6994 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE June 22 Col. Daniel Stone Campbell 615A. NATURALIZATION OF PERSONS States shall be made the basis of a petition Col. Charles HaJ;din Anderson 623A. for naturalization under this act if the ap SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES plicant has previously been naturalized on Col. Romu lus Wright Puryear 637A. OF THE ~TED STATES AFTER Col. Edward Joseph Tracy 19037A. the basis of the same period of service. JUNE 24, 1950 · "SEc. 2. Any person entitled to naturaliza Col. Richard Lee Scott 864A. tion under section 1 of this act may be Col. John Mel Schweizer, Jr., 920A. Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. Speaker, I ask naturalized while serving outside the juris Col. John David Howe 909A. unanimous consent to take from the diction of any naturalization court, upon . Col. Stanley Joseph Donovan 1089A. Speaker's desk the bill 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE .7007 event of misstatement with respect to age of premiums (1) until at least age 50 or, (2) be prescribed herein and effective at the or occupation or other insurance.) in the case of a policy issued after age 44, time of payment. If no such designation "A policy which the insured has the right for at least 5 years from its date of issue.) or provision is then effective, such indemnity to continue in force subject to its terms by "(5) A provision as follows: shall be payable to the estate of the insured. the timely payment of premium (1) until "'Notice of claim: Written notice of claim Any other accrued indemnities unpaid at at least age 50 or, (2) in the case of a policy must be given to the insurer within 20 days the insured's death may, at the option of issued after age 44, for at least 5 years from after the occurrence or commencement of the insurer, be paid either to such bene its date of issue, may contain in lieu of the any loss covered by the policy, or as soon ficiary or to such estate. All other indem foregoing the following provision . (from thereafter as is reasonably possible. Notice nities will be payable to the insured.' which the clause in parentheses may be given by or on behalf of the insured or the "The following provisions, or either of omitted at the insurer's option) under the beneficiary to the insurer at ------(insert them, may be included with the foregoing caption 'incontestable.' the location of such office as the insurer may provision at the option of the insurer: "'After this policy has been in force for a designate for the purpose), or to any author "'If any indemnity of this policy shall be period of 3 years during the lifetime of the ized agent of the insurer, with information payable to the estate of the insured, or to an insured (excluding any period during which sufficient to identify the insured, shall be insured or beneficiary who is a minor or the insured is disabled), it shall become in deemed notice to the insurer.' otherwise not competent to give a valid re contestable as to the statements contained "In a policy providing a loss-of-time bene lease, the insurer may pay such indemnity in the applicati~' fit which may be payable for at least 2 years, up to an amount not exceeding $------ "'(b) No claiml"tor loss incurred or dis an insurer may at its option insert the fol (insert an amount which shall not exceed ability (as defined in the policy) commenc lowing between the first and second sen $1,000), to any relative by blood or connec ing after 3 years from the date of issue of tences of the above provision: tion by marriage of the insured or beneficiary this policy shall be reduced or denied on "'Subject to the qualifications set forth who is deemed by the insurer to be equitably the ground that a disease or physical condi below, if the insured suffers loss of time on entitled thereto. Any payment made by the tion not excluded from coverage by name or account of disability for which indemnity insurer in good faith pursuant to this pro specific description effective on the date of vision shall fully discharge the insurer to the may be payable for at least 2 years, he shall, extent of such payment. loss had existed prior to the effective date at least once in every 6 months after having of coverage of this policy.' "'Subject to any written direction of the given notice of claim, give to the insurer insured in the application or otherwise all "(3) A provision as follows: notice of continuance of said disability, ex "'Grace period: A grace period of ----- or a portion of any indemnities provided by cept in the event of legal incapacity. The this policy on account of hospital, nursing, (insert a number not less than "7" for week periOd of 6 months following any filing of ly premium policies, "10" for monthly pre medical, or surgical services may, at the in proof by the insured or any payment by the surer's option and unless the insured re mium policies, and "31" for all other policies) insurer on account of such claim or any days will be granted for the payment of quests otherwise in writing not later than denial of liability in whole or in part by the time of filing proofs of such loss, be paid each premium falling due after the first the insurer shall be excluded in applying this premium, · during which grace period the directly to the hospital or person rendering provision. Delay in the giving of such notice such services; but it is not required that the policy shall continue in force.' shall not impair the Insured's right to any "A policy which contains a cancellation service be rendered by a particular hospital indemnity which would otherwise have ac or person. provision may add, at the end of the above crued during the period of 6 months pre _provision, "(10) A provision as follows: ceding the date on which such notice is •• 'Physical examinations. and autopsy: The •• 'subject to the right of the insurer to cancel actually given.' in accordance with the cancellation pro insurer at its own expense shall have the "(6) A provision as follows: right and opportuntty to examine the per ·vision hereof.' "'Claim forms: The insurer, upon receipt "A policy in which the insurer reserves the son of the · insured when and as often as it of a notice of claim, will furnish to the may reasonably require during the pendency right to refuse any renewal shall have, at the claimant such forms as are usually furnished beginning of the abOve provision, of a claim hereunder and to make an autopsy by it for filing proofs of loss. If such forms in case of death where it is not forbidden by " 'Unless not less than 5 days prior to the are not furnished within 15 days after the premium due date the insurer has delivered law.' giving of such notice the claimant shall be " ( 11) A provision as follows: to the insured or has mailed to his last deemed to have complied with the require- address as shown by the records of the in •• 'Legal actions: No action at law or in . ments of this policy as to proof of loss upon equity shall be brought to recover on this surer written notice of its intention not to submitting, within the time fixed in the renew this policy beyond the period for policy prior to the expiration of 60 days after policy for filing proofs of loss, written proof written proof of loss has been furnished in which the premium has been accepted.' covering the occurrence, the character and accordance with the requirements of this "(4) A provision as follows: the extent of the loss for which claim is policy. No such action shall be brought after .. 'Reinstatement: If any renewal premium n1ade.' the expiration of 3 years after the time writ be not paid within the time granted the in "(7) A provision as follows: ten proof of loss is required to be furnished." sured for payment, a subsequent acceptance "'Proofs of loss: Written proof of loss •• ( 12) A provision as follows: of premium by the insurer or by any agent must be furnished to the insurer at its said .. 'Change of beneficiary: Unless the in -duly authorized by the insurer to accept office in case of claim for loss for which this sured makes an irrevocable designation of such premium, without requiring in connec policy provides any periodic payment con beneficiary, the right to change of beneficiary tion therewith an application for reinstate tingent upon continuing loss within 90 days is reserved to the insured and the consent ment, shall reinstate the policy; provided, after the termination of the period for which of the beneficiary or beneficiaries shall not however, that if the insurer or such agent the insurer is liable and in case of claim for be requisite to surrender or assignment of requires an application for reinstatement any other loss within 90 days after the date this policy or to any change of beneficiary and issues a conditional receipt for the pre of such loss. Failure to furnish such proof or beneficiaries, or to any other changes in mium tendered, the policy will be rein within the time required shall not invalidate this policy.' stated upon approval of such application by nor reduce any claim if it was not reasonably "(The first clause of this provision, relat the insurer, or, lacking such approval, upon possible to give proof within such time, pro ing to the irrevocable designation of bene the 45th day following the date of such vided such proof is furnished as soon as rea ficiary, may be omitted at the insurer's op conditional receipt unless the insurer has sonably possible and in no event, except in tion.) previously notified th~ insured in writing of the absence of legal capacity, later than 1 "(B) Other provisions: Except as provided its disapproval of such application. There year from the time proof is otherwise re in paragraph (C) of this S\lbsection, no such instated policy shall cover only loss resulting quired.' policy delivered or issued for delivery to any from such accidental injury as may be sus '.' ( 8) A provision as follows: person in the District shall contain provi tained after the date of reinstatement and •• 'Time for payment of claims: Indemni sions respecting the matters set forth below loss due to such sickness as may begin ties payable under this policy for any loss unless such provisions are in the words in more than 10 days after such date. In all other than loss for which this policy pro which the same appear in this paragraph: other respects the insured and insurer shall vides any periodic payment will be paid im Provided, however, That the insurer may, at have the same rights thereunder as they mediately upon receipt of due written proof its option, use in lieu of any such provision had under the policy immediately before the of such loss. Subject to due written proof a corresponding provision of different word o.ue date of the defaulted premium, subject of loss, all accrued indemnities for loss for ing approved by the Superintendent which to any provisions endorsed hereon or at which this policy provides periodic payment is not less favorable in any respect to the tached hereto in connection with the rein will be paid ------(insert period insured or the beneficiary. Any such provi ·statement. Any premium accepted in con for payment which must not be less fre sion contained in the policy shall be pre nection with a reinstatement shall be ap quently than monthly) and any balance re ceded individually by the appropriate cap plied to a period for which premium has maining unpaid upon the termination of lia tion appearing in this paragraph or, at the not been previously paid, but not to any bility will be paid immediately upon receipt option of the insurer, by such appropriate period more than 60 days prior to the date of of due written proof.' individual or group captions or subcaptions reinstatement.' "(9) A provision as follows: as the Superintendent may approve. "(The last sentence of the above provision "'Payment of claims: Indemnity for loss "(1) A provision as follows: may be omitted from any policy which the of life will be payable in accordance with •• 'Change of occupation: If the insured be insured has the right to continue in force the beneficiary designation and the provi injured or contract sickness after having subject to its terms by the timely payment sions respecting such payment which may changed his occupation to one classified bl rtroos CONGRESSIONAl RECORD ~HOUSE June 22 the insurer as more hazardous than that in this provision a definition of 'other valid amount of such benefits under this policy as stated in this policy or while doing for com· coverage', approved as to .form by the Super the amount of such monthly earnings or such pensation anything pertaining to an occupa intendent, which definition shall be limited average mont hly earnings of the insured tion so classified, the insurer will pay only in subject matter to coverage provided by or· bears to the total amoun..t of man thly bene· such port ion of the indemnities provided in ganizations subject to regulation by insnr· fits for the same loss under all such coverage this policy as the premium paid would have ance law or by insurance authorities of this upon the insured at the time such disability purchased at the rates and within the limits or any other jurisdiction of the United States .commences and for the return of such part fixed by the insurer for such more hazardous or any province of Canada, and by hospital of the premiums paid d'Jring such two years occupation. If the insured changes his oc· or medical service organizations, and to any as. shall exceed the pro rata amount of the cupation to one classified by the insurer as other coverage the inclusion of which m ay premiums for the benefits actually paid here less hazardous than that stated in this policy, be approved by the Superintendent. In the under; but this shall not operate to reduce the insurer, upon receipt of proof of such absence of such definition such term shall the total monthly amount of benefits pay change of occupation, will reduce the pre· not include group insurance, automobile able under all such coverage upon the in· mium rate accordingly, and wlll ret urn the medical payments insurance, or coverage pro sured l::!elow the sum of $200 or the sum of excess pro rata unearned premium from the Vided by hospital or medical service organiza· the monthly benefits specified in such cover date of change of occupat ion or from the tions or by union welfare plans or employer ages, whichever is the lesser, nor shall it policy anniversary date immediately pre· or employee benefit organizations. For the operate to .reduce benefits other than those ceding receipt of such proof, whichever is the purpose of applying the foregoing policy pro payable for loss of time.' more recent. In applying this provision, the vision with respect to any insured, any . "(The foregoing polict provision may be classification of occupational risk and the amount of benefit provided for such insured inserted only in a policy which the insured premium rates shall be such as h ave been pursuant to any compulsory benefit statute has the right to continue in force subject to last filed by the insurer prior to the oc· (including any workmen's compensation or its terms by the timely payment of premiums currence of the loss for which the insurer is employer's liability statute) whether provid· (1) until at least age 50, or (2) in the case liable or prior to date of proof of change in ed by a governmental agency or otherwise .of a policy issued after age 44, for at least occupation with the official having super· shall in all cases be deemed to be 'other 5 years from its date of issue.- The insurer vision of insurance in the jurisdic-:;ion where valid coverage' of which the insurer has had may, at its option, include in this provision the insured resided at the time this policy notice. In applying the foregoing policy pro a definition of 'valid loss-of-time coverage.' was issued; but if such filing was not re· vision no third party' liability coverage shall approved as to form by the Superintendent, quired, then the classification of occupation· be included as 'other valid coverage'.) · which definition shall be limited in subject al risk and the premium rates shall be those ' ~ (5) A provision as follows: _platter to coverage provided by governmental last made effective by the insurer in such " 'Insurance with other insurers: If there agencies or by organizations subject to reg· jurisdiction prior to the occurrence of the be other valid coverage, not with this in· ulation by insurance law or by insurance loss or prior to the date of proof of change surer, providing benefits for the same loss on authorities of this or any other jurisdiction in occupation.' other than an expense-incurred basis and of of the United States or any Province of Can· "(2) A provision as follows: which this insurer has not .been given writ ada, or to any other coverage the inclusion .. 'Misstatement of age: If the age of the ten notice prior to the occurrence or com of which may be approved by the Superin.. insured has been misstated, all amounts pay· mencement of loss, the only liability for tendent or . any combination of such cover able under this policy shall be such as the such benefits under this. policy shall be for ages. In the absence of such definition such premium paid would have purchased at the such proportion of the indemnities otherwise term shall not include any coverage provided correct age.' ' provided hereunder for such loss as the like for such insured pursuant to any compulsory "(3) A provision as fo ows: indemnities of which. the insurer had notice benefit statute (including any workmen's .. 'Other insurance in this insurer: If an (including the indemnities under this pol· compensation or employer's liability stat accident or sickness or accident and sickness icy) bear to the total amount of all like in· ute), or benefits provided by union welfare policy or policies previously issued by the in· demnities for such loss, and for the return plans or by employer or employee benefit or· surer to the insured be in force concurrently of such portion of the premium paid as shall ganizations.) herewith, making the aggregate indemnity exceed the pro-rata portion for the indemni " ( 7) A provision as follows: for ------(insert type of coverage or ties thus determined.' " 'Unpaid premium: Upon the payment of coverages) in excess of $------(insert "(If the foregoing policy provision is in· a claim under this policy, any premium then maximum limit of indemnity or indemnities) eluded in a policy which also contains the due and unpaid or covered by any note or the excess insurance shall be void and all next preceding policy provision there shall • written order may be deducted therefrom.' premiums paid for such excess shall be re be added to the caption of the foregoing pro· "(8) A provision as follows: turned to the insured or to his estate.' vision the phrase '-other benefits'. The in· " 'Cancellation: The insurer may cancel or, in lieu thereof: surer may, at its option, include in this pro this policy at any time by written notice de "'Insurance effective at any one time on vision a definition of 'other valid coverage,' livered to the insured, or mailed to his last the insured under a like policy or policies in approved as to form by the.Superintendent; address as shown by the records of the in this insurer is limited to the one such policy which definition shall be limited in subject surer, stating when, not less than 5 days elected by the insured, his beneficiary or his matter to coverage provided by organizations thereafter, such cancellation shall be effec. estate, as the case may be, and the insurer subject to regulation by insurance law or by tive; and after the policy has been continued :Will return all premiums paid for all other insurance authorities of this or any other beyond its original term the insured may such policies.' jurisdiction of the United States or any Prov· cancel this policy at any time by written . " ( 4) A provision as follows: ince of Canada, and to any other coverage notice delivered or mailed to the insurer, effective upon receipt or on such later date as .. 'Insurance with other insurers: If there the inclusion of which may be approved by be other valid coverage, not with this in· the Superintendent. In the absence of such may be specified in such notice. In the event definition such term shall not include group of cancellation, the insurer ·will return surer, providing benefit s for the same loss on promptly the unearned portion of any pre a provision of service basis or on an expense insurance, or benefits provided by union wel· fare plans or by employer or employee bene· mium paid. If the insured cancels, the incurred basis and of which this insurer has earned premium shall be computed by the not been given written notice prior to the fit organizations. For the purpose of apply· occurrence or commencement of loss, the ing the foregoing policy provision with use of the short-rate table last filed with the respect to any insured, any amount of bene official having supervision of insurance in only liability under any expense incurred the jurisdiction where the insured resided coverage of this policy shall be for such pro fit provided for such insured pursuant to any compulsory benefit statute (including any when the policy was _issued. If the insurer portion of the loss as the amount which cancels, the earned premium shall be com would otherwise have been payable here· workmen's compensation or employer's lia bility statute) whether provided by a gov puted pro rata. Cancellation shall be with Under plus the total of the like amounts out prejudice to any claim originating prior under all such other valid coverages for the ernmental agency or otherwise shall in · an cases be deemed to be 'other valid coverage' to the effective date of cancellation.' same loss of which this insurer had notice "(9) A provision as follows: bears to the total like amounts under all of which the insurer has had notice. In applying the foregoing policy provision no " 'Conformity with State statutes: Any valid coverages for such loss, and for the re· provision of this policy which, on its effective turn of EUch portion of the premiums paid as third party liability coverage shall be in: cluded as 'other valid coverage.') date, is in confiict with the statutes of the shall exceed the pro rata portion for the jurisdiction in which the insured resides on amount so determined. For the purpose of "(6) A provisicn as follows: such date is hereby amended to conform to applying this provision when other coverage " 'Relation of earnings to insurance: If the minimum requirements of such statutes.' Is on a provision of service basis, the "like the total monthly amount of loss-of-time "(10) A provision as follows: amount" of such other coverage shall be benefits promised for the same loss under taken as the amount which the services all valid loss-of-time coverage upon the in:.. •• 'Illegal occupation: The insurer shall not rendered would have cost in the absence of sured, whether payable on a weekly or be liable for any loss to which a contributing such coverage. • monthly basis, shall exceed the monthly cause was the insured's commission of or at· earnings of the insured at the time disabil· tempt to commit a felony or to which a con· "(If the foregoing policy provision is in· tributing cause was the insured's being en· eluded in a policy which also contains the ity commenced or his average monthly earn· gaged in an illegal occupation.' next following policy provision there shall ings for the period of 2 years immediately "(11) A provision as follows: be added to the caption of the foregoing pro· preceding a disability for which claim is vision the phrase '-expense incurred bene· " 'Intoxicants and narcotics: The insurer made, whichever is the greater, the insurer shall not be liable for any loss sustained or ~its'. The insurer may, at its option, include will be liable only for such proportionate contracted in consequence of the insured's 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - 1-IOUSE J009 being intoxicated or under the influence of trans may be made by the insurer, for ad the effective date of this act, may be used any narcotic unless administered on the ad::. ministrative purposes only, in such manner or delivered or issued for delivery to any vice of a physician.' as to indicate clearly that such insertions such person during 3 years after the effec " (C) Inapplicable or Inconsistent provi are not to be ascribed to the applicant. tive date of this act without being subject sions: If any provision of this subsection is "(C) The falsity of any statement in the to the provisions of subsection (b), (c), or in whole or in part inapplicable to or incon application for any policy covered by this (d) of section 12. sistent with the coverage provided by a par section may not bar the right to recovery ticular form of policy the insurer, with the thereunder unless such false statement ma With the following committee amend.. approval of the Superintendent, shall omit terially affected either the acceptance of the ments: · from such policy any inapplicable provision risk or the hazard assumed by the insurer. Page 1, line 5, strike "1940", and in lieu or part of a provision, and shall modify any "Notice; waiver thereof insert "1951." inconsistent provision or part of the provi Page 1, revise line 7 to read: "SEC. 12. In• sion in such manner as to make the provi "(f) The acknowledgment by any insurer of the receipt of notice given under any dividual accident and sickness policy." sion as contained in the policy consistent Page 1, line 9, insert the figure "1." before with the coverage provided by the policy. policy covered by this section, or the fur nishing of forms for filing proofs of loss, the word "filing." "(D) Order of certain policy provisions: Page 1, line 10, strike out the following: The provisions which are the subject of para or the acceptance of such proofs, or the in vestigation of any claim thereunder shall "SEC. 12. (a).'' graphs (A) and (B) of this subsection, or Page 2, line 3, insert the words "or alien" any corresponding provisions which are used not operate as a waiver of any of the rights after the word "foreign." in lieu thereof in accordance with such para of the insurer in defense of any claim aris Page 2, line 17, insert the following in graphs, shall be printed in the consecutive ing under such policy. front of the word "form": "2." order of the provisions in such paragraphs or, "Age limit Page 2, line 18, strike the letters "(b) (A)" at the option of the insurer, any such provi "(g) If any such policy contains a pro and in lieu thereof insert the letter " (a) .'' sion may appear as a unit in any part of the vision establishing, as an age limit or other Page 3, line 23, strike the letter " (c) " and policy, with other provisions-to which it may wise, a date after which the coverage pro insert in lieu thereof the number "(3) ." be logically related, provided the resulting vided by the policy will not be effective, and Page 4, line 17, strike the letter " (B) " and policy shall not be in whole or in part unin if such date falls within a period for which insert in lieu thereof the letter " (b) .'' telligible, uncertain, ambiguous, abstruse, or premium is accepted by the insurer or if Page 4, line 24, strike the letter " (A)" and likely to mislead a person to whom the policy the insurer accepts a premium after such insert in lieu thereof the letter "(a)." is offered, delivered, or issued. date, the coverage provided by the policy Page 4, line 25, strike the letter " (c) " and "(E) Third party ownership: The word will continue in force subject to any right of insert in lieu thereof the number "3." 'insured,' as used in this section, shall not be cancellation until the -end of the period Page 5, revise line 1 to read: "3. Accident construed as preventing a person other than for which premium has been accepted. In and sickness policy ·provisions." the insured with a proper insurable interest the event the age of the insured has been Page 5, line 2, strike the letters " (c) (A)" from making application for and owning a misstated and if, according to the correct and insert in lieu thereof the letter " (a) ." policy covering the insured or from being en age of the insured, the coverage provided by Page 5, line 3, strike the letter "(C)" and insert in lieu thereof the letter " (c).'' titled under such a policy to any indemni the policy would not have become effective, ties, benefits, and rights provided therein. Page 5, line 25, strike the letter "(a)" and or would have ceased prior to the accept insert in lieu thereof the letters " ( aa) .'' "(F) Filing procedure: The Superintend ance of such premium or premiums, then the Page 6, line 10, strike the letters "(c) (B)" ent may make such. reasonable rules and liability of the insurer shall be limited to regulations concerning the procedure for the and insert in lieu thereof "3 (b).'' the refund, upon request, of all premiums Page 7, line 1, strike the letter "(b)" and filing or submission of policies subject to paid for the period not covered by the this section as are necessary, proper, or ad insert in lieu thereof the letters "(bb) ." visable to the administration of this section. policy. Page 14, line 10, strike the letter "(B)" This provision shall not abridge any other "Nonapplication to certain policies and insert in lieu thereof the letter "(b)." authority granted the Superintendent by "(h) Nothing in this section shall apply Page 14, line 11, strike the letter " (C) " law. to or affect ( 1) any policy of workmen's com and insert in lieu thereof the letter " (c) .'' "Conforming to statute pensation insurance or any policy of lia Page 23, line 25, strike the letter " (C)" "(d) (A) Other policy provisions: No pol bility insurance with or without supplemen and insert in lieu thereof the letter "(c)." Icy provision which is not subject to subsec tary expense coverage- therein; or (2) any Page 24, line 9, strike the letter "(D)" tion (c) of this section shall make a policy, policy or contract of reinsurance; or (3) and insert in lieu thereof the letter " (d) . " or any portion thereof, less favorable in any any blanket or group policy of insurance; Page 24, line 10, strike the letters " (A)" and "(B) " and in lieu thereof insert the let respect to the insured or the beneficiary than or (4) life insurance, endowment or an ters "(a)" and "(b)." the provisions thereof which are subject to nuity contracts, or contracts supplemental Page 24, line 21, strike the letter "(E)" this section. thereto which contain only such provisions and in lieu thereof insert " (e) .'' "(B) Policy conflicting with this section: relating to accident and sickness insurance as (a) provide additional benefits in case of Page 25, line 3, strike the letter "(F)" A policy delivered or issued for delivery to and in lieu thereof insert "(f).'' any person in the District in violation of this death or dismemberment or loss of sight section shall be held valid but shall be con by accident, or as (b) operate to safeguard Page 25, line 9, revise to read: "4. Con strued as provided in this section. When any such contracts against lapse, or to give a forming to statute." provision in a policy subject to this section special surrender value or special benefit Page 25, line 10, strike the letters "{d) (A)" is in conflict with any provision of this sec or an annuity in the event that the insured and in lieu thereof insert the letter " (a) .'' tion, the rights, duties, and obligations of or annuitant shall become totally and per Page 25, line 11, strike the letter " (c)" and the insurer, the insured, and the beneficiary manently disabled; as defined by the con in lieu thereof insert the number "(3) .'' shall be governed by the provisions of this tract or supplemental contract: Provided, Page 25, line 15, strike the letter "('13) " section. That no such supplemental contract shall and in lieu thereof insert "(b).'' "Application be issued or delivered to any person in the Page 25, line 23, revise to read: "5. Appli "(c) (A) The insured shall not be bound District unless and until a copy of the form cation.'' by any statement made in an application for thereof has been submitted to and approved Page 25, line 24, strike the letters "(e) (A)" a policy unless a copy of such application is ·by the Superintendent under such reason and in lieu thereof insert the letter " (a) .'' attached to or endorsed on the policy when able rules and regulations as he shall make Page 26, line 15, strike the letter "(B)" issued as a part thereof. If any such policy concerning the provisions in such contracts and in lieu thereof insert "(b)." delivered or issued for delivery to any person and their submission to and approval by Page 26, line 21, strike the letter "(C)" in the District shall be reinstated or re him. and in lieu thereof insert "(c)." newed, and the insured or the beneficiary or "Violation Page 27, line 1, revise to read: "6. Notice: assignee of such policy shall make written "(i) Any person, partnership, or corpora waiver." request to the insurer for a copy of the appli tion willfully violating any provision of this Page 27, line 2, strike the letter "(f).'' ·cation, if any, for such reinstatement or re section or order of the Superintendent made Page 27, line 8, revise to read: "7. Age newal, the insurer shall within 15 days after in accordance with this section, shall be limit." the receipt of such request at its home office punished by a fine not to exceed q;______Page 27, line 9, strike the letter " (g) ." or any branch office of the insurer, deliver or for each such violation, which may be re Page 28, strike all of lines 1 through 7, in mail to the person making such request, a covered by a civil action. The Superintend clusive, and in lieu thereof insert tb,e follow copy of such application. If such copy shall ent may also suspend or revoke the license ing: not be so delivered or mailed, the insurer of an insurer or agent for any such willful shall be precluded from introducing such "8. Nonapplication to certain policies violation." "Nothing in this section shall apply to or application as evidence in any action or pro Effective date of act ceeding based upon or involving such policy affect (1) any policy of group accident, group or its reinstatement or renewal. SEc. 2. This act shall take effect on jan health, or group accident and health insur "(B) No alteration of any written appli uary 1, 1954. A policy, rider, or endorse ance; or (2) life insurance, endowment or cation for any such policy shall be made by ment, which could have been lawfully used annuity contracts,." any person other than the applicant with or delivered or issued for delivery to any Page 28, strike all of line 23 through line out his written consent, except that inser- person in the District immediately before 5 on page 29, inclusive. 7010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 22 Page·29, after line 5; insert the following ·may be considered in the House as in trical·Depattment" the proviso appearing in new section: Committee of the Whole. the . paragraph . designated "Lighting" and "SEc. 2. Section 2 of chapter I of such act The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there reading as follows: "Provided, That any asso of June 19, 1934, as amended (D. C. Code, ciation or corporation engaged in the manu 1951 ed., sec. 35-302) is amended by strik objection to the request of the gentle facture and sale of gas for illuminating and ing therefrom the definition of the word 'Su man from Iowa? fuel purposes in the District of Columbia, perintendent', and inserting in lieu thereof There was no objection. through its president or other duly author the following: • "Superintendent" means the The Clerk read the bill, as follows: iz.ed officer, shall make a sworn statement to Superintendent of Insurance of the District Congress annually, on or before the first day of Columbia, or the omcer or officers, agency Be it enacted, etc., That section 3 of an act of February in each year. Said report shall or agencies succeeding to his functions under entitled "An act to incorporate the Wash.o contain a detailed statement of the condi Reorganization Plan No.5 of 1952.'" ington Gas Light Co.," approved July 8, 1848 tion of the business of said association or Page 29, line 7, strike "SEC. 2.'' and in lieu · (9 Stat. 722), as amended, is hereby amended corporation for the year ending December thereof insert "SEc. 3.'' to read as follows: 31 next preceding, and such statement shall Page ·29, line 7, strike the date "on Jan "SEc. 3. That the stock, property, and af set forth the actual cost and also present uary 1, 1954" and in lieu thereof insert fairs of the said corporation shall be man value of the property of such association or "ninety days after approval." aged and conducted by or under the direction corporation used in the conduct of its busi• Page 29, line 14, strike the letters "(b), of 7 directors, being stockholders, or such ness, the amount of paid-up capital stock, (c) , or (d) " and in lieu thereof insert the other number, not more than 15 nor less the amount and character of the indebted numbers "2, 3, or 4." than 7, within which limitation the mem ness of such association or corporation, the Page 29, line 14, strike the period after the bership may be in any case increased or amount and cost of materials used in mak number "12", insert a comma and the follow diminished, as the stockholders may from ing gas, the amount of gas manufactured, ing: "Provided, however, when any provision, time to time determine; that the said di the amount of gas sold, the average price in such policy is in conflict with any provi rectors shall hold their offices for 1 year, or per thousand cubic feet received for gas sold, sion of such section, the obligations of the until their successors shall be elected and the revenue from the sale of all by-products·, insurer shall be governed by the provisions shall qualify; and shall be elected at a meet the revenues from all other sources, the ex of such section." ing of the stockholders to be held each year tensions and improvements made in the at such time and place in the city of Wash plant and works, the actual cost of the same, The committee amendments were ington as may be fixed from time to time by the amount expended for labor, the amount agreed to. the stockholders of the corporation; and that set aside for depreciation, the amount set Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Speaker, I move notice of such annual meeting shall be given apart for · insurance and renewals, the to strike out the last word in order to as provided in the bylaws of said corporation amount paid out of earnings for· better aks a question. It is not true that this and shall be published in at least two of the ments, the amount paid for betterments bill only makes the laws governing the public newspapers printed in the city of from other sources, the amount set aside Washington, at least 14 days previous to the and paid in interest and dividends, the sur business of life insurance in the District time of holding such annual meeting; and of Columbia up to date and in accord plus after paying the operating expenses and every such election shall be by ballot and fixed charges, the statement of the oparating with the laws of many of the States? by such of the stockholders entitled to vote expenses to be itemized and classified as is Mr. TALLE. The gentleman from who shall attend the annual meeting ' for done by other public utility corporations, in South Carolina is correct. This is a that purpose either in person or by proxy; the District of Columbia, the names of the very carefully worked out bill. It was and each stockholder shall be entitled to stockholders and the amount of the stock written over a period of time with great one vote for each share of the stock held of held in such association or corporation by care by the National Association of In record on the books of the. corporation on -each of them on December 31 next preceding the record date fixed as provided in the by the date of such report." surance Commissioners. I may state laws; and the persons having the greatest that this bill has been enacted into law SEC. 4. That section 6 of an act entitled number of votes shall be the directors; and "An act making appropriations to provide fo'r in 27 States in our country, including if it shall happen that two or more persons the expenses of the government of the Dis my own State. The form that is being have an equal number of votes, the directors trict of Columbia for the fiscal year ending used here in the District of Columbia is in office at the time of such election shall, June 30, 1917, and for other purposes," ap obsolete. The form proposed in this bill by a plurality of votes, given by ballot, de proved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 676, 716, is up to date, as the gentleman from termine which of the persons so having an ch. 433) (D. C. Code, sec. 43-1207), is here South Carolina has said. Hearings were equal number of votes shall be director or by repealed. directors, so as to complete the whole num SEC. 5. All charters, statutes, acts and held on the bill. It has ha~ proper de ber to be chosen; and the directors so chosen partmental clearance. I have had fa parts of acts, laws, ordinances, and regula shall, as soon as may be thereafter, proceed tions 'inconsistent with or repugnant to the vorable correspondence from the best by ballot to elect one of their number presi provisions of this act, but only so far. as in insurance companies throughout the dent; and whenever any vacancy shall hap consistent herewith or repugnant hereto, are land. There is no objection. It is of pen, the same shall be filled up by the re hereby repealed. distinct advantage to the policyholders. maining directors, by a plurality of votes, SEc. 6. The right to alter, amend, or re Mr. SIMPSON of Illinois. Mr. Speak until the next annual meeting." peal this act is hereby expressly reserved to SEC. 2. There be added to said act to in the Congress. er, will the gentleman yield? corporate the Washington Gas Light Co., as Mr. T ALLE. I yield. aforesaid, a new section to read as follows: · With the following committee amend .. Mr. SIMPSON of Illinois. The Dis "SEC. • The shares of the corporation ment: trict of Columbia Committee has given shall be represented by certificates signed its" unanimous approval. On page 3, line 8, after the word "SEc.", by the president or a vice president and the insert "12.'' Mr. TALLE. The gentleman is cor secretary or an assistant secretary, and sealed rect. with the seal of the corporation. Such seal The committee amendment was agreed The SPEAKER pro tempore. The may be a facsimile. Where such a certificate to. is countersigned by a transfer agent other question is on the engrossment and third than the corporation itself or an employee The SPEAKER pro tempore. The reading of the bill. of the corporation or by a transfer clerk and question is on the third reading of the The bill was ordered to be engrossed registered by a registrar, the signatures of bill. and read a third time, and was read the president or vice president and the sec The bill was ordered to be read a third the third time. retary or assistant secretary upon such cer time, and was read the third time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The tificate may be facsimiles. In case any of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill. · ficer who has signed or whose facsimile sig question is on the passage of the bill. nature has been placed upon such certificate The bill was passed, and a motion to The bill was passed, and a motion to shall have ceased to be such officer before reconsider was laid on the table. such certificate is issued, it may be issued reconsider was laid on the table. by the corporation with the same effect as if Mr. TALLE. Mr. Speaker, may I state such officer had not ceased to hold such of that hearings were held on all three of TO MODERNIZE THE CHARTER OF~ fice at the date of its issue." these bills which I am presenting. There THE WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT CO. SEc. 3. That section 1 of an act entitled was no opposition to any of them. Mr. TALLE. Mr. Speaker, by direc "An .act making appropriations to provide tion of the Committee on the District of for the expense of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year end COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT Columbia, I call up the bill India. The International Bank has had ahead to the next 2 o-r 3 dec~des .. -There President:Eisenhower is asking us to do a working party out there studying the are only these two anchors on which we that with a million tons of surplus wheat whole Indus Basin. Their engineers can build or depend; Turkey on that side for the peopl_e of .Pakistan. He has have come up with an ingenious plan, and Pakistan on this side. It seems to me urged haste because a stomach can stay which our people out there say is sound. that it does not make good sense to put empty only just so long. It is to hold back water in the rainy sea billions of dollars into Europe and leave , Wheat is the major source of food mn and build link canals to divert water this side door open in such a way that for the 75 million people in Pakistan. from the larger rivers into riverbeds it could only tempt the Soviet Union to For 2 successive years droughts have that would be dry it' India took all the move into that area. destroyed the crop. When the crop water from the two that flow through I want to make one further point fails starvation stalks the land unless India. urgency. If this aid is not given quick· sufficient quantities of wheat can be Of the five rivers, the Indus River is ly, so that the people of Pakistan, who brought into the country. But the young the big one, carrying approximately half have just finished, or who are just finish· Pakistan Government, faced with myriad of the total flowage and almost half of it ing their wheat harvest, know that they financial problems, cannot buy enough runs into the Indian Ocean because there do not have to stretch that inadequate wheat to keep its people alive. So it are no storage dams to hold the water harvest over 12 months, but can start has turned to this Nation for help. back. The rainfall comes during the using now what they have, with the as· Mr. Speaker, I am sure there is not . months of July, August, and September, surance that through the rest of the a Member of this House who will ques· and not a drop during the other 9 year there will be grain coming from the tion the humanitarian need for this months. They need dams to impound United States, it is certain there are grant. But there is another issue. that floodwater in the mountains and going to be food riots and disorders. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles let it come down in the canals during People riot rather than starve. With said last month, shortly after his trip the dry season. But it takes money and food riots, you will have either a mili· to the Middle East and south Asia, that capital and foreign exchange to build tary government and the end of this he was firmly convinced of the desir· those dams. The International Bank is magnificent effort of a proud, heroic ability of this grant for strategic reasons. willing to lend them funds to build those people to build a really democratic form He pointed out that Pakistan borders dams and canals so that they can pre of government in Asia-or you will have Communist China and from its northern vent recurrences of this crisis, so that chaos, and only one thing can happen. boundary one can see the Soviet Union. they can develop the whole basin and get People in despair will turn to those :who It flanks Iran and the Middle East and their own water and use it for their own are at their elbows every minute prom guards the Khyber Pass, often an inva· lands. But it will make the loan only ising everything under the sun. sion route from the north into the sub· if the dispute with India is resolved, . It seems to me that our purpose is not continent. He argued further that Pak which the Bank is endeavoring to accom just charity. Our purpose is certainly istan and the United States have stood plish. And it cannot make the loan if not to try and buy good will. We side by side in most United Nations de· Pakistan has so exhausted its reserves to have their good will. We are giving lots bates and that Pakistan was a tower of take care of this immediate emergency of aid to those whose good will we do strength on the Japanese Treaty. that its credit is totally destroyed. That not have. These people have only good After his recent visit to the Near and is the crux of the matter. We can force will toward us. It seems to me that this Middle East, Mr. Dulles stated further, them to borrow the money and send is one of the places where our aid is most and I quote: them this wheat as a loan, but if we do, justified and can do the most good, both One of my clearest impressions was that we make it impossible for them to cure to them and, in the long run, to our of the outstanding and sincere friendliness the situation. And it is sure to be on our own well-being and security. which the leaders of Pakistan feel for the doorstep again. Is it not good sense to Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I yield United States. I was greatly impressed with carry on a program which will enable such time as she may require to the their understanding of world problems. I them to become self -sufficient rather gentlewoman from Ohio [Mrs. FRANCES am convinced that they will resist the than to give this money as a loan, and menace of communism as their strength P. BOLTON]. permits. then be faced with the same problem Mrs. FRANCES P. BOLTON. Mr. next year and the following year, and Speaker, most of the world's people do I sincerely urge the Congress to bolster whenever there is a drought in the years not know what it is to have too much that strength in this time of world crisis. to come? This is the basic reason which food. When nature smiles upon the I urge you to vote in favor of this bill, convinced our committee we should rec· land millions of men, women, and chil H. R. 5659, and," by so doing, tell the ommend a grant in this case rather than dren get just about enough food to keep people of Pakistan that we in the United a loan, and it is the reason why we rec· them satisfied. But when a vital crop States are solicitous for the welfare of ommended paying the freight. It is not fails, as it does all too often, only the our friends. a matter of their being unwilling to pay fortunate find enough to eat. Others Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, the freight. They do not have the capa die of starvation. I yield 10 minutes to the gentleman from city to pay the freight without further That situation is only hearsay to most Mississippi [Mr. ·coLMER]. imperiling the basic stability of their of us in the United States. Very few Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, will the currency or their ability to make neces living Americans have had the heart· gentleman from Mississippi yield to me? sary loans for development of their ir· rending experience of watching a child Mr. COLMER. I yield to the gentle riga tion system. waste away for want of a mouthful of man from Illinois. There are larger issues involved. One bread. Mr. MASON. I am wondering how is humanitarian. These people are hun· We are blessed with the opposite prob· many people in this House are interested gry, and the American people, whenever lem: too much food. Often, especially in the financial security of our own cur they have had a surplus, historically have in recent years, we have produced greater rency and our own Nation instead of in given of their surplus to help feed hungry crops than we can consume. But we the financial security and the imperiling people. I believe our people still approve prefer it that way, and our Government of the currency in Pakistan. such a course. Another is strategic. I buys up the excess quantities to be sure Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, I appre mentioned it the other day during the that our farmers will not go bankrupt ciate the remarks of the very learned debate on the Mutual Security bill. If when the bottom drops out of their mar and forthright gentleman from Illinois you look at the whole Middle East, on the ket. We buy and store that excess food [Mr. MAsoN]. They are not out of line west flank is Turkey, one bastion or an so the Nation will always have a pros· with the remarks I am about to make chor. On the east is Pakistan. In be· perous farm community ready to pro· myself, very briefly. tween there are almost 2,000 miles with· duce this food when we do need it. Mr. Speaker, these problems are al out a single barrier to stop the Soviet The problem of scarcity and the prob· ways perplexing. I think I realize as Union from moving south, except some lem of surplus has a logical meeting fully as anyone here that the situation mountains. The prize exposed by that ground. in the world is so fluid that almost any gap includes all the oil in the Middle Fortunately for those who starve, the thing can happen. But I have long been East, and the Suez Canal, and the land people of this Nation have always been convinced-and I repeat for the "ump bridge across to Africa, which is stra· happy to share the bountiful fare of teenth" time on the floor of this House tegically so important to us as we look their table with their friends overseas. that Russia neither wants war nor peace, · 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 70H) .but she wants to bleed us white eco The testimony before the Rules Com side our own _in Korea~ In the committee nomically and then taKe over in the en mittee was to the effect that one of the report it is pointed out that its purpose suing chaos and· confusion which follows reasons that we should pay the fre.ight is to provide food in a famine-stricken .the destruction of our economy. · on this was so that some of our steam area which is suffering from a terrific We are continuously playing into her ship companies could get something out drought. The committee reports that hands. I am not setting myself up to of it. If we are going to pay the freight, the CCC now has on hand 310 million say that under this situation it is wrong even though it costs twice as much to bushels of wheat, aequired from price to give this surplus wheat to Pakistan. ship it in American bottoms as it does in support operations, and that we can well Why, of course, the humane aspect, the foreign bottoms, maybe we should go the ~fford to spare the amount which it is objective of charity, appeals to all of whole way and help our own American proposed to give to Pakistan. us. I warit to go along with that. I shipping interests a little. What I am But while we are talking about distress think I could go along, possibly, al complaining about here is the proposal resulting from droughts in foreign coun though somewhat reluctantly, with this to further add to the national debt and tries let us not forget that we have disas proposal of giving away $100 million deficit spending to the tune of $20 million ters caused by prolonged droughts right worth of wheat under the proper re freight charges on wheat that we are here in our country. Fortunately, we strictions. And bear in mind now, you giving away. Certainly this is another produce food in great abundance and are not giving away a surplus product new and dangerous precedent in our for.:. we do not face famine as such. We have that you have already paid for, because eign-aid program. surpluses, not shortages, to deal with. this bill provides that the Commodity At the proper time in the reading of It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, that the Credit Corporation shall be reimbursed this bill for amendment I am going to time is at hand when there should be a from the United States Treasury·for the offer .an amendment providing that the reexamination of our basic policies with most of this wheat. So you are going transportation charges shall be paid by respect to use of surpluses accumulated to give a hundred million dollars away. the beneficiary and thereby we will save by the Government to alleviate distress It is going out of the Treasury of the just a little insignificant sum of $20 mil and disasters, even when they occur here .United States. Let us not fool our- lion. Of course, that does not amount .at home. Are we wedded to a policy of selves about that. · to anything now when we are giving using such surpluses to alleviate suffer In other words, we are still giving away 6 billions or more annually to for ing only if it occurs in foreign lands? away the taxpayers' money, but further, eign countries. Just where is the line to be drawn on as I understood the testimony before the But you know, I have some folks down helping those who, because of no fault ·Rules Committee and as the gentleman in my district who think 20 million is a of their own, become victims of a dis from Virginia [Mr. SMITH] referred to sizable amount of money, . particularly aster such as results from an extreme a moment ago, we not only propose to when it is taken out of their pockets for drought? give the wheat but we propose to de taxes. Twenty million dollars would Let us not forget that we have droughts liver it to them, transportation charges mean an awful lot to my taxpayers if I right here at home, within the confines paid. Of course, we have all heard that could be a party toward saving it for of our own Nation. old story-and I tell it again with no them. Mr. HOPE. Mr. Speaker, will the gen.. reflection upon the Pakistan Govern Mr. Speaker, I conclude where I began, tleman yield? ment or the people of Pakistan-the it would mean a lot to the stability of Mr. FISHER. .I yield to the gentle~ story of the old fellow who was starving this Government if we could put the man from Kansas. to death and who was being hauled down brakes on somewhere along the line and · Mr. HOPE. I just wanted to say this the road in a wagon. $orne good Sa try to preserve this last haven of refuge to the gentleman. As he knows, we are maritan-and we have lots of them in of a free people. When you destroy the giving some consideration to the drought this House and in tl;lis .country-stopped economy of these free people you have situation in Texas. I wanted to advise and said: "Where are you taking him?" destroyed everything. him that we are having a meeting of the . The answer was, "I am taking him to Mr. BROOKS of Louisiana. Mr. Committee on Agriculture on Thursday the poorhouse; he was going to starve to Speaker, will the gentleman yield? to consider especially the drought situa death; he wanted to go, he was volun Mr. COLMER. I yield to the gentle ·tion along the lines that he is discussing tarily going." The good Samaritan man from Louisiana. at this time. said: "That is not necessary; I have a Mr. BROOKS of Louisiana. I want Mr. FISHER. I appreciate the gentle wagonload of corn here. I will just give to ask the gentleman this question: man's contribution. He certainly has him some of this corn." Then the old My recollection may be faulty, but did been most sympathetic and considerate fellow rose up from the wagon bed, you not we vote last year to sell on terms of with respect to the condition I have de remember, and asked: "Is it shelled?" credit, not to give, to India? Am I at scribed. The gentleman has held meet Now we are going to "shell" it, and we fault in my memory? ings in the past, and I know that his are going to deliver it transportation Mr. COLMER. The gentleman is understanding of the situation has been paid. Why should we do that, Mr. technically correct. We accepted some current and that he recognizes the seri Chairman? Is it not enough that we . notes to make it a little more palatable. ousness of the situation. give the wheat without paying the trans Mr. SMITH of Virginia. The gentle Right at this time there is a consid portation charges? I want to talk to my man from Mississippi will recall that the erable area in southwest. Texas, for ex friends on the left, Republican side, for proposit4>n first came in as this bill ample, that is suffering from a drought a moment. I have been charged with comes in today as a gift. condition the severity of which has not being conservative. You used to be Mr. COLMER. That is my recollec been experienced in recorded history, charged with being conservative, too, tion and I am sure that is the recollec It is taking a terrific toll. That stricken but something has happened. As my tion of the gentleman from Louisiana. area is located in the heart of one of learned colleague pointed out here a Mr. Speaker, I am not going to con the Nation's leading sheep-, goat-, and moment ago when we Democrats did this clude this with any apology. I do not cattle-producing sections. This drought, for India last· year I stood in the well enjoy getting up here and opposing these ·of devastating proportions, has been go of the House-you can look it up in the things continuously, but I do feel my ob ing on for 4 continuous years, even CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-and said that ligation to my people and to my own longer in some spots. There are growers we were setting a precedent that was country to try to protect this country in that area who have been forced to going to give us trouble in the future. insofar as I can. feed every bead of their livestock for But the New Deal, my friends, did a hor Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, every day of the year for a period of rible thing, they required the recipient I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from more than 3 years. I can give you their country, India, to pay the transportation l'exas [Mr. FISHER]. . names and addresses. charges on that wheat. The new admin Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, the pend During that period feed prices have istration with a new foreign policy is go ing bill would make available to theRe remained high, while livestock prices · ing to outdo the old New Deal admin.:. public of Pakistan 37 million bushels of have in general dropped considerably. istration; the new administration is- go wheat from the Commodity Credit Cor Credit has been exhausted in many in ing to deliver the wheat to Pakistan poration stocks. This will be an out stances, and a most desperate situation transportation free, we are going to pay right gift to a friendly nation-a nation has developed. It all means inevitable the freight charges-abo~t $2Q million. whose tro9ps have fought vali~ntly be~ bankruptcy for many of .the sturdiest r1020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE June 22 citizens of the land unless something is but at a price in keeping with conditions Mr. NICHOLSON. I yield to the gen· done to cushion the impact which has that exist--at least as low as or lower tleman from Minnesota. befallen them. than is offered to foreign buyers? And Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. The It is because of the existence of those why not think about long-term credit gentleman mentioned his difficulty in lo conditions that I raise the question now arrangements which would enable our cating Pakistan. I would like to ask of policy in the use of surpluses to allevi· citizens to work and grow themselves out the gentleman if he knows where Cam ate such suffering-; and since we are of the situation which this disaster has bodia is. being asked to give 37 million bushels of brought upon them? Actually, a realistic Mr. NICHOLSON. I have no· more wheat to help people who are victims of relief program should, over the long pull, idea where Cambodia is than Pakistan, a drought in a friendly foreign country, cost the Government very little. and I have tried to look it up. I think this is the appropriate time to This legislation should serve to remind Mr. JUDD. Mr. Speaker, will the raise the question of just where the line all of us that drought victims are not to . gentleman yield? on this type of Government benevolence be found only in Pakistan. We have vic Mr. NICHOLSON. I yield to the gen is to be drawn. tims right here at home-victims who tleman from Minnesota. The condition I have described can are helping pick up the check which Mr. JUDD. I am not sure I under be alleviated, at least, to some extent. makes this gift to Pakistan possible. stood my friend correctly, but I thought \Vhile those people are not prone to lean I · am delighted that the chairman of he said that I had suggested that the on a benevolent government, they find the Agriculture Committee has called a Kremlin would supply this aid if we did great difficulty, just as I do, in reconcil· meeting on Thursday to consider this not. I made no such statement, I think. ing their plight with the program and entire problem. I said that if there are disorder and the policy which is represented in this Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 food riots as a result of starvation in legislation. minutes to the gentleman from Massa that country, the disorder will be taken It is true that we have a surplus of chusetts [Mr. NICHOLSON]. advantage of by the Kremlin so that it wheat. At this time it amounts to 310 Mr. NICHOLSON. Mr. Speaker, I do might be able to take over the country, million bushels, and it cost the Ameri· not hesitate to come up here and speak or more likely, the weakening of Pak· can taxpayers $837 million. The CCC on this matter. When this matter came istan would encourage the Kremlin to also has in storage 595 million tons of before the Committee on Rules, I was move down through the gap between cottonseed cake and meal, also acquired inclined to vote for it. Coming from Pakistan and Turkey. Starving people from price-support operations, at a cost a race of people, from Scotland, I would will go with who promises them some of $36 million. The CCC also owns 242 be more or less willing to give away some thing. The United States can deliver million bushels of corn, which cost the of the material that was supposed to the aid it promises and we do deliver; Government $389· million. All of this, support my family and my country. But, the Kremlin makes headway in areas as well as other surpluses, was paid for I looked up in the World Almanac where where there is unrest and confusion, be by our taxpayers, including those who Pakistan was, and I could not find it. cause of its extravagant promises. Peo· are striving for survival in our own So I asked my chairman on the com ple in dispair have no way of resisting drought-stricken areas. It is inevitable mittee and he very graciously pointed promises that sound glittering, even that the Government suffer some losses out that Pakistan was over here and though they are totally fraudulent. from these operations. Pakistan was over there, and in between, Mr. NICHOLSON. I accept the apol. The cottonseed products, heavy in pro· 2,000 miles away, was India; I mean, ogy of the gentleman from Minnesota. tein values, can be acquired by our cit both parts of Pakistan were 2,000 miles Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 izens. But in my own area the price is away from each other. minutes to the gentleman from Pennsyl virtually prohibitive, at $59 per ton at Then the gentleman from Virginia vania [Mr. GAVIN]. the places of storage. The buyer must Mr. GAVIN. Mr. Speaker, I do not sack and transport the feed, and in some called your attention to it. He is a very brilliant man, in the estimation of every· believe there is any Member of this instances there is some reprocessing to House who is not deeply sympathetic to· be done. With the price of livestock at body here in the House. He, like the gentleman from Mississippi, wants to ward any action that would help God's present levels and with most of their unforunates and the poverty-stricken credit already used up, the average know how long we can spend $167 mil· lion at a time for someone that we do people of the world. However, it does feeder simply cannot afford to pay the not seem that the committees present price. At the same time, these hard not know exists and continue to pay our own freight. these cases to us in such a way that we pressed victims of this disaster are told understand what they are all about. I that this same feed can be bought by I am not asking you the question; I for one am awfully tired of hearing, foreigners at $52 per ton. It is ex am simply asking you if you can say every time we come up with a piece of plained that this is in keeping with in your own mind where Pakistan is. legislation on these programs, that "Un world prices and that to reduce the cost True, somebody is starving. They have less you acquiesce the Soviets will move to domestic consumers that much would been starving since the time of Christ, in." What do we have to fear from the break the market in this country and in who said, "The poor ye have with you Soviets? Let us discontinue this talk volve the Government in unacceptable always." We will always have them. and get down to practical, realistic hu losses on its investment in cottonseed I would not be surprised but that Pak· manitarian thinking on this matter. products. istan would get along all riiht if we I cannot understand why the Commit Mr. Speaker, last year the Govern.. did not appropriate this money. The tee on Foreign Affairs did not bring in ment did go to the aid of drought· gentleman from Minnesota said, and if this appropriation in their mutual se· stricken areas with the hay program I am mistaken he can correct me, that curity legislation. This matter has been whereby the consumers were afforded the Kremlin will take charge of it. The under consideration for some time. It the privilege of buying hay at lower· Kremlin did not give anything to India; rightfully belongs in the Foreign Affairs than-market costs, and I understand this it was the United States that did it. The Committee and not the Agriculture venture cost Uncle Sam around $7 mil· Kremlin is not giving anything to Pak· Committee. If Foreign Affairs Commit· lion. But what is that in comparison istan. As a matter of fact, all the Krem· tee recommended $71 million in the ap· with the cost to us of the 37 million lin is doing is giving the world trouble. propriations bill why did they not bring bushels of wheat that we are asked to The Kremlin has forgotten that our in $171 million to take care of Pakistan give away by this bill today at a cost of Government gave them wheat when they wheat. nearly $100 million? were starving. I think it is about time Then the other question that I would Again I say this entire disaster-relief we woke up to the fact that we should like to have answered is the distribution policy needs a reexamination to · deter· start looking out for the United States of this wheat to Pakistan. How is it mine where the line of solicitude should of America. I think it would be an going to be handled? I presume it will be drawn. If this benevolent policy is to awfully good thing for us to do, because be handled as it has been in the past. be followed, is it to be limited only to we are gradually getting to the place We will send $100 million worth of wheat those who suffer from droughts in for· where we will not be able to give any over there and pay the freight and the eign countries? Why not make surplus body anything. Government of Pakistan will take over feeds available to drought victims in our Mr. AUGUST H. -ANDRESEN. Mr. the wheat upon delivery and in turn will own country, not on a giveaway basis Speaker, will the gentleman yield? sell the wheat to the people. They will 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD :-·HOUSE .7021 then impound the money to be_used -for on -with-the adoption of this rule and sioned as a Member of this body to come purposes of economic rehabilitation of to the enactment of this bill with such here to give away my folks' money in that country, and to balance their budg aiJlendments.as may be deemed to prop. any such manner as we have been called et and to stabilize their currency. That erly meet whatever situation exists. upon to do-Friday, five billion-today, is what is questionable in my. mind; how Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, one hundred million. That is too fast is this wheat to be distributed? That is I yield the remaining time to the gentle and furious for me. why I am concerned about this matter man from North Carolina rMr. BARDEN]. I do not think there is a Member in as to whether or not the people who .are Mr. GAVIN. Mr. Speaker, will the this House who does not know that there hungry and starving will actually get gentleman yield? are limitations in the Constitution as to the wheat. Whether the starving peo Mr. BARDEN. I yield. what we can levy taxes for. I think we ple who have no money to buy will get Mr. GAVIN. · Will the gentleman try are all a ware of that. the wheat is what is troubling me. Cer to explain to us whether this is a gift or Now, what are we going to do? We tainly the American people want to help a loan, and after this action is taken, will give this away and give that away, these people and also we want to be sure how the wheat is going to be distributed and then pay day is coming. I have it will reach the hungry people for whom and where they are going to collect the seen the time when this has happened; it is intended. money, and what they are going to do a lot of your taxpayers will not be able The SPEAKER -pro tempore. The with the money they collect in Pakistan to pay the last year's taxes, because the time of the gentleman from Pennsyl after they sell the wheat? We would year in which they are living has been vania has expired. like to know some of these thinf!S. one in which they have had reverses. Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 Mr. BARDEN. These folks advo ~nd for the very money that we are giv minutes to the gentleman from Indiana cating this bill have been talking an hour mg away the tax collector will move up, [Mr. HALLECK]. on this subject, and they are supposed to foreclose that man's home, and put him .Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, this know something about it. They have and his family out in the street. matter of trying to help out these friend not given us that information, so how You can laugh at that, my friends ly people in Pakistan has been under can you expect me to do it in 5 minutes? · but it will not be funny when someon~ consideration by responsible people in I am also interested in getting the in asks you if you took part in making that the Government for a long time. It has formation to which the gentleman possible. been very carefully considered. Let me refers. Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker will the remind you that the gentleman from Mr. GAVIN. I have great respect for gentleman yield? · ' Minnesota [Mr. JUDD], I think, has the gentleman. I realize that he knows Mr. BARDEN. I yield to the gentle spoken very well of the situation in a great deal. man from Pennsylvania. Pakistan. He has clearly demonstrated Mr. SCOTT. I was not laughing at their need. Mr. BARDEN. I thank the gentleman for the compliment. the gentleman. I - was wondering It is true this bill provides for the whether he would, if we substituted cot replenishing of the money to come out I have listened with a great deal of in terest to this matter. I have listened ton for wheat, make the same speech. of Commodity Credit Corporation, but Mr. BARDEN. I certainly would and when this matter was discussed there was to Dr. JuDD, my friend from Minnesota, who is a most delightful gentleman. I my actions and my record will prove question as to which agency of the Gov that, sir. - · ernment would be charged with it, and must express my disagreement with him. To follow the policy outlined by him Mr. SCOTT. I assure the gentleman that had to be resolved. Beyond that, I am glad to hear it. and let us jus~ be frank about it, what would be for us to assume responsibility I am going to say here will be better said for a good portion of the world and Mr. BARDEN. The gentleman is not by others-but I do not want a miscon everywhere some group threatened to just glad to hear it; he knew it all the ception to get abroad about this matter. riot to give them millions of dollars. time, so far as that is concerned. My And possibly I should not want the peo That, to my mind, might be construed statements now are no different from ple of Pakistan to think that we are as placing a premium on rioting. those I have been making for the past giving them something that is going to I do not know whether this proposal is several years. If you are going to give away $100 go to waste anyway. But the fact i~. on the basis of cha.rity or, as the dis we .have wheat running out of our ears. tinguished majority leader says, because million of taxpayers' money, then, all There is scheduled to follow this meas we have so much of everything-we must right. You can do it, but I am conscien ure, if we do not take up the trip-leas give it away in order to produce some tiously opposed to it. I love the people of ing bill next, a proposal to alleviate the more of the same thing; nor do I know Pakistan and the people all ove-r the tremendous cutback in wheat quotas. just how many have in their minds that world just as much as does anybody in Why? Because the surplus stocks of if we do not give this wheat the Kremlin this House. If we want to reach down wheat are going up by leaps and bounds. will move in. But I want to say this. into our own pockets and give away We are talking now, if we have not al I have had an urge to say it for several something that belongs to ourselves then ready done it, about putting wheat in days around here. When I asked one 0. K. But I will not take what belongs to ships on the Hudson River. You know of the responsible men on the Foreign someone else and give it away to foreign what happens when you put wheat in a Affairs Committee handling the foreign countries all over the world. I cannot go_ steel ship in the Hudson River. In a lit aid bill how much a particular country along with that. tle while it is not going to be too good. In was going to get under that $5 billion The Constitution of the United States other words, it would not be very good bill passed here Friday his reply to me says in plain English: public relations for this great country was, "That was classified information.'' The Congress shall have power to lay and of ours to hold on to a tremendous sur When you are giving away the American collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to taxpayer's money, his duly elected Rep pay the debts and pz:ovide for the common plus supply of food grain, and at the defense and general welfare of the United same time let a friendly people starve. resentative should not be given an an States. That is exactly what the situation will be. swer of that kind. He is going to want With all respect to those who talk the whole truth, and will not be satis I accept that language, I took an oath about the fiscal situation at home, may fied with a little classified information. to support that language; and regard I say I have been taking quite a bit of The term "classified information" is a less of how much I personally would like heat on that score as the appropriation high-sounding term brought up here by to help Pakistan, I do not think and no bills have come along, and I have been the State Department which in plain one has dared argue that the purpose for willing to get up and take it. But I do English means secret information. Five which this $100 million worth of wheat not believe this bill involves that con billion dollars is five thousand million is to be used comes within the limits sideration because, as.I say, it has to do dollars of taxpayers' money. That is no placed upon us by the Constitution, with helping a friendly nation with a secret. whether we like it or not. resource that we have in such quan I believe I am as charitable as any Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani tities that we do not know what to do man in this House. I was raised in that mous consent that the gentleman from with it. In the final analysis, I do not atmosphere. I have never changed my Wisconsin [Mr. KERSTEN] may extend believe this bill will cost us anything like attitude in that regard. But I have his remarks at this point in the RECORD $100 million. So I say we should go never regarded myself as being commis- and include extraneous matter. _7022 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- !lOUSE June 22 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there ground resistance movement behind the Iron Pakistan has a well-trained standing objection to the request of the gentle Curtain, as well as skilled persons in the army that guards some of the very im man from Pennsylvania? United States and in other countries to fur portant passes through the mountains. ther successful psychological war against There was no objection. communism. Pakistan is becoming of increasing im Mr. KERSTEN of Wisconsin. Mr. We would be able to submit (1) Informa portance to the West. I say that in her Speaker, I wish to include with my re tion on events in Soviet-occupied Latvia; (2) you certainly have one ally on whom we marks several communications that I statements and other documents concerning ·can depend if we had to call on her. I have in connection with House Resolu terror and genocide in Soviet-occupied Lat am not so sure about the rest of them, t ~ on 231. They are samples of many via; (3) ideas, as well as practical sugges but I do feel pretty sure about Pakistan. others that I have received. t ions, to fight communism, especially in the In the second place about the ques Baltic States. THE ESTONIAN NATIONAL It is understood that we would be able to tion of transportation that was raised COMMITTEE IN THE UNITED STATES, do all this only if we can facilitate our skilled by my colleague; that is complicated by New York, N. Y., May 12, 1953. men with necessary means, lack of which the Mutual Security Act. The Mutual The Honorable CHARLES J. KERSTEN, until now has been the biggest obstacle to Security Act requires that this food and House of Representatives, our activities in the field of intelligence. relief material-50 percent of it must be Washington, D. C. However, we have done our best, and we hope carried in American bottoms. The Mu SIR: We have learned with great pleasure that some day a better chance will come. that you have submitted to the House of tual Security Act is permanent legisla As to ideological warfare against commu tion; it is mandatory under the act that .Representatives Resolution No. 231 asking nism, we are in full readiness to develop for the creation of a committee to conduct full-scale activities. we carry 50 percent of this wheat in a complete investigation of t h e seizure of Very sincerely yours, American bottoms; and we must pay for the Baltic States by Soviet Russia. VALDEMARS LAMBERGS, it in American dollars. Your resolute step is greatly appreciated Member of Executive Board, Public Of course, Pakistan could carry it in by all Estonians. Relations, Latvian National Cen ·foreigr bottoms if it were necessary, but Needless to say that we are willing to pro ter in United States. duce any available evidence required in this they do not have the dollars with which matter. to pay this carrying charge. It would In this connection we enclose for your in COMMITTEE FOR A FREE LATVIA, cost $20 million, as I understand, if this formation a copy of our communication to New York, N. Y., May 15, 1953. grain were carried in American bottoms, the President of the United States of May Han. CHARLES J. KERSTEN, but if it were carried in foreign bottoms 9, expressing our attitude toward the ·soviet House of Representatives, it would cost only about $10 million. so-called peace offensive. · Washington, D. C. They do not have the dollars. They Respectfully, DEAR MR. REPRESENTATIVE: With reference are in the sterling area and they can JUHAN V ASAR, to Resolution 231 submitted by you to the Presi dent. House of Representatives to create a Select carry it if they pay carriage charges in Committee To Conduct a Full and Complete rterling. But they have no dollars, and UNITED LITHUANIAN Investigation and Study of the Seizure and such situations have not worked· very RELmF FUND OF AMERICA, INC., ·Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States well in other similar cases in the past. Brooklyn, N. Y., June 11, 1953. by the U. S. S. R., I have the honor on be Remember, again, that the Mutual Secu Hon. CHARLES J. KERSTEN, half of the Committee for a Free · Latvia to rity Act makes it mandatory that 50 per._ House of Representatives, thanlt you and to express our conviction cent of this grain go in American bot Washington, D. C. that the examination will prove that Soviet toms. That is the problem that is pre . DEAR MR. KERSTEN: Please accept our heart claims are only a shameless assertion to cover sented to you, how to carry this wheat felt appreciation for introducing to the 83d a ruthless violation of the international law. Congress House Resolution 231 to alleviate You may be sure that Latvians will be to Pakistan. They simply do not have the suffering of the Baltic Republics. watching further development with true the dollars or the exchange with which I hope that you will succeed and carry this and great interest. to carry it in American bottoms and pay bill through as you did wonderful work in We will be only too glad to supply you for it in American dollars. - securing funds for escapees. .with information and materials that are in The SPEAKER. The time of the gen With high esteem, I am our possession what ·concerns the above tleman from Illinois has expired; all Respectfully yours, matter. time has expired. Rt. Rev. JOSEPH B. KoNcxus, Yours sincerely, Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I move the National ·President. Dr. VILIS MASENS, previous question. Chairman. The previous question was ordered. LATVIAN NATIONAL CENTER Mr. SCOTT. lVIr. Speaker, I yield the The resolution was agreed to. IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, remainder of the time to the gentleman Mr. HOPE. Mr. Speaker, I move that Boston, Mass., May 13, 1953. from Illinois [Mr. SPRINGER]. Bon. CHARLEs J. KERsTEN, the House resolve itself into the Commit- Fifth District, Wisconsin, Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, I have . tee of the Whole House on the State of House of Representatives, thought much about this thing. I believe the Union for the consideration of the Washington, D. C. that my record for economy during the bill (H. R. 5659) to provide for the trans DEAR SIR: Getting acquainted with your last Congress is about as good as any fer of price-support wheat to Pakistan. resolution introduced in the House of Repre body's in the House. At least 1 national The motion was agreed to. sentatives on January 14, 1953, and with your organization placed me among the 60 Accordingly the House resolved itself accompanying letter with comments on it, who had a perfect voting record for into the Committee of the Whole Hous~ the Latvian National Center in the United States, whose principal aim is its fight economy out of 5:31 Members of the on the State of the Union for the consid against communism and the liberation of House and Senate; so I am not approach eration of the bill H. R. 5659, with Mr. Latvia, wants to express deep appreciation, ing this in any light vein. To me there ELLSWORTH in the chair. sympathy, and admiration to the unfailing seems to be an interest above a purely The Clerk read the title of the bill. strategy stressed by you in your splendid selfish one. There is the appeal of the By unanimous consent, the first read resolution. .humanitarian interest and there is an ing of the bill was dispensed with. This resolution, if passed, ls a hopeful sign approach ·from the-undisputed interest Mr. HOPE. Mr. Chairman, I yield my that the first victims of the Communist tyr of the Nation. · self 15 minutes. anny-the Baltic States-will regain their lost freedom again. Knowing communism, First of all, it seems to me that here Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman from we are absolutely convinced that world com today on this floor we have got to realize Indiana [Mr. HALLECK] has already munism can be, and must be, destroyed. Be that in the Far East there are only 2 stated, this is a matter which has re cause that is the only way to freedom and countries on which we can rely, and 1 of ceived a great deal of consideration in peace. them is Pakistan. Whether or not you the executive branch of the Government'; Bearing this ln mind and desiring to be an vote for this wheat today is not going ·it has been the subject of thorough hear active member in the American Nation's fight to make a difference in Pakistan's love against communism, the Latvian National _ings in the Committee on Agriculture, Center in the United States is willing to sup for the United States. Even though she and I do not believe there is reason for port your resolution by all means, and here does not get this wheat she is not going anyone to think that it has not been by offers to you, sir, and to the Congress, a to turn against the United States, for considered fully and that all aspects of close cooperation. she has gone on record and been on rec it have not been thoroughly studied. The Latvian National Center has skilled ord as being against the Kremlin ever .The matter comes to the Congress groups in Sweden and West Germany to get since the nation of Pakistan came into through a message from the President in touch with the men of the Latvian under- being. of the United States asking that appro- ~! 1953 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORI) :::__HOUSE 7023 priate legislation. pe_introduced to pro· the people of the United states. It pro· istan, . accompanied them in the study Vide for the transfer of J).Ot to exceed vides also that we may have representa· which they made of the situation. So I 1 million tons of wheat to· Pakistan, of tives there to observe without restric· say that this is a matter which was which 700,000 tons is expected to be used tion the distripution of the commodity. studied very, y_ery carefully before any to alleviate famine and starvation and Then there is a further provision which request was made of the Congress to not to exceed 300,000 tons used to build will answer some of ·the questions that take any action. up a reserve' if necessary. . have been asked on this matter today, Now I want to refer to the wheat sur· The question has been raised, and I and that is, What is to become of the plus in this country. We will have on think pr:operly, as to why this legislation funds that are collected when this wheat July 1 a wheat carryover of 575 million comes from the Committee on Agricul· is sold? bushels. The June 10 estimate of wheat ture rather than the.Committee on For Those funds are to be deposited in a production in this country for 1953 calls eign Aff.airs. The answer to that is that special account and they must be used for 1,132,000,000 bushels of wheat, which this is a measure which deals with com in bringing about increased food pro will give us a supply for the coming year modities owned by the commodity Credit duction in the country. Pakistan is a of 1,700,000,000 bushels of wheat. It is Corporation and for that reason it was country with a small amount of rain expected that our normal exports and referred to the committee which has fall. Much of their agriculture is under domestic consumption will take up about jurisdiction over that matter. · irrigation, and it is my understanding l billion bushels, so that by July 1, 1954, If you will read the bill, you will find that the purpose for which these funds we will have a carryover of about 700 it shows clearly what disposition will will be used will be to assist in develop million bushels. Therefore, we have be made of this wheat and the conditions ing irrigation works and in improving ample wheat, and I am glad we do, be· under which it is to be delivered to the methods of agricultural production in cause it is a source of strength to this people of Pakistan. . As to the situation that country so as to increase their country. The way we use those supplies which now exists there, let me say that ability to produce their own food. can be made a further source of strength Pakistan is a nation normally self· Certainly no more constructive way to this country. If we do what we are sufficient so far as the production of could be found for using those funds. proposing to do in this bill, divert those wheat is concerned. But it has been All of this money will be used for that supplies to a friendly ally which is now suffering for the past 2 years from a most purpose except 5 percent which will be ih distress, in order to increase the severe drought so that while the normal allocated to the Government of the strength of that ally, then I think we production of wheat in that country is United States to pay our expenses in are making the best possible use of this about 147 million bushels, production overseeing the administration of the pro· bountiful supply of wheat which divine was reduced this year to 115 million gram in that country. providence has made possible for this bushels and further reduced this year to Pakistan also agrees that if this wheat country. 103 million bushels. That is a par is delivered that it will pursue all appro· Mr. MILLER of Kansas. Mr. Chair· ticularly serious situation because wheat priate measures to reduce its relief needs man, will the-gentleman yield? constitutes the main item of diet of and to increase production and supply Mr. HOPE. I yield. the people of Pakistan. Even in and improve the distribution of food· Mr. MILLER of Kansas. I would like normal times they were just barely stuffs so as to lessen the danger of similar to know whether or not the storage fa. over the margin as far as produc emergencies in the future. cilities in this country are being cramped tion of wheat was concerned. With The question has been asked as to at this time, whether we need to get this normal crops they have an export· whether this is a precedent of any kind. wheat out of this country in order to able surplus of only 3 or 4 percent. I do not think that any of these relief . make room for the 'wheat that is com· So it can readily be seen that when we measures are necessarily precedents. I ing? have 2 successive drought .years, as has think we have to ·deal with every one Mr. HOPE. Out in the gentleman's been the case in Pakistan, it very seri· of them on the basis of the situation that district and in my district they are piling ously and immediately affects the food exists at any particular time. In the wheat on the ground today. supply of the country. case of Pakistan the records, if you go Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, will the The question has been raised here as back many years as far as weather is gentleman yield? to whether or not this is a gift, and if so concerned, show that they have never Mr. HOPE. I yield to the gentleman what is its purpose? I think that that had more than 2 successive years of from Iowa. question very easily can be answered by drought, so it is to be anticipated if Mr. GROSS. The gentleman is not saying that it is a gift to a friendly na we take care of this present acute sit· saying we should cure a surplus storage tion, a . nation which is on our side, as uation, and if they are able to improve problem in this country by giving our far as the current world situation is con· their system of food production and dis· wheat and corn and everything else cerned; not a gift for the purpose of tribution, we are not likely to be called away? buying good will, but a gift for the pur· upon at any time soon for a,_ similar Mr. HOPE. I am saying we have a pose of strengthing an ally and a friend. emergency in Pakistan. great deal of wheat in this country, and The strategic position of Pakistan has I said in the beginning that this meas· that the problem of storage is a difficult been pointed out already by the gentle· ure had been very carefully considered one. man from ·Minnesota. Others· have in the executive branch of the Govern· Mr. GROSS. No doubt about it, but spoken of the splendid army that they ment. We had before us at the hear· the gentleman is not advocating giving have in Pakistan-a strong Pakistan is ings the Secretary of State, who has orily this wheat away to other countries sim· a source of strength to the free nations lately returned from a trip to Pakistan. ply because . we do not have adequate of the world. But a country whose We had with us Governor Stassen, the storage facilities? people are ravaged by famine, by short· Administrator of the mutual-aid pro· Mr. HOPE. I am advocating giving ages of food, is not a strong country or gram, who accompanied Secretary Dulles away wheat, of which we have an over· a dependable ally not because the spirit to Pakistan and had an opportunity to supply, to a friendly nation. is not willing but because the flesh is study the situation at first hand. Mr. GROSS. Did not Pakistan sell weak. We also had before us Dr. Harry surplus wheat? Now, the provisions in this bill state Reed, of Purdue University, one of the Mr. HOPE. Pakistan has not had any very briefly the terms upon which this best-versed men in agriculture in the surplus· of wheat for 2 years. In normal assistance is to be granted. It provides United States, who was sent to Pakis· times Pakistan has an exportable sur.. that no wheat shall be delivered except tan by our Government to ·personally plus, I understand, of four or five million under certain conditions, those condi· check up on this situation and ascer· bushels of wheat. tions are set out in section 3 of the bill. tain just what it might be as far as the Mr. GROSS. Is it not true that Paki.. They provide, among other things, that need for wheat was concerned. Dr. stan in 1950 or 1951 sold all the surplus this wheat· must be distributed to the Reed spent 3 or 4 weeks in that country. wheat she had? people of ~akistan without discrimina. He was accompanied by an associate Mr. HOPE. I think they have re tion and it must be supplied free of from Purdue, Dr. Volk, an eminent tained surplus wheat every year. cost to persons who are unable to pur· agronomist. Our agricultural attache Mr. GROSS. They retained nothing chase it. It provides-that-its distribu· in Pakistan, who' had previously made a for safety purposes as against a drought. tion must be given full and continuous study of the matter and recommended Mr. HOPE. Perhaps they did notre publicity as being assistance furnished by that we send a quantity of wheat to Pak• tain enough. .7024 CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD_:_ HOUSE June· 22 Mr. GROSS. No, they certainly did Mr. HOPE. I think that figure is in feet of which will be to require the Paki not. the hearings. I do not recall it exactly, . stan Government to pay the freight, the Mr. JOHNEON. Mr. Chairman, will but they are not selling it for any purpose ocean freight, on the wheat from here the gentleman yield? of making a profit as I understand it. to Karachi. Mr. HOPE. I yield to the gentleman Mr. BARDEN. If the gentleman does There is something strange about this from California. not know the figures, how could he reach situation. I doubt if ever before this Mr. JOHNSON. In the event we do the conclusion that it is not being sold for House has faced a situation in all re not give this wheat to Pakistan, is it a profit? spects similar to the one we now .have likely this wheat would be spoiled and Mr. HOPE. I have seen the figures before us. On the same date, June 16, have to be wasted? and I have reached the conclusion from 1953, these two bills were reported; one Mr. HOPE. There is a question of how the figures. by the House Committee on Agriculture, long we can keep wheat in storage. We Mr. BARDEN. I am glad the gentle H. R. 5659, and the other by the Commit have no wheat that is spoiling now but man is taking a little longer time because tee on Foreign Affairs, H. R. 5710. we have wheat in some pretty poor stor we are getting down to some information When the MSA bill was before the age. We have wheat stored in boats on now where not a bit of information has House last week, there was a substantial the Hudson River and down on the James been given to the House. You are ask item in the bill for India and Pakistan, River. I do not know how long we can ing Members to vote on a bill that we $94,400,000. We had a right to assume keep wheat in that kind of storage. Of really do not know what it is all about. that the members of that great com course, I assume the Commodity Credit Mr. HOPE. I am glad to give the mittee on Foreign Affairs had with grea~ Corporation is going to do the best job gentleman any information I can. diligence and care considered all th~ it can to keep that wheat in good Mr. BARDEN. Is there any provision pertinent facts and circumstances in~ condition. for the regulation of the price that the volved in the unfortunate situation in Mr. JOHNSON. Is there not a likely people of Pakistan will have to pay the Pakistan. Actually, the report refers to chance that this wheat might spoil, if we particular administration that happens the food crisis in Pakistan and it points do not give it to Pakistan? to be in power? out the fact that last year we provided Mr. HOPE. There is always a chance Mr. HOPE. The bill provides that we aid only to the extent of a $15 million that some of our surplus supply of wheat are to supervise the distribution of this loan to Pakistan, which enabled them to will spoil, if it has to be kept too long. wheat, and also that the supplies are to weather the storm and prevent undue I cannot think of anything much worse be furnished free of cost to all persons hardship in that country. than to have food spoiling in this country who by virtue of circumstances beyond When the bill came before us, we were when there are millions of hungry people their control are unable to pay for them, no~ told exactly how many millions of in the world. and also that the supplies are to be dis dollars would be available to Pakistan, Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Chairman, will tributed without discrimination to the but we were told that $94,400,000 would the gentleman yield? people of Pakistan. be divided in some fashion between the Mr. HOPE. I yield. Mr. BARDEN. Does that mean that two countries, India and Pakistan. Mr. SPRINGER. I ask the gentleman the Government sells this wheat to the Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. if this is not true, just for the informa needy people, or do they give it to those Chairman, will the gentleman yield to tion of the House, that the support price who are starving? me at that point? on Saturday of wheat was $2.36, and it Mr. HOPE. They are giving it to the Mr. COOLEY. I yield to the gentle was selling on the open market at $1.83, needy people who cannot afford to pay, man from Minnesota. and the day before it had been selling at and they will sell it to the people who Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. The $1.77 or $1.78. The reason it jumped up can afford to pay. report from the Committee on Foreign to $1.83 was because the Government Mr. BARDEN. Is there any detailed Affairs states that Pakistan will get now allows it to be stored on the ground agreement collateral to this piece of $27,500,000. legislation? Does the State Department and pays the support price. Is that not. Mr. COOLEY. I think the gentle true? have any contract with Pakistan that man from Minnesota, Dr. JUDD, a. Mr. HOPE. That is true. dovetails with this bill that we are Mr. SPRINGER. May I ask just one passing? member of the committee, told us that further question, in answer to the gen · Mr. HOPE. The wheat is not to be it was classl.fied information. I was told tleman from Iowa, 2 years ago Pakistan delivered to Pakistan until Pakistan en a moment ago by a member of the com had a surplus of 50,000 tons of wheat, ters into an agreement to comply with mittee that it was $27 million, but I which it offered in good neighborliness to the conditions that are set out in the bill. was still under the impression that it was sell to India. India at that time refused Mr. BARDEN. I will say frankly to classified and therefore I did not quote to buy it. Has it not been true that each the chairman I really think the House it for the record. It is in the report. year that Pakistan had a surplus, they is entitled to some of the detailed infor is it? have carried over some of the wheat until mation. We passed a $5 billion bill on Mr. JUDD. It is in the report, on the next year, and also for planting pur Friday, and every time somone would page 13. poses? Is that not true during all the ask a question about how much money Mr. VORYS. There is $1(}9,900,000 years that they have had a surplus? was going where, it was called classified for India and $27,!:'"00,000 for Pakistan. Mr. HOPE. That is my understanding. information. Mr. COOLEY. I am certainly not in Mr. SPRINGER. Is it not true it is Mr. HOPE. There is no classified in error when I say that the gentleman not possible fo:r Pakistan to carry over a formation in this matter that I know of. from Minnesota [Mr. JUDD] stated be large surplus into the next year because What does the gentleman want to know?' fore the Committee on Rules that it the storage facilities in Pakistan are Mr. BARDEN. I want to know how was classified information. quite inadequate? this wheat that we are parading as a Mr. JUDD. At that time it was classi Mr. HOPE. Yes, and also because of great generous gift from the American fied, but we got it unclassified. We are the weather conditions, which, I think, people to the needy people of Pakistan at the mercy of the people downtown make it very difficult to store wheat for is going to reach the people who actually who come before us and in executive ses long periods. need it. That is exactly what I want sion tell us that. certain information is Mr. BARDEN. Mr. Chairman, will the to know, and what it is going to cost us. classified. gentleman yield? Mr. HOPE. I thought I had told the Mr. COOLEY. I am not objecting to Mr. HOPE. I yield. gentleman. My time has expired, but the fact that the information was Mr. BARDEN. I would like to get I will be glad, under the 5-minute rule, treated as classified so much as I am to some facts on this. I understand you to go into that, if the gentleman desires. the fact that this problem is, after all .. are giving this wheat to the Pakistan Mr. COOLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield a foreign-policy problem. Although it Government? myself 10 minutes. came to our committee, actually it Mr. HOPE. That is correct. Mr. Chairman, I shall, with great re should have gone to the Committee on Mr. BARDEN. Now, how and at what luctance, support this pending measure. FoPcign Affairs and the Committee on price does the Pakistan Government I intend however to support an amend Foreign A1Iairs should have been given make it available to the people who need ment which will be offered by my col the benefit of the testimony which was the wheat to eat? league from Texas [Mr. PoAGE], the ef- offered in our committee room. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD =HOUSE 7025 I should like for some member of the we let them have some time ago should a moment ago. I have a similar situa Committee on Foreign Affairs to tell me, . be canceled? tion in my own home county, where the or to tell this House now, what it is you Mr. COOLEY. I do not think anybody people have had their crops completely know about the situation in Pakistan to seriously contemplates a repayment by destroyed. day that you did not know on the 16th of India. The. CHAIRMAN. The time of the June. At that time Mr. Dulles had re Mr. ABERNETHY. Pakistan and In gentleman from North Carolina has ex turned from-a 3-day trip to this far-dis dia are side by side. pired. tant country, and he and his associates Mr. COOLEY. Yes; and at . each Mr. COOLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield are the only ones who supplied our com._ other's throats. I would like to suggest myself 5 additional minutes. mittee with any information as to the to the State Department that perhaps Mr. Chairman, there is no provision great hardships in Pakistan. the Secretary and his team should stay in Federal law that grants be made to I voted to report the bill entirely on in India and Pakistan longer than 3 days. my constituents for the hardships they the strength of ex parte testimony, which What about the people of Kashmir? are now undergoing. had been offered to our committee by They stand between India on the one Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, will the Mr. Dulles, Mr. Stassen, and Dr. Harry side and Pakistan on the other, and.per gentleman yield? Reed. haps the people of Kashmir do not want Mr. COOLEY. I yield to the gentle• I know that charity is the paramount to go with either. . Nobody has suggested man from Iowa. of all virtues; and actuated and prompt that Kashmir have an opportunity to Mr. GROSS. In the wheat for India ed by the impulses of charity, I want to remain as Kashmir to live side by side bill of 1951, I believe it was, an amend go along with this bill, and I am going to with the other nations around her; and ment was inserted by the House that vote for this bill. I am following the ·I think that Kashmir could support its India make available to this country dictates of my own conscience and lean own economy and could occupy a place strategic materials. ing a little to the side of charity. among the nations of this world, but Mr. COOLEY. Yes. I am also aware of the fact, as was Kashmir has not been given a chance to Mr. GROSS. Does the gentleman pointed out by the presiding officer a be left alone to run her own affairs. We · know what happened under that amend moment ago, the majority leader, that are prolonging the controversy, giving ment? we do have wheat running out of our to India 2 years ago, giving to Pakistan Mr. COOLEY. I am not sure, but my ears and our storage houses are bulging. now. impression is that India did make some It would not do for us to permit that When the Republicans came . into concessions and we did receive some wheat to deteriorate and to rot here while power we were told that there was going strategic materials to be used in connec in a troubled world other people are to be a change. If there has been any tion with our atomic-energy program. starving. But it is rather strange that change at all the only change that I can Mr. GROSS. And, of course, we paid $100 million should be lopped off of the see is that you have changed your minds, for them. MSA bill and swung on to this bill when and in the field of foreign aid you are Mr. COOLEY. I presume so. I know that the situation has not drasti going the Democrats one better. Mr. GAVIN. Mr. Chairman, will the cally changed in the last few days. Mr. Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. Mr. Chair gentleman yield? Dulles came back. He did not see any man, will the gentleman yield? Mr. COOLEY. I yield to the gentle body starving; and I am not unmindful Mr. COOLEY. I yield. man from Pennsylvania. of the fact that they have had periods of Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. Was there Mr. GAVIN. The gentleman is a. famine, that they have had drought, that any testimony before your committee as member of the Agricultural Committee. they need wheat. But I am aware of the to the financial responsibility of the Gov .. Did anybody appearing before the com fact that we did not give wheat to India ernment of Pakistan? mittee indicate the manner in which this when it was proposed by the State De Mr. COOLEY. Only the statement by wheat is to be distributed, whether it is partment that it should be given to India. the team of Dulles, Stassen, and Dr. Reed going to reach the poverty-stricken peo At the time we passed that Indian wheat to the effect that they had to use so ple? bill the Democratic Party was accused of much of their money to support their Mr. COOLEY. Yes. The gentleman being the party of Santa Claus. Now, currency that if they were required to from Kansas [Mr. HOPE] touched on you look, here comes Santa Claus, Santa pay for the wheat it might bring them to that just before he closed his statement. Claus brings and delivers his gifts, and economic instability. The Government of Pakistan shall deter that is what it is proposed here that we Mr. DEVEREUX. Mr. Chairman, will mine who is able to pay and who is not do, that we take this ·$80 million of the gentleman yield? able to pay. Those who are not able to wheat, load it into a hundred ships and Mr. COOLEY. I yield. pay will receive the wheat free of charge; send it into the port of Karachi, deliver · Mr. DEVEREUX. Was there any those able to pay will be required to pay it and pay all the freight from our stor testimony before the gentleman's com under such rules and regulations as may age bins to the city of Karachi. All mittee about the great private wealth be laid down by the President of the right; if we are going to be Santa Claus, in Pakistan, the wealth of individuals, United States when he makes the agree let us be Santa Claus, but do not stand the wealth of spiritual leaders, for ex ment providing for delivery. here and accuse the Democratic Party ample, the Agha Khan who is supported Mr. RICHARDS. Mr. Chairman, will of being the party of Santa Claus when to a great extent by their poor people the gentleman yield? in foreign affairs-and this is a clear-cut who are now in need? Mr. COOLEY. I yield to the gentle example of it-you are going us one Mr. COOLEY. No; no such testimony man from South Carolina. better. was offered before our committee. I Mr. RICHARDS. '.fhe gentleman I have been criticized here for voting think that is a matter which would more keeps saying this is a matter that should to pour millions of dollars down rat appropriately come for the considera be handled by the Foreign Affairs Com holes in foreign countries, and I am tion of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. mittee. going to vote to put a little more wheat Our committee is not accustomed to Mr. COOLEY. It should have been. down another rathole, but I do so with a dealing with matters affecting foreign Mr. RICHARDS. All right. Does the clear conscience knowing that we our affairs. This is definitely a foreign-aid gentleman remember only a year or two selves have an abundance and our allies program and we should have had an op ago when the gentleman from Texas across the sea who are currently sup portunity last week to know that we were [Mr. BuRLESON] proposed that part of porting our cause are at least suffering going to be asked to give Pakistan an these materials to be furnished foreign in some degree. additional $100 million to tide them over countries come from the surplus com Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, during this emergency. Last year they modities in this country and the gentle will the gentleman yield? got only a $15 million loan-and last man himself opposed it because these Mr. COOLEY. I yield. week we gave them $27 million. commodities would have had to be Mr. ABERNETHY. In order for us to Mr. DEVEREUX. The gentleman charged to the Commodity Credit Cor maintain good standing with the people made a statement about charity. Is he poration. The gentleman said then that of India does not the gentleman agree in accord with the belief that charity the Agricultural Committee was the with me that any obligations outstand begins at home? only committee that could handle those ing-and I understand they are all out Mr. COOLEY. I am, and I am fully surplus commodities. standing-by the Indian Government to aware of the situation described here by Mr. COOLEY. And I will say that if our Government now for wheat which the gentleman from Texas [Mr. FisHER] you amend this bill and charge it up to 7026 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE June 22 agriculture and to the cause of agricul- ~ Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Chairman, will the ment and the sponsors of the right of ture now, I will vote against it and I gentleman yield? men to be free should insist that the think every member of the Agricultural · Mr. COOLEY. 1 yield to the gentle p~ople of Kashmir might be given an Committee would do the same thing. It man from Oklahoma. opportunity to say not only whether is not fair to saddle on the backs of the Mr. ALBERT. Is it not also true, fol- . they want to go with India or with farmers this $100 million. lowing what the gentleman from Kansas Pakistan, but sl;lould also be given a Mr. RICHARDS. The Commodity has said, that the testimony showed that , definite right to say whether they want Credit Corporation is provided for. it was necessary to use these funds in to remain as Kashmir, free and un There is a charge there. order to rehabilitate the agriculture of attached from either India or Pakistan. Mr. COOLEY. No. The bill pro Pakistan to keep this thing from hap Why ca~'t these wise men on our mis vides that it shall be bought from the · pening again? sions speak out for the people of Kash Commodity Credit Corporation, paid for . . Mr. COOLEY. That is right, and the mir and give us information which ap and charged to foreign aid. rupees will be used under our super parently we do not now have. If this Mr. BROOKS of Louisiana. Mr. vision from the counterpart funds. question of Kashmir can be settled, Chairman, will the gentleman yield? . Mr. ALBERT. They can use those perhaps the controversy between Pakis Mr. COOLEY_ I yield to the gentle rupees even if foreign shippers would tan and ·India would likewise come to an man from Louisiana. not accept them. early end and the people of that area Mr. BROOKS of Louisiana. Is there Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. of the world could go about their busi anything in the bill that would prohibit · Chairman, will the gentleman yield? ness unafraid. the cost of this transportation being Mr. COOLEY. I yield to the gentle Mr. Chairman, I yield 10 minutes to paid out of the proceeds from the sale man from Minnesota. the gentleman from Texas [Mr. POAGE]. of the wheat over there that is going to . Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. The Mr. POAGE. Mr. Chairman, I want to be sold in Pakistan? $27 million that was authorized here a make it abundantly plain that I expect Mr. COOLEY. This bill only contem few days ago in the other bill will be to vote for this wheat to the Republic of plates payment by our Government of · used for the same purpose as the coun Pakistan.. I voted against the granting freight charges to ship side at the ports terpart funds from the sale of the wheat of 2 million tons of wheat to India. I where it will be shipped out. But it over in that country. thought that the precedent would be does not require the Pakistan Govern-· Mr. COOLEY. Probably so, but it _ bad. \Vhen we voted for wheat for India ment that receives the benefit of the seems to me that this is an awfully large I stated then that if it became neces wheat to pay the ocean freight. gift for Pakistan, even though she has sary-if similar circumstances arose in Mr. BROOKS of Louisiana. I think difficulties and she is an ally. I cannot . ~alcistan, I felt that Indian action would the gentleman missed the point. The lead myself to believe that this is not be a precedent. Now I feel that we must bill provides that some of this wheat going to establish some sort of an un do for a friendly, neighboring nation, as may be given to the real people in dis fortunate precedent which is going to much as we did for India. Consequently, tress, the other part of it that it can be lead to our making similar gifts to other . conditions having arisen as they have sold to the government of Pakistan. Is people throughout the world. in Pakistan, I expect to vote to give Pak there anything in the bill that would Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. The istan 1 million tons of wheat. I think prevent the government of Pakistan gentleman recollects that I asked that they need it. I think the ·Pakistanis from paying the freight out of the pro question of the Secretary, and also Mr. are our friends. I think they are in a ceeds received from the sale of the part· Stassen, and they said it would not es-· position to do us more good than any of the wheat they are giving to the peo tablish any precedent. I am not so sure body in that part of the world. I think ple over there that have the money to about it, but I did want to get that as, the gentleman from Minnesota, Dr. buy the wheat and who can afford to a matter of record. JUDD, rather clearly explained the pay for it? Mr. COOLEY. Notwithstanding what situation over there except that he did Mr. COOLEY. There is nothing in the they said, the fact remains that it will not point out that India and Faltistan · bill that prevents Pakistan from paying be a precedent. have been at a point of undeclared war the freight, but, certainly, there is noth . Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, will the for about 4 or 5 years. ing in the bill that requires Pakistan gentleman yield? The Pakistanian people feel, and I am to pay the freight, and we brought this Mr. COOLEY. I yield to the gentle afraid with considerable justification, bill out here after having received. testi man from Iowa. that our grant to India was in effect a mony from Mr. Stassen to the effect that Mr. GROSS. Let us take a look at· subsidization of the Indian army. I do the Government would pay the freight this Pakistan question. In World War not think we ought to play favorites be out of MSA funds_ II India had some 4,000,000 men under tween nations. I do not think we ought Mr. BROOKS of Louisiana. If we arms. Pakistan made quite a contri to do for India more than we do for adopt an amendment which requires bution to that. How many men does Pakistan. I know that the people of them to pay the freight out of the sale · Pakistan have in Korea today? Pakistan are certainly as friendly as the · of the wheat that they are selling to Mr. COOLEY. I do not know, I am people of any other nation in that part: their own people that have the money, sure. I am sorry I cannot answer that· of the world. I am quite sure the peo that can afford to pay for it, what is question. ple of Pakistan are as free from commu wrong with that? Mr. GROSS. You can just about. nism as any people in that section of the . Mr. COOLEY. That is going to be count them on the fingers of your hand. world. Thereio:re, let us treat Pakistan : proposed by the gentleman from Texas Mr. COOLEY. l have every reason· as we treated India. · [Mr. POAGE]. to believe that Pakistan is a reliable and · That does not mean, however, that. we Mr. HOPE. Mr. Chairman, will the trustworthy ally and that the people should use a grant of wheat to hungry· gentleman yield? of Pakistan do not want to be ennslaved, people as a vehicle on which to tie a · Mr. COOLEY. I yield to the gentle they want to be free and will :fight in, gift to a group of American shipowners man from Kansas. defense of freedom. We are told that or a group of American seamen's unions. Mr. HOPE. Of course, the people of Pakistan has a formidable force of As a matter of fact, I believe that it Pakistan pay for this wheat, out of the fighting men now guarding an impor- · tarnishes · the gift that we propose to proceeds of the sale, with rupees. tant pass through which the force of ag make to these people to use it as a means Mr. BROOKS of Louisiana. Could gression might some day start to march. of covering up a grant, a direct subsidy, they not get some of the ECA dollars? The Nation is in a most unusual and un a gift to American shipping interests. Mr. HOPE. And I do not know of any fortunate situation, divided into two So it is my intention when the appro shipowners that would take their pay in parts with a thousand miles of the ter priate time arrives to offer an amend- - rupees. · ritory of .India in between. Kashmir is ment which will make-it perfectly clear Mr. COOLEY. This contemplates also likewise in an unfortunate situation. If that the United States will not pay any counterpart funds, and the use of the . the people of Kashin.ir are to reali.y be part of the transportation costs beyond rupees will be under the direction of our considered in this controversy, it seems American ports. Government. to me that instead of insisting that they In other words, say -I have a pretty · Mr. HOPE. And in Pakistan that is should join· either India or Pakistan, the good watermelon patch. When I go by · the accepted currency. forces of democracy and free govern- my neighbor's house, I suggest he come 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 7027 on by and get himself a load of melons. going to be inore. Do not let anybody · American bottoms when you require even I do not think it is an unneighborly act, deceive you into thinking that you are . a part of this wheat to be carried by because I have not told him that I am only talking about .how much you are American ships. going to bring them to him, to chill them, going to put out on moving this wheat to · Mr. ·sMITH of :rv.fississippi. Further, and put them on his table. I do not Pakistan. ·If you vote for this proposi this bill is an effott to help the people think we have to mill this wheat, tion to have the United States Govern of Pakistan and not to help the Ameri although the millers came before our ment still further subsidize ocean trans can shipowners, is that not correct? committee and asked that we give them portation, and provide that this wheat · Mr. POAGE. Well, that depends on the job of doing it. I do not thinl{ we must move in American bottoms, you are whose effort you are talking about. That have to grind this into flour. I do not going to raise the cost of all ocean trans is what some people have told you, and think we have to make this into cake. portation to your Government, and your I do not blame you for understanding I do not think we have to put butter and Government today is employing several that. I wish I could believe that is all honey on the bread, although both but times as many ships regularly as is going that is involved. I have listened to ter and honey are surplus commodities to be necessary to move this wheat to enough testimony from the shipowners in the United States. I do not think we Pakistan. If the American shipping in to be thoroughly convinced that there have to decorate the bread with tung terests are entitled to further subsidy, ·. are a lot of people who are more inter nuts, or put a package of Camels with let them come in and openly tell us why ested in what the American shipowners each biscuit we send these people. As and how much. · can get out of this than in what we can a matter of fact, I think these people are Mr. JUDD. Mr. Chairman, will the do for Pakistan. hungry for some wheat. I think we gentleman yield? Mr. SMITH of Mississippi. If we adopt ought to give them wheat. We ought Mr. POAGE. I yield. the amendment, which the gentleman to let them have what they need. We Mr. JUPD. I merely wanted to add to from Texas proposes to offer to the bill. should not use their need as an excuse what the gentleman said, when he said we will come closer to doing something to make gifts of unknown sums to Amer that the cost of transporting this wheat for the. people of Pakistan than in pro ican shipping interests. to Pakistan is roughly $26 per ton, that viding a subsidy for the American ship Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Chairman, will that is in dollars and in American owners, is that not correct? the gentleman yield? bottoms. Mr. POAGE. That is right. But if Mr. POAGE. I yield to the gentleman Mr. POAGE. That is right, in Amer my amendment is adopted, as I hope it from Oklahoma. ican bottoms. will be, I fear you will see a surprising Mr. ALBERT. Just how are they go . Mr. JUDD. But if it is transported in loss of interest in this bill. ing to pay for the transportation? The other ships that will take sterling, it will Mr. JUDD. Mr. Chairman, will the testimony is that they cannot pay it. be about $12 or $13 a ton; is that not gentleman yield? Mr. POAGE. The testimony was that correct? Mr. POAGE. . I yield. they had the sterling palance with which Mr. POAGE. That is right. Mr. JUDD. I am glad to have these to pay it, but it would be a burden upon Mr. JUDD. Does the gentleman know recruits to this position because during their economy to do it. That was the. of one American shipowner who will take the first 3 years that we had the foreign. undisputed testimony before our com sterling? aid bill, our former colleague the gentle mittee. There was not one single wit · Mr. POAGE. No; I do not. man from West Virginia, Mr. Kee, and ness who would say they did not have the . Mr. JUDD. Does the gentleman know the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. VORYS], sterling with which to pay. They said it any American shipowner who will take and I, for 3 ears in succession combated would burden them to pay for it. Of sterling let alone rupees? the amendment to compel 50 percent of course it would, and it burdens the Amer Mr. POAGE. No; I do not. all our foreign aid to go in American bot ican people to pay this transportation. I do not propose to confine this to toms. We thought that .if we ought to It burdens the American people several the American shipowners. I propose to have a subsidy for American shipping, times more to pay for this, because if we let the Pakistanians transport it any we ought not to have it under the dis pay for it it has to be shipped in Ameri way they want to, whether it be in Japa guise of foreign aid. We were defeated can bottoms. All the members of our nese bottoms or whether they do it with every single year that the question came committee heard the testimony that the Indian ships. They do exchange with up until we had recruits like the gentle present going rate from here to Pakistan India. They do sell jute to India and man from Texas who sided with us. is approximately $26 a ton for wheat in they can get Indian rupees. They can . Mr. POAGE. If American shipping American ships. It is less than one-half get the same transportation that India needs an additional subsidy, let us lay the that in foreign ships. We tried to pin· got. They can pay for it either in rupees card$ on the table and tell the House how down the shipping interests. · Our former or in sterling. When they pay for it, much of a subsidy it needs. Let us not chairman asked them if they would not it will be something in the neighborhood give an unknown subsidy. · Let us know make some concession because this was' 6f $12 million against an unknown astro how much it is. Maybe such a subsidy is a charitable proposition. They said nomical figure if we have to pay for it, justified, but let us at least decide that "No," they could not make a concession. and carry the wheat in American bot on its own merits. Let us not use our We asked them for assurance that they toms. charity_for hungry friends as an excuse would take '$26 a ton. No, they could Mr. SMITH of Mississippi. Mr. Chair to raise all ocean shipping rates. not give us that assurance. man, will the gentleman yield? Mr. HOPE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 As a matter of fact, the cost of ocean Mr. POAGE. I yield. minutes to the gentleman from Indiana shipping is controlled by competition. Mr. SMITH of Mississippi. Does the [Mr. HARVEY]. There is no ICC of the ocean. It is per gentleman · understand that the extra Mr. HARVEY. Mr. Chairman, I was fectly plain that when we begin to move cost, if we pay for it at the normal rate very much interested in the debate, par a great volume of freight of this kind to for this shipping, would amount to a ticularly in the statements of my good Pakistan the cost of ocean transporta minimum of $5 million to the American friend, the gentleman from Texas. I tion is going up. It will not move for $26 taxpayers? · want at this time also to assure him that a ton. There is not a man or woman in Mr. POAGE. Five million dollars. No; I have confidence in his intentions. I this House today who knows how much it· I understand it would be a very mini think he is on the right track, but I also will cost us to move that wheat by ocean mum, if rates stayed where they are to-.. want to say I expect to support this bill. shipping. day, of some $13 million for one-half the There is a great deal of reluctance, I There is this further thing. Right no;v wheat. You cannot get it any lower know, in the minds of most of you as to there are 165 tramp ships under Ameri than that even if you are able to hold how appropriately this action we are can registry. The United States Govern-. ocean-shipping rates where they are to taking is going to be received, and ment has 125 of those ships under char-· day, and if you do not affect any other· whether there is an end in sight so far as ter. We know tha.t if we begin to move ~hipping. But I call the gentleman's at we are concerned, and just how our gen this wheat in large quantities the cost tention to the fact that you are going erosity will be interpreted throughout of those 125 ships, the cost of transpor to affect the pric~ of every ton that moves· the world. I am not going to dwell upon· tation to Korea, of transportation to from here to Japan. You are going to the principles that are at stake because Japan, of transportation to Germany, is a1Iect the price of all ocean shipping in they have been pretty well set forth, I XCIX-442 7028 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE June 22 think, in the debate. I just want to talk will be provided by way of shipping facil was the assumption that I was proceed ities to get this wheat there. ing upon until a witness speaking for briefly, in the limited time I have, about the administration who had been head the question of shipping. . That is the No. 1 objective, to It seems to me that :L inadvertently get the wheat there. I think it ill be of the mission that was sent into PaH; set off this firecracker myself in the comes the House to argue too deeply the istan to examine into the need for this committee when I drew the attention of question who is going to haul the wheat, measure was establishing before the the Mutual Security Director, Mr. Stas if in the meantime the people over there committee the humanitarian need for sen, to the vagueness of the wording of do not get the wheat. To me that is this legislation. I asked him if it was the bill; that it was impossible to tell the paramount issue. · Other things are the administration policy to feed hungry from the draft of the legislation who was secondary. . people. He said, "Yes." I asked if it expected to pay the shi;..:,ping cost. We The CHAffiMAN. The time of the was the policy to feed hungry people, were very much interested, when we gentleman has expired. Communist or non-Communist. He found from his testimony that the United Mr. HOPE. I yield the gentleman 1 said, "Yes." I said, "In or outside of states Government was expected to pay additional minute, Mr. Chairman. Russia?" He said, "Yes .. " the shipping cost, in what it was going Mr. HARVEY. So I say before we . Mr. HARVEY. Mr. Chairman, will to cost. . It was brought out during the jump over the deep end so. far as this th~ ger;t.tleman yield? course of the testimony that the cost amendment is concerned, let us have all ,,.Mr. WHEELER. I yield. would probably vary from $13 to $25 a the facts and information that aTe avail Mr. HARVEY. I would just like to say ton, depending upon whether. it was able and make sur·e in drafting,. and in that respect that the gentleman to hauled in ships under the Amencan flag amending this legislation that we are whom the gentleman now speaking re or in those of other nations. That diff not going to set up some impossible pro ferred was part of the commission that erential was due to the higher cost that visions that will negate the entire use went over there, was head of the experi our shipping experienced because of the fulness of what we do, and it will also mental staff at Purdue University and higher wages that we pay to the men have the great probability of undoing was not in any event charged with the employed. . the great good that this humanitarian determina.tion ~_of State Department There is a great deal of justice, so far motive has behind it. Again I say . to pol,icie&. _ , as the House is concerned, as I see it, in you that I expect to support this bill and Mr. WHEEL.mR. "~r iWas I under a mis saying to the people of Pakistan, "We are I feel that when the House has concluded apprehension? I was led to believe that going to pay for the wheat, and you folks its deliberations the majority of you will he was speaking for the proponents of can come and get it." agree that it is a thing that we need this amendment. I am reminded of a little story that to do and should do. Mr. HARVEY. I just wish to correct happened several years ago. This hap Mr. COOLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield the gentleman. pened in my own town. One of my the balance of my time, 4 minutes, to the Mr. BELCHER. Mr. Chairman, if the friends had the misfortune to suffer a gentleman from Georgia [Mr. WHEELEJ:.t]. gentlemen yields, I think if the gentle fire loss. When the adjuster came to Mr. WHEELER. Mr. Chairman, when man will check _up the he~rings he will settle, they agreed upon the restoration I come to the well of the House it is find that that gentleman said: of all of that part of the home that had usually to ask questions; I do not feel · I do not purport to speak for this policy been destroyed but he said in conclu much of the time that I can tell you of the State Department. As an individual sion, "Now, we are not going to pay for anything, but I do like to ask some ques I would. the paint, because your house needed tions sometimes. I think you will find that is correct. paint anyway." The fellow remon It appears to me insofar as the pending Mr. WHEELER. Perhaps that is true. strated, and said, "The paint is scorched, measure is concerned that if there is any I was given that information and until it looks bad, and it will have to be justification on this globe for our giving I .check it my impression is that the painted." anybody anything it is to give wheat to policy now is to feed the hungry people "Well," he said, "My insurance com Pakistan, one of the leaders of the Mos regardless of their political ideology, pany will not pay for painting it." lem world. We succeeded not too many In conclusion, if we make this availa The fellow scratched his head a min years ago in completely antagonizing ble, if it is a choice between making it ute and he turned around to the adjus about 400 million Moslems. We did that available at American ports and letting ter' and said, "Let me say this. When largely because the Moslem's enemies the Pakistanians-·come and get it I will you get the bill for this restoration, you have kinfolks who vote in the United go along with that rather than dump it are not going to see the paint in the bill, States elections and we sided with their in the Hudson River. · but I can assure you, my friend, that the enemies. But regardless of reasons for Mr. HOPE. Mr. Chairman, I yield the paint is going to be in the bill.'' our doing that we did succeed in antago remaining time on this side to the gen I am going to say to you Members of nizing roughly 400 million Moslems. tleman from Kentucky [Mr. GoLDEN]. the House-and this is my own opinion Now, if we have wheat, and the testi Mr. GOLDEN. Mr. Cl:lairman, when that regardless of what action you take mony shows that we do have, that is this bill was before our committee all here today, when it is finally finished going to waste, I feel that rather than the members on both sides of the aisle the paint is going to be in our bill. do as we did in the case of potatoes-we voted to report it out. In the debate so As I view it, it is a matter purely of made them unusable-that we can be far there is an agreement in the minds policy. Actually, there are some physi justified perhaps in making this wheat of the Members of this body that some cal factors involved. I doubt very much, available here in the United States for wheat should be given to Pakistan. due to the urgency with which this wheat them to come get. The testimony shows There was no evidence in our committee must be delivered, that we can be that if they do pay for the transporta opposing this bill. The sum total of the adamant and say that it must all go in tion that they must use money that is evidence can be found in the report where either non-American flag ships or in acceptable in the sterling area. Per President Eisenhower states that the American flag ships. As Mr. CooLEY, I haps if we give them some wheat for the Pakistan nation is facing a famine and think it was, stated, there are about 100 ships that use sterling to haul, that those that they have called upon the people of ships going to be involved. But that ships then can haul some of our wheat America to avert that disaster. would be in case they could take a full to Pakistan instead of hauling Red I am not disturbed about making load. None of these ships, probably, troops to Korea to kill our men. this gift to a starving people. We should take a full load, or could. So sev There are a couple of questions I want should do it. That is the primary rea eral hundred ships inevitably are going to as~ about this. One of the more son for voting this bill out today. How to be involved. serious questions has to do with policy. ever, I am tremendously disturbed about There is urgency in getting this wheat I was told originally, and there are some the cost in addition to the giving of the to Pakistan. I do not believe the House who still tell me, that the major consid wheat. The bill properly provides for should take hasty action. I believe that eration of this measure is a humanitar adequate measures to supervise the dis we should have, when we resume this ian one, that we are feeding starving tribution of this wheat and to see to it bill tomorrow, and I expect as one Mem people and that we are picking and that the needy people of Pakistan get it. ber to attempt to have, more defiuite choosing the starving people we feed in Your committee has written into the bill information as to the possibility con that we proposed to feed the starving a provision that any person in Pakistan cerning what we can provide or what who happen to be friendly to us. That who needs it and cannot pay for it will 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 702!t get it nevertheless and it-also provides tions in Pakistan and not to exceed 300,000 from atomic energy, the journey toward that there shall be adequate supervision tons to provide such reserve supply as he that goal is still long and arduous. may determine to be a necessary supplement on the part of the Pakistan Government to such emergency assistance. Commodity Application of the breeder principle to by representatives ·or the United States Credit Corporation shall deliver the wheat practical use is extremely complicated to see that this wheat is properly dis on board vessels in United States ports as and will require several years of further tributed without any discrimination. directed by the President. development. The breeder reactor, The bill provides that the people of this when finally perfected, will help solve country are to get credit for making this Mr. HOPE. Mr. Chairman, I move the problem of hard-to-get, expensive very magnanimous gift of practically that the Committee do now rise. source materials for atomic fission. By $100 million to a needy people and a The motion was agreed to. producing more atomic fuel than is friendly people. They are our friends Accordingly the Committee rose; and burned, the breeding process ultimately and they have proven to be our friends. the Speaker pro tempore, Mr. HALLE:CK, will lessen our dependence on limited We need their friendship in this great having assumed the chair, Mr. ELLS uranium ores, now largely imported, as worldwide struggle. But if we go alcmg woRTH, Chairman of the Committee of the basic source of fissionable materials. and permit the Administrator of Mutual the Whole House on the State of the However, the complex engineering and Security to pay for all of the transporta Union, reported that that Committee, mechanical problems of converting heat tion of this wheat across the seas, then having had under consideration the energy, released by atomic fission, into that is another proposition. bill PRIVA~ BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS grateful that Thou dost bend so close ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private to our frail mortality that at the altar of The message further announced that bills and resolutions were introduced prayer spirit with spirit may meet. the Speaker had affixed his signature to and severally referred as follows: Though our upturned faces are shad the following enrolled- bills, and they owed by earth's tragedy, we lift them in were signed by the Acting President pro By· Mr. BOGGS: . faith to the light that no darkness can H. R. 5884. A bill for the relief of Alberto tempore of the Senate: Hugo Landry; to the Committee on the put out. Praying for grace to make us worthy of so momentous a time, our H . R. 2347. An act to permit continued ex Judiciary. ercise until 6 months after termination of By Mrs. CHURCH: intercession rises for our Nation, its the national emergency proclaimed Decem H. R. 5885. A bill for the relief of John G. President, the Congress and all who in ber ·16, 1950, or until such earlier date as Johnson; to the Committee on the Judiciary. fluence its policies, and for the whole may be established by concurrent resolution By Mr. SIMPSON of Illinois: body of the people, that the fearful sac of Congress, of certain powers, relating to H. R. 5886. A bill to amend the act entitled rifice now being poured out to preserve preferences or priorities in the transportation "An act to incorporate the American Uni of traffic, under sections 1 ( 15) and 420 of the versity," approved February 24, 1893, so as freedom may not end in the disillusion ment of mankind's hopes and the despair Interstate Commerce Act; and to vest supervision of the American Univer H. R. 4233. An act to provide for the natu sity in the board of education of the Meth of our children after us. Give to us ralization of perseons serving in the Armed odist Church, and for other purposes; to the peace in our time, 0 Lord, a just and Forces · of the United States after June 24, Committee on the District of Columbia. a righteous peace. We ask it in the dear 1950. By Mr. WALTER: Redeemer's name. Amen. H. R. 5887. A bill for the relief of George Michael Jabour; to the Committee on the LEAVE OF ABSENCE Judiciary. DESIGNATION OF ACTING PRESI On his ovin request, and by unanimous 1 DENT PRO TEMPORE 1 consent, Mr. PoTTER was excused from PETITIONS, ETC. The legislative clerk read the 'follow attendance on the sessions of the Senate Urider clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions ing letter: for the remainder of the week. and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk UNITED STATES SENATE, and referred as follows: PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING 355. By Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin: Resolu Washington, D. C., June 23, 1953. tion of the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithu To the Senate: SENATE SESSION anian Americans of the city of Racine, Wis., Being temporarily ab"sent from the Senate, On, request of Mr. KucHEL, and by that an appeal be made to the Government I appoint Hon. }?RESCOTT BusH, a Senator unanimous consent, the Committee on of the United States and to the Members of from the State of Connecticut, to perform Congress to respond to the demands of our ·the duties of the Chair during my absence. Foreign Relations was authorized to times by giving coordinate leadership to the STYLES BRIDGES, meet during the session of the Senate democratic forces in Europe and Asia aspiring President pro tempore. - today. to peace, justice, and freedom; and that On request of Mr. CASE, and by House Resolution 231 submitted by Hon. Mr. BUSH thereupon took the chair unanimous consent, the Committee on CHARLES KERSTEN be used as a powerful as Acting President pro tempore. Interior and Insular Affairs was author weapon in the psychological warfare against ized to meet today during the session of international communism and finally that the Senate. gratitude be expressed to the Government of THE JOURNAL this country for malntaining diplomatic re On request of Mr. KNowtAND, and by lations with the Governments of Estonia, unanimous consent, the reading of the ORDER FOR TRANSACTION OF Latvia, and Lithuania and for favorable at titudes toward the causes .of the independ "Journal of the proceedings of Monday, ROUTINE BUSINESS ence of these nations; to the Committee on June 22, 1953, was dispensed with. Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, I Foreign Affairs. ask unanimous consent that immedi 356. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Rev. Oswald Blumit and others, Wollaston, Mass., MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE ately following the quorum call, and relative to the Soviet Communist terrorist prior to the operation of the unanimous A message from the House of Repre consent agreement which was entered movement in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania sentatives, by Mr. Chaffee, one of its whereby they arrested thousands of men, reading clerks, announced that the into yesterday; there may be a morning women, and children and deported them to hour to permit Senators to introduce Siberia and other remote parts of Arctic Rus· House had passed the following bills of 'bills and joint resolUtions and to trans- sia, and stating that any peace settlement the Senate, each with an amendment, in act other routine business, under the without restoration of liberty and independ which it requested the concurrence of the usual practice of a 2-minute limitation ence for them would be a travesty on inter Senate: · national morality, law, and justice; to the on speeches. S. 1839. An act to amend section 32 of the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem Committee on Foreign Affairs. · Fire and Casualty Act, so as to provide that 357_ Also, petition of the National Assem· an agent or solicitor may secure a license pore. Is there objection? The Chair bly, Republic of Korea, relative to stating in to solicit accident and health insurance in 'hears none, and it is so ordered. the name of the Korean people their de· the District of Columbia under that act with nouncemen t of the conditions of the truce out taking the prescribed examination, if he being concluded without achieving the pur is licensed under the Life Insurance Act; CALL OF THE ROLL pose of the United Nations forces; to the and Mr. KNOWLAND. I suggest the ab Committee on Foreign Affairs. S. 2032. An act to modernize the charter of Washington Gas Light Co., and for other sence of a quorum. •• ..... • • purposes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem pore. The clerk will call the roll. SENATE The message also announced that the The Chief Clerk called the roll, ·and the .House had passed the following bills, in following Senators answered to their TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1953 which it requested the concurrence of names: · the Senate: Aiken Clements Green (Legislative day of Monday, June 8, 1953) H. R. 2236. An act for the establishment Anderson Cooper Griswold of a Commission on Area Problems of the Barrett Cordon Hayden The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, Greater Washington Metropolitan Area; Beall Daniel Hendrickson on the expiration of the recess. Bennett Dirksen H-ennings H. R. 2582. An act to amend section 12 of Bricker Douglas Hickenlooper The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown chapter V of the act of June 19, 1934, as Bridges Duff Hill Harris, D. D., offered the following amended, entitled "An act to regulate the Bush Dworshak Hoey prayer: business of life insurance in the District of Butler, Md. Ellender Holland Columbia"; and Butler, Nebr. Ferguson Humphrey Eternal God, whose glory the heavens H. R. 5805. An act making appropriations Byrd F.landers Hunt and the earth declare and whose gar Capehart Frear Jackson for the legislative branch and the judiciary Carlson ·· George Jenner ments vast and white we touch in all branch for the fiscal year ending June 30. Case Gillette Johnson.-Tex. truth, all beauty, all goodness; We are .1954, and for other purposes. Chavez Goldwater Johnston, S. c .
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