Hon. Alexander Wiley Hon. James· E. Van Zandt
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5706 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 15 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Hon. Alexander Wiley, of makes noises as if some regulation were distributors are entitled to a reasonable re Wisco~sin, really being attempted. turn. The pipelines are entitled to a reason Condemns Latest Natural Gas Bill It sets up a standard for a regulatory able return on their investment. agency which the Commission would find it But so, too, the public is entitled to reason impossible to follow. The criterion would be able protection. EXTENSION OF REMARKS a quicksand of uncertainty into which every There is no evidence whatsoever to indi OF regulatory case would founder-if any at cate that the oil and gas industry has suffered tempt were made to actually enforce it. under previous Federal regulation. There ls HON. ALEXANDER WILEY The reasonable-market price would be every evidence to indicate that the industry OF WISCONSIN changing constantly-upward. has prospered, and that it will continue to IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES The Commission investigators would have prosper if reasonable regulation is carried on. to scramble to keep up interminably with I hope, therefore, that this Harris-O'Hara Monday, April 15, 1957 what the latest market price was. legislation will be defeated. Mr. WlliEY. Mr. President, one o.f Consequently, the Commission would be I hope ·that it will be defeated on its lack following the market price rather than lead of merit and not simply because of part of the most inflationary pieces of legislation ing, abjectly approving rather than inde the oil industry's lobbying tactics, -as carried of the 85th Congress has now been intro pendently establishing a fair regulated price, on in the 84th Congress. duced. as all regulatory commissions are supposed I hope the administration will reconsider I refer to the proposed legislation to do. its overall stand. which would unfortunately make a hol The supporters of this legislation make no I support this administration generally. low shell of Federal regulation of the bones about what they really have in mind. But I will not falter on my right to part com prices of natural gas. Their aim is the very same as it was in the pany with the administration when my con Specifically, I have reference to H. R. 84th Congress, the 83d Congress, and in pre science tells me it is in the wrong. ceding Congresses-to deny the consumers of Perhaps, there are some within the admin 6790 and H. R. 6791, introduced, respec this Nation the reasonable protection which istration-within the Department of Justice tively, by Representative OREN HARRIS, of the consumers had a right to expect under or elsewhere-who support my stand and Arkansas, and Representative JOSEPH the Natural Gas Act of 1938. who disagree with the Harris-O'Hara bill. O'HARA, of Minnesota. For months, we have been reading reports If so, I hope they will be in a position to come In my judgment, this proposed legisla from natural-gas associations to the effect forth and openly say so. tion poses a tremendous threat to the that if the administration really wants this American economy in more ways than legislation enacted, it-the administration will have to work hard for it. one. I hope that the administration w111 do no I ask unanimous consent that a state such thing. Submarines Everlasting Honor and Glory ment I have prepared on this subject I say very frankly, however and yes, sor be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. rowfully, that I will not be surprised if the EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, will the administration does come once again to the Senator from Wisconsin yield for just a unwise decision of backing the purposes of OF moment in connection with that he has this legislation. HON. JAMES · E. VAN ZANDT just said with respect to the Harris Unfortunately, the administration has al lowed itself to swallow the misrepresenta OF PENNSYLVANIA bill? tions which have been spread by the natu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. WILEY. I yield. ral-gas industry. Mr. CLARK. I commend the Senator Unfortunately, the administration, which Monday, April 15, 1957 from Wisconsin for the action he is tak has been wisely pleading for a curb on in Mr. VAN ZANDT. Mr. Speaker, it ing at the very start in opposition to the fiation-which has been pleading for volun was Adm. Chester Nimitz who once Harris bill, which has been introduced in tary efforts to hold down wage and price said that the Japanese missed their the House. pressures, this same administration now golden opportunity at Pearl Harbor when When I was mayor of Philadelphia we seems determined to do a rightabout-face. Thus, it probably backs a bill which will be they restricted their attack to capital had a mayors' committee which fought one of the most ln:fiationary measures in the ships. If they had knocked out our sub very vigorously against that bill. I know 85th Congress. marines, our task would have been in the distinguished Senator from Wiscon Fuel is the key item in the cost of living finitely greater. For as soon as the war sin was on that side, and did his very best and in the cost of production. When indus started, our submarines began unsup to prevent its enactment. I assure the try has to pay higher fuel costs, when 30 ported operations in Japanese waters and Senator from Wisconsin that he will million homeowners have to pay higher resi substantially damaged Japan's vitally have support in his efforts from at least dential gas costs, what ls that but inflation? important shipping. one Senator on this side of the aisle. We see in this legislation, too, one more unfortunate step down the road of ineffec "It was to the submarine force that I Mr. WILEY. I thank the distinguished tive regulation by a so-called regulatory looked to carry the load until our great Senator. My opening remarks contained agency. It ls a road in which a Federal Com industrial activity could produce the a statement of my views. I shall con mission does not seem to be actively inter weapons we so sorely needed to carry the tinue to restate them in committee, and ested in protecting the very public interest war to the enemy," Admiral Nimitz has before the Senate, when the subject which it was set up to protect. said. He added, "It' is to the everlasting comes before us. I say, frankly, but respectfully: The Fed eral Power Commission has repeatedly failed honor and glory of our submarine per There being no objection, the state sonnel that they never failed us in our ment was ordered to be printed in the in its obligations vigorously to protect the public interest. days of peril." RECORD, as follows: Instead, by backing the previous version Now this valiant-and relatively un STATEMENT BY SENATOR WILEY of this legislation and by reportedly backing publicized-branch of our Armed Forces For months, we have been reading disturb the present version of this legislation, the is getting the kind of recognition long ing newspaper accounts to the effect that a Federal Power Commission seems to say, in due it. Throughout the Nation, a tele new version of the bill which President Eisen effect: "Gentlemen of the Congress, we will hower vetoed in the 84th Congress would soon be glad to authorize whatever the 'traffic vision program called the Silent Service be introduced. will bear,' if you will just permit us to do so." is being shown to increasing millions of Now this version has been offered. f want to be fair to the Federal Power Americans. This series, based on au This time, it attempts to accomplish its Commission-which, after all, faces enor thentic war reports, dramatically pre objective by permitting a so-called reason mous work burdens. I am not, of course, senting the heroism and adventures of able-market price to be charged. reflecting on the sincerity of any of its mem submarines at war, effectively delivers to But what is reasonable-market price? bers. I respect their honest differences with the citizenry a weekly account of the vital It is the going price. me. I am simply stating that the Commis So, will this be regulation? Of course not: sion is not uniformly doing the job which role our submarine service performs in it is pretended regulation on the basis of an the Congress originally intended for it. the Nation's defense. unregulated price. Lastly, I want to reiterate a point which I The series was conceived in love and So in its pretense at regulation, it is even have previously made. The oil and gas in devotion by Adm. Thomas M. Dykers, worse than last year's more frank bm: In dustry is definitely entitled to a reasonable United -States Navy, retired, an old sub 24 pages of legal falderal, the bill deceptively return on their investment. The local gas mariner himself who as commanding om- 1957 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 570'l cer of the submarine Jack in World War and which will only drive them out of Taxicab Association of Baltimore. In II downed 4 Japanese tankers in 1 day the service instead of keeping them in. organizing this company, Mr. MacFar a feat unequaled by any other United Our whole concept of military training lane insisted that it be based on equality States sub in the war. still reflects the methods of the last cen for all. In other words, Mr.