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EXTENSIONS of REMARKS October 17, 1971, Mr I 36104 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 17, 1971, Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I item of business I ask unanimous con­ stand in adjournment until 12 o'clock suggest the absence of a quorum. sent that the Senate stand in recess sub­ noon, on Monday, November 18, 19'74. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk ject to the call of the Chair or until that The motion was agreed to; and, at 5:41 will call the roll. item of business arrives. p.m. the Senate adjourned until Mon­ The legislative clerk proceeded to call There being no objection, the Senate day, November 18, 1974:, at 12 o'clock the roll. at 5:37 p.m. recessed subject to the call noon. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask of the Chair; whereupon, at 5:40 p.m. unanimous consent that the order for the Senate reassembled when called to the quorum call be rescinded. order by the Presiding Officer (Mr. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. GRIFFIN). PRO TEMPORE HARRY F. BYRD, JR.). Without objection, it is so ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of Public Law 93-443, section 310, the following ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY, were appointed to the Federal Election RECESS SUBJECT TO THE CALL NOVEMBER 18, 1974 Commission: OF THE CHAm Joseph F. Meglen, of Montana, for a term Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I of 3 years. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, as move, in accordance with Senate Con­ Joan D. Aikens, of Pennsylvania, for a term long as we are waiting for only one other current Resolution 120, that the Senate of 1 year. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE FARMER'S SIDE OF THE STORY accept the higher prices and get the Govern­ agencies. Congress has an obligation to ment out of the .farming business through root out these abuses and to see that its controls and subsidies.; or support the they never happen again. HON. CHARLES S. GUBSER controls and subsidies in return for lower Mr. Presi~ent, I ask unanimous .con­ OF CALIFORNIA wheat prices. You can't have both. I hold no brlef for Mr. Butz, but it does sent that the articles I referred to and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES appear he is the first Secretary of Agriculture an editorial from the September 29, 1974 Wednesday, October 16, 1974 that has done what you, the taxpayer, have edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch been demanding the past 40 years and now be printed at this point in my remarks. Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Speaker, in these you don't like the alternative. You have en­ There being no objection, the articles days of escalating prices at the super­ joyed a food bill as low as 15 cents of the and editorial were ordered to be printed market, many people find it all too easy consumer dollar for decades. At the present in the RECORD, as follows: to blame the farmer for the prices they 19 or 20 cents, it is still the lowest of any must pay. nation 1n the world-the next lowest being [From the st. Louis Post-Dispa-tch, in excess of 26 cents. September 25, 1974] Recently Mr. Stephen D'Arrigo, Jr. It 1s strange indeed that we do not hear Civn. SERVICE HEAD HELPED GET GSA Jon wrote a letter to the Public Forum of the same complaints about paying $1,000 FOR POLITICIAN'S COUSIN the San Jose Mercury which gives an­ more for a 1975 auto or more every year for (By Robert Adams) other side to this story. I commend Mr. cigarettes, t.v .. clothes, boats, sports, etc. But, WASHINGTON, September 25.-The cousin D'Arrigo's letter to both farmers and apparently, the farmer 1s expected to subsi­ of a. Texas Representative wa.s given a federal consumers. His letter follows: dize the U.S. citizen's dinner table. career job after Robert E. Hampton, chair­ SALINAS, CALIF., October 10, 1974. Sincerely, STEPHEN D'ARRIGO, Jr. man of the Civil Service Commission, person­ PulJLIC FORUM, ally told the No. 2 man in a Government San Jose Mercury, San Jose, Calif. agency of a. desire r.to help" the Representa­ GENTLEMEN: This is a reply to "Oust Butz" tive, the Post-Dispatch learned today. Public Forum of October 10, 1974. There are According to documents in the hands of a few considerations overlooked by Mr. Wal­ CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL IN­ Government investigators, Hampton made ton and I present them here. QUIRY INTO POLITICAL HEAR­ his desire known in a Dec. 8, 1970, letter to Basically, Mr. Walton, the taxpayer has a INGS Rod Kreger, then deputy administrator of the choice, namely government subsidies or General Services Admlnlstration. higher food cost. He can't have simultane­ The letter concerned job possibilities for ously low cost food and no subsidy. There HON. THOMAS F. EAGLETON Dwight W. Jones, a first cousin of Representa­ is no law, moral or legal, that requires a OF MISSOURI tive Robert Price (Rep.), Texas. It noted that farmer to produce wheat or any other crop Jones had passed the Civil Service examina­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES and sen at a loss 1n order to provide the tion and added: "If at all possible, I would citizens of this country with the lowest food Thursday, October 17, 1974 like to help Congressman Price." budget as a percent of the consumer dollar The documents indica.te that Jones was 1n the world. Mr. EAGLETON. Mr. President, are­ quickly considered a "must case" by GSA For forty years the Government has main­ cent series of articles by Robert Adams, staff' and later received a mid-level career tained artificially high surpluses for a mixed Washlngton correspondent of the St. job in the Kansas City regional office of the bag of reasons--mostly bureaucratic and po­ Louis Post-Dispatch, alleges numerous GSA. litical. Naturally, this lowers prices below instances of political influence being The documents include a Jan. 26, 19'71, production costs and requires a bureaucratic letter over the name of Robert L. Kunzig, agency administer the "program". They, used to secure positions with the Fed­ to who was then administrator of GSA, to Ha.mp~ therefore, have a stake in the program"­ eral Government, positions which the law says should be awarded strictly on ton saying that a position had been "estab­ their jobs. The polltician can go home and lished" for Jones-although Jones heatedly brag about the lowest food cost in the world. a merit basis. denied today that any job had been set up Everyone is happy except the taxpayer who These are disturbing reports and I just for him. Jones said his post as Customer foots the bill and the farmer who no longer believe the relevant committees of the Service Director for the Kansas City regional enjoys the fruits of the free enterprise sys­ Congress should begin an immediate in­ tem, which happens to include the benefits office o:t GSA's Federal Supply Service had quiry into the situation and, if the facts existed long before he was hired. of a supply and demand economy. are as charged, conduct full public The Civll Service Commission has been ln­ Because the surpluses are the lowest since vestlga"tiing alleged patronage rings in GSA 1948 does not mean that this artificial sur­ hearings. plus was the "magic" level or the wise eco­ Mr. President, I know of no one who and other agencies since at least last year. But today's disclosure was the first public nomic surplus level. We presently have a is not anxious to put Watergate and all indication that the commission's chairman surplus and it 1s a healthy surplus. Until the it represented behind us. But we would breaking of the export contracts, the farm­ have sadly missed the lessons of that had ever passed along a. desire to help a po­ ers were holding back in excess of 70% of litical figure 1n connection with a .federal the 19'14 crop, and we are still in an adequate national trauma if we fail to correct the job. grain situation. The "shortage" is polltical corruption that was revealed before we It was also the first time that the name hokum. The 1975 acreage is committed to close the book. of Kunzig, who is now a judge ln the United planting or in the process of belng planted. No offense of the Watergate period States Court of Claims, had been connected While the public may complain about the was more shocking or more threatening with attempts to find a job for a person in­ "high" price of wheat, they also complain to our system of Government than the directly referred by a political patron. about the subsidies. You will either have to political manipulation of Government In an interview, Hampton said he did not ' October 17, 197!,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36105 consider his action improper, but, "I probably "I told Bob Hampton that I knew you agency to hire someone for a speciflc Civil wouldn't do it again." would want Ito do everything possible to Service job, even though the Whlte House Kunzig, through a law clerk, refused to help." The GSA's a.dm.lnistrator at the time used a four-level rating system with "must comment. was Kunzig. place" at the top. AccordiD.i to federal regulations, Civil Serv­ The memorandum went on to ea.y ihat ID :response, Hampton told the Post-Dis­ ice jobs such a.s ~ones's are supposed to be Kreger had given the papers to • st&Jf mem­ patch that he consulted with Malek only on filed on merit under .a competitive system.
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