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fixed at Indianapolis, Ind., this 6th day of elected Senators to the Seventy-ninth SENATE December, in the year of our Lord 1944. Congress have now been presented and By the Governor: are on file. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1945 HENRY F. SCHRICKER, Governor. The clerk will call the names of the · The 3d day of January being the day Attest: newly elected Senators in groups of four, prescribed· by the Constitution of the [SEAL] RUE J. ALEXANDER, and they will present themselves at the Secretary of State. desk to take the oath. for the annual meeting of - . Congress, the first session of the Seventy­ Mr. TRUMAN. Mr. President, I· pre­ The legislative clerk, Emery L. Fra­ ninth Congress commenced this day. sent the credentials of the newly elected zier, called the names of Mr. AIKEN, Mr. The Senate assembled in its Chamber Senator from the ·state of , the BARKLEY, and Mr. CAPEHART. at the Capitol. Honorable FORREST C. DONNELL. . Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, in HENRY A. WALLACE, of Iowa, Vice Presi­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The creden- view of-- dent of the United States, called the tials will be read. · The VICE PRESIDENT. At this mo­ Senate to order at 12 o'clock meridian. The credentials were read by the Chief ment it is not in order to make-a state­ PRAYER ment. Clerk, and were ordered to be placed on The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown .file, as follows: Mr. BARKLEY. I want to make a Harris, D. D., of the city of Washington, statement with reference to the Senator­ offered the following prayer: TO the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE elect from Indiana. I want to ask unani­ UNITED STAT~S: mous consent that he be permitted to 0 God our Father, Light of all that is This is to cerify that on the 7th day of take the oath without prejudice. _ true, Strength of all t~at is good, let the November 1944 FORREST c. D<;>NNELL was duly cloudless noontide of Thy radiance make chosen by the qualified electors of the State Mr. WHITE. T~at is, without preju­ clear our path toward high and holy en­ of Missouri a Senator from said State to dice to him or to the rights of the deavor. The gateway of an old year has represent said State in the Senate of the Senate? United States for the term of 6 years, begin­ Mr. BARKLEY. Without prejudice noiselessly closed behind us: What we ning on the 3d day of January 1945. to him ot to the rights of the Senate. have written we have written. May mis­ Witness His Excellency our Governor. Probably, technically, as I have not as yet takes and .failures be left in the merciful FORREST C. DONNELL, and our seal hereto af­ shadows of the past. For this new year fixed at Jefferson City, Mo., this 29th day of been sworn in, I cannot make this re­ of decision and destiny give us patience December, in the year of our Lord 1944. quest. I will ask the Senator from Ten­ and forbearing. Grant that those who FORREST C. DONNELL, nessee if he will make it. by the people's choice have been called Governor. Mr. McKELLAR. I wm· make the re­ to high places Of state, in this fateful By the Governor: quest with pleasure. I ask unanimous [SEAL] GREGORY C. STOCKARD, consent that the Senator-elect from In­ day assuming responsibilities as heavy as Secreta1'y of State. the servants of the Commonwealth have diana be permitted to take the oath ever borne, may be filled with Thy spirit, Mr. }J.IcCLELLAN. Mr. President, it is without prejudice. the spirit of wisdom and understand­ my pleasure to present the credentials The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob­ ing, the spirit of knowledge, and the fear of my new colleague, Bon. J. WILLIAM jection? The Chair hears none. · of Thee. In an hour when such vast FuLBRIGHT, elected a Senator from the The legislative clerk resumed the call­ issues are at stake, may those who here · State of Arkansas. ing of the names of the newly elected serve, conscious of the great tradition in The VICE PRESIDENT. The creden­ Senators, and called the names of Mr. ·which they stand, rise to greatness of tials will be read. DoNNELL, Mr. DoWNEY, and Mr. FuL­ vision and soul as the anxious eyes of The credentials were read by the Chief . BRIGHT. all the nations are upon this Chamber. Clerk and were ordered to be placed on The Senators whose names had been Maintain in us the fidelity of those to file, as follows: called (with the exception of Mr. DoN­ whom much has been given and from STATE OF ARKANSAS, NELL and Mr. DoWNEY) escorted by Mr.­ whom much will be r~quired. We ask it OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, AUSTIN, Mr. O'MAHONEY, Mr. WILLIS, and in the dear Redeemer's name. Amen. Little Rock, November 24, 1944. Mr. McCLELLAN, respectively, advanced CREDENTIALS To the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE to the Vice President's desk, and the oath UNITED STATES: of office prescribed by law was adminis­ Mr. WILLIS. Mr. President, I present This is to certify that on the 7th day of tered to them by the Vice President. the credentials of the Senator-elect from November 1944 J. WILLIAM FuLBRIGHT was The Chief Clerk called the names of Indiana, Bon. HOMER E. CAPEHART. duly chosen by the qualified electors of the The VICE PRESIDENT. The creden­ State of Arkansas a Senator from said State Mr. GEORGE, ·Mr. GURNEY, Mr. HAYDEN, tials will be read. to represent said State in the Senate of the ·and Mr. HICKENLOOPER. The credentials were read by the .Chief United States for the term of 6 years, begin­ These Senators, esc'orted by Mr. Rus­ Clerk, John C. Crockett, and were or- · ning· on the 3d day of January 1945. SELL, Mr. BUSHFIELD, Mr. MCFARLAND, and dered to be placed on file, as follows: Witness His Excellency our Governor, Mr. WILSON, respectively, advanced to Homer M. Adkins; and our seal hereto affixed the Vice President's desk; and the oath To the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF THE at Little Rock, Ark., this 24th day of No­ UNITED STATES: vember, in the year of our Lord 1944. of office prescribed by law was adminis­ This is to certify that on the 7th day of HOMER M. ADKINS, tered to them by the Vice President. November 1944 HOMER E. CAPEHART was duly Governor. The legislative· clerk called the names chosen by the qualified electors of the Stat e By the Governor: of Mr. HILL, Mr. HOEY, Mr. JoHNSTON of ot Indiana a · Senator from said State to (SEAL] c. G. HALL, South Carolina, and Mr. LucAS. represent said State in the Senate of the Secretary of State. These Senators, escorted by Mr. BANK· United States for the term .of 6 years, begin-· ADMINISTRATION OF OATH ning on the 3d day of January 1945. HEAD, Mr. BAILEY, Mr.' MAYBANK, and Mr. Witness His Excellency our Governor, The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair is BROOKS, respectively, advanced to the Henry F. Schricker, and our seal hereto af· advised that the credentials of all newly Vice President's desk, and the oath ol XCI--1 3 4 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 3 office prescribed by law was adminis­ ·La Follette Myers Thomas, Utah Kentucky.-Alben W. Barkley and Langer O'Mahoney· Tobey tered to them by the Vice President. Lucas Pepper Truman Albert B. Chandler. • The legislative clerk called the names McCarran Radcliffe Tydings .-John H. Overton • · and of Mr. MAGNUSON, Mr. McCARRAN, Mr. Mc­ McClellan Reed Vandenberg Allen J. Ellender. McFarland Revercomb Wagner MAHON, and Mr. MiLLIKIN. McKellar Robertson Walsh · Mdine.-Wallace H. White, Jr., and The.se Senators, escorted by Mr. LucAs, McMahon Russell Wheeler Owen Brewster. · Mr. MURDOCK, Mr. GREEN, and Mr. JOHN­ Magnuson Shipstead Wherry M aryland.~Millard E. Tydings and Maybank Smith White SON of Colorado, respectively., advanced Millikin Stewart Wiley .George L. Radcliffe. to the Vice President's desk, and the Morse Taft Willis Massachusetts.-David. I. Walsh and oath of office prescribed by law was Moses Taylor Wilson ,Leverett Saltonstall. * Murdock Thomas, Idaho ·administered to them by the Vice Pres­ Murray- Thomas, Okla. Michigan.-Arthur H. Vandenberg and ident. Homer Ferguson. • The legislative clerk called the names Mr. HILL. I announce that.the Sen­ Minnesota.- and of Mr . .MoRsE , Mr. MosEs, Mr. MYERS, ator from Virginia [Mr. GLASS] and the Joseph H. Ball. Mr. OVERTON, and Mr. ·PEPPER. Senat or from ·Connecticut [Mr.· ·MA· Mississippi.-Theodore G. Bilbo and · These Senators

Congress, and the names of those per­ MASSACHUSE'rl'S RHODE ISLAND sons whose credentials show that they Heselton Bates Curley . Forand Clason Lane McCormack were regularly elected as Representatives Pbllbin Goodwin Wigglesworth SOUTH CAROLINA in accordance with the law of their re­ Holmes Gi1ford Martin Rivers. Hare Richards spective States or the United States will Rogers Herter Rlley Bryson McMillan be called. As the roll is called, following MiCHIGAN SOUTH DAKOTA the alphabetical order of States, begin­ Sadowski Wolcott O'Brien case Michener Engel Rabaut TENNESSEE ning with the State of Alabama, the Rep­ Shafer resentatives-elect wilf please answer to Woodruff Lesinski Reece Courtney Cooper Ho1fman Bradley Dondero Kefauver Murray Da vts their names to determine whether there Jonkman Hook Priest is a quorum present. MINNESOTA "l'EXAS The Clerk will call the roll. AndreEen Starkey Andersen Patman Thomas Thomason The Clerk called the roll by States, and O'Hara JUdd Pittenger Combs Mansfield Russell the folloWing Representatives-elect an­ Gallagher Knutson Hagen Beckworth Poage Worley MISSISSIPPI Rayburn Lanham Mahon .swered to ~heir names: Johnson, Gossett Kilday Rankiq Abernethy McGehee Luther A. Lyle Fisher [Roll No. 11 Whitten WinstEad :Pickett. West Whittington Colmer ALABAMA UTAH MISSOURI Boy kin Hobbs Ma.nascci Granger Robinson Grant Rains Sparkman Arnold Benn~tt Sullivan Andrews Jarman Patrick Schwabe Short P ~ oeser VERMONT Cole Carnahan Cochran Plumley ARIZONA Bell Cannon Har!ess Murdock VIRGINIA MONTANA ARKANSAS Bland Drewry Robertson Mandleld O'Connor Daughton · Burch Smith Gathings Cravens Norrell Satterfield Woodrum Flannagan "Mills Hays Harr..s NEBRASKA WASHINGTON CALIFORNIA Curtis Buffett Miller NEVADA DeLacy Holmes Horan Lea Gearhart King Savage Engle Elliott DOyle Bunker WEST VIRGINIA Johnson Outland Holifield NEW. HAMPSHD!E Havenner Voorhis Hinshaw R::mdolph Ellis Hedrick Welch Healy · Sheppard Merrow Adams Bailey Kee Miller Douglas Phllllps NEW JERSEY WISCONSIN Tolan McDonough I.zac Wolverton Case Sundstrom Smith Biemlller Hull Anderson Patterson Hand Thomas Kean Henry Murray O'Konski COLORADO Auchtncloss Canfield Norton Wasielewski Byrnes Gillespie Hlll Rockwell Powers Towe Hart WYOMING Eaton Hartley CONNECTICUT Barrett Kopplemann Geelan Talbot NEW MEXICO Woodhouse Luce Ryter Anderson Fernandez The CLERK. The roll call discloses the DELAWAU NEW YORK presence of 397 Members. A quorum is Traynor Sharp Celler Kearney present. FLORmA Hall, • Baldwin Byrne The Clerk states that credentials, reg­ Leonard W~ Marcantonio Taylor ular in form, have been filed showing Peterson Cannon Rogers Barry Dickstein Kilburn Price Hendricks Roe Bloom Fuller the election of E. L. BARTLETT, as Dele­ GEORGIA Delaney, Torrens Hancock gate from the-Territory of Alaska, and Peterson Ra.mspeck Wood James J. P,pwell Hall, of JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, as Delegate Cox Vinson Brown Delaney, Lynch Edwin Arthur from tbe Territory of Hawaii. A Resi­ Pace Tarv!)r JohnJ. Rabin Taber Camp Gibson Pfeifer Buckley Cole dent Commissioner to the United States Keogh Quinn Rogers from the Commonwealth of the Philip­ IDAHO Heffernan Gwinn Wadsworth White Dworshak ' Rooney Gamble Andrews pines was elected, CARLOS P. ROMULO. ILLINOIS O'Toole Bennet Elsae'sser The Clerk has also received certificate DaWS()n . Church McMillen Ray:flei LeFevre Reed of election signed by the Governor of Rowan Reed Simpst>n NORTH CAROLINA Puerto Rico showing the election of Kelly Mason Howell Bonner Durham Ervin JEsus T. PINERO,· as Resident Commis­ Gorski Allen Price Kerr G!ark Bulwinkle sioner here for a term of 4 years, begin­ Sa bath Johnson Vursell Cooley Burgin W£a.ver O'Brien · Chiperfleld Bishop Folger Doughton ning January 3, 1945. Link Dirksen Dougia~ The Clerk is happy to state that since Gordon Arends· Resa. SUmner Lemke Robertson the regular election of Representatives DmiANA OHIO to the Seventy-ninth Congress no deaths Balleck Jolln&ln Springer Elston Ramey Lewis or resignations have occurred changing Grant Landis Ludlow Bess Jenkins Kirwan the representation of any State. Gillle LaFollette Gardner Vorys Fetgban Harness Wilson Jones Huber Crosser ELECTION OF SPEAKER IOWA Clevenger Grtmths Bolton :McCowen Thorn The CLERK. The next business in or­ Martin cunningham Hoeven Bender der is the election of a Speaker of the Talle Dolliver Brown McGregor Gwynne - Jensen OKLAHOMA House, and nominations are now in order. KANSAS Schwabe . Boren Wickersham Mr. COOPER. Mr. Clerk, as chair­ Cole Winter Hope Stigler Monroney man of the Democratic caucus, I am Scrivner Rees Carlson Stewart Johnson directed by the unanimous vote of that KENTUCK'I' OREGON caucus to present for election to the Gregory Chelf Bates Mott Angell Ellsworth office of the Speaker of the House of Clements Spence Robsion Stockman Representatives of the Seventy-ninth O'Neal :May PENNSYLVANIA Congress the name of Hon. SAM RAYBURN, LOtJISIANA. Barrett Fenton Morgan Granahaa Hoch Graham a Representative-elect from the State of Hebert Brooks Larcade Bradley Glllette Tibbott Texas. · Maloney McKenzie Allen Sheridan Rich Kelley Dornengeaux Morrison Green McConnell Rodgers Mr. WOODRUFF of Michigan. Mr. MAINE :McGlinchey Simpson Campbell Clerk, by authority, and by direction, and Smith Fellows Wol!enden Kunkel Corbett by unanimous vote of the Republican .Gerlach Walter Eberharter lloi.AltYLAND Kinzer Gross Weiss conference, representing a minority in Roe F~on BeaU Murphy Brumbaugh this HoUse, I nominate for Speaker of the D'Alesandro ~asscer Flood · Snyder House of Representatives. the Honorable 8 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 JOSEPH W. MARTIN, Jr., a :Representative­ Thorn Walter Wickersham This meeting of a new Congress is ·. a Thomas, .Tex. Wasiel,ewskl . Winstead ·. elect from the State ·of Massachusetts to Thomason . Weaver Wood · -symbol of the functioning of .popular the S3venty--ninth Congress. Tolan Weiss Woodhouse · government. It shows a people can have The CLERK. Hon. SAM RAYBURN, a Rep­ Torrens West Woodrum, Va.. · . popular government and still fight a Traynor · White Worley · great world war. It dramatizes the con­ resentative-elect from the State of Vinson Whitten Texas, and Hon. JOSEPH W. MARTIN, Jr., a Voorhis, Cali!. Whittington tinuance of the two-party system of gov­ . ernment, which has been tested through Representative-elect from the State of MARTIN Massachusetts, have been placed in nom­ . the years. Adams Gi,Jlespie Mason The great Divinity which shapes the ination. Are there any further po:rhina­ Allen, Ill. Gillette Merrow tions? Andersen, Gillie · Michener destinies of men and nations has decreed There being no · fuTther nominations, H. Carl Goodwin Miller, Nebr. we of the Republican Party shall be the Ander!>on, Cali!. Graham Mott oppositio~ pa-rty in these crucial, trying the Clerk apJloints the gentleman from Andresen, Grant, Ind. Murray, Wis. Florida [Mr. PETERSON] ,- the gentleman August H. · Grifilths O'Hara years ahead. It may well be that this from Nevada [Mr. BUNKERL the gentle­ Andrews, N.Y. Gross O'Konski . may be the more important role. To us 'Angell Gwinn, N.Y. Phillips has been given the task of protecting man from Iowa · [Mr. TALLE]. and· the Arends Gwynne, Iowa Pittenger gentleman from\ New York n~.Ir. CoLE] Arnold Hagen Ploeser ' the freedoms and the rights of the people to act as tellers. Auchincloss Hall, Plumley and effectively .· establishing a proper Baldwin, N.Y. Edwin Arthur Powers check upon the·majority. We shall not The roll will now be called and those Barrett, Wyo. Hall, Ramey fail_.:we dare not faii-in carrying out responding will indicate by surname the Bates, Mass. Leonard W. Rae.ee, Tenn. nominee of their choice. The tellers will Beall Halleck Reed, Ill. effeetiyely this great assignment. Bender Hancock Reed, N.Y. It is good for us to pause a few minutes please take places at the desk in front Bennet, N.Y. Hand Rees, Kans. and recall· the· splendid traditions of of the $peaker's rostrum. Bennett, Mo. Harness, Ind. Rich Bishop · Hartley Robertson, Congress. Men and women come to The tellers having taken their places, Bolton Henry N.Dak. Congress, on both sides of the aisle, as the House proceeded to vote fo:r Speaker. Bradley, Mich. Herter Robsion, Ky. an opportunity for service· to mankind The following is the vote in detail: Brown, Ohio· Heselton Rockwell Brumbaugh Hess Rodgers, Pa. -and country. We, naturally, do not al­ [Roll No. 2] Buffett Hill Rogers, Mass. ways share the same views but there are RAYBURN Byrnes. Wis. Hinshaw Schwabe, Mo. very tew. on either side of the aisle, who Campbell Hoeven Schwabe, Okla. Abernethy · Fisher May Canfield Holmea, Mass. Scrivner are not inspired in their work py a gen­ Allen, La. Flannagan · Miller, Call!. Carlson Holmes, Wash. Shafer · uine desire for that which will make for Anderson, Flood Mills Case, N.J. Hope Sharp a better America ·and better world. N.Mex. Folger Monroney Case, S.Dak. Horan Short a Andrews, Ala. · Forand Morgan · Chiperfield Howell. Simpson, Til. While Congress· is often ridiculed, often Bailey Gallagher Morrison Church Jenkins Simpson, Pa. attacked and abused, it still stands out as Barrett, Pa. Gardner · Murdock Clason Jensen Smith, Maine · the institution in which the people place Barry Gathings Murphy Clevenger ·Johnson, Cali!. Smith, Wis. Bates, Ky. Geelan. Murray, Tenn. Cole, Kans. Johnson, Til. Springer their confidel}.ce and trust for 'the prb .. · Beckworth . Gibson Norrell Cole, Mo. Johnson, Ind. Stockman tection, of t:Q.eit rights and lib.erties. .May Bell Gordon Norton . Cole, N.Y. Jones Sumner, Til; we continue to just1fy that ·great faith. Biemiller Gossett 'O'Brien, Til. Corbett Jonkman Sundstrom My task today is a s~mple ·one. It is Bland Granahan O'Brien, Mich. Cunningham 'JUdd- Taber Bloom Granger · O'Connor Curtis - Kea'n 'l'albot • ' to present to tb,e Members of the House · Bonner Grant, Ala. O'Neal Dirksen Kearney Talle. their newly elected Speaker. If, and I Boren Green O'Toole · Dolliver Kilburn Taylor . am sure .you on the Democratic side wU} Boykin Gregory Outland Dondero Kinzer Thomas, N. J, · Bradley, Pa. Hare Pace Dworshall: Knutson Tibbott understand this· natural use of the Brooks Harless, Ariz. Patman Eaton Kunkel Towe word-if it is nec~ssary for me to pre.. Brown, Ga; Harris . Patrick Ellis . LaFollette Vorys, O~lo sent a Democratic Spealter, I ,know of . Bryson Hart Patterson · Ellsworth Landis Vursell Buckley Havenner Peterson, Fla. · Elsaesser - LeFevre Wadsworth no other I would prefer to present. Our Bulwinkle Hays :E>eterson, Ga. Elston Lemke Welch Speaker is a man of high character al,id Bunker Healy Pfeifer Engel, Mich. Lewis Wigglesworth substance; lie can be depended upon to Burch Hebert Philbin Fellows Luce Wilson Burgin Hedrick Pickett Fenton McConnell Winter give full parliamentary justice to tP.e Byrne, N. Y. Heffernan Poage_ Fuller- McCowen Wolcott humblest Member of this House; he is Camp ; Hendricks Powell Gamble McDonough Wolfenden, Pa. a fine, upstanding American. Ladies Cannon, Fla. Hobbs Price, Fla. Gearhart McGregor Wolverton, N.J. Cannon, Mo. Hoch . Price, Til. Gerlach . McMillen, Dl. Woodruff, Mich. and -gentlemen, I present to you your Carnahan Holifield . Priest Gifford Martin, Iowa Speaker· and my Speaker, Hon. SAM RAY• Celler Hook Quinn, N.Y. BURN, of Texas. Chelf Huber Rabaut The CLERK. The tellers agree in their Mr. RAYBURN. Mr; Martin, I am Clark Izac Rabin tally. The total number of votes cast Is Clementi Jarman Rains deeply grateful to you for your gracious Cochran Johnson, Ram speck 394, of which Hon. SAM RAYBURN received words in presenting me to my colleagues Colmer Luther A. Randolph 224, and Hon. JOSEPH MARTIN, Jr., 168; . of the House of Representatives. To all Combs Johnson, Okla. Rankin and present, 2. Cooley Kee Rayfiel of my colleagues in the House who have Cooper Kefauver Resa Therefore, Hon. SAM RAYBURN, a Rep­ been honored by membership in the Courtney Kelley. Pa. Richards resentative-elect from the State of Texas, Seventy-ninth Congress, I say to you, Cox Kelly, Til. Riley having. received a majority of all the Cravens Keogh Rivers after the.action of today, from my hea·rt · Crosser Kerr Robertson, Va. votes cast, is duly elected Speaker of the I thank you. For the fourth time you Curley Kilday Robinson, Utah House of Representatives for the Sev· have done me this great honor. D'Alesandro King Roe,Md. enty-ninth Congress. Daughton, Va. Kirwan Roe. N. Y. It is a rare privilege to stand in this Davis Kopplemann Rogers, Fla. The gentleman from Massachusetts high station and play a part with you Dawson · Lane Rogers, N.Y. [Mr. MAliTIN], the gentleman from Mas• in this House at any time. When I first De Lacy Lanham Rooney sachusetts [Mr. McCoRMACK], the gE:m~ Delaney, Larcade Rowan took this office by election I said to each James J. Lea Russell tlem;:tn from Tennessee [Mr. CooPER], the and every one of you that it would be Delaney, Lesinski Ryter gentleman from Michigan [Mr. WooD­ my purpose, my unvarying and unyield­ John J. Link Sabath RUFF], and the gentleman from Missouri Dickstein Ludlow Sadowski ing purpose, to preserve, protect, and Domengeaux Lyle Sasscer [Mr. CANNON] will please conduct the defend the rights, the privileges, and Doughton,N.C.Lynch Satterfield Speaker-elect to the chair. . the honor and the power of the House Douglas, Calif. McCormack Savage Douglas, Dl. McGehee Sheppard · Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. My of Representatives. That pledge I make Doyle McGlinchey Sheridan colleagues, we meet today in a solemn to you again. I love this life. It has Drewry McKenzie Smith, Va. period in the world's history. Men and been my life for nearly 32 years. Next Durham McMillan, S.C. Snyder women are fighting and dying on many · Eberharter Mahon Sparkman to home and family and friends, it ·is Ell1ott Maloney Spen~e far-flung battlefields for the continu­ my love. If any action of mine at any Engle, Cali!. Manasco Starkey ance of ·our form of government. Their time should lower the standards of those Ervin Mansfield, Stewart sacrifices impress us w·ith the seriousness Fallon Mont. Stigler who have served here or reflect in any Felghan Mansfield, Tex. Sullivan of our responsibility to the people of this fashion upon this great institution, I F~ruaudez Marcantonio Tarver country and the world. .would to my dying day hang my head 1945 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9 in shame. It is a great thing; it is a to be over iii 1943 or .even in 1944. I . SWEARING IN OF THE MEMBERS great honor. Let me repeat, it is a great think, my friends, there is a lot of hard The SPEAKER. If the Members will privilege to be elected by a constituency fighting both to the east of us and to the rise in their place, the Chair will ad­ to be a Member of the popular branch west of us before we come to ¥ictory. minister the oath of office to all. of the legislative body of a great gov­ We must all -join, every soul of us, be· Mr. ·KEEFE. Mr. Speaker, a parlia­ ernment like yours and mine. As long tween these oceans and the northern mentary inquiry. as people are vigilant to preserve their and southern borders to do everything The SPEAKER. The gentleman will liberty, there will always be a House of we can to bring this war to a close at state it. · Representatives. the earliest possible moment. Mr. KEEFE. Mr; Speaker, I know five In times like these our thoughts must And after the war, then what? Then Members whose certificates of election run to terrible things. At this hour, civi­ what? I was not proud of my country are on file who were unavoidably pre­ lization, in the broader sense, stands at and its actions after the close of the last vented· from answering the roll call. the cross-roads. Today we are being war. We walked out on the rest of the Are those Members entitled to be sworn tested here and there as to whether or world and came home, stuck our head. in at this time? not free government will live upon the in the sand and said: "Let the rest of the The SPEAKER. If they are present face of the earth, yea, even if civilization world go by; we can live here unto our­ .only. itself will continue to exist. - To each selves." Sadly we fomid out that could Mr. KEEFE. I mean, if they are pres­ of us here, may I ,bespeak again as I did not be done. Many people in public life ent. more than a year ag6, my hope for unity, ran away after the last war was over. The SPEAKER. They will be. No not only here but out there among our My conscience is clear on that; there one except those present will be sworn more than 130,000,000 people. Let us has not been an hour in 25 years-and I in at this time. not act here today, tomorrow, or have spoken it from many stumps­ Mr. KEEFE . . I am referring to a throughout the coming years in any when I did not say that if I had been Member whose name does not appear as fashion so that any returning soldier a Member of the Senate of the United answering the roll call but who is pres­ may have reason fo think that we have States I would have voted to adhere to ent in person at the time the oath will · not, while he was offering the supreme the Treaty of Versailles, including the be taken. sacrifice, that we have not, let me repeat, League of Nations. In my opinion, The SPEAKER. If the Member is done our full, our total duty. Let me Woodrow Wilson had a dream of world present he may take the oath. again say to you, as I have said in the cooperation, world concord, and world The Members and Delegates-elect rose, past, beware of dangerous men and peace, unsurpassed by any man who has and the Speaker administered to them women in this country who preach dis­ walked this earth since the lowly Gali... the oath of office. · unity. We must be a . united people. lean walked the shores 20 centuries ago ELECTION OF OFFICERS What is the history of some of the coun­ preaching peace on earth, good will to -tries which we have liberated? What men. · Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I offer a, was the matter? Disorder and disunity After the blood and the carnage, what resolution f the United States and inform hbn that a session) the results of any such investiga­ keeper of the House of Representatives; quorum of each House is assembled and that _tion, together wtih such recommendations "That Frank w. Collier, of the state of wis­ the Congress is ready to receive any commu­ as it deems advisable. consin, be, and _he is hereby, elected Post~ nic~tion he may be pleased to make. "'For the purpose of any sUch investiga­ master of the House of Rep~esentativ~s." tion, the Committee on Un-American Activi­ Pursuant to the foregoing resolution, ties, or any subcommittee thereof, is au­ The SPEAKER. The question is on the Vice President appointed Mr. BARK­ ·thorized to sit and act at such times and the substitute· resolution. LEY and Mr. WHITE members of the com­ places within the United States, whether or· The substitute resolution was rejected. 'mittee on the part of the Senate. not the House is sitting, has recessed, or has The SPEAKER. The question recur,s­ Senate Resolution 2 adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require on the original resolution offered by the the attendance of such witnesses and the Resolved, That the Secretary inform th_e production of such books, papers, and docu­ gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. CooPER]. ,House of_ Rl!!prese~tatives that a quot:l,li:Xl of The-res(}lution was·agreed. to-; · · ·ments, and to take such testimony, as- it the Senate is assembled and that the Senate ,deems necessary. Subpenas may be issued A motion to recons-ider was laid on the is ready to proceed to business. · under the signature of the chairman of table. The message alSd announced that the :the committee or any subcommittee, or by SWEARING IN OF OFFICERS OF THE _ ·Senate had passed a concurrent resolu­ any member designated by any such chair­ HOUSE man, and may be served by any pers0n desig-. tion of the following title, in which the nated by any such chairman or member.'" Mr. South Trimble, Mr. Kenneth Rom­ concurrence of the House is requested: ney, Mr. ·Ralph R. Roberts, Mr. Flnis E. Senate Concurrent Resolution 1 . Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Spea~er, th'e obj~ct Scot't, and Rev. James Shera Montgom.:. Concurrent resolution providing for a joint of this amendment is to extend the life · ery, D. D., appeared at the bar of the -session on Saturday, January 6; 1945, to count of the Committee on Un-Americ.an Ac­ House, and the oath of· effice was ad­ ·the elect oral votes for President and Vice · tivi~ies, usually referred· to as the Dies . ministered to them by the Speaker. President. committee, and to make it one of the NOTIFICAfiON OF SENATE OF ORGANI­ NOTIF~CATION OF ELECTION o 'F SPEAKER ·standing committees of the House. ZATION OF T~ HOUSE · AN~ CLERK It ~lso provides for giving that. com.;. .mittee the right to report legislation in Mr. DOUGHTON of North Carolimi. Mr. CANNON of 'Missouri. Mr-. -Mr. Speaker, I offer a-resolution paganda that is instigated Now I would like to ask a question. If Frazier, its legislative clerl{, announced from foreign countries or of a domestic the resolution is ~dopted, as I hope it will that the Senate had passed the follow­ origin and attacks the principle of the form be, is it provided that the extensive and of government as guaranteed by our Con- -highly-important records now held by the ing resolutions: . stitution, and (3) all other questions in re­ Senate Resolution 1 lation thereto that would aid Congress in any . Dies committee will be turned over to the Resolved, That a committee consisting of nece~sary remedial legislation. · new committee? two Senators be appointed to join such com­ " 'The Committee on On-American· Activi­ Mr. RANKIN. - It is understood· that mittee as may be appointed by tlle House of ties shall report to the House _(or to the thos~ records will be turned over to this 1945 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-;HOUSE ' 11 committee. Of course, they are now in . most outstanding committees of this held during the past 2 years. One mem­ the possession of the House. I want to House, the Judiciary Committee. ber of the committee came· to me and say. to you that our policemen in the Much has been said about the preser­ said he had asked for the names of the House Office Building deserve a vote of vation of the records of the Dies com­ employees of the committee of which he thanks from this House for protecting mittee. That is not an issue here in this was a member, the salaries they were those records -in the last few days. amendment because . there is absolutely receiving, and the duties that they were The passage of this amendment will nothing in the amendment that provides performing. He, a member of that com­ not interfere with any orderly procedure, for placing the records of the Dies com­ mittee, said ·he was denied that informa­ and I do not see how any man in this mittee under the control of the standing tion. I told him he could get part of the House can vote against this amendment. committee which1 the amendment seeks information if he asked for it. He said I hope it passes unanimously. to create. that he did ask for it. I said to him then REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE To place the records of the Dies com­ that he should ask again. Then he asked PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES mittee in the hands of a standing com­ me for it, and I gave the names of the mittee of the House it would be ne.cessary employees and their salaries, but I had The SPEAKER. The Chair recog­ for the House to pass a resolution au­ no knowledge· of what their duties were. nizes the gentleman from Massachusetts thorizing the Clerk of the House to turn I consider the expenditure of public [Mr. McCoRMACK]. the records over to that committee. funds a public record, and so long as I am Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, 1 agree with the gentleman from Mis ... chairman of the Committ~e on Accounts, your committee appointed on the part sissippi · that the Dies committee to a unless this House passes a resolution to of the· House to join a committee ap­ certain extent did perform a real public the contrary, Members of this House can pointed on the part of the Senate to wait service. That was at a time · when all always learn how the money they ap­ upon the President of the United States the members of the committee were par­ propriated is being expended. and notify him that a quorum of the ticipating in its deliberations and agree­ Mr. THOMAS of New Jersey. Mr. two Houses has assembled and that Con- ing upon the procedure that the com- Speaker, will the gentleman yield? . gress is ready to receive any communi­ ·mittee shoulfi follow. Later on the co·m­ cation he may be pleased to make, has Mr. COCHRAN. Yes. mittee ceased to function in this way, or Mr." THOMAS of New Jersey. To say, performed its duty. The President at least that charge was made by mem­ asked us to report that he will be pleased in defense of the chairman of that com­ bers of the committee who maintained mittee, right along the lines about which to communicate with the House in that the chairman seemed to assume en­ writing. the gentleman has spoken, that I know tire responsibility and that statements of no time when I served on that com­ RULES OF THE HOUSE credited to the committee were issued that- members of the committee had mittee, and that was some 6% or 7 years, The SPEAKER. The Chair recog­ never seen or approved. It is no secret when a member of the committee could nizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. that some · members of this committee not :find out at all times just who was SABATH]. resigned because of their displeasure at emplqyed, a:p.d how much that employee Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, in view the manner in which the committee was was being paid, and I just cannot under­ · ot the fact that the House a few weeks being operated. stand how any member of that commit­ ago appointed a special committee for Every Member of this House is aware , tee, even though he might be a new the purpose of studying the rules of the that there was an outstanding disagree­ dealer, could ask such a question and House governing its procedure, I move ment betweep. the Department of Jus- not get ·the answer. that this resolution be referred to the . tice and the chairman of the committee. Mr. COCHRAN. And I say to the gen­ Committee on Rules. · Efforts were made to settle this disagree­ tleman that I have the utmost confi­ ·M;r. RANKiN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in ment without success. After the war dence in the Member I refer to and that opposition to the motion. . started the committee was not in full he came to me and told me that he could ~ · Tl.le SPEAKER. That is not a proper cooperation with the intelligence · not get the information. motion, the Chair will say, at this time, branches of the Army, Navy, and State Mr .. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, will the because there is an amendment to the Departments,· but as time went on this gentleman yield? resolution offered by the gentleman was ironed out. · The committee had a Mr. COCHRAN. I yield. from Illinois which is pending and which tremendous number of names in its :files Mr. RANKIN. I have inquired many :must· be disposed of. · and almost daily the Federal Bureau of times, and I never asked the Dies com­ . · Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, I move Investigation and the Intelligence Divi- mittee for information in its possession that the amendment be referred to the . sions of the Army, Navy, and,.State De.: that I did not get it. The War Depart­ Committee on Rules. partments would check the files in ·search ment never asked the Dies committee Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I make a of information relative to individuals for information in its possession that it point of order. An amendment cannot they were investigating. did not get it; the F. B. I. never asked be referred to a committee. That is out The last time the gentleman from for information of the Dies committee; of order. An amendment to a pending Texas, Mr. Dies, appeared before the the Naval Intelligence never asked the motion cannot be referred to a com­ Committee on Accounts, asking for an Dies committee for information, the mittee. additional appropriation, he advised that Department of Justice and the Depart­ The SPEAKER. The Chair holds committee that there was complete har­ ment of State never asked the Dies that the amendment must be dis­ mony between his committee and the De­ committee for information within its posed of. partment of Justice and the State, War, possession that they did not get it right Mr. RANKIN. That is right. and Navy Departments. Today. these then and there; and at this moment rep­ Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I arise four agencies of our Government are in­ resentatives of the State Department in opposition to the amendment. vestigating subversive activities. Mil­ and other departments of the Govern­ Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt but that lions of dollars have been appropriated ·ment, are over there getting information the amendment is in order, but under for that purpose, for the Federal Bureau from those :files to protect us and to pro­ the ordinary procedure of the ·House res­ of Investigation, and the Intelligence tect this Government for which our boy,s olutions creating committees are intro­ Branches of the State, ·Army, and the are :fighting. dUced and referred to the Committee on Navy. The Representatives of those Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, let me .Rules. This applies to standing com­ agencies can continue checking the say to the gentleman f:Fom Mississippi mittees as well as select committees. records of the Dies committee, with the that what he enumerates at the moment -There an· opportunity fs given for a hear­ approval of the Clerk of the House. is correct; but I know that year after ing to determine the advisability of In all about $675,000 of the taxpayers' year the gentleman from Texas refused bringing the resolution before the House. money has been spent by the Dies co~ the departments the gentleman from What does this resolution to the rules .mittee. Offices were opened in New )tork, Mississippi bas named, information they do? In creating. the standing committe·e . Chicago, Philad_elphia, Detroit, Los An- requested. it likewise provides for the type of legis­ geles, and also in Texas . Mr. THOMAS of New Jersey. I have . lation that the committee will consider. In recent years the Dies committee has to deny that statement. That state­ At the present time legislation of that been a one-man committee. Outside of ment, I am sorry, Is not true; it is a mis­ character is considered by one o~ , _the one investigation, meetings were seldom .sta.tement. 12 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I do ried an authorization for certain appro- .Mr. COCHRAN. That is true to the not yield ·to the gentleman from New priations; is not that correct? extent it would have the jurisdiction pro- Jersey. I will let' his denial stand but Mr. COCHRAN. No; but the Accounts vided in the amendment. again say there was a time when the Committee also feels if the House creates Mr. EBERHARTER. Will the gentle- . chairman of the committee refused to a select committee it is a mandate to man yield? cooperate with the executive branch of allow expenses. ;It has always carried Mr.· COCHRAN. I yield ·to the gentle- the Government. . out the mandate but this is not providing man·from Pennsylvania. Mr. THOMAS of New Jersey. There for a select committee. Mr. EBERHARTER. Mr. Speaker, as never was a time when we did no.t give Mr. CASE of South Dakota. It was most Members of the House know, I have to the departments everything they done by an accompanying resolution. . for a little over a year been a member . wanted. · Mr. COCHRAN. Yes; the Accounts · of the Special Committee to Investig~te Mr. COCH~AN. Mr. Speaker, we have . Committee would bring in a resolution. Un-American Activities. In my opinion, a rule that provides-and the Speaker · The Dies committee ends today; there this is certainly the wrong time to bring has so held-that 3 days after the be­ will be no Dies committee after today up the question as to renewal of the same ginning of a new Congress, and that is unless the House creates such a com- type of committee. · · today, the records of the Dies commit­ mittee. Tlie gentleman from Mississippi This is a most controversial question. tee and every other committee of the desires not to extend the life of the Dies It is a question that every Member wants House, standing and select, shall be committee but to create a new standing to consider at length. It is a question turned over to the Clerk of the House. committee of the House . . That is what wilich should take perhaps 2 or 3 days of Further than that, we have a law which he seeks to do. This new standing com- debate. It is a question involvmg very, provides how the Clerk of the House of . mitree of the House will have no as- very many important problems and many Representatives shall handle those rec­ sistance whatsoever until the Appropria- important decisions. ords. He has the power to place those tions Committee provides the assistance. I call the attention of the Members to records in the Library of Congress. Mr. CASE of South Dakota. If the the fact that up until the date of the· They are valuable records' because they committee were created as a standing expiration of this committee it required · contain a tremendous number of names. committee of th~ House by the adoption a personnel of 13 employees, which cost And how did they get those names? of the amendment proposed, would it not thousands of dollars a month. If you They confiscated mailing lists of ·so- . be true that then its funds would have are now going to establish a committee called subversive organizations they sus­ to come through the Appropriations to carry on the same kind of activities, pected of violating the laws of this coun­ Committee rather than the Committee you are practically authorizing the ex­ try. I have been receiving for years, on Accounts? · penditure of anywhere from $75,000 to and every other Member of this House Mr. COCHRAN. Yes; it would· go to $~00,000 a year, and I say this is no time has been receiving, from organizations the Committee on Appropriations. The to do anything of that sort. literature of every type. I would not gentleman said "standing committee"? I may say also that up to the present hav,e received that literature had my Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Yes. time I have not seen a piece of paper in name not been on such a mailing list. Mr. COCHRAN. It would go to the the form of any tentative report that is so; if they confiscated the mailing lists Appropriations Committee. The Ac- supposed to be presented to the House of of some of these organizations that have : counts Committee does not handle that ·Representatives, and I am a member of been sending out literature over this long · appropriation. . that committee. If your action today period of years, undoubtedly my name Mr. RANKIN. Will the gentleman prolongs the committee and it continues is on the list; and so i::; yours. But that . yield? · to proceed in that manner, I think it is does not mean I was a member of the Mr. COCHRAN. I yield to the gentle- the commencement on the first day this organiza.tion or organizations. I say · man from :Mississippi. House is in session of a procedure that this matter should be.. properly handled Mr. RANKIN. If this amendment is will.lead to disunity. . We want to .start by the Committee on Rules of this House. · ~. dopted, which I am sure it will be, then out.m harmc;>~Y and follow the advice ?f If a proper showing can be made to that this committee will be provided with the Speaker m an endeavor to work m committee that the rules of the House funds just as any other committee of unity and cohesion ~nd to use important should be ·amended and that they ·should the House is provided with funds. reasons for any actiOn we take-not go create a standing committee or that a Mr. CASE of south Dakota. Coming ah~ad on passion, prejudice, and ~n un­ select committee should be provided, the from the Legislative Appropriations Com- reliable matter. . Committee on Rules have the power to mittee? · · · Mr. Speak~r, this amendment should report a resolution. Let us proceed in · Mr. COCHRAN. But not with any· be ~efeate~ If for 11:o other reason t~an an orderly way as we have done in the f 0 r expenses such as was allowed to give us time to. thmk over the questiOn . past. I ·hope this amendment wili ·oe mone~ . . and let us all decide for ourselves. I was voted down and then if the gentleman the Dies committee. under the impression that the minority from Mississippi so desires he can offer Mr .. RANKIN. It would COJ?e to ~~e ' leader and the minority party had agreed a resolution that will be referred to the House for funds to carry on Its actiVl- that the further activities of committees Committee on Rules. ties. of this sort would not be sanctioned in Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. Mr. CASE. of South Dakota. In that the new Congress. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? case, .th~n, It woul~ be up to the Ap- I hope that the Republican Members Mr. COCHRAN. I yield. propnat10ns Committee to recommend as well as the Democratic Members of Mr. CASE of South Dakota. What whatever amount it wanted to give them? the House will vote against this amend- would be the effect of the adoption of Mr. COCHRAN. I say that under the ment. this amendment so far as the finances rules of the House the Legislative Sub- Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. of the committee are concerned? committee of the Appropriations Com- Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. COCHRAN. The committee would mittee would recommend a clerk or two Mr. COCHRAN. I yield to the minor­ have no right to financial assistance clerks or whatever it desired and it would ity leader, as his name has· been men­ .other than for a clerk or two because be carried in a deficiency bill; but there tioned . the amendment contains no provision would be no money in a lump sum voted Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. The for any special expenses. Certainly if for the standing committee of the House gentleman has quoted me as being 1n the House creates a standing committee under the amendment that the gentle- some agreement about soine of these it will give that committee a clerk or two. man has offered. committees being continued. May I in- as it does all standing committees. Mr. MARC~TONIO. Will the gen- form the gentleman that I have not made Mr. CASE of South Dakota. If the tleman yield? any agreement with anyone on any com- gentleman· will yield further on that Mr. COCHRAN. I yield to the gentle- mittee. point. man from New York. Mr. EBERHARTER. I beg the gentle- Mr. COCHRAN. I yield. Mr. MARCANTONIO. If this amend-, man's pardon. I did not say that the Mr. CASE of South Dakota. In the ment is adopted we · will be establishi:fig gentleman from Massachusetts, the mi­ past the special resolution creating the a standing committee which heretofore nority leader, had entered into·any agree·­ . Dies committee or the Committee on has been a select committee, am I cor- ment, but I said it was my .understand­ L :t:Jn-American Activities, has itself car- rect?. ing, and I will say this, ·that I have seen l945 ·co~G~ESSIO~AL RECORp·-HoU~E 13

published reports in the newspapers to record be developed, I would · make no investigate for the contin~ance of this the effect that he would ·have no objec­ objection, but as for hearings, hearings session. tion to the discontinuance of the activi­ have been held and the record is now We are considering by this amend­ ties of the Dies committee. in the keeping of this House. ment the establishment of a permanent . Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, will -'the committee, a standing committee of the to the gentleman from Georgja [Mr. gentleman yield? House. I agree with the gentleman Coxl for an observation. Mr. COX. I yield to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Cox]. I hope that Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, I dislike to from Mississippi. · · · the House will not accept this amend­ participate in this discussion, but I would Mr. RANKIN. · If I were to take that ment. The merits of it· cannot be dis­ feel ashamed of myself if I did not take course these valuable records that proba­ cussed today. · It is a question of the opportunity to publicly express a very bly involve the fate of this Nation, the whether or not the House shall provide deep appreciation of the work done by safety of the American people, would be for a standing comz.nittee or shall refer the so-called Dies committee. Much has dissipated. · this to the Committee on Rules for con .. been said with reference to the large ex­ Mr. COX. You know the source from sideration. I am confident the Commit­ penditures made by the committee. ·As which comes this denunciation of the tee on Ruies will forthwith report a res­ for that, may I say that, in my judg­ :Pies committee. Let me make this ob­ olution continuing for this Congress the ment, the House never made a wiser or servation. There is a world-wid-e con­ Committee to Investigate Un-American a better investment than it made in the spiracy-there is a campaign against Activities~ If that is done, I can assure · setting up of that commlttee and pro­ constitutional government going on all the gentleman from Mississippi that viding it with funds to carry on its activi- over the world. The people who are immediately upon that resolution being ties. · engineering and participating in the reported out, if the House takes such I feel very deeply ab,aut this thing. furtherance of this campaign are the action today, I shall put it on the pro­ Frankly, I am not enthusiastic about the people wp.o are most· often denouncing gram for immediate consideration. setting up of special investigating com- the work of the Dies committee. There is a big difference between estab­ . mittees during the new Congress. With Mr. RANKIN. One of the greatest of lishing a standing committee to investi­ respect to what has been said about American institutions is the American gate and establishing a special jnvesti­ ~greements, let me say that there have Legion. . I hold in my hand the memorial gating committee for a particular Con­ been no agreements, but a tacit under­ of the American Legion, adopted in Chi­ gress. If this amendment is adopted, as standing in certain circles that as few of cago, n1., on September 18, 1944, memo­ far· as I know, it will be the first time ~ these committees would be set up as rializing the Congress of the United in the history of this body that a com­ might be possible. .The argument that States to "continue and make permanent mittee of this kind was ever established this is a matter for consideration of the congressional Committee on Un­ as a permanent or standing committee. the Committee on Rules is; in my judg.. American Activities." Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker will the Mr. cox. May I say to the gentleman · gentleman yield? • ' ment, not quite-- Mr. McCORMACK. I yield. Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. that the gentleman from Missouri very Speaker, will the gentleman yield for a kindly yielded to me, and I must not Mr. RANKIN. I call the attention of further transgress upon his courtesy. the. gentleman from Massachusetts to correction? the fact that this is to be a standing Mr. COX. I did not mean to include I do not know what the House may do, but sooner or later decision on this ques­ com~ttee. It is to be a legislative com­ anybody on this side as being a party to mittee with powers to make these in­ any kind of understanding. tion must be made, and made by this House. · vestigations. This would amend rule 11 Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. That of the Rules of the House by adding , is all right, th~n. Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may desire to the gen· after clause 40 (a) two new clauses. Mr. COX. As to the argument that Section 11 is the one which says to what this is a matter that should first go to tleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Me .. CORMACK]. . committees legislation shall be referred the Committee o.p. Rules, may I say that and getting down .to this amendment it maybe that would be the wiser course to Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, this says: is the opening day of the Seventy-ninth take; but still to me tlle argument does To the Committee on Un-Ame.rican Ac­ not seem. entirely valid. The Committee Congress. . I h:ope that on this day we tivities- on Rules is the creature of ~his House, wi.ll view this amendment from the angle and any recommendation or proposal of reason and from the angle of the That is, the legislation which refers to that that committee might see fit to offer legislative history of the very body of un-American activities to be referred to would have to come back to the House. which we are Members. I do not know the Committee on Un-American Activi­ The .question raised in the pending when in the history of our country the ties. · Of course, it is a legislative com­ amendment is an all-important question, National House of Representatives has mittee. and it is one upon which this House must· ever provided l;>y rule for a permanent Mr. McCORMACK. What type of leg­ make a decision sooner or later. Make investigating committee. Mark what islation, that is the question. There is a we are doing. This is not a question question of jurisdiction of committees, · no mistake about that. ~ The people of . this country are very much aroused on of establishing an investigating com .. of other permanent and standing com­ this whole question, and they are deeply mittee to · investigate conditions that mittees. Certainly the existing rules concerned. They are not ·willing that arise from time to time; it is a question provide the type of bills or resolutions the work started by the Dies committee of amending the rules of the .House to that are referred to a standing commit­ come to an end. In some of the press provide for a permanent standing com­ tee. This· resolution establishing a . there has been much shouting over the mittee that does not consider legisla .. standing committee, assuming it can rec­ demise of the Dies committee, but let me tion, but has one subject, one field, the ommend legislation, does not set forth say that in the hearts of the people there field of investigating and making a the type of legislation. . is a desire that the Congress, at least, l"ePort. Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Speaker meet its responsibility by the setting up of The ame~dment provides r wm the gentleman yield? . ' some kind of an agency to stand guard The Committee on Un-American Activities Mr. COCHRAN. . I yield. for America. · · shall report to the House the results of any Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. What assur­ such investigation, together with such recom­ ance can the majority leader give the This decision has to be made. This ·mendations as it deems advisable. House that the records of the Dies com­ House may accept this resolution, or it You will note, not legislation, mittee will not be destroyed, as charged may be rej~cted. If you turn it down, recom~ · by the gentleman from Mississippi, if you may expect a resolution back here to mendations. the resolution is defeated? · set up another investigating committee, Then, furj;;herr Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker I The Committee on Un-American Activities and such a resolution will carry by an think the gentleman's question is .l;t very ov~rwlielming majority in tliis bOdy. as a whole or bY' subcommittee is authorized . to make from time to time 1nvest1gatlons. proper one. If it should be pleasing to the gentle­ The SPEAKER. If the, gentleman man from Mississippi to withdraw his We are not considering a resolution from Massachusetts will yield; the Clerk amendment and let the matter come first eut of the Committee on Rules for the of th~ House is a sworn officer of the to the.committee on Rules, and let\ ~eYl ~ppointmel!t of a. special committee to House, and not only the Rules of the 14: ·coNGRESS.IONAL RECOR-D-HOUSE JANUARY -3 House, but. the law of the land, provide Those are the rules of the House. The that some of the men who went over that they shall be put into his hands law provides in title II, United States there to look over those papers were pre.. and what shall be the disposition of such Code, section 147, as follows: pared to remove them and said they records. The Chair thinks that answers , The Clerk of the House of Representatives would like to throw them into the Po .. the question of whether or not these is authorized and 'directed to deliver to the tomac River. 'I want to see that these papers are going to be destroyed. Librarian of Congress .all bound volumes of records are kept; that is one thing I am "Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I will original papers, general petitions, printed striving for. say to the gentleman from Massachu­ matter, books, and manuscripts on June-6, ·The SPEAKER. · The previous ques..­ 1900, in, or that may' t hereafter have come setts that we have a penal statute which into or may come into, the files of the House, tiori has been ordered ; and, further than provides that if the Clerk of the House which in his judgment are not required to that, as far as the occupant of this chair or any other individual destroys those be retained in the immedfate custody of the is concerned these papers have been kept files, or even takes the files away, he can file clerk; and it shall be the . duty of the intact. . . . . · be sent to the penitentiary. . Librarian of Congress to cause. all such mat­ Mr. RANKIN. I am speaking of the Mr. McCORMACK. Mr; Speaker, I ter so delivered to him. to be properly classi­ ones who went there to 'look them over. fied by Congress and arranged for preserva­ am not discussing the merits of this be- ' Th~ SPEAKER.. The question . is on cause I voted ·for the Dies resolution tion and ready reference. All of such matter the amendment. every time it came up. I hope my friend, to b.e held as a part o.f the files of the House of Representatives, subj~ct_ to its ordet:s a:p.d · The question was taken; and, on a. d.i .. the gentleman· from Mississippi, will ' rules. vision (demanded by Mr. MARCANTONIO) withdraw it. I am urging the House,_ to there were-yeas 134, noes 146, . realize that a vote against this is not · The majority leader ·Of the House~ with · the minority leader and myself, held· a M'r. RANKIN: · Mr. Speaker, I ask for a vote against· a special investigating · . the,yeas .and n~y~. - · · It .ag~inst conference · about these papers and :it committee. is a vote the pro.. : The yeas and nays. were or~er~d : cedure that. in one-hundred-and-fifty- ' was decided that they would remain in. . odd years of constitutional history. no . the committee-until teday, and be-trans.. ~ s'WEl\RINa -- m OF ·NEW , MEMBERS Congress, no membership of this body, · ferred as the -rules and law prov·ide· un.. The . SPEAKER. . The Chair under.. has ever followed to establish a perma- · less the House should take further· a~tiqn. st!:!.ilds tha.,t t\YO or three . ~embers with nent committee of this kjnd. I hope ~he · So far as the preservation of. ~e papers certificates on file with the· Clerk were amendment will be def.eated. . · · is concerned, they ar~ in the· ~ustody of· · · not ·here when the- other Members were· Mr. .COCHRAN. Mr ~- Speaker, I .move - the ~lerk ·_of - t~e . Ho~e. · · The Clerk of : sworn, in; were unable to ·get J:iere at the the previous question on the. amendment the House lS a sworn omcer and he knows .; 'hour of meeting On ''acicount of late trairis. and the resolution to final passage·. · his duty. At least two· such Members are he.re now. The previous question was ordered. Mrt RANKIN. .Mr. Speaker, a point·of . 'Mr. MUNDT . . Mr.· Speaker,' I~ am. one · Mr'. 'CASE of south Dakota~ Mr. ord~r · . · of those detained by ·late .trains. ·.I took Speaker, -.a parliamentar-y inquir-y. ·· - The ~PE~R; · . Just · a momel_lt. _tl;le o~th of office _out f was not here in. The SPEAKER. The gentleman· will Does the gentleman want to state a .· time· to answer to the first roll call. state it. · point of order? · The SPEAKER. The statement of the Mr. CASE of South ·Dakota. My in­ Mr. RANKIN. Yes.. g~ntl_eman from . Sout~ D.fl.kota will stand. quiry has been partly answered by the , Mr. COX. Not agamst~ though. · Mr. · LE. COMPTE. Mr. Speaker, a statement of . the Chair, but I now ask, · Mr. RANKIN. -Not agam~t. . parliamentary inquiry. ' What is the status of the records ·of the ' The SPEAKER. , The Gha1r would hk~ . The . SPEAKER. The gentleman will Dies committee at the present time and v~ry m~ch to comp_lete the statement state· ·it; what will be their status if this amend- the Chair start.ed to make. . Mr. LECOMPTE. . ·Mr. Speaker, may ment should be adopted? · The House wll~ remember that ~he Me.. ,_ I say that I was not present at the roll The SPEAKER. ·This . amendment. Cormack _committ~e!· ~he · 2omm1ttee ~m call but·! was present and took the· oath does not change the status of the papers un-Amencan ActiV.Ities, wound up Its of office· · of the Dies committee at all, unless fur­ work and recommended le?islation. Its The ·SPEAKER. The gentleman's ther action of the House is taken. For . papers wer~ tak~n posse~swn of by the statement will stand. the information of the House _the Chair · Clerk and filed m the Lib~ary of Con.. The Members who have not taken the will read two rules. gr~ss. They were looked m~o by reso- oath of office will present themselves in First: ~::· . lutwn of the Clarence Cannon (chair­ Corbett Keefe Smith, Va. Coffee Jennings Trimble man), Missouri; Clifton A. Woodrum, Vir­ cox Kilburn Smith, Wis. courtney Johnson, Weichel ginia; Louis Ludlow, Indiana; Malcolm C. Cravens Kilday Springer Crawford Lyndon B. Zimmerman Dingell Latham Tarver, .Georgia; Jed Johnson, Ol(lahoma; Cunningham Kinzer Stefan J. Buell Snyder, Pennsylvania; Emmet O'Neal, Curtis Knutson Stewart The SPEAKER. On this roll call the · D'Alesan6to Landis Stigler Kent u cky; Louis C. Rabaut, .Michigan; John Daughton, Va. Lanham Sundstrom ayes are 208, t:l)e nays 186. H. Kerr, North Carolina; George H. Mahon, Davis . Larcade Taber So the amendment was agreed to. Texas; Harry R. Sheppard, California; Butler Dolliver LeCompte Talbot The result of the vote was announced B. Hare, South Carolina; Albert Thomas, Domengeaux LeFevre Talle as above recorded. Texas; Joe Hendricks, Florida; Michael J. Dondero McConnell Thomas, N. J. Kirwan, Ohio; John M. Coffee, Washington; Drewry McCowen Tibbott The SPEAKER. The . que~tion is on W. F. Norrell, Arkansas; Jamie L. Whitten, Dworshak McGehee Vorys, Ohio the resolution. Eaton McGregor Vursell Mississippi; · Thomas J. O'Brien, Illinois; Elllott McKenzie Wadsworth The resolution was agreed to. James M. Curley, 'Massachusetts. Ellis McMillan, S. C. West ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND , VICE Military Affairs: Andrew J. May (chair­ Ellsworth McMillen, Ill. . White PRESIDENT man), Kentucky; R . Ewing Thomason, Texas; Elsaesser Mahon Whitten Overton Brooks, Louisiana; John J. Spark­ Elston Maloney Wicke11>ham Mr. McCORMACK Mr. Speaker, I man, Alabama; Paul J. Kilday, Texas; Car! T. Fallon Manasco Wigglesworth Fellows Martin, Iowa Wilson offer a resolution (~ . Con. Res. 1), which Durham, North Carolina; Clifford Davis, Ten­ Fenton Martin, Mass. Winstead ·1 send to the Clerk's desk. nessee; Johp Edward Sheridan, Pennsylvania; Fisher · Mason Winter The Clerk read the Senate concurrent Philip J. Philbin, Massachusetts; Paul Fuller May Wolcott resolution, as follows: Stewart, Oklahoma; Arthur Winstead, Mis.. Gamble M ~ chener Wolfenden, Pa. sissippi; John J. Rooney, New York. Gathings Miller, Nebr. Wood Resolved by the Senate (the House of . Naval Affairs: Carl Vinson (chairman); Gearhart Mills Woodruff, Mich. RepresentatitJes concurring), That the two Gibson Morrison Worley Georgia; Patrick H . Drewry, Virginia; Lyndon Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of B. Johnson, Texas; Michael J. Bradley, Penn­ NAY8-186 of the House of Representatives on Saturday, sylvania; Ed. V. Izac, California; Lansdale G. Anderson, Case, N. J. Fernandez the 6th day of January 1945, at 1 o'clock Sasscer, Maryland; James J. Heffernan, New N.Mex. Celler Flannagan postmeridian, pursuant to the requirements York; L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina: Arnold Chelf · Flood of the Constitution and laws relating to the F. Edward Hebert, Louisiana; Emery H. Price, Bailey Clements Folger election of President and Vice President of Florida; William A. Rowan, Dlinois. Baldwin, N.Y. Cochran Forand the United States, and the President of the Barrett, Pa. Combs Gallagher Rules: Adolph J. Sabath (chairman), Illi~ Barry Cooley Gardner Senate shall be their presiding officer; that nois; E. E. Cox, Georgia; Howard W. Smith, Bates, Ky. Crosser Geelan two tellers shall be previously app9inted by Virginia; J. Bayard Clark, North Carolina: Bender curley Gerlach the Presid-ent of the Senate on the part of John J. Delaney, New York; William M. Col• Bennet, N. Y. Dawson Gordon . the Senate and two by the Speaker on the mer, Mississippi; Joe B. Bates, Kentucky; Biemiller ·De Lacy Gorski part of the House of Representatives, to Roger C. Slaughter, Missouri. Bland Delaney, Granahan whom shall be handed, as they are opened­ Ways and Means: Robert L. Daughton Blootri JamesJ. Granger by the President of the Senate, all the cer­ Bolton Delaney, Green (chairman), North Carolina; Jere Cooper, Bonner JohnJ. Gregory tificates and papers purporting to be cer- · Tennessee; John D. Dingell, Michigan; A. Boren Dickstein Hagen tificates of the electoral votes, which certifi­ Willis Robe-rtson, Virginia; Milton H. West, Bradley, Pa. Dirksen Ha.nd cates and papers shall be opened, presented, Texas; Wilbur D. Mills, Arkansas; . Noble J. Buckley Douglas, Callf. Harris and acted upon in the alphabetical orqer of, Gregory, Kentucky; A. Sidney Camp, Georgia; Bulwinkle Douglas, lll. Hart the St ates, beginning with the letter A;' and Walter A. Lynch, New York; Aime J. Forand, Bunker Doyle Havenner said' tellers, having then read the same in the Rhode Island; Thad F. Wasielewski, Wiscon• Burch Durham Hays Burgin Eberharter ;Healy presence and hearing of the two Houses, s!n;- Paul H. Maloney, Louisiana; Herman P. Byrne, N. Y. Engel, Mich. Hedrick shall make a list of the votes as they shall Eberharter, Pennsylvania; Cecil R. King, Canfield Engle, Calif. · Heffernan appear from the said certificates; and the California; Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico. Cannon. Mo. Ervin Herter votes having been ascertained and counted Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Schuyler Carnahan Feighan Heselton in the manner and according to the rules by Otis Bland. (chairman), Virginia; Rober~ 16 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-I-IOUSE JANUARY :3 Ramspeck, Georgia; Joseph J . Mansfield, lie Printer, because the· article· will ex­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Texas; Edward J. Hart, New Jersey; Frank W. ceed the space permitted under the House · theTequest·of·the·gentleman from Penn- Boykin, Alabama; J. Hardin Peterson, I'lorida; Herbert C. Bonner; North Carolina; Henry-M • rules, that the cost will be ·$225.40. Not- sylvania? · Jackson, Washington; Eugene J. Keogh, New . withstanding that, I ask unanimous con­ There was·no objection . . York; Ralph H. Daughton, Virginia:. sent that this article be included· in the Mr. GEARHART. Mr. Speaker, I ask RECORD. unanimous consent to extend my r.e­ The resolution was agreed to. The S.PEAKER. Is there objection to marl\:s in the RECORD and include a reso­ HOUR OF MEETING the request of the gentleman from Min­ ·lution of the Los Angeles County Board Mr. SABA.TH. Mr. Speaker, I offer a nesota? of Supervisors. · . _ resolution and ask for its immediate There was no objection. Tne SPEAKE:a,. Is there objection to consideration. · Mr. REED of New York. Mr. . Speaker, the request of the gentleman from Cali- The Clerk read the resolution

project, Montana; to the Committee on has been suspended for more-than 6 months; H . a.. 12. A bill to provide for a preliminary Indian Affairs. to the Committee on Immigration and Natu­ examination and survey of Finneys Creek, 24. A letter from the Acting Secretary of ralization. Accomac County, Va., and the chantlel con ­ the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to sec· necting with Wachapreague Inlet and the tion 16 of the Organic Act of the Virgin PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Atlantic Ocean; to the Committee on Rivers Islands of the United States, approved June and Harbors. 22, 1936, one copy each of various legislation Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public · H. R.l3. A bill for the improvement of passed by the Municipal Council of St• . bills and resolutions were introduced ard Gl\rgathy Inlet, Accomac County, Va.; to the Thomas anti St. John; to the Committee on severally referred as follows: Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Insular Affairs. H. R. 14. A bill to provide for prelirilinary · 25. ·A letter from the Secretary of War, By Mr. LUDLOW: _ H. R.·l. A bill to provide disability benefits examination and survey of Jackson Creek, transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi­ for honorably discharged veterans under cer­ Westmoreland County, Va., and the channel neers, United States Army, dated November tain circumstances; to the Committee on connecting with the Potomac River; to the 15, 1944 submitting a report, together with World War Veterans' Legislation. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. accompanying papers, on a review of report H. R. 15. A bill for preliminary examination on the Santee River, N. C. and S. C., with a By Mr.. PATMAN: H. R. 2. A bill providing for Government arid survey of Task.mers Creek, Va.; to the view to determining whether any flood-con­ ownership of the 12 Federal Reserve banks, Committee ·on Rivers -and Harbors. trol improvement of the Reedy River, S. C., H. R. 16. A bill to provide for a preliminary • is advisable at this time, requested by a. reso­ and for other purposes; to the Committee on Banking and CUrrency. · examination and survey of Dyer Creek, Math­ lution of the Committee on Flood Control, ews County, Va., and the channel connecting House of Representatives, adopted on May 2, By Mr. CANNON of !\iissouri: H. R. 3. A bill to restore standard time; to . with the Chesapeake Bay; to the' Committee 1939; .to the Committ ee on Flood Control. on Rivers and Harbors. 26. A letter from the Secretary of ·the In­ the Committee on Interstate and Foreign terior, transmitting the financial statement' Commerce. H. R. 17. A bill for preliminary examination of the Bonneville Administrator for the fiscal By Mr. RANDOLPH: and survey of Deep Creek, Accomac County, year ended June 30, 1944, made under the H. R. 4. A bill to provide for Federal aid Va.; to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. provisions of section 9 (c) of the Bonneville for the development, construction, improve­ H. R. 18. A bill to provide for a preliminary Act (Public, No. 329, 75th Cong.; approved ment, and repair of public aJ.r.ports in the examiilation and survey of Bonum Creek, August 20, 1937); to the Committee on Rivers .United States, and for other purposes; to the Westmoreland'County, Va., and the channel and Harbors. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ connecting with the Potomac River; to the 27. A letter from the Acting Secretary of merce. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. the Treasury, transmitting a combined state­ . By Mr. HOBBS: H. R. 19. A bill to provide for a preliminary ment of teceipts, expendit ures, and balances H. R. 5. A bill to make available specialized examination and survey of Kings Creek, of the United States Government for the services and facilities to States, areas, coun­ Northampton County, Va., and the channel fiscal year ended June 30, 1944; to the Com­ ties, and communities in developing recrea­ connecting with Cherrystone Channel, Va.; mittee on Expenditures in the Executive De­ tion programs for the people or the United to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. partments. States in the transition period from war to H. R. 20. A bill tQ provide for an examina­ 28. A letter from the president of the peace and beyond, designed to aid in the tion and survey of Farnham Creek, Rich· Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and speedy rehabilitation and absorption of war mond County, Va.; to the Comll).ittee on Preventive Medicine, Inc., transmitting here­ veterans and their families int o normal and Rivers and Harbors. · with the Seventeenth Annual Report of the satisfying community life; to · provide a H. R. 21. A bill to provide for a preliminary Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, -covering the variety of wholesome leisure-time activities examination and surveys of Parrott s Creek, fiscal year 1944; to the Committee on For­ available to all youth to the end of aiding in Middl.esex County, Va., and the channel CQn­ eign Affairs and ordered to be printed. the buildh:ig of better health, physical well­ necting with Rappahannock River; to the 29. A letter from the ArchiVist of the United being, character, and citizenship, stimulating Committee on Rivers and Harbors. States, transmitting a report of the preceding intellectual and desirable a.vocational pur­ H. R. 22. A bill to provide for a preliminary suits, and reducing and preventing accidents, fiscal year as to the· Franklin D. Roosevelt ·examination· and survey of ))avis Cre~k, Library; to the Committee on the Library. delinquency, and crime; and making com­ Mathews County, Va., and channel connect­ 30. A letter from the Attorney General, munities more attractive and desirable as ing sa:tne with Mobjack Bay, Va.; to the Com· places in which to live and conduct business; mittee on Rivers and Harbors. transmitting the Eighth Report of the Attor· to the Committee on Public Buildings and · ney General, covering the period from Au· H. R. 23. A bill for preliminary examina­ gust 26 through December 15, 1M4; to the Grounds. • tion and survey of Browns Bay, Va.; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. CURLEY: H. R. 6. A bill to provide for the payment Committee on Rivers and Harbors. · 31. A letter from the Comptroller General by the United States during the present war, H. R. 24. A bill to provide for a preliminary of the United States, transmitting a. report of certain transportation expenses of mem­ examination and survey of Bransons Cove, and recommendation concerning the claim of bers of the armed forces returning home. on in the lower Machodoc River, Va.; to the Com­ Dane D. Morgan against the United States; to furlough from service overseas; to the Com­ mittee on Rivers and Harbors. the Committee on· Claim'S. mittee on Military Affairs. H. R. 25. A bill for a preliminary examina· 32. A letter from the Acting Chief Clerk of / By Mr. MARCANTONIO: tion and .survey of the southwest side of the the Court of Claims of the United States, H . R. 7. A bill making unlawful the re- Rappahannock River in the vicinity of Bowl­ transmitting a statement. of all judgments . quirement for the paYment of a _poll tax as ers Wharf, Essex County, Va.; to the Com· rendered by the Court of Claims for the year a. prerequisite to voting in a primary or other mittee on Rivers and Harbors·. ended December 2, 1944, the amount thereof, election for national officers; to the Com­ H. R. 26. A bill to authorize a bridge, roads the parties in whose favor rendered, and a mittee on the Judiciary. and approaches, supports and benps, or other brief synopsis of the nature of the claims; By Mr. PATMAN: structures across, over, or upon lands of the to the Qommittee on Claims. H. R. 8. A bill to amend a law known as United· States within the limits of the Colo­ 33. A letter from the Comptroller Gen­ Public La.w 603 (77th Cong., 2d sess., ch. 404), nial National Historical Park at or near York­ eral of the United States, transmitting a re­ and entitled "An act to mobilize the produc­ town, Va.; to the Committee on the Public port and recommendation to the Congress tive facilities of small business in the in ­ Lands. concerning the claim of the Lawrence Motor terests of successful prosecution of the war, H. R. 27. A bill to provide for the estab­ Co., Inc., against the United States; to the and for other purposes"; to the Comm'ittee lishment of the Rehoboth-Assateague Na· Committee on Claims. on Banking and Currency. tional Seashore in the States of Delaware, 34. A letter from the Administrator of War By Mr. CANNON of Florida: Maryland, and Virginia, and for other pur­ Food Admini-stration, transmitting the re­ H . R. 9. A bill for improvement of the poses; to the Committee on the Public Lands. port of operations, expenditures, and obli· Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to H. R. 28. A bUl to provide that the fund for gations under the Soil Conservation and Key West, Fla.; to the Committee on Rivers the relief of sick and .ct of 1940 with respect. to the apportionment Committee on the Judiciary. · · By Mr. HOPE: · · of fees collected by clerks· of certain courts iri H. R. 34.- A bill to punish the willful in- H. R. 49 _ A bill to amend Public Law 74, naturalization proceedi.ilgs;· to the Commit· jury, destruction, or defective manufacture of Sev·enty-seventh Congress, relating to wheat -.tee on Itnm1gration and Naturalization. 1 property used or intended for use in the marketing,quotas 'under the Agricultural Ad- • H. R. 64. A bill relating to. the income tax preparation ·for or carrying :on of war ·or na- · d d t' ·th ~ of. members. . of ~ the. armed .forces .for. the year 1938 0 · tiona! defense. and for ot~er purposes; to justmen~ ,_ ~ct of . ·,- ~s amen .e. ; ; e in which they entered upon active service ln the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Agriculture. : such forces; to: the Committee 'on Ways and. H. R. 35. A bill to amend further· the Civil - -·H. R~Jo~l· ~~~~~~:rove the facilitfes ' M~~ns. · · Service :Retir.Cment Act, approved· ·May 29, for transcontinentaL motor transportation; .n. R. 65: A ~bill to encourage -beneficiaries 1930, as amended; to the Commi-ttee on the to provide . additional. facilities · for the- na- of old-age and survivor& insurance under the Civil Service. · tio,na.l defense; , to aid in the relief ot unem- S~_ial Security Act t~ - be gainfully emptoyetl; H. R. 36. A" bill to ·amend ·section 77· of; the . - to .the Cemmittee-on Ways1and Means. > ; . · act of July 1, ·18S8; entitled '.-An act :t(} estab- ploynient; to l?romote t;fi.e P.~blic safety; a?d -H. R: 66. A bill to provide for weekly pay lish a uniform s;ystem of bankruptcy for other purposes; to the Committee on , days for postal' employees; to t,he Committee throughout the United States," as ·amended; . Roads. on .the Post Office and P~t ·Roads. .. t h .-. J d · By Mr. VOORHIS of California: . H R 67 A. , 1 · o t e Committee on tue u iciary. H. R. 51. A bill to 'insure the maximum pro- . • . ·ui I to provide for weekly pay H: R. 37 A bill to" amend section 77 ef the duction of oil during toe· war; to the Coin- days for postal employees; to the. Committee act of July 1, 1898, entitled "An act to es- mittee on Banking and Currency. .on the -Post 'Office and Post Roads.: tablish a uniform. system of bankruptcy H .' R: _ A bill to facilitate smaller war H. R. 68. A bill to grant temporary com- throug~out the United States,"' as amended; 52 missioned rank to certain inale nurses serving to the Committee on-the Judiciary. plants in reconversion to peacetime produc- · · in the armed forces; to the Committee on ·H. R. 38 ." A bill making it unlawful for any tion; to assure the effective participation. of Military Affairs. person, firm, association•, or corporation not SmaHer War P~ants Corpqration ~n tbe recon- - H. R. 69. A bill to repeal the automobile· expressly excepted from the' operation of the version period; to stimulate the development use tax; to the Committee on Ways and · act by the · provisions thereof, to use the- of new enterprises; to amend Public Law 603 Means. mails to solicit or effect insurance or collect (77th Cong.); and"for other purposes; to the H. R. 70. A bill to extend the Musterin'g- .pr tram:mit insurance premiums in any State. Committee on Banking and Cut:rency. , Out Payment Act of 1944 to certain persons without complying with the insurance laws · By Mr. HAYS: · discharged or relieved'from ·active service in thereof; to the Committee on the Post Office H. R ..53. A bill to amend section 5155 of the - the armed forces to accept employment; to . .and Post Roads. .. Revised Statutes, with respect to the ·estab- t4e committee on Military Affairs. . H. R. 39; A bill to amend an act entitled lishment of branches by national bal,lking H. R. 71. A bill to provide retirement bene- .. "An act to punish the willful injury or de- associations; to the Committee on Banking fits for certain emergency officers of World struction of war material, or of war premises and CurretJ.cy. War No. 1; to the Committee on Military or utilities us€d in connection with war rna- By Mr. IZAC: Affairs. · terial, and for other purposes," approv€d April H. R. 54. A bill to· amend section 10 of the .H. R. 72. A bill to amend the Reconstr~c- . 20. 1918, as amended; to the Committee on act of Congr·ess approved July 24, 1941, en- . tion Finance Corporation Act with respect to the Judiciary. titled "An act authorizing the tempot:ary ap- premiums on war-damage· insurance; to the ·H. R. 40 A bill to permit all litigation tn pointment or advancement of certain per- .. Committee on Banking and currency. the courts e>f the United States without the sonnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for : . H. R .. 73. A bill to grant additional compen­ requirements of deposits of money, and to other purposes," as amended, to provide for sation to certain veterans pursuing voca­ make it unlawful to require the printing of the retired pay of certain persons, and for tiona! training under part VII of Veterans the record and other papers on appeals; -to . other purposes; to the -Committee on Naval Regulation No. 1 (a)' as amended; to the the Committee on the Judiciary. Affairs. Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla- . H. R. 41. A bill to provide for the recor~ing H. R. 55. A bill to prohibit interstate com- tion. of the proceedings in one of the courtrooms . man-carrier pipe lines from transporting H. R. 74. A bill to amend an act entitled . of the District Court of the United States commodities in which such carriers have any . "An act for the retirement of employees in for the District of Columbia by sound· interest; to the Committee on Interstate and the classified civil service, and for other pur­ recording equipment~ and 'for the reproduc- Foreign Comme.rce. poses," ~ approved May 22, 1920; to· the Com- tion of the sounds of such proceedings in H. R. 56. A bill to amend section 1001, title mittee on the Civil Service. whole or in part, in the District of Columbia .X, of the Socia.I .Security Act (Public Law No. H. R. 75. A bill to. provide for the construe­ Circuit court of Appeals and in th'e Supreme· 271, 74th Cong.), to include needy individuals tion of a Veterans Admiril'3tration regional court of the United states upon the review who are permanently crippled; to the Com- office building in Boston, Mass.; to the Com- of any such case; to the Committee on the mittee on Ways and Means. mittee qn World War Veterans' Legislation. Judiciary. H. R. 57. A bill to establish boards of ap- H. R. 76. A bill to provide for the construe- H. R. 42. A bill to amend sections ·1, 2, and peals .and reviews in the Navy and Marine tion of ·a Veterans Administration hospital in e of the act entitled "An act to punish the Corps for hearing and passing upon petitions Lawrence, Mass.; to the Committee on World - willful injury or destruction of war material, for correction of records of persons dis· War Veterans' Legislation. or of war premises or utilities used in con- charged under other than honorable condi.. H. R. 77. A bill to return the receipts in ex- nection with war ·material, and for other pur- tions; to the· Committee on Naval Affairs. cess of Ia:wful payments of a public housing poses," approved April 20, 1918, as amended H. R. 58. A bill authorizing negotiations agency to .the Authority and to the political (40 Stat. 533; u.s. c., title 50, sees. 101, 102, and providing for the construction, mainte- subdivision in which the project of such and 103); to the Committee on the Judiciary. nance, and operation of an interoceanic canal agency is situated in the same proportion H. R. 43. A bill to safeguard the admission over Nicaraguan territory, and for other pur- to their respective contributions; to the Com­ of evidence in certain cases; to the Com- pqses; to the Committee on the Merchant mittee on Banking and Currency. mittee on the Judiciary. Marine and Fisheries. · H. R. 78. A. bill to incorporate the World By Mr. ELLIO'IT: By Mr. LANE: War Veterans of the United States Merchant H. R. 44. A bill to amend the act entitled H. R. 59. A bill to provide for the payment Marine; to the. Committee on the Judiciary. . "An act to provide for the disposal of certain . to cert,ain .Government. employees for accu- __ , H.R 79. A bill amending the Social Secu­ records o! the United States Government"; . mulated or accrued a~nual leave due upon . • rlty Act to provide for the raimbursement o! 20 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 municipalities and other governmental unit-s to the Department of Agriculture; to the zens 60 years of age or over; to the Committee for expenses incurred in connection with the Committee on the Merc.hant Marine and on Ways and Means. burial of insured individuals; to the Com­ Fisheries. H. R. 115. A bill providing for the issuance mittee on Ways and Means. H. R. 96. A bill for the relief of certain per­ of documentary evidence of United States H. R. 80. A bill to confer the same rights, sons occupying lands of the United States citizenship; to the Committee on Immigra­ privileges, and benefits upon members of the within the draina..ge of the Arroyo Seco, An­ tion and NaturaliZation. United States merchant -marine who ·served geles National Forest, Calif.; to the Com- By Mr. GRANT of Indiana: during the World War as are conferred upon mittee on Agriculture. , H. R.116. A bill to extend the benefits of members of the armed forces of the United H. R. 97. A bill to amend the act entitled the Social Security Act to certain legally States who served during such war; to the "'An act to supplement existing laws against adopted children; to the Committee on Ways Committee on the Me chant Marine and unlawful restraints and monopoli.es, and for and Means. Fisheries. other purposes"; to the Committee on the H. R.117. A bill to amend the Pay Read· By Mr. MASON: Judiciary. justment Act of 1942; to the Committee on H. R. 81. A bill to establish a system of H. R. 98. A bill to protect the foreign rela· Military Affairs. · - lungevity pay f<>r postal employees; to the · tions and· to promote the trade and com:. By Mr. HENDRICKS: Committee on the Past Office and Post Roads. merce of the United States, to require the H. R. 118. A bill to provide for the erec­ B~ Mr. O'BRIEN of Michigan~ . disclosure to the United States of informa­ tion of memorial stones in national ceme­ H. R. 82. A bill to extend certain benefits tion 'affecting such trade and commerce, and teries for certain servicemen determined to of the Canal Zone Retirement Act of March to safeguard the security of the United be missing or missing in ·action, or buried 2, 1931, as amended, to certain employees States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. at sea; to the Committee on Military Affairs. covered by the Civil Service Retirement Act . :a. R. 99. A bill to enable disabled veterans H. R. 119. A bill to authoriZe an appropria­ of May 29, 1930, as amended; to the Com­ to accept employment during the war period tio~ for the purpose of establishing· a na­ mittee on the Civil Service. without deductions from their pension or tional cemetery at St. Cloud, Fla.; to the H. R. 83. A bill to increase the compensa­ ·compensation; to the Committee on World Committee on Military Affairs. tion of employees in the Postal Service; to War Veterans' Legislation. - H. R. 120. A bill amending the Social Se­ the Committee on the Post 01Hce and Post H. R. 100. A bill to establish community and curity Act to provide for the matching of Roads. · county committees ·of farmers to administer administrative costs of State old-age assist­ H. R. 84. A bill to extend the benefits of those phases of all Federal programs involving ance plans with Federal funds; to the Com-­ the act of May 29, 1944, entitled "An act to farm contact; to the Committee on Agricul- mittee on Ways and Means. provide for the recognition of the services of ture. · H. R. 121. A bill to extend eligibility for the civilian officials and employees, citiZens H. R. 101. A b111 to improve practices of benefits, under the Railroad Retirement Act of the United States, engaged in and about· Government procurement -agencies with re­ of 1937, to individuals who are ineligible only the construction of the Panama Canal," to gard to cost-plus-fixed.:.fee contracts; to the by reason of the time of separation from certain additional civilian -officers and em­ Committee on the Judiciary. service; to the Committee on Interstate and ployees; to the Committee on the Merchant H . R. 102. A bill to amend subsection (i) of Foreign Commerce. Marine and Fisheries. · part n of section 4 of ·the Bituminous Coal By Mr. HOLMES of Massachusetts: H. R. 85. A bill to promote the economic Act cif 1937, as amended; to the Committee on H. R. 122. A bill to amend sections 27?0 (a) welfare of the countr.ies of North and South Ways and Means. and 3260 (a) of the Internal Revenue· Code America; to the Committee on -Ways and H. R. 103. A b111 to grant permanent and relating to the transfer tax, and the tax o.n Means. · total disab1lity. ratings to veterans suffering manufacturers and dealers, in the case of ·H. R. 86. A bill to establish Divisions of from· severe industrial inadaptabllity as a re­ certain small-game guns; to the Committee Air Warfare, the Navy, and the Army as co­ sult of war service; to the Committee on on Ways and Means. · equal d1visions under a Department of Na• . World War Veterans' Legislation. H. R. 123. A bill to amend t3e Federal tional Defense; to the Committee on EX• H. R. 104. A b111 to grant veterans judicial Trade Commission Act with reference to the penditures in the Executive Departm~nts. review against the Veterans Administration; transactions in regard to watches containing H. R. 87. A bill to amend the act entitled to the Committee on World War Veterans• works of foreign manufacture; to the Com-­ "'An act to reclassify terminal railway· post Legislation. · mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. ofllces," approved June 14, 1934, in order to H. R. 105. A blll to define "unemployability" . . By Mr. JONKMAN: • provide higher gradtls for certain clerks in under law administered by the Veterans Ad-­ H. R. 124. A b111 to cancel, to the extent of - terminal railway post offices; to the Com• ministration; to 'the Committee on World $100, the income-tax liability of members of mittee on the Post 01Hce and Post Road.s. War· Veterans' Legislation. - the armed forces for the taxable year end­ H. R. 88. A bill to provide a pension for · H. R. 106. A bill to provide liberalized defi­ ing immediately prior to ·their entering- the persons who served in the United States nitions of permanent total disab111tT, to the service; to the Committee on Ways and military or naval servic'e who were injured Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla .. Means. in line of duty and who are now past 65 years tion. By Mr. LANE: of age; to the Committee on Invalid Pen- By Mr. CLASON: H. R. 125. A bill to recognize the high pub .. sions. .- H. R. 107. A bill to amend the act approved lie service rendered by soldiers who volun­ H. R. 89. A bill relating to the classifica­ March 14, 1936, entitled "An act to provide for teered and served in trench-fever experiments tion of substitute· driver-mechanics in the vacations for Government employees, and in the American Expeditionary Forces; to the Postal Service; to the Committee on the for other purposes," as amended; to the Com­ Co~ittee on Military Affairs. Post Office and Post Roads. mittee on the Civil Service. By Mr. LESINSKI: . By Mr. PATMAN: H. R. 108. A bill to provide for the payment H. R. 126. A bill to increase the monthly H. R. 90. A bill providing for the issuance of overtime -compensation to Government rate of service pension payable to certain of nonnegotiable United States bonds to Fed­ employees, and for other purposes; to the . widows or remarried widows of Civil war ·eral Reserve banks and terminating the Committee on the Civil Service. , veterans; to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ H. R. 109. A bill to provide additional com­ authority of the Treasury to iss~e other sions. interest-bearing obligations of the United pensation for certain civilian employees of H. R.127. A bill to provide adjusted-serv­ States to commercial banks, and for other the Governments of the United States and ice pay for those persons who served in the the Di'strict of Columbia.; to the Committee purpose~ · to the Committee on .Ways and armed forces of the U~ited States during the on the Civil• Service. · Means. present war, and for other purposes; to the H. R. 110. A bill to regulate the eligibility By Mr. T~YLOR: Committee on Ways and Means. of w~r veterans for public housing; to the H. R. 91. A bill to provide for the establish­ Committee on Banking and Currency. H. R. 128. A'bill to extend the period of the ment of a. national cemetery in the Saratoga H. R.111. A blll to grant free postage to· Philippine Insurrection so as to include ac­ National Historical Park;· to the Committee veterans, soldiers, sailors, or marines while tive service . with the United States military on the Public Lands. being furnished hospital treatment, institu­ or naval forces engaged in hostilities in the By Mr. V:OORlllS of California: tional, or domiciliary care in institutions op­ Mora Province, including Mindanao, or in the H. R. 92. A bill to amend the act of July 15. erated by or under contract with the Vet­ islands of Samar and Leyte, between July 5, 1940, pertaining to emergency officers' retire­ erans Administration; to the Committee on · 1902, and December 31, 1913; to the Commit­ ment benefits; to the Committee on Military the Post 01Hce and Post Roads. t~e on Invalid Pensions; Affairs. H. R.112. A btll· to remove certain dis­ ·By Mr. MANASCO: H. R. 93. A bill to authorize the coinage of criminations against Government employees H. R. 129. A bill to provide for the barring 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the in the payment of overtime compensation; · of certain claims by the United States in • memory of Will Rogers; to the Committee on to the Committee on the Civil Service. connection with Government checks and Coinage, Weights, and Measures. H. R. 113. A bill for the better assurance of warrants; to the Committee on EXpenditures H. R. 94. A b1ll to prevent monopoly and to the protection of persons y.rithin the several in the Executive Departments. promote a high level of production in the States from mob violence and lynching, and H. R. 130. A bill to amend section 4 of the ·united States, and for other purposes; to the for other purposes; to the Committee on the Act of December 29, 1941, so as to make the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. . provisions of said act applicable to officers or H. R. 95. A bill to transfer Government ac­ H. R. 114. A bill providing for the payment employees certifying to pay rolls of the Selec­ \lvities in connection with domestic rabbits of direct Federal old-age assistance to citi-- tive Service System for payment by Army 1945 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 21 · disbursing officers; to the Committee on Ex­ ~- H. R. 147. A bql · to provide funds for the c~uses and ·characteristics of thunderstorms: penditures in the Executive Departments. prosecution of the war and to relieve the tq the Committee on Interstate and Foreign H. R. 131. A bill to eliminate the practice American people of unnecessary interest bur­ Commerce. by subcontractors," under cost-plus-a;..fixed­ den; to •the Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 165. A bill to auth_orize the appro­ fee contracts of the United States, of paying H. R. 148. A bill to prohibit the employ- · priation of funds for the development and fees or kick-backs, or of _granting · gifts or ment of persons by the ·United States at a. improvement of devices for the propulsion gratuities to employees of cost-plus-a-fixed­ compensation of $1 a year, and to provide of aircraft, for national defense, and for fee prime contractors or of other ·subcon­ that persons employed by the United States other purposes; to the 'committee on Inter­ tractors for the purpose of securing the award shall be compensated on a reasonably ade­ state and Foreign Commerce. of subcontracts or orders; to the Committee quate basis; to the Committee on Expendi· H. R. 166. A bill to amend section 408 of on Expenditures in the Executive Depart­ tures in the Executive Departments. the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, ments. H. R.149. A bill to amend section 32 of relating to consolidations, mergers, and . By Mr. PATMAN: Public Act No. 320, Seventy-fourth Congress, acquisitions of control; to the Committee on H. R. 132. A bill providing for an.excise tax approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 774), as Interstate and Foreign Commerce. on retail stores; to the Committee on Ways amended; to the Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 167. A bill to amend section 1 (4) and.Means. H. R. 150. A bill to' authorize such proce­ of the Interstate Commerce Act, to permit H. R.133. A bill to provide for the disposi­ dure as to the adjudication of claims for ben­ joint action by common carriers subject to tion of unclaimed deposits in national banks; efits administered through the Veterans Ad· part I, II, III, or IV, respectively, in con­ to the Committee on Banking and Currency. ·ministration as is designed to assure an equi­ nection with procedures related to the estab­ . H. R. 134. A bill to provide for redemption table evaluation of all facts and factors per- · lishment of rates and the taking of other · action; to the Committee on Interstate and of certain cotton certificates issued under the t~nent to the claim, and for other purposes; . Bankhead cotton Act; to the Committee on to the Committee on World War Veterans' Foreign.Commerce. Legislation. By Mr. CANNON of Missouri: Agriculture. H. R. 168. A bill to ·restore benefits for vet­ H. R.135. A bill to prevent manufacturers H. R. 151. A bill to establish more equitable procedure governing the determination of erans of th~ World War, and for other pur­ of products from offering for sale and selllng poses; to the Committee on World War Vet­ the same at retail in certain cases, and for service connection of diseases or injuries al­ leged to have been incurred in or aggravated erans' Legislation. other pur_poses; to the Committee on Inter­ H. R. 169. A bill to amend section 8 of the state and Foreign Commerce. '!lY aqtive servic_e in a war, .campaign, .or ex­ pedition; to the Committee on World war act entitled "An act to amend the act en-· By Mr. VOORHIS of California: titled 'An act to provide that the United H. R. 136. A bill to extend rights under title Veterans' Legislation. States shall aid the States in the construction II of the Social Security Act to veterans of the . H. R. 152. A bill to authorize such proce­ Of rural post roads, and for other purposes,' Second World War; to the Committee on dure as to the adjudication of claims for approved July 11,' 1916, as amended and sup- Ways and. Means. ·benefits administered through the Veterans . plemented, and for other putposes," approved H. R. 137. A bill to authorize payment of Administration as is de.Signed .to assure an July 13, 1943; to the Committee on Roads; ~quitable evaluation of all. facts and factors compensation or pension for partial service­ ~ H. R. 170. A bill to authorize a National connected disability plus such percentage of pertinent to the claim, and for other pur­ Mississippi River Parkway and matters re­ the amount of pension payable for his perma­ poses; to the Committee on World War Vet­ lating thereto; to the Committee oxi the nent total disability, nonservice connected, erans' Legislation. Public Lands. as is equal to the difference between 100 per­ · H. R."153. A bill to restore to Congress the By Mr. CELLER: cent and the degree of his service-cpnnected sole power t~ iss~e money and to regulate H. R. 171. A bill to aid merchant seamen its value . as provided in article I, section 8, disability; to the Committee on World War ~nd to provide for payment of mustering-out Veterans' Legislation. of the Constitution of the _United States; to pay, and for other purposes; to the Commit­ H. R. 138. A bill to provide for a statutory _improve the banking system; tQ aid in main­ tee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. ·award of $10 per month to any war veteran ta:ining Qr restoring full employment and pro­ H. R. 172. A bill to amend chapter 16 of who was wounded, gassed, injured, or dis­ duction; to reduce the public debt; and to the. Judicial Code, as amended; to the Com- abled by an instrumentality of war in a zone provide a stable currency; to the Committee mittee on the Judiciary. · of hostilities, and for other purposes; to the on Banking and Currency. H. R. 173. A bill to authorize the naturali­ Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla- H. R. 154. A bill to provide that the educa­ zation and the admission into the United tion. · . . . _tion and training provided for by the Service­ States under a quota of Eastern Hemisphere men's Readjustment Act of 1944 shall be H. R.139: A bill to provide that the com­ Indians of India and desc;~endants of East­ pensation or .pension of service-connected ·made available to veteraiU? on an equal· basis ern Hemisphere Indians Of India; · to the . disabled veterans shall be increased by 20 without regard to their age; to the Commit· Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza­ percent of the basic amounts, payable for tee on World War Veterans' Legislation. tion. Mr. each 5 years of age beginning with the forti­ . By BRADLEY of Michigan: H. R. 174. A bill relating to the compensa­ eth birthday, and for other purposes; to the H. R. 155. A bill to provide for the punish­ tion of certain omcers of the United States· Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla­ ment of persons transporting and receiving to the yommittee on the Judiciary. ' certain stolen dogs in interstate commerce; tion. _. H. R. 175. A bill to amend Pub~ic Law No. H. R. 140. A bill to amend the Social Se­ · to. the Commitj;ee on the Judiciary. . H. R. 156. A bill to establish rearing ponds 603, Seventy-seventh Congress (ch. 404, 2d curity Act, and for other purposes; to the sess.), entitled "An act to mobilize the pro­ Committee on Ways and Means. and a fish hatchery; to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. ductive facilities of small business in the H. R. 141. A bill to amend the Social Se­ interests of suc~essful prosecution of the war, H. ~.157. A bill providing for a preliminary curity Act, and for other purposes; to the exammation and survey of St. Marys River, and for other purposes"; to the Committee Committee on Ways and Means. at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. H. R. 142. A bill to vest in the Government on Rivers and Harbors. H. R. 176. A bill to increase compensation of the United States the absolute,, complete, H. R. 158. A bill providing for an exami­ of Members of Senate and House, Delegates, and unconditional ownership of the 12 Fed­ nation and survey of Au Train River Harbor and Resident Commissioners; to the Com­ eral Reserve banks; to the Committee on Mich.; to the Committee on Rivers and mittee on the Judiciary. Banking and Currency. · · Harbors. H. R.177. A bill to repeal the act to extend H. R. 143. A bill to provide for the dollar­ H. R. 159. A bill authorizing the construc­ the time within which the powers relating for-dollar matching by the United States of tion of certain hydroelectric power facilities to the stabilization fund and alteration of savings by enlisted men in the armed forces on the St. Marys River, Mich.; to the Com• the weight of the dollar may be exercised; through the sale of Soldiers, Sailors, and mittee on Rivers and Harbors. to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Marines Savings bonds, and for other pur­ H. R. 160. A bill providing for delivery of Measures. poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means. the CONGREsSIONAL RECORD to former Mem­ H. R. 178. A bill to repeal the Silver Pur­ H. R.144. A bill to provide for erection of an bers of Congress; to the Committee on chase Act of 1934; ta the Committee on appropriate memorial to the men who en­ Printing. . Ways and Means. gaged in the defense of Wake Island against H. R. 161. A bill to establish rearing ponds H. R. 179. A bill to provide adequate com­ the Japanese; to the Committee on the Li­ and a fish hatchery at or near St. Ignace, pensation for dependents of agents · and in­ brary. -Mich.; tQ the Committee on the Merchant spectors of the Federal Bureau of Investiga­ H. R. 145. A bill· to promote the mut.Jial Marine and Fisheries. tion of the Department of Justice; to the understanding and insure the continental H. R. 162. A bill to amend the National Committee on the Judiciary. solidarity of the peoples of the American re­ Firearxns Act; to the Committee on Ways and H. R. 180. A bill to repeal the War Labor publics by the interchange of students and Means. · Disputes Act; to the Committee on Military teachers; to the Committee on .Foreign Af­ H. R. 163. A bill prescribing certain offenses Affairs. fairs. . relating to the lteeping, injuring, and de­ . H. R. 181. A b111 to provide for the adjust­ H. R. 146. A bill to amend the act to mobi­ stroying dogs in the District·or Columbia· to ment of certain tort claixns against the lize the productive facilities of small business . the Committee on the District of Columbia. United States and to confer jurisdiction in _ in the interest~ of succeB;SfUl prosecution of By Mr. BULWINKLE: . .respect thereto on the district courts of the the war, and for other purposes; to the Com­ H. R. 164. A bill to provide safety in avia­ United States, and for other purposes; to the mittee on Banking and Currency. tion and to direqt an investigation of the pommittee on the Judiciary. 22 CONGRESSIONAL RECO.RD-HOUSE JANUARY :3

H. R. 182. A bill to repeal Public, No. ~52, an Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, of By Mr. ANDERSON of California: act to prevent pernicious political activities; certain amounts received from services of H. R: 292. A bill authorizing the Secret~ry to the Committee on the Judiciary. conscientious objectors; to the Committee on of War to conduct a preliminary examination H. R. 183. A bill to extend · the provisions M111tary Affairs. • and survey of Pillar Point at Half Moon of the Selective Training and Service Act of · H. R. 272. A bill to amend section 3360 (c) Bay, San Mateo _County, Calif., and for other 1940, as amended, to certain women between of the Internal Revenue Code; to the Com­ pw·poses; to the Committee on Rivers and the ages of 20 and 35; to the Committee on mittee on Ways and Means. Harbors. Military Affairs. By Mr. HARTLEY: H. R. 293. A bill to provide, in the case of H. R. 184. A bill to revise the administra­ H. R. 273. A bill to permit individuals to wage and salary payments made in contra­ tive procedure of Federal agencies; to es­ deduct for income-tax purposes from gross vention of the Stabilization Act of 1942, that tablish the Ofllce of Federal Administrative income the depreciation on· their residences; the lawful portion of such payments shall Procedure, to provide for hearing commis­ to the Committee on Ways and Means. be · allowed as costs or expenses of the em­ simiers, to authorize declaratory ruling by . H. R. 274. A bill for postal employe~' lon­ ployer; to the Committee on Banking and administrative agencies, and for other pur­ gevity; to the Committee on the Post Oftice Currency. poses;· to the Committee on the Judiciary. and Post Roads. . H. R. 294. A bill to amend provisions o:t H. R.185. A bill to record the lawful ad­ By Mr. -JENKINS: the Social Security Act and related provi­ mission to the United States for permanent . H. R. 275. A bill to provide for Federal aid sions of the Internal Revenue Code with residence of certain aliens who have law­ to· the several States in carrying out plans respect to coverage of employees engaged in fully entered the United States upon visl· for industrial rehabilitation in the counties . processing and packing of dried fruits and tors' permits and are refugees from or un­ thereof; to the Committee on Ways. and dried vegetables and certain other commodi­ able to return to their country of origin Means. ties; . to the Committee on Ways and Means . by reason of the emergency created by the . H. R. 276. A bill to amend the Customs Ad­ By Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN: existing war in Europe; to the Committee ministrative Act of i938; to the Committee H. R . 295. A bill to provide for the dis­ on Immigration and Naturalization.· on Ways and Means. covery, introduction, breeding, and testing H. R. 186. A bill to provide for the ap­ H. R. 277. A bill to change the name of of agricultural crops for utilization in in­ pointment of public defenders in the district Bladensburg Road in the District of Colum­ dustry and manufacturing and for replace­ courts of the United_ States; to the Com­ bia; to the Committee on the District of ment of surplus agricultural crops through mittee on the Judiciary. Columbia. · H. R. 278. A ·bill for the relief of the State cooperation of the United States Department • H. R.187. A bill for the better assurance of Agriculture and the s~veral State agricul­ of the protection of persons within the sev­ of Ohio; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tural experiment stations; to the Committee eral States from mob violence and lynching, By Mr. LESINSKt: on Agriculture. and for other purposes; to the Committee H.R.279 (by request) .• A bill to provide pensions to members 'of the Regular Army, By Mr. BARTLETT: on the Judiciary. H. R. 296. A bill to amend section 6 of an H. R. 188. A bill to amend the Judicial Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who be­ come disabled by reason of their service act of Congress entitled "An act for the Code; to the Committee on the Judiciary. protection of the fi'sheries of Alaska, and for H. R. 189. A bill to provide temporary in­ therein, during other than a period of war, equivalent to 90 percent of the compensation other purposes," approved June 6, 1924; to crease of. salaries for postal employees; to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and the Committee on the Post Ofllce and Post payable to war veterans for similar service­ Fisheries. . Roads. connected dlsabllitiesA and for other pur­ poses; to the Committee on Inyalid Pensions. H. R. 297.- A bill to make the workmen's H. R. 190. A bill to provide additiqnal com­ compensation laws of Alaska applicable to pensation for employees killed or Injured By Mr. RANDOLPH: H. R. 280. A bill to amend section 3 (b) of land and premises of the United States in while performing work of a hazardous nature s~ch Territory; to the Committee on Labor. incident to law-enforcement . activity, and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, so as ~o permit exemption of security issues_not ex­ H.·R. 298. A ' bill providing for waiver of for other purposes; to the Committee on the ceeding $300,000 from the provisions of such prosecution by indictment in certain crim­ Judiciary. act; to the Committee on Interstate and inal proceedings in the courts of the· •Terri­ By Mr. CLASON: Foreign Commerce. tory of Alaska; to the · Committee on the H. R. 191. A bill to increase the compen­ H. R. 281. A . bill extending classified civil Judiciary. sation of employees in the Postal Service; service to clerks or assistants in certain post H. R. 299. A bill to amend the act relating to the Committee on the Post Ofllce and ofllces of the third clas~. and for other pur­ to manifests in Alaskan and- insular trade; Post Roads.- poses; to the Committee on the Civil Service. to the Committee on Ways ·and Means. H. R. 192. A bill to remove certain dis­ H. R. 282 (by request). A bill to amend sec­ H. R. 300. A bill to amend section 16 of criminations against Government employees tion 8 of the act of May 29, 1930, as amended; the act entitled "An.act to prevent pernicious in the payment of overtime compensation; to the Committee on the Civil Service. political activities," approved August 2, 1939, to the Committee on the Civil Service. H. R. 283. A bill relative to certain annui­ · as amended; to the Committee on the Judi­ -_ H. R. 193. A bill making unlawful the re­ ties; to the Committee on the Civil Service. .ciary. quirement for the payment of a poll tax H. R. 284. A bill to provide for health pro­ . H. R. 301. A bill relative to annual labor on as a prerequisite to .voting in a. primary grams for Government employees; to the mineral claims in the Territory of Alaska; or other election for national ofllcers; to Committee on the Civil Service. .to the Committee on Mines and -Mining. the Committee on the Judiciary. · H. R. 302. A bill to extend the provisions H. R. 194. A bill to prohibit discrimination H. R. 285. A bill providing for the render­ ing and publication of opinions by the At­ of certain laws relating to vocational re.: in employment because of race; cree'd, color, .habilitation of persons disabled in industry national origin, or ancestry; to the Commit­ torney General -with respect to Executive or­ ders of the. President; to the Committee on to the Territory of Alaska;·to the Committee ·tee on Labor. on Education. - By Mr. COLE of New York: the Judiciary. H. R. 286. A- bill for the purpos.e of con­ H. R. 303. A bill to amend section 1 of the H. R. 195. A bill to authorize the Adminis­ act of June 6, 1924, as amended, relative to trator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish firing serving the coal resources of the ~ation, and .for other purposes; to the Committee on . the fisheries of Alaska; to the Committee on squads, color guards, and buglers for funerals the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. of veterans; to the Committee on World War Ways and ~eans. Veterans' Legislation. _ H. R. 287. A bill to provide for Federal aid H. R. 304. A bill to amend the act authoriz­ H. R. 196. A. bill to confer m111tary status to the States for the development, construc­ ing postmasters in Alaska to administer oaths upon certain persons; to the Committee on tion, improvement, and repair of public air­ and affirmations; to the Committee on the Military Affairs. ports in the United States, and for other pur­ Post Ofllce and Post Roads. H. R. 197. A bill to establish the grade ot poses; to the Committee ·on Interstate and H. R. 305. A bill to amend Public Law No. general in the Marine Corps, and for other Foreign Commerc'e. 304, Seventy-seventh Congress; to the Com­ purposes; to the Committee on Naval By Mr. REED of New York: mittee on the Territories. Affairs. " H. R. 288. A bill to terminate certa-in mone­ ~- R. 306. A bill to ~mend section 3 of the H. R. 198. A bill-to provide for the promo­ tary powers of the President and the Secre­ -act approved June 20, 1936, entitled "An act tion of moral, temperance, and character tary of the Treasury; to the Committee on to extend the benefits of the Adams Act, the education; to provide for cooperation with Coinage, Weights, and Measures. -Purnell Act, and the Capper-Ketcham Act, to the States in the promotion of such educa­ H. R. 289. A .bill to repeal the ::uiver Pur­ th~ Territory of Alask~· - and for other pur­ tion;-and to provide. for cooperation with the chase Act of 1934, and for other purposes; to pooes"; to the Committee on Agriculture. States in preparation of teachers of moral, the Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 307. A bill to amend section 2 of the temperance, character, and good-citizenship H. R~ 290. A bill to exempt certain religious, · act approved June· 20, 1936, entitled "An act subjects; to the Committee on Education. charitable, scientific, literary, and educa­ to extend the benefits of the Adams Act, the H. R. 199. ·A bill providing for the erection tional organizations from the requirement. of Purnell Act, and the Capper-Ketcham Act to of a monument at Hammondsport, N.Y., i;n withholding tax at source on wages; to the the ·Territory of Alaska, and for other pur­ commemoration of the contribution of Glenn Committee on Ways and Means-. poses"; to the Commit'tee on Agriculture. Hammond Curtiss fil the development' of H. R. 291. A bill to terminate the Presi­ By Mr. BENDER: aviation; tO the Committee on the Library. dent's authority to enter into reciprocal trade H. R. 308. A bill making unlawful the re­ H. R .. 200. A bill to authorize the appropri­ agreements; to the Committee on Ways and quirement for the payment of a poll tax as a ntbn, for expenditure by the Means. prerequisite to voting in a primacy anq other 1945 CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD-HOUSE 23 . election for national oftic'ers; to the Com­ approved March 3, 1921, as amended; to the ·outside the continental Upited States; to the . mittee on the Judiciary. Committee on the District of Columbia. Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. BRUMBAUGH: . H. R. 324 (by req~est). A bUl to amend sec- By Mr. STIGLER: . H. R. 30). A bill to increase deceased war tion ·16 of the act entitled "An act to amend H. R. 341 (by request). A bill relating to the veterans' burial allowances to $150; to the -the act entitled 'An act to fix and regulate the status of Keetoowah Indians of the Cherokee -Committee on World War Veterans• Legisla­ salaries of teachers, school officers, and other 'Nation in Oklahoma, and for other purposes; . tion. employees of the Board of Education of the to the Committee on Indian Affairs . By Mr. McMILLAN of South Carolina: District of Columbia,' approved June 2.0, 1906, By Mr. WICKERSHAM: H. R. 310. A bill to amend an act entitled as amended, and for other purposes,'' ap- H. R. 342. A bill to repeal certain provisions · "An act for the retirement of employees in proved June 4, 1924; to·the Committee on the . of law making exceptions to the prohibition the classified civil service, and for other pur­ District of Columbia. -with respect to the prosecution of claims poses," approved May 22, 1920; to the Com­ . H. R. 325 (by request). A pill to amend the against the United States by former Govern- mittee on the Civil Service. -Life Insurance Act of the District of Co- ment employees; to the Committee on Ways H. R. 311. A bill t0 provide for the acquisi­ Jumbia; tQ the Committee .on .the ·District an~Means .... tion of certain property in the District of .of Columbia. - H. R. 343, A bill to change interest rates Columbia for use by the Children's Museum H. R. 326. A bill to authorize the establish- ·on loans secured by liens on United States ~ of Washington, Inc.;- to the Comm.it.tee on ;ment of1the Metropolitan,P.ol-ice Department ,Government .life -(converted) insurance to the District of Columbia. Band, District of Columbia, anq to provide -3% percent; to the Committee on Ways and - H. R. 312. A bill amending the act of March funds therefor; to the Committee on the Means . 14, 1936, entitled "An act to provide for vaca­ . District of Columbia. . H. R. 344. A bill to reduce the interest on . tions to Government employees, and fo~ By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: loans on -United States Government life other purposes"; to the Committee on the H. R. 327. A' bill to provide for the estab- ' (converted) insurance; to the Committee on Civil Service. lishment of a permanent Nurse Corps in the Ways and Means. H. R. 313. A bill to provide a uniform al­ Veterans Administration; to the Committee H. R. 345. A bill to provide for the orderly . lowance for members of the Army Nurse on World War Veterans' Legislation. ·disposition of surplus Army materials; to the · Corps; to the Committee on .Military Affairs. · H. R. 328. A bill to increase the death com- Committee on Military Affairs. · H. R. 314. A .bill to provide for the Federal rensation rates to World War widoV7s, and H. R. 346. A bill to secure to the producers · employment of qualified persons wh9se physi­ for other purposes; to the Committee on of agricultural commodities a minimum price . car condition -is considered to constitute a World War Veterans' Legislation. of not less than cost of production, and for · bad risk for a civil-service retirement fund · By l>fr. SABATH: other purposes; -to the Committee on Agri- ·by exempting such persons from the provi­ H. R. 329. A bill to declare a portion of the culture. · -sions thereof, by making them subject to the 'Illinois and Michigan Canal an ut.navigable H. R. 347. A bill to promote farm owner- ·provisions of title II- of the Social Security . stream; to the ·committee on Interstate and ship by providing for Government-insured -Act, and f.or other. purposes;. to the Commit- :_Foreig!l 'Com!ll6rce. . ; : • , . -loans to veterans .to. enable,..them to become ... ~ tee on·-the-"Civil Service. . , · _·- ~--I_t --:~ao._ A.l:>ill ~ declare. a portion 'of the. -owners. ~ ot: farm .Jl.omew thr.ougb: ·~lo.ng-:term • H. R. 31&. A bill to elimmate the-· income _lllrn.ms and,M1.chigan ..CanaL.an -unnav:iga_b~ • low-interest~rate-~- loans, and·. for.: otlilH \pui'.;.. , : limitation as to eligibility for pensions to'the stream; to the qommittee on. Intc:rstate. and poses; to the Committe-e on• Agriculture: · -widows of certain World War veterans; to the roreign Commerce. .. H. R. 348. A bill providing for - t~e refund · committee on World War Veterans• Legis­ _ · By Mr. SHAFER: .of penalties paid with respect to marketing · lation. .. H. R. 331. ~ blll.to amend the Tariff Act of excess wheat for the 1941 marketing year~ H, R. 316. A bill to amend the United States .1930, with respect to t:qe duty {)n waterleaf to the Committee. on Agriculture. · Employees' Compensation Act o.L September 7, paper; to the Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 349. A bill to amend the Servicemen's · 1916, so as to permit an award of compensa­ H.·R. 332. A bill to authorize payments in Dependents Allowance Act of 1942 to pro­ -tion for death, and payment of burial ex- _lieu of taxes to counties and other political vide for payment of the Government's con:.. penses, without regard to the lapse of time subdivisions i,n which property acquired for tribution to dependents of enlisted men for . between the injury and death; to the Com­ military purposes has been leased for other any period of actfve service prior to the date . mittee on· the Judiciary. use; to the Committee on Military Affairs. of filing application for a. family allowance; By Mr. RANDOLPH: H. R. 333. A bill to equalize overtime com- ·to the Committee on Military Affairs. H. R , 317 (by request). A bill to amend an pensation for employees of the field services H. R. 350. A bill to extend the time in -act entitled "An act to provide for the l?etter .of the War Department for employment dur- which application for servicemeris monthly . registration of births in the District of Co- . ing 1942; to the Committee on the Civil family allowance may be filed; to the Com- - lumbia and for other purposes,'' approved Service. mittee on Military Affairs. ~ March 1, 1907; to the Committee on the Dis- .. H. R .. 334. A bill to amend an. ·act entitled H. R. 351. A bill to change the. -definition trict of Columbia. "An act for the ret-irement of employees in of permanent total disability for pension H. R. 318 · (by request) . A bill to redefine :the classified-civil service, and for other pur- ·purposes,_ as to World ·War veterans, so as to the powers and duties of the Board of Public poses," approved May 22, 1920; to the Com- base it upon an individual, rather than an · Welfare of the District of Columbia, to estab­ mittee on the Civil Service. average, basis; to the Committee on World . lish a Department of Public.Welfare, and for · H. R. 335. A bill to-extend pension benefits War Veterans• ~egislat_io?. · other purposes; to the Committee on. the .under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 H. R. 352. A bill providmg for the refund of District of Columbia. · to certain employees for services rendered -penalties pai.d with respect to. ~arketing H. R. 319. A bill to increase the number of . outside the United· States ~tnd to increase the ~xcess wheat for the 19~1 marketmg year; midshipmen allowed at the United States amount of pension payable to pensioners to the Committee on Agncultu~e .. Naval Academy from the District of Colum­ under such act; to the Committee on Inter- By Mr. W

or allowances for ~uarters , ·for 1 year after the Committee on World War Veterans' Leg­ H. R. 389. A bill to reduce time ·to plead their separation from the service or release islation. and to regulate service of process in proceed­ from active duty; to the Committee on Mili· By Mr. CASE of South Dakota: ings to cancel naturalization; to the Com­ tary Affairs. · H. R. '373. A bill to exempt from certain mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. H. R. 358. A bill excepting certain persons retailer's excise taxes articles sold by domi­ H. R. 390. A bill to amend section 28 (c) from the requirements of paying fees for ciliary members of Veterans Administration of the Immigration Act of 1924; to the Com­ certain census data; to the Committee on facilities; to the Committee on Ways and mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. the Census. Means. H. R. 391. A bill to amend section 342 (b) H. R. 359. A bill to provide for emergency H. R. 374. A blll to provide for a Congres­ of the Nationality Act of 1940; to the Com­ disability compensation for members of the sional Medal of Sacrifice; to the Committee mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. land, naval, or air forces separated from serv· on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. H. R. 392. A bill to amend section 327 (h) ice, pending settlement of their claims by H. R. 375. A bill to amend the Social Se­ of the Nationality Act of 1940; to the Com­ veterans' legislation; .to the Committee on curity Act to provide that the Federal con• mittee on II'nmigration and Naturalization. World War Veterans' Legislation. ... tribution to the States shall be in lieu of re· By Mr. DINGELL: H. R. 360. A bill granting pensions to vet­ quiring repayment from recipients o'f old­ H. R. 393. A bill for the purpose of conserv­ erans, and the widows and dependent chil· age assistance and to prevent requiring liens ing the coal resources-of the Nation, and for dren of veterans, of the World War equivalent for repayment; to the Committee on Ways other purposes; to the Committee on Ways to pensions granted to veterans, and the and Means. and Means. widows and dependent children of veterans, H. R. 376. A bill to extend the Renegotia­ H. R. 394. A bill to provide additional com­ of the War with Spain; to the Committee on tion Act to December 31, 1945, and to au­ pensation for veterans of the present war, and World War Veterans' Legislation. thorize the President to make an additional for other purposes; to the Committee on H. R. 361. A bill to provide a pension for extension of not more than 6 months -after Ways and Means. . certain physically handicapped veterans of such da~e; to the Committee on Ways and H. R. 395. A bill to provide for the general World War No. 1 and World War No. 2; to the Means. · welfare; to alleviate the economic hazards of Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla· H. R. 377. A bill to establish a National old age, prem.ature death, disability, sickness, tion .. Service Corps; to the Committee on Military unemployment, and dependency; to amend By Mr. BLAND: Affairs. · and extend the provisions of the Social Secur­ H . R. 362. A bill to amend the Canal Zone H. R. 378. A bill authorizing an appropria­ ity Act; to establish a unified-national social Code; to the Committee on the Merchant tion to carry out the provisions of the act of insurance system; to extend the coverage, Marine and Fisheries. May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. 484), and for-other pur­ and to protect and extend .the social-security By Mrs. BOLTON: poses; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. rights of individuals in the military service; H. R. 363. A bill to provide additional pay H. R. 3.79. A bill to provide for the repair, to provide insurance benefits for workers per· for enlisted men of the Army assigned to ·the restoration, or alteration of dams constructed manently disabled; to establish a Federal sys• Medical Corps who are awarded the Medical wholly or in part with Federal funds under tern of unemployment compensation, tempo· Corps valor badge; to the Committee on Mil· Federal emergency relief programs and ap­ rary disability, and maternity benefits; to itary Affairs. propriations; to the Committee on Agricul· establish a national system of public employ· By· Mr. BUCKLEY: ture. ment offices; to establish a Federal system of H. R. 364. A bill authorizing the Secretary By Mr. COCHRAN: medical and hospitalization benefits; to en• of War to bestow the Silver Star upon Michael H. R. 380. A blll to discontinue certain re­ courage and aid the advancement of knowl• J. Quinn; to the Committee on Military Af· ports now required by law; to the· Committee edge and skill in the provision of health serv· f.airs. on Expenditures in the Executive Depart­ ices and in the prevention of sickness, dis­ By Mr. BUFFETT: ments. ability, and premature death; to enable the H. R. 365. A bill to create and expand em­ several States to make more adequate provi• ployment and opportunity by encouraging By Mr. CRAVENS: H. R. 381. A bill to provide ·for local taxa­ sian for the needy aged, the blind, depend· the establishment of small business; to the ent ch~ldr{m, and other needy persons; to en· Committee on Ways and Means. tion of real estate owned by the United States, and for other purposes; to the Com­ able the States to establish and maintain a. By Mr. CANNON of Florida: comprehensive . public assistance program; H. R. 366. A bill to reduce juvenile delin• mittee on the Public Lands. H. R: 382. A bill to amend an act entitled and to amend the Internal ·Revenue Code; quency by providing for the care and prompt to the Committee on Ways and Means. return home of run-away, transient, or va­ "An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age H. R. 396. A bill to provide for the presenta­ grant children of juvenile age, going from one tion of 'a suitable medal to members of the State to another without proper legal con- benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged President's Cabinet, and Members of the Con­ . sent, through the use of funds appropriated gress, during the wartime Seventy-eighth under the provisions of the Social Security persons, blind persons, dependent and crip­ pled children, maternal and child welfare, Congress; to the Committee on Rules. Act for aid to dependent children, under cer­ By Mr. DffiKSEN: tain conditions; to the Committee on the public health, and the administration of their· unemployment compensation laws; to H. R. 397. A bill for.the creation of a Com­ Judiciary. mission of Congressional Salaries, and for H. R. 367. A bill relating to social-security establish a Social Securi~y Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes," approved other purposes; to the Committee on the taxes of the employer in the case of employ­ Judiciary. ment of an employee by two or more em­ Aug.ust 14, 1935, as amended; to the· Com- ployers; to the Committee on Ways and mittee on Ways and Means. · H. R. 398. A bili to reestablish the Federal Means. H. R. 383. A bill for the purpose of con­ Home Loan Bank Board, to re-create the office H. R. 368. A bill to provide duplicate serving the coal resources of the Nation, and of the members of said Board, and to transfer posthumous awards; to the Committee on for other purposes; to the Committee on functions of the Federal HQme Loan Bank Milltary Affairs. Ways and Means. Administration from the National Housing H. R. 369. A bill to provide for a 25-percent By Mr. D'ALESANDRO: Agency to said Board, and far other purposes; increase in annuities under the Railroad Re· H. R. 384. A bill to repatriate native-born to the Committee on Banking and Currency. tirement Act of 1937; to the Committee ori. women residents o+ the .United States who H. R. 399. A bill to create a Joint LegiSla­ Interstate and Foreign Commerce. have heretofore lost their citizenship by mar­ -tive Staff Service for the Congress; to the H. R. 370. A bill to provide for the estab­ riage to an alien; to the Committee on Im­ Committee on Accounts. lishment of a pan-American center at Miami, migration and Naturalization. H. R. 400. A bill to expand the facilities Fla., for the coordination of commercial and By Mr. DICKSTEIN: - of the General Accounting Office by creating cultural relations between. the American re· · H. R. 385. A bill to amend section 334 (c) a Federal Efficiency Service; to the Committee publics, and for other purposes; to the Com· of the Nationality Act of 1940, approved Oc­ on Expenditures in the Executive . Depart­ mittee on Foreign Affairs. tober 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1156-1157; 8 U. S. C. ments. H. R. 371. A bill conferring jurisdiction 734); to the Committee on Immigration and H. R. 401. A bill to prohibit discrimination upon the District Court of the United States Naturalization. in employment because of race, creed, color, for the Southern District of Florida to hear, H. R. 386. A- bill to amend the law relat­ national origin, or ancestry; to the Com­ determine, and render· judgment upon the ing to the authority of certain employees of mittee on Labor. claims of all persons who have claims for dam­ the Immigration and Naturalization Service H. R. 402. A bill to establish the Office of ages or losses allegedly resulting from the to make arrests without warrant in certain Power Administration for the coordinated construction, further development, and im­ cases and to ·search vehicles within certain administration of all Federal functions per­ provement of the Intracoastal Waterway, areas; to the Committee on Immigration taining to the generation, distribution, and Miami to Jacksonv1lle, Fla., and for other pur­ and Naturalization. sale of electricity and the regulation of elec­ poses; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 387. A blll to amend section 401 (a) tric utilities; to the Committee'on Interstate H. R. 372. A b111 to authorize and direct the of the Nationality Act of 1.940; to the Com­ and Foreign Commerce. . Veterans Administration to provide voca­ mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. H. R. 403. A b111 to · aid the war effort by tional rehabilltation and assistance in se• H. R. 388. A blll to amend section 201 (g) the purchase of newspaper space for publi· · curing suitable employment for service-con• of the Nationality Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 1138- cizing the sale of United States War bonds, nected disabled veterans in need thereof, and 1139; 8 U. S . . c. 601); to the Committee on and for other purposes; to the Committee on feasible therefor, and for other purposes; to.- Immigration and Naturalizatl.on. Ways and Means. 1945- CONGRESSiONAL . RECORD-HOUSE 25

H. R. 404. A bill to amend the Banking Aet . . H. R. 420. A bill to amend. title II of the . ability a!ter 10 year~· service; to the Com­ of 1876, as amended; to the Committee o·n · Social -Security. Act to · include certain em­ : mittee on Interstate and Fpreign Co:q1:q1erce. Banking and . Currency. . ployees o~ States, political subdivisions H. R. 438. A bill t.o provide that retired per­ H. R. 405. A bill for the better assurance · thereof, anq lnstrumentalities of States or sonnel.of the Regular Army called into active of -the protection of person~ within the sev­ political subdivisions, and for other purposes;· · milftary serv-ice under the· provisions of the eral States from mob violence and lynching, to the Committee on Ways and Means. joint resolution approved August 27, 1940, and for- other purposes; to the Committee on . H.R. 421. A .bill to furnish conscientious shall be restored to active duty with the rank the Judiciary. · objectors a special form of honorable dis­ . held 1:ly ·them on the retired list; to the H. R. 406. A bill making unlawful the. re­ charge from the ar:q1ed forces . ot the United Committee on Military Affairs. quirement for the payment of a poll tax as States; to the Committee on Military Affairs. H. R. 439. A bill to restore to active duty a prerequisite to voting in a primary or.other H. R. 422. A bill to repeal the provisions of certain retired officers of "the Regular Army, election for· nation!ll officers; to the Com­ the War Labor Disputes Act relating to po­ and for other purposes; to the Co~mittee 'on mittee on the Judiciary. litical contributions by labor organizations; Military Affairs. . , By Mr. DONDERO: to the Committee on Military A,ffairs. H. R. 440. A bill to authorize. the desig­ H. R. 407. A bill to provide for the. placing H. R. 423. A bill to amend sections 4, 7, and nation of retired Justices for service on the of a copy of the Constitution of tile United 17 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Supreme Court of the United States when States and of the Declaration of Independ­ Stat. 1187) for. the purpose of extending the necessary to obtain-a quorum, and for oth~r ence in each United States post office; to the time in·which amendatory contracts m ay be purposes; ·to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. made, and for other related purposes; to· the H. R. 441. A bill to amend .section 403 (i) By Mr. ERVIN: Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. (1) (B) of the sixth suppiemental National H. R. 408. A bill to create . and establish H. R. 424. A tiill_to provide additional com­ · Defense ApP.ropriation Act of 1942; to the a Foreign Service Academy; to the Commit­ pensation for enlisted personnel of the Med­ Committee on Ways and Means. . ·tee on Foreign Affairs. ical Department of the Army who serve in H. R. 442. ·A bill to provide for the appoint­ By Mr. FERNANDEZ: combat areas; to the Committee on Military ment of public defenders in• the district~ H. R. 409. A bill to amend section 2 of the Affairs. · courts of the United States; to the Committee act entitled "An act for the preservation By Mr. HENDRICKS: on the Judiciary. of American antiquities," approved June 8, H. R. 425: A bill to provide for the erection H. R. 443. A bill relating to the traveling 1906; to the Committee on the Public Lands. ' of memorial stones in national cemeteries for and subsist ence expenses of judges and re­ H. R. 410. A bill to authorize the War Food certain servicemen determined to, be miss­ tJred judges of the Court of Claims; to the Administrator or the Secretary of Agricul­ ing or missing in action, or buried at sea; Committee on the Judiciary. · ture to adjust boundary disputes by settling to the Committee on Military Affairs. H . R. 444. A bill to. provide for the_ office of claims to certain so--called Sebastian Martin H. R. 426. . . A bill to authorize an appro­ public defender for the District-of Columbia; grant lands, in the State of New Mexico; priation for the purpose of establishing ana­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. tional cemetery at St. Cloud, Fla.; to the H. R. 445. A bill to provide a larger Federal to the Committee on Agriculture. Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. FORAND: contribution for . old-age assistance; to the H. R. 427. A bill amending the Social Se­ H. R: 411. A bill to extend to members of Committee on Ways and Means, . • the armed forces certain privileges with re­ . c1:1rity A~t. to provide for the matching of H. R. 446. A bill making an appropriation - administrative costs of State old-age assist­ for building a road and bridge Watts Bar spect to accumulated leave; to the Commit­ ance plans with Federal funds; to the Com­ on tee on Military Affairs. Dam; to the Committee on Appropriations. mittee on Ways and Means. H. R. 447. A bill relating to through rates H. R. 412. A bill authorizing the Secretary By Mr. HOFFMAN: .... of the Treasury to permit cre'"'it unions to in the case of certain property of the United H. R. 428. A bill to protect. employees en­ States manufactured or processed in transit; make payments in connection with the re­ gaged in war production; to the Committee demption of United States savings bonds; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign on the Judiciary. Commerce. · to the Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 429. A bill to aid in the preservation .By Mr. GOSSETT: H. R. 448. A bill to ainend the Judicial of constitutional government in the United Code; to the Committee on'the Judiciary. R . R. 413. A bill to amend the Interstate - States of America; to the Committee on Commerce Act; to provide for the establish­ H. R. ~9. A bill relating to the original ju­ Labor. risdiction of district courts of suits or pro­ mer. ... of a uniform classification and unifo1·rn By Mr. LUTHER A. JOHNSON: scale of class ·rates for railroad freight, and ceedings arising under section 20 ( 11), 20 H. R. 430. A bill to amend the Social Se­ (12), 219, or 413 of the Interstate Commerce for other purposes; to the Committee on c"rity: Act-approved August 14, 1935; to the Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Act, as amended, and to the removal of such ~ommittee on Ways and Means. suits and proceedings from ·state courts; to H. R. 414. A bill to reduce immigration H. R. 431. A l:lill to provide for the admis­ quotas; to the Com:rp.ittee on Immigration the Committee on the J.udiciary. sion on motion of certain members of the H. R. 450. A bill to create a board to be and Naturalization. armed forces and mer.chant marine to prac- - By Mr. HAGEN: known as the National Symphony Orchestra tice law in the. Pistrict of Columbia; to the Trust Fund Board, to define the duties of - H. R:415. A bill to amend the Nationality Committee on the District of Columbia. said board, and for other purposes; to the J Act of _1940 to expedite the issuance , of . By Mr. JUDD~ certain documents to naturalized citizens of Committee on the Judiciary. · H. R. 432.· A "bill to provide for the· carrying H. R. 451. A bill to authorize the continued the United States; to the- Committee on out of the award of the National War Labor Immigration and Naturalization. operation of certain airport traffic-cont;rol Board of April 11, 1919, and the decision; of towers by the. Civil Aeronautics Administra­ · H·. R. 416. A bill to provide adequate mar­ the Secretary of War of date November ~ 30, tion; to the Committee on Interstate and kets and fair prices for agricultural com­ 1920, in favor of certain employees of the Foreign Commerce. ' modities produced in the United States, to Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co., Minne­ H. R. 452. A bill to authorize the designa­ eliminate the necessity for mandatory reduc­ apolis, Minn.; of 1Jle St. Paul Foundry Co., tion of retired justices for service on - the tions in crop production, to provide a method St. Paul, Minn.; of the American Hoist & Der­ Supreme Court of the United States when for the exchange of surplus agricultural rick Co., St. Paul, Minn.; and of the Twin necessary to Qbtain a quorum; to the Com­ Gommodities for products of foreign coun­ City Forge & Foundry Co., Stlllwater, Minn.; mittee on the Judiciary. tries on a basis mutually advantageous to to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 453. A bill making an appropriation agricultural and manufacturing interests in By Mr. KEARNEY: for building a road and bridge on Chicka­ the United States, and to such foreign coun­ H. R. 433. A bill to grant a nonquota status mauga Dam; to the Committee on Appropri­ tries, to promote foreign trade in the in­ ·to certain alien veterans and their wives; to ations. terest of friendly and peaceful relations the Committee on Immigration and Naturali­ H. R. 454. A bill to provide for the garnish­ among nations, and for other purposes; to zation. ment, execution, or trustee process of wages the Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 434. A bill to provide that nationals and salaries of civil officers and employees of B'y Mr. HARLESS of Arizona: of the United States shall not lose their the ·United States; to the Committee on the H. R. 417. A bill to provide adjustments in nationality by reason of. voting under legal Judiciary. the retirement classification.and pay of of­ compulsion in a foreign state; to the Com­ H. R. 4§5. A bill designating the person who ficers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. shall act as President if a President shall not Coast Guard; to the Committee on Military By Mr. KEFAUVER: have been chosen -before the time fixed for Affairs. H. R. 435. A bill to amend the United States the beginning of his term, or when neither H. R. 418. A bill providing for the issuance Arbitration Act; to the Committee on the a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect of appropriate insignia to rejected or deferred Judiciary. shall have qualified; to the Committee on registrants for military service; to the Com­ H. R. 436. A bill to amend the United the Judiciary. mittee on Military Affltirs. States Arbitration Act of February 12, 1925, By Mr. KEOGH: H. R. 419. A bill to protect investments in order to permit depat;tments and agencies H. R. 456. A bill to amend section 22, sub­ made for wartime prodty:tion of strategic and of the Government to use the procedures division (b), paragraph (2), of subparagraph critical minerals, to prevent dumping after established by. such act in certain cases; to (B) of the Internal Revenue Code; to the the war and a post-war market collap~ 3, and the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Ways ·and Means . to provide a stock pile of these minerals for H. R. 437. A bill to amend the Railr-oad • H. R. 457. A bill to amend section 25 (b) future emergencies; to the Committee on Retirement Act of 1937 so as to provide for (1) of the Internal Revenue Gode; to the Banking and Currency. . an annuity for total and permanent dis- pommittee on Ways and Means• 26 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 H. R. 458. A bill to amend section 3761 of. mote world leadership by the United States Administration: to the ·committee on World the Internal Revenue Code and section 3469 1n aviation; to the Committee on Interstate War Veterans' Legislation: · of the Revised Statutes; to the Committee and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 496. A bill to define the crime of on Ways and Means. H. R. 479. A bill to provide for loans to en­ lynching, to prescribe punishment therefor, H. R. 459. A bill to amend the Soldiers' and able veterans of World War No. 2 to pay and to authofize the Federal Bm·eau of Inves­ Sailors' Civil Relief Act'of 1940, as amended, debts existing at the date of their discharge tigation to investigate the facts in connection providing for exemption from estate tax of from the service; to the Committee on Bank­ with lynchings; to the Committee on the the estates of persons in the m111tary service; Jug anti Currency. Judiciary. . to the Committee on Ways and Me~ns. By Mr. HEBERT: H. R 497. A bill to create a Federal Indus­ H. R. 460. A bill to provide an additional H. R. 480. A bill to abolish the United trial Commission to aid in the stabUization allowance for military and naval personnel States Park Police force in the District of of employmeht.in industry, agriculture, and in computing net income; to the Committee Columbia, to transfer the personnel of the commerce, and for other purposes; to the on Ways and Means. United States Park Police to the Metropolitan Committee on Labor. ·. H. R. 461. A bill to provide for free postage Police Department, and for other purposes; H. R. 498. A bill to provide for the payment on mail to members of the armed forces; to to the Committee on the District of Co­ of pensions to ·widows of recipients of the the Committee on the Post Offices and Post lumbia. Congressional Medal of Honor; to. the Com­ Roads. By Mr. LAFOLLETTE: mittee on Invalid Pensions. H. R. 462. A bill to amend section 451 .(a) H. R. 481. A bill to prohibit discrimination H: R. 499. A bill for the repeal of Public of the Internal Revenue Code; to the Com­ in employment because of race, creed, color, Law 89 of the Seventy-eighth Congress; to mittee on Ways anti Means. national origin, or ancestry; to the Commit­ the Committee on· Military Affairs. H. R. 463. A bill to provide that a general tee on Labor. By Mr. McMILLAN of South Carolina: assignment for benefit of creditors sliall not By Mr. LANE: H. R. 500. A bill to liberalize existing laws constitute an act of bankruptcy unless con­ H. R. 482. A bi!l to amend the act approved as to forfeit).ll'es of rights as to claims forcer­ nected with' some other act of bankruptcy; to March 14, 1936, entitled "An act to provide tain benefits by veterans and their depend­ the Committee on the Judiciary. for vacations for Government employees, and ents; to the Committee on World War Vet- . H. R. 464. A bill granting leave of absence for other purposes," as amended; to the Com­ erans' Legislation. to postal employees on account of death in mittee on the Civil Service. H. R. 501. A bill to provide for the e1:1-try family; to the Committee on the Post Office · H. R. 483. A bill to grant temporary com-' on the service record of each member of the and Post Roads. missioned rank to certain male nurses serving land or naval forces of the United States a H. R. 46o. A bill to provide study periods in the armed forces; to the Committee· on statement of prior service as a member of any for post-office clerks, terminal and transfer Military Affairs. home defense force; to th,e Committee on clerks; to the Committee on the Post OtHce H. R. 484. A bill to provide additional com­ Military Affairs. and Post Roads. pensation for certain civ111an employees of . By Mr ~ MALONEY: H. R. 466. A bill granting annual and sick the Government of the United State!) and of H. R. 502. A bill to suspend until termina­ leave to postal employees; to the Committee the government of the District of Columbia; tion of hostilities the compulsory retirement on the Post Office and Post Roads. to the Committee on the Civil Service. age of employees subject to the Civil Service H. R. 46.7 : A bill for postal employees' H. R. 485. A bill to remove certain discrimi­ Retirement Act of May 29,-1930, as amended; longevity; to the Committee on the Post nations against Government employee's in the to the Committee on the Civil Service. Office and Post Roads: payment of overtime compensation; to the · H. R. 503. A bill to previde for payment of H. R. 468. A bill to prohibit the registration Committee on the Civil Service. · pensions and compensation to certain per­ of trade-marks containing the words "White H. R. 486. A bill tQ establish· a self-sustain­ sons who are receiving retired pay; to the House"; to the Committee on Patents. ing natj.onal pension system that will benefit Committee on Military Affairs. , H. R . 469. A bill to amend Revised Statutes, retired citizens 60 years of age and over; _to H. R. 504. A bill to establish a Department section 876, as amended, relating to issuance stabilize the economic structure of the Na­ of Air-Defense, to establish the United States of subpenas in civil cases; to the Committee tion; and to induce a more equitable distri­ Air Forces as a separate branch of national on the Judiciary. bution of wealth through monetary circula­ defense, and for other purp()ses; to the Com­ H. R. 470. A bill to amend the act approved mittee on Expenditures in the Executive De- tion; to the Committee on Ways and Means. partments. . · June 25, 1938, entitled "An act to provide for H. R. 487. A bill to provide for the payment the creation, org~nization, administration, of overtime compensation to Government H. R. 505. A bill to aid the program for the and maintenance of a Naval Reserve and a employees and for other purposes; to the conservation of food; to the Committee on Marine Corps Reserve"; .to the Committee on Committee on the Civil Service. the Post Office and Post Roads. H. R. 506. A bill to amend section 9 of the Naval Affairs. H. R. 488. A bill to provide additional com­ H. R. 471. A bill to create the Office of Law Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 to provide pensation for certain civilian employees of double credit for enlisted service outside the Revision Counsel in the House of Representa- . the Governments of the United States and tives; to the Committee on Accounts. continental limits of the United States; to the District of Columbia; to the Committee the Committee on Military Affairs. H. R. 472. A bill to amend section 28 of the on the Civil Service. Judicial Code; to the Committee on the H. R. 507. A bill to suspend until termina­ By Mr. LEMKE: tion of hostilit_!es the compulsory retirement Judiciary. . H. R. 489. A .bill to amend the Mustering­ H. R. 473. A bill to amend section 3466 of age of employees subject to the Civil Service the Revised Statutes to subordinate tax OUt Payment Act of 1944, approved February ·Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended; claims of the United States to wage claims 8, 1944; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to the Committee on the Civil Service. in State insolvency proceedings; to the Com- H. R. 490. A ·bill to authorize the under­ H; R. 508. A bill relating to the exemption mittee on the Judiciary. · taking of the initial stage of the comprehen­ from the tax on transportation of property H. R. 474. A bill authorizing and adopting sive plan for the conservation, control, and of amounts paid for such transportation by the improvement of East River, N.Y.; to the use of the water resources of the Missouri States and political subdivisions thereof; to Committee on Rivers and Harbors. River Basin; to the Committee on Irrigation the Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 475. A bill to provide·for the appoint­ and Reclamation. H. R. 509. 4 bill relating to withholding of ment of a personal bailiff for each district H. R. 491. A bill to prohibit experiments tax at source on wages in the ·case of com­ judge in a United States district court, and upon living dogs in the DiSt~ict of Columbia munity 1ncom·e; to the Committee on Ways for other purposes; to the Committee on and providing a penalty for violation there­ and Means. . · the Judiciary. of; to the Committee on the District of By Mr. MANSFIELD of Texas: By Mr. KILBURN: Columbia. H. R. 510. A bill granting to Galveston H. R. 476. A bill to revive and reenact the H. R. 492. A bill to provide for additional County, a municipal corporation of the State act entitled ''An· act creating the St. La.w­ individual income-tax exemption for persons of Texas, certain easements and rights-of­ rence Bridge Commission and authorizing who served in the armed forces of the United way over, under, and upon the San Jacinto said commission and its successors to con­ States; tb the Committee on Ways· and Means. Military Reservation in Galveston County, struct, maintain, and operate a bridge across · H. R. 493. A bill to increase by 15 percent. Tex.;· to the Committee on Military Affairs. the St. Lawrence River at or near Ogdens­ the retired pay provided" for the armed serv­ By Mr. MASON: burg, N. Y.," approved June 14, 1933, as ices in the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942; to H. R. 511. A bill to amend the Nationality amended; to the Committee on Interstate the Committee on Military Affairs. _ Act of 1940; to the Committee on Immigra­ and Foreign Commerce. By Mrs. LUCE: tion and Naturalization. By Mr. KING: H. R . 494. A bill to assist the armed forces H. R. 51~. A bill to amend the Nationality H. R. 477. A bill to authorize the Secretary to provide manpower for haryesting, timber­ Act of 1940; to the Committee on Immigra­ of War to 'acquire certain lands in the State ing, canning, and other essential activities in tion and Naturalization. of California; to the Committee on Military seasonal emergencies; to the Committee on H. R. 513. A bill ·to amend the Nationality Affairs. Military Affairs. Act of 1940 to preserve the residence for H. R. 478. A bill to create an independent By Mr. I:.UDLOW: nattiralization purposes of ·certain aliens who Civil · Aeronautics Authority and an inde­ H. R. 495. A b1ll to abolish and correct un­ serve in the military or naval forces of one pendent Air Safety Board, to promote the de­ fair practices and substandard working con­ of the Allied countries during the Second velopment and safety and to provide fof the ditions and to raise living standards among World War or otherwise assist in the Allied regulatton of civil aeronauticsr and to pro~ :the employees of the United States Veterans war effort, and for other purposes; to the '1945 CO.NGR_ES.SIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE 27 Committee on Immigra.tion and Naturaliza­ tracts may be. made, and for other related business associations engaged in interstate' tion. purposes; to the Committee on Irrigation e.nd commerce, or of labor organizations, and for . By Mr. MAY: Reclamation. . other purposes; to the Committee on Inter­ H. R. 514. A bill to provide for the perma­ By Mr. O'HARA: state and Foreign Commerce. nent establishment of the Joint Chiefs of _H. R. 529. A bill to provide for the payment H. R. 545. A bill to prohibit the entry into Staff and Joint Secretariat; to the Committee by the United States, during the present war, th~ United States of quota immigrant!? until on· Military Affairs. of certain transportation expenses of en­ the expiration of 5 years after the termina­ H. R. 515. A bill to provide military or naval listed members of the armed force·s while on tion of the present war; to the Committee on training for all male citizens w~o attain the emerg~ncy furlough; to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. age of 18 years, and for other purposes; to Military Affairs. · . H. R. 546. A bill to provide for the deporta­ the Committee on Milita;ry Affairs. H. R. 530. A bill to amend the Declaratory tion. of aliens who do not diligently attempt By Mr. MERROW: · Judgments Act of June 14, 1934, as amended; to become citizens; to the Committee on H. R. 516. A bill to provide for one national 1;o the Committee on the Judiciary. · Immigration and Naturalization. · cemetery in. every State and Territory and H. R. 531. A bill to amend the Civil Aero-. H. R. 547. A bill to authorize payments in­ such.other national cemeteries in the States, nautics Act of 1938, to .provide .compensa­ lieu of taxes to local governmental units in· Territories, and possessions as may be needed tion for. disability or death of air-carrier em­ which manufacturing plants owned by the, for the burial of war v~terans; to the Com­ I?loyees, and for other purposes; to the Com-_ United States are located; to the Committee· mittee on Military · Affairs. · mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. on the Public Lands. - By Mr. MILLS: . H. R. 532. A bill to amend the Civil Aero-· H. R. 517. A bill designating the reservoir nautics Act of 1938, as amended, and .for . H. R. 548. A bill to establish a Division of created by the construction of the Norfolk other purposes; to the Committee. on Inter-. · Aviation Education in the United' Sta-tes Of­ Dam in Baxter County, Ark., as Lake John state and Foreign Commerce. , fice of Education, Federal .Security Agency, Morrow; to the Committee on·Flood c ·ontrol. . H. R. 533. A bill authori!z:ing the. Stat.e of and for other purposes;· to the Commi-tt-ee H. R. 518. A bill to provide for the con­ Minnesota Department of ·Highways to con-. on Education. struction, maintenance, ·and operation ·- Of struct, maintain, and operate. a-free. highway - H. R. 549. A biU to establish a Depa-rtment flood-control and navigation improvements, pridge across the Mississippi River at or: of Air Defense, and.. for_other purposes;· to including dams, reservoirs, and. allied ·struc• near Hastings, Minn.; to . the Committee on; the Committee on Expenditures in the - Ex~ · tures, in the basins of. the Arkansas and Interstate and Foreign Commerce. . . ·ecutive Departments. White Rivers, and for the disposition of sur., H. R. 534. A bill to amend the-Judicial Code H. R , 550 .. A bill to establish a D~part~ent ·plus electric energy generated -by the- Fed­ in respect to the. original jurisdiction. of tha of Defense, to .consolidate therein . the De~ era',! flood-control and navigation improve~ district courts of the United States in cer~ partment of War and, the. Department of ments in the basins of such rivers, and fDr tain cases, a,n~ .far. otQ.er. purposes; to· .the the Navy, ·. and ·for other purposes; to .the other purposes; to the Committee- on Rivers Committee on t:qe Judic.i~J;Y. : Committee. ,on-Expenditures, in the Executive and Harbors. · ' - By Mr. PETERSON· of Florida: Departments. _ . _ By· Mr. MUNDT: H. R. 535. A bill to define loss of tfse of an By Mr.'RANKIN: H.R. 519. A bill to prevent pollution of the eye. for the purpos~s of granting the statu~ H. R. 551. .A bill to . amend paragraph :t, .waters of the United States and to correct tory a-ward of $35 ~per month under the pro­ part VII, of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), ·existing water pollution as a vit~ aid to yisions :of subparagraph (k) , paragraph. II~ as amended, so as to establish a uniform ·public health, economic welfare, healthful part I, Veter~ns Regulation No: .1 (a), as vocational rehabilitation allowance in cer.:. 'recreation, navigation, the support of ·in­ amende(!; to the Committee on World War tain cases; to the Committee ·on World War· valuable aquatic life, and as a logical and Veterans' Legislation. · Veterans' Legislation. 'desirable post-war public works program; H. R. 536.' A bill to provide that a veteran's · H. R. 552. A bill providing for the estab­ to the Committee on. Rivers and Harbors •. compensation, pension, or retirement pay lishment · of minimum ratings for disabled By Mr. MURDOCK: shall not be reduced during his hospitaliza-:­ ·World War veterans; to the Committee on · H. R. 520. A bill to facilitate settlement o! tion or domiciliary care;. to the Committee World War Veterans' Legislation. returning veterans on farms in projects con­ on World .War Veterans' Legislation. ;H. R. 553. A bill to provide that Govern­ structed, operated, and maintained by the H. R. 537. A bill to provide for adjudicatio~ ment life-insurance policies shall be incon­ ·Bureau of Reclamation; to the Committee on of any claim for compensation, pension, or testa}lle after 1 year, and for other purposes; ·Irrigation and Reclamation. retirement pay upon evidence in file at time 'to tqe Committee on World War Veterans• - By Mr. MURRAY of Tennessee: of death of the veteran; to the Committee Legislation. H. R. 521. A bill for the equalization o! on World War Veterans' Legislation. pay of letter carriers; to the Committee on the . By Mr. POAGE: H. R. 554. A bill to amend the World War Post Office and Post Roads. H. R. '538. A bill to empower the Secretary Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, to provide continuation of insurance· benefits (under H. R. 522. A bill to restore former basis of .of Agriculture to requisition certain mater~al, compensation and allowances of postmasters equipmeJ.lt, and supplies not needed for the certain conditions) to persons permanently and postal employees, and for other pur­ prosecution of the war and for the national and totally disabled, and for other purposes; poses; to the Committee on tp.e Post Office defense and to use such material, equipment, to the Committee on World War Veterans' and Post Roads. ·· 'and supplies in soil- and water-conservation ·Legislation. By Mrs. NORTON: . work and to distribute. such material, equip­ H. R. 555. A bill to authorize payment of H. R. 523. A bil~ to prohibit, discrimination ment, and. supplies by grant or loan to pui;>lic the compensation or pension for a veteran's in employment because of race, creed, color, ·bodies, and for other purposes; to the Com­ partial service-connected disability, plus such national origin, or ancestry; to the Commit· mittee on Agriculture. 'percentage of the pension payable for his · tee on Labor. By Mr. RANDOLPH: permanent tot!+l disability, nonservice · con­ H. R. 524. A bill to extend the existing con­ H. R. 539. A bill to prohibit any Govern­ nected, as is equal to the difference between tributory system of retirement benefits to _ment agency from _entering into any con­ 100 percent and the degree of his service­ elective officers of the United. States and struction contract with an alien or with any connected disability; to the Committee on heads of executive departments; to the Com­ corporation·, partnerShip, or other busbess World War Veterans' Legislation. mittee on the Civil Service. association any officer of which is an alien; .H.· R. 556. A bill to provide for uniform H. R. 525. A bill to provide for cooperation . t-o the Committee on the Judiciary. definitions of parents of veterans undfir all with State agencies administering labor laws H. R. 540. A bill directing the Secretary ot laws administered by tbe Veterans Admin­ in establishing and maintaining safe and Commerce, through the Administrator of the istration; to the Committee on World War proper working conditions in industry and Civil Aeronautics Administration, to make a Veterans' Legislation. in the preparation, promulgation, and en­ ,survey of the need for a system of airports H. R. 557. A bill to provide death com­ forcement of- regulations to control indus­ throughout the United States; to the Com­ pensation for dependent parents of deceased trial health hazards; to the Committee on mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. World War veterans under the act of June Labor. H. R. 541. A bill authorizing and direct1ng 28, 1934 (Public Law No: 484, 73d Cong.), as H. R. 526. A bill to promote the principle the Commissioners of the District of Colum­ amended, and for other purposes; to the Com­ of equal pay for equal work; to the Commit­ bia to construct two four-lane bridges to mittee on World War Veterans' Legislation. tee on Labor. replace the existing Fourteenth Street or H. R. 558. A bill to repeal the income limi- H. R. 527. A bill providing for the option Highway Bridge across the Potomac River, . tation as to payment of death compensation to repurchase by the seller of any lands or and for other purposes; to the Committee on to dependents of deceased service-connected buildings, or both, or any right or interest 'Interstate and Foreign Commerce. disabled World War veterans; to the Commit­ therein, sold to the United States of America, H. R. 542. A bill to authorize the naturali­ tee on World War Veterans' Legislation. together with any improvements made zation of certain Filipinos who are permane~t · H. R. 559. A bill to restore World War serv­ thereon, when not needed for public use; residents of the United States; to the Com• ice connection granted by special ~eview to the Committee on Public- Buildings and mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. boards under Public Law No. 7-8, Seventy­ Grounds. · H. R. 543. A bill to provid_e for the gift ·or third Congress, June 16, 1933; to· the Com• By Mr. O'CONNOR: . war dogs to the servicemen who trained them mittee on World War Veterans' Legislation. H. R. 528. A bill to amend · sections 4, '1, for their war tasks; to the Committe.e on Ex­ H. R. 560. A bill to define misconduct, for and 17 of the Reclamation. Project Act of penditures in the Executive Departments. compensation and pension purposes. as. lini­ 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) for the purpose of ex­ H. R. 544. A bill to prohibit aliens from act­ ·ited to felonioUs misconduct; to the Coni­ tending the time in which amendatory con• . ing as omcers or agents ot corporations or ' ittee on World War V~terans' Legislation. 28 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-I-IOUSE JANUARY 3 H. R. 561. A bill to repeal all limitations as By Mr. REES of Kansas: to the Committee on Banking and cur­ to the amounts of compensation or pension H: R. 577. A b1ll .to amend the Civil Service rency. othel'V(ise payable to the dependents of a de­ Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as H. R. 595. A bill" to amend the Federal Home ceased veteran; to the Committee on World amend_ed, so as to exempt annuity payments Loan Bank ·Act, as ·amended; to the Commit­ War Veterans' Legislation. under such act from taxation; to the Com- . tee on Banking and qurrency. · H. R. 562 (by request). A bill to extend .to' mittee on the Civil Service. · · By Mr. SPRINGER: all service-connected disabled veterans in H. R. 578. A bill providing for the naturau­ H. R. 596. A bill to amend subdivision (e) need thereof and feasible therefor eligibility zation of certain alien veterans of the of subsection ( 4) of section 3540 of chapter for vocational rehabilitation under laws ad­ Spanisp-American War, the First World War, 33 A, title 26, of the Internal Revenue Code; ministered by the Veterans Administration, and members of the· Regular Army or Na­ known as the Use Tax Stamp Act, and for and for other purposes; to the Committee on tional Guard who served on the Mexican. other purposes; to the Committee on Ways :World War Veterans' Legislation. border from June 1916 to April 1917; to the and Means. H. R. 563 (by request). A bill to provide Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza­ H. R. 597. A bill to amend section 14 (a) of pension for unemployed and unemployable tion. Public Law No. 144, Seventy-eighth Con­ veterans of a recognized war, campaign, or· By Mr. RIVERS: gress, chapter 233, first session, and for other expedition; to the Committee on World War H. R. 579. A bill repealing c·ertain taxes purposes; to the Committee on World War :Veterans' Legislation. . · with respect to ·oleomargarine; to the Com­ Veterans' Legislation. H. R. 564. A bill to authorize the Veterans mittee _on Agriculture. H. R. 598. A bill to clarify the provisions of Administration to correct erroneous adjudi­ By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: law relating to the display of service flags and cations; to t he Committee on World War Vet­ H. R. 580. A bill to authorize the Admin­ the wearing of service lapel buttons, and for erans' Legislation. istrator of Veterans' Affairs to amend the other purposes; to the Committee on Military H. R. 565. A bill to provide that Govern-· Schedule of Dl&ability Ratings, 1925, as Affairs. ment life-insurance policies shall be incon­ amend~d; to the Committee on World War H. R . 599. A bill to ·amend section 6 of the testable after 2 years, and for other pur­ Veterans' Legislation·. . act of March 20, 1933, to prohibit the re­ poses; to the Committee on World War Vet­ H. R. 581. A bill to increase to $60 per quirement of the taking of the so-called erans' Legislation.· month the amount of compensation other­ pauper's oath by certain applicants for hos­ . H. R. 566. A bill to amend the World war· wise .payable to widows of deceased World pital treatment or domiciliary care; to t he Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended; to provide War veterans whose deaths were caused. by Committ ee on World War Veterans' Legisla­ continuation of insurance benefits (under their service-connected disabilitie..s; to the tion. certain conditions) to persons permanently Committee on World Wa~· Veterans' Legisla­ H. R. 600. A bill to amend subsection (e) of and totally disabled, and for other.purpose.s; tion. section 2000, subchapter A, chapter 15, title to the Committee on World War Veterans' H. R. 582. A bill to establish a uniform defi­ 26, of the Internal Revenue Code, known as Legislation. • nition of "child" for the purposes of laws the luxury tax, and for other purposes; to H. R. 567. A bill to extend eligibility for granting pension or compensation, or ac­ the Co,mmittee on Ways and Means. compensation to the widows and children of crued amounts thereof, administered by the H. R. 601. A bill to require certain persons World War veterans who had disabilities Veterans Administration; to the Committee within the United States to carry identifica­ caused or aggravated by examination, hos­ on World War Veterans' Legislation. tion cards and be fingerprinted, and for other pitalization, or medical treatment; to the H. R. 583. A bill to create a United States purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. "committee on World War Veterans' Legis­ Civil Service Board of Appeais; to the Com­ H. R. 602. A bill _to prevent the mutilation, lation. mittee on the Civil Service. desecration, or use· of the fiag for advertising H. R. 568 (PY request). A bill·to amend sec­ H. R. 584. A bill to provide permanent and purposes, and providing penalties therefor; tion 33 of Public Law No. 141, Seventy-third total disability rating in active pUlmonary to the Committee on the Judiciary. . Congress, approved March 28, 1934; to the tuberculosis cases; to the Committee on H. R . 603: A bill. to permit the United Committee on World W~r Veterans' Legisla­ World War Veterans' Legislation. States to be made a 'party defendant in .cer­ tion. By Mrs. SMITH of Maine: tain cases, and for other purposes; to the H. R. 569 (by request) . A bill to provide H. R. 585. A bill to provide for the estab­ Committee on the ,Judiciary. . compensation or pension for the widows and lishment and maintenance of forest products H. R. 604. A bill to incorporate the Mothers children of deceased veterans of Worla War pilot plants, and for other purposes; to the of World War No. 2, to set forth and estab­ No. 1 or World War No. 2 who had diSabili­ Committee Oil.' Agriculture. lish the purposes and aims of the organiza­ ties caused or aggravated by examination, H. R. 586. A bill to provide for a prelimi­ tion, fixing its corporate powers and estab: hospitalization, or medical treatment; to the nary examination and survey for improve­ l~hing the rights of membership, and fo;r Com.nittee on World War Veterans' Legis­ ments at the head of Penobscot Bay; to the other purposes; to the Committee on the lation. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Judiciary. H. R. 570. A bill to amend section 603, title H. R. 587. A bill to create a Division of By Mr. STEWART: VI, Public Law 801, S,eventy-sixth Congress, Water Pollution Control in the .United States H. R. 605. A bill to equalize State old-age approved October 8, 1940; to the Committee Public Health Service, and for .other pur­ assistance payments and to provide buril:i.l on World War Veterans' Legislation. poses; to the Committee on Rivers and Har­ allowances under title I of the Social Se­ bors. curity Act; to the Committee on Ways and H. R.-571. A bill to increase deceased war . By Mr. SMITH of Virginia: Means. __ veterans' burial allowances to $150; to the H. R. 588. A bill to create a joint legisla­ Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla­ By Mr. STOCKMAN: tive staff service for the Congress; a Joint H. R. 606. A bill to provide for the acqui­ tion. Committee on Appropriations; a Joint Com­ H. R. 572 (by request). A bill to authorize sition and toll-free operation by the United mittee on Executive Agencies and Pro­ States of the interstate bridges at Cascade the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to cedures; a Joint Committee on the Organi- amend the Schedule ·or Disability Ratings, Locks and Hood River, Oreg.; to the Com­ . zation of Congress; and for other purposes; mittee on Rivers and Harbors. 1925, as amended, and make same applicable to the Committee on Rules. to ratings of veterans of World War No. 2; H. R. 607. "A bill to authorize completion of By Mr. SNYDER: alterations to a bridge over the Columbia to the Committee on World War Veterans• H. R. 589. A bill creating· an Office of Mili­ Legfslation. · River, made neceSS!U'Y by Bonneville Dam; tary Research and Development in the War to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. H. R. 573. A bill to make temporary dis- · Department; to the Committee on Military H. R. 608. A bill to exclude certain lands ability ratings of World War veterans perma­ Affairs. 1n Deschutes County, Oreg., from the pro­ nent after 10 years; to the- Committee on By Mr. SOMERS of New York: visions of Revised Statutes 2319 to 2337, in­ World War Veterans' Legislation. H. R . 590. A bill to authorize the erection clusive, relating to the promotion of the de­ H. R. 574. A bill to amend the National of a Veterans Administration general medical velopment of the ·mining resources of the Service Life Insurance Act, 19.40, as amended; and surgical hospital and domiciliary facility United States; to the · Committee on the to the Committee on World War Veterans' in the Borough of Brooklyn, city of New York; Public Lands. Legislation. . to the Committee on World War Veterans' By Mr. TAYLOR: . H. R. 575 (byrequest). A bill to provide th at Legislation. H. R. 609 .- A bill to provide for the estab­ veterans now receiving compensation for cer­ By Mr. SPENCE: lishment of a national cemetery in the Sara­ tain so-called presumptive disabilities equiv­ H. R. 591. i\ bill to amend section 13b of toga National Historical Park; to the Com­ alent to 75 percent of the amount to which the Federal Reserve Act, as amended; to the mittee on the Public Lands. they were previously entitled shall henceforth Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. TOLAN: have such compensation restored to 100 per­ H. R. r592. A' bill to provide for water-pollu­ H. R. 610. A bill to amend section 40 of the . cent thereof, and for other purposes; to the -tion-control activities in the United States Unit.ed States Employees' Compensation Act , Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla- Public Health Service, and for other purposes; as amended; to the Committee on the Judi- tion. · to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. ciary. · H. R. 576. A bill to amend subparagraphs H. R. 593. A bill to amend title IV of the H. R. 611. A bill to provide for grants to '(a) and (d) of paragraph 1 of part 111 of National Housing Act, and for other purposes; . the States for assistance in the rehabilitation Veterans Regulation 1 (a), as amended; to to the Committee on Banking and Currency. of diSabled persons incapacitated for normal ­ the Committee on World War Veterans' Legis­ H. R. 594. A bill to amend section 5 of the employment; to -the Committee on Educa - Jation. Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, as amended;_ tion. · ' _1945 CONGRESSIONAL RECO_RD-HOUSE 29 H. R. 612. A bill to provide grants to the 1, 1941; to the Committee on Banking apd _telephone, etc., tax; to the Committee on States for needy disabled adults; to the Com· Currency. Ways and Means. mittee on Ways and Means. · _ By Mr. WELCH: By Mr. ALLEN of Louisiana: .H. R. 613. A bill :to regulate private employ· H. R. 631. A bill to amend the Canal Zone H. R. 649. A bill to grant burial allowances nient agencies engag~d in interstate com· Code; to the Committee on Merchant Marine in cases of certain deceased veterans of the merce; to the Committee on Labor. and Fisheries. Regular ·Establishment who served in a rec· H. R . 614. A bill to provide that credit un· H. R. 632. A bill to amend the Canal Zone ognized campaign, expedition, insurrection, der the Civil Service Retirement Act of May Code; to the Committee on Merchant Marine or occupation; to the Committee on World 29, 1930, as amended, shall be allowed for cer· and Fisheries. War Veterans' Legislation. tain service with the city of Manila, P. I.; to H. R. €33. A bill to confer to certain persons H. R. 650. A bill to provide the same privi- the Committee on the Civil Service. who served in a civilian capacity under the leges for hospitalization and domiciliary care . H. R. 615. A bill to authorize· uniform rec· jurisdiction of · the Quartermaster General for campaign and ·expedition veterans as are ognition of service in the Army, Navy, Marine during the War with Spain, the Philippine ·now applicable to World War veterans; to the Corps, and Coast Guard in the computation Insurrection, or the China R3lief Expedition Committee on World War Veterans' Legis- of retirement and longevity pay; to the Com· the benefits of hospitalization and the privi:- lat ion. . mittee on: Military Affairs. leges of the soldiers~ homes; to the Committee H. R. 651. A bill providing for the estab· H. R. 616. A bill to provide pensions for on World War Veterans• Legisl!'ltion. lishment. of minimum ratings for disabled widows and children of deceased officers, war. : H. R. 634. A bill to proviP,e that employees _World War veterans; to the Committee on rant officers, and enlisted men of the Army, of the United States, its Territories or pos- World War Veterans' Legislation. Navy, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard; to sessions, or of the District of Columbia who By Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico: the Committee on Invalid Pensions. leave their positions to serve in the merchant H. R. 652. A bill to authorize the Secretary H. R. 617. A bill providing for an additional marine shall be restored to their posi.tions of the Interior to sell certain lands, and for naval academy in the San Francisco Bay area upon the termination of such service; to other purposes; to the Committee on Indian in the State of California, and for other pur· the Committee on Merchant. Marine and Affairs. poses; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Fisheries. By Mr. AUCHINCLOSS: By Mr. VINSON: By Mr. WICKERSHAM: H. R. 653. A bill to provide for certain pay· H. R. 618. A bill to authorize the Secre· H. R. 635. A bill to increase the number ments to States and their· political subdivi· tary of the Navy to convey to Oahu Railway of cadets at the United States Military sions as compensation for loss of revenues & Land Co. an easement for railway purposes Academy; to· the Committee on Military Af· occasioned by the acquisition of real prop- ~n certain lands situated at Halawa, Ewa, fairs. erty by the United States for military pur· Oahu, T. H.; to the Committee on Naval Af'­ . H. R. 636 ~ A bill to increase the number of poses; to the Committee on the Public Lands. ·fairs. _miP,shipmen at the United States Naval H. R. 654. A bill to authorize an exainina· · H. R. 619. A bill to authorize the Secretary _Academy; to t~e Committee on Naval Affairs. . tion and survey with a view to the im· of the Navy to grant to the city of Canton, H. R. 637. A bill to provide. that during' the provement and protection of the beaches ..Ohio, for highway purposes only, a strip of existing emergency peductions. shall not be ·along the coast of New Jersey from ·sandy land situated within the United States naval -made ·from insurance benefits payable. to any .Hook · to Cape May; to the Committee on ordnance plant at Canton, Ohio; to the Com· person under title 11 of the Social Security Rivers and Harbors·. mittee on Naval Affairs. · Act by reason of such person rendering serv· By Mr. BARTLETT: H. R .. 620. A bill relating to the compensa­ ice for wages; to the Committee on Ways and H. R. 655. A bill to amend the act ap- tion of certain officers of the United States; to Means. proved May 7, 1934, granting citizenship to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 638. A bill to: amend the Revenue Act the Metlakahtl_a Indians of Alaska; to the . H. R. 621. A bill to further amend section .of 1941; to the Committee on Ways &.nd Committee on Indian Affairs. 22 of the act appr~:lVed March 4, 1925, entitled Means. - H. R. 656. A bill to provide further for the "An act providing for sundry matters affect· H. R. 639. A bill to ame.nq Public Law 74 appointment of postmasters for fourth-class 1ng the naval service; and for other purposes," of the Sev€nty-seventh Congress relating to post offices in the Territory of Alaska; to the ·by changing the limitation on the total per· wheat-marketing .quotas under the Agricul- Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. sonnel of the Naval Reserve Officers' Training tural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended; By Mr. -BENDER: Corps, and for other purposes; to the Com· to the Committee on Agriculture. · H. R. 657. A bill making unlawful the re· mittee on Naval Affairs. H. R . 640. A bill relating to price fixing; to quirement for the payment of a poll tax as H. R. 622. A bill to provide for the perma· -the 'committee on Agriculture. . . a prerequisite to voting in a primary or other nent · establishment of the Joint Chiefs of H. R. 641. A bill to.provide fqr certain Pres- election for national officers; to the Commit- ·Staff and .Toint Secretariat; to-the Committee idential appointments to the United States tee on the Judiciary. on Military Affairs. Military Academy and the United States By Mr. B~OWN of Georgia: H. R. 623. A bill to authorize the Secretary _Naval Academy; to the Committee on Military H. R. 658. A bill to amend section 12B of of the Navy to lease certain lands situated Affairs. the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, relat- in San Diego County, State of California; to H. R. 642. A bill to enable the mothers, ing to the insurance of deposits of public the Committee on Nav_al Affairs. fath€rs, q.nd widows of deceased members funds; to the Committee on Banking and H. R. 624. A bill to amend section 1442, Re· of the armed forces now interred in cemeteries Currency. _vised Statutes~ relating to furlough of offi· outside the continental limits of the United By Mr. CANNON of Florida: cers by the Secretary of the Nav.y; to the Com­ States or in Alaska to make a pilgrimage to H. R. 659: A bill to provide for the issuance mittee on Naval Affairs. such cemeteri~s; to the Committee on ·Mill· . and award of a Clvi1 Air Patrol Medal; to the H. R. 625. A bill to- establish the grade of tary Affairs. Committee on Military Affairs general in the Marine Corps, and for other H. R. 643. A bill to amend the Judicial Code H. R. 660. A bill providing for an examina· purposes; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. With respect to the admission of attorneys tion and survey of channel and harbor at H. R. 626. A bill to authorize the Secretary at law to practice before the courts, depart- Everglades, Collier County, Fla.; to the Com. of the Navy to proceed with the construction mentS', and offices of the Government; to the mittee on Rivers and Harbors. of certain public works, and· for other pur­ committee on the Judiciary. - H. R. 661. A bill authorizing and adopting poses; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. H. R. 644. A bill for the relief of certain a project for the improvement of Miami Har- H. R. 627. A bill to vest title to the United widows of Civil Wa~ veterans; to the Com· bor, Fla.; to the Committee on Rivers and States ship Wolverine (ex-Michigan) in the mittee on Invalid Pensions. Harbors. . Foundation for the Original United States H. R. 662. A bill to amend the Social Se- Ship Michigan, Inc.;· to the Committee on H. R. 645. A bill to permit individuals to curity Act to authorize the payment of Fed· Naval Affairs. deduct from gross income for income-tax eral old-age and survivors insurance benefits By Mr. VOORHIS of California: ' purposes certain amounts paid as life-in- to certain fndividuals who become perma· H. R. 628. A bill to provide a joint legisla· surance premiums; to the Committee on • nently and totally disabled before attaining tive staff service for the Congress and to · Ways and Means. the age of 65; to the Committee on Ways and provide for appropriate continuous review H. R. 646. A bill to provide that abstracts Means. · by committees ·of the Congress of the exer­ and other evidences of title held by any By Mr. COLE of New York: cisE!' by executive agencies of powers granted · department or agency relating to real prop· H R. 663. A bill to amend further the Civil by the Congress and the carrying out of the erty of the United States shall be given to Service Retirement Act, as amended; to the intent of Congress as expressed in legisla­ grantees of such property; to the Committee Committee on the Civil Service. · tive enactment and for other purposes; to on Public Buildings and Grounds. :e-1 Mr. COLMER: the Committee on Rules. · By Mr. WILSON: H. R. 664. A bill to revise the method o! H. R. 629. A bill to increase the pension pay. H. R. 647. A bill authorizing the Secretary determining the payments to be made by the able to war veterans suffering from perma­ of War to furnish headstones to mark the United States to the several States with re~ nent total nonservice-connected disabilities hono:r;ary burial places of deceased members spect to conservation lands subject to the from $40 to $60 per month; to the Commit ~ ee · of the armed forces who are buried at sea, jurisdiction of the Department of Agricul- on World War Veterans' Legislation. in foreign lands, or at unknown places; to ture; to the Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 630. A bill to amend an act entitled the Committee on Military Affairs. H. R. 665. A bill to amend -the Social Se- "To extend the life and increase the credit By Mr. WOLFENDEN of Pennsylvania: curity Act, as amended, with respect to grants resources of the Commodity Credit Corpora­ H. R. 648. A bill · to amend the· Internal to States for old-age assistance; to the Com- tion, and for other purposes" approved July· Revenue Code with relation to the telegraph, mittee on Ways and Means. 30 CON.GRESSIO.NAL RECORD-· HOUSE JANUARY 3 \ H. R. 666. A bill to amend the Soldiers' and United States 18 years of age or older to sition to be held in the State of Florida dur· Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 so as to guar· vote; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ing the yea 1945; to the Committee on the · antee to persons after· their period of mill• By Mr. LEA: Library. · tary service certain rights with respect to H. J. Res. 13~ Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. DICKSTEIN: employment; to the Committee on Military amendment to the Constitution of the United · H. J . Res. 28. Joint resolution to authorize Affairs. States with respect to the term of office of the use of space in ships returning ·to the H. R. 667. A bill relating to the disposition Members·of the House of Representatives; to United States for the transportation of wives of mineral rights to any land acquired by the Committee on Election of President, Vice ·and children of American soldiers, for the any Federal land bank or by the Land Bank President, and Representatives in Congress. purpose of their admission into the United Commissioner through the foreclosure of any H. J. Res.14. Joint resolution proposing an States; to the Committee on Military .Aftairs. mortgage; to the Committee on Agriculture. amendment to the Constitution of the United By Mr. GOSSE'IT: . By Mr. GATHINGS: States providing for tlie election of President H. J . Res. 29. Joint resolution proposing an H. R. 668. A bill to reclassify and adjust and Vice President; to the Committee on ·amendment to the Constitution of the United salaries of postmasters; to the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and States relating to the making of treaties; to the Post Office and Post Roads. Representatives in Congress. - the Commitee on the Judiciary. By Mr. GEARHART: By Mr. LESINSKI: By Mr. HARLESS of Arizona: H. R. 669. A bill to amend the Nationality H. J. Res. 15. Joint resolution authorizing H. J. Res. 30. Joint resolution proposing Act of 1940 so as to permit naturalization the President of the United States of Amer­ an amendment to the Constitution of the proceedings to be had at places other than ica to proclaim October 11, 1945, General United States relative to equal rights for men in the office of the clerk or in open court in Pulaski's Memorial Day for the observance a.nd women; to the Committee on the Judi· - the case of sick or physically disabled indi· and commemoration of the death of Brig. ciary. victuals; to the Committee on Immigration Gen. Casimir Pulaski; to the Committee on By Mr. KEOGH: and Naturalization. the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 31. Joint resolution to amend the By Mr. EDWIN ARTHUR HALL: 'By Mr. MERROW: a.ct to codify and emphasize· existing rules H. R. 670. A bill providing for transporta• H. J. Res.16. Joint resolution proposing an and customs pertaining to the display and tion home during furlough for members of amendment to the Constitution of the United use of the flag of the United States of Amer• the armed forces of the United States; to the States relative to treaty ratification; to the ica; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 32. Joint resolution proposing By Mr. LUDLOW: · By Mr. O'BRIEN of Michigan: an amendment to the Constitution of the H. J. Res. 1. Joint resolution proposing an H. J. Res. 17. Joint resolution . to provide Un.ited States, relating to removal of judges; amendment to the Constitution of the United for the recognition by the United States Gov. to the Committee on the Judiciary• . States relative to equal rights for men and ernment of the Provisional Government of H. J. Res. 33. Joint resolution to provide for women; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Republic of Korea; to the Committee on the proper observance of· the birthday of By Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN:. Foreign Affairs. Madame Sklodowska Curie by proclaiming a H. J. Res. 2. Joint resolution to provide for By ·Mr. O'TOOLE: national War on Cancer Week; to the Com• the carry-back of net operating losses result· H. J. Res.18. Joint resolution providing for mittee on the Judiciary. ing from reimbursement of vendees for un­ the celebration in 1945 of the one-hundredth . By Mr. LUTHER A. JOHNSON: constitutional processing taxes; to the Com• anniversary of the founding of the United H. J. Res. 34 (by request). Joint resolution · mitte·e on Ways and Means. · · States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.; to the to give effect to article 11 of the Convention By Mr. CELLER: Committee on the Library. ·between the United States of America and H. J. Res. 3. Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. PATMAN: other powers for the protection of industrial amendment to the Constitution of the United H. J. Res ..19. Joint resolution to permit re· property signed at The Hague, November 6, States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tailers to combine in, negotiating purchases 1925 (treaty series No. 834); to the Committee H. J. Res. 4. Joint resolution to create a. from suppliers; to the Committee on the on Foreign Affairs. ·Committee on Federal and State Relations; Judiciary. By Mr. LUDLOW: to the Committee on Rules. By Mr. RANDOLPH: H. J. Res. 35. Joint resolution designating By Mr. D'ALESANDRO: H. J. Res. 20. Joint resolution on establish• November 19; the anniversary of Lincoln's H. J. Res. 5. Joint resolution proposing an 1ng an Air Policy Commission; to the Com­ ·, as Dedication Day; to amendment to the Constitution of t~e"'United mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. the Committee on the ·Judiciary, States relative to equal rights for men and By Mr. TARVER: By Mr. DONDERO~ · women; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 21. Joint resolution proposing to H. J. Res. 36. Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. DIRKSEN: amend .the Constitution of the United States ~mendment to. the Constitution relating to H. J. Res. 6. Joint resolution to provide ad· to exclude aliens in counting the whole num· the terms of President and Vice President; to ditional ·research personnel for the commit· ber of persons in each State for apportion­ the Committee on Election of President, Vice tees of Congress; to the Committee on the ment of Representatives among the several President, and Representatives in Congress. Library. States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 37. Joint resolution proposing an H. J. Res. 7. Joint resolution to establish By Mr. VOORHIS of California: amendment to the Constitution of the · the Joint Committee on Administrative Re· · H. J. Res. 22. Joint resolution proposing an · United States to fix the number of Justices view; to the Committee on Rules. amendment to the Constitution of the United of the Supre~ Court; to the Committee on By Mr. ELLIO'IT: States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Judiciary. H. J ~ Res. 8. Joint resolution authorizing H. J. Res. 23. Joint resolution to establish · By Mr. PRIEST: and directing Commodity Credit Corporation the first week in October of each year as "Na· H. J. Res. 38. Joint _resolution proposing · to distribute certain money received by it in tiona! Employ the Physically Handicapped an amendment to the Constitution of the · connection with its 1943 raisin-variety grape Week"; to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States relating to the method of rati­ purchase and resale program to increase pro­ H. J. Res. 24. Joint resolution authorizing fication of treaties; to the Committee on the .duction of raisins; · to the Committee on the President of the United States of America Judiciary. Banking and Currency. to proclaim the first day of each new year as By Mr. PLOESER: By Mr. GRANT of Indiana: "Good Neighbor Day" for the purpose of set­ H . J. Res. 39. Joint resolution proposing an H. J. Res. 9: Joint resolution proposing an ting an example in neighborliness on the amendment to the Constitution of the amendment to the Constitution of the United first day of the year, to serve as an inspira­ United States limiting the tenure of office of States relating to the terms of office of the tion and a standard for all the days to fol· President of the United States; to the Com­ President; to the Committee on Election of low, leadi~g to better relations at home, in mittee on Election of President, Vice Presi­ President, Vice President, and Representa­ a.ll the Americas, and throughout the worldJ dent, and Representatives in Congress-. tives in Congress. to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. RANDOLPH: By Mr. JENKINS: By Mr. WOODRUFF of Michigan: H. J. Res. 40. Joint resolution proposing an H. J. Res. 10. Joint resolution to provide for H. J. Res. 25. Joint . resolution authorizing · amendment to the Constitution of the the utilization of a part of the unfinished tlle President of the United States of Amer· United States, extending the right to vote to portion of the historical frieze in the rotunda. ica to proclaim October 11, 1944, General Pu­ citizens 18 years of age or older; to the Com­ of the Capitol to portray the story of avia· laski's Memorial Day for the observance and mittee on the Judiciary. tion; to the Committee on the Library. co_mmemoration of the death of Brig. Gen. By Mr. STOCKMAN: H. J. Res.ll. Joint resolution proposing an Casimir ~ulaski; to the Committee on the H. J. Res. 41. Joint resolution expressing amendment to the Constitution of the United Judiciary. the sense of the Congress that any celebra• States relating to the terms of office of the By Mr. CANNON of Florida: . tion of the termination of hostllities -with · President; to the Committee on Election of H. J. Res. 26. Joint resolution proposing an Germany would hamper· the war effort and President, Vice President, and Representa- amendment to the Constitution of the United give aid and comfort to the Japane:;;e; ~ , tives in Congress · · States relative to the making of treaties; to the Committee on the Judiciary. . By Mr. LANE:- · the Committee on the· Judiciary. By Mr. SMITH of Virginia: · H. J. Res. 12. Joint resolution proposing an H. J : Res. 27. Joint resolution to provide for H. J. Res. 42. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United the participation of the United States in the amendment ·to the Constitution of the States relating to the right of citizens of the Florida Centennial and. Pan-American Expo- United States relative to equal rights fo~ 1 1945 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 31 men and women; to the Committee on the .. By Mr. BULWINKLE: agencies by standing commmittees of the Judiciary. H. Res. 10. Resolution authorizing the House; to the Committee on Rules. By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ H. Res. 27. Resolution to create a commit­ H. J. Res. 43. Joint resolution authorizing merce, as a whole or by subcommittee, to tee of the House to investigate the petroleum the President of the United States to pro­ study and investigate matters related to air industry and problems of petroleum supply; claim April 19 of each year Patriot's Day for commerce and air navigation; to the Com­ to the Committee on Rules. the commemoration of the events that took mittee on Rules. By Mr. WICKERSHAM: place on April 19, 1775; to the Committee on By Mr. CELLER: H. Res. 28. Resolution granting · the sub­ the Judiciary. H. Res. 11. Resolution to empower · the pena power to the Committee on Agricul­ By Mr. TOLAN: · Judiciary Committee of the House to study, ture; to the Committee on Rules. -H. J. Res. 44. Joint resolution to continue investigate, and examine into the trial and By Mr. JARMAN: . in full force and effect Patent No. 1,628,098; punishment of the Axis war criminals; to the .H. Res. 29. Resolution authorizing that the . to the Committee on Patents. Committee on Rules. report from the Chief of Engineers, United By Mr.· WIC~ERSHAM: · H. Res. 12. Resolutioh authorizing a select · States Army, dated May 12, 1942, s.ubmitting . H. J. Res. 45. Joint resolution proposing an committee to study, investigate, and report a review' of reports on harbors of Cape amendment to the Constitution of the United to the House ·upon the purposes and effects Charles,. Va., and subsequent correspondence . States to permit persons 18 years of age to of the present tax rates and benefits au-. ·, in relation· thereto,. be printed,· with illus­ vote in all elections for Federal officers; to thorized under the Social Security Act, as trations, as a House document; to the Com· the Committee on the Judiciary. amended, and all acts relating thereto; to the mittee on Printing. By Mr. TOLAN: Committee on Rules. :H. Res. 30. Resolution authorizing that the H. J. Res. 46. Joint resolution to relieve By Mr. DINGELL: report from the Chief of Engineers, United members of the armed forces of the United H. Res. 13. Resolution authorizing an in­ States Army, dated June 12, 1942, submitting Nations of the transportation tax; to the vestigation by the Committee on Interstate a review of reports on the Atlantic-Gulf Ship Committee on Ways and Means. " and Foreign· Commerce ·of the practice of Canal, Fla., and subsequent correspondence By Mr. KEFAUVER: purchasing tickets for railroad, Pullman, and in relation thereto, be printed, wi_th an illus­ H. J . Res. 47. Joint resolution providing for other transportation for purposes of resale; tration, as a House document; to the Com- · payments for the purpose of equalizing, as to the Committee on Rules. mittee on Printing. · between the different regions or territories By Mr. DIRKSEN: . By Mr. KEFAUVER: of the United States, freight charges for the H. Res. 14. Resolution to investigate prac­ H. Res. 31. Resolution to amend the Rules transportation of defense materials during tices and _policies of the Securities and Ex­ of the House to ·provide for a report and the existing emergency; to the Committee on · change Commission; to the Committee on q:uestion period at which heads of depart- . Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Rules. ments, agencies, and independent establish· By Mr. LEMKE: H. Res. 15. Resolution authorizing · the ments .in the executive branch of the Govern­ H. J. Res. 48. Joinii. resolution . relating · to.: Clerk of ~he · House of · Representatives ·to-. ment. are -requested- tp.. ·appear -and: .ans.wer . Public Law 74, Seventy-s~enth· Congress~ and. transfer certain records not necessary in. cur.­ q:,uestion-s;. to. the, Com~ttee on R:il,les. , . ---"' tpe Agricultural ·Adjustment·:Act of -1938,. as rent buslriess. to the. -Archivist of. t:he United - By Mr. LUDLOW: · . amended, and providing for the refund of all States; to tlie Committee on the Library. · _H. Res. 32.· Resolutim:i providing for an 1n- , P,enalty taxes collected and for the cancehi­ By Mr. LANE: - vesttgation of bureaucracy and unconstitu- . tion of all uncollected penalty taxes on so­ H. Res.16 ~ Resolution that the Congress tional trends of Government; to the Cominit· : called excess whea~ ·for the_ yea~:s . 1941 and recommend and urge the President 'and the tee on_ Rules. . . 1942; to the Committee on Agriculture. Secretary of State to use their offices in effect- · H. Res. 33. Resolution t'o create a Commit­ By Mr. BENNET!' of Missour,i: ing the establishment of. emergency shelter tee on Fiscal Planning; to the Committee on H. Con. Res. 1. Concurrent resolution to in Palestine for persecuted Jews of Europe; to Rules. repeal Public Law 403, and reinstate stand­ the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. RANDOLPH: ard time provided in the act entitled "An act H. Res. 17. Resolution to provide for the H. Res. 34. Resolution to amend rules X to save daylight and to provide standard time temporary admission of political or religious and XI of th~ Rules of the House of Repre­ for the ¥nited States," approved March 19, refugees of continental Europe into areas sentatives; to the Committee on Rules. 1918, as amended; to the Committee on Inter­ within the United States to be known as By Mr. DIRKSEN: state and Foreign Commerce. free ports for 1·efugees; to the Committee on · H. Res. 35. Resolution to investigate the By Mr. BRADLEY of Michigan: Immigration and Naturalization. activities of the Securities and Exchange · H. Con. Res. 2. Concurrent resolution to . By Mr. LESINSKI: Commission and laws administered by it; to . terminate the effectiveness of the act of Jan-. · H. Res. · 18. . Resolution to investigate _ the Committee on Rules. uary 20, 1942, which ~stablished daylight sav­ Whether the provisions of the Public Uti11ty - .By Mr. VOORHIS of California: ing time; to the Committee on Interstate Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, H. Res. 36. Resolution in support of the .and Foreign Commerce. and regulations promulgated t~ereunder have policy of the U'nited states .in promoting free By Mr. HAYS: been violated; to the Committee on Rules. choice of government by all nations; to the H. Con. Res. 3. Concurrent resolution es­ H. Res. 19. Resolution to amend clause 24 Committee on Foreign Affairs. tablishing the joint responsibility for the and clause 40, of rule XI, of the Rules of the · By Mr. JARMAN: peace; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Res. 37. Resolution expressing the ap- . By Mr. MERROW:· House of Representatives; to the Committee on Rules. proval of the House of Representatives of H. Con. Res. 4. Concurrent resolution for certain resolutions adopted at Santiago, Chile, . congressional representation at the peace By Mr. MAY: on April 15, 1944, looking toward the estab­ table; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. · H. Res. 20. Resolution authorizing the lishment of an American Interparliamentary By Mr. DIRKSEN: · Committee on Military Affairs to study the Congre·ss; to tbe Committee on Foreign Af­ H. Con. Res. 5. Concurrent resolution to progress of the war effort; to the Committee fairs. establish a Joint Congressional Committee on on Rules. By Mr. BLAND: ~conomy and Efficiency, and for other pur­ By Mr. O'TOOLE: H .. Res. 38. Resolution to continue the in­ poses; to the Committee on Rules. H. Res. 21. Resolution to amend the Rules vestigation by the Committee on. the Mer­ By Mr. LUTHER A. JOHNSON: of the House of Representatives to provide chant Marine and Fisheries begun under_ H. Con. Res. 6. Concurrent resolution to for three chaplains instead of the present House Resolution 281, Seventy-seventh Con­ repeal Public Law 403, and reinstate the one; to the Committee on Rules. gress; to the Committee on Rules. ' standard time provided in the act entitled H. Res. 22. Resolution to investigate the By Mr. JARMAN: "An act to save daylight and to provide meat situation in the city of New York; to H. Res. 39. Resolution authorizing . that standard t1me for the United States," ap­ the Committee on Rules. the report from the Chief of Engineers, United proved March. 19, 1918, as amended; to the H. Res. 23. Resolution to investigate the States Army, dated March 19, 1942, submit-_ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ meat and food industries; to the Committee ting a review of reports on the Miami River, merce. on Rules. Fla., and subsequent correspondence. rela­ By Mr. KING: By Mr. PATMAN: tive thereto, be printed, with an illustration, H. Con. Res. 7. Concurrent resolution to H. Res. 24. Resolution creating a Select · · as a House document; to the Committee on declare a governmental policy in relation to Committee on Small Business of the House Printing. · industrial readjustments during and after of Representatives and defining its powers H. Res. 40. Resolution authorizing that the . the .present war; to the Committee on Ways and duties; to the. Committee on Rules. report from the Chief of Engineers, United and Means. By Mr. TAYLOR: States Army, dated Apri116, 1942, submitting . By Mr. RANDOLF~: H ..Res. 25. Resolution to authorize the Ter­ a review of reports on Black Rock Channel H. Con. Res. 8. Concurrent resolution re­ ritories Committee to investigate the Hawai• and Tonawanda Harbor, N. Y., and subse­ questing the President to in,vite foreign gov­ ian Islands' political, economic, and social quent correspondence in relation thereto, be ernments to participat..e in an international conditions; to the Committee on Rules. printed with two 1llustrations,. as a House co~titutional convention to draft a constitu­ . By Mr. VOORHIS of California: document; to the Committee on Printing. tion providing for an international govern­ H. Res. 26. Resolu~ion to provide for con· H. Res. 41. Resolution . authorizing . that ment; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. tinuing review o! the work o! executive the report from the Chief o! Engineers, 32 CON.GRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 4 United States Army, dated Apri111, 1942, sub­ H. R. 217. A bill' for the relief of James•E. By Mr. VOORHIS of California: mitting a review of reports on the Shipyard Monaghan as administrator of the estate' of H. R. 247. A bill for the relief of E. D. River, S. C., and subsequent correspondence Katherine Monaghan, deceased; to the Com- Williams: to the Committee on Claims. in relation thereto, be printed, with ·an illus­ mittee on Claims ' H. R. 248. A bill granting an increase of tration, as a House document; to the Com­ H. R. 218. A blli for the relief of Florence pension to Robert Wornic Denny; to the Com­ mittee on Printing. E. Bower, Hulda Bower,. and Christopher mittee on Pensions. H. Res. 42. Resolution authoriZing that the Russell; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 249. A bill for the relief' of Charles R. report from the Chief of Engineers, United H. R. 219. A bill for ·the relief of ; to the Committee on Claims. States Army, dated November 3, 1941, sub­ Stacey; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. BLAND: mitting a review of reports on Redwood H. R. 220. A bill to correct the naval record H. R. 250. A bill for the relief of James Creek, Calif., and subsequent correspondence of Carlo Salone; to the Committee. on Naval Fleming; to the Committee on Military Af­ in relation thereto, be printed, with illustra­ Affairs. fairs. tion, as a House document; to the Committee H. R. 221. A bill for the relief of Antonio H. R. 251. A bill granting a pension to Neva on Printing. · · Bellia; to the Committee on Immigration and Dobbins; to the Committee on Pensions. H. Res. 43. Resolution authorizing that the : Naturalization. · H. R. 252. A bill for the relief of James ·T. report from the Chief of Engineers, United H. R. 222. A bill for the relief of Michael · Moore; to the Committee on Military Affairs. States Army,· dated February 14, 1942, sub­ J. Tracey; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 253. A bill granting a pension to Bar- , mitting a review of reports on Cleveland · H. R. 223. A bill for the relief of Pietro · bara .Oertel; to the Committee on Pensions. Harbor, Ohio, and subsequent correspondence · Rocco Capodilupo; to . the Committee on H. R. 254. A . bill for the relief of William . in relation thereto, be printed, with an illus­ Naval Affairs. ~ A. Hallett; to the Committee on Claims. tration, as a House document; to. the Com- · H. R. 224. A bill for the relief of Francesco ,· H. R. 255. A bill granting a pension to Edna mittee on Printing. Sapienza; ·to the Committee on Immigration P. Welsh; to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ . H. Res. 44. Resolution authorizing that the and Naturalization. sions. report from the Chief of Engineers, United · H. R. 225. A bill for the relief of Louise H. R. 256. A bill for the relief of Dr. Luther States Army,-dated April 27, 1942, submitting Peters Lewis; to the Committee on War J. Head; to the Committee on Claims. a review of reports as the Intracoastal Water­ Claims. H. R. 257. A. bill for the relief of the estate way from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans, La., · H. R. 226. A bill for the reiief of Francesco of Dr. David 0. Clements, deceased; to the including the Violet Canal Route, La., and Sapienza; to the Committee on Imm~gration Committee on Claims. subsequent correspondence in relation there­ and Naturalization. · By Mr. ELLIOTT: to, be printed, with two mustrations, as a By Mr. O'BRIEN of Michigan: H. R. 258. A ·bill for the relief of H. Dale House document; to the Committee on Print­ H. R. 227. A bill for the relief of Mundo Madison; to the Committee on Claims. ing. Barchi; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. LEONARD W. HALL: By Mr. KELLEY of·Pennsylvania: H. R. 228. A bill for the , relief of Robert H. R. 259. A bill for the relief of Leo Gott­ H. Res. 45. Resolution authorizing the June; to the Committee on Claims. lieb; to the Committee on Claims. Committee on Labor to conduct and investi­ H. R. 229. A bill· for the relief of Michael By Mr. HOBBS: gate the extent and character of aid now Fr~ncis Spillane; to the Committee on Naval H. R. 260. A bill 'for the relief of Mrs. Frank given by the Federal, State, and local govern­ Affairs. Easterwood; to the Commitee on Claims. ment and private agencies to the physically H. R. 230. A bill for the relief of Thomas H. R. 261. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Jethro handicapped, and for other purposes; to the Callanan,' Jr.; to the Committee on Naval Humphrey; t.o the Committee on Claims. Committee on Rules. Affairs. H. R. 262. A b111 for the relief of Robert M. H. R. 231. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Jennie Wikle; to the Committee on Claims. M. Eiben; to the Committee on World War H. R. 263. A bill for the relief of the county PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of Talladega, Ala.; to the Committee on Veterans' Legislation. Claims. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private H. R. 232. A b11l to provide for the restora­ bills and resolutions were introduced and tion to active duty of Capt. Walter S. Strange, H. R. 264. A bill for the relief of R. Heine; severally referred as follows: to the Committee on Claims. United States Army, retired; to the Commit­ H. R. 265. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ad~ By Mr. CLASON: tee on Military Affairs. H. Keith and othel's; to the Committee on H. R. 201. A bill for the relief of the Demp-· H. R. 233. A bill for the relief of Hamsah Claims. sey Industrial Furnace Corporation; to the Omar; to the Committee on Immigration and H. R. 266. A bill for the relief of the South­ Committee on Claims. · Naturalization. ern Bitumen Co., of Ensley, Ala.; to the Com­ H. R. 202. A bill for the relief of Angelina H. R. 234. A bill for the relief of Julia mittee on Claims. Bourbeau; ·to the Committee on Claims. Peterson Mills; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. LESINSKI: By Mr. HAYS: H. R. 235. A blil for the relief of Edward H. R. 267. A bill for the relief ·of Jack Scar­ H. R. 203. A bill for the relief of the Plain­ Higgins Doyle; to the Committee on Immi­ ton or John Skarton, formerly Simon Jan · view-Rover ·School District No. 7, of Yell gration and Naturalization. Skarzenski; to the Committee on Immigra­ County, Ark.; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 236. A bill for the relief of William tion and Naturalization. H. R. 204. A · bill for the relief of W. P. Thomas Doyle; to the Committee on Immi­ H. R. 268. A bill for the relief of Filip Nicola Dodds; to the Committee on Claims. gratioh and Naturalization. Lazarevich; to the Committee on Immigra­ H. R. 205. A bill for the relief of Steve By Mr. O'NEAL: tion and Naturalization. Blass; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 237. A bill for the relief ,of Mack H. R. 269. A bill for .the relief of Charles H. R. 206. A bill for the relief of St. Vin­ Sk·aggs; to the Committee on Military Af· Molnar; to the Committee on Immigration cent's Infirmary and Dr. Alvin W. Strauss; · fairs. and Naturalization. to the Committee on Claims. · H. R. 238. A b1ll for the relief of William M. H. R. 270. A bill for the relief of John Da­ By Mr. HENDRICKS: Silk and Henrietta Silk; to the Committee on macus; to the Committee on Immigration H. R. 207. A bill for the relief of Edgar Claims. and Naturalization. · Kaigler; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. PATMAN: H. R. H. R. 208. A bill for the relief of Marion 271. A bill for the relief of Eleanor Contracting Co.; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 239. A bill for the relief of Dr. Ernest McCloskey, also known as Evelyn Mary H. Stark; to the Committee on Military Af­ H. R. 209. A bill for the relief of David B. Mikalauskas; to the Committee on Immigra­ fairs. Naturaliza~ion. Smith; to the Committee on Claims; tion and By Mr. HINSHAW: H. R. 240. A bill for the relief of Dr. James H. R. 210. A bill for the relief of Jack Wil­ M. Hooks; to the Committee on Military Af- liams and Mrs. Lora Sally Williams; to the fairs. ~ Committee on Claims. By Mr. TARVER: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H. R. 211. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Eliza­ H. R. 241. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ruby H. Hunsucker; to the Committee on Claims. beth Rainger, Diane Rosser and Roberta THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1945 Rosser, W. H. Baker, and Mrs. Katherine D. H. R. 242. A bill for the relief of Ruben M. :Wert; to the Committee on Claims. Herren; to the Committee on Claims. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. H. R. 212. A bill for the relief of Werner H. R. 243. A bill for the relief of Mose Lee The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont­ Zaiss; to the Committee on Claims. Hogan and Mary Alen Hogan; to the Com­ H. R. 213. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ruth mi:ttee on Military Affairs. gomery, D. D., offered the following c. Stone; to the Committee on .Claims. - H. R. 244. A bill for the relief of Adell prayer: H. R. 214. A bill for the relief of California Brown and Alice Brown; to the Committee Almighty God, patient yet fearless, Aircraft Corporation; to the Committee on on Claims. ' tender yet strong, we would gather at Claims. H. R. 245. A bill for the relief of the board H. R. 215. A b111 for the relief of Virginia of trustees, Summerville Consolidated the altar of prayer. In the name of our Packard; to the Committee on Claims. School District, Chattooga County, Ga.: to Saviour who came into this world to die . By Mr. LANE: the Committee on Claims. that Thou mightst save it, while otliers H. R. 216. A bill for the relief of John Se· H. R. 246. A bill for the relief of L. S. Strick­ sought to redeem it by the words of men terian and Laura Seferian; to the Committee land and Mrs. Marguerite Boggs; to the Com• clothe us with the heart of love and with ~n Claims. . · mittee on Claims. · the spirit of steel. Thou who reachest