9538 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 13, 1967. By Mr. IRWIN: for national defense purposes; to the Com 140. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of H.R. 8565. A bill to provide for the ad mittee on Banking and Currency. the State of Ill1nois, relative to succession to jourrunent of Congress in the summer va H.R. 8578. A bill to amend title I of the the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency; to cation period, and for other purposes; to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Rules, 1965, and for other purposes; to the Com By Mr. MOORHEAD: mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H.R. 8566. A b111 to provide for the ad By Mr. FULTON of Tennessee: PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS journmen-t of Congress in the summer va H.R. 8579. A bill to prohibit the Secretary cation period, and for other purposes; to the of the Army from charging fees in connec Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private Oominlttee on Rules. tion with permits for certain floating facili bills and resolutions were introduced and ByMr.REES: ties; to the Committee on Public Works. severally referred as follows: H.R. 8567. A bill to provide for the ad By Mrs. HANSEN of Washington: By Mr. ASHBROOK: journment of Congress in the summer va H.R. 8580. A bill to convey certain land to H.R. 8583. A b111 for the relief of Gltta cation period, and for other purposes; to the the Squaxin Island Tribe of Indians; to the Koll1sh Stein; to the Co.mmittee on· the Committee on Rules. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Judiciary. By Mr. DENT: By Mr. McMILLAN (by request): By Mr. FARBSTEIN: H.R. 8568. A bill to provide for the ad· H.R. 8581. A bill to amend section 11- H.R. 8584. A bill for the relief of Felipe journmen,t of Congress in the summer va 341 (b) of the District of Columbia Code Martin De Abia; to the Committee on the cation period, and for other purposes; to the which relates to the sales price for the re Judiciary. Oomm1ttee on Rules. ports of the opinions of the U.S. Court of By Mr. FINO: By Mr. NATCHER: Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; H.R. 8585. A bill for the relief of Lorenzo H.R. 8569. A bill making appropriations to the Committee on the District of Colum Amato; to the Committee on the Judiciary. :Cor the goverrunent Of ·the Distl'Lct of Ooliu.m bia. H.R. 8586. A bill for the relief of Roberto bia and other activities chargeable in whole H.R. 8582. A bill to amend chapter 7 of Marceca; to the Committee on the Judiciary. or in part against the revenues of said Dis title 11 of the District of Columbia Code to H.R. 8587. A bill for the relief of Filippo trict for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, increase the number of associate judges on Russo; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and for other purposes. the District of Columbia Court of Appeals By Mr. FOLEY: . By Mr. ASHBROOK: from two to five, and for other purposes; to H.R. 8588. A bill for the relief of the Beas H.R. 8570. A bill to amend title 38 of the the Committee on the District of Columbia. ley Engineering Co., Inc.; to the Committee United States Code to provide that monthly By Mr. GARDNER: on the Judiciary. social security benefit payments shall not be H.J. Res. 504. Joint resolution authorizing By Mr. MATSUNAGA: considered as income in determining eligi the continued shipment of the Rand anti H.R. 8589. A bill for the relief of Lal Hin bility for pensions under that title; to the cancer vaccine in interstate commerce in Lee, Lai Sun Lee, and Yuk See Lee; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. order to insure the continued availab1Uty of Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BROYHILL -Of Virginia (by such vaccine for the treatment of patients By Mr. NIX: request): who were treated with suuh drug on or be H.R. 8590. A bill for the relief of Yee Shaw H.R. 8571. A bill to provide for the tax fore March 2, 1967; to the Committee on Ping and his wife, Louie So Sin, and their treatment of certain gifts to charities; to the Interstate and Foreign Commerce. children, Suey Jean and Suey Chung; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. GURNEY: Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. FOLEY: H.J. Res. 505. Joint resolution designating By Mr. PETTIS: H.R. 8572. A bill to amend the Mineral Tax Freedom Day as a national holiday; to H.R. 8591. A b111 for the relief of Manuel Leasing Act with respect to limitations on the Committee on the Judiciary. Pascua Pagdilao; to the Committee on the the leasing of coal lands imposed upon rail By Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina: Judiciary. roads; to the Committee on Interior and In H. Con. Res. 311. Concurrent resolution ex By Mr. POLANCO-ABREU; sular A1fa1rs. pressing the sense of Congress that highway H.R. 8592. A bill for the relief of Marta By Mr. WILLIAM D. FORD: trust funds should not be curtailed; to the del Carmen Fernandez Fernandez; to the H.R. 8573. A bill to adjust the rates of Committee on Ways and Means. Committee on the Judiciary. basic compensation of certain employees of By Mr. KUPFERMAN: By Mr. REINECKE: the Federal Government, and for other pur H. Con. Res. 312. Concurrent resolution to H.R. 8593. A bill for the relief of Raymond poses; to the Committee on Post Office and establish a joint committee to determine the Leyba; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Civil Service. necessity of a congressional investigation of By Mr. ROTH: H.R. 8574. A blll to adjust certain postage the assassination of President Kennedy; to H.R. 8594. A blll for the relief of certain rates, and for other purposes; to the Com the Committee on Rules. persons having claims against the assets of mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. By Mr. RESNICK: Joseph A. L. Errigo; to the Committee on the By Mr. HECHLER of West Virginla: H. Res. 434. Resolution requesting the De Judiciary. H.R. 8575. A bill to amend part B of title partment of Defense to use butter in its ra By Mr. VANDER JAGT: XVIII of the Social Security Act to included tions; to the Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 8595. A bill for the relief of Giuseppe prescribed drugs among the items and serv Randazzo; to the Committee on the Judici ices covered under the supplementary medi ary. cal insurance program for the aged; to the By Mr. WHITE: Committee on Ways and Means. MEMORIALS H.R. 8596. A bill for the relief of Gu1llermo By Mr. KEE: Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memo Aguirre-Santini; to the Committee on the H.R. 8576. A btll to amend title 39, United Judiciary. States Code, to improve the contracting au rials were presented and referred as fol By Mr. BOB WILSON: thority of the Postmaster General to con lows: H.R. 8597. A b111 for the relief of Mrs. tract for the transportation of mail, and 139. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Judy Hodgkins; to the Committee on the for other purposes; to the Committee on Legislature of the State of Colorado, rela Judiciary. Post Office and Civll service. tive to the overall e:!!ects directly resul1!1ng By Mr. WRIGHT: By Mr. FOLEY: from the cancellation and discontinuance o! H.R. 8598. A bill for the relief of Murray H.R. 8577. A bill to direct the Secretary contracts for the transportation of the mails Mortiz Jacobson; to the Colllllllttee on the . of the Treasury to establish a reserve of silver by rail; to the Committee on Rules. Judiciary.
EXT ENS I 0 N St' O F REMARKS
Negro Medal of Honor Men subject of a recent book by Air Force During the Spanish-American War in M. Sgt. Irvin H. Lee, of Baltimore. I am Cuba, he and two other cavalrymen, EXTENSION OF REMARKS proud to note that of these men who braved enemy bombardment and ri:fle fire won our Nation's highest award for mili to rescue a survey party from the trans o• tary valor, about 13 percent were from port Florida after the party had been HON. CLARENCE D. LONG Maryland. It is my pleasure to list in pinned down in an ambush and its boats OF MARYLAND the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the names burned. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and deeds of seven Negro fighting men Sgt. Thomas Boyne, of Prince Georges from Maryland, and one from Washing County, Md. During encounters with Thursday, April 13, 1967 ton, D.C., who have been awarded the Indians under the Apache chief Victorio Mr. LONG of Maryland. M·r. Speaker, Medal of Honor: in New Mexico, Sergeant Boyne's cavalry "Negro Medal of Honor Men" is the Pvt. Dennis Bell. Washington, D.C. detachment scattered under a withering April 13, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 9539 rifle attack. Sergeant Boyne flanked the fact, "steals" from all citizens by cheapening countrymen and public omcials alike for Indian warriors and gallantly charged every dollar they own. I am sure that my some time now that Castro's Cuba has young friend and his professor will agree been a base for Communist subversion, them alone, driving off the band. In a that "stealing" is immoral. "Stealing", I second encounter several days later, Ser believe, by almost universally accepted aimed at eventual revolutionary over geant Boyne displayed conspicuous brav definition, is taking away one's possessions throw of peaceful governments in Latin ery during a 2-day battle. without his consent, and when the Govern and South America. Sgt. Decatur Dorsey, of Maryland's ment takes away the value of the money Hard core revolutionaries, trained in 39th U.S. Colored Troops. During the which belongs to the people without even CUba under skilled Russian and Cuban Civil War at the Battle of Petersburg, the the formality of legislation, it certainly 1s cadres, have now been exported into nu taking away possessions without the con merous countries instigating subversive Union standard-bearer led his regiment sent of the owner. in two assaults in which 200 prisoners The Government sins in two ways by con activity directed at the violent overthrow were captured. tinually spending huge amounts of money, of non-Communist governments. These Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleet which it does not have. First, it endangers incidents and task forces adhere to the wood, of Baltimore, Md. During the the very future of our national existence master plan conceived at the Tri-Con Civil War at Chaffin's Farm in Virginia, since historically such practices have led to tinental Conference of Communist Sergeant Fleetwood rallied 35 survivors . national bankruptcy and suicide. Second, agents that met last year in Havana. of a charge against enemy fortifications the infiation caused by wastefUl deficit The latest of these planned wars is now spending steals most heavily from those who and led them through a hail of bullets in are least able to pay-the old, the sick, the under way in Bolivia, a neighbor to our a final and successful effort to take helpless-those on fixed incomes and par south and friendly toward the United ground. ticularly those who are retired on savings States. Sgt. Alfred B. Hilton, of Maryland's such as annuities and pensions. Are there Realizing the seriousness of these acts 4th U.S. Colored Troops. During the any who will disagree that infiation, which of aggression, I have introduced House same encounter in which Sergeant Fleet causes reduced standards of living and many Joint Resolution 496, which proposes wood won the Medal of Honor, Sergeant times actual want among our retired people, positive steps be taken by our Govern is immoral? As the young writer stated, ment to bring about an effective means Hilton seized the company standard there are certainly some economists, espe when its bearer fell dead and led his cially those who approve of all tb.e "Great of containing Castro and thwarting his fellow troops forward until he himself Society" prograins, who say that deficit exportation of anarchists and trained was shot down with wounds that led to spending may be sound and that a little in murderers into other nations. his death 20 days later. fiation 1s a good thing. Certainly there are In order that my colleagues may be fa Pvt. Augustus Walley, Reistertown, times during national emergencies that de miliar with House Joint Resolution 496, I Md. During Indian engagements in 1881 ficit spending is necessary, but there is never include it in the RECORD for all to read. in New Mexico, he rode through enemy a time that deficit spending is financially The joint resolution follows: sound. Everyone knows that contmually fire at short range to rescue a fellow spending more money than you take in, H.J. RES. 496 soldier who had been wounded and lost whether an lndividual or a government, will Joint resolution to prevent the subversion his horse. eventually lead to bankruptcy. Certainly, of the United States and the American Sgt. William 0. Wilson, of Hagerstown, infiation may put a few mor·e paper dollars continents as proposed by the Communist Md. During the same battle in which in your pocket, but these dollars buy less government of Cuba under Castro, and for Private Walley won the medal, Sergeant and, not only is the citizen being robbed, he other purposes Wilson fought heroically. is being seriously misled at the same time. Whereas there have been many suggestions How badly people are hurt by the Gov and several resolutions as to the procedure ernment's policy of deficit spending is shown necessary to stop Cuba's Fidel Castro from from the following facts: In i939 our dollar subverting the American continents; and had a purchasing power of 100 cents, and Whereas Fidel Castro's Communist regime De&cit Spending today the value of the dollar is about 42 has, by its actions, merited the condem cents. For example, an individual worker nation of the Organization of American EXTENSION OF REMARKS retiring in 1940 with maximum coverage was States as an aggressor nation; and entitled to an annual Social Security pen Whereas the Castro government at the OF sion of $499.20. A worker retiring today Tri-Continental Conference declared, openly with maximum coverage is entitled to an an for all to know, its intent to overthrow every HON. SAM STEIGER nual pension of $1,220.00, which has a pur legally constituted government on the Ameri OF ARIZONA chasing power of only $512.40 compared to can continent, including that of these IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1940. It is rather tragic that it took five United States; and whereas, it has already acts of Congress to raise the value of the put into practice the revolutionary plans Thursday, April 13, 1967 annual Social Security pension $13.20 in pur of the Tri-Continental Conference at Havana Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. chasing power in twenty-seven years. To in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Guatemala; and Speaker, many people have swallowed 1llustrate further, if a person invested his Whereas the citizens people of Cuba, ter money to purchase a $100.00 U.S. Govern rorized by huge arms buildup and foreign the propaganda of the Great Society ment Bond in 1950, the matured Bond to mercenary troops, cannot regain control of that deficit spending is morally right day, with 17 years accrued interest, would their government without outside help from and is sound economics. In a recent only be worth $90.10 in purchasing power. the nearly one m1llion fellow countrymen in letter to the editor of the Memphis, An honest Government policy must be exile; and Tenn., Press SCimitar, our able colleague, based on protecting the value of the cur Whereas it is to the best interest of these DAN KUYKENDALL who represents Mem rency by spending the peoples' money in a United States not to have an aggresive dic phis, gave a most forthright and clear responsible manner, to live within our in tatorship, supported by foreign arins and come, and balance the budget so as to lower troops, menacing our people with atomic mis refutation of this false theory. I in taxes and allow the people to keep more of siles pointed at our cities; and clude Mr. KUYKENDALL'S letter as a part their own money in dollars that are sound. Whereas it is in the peaceful interest of of the RECORD so that we all may share Sincerely, the United States Government, as well as a its contents. To me this letter makes DAN KUYKENDALL, moral obligation to all Americans, to prevent good sense: Member of Congress. Latin America and the United States from MARCH 17,1967. becoming a battlefield for guerrma warfare, Mr. CHARLES H. ScHNEIDER, ·as planned by Castro at the Tri-Continental Editor, Memphis Press Scimitar, Conference of Havana; and Memphis, Tenn. Castro Subversion Strikes Again Whereas it would be a waste of the Amer To THE EDITOR: On March 7, 1967, Howard ican taxpayers' dollars to donate funds for Cohn took strong issue with the stand that the Alliance for Progress in Latin America I have taken stating that "continued deficit EXTENSION OF REMARKS while Castro is at liberty to organize, finance, financing is immoral". Mr. Cohn quoted OF and direct guerrma bands to attack and over a professor who made a joke of the dangers throw these same governments we are trying and "immorality" of deficit spending. HON. JOHN R. RARICK to help financially: Therefore be it It 1s my considered opinion that deficit Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep OF LOUISIANA spending, except in tbnes of national resentatives of the United States of Amer emergencies, 1s most unwise and certainly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ica in Congress assembled, That the United the inflation it breeds is no joke to those Thursday, April 13, 1967 States Government withdraw political recog who suffer from it. Inflation, instead, 1s nition of Cuba's Communist government and a very serious matter because it robs our Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, it has thus encourage all Latin American countries dollar of its purchasing power and, in actual been common knowledge to our fellow to do likewise; and 9540 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 13, 1967 That all governments who wish to partici Colombia, Cyprus, Panama, South West eight-hour march through the primitive pate in the Alliance for Progress must first Africa, and NoTth Kalimantan. jungle we found a field kitchen with an oven withdraw political recognition of any Com III. Anti-imperialist solidarity among the capable of baking bread for at least 100 men. munist government in Cuba; and Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples in the Near it were gardens of vegetables and a That the United States State Department economic, social and cultural aspects. butcher shop where m1,1les had been cut up policy be clearly defined as no longer recog 1. For the economic emancipation and with machetes. nizing the Communist regime of Castro at social and cultural liberation of the peoples A littie farther along the trail was a field Havana and that no reprisals will be taken of the three continents: · hospital. There were empty packets of anti against any Cuban in restoring freedom and a. Start of an action intended to attain biotics, surgical dressings and instruments constitutional government in their home and consolidate the economic emancipation manufactured in Italy, Britain, West Ger land Cuba; and of the countries of the three continents and many and the United States. That any nation doing business with struggle against exploitation and economic HOMEMADE ARMS Cuba's Communist aggressor government of aggression of imperialism, colonialism and Fidel Castro wm be subjected to an embargo neocolonialism. A hundred yards farther on was the by the United States in equal amounts to b. Steps to eradicate in the economic, dormitory area. In this area were more than that country's imports to the United States; social and cultural fields the consequences 100 homemade hand grenades welded from and of colonial domination. empty fruit juice cans and lengths of gas That the United States Government will c. Actions against the blockade policy and pipe filled with sticks of dynamite and fired recognize no government in Cuba until a economic boycott applied by imperialism to by ,. detonators. truly constitutional government ·is estab the countries that struggle for their libera In the rubbish neatly raked from the lished by free elections participated in by all tion and to the countries which have dormitory f!.rea was a picture of Ernesto Cubans. achieyed it. ( Che) Guevara, the former lieutenant of d. Economic planning and mob111zation of Fidel Castro, and a copy of a speech by North Mr. Speaker, the reported plan of the the natural and human resources for the Vietnam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, translated Tri-Continental Conference of Havana economic development and achievement of into Spanish, calling for an "armed struggle can leave no doubt but that Castro in a real economic independence based on self for national liberation of long duration with reliance. prolonged resistance leading to the even tends to resort to violence to carry out tual triumph of the people." his goals. e. Agrarian reform in the three continents. The picture of Guevara was of a younger Mr. Speaker, under unanimous consent f. Problems related to the formation of national cadres . . , man and must have been taken in the Sierra I insert the following agenda from the Uaestr~:~o in Cuba some years ago. Tri-Continental Conference in Havana in 2. For the development of economic, social Jud.ging py a pile of spent cartridge cases, and cultural relations: one part of the camp had been used for the RECORD: a. Aid and cooperation among the peoples APPENDIX 1-AGENDA OF THE TRICONTINENTAL weapons training.. All the cases were of of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the American manufacture and showed that the CONFERENCE 1 economic, social and cultural fields. guerrillas have Ml and M2 rifles and Brown I. Fight against imperialism, colonialism b. Fundamental principles of economic iJ?,g automatic rifles. and neocolonialism. and technical cooperation among the coun 1. Support of the heroic struggle of the tries of the three continents based on equal Vietnamese people against the North Amer ity and mutual interest. ican imperialist aggressions, and for the lib c. Bases of a new economic policy among eration of South Viet-Nam, and the reunifi the peoples of the three continents and the Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports cation of all the country. rest of the world; establishment of economic, commercial and financial relations with the 2. Struggle for complete national libera EXTENSION OF REMARKS tion, people's right ,to self-determination, advanced countries on such bases that will consolidation of independence and national allow our own development. OF sovereignty in the three continents, and d. Working out of a definition of the against imperialist aggression, subversive pacific co-existence concept common to the HON. DONALD RUMSFELD conspiracies, interference in the internal countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. OF ILLINOIS affairs of independent countries and isola 3. Co-ordination of the activities of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion of the peoples who fight for peace and workers, students, women and cultural orga independence. nizations of the three continents. Thursday, April 13, 1967 3. Intensification of all forms of struggle, IV. Political unification and Organizations Mr. RUMSFELD. Mr. Speaker, un including the armed struggle of the peoples of the African, Asian and Latin American der leave to extend my remarks, I submit of the three continents against imperialism, efforts in their common struggle for nationaZ Liberation. my April legislative report, which in colonialism and neocolonialism led by North cludes the results of my fifth annual na American imperialism. Mr. Speaker, as further evidence of 4. Support to the just struggle of the tional issues poll. Cuban people against North American im implementation of guerrilla activity fol The legislative report is sent to resi perialism and for the defense of national lowing the Tri-Continental Conference dents of the 13th Congressional District sovereignty. Support to the patriotic fight blueprint, I insert the following· article of Illinois. The text of the report fol of Latin American peoples against imperial from the Washington, D.C., Evening lows: ism and its instruments, such as the OAS. Star, of Aprilll, 1967: CONGRESSMAN DONALD RUMSFELD REPORTS 5. Elimination of foreign military bases in RED GUERRILLA CAMP FOUND IN WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ethtcs and Conduct: the three continents and measures against BoLIVIA JuNGLE the policy of m111tary pacts. Wednesday, March 1, was an unhappy 6. Struggle for the prohibition of the use, (By Murray Sayle, correspondent of the day for the House and for the nation, for production, experimentation and storing of London Times) on that afternoon, the House debated seating nuclear arms, for the total destruction of NACHABHUAZU, BOLIVIA-A four-day jun Adam Clayton Powell as a Representative the nuclear arms already made, for the elim gle patrol of the 1st Battalion, 4th Division from New York. This question, complex ination of all means to produce them, and of the Bolivian Army, has discovered a base and troubling, touched not only on a mat for world peace. of Castro-type Communist guerr1llas deep in ter of public policy, but also on an issue of 7. Measures against Apartheid and racial the Bolivian jungle. justice toward an individual, and-perhaps segregation; support to the Negro people of Nachabhuazu is about 125 miles southwest most important--on the integrity of the the United States in their struggle for the of Sucre. The base came to light by acci House itself. right to equality and freedom and against all dent after a patrol of six men under a lieu The House Administration Committee and forms of discrimination and racism. tenant of the Bolivian Army was wiped out the Select Committee appointed to investi on March 23 in an ambush in a gorge in the gate Powell documented a series of offenses 8. Ways and means t-o help the national foothills of the Andes. which the House could not ignore. Among liberation movements of Africa, Asia and Two days later another patrol of 14 men other things: (1) Powen improperly main Latin America in general and specifically the and two officers was ambushed, taken pris armed struggle for liberation. tained on his clerk-hire payroll Mrs. Adam oner and released after 48 hours. C. Powell from August 14, 1964; to December II. Urgent problems of the anti-imperialist The returning prisoners, who were illiter 31, 1966, during which period either she per struggle in the countries of the three conti ate Bolivian conscripts, told fantastic stories formed no official duties whatever or such nents and particularly in Viet-Nam, the of bearded Russians and Chinese. duties were not performed in Washington, Dominican Republic, the Congo, the Portu Most Bolivians believed that the guerrillas D.C. or the State of New York, as required guese colonies, South Rhodesia, Southern were, in fact a band of cocaine or marijuana by law; (2) as Chairman of the Committee Arabia and Palestine, Laos, Cambodia, South smugglers, as both drugs flow freely in this on Education and Labor, Powell permitted Africa, Korea, Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, wild part of the world. and participated in improper expenditures Our patrol marched 12 miles into the of Government funds for private purposes; t English version published by the Tri jungle-clad Andes footh1lls on a trail which and (3) Powell's refusal to cooperate with· continental Conference, in Havana. the army cut in four days. After another the lawful inquiries authorized by the House April 13, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 9541 was contemptuous and was oonduc.t un sentatives Patman (Tex.), Bolling (Mo.), ment of the present system and of such worthy of a Member. Boggs (La.), Reuss (Wis.), Griffiths (Mich.), alternative systems as an all-volunteer The Congress has the authority and the and Moorhead (Pa.); and Senators Proxmire Armed Forces. The present Military Train obligation to protect its integrity. The Con (Wis.), Sparkman (Ala.), Fulbright (Ark.), ing and Service Act expires on June 30, 1967. stitution provides that each house shall be Talmadge (Ga.), Symington (Mo.), and Ribi Postmasters and politics the judge of the .electd:ons, retul"llB, and qual coff (Conn.), and 8 Republicans: Represen ifications of its Members. The Constitution tatives Curtis (Mo.), Widnall (N.J.), Rums To eliminate "patronage" and politics in declares: "Each house may determine the feld (Ill.), and Brock (Tenn.), and Senators the appointment of postmasters by making rules of its proceedings, punish its Members Javits (N.Y.), Miller (Iowa), Jordan (Idaho), selection depend solely on merit. There is for disorderly behavior, and, with the con and Percy (Ill.) My subcommittee assign growing support for this proposal, a.hd we currence of two-thirds, expel a Member." ments are Economy in Government, Infer hope for action this year. Clearly, if the House can. expel by a two American Economic Relationships, Foreign Social security thirds vote, it can exclude by a two-thirds Economic Policy, Economic Statistics, and To increase the earnings limitation from vote. The Constitution would not require Fiscal Policy. $1500 annually to $3600, without loss of the House t9 perform a useless act of seating Science and Astronautics Committee benefits. The present limitation, I believe, before expelling. I retained my seat on the "Space Commit stifles individual incentive and causes with To have seated Powell in the face of the tee," which handles matters pertaining to drawal from the market of needed skills, ex Select Committee findings and conclusions the National Aeronautics and Space Admin perience, and talent. and in view of the extreme nature of the istration, the National Science Foundation, Miscellaneous wrongs committed would have been insuffi and the Bureau of Standards. My subcom I have also introduced measures to: permit cient, not in the terms of punishment of mittee assignments are Manned Space Flight Powell, but of the integrity of the House. individual tax credits for parents financing and Science, Research, a'f!-d Development. students in college; establish a Commission There were five separate roll-call votes on The tragic loss of three astronauts will this matter. I felt Powell should not be on Public Management (to consider ways to focus attention on means to avoid such improve Government handling of such prob seated, and so voted. tragedies in the future. A careful evalua lems as air pollution, substandard housing, Adam Powell, by his conduct, challenged tion of safety procedures, quality control, traffic congestion, and other matters relating the integrity of the House of Representa and the use of a pure oxygen system in to the public's business) ; provide a tax tives. The House responded by excluding manned space vehicles will undoubtedly be incentive for business to hire and train un him from the 90th Congress. The vote re high on the committee agenda. The billions employed workers lacking the skills for avail flects a conviction on the part of the Mem of dollars spent on the space program will able jobs (Human Investment Act); and to bers that the public trust placed in them cozrie under close scrutiny in an effort to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the must be maintained. It was not, I am con reduce a federal budget which is mushroom admission of Illinois to the Union. vinced, a personal attack against a specific i.u.g on all fronts. LEGISLATION PASSED BY THE HOUSE THUS FAR individual. Government Operations Committee I supported bllls to 1) restore the invest Unfortunately, the proceedings in the I continue my servic3 on the chief House House concerning Powell leave unanswered ment tax credit and allowance of accelerated investigating Committee. Subcommittee depreciation which was unwisely suspended the broad and considerably more important Foreign Operations anC: Gov assignments are only five months ago; 2) The Reserves & question of Congressional ethics. I intro ernment Information and Military Opera duced a bill in the last Congress to establish National Guard Technicians Bill to strength t i ons. During the 89th Congress, the Gov en Reserve components of the Armed Forces; a Committee on Standards and Conduct, and ernment Operations Committee reported will continue to work for its passage. The 3) A Supplemental Military Procurement favorably on the l''reedvm of Information Authorization & Defense Appropriations Bill; task is to develop standards by which all bill. This bill, passed by the Congress last Members can be measured and provide the 4) Food for India, providing for additional year, requires the various Federal agencies emergency food assistance for India; 5) mechanism for assuring that Members con to make their records available fo-r public duct themselves in a way compatible with Treasury & Post Office Appropriations for Fis inspection, except for certain categories spe cal Year 1968; 6) Alliance for Progress, ex the high trust placed in them by their con cifically exempted by Congtess. The legisla stituents. Last month, I presented a state pressing support for the goals of the Alliance. tion, which I am proud to have worked for I opposed 1) the Interest Equalization Tax ment to the House Rules Committee in sup in Committee and fought for on the Floor port of a Committee on Standards and Ethics, which was extended for an additional2 years; of the House, will become effective in July of and 2) an increase in the Public Debt Limit copies of which are available by writing my this year. office. to $336 billion for the remainder of Fiscal COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS NEW FACES IN OUR WASHINGTON OFFICE Year 1967. "Committees are the workshops of Con The 13th District has been fortunate this Selective Service gress. They ... represent the real muscle year in having the benefit of the talent of The Draft has been with us since World of American legislative government. They two "Congressional Fellows" provided for us War II-so long that it has almost been ac constitute so much the brains and the bril ·by the American Political Science Association. cepted as a normal part of the American liance, the drudgery and the grind of work These men have been selected, on the basis way of life. Almost half of all Americans day legislative labor, that they explain the of background and acad.emic qualification to have lived under a compulsory military sys relative decline of parliamentary oratory in serve 4 months on a House staff and 4 months tem through their entire lives. Yet, in a recent decades in both Houses of Congress. on a Senate staff. Our first "Fellow" was free system, a compulsory draft system can They have substituted exact knowledge and Mr. William Kriegsman of the Atomic Energy be justified only when there is demonstrated exhaustive study for declamation." (from Commission, and we are now awaiting the need. Absent a clear need for compulsion in "The Capitol: Symbol of Freedom") arrival of Mr. James Briggs of the State De recruiting the military manpower necessary partment. In addition to this excellent help, to meet U.S. national security requirements, Joint Economic Committee we have employed for 5 months a junior from a. draft system is intolerable. In January I was privileged to be desig Belof.t College, Miss Judith Fell of Glenview. I do not know whether or not a volunteer nated by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Judy ca-me to us for a semester through an military is feasible during this period of our Representatives to serve o.n the Joint Eco arrangement with Beloit College. Boon after history, given current manpower require nomic Committee. The Committee conducts she leaves, one of our "summer staff interns" ments. I do know the following: (1) At no studies and hearings which serve to provide will arrive. Selected this year are: Eva time has the Department of Defense, the Se guidance to the Congress in making vital Knowlton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John lective Service System, or the President re economic decisions. Certain to be high on M. Knowlton, 656 Ardsley Road, Winnetka; vealed documentation to show that a volun the Committee's priority list: urban eco Kent N. Mastores, son of Dr. and Mrs. Nick tary system is not feasible; (2) A prominent nomic problems, tax matters, reassessment olas P . Mastores, 925 Edgemere Court, Evans defense expert, Dr. Walter Oi, states that a of Great Society programs, foregin economic ton; John T. Moran, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. voluntary system would be feasible by rais problems, balance of payments, and such John T. Moran, 945 Huckleberry Lane, North ing military pay modestly and improving proposals as Federal tax sharing and the brook; and Margaret D. Strahorn, daughter military personnel policies to make the serv negative income tax. of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Strahorn, 852 Oak ice more competitive _with the non-military, The Joint Committee is charged with the s-treet, Winnetka. and he supp,orts his position by extensive responsibility of making a "continuing study study papers; and (3) Even if a totally volun of matters related to the President's Eco LEGISLATION SPONSORED tary system is not now feasible, there is nomic Report." Hearings on the Report were In the 90th Congress, I have introduced utterly no excuse for not improving military held during January and February. Key to date 15 bills and resolutions. Some of pay and personnel policies to increase the vol members of the Administration, leading these measures are similar to proposals I in untary recruitment. How can we justify the economists, and business and labor leaders troduced in the last Congress, which did not present practice of not only requiring service offered their collective wisdom as to the become law. They include: of some, but, in addition, imposing a tax on soundness of the President's plans for FY those few who are conscripted by paying sub 1968. Copies of our report are available on Selective service stantially less than they could earn in a request. To establish a Joint Congressional Com civilian job. During the 90th Congress, the Committee mittee on American Manpower and National There is no justification for a draft system will be composed of 12 Democrats: Repre- Security, to make a comprehensive assess- if it is not necesEary, a& may well be the case. 9542 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 13, 1967 It is my belief that the 9oth Congress should today. If a voluntary system 1s found to be on some o! the important issues before Con establish a Joint Committee to (1) determine feasible, it would take a number of years to gress. whether or not a voluntary military is fea achieve, and the .Committee could recom Representative government, to work effec sible and, if so, the steps necessary to achieve mend a "transitional system" designed to tively, requires a two-way fiow o! informa a volunteer system; and (2) recommend im move towards the goal of an all-volunteer tion between the people in each constituency provements in any compulsory system which military. The case for such a course of ac and their Representatives. I believe the Poll would be necessary as a stand-by mechanisn tion by the Congress seems to me to be over 1s· well worth the time and effort if it stim in the event a major land war of World Wa whelming. ulates discussion and thought, points up II proportions required greater military man RESULTS OF 1967 NATIONAL ISSUES POLL areas where a lack of information exists, and power than a voluntary system reasonably The 1967 Questionnaire was mailed to resi encourages comment and communication could provide. dents of the 13th Congressional District in from residents of the 13th District. While I, It is no credit to our Government that in early February. We have received to date of course, bear full responsib1lity !or my the past 25 years-notwithstanding the two roughly 18,000 returns from the approxi votes and decisions, I do appreciate your recent Presidential Commissions on the mately 125,000 which were sent, and they are cooperation and value your participation. I Draft-there has not been a comprehensive st111 coming in. I am most grateful to all look forward to hearing from you throughout review of military manpower problems and who have cooperated in this effort for taking the year on matters of mutual concern and that significant information gaps still exist the time to give me the benefit of your views interest. .. 1967 national issues poll Percent
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1. The draft: (a) To meet U.S. military manpower requirements in the foreseeable future, should maximum reliance be placed on volunteer forces? ______------__ ------______------____ ------___ ------______42 50 8 To the extent that reliance cannot or should not be plared on volunteer forces, the United States should (answer 1): (b) Adopt a program of universal military training?------· ------ 39 ------·------(c) Continue with a selective service system basically similar to the one now in operation?------ 33 ------·------(d) Choose men for military service by a lottery system?.------·------28 ------2. Vietnam: .Do you favor------(a) An" All Asian Pear,e Conference" of Asian nations, including North Vietnam and Communist China?------ 49 40 11 (b) Suspending bombing attacks on North Vietnam only if Hanoi makes a reciprocal move toward deescalation? ••• ------ 71 21 8 (c) Ending bombing attacks on North Vietnam without a reciprocal move by Hanoi?------ 11 79 10 ~d) Continued escalation or the U.S. military effort in Vietnam?_------60 29 11 55 36 9 (~ ~~J:~::!t~~r~d~~~t~~%~~~~;~;~tr';;'!vieilliUD?~======~======12 75 13 (g) Terminating U.S. aid to nations trading with North Vietnam?------73 20 7 3. Taxes: Do you favor- (a) A 6-percent increa.c;e on individual and corporate income taxes to reduce the deficit?------19 74 7 (b) A reduction in Federal domestic spendlng to reduce the deficit?------: ______82 15 3 (c) Federal income tax relief for part or college educational expenses?------ 73 23 4 (d) Tax incentives for industries to control water and air pollution?------79 17 4 •· Social security: Do you favor an increase in social security benefits?------ 46 44 10 (a) An 8-percent increase in benefits without an increase in payroll taxes?_------ 39 45 16 (b) A 20-percent increase in benefits and appropriate increases in payroll taxes?.------15 66 19 5. Domestic: Do you favor- (a) An expansion of the Headstart program?- •• ------ 50 38 12 (b) A constitutional amendment to place the minimum voting age at 18? ------ 34 63 3 (0) Merger of the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce?------ 54 32 14 (d) Establishment of a code of ethics for the U.S. Congress?.------ 90 7 3 (e) Televising proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives?_------ 56 34 10 (f) A constitutional amendment to permit the election of the President by direct popular vote rather than by the electoral college? __ 80 16 4 (g) Limiting use of wiretapping by Federal agencies to national security cases?------57 38 5 6. International affairs: Do you favor- (a) Extension of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (which gives the President authority to reduce existing tariffs by up to 50 percent)? 54 35 11 39 1. Tra~~>w1ti~:!:!f;?~o~~~: 0 ~~eY~~ii:~o~:!i~~~ion:oriia
Public Utility Companies Farsighted in 155 miles by barge to the Stuart station coal delivered to the company's present which is located midway between Man generating stations in the Dayton area. Ohio chester and Aberdeen, Ohio, on the Ohio James M. Stuart, D.P. & L. president, River. said: EXTENSION OF REMARKS The Stuart station is being constructed Working in concert with our neighbors OF by Dayton Power & Light and will be at Columbus and Cincinnati has made it HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN, JR. owned in common by D.P. & L., Cincin possible for us to take advantage of water nati Gas & Electric Co., and Columbus transportation and to build this new gen OF OHIO & Southern Ohio Electric Co. The first erating station w.Ith larger and more efficient IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES units. These important savings wm tend to unit of 600,000 kilowatts is scheduled offset the rising costs of almost everything Thursday; April 13, 1967 for completion in early 1970, a second else that the company does to provide elec unit of similar size in 1971, and a third tric service. Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, in 1972. The companies had already I want to bring to the attention of the announced that they expect the station Union carbide will supply about 1.5 House a unique venture in farsighted million tons of coal to the new generat planning and economy by three public will ultimately have a capacity of over 2 million kilowatts and will result in an ing station during the first year of oper utility companies in Ohio. Investment of well over $200 million. ation. This ·rate will build up to 3.5 A 70 million-ton contract to purchase million tons per year when the second coal for the J. M. Stuart Generating An outstanding feature of the an nouncement was Union Carbide's report unit is operational. The fuel require- Station until the year 2000 has been an that it will hire up to 500 new employees ments for the third unit are not in nounced jointly by the Dayton Power & cluded. The coal supplied will be bitu Light Co. and the Union Carbide Corp. to mine the coal from the 27 ,000-acre minous for the Pittsburgh No. 8 seam. The coal will come from a new 3 ¥.2 site. This is in the Appalachian area. Deep mining at the Union Carbide million ton-per-year mine that is being There is an estimated total reserve of mine will be done with modern high opened by Union Carbide in Mason and approximately 100 million tons of coal capacity machines. The 30,000-foot con Putnam Counties, W.Va., 30 miles north in this Union Carbide site. veyor belt will carry the coal from the west of Charleston. The coal will be D.P. & L. officials report that the cost mine entrance to a storage area on the ..transferred by a 6-mile conveyor belt of coal delivered to the Stuart station Kanawha River. There, coal will be to the Kanawha River. Then it will go will be 25 percent less than the cost of loaded into 1.500 ton jumbo-type barges. April 13, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 9543 D.P. & L. reports that a barge contract years of employment have been signifi stressed in their laws and in their forensic is being negotiated. It is expected that a cantly reduced during the same period. eloquence, what the political economists of towboat will push eight barges at ·a time This has happened while ASCS has had the eighteenth century expounded at length, down the Kanawha to Point Pleasant, to carry out provisions of new and major is only now being painfully rediscovered after W. Va., and then down the Ohio river legislation in each of 5 successive the pragmatist experimentation of the past century or so-that political theory is a to the Stuart station. Coal-handling years, including the landmark Food and branch of ethics. · facilities being built at the station will Agriculture Act of 1965. Religion requires of us, not merely an be able to unload 12,000 tons per 8-hour Those of us who come from North individual morality, an uprightness in deal day. During unloading, the towboat will Carolina can be proud that the National ings with family, friends, business associ return empty barges to Union Carbide's Civil Service League picked our fellow ates, and neighbors, participation 1n church Kanawha River dock site. The 310-mile Tar Heel as one of the 10 best in the activities, but also a public, soctal morality. round trip will be run 24 hours a day, so career service. Mortimer Caplin, presi There is a moral aspect to virtually every that barges will always be in transit be public problem that we face today: poverty, dent of the league, calls the 10 "as splen crime, pollution of earth and air and water, tween the two points. D.P. & L. will shift did a demonstratiqn of the quality, dedi the war in Vietnam, the population explo barges with its own tugboat. cation, and excellence of the career serv sion and impending illiteracy, disease, Com Ground breaking at the Union Carbide ice as ever has been assembled." mulliSit, subversion and the well-publicized minesite is scheduled for June of this The league includes people who can activities of certain members of Congress. year, when digging of the slope and judge, such as board chairman Bernard In each of these cases, each one of us is shafts starts. The first coal will be mined Gladieux, Kermit Gordon, J. Edward in the position of the passers-by on the road early in 1969. Day, former North Carolina Governor, to Jericho; only, instead of one man who to has fallen among thieves, and suffered rob Terry Sanford, and Newton Minow, bery and wounding, we have before us the mention just part of a very prestigious cases of hundreds, and thousands and mil group. lions who have been robbed and wounded Horace Godfrey Honored for Excellence I am sure the entire North Carolina by circumstances which are, to some ex delegation joins me in extending sincere tent, within our control. There is no one in Civil Service Career congratulations to Horace Godfrey for of us so helpless and uninfiuential that he this well-earned and deserved national cannot play the part of the Good Samaritan recognition. in some way, to some among these neigh EXTENSION OF REMARKS bors, .near or far, who are the victims of OF sooial and economic injustices. We who attempt to live up to the de HON. L. H. FOUNTAIN mands of our Catholic faith, in attending OF NORTH CAROLINA - Here on Earth God'1 Work Mast Mass regularly every Sunday, in observing Truly Be Oar Own each injunction and prohibition in the Ten IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ;Commandments, and in the Six Command Thursday, April 13~ 1961 men.ts of the Church; we who try to fam1liar- EXTENSION OF REMARKS 1ze ourselves with the particulars of Catho Mr. FOUNTAIN. Mr. Speaker, we are OF lic doctrine, and to see that our children all interested in achieving excellence in also are taught that doctrine; we who go the career civil service. Today I am HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI beyond the bounds of obligation, and volun proud that a fellow North Carolinian, i11 OF NEW YORK tarily engage in such devotions as the First this service since 1934, has been recog Friday Mass and Communion that bring us IN THE HOUSE. OF REPRESENTATIVES together today-we, in short, who are try nized by the National Civil Service Thursday, April 13, 1967 ing to do our duty, and more than our duty, League for his outstanding performance in t~e religious and spiritual sphere, will during these years of service. Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, ·my es truly succeed 1f we make our religious and Horace D. Godfrey, as many of us teemed colleague from Buffalo, N.Y., the spirltual character effective in the social and know, has administered the fann oom Honorable RICHARD D. McCARTHY, re political sphere. ,modity programs of the 1Department of cently addressed the First Friday Club It is by our justice that we will ulti Agriculture since 1961, when he was ap of Buffalo. He summarized very poign mately be judged. Christ Himself declared, as we are told in the Fifth Chapter of the pointed Admi~istrator of the Agricul antly the duties of a Christian to his Qospel of St. Matthew: ". . . unless your tural Stabilization and Conservation God, to his country, and to his fellow men, and emphasized the application of jUstice abound more than that of the scribes Service and Executive Vice President of and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the the Commodity Credit Corporation. He .those duties in today's world. kingdom of heaven." deserves a major share of the credit for With permission, I include Congress St. James, in the .Second Chapter of his the success of these programs, which un::. man McCARTHY's address below: Epistle, called the "Catholic" or "Univer der his guidance have seen farm income HERE ON EARTH GoD's WORK MusT TRULy BE sal" Epistle, proclaims that "faith without rise to new high levels while the costly • OUR OWN works is dead." In these days of tremen problem of surplus grain has been elim (By Representative RICHARD D. McCARTHY dous and vastly increasing populations, of inated and other surpluses have been re before the First Friday Club of Buffalo, the concentration of people in urban centers April 7, 1967) and metropolitan areas, and of instantaneous duced greatly. He deserves credit also communication and swift transport ov~r the for efficient and effective admi»istration "Here on earth. God's work must truly be face of .the globe, and even to outer space, of the agricultural conservation pro our own." The concluding words cf Presi the works of faith, too, must take on a new gram, one of the major interests of his dent John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address and enlarged dimension. It is no longer still resound through our Nation, and enough to concern ourselves wt.th individu life and one of the most important of through the world. I should like to apply Government activities. als and families in need, with seasonal drives their thought today to the particular con and emergency funds for disasters. Our Those of us who knew Horace Godfrey cerns of the members of the First Friday _Christian consciences must engage them in North Carolina, where he was chief Club of Buffalo. selves with the basic problems of human State administrative omcer of ASCS for The final . words of President Kennedy's existence in society, in the year 1967, with 12 years before beginning his present speech, the expression of the thought toward the troubl~. not only of a particular group duties, think of leadership when we think which the entire address Jed, was th1s in or of the victims of a particular happening, of this man. His leadership has been a junction, addressed as much to himself as but of whole populations and for. a pro to the land he was undertaking to lead: tracted period of: time. Maybe we cannot major factor in the splendid esprit de "With a good conscience our only sure re corps which we find on every level of bring the kingdom ,of l;leaven upon earth, ward, with histOry the final judge of o~ but it is still the major duty of the Chris what he likes to call "the ASCS family," deeds, let us go fortn to lead the land we tian to labor toward that end, to the best from the county office to the top Wash love, asking His blessing ang. His help, but of his ab111ty. ington level. He has been able to at knowing that here on earth God's work must I believe our faith should be within us, not tract good people, and to inspire them truly be our own." just like the gentle glow of well-being that to greater efficiency and service by his The duty stressed in that address, as well comes from what we might call the "inner personal example. as in the Invocation by Cardinal Cushing light," but the dynamic, pulsing, invigorating that preceded it, was the duty of applying It is significant that, while the work pumping of a spiritual heart, inevitably issu our individual consciences to public affairs. ing in action for the good of our neighbors, load of ASCS has gone up more than a What the classical Greeks and theocratic and the improvement of the social order. A third durlng his administration, man- Hebr~ws knew so well, what the Romans live faith, in the individual, I have always 9544 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 13, 1967 · believed, involves every particle of his being, now, with some living in luxury while others good Marshall was among the honored and his every thought and action. Similarly, starve, with some children healthy while guests. The Attorney General stated a live faith, in the group, gives the character others are doomed to deb111tating diseases of Christian morality to its expressions and and early death, with crime and violence on that history might place the progress of actions in the community. the increase, so that our streets are no longer the American Negro in our time among An outstanding obstacle to the attainment safe for walking, or our parks for peaceful the greatest chapters of man's never of this Christian ideal of the character both rest and recreation. Why can we neither ending quest for freedom and justice. of individual and of group is the ingrained swim in our rivers nor drink their water His thesis is that we live in a time of habit of prejudice: prejudice in thought and safely? · Why can we not breathe without vast and fundamental changes and that in unthinking customs, in habits and ways danger of choking on smoke and smog, or the leisurely adaptations of yesterday of speech, in a simple failure to notice the travel without seeing bottles and tin cans lit signs of discrimination and segregation. tering the roadside and the wayside areas? are a luxury we can no longer afford. I'm afraid we all have some tendencies to I do not mean simply, "There ought to be a He stated that nearly 2 million Negroes ward prejudice: some remains of old preju law," though for many of these ills there have left the South in this decade and dices, that we are trying to get rid of; and are laws, and probably need to. be more of their education will determine, in large often also the unrecognized beginnings of them. measure, their ability to compete in new some new prejudices. Anti-Semitism shows I mean it is the concern of each one of us, markets. The Attorney General feels up spectacularly in the painting of swastikas and not only the concern of a legislator that education is the foundation to em and the bombing or burning of synagogues like myself, to think about these matters and ployment which is the beginning of op but consider, is there not an anti-Semitism, try to determine just what local ordinances, similarly mean-spirited and vicious, in cus state laws, or federal laws might be appro portunity for the poor. toms of excluding Jews from neighborhoods, priate for the situations. When you form National Press Club President L. David by wh:wt a:re ,oaJ.led ".gentle·men's a.greements" such an opinion, do not let it stop there, or LeRoy, in the question-and-answer peri among real estate owners and dealers? just form the substance of idle conversation, od following the formal speech, pro Catholics, and particularly Irish Catholics, but express your opinion to your legislators, pounded many penetrating questions have reason indeed to be sensitive to these and work among your neighbors to come to submitted by the members which brought forms of discrimination, and to refrain from an agreement as to what can be done locally. forth vital responses from the Attorney them ourselves. It was not so long ago that, Further, a great deal may well be accom in many communities of New England and plished without the need of any law. Indus General. The Attorney General was the North Atlantic States, the notation "No trial and commercial establishments, busi given a standing ovation and made an Irish need apply,'• was to be seen on placards nesses and professionals, all are human in excellent impression on the National and classified advertisements offering job stitutions, made up of individual men who Press Club audience. The Nation can be opportunities. But not only were there the can be reached with reason and Who can be proud that a man of his stature, though signs, "No Irish Need Apply"; convents and moved to action by impelling motives. young, heads one of the most important churches were sacked and even burned, mobs There have in the past been many inspiring and vital departments of the U.S. Gov fought in the streets. And it was not only instances, and there can in the future be ernment. the Irish who were shunned a'nd persecuted. many more, of businessmen with consciences There were numerous, well-documented cases who have led their communities to splendid In order that the Members of Congress of discrimination against the sons and accomplishments in social and technical im may share the ~nalysis on the subject of daughters of Germany, Poland and Italy too. provement. Lumber companies that were ''Civil Rights" which the Attorney Gen Indeed, a political party based on bigotry denuding the land have turned to tree-farm eral presented, under leave obtained, I all against Catholics captured Kentucky, ing and conservation of the Ian~; manufac insert the full text of his address in the Maryland, Delaware and most of New Eng turers that were poisoning the rivers have RECORD: land-including every major office in Massa turned their scienthlc and technical powers chusetts. ADDRESS BY A'l"l'ORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY to the restoration of clean waters and nat CLARK BEFORE THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, That is why there is a special reason-an
that Mr. ASPINALL, Mr. CAREY, Mr. HALEY, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The SENATE Mr. SAYLOR, and Mr. MORTON were ap clerk wlll call the roll. pointed managers on the part of the The legislative clerk proceeded to call FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1967 House at the conference. the roll. . ' The Senate met at 10 o'clock a.m., and The message also announced that the Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I was called to order by the President pro House had passed a blll