1955 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 9249 ment of the Senate to the bill CH. R. ministering oaths and taking acknowledg­ Keller in ·behalf of physically handicapped 4904) to extend the Renegotiation Act ments by offi.cials of Federal penal and cor­ persons throughout ·the world. of 1951for2 years, and requesting a con­ rectional institutions; and H. R. 4954. An act to amend the Clayton The message also announced that the ference with the Senate on the disagree­ Act by granting a right of action to the Senate agrees to the amendments of the ing votes·of the two Houses thereon. to recover damages under the House to a joint resolution of the Sen­ Mr. BYRD. I move that the Senate antitrust laws, establishing a uniform ate of the following title: insist upon its amendment, agree to the statute of limitati9ns, and for other purposes. request of the House for a conference, S. J. Res. 67. Joint resolution to authorize The message also announced that the the Secretary of Commerce to sell certain and ~hat the Chair appoint the conferees Senate had passed bills and a concur­ vessels to citizens of the Republic of the on the part of the Senate. Philippines; to provide for the rehabilita­ The motion was agreed to; and the rent resolution of the following titles, in tion of the interisland commerce of the Acting President pro tempore appointed which the concurrence of the House is Philippines, and for other purposes. Mr. BYRD, Mr. GEORGE, Mr. KERR, Mr. requested: The message also announced that th~ MILLIKIN, and Mr. MARTIN of Pei:msyl­ S. 48. An act to provide for the disqualifi­ cations of certain former officers and em­ Senate agrees to the report of the com­ vania conferees on the i:art of the Senate. ployees of the District of Columbia in mat­ 'mittee of conference on the disagreeing ters connected with former duties; votes of the two Houses on the amend­ RECESS S. 182. An act to require a premarital ex­ ments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. amination of all applicants for marriage 6499) entitled "An act making appro­ Mr. JOHNSON of . Mr. Presi­ licenses in the District of Columbia; priations for the Executive Office of the dent, if no other Senator desires the floor, S. 256. An act to eliminate cumulative vot­ President and sundry general Govern­ I am about to move that the Senate stand ing of shares of stock in the election of di­ rectors of national banking associations ment agencies for the fiscal year ending in recess until 12 o'clock noon tomorrow. unless provided for in the articles of associa­ June 30, 1956, and for other purposes." I move that the Senate recess until 12 tion; o'clock noon tomorrow. S. 665. An act to revive section 3 of the The motion was agreed to; and Cat 4 District of Columbia Public School Food APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPART"'.' o'clock and 2 minutes p. m.) the Senate Services Act; MENT OF COMMERCE AND RE­ took a recess until tomorrow, Tuesday, S. 666. An act to extend the period of au­ LATED AGENCIES, 1956 June 28, 1955, at 12 o'clock meridian. thorization of appropriations for the hos­ pital center and facilities in the District of Mr. PRESTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask •• .... •• Columbia; unanimous consent to take from the S. 972. An act to amend the Home Owners' Speaker's table the bill HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Loan Act of 1933, as amended; making appropriations for the Depart­ s. 1275. An act to authorize the Commis­ ment of Commerce and related agencies MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1955 sioners of the District of Columbia to desig­ for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, nate employees of the District to protect life and for other purposes, with Senate The House met at 12 o'clock noon. and property in and on the buildings and amendments thereto, disagree to the grounds of any institution located on prop: The Chaplain. Rev. Bernard Braskamp, erty outside of the District of Columbia ac­ Senate amendments and agree to the D : D., offered the following prayer: quired by the United States for District sana­ conference asked by the Senate. Almighty and ever-blessed God, we toriums, hospitals, training schools, and The SPEAKER. Is there objection to are lifting our hearts unto Thee in other institutions; the request of the gentleman from Geor­ adoration and gratitude, for Thou art S. 1287. An act to make certain increases gia? [After a pause.] The Chair hears the source of our blessings, the answer in the annuities of annuitants under the none and appoints the following con­ Foreign .Service retirement and disability ferees: Messrs. PRESTON, THOMAS, Roo­ to our problems, and the goal of all our system; . aspirations. NEY, YATES, SHELLEY, FLOOD, CANNON, S.1391. An act granting the consent of CLEVENGER, Bow, HORAN, MILLER of Grant that in these troubled days, Congress to the States of and Maryland, and TABER. when there is so much of tension and Nevada to negotiate and enter into a com­ estrangement and sinister forces are pact ·with respect to the distribution and use trying to bring discord and division of the waters of the Truckee, Carson, and THE DEBT LIMIT among the nations, we may know how Walker Rivers, Lake Tahoe, and the tribu­ to keep aglow the light of freedom and taries of such rivers and lake in such States; By direction of the Committee on righteousness. S. 1585. An act to provide for· the return Ways and Means, Mr. COOPER submitted to the town of Hartford, Vt., of certain land a privileged report to accompany the bill Help us to believe that Thou hast which was donated by such town. to the placed at our disposal the inexhaustible CH. R. 6992) to extend for 1 year the United States as a site for a veterans hos­ existing temporary increase in the pub­ resources of Thy grace and that all pital and which is no longer needed for such things are working together for good purposes; lic debt limit, which was referred to the if we seek to do Thy will, and all will be S. 1739. An act to authorize the Commis­ Union Calendar and ordered to be well when we are on Thy side. sioners of the District of Columbia to fix printed. Inspire us to hasten the coming of rates of compensation of members of cer­ Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, by direc­ the time when there shall be peace on tain examining and licensing boards and tion of the Committee on Ways and earth and good will among men. commissions, and for other purposes; Means, I call up the bill (H. R. 6992) to S. 1741. An act to exempt from taxation extend for 1 year the existing temporary Hear us in Christ's name. Amen. certain property of the Jewish War Veterans, increase in the public debt limit, and The Journal of the proceedings of u. S. A., National Memorial, Inc., in the ask unanimous consent that the bill may Thursday, June 23, 1955, was read and District of Columbia; be considered in the House as in Com­ approved. s. 1855. An act to amend the Federal Air­ port Act, as amended; mittee of the Whole. S. 2171. An act to amend the Subversive The Clerk read the title of the bill. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Activities Control Act so as to provide that The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Ten­ A message from the Senate by Mr. upon the expiration of his term of office, a member of the Board shall continue to serve nessee? McBride, one of its clerks, announced until his successor shall have been appointed Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, reserv­ that the Senate . had passed without and shall have qualified; ing the right to object, is this the bill to amendment bills of the House of the fol­ S. 2176. An act to repeal the requirement extend the debt limit? lowing titles: that public utilities engaged in the manu­ Mr. COOPER. That is correct. H. R. 1825. An act creating a Federal com­ facture and sale of electricity in the District Mr. PATMAN. Would the gentleman mission to formulate plans for the construc­ of Columbia must submit annual reports to explain what it proposes to do? Does it tion in the District of Columbia of a civic Congress; · go beyond the $6 billion? auditoriu~. including an Inaugural Hall of S. 2177. An act to repeal the prohibition Presidents and a music, fine arts, and mass against the declaration of stock dividends by Mr. COOPER. It just proposes to ex­ communications center; public utilities operating in the District of tend the present limitation for one more H. R. 3659. An act to increase criminal Columbia; and year. penalties under the Sherman An~itn~st Act; S. Con. Res. 39. Concurrent resolution rec­ Mr. PATMAN. That is for the $6 bil­ H. R. 4221. An act to amend section 4004, ognizing, on the occasion of her 75th birth'." lion additional over the $275 billion? title 18, United States Code, relating to ad- day. June 27, 1955, the efforts of Miss Helen Mr. COOPER. J'hat is correct. 9250 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 'June 27 Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I with· glib campaign promises which were Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Will the draw my reservation ·of objection. being made of a balanced budget were gentleman take more time? The SPEAKER. Is there objection to more a matter of political convenience Mr. COOPER. I cannot have more the request of the gentleman from Ten­ and opportunism than . :fiscal realism. time except by unanimous consent. nessee [Mr. CooPER]? The record of the Democratic Party is Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in There was no objection. clear that we are just as interested in a opposition to the pro forma amend­ The Clerk read the bill, as follows: balanced budget and the end of deficit ment. Be it enacted, etc., That the act entitled :financing as anyone else. Mr. MILLER of . Nebraska. Mr. "An act to provide for a temporary increase Regardless of the promises and the de­ Speaker, will the gentleman yield? in the public-debt limit," approved August sire of a balanced budget, we are faced Mr. JENKINS. Yes; I yield. 28, 1954 (31 U. S. c., sec. 757b), is hereby with the fact that the Secretary of the Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I was try­ amended by striking out "June 30, 1955" Treasury-who is responsible for man­ ing to get the thing cleared up as to and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, aging the fiscal affairs of the Govern­ .whether we would have a deficit if we 1956." ment-states that he needs the tempo­ had not reduced taxes $7 ,500,000,000. Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I move rary $6 billion increase in the debt ceiling That was my first question. to strike out the last word, and I ask continued for another year. I am just as The other question I was going to ask unanimous consent to revise and extend reluctant to increase, even temporarily, the gentleman from Tennessee was, how my remarks. the ceiling on the public debt as any much would the debt be if we had put The SPEAKER. Without objection, it Member of the House, but under present through the $20 individual tax reduc­ is so ordered. circumstances, I do not feel that we have tion? I am just wondering what the There was no objection. any choice other than to comply with the deficit now would have been. It is amaz­ Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask request of the Secretary. ing the way the gentleman speaks here unanimous consent that all Members We must remember that it is the Con­ this morning, for he sponsored the $20 desiring to do so may extend their re­ gress itself which has the final say-so in reduction for everybody in the United marks immediately following the re­ the amount of money which the Gov­ States; so I just wondered what the marks of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. ernment is authorized to spend, and deficit would be in case that kind of JENKINS]. once expenditures have been authorized bill had gone through. :rerhaps the gen­ The SPEAKER. .Is there objection to and commitments have been made, it is tleman from Ohio can tell me if there the request of the gentleman from Ten­ the obligation of the Congres~ to protect would have been a reduction had they nessee? the fiscal integrity of the Government. not had the reduction of $7,500,000,000. There was no objection. I would like to point out that, although I voted for it according to good think­ Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, H. R. holding down the ceiling on the public ing. How near would we have come to 6992 would continue for another year debt is a very effective deterrent to ex­ balancing the budget? the existing temporary . $6 billion in­ penditures, it is at best an indirect ave­ Mr. JENKINS. We are nearer now crease in the ceiling on the public debt. nue to reduced expenditures and it may than we have been for.some time; there The present permanent statutory ceil:­ be a very direct avenue to impairing our is no question about that. ing on the public debt is $275 billion. internal strength. Mr. COOPER. If the gentleman will -Last year the Congress enacted legisla­ The Secretary stated to the committee yield, answering the gentleman's first tion increasing temporarily this ceiling that the $6 billion increase in the ceiling question the answer is, we would not. by $6 billion, or to $281 billion, through to June 30, 1956, is a minimum. We must Mr. JENKINS. The gentleman from this Thursday, June 30. remember that it. is in the first part of Minnesota by his question indicated that The Secretary of the Treasury ap­ a fiscal year-that is, the period begin­ he voted against the extension of the peared in public hearings before the ning July 1 and running to March­ debt limit. I voted against the first one, Committee on Ways and Means recom­ which is the crucial period in the man­ but I am convinced that I might have mending that this temporary increase agement of the debt ceiling, because of been wrong then. At any rate I think of $6 billion be continued through June the fact that our tax collections come that the debt limit with which we are 30, 1956. This bill carrying out the re­ into the Treasury predominantly in the dealing today should be allowed. quest of the Secretary, was unanimously latter part of the fiscal year. If we Today we are asking that this tem­ reported by our committee. During the should not provide this temporary in­ porary debt limitation be extended. public hearings the Secretary stated: crease, it is possible that the permanent ·The Secretary of the Treasury came be .. ceiling on the debt would be exceeded in fore the committee and made a state­ We have lived within the limits, but the the early fall. In order to preserve the basic problems are still with us. They are, ment, which was in line with his usual in fact, even more acute their year than fiscal integrity of the Government, a frankness and which shows him to be last. Their debt stood at $270.8 billion on special session of the Congress might be a statesman and financier. He pre­ June 30, 1954. On June 30 this year, it ls necessary if we fail to act favorably on sented a plan clearly and convincingly expected to be almost $3 billion higher. this legislation. and thoroughly justified his claim for Thus, the Treasury will have even less We must also remember that the the extension of the debt limit. Extend­ elbowroom to handle its seasonal borrowing Treasury needs to maintain a minimum ing of the debt limit does not mean that needs in the months ahead under a $281 balance of cash in order to provide some one extra cent will be spent; it does not billion temporary limit than it did last tlexibility in fiscal operations. year. Even more crucial will be the prob­ call for the expenditure of any money. lem of getting the debt back to $275 billion I urge that the bill be passed. No money can be spent unless it passes by the close of the 1956 fiscal year. Mr. WIER. Mr. Speaker, will the gen.. through the Appropriations Committee tleman yield? and through the House and the Senate. The Secretary then assured the com­ Mr. COOPER. If I have time. This immense country of ours would mittee: Mr. WIER. I wanted to express my­ be in terrible shape if all of a sudden it It is our firm intention to attempt to live self on this occasion if the bill is going should develop that somebody had pre­ under the present debt limit with this tem­ to be taken up tliis afternoon. I voted sented a bill to the Government for goods porary extension. It is also our firm inten­ against the increase at the last session sold or services rendered and that the tion to have any temporary increase in debt and I am opposed to it today. I want Government had declined to pay it be­ back to the present limit of $275 billion by the RECORD to show that I am opposed cause of no funds. If it should develop the end of the year on June 30, 1956. to this action. that we could not pay our debts or ob­ As I stated, Mr. Speaker, this bill has Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Speak.. ligations, and that this report was spread the unanimous and bipartisan support er, will the gentleman yield? out over the country, nothing could in­ of our committee. However, I must also Mr. COOPER. I yield. jure us as much as that. Of course, I say that it is regrettable that the present Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. And speak­ can argue with the gentleman from ~dministration has not been able to bal­ ing about balancing the budget, the Re­ Tennessee [Mr. COOPER] but there is no ance the budget as it had promised to do. publican 83d Congress reduced taxes question but that the financial pasition During the Presidential campaign in $7,500,000,000. Had thaii not been done of our country is, better than it was 2 1952, those of us who have had to face would the budget have been balanced? years ago or last year. It is better be­ the problem of raising the money to · The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ cause business in the country is better. :finance the Government knew that the tleman from Tennessee has expired. · This matter before us now is not a po- 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 9251 litical issue. It is a question of finances. The administration has made a great within income-a balanced budget-and Are we going to Say to our Secretary of achievement in bringing the debt under ultimate reduction of the Federal debt~ the Treasury: You may have this privi­ control. The fact that the total debt has Mr. McCARTHY.· Mr. Speaker, I lege to see to it, not that you are going not been reduced is not a true measure move to strike· out the requisite number to spend any more money, but see to of this very real accomplishment. The of words. it that our countr; will not be in the public debt has been held at approxi­ · Mr. Speaker, I would like to say to the shape where it cannot pay its bills? mately an even level while at the same gentleman from Iowa, if it is any conso..; Mr. NICHOLSON. Mr. Speaker, will time the Nation's economy has under­ lation to him, that the Secretary of the the gentleman yield? gone the greatest growth in our history. Treasury in appearing before our com­ Mr. JENKINS. -I yield to the gentle­ The amount of the debt today represents mittee said he was asking for $281 billiorl man from Massachusetts. a far smaller proportion of the gross na­ because he was asking for a temporary Mr. NICHOLSON. I would like to tional product, of total personal income, extension. However, he said that if he ask the gentleman this question: If we and of other recognized indices of the were asking for a permanent extension did. not spend $2 or $3 billion in foreign economy than it did when the present he would ask-for $290 billion. We tried aid, could we or could we not balance administration took office. The tremen­ to find out why he asked for $281 billion the budget? dous expansion which our economy is on a temporary basis and $290 billion on Mr. JENKINS. It would go far now undergoing is being achieved with­ a permanent basis. He gave us no toward balancing the budget. out reliance on deficit financing. It is answer. I do not know whether there is Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the being achieved without the stimulus of any answer to the question. I asked him gentleman yield? inflation. In other words, our present whether he anticipated that the national Mr. JENKINS. I yield to the gentle­ economic growth is real and not a paper debt would increase to $290 billion un­ man from Iowa. growth alone. This fact is borne out by der the Republican administration in the Mr. GROSS. What are the estimated recent statistics which have shown that years immediately ahead and he re­ balances as of June 30 this year, the es­ the cost of living index has remained fused to answer that question. He is ask­ timated unexpended balances held by relatively stable since 1953 while take­ ing for $281 billion as a temporary ex­ the Government? home pay has risen appreciably. tension but he would prefer to have $290 Mr. JENKINS. I cannot give the gen­ Mr. Speaker, these facts are tremen­ billion as a permanent extension. I offer tleman those exact figures. dously significant. They are the true this information for whatever consola­ Mr. GROSS. It is about 1 or 2 billion measure of the fiscal accomplishments of tion it may give. dollars. the present administration. In the face Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, will · Mr. JENKINS. I believe those figures of this magnificent record, we can have the gentleman yield? represent approximately the cash bal­ full confidence in the continued sound Mr. McCARTHY. I yield to the gen­ ance on hand. However, I believe that management by the administration of tleman from Massachusetts. the unexpended obligations which the the public debt. I strongly urge that Mr. McCORMACK. Is this not a cor­ Bureau of the Budget estimates will exist this bill be adopted as reported unani­ rect statement of the picture or position on June 30 amount to $59.3 billion. mously by the Committee on Ways and we are in, and I refer to the country as Mr. GROSS. Does the gentleman an­ Means. a whole. Brushing aside the fact that ticipate that the next step will be to Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I am the promise of a balanced .budget has not make this temporary increase perma­ amazed that this bill should be rushed materialized, that promise having been nent? to the House :floor this afternoon with­ broken, and brushing aside the promise Mr. JENKINS. No. We only ask for out prior notice to the Members. of a reduced national debt, which has not i.t for 1 year. If conditions continue as I will oppose this extension as I did been carried out and. has been broken they have; it may not be necessary next the temporary increase a year ago. I also, the fact remains that we are in the year. .. I am not making any promises be- said then that this procedure is the sure position where this acti-on today is neces­ . cause I do not run the Treasury. road to fiscal irresponsibility and folly; sary in the fiscal integrity of our coun­ Mr. GROSS. ·Did not the Secretary of that the answer to financial stability on try? the Treasury say that it may be possible the part of the Federal Government is Mr. McCARTHY. We are within five to squeak through. with this. extension reduced spending, not steadily increasing or six hundred million dollars of the ceil­ · and did not the Secretary of the Treasury debt. ·ing now. The debt is approximately ask that the debt ceiling be increased? The Presidential budget has estimated $274.6 billion with the permanent ceiling Mr. JENKINS. The Secretary of the that as of the close of this fiscal year, at $275 billion: In order to conduct the Treasury makes the finest appearance June 30, 1955, the Government.will have business of the Government this increase before our committee of nearly anybody. unexpended balances totaling some $82 on a temporary basis is necessary. It He comes before our committee, . espe­ billion. This Member of Congress in­ seems to me· that the Secretary should cially in connection with these financial sists that before there is an extension of have asked. for a larger increase since matters and speaks frankly because he the debt ceiling, and certainly before an when he came in a year ago the national knows. He tells us what is going on. increase is giveri the slightest considera­ debt was about $271 billion, and he set­ As I said in my first statement, this how­ tion, that these unexpended balances tled for $281 billion as necessary to con­ ever does not give him the power to be drastically reduced. Congress has no duct the business of Government. Un­ spend money. real control over .spending as long as less the administration has in mind de­ Mr. GROSS. I am talking about the these huge authorizations are outstand­ vices such as certificates of interest and finances of the country, not about the ing but unexpended. other kinds of outside financing devices appearance of the Secretary of the A $275 billion direct debt, much less which will not show in the record, it Treasury. $281 billion, is far more than this Na­ seems to me he should have asked for a Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, H. R. tion should owe. But this is only part $10 billion increase to allow for opera­ 6992 extends for 1 more year the pres­ of the story for the Federal Govern­ tion of the Government this year·as he ent temporary $281 billion debt limit. It ment has additional contingent liabili­ did last year. · does not provide any permanent increase ties totaling some· $250 billion, largely Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the in the debt ceiling. It does not affect in the form of guaranteed and insured gentleman yield? the present permanent limit of $275 bil­ loans. Mr: McCARTHY. I yield to the gen- lion. It simply continues on a temporary Time after time have I warned of the tleman from Iowa. • basis the $6 billion increase provided devastating effects of deficit spending Mr. GROSS. Is it true or is it not that last year. · All this does in effect is to upon the value of the dollar. Nothing the budget estimates balances of ap­ give the Treasury a reasonable leeway in has contributed more since 1940 to infia­ proximately $82 billion as of June 30 of dealing with periodic fluctuations in tion and loss of purchasing power than this year? · Government income and outgo. It is the billions that have been expended by Mr. McCARTHY. Does the gentleman anticipated that the permanent debt will the Federal Government over and above mean unexpended funds? be approximately the same at the ter- income. Mr. GROSS. That is right. . mination of the proposed extension as it Instead of extending and increasing Mr. McCARTHY. But obligated. is today. · the debt ceiling, there must be spending They-are obligated. · 9252 CON:GRESSIONAL ~CORD - · HOUS1! Jun(} 27 Mr. GROSS. I do not understand that Hayworth Matthews Scott Roosevelt Thompson, La. Willia.ms, N. J. Henderson Metcalf Scrivner St. George Thompson, Tex. Wilson, Calif. all these balances are all obligated. Herlong Mmer, Calif. Scudder Scherer - Vanik Withrow Mr. McCARTHY. Well, I understand Hess Miller, Md. Seely-Brown Sheppard Van Pelt Zelenko they are all obligated or at least appro .. Hiestand Miller, Nebr. Selden Taylor Velde Hill Mills Sheehan Teague, Tex. Wainwright priated. Hillin gs Minshall Shelley Mr. GROSS. Does the gentleman re .. Hinshaw Morano Short So the bill was passed. call the testimony before the committee Holifield Moss Sieminski The Clerk announced the following Holmes Murray, Ill. Siler on that? Hope Natcher Simpson, Pa. pairs: Mr. McCARTHY. We discussed the Hosmer Nicholson Sisk General pairs: matter of the obligated funds, obligated Huddleston Norblad Smith, Miss. Mr. Mack of Illinois with Mr. Martin. Hull Norrell Smith, Va. by the last Congress and of earlier Con .. Hyde O'Brien, Ill. Spence Mr. Dodd with Mr. Halleck. gresses. but there was some discussion of Ikard O'Hara, Ill. Springer Mr. Buckley with Mr. Taylor. the obligations inherited by this admin­ Jarman O'Hara, Minn. Steed Mr. Zelenko with Mr. Allen of California. Jenkins O'Neill Sullivan Mr. Dingell with Mr. Scherer. istration when it took over. It was indi­ Jennings Osmers Taber Mr. Eberharter with Mr. Harrison of Ne- cated that the financial condition of the Johansen Ostertag Talle braska. country would not be so bad but for this Johnson, Calif. Patman Teague, Calif. Jones, Ala. Patterson Thompson, Mrs. Blitch with Mrs. St. George. inheritance. We could not get a state­ Judd Pelly Mich. Mr. Morrison with Mr. Canfield. ment from the Secretary as to which of Karsten Perkins Thompson, Ji. J. Mr. Polk with Mr. McGregor. those old obligations the administration Keating Pfost Thomson, Wyo. Mr. Holtzman with Mr. Mailliard. would have repudiated if it could have Kelley, Pa. Philbin Thornberry Mr. Davidson with Mr. Merrow. Kelly, N. Y. Pilcher Tollefson Mr. Powell with Mr. Nelson. repuidiated them. Keogh Pillion Trimble Mr. Klein with Mr. Ellsworth. Mr. GROSS. Will the gentleman Kilburn Poage Tumulty Kilday Price Udall Mr. Garmatz with Mr. Fino. agree that this debt situation is a timely King, C:;i,lif. Priest Van Zandt Mr. Fine with Mr. Gwinn. topic of discussion, coming as it does only Kirwan Prouty Vinson Mr. Doyle with Mr. Holt." a day before consideration of the multi­ Kluczynski Rabaut Vorys Mr. Clark with Mr. Hoeven. billion dollar foreign giveaway bill? Lane Radwan Vursell Mr. Roosevelt with Mr. Kean. Lanham Raiµs Walter Mr. Rivers with Mr. Jensen. The SPEAKER. The question is on Lankford Ray Watts the engrossment and third reading of Latham Reed, Ill. Westland Mr. Green of Pennsylvania with Mr. Wilson Lecompte Rees, Kans. Wharton of California. the bill. Lipscomb Reuss Whitten Mr. Granahan with Mr. Withrow. The bill was ordered to be engrossed Long Rhodes, Ariz. Wickersham Mr. Barrett with Mr. Gubser. and read a third time, and was read the McCarthy Richards Widnall Mr. Byrne of Pennsylvania with Mr. Hesel­ third time. McCormack , Riley Wigglesworth · ton. McCulloch Roberts Williams, N. Y. The SPEAKER. The question is on McDonough Rodino Wilson, Ind. Mr. O'Brien of New York with Mr. Hoff- the passage of the bill. McMillan Rogers, Colo. Wolcott man of Illinois. The question was taken; and the Mc Vey Rogers, Fla. Wolverton Mr. Quigley with Mr. Horan. Macdonald Rogers, Mass. Yates Mr. Moulder with Mr. Van Pelt. Speaker announced that the ayes ap­ Machrowicz Rooney Young Mr. Dollinger with Mr. Becker. peared to have it. Mack, Wash. Sadlak Younger Mr. Sheppard with Mr. Reece of Tennessee. Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I object to Madden Saylor Zablocki Mahon Schenck Mr. Bonner with Mr. Riehlman. the vote on the ground that a quorum is Marshall Schwengel Mr. Boykin with Mr. Adair. not present, and I make the point ·of Mr. Boland with Mr. Bentley. order that a quorum is not present. NAYS-56 Mr. Donovan with Mr. Kearns. Abbitt Griffiths Robeson, Va. Mr. Morgan with Mr. Lovre. The SPEAKER. Obviously a quorum Abernethy Gross Rogers, Tex. is not present. Mrs. Knutson with Mr. Bosch. Andrews Haley Rutherford Mrs. Kee with Mr. Broyhill. The Doorkeeper will close the doors, Ashmore Hand Shuford Bass, Tenn. Hebert Sikes Mr. Thompson of Louisiana with Mr. the Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Bennett, Fla. Hoffman, Mich. Simpson, Ill. Miller of New York. Members, and the Clerk will call the roll. Brooks, Tex. Jones, N. 9. Smith, Kans. Mr. Alexander with Mr. Jackson. The question was taken and there Cannon Kilgore Smith, Wis. Mr. Gray with Mr. Wainwright. Carlyle Krueger Staggers Mr. Vanik with Mr. Frelinghuysen. were-ayes 267, nays 56, not voting 111, Cell er as foll0ws: Landrum Thomas Mr. Williams of New Jersey with Mr. Mc- Chelf Mason Tuck Connell. [Roll No. 95) Colmer Mollohan Utt Dies Multer Weaver Mr. Lesinski with Mr. Mcintire. AYES-267 Dorn, S. C. Murray, Tenn. Wier Mr. McDowell with Mr. Jonas. Addonizio Brownson Denton Evins Passman Williams, Miss. Mr. Davis of Tennesse with Mr. James. Albert Broyh111 Derounian Flynt Phillips Willis Mr. Magnuson with Mr. Fulton. Alger Buchanan Devereux Gavin Poff Winstead Mr. Jones of Missouri with Mr. Robsion Allen, Ill. Budge Dixon Gentry Preston Wright of Kentucky. Burleson Grant Rhodes, Pa. Andersen, Dolliver Mr. Thompson of Texas with Mr. O'Konski. H. Carl Burnside Dondero NOT VOTING-111 Andresen, Bush Donohue Mr. Teague of Texas with Mr. Laird. AugustH. Byrd Dorn, N. Y. Adair Fino Klein Mr. Hagen with Mr. Knox. Anfuso Byrnes, Wis. Durham Alexander Frelinghuysen Knox Mr. Barden. with Mr. Gamble. Arends Carnahan Edmondson Allen, Calif. Fulton Knutson Mr. Chatham with Mr. King Of Pennsyl- Ashley Carrigg Elliott Barden Gamble Laird vania. . Aspinall Cederberg Engle Barrett Garmatz Lesinski A uchincloss Chase Fallon Becker Gathings Lovre Mr. Dowdy with Mr. Velde. Avery Chenoweth Fascell Bentley Granahan Mc Connell Mr. Diggs with Mr. Reed of New York. Ayres Chiperfl.eld Feighan Blitch Gray McDowell :rvrr. Gathings with Mr. Meader. Bailey Christopher Fenton Boland Green, Pa. McGregor Mr. Johnson of with Mr. Baker Chudoff Fernandez Bolton, Gubser Mcintire Mumma. Baldwin Church Fisher Oliver P. Gwinn Mack, Ill. Bass,?:. H. Clevenger Fjare Bonner Hagen Magnuson Mr. FLYNT changed his vote from Bates Cole Flood Bosch Hale Mailliard Baumhart Cooley Fogarty Boykin Halleck Martin "yea" to "nay." Beamer Coon Forand Buckley Harrison, Nebr. Meader The result of the vote was announced Belcher Cooper Ford Burdick Heselton Merrow as above recorded. Bell Corbett Forrester Byrne, Pa. . Hoeven Miller, N. Y. Bennett, Mich. Coudert Fountain Canfield Hoffman, m. Morgan The doors were opened. Bei-ry Cramer Frazier Chatham Holt Morrison A motion to reconsider was laid on. Betts Cretella Friedel Clark Holtzman Moulder the table. · Blatnik Crumpacker Gary Davidson Horan Mumma Boggs Cunningham George Davis, Tenn. Jackson Nelson BolUng Curtis, Mass. Gordon Diggs James O'Brien, N. Y. Bolton, Curtis, Mo. Green, Oreg, Dingell Jensen O'Konski DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AJ;>PROPRI­ Frances P. Dague Gregory Dodd Johnson, Wis. Polk ATION BILL, 1956 Bow Davis, Ga. Harden Dollinger Jonas Powell Bowler Davis, Wis. Hardy Donovan Jones, Mo. Quigley Mr. RABAUT. Mr. Speaker, I ask Boyle Dawson, Ill. Harris Dowdy Kean Reece, Tenn. unanimous consent to take from the Bray Dawson, Utah Harrison, Va. Doyle Kearney Reed, N. Y. Brooks, La.. Deane Harvey Eberharter Kearns Riehlman Speaker's table the bill

Mr. VINSON. -I may say to the dis­ for the appropriation of nearly $2 ~ training facilities, operational an_d mainte­ tinguished gentleman that that has been billion. . nance facilities, and family housing, $8,.. a subject matter that is constantly be­ I have the feeling that there is alto­ 589,000. · Memphis General' Depot, Tenn.: Family fore the committee. We are constantly gether too much fat in this military housing, $99;000. giving close scrutiny to it. As a matter construction bill but it is wellnigh im­ New Cumberland General Depot, Pa.: of fact, subcommittees have been over possible for a Member of Congress who Family housing. $568,000. there at least once or twice during the is not a member of the Armed Services Sha.Ype General Depot, Calif.: Utilities and recess trying to ascertain what is the Committee to know where reductions f.amily housing. $337,000. proper thing_ to do. You must recognize can properly be made. (Chemical Corps) the fact that in dealing with that ques­ I cannot understand why, for instance, Army Chemical Center, Md;: Troop hous­ tion there is, for instance, one phase of funds should be authmrized for the ing, storage facilities, operational and main­ the ·commodity Cr€dit Corporation in­ building of a new Navy aviation train­ tenance facilities, and utilities, $1,248,000. volved and another · phase the rental ing facility in Texas when the perma­ Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah: Mainte .. guaranty program. The gentleman nently constructed facility for this pur­ nance facilities, $92,000. may rest assured that the committee pose stands unused near Ottumwa, Iowa.' · Camp Detrick, Md.: Utilities, $452,ilOO. is conscious of it and is giving the mat­ Since becoming a Member of Con­ Dugway Proving Ground, Utah: Troop I housing, hospital and medical facilities, op­ ter all the consideration we possibly gress, have voted for practically all erational and maintenance facil1ties and can. appropriations that have been requested family housing, $1,129,000. . Mr. CEDERBERG. I thank the gen­ :(or the building of this Nation's defenses, Pine Bluff Arsenal (including Midwest tleman. · but I want it understood now that these Chemical DeP,ot), Ark.: Land acquisition, Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin. Mr. Chair­ costs have got to decrease in terms of $3,000. man, will the gentleman yield? new installations. If there is the proper . Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colo.: Opera­ construction and housekeeping, these tional and maintenance facilities and utili­ Mr. CEDERBERG. I yield to the gen­ ties, $773,000. tleman from Wisconsin. bills can be drastically reduced and that Mr. DA VIS of Wisconsin. I am re­ is exactly what must occur if tbis Nation (Signal 9orps) :r;ninded of a qu.€Stion that might be is to remain solvent. Decatur Signal Depot, Ill.: Operational asked at this time of the chairman of The CHAIRMAN. There being no and maintenance facilities, $303,000. further requests i-Or time, the Clerk will Fort .Huachuca, Ariz.: Airfield pavements, the committee. I overheard the gentle- · community facilities, storage facilities, op­ man from Missouri mention that in­ read the bill for amendment. The Clerk read as follows: erational and maintenance iacilities, utili­ cluded in th~ bill is additional author­ ties, and family housing, $4,648;000. ization for instruments on the six new Be it enacted, etc.­ Lexington Signal Depot, Ky.: Maintenance fighter interceptor bases that were au­ TITLE .I facility, and family housing, $538,000. thorized originally last year. Of course, SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Army ls Fort Monmouth, N. J.: Community facili­ included in the original six is a very authorized to esta.blish or develop military Hes, $615,000. installations and facilities by the acquisi­ Sacramento Signal Depot, Calif.: Troop controversial one in the State of the housing, maintenance facility, and family gentleman now addressing the House. I tion, construction, conversion, rehabilitation, or installation of permanent or temporary housing, $715,000. . wonder whether the committee did not public works in respect of the following Tobyhanna Signal Depot, Pa.: Troop hous­ have some hesitancy about granting ad­ projects, whlch indude site preparation, ap­ ing, $649.000. ditional -authorization to the Michigan purtenances, and related utilities and equip­ Two Rock Ranch Station, Calif.: Com­ base where this controversy is very warm ment: munity facilities, and family housing, $1,.. ~t the present time with reference to CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 298,000. whether or not a site has been agreed Vint Hill Farms Station, Va.: Community Technical services facilities facilities, storage facility, and operational upon where these additional authorized (Ordnance Corps) and maintenance facility, $695.000. structures are t<> be placed. Aberdeen Provlng Ground, Md.:: Troop . Mr. VINSOR I will say to the gen­ housing, community facilities, utilities, and (Corps of Engineers) tleman that as far as the Armed Services family housing, $1,736,000. Army Map Service, Md.: Operational and Committee is concerned, we have been Black Hills Ordnance Depot, S. Dak.: Fam­ maintenance facility, $62,000. Hy housing, $78,000. Fort Belv-0ir, Va.: Troop housing, com­ advised that the Secretary is definitely Blue Grass ·Ordnance Depot, Ky.: Opera­ munity facilities, research and development reamrming his views in selecting Cadil­ tional and maintenance facilities. $509,000. facilities, operational and maintenance fa­ lac as an area referred to in connection Erie Ordnance Depot, Ohio: Operational cilities, utilities, and fanilly housing, $4, .. with the Traverse City area. I have my and maintenance facilities and utilities, 608,000. personal views, but nevertheless those $1.~33,000. Grante City -Engineer Depot, Ill.: Opera­ are the facts of the 'Case. Frankford Arsenal, Pa.: Utilities, $855,-000. tional and maintenance facilities, and Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin. The chair­ Lordstown Ordnance Depot, Ohio: Opera­ family housing, $1,822,000. tional and maintenance !facilities, $875,000. Marion Engineer· Depot, Ohio: Storage man then has more faith in the repeated Pueblo Ordna.nce Depot, Colo.: Opera­ facl11ties and utllities, $1,146,000. confirmation of this site than he had in tional and maintenance facilities, -$1,843,000. (Transportation Corps) the repeated <:onfirmation of the sites Red River Arsenal, ·Tex.: Opera.tlon.a1 -and that were given.last year~ , . maintenance facilities, $140,000. Brooklyn Army Base, N. Y.: Utilities, $1,• Mr. VINSON. All I can say is that the rRedstone Arsenal, Ala, ..: Research and de­ 055,000. .Secretary advised the committee in writ­ velopment raclltties and community facili­ Charleston 'Transportation Depot, S. C.: ties, $2,8.65,000. Storage facilities and utilities, $329,000. ipg that he· had .reamrmed after further Rock Island Arsenal, Ill.'! Operational and Fort Eustis, Va.: Troop housing, commu­ examination his previous choice, and mantenance facilities, $347,000. nity facilities, training facilities, medical reached the -conclusion that Cadillac was facility, and .operational and. maintenance Rossford Ordna.nce Depot, Oh1o: Utilities4 the place where he was going to place $400,000. facilities, $6,597,000. · it. Of course, if I had been making the Savanna Ordnance Depot, Ill.: Operational New Orleans Army Base. La.: Storage fa­ selection, somebody might not agree with and maintenance facilitles, $342,000. cility, $117,000. it, but that is how it stands. Seneca Ordnance Depot, N. Y.: Commu­ Oakland Army Base, Calif.~ Community nity facilities., $129,000. facilities, storage facilities, and operational Mr. DA VIS 'Of Wisconsin. It was on Sierra Ordnance Depot, Calif.: Opera­ and maintenance 'facilities, '$1;923,000, that basis, then, that the further au­ tional and maintenance facilities, $1,075,000. Fort Story, Va.: Utilities, $41,000. thorization for this site was included in White .Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex.: West Coast Ammunition Terminal, Call!.: this bill? Troop supporting facillty, and research and Dredg'ing and land acquisition, $12,860,000. Mr. VINSON. That is with reference development facilities, $1,247,000. (Medical Corps) Wingate Ordnance Depot, N. Mex.'! Opera .. to the Traverse City area arrangement. ·William Beaumont A:tmy Hospital, Tex.: tlonal and maintenance facilities, $632,000. They laid it out in broad language, and Hospital and medical facilities, $586,000. then the Department goes before the (Quartermaster Corps) • Brook-e Army Medical· Genter# Tex.: Hos­ Committee on Appropriations ruid says Atlanta. General ·Depot, Ga.: Storage .fa­ pital and medical faclliti~s, $549;000. that he has .selected Cadillae as the cilities. $84,000~ Madigan Army Hospital. Wash.: Hospital Be!lle M:-eade Gen-era'I. Depot, N. J:: Opera­ and medical facilities. $333,GOO. place. We do not pinpoint it. tional and. main1'enance faciUti,es. t174.0004 Walter Reed Army Medical Center, D. c.: Mr. GROSS.. Mr. Chairman, I will , Va.:: Troop housing. community Haspitai facilities,, research '.1'1.nd development reluctantly vote for this bill which .calls facilities, medical ..:facility, .storage .fa,cilities. facilities, and training facilities, $7,632.000,. 9268 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE JJJ,ne 27,

FIELD FORCES FACILITIES '(Sixth Army Area) ties and equipment, ln a. total amount ot (First Army Area) Camp Hanford, Wash.: Waterfront.facll1• $223,993,000. SEC. 103. The Secretary of the Army is au­ Fort Devens, Mass.: Troop housing, ad.. ties, $167,000. Fort Lewis, Wash.: Troop housing com• thorized through the construction, rehabili­ ministrative facilities, and family housing,. tation, or installation of permanent or tem­ $.7,275,000. munity fac111ties, training facilities, medical facilities, storage facilities, operational and porary public works, incl.uding site prepara­ Fort Dix, N. J.: Community facilities, med· tion, appurtenances, and related utilities and 1cal facilities, administrative facilities, and maintenance facilities, and family housing, $15,275,000. equipment, to restore or replace· facilities :family housing, $6,698,000. damaged or destroyed in a toal amount of Fort Jay, N. Y.: Waterfront facilities, $731,.. Presidio of Monterey, Calif.: Troop hous­ ing and training facilities, $1,878,000. $10 million. 000. SEC. 104. Public Law 534, 82d Congress, ls Fort Niagara, N. Y.: Storage facilities, Fort Ord, Calif.: Community facilities, medical facilities, and . utilities, $1,407,000. hereby amended as follows: $209,000. (a) Strike so much thereof under . the Fort Totten, N. Y.: Utilities, $170,000. Presidio· of San Francisco, Calif.: Liquid fuel dispensing facilities, $144,000. heading "Continental United States" and (Second Army Area) United States Disciplinary Barracks, Calif.: subheading "Field Forces Facilities" (Second Fort Holabird, Md.: Troop housing, $612,- Community facilities, $184,00ll. · Army Area) in section 101 as follows: 000. . "Fort Knox, Ky.: Training buildings and Yuma Test Station, Ariz.: Family housing, facilities, research and development facilities, Fort Knox, Ky.: Troop housing, training $709,000. and administrative facilities, community fa­ maintenance facilities, land acquisition, and (Military Academy) utilities, $11,411,000." cilities, medical facilities, operational and United Statei:i Military Academy, N. Y.: maintenance facilities, and family housing, Community facilities and utilities, $756,000. ~nd insert in lieu thereof the following: $8,990,000. . (Armed Forces Special Weapons Project) "Fort Knox, Ky.: Training buildings and Fort George G. Meade, Md.: Community Sandia Base, N. l14ex.: Family housing, facilities, maintenance facilities, land ac­ facilities, :training and medical facilities, and $1,231,000. quisition, and utilities, $9,411,000." operational and maintenance facilities, $923,- Various installations: Maintenance facm­ (b) Strike so much thereof under the 000. heading "Continental United States" and (Third Army Area) ties, community .facilities, and utilities, $3,- · subheading "Technical Service Faciiities" 014,000. Fort Benning, Ga.: Troop housing, com­ (Tactical Installations) (Army Medical Service) in section 101 as munity facilities, training and administrative follows: facilities, medical facilities, storage facilities, Various locations; Family housing, $8,135,• "Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Wash- operational and maintenance facilities, and 000. 1ngtori, D. C.: Operational facilities and re­ :family housing, $10,392,000. (Rehabilitation)' ·search and development facilities, $731,000." Fort Bragg, N. C.: Troop housing, .com­ Various locations: Rehabilitation of fa­ and insert in lieu thereof the following: munity facilities, training and administrative cilities for family housing, $2,661,0CO. "Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Wash­ facilities, medical facilities, airfield pave­ outside continental United States ington, D. C., and Forest Glen, Md.: Opera­ ments, operational and mainte~ance facili• (Alaskan Area) tional facilities, and research and develop­ ties, and family housing, $15,659,000. ment facilities, $2,731,000." Fort Campbell, Ky.: Troop housing, com­ Big Delta: Troop housing ~nd community SEC. 105. Public Law 534, 83d Congress, ls munity facilities, training and administrative facilities, and family housing, $3,638,000. hereby amended by striking so much there­ facillties, medical facilities, operational and · : Maintenance and of under the heading ~ ·continental United maintenance facilities, and family housing, storage facility, $1,047,000. States" and subheading "(Signal Corps)" in $12,377,000. Ladd Air Force Base: Storage facilities section 101 as follows: · Camp Gordon, Ga.: Community facilities, and liquid fuel dispensing facilities, $266,­ "Department of the Army transmitting $261,000. ooo. station, vicinity of Woodbridge, Va..:" Fort Richardson: Troop housing, com­ Camp Jackson, S. C.: Medical facilities, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: $8 million. munity facilities, storage facilities, opera­ tional and maintenance facilities, and utili• "Department of the Army transmitting Fort McClellan, Ala.: Community facilities, station, vicinity of Camp Detrick, Md.:." storage facilities, operational a:h:d mainte­ tes, $9,079,000. nance facilities, and family housing, $2,- Whittier: community facilities, and aper• TITLE II 611,000. . ational and maintenance facilities, $1,183,• SEC. 201. The Secretary of-Navy ts author­ Camp Rucker, Ala.: Airfield pavements, 000. ~zed tq establish or develop naval installa­ and operational 'and m'aintenance facilities, · Wildwood Station (Kenai): Troop hous­ tions and facilities by the acquisition, con­ $2,070,000. . ing and community facilities, $469,000. struction, conversion, rehabilitation, or in.­ Camp Stewart, Ga.: Troop housing, storage · Various locations: Rehabilitation of fa• stallation of permanent or temporary public facilities, and operational and maintenance cilities for family housing, $1,656,000. works in respect of . the following projects, facilities, $967,000. (Far East Command Area) which include site preparation, appurte­ nances, and related utilities and equipment: (Fourth Army Area) Okinawa: Community, troop supporting, , Tex.: · Troop housing, commu­ and medical facilities, operational, mainte­ CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES nity facilities, training and administrative nance, and administrative facilities, utili­ Shipyard facilities facilities, and operational and maintenance ties, family housing, and land acquisition . Naval shipyard, Boston, Mass.: Utllities :facilities, $4,645,000. · and resettlement, $43,983,000, of which sum and replacement of piers, $8,441,000. , Tex.: Troop housing, commu­ the total amount available for resettlement Naval shipyard, Puget Sound, Bremerton, nity facilities, training and administrative may be paid in advance to the Government Wash.: Drydock facilities, $200,000. :facilities, medical facilities, operational and of the Ryukyu Islands. David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Md.: maintenance facilities, and family housing, (Pacific Command Area) Research and development facilities, $14,• $12,922,000. 302,000. , Tex.: Troop housing Helemano, Hawaii: Family housing, $714,- 000. Naval industrial reserve shipyard, Charles• and operational facilities, $805,000. ton, S. C.: Land acquisition, $427,000. Fort Sill, Okla.: Community facllities, Camp O'Donnel, Philippine Islands: Util­ ities, $832,000. Naval minecraft base, Charleston, S. C.: medical facilities, operational and mainte­ Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: Storage and Site preparation, waterfront facilities, ad­ nance facillties, and land acquisition, $3,• community facilities, $3,162,000. ministrative facilities, training facilities, 053,000. Waiawa (Waipio) ·Radio Transmitting Sta­ utilities, and land acquisition, $5,800,000. (Fifth Army Area) tion: Hawaii: Community facilities and fam­ Naval shipyard, Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif.: Fort Carson, Colo.: Troop housing, com­ ily housing, $3_63,000. Waterfront facilities and sandblasting facil- munity facilities, training and administra­ ities, $4,553,000. · tive fac111ties, medical facilities, airfield (Caribbean Command Area) Naval shipyard, Norfolk, Va.: Replacement pavements, storage facilities, and operation• · Fort Clayton, Canal Zone: Family housing, of wharf, $308,000. al and maintenance facilities, $7,487,000. $2,350,000. Naval underwater sound laboratory, New Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Hospital and · (Icelandic Command Area) " London, Conn.: Family housing, $66,600. medical facilities, training facilities, and Kefl.avik Airport: Operational and training Naval mine countermeasures station, Pana· operational facilities, $8,615,000. facilities, and family housing, $3,793,-000. ma City, Fla.: Administrative facilities, com­ Camp Lucas, Mich.: Community fac111· Classified installations: Family housing, munity facilities, training facilities, heli­ ties, $145,000. $5,799,000. . copter facilities, ammunition storage facili­ · Fort. Riley, Kans.: Troop housing, com• SEc. 102. The Secretary of the Army is au­ ties, waterfront facilities, research and de­ munity facilities, training and administra• thorized to establish or develop classified velopment facilities. and land acquisition, tive facilities, medical facilities, storaee fa­ military installations and facilities by the $3,379,000. c1lities, operational and maintenance facili• acquisition of land and the construction, re­ Naval shipyard, Portsmouth, N. H.: Ut111- ties, and family housing, $8,657,000. habilitation, or installation of permanent or ties and drydock facilities, $946,000. Fort Sheridan, Ill.: Family housing, temporary public works, including site prep­ Naval electronics laboratory, San Diego, $1,268,000. aration, appurtenances, and related utm- Calif.: Land acquisition, $143,000. 1_955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 9269 Naval repair facility,, San Dlego,. Calif:: · Naval air station, Atlantic City, N. J.: Stor­ Marine Corps air station, Miami, Fla.: Utilities, $629,000. . age facilities, and utilities, $233,000. Land acquisition, $1;223,000. Naval shipy?-rd, San Francisco, Cal~f.: Wa• · Naval auxiliary air station, Brown Field, Marine Corps auxiliary air station, Mojave, terfront facilities, steam test facilities, and Calif.: Family housing, $214,600. Calif.: Maintenance facilities, land acquisi­ land acquisition, $4,369,000. - Naval air station, .Brunswick, .Maine: Air•. tion, and family housing, $2,305,400. Fleet base facilities field pavements, ;:i.irfield lighting facilities, Marine Corps air facility, New River, N. c.: communication facilities, storage facilities, Airfield pavements, medical facilities, ad­ Navy Department, District of Columbia; ammunition storage facilities, personnel fa­ ministrative facilities, storage facilities, per­ Family housing, '$81,000. cilities, community facilities, utilities, and sonnel facilities, community facilites, opera­ Naval station, Green Cove Springs,-Fla.: ia'nd acquisition, $3,200,000. tional ·facilities, training facllities, and Utilities, $72,000. Naval air station, Cilities, oil storage iacmties, and utilities, Tex.: Storage facilities, fuel dispensing ta­ facilities, and utilities. $4,370,000. $8,677,000. ·cilities, 'Operationail facilities, personnel .fa­ Naval air station, Moffet Field, Calif.: Fuel Naval air missile test center, Point Mugu, cilities, community .facilities, land acquisi­ pipeline facilities, airfi.eld pavements, and .Calif.: Aircraft maintenance facilities, com­ tion, and family .housing, $1,953~500. operational facilities, $2,581,000. munication facilities, and research and de· Naval air station, Corpus Christi, TeX.! Naval air station, Norfolk, Va.: Aircraft velopment facilities, $926,000. Navigational aids, training facilities, and maintenance facilities,, training facilities_, Nava-I air station, South Weymouth, Mass.: .land acquisition, $664,000. communication facilities, operational facili­ Testing facilities, $270,000• Naval air station, Glynco, Ga.: Aircraft.. ties and land acquisition.. $5,260,000. Naval photographic Interpretation center, station and equipment maintenance facili­ Naval air station, Oceana, Va.: Airfield Suitland, Md.: Operational and photographic ties, administrative facilities, and utilities, pavement, storage facillties, personnel facil­ preservation facilities, $2,345,000. $1,886,000. , . ities, maintenance facilities, community fa­ Various locations: Land acquisition, and Naval air station, Hutchinson, Kans.: Utili- $5,281,­ obstruction removal, for fllght clearance, ·cilities, and fuel dispensing facilities, $23 ties, $81,000. · -000. million. · Naval auxiliary air station, Kingsville, Tex.: Naval air station, Quonset Point, R. I.: Air· Supply facilities Aircraft maintenance facilities, operational field lighting facilities, operational facilities, Naval fuel depot, Jacksonville, Fla.: Family 'facilities, navigational aids, storage facilities, and utilities, $1,062,000. housing, $15,200. maint-enance faeillties, personnel facilities, , Naval air station, San Diego, Calif.: Train­ Naval supply depot, Newport, R. I.: Water:. community facilities, and land acquisition, ing facilities, operational facilities, aircraft front facilities, administrative facilities, and. $3,686,000. maintenance facilities, fuel dispensing fa­ 'Utilities.• ~1.041,000. Naval air station, Memphis, Tenn.: Utili­ cilities, and utilities, $2,748,000. Naval supply center, Norfolk, Va.: Cold­ ties, $759,000. Naval auxiliary air station, Sanford, Fla.: :storage facilities, warehouse freight elevators, Naval air station, Pensacola, Fla.: Airfield Family housing, $188,900. and (at Cheatham Annex) highway crossing pavements, navigational aids, personnel fa­ Naval air facility, Weeksville, N. C.: Cold and land acquisition, $777,000. cilities, fuel dispensing facilities, operational ·storage lfacilitles, and maintenance facllities, Naval supply center, Oakland, Calif.: Utili­ facilities, research and development facilities, '$342,000. ties, and easement, $62,000. ammunition ·storage facilities, land acquisi­ tion, and plans and specifications for air­ Naval air station, Whidbey Island, Wash.: Marine Corps facilities · craft overhaul and repair faciUties, $3,453;- ":Airfield pavements, airfield lighting facili­ ties, training facilities, and land acquisition, Marine Corps supply center, Albany. Ga.: 000. $1,958,000. ·:Storage facilities, community facilities, cold­ Naval auxiliary air station: Port Isabel, storage facilities, personnel facilities, and Tex.: Airfield pavements, aircraft mainte­ Outlying field, Whitehouse Field, Duval utilities, $3,157,000. ·nance facilities, operational facilities, admin­ County, Fla.: Airfield pavements, and land _acquisition, $1,087,000. Marine Corps supply center, Barstow, istrative facilities, community facilities, Calif.. : Storage facilities,. community facili­ fuel storage facilities, ammunition storage (Marine Corps Air Stations) ties, cold-storage facilities, personnel facili· and ordnance facilities, security facilities, Marine Corps auxiliary air station; Beau­ ties, security facilities, and land acquisition, ·utilities, and land acquisition, $5,544,000. fort, S. C.: Airfield pavements, communica­ $501,000. Naval auxiliary air station, New Iberia, tions facilities, navigational aids, fuel dis­ Marine Corps base, Camp Lejeune, N. C.: La.: Aircraft main.tenance facilities, airfield pensing facilities, operational facilities, stor­ Personnel facilities, security facilities, and pavements, operational facilities, naviga­ age facilities, personnel facilities, community utilities, $1,059,000. tional aids, maintenance facilities, communi­ facilities, and land acquisition, $4,649,000. Marine Corps recruit depot, Parris Isl.and, cation facilities, training facilities, admin­ Marine Corps '8.ir station, Cherry Point, S. c.: Trai:·.ing facilities, maintenance facili­ lstraltive facilities, fuel storage and · dispens· N. C.: Airfield pavements, aircraft mainte­ ties, and utilities, $1,654,000. ing facilities, .covered and cold storage fac111- nance facilities, waterfront facilities, navi· Marine Gorps · base, Camp Pendleton, ties, ammunition storage facilities, personnel ga.tionai aids, .a,irfield Ughting facilities, am­ Calif.: Utilities, $648,000. faciHties, medical facilities, community fa­ munition storage and ordnance facilities, Marine ·Corps clothing depot, Annex No. 3, cilities, utilities, and land acquisition, $24,- ope_rational facilities, and land acquisition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Utilities, $30,000. 361,000. ' $1,762,000. Marine Corps schools, Quantico, Va.: Cov. Naval auxHiary air station, Whiting Field, Marine Corps air station, El Toro, Calif.: erect and ammunition-storage facilities, med• Fla.: Family housing, $385,000. ·Airfield pavements, training facllities, com­ ical facilities, training and personnel facili­ (Fleet Support Air Station,s) munication f.acillties, storage facilities, per· , ties, . utilities, and land acquisition, · Naval air station, Alameda, Calif.': Air· sonnel facilities, community facilities, and $9,357,000. . craft maintenance facilities, seadrome light­ 'land acqulsitlon, $2,492,000. · :Marine Corps · recruit depot, San Diego. ing facilities, seawall, dredging, and land Marine Corps auxllial'.y· alr station., Bden­ Calif.: Pavem.ents, and personnel facilities, acquisition, $3,729,000. ton, N. ~.: _ Family housing, $1,421,500. $120,000. 9270 CONGRESSIONAL RECORP - HOUSE J'JJ.,ne 27, Marine Corps training center, Twenty-nine Naval submarine base, New London, Conn.:· Supply facilities Palms, Cali~.: Family housing, $47,300. Medical research facilities, $755,000. · Nava~ s'upply depot Guam, · Marfana Naval hospital, Philadelphia, Utilities, Ordnance facilities Pa.: Islands: Waterfront facilities and storage $60,000. . facilities, $5,427,000. Naval ammunition depot, Charleston, Communications facilities Naval supply depot, Guantanamo Bay, s. c.: ordnance facilities, $193,000. Naval radio station, Northwest, Va.: Com­ : Cold-storage facilities, $1,318,000. Naval aviation ordnance test station, Chin­ . Naval supply center, Pearl Harbor, T. H.: coteague, Va.: Research and development munication facilities, $436,000. Office of naval research facilities Operational facilities, utilities, and land ac­ facilities, $644,000. . quisition, $270,000. Naval ordnance aerophyslcs laboratory, Naval research laboratory, Washington, D. Daingerfield, Tex: : Research and develop­ C.: Research facilities, and utilities, $163,- Ordnance facilities ment facilities, $1,111,000 ~ 000. ···Naval ammunition depot, Oahu, T. H.: Naval ammunition depot, Earle, N. J.: . Naval research laboratory, Chesapeake Bay Testing facilities, and railroad facilities and Refrigerated storage facil~ties, $59,000. · Annex, Randle Cliffs, Md.: Research facili­ barricades, $1,132,000. · Naval ammunition depot, Fallbrook, Calif.: ties, and land ::i.cquisition, $52,000. Naval ordnance facility,· Sasebo, Japan:. Ordnance and ammunition storage facili· Personnel facilities, $66,000.· Yards and docks facilities ties, $514,000. Service school facilities Naval ammunition depot, Hawthorne, . Naval construction battalion center, Davls­ Nev.: Barricaded sidings, and utilities, ville, R. I.: Waterfront facilities, and storage Fleet training center, Pearl Harbor, T. H.: $1,424,000. facilities, $5,397,000. Tntining facilities, $44,000. Naval powder factory, Indian Head, Md.: Public works center, Norfolk, Va.: Utilities, Medical facilities ·Research and development facilities, and $2,510,000. ' Naval hospital, Guam, Mariana Islands: utilities, $1,107,000. Naval construction battalion center, Port Community. facilities, $269,000. Naval ordnance test station, Inyokern, Hueneme, Calif.: Maintenance facilities, Calif.: Community facilities, $375,000. $1,225,000. Communication facilities Naval torpedo station, Keyport, Wash.: Various locations: Facilities for abatement · Naval communication station, Adak, Ordnance facilities, $376,000. of water pollution, including the acquisition Alaska: Communication facilities, $439,000. Naval ordnance plant, Louisville, Ky.: of land, $15,149,000. Naval radio facility, Kami-Seya, Japan; Qrdnance drawings storage facilities, OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES Communication facilities, and family hous­ $927,000. ing, $2,564,700. Naval ordnance plant, Macon, Ga.: Ord• Shipyard facilities Naval communication station, Kodiak, nance manufacturing facilities, $3,800,000. Fleet activities, Sasebo, Japan: Personnel Alaska: Site preparation, communication Naval underwater ordnance station, New­ facilities, $57,000. facilities, maintenance f~cilities, personnel port, R. I.: Testing facilities, $370,000. Fleet base facilities facilities, and utilities, $6,991,000. Naval magazine, Port Chicago, Calif.: Naval communication facility, Philippine Ordnance facilities, $241,000. Naval stat~on, Adak, Alaska: Family hous­ Islands: Communication facilities, com­ Naval ammup.ition depot, St. Juliens Creek, ing, $2,485,000. munity facilities, utilities, and family hous­ Va.: Utilities, $420,000. . Naval base, Guam, Marlana Islands: Ad· ing, $8,061,500. $1,835,000. · Naval ammunition and net depot, S~al ministrative facilities, Naval communication faclllty, Port · Naval base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Utili­ Beach, Calif.: Waterfront f~cilities, ·Lyautey, French Morocco: Storage facilities, $1,029,000. ties, $56,000. personnel facllities, ·community facilities, Naval ammunition ·depot, Shumaker, Naval base, Sublc Bay, Philippine Islands: ut111ties, and family housing, $2,848,600. Personnel facilities, medical facilities, util­ Ark.: Barricaded transfer depot facilities, Yards and docks facilities $765,000. ities, and family housing, $15,253,700. · Naval- ordnance laboratory, White Oak, Fleet activities: Yokosuka, Japan: Family Fifteenth Naval District, Canal Zone: Md.: Research and development facilities, housing, $6,54~.800. .Utilities, and acquisition of family housing, $1,976,000. Aviation facilities $3,069,000. Guam, Mariana Islands: Utilities, $940,000. Naval mine depot, Yorktown, Va.: Ammu­ Naval air station, Agana, Guam, Mariana nition storage and testing fac111ties, $113,000. SEC. '202. The Sooretary of the Navy is Islands: Airfield pavements, operational fa. ·authorized to establish or develop classified Service school facilities cilities, personnel facilities, aircraft main- naval installations and facilities by the ac­ Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.: Utilities, tenance facilities, and utilities, $6,525,000. quisition of land, and the construction, con­ cadet housing, and fill in Dewey and Santee Naval station, , Newfoundland: version, rehabilitation, or installation of Basins in Severn River, $11;467,000. Operational facilities, and family housing, permanent or temporary public works, in­ Naval station, Annapolis, Md.: Personnel $8,589,800. cluding site preparation, appurtenances, facilities, $307,000. Naval air station, Atsugi, Japan: Personnel utilities, equipment and family housing, in Naval receiving station, Charleston, S. c.: facilities, and family housing, $1,978,800. the total amount of $151,342,400. Community facilities, $553,000. Naval station, , British West In- SEC. 203. The Secretary of the Navy is Naval amphibious base, Coronado, Calif.: dies: Aircraft maintenance facilities, $91,· authorized through the construction, re­ Personnel facilities, $1,402,000. 000. habilitation or installation of permanent or Fleet air defense training center, Dam Naval air faclUty, Cubi Point, Philippine temporary public works, including site prep­ Neck, Va.: Training facilities, and personnel Islands: Airfield pavements, aircraft main­ aration, appurtenances, and related ut111ties facilities, $1,942,000. tenance facilities, earthwork, persqnnel fa­ and equipment, to restore or replace facm­ Navai training center, Great Lakes, Ill.: cilities, communication facilities, ordnance ties damaged or destroyed in a total amount Training facilities, family housing, and per- facilities, fuel-dispensing fac111ties, and utili- of $6 million. sonnel facilities, $8,038,800. ties, $8,260,000. TITLE III Naval powder factory, Indian Head, Md.: ' ·Naval air station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Personnel facilities, $780,000. Fuel pipeline facilities, community facm- SEC. 301. The Secretary of the Air Force is Naval postgraduate school, Monterey, ties, utilities, and family housing, $2,977,300. hereby authorized to establish or develop Calif.: Personnel facilities, $119,000. Naval air facility, Iwakuni, Japan: Per- Air Force installations and fac111ties by the Naval receiving station, Philaqelphia, Pa.: sonnel facilities, $975,000. acquisition, construction, conversion, re­ Personnel fac111ties, $1,428,000. Marine Corps air station, Kaneohe Bay, hab111tation, or installation of permanent or Naval retraining command, Portsmouth, T. H.: Airfield pavements, fuel-dispensing temporary public works in respect of the N. H.: Security facilities, $42,000. facilities, and family housing, $3,227,600. following projects, which include site prep­ Fleet sonar school,- San Diego, Calif.: Naval station, Kodiak, Alaska: Family aration, appurtenances and related ut111ties, . Training Jacjlities, $2,753,000. housing, $2,613,100. equipment and facilities: Medical facilities Naval station, Kwajaleln, Marshall CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES Islands: Communication facilities, ammu­ National naval medical center, Bethesda, nition storage facilities, and personnel fa. Air Defense Command Md.: Plans and specifications for the Armed cilities, $4,411,000. Buckingham Weapons Center, Fort My­ Forces Medical Library, $350,000. ers, Fla.: Airfield pavements, fuel dispensing Na.val hospital, Chelsea, Mass.: Family Naval station, Midway Island, T. H.: Com- housing, $ , , munication facilities and operationa.l fa- facilities, communications and navigational 192 600 cilities, $1,518,000. · aids, operational facilities, aircraft main­ N aval h ospit al, C orona, C alif.: Family · Naples, Italy: Operational facilities and tenance facilities, troop housing and messing housing, and conversion of existing struc-

will be accidents. and there could· even ~ Mr. ANFuso (at the request of Mr. S. 2176. An act to repeal the requirement ·be deaths. STAGGERS) and to include extraneous that public utilities engaged in the manu­ But, then. we will have some data to ·matter. facture and sale of electricity in the Dis­ trict of Columbia must submit annual re­ work on. Mr. ZABLOCKI and to include extrane­ ports to Congress; to the Committee on the After such an operation, the experts ous matter. District of Columbia. can truly evaluate. Mr. COOLEY. S. 2177. An act to repeal the prohibition If improvement or new construction Mr. EVINS and to include extraneous against the declaration of stock dividends is needed on all major Maryland roads matter. by public utilities operating in the District within 50 miles-and I am sure that Mr. HIESTAND. of Columbia; to the Committee on the Dis­ would be the case-such an operation Mrs. KEE. trict of Columbia. would prove it. · S. Con. Res. 39. Concurrent resolution rec­ If 5 new bridges-and superhigh­ ognizing, on the occasion of her 75th birth­ SENATE BILLS REFERRED day, June 27, 1955, the efforts of Miss Helen ways each 50 miles long-or 10-must be Keller in behalf of physically handicapped · built to nearby ·Virgina, your Congress Bills and a concurrent resolution of persons throughout the world; to the Com­ will then know about it. the following titles were taken from the mittee on Education and Labor. If medical supplies, food, water must Speaker's table and, under the rule, re­ be made available to certain evacuation f erred as follows: depots, then your Congress will know S. 48. An act to provide for the disqualifi­ ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED about it before the real disaster strikes. cations of certain former officers and employ­ Mr. BURLESON, from the Committee If atomic shelter or if atomic evacua­ ees of the District of Columbia in. matters on House Administration, reported that tion is the answer to atomic attack it connected with former duties; to the Com­ that committee had examined and found may only be answered by a wholesale mittee on the District of Columbia. S. 182. An act to require a premarital ex­ truly enrolled bills of the House of the evacuation. We will not know it until amination of all applicants for marriage following titles, which were thereupon we try it. licen&es in the District of Columbia; to the signed by the Speaker: I Mr. Speaker, propose a total test Committee on the District of Columbia. H. R. 1142. An act for the relief of Capt. evacuation of Washington as the only S. 256. An act to eliminate cumulative vot­ Moses M. Rudy; true means at our disposal to arrive at ing of shares of stock in the election of di­ H. R.1825. An act creating a Federal com­ an intelligent idea of what must and rectors of national banking associations un­ mission to formulate plans for the construc­ . should be done if Washington might­ less provided for in the articles of association; tion in the District of Columbia of a civic and it is my prayer that it may never to the Committee on Banking and Currency. auditorium, including an Inaugural Hall of S. 665. An act to revive section 3 of the ·Presidents and a music, fine arts, and mass be-faced with the burning destruction District of Columbia Public School Food of atomic attack. communications center; Services Act; to the Committee on the Dis­ H. R. 3659. An act to increase criminal trict of Columbia. penalties under the Sherman Antitrust Act; S. 972. An act to amend the Home Own­ LEAVE OF ABSENCE H. R. 4221. An act to amend section 4004, ers' Loan Act of 1933, as amended; to the title 18, United States Code, relating to a~­ By unanimous consent, leave of ab­ Committee on Banking and Currency. ministering oaths and taking acknowledg­ sence was granted to: S. 1275. An act to authorize the Commis­ . ments by offiCials of Federal penal and cor- sioners of the District of Columbia to desig­ rectionaJ institutions; Mr. SCHERER for Monday, Tuesday, nate employees of the District to protect life Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June H. R. 4954. An act to amend the Clayton and property in and on the buildings and Act by granting a right of action to the 27 through July 1, 1955, on account of grounds of any institution located on prop­ United States to recover damages under the being on the Committee on Un-Ameri­ erty outside of the District of Columbia ac- antitrust laws, establishing a uniform stat­ can Activities that is holding hearings in . quired by the United States for District sana­ ute of limitations, and for other purposes; Los Angeles, Calif. toriums, hospitals, training schools, and other and institutions; to the Committee on the Dis­ H. R. 6499. An act making appropriations trict of Columbia. for the Executive Office of the President and EXTENSION OF REMARKS S. i287. An act to make certain increases sundry general Government agencies for the in the annuities of annuitants under the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for other By unanimous consent, permission to Foreign Service retirement and disability sys­ purposes. extend remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL tem; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks . S. 1391. An act granting the consent of The SPEAKER announced his signa­ was granted to: Congress to the States of California and ture to an enrolled bill and a joint reso­ Nevada to negotiate and enter into a compact lution of the Senate of the following Mrs. SULLIVAN and to include a press with respect to the distribution and use of . release which she has issued, also copy the waters of the Truckee, Carson, and Walker titles: · of a bill which she is today introducing Rivers, Lake Tahoe, and the tributaries of S. 67. An act to adjust the rates of basic covering the distribution .of antipolio such rivers and lake in such States; to the . compensation of certain 9fficers and employ­ vaccine. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. ees of the Federal Government, and for other Mr. WRIGHT and to include extraneous S. 1585. An act to provide for the return to purposes; and · matter. the town of Hartford, Vt., of certain land S. J. Res. 67. Joint resolution to authorize which was donated by such town to the the Secretary of Commerce to sell certain Mr. GRANT. United States as a site for a veterans' hos­ vessels to citizens of the Republic of the Mr. METCALF and to include extraneous pital and which is no longer needed for such Philippines; to provide for the rehabilitation matter. · purposes; to the Committee on Government of the interisland commerce of the Philip­ Mr. LONG. Operations. 'pines, and for other purposes. Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey (at the s. 1739. An act to authorize the Commis­ request of Mr. TUMULTY) and to include sioners of the District of Columbia to fix extraneous matter. rates of compensation of members of certain ADJOURNMENT Mr. TUMULTY and to include an edi­ exa.znining and licensing boards and com­ missions, and for other purposes; to the Com­ Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I move torial. mittee on the District of :Jolumbia. that the House do now adjourn. Mr. DAWSON of Utah in four instances S. 1741. An act to e:tempt from taxation The motion was agreed to; accord­ . and to include extraneous matter. certain property of the Jew.ish War Veterans, ingly (at 4 o'clock and 47 minutes p. m.> Mr. CURTIS of Missouri and to include U. S. A., National Memorial, Inc., in the the House adjourned until tomorrow, extraneous matter. District of Columbia; to the Comm~ttee qn Tuesday, June 28, 1955, at 12 o'clock Mr. HosMER and to include extraneous . the District of Columbia. noon. matter, · S. 1855. An act to amend the :i<'ederal Air­ port Act, as amended; to the Committee on Mr. Jurin · and to include extraneous EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. matter. Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Mr. McCORMACK and to include extra- s. 2171. An act to amend the Subversive Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, execu­ Activities Control Act so as to provide that neous matter. · upon the expiration of his term of office a tive communications were taken from Mr. MILLER of California and to in­ member of the board shall continue to serve the Speaker's table and referred as clude extraneous matter. until his successor shall have been ap­ follows: · Mr. ROGERS of Florida and to include pointed and shall have qualified; to the 928. A letter from the Postmaster General, extraneous matter. Committee on Un-American Activities. . transmitting a draft of proposed legislation CI-584 9292 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE June 27 entitled "A bill to authorize the dual em­ No. 914). Referred to the Committee ·of the trade agreement between. the United States ployment of custOdial employees in post­ Whole. House on the State of the Union. of America and the Republic of the Philip­ office buildings operated by the General Mr. COOLEY: Committee on Agriculture. pines;- with amendment (Rept. No. 934). Services Admiaistration, and for other pur­ S. 1755. An act to amend the act of April 6, Referred to the Committee of the Whole poses"; to the Committee on Post Office and 1949, as amended, and the act of August 31, House on the State of the Union. - Civil Service. 1954, so as to provide that the rate of inter­ 929. A letter from the Secretary, United est on certain loans made -under such acts States Olympic Association, Inc., trans­ shall not exceed 3 percent per annum; with­ REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRI­ mitting the report of an audit of the United out amendment (Rept. No. 915). Referred to VATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS States Olympic Association, Inc., made by the Committee of the Whole House on the Edward J. Roslon, Trenton, N. J., for the State of the Union. Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of calendar year 1954, pursuant to Public Law Mr. FRAZIER: Committee on the Judici­ committees were delivered to the Clerk 805, 8lst Congress; to the Committee on the ary. H. R. 6871. A bill to continue the effec­ for printing and reference to the proper Judiciary. tiveness of the act of December 2, 1942, as calendar, as follows: 930. A lettei.· from the Secretary of ·the amended, and the act of July 28, 1945, as amended, relating to war-risk hazard and Mr. BURDICK: Committee on the Judi­ Army, transmitting a draft of proposed leg­ ciary. House Resolution 273. Resolution islation entitled "A bill for the relief of detention benefits until July 1, 1956; without amendment (Rept. No. 916). Referred to the providing that the bill, H. R. 2458, and all Frank G. Gerlock"; to the Committee on the accompanying papers shall be referred to Judiciary. Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. the United States Court of Claims; without 931. A letter from the Commissioner, Im­ amendment (Rept. No. 923). Referred to migration and Naturalization Service, De­ Mr. HARRIS: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Senate Joint Resolu­ the Committee of the Whole House. partment of Justice, transmitting copies Mr. DONOHUE: Committee on the Judi­ of orders granting the applications for tion 38. Joint resolution consenting to an interstate compact to conserve oil and gas; ciary. H. R. 1940. A bill for the relief of permanent residence filed by the subjects, James J. Andrews; with amendment (Rept. pursuant to section 4 of the Displaced Per­ with amendment (Rept. No. 917). Referred to the Cammi ttee of the Whole House on the No. 924). Referred to the Committee of the sons Act of 1948, as amended; to the Com­ Whole House. · mittee on the Judiciary. State of the Union. Mr. FRAZIER: Committee on the Judici­ Mr. LANE: Committee on the Judiciary. 932. A letter from the Commissioner, Im­ ary. House Joint Resolution 273. Joint H. R. 2898. A bill for the relief of the migration and Naturalization Service, resolution to establish a commission for the F. Delizia Co., Inc.; with amendment (Rept. Department of Justice, transmitting copies celebration of the lOOth anniversary of the No. 925) . Referred to the Committee of the of orders granting the applications for per­ birth of Theodore Roosevelt; without Whole House. manent residence filed by the subjects, pur­ amendment (Rept. No. 918). Referred to Mr. LANE: Committee on the Judiciary. suant to section 6 of the Refugee Relief Act the Committee of the Whole :House on the H. R. 4763. A bill for the relief of Elzie of 1953; to the Committee on the Judiciary. State of the Union. C. Brown; with amendment (Rept. No. 926). 933. A letter from the chairman, Commis­ Mr. WILLIS: Committee on the Judiciary. Referred to the Committee of the Whoie sion on Organization of the Executive H. R. 3702. A bill to amend sections 2311, House. Branch of the Government, transmitting the 2312, and 2313 of title 18, United States Code, Mr. LANE: Committee on the Judiciary. report on the Business Organization of the so as to extend the ·punishment for the H. R. 5535. A bill for the relief of S. H. Department of Defense, pursuant to Public transportation of stolen motor vehicles in Prather; with . amendment (Rept. No. 927). Law 108, 83d Congress (H. Doc. No. 196); to interstate or foreign commerce to tractors, Referred to the Committee of the Whole the Committee on Armed Services and or­ commercial truck trailers, and truck semi­ House. dered to be printed with illustra~ions. trailers, and for other purposes; with amend­ Mr. LANE: Committee on the Judiciary. ment (Rep~. No. 919). Referred to the H. R. 6158. A bill for the relief of the estate House Calendar. .of Carlo de Luca; with amtndment (Rept. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUB­ Mr. McMILLAN: Committee of Conference. No. 928). Referred to the Committee of the. LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS S. 727. An act to adjust the salaries of the Whole House. judges of the Municipal Court of Appeals for Mr. FORRESTER: Committee on the Judi­ Under clause 2 of rule XIII, pursuant the District of Columbia and the salaries of ciary. H. R. 6232. A bill to include as to the order of the House of June 23, the judges of the Municipal Court for the Spanish-American War service under laws 1955, the following bill was reported on District of Columbia (Rept. No. 920). Or- adminlstered by the Veterans' Administra­ June 24, 1955: dered to be printed. . tion certain service rendered by Stephen Mr. FRAZIER: Committee on the Judi­ Swan Ogletree during the Spanish-Ameri­ Mr. RICHARDS: Committee on Foreign ciary. H. R. 256. A blll to amend the Bank­ can War; with amendment (Rept. No. 929). Affairs. S. 2090. An act to amend the Mutual ruptcy Act with respect to the priority of Referred to the Committee of the Whole Security Act of 1954, and for other purposes; debts owed by a bankrupt to workmen, serv­ House. with amendment (Rept. No. 912). Referred ants, clerks, and certain salesmen; with Mr. LANE: Committee on the Judiciary. to the Committee of the Whole House on the amendment (Rept. No. 921). Referred to the H. R. 6709. A bill for the relief of Harry M. State of the Union. House Calendar. Caudill; with amendment lRept. No. 930). Under clause 2 of rule XIII, pursuant Mr. WALTER: Committee on the Judici­ Referred to the Committee of the Whole ary. H. R. 2854. A blll to amend title 18 of House. to the order of the House of June 23, 1955, the United States Code, so as .to increase the· following bill was reported on June the penalties applicable to seditious con­ 25, 1955: spiracy, advocating overthrow of government, PUBLIC BILLS ·AND RESOLUTIONS Mr. SPENCE: Committee on Banking and and conspiracy to advocate overthrow of Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public Currency. S. 2126. An act to extend and government; without amendment (Rept. No. bills and resolutions were introduced and clarify laws relating to the provision and 922). Referred to the House Calendar. severally referred as follows: improvement of housing, the elimination and Mr. LANE: Committee on the Judiciary. prevention of slums, the conservation and H. R. 5522. A bill for the relief of the Florida By Mr. ASHLEY: development of urban communities, the State :aospltal; without amendment (Rept. H. R. 7007. A bill to provide for the con­ financing of vitally needed public works, and No. 931). Referred to the Committee of veyance by the United States of a portion for other purposes; with amendment (Rept. the Whole House on the State of the Union. of the Veterans' Administration hospital site, . No. 913). Referred to the Committee of the Mr. B,URDICK: Committee on the Judi­ Toledo, Ohio, to certain school authorities; Whole House on the State of the Union. ciary. H. Res. 278. Resolution providing to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign that the bill, H. R. 5421, and all accompany­ Commerce. [Submitted June 27, 1955] ing papers shall be referred to the United By Mr. BARRETT: Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of States Court of Claihls; without amendment H. R. 7008. A bill to amend Public Law 587 committees were delivered to the Clerk (Rept. No. 932). Referred to the Commit­ by permitting the withholding by the Fed­ for printing and refere nee to the proper tee of the Whole House on the State of the eral Government from wages of employees Union. certain taxes imposed by municipalities; to calendar, as follows: · Mr. DELANEY: Committee on Rules. the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin: Committee on House Resolution 288. Resolution for the By Mr. BOGGS: Foreign Affairs. Part 2, Minority Views on considerat~on of S. 2090, an act to amend H. R. 7009. A bill to ·amend the Internal S. 2090. An act to amend the Mutual Secu­ the Mutual Security Act of 1954, and for Revenue Code of 1954; to the Committee on rity Act of 1954, and for other purposes (Rept. other purposes; without amendment (Rept. Ways and Means. No. 912). Referred to the Committee of the No. 933). Referred to the House Calendar. By Mr. CHELF: Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. COOPER: Committee on W~ys and H. R. 7010. A bill to create the Office of Sen­ Mr. COOPER: Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 6059. A bill to authorize the ate Delegate in the Senate of the United Means. H. R. 6992. A bill to extend for 1 President of the United States to enter into States for former Presidents of the United year the existing temporary increase in the an agreement with the President of the Re­ States ·of America, and for other purposes; to public debt limit; without amendment (Rept. public of the Philippines to revise the 1946 the Committee on the Judiciary. 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 9293 By Mr. CHUDOFF: By Mrs. SULLIVAN: By Mr. McCORMACK: H . R. 7011. A bill to provide books and ' H. R. 70~6. A bill to provide for the pur­ H. J. Res. 359. Joint resolution to author­ sound-reproduction records for certain phys­ chase by the United States, and the distri­ ize the designation of October 22, 1955, as ically incapacitated persons, and for other bution by the Nati

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Address Delivered by Hon. W. Kerr Scott, streetcar stops, from public buildings, and since my college days who were well prepared numerous other places. for college training but who never graduated. of North Carolina, at a Breakfast Group As we ride along the lonely places of coun­ They loafed along waiting for the rest of us try highways we are constantly admonished to catch up, and as a result of their parking, Meeting of Senators to "keep off the shoulders" and we are told they failed in their examinations and not to park on fills, curves, or highways. dropped out of school. Parking can be EXTENSION OF REMARKS In the parks we are told to "keep off the dangerous. OF grass" and at the intersections the policeman For others a broken home is the excuse for tells us to "step lively." parking along the highway of life. HON. JOHN STENNIS Restrictions, admonitions, and exhorta­ For others, business becomes dull,. crops tions are to be seen and heard on every side OF MISSISSIPPI fall, banks burst, and all is lost. That is, touching every facet of life. all that is material at the moment and the IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES "It is well that we should thus be warned,'" victim gives up and parks beside his failures Monday, June 27, 1955 for as the German proverb runs: "If we rest, or disappointments. we rust." What a tragedy it is to find a boy or girl, Mr. STENNIS. Mr. President, re­ And remember, if water rests, it stagnates; a man or woman parked beside some failure cently I · 'requested our colleague, the if a tree rests, it dies; if our lungs rest, we or handicap and thus missing the.best things Senator from North Carolina [Mr. cease to breathe, and if our hearts rest, we of life and losing the spirit to contribute to SCOTT] to lead the discussion at a break.­ die. the welfare of others. At an early age, Theo­ Only yesterday (June 21, 1955) Senator dore Roosevelt was an invalid and had to be fast group meeting of Senators. Prepa­ ALEXANDER WILEY introduced in the Senate ration time was brief indeed, but Sena­ carried from place to place in his father's a bill which I commend to your attention arms. Refusing to park beside such a handi­ tor SCOTT greatly impressed all his hear­ for it recognizes that many people who are cap, he took his doctor's advice and daily, ers with his practical commonsense, his forced by provisions of the Retirement Act enduring much pain and anguish, he exer­ sound advice and counsel, all of which to retire are still mentally and physically cised his body, and later became the leader served as a challenge as well as an en­ very much alert. It recognizes that these of the Rough Riders and President of the couragement. people do not want to park but rather want United States. ' I think his words of wisdom and coun.­ to continue making their contribution to Remember what happened to Brer Rabbit sel carry a splendid message to the peo­ society. when he parked for awhile. Mr. Terrapin Yes, "don't ' park here's" are found in won the race. ple of America. I believe they convey a nature, science, and human life and they are special message of inspiration and guid­ Have you been tempted to park beside designed for our own protection. Yet in spite some failure or handicap? If so, then take to ance to the youth of our country and of all such warnings and exhortations, man heart the lesson taught Robert Bruce by the I therefore ask unanimous consent that still continues to park in many places where spider. Robert Bruce was King of Scotland Senator SCOTT'S remarks be included in he should not. As we read in Pilgrim's Progress, Christian during the 13th century. He was a. brave the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Further. on his way from the City of Destruction to fighter, an ardent patriot, and he carried the I wish to commend him for his noble the Celestial City was frequently tempted to fortunes and misfortunes of his beloved Scot­ thoughts and the practical guidance of turn aside and park awhile, especially in the land in his heart. Late in llfe he was de­ his counsel. Town of vanity Fair. Christian resisted the feated on the field of battle. Fleeing for his There being no objection, the remarks temptation and successfully reached his life, he came to an old cave in the moun­ journey's end. This cannot be said of all, tains. Across the entrance of it a spider were ordered to be printed in the REC­ had woven a web. Brushing the web aside, ORD, as fallows: and, as a consequence, we find today that men and women too often are parked at var­ Bruce entered to await the end. As he sat DoN'T PARK HERE ious places along the journey of life. facing the entrance he noticed that the spider was again weaving her web and within Many years ago, an inspired poet wrote To some of these places I would call your the immortal lines: a few minutes she had completed it. Just attention. then the pursuers of Bruce came and one "Heaven is not reached at a. single bound; Some men and women park beside their of them said, "Let's look in this old cave." But we build the ladder by which we rise failures. "No," said the leader, "No one could have From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies. Some youths study hard in school. Exami­ entered there without destroying the spider's And we mount to its summit round by nations come and they fail. They accuse the web." So on they went. round." teacher of dishonesty and prejudice to cover Bruce had entered the cave defeated in. And as we consider the words of the poet their own failures, quit studying, quit school, battle, broken in spirit, discouraged and we should also recognize that it seems to and park idly beside the highway of intel­ ready to give up. But as he sat there and be a trait of human nature to be eternally on lectuality. watched the spider quickly adjust herself the lookout for a place to park-not only I recall how impressed I was as a freshman to her misfortune and begin all over again, one's automobile but one's self. As we ride in college with the fact of how ill-prepared he said, "If a spider, without an immortal through the streets of our cities today we I was, as well as many other farm boys were, soul, having the foundation knocked com­ repeatedly face the words "don't park he·re." for college training. I observed that the boys pletely out from under her, can begin all We find them in the business and resi­ who came from prep . schools and highly over again, by the grace of God, Robert dential sections and on the side streets. organized city schools were much better pre­ Bruce can come back, too." Slipping beneath They stare at us from the fire hydrants, pared than we fa.rm-bred boys were. I par­ the web, he went forth again and freed from in front of the theaters, the bus and ticularly recall two boys I have never seen Scotland from her enemies.