558 - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 •Jones, Thomas W. •Yetter, Miles M. *Egan, Martin J., Jr. Berdanler, Francis N. Woodrow, Fitz W. M.,Soden, William G. •Beach, Richard J. •Saylor, William D. *Hard.son, Jerry M. Hawkins, Dale C. Jr. Montgomery, Charles •Ritchie, Richard G. •Radzavage, Robert *Peterson, Perry M. Zangas, Charles L. Sculiion, William, Jr. W. *Begnaud, Pierre H. G. *Lyttle, Dan J. C. Topping, Robert W. Walters, John K., Jr. Southgate, Robert H. •collins, Jack R. ~Dillow, Walter R. *Henderson, Ted R. Brookshire, Phil E. Herrera, Wilfred Garbee, Edmund G., Buschhaus, Ernest W. •cornish, John F., Jr. *Murray, Max D. Gillman, John C. . Brown, Jerome W. Jr. •weatherford, Edwin *Sackett, William H. *MacPherson, Robert Benstead, Daryl E. Milone, Edward G. Marfia, Samuel J. G. • Crain, Morris W. T. Dunn, George H., II Hitz, James C. Gildersleeve, Leo A. *Bustos, Robert G. *Fellows,· Warner H. Jones, Vaughn A. Delaney, James J., II Hart, Vincent P., Jr. Hill, Harold H. R yan, Patrick J. *Eversole, Charles W. *Williams, Clifton C., Diaz, Odilia M. Isbill, James B., Jr. Bowen, Donald P. *Kent, Gary D. *Proctor, Ralph D. Jr. Thompson, Arthur B., Lawson, Curtis G. Siler, Joseph A. *Dewey, Henry C. *Todd, Larrance M. *Townsend, Thomas A. Jr. Ebbitt, George F., Jr.Lloyd, Russ:Jll, Jr. •De Laughter, Carl *Bomar, Oliver B., Jr. *Mathews, Frederick A.Dittmeier, Arthur A., Pappas, Jimmy L. Ertlmeier, George J. W., Jr. *Colangelo, Nicholas *Jones, Robert C. Jr. Dougherty, Hugh L.,Franco, Frederick J., *Burt, Wayne F. •seal, Robert E. "'Lukeman, Anthony Swigert, William G. Jr. Jr. *Gasparine, Louis, Jr. *Foss, Lee D. *Lacey, Fred E., Jr. Yadlowsky, Peter Felter, Joseph L. Nelson,. Thomas W., Jr. *McDonnell, Gerald F. •stendahl, Walter R., *Raphael, Thomas W. Harrison, Wentworth Sellers, Jay G. Moriarty, James F., Jr. E. Jr. *Spreitzer, Richard L. T. Thorfinnson, RomainePfeifer, John A. • Armstrong, Richard *Harwell, Robert W. *Friedrichs, Phillip B. Morgan, WilliamS., Jr. D. Mutch, Bryce A., Jr. F. *Clewes, John E. *McCormick, William Godfrey, Edwin J. Mattmiller, Willard L.Bryson, William C., Jr. *Rosenthal, Joseph S. *Borders, Robert E. C., Jr. Prudhomme, Daniel Decota, Walter J. •Goller, Winston 0. *Davenport, Travis E. Thorkelson, Thomas L.npshus, Edward c. *Godby, Lawrence J. *Drake, PaulL. Badeker, Roger W. McCulloch, Richard K. The following-named women officers of the •carroll, Daniel I. •Dunn, Russell M., Jr. Carlson, Gary L. Kostelecky, John R. Marine Corps for permanent appointment to *Bergey, Hugh W. *Foley, Ronald G. Stratford, William K. Tirk, Eugene R. the grade of captain, subject to qualification *Draayer, Lloyd J. *Chapman, Charles T. Ready, Bobby J. Escalera. Daniel C. therefor as provided by law: *Yearn, Arden W. "'Wi:eland, Richard A. Hamlin, Thomas M. Johnson, Leroy E. Watson, Patricia A. Schofield, Beverly *Rhymer, Roy H. *Craig, Alvin L. Hagerty, Roger C. Sizelove, Jerry L. Beaumont, Inger R. Wever, Donrue *Shirk, Robert J. *Hawley, Robert R. Coleman, Ellsworth P. Horton, Egbert, Jr. Devos, Frances M. Moroney, Ellen B. • Altman, Jesse L., Jr. *Medina, Thomas J. Hart, Franklin A., Jr. Dennis, Richard L. Hayes, Theresa M. Merritt, Claribel M. Goodspeed, James F. *Elliott, John R. Myers, Louis B. Seabrook, Charles C. Overholser, Grace A. Wrenn, Jenny •Mullins, Joseph F., *Riddell, William R., Pitts, Charles 0., Jr. owens, James L. Ray, Irene L. Blair, Carol A. Jr. · Jr. Kimbrell, Harrison W. Schubmehl, William P. Halvorsen, Marie J. •Fraser, Ronald L. *Norton, Jerome L. Kehrle, Jerry E. Haley, Edward D. •stephens, Arthur C., *Blanc, Richard J. Suwalsky, Adelbert L., Drebushenko, William •• ..... II Jr. "'Bond, Henry J. Jr. Page, James C. *McKenna, George X. *Murphy, Edmond J. Green, Robert P. Garner, William G. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES •waskowski, Bernard *Lottsfeldt, Peter F. Layton, Willard T., III Edwards, Thomas L. *Flaherty, William C. ~Herndon, John W. Thompson, Charles E. McKenna, John T. MoNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1959 •Gregory, Wayne T. "'B: own, Thomas L. Slade, George P. Long, Bobby F. •MacBeth, Farquhar *Hamilton, Carl W. Ryan, Paul M. Shore, Harold E., Jr. The House met at 12 c'clock noon. *Daugherty, Ben D. •Duggan, Elmer F. Haislip, Richard E. Thomley, Robert R. The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, •connelly, Joseph W., "'Simmons, Jack :S· Smith, James T. Maag, Eddie R. D.O., offered the following prayer: Jr. *Anderson, Morns S. Paige, Eddie C., Jr. pyeatt, Frederick E., •Ryder, James N. *Blevins, Richard C. Ortman, Thomas J. III Exodus 33: 14: The Lord said, My •campbell, George C. *Fenstermacher, Den- Cochran, John K. Goodwine, Lloyd E. presence shall go with Thee, and I will *Muffi, Domenick tonS. Schreiner, Charles W., Smith, Roland E. *Rubrecht, William *Roesch, Jack E. give Thee rest. Jr. Canfield, Norman E. Eternal God, whose presence is our w. *Driggers, William E. Fra~k, William C. Pepperdine, James *McVitty, Albert A. *Durham, James P. Lew1s, Stanley P. Patterson, Kenneth G. help and our hope, may we daily hear *Dyson, Frederick W. *Burke, BrianT. Pesce, Augustus J. Olsen, Carl B., Jr. and heed Thy voice of companionship •Grover, Ronald G. *Dunn, John D. Guinee, Vincent J., Jr. Mitrione, Robert F. and counsel. *Chauvin, Junior E. *Hardin, Ralph N. Wilson, Willis E., Jr. Smith, JackP. Grant that our faith may never be Cress, Herbert W. Fogo, Wallace E. Jones, Robert E. Eldridge, Robert B. eclipsed by doubt or extinguished by de­ *Maughan, William L. *Labas, Raymond Bond, Thomas G · Stokes, Thomas M., spair as we seek to find the right solu­ •wacklin, Elmer F., *Voss, Bethel A. King, Homer L. P. Jr. tion to our many national and interna­ Jr. *Holler, Ralph E. G~re, Robert F. Brandon, Jack A. •Baggett, John C., Jr. *Lewis, Marion E. W1ght, Daniel E., Jr. Stephani, William D. tional problems. •Bustin, Joe C. *Chandler, James D. McCluskey, Charles A. Buehl, Louis H., III Wilt Thou inspire men and nations Redmond, James E. *Rocha, Anthony V. Gi?son, Robert E. Alger, Richard J. everywhere with those nobler thoughts •Mealhouse, Richard *Robinson, Charley Falls, William R. Whipple, Earl F., Jr. and feelings which are the progenitors of R. *Pierce, James D. Jensen, Ar~hur E. Galligan, Pats. achievement in the building of a better *Kennicutt, Orlis E. *Boozman, Paul G. Garner, William D. Field, Roland B. world. *Bunch, William J. *Furstenberg, Law- Mod.jeski, Robert L. Young, Martin v., Jr. In Christ's name we bring our peti­ *Schiavone, Ralph L. renee Heflin, James R. Yates, John R., Jr. •van Note, Duane R. *Rowe, Donald L. Eisenhauer, Stephen S.Baker, Ray L. tion. Amen. •Jurancich, Joe M. Snider, Howard L. Lerps, David A. McCombs, Richard L. The Journal of the proceedings of Fri­ *Colt,. Francis E. *Charlton, Albert K. Evans, Ernest E., Jr. Everett, John w. day, January 9, 1959, was read and ap­ *Moffitt, Forrest L. *Smith, Donald G. Clark, Ronald A. Moon, Robert L. proved. *Barger, Ronald M. Webb, John H., Jr. Luther, Ronald B. Schuster, Howard L., *Dickson, Edwin L. *Prather, Richard L. McFerren, Kent A. Jr. *Haley, Emmett R. *Holland, John E. Lyons, Peter H. Chambless, Burr T. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE *Tobin, Frank T. *Boso, Kinsman G. Morgan, Jimmie G. Pugh, Robert L. A message from the Senate, by Mr. *Emerson, Sheldon M. *Chaput, Roger U. Stolfi, Russel H. Whelan Richard V Fogt, Don R. *Dean, Clyde D. Kendig, William F. Jr. ' ., Carrell, one of its clerks, announced that *Bressler, Alexander •carr, Gerald P. Parker, William H., III Delehanty, Gregory J. the Senate had passed the following reso­ L., Jr. *McKinstry, William E MacLaren, Bruce M. Sayes, Davis lutions: *Kulak, Raymond *Hallam, William J. Service, Walter C., III Dilworth, Clarence W. S. Res. 13 *Forhan, James F. Casada, Howard 0., Jr Martin, Thomas Phillips, Charles L. Resolved, That the Senate has heard with *Simutis, Frank W. •sanford, Glen Keenan, John J. Buttalph, Richard D. profound sorrow the announcement of the *Black, John R. •self, William R. Buckner, Gordon H., II Morgan Willlam E death of Honorable HERMAN P. EBERHARTER, •Jackson, Bobby J. Bradshaw, Harvey D. Kaufman, Clarence E., Shlffier,'George M.,.Jr. late a Representative from the State of *Nutter, Edward L., *Kirby, Robert W. G Jr. J C J Stoddart, Edgar R., Jr. Pennsylvania. Jr. *Hess, David L. reene, ames ., r. B J hn W Resolved, That the Secretary communi­ *Thompson, Milton G. *Stephens, Willard M. Biegler, James L. rown, 0 • cate these resolutions to the House of Repre­ *Reid, Robert D. •Jones, Paul R., Jr. Krogius, Tristan E. G. Vasa, Richard G. sentatives and transmit a copy thereof to the *Bergstrom, Carl F., *Slepicka, Alols A. Powell, Raymond R. Hogan, Theodore T .• family of the deceased. Jr. *Spencer, Noel W., ·Jr. Carter, Sterling W. Jr. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect • Anderson, Arthur R., *Barstow, Charles A. Norris, Donald J. Edmondson, Orvme R. to the deceased, the Senate, at the conclu­ Jr. *Smith, Lloyd W., jr, Rose, RobertP. Michael,· stanley J., Jr. sion of its busil:iess today, adjourn until 10 *Bray, Warren R. · *Gannan, Henry R., Jr~ Hones; David V. Ryder, Norman E. ante meridian on Monday next. 1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 559 S. Res.14 Mr. BASS of-Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, MR. DOOLEY Resolved, That the Senate has heard with since there is no rollcall on these two Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. profound sorrow the announcement of the resolutions, and sihce we are setting an death of the Honorable SID SIMPSON, late a Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to unusual precedent, I would like the address the House for 1 minute and to Representative from the State of Illinois. REcoRD to show that I voice a vote Resolved, That the Secretary communi­ revise and extend my remarks. cate these resolutions to the House of Repre­ against both resolutions. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to sentatives and transmit a copy thereof to The SPEAKER. The resolution has the request of the gentleman from Colo­ the family of the deceased. already been agreed to. rado? Resolved, That as a further mark of respect A motion to reconsiC:er was laid on the to the deceased, the Senate, at the conclu­ table. There was no objection. sion of its business today, adjourn until 10 Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. o'clock ante meridian on Monday next. Speaker, I would like to commend to APPOINTMENT OF MAJORITY WHIP the Members the remarks of Mr. Dooley S. Res. 15 Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I ask on "Lunik." Mr. Dooley, the idol of Resolved, That the Senate has heard with unanimous consent to address the House many in the older generation, is still profound sorrow the announcement of the for 1 minute. with us through the pen of Roscoe death of Honorable J. HARRY McGREGOR, late The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Fleming, who quotes him from time to a Representative from the State of Ohio. the request of the gentleman from Mas­ time in the Denver Post. Resolved, That the Secretary communicate sachusetts? these resolutions to the House of Represen­ "RASCALLY ROOSIANS" OUTDO Us AGAIN-MR. tatives and transmit a copy thereof to the There was no objection. DOOLEY VIEWS THE "LUTNIK" family of the deceased. Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I (By Roscoe Fleming) Resolved, That as a further mark of respect desire to announce to the House with "Well," said Mr. Hennessey, "I see where to the deceased, the Senate, at the conclusion pleasure on my part the appointment, the Roosians has got up another satellite-­ of its business today, adjourn until io ante · which is in the nature of a reappoint­ around the sun this time, it didn't even meridian on Monday next. ment, of the distinguished gentleman hesitate by the moon." from Oklahoma [Mr. ALBERT] as ma­ "Yes," said Mr. Dooley. "Don't it beat all, jority whip for the 86th Congress. Hinnissey-ivery time we get an especially ADJOURNMENT UNTIL THURSDAY loud case iv the brags along comes Ivan NEXT an' calls us--only most iv the time he raises, Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I ask ADMINISTRATION OF OATH OF OF­ an' then shows an ace in the hole. FICE TO DEAN P. TAYLOR, A REP­ "Here a year ago the Russkies put up unanimous consent that when the House sputnik while we was still boastin' at our adjourns today it adjourn to meet on RESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE usual rate, an' wonderin' why the rest iv Thursday next. OF NEW YORK the world didn't just bow down an' take The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The SPEAKER. The Chair lays be­ us at our own value, as iv course it wud the request of the gentleman from Mas­ fore the House the following communi­ have to do sooner or later. sachusetts? cation: "The rascally Roosians had listened f'r There was no objection. years t' how good we were, an' how we had The Clerk read as follows: space staked out an' was goin' to make the STATE OF NEW YORK, moon our 51st s'tate whin we got good an' AUTOMOBILES FOR USE OF SUPREME COURT CHAMBERS, ready, an' go on fr'm there t' homestead. Troy,· January 10, 1959. Venus and Mars. FORMER SPEAKERS Hon. SAM RAYBURN, "Thin they put up sputnik, an' the shock Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I Speaker, House of Representatives, was terrific. Here we was, acknowledged offer a resolution United States, being the form gape at an' admire-an' to begin to wonder use of any Member of the House who has of oath administered to Members of the is it possible Uncle Sam has overrated him­ House of Representatives, to which Mr. TAY­ served as Speaker of the House. self, an' underrated the rest iv the world as LOR subscribed. 'lesser breeds without the law?' The SPEAKER. Without objection, I have the honor to be, "'Science?' says the President. 'What is the resolution is agreed to. Yours respectfully, all this here science? Charley Wilson an' There was no objection. DONALD S. TAYLOR. George Humphrey niver told me anything A motion to reconsider was laid on the Mr. TABER. Mr. Speaker, I offer a about it. table. resolution

program which is really made up .of the·first pect that.the initi~l operational missiles will funds for .the equipment needed to aim and attempts to try to understand a iittle· bit b.e about 50 percent reliable-reliability is a fire Minuteman until the missile proves about this new environment which we are factor of the missile and training of person­ itself. The Russians for their part test flew e :~ ploring. nel as well. I think we · can· go as high as a fuel-range intercontinental missile 18 Mr. HERMAN. But, sir, our program so far perhaps 80 or 90 percent within a year. months before we did, and assuredly they seems to me to depend entirely upon mili­ . Mr: IU:RMAN. What is the mission of the have had ICBM bases operational and aimed t ary hardware. Is it going to continue to mBM if war should come? at _us for some months now. For 2 years at do so? General SCHRIEVER. The mission would be least we will have no radar warning system Dr. GLENNAN. I think so far as the boost­ to move in and provide an earlier strike against enemy missiles. Our BMEWS or bal­ ers are concerned, there are the devices used against the enemy which I think would be listic missile early warning system will not to get these satellites into orbit, to get them very helpful to our strategic bomber force be ready until 1961 at the very earliest. A up through the atmosphere and out into which is going to continue to be for some report on what the Navy is planning in sea­ space. We will continue to depend upon time the backbone of our deterrent capa­ barn missiles after a word from Bill Shipley. the military for hardware and for the teams bility. Mr. HERMAN. The problem of protecting which handle the launching procedures. Mr. HERMAN. Well, now sir, we have been our counterpunch from surprise attack has Mr. CRONKITE. The Atlas is a piece of publicizing to the world for some time that been approached in a different way by the military hardware, a rocket designed to be­ we're going to sent these IRBM's overseas. United States Navy. They see this as the come a weapon, after it has passed dozens What is Russia's answer to our mBM threat? answer-missile bases which move from place of ground tests like this, dozens of other General ScHRIEVER. Well, of course, they to place and fire from secret and protected tests in the air. Only then will the Atlas have been developing missiles that would depths of the sea; nuclear powered subma­ become an intercontinental ballistic missile, cover Europe long before we started our rines, armed with Polaris missiles, each ca­ the basis of our space-age military policy. mBM program; they have an operational pable of carrying a thermonuclear warhead We will not attack first; so we must have capability now. 1.500 mlles. A navigation system evolved weapons capable of retaliating against at­ Mr. HERMAN. Well, sir, when can we expect from that of the defunct ' Navajo mlssile tack. That is our defense, our power to to have some ICBM bases in operation, bases will locate the submarine even under the deter an aggressor. But the Atlas is not a capable of striking the enemy with missiles Arctic ice like the Nautilus or the Skate, weapon yet. For the last 4 months, CBS launched from our own home soil? or completing record underwater runs newsmen have been taking inventory of our General ScHRIEVER. Well, our initial capa­ like the Seawolf, right at the dock in defenses, to find out what we have now in bility will be available in May of 1959. New London, Conn. The Seawolf has proved the way of ready military strength, how Mr. HERMAN. What about the so-called that a nuclear-powered submarine can stay far along we've come toward developing our gap; is Russia increasing her lead over us, under water months at a time, keeping her rockets into retaliatory power. Here is or are we catching up? missile power always hidden, always ready George Herman's report: General SCHRIEVER. Ah, in the ballistic for instant firing. If Seawolf were a Polaris Mr. HERMAN. Our first big missile is ready missile area, I think we have been losing as submarine the missiles would stand in firing to take on fully operational status. These rapidly as it is possible to lose from a tech­ tubes under here ready to be fired from deep are Thors, 1,500-mile missiles stockpiled in nological standpoint. I doubt very seriously under water. Actually, below this deck wait­ production line numbers at Santa Monica, whether the Russians are moving any faster ing for us is Rear Adm. John T. Hayward, the Calif. And they are bound for bases over­ than we are at the present time; I do be­ Navy's Chief of Research and Development. seas within range of aggressor nations. lieve that, and· I know, in fact, that they In the control room of the Seawolf I asked Under the ·supervision of Maj. Gen. Bernard started sooner and our biggest problem is · Admiral Hayward whether there was a single - Schriever• . head of the Air Force Ballistic· that we started a little bit too late. ·If we Polaris: missile in existence anywhere today. Missile Division, the Thor has gone through . continue to apply the resources and the ef- . . Admiral HAYWARD. The answer to that research and· develop~pent into .production fort into our progran_i that we have ih the must be "No." We have quite an elaborate and shipment to our allies for use by their · past 2 years, I think that you can say ;that and complex system that we're working on, own air forqes. These part~cular Thors are we probably will ha:ve reached a point or and we haye quite a few test vehicles that we ready to be ·wheeled out of this warehouse. will reach a point where the missiles are to · have fired. In order to put an elaborate sys­ to an airstrip right on ·the plant grounds . some extent in a stalemate -condition. tem like this together, it's a step-by-step and flown to places where they are needed. Mr. HERMAN. But right now the missile process. You don't wait to have all system But good though the Thor may be, inter­ burden rests on Thor. And in order to get components working before you test. We mediate range missile has certain strategic within striking range, Thor must be flown hope to continue our test firings, to continue limitations, Even though our Thor bases across the Atlantic to bases on the soil of these test vehicles for the various compo­ have yet to go wholly operational, the inter­ our NATO allies. The Russians tried to pre­ nents; but as of today it does not exist. continental missile based in the United vent this with a tirade of threats to allied Mr. HERMAN. Well, when will there be States has alread·y been designated to take governments. Then they began to work on Polarises in existence ready to go if the need over the Thors or part of its job. As of zeroing ·in their own IRBM's on potential should arise? right now, however, the Thor is the only allied missile bases. ~o far, the only NATO Admiral HAYWARD. The operational date ballistic missile ready to go, so I asked Gen­ ally which has accepted a Thor squadron for for the Polaris system is 1960. eral Schriever for a progress report on our its own forces is Britain. Mr. HERMAN. That means in about a year Thor bases in Britain. The route of the Thor through Britain to and a half from today? General ScHRIEVER. Progress is very good; the Royal Air Force bases which will use Admiral HAYWAR-D. That is correct. we're right ori schedule. Of course, the ini­ them has been marked by controversies. Mr. HERMAN. When the Polarises are in tial element of the first squadron will be on Some Britains feal' Thor because it uses existence, the submarines are ready to take a. training status, but it could fire if it tricky and potentially explosive fuel. They them out when the whole system is in evi­ had to. . fear destructive accidents. Others complain dence and ready to use, how big a force will Mr. HERMAN. When will it be fully ready? because it takes minutes _to crank up and it be? General SCHRIEVER. The first squadron will fire a Thor in time of call and because it Admiral HAYWARD. We are presently au­ be fully ready in February. stands exposed and because ground vulner­ thorized to construct five nuclear subma­ Mr. HERMAN. General, is this an acceler-· able to attack by enemy missiles only 8 min­ rines. We were authorized or funds were ated schedule speeded up after sputnik and utes flying time away. appropriated in Congress for nine subma­ the Russian ICBM? The truth is that Thor is designed to be rines. The President decided that we would . General ScHRIEVER. Yes; it certainly is. fired in 15 minutes' notice from a cold stand­ only expend the funds for flv.e submarines. The Thoc program is actually in being less ing start. Much less in time of emergency. Mr. HERMAN. Well, do we know what the than 3 years. In the fall of 1957 there was But so far there is no radar network in Eu­ Russians have in the line of a similar kind a tendency to' slow things down, but after rope capable of detecting enemy ballistic of submarine base intermediate range mis­ sputnik we did accelerate. As a matter of missiles on the way; none under construc­ siles? fact, we are putting our first missiles over­ tion. So Thor is a counterpunch system with Admiral HAYWARD. Well, in the Reds' Star, seas wholly a year before we thought we neither a warning network nor underground which is ,a publication organ for the Soviet could in the fall of 1957. protection against enemy attack. So how fleet, has come out with statements that Mr. HERMAN. Well, General Schriever; about a counterpuncher deterrent system they are putting missiles aboard their sub­ critics both in the United States and over­ based on our own soil? General Schriever marines as intermediate range missiles. seas have been saying that the Thor has an says the first Atlas base will be ready in the Mr. HERMAN. How many submarines do you unfortunate history of blowing up on the· middle of this -year-six months from now. think they could throw against us, sub­ test stand. Just how reliable are these· mis­ More than a year behind the Atlas is the marines armed with ballistic missiles? siles which we are now ship.ping overseas to· Titan missile designed to be hidden Ulilder­ Admiral HAYWARD. There is no reason why our friends and our allies? ground and reinforced concrete pits ready· they couldn't put as many as a hundred 1f General ScHRIEVER. Of course, we expect to. to emerge safe ev.en after a majer enemy. they wanted to. There is nothing to stop have a. few missiles blow up on the stand. blow has landed. And a year or more behind· them _from doing itr . If we didn't we wouldn't need a. research that is the solid fueled minuteman---small,. Mr. HERMAN. If they were to disperse their and development progratil. Actually we fired cheap, easy to protect, easy to fire at a mo­ submarines in the Atlantic, would we have some 25 misstles at Cape Canaveral. We had ment's notice. ·But lt may be delayed. The· the forces and the ability to track. them all three that we lost in that manner. We ex- Defense Department is withholding approved down? · · CV--36 562 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 · Admiral HAYWARD. Approximately in this "A realistic appraisal of the situation [From the Washington Post and Times case geography favors the free world, because shows that this fear has been greatly exag­ Herald, Jan. 10, 1959] the Russian submarines have to come out gerated. The truth of the matter is that WEAK BUDGET PosiTION-ADMINISTRATION through narrow entrances; for instance, the the American people will have to decide for SAID To HANDICAP ITSELF Denmark Straits; the Skagerrak; Straits of themselves what they think security is Gibraltar; and the Bosporus Sea. worth. But they can afford whatever has to (By Roscoe Drummond) Mr. HERMAN. What are our detection be spent in the cause of national defense." In an understandable effort to hold the chances there? And this last significant sentence was put line against lighthearted spending, Presi­ Admiral HAYWARD. Well, they are very good. in italics by the Committee. Now in my own dent Eisenhower is taking a stand at the P articularly, with the conventional type experience in Washington, I frequently very opening of the new session which, it submarine, which requires its snorkel to re­ found occasions where the national defense seems to me, weakens his position in Con­ charge, because that particular noise and that was subordinated to the economic factor, gress and in the country. particular submarine is very susceptible to and that is why, I think, that this particular What the President has done is to talk our detection devices. However, the peace­ quotation is pertinent to this particular in­ early and long and almost exclusively about diving nuclear submarine is a different craft. terview. a b alanced budget and about the danger of The Navy's No. 1 task, really today in the Mr. HERMAN. General Ridgway, we hear a the wild spenders. general war situation, is the defeat of a sub­ great deal of discussion about limited war­ The effect of all this talk is for Mr. Eisen­ marine carrying missiles against our coun­ fare. Aren't we virtually committed to the hower to link himself almost inextricably try. We feel very strongly that the flanks use of at least tactical atomic weapons to­ with the idea that balancing the budget is of the United States should be protected day? the first priority, the No: 1 objective of the against this attack as well as the northern General RIDGWAY. Unquestionably so. The Government. part of the continent. We do not have, how­ loss of even a small brush-fire war would be In the midst of the perilous Berlin crisis, ever, the forces to go and investigate every another severe blow to an already damaged the uncertainties in the Middle East, the un­ contact if they really flood the defenses with reputation of the United States throughout easy truce over Quemoy and 'Matsu, in the lots of submarines. the world-not to mention our casualty lists. face of 17 limited wars during the past 13 Mr. HERMAN. Just last week the Navy de­ First, we are certain to be faced with vastly years, the majority in Congress, including cid,ed presumably with administration bless­ superior numbers in any future war in many Republicans, are certainly convinced: ing to build the 4 additional submarines which we may engage, and these weapons That mustering the total resources needed authorized by Congress-there will be giant will go far to eliminating or at least cutting to wage the peace is the first priority, the vessels, like the others designed to carry at down on this disparity. And second, we will No. 1 objective of the Government. least 16 Polaris missiles apiece. The United shortly have fractional atomic weapons en­ That balancing the budget cannot be put States is a nonaggressor nation. Our goal is tering our arsenals and available for opera­ ahead of keeping the balance of power in stalemate. Aud thermonuclear stalemate is tional use. As these come into our hands, scientific weapons from slipping menacingly not easy, either to achieve or to maintain. they will imperceptibly merge with the con­ into the hands of the Soviets. Any sensible enemy will continually examine ventional type of weapon. From my own That we are not dealing with a peacetime all facets of our defense for some weak combat experience, I can clearly recall many budget, but with a cold wartime budget, points. Submarine warfare, missile and situations where, had a small atomic weapon and that while a balanced budget would be antimissile technology, even civil defense; such, for example, as an atomic bazooka been most welcome, it is not the first requirement for experts insist that with a good civil de­ used, it could have brought instant local of national survival in the kind of world we fense we could survive a thermonuclear blow success, and with a consequent saving of are living in today. and hit back. Even when we have tempo­ many American lives. The consequences of the President ap­ rarily achieved a condition of stalemate, we proaching Congress with the main banner cannot rest. A new threat looms up; the Mr. HERMAN. Do we have a mobile combat in his hand reading "Balance the budget'' threat of limited war. In the halls of the force capable of being rushed to the scene? will, I think, be these: Pentagon, limited war is defined as a con­ General RIDGWAY. Yes, we have some forces 1. It will make it harder for the White flict in which American forces are not di- · with the requisite degree of readiness to move House to get from Congress some of the rectly· opposed to Russian forces. It is not quickly to meet one very small war * * * or urgent appropriations it is seeking. When limited to conventional weapons: But it is on~ limited war, you might say. The basic foreign aid comes up, the Presiden:t has expected that one old-fashioned weapon, the question in mind is, in ;view of our world­ almost invited its opponents to cut it and foot soldier, will still play the major. role in wide commitments t,o allies who ring the say virtuously: "Here's where we'll help the limited war. With the other services oc­ earth, do we have a ready force of adequate White House balance the budget." cupied mainly in transporting, supplying, strength of instant readiness and the trans­ 2. It will divide the Republican Party be­ and supporting him. And in ground forces, portation tO move it quickly when the alarm cause at least half of the Republicans in here is where we stand. And one of our di­ bell rings? . And my answer'to that question the Senate want to put meeting the Nation's visions will soon be missing-a casualty of would be an emphatic "No." needs ahead of balancing the budget if both the budget. Now how effective are our Mr. HERMAN. On the subject of space and are not simultaneously attainable. limited forces? We took this question to a defense then, here are the conclusions drawn 3. It leaves to the Democratic leaders in commander experienced in both all-out and by CBS News: The dramatic news of Russia's Congress a wide opportunity for initiative in limited war. A former Army Chief of Staff, huge moon probe has reemphasized the fact, meeting the present and oncoming chal­ a former Allied commander in Korea and in temporarily obscured-that Russia is still far lenges from the Kremlin in new weapons and Europe, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. At his ahead of us in the development of heavy­ in new explorations of outer space. home in Pittsburgh I asked him what kind power rockets. In our own space work we After the briefing of the congressional of war the United States must be prepared appear to have proceeded in a series of bril­ leaders at the White House this week, Senator to fight? liant improvisations, but with no national LYNDON JoHNSON of Texas showed that this General RIDGWAY. Any kind of war, Mr. program. In the weapon system race, sput­ is exactly what he intends to do when he Herman, from the smallest so-called brush­ nik caused a major speedup. OUr Atlas is remarked, "I am rather disappointed that we fire type to all-out war. Even the smallest ahead of the dangerously slowed-down sched­ are not going farther and faster in our mili­ brush-fire type war contains within itself the ule of 1957, but it is only on time according tary preparations and space programs." possibility, no matter where it occurs, of to the original schedule of 1954. We are de­ It is, it seems to me, a mistake and a rapid development into all-out war every­ veloping strong weapons of retaliation but no misuse of the term to try to win an argu­ where. And the intentions of our openly radar system to put them . into effect by de­ ment on balancing the budget by calling declared enemies, repeatedly stated, is the tecting enemy missiles approaching in a those who would spend more, rather than ultimate conquest of western civilization. surprise attack. And such a detection system less, for the vital needs of the Nation, radi­ It is for this reason that we must win any is at least 2 years off. A high Pentag on cals. Senator JoHNSON is no radical. Sen­ war we enter, for it would be a war of official says we are not working at it as fast ator JoHN S. CooPER, . of Kentucky, is no survival. as we could. CBS News found that most radical. Mr. HERMAN. Now General Ridgway, how experts in the missile field believe our effort I suspect we need a new and relevant defi­ about the cost of keeping prepared for all can be greatly accelerated. They say we are nition of a conservative and I venture the these different kinds of war? Can we afford not going full speed ahead, especially in our following: · it? space program. And the advance hints on A . 20th-century conservative is one who is General RIDGWAY. I am glad you asked that the new budget are widely taken to mean determined to deal with the Nation's prob­ question. I have here a pamphlet issued last lems on conservative principles-but not to that we do not plan to go full steam ahead. August by the Committee for Economic De­ neglect them. Too often in the past it velopment. It is, I think, a very impressive Every defense contractor, almost every mili­ has been the conservative who has used his one, and I should like to read you two brief tary official, told CBS News that our progress con~ervatism as an excuse for not doing what paragraphs. was dramatic but spotty and incomplete. is needed. That's not conservatism. That's "Periodically the timid suggestion comes They all felt we could go faster and almost neglect. from many quarters that high expenditures without exception they said they were pre­ The businessmen's Committee for Eco­ for national defense might lead the country pared to go faster-if orders come down from nomic Development warns that "we must to economic stagnation or collapse. the President. not hobble ourselves with the notion that 1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 563 there is some arbitrary limit" on what we What American scientists and engi­ War I year, 82 million tons of coal left can safely spend for defense. neers have accomplished in the field of British docks for --I)Orts in other coun­ The nongovernmental National Planning Association warns that to seek a balanced atomic electric power impressed every­ tries. The peak yea was in 1923 with budget at the expense of military strength one who attended the Geneva confer­ 90 million tons moving abroad. With "may prove a prelude to disaster." ence. The Westinghouse Corporation Germany also able to produce more coal I am not arguing for an unbalanced displayed working models of reactors. · than was required for her own con­ budget; far from it. I am only saying that There was perhaps $10 million worth of sumption, Europe never faced a coal the first objective is to determine what we nuclear equipment at hand in the United shortage except in periods of work stop­ need to do in a period of no peace and no States exhibit, while the Russian dis­ pages or as the result of ravages of war. sign of peace. And then, in the American tradition, find the way to do it. play consisted largely of plastic models The first substantial shipments of and nothing of an operating nature. The U.S. coal to Europe followed World War conference demonstrated the potential II as the battered nations across the of nuclear energy for power, heat, agri­ Atlantic struggled to restore their own SECOND UNITED NATIONS INTERNA­ culture, transportation, mining, manu­ industrial output. By 1950 a semblance TIONAL CONFERENCE ON PEACE­ facturing and medica! research. of economic order had been restored and FUL USES OF ATOMIC ENERGY Geneva was an excellent setting for Europe's total imports from American Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- the conference, Mr. Speaker. It is within mines amounted to less than 1 million mous consent to extend my remarks at close proximity of Western Europe's tons. Since that time the requisitions this point in the RECORD. bustling industrial centers whose fuel­ have oscillated considerably, with a peak , The SPEAKER. Is there objection to hungry plants and factors have been de­ of almost 50 million tons transiting the the request of the gentleman from Penn­ manding more coal than native mines are Atlantic in 1957. In the year just closed sylvania? able to supply. Indeed, many hundreds Europe's imports were in the neighbor­ There was no objection. of tons of coal and coke from Westmore­ hood of 34 million tons. ·Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, under land County's mines and ovens have been Whether that market will adjust it­ leave to extend my remarks, I should shipped to Western Europe in recent self in the coming years is problematical, like to submit some personal observa­ years. I think perhaps a brief look at although most fuel experts are of the tions on implications of the Second the history of the coal industries here and opinion that there will be no further pe­ United Nations International Confer­ in Europe will give us a better under­ riods of drastic flexibility. Europe's in­ ence on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic En­ standing as to why there is such a con­ dustrial activity continues to rise. Popu­ ergy held at Geneva, Switzerland, last trast in the prospects for atomic elec­ lation moves upward. Standards of liv­ summer. As a member of the delega­ tric power in the two continents. ing are scheduled to improve despite aus­ tion serving as observers for the Con­ That Western Pennsylvania was one of terity programs such as that recently gress of the United States, I had a spe­ nature's storehouses of rich coal reserves made necessary in France. Thus energy cial interest in the exhibits, the scien­ was coming to be recognized two cen­ consumption can move only one way­ tific papers, and the discussions relating turies ago. It was in 1759 that Colonel upward. to the use of nuclear energy for gen­ Mercer, in command of Fort Pitt, reported erating electric power. the presence of rich coal reserves and Here atomic electric power enters the The district which I represent is an prompted an official expedition for the picture. To augment the supply of do.;. important producer of bituminous coal. most readily accessible seams. The pres­ mestic and imported coal and oil, nu­ As you know, coal generates more elec­ epee of coal in Westmoreland County was clear power may soon come into eco­ tricity than all other sources of energy evident at least since 1767, at which time nomic usefulness in Europe. Whether combined. The railroad industry, which the officer in charge of Fort Ligonier gave this development will ever decrease the relies upon coal traffic for a substantial a resident permission to "cultivate'' 200 cost of electricity on the continent and portion of its revenue, is an employer acres of coal land. in the United Kingdom is uncertain, upon which many thousands of our men, From those earliest records to the but-as research and development pro­ women, and children depend for sub­ present time more than 8 billion tons of gress-it is possible that a decrease in the sistence. Greensburg, the county seat bituminous coal have been produced in cost of nuclear energy will meet an in­ of Westmoreland County, is now head­ my State. Yet 35 billion tons-more creased cost of the conventional power quarters for the West Penn Power Co., than 4 times the total extracted in a 200- produced by coal and oil. Europe, there­ whose annual consumption of coal is in year period-of recoverable reserves fore, has a decided immediate interest in excess of 2 million tons. More than remain in the ground in central and the atomic electric power program. that, many Westmoreland County resi­ western Pennsylvania. For the United In the United States, any private in­ dents are engaged in the manufacture States as a whole, the alltime produc­ vestment in commercial atomic power of generating units and other electrical tion figure is nearing the 29-billion-ton generation in the near future will have equipment. The Ellicott Co., one of level, but minable reserves still amount to be inspired more by long-range hopes whose plants is located in my hometown, to 947 billion tons. It is also interest­ and job service motives than by any rea­ ships these finished products to utilities ing to note that there is considerably sonable expectation of substantial early throughout the land. A large number more anthracite in Pennsylvania's hard profit. This appraisal is explained in de­ of our employees at Westinghouse are coal region than the 5 billion tons mined tail by Dr. Robert E. Wilson, a member of similarly occupied. Chairman of the thus far. the general advisory committee to the Board Gwilym A. Price said this week For Europe, the situation is quite dif­ U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in the in a year-end statement that order back­ ferent. It is true that Great Britain January issue of Power Industry maga­ logs for atomic equipment last year were alone has an estimated 180-billion-ton zine. The following excerpts are from 30 percent higher than at the end of coal reserve and that the continental his article: 1957, and he expects the atomic power territory west of the Iron Curtain may contain another 150 billion tons, but so When we start to talk about the possible business to continue growing in 1959 use of nuclear fuels in central power stations, for the fifth consecutive year. much of this coal is difficult to mine I think it is fair to describe the present situa­ Whether electricity is to come from that there is no likelihood of supply tion as confused. It is confused partly be­ coal or the atom or from hydrogen will meeting demand in the foreseeable fu­ cause of misunderstandings on the part of still require the manufacture of turbines ture. the public and partly because even the ex­ and generators. Thus all Westmoreland Great Britain was a traditional ex­ perts hold varying opinions, though not as County has a very decided interest in porter of coal for centuries. Probably varied as some published reports would the future of electric utilities. Further­ the world's first instance of coal exporta­ mdicate. tion took place in 1362 when a ship from According to one published claim, a plant more, as consumers of electricity in home in California will be able to make electricity and industry, we are in support of what­ France brought a cargo of com from 1n 1962 for less than 9 m1lls per kilowatt­ ever progress can be achieved in increas­ Newcastle and returned with a load of hour. Another estimate predicts nuclear ing the efficiency of electric power gen­ coal. A monopoly in the coal export power costs by 1980 as low as 2 mills. eration, if only for the sake of rate sta­ trade was eventually established by the On the other hand, electricity from the bi~ity. British. By 1913, 'the last pre-World plant in Shippin~port, Pa.-the only large 564 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 plant in actual operation-has been said to The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Ways and Means Committee, will bring cost 64 mllls. the request of the gentleman from Mas­ legislation to the floor to correct this The mere cost of fabricating the fuel ele­ situation, and that the Congress will take ments-one factor often overlooked in the sachusetts? past--was about twice the cost of conven­ There was no objection. prompt action. t ional power. Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, I am fil­ I am sure it was not the intent of this For large conventional steam powerplants ing a bill today to amend title II of the House, or of the Congress, to work this today, the cost range is around 3.5 to 8 mills, Social Security Act so as to remove the hardship upon deserving people. depending on size and location. limitation upon the amount of outside income which may be received by an Mr. Willard Owens, associate counsel EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET of the United Mine Workers of America, individual while receiving benefits. contributed a most illuminating article I feel that the present limitation of Mr. MUMMA. Mr. Speaker, I ask on the United Nations Conference in the $1,200 in outside earnings is unrealistic. unanimous consent to extend my re­ November 1 issue of the United Mine The economic problems of retired work­ marks at this point in the RECORD. Workers Journal. He suggested that ers receiving social security payments The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the rate of introduction of atomic-elec­ are becoming increasingly apparent. the request of the gentleman from Penn­ tric power in each country will be dic­ Congress last year increased social secu­ sylvania? tated by two factors: First, a lack of rity benefits by 7 percent, and these There was no objection. conventional fuel rather than competi­ higher benefits will be reflected in the Mr. MUMMA. Mr. Speaker, under tion with available conventional fuel, checks to be sent out to recipients at the leave to extend my remarks at this point and second, a demand for large blocks end of this month. However, because of in the RECORD, I wish to include an of power. He foresees the development inflation even the increased payments article by Mr. Frank Masland, Jr., en­ of atomic power programs first in Eng­ will not be sufficient to meet the mini­ titled "European Common Market.'' land, the Continent of Europe and­ mum needs of these retired workers and Mr. Masland, as you may know, is somewhat later-in Japan. He also their dependents. of the Masland Co. in Carlisle, Pa., foresees early use of the peaceful atom Many older men and women are forced weavers of fine rugs and broadloom car­ in India, whose population is rising rap­ into supplemental, part-time employ­ pets. idly and where coal deposits are far ment to augment their social security His article sets forth his reflections away from points of heavy power needs. payments in an attempt to maintain on the subject and will evoke the care­ Mr. Tom Pickett, executive vice pres­ even the barest minimum living stand­ ful thinking of those who read it. ident of the National Coal Association, ard. These people have written to me Mr. Speaker, Mr. Masland's article is on record as endorsing the orderly about their problem and many have come follows herewith: development of the peaceful atom, both into my district office in Springfield to EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET in America and in Europe, as a neces­ explain in detail the difficulty they ex­ (By Frank E. Masland, Jr.) sary step to scientific and industrial perience in trying to get along on social I have written a number of articles in progress throughout the world. Mr. security payments and the $1,200 outside which I have attempted to make the point Pickett points out, however, that there earnings limit. These older persons are that if the Un:ited States persists in pursuing is enough available coal reserves in this still useful citizens of our community its present policies with respect to tarifis, and have much to contribute to business protection of American jobs in general and country to last for 500 years even if the underwriting of jobs abroad, the impact upon current rate of production were doubled. and industry, even if only on a part-time basis. I certainly hope that my col­ industry and employment within the con­ Our abundant reserves are but one fines of the United States will be serious and reason why the coal industry need have leagues on the Ways and Means Com­ conceivably disastrous. no fear of competition from the atom mittee will consider removing the $1,200 I have contended there is no evidence jus­ in the foreseeable future. Our modern ceiling, or at least compromise the issue tifying the long held myth of superior mines have been mechanized to such by increasing the ceiling to $2,000 a year. Yankee ingenuity, of American technological an extent that we can produce about Such a change in the law will not cost supremacy. four times more coal per man-day than the Federal Government 1 cent and It has been my contention that the Amer­ will help greatly the older citizens. ican standard is where it is for a number of can any other country. We have the reasons, none of which provide evidence that manpower necessary to operate the in­ the American is a superman in the factory or tricate mining equipment. Given the INCREASE IN SOCIAL SECURITY the market. incentive to invest in new properties and To begin with we started with vast open to plan for continued mechanization, the BENEFITS spaces, unlimited natural resources, and a. coal industry will have ample capacity to Mr. BOW. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ domestic market that quantitatively could provide the energy for the growing elec­ mous consent to address the House for 1 be expanded or contracted at will through tric-utility market, the oversea require­ minute, and to revise and extend my the unlimited reservoir of Ellis Island. remarks. We were and are a new nation. We ments, and the variety of domestic started with freedom as a cornerstone and consumers that include retail coalyards, The SPEAKER. Is there objection to those who envisioned the future protected the chemical industry, and miscellan­ the request of the gentleman from Ohio? that freedom with measures that were in­ eous plants and factories. There was no objection. violate until the results of that freedom As expressed by both the National Mr. BOW. Mr. Speaker, it has recent­ created a society so satiated and concerned Coal Association and the United Mine ly come to my attention that some in­ for the moment that it traded the fact of Workers of America, the coal industry equities have been brought about by the freedom for the promise of security. favors research and development that The freedom of the individual begat the increase. in social security benefits. free enterprise system, and the free enter­ may be carried on in the field of atomic I have received a communication from prise system begat the concept of mass pro­ electric power. We who come from a constituent of mine who has been on a duction, and mass production begat the coal areas are, however, concerned with World War I pension. In 1955 he lost highest standard of living the world has programs that would project the Gov­ his right leg and developed hardening of known, and that standard of living begat ernment into the business of producing the arteries. He is presently in a wheel­ complacency, and complacency begat a labor electric power through the atom. We chair and requires constant attention. government, and the labor government begat socialism and socialism took the place of free stand in support of research activity Under the new social security law in that will enable us to make maximum enterprise. And with the loss of free enter­ which we increased the benefits by 7 per­ prise went the loss of individual freedom. use of nuclear fission and hydrogen for cent, that increase put my constituent The pinnacle of this cycle lay in the con­ peacetime application. We oppose sub­ $34 over the $2,700 limitation as provided cept, the development, and the full utiliza­ sidized competition of any nature. I am for in the Veterans Benefits Act. This tion of the mass production system by free confident that Congress will follow such has caused the Veterans' Administration men and women. That system reduced costs, a course in the ensuing years. withdraw the pension from this un­ increased wages, resulted in keen competi­ to tion, stimulated sales effort, built a. market. fortunate individual so that instead of AMEND SOCIAL SECURITY ACT At a time in our history when we no longer giving this man an increase, he has had a possess national fervor, when we have traded Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, I ask substantial loss in his income. sturdy individualism for state security, unanimous consent to extend my re­ I hope, Mr. Speaker, that the Veterans' when we have traded imaginative construc­ marks at this point in the REcORD. Affairs Committee, together with the tive conservatism for those panaceas that 1959 CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD- HOUSE 565 the yellow pages of history record as having a European bloc versus an American bloc?­ six as a body. This will necessitate, of been tried and found wanting, at that period there is no such thing. Our laws forbid it. course, preagreements between the Common of our history we find that Europe, we so Baron Bonvoisin goes on to say, "The Market countries and will considerably en­ long ago left so far behind, recognizing that criticisms and fears aroused by the common hance their bargaining power." which our history proved would work and external tariff call for a clarification." He I will conclude with Admiral Shattock by adopting it for themselves and adapting it states, "This tariff does not have to be quoting his confirmation of what seems to to their purposes. rigidly applied; a list of customs exceptions be a general conclusion. He states, "The We were in a position to make a choice­ has been provided for, thus limiting tariff difficulties that this free market will bring private jobs or public jobs. We seem to have protection. The possibility of obtaining a to American exports will be tackled with made our choice. Public jobs are increasing tariff quota suggests that the sources of typical American energy and enterprise and at a far faster rate than private jobs. Private supply will not be completely upset." mainly by a considerable expansion of in­ employment is completely dependent upon The Baron clearly recognizes that a pro­ vestment in the area." the ability of private industry to compete tective tariff is a tool that may be used for A. R. Smith, head of the intelligence de­ for whatever markets may be necessary. the protection of those within the European partment of the Imperial Chemical Indus­ Today we find Europe taking momentous Common Market. tries believes that the European Economic steps designed to create a market for its The Baron concludes that "American in­ Community could lead to a stronger and products. No one can find fault with their dustrialists will have to make a choice be­ more united Western Europe. This would objective. Perhaps no one should find fault tween setting up factories in Europe, absorb­ bring benefits to the Western World. But, with their methods. Certainly they are the ing existing concerns, or simply participating Mr. Smith also states, "Nevertheless, within - methods we used. The tools they will em­ in European enterprises, or transferring the six member countries there are strongly ploy are mass production and protective patents and licenses to Europe." restrictive and protectionist forces. At the tariffs. Raymond Aron, French author, journalist, moment it is difficult to say which will be­ Germany, the Benelux group, France, and and economist, professor at the Sorbonne, come uppermost." Italy have created that to which they refer as states that "The Common Market was set Gerard F. Bauer of Switzerland is of the the European Common Market. Their ef­ up for the benefit of its six members and. opinion the Common Market will make it forts and their objectives have been cheered not that of the Western bloc in general." He possible for such industrial sciences as auto­ and furthered by the Government of the also says, "It is impossible to set up a new mation and nuclearization to make further United States. Their purpose is to expand economic unity without some prejudice to progress according to a rational scheme. capital investment and industrial capacity outsiders." Prices will go down and popular purchasing within the area of the member nations, to Pierre Dreyfus, president and managing power up. director of the Regie Renault of France, ex­ provide employment, raise the ~:tandard of Bear in mind that products made in living, and create a market. I find no fault presses his belief that "The Common Market America currently face difficulty in meeting with such ambitions or with their collabora­ is a new and efficient step towards the crea­ prices of products made abroad. It is obvi­ tive effort. I wonder, however, how it is that tion of a vast economic area which will per­ ous that with the use of industrial sciences, we here in the States can view this movement mit an exploitation of modern techniques, a automation, and nuclearization, unless Euro­ with such equanimity. Certainly we have genuine expansion of exchange possibilities pean wages are a8 high as American wages, read what has been written. Or have we? for goods and capital as well as the free travel as Mr. Bauer states, "prices will go down" and Perhaps, as we have done with Stalin and of citizens-the community goes beyond a it will be even more difficult for American Mao and Khrushchev, we either fail to read simple customs union: It is a constant pro­ manufacturers to compete with foreign-made or disbelieve. For those who put the Euro­ gression towards economic integration." He goods. adds, "In addition, the countries consider Mr. Bauer adds, "As to the motives of pean Common Market together and who are the General Agreement for Tariff and Trade administering it have set forth their think­ American businessmen, it is both true that as a point of departure for further tariff they expect a higher sales potential from a ing with respect to it, and it makes inter­ reductions to be carried out by negotiations esting and perhaps apprehensive reading for widened European Market and that they with their partners in world trade." fear that this Market might be closed to those who provide jobs and those who depend Pierre Dreyfus quotes M. Hallstein as upon jobs in the States. goods manufactured outside Europe. These stating that "the six members have had to two arguments are quite equivalent." He For the justification of my opinion that pay what might be called an entrance fee­ apprehension is warranted I quote from the goes on to say, "It it quite conceivable that a partial renunciation of national sovereignty the American Government will favor the writings of these gentlemen. I quote out in favor of common interest and-institutions; of context. There is no other way I can private investments in Europe and help these an application of jointly decided prices." interests through the institutions in which it do it, but I will attempt to quote as fairly Jointly decided prices are a privilege that our as may be possible. plays a determining role." Mr. Bauer is very laws deny capital invested in American in­ realistic. There is little question but that First, may I quote from Baron Rene Boel, dustry but not American capital invested in president of the European League for Eco­ the American Government, if it continues to European industry. pursue its present philosophy, will utilize nomic Cooperation. He is a Belgian. "The Mr. Dreyfus goes on to say, "Nonmembers common market will lead to a vigorous every means to achieve the investment of benefit from the Common Market by in­ American dollars abroad. economic expansion. This internal expan­ creasing their investments in their common sion will in itself lead to an increase in area. For this reason it can be hoped that I would like to suggest that the only foreign trade. Europe will have to import the Common Market will attract foreign American bloc analogous to the European increased quantities of raw materials and capital in the same way that the United bloc would be one consisting of North and capital equipment, in exchange for which, Kingdom attracted American investments." South America joined in an American Com­ it will supply increased quantities of finished Ernst Falkenheim, member of the economic mon Market and in which dollars could be and semifinished products. In addition, the and social committee of the European Eco­ invested for the development of a market prices of these products will be lowered, nomic Community and their chairman, offers that in the future will be of more impor­ thanks to the rationalizing of the European this advice to American businessmen, "If I tance to the United States than dollars in­ economy, working increasingly in terms of were an American businessman, I should not vested in a European economy which for mass production." Baron Boel adds, "The hesitate to invest both in the countries of some years has been moving along at a clip, United States, the United Kingdom, and the Common Market and in those of the at least equal to that experienced in the the commonwealth will be among the bene­ European free trade area because the chances United States. . ficiaries"-but he does not say how. He of an economic boom are the same for both Mr. Lincoln Gordon, professor of interna­ leaves that hanging in air. He believes the areas." tional economic relations, Harvard Univer­ market will be of such size that it will Rear Adm. E. H. Shattock, representing sity, has an interesting comment to offer. allow enterprises of other countries to Great Britain (not a Euratom member) He states, "American business interests establish large plants in Europe. Perhaps states, "This expansion of the market will would vary according to industry. Larger this is the way in which he believes the run parallel to the present intense drive for exports should accrue especially to American United States will benefit, by foreign in­ increased product activity." Another indi­ agriculture, engineering, chemical, and con­ vestment, by building plants in Europe. cation of the determination of the European sumer goods industries would plan for What does that mean? It means that cap­ market to achieve through the medium of greater European investment, both because ital which otherwise would be used for mass production and modern technology a of their weakened competitive position in expansion and new jobs here at home will high element of productive efficiency, an ob­ exporting from the United States and because be used for the building of large plants in jective to be respected but a factor with of the 'more challenging investment oppor­ Europe providing jobs for European work­ which we, in America, will have to contend. tunities within the new markets.' " men at the expense of the American work­ Admiral Shattock states, "The countries There we have the case. What does it por­ men. outside the area will have to face the com­ tend, and what do we do about it? What it Baron Pierre Bonvoisin, chairman of the' mon tariff of the Common Market and, in portends has-been clearly set forth. A vastly competition with goods passing between the greater percentage of available American board of the Banque de la Societe Generale six free of all duties, cannot but lose a sub­ capital will be invested in the European de Belgique, also a Belgian, states that the stantial proportion of their markets." Common Market area. It will be invested European common market will "bring about I again quote from Admiral Shattock, "In abroad for only one reason-because invested t h e development of the European bloc which the Common Market, any negotiations with capital abroad can undersell invested capital can speak effectively to its world partners"- third countries wlll have to be made by the at home. Obviously, larger investments 566 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 abroad will result in a greater volume of appeared on page 2A of the January 9, his views happen to be right. But I merchandise seeking the American market;. 1959, St. Louis Post-Dispatch under the would suggest to Mr. Witkin and his What will be the result of dollars going following headlines: "United States political associates, if their facts and abroad and goods coming back? Without a Turns Down Air Force Plan for In­ argument are so sound, why not win the protective tariff American industry will have increasingly tough sledding. We are faced creasing ICBM Force-Budget Is Said debate fairly in the proper forums set with a population explosion. We will need To Provide for Only 130 Missiles by up for these debates on the Senate and a job explosion. We won't get it from 1962-Russia Could Have 500 to 1,000 House floors instead of trying to win it American dollars spent abroad and European by Then." This article was under the by arousing the people through cleverly goods sold in our home markets. There are byline of Richard Witkin, New York written articles disguised as news. those who estimate that by 1965 we will Times Service. The article from the St. Louis Post­ have a frozen unemployed norm of 10 per­ I read this article to see just who had Dispatch follows: cent of the working force or 10 million. Ten million unemployed supported by those who made these statements which if true, of UNITED STATES TuRNS DOWN Am FORCE PLAN are employed. This does not take into con­ course, are very important to our coun­ FOR INCREASING ICBM FORCE-BUDGET sideration such additional unemployment as try and to Members of this Congress who Is SAID To PROVIDE FOR ONLY 130 MISSU.ES may result from an increase in the move­ have been elected to study the problems BY 1962-RUSSIA COULD HAVE 500 TO 1,000 ment of United States capital abroad and of our defense and act upon what we BY THEN the movement of finished goods back home. find from our studies. (By Richard Witkin) What is the answer? It is a double-barreled The basis for this news story is re­ NEW YoRK, January 9.-In the face of one. Adequate protection for American in­ dustry, which is simply another way of say­ grettably the basis for many such stories warnings of a fast-developing missile gap, ing adequate protection for the jobs of that have appeared over a period of the administration has rejected Air Force American workers, and the development of years which have involved similar mat­ recommendations for increasing the planned the American common market, the market ters serious to the welfare of the United force of intercontinental ballistic missiles, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. If, in 2,050 States and which all too frequently informed sources disclosed yesterday. A.D., the population of the United States upon checking disappear into outer The proposed budget for fiscal 1960 is said is as predicted--800 million-we will need to contain no money to expand the ICBM space. force beyond the 13 squadrons previously that market and need it badly. I set out the authorities used by Mr. One recognizes, of course, that the major authorized. . threat to the so-called free world is commu­ Witkin for his bit of sensationalism, in The administration's overall defense pro­ nism. his own language: "Informed sources," posals already have provoked strong criticism Europe needs to develop a market and _"a number of influential Members of from a number of influential Members of raise its standard of living. In the overall, Congress of both parties," "administra­ Congress in both parties. The issue of the the Euratom nations do not lack capital. tion critics," "a number of observers ICBM force promises to provide much of the ammunition in the defense debate now get­ Germany alone could provide all that is with limited access to intelligence data," ting under way in Congress. needed. The United States needs to protect "these observers," "the Air Force is said The proposed budget figure for fiscal 1960 its industrial potential. In 2 world wars it to have urged," "a majority of experts," has been held, in the interests of budget is all that stood between Western World vic­ "those urging," "administration spokes­ balancing, to $40,900 million. This is about tory and defeat. Currently, it is all that men," "critics." $100 million more than the expected total stands between Western World economic vic­ for the fiscal year that ends June 30. tory and defeat. In the event of any crises Now indeed has American journalism anywhere, its unimpaired potential is a fac­ reached the point where this kind of re­ LESS IN 1960 THAN IN 1959 tor belligerent nations respect. porting is classed as responsible? Administration critics argue that, if infla­ Communism threatens on all fronts. We I suggest if all these faceless experts, tion and military payrolls are considered, are concerned here with the European front critics, what have you, feel this strongly the 1960 proposal may provide less than the and the home front. A self-financed Eura­ about this matter let them put their 1959 budget for military hardware. tom can confront the European threat. The names to what they allege so that those The 13 ICBM squadrons authorized to date threat is equally great in South and Central include 9 of the Atlas and 4 of the Titan. America. A United States financed "Com­ who question their alleged statements The Atlas is a 1 ¥:! stage missile due to mon Market" is the most effective answer can ask them how they document what reach initial combat status this summer. All to that threat. If there is excess U.S. capital they allege. And if they are not willing three rocket engines fire at takeoff. Two of it is there that it should be invested. I first to put their names behind their state-: them drop away after expending their fuel. advocated such a policy in an article written ments their statements do not deserve The Titan is a two-stage ICBM slated for in 1949. Therein I said, "We should join to be reported to the people by respon­ operational duty starting about mid-1961. with the New World for mutual defense and sible journalists. Both missiles are designed to carry large the development of a market. If we do not, thermonuclear warheads a distance of 6,325 one of these days we may be forced to fight I think this manner of public discus­ statute miles in less than 30 minutes. for 'lebensraum.'" While as a Nation we are sion of important public issues is the At some 10 missiles a squadron, 13 squad­ faced with ideological and political infiltra­ most dangerous single thing to the wel­ rons would give the Nation a total ICBM tion and economic strangulation, this article fare of our country we face today. The force of 130 by about 1962. A number.of ob­ is concerned with the economic aspect only. Congress provides the proper forum for servers with limited access to intelligence There may som.eday be a Common World people to present their views and facts data have warned repeatedly that by 1962 Market. It is Utopia. Before that comes to on these important issues. Let us start the Russians would, or at least could, have pass there may well be an Asian Market an ICBM force totaling 500 to 1,000 missiles. (China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Philippines, using the congressional forums of the These observers fear that the huge dis­ Russia) dominated by China-a European House and the Senate where press re­ parity between such a force and that planned Market (Germany, France, England, Spain, leases and irresponsible statements give by this country might tempt the Soviet Benelux) with Germany the leading figure­ way to considered statements subject to Union either to launch an allout attack or and an American Market (Alaska to Tierra cross-examination of witnesses who are blackmail the West with the threat of such del Fuego) . It behooves us to put forth every ready to stand behind their statements an attack. effort to develop that market and to protect and indeed point out in detail where they MORE SQUADRONS SOUGHT our industrial potential and our domestic jobs in the meantime. gathered their information and what The Air Force is said to have urged au­ logic they used to reach their conclu­ thorization in the 1960 budget of at least sions. seven additional ICBM squadrons. UNITED STATES TURNS DOWN Affi Only in this way will our society be A majority of experts reject the view that the missile gap could be filled either by the FORCE PLAN FOR INCREASING able to make the correct decisions on the Navy's fleet ballistic missile, the submarine­ ICBM FORCE crucial problems that face us today. based Polaris, or the Minuteman, a third­ Those who are somewhat sophisticat­ generation Air Force ICBM to be produced Mr. CURTIS of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, ed in political life, of course, know what in large numbers. I ask unanimous consent to extend my Mr. Witkin is up to. He is writing a Neither, it is argued, could be available in remarks at this point in the REcORD. "think" piece to prepare the way for one significant strength until 1963 nor later. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to of the serious debates that will occur in Those urging increased Atlas-Titan funds the request of the gentleman from Mis­ insist that the money must be voted in the this Congress and to try to rally public 1960 budget if the enlarged force-missile souri? support behind one line of thinking be­ plus launching sites-are to be ready for There was no objection. fore the Congress or the public has heard the 1961-63 gap period. Mr. CURTIS of Missouri. Mr. both sides. This can only be good for Administration spokesmen have rejected Speaker, following my remarks I am our country in the event that Mr. Wit­ the gap thesis on grounds that the figures placing in the RECORD an article that kin and his political associates who share for Soviet ICBM production are hypo- 1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 567 thetical. It appears to take the position that Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, will the 1t had no definite assignment from Con­ there is no need to increase this Nation's gentleman yield? gress. The Supreme Court said: .. When force until hard evidence is available that Mr. ROOSEVELT. If the gentleman first amendment rights are threatened, the RUssia is producing ICBM's in large delegation of power to the committee must quantities. will forgive me, would he withhold his be clearly revealed in its charter." Critics answer that there is considerable question until I have finished? int elligence evidence of Russia's capacity to Mr. WALTER. I had the thought in In short, we cannot possibly continue produce 500 ICBM's or more by 1961 or mind that the gentleman would like to in this Congress with the present Com­ 1!J62. They add that, by the time confirma­ know that the Barenblatt case is before mittee on Un-American Activities. And, tion is obtained of actual volume production, the courts now. as a practical matter, I believe that it it may be too late to produce the required cannot function properly under the counterforce in time to deter a missile blitz. Mr. ROOSEVELT. I recognize that, and will deal with it. present cloud of legal uncertainty We have the basic constitutional obli­ which pervades its operation. COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN gation to face up to the question whether My resolution provides that the func­ ACTIVITIES it is possible with the present mandate of tiOI?- of investigating subversion now be The SPEAKER. Under the previous the Committee on Un-American Activi­ placed in the hands of the Committee order of the House the gentleman from ties to determine the pertinence of a on the Judiciary. The Committee on California [Mr. RoosEVELT] is recognized question with the clarity constitutionally the Judiciary already has the power to for 30 minutes. required by the Watkins decision. investigate matters involving espionage. Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, I At this point, the mandate bears quot­ I have proposed that this power be ex­ have filed a resolution amending the ing. The House Committee on Un­ tended to all "seditious activity." I be­ American Activities is empowered to in­ lieve this term characterizes with greater House rules to abolish the House Com­ legal precision the area of subversion in mittee on Un-American Activities and to vestigate "the extent, character, and ob­ jects of un-American activities in the which Congress has the constitutional transfer its jurisdiction to the Commit­ power to legislate. tee on the Judiciary. United States, diffusion within the At the outset I wish to emphasize that United States of subversive and un­ The term "seditious activity" which I by abolishing the committee it is not my American propaganda that is instigated have proposed to cover an expansion of intention to have the House cease its from foreign countries or of a domestic the House Judiciary Committee mandate activity in investigating subversion. origin and attacks the principle of the has been formulated with great care. As a matter of fact, my resolution will form of government as guaranteed by our It is not a term that will cut down strengthen this function by responding Constitution." the investigative power of Congress in to the Supreme Court decisions on the I ask my colleagues in all candor how the area of internal security. mandate of the House Committee on Un­ can we expect a witness to resolve for Let me give to the House a definition American Activities, without which re­ himself whether a question put by the of "sedition" which appears in Arizona sponse any effective legislative action committee is authorized, in view of the Publishing v. Harris <20 Ariz. 446, 181, would seem to be most questionable. vagueness of the authorization. It 373, 375), which defines "sedition" as: I propose that the House amend clause would be well to read the Supreme Insurrectionary movement tending toward 12 (c) of House rule XI so that the Com­ Court's comment in this connection: treason, but wanting an overt act; attempts mittee on the Judiciary will have juris­ It. would be difficult to imagine a less ex­ made by meeting or speeches or by pub­ diction to investigate and consider mat­ plicit authorizing resolution. Who can de­ lications to disturb the tranquillity of the ters involving seditious activity, as well fine the meaning of "un-American"? What state. as matters involving espionage over is that single, solitary, "principle of the form Alis. Criminal Law, 580, narrows down which it presently has jurisdiction. of government as guaranteed by our Consti­ the definition as follows: tution?" On May 22 of this past year, in dis­ That though the ultimate object of sedi­ cussing the Alaska Constitution, on the And let me read further: tion is a violation of the public peace, or floor, I emphasized the basic soundness in It is, of course, not the function of this at least such a course of measures as evi­ the Supreme Court's decision in Watkins Court to prescribe rigid rules for the Con­ dently engenders it, yet it does not aim at against United States. gress to follow in drafting resolutions estab­ direct and open violence against the laws In Watkins against United States, the lishing investigating committees. That is a or the subversion of the Constitution. matter peculiarly within the realm of the Supreme Court held that a "person is legislature, and its decisions will be accepted It can readily be grasped that the entitled to have knowledge of the by the courts up to the point where their term "seditious activity" comes as close subject to which the interrogation is own duty to enforce the constitutionally pro­ as it is possible within the meaning of deemed pertinent with the same de­ tected rights of the individual is affected. the Watkins case in defining that area gree of explicitness and clarity that An excessively broad charter, like that of the of first amendment conduct which can the due-process clause requires in the House Un-American Activities Committee, be properly investigated by Congress. expression of any element of a criminal places the courts in an untenable position if We will thus be avoiding the problems offense." · they are to strike a balance between the pub­ lic need for a particular interrogation and arising from the lack of power in Con­ I do not believe that any colleague of the right of citizens to carry on their affairs gress emphasized by the courts to expose mine would dispute this basic proposi­ free from unnecessary governmental inter­ persons by the investigative process for tion upon which the decision rests. ference. It is impossible in such a situation the mere sake of exposure. Namely, that if a person is to be indicted to ascertain whether any legislative purpose We would be conforming to what our for criminal contempt because of his re­ justifies the disclosures sought, and, if so, colleague, Mr. KEATING, who has now fusal to answer a question put by the the importance of that information to the gone to the other House, wrote in 29 Committee on Un-American Activities he Congress in furtherance of its legislative function. The reason no court can make this Notre Dame Lawyer 212, as to the proper should be accorded the same basis for scope of congressional inquiry: predicting the consequences of his con­ critical judgment is that the House of Repre­ sentatives itself has never made it. Only The rights of Congress are no broader than duct as he does with respect to every the legislative assembly initiating an investi­ the legitimate objects from which they have other criminal conduct. gation can assay the relative necessity of spe­ been implied. And I believe those objects Indeed, if I were asked what I con­ cific disclosures. are only the two referred to a moment ago: sider to be the essential difference be­ (1) to gather facts about proposed legisla­ tween life in a free society and life in I believe also we have to contend in tion, and (2) to inquire into the workings of a Communist society, I would say that this Congress with the problem suggested existing Federal laws. There lies the first it is the ability to predict the criminal by the U.S. Court of Appeals dissent of and perhaps the only important substantive consequences of _one's act. And this is Chief Justice Edgerton in Barenblatt restraint which Congress must impose upon precisely the principle the Court sus­ against United States, decided almost a itself. No congressional investigation is tained in Watkins against United States. year ago on January 16, 1958, which is justified unless it can be directly related to However, we recognize full well that now before the Supreme Court. I be­ the lawmaking process in one of these two lieve the Court will sustain the dissent ways. In other fields, investigations are the Watkins decision does not provide proper and often necessary, but not by Con­ a remedy specific enough to curb the below: gress. It follows that I disagree strongly with abuse involved in the functioning pf the I understand Watkins to hold that the those who argue that Congress 1s also re­ Committee on Un-American Activities by Committee on Un-American Activities had sponsible for informing and educating the its central holding. no authority to compel testimony because public by looking into anything which may 568 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 happen to catch the popular fancy at the blind to the necessity of responding to HOUSE' UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES moment. these decisions if we are to conduct COMMITTEE I would point out that on the Commit­ proper inquiries into internal security The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. AL­ tee on the Judiciary we will have the with effectiveness. BERT). Under previous order of the experience of two present members of the I would say to my distinguished col­ House, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Committee on Un-American Activities to league from Pennsylvania [Mr. WALTER] ScHERER] is recognized for 45 minutes. guide its work-the chairman, Mr. that if it should be the proposal that we Mr. SCHERER. Mr. Speaker, in your WALTER, and Mr. WILLIS, of Louisiana. should wait for that decision, I would excellent speech last Wednesday, when I also would point out that I want it certainly be ready to act in accord with you for the ninth time assumed the specifically understood that I have con­ it. speakership of this House, you said that ferred with Chairman WALTER of the Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, will the we live in a day which, in your opinion, Committee on Un-American Activities, gentleman yield at that point? is the most dangerous period that civili­ expressing, as I now want to express to Mr. ROOSEVELT. I am happy to zation has gone through since the man my colleagues, full assurance that there yield. Jesus walked the shores of Galilee 20 is no direct or implied criticism of the Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, I am sure centuries ago, preaching peace. No in­ committee members in any fashion; nor that the gentleman has not read Watkins formed person can disagree with that is my recent action in introducing the carefully or he would not have made the statement of yours, Mr. Speaker. resolution to abolish the Committee on statement that he did. But, after all, the This threat to civilization of which Un-American Activities and to have the very question that has been raised here you spoke exists because the security, Committee on the Judiciary assume ju­ as to what is the meaning of un-Ameri­ the safety, and the very existence of this risdiction in matters involving seditious can activities has been raised in the great country of ours-the light and activity predicated on direct or implied Barenblatt case. The gentleman men­ hope of the chaotic world-are on the criticism of any particular situation. tioned the minority opinion, I am sure, timetable of the Soviets in their drive However, there is justified criticism with the hope that that would be adopted for world domination. The evidence be­ that the Congress, up to now, has not met py the Supreme Court as the majority fore the House Committee on Un-Ameri­ the issue raised by the Supreme Court. opinion. can Activities, from men like Gen. Al­ As responsible and responsive legislators Mr. ROOSEVELT. The belief, sir. bert Wedemeyer, Gen. Claire Chennault, we cannot continue to ignore or evade , Mr. WALTER. However, let nie say and many others in a position to know, the issue without running the risk of to the gentleman that he should not be indicates that it is quarter to twelve mid­ doing great damage to the internal se­ too optimistic about it, not even with night. curity of our country. Neither can we this Court; because on two occasions The President, in the opening para­ run the additional risk of weakening our this Court had the opportunity to state graph of his state of the Union message ,Position in which we pridefully appear that the law is what the gentleman from to this Congress on last Friday, ex­ before the world-a country that pro­ palifornia .hopes it to be, and in the pressed his great concern and doubts tects itself without violating funda­ Barenblatt case refused to take that when he asked the question: mental constitutional rights of the indi­ position. Can government based upon liberty and vidual. Mr. ROOSEVELT. ·Mr. Speaker, I the God-given rights of man permanently There are, and have been for many shall s~mply . say that what the gentleman ~ndure when ceaselessly challenged by a dic­ years, citizen groups throughout the is saying is that if the Supreme Court tatorship, hostile to our mode of life, and country who have urged the abolition of should disappoint him, and agree with controlling an economic and military power the Un-American Activities Committee. me, then obviously this resolution is very of great and growing strength? There is no doubt in my mind that a worthy of careful consideration. If there are any doubting Thomases, fringe of these groups has been Commu­ Therefore, Mr. Speaker, because I be­ let me ask them this: Why have we nist dominated, or Communist inspired. lieve that gentlemen on all sides of this spent, since the Korean war, in a so­ I realize full well that in introducing question have a common objective, I sin­ called period of peace, the staggering my resolution there will be those who will cerely believe it is imperative that the and unbelievable sum of approximately adjudge me guilty of associating with Committee on Rules, to which this reso­ $200 billion for the defense of this Na­ some of these fringe groups to abolish the lution was referred, should grant, per­ tion and the free world from the Com­ committee. haps after the Supreme Court decision munist conspirators in the Kremlin? It is an old tactic that has been prac­ which we have just discussed, an early This amount for defense alone in the ticed, and I hope now no longer will hearing regarding this entire problem of last 6 years is more than three times the be practiced, to condemn or to ascribe subversion, espionage, and seditious ac­ amount spent by this Government for all guilt by association. I hope that that tivity in order to determine how best to of its functions, in war and in peace, will not be true, and I do not believe handle it and to make clear just exactly from its founding in 1776 to and through it will be true, under the present cir­ what the House of Representatives wants the end of World War I. cumstances in the House. in the way of assigning jurisdiction over Why are we drafting American boys In response to this anticipated charge, this problem. today for service in 59 different coun­ let me make it unequivocally clear that I, therefore, urge that as many of my tries all over the world? Why are we my proposal has no relevance to the colleagues as possible join me in working jittery almost to the point of irration­ campaign of certain groups to abolish toward an early hearing by the Commit­ ality in the race to control outer space? the committee. tee on Rules for the reasons I have just The great Armed Services Committee My proposal is designed simply presented. of this Congress and the Defense De­ to carve out of the recent legal decisions It is my hope that my colleagues will partment have built a military machine a constitutionally permissible area for join me in making an all-out effort to with a striking force greater than in all congressional investigation of seditious achieve our mutual objective: a more history. As a result, at this moment, activity. And I repeat that I am not effective internal security program the overall firepower and destructive wedded to the structure of my proposal aligned with the constitutional guaran­ force of the United States and our which involves the assumption of juris­ tees of individual freedom, which have would-be destroyer is fairly well bal­ diction by the House Judiciary Com­ made our Nation outstanding as the anced. mittee, a good part of which it has al­ leader of the free peoples of the world. Consequently, we are not going to have ready. If there are better ways, let us I offer my proposal in a spirit of good an all-out war in the foreseeable future. find them now. will toward those who might differ with The Communists are not stupid. They But let us not go on defying and ig­ me as to its form. are · not going to risk annihilation of noring the Supreme Court decisions. Certainly, no one can differ with the their cities. In other words, they are Those who insist that we must not intent of my proposal-that is, to clear not going to sign their own death war­ tamper with the present mandate of the up any constitutional doubt as to the rant by starting an all-out nuclear war. Un-American Activities Committee in scope of congressional inquiry into the And why should they? In fact, there is the face of the decision in Watkins field of internal security. almost .every reason for them not to against United States, and what I be­ - My proposal is made with as much do so. lieve promises to be the decision in consideration to security· as ·it is to in­ It was in 1918 that a handful of Com­ Barenblatt against United States, are dividual rights. munists took over Russia. In the short 1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 569 space of the 40 years that followed, the losing so fast that, unless we put a very its way to achieving its current objective, Communists have gained domination drastic end to "it, the question of who is which is to make you believe that it is shat­ winning will be academic in a decade. tered, ineffective, and dying. When it has and control of approximately one-third fully achieved this first objective, it will then of the peoples of the world and one-third Gen. Albert Wedemeyer who, you will proceed inflexibly toward its final goal. • * * of its land mass. Another one-third, in recall, served as chief of our World War Those who try to minimize its danger are the so-called neutral bloc, is fast drifting II planning operations, appraised the either uninformed or they have a deadly ax toward the Communist orbit. situation this way in testimony before to grind. As you said, Mr. Speaker, on Wednes­ the committee. He said: Are you going to listen to those who day, it has been 20 centuries since the The Soviets are obtaining their objectives have an ax to grind-to those whose red humble Nazarene walked the shores of without the use of military force. If I were slips show with every gust of wind, or Galilee, and yet after all of those years the senior planner in the Soviet hierarchy, I will you give credence to the findings of only one-third of the peoples of this would advise ~hrushchev to continue to do exactly what he is doing now. one of your own committees and of the world comprise the Christian-Judaic Federal Bureau of Investigation? bloc, today referred to as the West, Khrushchev, in addressing a group of Last year the committee found that which, as we know, symbolizes the set­ foreign diplomats, including the United the penetration had reached one of the ting sun. States Ambassador, had the audacity to committees of this House, not 5 years How have the Communists come so far say: ago, not 2 years ago, but as late as last in the short span of 40 years? By out­ We will beat the capitalists, but that does fall. Let me read excerpts from the testi­ ward aggression? No. Their success, not mean killing anybody. * * * When we mony concerning Wilfred Lumer who was yesterday, today, and tomorrow, has win in this competition, we will also re­ writing recommendations and reports for been and will be largely the result of the educate you. We Bolsheviks are a ravenous legislation which you gentlemen may use of a new weapon of warfare far more people. What we achieved in the past is very little. We want more and more. consider this year. effective than hydrogen bombs or guided Mr. Arens, counsel for the committee, missiles. Way back in 1923, in outlining the asked this question of Mr. Lumer: The Soviets have used the insidious steps the Soviets would take in bringing and diabolical weapon of infiltration and Have you reported your activities on the the world under the heel of the Commu­ Hill, on Capitol Hill, over the course of the subversion, of assassination and abduc­ nist apparatus, Lenin said: last several years to a person known by you tion, of espionage and sabotage, plotted First, we will take Eastern Europe; then to be a Communist? in Moscow and carried out all over the the masses of Asia; then Africa; then we will Mr. LUMER. I must decline to answer that world. It is by the use of this new encircle the United States which will be the question on the grounds of the first and fifth weapon that they have been able to take last bastion of capitalism. We will not have amendments. once free countries behind the Iron Cur­ to attack. It will fall like an overripe fruit Mr. ARENS. We have information, and I tain. They know that one agent or into our hands. want to be absolutely frank with you, Mr. Lumer-we have information that in there­ sympathizer within a free country is Mr. Speaker, the real threat to the cent past you have been in contact with, and more effective in reaching their objective remaining countries of the free world, under discipline of, .Sam Abbott, a ranking than 10,000 trained troops poised on the including the United States, is from Communist in the District of Columbia. We border. within. Testimony before the House want to give you an opportunity now while · So you can readily see why there is not Committee on Un-American Activities under oath to deny it. going to be all-out military aggression reveals that in Africa today, while the Mr. LuMER. I must decline to answer that if the Russians can help it. on the grounds of the first and fifth amend­ Soviets are outwardly pretending to sup­ ments. What I say is not mere speculation. port the nationalist aspirations of those The House Committee on Un-American countries, each country is infiltrated in The committee just last week issued Activities has heard numerous witnesses, key places in government by natives who its report on "Patterns of Communist Es­ some of the world's outstanding experts. are dedicated Communists and whose pionage." Does this report deal with Let me quote from the testimony of Ed­ loyalty is to the Soviet Union and the events of 5, 10, and 15 years ago? Is the ward Hunter, one of the outstanding au­ Communist conspiracy. When the time committee dealing with patterns of the thorities of Communist psychological comes, they will flip those countries into past, as an editorial in the Washington warfare, a former newspaperman, and the Soviet orbit. Remember, it takes Post claims, or do these findings relate officer in the O.S.S., an author, journal­ only a comparatively few people in key to what is happening today? As there­ ist, and lecturer, a man who ·spent 31 positions to accomplish such a result. port reveals, at this moment the Russian years of his life in countries under Com­ The Communists and their apologists Embassy and almost every Russian con­ munist pressure and attack. He testi­ in the United States today are shouting sulate throughout the United States, as fied: from the rooftops, through the press, well as the embassies and consulates of War has changed its form. The Commu­ over the radio, and in the mail to the Iron Curtain countries, are literally spy nists have discovered that a man killed by a Members of this Congress that there is and espionage nests. How many, under bullet is useless. He can dig no coal. They no longer an internal threat to the the cloak of diplomatic immunity have have discovered that a demolished city is use­ United States, although the files of the engaged in espionage and Communist less. Its mills produce no cloth. Committee on On-American Activities conspiratorial activities in the last 2 The objective of modern warfare is to cap­ years? How many citizens and residents ture intact the minds of the people and and the Federal Bureau of Investigation their possessions so that they can be put are bulging with uncontroverted evidence of the United States are being threatened to use. This is the modern conception of to the contrary. and blackmailed into serving the Com­ slavery, that puts all others into the kinder- J. Edgar Hoover, perhaps the greatest munist apparatus, a fifth column operat­ . garten age. authority on internal subversion in the ing within the United States? · Hunter continued: United States, time and time again has All I ask you gentlemen is just to read vigorously disputed these contentions of some of the scores of reports issued since The United States is the main battlefield the gentleman from Pennsylvania, FRAN­ in this war. I mean specifically the people the pink fringe. Listen to Hoover's latest and the soil and the resources of the United warning: CIS WALTER, assumed the chairmanship of States. They seek to conquer the United Public apathy is the sure way to national our committee. I guarantee that those States in a manner so that it falls volun­ suicide-to death of individual freedom. It of you who have sufficient hair on your tarily into the Red orbit. allowed the Communists to penetrate and heads will find it standing on end. I . If we have to be conquered by destructive make satellites of once-free countries, and guarantee you that, if the American nuclear-age weapons, it will be considered a it is presently enabling them to honeycomb people generally knew of the evidence setback by the Kremlin. Their objective is and weaken the structures of the remaining revealed by our committee, it would drive to make the same use of the American peo­ countries, and there is today a terrifying from public office and from positions of ple as they make of the Czechs in the apathy on the part of Americans toward the uranium mines of Czechoslovakia and as deadliest danger which this country has ever influence in American life those who have they make of the Chinese in the mills of faced. Some of that apathy is deliberately joined the Communist conspiracy in this China. induced. country in an effort to discredit the We are to become the subjects of a new The Communist Party tn the United States FBI, its Director, the Committee on world order for the benefit of a mad little is not out of business; it is not dead; lt is Un-American Activities, and its chair­ knot of despots in the Kremlin. We are not even dormant. It is, however, well on man. 570 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -· HOUSE January 12 After long hours of exasperating and identified Communists, gathered for the The Committee on Un-American Ac­ painstaking work by the Customs and sole purpose of starting a campaign to tivities last year issued a report entitled Post Office Departments and the staff discredit and weaken the Federal Bureau "Operation Abolition" which tells the and members of the Committee on Un­ of Investigation and its Chief, J. Edgar whole story of the efforts of the Emer­ American Activities during the past 2 Hoover, and to abolish the Committee on gency Civil Liberties Committee in its years, we have found that 10 million Un-American Activities. They have had current objective. It gives you the Com­ pieces of Communist propaganda are the support during the last 2 years of munist and Communist-front records of comJng into the United States each year. the same apologists, some in high places, the leaders of this committee. The This propaganda in 13 different lan­ who have wittingly or unwittingly served chairman of our committee sent you a guages is directed to individuals, youth the Communist cause in the United copy of this publication today. organizations, colleges, and various na­ States for many years. Another communication urging the tionality groups through the U.S. mail. When this Congress convened on abolition of the committee which most I call your attention to just one piece of Wednesday, you saw almost a full-page members received last Wednesday morn­ literature which was in evidence in the ad in the Washington Post, signed by a ing was from the Citizens Committee To Buffalo hearings of this committee a list of persons, many of whom are prom­ Preserve American Freedoms, an adjunct short time ago. It was printed in Pei­ inent in some field of activity, charging of the Emergency Civil Liberties Com­ ping in a dozen different languages for the committee with increasing bitterness mittee in the Los Angeles area. This dissemination throughout the world. between religious and racial groups, and blast was signed by Dorothy Marshall. The thousands of copies that found their then asking for the abolition of the House Dorothy Marshall, her husband, and the way into the United States were, of Committee on Un-American Activities. great majority of the mem"Qers of this course, in English for consumption here. Most people do not know that the ma­ committee have long Communist-front It was supposedly an authentic document jority of these signers over the years records or have served the Communist on atrocities committed by ~he U.S. have either belonged to or supported all cause for mimy years. It is the feeling Army in South Korea. The detailed, al­ kinds of Communist-front activities in of the members of your Committee on leged atrocities by American boys against the United States. Any Member of this Un-American Activities that you should Orientals would make your stomach Congress, by a telephone call to the com­ know the source of the propaganda with turn-atrocities allegedly committed mittee's office, can find out just who these which you have been bombarded. since the armistice. people are and what service they have Has this campaign been effective? Through such propaganda you now rendered repeatedly to the Communist­ Yes. So effective that a resolution has see how the Communists have succeeded front apparatus. They are opposed to been introduced in this Congress to abol­ in brainwashing 600 million Chinese who the committee because the evidence be­ ish the Committee on Un-American Ac­ from time immemorial were friends of fore it has shown how some of them have tivities. During the past campaign every the United States but now hate us with foolishly and carelessly slept in the same member of this committee, whether he an unprecedented bitterness. Can you bed with the agents of the Kremlin. was a Democrat or a Republican, and not see that these 10 million pieces of What about these people and their particularly the committee's distin­ Communist propaganda coming into the influence? Let us look at what Georgi guished chairman, had to run the gaunt­ United States each year to almost every Dimitrov, one of the fathers of com­ let of vicious attacks, dirty, lying, smear­ nationality group within our borders are munism, said about them: ing innuendoes from the Communists creating dissension, hatred, and distrust, As Soviet power grows, there will be greater and their so-called respectable apologists. not only among our people but also aversion to Communist parties everywhere. Soon 'after my election to Congress for against the Government of the United So we must practice the techniques of with­ the first time in 1952, I accepted a place drawal. Never appear in the foreground. on the Committee on Un-American Ac­ States, including committees of this Let our friends do the work. House? tivities. I had neither misgivings nor · Do you know that there are 2,000 po­ Dimitrov continues: forebodings. Our boys were dying un· tential saboteurs working in defense We must always remember that one sym­ der Communist fire in Korea. The mis­ plants today? Do you know that the pathizer is generally worth more than a chief wrought by Communist agents committee has revealed that there are dozen militant Communists. A university within was no longer a matter of sur­ dedicated Communists working in close professor, who, without being a party mem­ mise; enough of it had been exposed in ber, lends himself to the interests of the detail to alarm the American people. To proximity to the nine transatlantic ca­ Soviet Union, is worth more than a hundred bles which carry confidential data from help dislodge these internal enemies men with party cards. A writer of reputa­ seemed to me a task which any patriotic the State Department and Pentagon to tion, or a retired general, is worth more than Europe, and that it has been testified to 500 poor devils who don't know any better American could undertake proudly. before our committee that in time of in­ than to get themselves beaten up by the What I failed to foresee was that the ternal upheaval or war with the Soviet police. mere act of joining this committee would make one a target for organized Union these cables could be sabotaged in Dimitrov concludes: a matter of minutes? slander, regardless of how one might Every man has his value, his merit. The conduct himself. I was not unfamiliar Is anyone in this House so naive as to writer who, without being a party member, with the rugged give and take of politi­ believe that there are not persons in this defends the Soviet Union, the union leader cal life, but not until I joined the country ready, willing, and able to par­ who is outside our ranks but defends Soviet struggle against Red sedition had any­ ticipate in attacks and demonstrations­ international policy, is worth more than a thousand party members. one impugned my patriotism, honesty, when the time comes-similar to those and decency. Thereafter, I had to ac· perpetrated against the Vice President In addition to the ad in the Washing­ custom myself to being called-to my in South America last year? Can we not ton Post on the opening day of this Con­ face, in print, and on the air-a witch­ see that such demonstrations are battles gress, the Members of this House also hunter and character assassin, an in­ in the cold war in which we are now en­ found on their desks a letter from the quisitor and Fascist. I had become an gaged; that the South American demon­ National Lawyers Guild urging the aboli­ enemy of the Bill of Rights. strations against NIXON were instigated tion of this committee. The National Anyone who ascends to the chairman­ for the purpose of attempting to show to Lawyers Guild, by overwhelming evi­ ship of this committee particularly be· the world that the South American coun­ dence, has been found to be the legal arm comes the focal point of bitter an@ tries, our cousins and friends, had turned of the Communist Party in the United vicious attacks, no matter what his previ­ against the imperialistic United States? states. ous record might be. I remember well Oh, yes, the recent revelations of the On your desk also there was a bulletin within a few weeks after the gentleman committee, in spite of the fact that its issued by the Emergency Civil Liberties from Pennsylvania became chairman of hands have been tied to some extent by Committee, the committee which is this committee, and before anyone could shocking decisions of the Supreme Court, spearheading the drive to discredit the possibly know what his position might be have been hitting those who would de­ FBI and your House Committee on Un­ on the various issues confronting the stroy us from within where it hurts. American Activities. It is headed by committee, we had hearings in Newark, About a year ago in Carnegie Hall in Harvey O'Connor, an identified Com­ N.J. Twelve hundred pickets, many of New York, the Emergency Civil Liberties munist, who has been cited for contempt them brought over from New York, sur· Committee, controlled and dominated by of this Congress. rounded our hotel. Placards, obviously 1959 CQNGRESSIONAL _RECORD- HOUSE 571 prepared by experts of the Communist larly condemns them before any real ing us for aggression from without. We propaganda machine, were carried by evidence of wrongdoing is shown. They have a Fore.ign Affairs Committee deal­ people, some of whom could not even are ready to hang such people if they ing with the intricate problems arising as understand the import of the signs they use the fifth amendment. But when a the result of our leadership of the free carried. I - can well remember these Communist invokes the fifth amendment world. We have 17 other eommittees · placards. Some read: "Walterism worse frivolously and without basis before the dealing with the various phases of our than McCarthyism." Others· read: House Committee on Un-American Ac­ domestic life. We have even created an "WALTER, union-buster, g.o home." tivities, and we question him to deter­ Outer Space Committee so that we will The critics of the committee like to mine whether he is in good faith plead­ hold our place in the heavens in the years compare our hearings-unfavorably, of ing the fifth amendment, immediately that lie ahead. course-with proceedings in courts. Yet the· committee is attacked. In considering the resolution of the no self-respecting justice of the peace The tragedy of this whole situation gentleman from California, we are con­ would tolerate for a minute the kind of concerning the controversy over the com­ cerned with the present, with the very browbeating my colleagues and I have mittee is the fact that the clever propa­ continuity of this country as a sover­ been subjected to for hours on end. Any gandists of the Communist conspiracy eign nation. If the threat from within witness or lawyer who dared bait a have succeeded in brainwashing many from internal subversion is only one­ judge as contemptuously as we are regu­ people as to the actual objectives and tenth as great as I have outlined here larly baited from the witness box would activities of the committee. It is gen­ today, would it not be folly of the worst quickly find himself in jail. erally charged that the committee is in­ kind, would it not be suicidal, to destroy Our committee has been accused of vestigating people's beliefs and associa­ the only committee experienced, alerted, abusing the civil rights of witnesses and tions; that it is engaged in investigating and dedicated to recommending legisla­ of fixing guilt by association. The fact communism as a political and economic tion to protect the internal security of is that, since I have been a member of philosophy or way of life; that the Com­ the United States from what many pa­ this committee, we have followed as munist Party is a political party as we triots believe to be the greatest threat in nearly as practicable the rules of evi­ know political parties in the United its history. dence used in our courts. No person States. There is absolutely no truth Now I know that the gentleman from has been named as a member of the or basis in fact for any of these asser­ California has said that his resolution Communist apparatus unless and until tions. Will strengthen the function of investi­ he has been identified under oath by one The truth is that the committee has gating subversion by turning it over to or more witnesses who have personal never been interested in nor has it in­ the Judiciary Committee, which now knowledge of the facts. On such identi­ vestigated a person's beliefs, philosophy, handles over 56 percent of all bills in­ fications no hearsay evidence is per­ or political associations. It is not inter­ troduced into the House-a committee mitted. The rules of the committee ested, nor has it inquired as to whether already overburdened with work-a com­ provide that any person who is adversely an individual believes in communism as mittee headed by a chairman who is, to mentioned in any hearing has, upon re­ a political or economic philosophy or say the least, totally unsympathetic with quest, the right to appear in public ses­ way of life. the work in which the House Committee sion and affirm, deny, or explain any The committee's investigations have on Un-American Activities has been en­ adverse testimony. been conducted for the purpose of rec­ gaged. I have served on another committee ommending legislation to protect the in­ The Committee on Un-American Ac­ of this Congress, and I have seen other ternal security of this country from a tivities with its sizable staff is today un­ committees in action. I am not being conspiratorial apparatus-a fifth col­ able to keep up with requests for investi­ critical of those committees, but let me umn, the arm of a foreign power operat­ gations, and information now in its :files. say that these committees regularly ad­ ing within the United States for the Remember in the last few years bills mit hearsay evidence, and properly so purpose of eventually bringing about the have been introduced in this House on since a committee is not a court. On destruction of this country, including the 80 recommendations made by our com­ occasion I, along with other Members of use of force and violence, if necessary. mittee. Legislation has been adopted by this House, have questioned high officers We, therefore, have and are investigating this Congress embracing 35 of these of this Government and reputable citi­ members of this conspiracy and their recommendations. At the close of the zens of the United States more vigor­ activities which are directed toward ac­ last Congress 26 bills were pendin2" on ously, forcibly, and sometimes with complishing this objective. subjects covered by committee recom­ more sarcasm than any member of the Let us go back to the issue raised by mendations. Committee on Un-American Activities the resolution offered by the gentleman · Every informed person in this House ever dared to question a known member from California, which calls for the knows that the passage of the Roosevelt of the Communist conspiracy. abolition of the Committee on Un-Amer­ resolution would sound the death knell · Some years ago I served in the office of ican Activities. of our :fight against the Communist con­ the prosecuting attorney of my home As I have tried to point out in these spiracy within the United States. State. If I had handled an ordinary It is apparent from the gentleman pickpocket as carefully and gingerly as remarks, we bave armed ourselves to the from California's previous attacks upon I am compelled to cross-examine an teeth at astronomical costs to defend the committee that his stated motives agent of the Communist conspi.racy, I ourselves from Soviet aggression from in support of his resolution are not his would have been fired from my job. No without-an aggression which in all real motives. I would respect him more committee of the Congress protects the probability will never come. On the if his resolution called for abolition of civil rights of individuals more carefully, other hand, as I have shown, the real the committee and did nothing more. nor follows more closely the rules of threat to the security of the free world This is what the Emergency Civil Liber­ evidence than does the Committee on and this Nation is from within, from in­ ties Committee, the Communists, and Un-American Activities. Yet it is daily ternal subversion, often called indirect their apologists in the United States accused and hounded for allegedly doing aggression. actually want to do. otherwise, often by people and news­ Today there are two groups alerted to In fact, the Emergency Civil Liberties papers who should know better. and dealing with the threat from within: Committee in its 1959 program calls not The leftwing crowd cries crocodile the Federal Bureau of Investigation in only for the outright abolition of the tears every time a Communist is called the executive branch and the House committee, but also for the repeal of before a committee and questioned about Committee on Un-American Activities the Smith Act, the Internal Security his traitorous activities. They strain at in the legislative branch. Both at this Act, and the Communist Control Act. gnats to find excuses for his conduct, moment are under attack, an attack The National LaWYers Guild, the legal while at the same time they attack the originated and inspired by the Com­ arm of the Communist Party in the committee's motives and procedures in munist conspirators and joined in by United States, and all such organizations calling him. many well-meaning and some not so as the Citizens Committee to Preserve ·This same leftwing crowd, however, well-meaning people. American Freedoms, whose record I have when an industrialist suspected of We have, as I have pointed out, the previously discussed, call for the aboli­ wrongdoing or labor racketeer is called great Armed Services Committee which tion of the-committee and the repeal of before a congressional committee regu- has· done a 'magnificient job in prepar- all_ legislation that attempts to control 572 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 in any way the operation of the Com­ has not only interfered with the right this House on fiscal organizations and munist apparatus within the United of this House to make its own rules but procedures of the Congress. I intro­ States. the Court has usurped in case after case duced this resolution last year. My dis­ Mr. Speaker, we are witnessing Opera­ the legislative functions of the Congress. tinguished colleague on the other side, tion Abolition at work. The Roosevelt Mr. BOW. Mr. Speaker, I feel that in the gentleman from California [Mr. resolution is aimed directly at this the best interests of our Nation we LIPSCOMB], introduced then a similar Nation's Achilles' heel. should strengthen and support the Com­ resolution, and I am sure he will do the Mr. BOW. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ mittee on Un-American Activities, on same again. tleman yield? which the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. My reason for that, Mr. Speaker, is Mr. SCHERER. I yield to the gentle­ ScHERER] serves with such distinction. this: Frankly, my primary target is the man from Ohio. Bureau of the Budget. This has become . Mr. BOW. I rather infer from some a Frankenstein insofar as the legislative of the material coming across my desk CONGRESS SHOULD ENACT A FED­ processes of this Congress are concerned. in the attempt to abolish the Committee ERAL LAW AGAINST BOMBINGS This legislative creature, the Bureau of on Un-American Activities that some of Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Speal{er, I ask the Budget, now imposes and proposes it seems to be inspired because the courts unanimous consent to extend my re­ and disposes as the whims and the have raised certain questions about the marks at this point in the R ECORD. fancies of this collection of glorified procedure of the committee and the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to clerks in that Bureau see fit. There has procedure of the House. I am sure the the request of the gentlewoman from been developing, beyond the rule of rea­ gentleman will agree with me that in Ohio? son, the exercise of a prerogative by the section 4 of article I of the Constitution There was no objection. Executive dealing with the refusal to al­ it is specifically provided that each Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Speaker, today I locate· funds appropriated by the Con­ House may determine the rules of its am introducing a bill to amend title 18 gress. This now goes so far that the procedure and that under this consti­ of the United States Code to make the Executive sequesters, as he calls it, ap­ tutional provision the House has estab­ transportation and/ or possession of ex­ propriated funds which this Congress in lished its rules of procedure. We have plosives in interstate commerce, with an appropriation bill from time to time that Constitutional right. knowledge and intent that such explo­ specifies by line items. Now, this is not Mr. SCHERER. There is no question sives will be used to damage or destroy something thought up by the present about that, and if the Supreme Court any building or structure, a Federal administration. This has been done by in the Barenblatt case, which is now crime. This bill further provides 'that other administrations and other Presi­ pending before it, decides that the gen­ any person guilty of these acts shall be dents. It is not a new "gimmick." I tleman from California is correct or that fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned suggest that it is being abused now be­ the minority opinion of the judge of the not more than 1 year, or both, and if yond the rule of reason. circuit court of appeals is the law of death results from a violation of this Of course, as a member of the Sub­ this land, there is nothing to prevent this subsection, shall be subject also to the committee on Appropriations for the House from changing the language of death penalty or to imprisonment for Department of Defense, I have a par­ the charter of the Committee on Un­ any term of years or for life. ticular "mad on" right now dealing with American Activities. That can be done We have all been deeply shocked by that subcommittee's chapter of the and, naturally, we will do it; although the bombings of schools, places of wor­ budget, perhaps, rather than others, al­ we may not agree with the decision of ship, and other senseless acts of violence though I am advised by my colleagues the Supreme Court. We will change the and destruction in various sections of our on the Committee on Appropriations language of the charter to comply with . country. And yet we do not have a Fed­ that this exercise is broadly extended that decision. That can be easily done. eral statute under which persons who to other chapters of the budget as well. Mr. BOW. With reference to the committed these acts may be appre­ I have heard many rumblings of re­ courts attempt to ignore this provision hended and punished. cent years from my colleagues on both of the Constitution which gives the It is true that many of our States do sides of the aisle having to qo with this House the right to set up its own rules have good, strong laws dealing with this impertinence and presumption by the of procedure, let us examine article 3 subject, and the bill I propose clearly Bureau of the Budget with reference to of the Constitution of the United States states that it is not the intent of Congress what we think are the constitutional in which is set up the jurisdiction of the to infringe upon or weaken the jurisdic­ legislative prerogatives of the Congress. Supreme Court. The writers of the Con­ tion of local law enforcement officials. Specifically that Bureau is making policy stitution recognized that the representa­ However, by enacting a Federal law, Fed­ on the minute, on the hour, day by day. tions of the people could be trusted with eral authorities such as the FBI can It is torturing the purpose and the rea­ a determination of their own rules. move effectively in the program of justice son for its existence as the Congress However that court with life tenure to bring bombers to account and break created it. should be subject to some control by up this crime, just as the Lindbergh law I have discussed this matter with the people. This was done by incorpo­ has proved to be effective in bringing kid­ many Members of the House on both rating in the Constitution section 2 of napers to justice, and the Dyer Act, sides of the aisle in the past 4 or 5 years article III which provides as follows: which forbids interstate transit of stolen or so, with many men who served in the In all the other Cases before mentioned, automobiles, has been responsible for senates of their respective States. Many the supreme Court shall have appellate breaking up many car theft rings. of my distinguished friends in the House Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations It is my hope that the members of the have told me that their States had this as the Congress shall make. Judiciary Committee, and the entire problem. They had created a bureau of membership of the House, as well as the budget. It had prostituted and So, here the Constitution establishes those in the other body, will act favorably abused its prerogatives, as has this Bu­ the right of the Congress to set the rules upon this legislation without undue de­ reau here. Those sovereign States saw and regulations of the appellate pro­ lay. fit to take some kind of legislative action cedures and the procedures of the courts, to-what shall I say?-to put manners but the Constitution itself says that the SELECT COMMITTEE ON FISCAL OR­ on these people, or to bring it back to the House should set its own procedures. So, legislative branch, making it available to it seems to me that the courts have gone GANIZATIONS AND PROCEDURES OF THE CONGRESS the executive for budget construction a little far astray when they say what from time to time, of course, as needed. our procedures should be when the Con­ The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. AL­ I deny the constitutional right of the stitution itself provides that we shall set BERT]. Under previous order of the Executive to exercise without limit this up our procedures and we also have con­ House, the gentleman from Pennsyl­ presumed and inferred prerogative on trol over the procedures of the courts. vania [Mr. FLoonJ is recognized for 15 the allocation of appropriated funds. Mr. SCHERER. I certainly agree with minutes. Particularly do I do so with reference the gentleman from Ohio. He and I Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, as I indi­ to the specified and earmarked line both agree that the Supreme Court in cated earlier in the day, I have today items of the budget. instance after instance has invaded the introduced a House resolution calling for However, it is not my province to raise prerogatives of the legislative branch. It the creation of a select committee of the question in the judicial branch of 1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 573 the Government, but I raise it here, Mr. That bill will call for the creation of a DECLARATION OF AN INTERNA­ Speaker, by presenting this resolution. Commissioner of the Budget, who will be TIONAL WAR AGAINST DISEASE This should be a House committee, not under the jurisdiction of the legislative The SPEAKER pro tempore ring us far ward peace. . . What achieved this? It was won greater returns than the outlays. ·In-· : The time for action is now, and recent through by cooperative international creasing the scope of u.s. participation international events· only emphasize that medical research and ·application meas­ in world medical research and health we should not delay action in this. field ures, by partnership among nations, and measures will do this. Moreover, such of humanitarian science. So I earnestly by the World·Health Organization and all a strengthening of our international ef­ submit that we take up and pass the. allied with it. The United States can forts is not merely desirable, it is essen-· measure. well be proud of the share it has·put into tial. It is essential to our defense, to Let me turn now for a moment to this great enterprise, and we can and our continued and growing prosperity, other measures which I believe also should do even more, for the full poten­ and to our own national fight to prevent worthy of your support. While empha­ tial of a world free from malaria, yet to and control killing and crippling dis- eases. · ·· sizing research, I have in .my remarks be realized, will mean much to us, as to also pointed out the importance of the ethers, )loth in humanitarian and in eco­ These are some o{ the. reasons why I whole world health problem and of ac­ nomic terms. am introducing into this session of Con­ tivities derived from and related to re­ The business future of the United gress the bill, first iri.troduced -in the search. . states;we all know, is deeply involved in closing days of ·our last session, to i:h­ ' In my opinion-and that of many oth­ investments and sales abroad. We will crease the scope and opportunity of ers, including non-Government health 1959 CONGRESSIONAL _._RECORD- HOUSE 577 and medieal aut_borities~we should also Small Business Investment-Act. Yet to SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED move forward upon other. health· fronts 'date the Small Business ·Administration By unanimous consent, permission to in addition to research. . has licensed . no small business invest.! address the House, following the legisla­ We should strengthen and expand ac.:. me,n~ company .to. operate under the act: tive program and any special orders tivities, such as those I .mentioned in ~THE ACT IS DESIGNED FOR QUICK ACTION-BUT heretofore entered, was granted to: connection with the gre·at problem -of UNUSED Mr. BAILEY, for 30 minutes, on Thurs­ malaria, for the application of current This act was designed by Congress to day, and the special order granted to him medical and public health knowledge. meet a most serious small-business prob­ for Wednesday was vacated. As I indicated earlier in discussing this, lem-the problem of obtaining financing. Mr. WALTER, for 30 minutes, on Thurs­ there are a number of diseases which This is a long-standing problem, but one day. could be conquered or greatly curtailed. which had by last year grown to near­ Mr. DoYLE, for 30 minutes, on Thurs­ The knowledge is in hand, but there is crisis proportions. It was because of the day. not enough money, trained manpower, need to meet the problem quickly, as well Mr. FLooD, for 15 minutes, today. or facilities being provided today. as the need to bring about a permanent Mr. MASON, for 40 minutes, on Monday, Through the World Health Organization solution to this problem, that the Act January 26, on the subject of "Our Fed­ particularly, and through and with Pub­ provided for mobilizing local, private en­ eral Constitution and our Supreme lic Health Service participation-and terprise to do the job of small business Court." the Public Health Service has tremen­ financing. Mr. JACKSON, on Thursday next, for dous worldwide experience in disease 30 minutes. prevention and control-we ought to PRIVATE CAPITAL HAS TRIED TO COOPERATE When the act was passed, the response Mr. FoGARTY Massachusetts, for 15 triggering mechanism as it were-for the minutes, on Thursday next. new international war against disease. of private funds in these enterprises. I refer to the measure calling for an These included groups whose financial International Health and Medical Re­ responsibility and experience are beyond EXTENSION OF REMARKS search Year, somewhat in the manner of question, such as national banks. But By unanimous consent, permission to the International Geophysical Year. so far, none has been able to overcome extend remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL There are many areas where means for SBA resistance, redtape and delay. RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, a specifically organized and directed sci­ THE ACT CITED AS AN EXCUSE FOR VETOING AREA was granted to: entific effort on an international basis REDEVELOPMENT BILL Mr. VINSON and to include the remarks would be of great value in the solution Last year when the President vetoed made by Mr. THORNBERRY in presenting of dise~s.e and health problems. the area redevelopment bill-Douglas­ to the Democratic caucus the Democratic The mechanism of an International Payne bill, s. 3683-he said that the candidate for Speaker. Health and Medical Research Year Small Business Investment Act would Mr. SMITH of Mississippi and to include would, moreover, have even greater im­ meet "in part the needs of areas of severe extraneous matter. portance and one beyond the limits of and persistent unemployment." Areas Mrs. KEE in two instances and to in­ its life span. of severe and persistent unemployment clude extraneous matter. This importance would lie in the con­ continue, as do the needs of small busi­ Mr. PucrnsKI and include a resolution. tinuing advancement that the year would ness for a competitive chance to bid for Mr. WILLIS and include extraneous make possible in relationships and pat­ capital. material. terns of collaborative effort for the fur­ REDTAPE, DELAY, AND A NULLIFYING Mr. BALDWIN in two instances and in­ therance of medical research and health INTEREST RATE clude extraneous material. measures in the common cause of man­ Mr. BENTLEY. kind. The administration's record on this legislation has been, first, a reluctance Mr. WAINWRIGHT and include extrane .. In closing, and again urging that we ous matter. here and now declare a new world war to agree to any measure; second, insist­ ence on a watered-down bill; third, reg­ Mr. CuRTIS of Missouri in four in~ upon disease ·through passage of the stances and include extraneous material: legislation discussed and support of in­ ulations which interpret away much of the new act; fourth, a decision to set a Mr. ALGER in two instances and in­ ~nsified international health activities, clude extraneous material. I would like to hark back to the begin­ prohibitive -wholesale rate-5 percent­ on such funds as it may get to lend to (At the request of Mr. McCORMACK, nings of our country. The American and to include extraneous matter, the Revolution was an idea-an idea trans­ SBI companies for relending to small business concerns; and, up to now, a re­ following: ) lated into action. It iJ1.Spired people Mr. MACDONALD. everywhere to be free. It continues to fusal to let small business have the bene­ fits of what remains of the act. Mr. B'oGGS in three instances. inspire them as a great historical idea Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey (at the that became reality and brought forth NEW LEGISLATION IS NEEDED request of Mr. FLOOD) and to include a great, free Nation. · It is now clear that the Small Busi..; extraneous matter. It seems to me that we have here today ness Investment Act should be amended a somewhat parallel matter. We have to, first, provide for administration by an idea-a war and revolution for an 'independent, bipartisan commission ADJOURNMENT health-to achieve freedom from dis­ or board, rather than by an agency of Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, I move ease. We can translate ·it into action the executive branch; and second, pro­ that the House do now adjourn. and reality. · vide· a way whereby private capital can The motion was agreed to; accord­ be raised through the sale of securities ingly (at 1 o'clock and 17 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House ad­ SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT ACT on the-national market, so as to reduce the need for appropriations. This means journed until Thursday, January 15/ IS B~ING SABOTAGED that a way should be provided for a suf­ 1959-, at 12 o'clock noon. Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask ficient spreading of-the risks of the loca~ unanimous consent to extend my re.: EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, marks at this point in the RECORD. investment companies· to make the sale The SPEAKER. Is there objection to of such securities feasible. · ETC. the request of the gentleman · from I ·am presently drafting a bill along Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive Texas? ~ ( _- - . · · · · these lines; and I would ·be extremely communications were taken from the There was no objection: ' · glad to have the benefit of any sugges­ Speaker's table and referred as follows: Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Spealt_er, 6 months tions any Member of the House cares to 319. A letter· from the Comptroller Gen­ have passed since Congress approved the offer. eral of the United States, transmitting a CV--37 578 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January ·12 report on the military assistance program H.R. 2145. ·A bill to provide for Federal credit ·against the individual inconie tax for for Iran as administered by the United States assistance, on a dollar-matcntng basts, to amounts paid as tuition or fees to certain Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) State and local governments and agencies public and private institutions of higher · to Iran; to the Committee on Government thereof for planning, constructing, operating, education; to the Committee on Ways and Operations. and maintaining water conservation and Means. 320. A letter from the Administrator, Gen­ water storage projects; to the Comnilttee on H.R. 2161. A bill to allow a deduction for eral Services Administration, transmitting a Interior and Insular Affairs. income tax purposes, in the case of a dis­ draft of proposed legislation entitled "a bill H.R. 2146. A bill to amend the Agricul­ abled individual, of expenses for transporta­ to amend the Federal Property and Admin­ tural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide tion to and from work; to the Committee istrative Services Act of 1949 to extend the minimum acreage allotments for recognized on Ways and Means. authority of the Administrator of General peanut fa:t:mers; to the Committee on Agri­ By Mr. DERWINSKI: S ervices to pay direct expenses in connection culture. H.R. 2162. A bill to require a study to be with the utilization of excess real property H.R. 2147. A bill to amend the Agricul­ conducted of the effect of increasing the and ·related personalty, and for other pur­ tural Adjustment Act of 1938 to increase in diversion of water from Lake Michigan into poses"; to the Committee on Government certain cases the minimum acreage allotment the Illinois Waterway for navigation, and Operations. for cotton; to the Committee on Agriculture. for other purposes; to the Committee on 321. A letter from the Secretary of Com­ H.R. 2148. A bill to amend title II of the Public Works. merce, transmitting a draft of proposed legis­ Social Security Act to provide monthly in­ H .R. 2163. A bill to repeal the excise tax lation entitled "a bill to fix the fees payable surance benefits for the unmarried depend­ on communications; to the Committee on to the Patent Office, and for other purposes"; ent sister of an individual who dies leaving Ways an9- Means. to the Committee on the Judiciary. no other survivors eligible for benefits under By Mr. FORAND: 322. A letter from the Chairman, Federal such title; to the Committee on Ways and H .R. 2164. A bill to repeal the cabaret tax; Communications Commission, transmitting Means. to the Committee on Ways and Means. the Annual Report of the Federal Communi­ H.R. 2149. A bill to amend title II of the By Mr. HAGEN: cations Commission for the fiscal year 1958; Social Security Act to provide benefits there­ H.R. 2165. A bill to establish a National to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign under for certain individuals who have paid Grammar Commission to reform the spelling Commerce. social security taxes as employers but have of English words, to publish the United 323. A letter from the Chairman, Securities not themselves become entitled to such States Official Dictionary, and for other and Exchange Commission, relative to drafts benefits; to the Committee on Ways and purposes; to the Committee on Education and of five proposed bills proposing amendments Means. Labor. to the Securities Act of 1933; to the Commit­ By Mr. BURDICK: H.R. 2166. A bill to provide that the Chan­ tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H .R. 2150. A bill to establish permanent nel Islands off the coast of southern Cali­ authorization of a fully adequate nationwide fornia shall be referred to as the Juan milk-for-children program and for other pur­ Rodriques Cabrillo Islands; to the Commit­ PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS poses; to the Committee on Education and tee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public Labor. By Mr. HOLLAND: By Mr. BENTLEY: H.R. 2167. A bill to amend the Federal bills and resolutions were introduced and H.R. 2151. A bill to provide a credit Coal Mine Safety Act so as to provide further severally referred as follows: against the Federal income tax for additional for the prevention of accidents in coal mines; By Mr. BECKWORTH: State and local taxes imposed for school pur­ to the Committee on Education and Labor. H.R. 2137. A bill to amend Eection 402 of poses; to the Committee on Ways and By Mr. IKARD: the Veterans' Benefit Act of 1957 with respect Means. H.R. 2168. A bill to protect the rights of to determinations of permanent . and total By Mr. BOLAND: the blind to self-expression through organi­ disability; to the Committee on Veterans' H.R. 2152. A bill to amend title II of the zations of the blind; to the Committee on Affairs. Social Security Act so as to remove the lim­ Education and Labor. H.R. 2138. A bill to amend section 8 of title itation upon the amount of outside income H.R. 2169. A bill to amend the Internal 13 of the United States Code to except certain which may be received by an individual Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that an in­ persons from the requirement of paying fees while receiving benefits thereunder; to the dividual may deduct amounts paid for tui­ for certain census data; to the Committee on Committee on Ways and Means. tion, fees, and books to certain public and Post Office and Civil Service. By Mr. BUCKLEY: private institutions of higher education for H.R. 2139. A bill to amend the Fair Labor H.R. 2153. A bill to authorize the convey­ his education or the education of any of his Standards Act of 1938 to provide for its clari­ ance to the city of New York of certain lands dependents; to the Committee on Ways and fication with respect to cases where two or located in said city for park and recreational Means. more employers are contributing to the p:urposes; to the Committee on Public H.R. 2170. A bill to amend the Internal wages of one employee; to the Committee on Works. Revenue Code of 1954 to permit a taxpayer Education and Labor. By Mr. BYRNE of Pennsylvania: to deduct expenses paid during the taxable H.R. 2140. A bill to amend section 510 of H.R. 2154. A bill to authorize the Secre­ year for the repair (including painting and the Veterans' Benefit Act of 1957 to authorize tary of the Interior to acquire certain addi­ papering) of property used by him as his the granting of hospital care to veterans in tional property to be included within the principal residence to the extent that such need thereof; to the Committee on Veterans' Independence National Historical Park; to expenses do not exceed $500; to the Commit­ Affairs. the Committee on Interior and Insular tee on Ways and Means. H.R. 2141. A bill to provide pension forcer­ Affairs. H.R. 2171. A bill to allow certain expenses tain physically handicapped veterans of H.R. 2155. A bill to extend the application paid for the repair and maintenance of a World War I, World War II, or the Korean of the Classification Act of 1949 to certain personal residence as an income tax deduc­ conflict; to the Committee on Veterans' positions in, and employees of, the executive tion; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Affairs. branch of the Government; to the Commit­ H.R. 2172. A bill to amend the Internal H.R. 2142. A bill to amend tbe Veterans' tee on Post Office and Civil Service. Revenue Code of 1954, as amended; to the Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 to make By Mr. CELLER: Committee on Ways and Means. the educational benefits provided for therein H.R. 2156. A bill to strengthen the crimi­ H.R. 2173. A bill to amend section 1375 of available to all veterans whether or not they na.! laws relating to bribery, graft, and con­ the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with serve during a period of war or of armed flicts of interest, and for other purposes; respect to distributions from earnings and hostilities; to the Committee on Veterans' to the Committee on the Judiciary. profits by small business corporations elect­ Affairs. H.R. 2157. A bill to implement the crimi­ ing under subchapter S; to the Committee H.R. 2143. A b111 to amend the Veterans' nal laws relating to bribery, graft, and con­ on Ways and Means. Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 to pro­ flict of interest in Government employment H.R. 2174. A bill to amend the Internal vide that where a veteran has changed his and to promote ethics in Government; to Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a minimum program of education under that act, and the Committee on the Judiciary. period of 5 years within which livestock sold such change is a normal progression from By Mr. CHRISTOPHER: on account of drought may be replaced his approved program, such change shall be H.R. 2158. A bill to liberalize the basis for without recognition of gain; to the Commit­ approved, with retroactive payments made and increase the monthly rates of disabil­ tee on Ways and Means. for appropriate periods; to the Committee ity pension awards under Veterans' Regu­ H.R. 2175. A bill to increase from $600 to on Veterans' Affairs. lattion No. 1 (a), part III; to the Committee $700 the income-tax exemptions allowed for H .R. 2144. A bill to provide that when a. on Veterans' Affairs. a. taxpayer, his spouse, and his dependents, family's home is being acquired by the By Mr. CURTIS of Missouri: and the additional exemptions allowed for United States, in determining the price to be H.R. 2159. A bill to establish a U.S. trading old age and blindness; to the Committee on paid for such home the agency acquiring corporation to meet the challenge of at­ Ways and Means. such home may take into account the same tempted Soviet penetration of world mar­ H.R. 2176. A bill to amend the Natural considerations as would be taken into ac­ kets, and for other purposes; to the Commit~ Gas Act; to the Committee on Interstate count · by such family in determining tee on Foreign Affairs. and Foreign Commerce. · whe.ther or not to sell their home volun­ H.R. 2160. A bill to amend the Internal H.R. 2177. A bill to amend the Internal tarily; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a 30 percent Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the 1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 579 acquisition of real property by trade-in shall H.R. 2192. A 'bill to . provide financial as­ make the educational benefits provided -for in certain cases constitute a nontaxable ex­ sistance for the support of public schools by therein available to all veterans whether or change for income-tax purposes; to the Com- appropriating funds to the States to be used not they serve during a period of war or mittee on Ways_and Means. • for constructing .school facilities and for of armed hostilities; to the .Committee on H.R. 2178. A bill to authorize the Secre­ teachers' salaries; to the Committee oil Edu­ Veterans' Affairs. tary of the Army to make certain changes cation and Labor. H.R. 2209. A · bill to prohibit discrimina­ in the road at Whites Branch, Grapevine H.R. 2193. A bill to designate the Coyote tion bec::t.use of age in the hiring and em­ Reservoir, Tex.; to the Committee on Public Valley Reservoir in California as Lake Men­ ployment of persons by Government con­ Works. docino; to the Committee on Public Works. tractors; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 2179. A bill to provide for the erec­ By Mr. MITCHELL: H.R. 2210. A bill to amend and revise the tion of a Federal and post office building in H.R. 2194. A bill to amend chapter 37 of laws relating to immigration, naturalization, D:mton, Tex.; to the Committee on Public title 38, United States Code, to provide addi­ .nationality and . citizenship, and for other Works. tional funds for direct loans; to remove cer­ - purposes; to the Committee on the Judi­ H.R. 2180. A bill to amend the Internal tain requirements with respect to the rate of ciary. Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from the interest on guaranteed loans, and for other H.R. 2211. A bill to allow additional in­ manufacturers excise tax certain automobiles purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Af­ come tax exemptions for a taxpayer or a furnished without charge to schools for use fairs. spouse, or a dependent child under 23 years in driver training progra ms; to the Commit­ By Mr. MOSS: of age, who is a full-time student at an edu­ tee on Ways and Means. H.R. ~195. A bill to amend section 412(b) cational institution above the secondary By Mr. KING of California: of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, with level; to the Committee on Ways and H.R. 2181. A bill to amend title V of the respect to contracts relating to the selection Means. Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to or appointment, or the utilization of the H.R. 2212. A bill to amend the Internal promote the maintenance of the American services, of travel or ticket agents, and for Revenue Code of 1954 so as to allow a tax­ fishing fleet under competitive conditions other purposes; to the Cormnittee on Inter­ payer to deduct certain expenses incurred and in the interest of sustained fish food state and Foreign Commerce. by him in obtaining a higher education; to supplies in case of emergency and for other H.R. 2196. A bill to amend the Interstate the Committee on Ways and Means. purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Commerce Act to permit railroads to trcns­ H.R. 2213. A bill to amend the Internal Means. port free or at reduced rates certain postal Revenue Code of 1954 so as to increase the By Mr. LIBONATI: officers and employees; to the Committee on amount of the personal exemption for tax­ H.R. 2182. A bill to amend the Internal Interstate and Foreign Commerce. .able year 1958 and to repeal or reduce cer­ Revenue Code of 1954 to -permit a taxpayer H .R. 2197. A bill to amend the act of Sep­ tain excise taxes; to the Committee on Ways to deduct expenses paid during the taxable tember 26, 1950, to extend the Tehama­ and Means. year for repair, maintenance, alterations and Colusa conduit to Yolo County, Calif.; to the By Mr. O'NEILL: additions to h is residence; to the Committee Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H.R. 2214. A bill to amend the Railroad on Ways and Means. H.R. 2198. A bill to amend the Internal Retirement Act of 1937, the ~ailroad Retire­ H.R. 2183. A bill to amend title II of the Revenue Code of 1954 and the Internal Reve­ ment Tax Act, and the Railroad Unemploy­ Social Security Act to provide that full bene­ nue Code of 1939 to provide that no docu­ ment Insurance Act, so as to provide in­ fits thereunder, when based upon the attain­ mentary stamp tax shall be imposed with creases in benefits, and for other purposes; ment of retirement age, will be payable to respect to conveyances to which a State or to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign both men and women at age 60; to the Com­ political subdivision is a party; to the Com­ Commerce. mittee on Ways and Means. mittee on Ways and Means. By Mr. PATMAN: H. R. 2184. A bill to amend titles I, IV, X, . H.R. 2199. A bill to authorize the Secretary H.R. 2215. A bill relating to certain dis­ and XIV of the Social Security Act so as to of the Interior to construct, operate, and .criminatory pricing practices affecting com­ further assist the States in extending aid for maintain the Auburn unit, American River merce; to the Committee on the Judiciary. medical care to persons eligible for public division, Central Valley project, California, By Mr. PELLY: assistance under such titles; to the Commit­ under Federal reclamation laws; to the Com­ H.R. 2216. A · bill to amend the Tariff Act tee on Ways and Means. mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. of 1930 with respect to exemption from By Mr. McCORMACK: H.R. 2200. A bill to establish a system for duties-and taxes of supplies for certain ves­ H.R. 2185. A bill to authorize modification the classification and compensation of scien­ sels and aircraft engaged in trade between of local participation in flood-control proj­ tific and professional positions in the Federal the United States and Alaska; to the Com­ ects; to the Committee on Public Works. Government, and for other purposes; to the mittee on Ways and Means. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. By Mr. PERKINS: By Mr. McDOWELL: H.R. 2201. A bill to amend section 6 of the H.R. 2217. A bill to amend title II of the H.R. 2186. A bill to amend the Federal .act of. August 24, 1912, as amended, with re­ Social Security Act to provide a more liberal Property and Administrative Services Act of spect to the recognition of organizations of ~efi-nition .of "disability," to elfminate the 1949 to permit the donation and other dis­ postal and Federal employees; to the Com­ ~equirement that an individual attain age 50 posal of property to tax-supported ·public mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. :to be entitled to .disability insurance bene­ recreation ag~ncies; to the -Committee on H.R. 2202. A bill to establish a -plan and fits, and to provide that iull benefits (when Government Operations. appropriate procedures for the promotion of based upon attainment of retirement age) By Mr. McGOVERN: employees of the Government on the basis of will be payable to l;>oth men and women at H.R. 2187. A bill to establish a national merit; to the Committee on Post Office and age 60; to the Committee on Ways and wilderness preservation system for the per­ Civil Service. Means. manent good of the whole people, and for By Mr. MURRAY: By Mr. PRICE: other purposes; to the Committee on Interior H .R. 2203. A bill to provide for the discon­ H.R. 2218. A bill to provide for Federal and Insular Affairs. tinuance of the Postal Savings System; to assistance for the construction and expan~ By Mr. MACK of Washington: the Committee on Post Office and Civil Serv­ sion of public community junior colleges; H.R. 2188. A bill to set aside certain lands ice. to the Committee on Education and Labor. in Washington for Indians of the Quinault By Mr. O'HARA of Illinois: By Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI: Tribe; to the Committee on Interior and In­ H.R. 2204. A bill granting leave of absence H.R. 2219. A bill to require a study to be sular Affairs. to postal employees on account of death in conducted of the effect of increasing the By Mr. MONAGAN: the family; to the Committee on Post Office diversion of water from Lake Michigan into H.R. 2189. A bill to make appropriations and Civil Service. the Illinois Waterway for navigation, and for tor the construction of the Mad River Dam H.R. 2205. A bill to amend the Fair Labor other purposes; to the Committee on Public and Reservoir, Conn., the dam and reservoir Standards Act of 1938 so as to increase the Works. on Hall Meadow Brook, Conn., and the dam minimum hourly wage from $1 to $1.25; By Mr. SHIPLEY: and reservoir on the East Branch of the H.R. 2220. A bill to require a study to be to the Committee on Education and Labor. conducted of the effect of increasing the Naugatuck River, Conn.; to the Committee H.R. 2206. A bill to amend the Internal on Appropriations. diversion of water from Lake Michigan into Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a 30-per­ the Illinois Waterway for navigation, and By Mr. MICHEL: cent credit against the individual income for other purposes; to the Committee on H.R. 2190. A bill to amend the act of Octo­ tax for amounts paid as tuition or fees to Public Works. ber 9, 1940, to provide that the 10-year certain public and private institutions of By Mr. SILER: statute of limitations applicable to claims higher education; to the Committee on H.R. 2221. A bill to prohibit the trans­ against the United States shall not bar the Ways and Means. portation in interstate commerce of adver­ payment of such claims where they are filed H.R. 2207. A bill to amend title II of the tisements of alcoholic beverages, and for with an appropriate agency of the United Social Security Act so as to remove the limi­ other purposes; to the Committee on Inter­ s :;ates during such 10-year period; to the tation upon the amount of outside income state and Foreign Commerce. Committee on Government Operations. which an individual may earn while receiving H.R. 2222. A bill to provide for an appro­ By Mr. CLEMENT W. MILLER: benefits thereunder; to the Committee on priation of a sum not exceeding $175,000 H.R. 2191. A bill to designate a stream in Ways and Means. with which to make a survey of a proposed California as the .. Petaluma River"; to the H.R. 2208. A bill to amend the Veterans• national parkway from the Great Smoky Committee on Public Works. Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 to Mountains National Park in North Carolina 580 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 and Tennessee to- the Mammoth Cave Na­ courts of appeals and district courts of the By Mr. PELLY: tional Park in Kentucky, and the Natchez United States; to the Committee on the H.R. 2252. A bill . to amend the Federal Trace Parkway in Tennessee; and for other Judiciary. Seed Act to permit the importation into the purposes; to the Committee on Interior H.R. 2239. A bill to provid.e that each mem­ United States of certain screenings of rape­ and Insular Affairs. . ber of the bar of the highest court of a State seed and mustard seed; to the Committee on H.R. 2223. A bill to provide that railroad or a Federal court-shall be eligible to practice Agriculture. employees may retire on a full annuity at before all administrative agencies; to the By Mr. SELDEN: age 60 or after serving 30 years; to provide Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2253. A bill to amend the Agricultural that such annuity for any month shall be By Mr. WHITTEN: AdJustment Act of 1938, as amended, to pro­ not less than one-half of the individual's H.R. 2240. A bill to bring employees of agri­ vide for lease and transfer of acreage allot­ average monthly compensation for the 5 cultural stabilization and conservation coun­ ments; to the Committee on Agriculture. years of highest earnings; and for other ty committees within the purview of the By Mr. SILER: purposes; to the Committee on Interstate Civil Service Retirement Act and the Federal H.R. 2254. A bill to amend section 2108 of and Foreign Commerce. Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954; the Veterans' Benefits Act of 1957 to prohibit H.R. 2224. A bill to amend the Internal to the Committee on Post Office and Civil the reduction of disability ratings which Revenue Code of 1954 to impose an import Service. have been in effect for 10 or more years, and tax on natural gas; to the Committee on By Mr. ASHLEY: for other purposes; to the Committee on Vet­ Ways and Means. H.R. 2241. A bill to amend title XI of the erans' Affairs. H.R. 2225. A b111 to amend title II of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, relating· to Fed­ By M;r. SISK: Social Security Act to provide that full bene­ eral ship mortgage insurance, in order to in­ H .R. 2255. A bill to equalize the pay of re­ fits (when based upon the attainment of clude floating drydocks under the definition tired members of the uniformed services; to retirement age) will be payable to both men of the term "vessel" in such title; to the the Commit tee on Armed Services. and women at age 60; to the Committee on Committee on Merchant Marine and By Mr. TEAGUE of Texas: Ways and Means. Fisheries. H. R. 2256. A bill to amend chapter 37 of By Mr. SISK: By Mrs. BOLTON: title 38, United States Code, to provide ad­ H.R . 2226. A bill to amend chapter 37 of H.R. 2242. A bill to prohibit certain acts ditional funds for direct loans; to remove title 38, United States Code, to provide addi­ involving the importation, transportation, certain requirements with respect to the rate tional funds for direct loans; to remove cer­ possession or use of explosives; to the Com­ of interest on guaranteed loans; and for tain requirements with respect to the rate of mittee on the Judiciary. other purposes; to the Committee on Veter­ interest on guaranteed loans, and for other By Mr. BURNS of Hawaii: ans' Affairs. purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' H.R. 2243. A bill to amend section 1552, H.R. 2257. A bill to amend title 38, United Affairs. title 10, United States Code, and section 301 States Code, to extend loan guarantee bene­ H.R. 2227. A bill to amend title 38, United of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of fits to certain veterans of service after Janu­ States Code, to extend loan-guarantee bene­ 1944 to provide that the Board for the Correc­ ary 31, 1955, and before the end of compul­ fits to certain veterans of service after tion of Military or Naval Records and the sory military service, and for other purposes; January 31, 1955, and before the end of com­ Boards of Review, Discharges, and Dismissals to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. pulsory military service, and for other pur­ shall give consideration to satisfactory evi­ H.R. 2258. A bill to amend title 38, United poses; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. dence relating to good character and exem­ States Code, to provide vocational rehabilita­ By Mr. SMITH of Mississippi: plary conduct in civilian life after discharge tion, education and training, and loan guar­ H.R. 2228. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ or dismissal in determining whether or not antee benefits for veterans of service after tion of additional land along the Mo'Qnt to correct certain discharges and dismissals; January 31, 1955; to the Committee on Vet­ Vernon Memorial Highway in exchange for to authorize the award of an Exemplary Re­ erans' Affairs. certain dredging privileges, and for other habilitation Certificate; and for other pur­ By Mr. TEAGUE of Texas (by re­ purposes; to the Committee on Public poses; to the Committee on Armed Services. quest): Works. By Mr. CHRISTOPHER: H.R. 2259, A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide vocational rehabili­ H.R. 2229. A bill to amend the Federal Em­ H.R. 2244. A bill to increase the annual ployees Salary Increase Act of 1958 to extend tation and related readjustment benefits for income limitations governing the payment veterans of service after January 31, 1955; to employees of agricultural stabilization of pension to certain veterans and their de­ and conservation county committees the to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. salary-increase benefits provided by such act; f:i~~ents; to the Committee on Veterans' Af; By Mr. VINSON: to the Committee on Post Office and Civil H.R. 2260. A bill to extend until July 1, By Mr. GARMATZ: 1963, the induction provisions of the Univer­ Service. H.R. 2245. A bill to amend subsection By Mr. TAYLOR: sal Military Training and Service Act; the 432(g) of title 14, United States Code, so as provisions of the act of August 3, 1950, sus­ H.R. 2230. A bill to regulate the foreign to increase the limitation on basic compen­ commerce of the United States by establish­ pending personnel strengths of the Armed sation of civilian keepers of lighthouses and Forces; and the Dependents Assistance Act ing quantitative restrictions on the impor­ civilians employed on lightships and other tation of knit handwear; to the Committee of 1950; to the Committee on Armed Serv­ vessels of the Coast Guard from $3,750 to ices. on Ways and Means. $5,100 per annum; to the Committee on Mer­ By Mr. THOMSON of Wyoming: By Mr. WEAVER: chant Marine and Fisheries. H.R. 2261. A bill to amend chapter 37 of H.R. 2231. A bill to provide for distribu­ By Mr. LIBONATI: tion of moneys received from mineral lands; title 38, United States Code, to provide addi­ H.R. 2246. A bill to amend section 301 of tional funds for direct loans; to remove cer­ to the Committee on Interior and Insular the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, to pro­ Affairs. tain requirements with respect to the rate vide that certain term insurance held by of interest on guaranteed loans; and for By Mr. WALTER: World War I veterans shall be considered as H.R. 2232. A bill to amend the Internal other purposes; to the Committee on Vet­ fully paid when the insured reaches the age erans' Affairs. Security Act of 1950, and for other purposes; of 65; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. to the Committee on Un-American Activities. By Mr. WHITENER: By Mr. MOSS: H .R. 2262. A bill to guarantee the right of By Mr. WHITENER: H.R. 2247. A bill to authorize the convey­ H.R. 2233. A bill to amend section 64(a) trial by jury in certain contempt cases in ance of certain real property of the United United States courts and to restrict citations (2) of the Bankruptcy Act; to the Committee States to the county of Sacramento, Calif.; on the Judiciary. for contempt to proceedings involving per­ to the Committee on Armed Services. sons having actual notice of terms of writ, H.R. 2234. A bill to amend section 1461 of H.R. 2248. A bill to amend title 28 of the process, order, rule, decree, or command of title 18 of the United States Code with re­ United States Code to provide for the ap­ the court, and for other purposes; to the spect to the mailing of obscene matter, and pointment of one additional district judge Committee on the Judiciary. for other purposes; to the Committee on the for the northern district of California; to H.R. 2263. A bill to require notice by certi­ Judiciary. the Committee on the Judiciary. fied mail of the lapse of Government life H.R. 2235. A bill to establish rules of inter­ H.R. 2249. A bill to provide for a Veterans' insurance; to the Committee on Veterans' pretation governing questions of the effect of Administration general, medical, and surgical Affairs. acts of Congress on State laws; to the Com­ hospital of 500 beds at Sacramento, Calif.; H. R. 2264. A bill to authorize the renewal mittee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on Veterans• Affairs. of expired 5-year level premium term na­ H.R. 2236. A bill to amend the Bankruptcy H.R. 2250. A bill to amend the Agricultural tional service life insurance where applica­ Act with respect to limiting the priority and Act of 1949 to provide for the increased use tion for reinstatement is made prior to nondischargeability of taxes in bankruptcy; of milled or enriched rice by the Armed January 1, 1960; to the Committee on Vet­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. Forces, Federal penal and correctional insti­ erans' Affairs. H.R. 2237. A bill to amend chapter 13- tutions, and in certain federally operated H.R. 2265. A bill to amend chapter 223 of Wage Earners' Plans-of the Bankruptcy Act; hospitals, and for other purposes; to the title 18, United States Code, to provide for to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Agriculture. the admission of certain evidence, and for H.R. 2238. A bill to amend title 28 of the H.R. 2251. A bill to provide for the estab­ other purposes; to the Committee on the United States Code with respect to the eligi­ lishment of four soil and water conservation Judiciary. bility of members of the bar of the United laboratories; to the Committee on Agricul­ H.R. 2266. A bill to exempt certain pro­ States Supreme Court to practice before all ture. fessional sports enterprises from the anti- 1959 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 581 trust laws; to the Committee on the Judi­ H.J. Res. 135. Joint resolution proposing H.R. 2278. A bill for the relief of Abdul ciary. an amendment to the Constitution of the Salam El Kadri; to the Committee on the H.R. 2267. A bill to amend section 401 of United States, relating to the legal effect Judiciary. title 18 of the United States Code, with re­ of certain treaties and other international By Mr. BOGGS: spect to the power of courts of the United agreements; to the Committee on the Judi­ H.R. 2279. A bill for the relief of Mrs. States to punish for contempt; to the Com­ ciary. Tyra Fenner Tynes; to the Committee on the mittee on the Judiciary. H.J. Res. 13&. Joint resolution proposing an Judiciary. H.R. 2268. A bill to amend section 3231, amendment to the Constitution relating to By Mr. BOLAND: title 18, United States Code, to reaffirm the the terms of office of judges of the Supreme H.R. 2280. A bill for the relief of Adele M. jurisdiction of State courts to enforce State Court of the United States and inferior Parker; to the Committee on the Judiciary. statutes prohibiting subversive activities; to courts; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2281. A bill to provide for the pay­ the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BUCKLEY: ment of relocation expenses to Milo G. and H.R. 2269. A bill to amend section 2254 of H. Res. 91. Resolution authorizing the Patricia Wingard; to the Committee on the title 28 of the United States Code in refer­ Committee on Public Works to conduct Judiciary. ence to applications for writs of habeas studies and investigations within the juris­ By Mr. BURNS of Hawaii: corpus by persons in custody pursuant to diction of such committee; to the Committee . H.R. 2282. A bill for the relief of Unta the judgment of a State court; to the Com­ on Rules. Shimabukuro; to the Committee on the mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. GELLER: Judiciary. H.R. 2270. A bill establishing certain quali­ H. Res. 92. Resolution to provide funds By Mr. BYRNE of Pennsylvania: fications for persons appointed to the su­ for the Committee on the Judiciary; to the H.R. 2283. A bill for the relief of Arturo preme Court of the United States; to the Committee on House Administration. L. Espinosa and Flora Quijano Espinosa; to Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. COOLEY: the Committee on the Judiciary. H .R. 2271. A bill to amend title 18 of the H. Res. 93. Resolution authorizing the H.R. 2284. A bill for the relief of Antonio United States Code so as to allow compen­ Committee on Agriculture to make certain C. Abelon; to the Committee on the Judi­ sation to counsel assigned by the court in studies and investigations; to the Committee ciary. criminal cases; to the Committee on the on Rules. By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: Judiciary. By Mr. FLOOD: H.R. 2285. A bill for the relief of Moni H.R. 2272. A bill to permit judicial review H. Res. 94. Resolution creating a select Schwartz; to the Committee on the Judi­ of decisions of the Administrator of Vet­ co~i ttee to conduct a study of the fiscal ciary. erans' Affairs; to the Committee on the organization and procedures of the Con­ By Mr. COFFIN: Judiciary. gress; to the Committee on Rules. H .R. 2286. A bill for the relief of Joseph H.R. 2273. A bill to amend title 28, entitled By Mr. McCORMACK: E. Gallant; to the Committee on the Judi­ "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure" of the H. Res. 95. Resolution authorizing the ciary. United States Code to provide for the de­ printing as a House document the staff re­ By Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee: fense of suits against Federal employees aris­ port entitled "Space Handbook: Astronau­ H.R. 2287. A bill for the relief of Tremaine ing out of their operation of motor vehicles tics and Its Applications"; to the Commit­ Edmund Heffler; to the Committee on the in the scope of their employment, and for tee on House Administration. Judiciary. other purposes; to the Committee on the H. Res. 96. Resolution authorizing the By Mr. DEVINE: Judiciary. printing as a House document the staff re­ H.R. 2288. A b1ll for the relief of Agatha By Mr. BENNETT of Florida: port entitled "Summary of Hearings"; to Eccleston; to the Committee on the Judi­ H.J. Res. 128. Joint resolution proposing an the Committee on House Administration. ciary. amendment to the Constitution of the H. Res. 97. Resolution authorizing the H.R. 2289. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ger­ United States relating to appropriations; to printing as a House document the staff re­ trude E. Shetler; to the· Committee on the port entitled "The International Geophysi­ Judiciary. · the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. GRIFFIN: By Mr. FOGARTY: cal Year and Space Research"; to the Com­ mittee on House Administration. H.R. 2290. A bill for the relief of Ronald H.J. Res. 129. Joint resolution to establish Ragnar Long; to the Committee on the Ju­ in the Department of Health, Education, H. Res. 98. Resolution authorizing the printing as a House document the staff re­ diciary. and Welfare the National Advisory Council By Mrs. KELLY: for International Medical Research, and to port and bibliography entitled "Survey of Space Law"; to the Committee on House H.R. 2291. A bill for the relief of Gloria establish in the Public Health Service the M. Dudley; to the Committee on the Ju­ National Institute for International Medical Administration. By Mr. PELLY: diciary. Research, in order to help mobilize the ef­ H.R. 2292. A bill for the relief of Irith Ina forts of medical scientists, research workers, H. Res. 99. Resolution creating a select committee to conduct a study of the fiscal Abileah; to the Committee on the Judiciary. technologists, teachers, and members of the H.R. 2293. A bill for the relief of Mrs. health professions .generally, in the United organization and procedures of the Con­ gress; to the Committee on Rules. Lilyan Robinson; to the Committee on the States and abroad, for as·sault upon disease, Judiciary. disab111ty, and the impairments of man and By Mr. RIEHLMAN: H. Res. 100. Resolution creating a standing By Mr. LANE: for the improvement of the health of man H.R. 2294. A b111 for the relief of the Ellis through international cooperation in re­ select committee to conduct a study and investigation of the problems of small busi­ Timber Co.; to the Committee on the Judi­ search, research training, and research ciary. planning; to the Committee on Interstate ness; to the Committee on Rules. By Mr. TEAGUE of Texas: H.R. 2295. A bill for the relief of the Steri­ and Foreign Commerce. lon Corp.; to the Committee on the Judi­ By Mr. HARRIS: H. Res. 101. Resolution to authorize the Committee on Veterans' Affairs conduct ciary. H .J. Res. 130. Joint resolution to prohibit, to By Mr. MciNTIRE: except for technical tests, pay television op­ investigations and studies; to the Commit­ tee on Rules. H.R. 2296. A b111 for the relief of the estate erations by radio or wire until specifically of Seth E. Libby, Jr.; to the Committee on authorized and regulated by Federal law; By Mr. WHITTEN: H. Res. 102. Resolution creating a select the Judiciary. to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign By Mr. MACK of Washington: Commerce. committee to conduct an investigation and study of the Office of the Comptroller Gen­ H.R. 2297. A bill for the relief of Tatjana By Mr. MACK of Washington: Prosek; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.J. Res. 131. Joint resolution proposing eral of the United States; to the Committee on Rules. H.R. 2298. A bill for the relief of Katica an amendment to the Constitution of the Andric and Tomislav Andric; to the Com­ United States relative to equal rights for mittee on the Judiciary. men and women; to the Committee on the PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 2299. A bill for the relief of Catherine Judiciary. Katalinich; to the Committee on the Judi­ By Mr. MILLER of New York: Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private ciary. H.J. Res. 132. Joint resolution designating bills and resolutions were introduced and H.R. 2300. A bill for the relief of Rahil the month of February of each year as Na­ severally referred as follows: Saad Ghosn; to the Committee on the Judi­ tional American History Month; to the Com­ ciary. mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. ASHLEY: H.R. 2274. A bill for the relief of Leland By Mr. MICHEL: By Mr. SILER: Li-Chung Chou; to the Committee on the H .R. 2301. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H .J. Res. 133. Joint resolution proposing an Judiciary. Gladys M. Ellison; to the Committee on the amendment to the Constitution of the United H.R. 2275. A bill for the relief of Vasilis Judiciary. · States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Karagianis; to the Committee on the Ju­ By Mr. MINSHALL: By Mr. WHITENER: diciary. H.R. 2302. A bill for the relief of Agnes H .J . Res. 134. Joint resolution providing H .R. 2276. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Loo Lorraine Pank; to the Committee on the that the United States shall not participate Shee Yee (also known as Low Shee); to the Judiciary. in any civil action except as a party to such Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 2303. A bill for the relief of Zoraida ci vll action; to the Committee on the Ju­ H.R. 2277. A bill for the relief of Sheung Rodriguez; to the Committee on the Judi­ diciary. Jeung; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ciary. 582 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 12 By Mr. MONAGAN: By Mr. WILLIAMS: taxes; to the Committee on Interior and H.R. 2304. A bill for the relief of the de­ H.R. 2314. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Insular Affairs. pendents of Isidor Goldfracht; to the Com­ OlaF. Thompson and Mrs. Mattie F. Thomp­ 36. Also, resolution adopted by the New mittee on the Judiciary. son; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Jersey. State League of Municipalities, urging . By Mr. WOLF: tlle Congress of the United States to con­ By Mr. MOSS: H.R. 2315. A bill for the relief of Taufic tinue sewerage construction assistance; to H.R. 2305. A bill for the relief· of Charles Deoud Gebran (also known as Taufic G. the Committee on Public Works. L. Dunham; to the Committee on the Ju­ 37. Also, resolution adopted by the New diciary. Dawd) and his wife, Hanne Elias Wehby Deoud; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Jersey State League of Municipalities, op­ By Mr. NORBLAD: posing any proposal by Congress to tax the H.R. 2306. A bill for the relief of Wong income of municipal and other local public Bick Quon (Maria· Wong); to the Committee PETITIONS, ETC. agency bonds; to the Committee on Ways on the Judiciary. and Means. By Mr. ROOSEVELT: Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions 38. By Mr. POLK: Petition of Matthews­ H .R. 2307. A bill for the relief of Gordana and papers were laid on the Clerk's Carter American Legion Post No. 325, Man­ Kusijanovic; to the Committee on the Ju­ desk and referred as follows: chester, Ohio, Emmett Tolliver, commander, Rodney D. Howell, adjutant, submitted by diciary. 33. By Mr. CANFIELD: Resolution adopted Oscar R. Howell, in favor of urging the Con­ H.R. 2308. A bill for the relief of Roberto by the New Jersey State League of Munici­ gress of the United States to pass a bill for Garcia-Marquez; to the Committee on the palities, opposing congressional actions which $100 a month regular persian for all World Judiciary. threaten or reduce the housing, slum ciear­ War I veterans reaching the age of 60 years; H.R. 2309. A bill for the relief of Rivka ance, urban renewal, planning assistance, to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ghesser; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and community facilities programs; to the 39. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the H.R. 2310. A bill for the relief of Hoo W. Committee on Banking and Currency. president, the Citizens Transit Improvement Yuey; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 34. Also, resolution adopted by the New Association, Washington, D.C., petitioning H.R. 2311. A bill for the relief of Yayoi Jersey State League of Municipalities, con­ consideration of their resolution relative to Chiba; to the Committee on the Judiciary. cerning the Federal urban renewal program; the development of a rapid transit system for Washington, D.C.; to the Committee on By Mr. WHITENER: to the Committee on Banking and Currency. the District of Columbia. H.R. 2312. A bill for the relief of Mrs. 35. Also, resolution adopted by the New 40. Also, petition of Frank Granieri, San Anna D. Myers; to the Committee on the Jersey State League of Municipalities, urging Diego, Calif., relative to a redress of grievance Judiciary. authorization of Federal agencies to make relating to judgment imposed by the State H.R. 2313. A bill for the relief of Arnold K. payments to municipalities on Government­ of California; to the Committee on the Dalton; to the Committee on the Judiciary. owned properties in lieu of local real estate Judiciary.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Private American Capital Must Be En­ which our taxpayers can reasonably pro­ velop information, views and recommenda­ vide. For this reason alone private Ameri­ tions with respect to the following types of couraged To Go Abroad can capital must be encouraged to go abroad questions: and take upon itself the task of preserving What are the facts about United States EXTENSION OF REMARKS in the world the free system which we private foreign investment? earnestly believe deserves to be fostered and OF What are the reasons American capital preserved. goes abroad? HON. HALE BOGGS The foreign aid program is day by day What forms does such investment take? losing favor both at home and abroad. So What are the effects of such investment OF LOUISIANA it becomes even more e:::sential if we are to on the host country? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES meet the full thrust of the Soviet economic What contribution does such investment Monday, January 12,1959 offensive to create a favorable climate for m ake to the development of foreign trade intelligent and active free enterprise abroad. with the United States and other coun­ Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, under The socially conscious businessman must, in tries? leave to extend my remarks in the REc­ a sense, supplant the bureaucrat. What are the effects of such development ORD, I include the following remarks The concern of the President of the United on the economic development of underde­ which I made before the National For­ States for the free nations of the world ln veloped countries? this regard was IX).Ost recently expressed in What are the obstacles that stand in the eign Trade Council on "U.S. Taxation of his address to the Colombo Plan conference. way of new and expanding investment, both Foreign Source Income" on November 19, I was pleased to note the great emphasis here and abroad? 1958: that he placed on the necessity for encour­ What are the fa-Ctors that condition the _ In examining the subject of this discus­ aging private United States investment climate for investment abroad? sion, I think we can accept the fact that abroad. Considerations such as those under­ What is the proper concern of the U.S. it is the policy of the United States to lining the President's address before the Government in this field? promote the economic growth of the free Colombo Plan conference prompted the What types of governmental programs are nations of the world and to do all that is membership of the subcommittee on foreign appropriate in the light of our national in­ prudently possible to help the less developed trade policy of the Committee on Ways and terests? nations to achieve that momentum of prog­ Means to announce public hearings on the What modifications in the tax systems of ress in agriculture and industry to make it subject of United States private foreign in­ the United states as well as foreign countries possible for them to look forward to sub­ vestment beginning on December 1, 1958, in are indicated? stantial economic growth. It would seem Washington, D.C. What has been the effect of existing gov­ equally clear that it is the policy of our We felt the need to provide a forum in ernmental programs in this field? country to contribute to and assist our which the issues involved could be fully These questions are by no means the only friends in the world to the largest extent discussed by competent witnesses and infor­ ones pertinent to our hearings. They are possible by encouraging the unhampered mation accumulated with which to guide merely illustrative_of items of specific inter­ operation of our dynamic free enterprise possible legislative implementation of the est in the foreign investment field. You will system. public policies which I have alluded to. In agree, I am sure, that this inquiry is needed All agree that this can best be a.ccom­ this connection the impact of United States and that the findings will be helpful. plished by providing incentives for private taxation of foreign source income is of the - As a member of the committee of the American capital to go abroad and take with greatest importance, and will be of great Congress which is charged with the primary it the vitality, the skill, and the imagination interest to the subcommittee. We of the sub­ responsibility of formulating the tax laws of that has made our system the strongest committee have come to know as a result of the United States, I am particularly aware economic system in the world. our studies and travels that foreign trade of the need for a searching review of our Private investment of American funds policy cannot be divorced from other aspects. revenue laws as they apply to foreign-source abroad is preferable to Government spend­ of United States foreign economic policy. We income. A most charitable appraisal of the ing for many reasons. Not the least of have also been impressed with the fact that Internal Revenue Code as it applies to such which is the fact that such investment as­ uppermost in the minds of those considering income would find it to be capricious in sures the most economic use of limited private foreign investment is the impact result, formalistic in impact, and difficult to U.S. resources. The plain truth is that of U.S. tax policy on foreign source income. administer, understand, and apply. I know the need for capital by the free nations of Among other things the subcommittee no one who is familiar with taxation who the world is far larger than the amounts expects that the December hearings will de- does not believe that a thoroughgoing legis-