5118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 31 By Mr. MONRONEY: den by reverent feet, and in little-patches The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ H. R. 4901. .A bill to authorize and direct of foreign soil, where is kept the bivouac pore (Mr. DOWNEY), on May 30, 1944, the sale of. Moore. Air Field; to the Commit­ of our valiant dead;on countless graves 1758 > tee on .Naval- Affairs. signed the enrolled bill (S. to ' By Mr. VINSON of Georgia: we s·ee th'e cross and the fiag blending in amend section 451 of the Ta"riff Act of H. J. Res. 286. Joint resolution providing their mute testimony. May that cross 1930, and for other purposes, which had for operating navaL petroleum and oil:-shale interpret the fiag for our ~teadf:;tst yet been sign.ed previously.by the Speaker of reserves; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. anxious hearts in this dread hour as the the House of Representatives. By Mr. CELLER: sharpened arrow of our might is pulled H. J. Res. 287. Joint resolution to create a on· the· taut string of nation'al strength. CALL OF THE ROLL committee or Federal and State relations; May that cross speak to the fiag of Mr. GUFFEY. Mr. President, I sug­ to the Committee· on Rules. strength that is increased· by its spend­ gest the -absence of a· quorum. By Mr. HOFFMA_N: . . , H: IJ,es ..568. Resolution requesting infor-: ing, of life that is saved by .its losing, of The ACTING PRESIDENT. pro tern .. mation ·from the Attorney General as to greatness that is measured by its serving. pore. The clerk will call the roll. arrival of refugees; to the Committee on Im­ Our glad hearts rejoice that by the The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the migration and N'\tur~lizatlon. sacrifice 6f which that linked cross and following - Senators ·answered to ·their By Mr. VINSON of Georgia: . . ftag is th_e symbol- names: H. Res. 569. Resolution for·· the considera­ tion of H. R. 4771,. .bill to amend the part "O'er the mounds where sleep the slaugh­ Aiken Gr'een Reynolds a tered, Austin Guffey Robertson of the act entitled "An ac~ making· appro..: Bankhead Hatch Russell priations for the naval service for the fiscal Fired by hopes for which they died, Bilbo Hawkes Shipstead year endin_g Jl,me 30, 1921, and for othE~r pur­ Lured by dreams which arched their Buck Hayden Stewart pose~,'' app\oyed ~une 4, 1920, .as am.e?ded, heavens- ·. Burton Holman Taft relating to· the conservation, care, custody, Butler Ja~kson Thomas, Idaho Human rights so long denied; Byrd Johnson, Colo. Tobey protection, and operation· of tlie naval petro­ From the jealous feuds of ages Capper La Fol!ette Truman leum and oil-shale reserves;· to' the Com­ Moves a conquering· army's van; Carawf!y McClellan Tunnell mittee on Rules: . Chandler McFarland Vandenberg ·'Tis the .crusade of the nations Chavez· McKellar Wagner . For the brotherhood o{ man." . Connally· Mayl;>anlt Wallgren ~E';f'ITIONS, ETC. Cordon Mead Walsh, Mass. Amen. ~ Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions D:maher 'Mi1l1kin Waleh.N.J. 'THE JOURNAL Davis Murdock Weeks and papers 'were laid .on the Clerk's desk Downey Murray Wheeler and referred as fotlows: On request .of .. Mr. GuFFEY, and by Eastland Nye Whercy Ellender O'Daniel White 5768. By Mr. LAMBERTSON: Petition of unanimous consent, the· reading of the Fergueon O'Mahoney Wiley Mrs. Nehard Hansen and 41 other citizens of Journal of. the proceedings of-the calen­ George Overton Wilson Waterville, Kans., requesting that cotton ma­ dar day Monday, May 29, 1944, was dis.:. Gerry Radcliffe · terials and overalls which ate now being pro­ pensed with, and the Journal was ap­ GUiette Reed duced be placed at · their disposal that they proved. Mr. GEORGE. I announce that the may continue .to bring about tbe prodl,lCtion of essential foods; to the Committ$le on Ways MESSAGES FROM THE, PRESIDENT- · Senator from Washington [Mr. BoNEJ and Means. , _ · APPROVAL OF A BILL ' and the Senator from Virginia LMr. GLASS] are absent from the Senate be­ 5769. By Mr. ROLPH: . Resolution of Native Messages ~n writing from the Presi­ Sons of the Golden West, Grand Parlor, San cause of illness.· Francisco, Calif., relating to House bill 238; dent of the United States were com­ The Senators from Nevada [Mr. Mc­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. municated to the Senate. by Mr. Miller, CARRAN and Mr. SCRUGHAM] are absent on .one of his secretaries, and he announced 5770. Also, resolution of Native Sons of the cfllcial bu~iness. Golden West, Grand Parlor, San Francisco, that on May 29, 1944, the President had The Senators from Florida [Mr. AN­ Calif., relating to amending the reclamation approved and signed the act (S. 683) to law limiting the use ·or project water· in the provide· for the recognition of the serv­ DREWS and Mr. PEPPER], the· Sen a tor operation and administration of the Central ices of the civilian officials and em­ from Idaho [Mr. CLARK], the Senator Valley project; to the Committee on the ployees, cifizens of the United States, en­ from Missouri [Mr. CLARKl, the Senator . Public Lands. gaged in and about the construction of from West Virginia [Mr. KILGOkEJ, the 5771. Also, resolution of Native Sons of the Senator from Illinois [Mr. LucAs], the Golden West, Grand Parlor, San Francisco, the Panama Canal. Senator from Connecticut lMr. MA­ Calif., relating to taxation of federally owned MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE LONEY], the Senator from South Caro­ lands; to the Committee on Ways and Means. lina fMr. SMITH] , the Senator from Okla­ 5772. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the A· message from the H.ouse·-of Rep:re- 1 director,· political action committee, ·Local sentatives, by Mr. Maurer, one of its homa [Mr. THOMAS], the Senator from 840, United Automobile-Aircraft-Agricultural reading clerks, announced that the Utah [Mr. THOMAS], and the Sena­ Implement Workers of America (U. A. W.­ House had passed without amendment tor from Maryland [Mr. TYDINGS] are C. I. 0.), petitioning consideration of their the bill United States Senate, I ask unanimous consent to that effect. : Military Affairs: washington, D. c. There being no objection, the letter H. R. 1046. A bill for the relief of David B. Han. JOHN A. DANAHER: On May 28, 1944," Turpel; without amendment (Rept. No. 924). and resolution were referred to the Com­ By Mr. WILSON, from the Committee ·on so_me 574 delegates from all cities and towns mittee on Education and Labor and or­ in Connecticut gathered · at a ·special con­ Military Affairs: ference at St. Joseph's Hall in Waterbury, dered to be printed in the REcoRD, as H. R 1675. A bill to amend section 9 of Conn: The conference was arranged to com­ follows: tl;le Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 (Public Jllemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Law 607) by providing for the computation the first national conference in free Lithua­ POST-\VAR PLANNING BOARD, ­ of double-time-credits awarded between 1093 nia, the fortieth ann,i.versary of the freedom . New Haven, Cpnn., M0ry 29, 1944. and 1912 in determining retired pay; with- of the Lithu·anian press and the twentieth The Honorable JoHN A. DANAHER, out amendment (Rept. No. 925). . anniversary of the return of Klaipeda (Me­ United States Senate, By Mr. WILSON (for Mr. GURNEY) from the mel) to Lithuania. washington, D . c. Committee on Military, Affairs: R. DEAR SENATOR DANAHER: 1 beg to enclo~ a , H. 3604. A bill authorizing the appoint­ The followi~g resolutions were adopted: ment of the Chief of .Chaplains to the tem­ "Whereas the Lithuanian-Atnericans of resolution which ·was passed by the Con­ necticut Post-War Planning Board at its porary rank of major general, and for other _ Connecticut, in union with their fellow purposes; without amendment (Rept. No. Americans throughout the Nation, recognize meeting c.n May. 24 upon the recommenda­ tion of its committee on medical care and 926). that the most urgent problem of the day is By Mr. BANKHEAD, from the C:::Jmmittee the prosecution of the war to · an early and health, requesting that it be forwarded to you for your interest and such help as you may on Banking and Currency: victorious conclusion; and H. R. 4102. A bill to Extend for 1 addi­ "\Vhereas we Americans of Lithuanian or­ find yourself in a position to give. With warm personal regards, believe me, tional year the reduced rate of interest on igin have a very particular stake in its suc­ Land Bank Commissioner loans; without cessful outcome, in the conviction that only Faithfully yours, CHARLES SEYMOUR. amendment (Rept. No. 927). · an Allied victory can bring happiness and By Mr. CAPPER, from the Committee on freedom to our mother country and its peo­ Claims: ple: Be it RESOLUTION REGARDING EDUCATION AND RE­ H. R. 2469. A bill for the relief of Anna "Resolved, That we pledge our whole­ 'l'RAINING OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND DOCTORS Charack; without amendment (Rept. No. hearted support to every measure taken for PROPOSED BY THE MEDICAL CARE AND HEALTH 928). . the successful prosecution of the war and for COMMITTEE OF THE CONNECTICUT POST-WAR PLANNING BOARD AND ADOPTED BY THE CON­ By Mr. O'DANIEL, from the Committee on the h ast ening of the day of victory, by the Claims· Jeaders of our Nation and of the United NECTICUT POST-WAR PLANNING BOARD ON MAY 24, 1944 H. R. 3125. A bill for the relief of Paul H. Nations; White; without amendment (Rept. No. 929); "And that, in the name of the thousands Whereas the education received by a great of our young men now serving in the fighting H. R. 3137. A bill for the relief of Ruth L. number of medical graduates has been cur­ Clapp; without amendment (Rept. No. 930); forces, and in memory of those among them tailed by the war, medical-school programs H. R. 3324. A bill for the relief of the Postal who have already made the supreme sacrifice, have be~n accelerated and hospital int ern­ we enjoin upon the executive board of th.e ships have been reduced to 9 months in order Telegraph-Cable Co.; without amendment Lithuanian-American Council and its as­ that more graduates might be made available (Rept. No. 931); sociates to urge, by every means available, as medical officers for the armed forces; and H. R. 3654. A bill for the relief of Byron the united cooperation of all Americans of Whereas medical officers of an older age Ennis; without amendment (Rept. No. 932); Lithuanian descent in the promotion of the group, who were in practice at the time of and war effort; by an ever-increasing purchase of their entry into military service, may because H. R . 4074. A bill for the relief of the estate War bonds, by sustained effort in every phase of the exigencies of the war find that their of William · Sandlass; without amendment of war production, by tha salvage of ail es- experiences in the Army have deprived them (Rept. No. 933). XC-323 5120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 31 ENROLLED BILLS PRESENTED bers, in the interests of the fourth term The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 Mrs. CARAWAY, from the Committee and the election of New Dealers to the Halls of Congress. cents per hundred words. The expenses of on Enrolled Bills, reported that on May the committee under this resolution, which 30, 1944, that committee presented to the Mr. President, the failure of the law­ shall not exceed $ , shall be paid from President of the United States the fol­ enforcement agency of our Government the contingent fund of the Senate upon lowing enrolled bills: to proceed in this :flagrant case is a mat­ vouchers approved by the chairman of the S. 1029. A bill to provide for regulation of ter of concern to me, to other Members committee. of this body, and, I am confident, to the certain insurance rates in the District of Co­ The letter presented by Mr. BUTLER is majority of the people of this Nation who lumbia. and for other purposes; and as follows: S. 1758. A bill to amend section 451 of the want to see preserved free and clean elec­ Tariff Act of 1930, and for other purposes. tions. MAY 30, 1944. Because of the failure on the Attorney The Honorable FRANCIS BIDDLE, BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION Attorney General of the United States, INTRODUCED General's part it becomes imperative that Washingto1t, D. C. the Senate immediately delve into this DEAR MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I invite yoUr . Bills and a joint resolution were intra- . important matter. I therefore ask the duced, read the first time, and, by unan­ attention to the fact that the Congress of Privileges and Elections Committ~e to the United States, in the furtherance of fair imous consent, the second time, and re­ institute an investigation, broad in scope, and clean elections, has enacted a law known ferred as follows: in an effort to determine how widespread as the Corrupt Practices Act. This statute By Mr. REED: this law violation is, and to ascertain clearly states in simple language that: S. 1959. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Amy why the appropriate authorities within "It shall be unlawful for any corporation or McKnight; to the Committee on Claims. any labor organization to make a contribu­ Dy Mr. DOWNEY: the administration have not performed tion in connection with the election of a S. 1960. A bill for the relief of Clifford E. their sworn duties ·with respect thereto. President, Vice President, or Member of Con­ Long and Laura C. Long; to the Committee I ask that the committee headed by the gress." · on Claims. Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. GREEN] The statute also provides for an appro­ By Mr. WHEELER: proceed as quickly as possible toward that priate penalty for its violation. S. 1961. A bill conferring upon the State of goal. In this connection, a political group known Montana authority to exchange for other Flouting of the election laws of the as the political action committee, organized lands certain lands selected by the State United States on the part of the political by Mr. Hillman and Mr. Murray, has publicly of Montana for the use of the University of admitted that they have received contribu­ Montana for biological station purposes pur­ action committee threatens the entire tions amounting to over $750,000 from a labor suant to the act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. structUl'e erected by the Congress to organization known as the C. I. 0. and fur­ 1080); to the Committee on Public Lands guarantee the people of this Nation free ther that they expect to increase such con­ and Surveys. and clean elections. tributions to several Plillion dollars. They By Mr. REYNOLDS: Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ are using this money, as they publicly declare, S. 1962. A bill extending the! provisions of sent to have printed in the RECORD at to promote a fourth term for Mr. Roosevelt Public Law 47, Seventy-seventh Congress, as this point as a part of my remarks the and New Deal Members of Congress. amended, to reemployment committeemen Your attention is also directed to the Hatch of the Selective Service System (with accom­ resolution providing for an investigation, Act which declares: panying papers); to the Committee on the which I now submit, and immediately "It is hereby declared to be a pernicious Judiciary. following that I ask to have inserted in political activity for any person, committee, By Mr. GILLETTE: the RECORD a copy of a letter addressed .association, corporation, or any other organi­ S. 1963. A bill to control the disposition of to Hon. Francis Biddle, Attorney Gen­ zation to make contributions, directly or in­ certain plants and facilities producing syn­ eral of the United States, dated May 30, directly, in an amount in excess of $5,000 in thetic rubber, fibers, and other plants and 1944, and signed Harrison E. Spangler, connection with any campaign for the elec­ facilities utillzing the products of farm and tion of a President or other Federal officer .... forest; to the Committee on Agriculture and chairman, Republican National Commit­ This law further provides a. penalty of not Forestry. tee. more than $5,000 or imprisonme-nt !or not By Mi. WALSH of Massachusetts: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ more than 5 years. S. 1964. A bill to reimburse certain avia­ pore. Without objection, the resolution The F. B. I. has reported that the Hillman­ tion cadets and former aviation cadets for submitted by the Senator from Nebraska Murray committee received lump sums of . property lost or damaged as the result of a will be received and appropriately re­ $100,000 from several labor organizations, or fire at Carroll College, Helena, Mont., on ferred and the letter wm be printed in 20 times the amount permitted by law. January 8, 1944; to the Committee on Naval the RECORD. The political action committee so financed Affairs. asserts, and takes the attitude, that it is ex­ By Mr. REYNOLDS: The resolution t, question is on agreeing to the motion· of , mittee may believe it proper to accept . Chairman, the Senator from Georgia. the ame11dment, but . preliminarily I Republican National -Committee. The motion was agreed to; and the should like to make a few brief obser­ P. S.-We have been advised that the Senate proceeded to consider the bill vations with respect to it. Political Action Committee, in many cases,

Under the circumstances it appears that cannot be agreed upon, th~ conferees I am not opposing the reduction in the perhaps the Government will lose money would be in the best possible position to cabaret tax. I am inclined to favor the on account of having the tax so high. It adopt a reasonable rate, which would not reduction of the tax; but I strongly would seem that an amendment such as destroy the businesses of these people, object to reducing the cabaret tax to. the one offered by the Senator from Cali­ and would not materially hurt the in­ accommodate a few tooters of horns and fornia should be adopted by the Senate. come of the Government. It might be a few frolicking citizens of the country, I do not think anyone wishes to close bus­ that 11 percent, 12 percent, or some other while at the same time leaving a 20 per­ inesses. I know we do,not. I know that percentage would, under the facts, be a cent tax on 95,000,000 poor people of the no Senator would wish to close such bus­ reasonable tax. The conferees could de­ Nation whose only means of recreation iness places or amusement places, if we termine the proper tax. In order to is the small theater in the small towns. can call them that. Especially is that bring about that result, I hope that the It is all right to reduce the cabaret tax true if the Government will lose money amendment will be agreed to. 10 percent, but let us reduce the tax on by reason of the increased tax, either Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. President, I thank theater admissions to the same per­ through the closing of various places­ the Senator. In view of his persuasive centage. Let us treat the two elements and some of them undoubtedly will be remarks, I shall not present further alike, although one is a means of recrea­ closed, ·even in these prosperous times­ argument. I only want to say that the tion for 95,000,000 people, and the other or through the reduction of their reve­ senior Senator from Nevada [Mr. Mc­ a means of recreation for only a very nues. It is certain that the revenues of CARRAN] who offered the pending amend­ small percentage of the population. The such plij.ces will be reduced to so great an ment on his own behalf and mine is un­ cabaret caters to those who have money extent that the uovernment will receive avoidably absent from Washington. I to spend, while the theater is a means of more revenue if the tax rate is reduced. regret that he is not here to present this entertainment for poor people who have 'l hope very much that the amendment matter in his usually eloquent and force­ only a very small amount to spend. The of the Senator from California will be · ful way. 20-percent tax on the small theaters agreed to. Mr. BILBO. Mr. President, I wish to works a hardship on small places of Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. President, I tha-nk make a few observations with regard to amusement in their effort to continue the Senator very much. I appreciate the amendment offered by the Senator in operation. They are suffering, as the the contribution he has made. While from California. owners of cabarets are suffering, because · my mind is not particularly set upon the My distinguished colleague from Los of a reduction in their revenues. The largest and most noted cabarets of the Angeles [Mr. DoWNEY] and my friend theaters depend upon the attendance of. country, undoubtedly what the distin­ from Memphis [Mr. McKELLAR] hail the poor people, to whom a few nickels guished Senator from Tennessee has in­ from large cities with populations of 300,- and dimes mean something in their dicated is true all over the Nation; 000, 500,000, or more. They feel very everyday life. namely, that the large cabarets are giv­ keenly the injustice which has been done I take this occasion to remark that the ing up their taxable entertainment. the cabaret business by the 30-percent ownef·s of juke joints and cabarets have In order to understand just how this tax. contributed absolutely nothing to the increased tax operates, it might be in­ However, I happen to come from a ' war effort except to furnish a place to teresting to consider the Jack Dempsey small courthouse town in Mississippi, spend money and have a good time. cafe, in New York City. I am advised which has no cabarets or juke joints. but What have the motion-picture theaters that that cafe has ~ gross income of which does have theaters. I shall offer done? They have been contributing in $100,000 a month. When there was a an amendment, when it shall have been every way toward every war activity, in­ 5-percent tax on such entertainment, the properly prepared, providing that wher­ cluding the Red Cross drive, the War Government received $5,000 a month in ever a 20-percent tax on theater admis­ bond drive, the WAC enlistment drive, taxes from the establishment. There sions is found in the Internal Revenue the fats and salvage drive, and the was a total expenditure of approxi­ Code of 1944, a 10-percent tax be sub­ infantile paralysis driv.e. They are also mately $10,000 a month for entertain­ stituted, which would be in keeping with using the power of the screen to keep ment in that cafe. All such entertain­ the amendment offered by the Senator Americans thinking along the right lines ment at the cafe, exc3pt for music, has with regard to cabarets. as we make the greatest effort of our now been given up, for the Government Every week 95 ,000,000 American peo­ lives in the present World War. Those does not tax an establishment which ple--men, women, and children-attend engaged in the motion-picture industry provides only music. The cost of enter­ the theater. I wish Senators to keep that have been contributing weekly, monthly, tainment at that cafe has been cut ap­ figure in mind. The figures show that and yearly to the success of our war proximately in half, or to approximately every· week 95,000.000 of the 134,000,000 drives of every sort. Without their $5,000 a month, and the cafe pays no American people attend motion-picture efforts such drives would not be nearly tax at all to the Government because of theaters, which are found in every ham­ so successful. The motion-picture thea­ the music, which now ~r the only enter­ let, village, and city of the Nation. It ter owners are being penalized by a tax tainment provided there. Neither the would be unfair to reduce the 30-percent of 20 percent in order that they may owner nor his patrons can afford to pay tax on cabarets, where only a very small carry on. In many instances the tax $30,000 a month in taxes upon entertain..: percentage of .the populatitm goes for burden is passed on to the rank and file ment which costs only $5,000. Th~t. in amusement and recreation, to 10 per­ of the people. effect, is imposing a governmental bur­ cent, and leave the tax at 20 percent on We are asked to reduce the 30-percent den, by way of taxation of six times as 95,000,000 of the masses of poor people tax on cabarets to 10 percent. Such a much, as the cost of the cabaret enter­ and children of the Nation. reduction would affect only those who tainment itself. Clearly such a tax is so We all understand that cabarets and have money to spend having a good illogical that it cannot be successful. time in the cities. I admit that inci­ Mr. McKELLAR rose. juke joints are patronized by the well to dentally such places furnish employ­ Mr. DOWNEY. I yield to the Senator do, the playboys, and the frolicking ele­ ment to a very small class of musicians from Tennessee. ment of our population. Children are an'd entertainers. As I have said, I am Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, let not admitted to cabarets This amend­ not opposed to the reduction in that me suggest another matter to the Senator ment is an attempt to give relief in con­ tax, but'it would be manifestly unfair to at this time. A reduction from 30 per­ nection with a means of recreation for a reduce the tax on ·cabarets to 10 percent cent to 10 percent is, of course, quite a small percentage of our population. As and leave the 20-percent tax on theater large reduction, but it seems to me it will I understand, the spo~sorship of the admissions. If the cabaret tax were re­ have to be agreed upon and straightened amendment, in addition to the authors duced, and the theater tax left where out in conference. I very much hope of the amendment, comes from the music it is, more hell would be raised over that the Senate will adopt the amend­ monopoly. It has an alphabetical name. those two taxes than we have ever heard ment reducing the tax to 10 percent. I This is the day of alphabetical names. in connection with the cabaret tax. am really addressing myself to my good The amendment is sponsored by ASCAP, If we are to reduce . the cabaret tax friend from Georgia [Mr. GEORGE] the the music monopoly. It is malting a from 30 percent to 10 percent, let us at chairman of the committee. If it should drive on Congress''to reduce the 30-per­ the same time reduce the 20-percent be found in conference ~hat 10 pei·cent cent tax to 10 percent. theater tax to 19 perc_ent, and let the two 5124 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 31 amendments go to conference to be ad­ Committee on Banking and Currency. I assume that if the Senator from Ohio justed, so that justice may be done to If the chairman of the committee intends wishes to read into the language after 95,000,000 poor people whose only means that it shall be accepted as a part of the "supplemental statement," the words "as .of recreation and pleasure is the theater. report, I ask for permission to :f:lle dis­ an exhibit" and so designate the part to The motion-picture theater owners have senting minority views. which he has referred, no harm would contributed greatly to the war effort, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there be done. I assume that if that course whereas the cabarets have done abso­ objection to the request of the Senator were followed, the status of the matter lutely nothing but rake in the golden from Ohio? The Chair hears none, and in the mind of the Senator from Ohio shekels. it is so ordered. · would be entirely clarified. EXTENSION OF PRICE CONTRbL AND Mr. DANAHER. Mr. President, I Mr. TAFT. Not at all, because the STABILIZATION ACTS should like to invite the attention of the chairman of the committee says that it Senator from Ohio while I note that it is is a part of the committee report, and Mr. TAFT. Mr. President, the Com­ my belief his fears are unfounded. · I inasmuch as he says that, I wish to state mittee on Banking and Currency has first point out that on page 1 of the docu­ my dissent from it and my intention to submitted an explanation of Senate ment known as Report No. 922, there ap­ file minority views. If it is submitted as . bill 1764, to amend the Emergency Price pears the headline "General statement." an exhibit by the Price Administration Control Act nf 1942 a~ amended by the Those words. were not in the memoran­ stating .their side of the case, very well, act of October 2, 1942, together with a dum upon which the Senator from New I have no objection; but certainly it report thereon. The report contains a York [Mr. WAGNER], the Senator from seems to me it is at least ambiguous and, general statement and also a supple­ Maryland [Mr. RADCLIFFE], and I agreed. since the chairman of the committee mental statement. I wiah to say that I I have no doubt, however, that they have says it is a part of the report, I assume wholly dissent from the supplemental been interpolated by the legislative that it is so intended to be. The chair­ statement. The report is ambiguous with draftsman with the view to explaining man seems to differ from the Senator respect to whether the supplemental the basis upon which the report pro­ from Connecticut. statement is a part of the report. It was ceeds. .Mr. WAGNER. There is no difference clearly my understanding that it was On page 3, in similar size type, there at all. The supplemental statement is not to be a part of the committee report: will be found the words "Text of re­ added as a part of the report, of course. Yet, the general report, in which I con­ ported bill." What else could it be but a supplement cur, does not make it at all clear to my At the top of page 8, in similar size to the report? mind that the supplemental statement is type, there will be found the heading not a part of the committee report. It Mr. TAFT. It is not a fair compila­ "Explanation of reported bill .., tion of the evidence that was adduced s~ ems to be a statement prepared by the Similarly, at the top of page 20 we find before the committee. It wholly omits Office of Price Administration which has the heading "Minority views." Obviously all the critical evidence; it wholly omits never been approved by the committee, those minority vi-ews are the views stated two-thirds of the witnesses who appeared and does not in any way represent, in by the senior Senator from New York before us and submitted a series of ob­ my opinion, the proper summary of the [Mr. WAGNER], the .senior Senator from evidence which was submitted to the jections t.:> the manner in which the Price Virginia [Mr. GLAss], t""e senior Senator Administration· has been operated. It committee. If there is any question from Connecticut [Mr. MALONEY], the only summarizes the Price Administra­ whatever about it being a part of the junior Senator from Maryland [Mr. RAD­ tion's case. I think if it is to be there report, I desire to file minority views. CLIFFE], the junior Senator from Utah at all, it ought to be purely as an exhibit I do not know whether the chairman [Mr. MURDOCK], and the junior Senator of the Price· Administration. It is there of the· committee regards the supple­ from Connecticut [Mr. DANAHER]. But mental report as· a part of the general now; but I wish to express my dissent granted that they are minority views, so from it, and my intention to file minority report. However, I should like· to know · submitted, and so incorporated in Report views. I have done my best throughout whether he does so regard it, because if No. 922, obviously they are not the report the hearings to reach a conclusion upon it is a part of the general report I de­ of the majority of the committee, and sire to file dissenting views. which the whole committee could agree, that fact is so designated therein. but if this is to be a part of the report Mr. WAGNER. Mr. President, it is a Mr. WAGNER. Mr. President, will the my efforts along that line have come to part of the report submitted by the full Senator yield? an end. committee. As the Senator will recall, Mr. DANAHER. I should like to make Mr. DANAHER. Mr. President, I un­ a subcommittee was appointed consisting my next point if the Senator frolll New derstand, of course, the point the Sena­ of three Senators, namely, the junior York will forbear. tor from Ohio is seeking to make, but I Senator from Maryland [Mr. RADCLIFFE], Mr. WAGNER. Very well. still insist that he is going afield from the junior Senator from Connecticut Mr. DANAHER. At the top of page 26 the way we looked at the matter in the [Mr. DANAHER], and myself. All mem­ 1 bers of the committee on the side of the there appears the heading 'Supplemen­ committee when we had the subject un­ Senator from Ohio agreed to abide by the tal statement." Following that appears der consideration. For example, let us views as outlined by the junior Senator this language: take one of the graphs. I happened by from Connecticut. The supp!emental statement which the accident to have turned to page 34, where committee has caused to be attached is as I find this: Mr. T AFr. However, the full report follows: · was submitted to 'the committee. The Each week we get 4,500,000 telephone calls. committee' disagreed with it. Now, where did we cause it to be at­ Mr. President, it is perfectly clear that It was agreed that there should be a tached? If we will refer back to page 3, what is being referred to there is the general report submitted, and that the we will find that the concluding para­ Office of Price Administration; the ref­ supplemental statement should be at­ graph of the general statement reads as erence is not to Senators and not to the tached as an exhibit, to which I had no follows: committee, although I admit there are objection. It was not, however, to be a The hearings on these measures have been weeks when it seems to me that I get part of the report. The subcommittee to so voluminous ~nd so many witnesses have 4,500,000 telephone calls. The fact is which the matter was referred, consist­ appeared that the record includes more than that no part of the findings of the Senate ing of the Senators Whom the Senator 1,600 pages of testimony, graphE:, and other pertinent data. For the convenience of the Committee on Banking and Currency. has named, was authorized to carry out Senate, the committee has caused to be at­ It goes on to say: the wishes of the committee, but it was tached a supplemental statement which will Two million five hundred thousand let­ distinctly understood that the so-called be found to abstract relevant material of as­ ters- supplemental statement was not to be a sistance in understanding the background of part of the report. In my opinion, it has such problems as rationing, wage and salary An actual count in our offices will not simply incorporated all the evidence of stabilization, rent control, and other phases run quite so high, I admit--- the Office of Price Administration, which of our wartime stabilization program. At 6,000 applications for price increases, 1,500,- appropriate points this statement includes il­ 000 personal calls at 0. P. A. offices. constitutes a propaganda statement of lustrative graphs submitted by the Office of the position of' the Office of Price Admin­ Price Administration in the course of its It seems to me that a reference to the istration. It never was approved by the presentation. statement itself which is attached as a 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5125 supplemental statement will disclose that he would probably look mostly at the There being no objection, the bill in fact that is all it is. I hope with this graphs. (H. R. 2085) to provide for the disposi­ explanation the Senator from Ohio will Take page 46, from which I read: tion of tribal funds of the Minnesota concur ultimately. Has price control hurt small businessr Chippewa Tribe of Indians was consid­ Now, let me say further that, while it ered, order·ed to a third reading, read is true that in the compilation of this Then there is a series of figures tend- the third time, and passed. supplemental statement the omce of ing to show that small business has been Mr. SHIPSTEAD. With a view to the Price Administration, of course, had a benefited. Those figures are absolutely indefinite postponement of Senate bill great deal to do with its format and at variance with the figures of the Com­ 873, to provide for the disposition of trib­ preparation, it was under the super­ mittee on Small Business of the Senate. al funds of the Minnesota Chippewa vision of our legislative draftsmen, and They were prepared by the Price Admin­ Tribe o: Indians, I now enter a motion much of it was the work of Mr. Charles istration to prove their case. I do not to reconsider the vote by which the bill S. Murphy, the assistant legislative coun­ think they are actually in accord with was passed, and move that the House be sel, who was in constant attendance upon the facts at all. requested to return the bill to the Senate. our executive sessions. Take the statement about rents on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo­ Mr. MURDOCK. Mr. President, will pages 50 and 52. On page 50 is shown tion to reconsider the vote by which Sen­ the Senator yield? the fact that no rents have been in­ ate bill873 was passed will be entered. Mr. DANAHER. I am glad to yield. creased at all, but on page 52 the whele The question is on agreeing to the Mr. MURDOCK. It seems to me that thing is contradicted by saying that motion of the Senator from Minnesota the supplemental statement heading to "9,994 :,mall buildings show net operat­ that the House be requested to return which the Senator from Ohio objects is ing income up 44.4 percent." Certainly, Senate bill873 to the Senate. the very language that was mentioned if the small buildings were occupied by The motion was agreed to. during the discussions of the committee. tenants and there had been no rent in­ It was understood, as he says; that it creases, the landlord's costs certainly in­ INCREASE IN LIMITATION ON NATIONAL would accompany the report either un­ creased. The two things contradict each DEBT der the heading of an exhibit or as a other on their face. The Senate resumed the consideration supplemental or added statement. As I I think it was not intended that it be of the bill point a letter from Mr. Edward Flore, SON in the chair). Without objection, consequences were no deterrent :to the in-, general president of the Hotel and Res­ the clerk will read as requested. crease and a 30-percent rate was justified. In taurant Employees International Alli­ The legislative clerk read as follows: addition, it was recognized that it is not un­ ance, together with a resolution adopted TREASURY DEPARTMENT; usual in the case of new or increased excise­ unanimously by the executive council of Washington, May 18, 1944. tax rates for the volume of business to decline the American Federation of Labor. The Hon. WALTER F. GEORGE, temporarily, the decline t o be followed by a Chai1·man, Committee on Finance, recovery and stabilization at the new tax letter is as follows: United States Senate, level. .Unt11 there is available information HOTEL AND RESTAURANT EM- · Washi ngton, D. C. sufficiently reliable to indicate that these ef­ PLOYEES' INTERNATIONAL ALLI- MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Further reference fects are considerably greater than was an­ ANCE AND BARTENDERS' INTER­ is made to your letter of May 3, 1944, en­ ticipated, consideration of a change of rate N.~TIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA, closing a copy of i:lenate Joint Resolution 126 would not appear to be justified. Ci ncinnati, Ohio, May 26, 1944. (78th Cong., 2d sess.), entitled a "Joint reso­ One technical observation concerning the Hon. JAMES M. MEAD, lution to reduce the tax on admissions to resolution should be made. The increase tn Senate Office Building, caba!'ets, roof gardens, and similar enter­ the cabaret tax was made, along with other Washington, D. C. tainments," for consideration and report. war tax increases, through the enactment of DEAR SENATOR: The enclosed resolution was The bill proposes to amend section 1700 section 165() of the Internal Revenue Code, adopted unanimously by the executive coun­ (e) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code by and not by an amendment of section 1700 cil of the American Federation of Labor. striking out "30 percent" and inserting in (e) (1). The resolut ion should, therefore, Kindly read it into the records of the lieu thereof "10 percent." The amendment be directed to that part of section 1650 re­ United States Senate. would be applicable only after 10 a. m. on lated to the rate of tax imposed by section Sincerely yours, t ::e first day of the first month after the 170C (e) (1). EDWARD FLORE, enactment of the resolution. The Director, Bureau of the Budget, has Gen eraL Pr es ident. Sec'!;ion 302 of the Revenue Act of 1943 advised the Treasury Department that there is no objection to the presentation of this The resolution enclosed in the letter increased the rate of tax imposed by section 1700 (e) ( .? the Internal Re >'enue Code from repQrt. A copy of their letter is attached. reads as follows: 5 percent to 30 percent, effective 10 a. m., Very truly yours, Whereas the so-called cabaret tax, the April 1, 1944. When it first passeq the act, JOHN L. SULLIVAN, tax on amounts paid by guest in hotel dining the House of Representatlves voted a 30- Acting Secretary ot the Treasury. rooms, restaurants, roof gardens, cabarets, percent t ax on cabarets and a 20-percent tax EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, and the like, was increased sixfold, from on general admissions. In the Senate the BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, 5 percent to 30 percent by the Revenue Act cabaret tax was likewise fixed at 20 percent. washington, D. C., May 17, 1944. of 1943; and The House provisions subsequently prevailed The honorable the SECRETARY Whereas the increased tax has proved ex­ in the conference report which the Congress OF THE TREASURY. cessive, in that it has caused many hotel adopted. DEAR MR. SECRETARY: This Will acknowl­ dining rooms, restaurants, roof gardens, Since the effective· date of the legislation edge the receipt of the letter of May 15, cabarets, and the like to discontinue furnish­ two cl.anges in the cabaret trade have been 1944, from Administrative Assistant Bell, ing entertainment to patrons; and reported. First, it is asserted that there has transmitting the original and two copies o! Whereas as a result of the increased tax been some reduction in the volume of busi­ your proposed report to the chairman of many musicians, waiters, entertainers, and ness of places subject to the cabaret tax. the Senate Committee on Finance, relative other .employees have lost employment; and Second, it is reported that adjustments are to Senate Joint Resolution 126, a resolution Whereas members of the armed forces and being made in the manner in which these To reduce the tax on admissions to cabarets, persons of moderate inco.me and means have places are operated, designed either to re­ roof gardens, and similar eutertainments. been denied a source of entertainment, in move a particular place of business from the The resolution would reduce from 30 per­ that such persons cannot afford to pay a coverage of the tax or to reduce the cus­ cent to 10 percent the tax on admissions SO-percent tax on the amount spent in hotel tomer's bill to which the SO-percent tax is to cabarets, roof gardens, and similar enter- 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5127 tainments. Your proposed report discusses measure. I regardert it as a matter of with greater or less severity in different the effect on Treasury revenues of such a revenue, and I am still of the opinion places of the country upon the service reduction, and indicates that there is not that a 30-percent tax on cabarets will men and women who are on furlough or available sufficiently satisfactory .informa­ tion to show that continuance of the pres­ produce less revenue ·than a 20-percent who have returned from actual service ent 30-percent rate w111 result in any such tax, or even, perhaps, a 15-percent or a abroad. It has seemed to me that it is decrease in trade as to require the establish­ 10-percent tax. a sad thing that the Treasury Depart­ ment of a lower rate for the purpose of - But, Mr. President, I could not ap­ ment had to evolve a particular tax maintaining the revenue level contemplated prove, and I hope the Senate will not which fell so heavily on them·. As I have by the 30-percent rate. approve, a cabaret tax of 10 percent,·pri­ already stated, I tl;link that in Califor­ In reply, you are advised that there would marily for this reason: We are- in war. nia at least half the tax is now being be no objection to the submission of the Taxes are high; some of them extre:r;nely paid by servicemen and servicewomen. proposed adverse · report to the committ'ee, the original of which report is returned high; but they are war taxes. That is It is true we have a 20-percent inovie herewith. the only justification for them. The tax, but it should be noted that the ·serv­ Very truly yours, House and the Senate placed a tax of. icemen and women are exempted from PAUL H. APPLEBY, 20 percent on ordinary ~missions, and­ paying it. · Acting Director; I do not see how we can JUStify a tax of Would the. distinguished chairman of. 10 percent on the cabarets and yet collect the commit,tee thin~ it would be ·pi_'oper _ Mr. GEORGE. Mr. President, I have a 20-percent tax from· the ch.ildren of to take _to conference. for further con­ asked that the ·letter be read at the the country and persons who wish to go sideration . by the Treasury, an·- amend­ deslr in or<1H that the Seiiate . might to tlie ordinary, moving-picture theaters. ment to have the cabaret tax made 20 kn,·w the position taken by the Treas­ If the Senator will noLagree to a 20- · percent, but at the same time exempting Ury Department. When this matter percent tax, I think I shall have to move. the service men and womenQf the Nation arose in connection with the tax simpli-' t_o ·amend his amendment, because mY from paying even that tax? I am very fication bill, I stated that I ' personally judgment Js that the cabaret tax should_ sure. that 90 percent of. the American would not offer objection to an amend- . . not be more than 20 percent, ·and that people would immediately ·say "aye,. to ment reducir.g the cabal·et tax, but I . it should remain in line with the. other, such a proposal, and I believe it would stated at the same 'time;that when this' so-cailed luxury taxes,. especially the. remove a sore spot from the· hearts of matter arose -in the Se11ate Finance taxes on general admissions, which now many of the service men an_d women. ._ Commi-ttee it was the opinion of the· ma­ are 20 percent, as I have already stated: · Mr. GEORGE. ·Mr. President·, I would j.ority of the members of the committee At the same time lam convinced that' the not oppose an amendment of that kind. that the cabaret tax should be brought present cabaret tax will really_result in I think it would be very difficult for us to into line with the tax imposed on other a dedine in revenue. ; secure favorable action on it by'the con- so-called 'uxury entertainment or ar­ I should like to state further that my· . ferees~ in view of the fact that we _pre-_ ticle~ whicl1 were subjected t0 tax. observation has been that when_ the viously had the·- same question, or -sub­ The Senate Finance Committee recom­ members of the armed services, who are stantially the same one.. But if the mended a tax of 20 percent on cabarets." away from their homes, unacquainted in amendment is limited only to the tax on Subsequently the Senate approved that the cities .and towns which are located servicemen in uniform, I have rio :Objec­ recommendation, and also approved an near their camps or wherever they·may tion to it, because that was precisely amendment offered by the distinguished be stationed, have a day or 2 days off, what the Senate approved on a vote Senator f'rJm California lMr. DowNEY] they wish to have some form of recrea­ when the tax bill was before it. How­ exempting from the tax men and women tion or entertainment. They do not ever, I am afraid we would not be able in m1iform. · know the people of the city or of the to sustain it in .conference. ~ The tax bill, after passage in the nearby ·village. They feel at liberty to go Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. President, am I Senate, went to conference, and the to a place wh'ere there is a little music­ to understand, at least, that the distin­ House conferees, backed by strong state­ and some dancing. A 30-percent tax guished chairman of the committee is ments from the Treasury Department, thus levied on the men and women in the willing to accept that modification of the insisted that the provision exempting armed services, which is the effect of the amendment, namely, to have the amend­ se.rvice men and women from the cab­ cabaret tax, is a tax which very greatly ment made 20 percent, instead of 10 per­ aret tax would make the whole cabaret affects the attitude of the servicemen, cent? tax administratively impossible, and the and is a very great injustice to them. Mr. GEORGE. If it is made 20 per­ House conferees also insisted strongly But a reduction of the tax to 20 per­ cent, and if the exemption is limited to on the 30-percent rate on cabarets which cent is the only reduction I could favor men and women in uniform. the House had previously aNEW JERSEY Maitland Baldwin, June 15, 1944 Hannah S. Roberts, Chews. The following named officers of the Naval CONFIRMATIONS Charles E. Hauck, Clayton. Reserve to be assistant dental surgeons in Executive nominations confirmed by the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant (junior TEXAS grade) , to rank from the date stated op­ the Senate May 31 (legislative day, May Eugene Bottom, Abbott. posite their names: 9), 1S44: Viola Rose, Allen. George R. Cadman, August 10, 1942. THE JUDICIARY Robert E. Brinkley, Bloomburg. Edward K Hildreth, September 1, 1942. UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS Heins Ulrich, Burnet. William F . Brooks, September 1, 1~~ 2. Joseph F. Deeb to be United States attorney Clarice M. McDonald, Clarkwood. Charles R. Crook, September 1, 1942. for the western district of Michigan. Robert L. Eaton, Comanche. Allan L. Springer, September 2, 1942 Cleon A. Summers to be United St ates at­ Grover C. Hudson, Corsicana. Robert H . Plumer, October 5, 1942. torney for the eastern district of Oklahoma. Marcus L. Beck, Darrouzott. James T . Ashwell, October 5, 1942. Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., to be United St ates Walter 0. Cravens, Hon ey Grove. Edwin B. Nutting, November 2, 1942. att orney for the western district of Virginia. Faye Underwood, Mercury. Walter P . Whittaker, January 4, 1943 William H. Spratt, Mingus. John B. Ferris, February·3, 1943. UNITED STATES MARSHAL Bertha E. Obrecht, Nome. Edward S._Holman, March 15. 1943. Julius J. Wichser to be United States mar­ Fred N. Bland, Orangefield. Roger R. Nolop, April 5, 1943. shal for the sout hern district of Indiana. William D. Wall, Poolville. James M. Riley, April 14, 1943. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS Jesse S. Jones, Redwater. Floyd E. Dewhirst, Jr., May 4, 1943. Robert L. Shivers to be collector of cus­ Loren M. Waxler, May 10, 1943. WASHINGTON tom s for cust oms collection district No. 32, Alvin B. Noble, May 19, 1943. Carl T. Haskin, Almira. Donald E. Walker, May 20, 1943 . with headquart ers at Honolulu, T . H. Orley B. Gwin, Benton Cit y. Myron R. Pope, May 20, 1943 U N ITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Raphael H. Gossom, Clallam Bay. Dillard P. Eubank, Jr., May 31, 1943 PROMOTIONS IN THE REGULAR CORPS Harold. F. Peugh, Harrah. Frank L. Packwood, June 8, 1943. Maude R. Joyce, Kingston. To .be temporary surgeons, effective Lucy F. Bushnell, Napavine. William J . Dolan, June 15, 1943. April 1, 1944 Kenneth L. Brandt, July 21, 1943. Louis J. Rexroth, National. Arthur J. Block, July 25, 1943 Terrence E. Billings Robert C. Dunn Carey W. Green, Outlook. Jesse E. Owens, August 8, 1943. Harold T . Castberg Randall B. Haas Mary R. Creech, Vader. Wayne E. Hess, August 23, 1943. Louis F. Cleary Leon S . Saler Vernam T. Davis Wayne S. Paullus, October 6, 1943. Clarence A. Smith Wightman R. Dul~:.e Richard H. Smith George R. Rodelander, October 25, 1943. Robert D. Duncan Robert B. Murray, November 22, 1943. Nathan Rogers, Jr., December 1, 1943. To be temporary passed assistant surgeons, · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Gilbert H. Larson, 2d, December 6, 1943. effective April 1, 1944 Richard E. Gladziszewski, December 6, 1943. James L. Baker Harold J. Magnuson WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1944 Stanley T. Smith, December 10, 19-1 3. Donald J. Birmingham Robert E. Miller Lee H. Whitson, Jr., December 13, 1943. Paul C. Campbell, Jr. Charles W . Parker The House met at 12 o'clock noon, ana Frank L. Davis, December 20, 1943. John F. Flynn, Jr. Russell I. Pierce was called to order by the Speaker pro Donald J . Farr, December 20, 1943. William D. Hazlehurst Robert T. Potter tempore, Mr. COOPER. George F. Smith, December 20, 1943. Richard G. Henderson David E. Price The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Reuben W. McKee, Jr., January 5, 1944. Robert V. Holman Edmund J. Schmidt Montgomery, D. D., offered the follow­ William L. Darnall, Jr., January 10, 1944. James M. Hundley Charles C. Shepard ing prayer: Maurice M. Mosier, January 18, 1944. Llewellyn E. Kling Charles L. Williams, Jr. William M. Harper, January 24, 1944. Edward W. Kunckel Norman Wagner 0 God of light and Lord of love, how Ensign Joseph A. Kriz, U. S. Navy, to be To be temporary passed assiStant sanitary manifold are Thy mercies. Thou art a an assistant paymaster in the Navy with the engineers, effective ApriZ 1, 1944 perennial spring by the way, a guiding rank of ensign, to rank f1·om the 19th day Callis H. Atkins star in the night of uncertainty, a ref­ of Jun~ 1942. August T. Rossano, lr. uge immovable forever. Not in vain do 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5135 we call upon Thee in the emergencies of Thou preparest a table before me in tion Commission in 1937; reelected to the human experiences. Neither death, nor the presence of mine enemies; Thou United States Senate in 1938 and 1940; died life, nor power, nor any other creature November 22, 1943. anointest my head with oil; my cup run­ FREDERICK VAN NUYS, a Senator from the shall be able to sepante us from our neth over. State of Indiana: Born April 16, 1874; lawyer; Father upon earth. Whatever may come Surely goodness and mercy shall follow graduated from Earlham College, Richmond, of care, trial, or sorrow, sanctify them in me all the days of my life: and I will Ind., in 1898 and from the Indiana Law strength, in patience, and in victory. dwell in the house of the Lord forever. School at Indianapolis in 1900; prosecuting Thy servants whom we remember today attorney of Madison County, Ind., 1906-10; rest from their labors, and their works "Serene, I fold my hands and wait, member of the State senate, 1913-"16; served do follow them. The souls of the right­ Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; as president pro tempore in 19l5; chairman eous are in the hands of God. In the I rave no more. 'gainst time or fate, of the Democratic State committee, 1917-18; For, lo! my own shall come to me. United States attorney, district of Indiana, sir.l'1t of the unwise they seemed to die, 1920-22; elected to the United States Senate but they are at peace. Through Jesus "I stay my haste, I make delays, in 1932; reelected in 1938; died January 25, Christ our Lord. Amen. For what avails this eager pace? 1944. The reading of the Journal of the I stand amid the eternal ways, CHARLES LINZA MCNARY, a Senator from the And what is mine shall know my face. State of Oregon: Born June 12, 1874; lawyer; proceedings of Monday, May 29, 1944, jurist; student at Leland Stanford Junior was dispensed with, and the Jo11rnal was "Asleep, awake, by night or day, University, California; deputy district at• approved. The friends I seek are seeking me; torney of the third judicial district, 1906-13; RECESS No wind can drive my bark astray, dean of the law department of Willamette The SPEAKER pro tempore Harvard University, as well. terly attacked, so schemed against by Cambridge, Mass.; assistant instructor in Those who have known and worked those pretending to be his friends. But English, Harvard University, 1906-9; member with children come in time to under­ Lincoln is not dead. The good he did of the Colorado Civil Service Commission, stand that into every life that comes this is not interred with his bones. The 1917-18; private in the Seventeenth Observa­ way there is infused some special gift-a words he spoke at Gettysburg, the sim­ tion Battery, Field Artillery, Central Officers' gift that is unique and not quite like the ple honesty of his mind, the mighty Training School, October to December 1918; Member of the Seventy-third to the Seventy­ one which any other human being brings. majesty of his great rugged soul are eighth Congresses; manager 1933 impeach­ Many and various are tbese gifts which more impelling, more alive today than ment proceedings against Judge Harold God, through boys and girls and men and when he struggled, mortal, among men. Louderback; died December 9, 1943. women, seeks to bestow upon the world. And what are we to learn from Him WILLIAM HOWARD WHEAT, Nineteenth Con­ But somewhere in each one of use is car­ who died upon a cross, condemned to gressional District of Illinois: Born February ried a :flash of genius or a special skill, a death by those He lived to save, nailed 19, 1879; farmer, banker; st~dent Chaddock word or smile of strength and hope, an there by the soldiers of a heartless state College and Gem City Business College, understanding heart, which no one else that thought He could be killed? Are Quincy, Ill.; school treasurer of Rantoul Ill.; Member of the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-sev­ in all of life can give mankind unless he we so blind as to believe that that Good enth, and Seventy-eighth Congresses; died does so. Only those who know a man Friday was a day of failure and defeat? January 16, 1944. the best can truly value him, or see just No! We cannot be. The very soul of LEONARD WILLIAM SCHUETZ, .Seventh Con­ where and when and how he casts his the religion we prof€ss is only to be gressional District of Illinois: Born November precious stone upon the waters of this found in understanding that Easter 16, 1887; stenographer and secretary; busi­ life to make their movement different Resurrection never comes unless Good nessman; student Lane Technical High and a bit more beautiful than could have Friday goes before it. Death and resur­ School and Bryant & Stratton Business Col­ lege, Chicago, Ill.; Member of the Seventy­ been the case had he not passed this way. rection were not, are not, two events but second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Sev­ It was the Master Himself who told one. enty-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, us: "Except a corn of wheat fall into the The one creative power in all .expe­ and Seventy-eighth Congresses; died Febru- ground and die it abideth alone; but if it rience is self -sacrificing devotion. Out ary 13, 1944. . die, it bringeth forth much fruit." Only of the travail of motherhood the child is THOMAS HENRY CULLEN, Fourth Congres­ as the seed returns to the ground from born. No mighty music or great work of sional District of New York: Born March 29, whence it sprang can its life be renewed art, no poem of power or book of worth, 1868; businessman; graduate St. Francis Col­ in the plant whose potential beauty and no law of justice or religious truth-not lege, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1880; member of the State Assembly, 1896-98; State senator 1899- usefulness lay locked within that seed. one of these things has come into this 1918; delegate to the Democratic National So let it be with our· departed col­ world except where he who brought it Conventions in 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, leagues. May the good seed they have gave of himself, made sacrifice to bring 1932; alternate delegate 1940; Member of the planted be so nourished and tended by it here. Sixty-sixth to the Seventy-eighth Congresses, the honor we do their memory that the Death, then, is but the greatest sac- inclusive (thirteen successive Congresses); work they began may live on to benefit . rifice. It is then· man gives his all. died March 1, 1944. mankind. JAMES ALoYsius O'LEARY, Eleventh Con­ ''Greater love hath no man than this, gressional District of New York. Born April The history of mankind teaches us that a man lay down his life for his 23, 1889; businessman; student St. Peter's repeatedly this great truth; that it is friends." The bodies of these our col­ Academy, Augustinian Acadenn. and Wester­ in death that somehow good men and leagues in the House have been com­ leigh Collegiate Institute, Staten Island, women and truly great men and women mitted to the ground. The same earth N. Y.; general manager and vice president gain the fullest measure of their power holds them that holds the bodies of those North Shore Ice Co., 1920-34; Member of the and are able to exert their greatest cre­ Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, soldiers, sailors, and marines who today ative in:tluence upon their fellow . so­ around the world give all they have­ Seventy-seventh, and Seventy-eighth Con­ journers upon this strange and oft­ gresses; died March 16, 1944. times baffling little planet. The great their very lives-that other people may Mrs. NORTON, a Representative from musicians, authors, and inventors have · be free. Death is supreme sacrifice; the State of New Jersey, standing in died in poverty, unheralded and unsung, sacrifice is the soul of creative power; front of the Speaker's rostrum, placed a their work rejected by mankind. Yet creative power is of God. memorial rose in a vase as the name of after their mortal bodies have ceased to Only in death is life made whole and each deceased Member was read by the walk the earth generations of men and perfect. The awesome mystery that sur­ Clerk. women have lived to honor them and­ rounds the passing of the soul from its Then followed 1 minute of devotional what is of a great deal more impor­ body finds its counterpart in the utterly silence. tance-have brought literally to life the inexplicable miracle of birth. No scien­ The CHAPLAIN. Through Jesus Christ very minds of such men through their tific explanation in cold biological terms our Lord and our Saviour. Amen. symphonies, their books and poems, of the mere process that accompanies Hon. JERRY VOORHIS, a Represent­ their inventions. the coming of a new life into this world ative from the State of California, deliv­ While he lived Galileo was condemned has even so much as scratched the sur­ ered the following address: a heretic for teaching the truth· about face of the profound miracle that inheres Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. the structure of the solar sy:;tem. But in the mighty fact that new life is pos­ Speaker, since the last memorial service in death he has taught generations of sible, that God shares with men and held il.\ this chamber, 10 Members of the these things. women His own creative powers. 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5137 And so with death. We only know created and especially of all to whom the good they did upon this earth live on that somehow the body has lost its vital He has given life. after them through the efforts of us element. Its chemical composition is not THE MYSTIC who called them friends. Ours is the altered; its weight has not changed. Ex­ There is a quest that calls me, torch they have laid down-these Mem­ cept for a deeper repose than it has ever In nights when I am alone, bers of the House and Senate and men known its outward appearance is much The need to ride where the ways· divide like them around the world today. the same. And yet the force we know as The known from the unknown. Their memory, their influence, their very life is gone from it. The one thing which, I mount what thought is near me spirit on this· earth will live if we keep residing there, possessed significance and And soon I reach the place, faith with them. May the peace of God p0wer and beauty has found escape. The tenuous rim where the seen grows dim which passeth understanding keep their We know, do we not, in our heart of And the sightless hides its face. hearts and minds this day and always, hearts that another miracle has taken I have ridden the wind, and may His inspiration guide and spur place? We know it is not an end we wit­ I have ridden the sea, us on as we strive to hold high the torch ness but completion of life's cycle with I have ridden the moon and stars. they have passed on to us. the return whence it came of ,a portion I have set my feet in the stirrup seat Corp. Glenn Darwin· sang Abide With of the expression in personality of the Of a comet coursing Mars. · Me. And everywhere life and power of God. Through the earth and air Hon. KARL E. MUNDT, P. Representa­ It was Christ Jesus Himself who gave My thought speeds, lightning-shod, tive from the State of South Dakota, de­ His life to teach us this lesson. "I go to It comes to a place where, checking pace, livered the following address: My Father," He said. And again to the It cries, "Beyond lies God I" Mr. MUNDT. Mr. Speaker, we meet repentent thief there on the cross beside It calls me out of the darkness, today for a purpose which has the dig­ Him, "Today shalt thou be with Me in It calls me out of sleep, nity and tenderness of funeral rites Paradise." It is remarkable, I think, that "Ride I ride I for you must, to the end of without their acute sadness. We are we have clothed that word with meaning dust!" drawn together today not by a new be­ so foreign to our own experience. For It bids-and on I sweep reavement but one which time has sof­ what greater paradise to the worn and To the wide outposts of being, tened and mellowed. We are here to pay tired traveler than to return to his own Where there is gulf alone- tribute to those Members of the Senate home at nightfall? And where, but to And thro' a vast that was never passed and the House who have joined the realm the Father from whence He came, could I listen for life's tone. of the invisible since we last met here a that greatest of all human souls have I have ridden the wind, year ago in a memorial service. It is our I have ridden the night, sought to go? I have ridden the ghosts that fiee privilege today to honor those who have We are wrong if we mourn for those From the vaults of death like a chllling passed on. We freshen with the dew of whose work is done, whose hour of breath recollection the fragrant blossoms~ of love labor on this earth is f..nished. Only Over eternity. and understanding wreathed about the our own ~oss should cause us pain. For And everywhere memories of our departed. We <1o well even as with glad and thankful hearts Is the world laid bare- to pause annually for an occasion such we welcome the newborn babe, so with Ether and star and clod­ as this. We approach this session with understanding and insight into life's Until I wind to its brink and find eyes undimmed by tears but with hearts true meaning we should regard the But the cry, "Beyond lies God!" filled with the tender thoughts of re­ final miraculous escape of the soul of It calls me and ever calls me I membrance and retrospection. We meet And vainly I reply, here not only to honor the memory of a. man or woman from the body that "Fools only ride where the ways divide has held it a brief moment on this What is from the whence and why!" those who have gone but to remind our­ earth. I'm lifted into the saddle selves-that soon or late each of us must The physicist tells Us that matter is Of thoughts too strong to tame hearken to the call and take our place indestructible, that even fire has no And down the deeps and over the steeps with those preceding us in the silent halls power to destroy but only to transform. I find-ever the same. of death, there to bivouac together in our Can any man with power of reflection I have ridden the wind, low green tents waiting the reveille and and quiet thought regard this universe I have ridden the stars, the reunion of the resurrection. with its ordered suns and stars, this I have ridden the force that flies Joseph Addison once represented hu­ earth blessed with water, soil, and air, With far intent thro' the firmament manity as a great throng passing over a the power of growth of all its living And each to each allies. bridge, having numerous secret trap things, as but a series of unrelated And everywhere doors, which unexpectedly open now and That a thought may dare then letting the passengers pass through accidents? Can any man regard the To gallop, mine has trod- growth of mind from the dawn of un­ Only to stand at last on the strand until toward the end of the last span no derstanding in the ice caves of a far­ Where just beyond lies God. one remains to pass. What a true pic­ o:I:I age to the spiritual communion of -Cale Young Rice. ture of life that represents. Some are a church, the sweep of knowledge of a nipped in the bud, others fall at blossom school or the intellectual interchanges Yesterday our colleagues stood with us time, some fall by the wayside at mid­ of a parliament-can this great fact be on "the strand where just beyond lies maturity, and few there are who are sensed at all without belief in God? God." Today they have crossed over. privileged to ripen and retain their This mighty existence of which we find Today they understand. No longer do earthly functions beyond their allotted ourselves, for reasons utterly beyond they search for explanations and for three score years and ten. We who serve our ken, a part, did not just happen. truth. They are gone beyond the veil together in the Congress of the United There is an Author, Sculptor, Artist, that cloaks the answers to all mysteries States know that each year sees the pass­ what you will, who has shaped and pat­ from those of us who still must live. It ing of a certain number of our associates terned it. And His highest of all works is not in mourning that we-honor them. into the realm beyond and above the is the mind and soul of man. Is the But rather in seeing that to us is given valley. Slowly but surely our ranks are work and travail of creation to be rea­ one great duty and the opportunity and . constantly thinned. We pause on the sonably believed to be for naught? To means of being true to their memory. speedy highway of life today to commem­ say so is to speak what palpably is not For we can dedicate ourselves to strug­ orate the lives of those who have an­ and never can be true. No! This is gling to complete the work which they swered the distant call. no mockery. God's gr~atest work does began. These whose memory we honor As we pause together to pay tribute to not die. He takes it home to Himself here today, now see face to face the the departed, we find courage in the fact again. . meaning of all life and death and sac­ that life does not end with the lapse of Who has not looked upon the stars and rifice and creative love. For where they mortal breath. We are buoyed by the wondered at the power that holds them are, there the Source of Life resides. evidences of life after death which Na­ in their courses? And who thus won­ Let us turn then with understanding ture provides us in every environment. dering has not known that that power to the uncompleted task of building that The beautiful sunset is but the begin­ is one of pw-pose, of intelligence, of better world which those who have gone ning of a glorious sunrise. Twilight finds absolute inclusiveness of all He has before have helped make possible. May its inspiring finish in the dawn. The dry 5138 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 31 leaves descending in the fall provide the gave their lives in the service of their A hasty glance at the conditions in rich mulch to protect the tender shoots country. Their passing left the Nation countries where there are no legislative of life reappearing in the spring. When · poorer but their services here in Congress bodies on the national level of where we go down into the valley of the shadow helped to shape its course toward great­ such bodies simply serve to reenforce the it can be said that we have finished the ness. edicts of the vain men who dominate day's work, but it cannot be said that In this particular memorial service, their countries convinces the severest we have finished our lives. Our day's held as it is during the anguish of a great skeptic that government by benefit of work will begin anew with the following and awful war, we who gather here meet Congress at its worst is far superior to morning. The tomb is not a blind alley with a full appreciation of the fact that government bereft of Congress at its or a dead-end street. It is a thorough­ each day and night hundreds of new best. fare. As it closes on the twilight, it opens white crosses are being erected to Ameri­ While the hearts and minds of our on the dawn. Edith Davis Rowe ex­ can military heroes who have gone to colleagues, both alive and dead, have pressed it well when she wrote: sojourn with our departed associates in been saddened and burdened at times by Some day our ears will cease to hear, the realms of eternity. As we honor our unconscionable and unjustifiable at­ Our limbs will cease to walk, own absent Members today, let us, there­ tacks upon their patriotism, their pur­ Our eyes will close to mortal scenes, fore, add to their lists in our praise and poses, and their personalities, the Nation Our tongue no more will talk; our prayers all of their predecessors in itself has cause to rej~e that its Con­ Our hands will never work again, the Congress and the men and women of gress has stood up to these attacks, :fight­ Our heart will stop its beat, America who have died and are yet to die ing back at times and at others simply But yet for years our work will stay To make our lives complete. in the service of their country. turning its back to the storm, but ever The things we made will still be used, THESE ARE DIFFICULT DAYS IN CONGRESS and always fixing its eyes on its stand­ The things we write be read, ards and refusing to surrender. The things we've sald will, too, live on American history has recorded no If I were a minister of the gospel and In others' minds instead. more difficult or important time to serve were going to select a text to weave into And so our lives go on and on in Congress than the present. The this address, I would go to the Psalms Through generations more, Seventy-seventh Congress which tus­ 118, and use the twenty-second verse, The products of the human mind seled with the pre-war problems and the Are tripled by the score. "The stone which the builders rejected tasks of rearmament and the Seventy~ has become the stone of the corner." Good deeds survive the human trail; eighth Congress . which provides the The gradual evolution of Congress to kind words never die. Our bodies may sinews of war and the legislative support its present position as the keystone of vanish from the scene of action, but the for the most costly and calamitous con­ freedom and self-government in this Re­ influence of our 1ives, well lived, con­ flict in human history have been the most public is in harmony with the Biblical tinues with the endlessness of eternity. trying and exacting Congresses in the admonition which I have just cited. In Yea, verily, in the words of the beautiful years of our Republic. The pressure of his struggle to master the art of govern­ long hours and multitudinous tasks, the song we have heard this morning, there ment, m~n was slow to turn to an as­ is no death. By our everyday deeds as strain of anxious decisions on momentous sembly of his associates as the device we work along we determine in part our problems, the worry of responsibilities through which to maintain order, protect individual grasp upon eternity. Wise pregnant with significance for all time the weak, and regulate the strong. He King Solomon expressed it rather to come, have taken their toll among our experimented down through the ages tersely, albeit truthfully, when he said associates in Congress as they have on with sages and savants, with tyrants and in Proverbs x: 7: "The memory of the the :fields of battle. despots, with medicine men and poten­ just is blessed, but the name of the Only a knave or a fool could wear tates. He turned to princes and kings, to wicked shall rot." lightly the heavy obligations which are queens and dukes and lords. Only after A poet whose name has been lost in his as a Member of Congress in this losing his faith in the rule of hereditary anonymity although his words have at­ desperate juncture of our national his­ houses and regal men down through the tained immortality put it this way: tory. The combination of nights made sad experiences of centuries did man fi­ sleepless by reflection upon what would nally turn to himself and his fellows as Not-how did he die? comprise the best decision on the morrow But-how did he live? the source from which sound government Not-what did he gain? and of days made restless by the tortur­ could best be sought. But-what did he give? ing turmoil of our times has not limited its demands by exacting the lives of those Even in the founding days of this Re­ These are the units public, the position of the great insti­ To measure the worth whom we are met here today to com­ Of a man as a man memorate. We can also read its heavy tution of Congress came only as a com­ Regardless of birth. toll in the faces and the bodies of those promise between those who feared the Not-what was his station with whom we are presently associated people and those who were suspect of But-had he a heart? in the mighty decisions of our daily lives. the king. And-how did htt play Now after over 150 years of self-rule His God-given part? Truly, these are not easy times in which to serve in Congress. and of congressional control over purse Was he ever ready and sword, this great legislative stone­ With a word of good cheer GOVERNMENT BY BENEFIT OF CONGRESS IS BEST To bring back a smile the Congress-which the builders of To banish a tear? If those who see Congress only from government for ages rejected has truly Not-what was his church? the outside and juqge it only by its errors become the head of the temple of self­ Nor what was his creed? a.nd its weaknesses could but follow its government in America. And as the key­ But-had he befriended individual Members to their homes and stone of freedom in this Republic, it has Those really in need? live with them, sharing their thoughts become the lodestone of freedom for all Not what did the sketch In the newspaper say­ and emotions for just a single month, the world. Men and women, wan and But-how many were sorry the carping criticism of writers and weary with war, turn yearning eyes in When he passed away? speakers which has sometimes risen to our direction and vow to themselves in almost a crushing crescendo would be their despair that in the glad days of Those of us who knew personally the projected with the moderation of a bet­ tomorrow, they will erect governments in 3 Members of the Senate and the 10 ter understanding,. It is an ancient which they, themselves, can be the rulers Members of the House who have passed truism that the water is never missed as well as the ruled. away since last we met in memorial serv­ until' the well is dry. Even the most Strangely enough, in the uncertain ices realize that the genuine sorrow and brazen and hyperbolic critics of Congress happenchance of life across the years, fond memories which followed their de­ whose pens and words sometimes drip many of those who have dealt most un­ parture give eloquent testimony to the with the hateful brine of personal venom fairly and unjustly with Congress have high measure of worth which attached to would retire into silence if the alternative had occasion to seek assistance or pro­ each of those no longer able to respond to of no Congress at all were substituted tection from the very branch of Gov­ the calling of the roll. In a very real for either a good Congress, or an indif­ ernment which they so callously con­ sense these Senators and Representatives ferent Congress. demned. In truth, these men and groups 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5139 have been rescued from a fate which But, God, the thought was great, home to make all things come right. But might well have been theirs had their The scheme, the dream-why, tlll .the first we can help to provide an environment charm broke, vicious sneak attacks been more success­ The thing just built itself, while I, elate, which will encourage rectitude and make ful. Thus, these constant critics many Laughed and admired it. Then it stuck, equity a permanent guest. We who now times have secured dividends as a result Half done, the lesser half, worse luck! serve in Congress are not the only Mem­ of their own impotence. I think Ralph You see, it's dead as yet, a frame, a body­ bers of the House and Senate in our Waldo Emerson must almost have had and the heart, Nation's history. Others have been here Congress in mind and must have en­ The soul, the fiery vital part before and others yet will follow us. But visaged some of the smear attacks di­ To give it life, is what I cannot get. I've we are the only ones who hold office rected at it in modern times when he tried- here today. Thus, in a very real sense we You know it-tried to catch live fire wrote his poem, A Nation's Strength. And pawed cold ashes. Every spark has died. are the head of the temple. We cannot Permit me to quote a verse or two from It won't come rig.b.tl I'd drop the thing do the job alone, but without our help it: entire, the big job can never be done rightly. What builds the nation's pillars high Only-I can't I I love my job. For the next 7 months at least we must And its :oundations strong You, who ride the thunder, love our job and to it give our very best. What makes it mighty to defy Do you know what it 1s to dream and drudge If the 13 absent ones whom w~ honor The foes that round lt throng? and throb? today could speak to us from out of the Not gold, but only men can make I wonder. vast beyond, their message would be to A people great and strong; Did it come at you with a rush, your dream, carry on for freedom, for America, for Men who, for truth and honor's sake, your plan? Stand fast and suffer long. humanity, in the name of our colleagues If so, I know how you began. who have gone, and of our fighting Brave men who work while others sleep Yes; with rapt face an,d sparkling eyes, Who dare while others fly- Swinging the hot globe out between the heroes scattered throughout the world. They build a Nation's pillars deep skies, . For 1 month and half a year, at And lift them to the sky. Marking the new seas with their white beach least, we are the fire and flower and We who are here today may well thank lines, center of it all. We must ... nake things Ol!r eternal God that men of the type Sketching in sun and moon, the lightning come right. With God at our side and and the rains, · our eyes on the stars, let us work at our of whom Emerson wrote have been so Sowing the hills with pines, numerous in America. In peacetime and Wreathing a rim of purple round the plains: job to the end that a fair chance for a in war, on the battlefield and on the I know you laughed then, while you caught free people may be the. earthly heritage home front, in public and. in private life, and wrought of every babe that is born in ~his and a great and goQd God has blessed this The big, swift, rapturous outline of your every other country. We mortals who Republic with enough men and women thought. have so badly bungled the universe of the willing to stand fast and suffer long to And then-· Creator now face our greatest oppor­ build this Nation's pillars so deep and Men. tunity. As God gives us the wisdom to lift them so high that today the beacon I see it now. see what is right let us master our jobs in light which is the United States signals 0, God, forgive my pettish row I a manner to do honor to those who are to all the world to join us in attaining I see your job. While ages crawl, gone and to bring honor to those who are Your lips take laboring lines, your eyes a here. nobler objectives by employing the sadder light, precepts of brotherly love and by fol­ For man, the fire and flower and center of Musician Edward Masters, United lowing the teachings of. the Man of Gal­ it an- States Marine Band Orchestra, sounded ilee. It is men of this type whom we Man won't come right! Taps. are gathered here today to honor. It After your patient centuries, The Chaplain pronounced the follow- is men of this type who must carry on Fresh starts, recastings, tired Gethsemanes ing benediction: · at home and abroad during this tragic And tense Golgothas, he, your central theme, The Lord bless you and keep you; the Is just a jangling echo of your dream. Lord make His face to shine upon you era. It is men and women of this type Grand as the rest ma~ be, he ruins it. who r.mst seek communion with their Why don't you quit? and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift God in the shaping of a world afteF the Crumple it all and dream again! But, no­ up His countenance upon you and give war which will get civilization back in Flaw after fiaw, you work it out, revise, you peace, both now and evermore. gear and help · in bringing to greater refine- Amen. Bondage, brutality, and war, and woe AFTER RECESS numbers the blessings of more lasting The sot, the fool, the tyrant, and the mob­ peace and greater equities. Dear God, how you must love y~ur job! At the conclusion of the recess the WE MUST MAKE THINGS COME RIGHT Help me, as I love mine. Speaker pro tempore, Mr. COOPER, called Out in the sky-touching mountains of Friend.;, what a challenge the patience the House to order. South Dakota-the Black Hills-lives a and perseverance of the Creator pro­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pur­ great American known to many of you vides for each of us as we hew to our suant to the provisions of House Resolu­ by his literary works. I refer to the jobs. In a world wicked and weary with tion 538, as a further mark of respect poet laureate of South Dakota, Badger war, we can take fresh hope that out of to the memory of the deceased Members, Clark. In my opinion, the greatest work it all will come something bt...tter. We the House will stand adjourned until 11 - that Badger Clark has ever written is labor today under the grim red shadow o'clock a.m., tomorrow. his poem The Job. I want to read it to of an awful war because men will not ADJOURNMENT you now, as typifying a theme which come right. Or should we say, more Accordingly , under its previous order, the· lenges which we confront and give us carnage and conflict because up to now House adjourned until tomorrow, Thurs­ courage and hope when we feel futile in men have not come right? What of to­ day, June 1, 1944, at 11 o'clock a. m. our grapple with the imponderables morrow? And the day after·? Men must which lie ahead of us. come right. A kind Providence has given us the tools for success. We can think EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. THE JOB and reason. We can work and laugh and Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive But, God, it won't come rightf it won't come sing. We can talk and write and pray. communications were taken from the right! Speaker's table a~d referred as follows: I've worked it over till my brain is numb. We can remember and we can plan The first flash came so bright, ahead. Men must come right, and with 1583. A letter from the Secretary of War, Then more ideas after it-flash !-flash I-I them must come a rightly acting world. transmitting a letter from the Chief o! Engi· thought ·it some neers, United States Army, dated April 11, We who are here today cannot do it 1944, submitting a report, together with ac­ New Constellation men would wonder at. all. But we can do something. We in Perhaps its just a firework-flash I Flss I companying papers and illustrations, on a Spat! America cannot reform the world. But preliminary examination and survey o! Black• Then darker darkness .. nd scorched paste­ we can help. We in our legislative seats stone River, Mass., and R. I., and Seekonk board and sour smoke. cannot refashion human nature here at River, R. I., for flood control and !or other 5140 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 31 purposes, authorized by the Flood Control ment of certain Navy and civilian personnel Mr. ABERNETHY: Committee on Claims. Act approved on June 22, 1936 (H. Doc. No. for personal property lost as the result of a H. R. 2150. A bill for the relief of Diemer 624); to the Committee on Flood Control and fire in hangar V-3 at the naval air station, Adison Coulter and Frances Andrews Coulter; ordered to be printed with seven illustrations. Norfolk, Va., on November 12, 1942; without with amendment {Rept. No. 1552). Re­ 1584. A letter from the Secretary of War, amendment {Rept. No. 1571). Referred to ferred to the Committee of the Whole House. transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi­ the Committee of the Whole House on the Mr. ABERNETHY: Committee on Claims. neers, United States Army, dated April 11, state of the Union. H. R. 2151. A bill for the relief of Elizabeth 1944, submitting a report, together with ac­ Mr. O'HARA: Committee on Interstate and Powers Long; with amendment {Rept. No. companying papers and an illustration, on a Foreign Commerce. S. 1660. An act grant­ 1553). Referred to the Committee of the preliminary examination and survey of Bill ing the cons.ent of Congress to the Minne­ Whole House. Williams River, Ariz., and Big Sandy River, in sota Department of Highways and the county Mr. RAMEY: Committee on Claims. H. R. Arizona, from the junction of Trout Creek and of Crow Wing in Minnesota to construct, 2473. A bill for the relief of James Wilson; Knight Creek on the north to the Bill Williams maintain, and operate a free highway bridge with amendment (Rept. No. 1554). Referred River on the south, made under the authority across the Mississippi River at Mill Street in to the Committee of the Whole House. of the Flood Control Act approved on August Brainerd, Minn.; without amendment (Rept. Mr. SCRIVNER: Committee on Claims. H. 28, 1937 (H. Doc. No. 625); to the Committee No. 1572; . Referred to the House Calendar. R. 2903. A bill for the relief of the washing­ on Flood Control and ordered to be printed, Mr. WINTER: Committee on Interstate and ton Asphalt Co.; with amendment (Rept. with an illustration. Foreign Commerce. H. R. 4041. A bill to No. 1555). Referred to the Committee of 1585. A letter from the Secretary of War, amend the act relating to the construction the Whole House. transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi­ and maintenance of a bridge across the Mis­ Mr. ABERNETHY: Committee on Claims. neers, United States Army, dated April 11, souri River at or near Nebraska City, Nebr.; H. R. 2919. A bill for the relief of Michael 194.4, submitting a report, together with ac­ without amendment (Rept. No. 1573). Re­ Eatman, Jr., and Mr. Michael Eatman, Jr.; companying papers and an illustration, on a ferred to the House Calendar. without amendment {Rept. No. 1556). Re· preliminary examination and survey of Napa Mr. MYERS: Committee on Interstate and ferred to the Committee of the Whole House. River above Suscol, Calif., for flood control, Foreign Commerce. H. R. 4206. A bill to au­ Mr. CARSON of Ohio: Committee on authorized by the Flood Control Act approved thorize the construction and operation of a Claims. H. R. 3152. A bill for the relief of on June 28, 1938 (I!. Doc. No. 626); to the 'bridge across the Monongahela River in the Mr. and Mrs. Cicero B. Hunt; with amend­ Committee on Flood Control and ordered to county of Allegheny, Pa.; with amendment ment (Rept. No. 1557). Referred to the Com­ be printed, with an illustration. {Re: ';, No. 1574). Referred to the House mittee of the Whole House. 1586. A letter from the Secretary of War, Calendar. Mr. SCRIVNER: Committee on Claims. transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi­ Mr. MYERS: Committee on Interstate and H. R. 3431. A bill for the relief of the Home neers, United States Army, dated May 15, Foreign Commerce. H. R. 4207. A bill to au­ Insurance Co. of New York; without amend­ 1944, submitting a report, together with ac­ thorize the construction and operation of mont {Rept. No. 1558). Referred to the Com­ companying papers and an illustration on a a bridge across the Monongahela River in mittee of the Whole House. preliminary examination and survey· of Red the county of Allegheny, Pa.; with amend­ Mr. GOODWIN: Committee on Claims. H. River in the vicinity of Shreveport, La., with ment (Rept. No.1575). Referred to the House R. 3467. A bill for the relief of Miss Anne a view to· determining the advisability of pro­ Calendar. r Watt; with amendment (Rept. No. 1559). viding bank-protection works, authorized by Mr. SPARKMAN: Committee on Military Referred to the Committee o! the Whole the Flood Control Act approved on August Affairs. H. R. 3199. A bill to authorize the House. 18, 1941 (H. Doc. No. 627); to the Committee appropriation, for expenditure by the Office of Mr. MILLER of Missouri: COmmittee on on Flood Control and ordered to be printed, Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, Claims. H. R. 3481. A bill for the relief or with an illustration. o! certain amounts received from services o! J. William Ingram; with amendment {Rept. 1587. A letter from the Secretary of war, conscientious objectors; with amendment No. 1560) · Referred to the Committee of the transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi­ (Rept. No. 1581). Referred to the Commit­ Whole House. -neers, United States Army. dated April 22, tee of the Whole House on the state of the Mr. JENNINGS: Committee on Claims. H. 1944, submitting a report, together with ac­ Union. R. 3511. A bill for. the relief or the Lebanon companying papers and illustrations, on a Woolen Mills, Inc.; without amendment review of reports on and a preliminary exam­ (Rept. No. 1561). Referred to the Committee REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE of the-whole House. ination ancl survey of the Chariton River, BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Iowa and Mo., requested by a resolution of Mr. CHENOWETH: Committee on Claims. the Committee on Flood Control, House of Under clause 2 of rule XIII, repor-ts of H. R. 3549. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Emily Representatives, adopted on February 10, committees were delivered to the Clerk Reily; with amendment {Rept. No. 1562). 1938, and authorized by the Flood Control for printing and reference to the proper Referred to the Committee of the Whole Acts approved on August 28, 1937, and June calendar, as follows: House. 28, 1938 (H. Doc. No. 62-8); to the Committee Mr. ABERNETHY: Committee on Claims. Mr. SAUTHOFF: Committee on Claims. H. R. 4024. A bill for the relief of Victoria on Flood Control and ordered to be printed, S. 754. An act for the relief of Iver M. Ges­ with two illustrations. Cormier; with amendment (Rept. No. 1563). teland; without amendment (Rept. No. 1545). 1588. A letter from the Secretary of War, Referred to the Committee of the Whole Referred to the Committee of the Whole House. transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi­ House. ~ Mr. CHENOWETH: Committee on Claims. neers, United States Army, dated April 11, Mr. CHENOWETH: Committee on Claims. 1944, submitting an interim report, together H. R. 4050. A bill for the relief of Leo Ed­ S. 1093. An act for the relief of Fermin ward Day and Phillip Tamborello; with with accompanying papers and illustrations, Salas; without amendment {Rept. No. 1546). on a review of reports on Winooski River and amendment (Rept. No. 1564). Referred to Referred to the Committee of the Whole the Committee of the Whole House. tributaries, Vermont, in the interest of flood House. contrOl and allied purposes, requested by a Mr. SAUTHOFF: Committee on Claims. Mr. STIGLER: Committee on Claims. H. R. 4101. A bill for the relief of P. E. Brannen~ resolution of the Committee on Flood Con­ S. 1281. An act for the relief of Rebecca A. trol, House of Representatives, adopted on Knight and Martha A. Christian; without with amendment (Rept. No. 1565). Referred June 20, 1940 {H. Doc. No. 629); to the Com­ amendment (Rept. No. 1547). Referred to to the Committee of the Whole House. mittee on Flood Control and ordered to be the Committee of the Whole House. Mr. CHENOWETH: Committee on Claims. printed, with four illustrations. Mr. SAUTHOFF: Committee on Claims. H. R. 4197. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ada S. 1305. ALl act for the relief of Anne Rebecca Mae Cushman; with amendment (Rept. No. 1566). Referred to the Committee of the REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC Lewis and Mary Lewis; without amendment {Rept. No. 1548). Referred to the Committee Whole House. BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of the Whole House. Mr. MILLER of Missouri: Committee on Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of Mr. McGEHEE: Committee on Claims. S. Claims. H. R. 4226. A bill for the relief of committees were delivered to the Cieri{ 1553. An act for the relief of J. M. Miller, H. F. Owen; with amendment (Rept. No. James W. Williams, and Gilbert Theriot; 1567). Referred to t11e Committee of the for printing and reference to the proper without amendment (Rept. No. 154.9). Re­ Whole House. calendar, as follows: ferred to the Committee of the Whole House. Mr. RAMEY: Committee on Claim'S. H. R. Mr. McGI::HEE: Committee on Claims. Mr. MILLER of Missouri: Committee on 4439. A bill for the relief of Dennis C. O'Con­ S. 1714. An act to reimburse certain Claims. H. R. 262. A bill for the relief of nell; with amendment (Rept. No. 1568). Re­ Coast and Geodetic Surny and Marine Mrs. J. C. Romberg; without amendment ferred to the Committee of the Whole House. Corps personnel for personal property. lost (Rept. No. 1550). Referred to the Committee Mr. PITTENGER: Committee on Claims. or damaged as the result of a fire at the of the Whole House. H. R. 4707. A bill for the relief of J. Fletcher Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va., on December Mr. ABERNETHY: Committee on Claim'S. Lankton and John N. Ziegele; without amend­ 16, 1943; without amendment (Rept. No. H. R. 1040. t bill for the relief of Frank ment (Rept. No. 1569). Referred to the Com­ - 1570). Referred to the Committee of the Henderson and Frances Nell Henderson, his mittee of the Whole House. _Whole House on the state of the Union. wife; with amendment (Rept. No. 1551). Mr. PETERSON of Florida: Committee on Mr. McGEHEE: Committee on Claims. S . . Referred to the Committee of the Whole the Public Lands. H. R. 4095. A bill con­ 1741. An act to provide for the reimburse- House. firming the claim of Robert Jollnson r.nd -' · 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5141 other heirs -ot Monroe Johnson to certain Grant that this may be a day of in­ TRAFFic IN OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS Di!UGS lands in the State of ·Mississippi, county of sight and of inspiration in order that we A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Adams; without amendment (Rept. No. 1576). Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Referred to the Committee of the Whole may have wisdom to see our duties more clearly and strength to perform them · Annual Report of the Federal Bureau of Nar­ House. cotics--Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Mr. McGEHEE: Committee on Claims. more faithfully. We pray that in the Drugs-for the year ended December 31, 1943 8. 1102. An act tor the relief of Helene midst of the world's turmoil and tragedy (with an accompanying report); to the Com,. Murphy; without amendment (Rept. No. we may be ll}.en of vision and of valdr. mittee on Finance. 1577). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House. When we are tempted to surrender to EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF DEFENSE WORKERS Mr. McGEHEE: Committee on Claims. doubt and despair help us to appropriate A letter from the Acting Administrator of S. 1682. An act to provide for the payment by faith the eternal reality that the Lord the Federal Security Agency, transmitting, of compensation to certain claimants for the God omnipotent reigneth. pursuant to law, the third quarterly report taking by the·united States ot private fishery May that day speedily dawn when truth of the United States Commissioner of Edu­ rights in Pearl Harbor, Island of Oahu, T. H.; and righteousness shall be gloriously tri­ cation on the education and training of de­ without amendment (Rept. No. 1578). Re­ fense workers, covering the period beginning ferred to the Committee of the Whole House. umphant and men and nations every­ January 1, 1944, and ending March 31, 1944 Mr. PITTENGER: Committee on Claims. where shall give themselves in a glad and (with an accompanying report); to the Com­ H. R. 2825. A bill for the relief of Sigfried willing obedience to the King of kings , mittee on Education and Labor. Olsen, doing business as Sigfried Olsen Ship­ and Lord of lords, in whose name we REGISTRANTS DEFERRED UNDER SELECTIVE SERV­ ping Co.; with amendment (Rept. No. 1579). pray. Amen. ICE SYSTEM BECAUSE OF EMPLOYMENT UNDER Referred to the Committee of the Whole THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT House. DESIGNATION OF ACTING PRESIDENT Mr. McGEHEE: Committee on Claims. PRO TEMPORE A letter from the Director of the Selective H. R. 4712. A bill for the relief of John Service System, transmitting, pursuant to Duncan McDonald; with amendment (Rept. The legislative clerk, Emery L. Frazier, law, a report of the registrants deferred as of No. 1580). Referred to the Committee ot the read the following letter: March 15, 1944, because of their employment Whole House. UNITED STATES SENATE, in or under the Federal Government (with PREsiDENT PRO TEMPORE, an accompanying report) ; to the Committee on Military Affairs. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Washington, D. C., June 1, 1944. To the Senate: HOURLY REMUNERATION RATES BY OCCUPATIONS Under clause 3 of rule xxn. public Being temporarily absent from the Senate, IN THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY bills and resolutions were introduced and I appoint Hon. RoBERT F. WAGNER, a Senator A letter from the Board of Investigation severally referred as follows: from the State of New York, to perform the and Research (Transportation Act of 1940), duties of the Chair during my absence. By Mr. BLOOM: transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on CARTER GLASS, Hourly Remuneration Rates by Occupations H. R. 4902. A bill to amend the act en­ President pro tempore. titled "An act for the grading and classifica­ in the Transportation Industry (with an ac­ tion of clerks in the Foreign Service of the Mr. WAGNER thereupon took the companying report); to the Committee on United States of America, and providing com­ chair as Acting President pro tempore. Interstate Commerce. pensation therefor," approved February 23, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO 1931, as amended; to the Committee on For­ THE JOURNAL PROMOTE PEACE eign Affairs. On request of Mr. DowNEY, and by By Mr. MURDOCK: unanimous consent, the reading of the Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unan­ H. R. 4903. A bill to amend sections 4, 7, Journal of the proceedings of the calen­ imous consent to present and have and 17 of the Reclamation Project Act of dar day Wednesday, May 31, 1944, was printed in the RECORD as a part of my 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) for the purpose of ex­ remarks and appropriately referred an tending the time in which amendatory con­ dispensed with, and the Journal was ap­ proved. appeal by the Wesleyan· Service Guild tracts may be made, and for other related of the Methodist Church of Council purposes; to the Committee on Irrigation and MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Grove, Kans., that there now be at least Recl~:~, mation. the nucleus of a general international By Mr. HOBBS: A message in writing from the Presi­ H. R. 4904. A bill to amend section 77 of dent of the United States was communi­ organization to promote peace. · the act of July 1, 1898, entitled "An act to cated to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one of There being no objection, the appeal establish a uniform system of bankruptcy his secretaries. was referred to the Committe.e on For­ throughout the UnitEd States," as amended; MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE-ENROLLED eign Relations and ordered to be printed to the Committee on the Judiciary. BILL SIGNED in the RECORD, as follows: By Mr. LEMKE: COUNCIL GROVE, KANS., H. Res. 570. Resolution authorizing the A message from the House of Repre­ May 25, 1944. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation to sentatives, by Mr. Maurer, one of its Senator CLYDE REED, make an investigation of the plans for the reading clerks, announced that the United States Senate, Washington, D. C. improvement of the Missouri River Basin and Speaker had affi.xed his signature to the DEAR SFNATOR REED; We, the undersigned, its tributatles; to the Committee on Rules. enrolled bill