would I Mr. BURTON. I take it the Senator fault with him because he did not hear not have the right to prove some circum­ from Nebraska does not feel it is neces­ me, but I have gone over that once. stances? First, I might say that he was sary to prove one guilty of a crime in Mr. ELLENDER. The Senator, though, a member of a gang of thieves dealing in order to make it appropriate to vote has made certain charges and is advo­ stolen automobiles. That would not be against the confirmation of his appoint­ cating that the nominee should not be direct proof; and there is not any direct ment to the Federal bench. confirmed, and, in the next breath, the proof in this case; indeed, there never is Mr. NORRIS. The Senator is correct. Senator states that the record does not­ when one is fighting a political machine. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, will the show a single, solitary mark against the They are as smart as anybody; much Senator yield for one more question? conduct of the man whose nomination smarter tha·n I am; they cover up their Mr. NORRIS. I yield. ~::aKXVIII-364 5780 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JUNE 30 Mr. LUCAS. I do not know whether I been judge a good while. He has not I am inclined to think be almost does. am correct in the though~, but I under­ been corrupt, he has not done anything He wants his man on the Federal bench stood there was evidence before the sub­ very bad." in New Jersey in order to make that posses­ committee in this case, although I am The evidence shows that the people of sion effective. frank to say I have not read the evidence, New Jersey, especially of Jersey City, are That is just what I have been trying to the effect that Meaney was appointed afraid for their lives. There are many to emphasize. a judge ·in the State of New Jersey on a letters to that effect. The citizens do not Further on the editorial says: number of occasions. dare go against that machine. Any man If anyone thinks that "politics as usual" Mr. NORRIS. Yes; and he was con­ in Jersey City who raises his voice against was suspended for the durat ion of the war firmed by the State senate, which fact it is, as the junior Senator from New along with "business as usual," a glance at the is offered in his defense. I concede that Jersey has suggested, called an old "sore­ way the committee voted will dispel the the proponents of the nomination have head" or sometmng of the kind, and he thought. Only one Democrat had the courage a right to offer that evidence and I am gets :r-ushed out the window; he does of his convictions to say "no." He was the not objecting to the evidence. not have any standing at all. chairman, VAN NuYs, of Indiana, and he de­ Mr. LUCAS. I understood that on Mr. President, I stated a while ago that serves a national salute for refusing to bend each occasion when he was confirmed, a the reputation of the Hague machine has his knee to partisanship. majority of the State senate was Repub­ gone all over the United States, that I read further from the editorial: lican. I may be wrong about that, and everyone knows about it. I shall now What will the Senate do? Will it follow if I am, I should like to be corrected. read an editorial on that point. I had its weak, driven Judiciary Committee? Or Mr. NORRIS. I think that is correct. not intended to read it at this time, be­ will it cast out this unfit appointment in Mr. SMATHERS. And he was con­ cause I have many other editorials, from the name of the freedom for which we fight various newspapers of the country, show­ the Axis dictators? firmed without one word of criticism or Comrr.ittee approval does not necessarily opposition. ing that the writers know what Hague i s, and the kind of machine we are dealing mean confumation. A bad committee en­ Mr. NORRIS. So far as I know, that do: s~ment can be corrected on the S3nate statement is correct. That is what is with. fioor. That is . what is needed, urgently said, and I do not deny it. I presume it I shall now read a portion of an edi­ needed, in the Meaney case. to be true. However, all that occurred torial appearing in the St. Louis Post­ The American people lost a battle in their Dispatch. The title is "Politics as Usual." war against rule by dictators yesterday af­ before a grea~ many other things hap­ ternoon. pened which the evidence discloses. I The first paragraph reads: think it all occurred before Frank The American people lost a battle in their Mr. WHITE. Will the Senator yield? Hague's son was put on the Supreme war against rule by dictators yesterday after­ Mr. NORRIS. I yield. Court. At least it all occurred before noon. Mr. WHITE. If the Senator will per­ Frank Hague was as powerful as he is That was when the Committee on the mit me, I should like to read a line or today. I think it all occurred before Judiciary reported favorably on this two of the editorial which the Senator Judge Clark issued an injunction re­ nomination. That is what is thought did not read. straining Hague from interfering with about it in St. Louis; that is what is Three Republicans and one Independ­ the freedom and the liberties of Amer­ thought about it all over the country. ent-- ican citizens. Whether it did or not, I That is the reputation this machine has. Mr. NORRIS. Oh, I cannot yield for call attention to the fact that a man who No one here will deny, the senior Sena­ that purpose. I would rather not yield runs a political machine is not an idiot tor from New Jersey will not deny on for that. or a fool. If he put his tool on the the :floor of the Senate, that this nominee Mr. WHITE. It should be in the REc­ bench or in the legislature, anc then sat is Hague's candidate. It is well known; ORD, because it is a well-deserved tribute by the side of him and controlled every everyone knows it, and nearly everyone to a great Senator of the United States. action he took, it would soon be apparent knows what Hague's machine is. It is Mr. NORRIS. I thank the Senator. that that man was his tool, and that he known all over the United States. Mr. McNARY. Will the Senator yield? was not trustworthy. . But Hague does The editorial reads: Mr. NORRIS. I yield. not wish to interfere with the tools whom The American people lost a battle in their Mr. McNARY. I suggest the absence he puts into omce. So long as they go war against rule by dictators yesterday after­ of a quorum. along and do not interfere with his pre­ noon. The· PRESIDING OFFICER. The rogatives, he does not molest them. I They lost it, not in some military engage­ clerk will call the roll. do not suppose he follows their actions. ment on the other side of the world, but in The Chief Clerk called the roll, and But when he wants something done, then a meeting of the Judiciary Committee of their United States Senate, held within sight the following Senators answered to their he does pull the strings. That is why I of the Washington Monument and the Lin­ names: .do not want a subservient man on the coln Memorial. Aiken Gerry Pepper Federal bench. He may go on the bench Andrews Gillette Radcli..ffe and remain there all his life, and have Is that worth thinking about when we Balley Green Reed are dealing with this kind of a machine? Ball Gurney Rosier nothing before him in which Hague is in Bankhead Hatch nussell any way interested. But suppose Meaney I COUld fill the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Barbour Hayden Sch\\IIU'tZ had been the judge on the bench instead with editorials from all over the great Barkley Hill s.r:npstead of Clark when American citizens went West to the same effect. Bilbo Hughes SU;.athers Let me read further from this edi­ Bridges Johnson, Calif. Smith before him and asked for an injunction Burton Lee Stewart against Hague. Hague was the defend­ torial: Butler Lucas Taft ant, and they asked for an injunction They lost it 11 to 5-11 votes in favor of Byrd McCarran Thomas, Idaho confirming Boss Hague's stooge, Thomas F. Capper McFarland Thomas, Okla. to restrain him from interfering with the caraway McKellar Thomas, Utah right of free speech and the liberty to Meaney, to be a Federal judge, and 5 votes Chavez McNary Truman which every citizen is entitled. for rejecting the nomination. It was a hu­ Clark, Idaho May bank Tunnell miliating defeat. Clark, Mo. Mead Tydings Suppose Meaney had been the judge Connally M111ikin Vandenberg instead of Hague; where would those That is what they think about it in Danaher Murdock Wagner citizens have gotten, how far would they St. Louis. That sentiment is not confined Davis Murray Walsh to New Jersey, but the whole Nation feels Doxey Norris White have gotten? They probably would have Ellender Nye Wiley been in concentration camps themselves. the disgrace. George O'Mahoney Willis The editorial continues: They would have been treated as some The PRESIDING OFFICER. Sixty­ friends of Meaney are trying to act in There is only one explanation for this rout of the people. That explanation is pol­ nine Senators have answered to their this instance. They would crucify a man names. A quorum is present. who dared open his mouth; and there is itics, the thing which accounts for the ap­ pointment in the first place. Partisan poli­ MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE evidence already in the record, some of tics-partisan politics on just about its low­ which I have read, which answers the est level. A message from the House of Repre­ statement made by Senators, at least in Hague is a tin horn Hitler who thinks he sentatives. by Mr. Swanson, one of its part, to this effect, "Why, this man has owns Jersey City. clerks, announced that the House had 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5781 agreed to the amendments of the Senate tie free speech and the free press. They ment of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, to the bill rps to cooperating Federal depart­ pen. ments or agencies) and not previously trans­ regardless of politics. I could name .any ferred. Notwithstanding any other provision Prom the New York Herald Tribune: number of them. These things have come to me Without any solicitation. of law the Wa:r Department may transfer to The issue, lt cannot be .sufficiently re­ any department, establishment, or other peated, Is that Mr. Meaney is Boss Hague's Mr. SMATHERS. Mr. President, will agency of the Government, upon such condi­ henchman and bas, throughout his po­ the Senator yield? tions as may be prescribed by the Secretary litical career, been regaTded as a ••Hague Mr. NORRIS. I yield. of W:ar, any camp buildings, accessories, equip­ man." Mr. SMATHERS. The Senator is not ment, and machinery of all types not needed . by the War Department in the prosecution Up t<> this hour Hague has not dis­ quoting. H. Alexander Smith "regardless of the war and, upon such terms as said Sec­ owned him, either. of politics"; is he? I have before me an retary may approve, transfers may be made announcement in the New York Times of to · any State, county, municipality, or non­ It ls precisely because he has been s~b­ last Sunday that he is to be the Repub­ profit ol'g8Ilizatlon tor the promotion of con­ servient to Mayor Hague, rather than in­ dependent, that his nomination has been lican candidate for the United States servation. education, recreation, or health: Senate. Provided, That in the case of buildings lo· so bitterly assailed. From his -record it is cated on land owned by the United States argued that, as he has always done Boss Mr. NORRIS. So far as I know, he has any such disposition shall be subject to the Hague's bidding in the past, he will continue a right to be. approval of the agency of the United States to do so 1n the future. Thus, in effect, Mr. Mr. SMATHERS. The Senator's having jurisdiction of such land. Meaney would be a Hague agent if he were statement was "regardless of politics." That the House insist upon its disagreement appointed to the Federal bench. Mr. NORRIS. Very well. I take it to the amendment of the Senate No. 16 to . What about the New York Times by that even a Senator or a candidate for said bill. which so many Senators swear? The the omce of Senator has a right to sup­ Mr. McCARRAN. I move that the editorial from the New York Times is port a nonpartisan judiciary if he wishes Senate disagree to the House amendment headed "Spotlight on Mr. Hague." The to do so. to Senate amendment numbered 9, fur­ editorial states: Mr. President, I desire to read a letter ther insist on its amendments numbered The Senate com.m.ittee hearings on the from the pactor of the Methodist Church 9 and 16, request a further conference President'• .appointment of Thomas Jl. of Hackensack, N.J.: 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5783 - MY DEAR SENATOR: I was in the years of win the confidence and approval of Jersey­ country knows it. . Everyone knows it. fighting to force Mayor Hague to allow the men. It is to be hoped that the members Those who believe the country does not civil rights of the citizens of Jersey City to of the Judiciary Committee will give due know it will be enlightened, I hope, be­ function, not to speak of his violent use of heed to their responsibility and serious con­ the police to deny rights to outsiders, and sideration to your letter . . fore long, and will realize that that boss anyone not from Hudson County, in those As a private citizen, may I again express to control, especially of the judiciary of the days, was a foreigner. Finally the Supreme you my personal appreciation for the action United States, is a dangerous business, Court instructed him; but it has given little which you have taken. and one that will not be tolerated by the freedom to citizens of Jersey Clty. people of the country or by the Senate of Any State-wide practicing lawyer will say, That is the letter which was written by the United States. if he will speak at all, that "the Hudson the manager of the campaign of Gov­ I have read the letter of Governor Edi­ County boss" has an unhealthy influence in ernor Edison's Republican opponent in son to the committee. Governor Edison the State courts and with some judges. Noth­ the last gubernatorial. campaign. ing could be more detrimental to all decent appeared before the subcommittee of the Next I shall read from the letter of Senate Committee on the Judiciary. His concern for the State than to have that in­ the Republican candidate himself, Mr. fluence extended into Federal courts. testimony commences at page 55, near Let the President and Jersey representa­ Hendrickson. In a letter written to the the bottom of the page. I do not intend tives select a man above reproach. The chairman of the Committee on the judi­ to read it all, for it runs over several judgeship itself has a right to demand that. ciary, he expresses himself. His letter is pages, but I shall read extracts from it. It was disheartening to hear from a group a lengthy one; I shall not read it all I quote from a statement he read before of fine citizens who were meeting for a unless some Member of the Senate re­ the committee: wholly other matter yesterday, "you can't do quests that I do so. Otherwise, I shall a thing with the connections he (Mr. Hague) My chief objection to the confirmation of read extracts from it. Thomas F. Meaney as Federal district eourt has. He has the votes to give." A United Mr. Hendrickson says in his letter: States Senate Judiciary Committee can give judge rests upon the principle that the judic­ a lesson to the whole Nation through judicial I realize that first things must come first; iary should be free of the control of bosses handling of this spotlighted, humiliating that to win the war must be the first ob­ and political machines. No dictatorship ever case. jective of not only the Congress but of every existed without control of the courts. On To confirm this nomination is to repudiate patriotic citizen. the other hand, democratic government can­ every person and group that dares to seek It is mcst essential, however, that while the not exist without free courts. Those are the best interests of this State, including free peoples of the world are winning the facts of history which no one can dispute. Governor Edison who has the confidence of war, if we are to win the peace which follows The record of Thomas F. Meaney indicates all public-spirited folks even when they dis­ and preserve the time-honored and sacred beyond any question that he has done his agree with him. They know that he is trying devices by which freemen live, we must main­ boss' will. And right there it is appropriate to fight their democratic battle against an tain here at home integrity and decency in to point out that his master has expressed entrenched ruthless set-up. the processes of government for the preserva­ his notion of courts and judicial processes I can send you the names of 60 pastors tion of which our young Americans are fight­ in the phrase, "I am the law." So we know throughout the State who are informed in ing all over the world. what sort of will his master has. You are not considering an ordinary ap­ these matters but do not write under the Further on in the same letter Mr. impression that to send in a mass of letters pointment of a man with ordinary political to an important committee is presumptuous. Hendriel{son says: background-the basic question is whether The issue, therefore, is not Meaney's. quali­ in the confirmation of Mr. Meaney you are Next I shall read a portion· of the let­ fications but his subservience to Hague. not, in effect, putting Frank Hague on the ter from a man who, with his letter, sends All over the world today Americans are Federal bench. The conclusion is inevitably a copy of a communication which he has fighting to preserve our cherished democratic "Yes." written to Governor Edison: institutions, and, in meeting its responsibili­ The name of Mr. Meaney had scarcely ties in the Meaney issue, the Senate Judiciary reached you gentlemen when editorial writers I am taking the liberty of enclosing a copy Committee in a very real sense is trustee of of leading newspapers and magazines de­ of a letter which I wrote to Governor Edison the people's heritage at a time of crisis. nounced him as a tool of Frank Hague, a on May 21. The Meaney nomination is a brazen chal­ ruthless political dictator. These editorials The writer has frequently disagreed with lenge to the maintenance of a free and in­ appeared before you gentlemen heard any Governor Edison and, upon occasion, has dependent Federal judiciary. protests from me. Hence it cannot be said vigorously opposed portions of his program. It is bad enough that Frank Hague has a that I am alone in my objections to Mr. Indeed, during the last gubernatorial cam­ voice in the courts of New Jersey. He should Meaney or that I inspired such objections. paign, the writer served as campaign mana­ not be given a voice in the courts of the It was charged, I may say, against Gov­ ger for Governor Edison's Republican oppo­ Nation. nent. ernor Edison that he had stirred up this In the present issue, however, I believe that The letter is signed by Mr. Hendrick­ opposition. An attack was made on him Governor Edison is not only right, but that son, the Republican candidate for Gov­ at once as soon as he opposed the con­ he reflects the point of view of the great ma­ ernor who ran against Mr. Edison, the firmation in the letter which I have al­ jority of thoughtful Jerseymen. present Governor. ready read. Among other things, he was Very truly yours, charged not only with ingratitude but ALFRED E. DRISCOLL. Mr. President, I could stand here for a week and give evidence of what the peo­ with having fomented the opposition That is the letter of the man who. in ple of the United States think of the which later on arose. the gubernatorial campaign in New Jer­ Hague machine. When I am asked to I continue reading from the testimony sey, was the manager of Governor Edi­ point to a specific instance in which he of Governor Edison before the com­ son's Republican opponent. has committed a crime, I cannot do it. mittee: I read now the letter he wrote to the He could not be convicted in New Jersey, The people will always be dubious of the Governor: even if it were possible to point to a quality of justice obtainable from a judge who, all his adult life, has been a part of and May I take this opportunity of indicating specific crime. He controls the courts, obligated to a sordid political machine. to you my . whole-hearted approval of the the juries, and everything else in New In my letter to the Judiciary Committee opinions expressed by you in your letter to Jersey. As I have tried to explain, the I detailed the nimble part that Mr. Meaney the members of the Senate Judiciary Com­ Meaney nomination is the entering wedge played in the strategy of Hague's plan to mittee, which appeared in the public press in the move by .which Hague may control dominate the courts of New Jersey. on May 18. I am entirely confident that I ask you to weigh well the question: Is Mr. the overwhelming majority of the serious­ the Federal courts in New Jersey. Mr. President, machine men do not do Meaney again to be the pawn by which Frank minded citizens of this State approve the Hague seeks to work out a strategy to domi­ position you have taken. their contemptible work openly. They nate the Federal courts also? do it in the dark. They ate shrewd. If The very breadth and character of the In the concluding paragraphs of his they did do their work openly and above­ letter he writes as follows: campaign that is being waged to place Mr. board they would not last long. If they Meaney on the bench shows how important Irrespective of what the facts may be, there control Senators or Representatives or it is to Hague and his group to have this can be no question but that this appomt­ judges or members of the legislature they particular Federal judge. ment will result in a further loss of confi­ are not continually pulling the strings; May I also respectfully remind you that of dence by many of our citizens in the judici­ three men who alone are elected to office by ary process. In these critical times, we can because it would too soon be known that all the people of New Jersey, I am one. The ill afford this loss which could be so easily sucl1. men were tools. However, they do two Senators from New Jersey are the others. avoided by the appointment of a man whose pull the strings when they need to have Hence I submit that when the interests o:r previous record of independent action would their tools work for them; and the whole those people on a State-wide basis are in 5784 CONGRESSIONAL-RECORD-SENATE JUNE 30 jeopardy, I have an equal right and obliga­ world be at war if it were not for the horrible I have had some occasion, Mr. Presi­ tion to speak out for them. sin of hatred, and apparently that is the thing dent, to comment on that kind of a phi­ I have t een striving with all the sincerity that has taunted you to come here and speak losophy, and I think it must be apparent and with every ability I possess to free the against a man who bas the respect of every­ judiciary of New Jersey from the suspicions body in Jersey City, and I am referring to to all citizens, no matter what their po­ that constantly circulate in the public mind Tom Meaney. litical belief niay be, or what other be­ that the judiciary is not the free and inde­ I have known Tom Meaney since he was a lief they may hold, that that kind of a pendent guarantor of our basic liberties but Uttle boy. We were neighbors. His sister theory of government would eventually is, rather, in some cases amenable to the sug­ and I were at school together and be was one destroy every democracy on earth. No gestions of the boss. Whatever Mr. Meaney's of my very dearest friends. I have never democracy can survive if such a philos­ qualifications, or lack of them, may be for known anything of Tom Meaney that was ophy of government is to prevail. It appointment to the Federal bench, the fact not good, and I think it is an outrage that remains that if be is confirmed an unalter­ Tom Meaney should be made the object of would mean that all of us would be be­ able record will be made in· the public mind your dislike and hatred of Mayor Hague. holden to people who supported us and that their worst suspicions are also confirmed. That is what I want to say to you. voted for us, and any one of them would It is on those grounds that I register my Governor EDrsoN. Are you asking a ques­ have a right to say, "I supported you." objections. It is because I feel that our de­ tion? Perhaps he could truthfully say, "You mocracy itself rests on the faith of the people Mrs. NoR'.::'ON. I 9.Sked a question; yes. I would not have been elected had it not in the sanctity of justice that I urge you to started in by asking you a question. You been for me." I know that statement has ask that another name be submitted. beard my question. My questions were: Why been made to me many times. Yet, no The Senate of the United States has voted you have changed your mind about Frank that the young men of this country shall Hague, why you have accepted everything matter what pain it might cause, if one go to war to protect our liberties-to die for that Frank Hague and his organization in were a true American, if he honorably them if need be. We are under contract to Hudson County and the State organization performed the duties of his office, and those young men to be worthy of their sac­ bad to give you, and then turn against him tried to perform them with conscientious rifice. If we believe in the American way of because of some private quarrel? ability, he could not permit anyone even life enough to send young Americans away Governor EDisoN. Mr1'. NoRTON, I have never though he had to admit that he was re­ to die for it, we must believe in it enough changed my mind about Frank Hague. sponsible for the election, say that he to keep our States--our courts-clean and Mrs. NORTON. Then I think you were the free. We must fight here at home for the most arrant hypocrite that ever walked had a right to control him, after he had same things that our young men fight for through New Jersey. been elected to office. Any public official abroad. We must not permit the sabotage Senator SMATHERS. Wait a minute, Mrs. who assumes office with that kind of a of democracy by pe..tty political tyrants at NORTON. . string tied to him, I care not who he may home. You asked the Governor a question. be, I care not what office he may hold, is He was cross-examined by various Governor EDrsoN. May I answer your ques­ not worthy to hold any office of honor un­ tion? der our flag. members of the subcommittee and, later Mrs. NoRTON. You may. on, by Members of the House of Repre­ Mr. President, the Governor completed sentatives who came over to question him. Well, she has finally consented to have his testimony by quoting from an address The Senator from New Jersey [Mr. her question answered. That is quite a which he had recently delivered on an SMATHERS], who was chairman of the relief, at least. occasion when a returned soldier was be­ subcommittee, said: Senator SMATHERS. You may proceed, Gov­ ing honored, or some similar occasion. I shall not read all of the address, although Mrs. Norton wants to ask you a question, ernor. Governor Edison. Governor EDISON. I never changed my mind I have it here. It is a part of the record, Mrs. NoRTON. Governor, I have listened to about Frank Hague, and as long as you men­ found on pages 62 and 63. I read from your statement- tioned the Sea Girt meeting, which was thrust the bottom of page 62, where the Gover­ upon me, I might say that it was at that nor is quoted as follows: That is the statement I have just read ·meeting that I stood on the platform with to the Senate- Mr. Hague alongside of me and said that I With these high purposes, there can be no would not be beholden to any man, and that disagreement. Now, let us be completely with a great deal of interest and, may I say, I would be responsible only to my own con­ candid and ask ourselves if we citizens of amazement. I am chairman of the Demo­ science, giving notice to the people that I New Jersey are preserving American freedom, cratic State Committee. I went through the was not going to be under Mr. Hague's thumb. American democracy, American decency in State with you when you were a candidate, Later on, at Princeton, N.J., I condemned our home State to the ultimate degree which arranged many meetings in your behalf. At the burning of the poll books and election warrants our young men dying for it. those meetings and everywhere that I ever records in Jersey City, again giving notice I say that we owe to them a better State, a talked with you, you bact the greatest respect, that I was not one of Mr. Hague's minions. much better State· than we have yet made of apparently, at that time, for the Honorable · The mere fact that there is a political or­ New Jersey. Frank Hague. I recall on one occasion, when ganization in New Jersey that felt it was to How sacred are the constitutional guar­ we had a very large meeting at Sea Girt, their interest to back me for Governorship anties of freedom in New Jersey when there and if I recall correctly, I think we called at is something that I could not control. I is a city where people can be hustled out of Mrs. Stultsberry's after that, following the never sought for one minute the aid of the town if they want to criticize the point of meeting, you came there and you were quite Hague organization. view of the mayor? amazed at the performance you had just seen. I did seek the aid of the political party You said to me, and I think I am quoting called the Democratic Party, which, unfortu­ That is just what brought on the in­ your· exact words, "Mrs. NoRTON, I have never nately, has been kept weak in New Jersey by junction case that was tried before Judge seen a meeting equal to that anywhere. I the policy of Frank Hague keeping the party Clark, as a result of which Hague was think Mayor Hague must be ·a great leader." weak, except in Hudson County. enjoined from interference with those Now she is coming to the question. She I sought the aid and support of the Demo­ rights. cratic Party, but I did not and do not seek The speaker continued: was to ask a question. the aid of Frank Hague. I have never Will you please tell me why you have changed my opinion about him, and I cannot How democratic is our government in New changed your mind to such an extent since be accused of being a · hypocrite with those Jersey if a few petty overlords of political that time? You accepted Mayor Hague's as­ two public announcements on the record. machines can dictate the choice of candi­ sistance at that time, you accepted the as­ Mrs. NORTON. All I can say is, Governor, a dates by telephone from Florida or of judges sistance of the State committee, you ac­ man who accepts the help 0f somebody for · and departmental executives by deals in cepted the assistance of the organization of whom he apparently had the contempt that Trenton? Hudson County, without which you never you have evidenced here today certainly places could have been elected. I think you will himself in a very peculiar position. You did I am sure that the people of New Jer­ admit that, and all of that you accepted at accept his help. I know that, as chairman of sey understood whom the Governor had that time. the State committee, you did accept the help in mind when he referred to the dictation It was long before that that the newspaper of the Hudson County organization, no mat­ of nominations of candidates by tele­ articles calllng Mayor Hague all kinds of ter what you may say today to the contrary, phone from Florida. That practice was names had been printed, but apparently you and I am very sorry I have to disagree with alleged many times as one indulged by had a personal interest in thinking at that you. Frank Hague and as one of his methods time that Mayor Hague was a great name, Governor EDISON. Can you point to any of doing business. and it 1s only now, since apparently you have way that I could have avoided having the had some dispute or quarrel with him, that help thrust on me? Further on the Governor said: you have changed your mind. Mrs. NORTON. Yes. If it had not been for All of us have an obligation to get lnto I could not help thinking, as I listened to his help, you would not be s~ttlng here as every local election, into every county com­ you this morning, that this country would Governor of the State of New Jersey, and I mittee election, every county government not be in the condition .it is, nor would the think you know it. election, every State election; and every na- 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5785 tiona! election. We have a duty to get in as does the Senator think that a recess to the Senate, unless there is objection, candidates ourselves or to work for candi­ should be taken until tomorrow? they are confirmed as a matter of routine. dates who will represent the free, democratic, decent principles of Americanism. Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, the The burden is usually on those who ob­ I.et me remind you, also, that the execu­ conferees dealing with the Labor Depart­ ject, to make out a case against confir­ tives of businesses and the heads of civic ment-Federal Security appropriation mation. The burden is not on those who groups and the chiefs of labor groups also have bill will meet at 4: 30. I believe there will advocate the confirmation of a nominee a chance to prove their own courageous citi­ be no trouble about reaching a conclu­ to indulge in oratory unless something zenship every day in little private dealings sion with respect to the measure. It will develops which is not referred to in the where they have the choice of knuckling be absolutely necessary for us to pass the report or in the testimony, and, frankly, under to the forces of political corruption or fighting out in the open for their Ameri­ bill today. I hope the Senate will not I do not quite understand why there is can rights. I don't think there is need for take a recess, but will continue in session so insistent a demand that the Senator me to elaborate on that subject. until a report can be submitted on the from New Jersey [Mr. SMATHERS] speak Fellow citizens of the Newark area, I have measure. regardless of whether he wants to do so. made a simple, direct talk about public affairs Mr. BARKLEY. There are other Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I do not to you because I think all of you are ready to speakers on the subject of the confirma­ think anyone insists on the Senator from hear plain talk on that subject. Either we tion of the nomination of Mr. Meaney. New Jersey speaking, although we all like Americans at home are going to have the courage to stand up against the dilutions and Why cannot they proceed? I do not to hear his eloquent and melodious voice. the sabotaging of democracy in our State or know how many more there are, or how Mr. BARKLEY. I am sure of that. I we are sending our young men to fight under long they will take. It seems to me we do myself. fals3 pretenses. should continue with the regular order. Mr. NORRIS. I do not understand If we believe in the clean, free, democratic, Mr. NORRIS. I suggest that Senators why the leader of the majority insists American way of life enough to vote that on the other side speak on the confirma­ that all who oppose the confirmation of young Americans should die for it, we must tion. Let the senior Senator from New the nomination speak first. I have been believe in it enough to use our political power to keep New Jersey clean and free. We must Jersey [Mr. SMATHERS] proceed for a here for some time, and have always fight here at home for the same things that while. found when Senators did not agree on our young men fight for abroad. I call on Mr. BARKLEY. I do . not know certain questions, and when the debate you men to enlist in this fight. whether the Senator from New Jersey continued for some time, that Senators [Mr. SMATHERS] is going to speak. There on opposite sides of a question alternate Mr. President, those who support the is no rule by which a Senator can be in· taking up the time. I submit that is Hague machine in connection with the forced to speak unless he wants to speak. the proper way to proceed. That has nomination of Mr. Meaney heap criti­ Mr. NORRIS. No. always been done. Often when a speaker cism on the Governor of New Jersey be­ Mr. BARKLEY. I have no definite in­ has taken a good part of a day to discuss cause he has the courage to speak out his formation on the subject, but there are a matter, and has not concluded, al­ conscientious convictions. other Senators who are going to speak though the hour was not as far advanced Mr. President, I have not yet concluded on the subject, and they ought to speak. as it is today, the opposition has acceded my remarks. I shall want to use more Mr. NORRIS. I think the Senator courteously to the suggestion that a re­ time later on, and go into some matters from Kentucky will agree with me that cess be taken, and that the discussion be which I have not mentioned up to this we should follow the usual procedure. resumed by the speaker the next day. time. I do not feel able to continue my Those who wish to speak on one side Mr. BARKLEY. Let me say to the remarks today; but I have no objection should not all be required to speak con­ Senator from Nebraska that no one on to some other Member speaking at this secutively. It should not be necessary this side, or on the other side, has in­ time. that all the speakers on one side should dicated to me that he intends to speak Mr. THOMAS of Utah. Mr. President, conclude before the speakers on the other in favor of the nomination. The pre­ I have some legislative business which I side begin. sumption is that the report of the com­ should like to have considered, if there Mr. BARKLEY. I have no informa­ mittee speaks for itself. It has been is no objection. tion that any Senator on the other side an unbroken rule in the Senate that those Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, may I is going to speak. who advocate a matter have a right to ask what the nature of the proposed leg­ Mr. NORRIS. I think the Senator close the argument if they wish to. Not islative business is? can find out about that. even the Senator from New Jersey has Mr. THOMAS of Utah. A message Mr. SMATHERS. Mr. President, I indicated to me that he is going to speak. came from the House today with respect am willing to vote on the question right The Senator from Nebraska would not to House Joint Resolution 329. It deals now. Thus far I have not heard any­ attribute to me the duty of scouring with the matter of extending for 90 days thing said that I feel should necessitate around over the Senate to find out if the rules governing overtime.pay. There my speaking. If the speaking on the some Senator wishes to speak, and bring is on the Senate Calendar a bill, S. 2628, other side is concluded I am perfectly in a derrick and get him up on his feet Calendar No. 1570, reported from the willing to have the vote taken right now. in order that we might proceed. I feel Committee on Military Affairs, which Mr. BARKLEY. I understand tbe that it is asking a good deal of me to would extend the time for a year. The jun:ior Senator from New Jersey [Mr. ask me to drum up oratory even in favor Civil Service Commission has asked that BARBOUR] desires to address the Senate. of a confirmation. extensions be allowed for only 90 days in Mr. BARBOUR. I, of course, will say Mr. NORRIS. I believe the Senator order that it may have time to act upon something, but while I appreciate what used the word "our." Of course, that the matter. the Senator from Kentucky has said, has a meaning which is significant. Mr. McNARY. May I inquire of the that there is no rule or regulation with Mr. BARKLEY. "Our"-! do not know Senator from Utah if he refers to a bill respect to procedure, or that perhaps in what the Senator means. on the calendar, or to a conference· re­ this instance there is no reason why my Mr. :N"ORRIS. The Senator spoke of port, or to a House bill? colleague should speak, certainly we shall "our side." Mr. THOMAS of Utah. It · will be have a very peculiar situation if no Sen­ rather confusing to explain the whole ator on the other side feels free or wants Mr. BARKLEY. Well, I am going to matter. I think we should begin· with to say anything in favor of the nomi­ vote for the confirmation of the nomina­ Senate bill 2628, Calendar 1570. nation. tion. Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, let me Mr. BARKLEY. That is not a matter Mr. NORRIS. Of course, the Senator say to the distinguished majority leader, over which I have any control. is. We all know that from what he has that the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Mr. SMATHERS. In answer to that said. NoRRis], who has had the floor, is some­ statement, Mr. President, I will say to Mr. BARKLEY. And if that mP.ans what exhausted and does not feel that he my distinguished colleague that the re­ "our side"-- can continue this afternoon. He has not port of the Committee on the Judiciary Mr. NORRIS. It does. completed his remarks, however. I sub­ should relieve any Senator from speak­ Mr. BARKLEY. I am perfectly willing mit to the Senator from Kentucky the ing on this side of the House. for it to mean that. But I do not see question as to what should be done dur­ Mr. BARKLEY. Of course, we all un­ why Senators who are bursting with ora­ ing the remainder of the afternoon; or derstand that when nominations come tory, whose bosoms are heaving for an • 5786 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JUNE 30 opportunity to speak against the nomi­ way or the other. Among Senators who Mr. THOMAS of Utah. I should like nation, should be sitting around waiting had arranged to leave the city tonight to make a statement with regard to the for someone else to speak in favor of there may be some who would ·vote for joint resolution. the nomination. If no one speaks in and some who would vote against con-· Senate bill 2628, amending Public Law favor of it we can vote on the question. firmation of the nomination. Frankly, I No. 873, Seventy-sixth Congress, ap..; Mr. NORRIS. The Senator knows that do not think the Senate would be willing proved October 21, 1940, is on the calen­ there will be some Senators who will to hold a night session because of this dar. That bill would merely extend for speak for the nomination. nomination. another year the law enacted in 1940. Mr. BARKLEY. I do not, I will say Let me say· to my friend from New The House of Representatives has not to the Senator in all sincerity. Jersey [Mr. SMATHERS] that although I acted upon the Senate bill. Instead, the Mr. NORRIS. For 2 days the desk know he is anxious to have the nomina­ House has acted upon the joint resolu­ of the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. tion disposed of, I doubt very much if it tion which has just been laid before the SMATHERS] has been piled sky high with would be feasible to try to hold a night Senate. documents, which it will take him a week session on it. It is entirely satisfactory The measure was sent to the House of or more to go through. to me to go along until we reach the usual Representatives yesterday with a special Mr. BARKLEY. I presume he has am­ time for recess or adjournment. message from the Civil Service Commis­ munition on his desk ready in the event Mr. McNARY. I thought it would be. sion, which I shall read. The message he has to shoot it. Let me suggest to the distinguished was also addressed to the Vice President. Mr. NORRIS. Well, let him shoot it. leader, in the very eloquent phrase which JUNE 29, 1942. Mr. BARKLEY. He may not want to he has often used, that the duty of Sena..; The VICE PRESIDENT, fire a shot. I do not know. I do not tors is here in the Senate, and not travel­ United States Senate. undertake to say whether he will or will ing to their homes. SIR: On June 30, 1942, certain acts expire not. Mr. BARKLEY. I agree to that. which provide for the payment of overtime to Mr. BARBOUR. Mr. President, I do Mr. McNARY. Therefore I am not employees of the War and Navy Departments. concerned about staying here tonight to It is not likely that any currently pending not wish to imply that I have any hesi­ legislation can be enacted by that time to tancy in speaking now, because I do not finish a job so as to accommodate a few cover both departments. A serious situation have in the least. But I and two or three Senators who want to leave the city. I will exist unless a measure can be passed of my colleagues discussed the matter, think it would be well if we could have which will preserve the status quo until the and it was rather felt, and I agreed, that an understanding that the Senator from Congress has had full opportunity to con­ the Senator from Ohio [Mr. BURTON], Ohio may proceed until we receive the sider H. R. 7144, "A bill regulating compensa­ who is a member of the Committee on conference reports, in the neighborhood tion of employees working in excess of 40 the Judiciary, should be the next speaker, of 5 o'clock, and then take a recess until hours a week in the executive departments tomorrow. and agencies." particularly in view of the fact that the Since the Civil Service COmmission has Senator from Vermont [Mr. AusTIN]. Mr. BARKLEY. So far as I am con­ urged the enactment of H. R. 7144 as vital who is not only a member of that com­ cerned, that is satisfactory. I am not war legielation, it is taking the initiative in mittee but was a member of the subcom­ certain that we shall receive the confer­ presenting the enclosed joint resolution "ex­ mittee, ·is necessarily absent. I think ence reports by 5 o'clock, but I do not tending the period for which overtime rates that is a rather logical procedure, pro­ think we should recess before that time. of compensation may be paid under certain vided and assuming that my colleague acts" which is drafted with a view of taking from New Jersey is not going to say any­ OVERTIME RATES OF COMPENSATION care of the immediate situation in the war thing at all. As the debate has proceeded UNDER CERTAIN ACTS aud Navy Departments after June 30, 1942, As in legislative session, and to permit consideration of H. R. 7144. it has rather developed that he was not We have been advised by the Bureau of the going to say anything. Mr. THOMAS of Utah. Mr. President, Budget that the proposed joint resolution is_ So far as I am concerned, I should be if we do not act today, this being the 30th in accord With the President's :financial and glad to say anything I have to say now, of June, there will be a change in the law administrative program. but I think the other procedure perhaps in regard to overtime rates of ·compensa­ We have the honor to be, would be a little better, if it is agreeable tion for practically all the employees of Very respectfully. to the Senator from Ohio, if he does not the Federal Government. I shall ask The letter is signed by the three mem­ feel that the hour is too late, but feels unanimous consent that we proceed as in he has time enough to speak this after­ legislative session until we can dispose of bers of the Commission. noon. That is the only reason I did not this question. Mr. President, I rise with all the apol­ immediately begin to speak. Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, to what ogies which a humble man can offer to Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, I think measure does the Senator refer? anybody. I shall ask to have done what we can bridge this awkward pause. I Mr. THOMAS of Utah. On the Vice I should not need to ask. should ask the able Senator from Ken­ President's desk there is House Joint No committee of the Senate has acted tucky to recess at this time until to­ Resolution 329, which has just come over upon the joint resolution which has been morrow if it were not for the fact that from the House of Representatives. I laid before the Senate; but the Senate there are two conference reports which ask that it be laid before the Senate. Committee on Military Affairs has acted must be considered this afternoon. I The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before upon a similar bill which would extend think they will be ready about 5 o'clock. the Senate the joint resolution

Mr. THOMAS of Utah. That is cor­ ble to all Army employees, but only to cer­ unusual times ~nd unusual circum­ rect. tain classes, as is the case in the Navy? stances. In view of the limitation and Mr. WALSH. We were unable to have Mr. THOM.S of Utah. Yes. the desire to extend the operation of the the Army included. So far as the Navy Mr. WALSH. Is it not true that the acts, and inasmuch as the extension is concerned, the situation is taken care provision is applicable to employees in would be limited to 90 days, I have no of for 2 years. Would the joint resolu­ the field and not to clerical employees in objection to the present consideration tion extend the provisions of law which Washington? of the joint resolution. now exist, or would a new law be sub­ Mr. THOMAS of Utah. I do not know Mr. THOMAS of Utah. I remind the stituted? how to answer that question, because I Senate that this situation was not called Mr. THOMAS of Utah. The joint do not know how the employees are to the attention of Congress until yes­ resolution would merely extend for 90 classified. However, the law is not sat­ terday, the 29th of June. days the law as it now exists, so as to isfactory from the standpoint of all em­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there give Congress an opportunity to act. ployees. objection to the present consideration of Mr. WALSH. Does the Senator un­ Mr. WALSH. As I understand, the Sen­ the joint resolution? derstand, as I do, that various depart­ ator is not asking for any additional or · There being no objection, the joint res­ ments of the Government have been col­ broader law in behalf of overtime workers olution (H. ·J. Res. 329) extending the l~borating for the purpose of establish­ than exists at present. period for which overtime compensation ing P. fixed ~tandard of wage; for over­ Mr. THOMAS of Utah. No. I am may be paid under certain acts was con­ time?' merely asking that the present arrange­ sidered, ordered to a third reading, read Mr. THOMAS of Utah. That is true. ment be continued for 90 days, so that the third time, and passed. Mr. WALSH. That measure is not confusion incident to the change in law PARITY LOANS ON 1942 BASIC AGRICUL­ / yet before the Congress. may not arise. TURAL COMMODITIES Mr. THOMAS of Utah. No. It is not The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there before the Senate. objection to the present consideration of As in legislative session, Mr. WALSH. So that unless the joint the joint resolution? Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. President, a few resolution is passed, the provisions of Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, the col­ moments ago it was stated by the ma­ law relating to the Army, so far as over­ loquy between the able Senator from jority leader that several Senators were time is concerned, would cease. Utah and the able Senator from Massa­ planning to leave the city. Mr. THOMAS of Utah. That is true. chusetts has made clear the purposes of There is on the calen·dar a bill, S. 2585, Mr. WALSH. I assume the Senator the request. The committee of which introduced by the Senator from Alabama desires to have the existing law continucj the Senator from Utah is chairman-- [Mr. BANKHEAD] and myself, providing for for 90 days so that the proposed new Mr. THOMAS of Utah. Mr. President, full parity loans on the 1942 crops of basic general policy affecting all the depart­ if I may interrupt the Senator, let me agricultural commodities. In order that ments of the Government, and not merely state that I am acting chairman of the all Senators may be advised, I wish to the Army and Navy, may be considered committee. The matter was handled by state that it is our purpose to move the by the Congress. the Committee on Military Affairs. consideration of the bill at the earliest Mr. THOMAS of Utah. That is true. Mr. McNARY. I thought probably it possible date. I hope that Senators who The Senator from Massachusetts has was handled by the Committee on Edu­ are interested in the proposed legisla­ stated the situation very much· better cation and Labor. tion will take notice of that fact, because than the Senator from Utah could state Mr. THOMAS of Utah. No; it is a we should like to have as full an attend­ it. I thank thP. Senator. military matter. ance in the Senate as possible when the Mr. WALSH. I thank the Senator for Mr. McNARY. The committee has re­ bill is considered. his compliment. ported a bill which is on the calendar; Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, when Under the circumstances, in view of the is that correct? does the Senator propose to request that problem before the Navy, it seems to ·me Mr. THOMAS of Utah. Yes. the bill be made the unfinished business? that there is much merit in the request Mr. McNARY. Is that bill similar to Mr. RUSSELL. We hope to reach the of the Senator from Utah. As I under­ the joint resolution now on the desk, bill tomorrow, if it is possible to do so. stand, the joint resolution would only which passed the House? Mr. McNARY;. When the bill was re-:­ continue the existing law for 90 days. In Mr. THOMAS of Utah. The measures ported from the Senate Committee on the meantime, it is expected that a gen­ are similar, except that under our bill Agriculture and Forestry and placed on eral policy will be formulated by the Gov­ the period for which overtime compensa-· the calendar, I understood that it was ernment which will affect not only the tion may be paid employees of the Army not to be pressed for the time being. Army and Navy but the overtime work of would be extended for a-full year. The Mr. RUSSELL. The bill has now been employees in all the departments, which joint resolution now being discussed· on the calendar for several weeks. · should be done. would extend for 90 days the period for Mr. McNARY. Perhaps I am mistaken Mr. THOMAS of Utah. That is true. which, under the present laws, overtime as to the number of the bill. Is it Cal­ Again, Mr. President, let me say that I compensation may be paid Federal em­ endar No. 1521? am extremely loath to bring the matter ployees, including employees of the Army Mr. RUSSELL. That is correct. The up in this way, because the Senate Mili­ and Navy. bill was reported favorably on June 11. tary Affairs Committee acted as expedi­ Mr. McNARY. The joint resolution Mr. McNARY. Yes; of course, I have · tiously as it possibly ·could upon the notice would continue for a period of 90 days no control over the wishes of other Sen­ which was given to us that the present the provision of existing law, without in ators. law would come to an end today. any way enlarging or changing its scope; Mr. RUSSELL. Anything the Senator Mr. WALSH. Mr. President, will the is that correct? from Oregon might think would be very Senator further yield? Mr. THOMAS of Utah. That is true. persuasive with the Senator from Geor­ Mr. THOMAS of Utah. I yield. Mr. McNARY. In the meantime, it is gia. Mr. WALSH. If the joint resolution is the purpose to examine the matter in a Mr. McNARY. I do not favor the pro­ not passed, the failure of Congress to act comprehensive way, with a view to per­ posed legislation. If it comes up, of will amount to a reduction in wages for manent legislation; is that correct? course I desire to oppose it; but I did overtime to a considerable number of Mr. THOMAS of Utah. I think the not expect that it would be brought up employees in the Army. problem will be handled by the Civil at as early a date as tomorrow. The de­ Mr. THOMAS of Utah. Yes. Worse Service Committee, and not by our com­ cision as to when to request considera­ than that, it would bring about great con­ mittee. Inasmuch as the law is an all­ tion of the bill rests wholly with the fusion, especially in arsenals, where the embracing law, including all Federal em­ Senator from Georgia and depends upon Army and the Navy are carrying on war ployees, I assume that the Civil Service his desire in the matter, but I shall at­ work. Committee would handle the bill. tempt in every way possible to prevent Mr. WALSH. Do I correctly under­ Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, of the immediate consideration of the bill. stand that the present provisions of law course, as the Senator knows, the request Mr. RUSSELL. Of course, I regret with respect to overtime are not applica- is an unusual one. However, these are that the Senator from Oregon does not 5788 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JUNE 30 view the bill with favor. I hope that While the bill now being discussed following enrolled bill and joint resolu­ he will not close his mind regarding it, would increase the tonnage to 1,200,000 tions: but that he will give it the careful at­ tons, practi-cally all the , authorization s. 2586. An act to amend sections 1 and S tention which he always gives to legiS­ heretofore given has been used, and the of the act entitled "An act to authorize the lative matters in the Senate. bill really amounts to an authorization President to requisition certain articles and If the bill is to be considered at all, for construction of 372,285 tons of aux­ materials for the use of the United States, there are very substantial reasons WhY iliary vessels for which contracts have and for other purposes," approved October 10, 1940 (54 Stat. 1090), to continue the act it should be ·considered at the very ear­ been left and for which plans have been in effect during the existing war, and for liest possible date. For that reason I made. other purposes; hope to be able to have the bill considered As the Senate knows, such auxiliary H. J. Res. 308. Joint resolution making ap­ by the Senate in the very near future. vessels are used in connection with the propriations to provide war housin~ a?d CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN AUXILIARY fleet. They consist of tankers, repair ves­ war public works in and near the DlBtnct NAVAL VESSELS sels, hospital ships, and so forth, and also of Columbla; and a large number of yachts and other small H. J. Res. 324. Joint resolution making ap­ Mr. WALSH. Mr. President, as in leg­ vessels which have been seized or pur­ propriations for work relief and relief for islative session, I move that the Senate chased for the purpose of aiding the Navy the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943. proceed to the consideration of House in attempting to suppress the submarine RECESS bill 7159, Calendar No. 1556. menace. Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. Pre$ident, I ask The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CLARK The PRESIDING OFFICER. The of Missouri in the chair) . The bill will unanimous consent that the Senate stand question is on agreeing to the motion of in recess for 15 minutes. be stated by title for the information of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there WALSH]. - - objection? · The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. A bill (H. R.. The motion was agreed to; and the 7159) authorizing the construction of (There being no objection, the Senate Senate proceeded to consider the bill stood in recess until 5 o'clock and 21 certain auxiliary vessels for the United