10862 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .JULY 24 George K. Sazama, Hatley, Wis., in place States immigrant inspector, El Paso, House amendments _thereto, insist on of J. W. Sazama, transferred. Tex." the amendments of the House and ask Henry A. Siewert, Jr., Kingston, Wis. Of­ The message also announced that the for a conference with the Senate. fice became Presidential July 1, 1945. Senate agrees to the amendments of the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Robert E. Myers, North Freedom, Wis., in the request of the gentleman from Ken­ place of Frank Hanley, retired. House to bills and concurrent resolutions Elmer H. Toepfer, Random Lake, Wis., in of the Senate of the following titles: tucky? [After a pause.] The Chair place of W. J. Hand, deceased. S. 1027. An act for the relief of the Merit hears none, and appoints the following Alfred J. Perrault, Jr., Turtle Lake, Wis., Co.; - conferees: Messrs. SPENCE, BROWN of In place L. H. Rivard, retired. s. 1049. An act for the relief of Amy Alex­ Georgia, PATMAN, MONRONEY, WOLCOTT, WYOMING androvna Taylor and Myrna Taylor; GAMBLE, and KUNKEL. S. 1792. An act for the relief of Thomas Roy Cecil Taylor, Mountainview, Wyo., in Nicholas Epiphaniades and Wanda Julia PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE place of O. W. Dahlquist, resigned. Epiphaniades; Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask S. 2243. An act for the relief of Tevfik unanimous consent to address the House CONFIRMATION Kami! Kutay; S. 2864. An act to authorize certain admin­ for 1 minute and to revise and extend Executive nomination confirmed by istrative expenses for the Department of Jus­ my remarks. the Senate July 24 (legislative day of tice, and for other purposes; The SPEAKER. Is there objection to July 20) , 1950: S. Con. Res. 91. Concurrent resolution fa­ the request of the gentieman from Mis­ voring the suspension of deportation of cer­ sissippi? DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE tain aliens; and There was no objection. Clarence J. McCormick, ·of Indiana, to be S. Con. Res. 95. Concurrent resolution fa­ [Mr. RANKIN addressed the House. Under Secretary of Agriculture. voring the suspension of deportation of cer­ His remarks appear in the Appendix.] tain aliens. Mr. JONAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ The message also announced that the imous consent to address the House for Senate disagrees to the amendments of 1 minute and to revise and extend my HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the House to the bill United States there ever would In Christ's name we pray. Amen. act to provide for the disposition of cer­ be another election? The Journal of the proceedings of tain records of the United States Gov­ Every Communist takes orders from Thursday, July 20, 1950, was read and ernment," for the disposition of execu­ Moscow. His party is the fifth column approved. tive papers ref erred to in the report of here and in every freedom-loving coun­ try. It is hostile to freedom an-1 Chris­ MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE the Archivist of the United states num­ bered 51-2. tian civilization the world over. Every A message from the Senate, by Mr. informed American knows that under Carrell, one of its clerks, announced COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY our system of government the defeat of that the Senate had passed bills of the Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask any political party in a free election does following titles, in which the concur ... unanimous consent that the Committee not mean the end of that party or its rence of the House is requested: on Banking and Currency may sit this political faith. It will have another s. 3859. An act to authorize the President afternoon during general debate in the chance or chances in the future. to control the· anchorage and movement of House. Should the Communist Party win a foreign-ft.ag vessels in waters of the United The SPEAKER. Is there objection to national election, all political faiths State.:1 when the national security of the the request of the gentleman from Ken­ would end, their leaders shot or exiled, United States is endangered, and for other tucky? their property seized, and their organi­ purposes; and S. 3937. An act to authorize the President There was no objection. zation destroyed. Freedom and free to extend enlistments in the Armed Forces FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT government--the Republic of the United States-would "perish from the earth." of the United States. Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask The message also announced that the unanimous consent to take from the SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED Senate recedes from its amendment to Speaker's table the bill Oklahoma asked and There was no objection. executive department if action is not was given permission to extend his re­ Mr. GOODWIN . . Mr. Speaker, during taken. marks in two instances. roll call No. 211, I was called from the SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED Mr. BARTLETT asked und was given Chamber on official business. If I had permission to extend his. remarks and been present and voting, I would have Mr. JACKSON of Washington asked include an editorial. voted "no." and was given permission to address the Mr. HEDRICK asked and was given PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE House for 10 minutes today, following permission to extend his remarks and the legislative program and any special include a statement by Frank Pace, Sec­ Mrs. BOLTON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, orders heretofore entered. I ask unanimous consent to address the retary of the Army. House for 1 minute, and revise and ex- ADDITIONAL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES Mr. PRICE asked and was given per­ tend my remarks. · . Mr. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ mission to extend his remarks in four The SPEAKER. Is there obj.ection to imous consent to address the House for instances and include extraneous matter the request ·of the gentlewoman from 1 minute and to revise and extend my in each. Ohio? . remarks. Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin asked and There was no objection. The SPEAKER. Is there objection was given permission to extend. his re­ [Mrs. BOLTON of Ohio addressed the to the request c,f the gentleman from marks in three instances and include House. Her remarks appear in the Ap­ Florida? · excerpts. pendix.] Mr. MASON asked and was given per­ There was no objection. mission to extend .his remarks and in­ A NEW VIEW ON SURPLUS FOODS Mr. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, it has been clude an article by Robert B. Dresser Mr. HESELTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask stated by Government sources that an on the need for limiting the spending unanimous consent to address the House additional 250,000 Federal employees will power of Congress. for 1 minute and revis3 and extend my be hired as a result of the Korean prob­ Mr. POTTER asked and was given remarks. lem. permission to extend his remarks in two The SPEAKER. Is there objection to This morning's news reports estimated instances; in each to include an editorial. the request of the gentleman from 12,000 Government jobs now available in Mr. KEATING asked as was given Massachusetts? the District of Columbia, compared with permission to extend his remarks in two 2 000 at the time of the last announce- instances; in two to include editorials, There was no objection. ment. . Mr. HESELTON. Mr. Speaker, Secre­ and in one a radio address. tary Brannan has surrendered. For al­ Apparently wholesale hirings are in -Mr. GOLDEN asked and was given most 6 months he was perfectly happy process of being undertaken by the Gov­ permission to extend his remarks. about the mounting scandal of Federal ernment agencies. Mrs. ST. GEORGE asked and was Government hoarding of wholesome food Yet, there is to this moment no break­ given permission to extend her remarks commodities. The fact that it was cost­ down of the expenditures requested by in two instances, in each to include news­ ing the American taxpayers scores of the President. The Government agen­ paper articles. thousands of dollars each day did not cies themselves do not know how the Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin asked and interest him in the least. The possi­ money is to be spent. They cannot pos­ was given permission to extend his re­ bility and probability that a lot of this sibly know how many new employees, if marks in three instances and iilclude food would spoil gave him no concern any, are required for the successful pros­ newspaper material in each instance. whatever. ecution of the war in Korea. Mr. COLE of New York asked and was But now when hoarding food is m;1- To the profits-as-usual, politics-as-us­ given permission to extend his remarks. patriotic ·and when he and his Depart­ ual, hoard-as-usual crowd it appears Mr. RICH asked and was given per­ ment is issuing warnings against it daily that we can add Government as usual. mission to extend his remarks and in­ he is suddenly awakened. This morn­ There is as little patriotism in hoarding clude extraneous matter. ing he appeared.before the House Com­ Government workers as there is in Mr. MAGEE asked and was given per­ mittee on Agriculture. He described the hoarding food. mission to extend his remarks and in­ critical nature of the problem of dis­ ANNUAL AND SICK LEAVE :!OR COMMIS­ clude a short editorial. posing of these foods. He offered a solu­ SIONED OFFICERS OF THE PUBLIC Mr. JONES of North Carolina asked tion. This solution is exactly what was HEALTH SERVICE and was given permission to extend his contained in four bills filed by the gen­ remarks and include an editorial from Mr. BIEMILLER. Mr. Speaker, I ask the Charlotte (N. CJ News of July 19, tleman from New York [Mr. E:EATINGJ, unanimous consent to take from the 1950, on the proposed Lodge-Gossett the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Speaker's table the bill S. 2160, an act to amendment to the present electoral col­ CORBETT], the gentleman from Pennsyl­ amend the Public Health Service Act to lege system and in another instance to vania [Mr. HUGH D. SCOTT, JR.], and my­ authorize annual and sick leave with extend his personal remarks with refer­ self on February 2. Twenty additional pay for commissioned officers of the ence to the voluntary retirement of the Members of this body endorsed these Public Health Service, insist on the Hon. J. HARDIN PETERSON from the Con­ bills. But, Mr. Brannan would have no amendments of thP. House, and agree to gress after the present session. part of them. the conference asked by the Senate. Mr. JACKSON of Washington asked His conversion is welcome but de­ The Clerk read the title of the bill. and was given permission to extend his cidedly belated. As I listened to him The SPEAKER. Is there objection to remarks and include an article appear­ I felt certain· that the statement wa1:­ the request of the gentleman from Wis­ ing in the Harvard Law Review, written ranted a further study in the light of the consin? . [After a pause.] The Chair by Prof. Zecharia Chafee, Jr. facts as to this program and I shall hears none and appoints the fallowing Mr. CROOK asked and was given per­ make that study with the hope that I can conferees: Mr. PRIEST, Mr. BIEl\ULLER, mission to extend his remarks in the report further to you this afternoon dur­ Mr. WILSON of Oklahoma, Mr. WOLVER­ RECORD and include an article by Clarke ing a special order. ~ON, and Mr. HUGH D. ScoTT, JR. Beach appearing in the South Bend In any event, Mr. Brannan now urges Tribune of July 20. emphatically immediate action. I hope EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. BOYKIN asked·and was given per­ our committee will give us that oppor­ Mr. LANE asked and was given-per­ mission to extend his rem2.rks and in­ tunity at once. If the situation is as mission to extend his remarks in the clude a statement by Louis Johnson. 10864 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24 Mr. ROGERS of Florida asked and was distinguished gentle,man from Missouri to give immediate consideration to, given permission to extend his remarks [Mr. SHORT] and myself. which may be reported by his committee? and include an editorial. Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, reserv­ Mr. VINSON. The Armed Services Mr. MADDEN asked and was given ing the right to object, and from what Committee started today having hear­ permission to extend his remarks and I know aoout this I do not think I shall ings with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, each include an editorial. object, I think it would be well for the one separately. Admiral Sherman ad­ CALL OF THE HOUSE gentleman from Georgia to tell us what vised the committee that for the time the measure is which he proposes to call being this is the only legislation that Mr. PHILLIPS of California. Mr. up tomorrow and give us something of he is particularly interested in. There Speaker, a point of order. My observa­ the reasons or necessity for it. probably will be some other legislation, tion does not indicate the presence of a Mr. VINSON. The bill deals with but it is not as urgent as this. I do quorum. I make the point of order that freezing enlistments in the Army, Navy, not think there is any important legis­ there is no quorum present. and Air Force. The enlistment of some lation except making the money avail­ The SPEAKER. Evidently there is no 135,000 men will expire within 1 year, able . . quorum present. and they will expire at the rate of 4,000 Mr. McCORMACK. Will the gentle­ Mr. BYRNE of New York. Mr. Speak­ a month in General MacArthur's forces man yield? er, I move a call of the House. in the Pacific. This measure proposes Mr. HALLECK. I yield. A call of the House was ordered. to extend those enlistments for 1 year Mr. McCORMACK. The lead~rship The Clerk called the roll, and the fol­ until we can get Reservists, National on both sides is much interested in the lowing Members failed to answer to their Guard men, and draftees to take their gentleman's statement. The gentle­ names: places. It was unanimously passed by man said, "For the time being." Did {Roll No. 213] the other body and unanimously recom­ Admiral Sherman give any. statement as Abbitt Gore Murray, Wis. Addonizio Gwinn Nixon mended by the Committee on Armed to what he meant by "for the time Allen, Ill. Hall, Norton Services. It is one of the things the being"? Allen, La. Edwin Arthur O'Brien, Mich. President is urging the Congress to do Mr. VINSON. Of course, we have not Anderson, Calif.Hall, O'Neill Aspinall Leonard W. Passman immediately. finished with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Barden Hand Patman Mr. HALLECK. As I understand it, but as to anything that has been sent to Barrett, Pa. Hare Patterson the gentleman's request provides for de­ my office, these are the only two bills Barrett, Wyo. Harris . Pfeifer, bate and consideration of the measure on Bates, Mass. Hart Joseph L. that are necessary for the House to con­ Bentsen Hebert Pfeiffer, the floor of the House. sider immediately. Boggs, La. Heffernan William L. Mr. VINSON. Yes; exactly. It will Mr. McCORMACK. "For the time Bosone Heller Phillips, Tenn. be open to amendment. I do not have being" and "immediately." Just what Breen Hill Pickett Brehm Hinshaw Powell time to bring it before the Committee on does that mean? Brooks Hoffman, DI. Priest Rules, otherwise I would be before the Mr. VINSON. I would say that as far Buckley, N. Y. · Irviflg Quinn Committee on Rules asking for a rule. as this vreek is concerned and next week Bulwinkle Jackson, Calif. Rains Burton Javits Ramsay Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Spea~er, I with­ is concerned, we do not have any leg­ Carlyle Jenison Redden draw my reservation of objection. islation in the mill that the Department Carroll Jennings Regan Mr. McCORMACK.' Mr. Speaker, re­ has sent up. Cavalcante Johnson Richards Cell er Karst, Robeson serving the right to object, is this the Mr. McCORMACK. Well, the gentle­ Chatham Kean Rodino bill H. R. 9177? man had better tell the Department that Chesney Kearney Rogers, Mass. Mr. ·vrnsoN. Yes. The House bill, if they have anything in the mill this Christopher Kearns Roosevelt H. R. 9177, is the same as Senate bill week or ;next week, they had better get Combs Keefe Sabath Cooper Kelley, Pa. Sadlak · 3937. it up as quickly as possible. Coudert Kennedy Sadowski Mr. McCORMACK. What about the Mr. VINSON. I appreciate that. I Cox Keogh 'Sanborn House bill, H. R. 9178, suspending the am just as anxious that the House take Davies, N. Y. Kilday Scott, Hardie Davis, Tenn. Kunkel Shelley authorized personnel strength of the a recess as the gentleman from Massa­ Dawson Larcade Sims Armed Forces? chusetts. Dingell Lichtenwalter Smith, Ohio Mr. VINSON. I intend to make the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Dollinger Linehan Sutton Doughton Lodge Taylor same request with reference to that bill. the request of the gentleman from Douglas Lucas Teague The SPEAKER. Is there objection Georgia [M:i:-. VINSON]? Eaton Lyle Thompson to the request of the gentleman from . There was no objection. Eberharter McCarthy Trimble . Ellsworth McGrath Vursell Georgia? . · APPOINTMENT OF TWO ADDITIONAL DIS­ Engel, Mich. McGuire Wagner There was no objection. TRICT JUDGES . FOR THE NORTHERN Evins McMillen, DI. Welch DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Fallon Mack, Ill. White, Idaho SUSPENDING AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL Fernandez Marcantonio Wier STRENGTH OF ARMED FORCES Mr. BYRNE of New York. Mr. Speak­ Fogarty Marsalis Wigglesworth Frazier Martin, Mass. Willis Mr.· VINSON. Mr. Speaker, I make er, I move that the House resolve itself Gary Morgan Winstead the same unanimous-consent request on into the Committee of the Whole House Gavin Morrison Wood H. R. 9178. on the State of the Union for the con­ Gillette Morton Yates Gilmer Murphy Zablocki Mr. O'HARA of Minnesota. Mr. sideration of the bill pres­ man from Illinois. to them in their attack upon South ent war? In other words, will the pas­ · Mr. JONAS. The gentleman has Korea. sage of this bill in any way contribute stated that in additio11 to the $15,000 that OUR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE to the winning of the war? a Federal district judge is paid, that Mr. Chairman, Louis Johnson, Secre­ Mr. STEFAN. I do not think there is there are other incidentals that run tary of Defense, talks . too much. He anything presently in it that will. up to the stupendous figure that my dis­ blusters like a schoolboy about what Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. The tinguished colleague, the gentleman from we can do with one hand tied behind gentleman from New York [Mr. KEAT­ New York [Mr. KEATING], mentioned. our back. In 1939, at a meeting of the INGf spoke about his granddaughter. It He said it might run up to $50,000. In executive committee of the American seemed to me he was in some doubt as to · what respect could it amount to $50,000?. Legion in Indianapolis, Louis Johnson the answer he would make if she aslrnd The judge gets a clerk at about $4,000; was asked, "How long would it take us him whether he is a Member of the he gets a marshal at about $4,000, he to clean up the Japs in the Pacific if war Eighty-first Congress. In the gentle­ gets one probationary offieer at $3,500, broke out?" His answer was, "It would man's opinion, are the Republicans on and one secretary. Now that does not take us 6 weeks." Was that a good this side of the aisle responsible for what by any means amount to a stupendous guess? the Eighty-first Congress does? ' figure. Only a few months ago, when appear­ Mr. STEFAN. Of course, we are in Mr. STEFAN. I think the gentleman ing before a congressional committee of the minority. The majority has over 90 had better revise his figures, because I the House, Secretary Johnson was asked, votes more than has the minority. think I can furnish information that "ls it true that the Russians are using Mr. Chairman, I rise at this time to the gentleman has not got the correct the major part of their steel production give the membership some information figures as to the additional services that in the building of heavy war tanks?" about the Federal judiciary which we are are required tQ service a district judge. Johnson's answer was: discussing at this time in view of the fact Mr. JONAS. I think it would be well, I don't know, but I hope so, because heavy that the legislation before us provides for when you talk about the sums we spend war t anks are obsolete today and we can the creation of additional judgeships. I for the courts, to take into consideration easily take care of them. hope this will answer some of the ques­ the sums we voted for ECA. tions that have been propounded. Only The CHAIRMAN. The time of the In view of what is happening in Korea recently we passed a bill making appro-· gentleman from Nebraska has expired. today, was that a good guess? priations for the Federal judiciary which Mr. BYRNE of New York. Mr. Chair­ Mr. Chairman, in Korea we need the amounted to $23,560,000. When you man, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman type of fighting that the marines are pass legislation like this it means appro-. from New York [Mr. CELLER]. noted for, but our marine force has been priation of money. In that bill we in-. Mr. CELLER. Mr. Chairman, these skeletonized and suppressed under John­ eluded funds for 27 new Federal judges; matters of judges were carefully scruti- · son. We need aircraft to support our 6 circuit and 21 district judges. We nized and screened and discussed by the ground troops in Korea, but our air- have presently employed 286 district and · Committee on the Judiciary and the 10870 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24 members oame to the conclusion that the justices of that court, but time will not only has the approval of the :pres­ the judges involved in the bills that not permit. I do indeed hope that wis­ ent district judges, the judges of the come before you this afternoon are abso­ dom will prompt an overwhelming vote court of appeals for the seventh circuit lutely needed. in favor of this bill for the two additional and the judicial council of senior circuit Now, I heard tell of additional ex­ judges for the northern district of judges. It is also endorsed by the Chi­ pense. Where justice is involved, we Illinois. · cago, Illinois State, and American Bar must not be pinchpenny. There will_ Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Chairman, I Associations. I have talked with and be some additional administrative em­ yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from received letters from scores of lawyers ployees required. That is always the Illinois [Mr. REED]. who have extensive practices in the Fed­ case when you designate a new judge. Mr. REED of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, eral courts and who urgently request But, justice delayed is justice denied. I am heartily in favor of the enactment this legislation in order that they may That is an old adage, and it is well to of this legislation. Let me say some­ have assurance that their cases may ·be repeat it. Failure to pass these judge­ thing to you about the northern district promptly tried. The case load per judge ships will delay justice. The calendars of Illinois. I am sorry I Q.o not have with at the present time is much too high. of the courts are crowded with cases that me the figures according to the latest Even with two additional judges, it will cannot be reached and tried for months census but must refer to the census of take years to bring it down to normal. because of the paucity of judges. It is 1940, which, of course, is much less than Mr. Chairman, I urge favorable con­ our duty to supply them. the one that has been taken this year. sideration of this measure, now. As to the necessity for these judges, The northern district of Illinois is Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Chairman, certainly we cannot gainsay the approval composed of 18 counties with a popula­ much stress has been placed on statistics of the Attorney General, the Admin­ tion of 5,414,800, which is more than as a basis for the necessity of this bill. istrator of the Courts, the American Bar two-thirds of the State's total popula­ Personally I d-0 not place too much im­ Association, the State Bar Association tion of 7,89'7,241. In addition to the portance on the value of satistics in this of Illinois. There came before the sub­ northern district of Illinois there are instance. When I came to the Congress committee of the Committee . on the two others-the southern district and we did not have the Administrative Of­ Judiciary the Chief Justice Maj or Qf the the eastern district. Together those two fice of the United States Courts. We did circuit court of appeals and the chief districts have a population of 2,482,441, not have the Judicial Conference. Both judge of the district court, Judge Barnes, with four district judges, two in each of those agencies were created to help and they testified as to the absolute· need distriCt. From 1940, the northern dis­ solve these problems on other than a of these two judges in the northern dis­ trict of Illinois has had six-judges. Political basis. trict of Illinois, and there was received In that year it was deemed by the However, the experiment has not been a communication signed by all the dis­ Congress advisable to give it an extra entirely a success, because we drift into trict judges of that northern district of judge, and authorized such appointment these misleading statistics. Let me give Illin0is, Judges Barnes, Sullivan, Ig-0. but provided that the first vacancy that you one illustration With which we are LaBuy, and Shaw. I am going to read occurred in the district should not be an f ammar right here in the House of one or two paragraphs from that com­ filled. , Unfortunately, after a little over Representatives. So far as case loads • munication. By the wa;y, the judges I 6 months, a vacancy did occur and so are concerned, in the last Congress the have named are not all Democrats. The from that time on there have been but Committee on the Judiciary had 52 letter in part reads as follows: six judges. The two additional judges percent of au the bills introduced in One of the judges of our court informs us authorized by this legislation would the House. · Did the Committee on the that there are pending on his calendar four bring the total up to eight in the north­ Judiciary do 50 percent of all the work cases which must be tried and which will ern district of Illinois. There is dire performed in the House? Certainly not. take, in the aggregate, not less than 1 year need for eight judges in that district. Number of bills is no criterion. and 7 months for trial. The first of these Let me call your attention to these Another iHustration is the Consent cases, an antitrust case, Will take not l'ess facts: In 1947 the c!l.ses adjudicated and Calendar and Private Calendar. On than 1 year for trial. Another, an antitrust case, will take not less than 5 month for determined in the district with 6 Unanimous Consent calendar Day, or on trial. A third, a mail-fraud case, will take judges were 415 cases per judge. In Private Calendar Day the House will 6 or 7 weeks for trial. And the fourth, a 1943 it was 359 cases per judge, and in pass 50 to 100 bills whereas it would take condemnation case, in which 139 parcels of 194.9 they jumped to 454 cases per judge. a week or 2 weeks to pass a tax bill or p-roperty were involved, af which 115 have At the end of 1949 there were 429 cases a foreign-relations bill or a bill of been disposed of, will take 5 or 6 weeks for pending per judge. No matter how another type. Could we base our work trial in resoect of the remaining properties much they have been able to expedite here at all on these statistics as far as involved. The calendars of the rest of us their work, they are still falling behind. are not dissimilar. case load is concerned? Well, the same The clerk of our court informs us that on I had intended to· say something con­ thing happens with judges. Go to the April 1, 1950, there were 44 antitrust cases cerning the statement which was made city of Detroit, a great industrial center, pending in the couxt. Of these, 4 were by the gentleman from New York as to and you will have patent cases. One of criminal cases, 11 were civil Government the increased cost of them judges. I those cases will take days and weeks and cases, and 29 were civil _private cases. Some think something like $50,000 for each months. Those judges will work for of these cases will talrn months to try and judge was suggested. That is absurd. days and weeks and months on a single most, if not all, of them will take several The salary of the judge himself is $17 ,50-0. case. You might go out into the Mid­ weeks. There seems to be a concentration of antitrust litigation in our court. The He would be required to have a clerk, west somewhere, where they do not have Attorney General maintains an office for a bailiff, a secretary, and a probation that type of cases, and they can dispose the Antitrust Division of the Department officer. The only additional cost would of·their cases just as we dispose of cases of Justice in Chicago, separate and apart be that of the maintenance of the court­ on the Consent Calendar. So to me from the district attorney's office. This room which already exists and must be these statistics cut very little figure. The office looks after the territory embraced ia maintained now. type of case is which takes time. I am several States.. Apparently; counsel find it In my opinion, the necessity for these a realist. On our own committee we more convenient to institute antitrust judges is urgent in the northern district have been holding hearings and making prosecutions in Chicago than in other places, which perhaps accounts for. the concentra­ of Illinois if we are to expect the court a study of newsprint. It was suggested, tion of that particular class of business In to adjudicate fairly and impartially. factually, that 200 newspapers had dis­ our court. Nearly every governmental prose­ When judges are required to hurry continued business dui·ing the last year. cution under the antitrust laws which re­ through a congested docket, litigants Therefore, the implication was, without sults in a conviction brings in its train pri­ a11e deprived of the careful and thought­ any proof, that they had gone out of vate antitrust actions for treble damages ful consideration of their cases to which business because of the lack of news­ based on the governmental conviction, and they are entitled and faulty and insuf­ print. Now, that ·was an assumption. a large percentage of these find their way ficiently considered judgments mean We want some proof here. That is just 1nto the court where the conviction was obtained. more appeals and cause congestion in. what the trouble is here. I think they the dockets of the courts of appeal. All probably need one additional judge in r could go on and read you much more this causes delay and expense to Iiti­ Indiana, but I do n ot think they neea from the very illuminating letter from gants and to the Government. This bill two. 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 1_087l The CHAIRMAN. The time of the fact, if the gentleman thinks it would be by reason of the death, retirement, resig­ gentleman from Michigan has expired. germane I would be very happy to have nation, or removal of the judge appointed Mr. BYRNE of New York. Mr. Chair­ the gentleman move to substitute his bill pursuant to t his act-shall not be filled." man, I have no ·further requests for for the bill now before us. The SPEAKER. The question is on time. I yield back the remainder of my Mr. JACOBS. Does the gentleman the motion to recommit. time, himself think it would be germane? The question was taken; and on a The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read. Mr. KEATING. I fear it would not, division (demanded by Mr. H. CARL The Clerk read as follows: but I would be · very happy to support ANDERSEN) there were-ayes 33, noes 50. Be it enacted, etc., That the President shall the gentleman's bill. Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Mr. appoint, by and with the advice and consent Mr. JACOBS. I am glad the gentle­ Speaker, I make a point of order that a of the Senate, two additional district judges man thinks well of it and thinl{S it is quorum is not present and object to the for the northern district of Illinois. Accord­ meritorious. There is more money spent vote on the ground that a quorum is not ingly, title 28, United States Code, section in Lake County to support children present. 133, is amended to read as · follows with whose parents have abandoned them and respect to said district: The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum "District s Judges and taken refuge in other States than it is not present. ·The roll call is auto­ Illinois would cost to support approximately matic. The Doorkeeper will close the • • • • three Federal judges in Chicago. doors, the Sergeant at Arms will notify Northern______8 Mr. KEATING. Mr. Chairman, will° absent Members, and the Clerk will call • • ... the gentleman yield? the roll . • Mr. JACOBS. I yield. With the following committee amend- The Clerk called the roll and there Mr. KEATING. I think the gentle­ were-yeas 116, nays 163, not voting 151. ment: . man's -observation is probably correct as follows: Page 1, line 5, after the period, strike out and also I pointed out in the debate on [Roll No. 214) the remainder of the bill and insert: "Vacan­ Thursday the fact that if the bill that is YEAS-116 cies occurring by reason of the death, retire­ before our committee to raise the juris­ ment, resignation, or removal of either of the Allen, Calif. Graham Nelson judges appointed pursuant to this act shall dictional limit from $3 ,000 to $10,000 Andersen, Gross Nicholson not be filled." . were passed it would get rid of a lot of the H. Carl Hagen Norblad load that is-now improperly in the Fed­ Andresen, Hale O'Hara, Minn. The CHAIRMAN . . The question is ori August H. Hall, O'Komki eral courts, and in my judgment that is Angell ·Leonard W. Phillips, Calif. agreeing to the committee amendment. the constructive approach to the prob­ Arends Halleck Poage The committee amendment was agreed lem of these judges having too much Auchincloss Harden Polk to. Beall Harvey Potter work to do. Bennett, Mich. Heselton Poulson Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Chairman, I move Mr. JACOBS. I am glad the gentle­ Blackney Hoeven Reed, N. Y. to· strike out the last word. man mentioned that because I am heart­ Bolton, Ohio Hoffman, Mich. Rees . Mr. Chairman, I want to direct the ily -in favor of it. I thinl{ it is a bili that Bramblett Holmes Rich attention -of the Committee to certain Brown, Ohio Hope Riehlman should be brought up. Byrnes, Wis. Horan St. George facts which pertain to the territory in Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance Canfield Huber Saylor and around Chicago. of my time. Cannon 'Hull Scott, Lake County, Ind., is just across the Case, N. J. James Hugh D., Jr. The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the Case, S. Dak. Jenkins Scrivner Indiana-Illinois State line. I am offi-. Committee rises. Clevenger Jensen Scudder cially advised that the w~lfare depart-:' Accordingly, the Committee rose; and Cole, Kans. Judd Secrest ment of Lake County pays out almost Cole, N. Y. Kearney Shafer the Speaker having resumed the chair, Co1bett · Kearns Short $100,000 per year to supported deserted Mr. THORNBERRY, Chairman of the Com­ Cotton Keating Smith, Kans. children whose parents have sldpped mittee of the Whole House on the State Crawford Kilburn Smith, Wis, across the State line. I was very in­ Cunningham Lanham Stefan of the Union, reported that that Com­ Curtis Lecompte Stockman terested in the· statement of the gentle­ mittee, having had under consideration .Dague LeFevre Taber man from New York [Mr. KEATING] in the bill

Mcsweeney Philbin Steed Mr. Hardie Scott for. with Mr. Hart Burke Gregory Patten Macy Preston Stigler against. Burleson Hardy Perkins Madden Price Sullivan Mr. Jackson of California for, with Mr. Burnside Harrison Peterson Magee Rabaut Tauriello Hebert against. Byrne, N. Y. Havenner Philbin Mahon R ankin Thomas Camp Hays, Ohio Polk Mansfield Redden Thornberry Mr. Bates of Massachusetts for, with Mr. Cannon Hedrick Preston Marshall Reed, Ill. Underwood Aspinall against. Carnahan Herlong Price Miller, Cali!. Rhodes Velde Mr. Patterson for, with Mr. Breen against. Case, N. J. Hobbs Rabaut Mills R ibicoff Walsh Mrs. Rogers of Massachusetts for, with Mr. Cell er Howell Rankin Mitchell R ichards Walter Dingell against. Chelf Jackson, ·wash. Reed, Ill. Monroney Rivers Weichel Mr. Kunkel for, with Mr. Morrison against. Chiperfield Jacobs Rhodes Morris Robeson Wb eeler Mr. Latham for, with Mr. Carroll against. Chudotr Jonas Ribicoff Moulder Rogers, Fla. - Whitaker Clemente Jones, Ala. R ivers Multer Rooney White, Calif. Mr. Gwinn for, with Mr. Welch against. Colmer Jones, Mo. Robeson Murdock Sr.sscer Whitten Mr. Gavin for, with Mr. O'Brien of Michi- Cooley Jones, N. C. Rogers, Fla. Noland Shelley Whittington gan against. . Crook Karsten Rooney Norrell. Sheppard Wickersham Mr. Plumley for, with Mr. O'Neill against. Crosser Kee Sasscer O'Brien, Ill. Sikes Williams Mr. Wigglesworth for, with ~r . Gilmer Cunningham Kelly, N. Y. Shelley O 'Hara, Ill. Simpson, Ill. Wilson, Okla. against. Davenport K ing Sheppard Kruse Sikes O'Sullivan Smathers Wilson, Tex. Mr. Anderson of California for, with Mr. Davis, Ga. O'Toole Smith, Va. Woodhouse Dawson Lane Simpson, Ill. P atten Spence Young McGuire against. Deane Lanham Smathers Perkins Staggers Mr. Morton for, with Mr. Hays of Arkan­ DeGraffenried Lind Staggers Peterwn Stanley sas against. Delaney Lynch Stanley Dent on McCormack Steed NOT VOTING-151 Mr. Edwin Arthur Hall for, with Mr. Boggs of Louisiana against. Dolliver McKinnon Stigler Abbitt Han d Norton Mr .. Ellsworth for, with Mr. Kennedy ·Donohue McMlllan, S. C. Sullivan Doughton Madden Tauriello Allen, Ill. Hare O'Brien, Mich. against. Allen, La. Harris O'Neill Do~le Magee Thomas Anderson, Calif.Hart Pace Durham Mahon Thornberry Aspin all Hays, Ark. P assman General pairs until further notice: Eberharter Mansfield Underwood Barden Hebert Patman Mr. Roosevelt with Mr. Woodruff. Elliott Marshall Velde Barrett, Pa. .Hetiernan Patterson Mr. Keogh with Mr. Hill. Feighan Miller, Calif. Walsh Barrett, Wyo. Heller Pfeifer. Mr. Heller with Mr. Guill. Fellows Mills Walter Bates, Mass. Herter Joseph L. Mr. Heffernan with Mr. Hand. Fernandez Mitchell Weichel Bentsen Hill Pfeitier, Flood Monroney Wheeler Boggs, La. H inshaw WilliamL. Mr. Powell with Mr. Sanborn. Forand Morris Whitaker Boykin Hoffman, Ill. Phillips, Tenn. Mr. McGrath with Mr. Barrett of Wyo­ Fugate . Moulder White, Calif. Breen Holifield P ickett ming. Furco lo Multer Whitten Brehm Irving Plumley Mr. Buckley of New York with Mr. Martin Gannatz Murdock Whittington Brooks Jackson, Calif. Powell of Massachusetts. Gathings Noland Wickersham Buckley, N. Y. Javits Priest Mr. Davies of New York with Mr. Meyer. Gorski Norrell Williams Bulwinkle Jenison Quinn Mr. Murphy with Mr. Nixon. Gossett O'Brien, Ill. Wilson, Okla. Burdick Jennings Rains Granahan O'Hara, Ill. Wilson, Tex. Burton Johnson Ramsay Mr. Klein with Mr. Phillips of Tennessee. Granger O 'Sullivan - Woodhouse Carlyle Karst Regan Mr. Irving with Mr. Engel of Michigan. Grant O'Toole Carroll Kean Rodino Mr. Winstead with Mr. Hinshaw. Green Pace Cavalcante Keefe Rogers, Mass. Mr. Dollinger with Mr. Jennings. NAYS-110 Chatham Kelley, Pa. j:ioosevelt Mr. Barrett-of Pennsylvania with Mr. John- Chesney Kennedy Sabath son. Andersen, Hall, Norblad Christopher Keogh Sadlak Mr. Gary with Mr. Murray of Wisconsin. H . Carl Leonard W. O'Hara, Minn. Combs Kilday Sadowski Andresen, Halleck O 'Konski Cooper Klein Sanborn Mr. Harris with Mr. Keefe. AugustH. Harden Phillips, Calif. Coudert Kunkel Scott, Hardie Mr. Frazier with Mr. Burdick. Angell Harvey Poage Cox Larcade Simpson, Pa. Arends Heselton Potter Davies, N. Y. Latham Sims Mr. ABERNETIIY changed his vote from Auchincloss Hoeven Poulson Davis, Tenn. Lichtenwalter Smith, Ohio "yea" to "nay." Beall Hoffman, Mich. Reed, N. Y. Dawson Linehan Sutton The result of the vote was announced Blackney Holmes Rees Dingell Lodge Tackett Bolton, Ohio Hope Rich Dollinger Lucas Taylor as above recorded. Bramblett · Huber Riehlman Douglas Lyle Teague The doors were opened. Brown, Ohio Hull St. George Eaton McCarthy Thompson A motion to reconsider was laid on Byrnes, Wis. James Saylor Ellsworth McGrath Trimble Canfield Jenkins Scott, Engel, Mich. McGuire Vinson the table. Case, S. Dak. Judd Hugh D., Jr. Evins McMillen, Ill. Vursell The SPEAKER. The question is on Clevenger Kearney Scrivner Fallon Mack, Ill. Wagner the passage of the biU. · Cole, Kans. Kearns Scudder Fogarty Marcantonio Welch Cole, N. Y. Keating Secrest Frazier Marsalis White, Idaho Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Mr. Corbett Kilburn Shafer Gary Martin, Mass. Wier Speaker, on that I ask for the yeas and Cotton Kirwan Short Gavin Meyer Wigglesworth nays. · Crawford Lecompte Smith, Kans. Gillette Miles Willis The yeas and nays were refused. Curtis LeFevre Smith, Wis. Gilmer Morgan Winstead Dague Lovre Stefan Gordon Morrison Wood t~i The question was taken; and on a di­ Davis, Wis. McConnell Stocknian Gore Morton Woodruff ~t'Jl vision (demanded by Mr. H. CARL ANDER­ D'Ewart McCulloch Taber Guill Murphy Yates """" SEN) there were-ayes 103, noes 60. Dondero McDonough Talle Gwinn Murray, Tenn. Zablocki ·~ , ~ Elston McGregor Tollefson Hall, Murray, Wis. Mr. H. CARL AN:DERSEN. Mr. Fenton Mcsweeney Towe Edwin Arthur Nixon Speaker, I make the point of order that Fisher Mack, Wash. Van Zandt So the motion to recommit was re­ a quorum is not present and object to Ford Macy Vorys Fulton Martin, Iowa Wadsworth jected: the vote on the ground that a quorum Gamble Mason Werdel Th~ Clerk announced the following is not present. Golden Merrow Widnall The SPEAKER. The Chair does not Goodwin Michener Wilson, Ind. pairs: Graham Miller. Md. Withrow On this vote: see a quorum present. The roll call is Gross Miller, Nebr. Wolcott Mr. William L. Pfeiffer for, with Mr. Yates automatic. The Doorkeeper will close Hagen Nelson Wolverton Hale against. the doors, the Sergeant at Arms will no­ Nicholson Young Mr. Sadlak for, with Mr. Linehan against. tify absent Members, and the Clerk will NOT VOTING-157 Mr. Smith of Ohio for, with Mr. Gordon call the roll. Abbitt Bulwinkle Dollinger against. The Clerk called the roll and there Allen, Ill. Burdick Douglas Mr. Eaton for, with Mr. Sabath against. were-yeas 163, nays 110, not voting 157, Allen, La. Burton Eaton ~fr. Kean for, with Mr. Hoffman of Illinois as follows: · Anderson, Calif. Carlyle Ellsworth aga inst. Aspinall Carroll Engel, Mich. [Roll No. 215) Mr. Lichtenwalter for, with Mr. Dawson · Barden Cavalcante Engle, Calif. Barrett, Pa. Chat ham Evins against. · YEAS-163 Barrett, Wyo. Chesn ey Fallon Mr. Coudert for, with Mr. Chesney against. A·bernethy Battle Bolling .Bates, Mass. Christopher Fogarty Mr. Herter for, wit h Mr. Karst against. Addon izio Beckworth Bolton, Md. Ben tsen Combs Frazier Mr. Gillette for, with Mr. Zablocki again!>t. Albert Bennett, Fla. Bonner Boggs, La. Cooper Gary Mr. Simpson of Pennsylvania for, with Mr. Allen, Calif. Bennett, Mich. Basone Boykin Coudert Gavin ·M ack of Illinois a gainst. Andrews Biemiller Brown, Ga. Breen Cox Gillette Balley . Bishop Bryson Brehm Davies. N. Y. G1lmer Mr. T a ylor for , with Mr. Tack ett against. Baring Blatn ik Buch anan Brooks Davis, Tenn. Gord ::m Mr. Brehm for, with Mr. Trimble against. Bat es, Ky. Boggs, Del. Buckley, Ill, · Buckley, N. Y. Dingell Gore 1950 .CO:NGRESSIONAL RECORD_-HQUSE 10873 Gum Linehan Ramsay Mr. Gary with Mr. Horan. Mr. KEATING. But hereafter it Gwinn Lodge Redden Mr. Boggs of Louisiani:i. with Mr. Johnson, is Hall, Lucas Regan expected to follow the order as annouced Mr. Breen with Mr. Sanborn. by the majority leader? Edwin Arthur Lyle Richards Mr. Morgan with Mr. Phillips of Tennes- Hand McCarthy Rodino The SPEAKER. If that is possible, it Hare McGrath Rogers, Mass, 1ee. · Harris McGuire Roosevelt Mr. Irving with Mr. Burdick. will be done. Hart McMillen, Ill. Sabath Mr. Holifield with Mr. Jensen. Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, may Hays, Ark, Mack, Ill. Sadlak Mrs. Douglas with Mr. Woodruff. I inquire of the distinguished majority Hebert Marcantonio Sadow~kl Mr. Winstead with Mr. Engel of Michigan. leader how many of these bills the gen­ Hefi'erna.n Marsalis Sanborn Heller Martin, Mass. Scott, Hardie The result of the vote was announced tleman ·contemplates will be taken up to­ Herter Meyer Simpson, Pa. as above recorded. day? Hlll Miles Sims . Mr. McCORMACK. Of course I Hinshaw Morgan Smith, Ohio The doors were opened. Hoffman, Ill. Morrison Smith, Va.. A motion to reconsider was laid on would like to get them all through today Holifield Morton Spence the table. if there is no fight on them. But I try Horan Murphy Sutton to be practical. I can assure the gentle­ Irving Murray, Tenn. Tackett APPOINTMENT OF A DISTRICT JUDGE Jaclrnon, Calif. Murray, Wis. Taylor man from Michigan that the gentleman Javits Nixon Teague FOR NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DIS­ from Massachusetts always tries to have Jenison Norton Thompson TRICT OF INDIANA a reasonable regard for the feelings of Jennings O'Brien, Mich. Trimble the membership of the House. It is -now Jem:en O'Neill Vinson Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, by direc­ Johnson Passman Vursell tion of the Committee on Rules, I call up almost 3 o'clock. If the gentleman will Karst Patman Wagner House Resolution 703 and ask for its im­ let us go along and dispose of this, and Kean Pa tterson Welch see how far we get along, perhaps we can Keefe Pfeifer, White, Idaho mediate consideration. Kelley, Pa. Joseph L. Wier The Clerk read as follows: finish another one. I am hopeful that Kennedy Pfeiffer, Wigglesworth we can get through with this one and Keogh William L. Willls Resolved, That immediately upon the another one. Kerr Phillips, Tenn. Winstead adoption of this resolution it shall be in Mr. MICHENER. In other words, it Kilday Pickett Wood order to move that the House resolve itself Klein Plumley Woodruff into the Committee of the Whole House on all depends on which way the wind is Kunkel Powell Yates the State of the Union for the consideration blowing. Larcade Priest Zablocki of the bill (H. R. 6240) to authQrize the ap­ Mr. McCORMACK. It all depends on Latham Quinn pointment of a district judge for the north­ Lichtenwalter Rains how rapidly we get along. I would like ern and southern districts of Indiana. That to get them out of the way, because it is So the bill was passed. after general debate which shall be confined all a help to us in connection with pos­ The Clerk announced the following to the bill and continue not to exceed 1 hour, sible adjournment and getting home. pairs: to be equally divided and controlled py the chairman and ranking minority member of The SPEAKER. The gentleman from On this vote : the Committee on the Judiciary, the bill shall Indiana [Mr. MADDEN] is recognized for Mr. Yates for, with Mr. William L. Pfeiffer be read for amendment under the 5-minute 1 hour. against. rule. At the conclusion of the consideration Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 Mr. Linehan for, with Mr. Sadlak against. of the bill for amendment, the Committee minutes to the gentleman from Ohio Mr. Gordon for, with Mr. Smith of Ohio shall rise and report the bill to the House [Mr. BROWN]. against. with such amendments as may have been Mr. Zablocki for, with Mr. Eaton against. adopted and the previous question shall be I yield myself such time as I may Mr. Sabath for, with Mr. Kean against. considered as ordered on the bill and amend­ require. Mr. Hoffman of Illinois for, with Mr. Lich- ments thereto to final passage without inter­ Mr. Speaker, further with reference to tenwalter against. vening motion except one motion to re­ the remarks of the distinguished major­ Mr. Chesney for, with Mr. Coudert against. commit. ity leader in regard to whether or not Mr. Hebert for, with Mr. Herter against. Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, a par­ there should be a contest on any of the Mr. Mack of Illinois for, with Mr. Gillette remaining judgeship bills, speaking for against. liamentary inquiry. Mr. Karst for, with Mr. Simpson of Penn- The SPEAKER. The gentleman will Indiana, I do not think there has ever sylvania against. state it. been a bill asking for an additional Fed­ Mr. Tackett for, with Mr. Taylor against. Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, this eral judgeship that has any more merit Mr. Trimble for, with Mr. Brehm against. resolution makes in order the considera­ than this bill, which was introduced by Mr. Hart for, with Mr. Hardie Scott tion of the bill H. R. 6240. When the my colleague from Indiana [Mr. DEN­ against. · majority leader indicated the order in TON]. Mr. Rodino for, with Mr. Jackson of Cali­ I notice that in the recent census In­ fornia against: which these bills were to be considered Mr. Joseph L. Pfeifer for, with Mr. Bates of he indicated that the next bill would be diana has increased 500,000 in popula­ Massa::husetts against. H. R. 7009, for the eastern and western tion. That will make Indiana the only Mr. Keogh for, with Mr. Patterson against. districts of Missouri. Of course I am State in the Union with over 4,000,000 Mr. Murphy for, with Mrs. Rogers of Mas- not raising any ·question about the people which has only two Federal sachusetts against. Speaker changing that in any way that judges. I do not think there is any State Mr. Heller for, with Mr. Kunkel against. he feels should be done, but would the in the Union where the Federal judiciary Mr. K'.ein for, with Mr. Latham against. is clogged or stymied like it has been for Mr. McGrath for, with Mr. Gwinn against. Speaker be able to indicate at this time Mr. Roosevelt for, with Mr. Plumley whether, with this exception, the order the past 10 years in Indiana. Every against. which the majority leader indicated will member of the Judiciary Committee that Mr. Dollinger for, with Mr. Wigglesworth be followed? I have talked with has stated that this against. The SPEAKER. The Chair will con­ bill asking for an additional judge in Mr. Heffernan for, with Mr. Anderson of sult with the interested Members and at Indiana is ohe that should be granted California against. the proper time will recognize the Mem­ without opposition. Mr. M0rrison for, with Mr. Gavin against. When you compare Indiana with other Mr. McGuire for, with Mr. Morton against. ber to call up the rule making in order Mr. Wagner for, with Mr. Edwin Arthur the bill to be considered at that time. States of the Union, we should really Hall against. Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, have two additional judges instead of the Mr. Aspinall for, with Mr. Ellsworth might I say to the gentleman from New . one that we are asking for. against. York that there are speciai reasons why The United States Judicial Council, Additional general pairs: this bill has been taken up out of order. after investigation, has recommended l can assure the gentleman it is the that this additional Federal judge for Mr. O'Brien of Michigan with Mr. Barrett intention to follow the order I have here­ Indiana be granted. The Indiana Bar o::: Wyoming. , Mr. O'Neill with Mr. Keefe. tofore announced. But there are rea­ Association, the Hammond, Ind., Bar As­ Mr. Carroll with Mr. Martin of Massachu- sons why this bill is being taken up now. sociation, the Gary, Ind., Bar Associa­ setts. I conferred with the gentleman from tion, practically every bar association in Mr. Dingell with Mr. Murray of Wia;onsln. Indiana [Mr. HALLECK], and it was agree­ the State of Indiana has endorsed this Mr. Kilday with Mr. Nixon. able to him. There are extenuating cir­ bill. I do not know of any lawyer in the Mr. Harris with Mr. Hinshaw. cumstances. · State of Indiana who would oppose an 10874 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24 additional Federal judge for Indiana. only two Federal judges to take care of sure the gentleman from Ohio would not Of course, I do not say that any other the Federal business within the confines want to hold the House in session if he State that has three Federal judges is of that Commonwealth at this time. I could, would he? not entitled to three Federal judges, but notice that Indiana has a lower number· Mr. BROWN of Ohio. No. I some­ when you consider that the State of In­ of crilninal cas~s in the Federal courts times feel the longer a legislative body diana has over 4,000,000 population and than the national average. I do not such as ours remains in session the worse only two Federal judges, and we have know whether this is because the people off it is for the people. But that brings States in this Union with only seven or of Indiana are more law-abiding or up a question in the mind of the gentle­ eight hundred thousand population law-respecting than the average for this man from Ohio. which have as high as three or four Fed­ country, or that the Federal law-en­ Mr. McCORMACK. That is not my eral judges, I do not think there should f orcement officials of that great State reason. The gentleman can make his be any opposition to Indiana having an are just a little more dilatory in their reason. I do not think the gentleman additional Federal judge. Only once in prosecution of cases. But, in any event, means that upon reflection. When we its history has an additional judge been there is a great deal of legal business of have completed our business I think we given Indiana, and that was 25 years ago. a Federal nature within the State of should leave here. The people are very Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, will Indiana, and there is a pretty good case practical, they are usually far ahead of the gentleman yield? made in behalf of this particular judge- us, they know this is an election year, Mr. MADDEN. I yield. ~~. . and we might just as well face it openly, Mr. MICHENER. Of course, the gen­ May I say in passing, however, that I · frankly, and plainly. tleman would not base his reason for an­ doubt very much that the majority lead­ Mr. BROWN of Ohio. No one can other judge on population, would he? er of the House is misleading anyone­ question the gentleman's frankness or Mr. MADDEN. No. no-I would not want to charge him open way in which he approaches these Mr. MICHENE:rl.. Because there are with misleading anyone or even attempt­ problems. He did mention, and I am States with large populations which have ing to do so-rather I should say the sure I am not wrong in saying this, the little Federal court business. You would majority leader .must have been en­ word "adjournment" a while ago? not give them judges just so they would gaging in a rather facetious remark when Mr. McCORMACK. I hope an ad­ have as many as New York. he said our adjournment would depend journment. Mr. MADDEN. Of course the gentle­ a great deal upon the rapidity with Mr. BROWN of Ohio. So I am won­ man knows that Indiana is not only a which we handled these judicial bills. dering if the gentleman can now give us great agricultural but an industrial State Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, will any assurance as to when he plans or as well. It is on a par with the State of the gentleman yield? expects adjournment of the House? Michigan. Mr. BROWN of Ohio. I certainly will Mr. McCORMACK. Well, so far as the Mr. MICHENER. It is a very good yield to the distinguished gentleman from· gentleman from Massachusetts is con­ State, but, like Michigan, our taxpayers Massachusetts; for I was hoping I would cerned, when the emergency legislation do not want more judges than are neces­ get some reaction from him. is out of the way. sary, regardless of population. Mr. McCORMACK. Well, the fish Mr. BRQWN of Ohio. When will that Mr. MADDEN. I thank the gentle­ rises to the bait; I . take the bait will­ be? men on the Judiciary. Committee, who ingly. The gentleman, of course, does Mr. McCORMACK. When the Com­ have investigated Indiana's case and rec­ not want to misquote me. mittee on Banking and Currency reports ommend 'that Indiana should have an­ Mr. BROWN of Ohio. 011, no. I ex­ out a bill. If that committee reports it other Federal judge. If you have gone pressed the hope that I had misunder­ this week, the bill will come up next over the testimony that was presented by stood him. week. That ·is one of the major pieces Federal Judge Swygert from Indiana in Mr. McCORMACK. I do 'not think of legislation. If anything is done on testifying before the committee, you will I made that statement; if so, I would taxes and I hope if it is it will be done remember that Federal Judge Swygert certainly want to correct it. quickly; we will take that up. With stated that last year he was unable to Mr. :::iROWN of Ohio. I certainly those two matters out of the way, unless have a vacatiC;n, that he worked 6 days would not want to misquote the gentle­ some further recommendations come a week trying to carry out the heavy man. that I am not aware of, that would prac­ case load. Judge Swygert and the judge Mr. McCORMACK. If no other Mem­ tically complete it. for the southern Indiana district have ber of the House who was present at the Mr. BROWN of Ohio. I presume there not been able even to make a dent in the time got such an impression of what I will be some military legislation come heavy case load in the State of Indiana. said-- to us from the Armed Services Com­ Mr. Speaker, 1ur senior colleague from Mr. BROWN of Ohio. I cannot see mittee? Indiana on the other side of the House how either the gentleman from Massa­ Mr. McCORMACK. The gentleman [Mr. HALLECK] is familiar with the bill chusetts or myself can speak as to what from Indiana [Mr. HALLECK] and I tried and i~ nC't opposed to it. I do not know impression any other Member of the to get that out of the gentleman from of any Member from Indiana who is op­ House may have got. Georgia [Mr. VINSON] today, but we were posed to it, for they all know what the Mr. McCORMACK. Is the gentleman not quite successful. situation is in regard to the case load yielding to me? Mr. BROWN of Ohio. The gentleman of the Federal judiciary in our State. Mr. BROWN of Ohio. I certainly am. feels there will be some legislation along Mr. Speaker, I reserve the remainder Mr. McCORMACK. If no other Mem­ that line? of my time. ber of the House got such an impression Mr. McCORMACK. I do not know. Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I as that I would not want my distin­ I cannot answer that or whether these yield myself such time as I may use. guished friend from Ohio to have such two bills coming up tomorrow may be Mr. Speaker, I have listened with a· an erroneous impression. sufficient to meet the present immediate great deal of interest to the explanation Mr. BROWN of Ohio. That is very situation or not. I do not know. of this rule by the able gentleman from fine. Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Does the gen- Indiana [Mr. MADDEN]. I agree fully Mr. McCORMACK. The sum and . tleman expect any legislation, for in­ with him there is more justification for substance is that I am trying to evaluate stance, out of the Veterans Committee providing an additional Federal judge to · and interpret the minds of the Members to protect the rights of those who may be added to the number now serving in of the House, as well as my own, and to be called into the armed services? Indiana, or for increasing the number of expedite; as much as possible, the con­ Mr. McCORMACK. If any legislation judges from two to three, than there is sideration of ·legislation that must come comes out of the Armed Services Com­ for the establishment of a new Federal before the House, all of which tends very mittee, knowing th~ complexion of that judgeship in many of the other States, prominently toward adjournment or a committee on both sides, the members bills for which will be considered as we prolonged recess as quickly as possible. are very active, they are very energetic, go along. Now, after the program is completed in we know it will come out quickly. I Indiana is a great State, which has connection with the emergency and we presume any kind of legislation relating something like 4,000,000 population with have disposed of all business here, I am to veterans, if any is needed, is some- 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10875 thing that will be acted on quickly. So Mr. McCORMACK. I join with my ment in a way which will be helpful to both that I am hopeful-I do not know about friend from Ohio in urging its adoption. d istricts by providing that the new judge others-that we might clean up the sit­ shall be a judge for both. It is only a reason­ Mr ~ BROWN of Ohio. Then, Mr. able response to the manifest demands of the uation, clean up our legislation within Speaker, I yield back the balance of my judicial business and is requisite for proper the next 3 weeks. That is my hope. I time. service to litigants and the public. I, there­ trust I have satisfied the gentleman. I The SPEAKER. The question is on fore, trust that it may be enacted. did not say that the passage of these the resolution. eight judgeship bills were rn~cessary for The resolution was agreed to. The letter is signed by Henry P. adjournment. Mr. BYRNE of New York. Mr. Speak­ Chandler, who is the Director of the Ad­ Mr. BROWN of Ohio. May I ask one er, I move that the House resolve itself ministrative Office of the United States other question? In contemplating ad­ into the Committee of the Whole House Courts. journment at· the end of 3 weeks, or in on the State of the Union for the con­ So, Mr. Chairman, there can be no expressing the hope, as the gentleman sideration of the bill .t my col­ I am not so certain in my own mind Efforts of greater energy, factual logic, league, the gentleman from Ohio, has but what we might not even use an extra and the teaching of true American trade­ seen fit to bring Mr. Reuther's proposal judge or two down Missouri way, just union principles have defeated the Com­ to the attention of the House. to take charge of grand jury investiga­ munist attempt to influence and control Mr; BURKE. I thank the gentleman tions, and to take a few other judicial no­ the American labor movement. Mr. Reu­ from Wisconsin. tices of those things that may be going ther has been in the forefront in de­ Mr. Speaker, I would like to read into on, such as violation of the election laws, f eating communism. He has battled the RECORD the text of Mr. Reuther's and so forth. I have noticed with a great with communism in close-in combat. plan entitled "A Total Peace Offensive," deal of interest, and some fear and trepi­ He has been in front-line leadership in along with its foreword and its letter of dation within my heart and soul, that the stripping from communism its false mask transmit.tal to the President: crime rate in certain portions of Missouri and in showing it up for what it is­ A PROPOSAL FOR A TOTAL PEACE OFFENSIVE To has increased in an amazing degree in enslavement of people and subservience STOP COMMUNIST AGGRESSION BY TAKING the last few years, and that a commit­ of the individual to the state. THE INITIATIVE IN THE WORLD CONTEST FOR tee of another body of this Congress has To effectively fight an evil enemy you MEN'S MINDS, HEARTS, AND LOYALTIES-A POSITIVE PROGRAM OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL been making an investigation and ob­ must know who' the enemy is and what ACTION To ELIMINATE POVERTY, HUMAN taining some rather startling evidence methods he will use. Mr. Reuther knows INSECURITY, AND INJUSTICE WHICH ARE THE and revelations as to the crime situation the enemy and know~ well his methods. SOURCES OF COMMUNIST POWER within the State of Missouri. So with We all know that Communists in Amer­ (By Walter P. Reuther, presiden,t, UAW-CIO) due deference to my good friends and ica are no different than anywhere else. FOREWORD splendid colleagues from the State of They take their direction from outside In view of the character of world commu­ Missouri, may I say I favor the adoption the borders of our own country. nism and the impossibility of predicting the of this rule and the consideration of this Reaching into his wealth of experience next power move oI the Politburo, no one can bill, because I believe if there is any and knowledge of communism and its be certain that 71ar is or is not inevitable. State in the Union which needs a strong methods, gained through his effective What we can be certain of is that America, and active Federal judiciary it is the fight against it, Mr. Reuther last week the strongest nation among the free peoples Show Me State, the great State of of the world, has a moral obligation and sent to the Pr'esident of the United States duty to ourselves and to the world to make Missouri. a proposal for a plan of action designed Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, I move an all-out effort to avoid war and to build to bring about world peace and preser­ a just and lasting peace. the previous question on the resolution. This proposal is suggested in the sincere The previous question was ordered. vation of democracy in this world. He offered it, not in a spirit of "here is a belief that our best prospect of avoiding war The resolution was agreed to. and winning the peace lies in our pursuit of A motion to reconsider was laid on the cure-all plan that must be adopted with­ a p!an of action that combines a fully ade­ table. out change," rather, it is, he says, "an ef­ quate military defense with a positive peace SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED fort to contribute to the thinking and offensive. The proposal set forth herein is an effort to outline the essentials and scope Mr. REES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ discussion of the over-all problem." Mr. BIEMILLER. Mr. Speaker, will of such a peace offensive mous consent that the special order I We cannot give up hope for peace. To do have for today be vacated and that I be the gentleman yield? so would weaken tlle moral fiber of our peo­ given permission to address the House Mr. BURKE. I yield. ple and our allies, _"drying up the well­ for 10 minutes tomorrow following the M.::. BIEMILLER. Mr. Speaker, I springs of hope and aspiration which are legislative program and any special or­ want to compliment my very good friend the source of the spiritual strength of a free ders heretofore entered. the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. BURKE] people. To give up hope for peace makes war inevitable. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to for bringing to the attention of the We must not lose fait~ in the cause of the request of the gentleman from Kan­ Hom:e the plan proposed by Mr. Walter peace. We must not lose faith in ourselves. sas? Reuther last week. I, too, have had the We must b ~lieve in peace. Vie must be There was no objection. pleasure of knc..wing Mr. Reuther inti- prepared to work &nd fight for peace. 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10883

There are no pat answers to the problem local governments which are seeking to im­ Positive action for peace ts needed now of our complex and explosive world situation. prove the welfare of their people. We must The world still staggers, stunned by the There is no one simple action to stop the help them to help themselves. We must rod impact of violence, death and destruction of threat of Communist aggression and to es­ them to make progress in agriculture, in in­ the last war. Hundreds of millions of people tablish lasting world .peace . . dustry, in health, and in the education of everywhere, of every faith, nationality and America rejects the theory of preventive their children. Such progress will increase race, pray for peace while the wqrld again war as the answer to Soviet aggression. We their strength and their independence. prepares for war. could not live with ourselves nor stand be­ "The growing strength of these countries is The race to produce the H-bomb creates a fore the world as a defender of human free­ important to the defense of all free nations . great emptiness in the world, blasting man's dom and of the worth and dignity of the against Communist aggression. It is im­ hope for peace and filling· his heart with individual if we accepted the moral respon­ portant to the economic progress of the free hollow uncertainty and fear. sibility for launching a war of aggression. world. And these things are good for us as The moral vacuum created in the world by We must work a.t the task before us on wen as good for them.'" the H-bomb must be filled. The United every sector of the world problem-on the I share your conviction. States has and must accept the major re­ mqitary front, the polit ical front, and the Later in the same statement, you said: sponsibility for filling this moral vacuum economic and social front. This proposal ls "If we fail to carry out a vigorous point 4 with positive, human, democratic values that, an effort to underscore the importance and program we run the risk of losing to com­ in practice, will reestablish the worth and the compelling need for bold positive action munism, by default, hundreds of millions of dignity of the individual human being. on the economic and social front. people. who now look to us for help in their The war in Korea has finally awakened us The Marshall plan and the work of ECA struggle against hunger and disease." to the creeping Pearl Harbor of aggression were an important beginning on this front, Your view of the future as we can make it, that is being engineered by the men in the but a broader, more comprehensive, long­ lighted as it is by a steady optimism based Kremlin. American democracy must and, 1 range program of economic and social action on courage and clear thinking, should give believe, can demonstrate the moral strength must be launched as a total peace offensive. confidence and inspiration to every American and economic and practical know-how nec­ During the past year many men of good and to other peoples. I refer particularly to essary to develop and present to the world will all over the world -in their search for these words in your guild statement: a tangible and comprehensive plan of ac­ peace have made important contributions "Point 4 is a successor to the old colonial­ tion to achieve economic and social justice througl:. bold and imaginative proposals. ism idea, the exploiting idea of the m iddle which will win for the cause of freedom the The ideas and suggestions set forth herein seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth loyalties of hundreds of millions of people are not advanced as a finalized plan of ac­ centuries. We want to have a prosperous whose poverty and misery are now exploited tion, but rather as an effort to contribute world that will be in.:terested in buying the by the Communists. to the thinking and discussion of the over­ immense amount of surplus things that we Even at this late hour and perhaps be­ all problem. In the belief that in a society are going to have to sell, And now to do cause of the very lateness of the hour, such of freemen, the pooling and exchange of that they have got to have something to give a program will mobilize a positive spirit ual ideas and thoughts are the sources of demo­ back to us in order that they can buy our and material force in the world greater than cratic decision ~nd constructive action, I goods. I want to keep this factory organ­ the negative power of the H-bomb. It will offer this proposal for the consideration of ization of ours going at full tilt. In order to release the pent-up powers stored in every my' fellow Americans. do that we must help these people help man's hidden reservoir of hopes and aspira­ When the crisis is so great, and so much is themselves. tions everywhere in the world. It will pro-' at stake, each of us I feel has an obligation "Point ~ is an investment in a peaceful vide hope against despair and promote revolt to speak out the faith that is in him. This I and prosperous world. It is a program which against rule by terror. have tried to do in this proposal. wln bring inc!'easing results over the years. Only the United States has the material WALTER P , REUTHER, It wlll bring about a chain reaction in eco­ resources for the bold, constructive action .DETROIT, Mica., July 15, 1950. nomic development. It will serve to create needed to banish the fear that holds the economic health where poverty existed, and world paralyzed on dead ce;iter, hypnotized to equip the people of underdeveloped areas by negative values based on men's fears and A LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN to carry forward their economic gains and hatreds. JULY . 15, 1950. preserve their independence." The compelling necessity for quick, posi­ The Honorable HARRY S. TRUMAN, With this, Mr. President, I most whole­ tive, daring action is more than a matter of The White House, Washington, D. C. heartedly agree. high purpose; it is a matter of democratic MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Your prompt and In full support of your policy and as~ a survival. If we fail nc.w to launch a bold, decisive action to stop Communist aggression contribution to its earliest possible applica­ tangible, practical program for peace, we will in Korea has given renewed hope and tion, I have attempted to draft a proposal surrender the world to the apostles of fear, strengthened determination to the people of equal in scope and force t_o the Communist ha.tred, and hysteria. The negative values in the world. challenge that must be dealt with everywhere which they trade will contribute further to in the world. world panic and will make war inevitable. As you indicated in your historic statement I present it herewith in the hope it will before the American Newspaper Guild con­ receive your consideration. More than military victory _fn Korea is needecl vention on June 28, we must defeat the Com­ Sincerely yours, The Korean situation is not an isolated de­ munist combination of force, propaganda WALTER P. REUTHER, velopment. It is part of total Communist promisP.s,' and systematic confusion by demo­ President, UAW-CIO. strategy. The dictators in the Kremlin will cratic performance. This is democracy's repeat the technique employed in Korea with propaganda of the deed against which all the varied patterns of infiltration, subversion, weapons in the Politburo's arsenal are futile. THE INITIATIVE FOR PEACE CAN BE OURS and aggression whenever and wherever they We know this to be a fact because it has The North Korean puppet army acting find a soft spot. We may ·push the Commu­ worked in our union. We beat the Com­ for the Kremlin must be pushed back to the nist aggressors back in Korea only to find a munists, not with propaganda, but by per­ thirty-eighth parallel. At a cost no one repeat performance in Indochina, Burma, formance, by hard work and progress toward can now prediot, this will be done. The Iran, Turkey, Berlin, or in any one of a dozen the objectives for which our union was price, high though it may be in lives and other spots. · formed. Other unions have done and are money, will be less than the cost of appease­ This pattern of aggression ls now clear. doing the same job. ment of Soviet aggression. The prompt and decisive action of President We support your determination and your How many aggressions, manned by peo­ Truman and the United Nations has united plan of action because, instead of mere de­ ples of puppet states equipped and trained and inspired the free peoples of the world fensive, negative anticommunism, you have by Russian Communist commissars and gen­ with new hope and determination. And the defined the necessity for a positive three-way erals, can be resisted and thrown back before Politburo was no doubt startled to find that hitch of military defense, economic coopera­ one explodes into full scale international the free world has at last profited by the tion, and political cooperation. warfare? tragic lessons of the appeasement at Munich. Addressing the guild convention in your Can we do nothing more than turn back The experts generally agree that :the rulers first statement after setting in motion the today's aggression; drain our economy in of the Soviet Union are not yet ready for free world's answer to Communist aggression wholly military preparation for tomorrow's total war and that therefore the Korean sit­ in Korea, you said: aggressions; wait, hopelessly and helplessly, uation will remain limited in scope. Ameri­ "We must not be misled into thinking that for the ultimate explosion of world-wide can forces, supported by forces of other na­ our only task is to create defenses against confiict? tions acting through the United Nations, will aggression. Our whole purpose in creating a Must the initiative for peace or war be left be successful in pushing back the Commu­ strong defense is to permit us to carry on the to the members of the Russian Politburo nists and in reestablishing the political great constructive tasks of peace. Behind who, themselves, are prisoners of the very status quo in Korea based on the thirty­ the shield of a strong defense we must con­ power they use to rule the people of Russia eighth parallel. While this task must be tinue to work to bring about better living and other peoples inside the churning con­ pursued with the full strength and united conditions in the free nations. centration camp of misery which they have determination of free peoples acting through "Particularly in the underdeveloped areas put together out of the wreckage of World the United Nations, we must not delude our­ of the world we must work cooperatively with War II? selves into believing that, having achieved l0884 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24

this military objective, we have brought \\then hundreds of millions of people are . morning and Communist rallies in the after­ about any fundamental change in the basic hungry, when they are struggling to get the noon, we have not grasped the fundamentals circumstances out of which the Korean ag­ bare necessities to keep body and soul to­ of Communist power. gression developed. gether while their officials are living in lux­ It is not an historic accident that in the The Communists have perfected the tech­ ury, we cannot fill their empty bellies with countries of Europe, such as the Scandi­ nique of exploiting poverty and human in­ pious slogans about the virtues of democ­ navian nations, England, and Switzerla~d, security and are forging human misery into racy. The Communists have not conquered where there is an acceptance of social re­ a political weapon of aggression. They did China; they have merely moved in to fill sponsibilit ies with strong free democratic this in Greece and in Italy. They have done the vacuum created by our failure. labor unions and where the average person it in China, in Korea. They are doing it in The loss of China and the resulting de­ enjoys a measure of economic security and southeast Asia, in south Africa, and in Latin velopments in Korea should make us under­ human dignity, the Communists are without America. In terms of the cold war invented stand the method in the madness of the men any appreciable strength or influence. and launched by the politburo, this political who sit in the Kremlin and plan to rule the The pr opaganda of the deed will win for and propaganda weapon, now in use around world. They are carrying out a planned democracy program of provocation designed to throw the globe, can be as devastating as a stock­ It is not enough merely to make the Voice pile of H-bombs. the United States and our allies off guard and off balance. F'irst, Greece, then Berlin, of America louder and stronger so that demo­ Eight hundred million people now under then Indochina, and now Korea. On the cratic slogans may be carried t :> more people. Communist domination Kremlin's world-wide checkerboard there are Slogans and phrases ring hollowly in the ears Since 1945 the number of people under still many more power moves to be attempted. of hungry men without concrete action to Soviet -domination has increased from 180,- give the words meaning. Without the proof 000,000 to 800,000,000. This vast reservoir The Politburo strategy is to promote panic of performance they are . ignored, rejected, of humanity is being tapped for slave labor The Politburo strategy is to create a series and, if shouted too often and too loudly, are and military manpower to meet the require­ of crises, each serious in its proportion and resented and become ammunition for the ments of Communist aggression. The en­ potential, in order to condition and influ­ enemy. gineers of Soviet aggression have shown that ence American policy in the direction of We cannot win ln a battle of words. ·There they can recruit by propaganda and pres­ r~lying more and more on military power as is no ceii'ing on promises except men's re­ sure vast numbers of satellite troops, there- , the sole means of me~ting the power of com­ spect for the truth. The agents of the by holding in reserve the entire Russian munism. The Kremlin dictators seek to Kremlin, therefore, find it easy to out­ Army, Navy, and Air Forc·e. They need com­ diver~ · us entirely from the pursuit of a promise use. They have in many countries mit little more than equipment and military positive program of social action which is a wealth of real grievances to denounce; in advisers while we must throw our own men the key-the only key-to winning the loy­ two many instances they have the mistakes into battle. This means that our'manpower alty and support of the hundreds of millions and failures of anti-Communist nations to and the manpower of the few nations that c.: people who are living in a state of dire exploit. can supply troops for the United Nation's poverty and who are being denied the· small­ But communism caanot compete in per- armies may be bled white whenever and est eleme".lt of economic security and hu­ . formance. The Voice of America will be able . wherever the Kremlin decides to launch a man dignity. The unceasing fury of the to rekindle hope for peace and belief in free­ new aggression. Communist attack upon the Marshall plan· is dom and justice in 'the hearts of men when This danger was recognized by Walter pr'Jof of the power of positive programs it can answer totalitarian promises with Lippmann v1hen he recently stated: which help people help themselves to win democratic performance. :. · · "Unless our present position·in the Asiatic a better life. Our propaganda must __ be the propaganda Far E J.st can be held in large me.asure by The Communists can and in many areas of the deed. We must prove in action that the will and the native force of Asiatic peo­ are now outmaneuvering us. ·They provol{e bread and freedom can live together in the ples, even larger bodies of American troops and force us into greater military expendi­ same house. will become frozen there. Then the advan­ tures while, posing as the liberators of en­ We must lat-inch a tot.al peace offensive. slaved people fighting for bread, peace, and tages of holding these positions will-in view A PROPOSAL FOR A TOTAL PEACE OFFENSIVE of our global interests-have to be weighed freedom, tliey circulate throughout the world their dishonest petitions for peace. It is proposed that along with the building against the heavy liabilities." of adequate military defense we further Only by a combination of fully adequate The success of the Kremlin strategy in throwing us· off balance is sharply illustrated strengthen our position in the world by military measures and ·prompt bold action to launching total · w.ar against poverty and wipe out human misery· and desperation in the .United. States Senate. In the face· of the Korean situation, while the Senate voted human in::;ecurity, thereby. striking at: the can we be successful in winnirig the loyalty heart of Communist power and influence. and support of hundreds of millions of peo­ unanimously for the necessary $2,000,000,000 We can seize the initiative for peace by ple and strip the Kremlin of its power to increase in military funds, it cut ECA funds by $250,000,000. The Senate Appropriations putting into . effect a greatly expanded for­ exnloit them . and saerifice them in battles eign a1d program geared to the economic and of -aggression. Only by such a combination Committee then cut President Truman's rec­ ommendation for $45.000,000 for point 4 aid social needs ·of people throughout the world can w.e mobiliie the will and the force of while promoting. a pr!').ctical program of eco­ peoples to defeat the Politburo's plan for to $10,000,000~ A day or so later. Governor nomic · and social 'justice at home. This di· world co'nquest. Dewey proposed that the United-States go on • a hardship economy, not for the purpose of rect attempt to destr_oy the sources of Com­ Freedcm's fight for Asia ~ust be won in the stepping up both military strangth and con­ munist power will have to be supported ·by rice fields · structive aid to other nations, but solely for an ac;iequate system of defense based on joint Th:i cold war is essentially a struggle for the purpose of increasing military strength. planning and pooling of strength with our men's minds and hearts and their loyalties. Ex-P;:esident Hoover followed through by democratic allies. Tne propaganda of the Communists is based stating that all we need to do about commu­ It is proposed in effect that we take the on deceit, distortion, and outright falsehood. nism· is to oppose military aggression and price tag off peace. It is proposed that y;e We must meet the challenge of communism, trust to time for this evil to abate. agree to win peace with freedom and justice not by pious slogans about democracy's vir­ Such proposals to place sole reliance upon with whatever it takes to win it. It is pro­ tues, but by a positive program of social military strength in the world struggle posed that we mobilize our people morally, action tr.at can and does win a fuller meas­ against Soviet aggression would commit us spiritually, economically, and politically in a ure of economic and social justice for people to a policy of sending more and more Amer­ . t

machine, we propose to free them and assist it is proposed that we invest through the PEOPLE MUST BE HELPED TO DO VAST them in the building of a richer life. United Nations in the cooperative job of JOB THEMSELVES Instead of draining their countries of min­ building peace for people. If it were intended to do a job of this eral wealt h and other natural resources, we In fact, to attain within the measurable m agnitude on a world-wide scale ·with noth­ propose to help them develop and use these future a standard, of living approximating ing more than $13,000,000,000 a year, ge;.1.era­ resources for the fulfillment of their own the level now to be found in the more highly tions would elapse before all peoples would needs. developed nations, substantial supplemen­ be brought to a parity wit h our own stand­ Inst ead of driving their bodies in speeded­ tation of our investment in peace will be ards, which would continue to rise in the up production for the Soviet war machine, required. meantime. we propose to assist them in achieving decent Some indications of the need It is not proposed that we underwrite the wages, hours, working conditions, and the ent ire job ourselves. This is not a proposal r ight of collective bargaining, and obtaining The needs are shocking. They explain the for an unending international relief pro­ medicine, hospitals, and schools for them and hatred of colonialism and its postwar varia­ gram, but a program to help other peoples their families. tions. They explain the initial success of help themselves. This is an offer understandable in any Communist promises, infiltration, and ag­ Our job is to provide the hope and the language bec~use it tallrn in terms of tools, gression. Hundreds of millions of human material impetus. Men who live by plow­ jobs, food, housing, health, education, secu­ beings have literally nothing to lose but ing exhausted land wit h st icks to make it rity, and freedom. hunger, disease, and the prospect of early yield a few grains of rice are too occupied It is on this front that we can achieve our death. Even the threat of forced labor and with the business of keeping alive from day greatest success in winning the loyalty of rule by terror will not always outweigh Com­ to day-and too poor-to hope, plan, and millions of people as partn ers in the positive munist promises of food, shelter, and invest for a better tomorrow. job of building the peace or, in the event clothing. We have the opportunity and the resources of war , as fighting allies in the defense of For example, of the one and a quarter to provide the hope and the seed capital for freedom. billion population of Asia, 875,000,000, or 70 investment and the know-how for produc­ percent, depend for their livelihocd upon Blessings of peace and disarmamen t at home tion. As the first invest ments, provided by agriculture. us through the Un.ited Nations, begin to bear The achievement of universal disarmament For every member of its populc.tion living fruit, hope will come to life. Out of the pro­ would bring the blessings of last ing peace on the land, Asia produces little more than ceeds of the first investment it will be pos­ to America in terms of intangible human one-twelfth as much as North and Central sible both to increase living standards imme­ values on which no price can be set. In addi­ America. diately and to conserve part for further in­ tion, it would make it possible for the Ameri­ As against our infant mortality rate of 31 vestment for still higher living standards to­ can people to make substantial social prog­ per thousand live births, Ceylon has 101, morrow. Each new investment from savings ress in the form of higher living standards, Korea. has 116, Formosa has 125, India has at home and from the United Nations fund great er security, increased social services and 151, Burma has 204. financed by the people of the United States a fuller and richer life in educational and As against our life expectancy of 65 years and perhaps other nations will yield a larger cultural values. for white men, life expectancy for ChinEse surplus above bare necessities out of which The heavy financial burden of war is 're­ men is 41; for Siamese, 37; for the men of savings can be made for still further invest­ flected in the current Federal budget of over India, 27. ment in expanded production facilities. $40,000,000,000 of which approximately 75 As against our illiteracy rate of 2.7 percent, percent is earmarked to meet the cost of past CAN WE AFFORD THE COST OF THIS INVESTMENT Ceylon has 42 percent; Korea, 69 percent; IN PEACE? and possible future wars. Turkey, 79 percent; India, 91 percent. We are currently spending approximately The United States can afford the cost of $15,000,000,000 annually out of the Federal Modernized agriculture in Asia ·can release peace. We must stand up and demonstrate budget for military purposes and this will no millions of workers that we have the courage to remove the price doubt be sharply increased if the world situ­ The living standards of the Asiatic peoples tag from our efforts to lead the world to hon­ ation continues to deteriorate. can be materially raised by producing more orable .and lasting peace. Whatever such a The achievement of universal disarmament food per man, thus freeing tens of millions peace may cost it is infinitely less than the would permit America to divert the billions to work in industries. But bellies must be cost of war. • · of dollars now being sp(;lnt for military re­ filled first, and, where men on the land can We can afford the cost of the total peace quirements and national security to the task grow barely enough to feed themselves and offensive outlined herein, including adequate of meeting the unlimited peacetime needs of their families, workers cannot be spared from armed defense, short of total war, $13,000,- our people. the land to produce necessities and comforts 000,000 annually in foreign aid, and social beyond the primary necessity of food to keep progress at home. If worst comes to worst WE MUST PRACTICE AT HOME WHAT WE PREACH body and soul together. and circumstances compel us to fight total ABROAD Even when billions are actually invested war, the American people will be willing to Nowhere is the gap between our promises in Asia for river development, for fertilizers, make whatever sacrifices will be needed to and our performance as great as in the field for agricultural machinery and implements put our total resources and maximum effort of civil rights. Among peoples in underde­ and insecticides, the job will be only begun. into winning that war. However, by waging veloped countries, greatest doubt abou.t our If we help Asia, with technical advice and an all-out peace offensive we shall have the high moral statements on democracy, free­ equipment, to restore its eroded land and to best prospect of avoiding the infinitely great- dom and the worth of the individual is caused use dams and related projects to prevent -er costs and sacrifices of total war. by our continued practice of a double stand­ floods, to irrigate arid land, to produce fer­ World War II lasted 44 months, and accord­ ard of citizenship here at home. The United ing to ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman, its States cannot provide unassailable moral tilizers, and to generate power for its farms, transportation facilities, and industries, the total final cost to the American people will leadership in the world in this time of crisis be $1,300,000,000,000. and panic until we end that double standard. major job will still remain. Only the first stage of the greatest pioneering job of the It cost $29,500,000,000 per month. The serious gap between what American It cost $985,000,000 per day. · democracy preaches and what it practices in twentieth century will have been completed. It cost $4lt,OOO,OOO per hour. the field of civil rights has provided and daily Of the 700,000,000 persons who would be The above figures make no allowance for continues to provide the Communists with displaced from the land in such a change over the incalculably greater cost of war in human one of their ·most effective weapons in win­ a. period of years, possibly 150,000,000 to 200,- lives and human values. ning ground among the Asiatic and other 000,000 would be workers, after allowance is peoples. made for women needed in the home, for HOW BIG IS $13,000,000,000? The d aily propaganda broadcast beamed children, and for other nonworking depend­ The sum of $13,000,000,000 a year seems big out of Moscow and released in other centers ents. Here is a labor force as large as the standing by itself. But it is insignificant of Communist propaganda and agitation, total population of the United States. Its when measured against our alternatives and eploits to the fullest the ugly fact s of racial energies could be employed in the fiiling of our capacit ies. discrimination and violation of civil rights human needs and wants beyond the basic Thirteen billion dollars is one one-hun­ practiced in America and tolerated even in need for food. dredth of the cost of World War II. the Capital of our Nation. If we assume, as does the Food and Agri­ Thirteen billion dollars is less than 5 per­ Enactment of the President's civil rights cultural Organization of the United Nations, cent of our current yearly outpu~ .. Within 5 program is more than a matter of justice and that it requires $1,000 investment per worker years it will be less than 4 percent. decency. In the world struggle for survival to provide capit al facilities (a place to work Thirteen billion dollars is less than the in­ it is a must on democracy's agenda of un­ and tools to work with) for each worker crease that we can normally expect in a finished business if we are to provide moral added to the industrial labor force in under­ 2-year period in the total output of the leadership along with material aid and guid­ developed countries, there is an investm.ent American economy. ance in the building of the peace. need for industrial purposes in Asia alone Full employment will meet the cost of THE WORK TO BE DONE of $150,000,000,000 to $200,000,000,000 on top building lasting peace There is no lack of work to be done in the of other billions to improve agricultural em.­ The last depression cost the American peo­ world with the $13,000,000,0JO a year which ciency and increase food ~roduction. ple $5GO,OOO,O CO,O OO in lo::;t production. This 1950 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10887 is nearly double the value of our gross na· This is no time for men of little faith where the owners and managers of such in­ tional product in 1948, the highest in his· With our human and material resources dustries continue in their refusal to expand tory. . fully mobilized for peace, we can do the job production cap~city to meet our military At present there are about 3,500,000 un· before us. Our ability to do so will be chal· and civilian needs. ·Until these bottlenecks employed persons in the United States able lenged by th!'l men of little vision and no are broken, basic materials in short supply to work and actively looking for work. There faith who have dedicated their lives to a must be allocated with priority given to es­ are an additional 2,000,000 or so working perpetual losing struggle against every next sential military and civilian requirements. part time who want and are available for step in mankind's progress. · · Idle Government-built war plants of all full-time work. The full or partial idleness These same little men were without cour­ types, which stand today as monuments to of these two groups alone represents the age or vision when we faced the challenge of our failure to plan for the future, must be equivalent of perhaps four and one-half to Hitlerism and Nazi aggression. Until June immediately and fully mobilized as function­ five million full time workers whose output 22, 1941, they joined Communists, Nazis, and ing production units. Fully manned with a is being lost. Since our gross national prod­ Fascists in announcing that "the Yanks highly trained working force these plants uct last year approximated $4,400 per civilian aren't coming." They dragged their feet and could be producing both military and ci­ employee, it would take the equivalent of clung to the policy of too little an.d •too late vilian goods and would be acceptable of only 3,000,000 additional full-time jobs to both before and after Pearl Harbor. They quick shift to all-out war production when produce the $13,000,000,000 a year required to challenged President Roosevelt and said that needed. cover the cost of the program for a total of· the production goals he set for the United YOUTH HAS A STAKE IN THIS PROPOSAL fensive for peace as outlined herein. States were fantastic and could not be met. Each year our high schools, colleges, and When we decide to wage peace with the The record of achievement on the produc­ same vigor and determination with which universities add approximateiy 1,000,000 new tion front proved these little men to be workers to our potential wealth producers. we wage war we can enlist the labor of mil· wrong and President Roosevelt to be right, lions of people not now in the labor market for his production goals were met and These youths look to us to provide the oppor­ who would be glad to participate in the tunity for use of their training and talents. doubled. By their cries now for sole reliance This peace proposal win provide opportuni­ creative job of building the peace. With on military force to save the•world from Com~ the increase in production made possible munist aggression they are again demon­ ties for them to help in the creative and by the full employment of this expanded strating the same lack of faith in the strength positive job of building the peace. It sug­ labor force we can meet the cost of a total gests an all-out effort to avoid the necessity and capacity of America to meet the chal· of giving these young Americans the job of peace offensive, build adequate military de­ len ge of peace. fenses, short of total war, and provide fur­ We must free ourselves froin the paralyz. .fighting an all-out war. ther social and economic progress for the ing effect of the campaign of moral and This ·proposal offers our sons and daugh­ American people. political intimidation that is being waged ters an opportunity to participate directly in The proof that we can do this job by among us by these men of little faith who the constructive work that must be done at mobilizing our full productive potential was would sell America short and leave the .world home and in the world. It opens up new furnished by the unprecedented production with no hope for peace. frontiers in the valleys of the Yellow, the Yangtze, the Ganges, the Jordan, and other achievements during World War II. Faced WE MUST BREAK PRODUCTION BOTTLENECKS wlth the challenge of war, millions of women great rivers where young American engineers, left their kitchens and old folks came out of The steel industry currently operating at agricultural specialists, doctors, nurses, and retirement to help produce the needed goods full capacity cannot meet our present needs. teachers can use their energies, training, and and services to back up our fighting men. We must take positive steps to expand our creative ingenuity to assist and train . the If we achieve comparable mobilization of basic steel production capacity to meet both people of underdeveloped countries to re­ our 1950 manpower potential in the same our expanding military and civilian require­ store and increase the productivity of their ratio as we achieved in 1944, we can increase ments. We are faced now with a situation land and to improve their health and living our working force to 71 ,000,000 with which comparable to that faced in the period im­ standards. to meet civilian and military manpower re­ mediately before and after Pearl Harbor. The Our young doctors, engineers, .and teach­ quirements. This will permit doubling our owners of the steel industry, wedded to a ers of the years to come can be offered oppor­ present number of men under arms and program of planned economic scarcity with tunities to travel voluntarily to the en ds of still make available approximately 8,000,000 low volume and high prices, said then as the earth with medicines, slide rules, and they say now that the steel industry's ca­ additional workers for civi~ian employment. books in their hands, or they can be drafted pacity is adequate. They failed then as they for shipment to the same areas with rifles "Where's the money coming from?"-new fail now to take steps to expand capacity. slung to their backs. tax sources It was not until the then Senator Harry S. From their earliest years of consciousness The $13,000,000,000 annual investment in Truman, chairman of the Senate War In­ our young people have found inspiration in peace which is here proposed represents an vestigating Committee, exposed their will­ the adventurous years at the beginning of increase of only about $9,000,000,000 over the ful negligence that the Government took our history when pioneers year after year foreign economic aid we have been providing, steps to ·assure the expansion of steel pro­ moved forward the.advance posts of civiliza­ Part of the additional funds could be ob· duction facilities necessary to win the war. tion. This proposal for peace offers oppor­ tained by restoring wartime tax rates on cor· Steel production must be expanded tunity for adventure and pioneering on new porations and upper-income taxpayers. Cor­ At the end of the war the monopoly in­ social and economic frontiers. porations paid taxes of approximately 57 This is pioneering for peace and freedom, percent on their profits during the war. · terest in the steel industry rushed back to normalcy and again reinstituted the policy which can be made secure in the world only At present profit levels, a 60-percent aver­ if they rest upon a broad foundation of age rate of tax on corporate profits would pro­ of planned scarcity with low production and high prices. Three years ago when this mi;i.t­ social and economic justice. We in America vide $7,000,000,000 of increased taxes. If, in ter was raised before the Senate Committee must dedicate ourselves and give leadership addition, taxes on individuals with gross in· on Small Business, conclusive evidence was in the building of that foundation for a last­ comes of $15,000 or more were restored to war· developed clearly indicating the need for t ime rates, a substantial part of the addi­ ing peace. further expansion of steel production facili­ Freed from the crushing burdens of arma­ t ional $9,000,000,000 in tax revenue would be ties to meet America's growing needs. obtained. ments and war, equipped with the tools of Again the forces of monopoly and scarcity modern technology and science, . all peoples But large increases in revenues would flow who control the steel industry, represented from the proposal without raising tax rates. can cooperate in creating a world of abµnd• by the American Iron and Steel Institute, ance in which man can enjoy peace, economic · By putting enough.people to work to produce denied the need for further expansion, $13,000,000,000 in additional wealth the entire security, the fullest measure of political and claiming that America's needs were tempo­ spiritual freedom and human dignity. tax base is broadened. At least $2,000,000,000 rary and that excess steel capacity would in additional Government revenue would be soon develop. · THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW provided at present tax rates from the in­ Their stubborn refusal to recognize re· Prompt and decisive action by President crease in personal incomes. Corporation tax quirements and to expand capacity to meet Truman and the United Nations in resisting p ayments would increase by perhaps an. our needs jeopardized our national security military attack on South Korea has undoubt­ other $2,000,000,000 due to the increased in the period before and after Pearl Harbor edly forced some revision in the Communist profits resulting from increased production. and now again jeopardize our future. Fail­ This total peace offensive is proposed in timetable of aggression. We cannot know ure of the steel industry to take immediate whether total war will come, or if so, when. the belief that in the cause of total peace as practical steps to . expand , steel production in total war we must step up production to We owe it to ourselves and to the people of . capacity will compel the Government again the world to make an all-out effort for peace the limits of our resources. Therefore, with _to take action to break this production bot· the wartime rate of taxation restored on cor• in the hope of avoiding total war. · This pro­ tleneck now as it was compelled to do in the posal is suggested in the sincere belief that poration profits and on incomes of the well· war. to-do, it would be possible to increase Gov­ our best prospect of avoiding war and win­ ernment revenue toward meeting the in­ Idle war plants must be put to ·work ning the peace lies in a plan of action that creased cost of foreign aid and stepped-up Production bottlenecks in other basic in· combines fully adequate miiltary defense military expenditures. dustrics must be dealt with in a like manner with a positive peace offensive. 10888 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24 We are at the place in .world history where considering H. R. 6000, to amend the are substantially similar in purpose and we must recognize that the best hope of sav­ Social Security Act, to restrict the bill effect to the requirements in the unem­ ing freedom and achieving a just and last­ ing peace is in action-action so challenging, to old-age insurance and related warfare ployment compensation system to which so vast in scope, so practical in design, and programs and to avoid unrelated issues. the Knowland amendment relates. The so sincere in purpose that it will fill the We did not want to change . our unem­ pattern is the same and similar problems moral vacuum in the world with reborn hope ployment insurance system by a rider. arise. I want to cite a few examples to and a renewed spirit of cooperation among When the Senate passed the bill, how­ show exactly what I have in mind. the people of all nations. ever, it added the so-called Knowland Under the public assistance program there was recently a State administra­ Mr. HAYS of Arkansas~ Mr. Speaker, amendment to H. R. 6000. This amend..: will the gentleman yield? ment has absolutely nothing to do ·with tive decision denying old-age assistance Mr. BURKE. I yield to the gentle­ old-age insurance. It is totally irrele­ benefits to all Indians in contravention man from Arkansas. vant to public assistance for the needy of standards set by the Congress. The Mr. HAYS of Arkansas. I think the and the aged. It is about as far re­ law of the State had not been amended gentleman is rendering a service in in­ moved as I can imagine from the child by the legislature to achieve this result troducing the Reuther plan for our in­ welfare program of the Federal Govern­ and the legality of this exclusion had formation. I have not had the pleasure ment. And yet this amendment was not been passed upon by the supreme of reading it, but I shall read it. I agree spliced to H. R. 6000, a measure solely court of the State. It was nevertheless that there is wisdom in emphasizing posi­ concerned with these three phases of readily apparent that benefits were be­ tively the peace aspects of the present Federal activity. ing denied contrary to the congressional American policy. Mr. Symington was No hearings have ever been held on standards. The question was immedi­ before our Committee on Banking and the Knowland amendment. The matter ately raised with the State and the mat­ . Currency today, and in response to one has never been. discussed in committee ter was adjusted as a condition of any question; that is, that the proposal of on its merits. I very much fear, there­ further grants of Federal money to the the President for enlarged powers was fore, that proper consideration has never State. Now if the Knowland amend­ based upon the assumption that war is been given to the broad implications of ment were to apply in this situation, ahead, he replied in the negative; that this amendment. The purpose seems to the ability to maintain the minimum actually the prospects for peace are be to delay the requirement of conform­ standards would be greatly curtailed. brighter because of the alerted attitude ity of State law with the standards set Although the law of the State had been of the people of America as a result by Congress until the interpretation of changed by an administrative interpre­ of the Korean invasion. I think that the particular State unemployment com­ tation of general effect still no ques­ the observation made by the gentle­ pensation law has been passed upon by tion could be raised if a provision like man's colleague from Ohio recently [Mr. the highest state court. the Knowland amendment applied. MCSWEENEY], when he pointed out that I submit, however, that the amend­ This is because there was no legislative in some respects the Russians had ex­ ment actually would do much more than · change in the State plan. Moreover, celled us in the propaganda field, is a this. Under the present law, certifica­ the question had not been decided by correct observation. The time has come tion of a State law is denied to any State the highest State court, which is another for us to make our position clear be­ which has so "changed its law" that it requirement of the Knowland amend- · fore the world that our goal is the goal no longer meets the congressional stand­ ment. Years would probably have of peace and justice. There is no rea­ ards. This can, under present law, be elapsed before the matter would have son in the world for allowing the Rus­ either by legislative action or by admin­ been decided by the highest State court sians to seize the symbols of peace, to istrative or judicial interpretation. But even if the needy claimants had enough misuse the words democracy and peace, under the Knowland amendment, certifi­ money to appeal to the courts. Mean­ but the necessity is upon us for empha­ cation would be denied only if a State while benefits would be denied perhaps sizing the positive and constructive goal has "amended its law" by action of the to many hundreds of penniless and aged of the American people. legislature so that it no longer meets the Indians. I think the gentleman has done us a congressional standards. This means The same· situation arises under other service, whether we agree with Mr. Reu­ that no matter how the original law is provisions of the Social Security Act. ther or not, in the specific proposals interpreted by the administrative offi­ It could arise as to aid to dependent chil­ that he advances, in pointing out that cials or the courts-even where the State dren, as to maternal and child welfare, thoughtful people are willing to imple­ interpretation is at complete variance and as to aid to the blind. The unem- · ment our peaceful purposes in the world. with the congressional · standards-no ployed, the aged, the blind, the ill, and Mr. BURKE. I thank the gentleman question of conformity with such stand­ our dependent children are all in urgent from Arkansas. I believe Mr. Reuther's ards could be raised. The Federal Gov­ need of the benefits to which they are statement carries out that idea that of ernment would be required to use Fed­ entitled. When they are deprived of course it is not necessary to agree in eral funds in support of such a system these benefits whether by administrative toto with the· proposal, but it is a basis· without any adequate recourse. I think action or by the lower courts, their suf­ for some constructive thought and deci­ the whole amendment is completely· out fering is as great as it is when the legis­ sion. of line with anything this House wants lature acts or when the highest State I yield back the remainder of my time, to consider in a social security bill. court speaks. And any of these agents Mr. Speaker. of the State can equally place into gen­ One aspect of this whole matter has eral effect a State rule which is contrary SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED been given very little attention, and that to the standards set by the Congress. Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan asked and is the serious implications of this pro­ Federal standards, together with pro­ was given permission to address the posal as to other Federal-State programs visions to insure that those standards House for 10 minutes on Wednesday and involving the grant of Federal funds. will be complied with, are contained in Thursday next, after the conclusion of I very much fear that the Knowland almost every grant-in-aid statute passed the legislative business of the day and amendment could become a precedent };)y Congress. They are found ·in grants any other special orders heretofore for all of these programs. These other for hospital construction, grants for entered. programs typically provide for the sub­ prevention, control, and treatment of mission by a State of a plan which meets • E-.XTENSION OF REMARKS venereal diseases, grants for agricultural standards enacted by the Congress. The rtsearch, reforestation, for agricultural Mr. BIEMILLER. Mr. Speaker, I ask Federal Administrator is directed to ap­ experiment stations, grants for maternal unanimous consent to extend my re­ prove any plan which meets these stand­ and chEd welfare, and various other marks at this point in the RECORD. ards and to deny continued certification statutes. Although the Knowland The SPEAKER. Is there objection to if any plan is so changed that . it no amendment to H. R. 6000 is applicable the request of the gentleman from Wis­ longer contains the required provisions only to the unemployment-compensa­ consin? or if in the administration of the plan tion program, its principles could as There was no objection. there is a failure to comply with those easily be used to jeopardize many other Mr. BIEMILLER. Mr. Speaker, we in requirements in a substantial number of programs · which provide for grants-in- the House of -Representatives, and espe­ cases. aid to the States. . cially the members of the Ways and These directives of the Congress ex­ The Ways and IVIeans Committee has l\1e:1ns Committee. were careful when pressed in other Federal-State programs just r..uthoriz2d a subcommittee to take 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10889 up an immediate study of our unem­ the National Defense Establishment says uents want and indeed supposed to keep ployment-compensation system with a it has. nothing to do with security, then our jobs at least in part by that knowl­ view to revision and -improvement. of course such a project must be post­ edge. Yet there seems to be no clear Questions such as these very serious ones poned. I use that illustration merely to agreement among us as to just what it raised by the Knowland amendment will point out that I am not just talking is that the American people want most. be part of the business of the subcom­ about economy in somebody else's Some of us seem to believe that the mittee. It is only in this way that these district. American people want tax reduction. matters can receive the full deliberation Another quick and easy illustration is Some of us seem to think that the Ameri­ which they deserve. This would repre­ about every single governmental publi­ can people want most of all an extension sent the orderly legislative process-the cation I can think of that· is being of ECA. Some of us behave as if the only way to secure sound legislation. I printed for the people of the Nation. American people wanted nothing quite therefore earnestly urge our conferees They are good and valuable publications, so much as· a shiny new post office. on the social-security bill to OJ?pose this for the most part-I do not include the The other group which should know at ill-considered Knowland amendment nonsensical ones in that observation­ least as much as we know about what the and to await the results of the subcom­ but, if the country can get along with­ American people want is the group made mittee's hearings and deliberations. out any of them during this emergency, up of the editors of the great newspapers WAR AND ECONOMY printing of them should be stopped for in America. As a former publisher my­ the time being. self, I would say that a newspaper editor Mr. FURCOLO. Mr. Speaker, I ask If the agencies having them printed who does not have a clear sense of what unanimous consent to address the House do not abandon such projects immedi­ his readers want would find himself with­ for 10 minutes. . ately, this Congress should take steps out a paper not long after his next edi­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to right now to enact legislation having that tion went to press. the request of the gentleman from Mas­ effect. We must make a choice right A few months ago, a national maga­ sachusetts? now between bullets and bulletins and zine, Argosy, published the result of an There was no objection. determine which is more necessary for interesting survey. The editors of Ar­ Mr. FURCOLO. Mr. Speaker, since the security of the Nation. gosy approached the editors of the 51 the war in Korea, there has been a ten­ There are dozens of other obvious illus­ greatest newspapers in the United dency on the part of everyone in the trations, of course, but they all boil down States-from the New York Herald Nation to disregard Government spend­ to what I think we should adopt as the Tribune to the Chicago News to the Den­ ing. The general attitude seems to be: yardstick for every expenditure at this ver Post to the Washington Star and the "We cannot talk about money now that time: Is it necessary for security? If Los Angeles Times-and asked each of there is a war." it is not, it does not measure up at this them a simple question: I think that attitude overlooks the time and must be postponed. Assume tomorrow's news is such that you most important point of all: namely, I again want to call the attention of could write any headline you want for to­ that we can spend ourselves into disaster the people of the Nation to remarks I morrow's paper. What would that headline if we are not careful. In fact, there is made on June 29-see CONGRESSIONAL say? a great deal of evidence to show that our RECORD, page 9513-pointing out that Now, obviously-for the best circula­ main potential enemy has planned a since 1940 the Senate voted to spend tion reasons in the world-the headline campaign to force us to do just that. over $18,000,000,000 more than the House that any newspaper editor would most In the situation in which we find our­ thought was necessary. The figures ·I like to run is the headline which would selves today, our military and nonmili­ gave show that the Senate has consist­ attract and please the most readers. For tary expenditures are closely related. ently voted to spend about $2,000,000,000 instance, the editor of the Boston Post, We can spend more for one only if we a year more than the House believed was remembering the little episode at Briggs have been able to save from the other. necessary for the identical projects in some months ago, picked as his favorite We must have a generous hand for ex­ every year from 1940 to the present time. headline "Million-dollar bandits caught.'' penditures relating to the security of I think it doubly imperative at this time But, strangely enough, that was the only the Nation. We must have a miserly that the people demand that the Senate, editor who selected even so important a hand for all other expenditures. particularly, analyze every expenditure local issue as a million-dollar hold-up. Since the war in Korea, the tendency it wishes to make. I hope the people Indeed, 80 percent of all the editors re­ has been to disregard anything that has of the Nation will watch all expenditures plying were in complete agreement as to to do with money on the theory of "Let's very closely to make sure that we do not what would be the most attractive and talk about the war, not economy." Too spend ourselves into disaster. important headline they could run. Be­ many people are forgetting that the two The world situation is going to call cause editors are individualistic, they go hand in hand. We cannot make for increased expenditures for security found various ways of saying it, but what every possible effort to achieve security for this Nation. It is imperative that their headlines added up to was "World unless we are also making every possible we cut down and eliminate the nonessen­ peace assured; cold war ended; Russia effort to achieve economy. We must tial spending not only for the protection and United States reach complete agree­ save every possible penny on nondefense of the taxpayer, but also for the protec­ ment for peace." Eighty percent of all spending so we may have it to spend for tion of our national security. It will call the editors representing the greatest defense. for the full and complete cooperation of newspapers in this country and their mil­ If we are in doubt about any dollar every Congressman and Senator, and lions of readers were expressing their de­ being spent for defense, we must of also of the people of the Nation. sire for peace-something which the rest course resolve that doubt in favo:r of The SPEAKER. Under the previous of the world does not seem to think we defense. But if we are in doubt about order of the House, the gentleman from stand for. Many people in Europe and any dollar being spent for any non­ California [Mr. McKINNON] is recog­ Asia have been led by clever Pl'.Opaganda defense item, we must, of course, resolve nized for 10 minutes. to believe that peace is the exclusive that doubt in favor of economy. We AMERICA'S REAL OBJECTIVE, WORLD property of the Communists. We Amer­ must not spend ourselves out of security. icans have said "cold war" so often­ Such a course necessarily means the PEACE and have said "peace" so little-that immediate abandonment of every proj­ Mr. McKINNON. Mr. Speaker, I ap­ what we really want and what the world ect-worth while or not-that is not di­ preciate the remarks of the gentleman thinks we want are very different. rectly related to national defense and from Ohio, who preceded me, because I, That is why the dream headlines which security. too, am very much interested in world the editors of Argosy assembled are so In practical application, what dpes peace. That is the reason for my taking significant. They tell the world what that mean? To illustrate by an exam­ this time this afternoon. Americans really want. They want ple from my own district: I have a bill There are two groups of people in the peace. in calling for a Connecticut Valley Au­ United States who are supposed to know But once a newspaper editor has writ­ thority-similar to the TVA-if a survey more than any other groups in this coun­ ten his favorite headline there is not shows it is practical and worth while. try what. the American people want. much that he can do except file it away Assuming that it might be the most ben­ One of those groups is ourselves, the and hope that some day he will have a eficial project in the world for the people Members of both of these Houses. We chance to run it. That is where we in in my "ke a few remarks at this time, if conservative to the extent of 99 percent, the Senate committee. I may. by and large have a very high regard for However, because the Secretary ex­ I am indeed glad that my colleague Dr. Raver. . pressed some doubt as to his authority, from Washington has brought out into Mr. MANSFIELD. If the gentleman on February 2 companion bills were filed the open the vicious attack on a respon­ will yield further, I think that statement in the House by the gentleman from sible public official and has indicated the could also go for the delegations from New York [Mr. KEATING], the gentleman irresponsible nature of its source. I too the Northwestern States, regardless of from Pennsylvania [Mr. CORBETT], the have read the article in the Reader's Di­ whether they ar·e Democrats or Repub­ gentleman from Pennsylvania . [Mr. gest of August to which he has referred licans. I think it should be said in Dr. "HUGH D. SCOTT, JR.] and myself, which and find in it some striking errors of Raver's favor that he has had a life of made that distribution mandatory upon fact as well as the smear to which Mr. real public service; that he is a ·Purple the Secretary and broadened existing JACKSON refers. I know that one state­ Heart veteran of the First World War, authority. It · also· provided for pay­ ment particularly referring to Dr. Raver in which he served in the artillery, and ment of handling and transportation "He has refused to let private companies that he has done everything within his ·costs up to the equivalent of 6 months' have long-term contracts for any part power to carry out the act which he has storage costs. These bills were. H. R. of the power produced by Bonneville sworn to uphold and which this Congress ·7135, H. R. 7136, H.·R. 7137, and H. R. Dams," is false. I presume that this by a majority of both Houses passed in .7138. statement intends to refer to the power the late thirties. - At the same time 24 Republican Mem­ under the jurisdiction of the Bonneville Mr. JACKSON of Washington. I bers of the House issued a joint state­ Power Administration. I can from my thank the gentleman. ment bearing definitely upon the serious own direct knowledge refute this state- The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ nature of the problem and urging the ment. The Bonneville Power Admini­ tleman from Washington has expired. enactment of this legislation. That stration will sell the power generated at statement read, as follows·: BUREAUCRATIC BUNGLING IN FOOD Hungry Horse dam in Montana on a In the 4Yz years that have passed since tributary of the Columbia River; that Mr. HESELTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask the Japanese surrender, the United States power will be available in 1952. Dr. ·unanimous consent to address the House has generously helped our friends and for­ Raver has already made a long-term 5'."' for 15 minutes, to revise and extend my mer enemies in all . quarters of the world. year contract with the Montana Power remarks, and to include certain excerpts The hungry were fed, the war damage re­ Co. for a substantial block of power and statements, also certain tabulations. paired and financial assistance given. to from this project. The officials of the strengthen their economies. . This country The SPEAKER. Is there objection to can be proud of the _results obt?-ined through Montana Power Co. have indicated to the request of the gentleman from Mas­ our unselfish efforts. me their complete satisfaction with this· sachusetts? As expecte.d, the need and demand for contract. _Incidentally, this is the first There was no objection. assistance has materially eased. This is par­ contract signed for power from this Mr. HESELTON. Mr. Speaker, at long ticularly true of food. American· food ex­ project. Dr. Raver has told me that he last Secretary of Agriculture Brannan ports have declined sharply with the result hopes .that this can become a pattern has admitted in a. statement today before that we have accumulated in a short period for future contracts with other private the House Committee on Agriculture ot time large surpluses of food, now valued utilities in the Northwest, as additional at over $2,000,000,000. The Secretary of Ag­ that the problem of disposing of surplus riculture has announced acreage allotments supplies of power from dams under con­ foods is increasingly serious. He recom­ for this year on our major crops that will struction become available. I have no mends to the committee that authority reduce their acreage by approximately 30,- idea of the source for. the kind of state­ be given the department at once "to do­ 000,000 acres. Further slashes may be ex­ ment which Governor Miller has sup­ nate surplus commodities, through the pected in 1951 unless prompt steps are taken posedly made, but on the face of it, it is direct distribution type of programs, to to move the accumulating food surpluses. erroneous and misleading. I · also know · needy persons both in this country and It is time that we should give thought and that Dr. Raver has made unceasing at­ abroad" and that this legislation provide consideration to. our own problems and the tempts to reach agreements with other problems of our own people. We are, there­ for the payment of transportation costs fore, sponsoring a bill to make available to power companies in the Northwest; thus and authority to repackage the com­ our own deserving :r:eople the surplus food far these companies have not agreed to modities. · owned by the ·commodity Credit Corpora­ terms and conditions which would per­ In his statement he asserts that last tion. This was clearly the intent of Con­ mit him to carry out the terms of the April he suggested this legislation. It is gress when at the last session the AgricuI­ statutes under which the agency is op­ tural Act of 1949 was passed. Legalistic in­ encouraging that he now is forced to face terpretations and regulations have succeeded erated. How~ver, these problems have up to this problem. Ho.wever, in view of been no barrier to the companies obtain­ in almost completely nullifying this con­ ing power from the Bonneville system the intimation in his statement that he gressional directive and making necessary during the past fiscal year as well as foresaw these difficulties and recom­ this clarifying bill. during preceding years. They hi;we re­ mended a solution to Congress in April, The legislation we propose will authorize I think it is important that the record the Secretary of Agriculture and the Com­ ceived 28 percent of Bonneville's entire modity Credit Corporation to make surplus output-more than the public agencies be made accurate. This is even more food commodities available to Federal, State, have received. Certainly these facts do necessary because of the power he wishes and local welfare agencies, private welfare not indicate that the Administrator is to be given to the department at this agencies, and the school-lunch program. To discriminating against private power late date. expedite the program of assistance, the Sec­ companies as is implied by this article. The truth as to the gigantic hoardings retary of Agriculture would be authorized to advance up to 6 months' storage costs to Mr. JACKSON of Washington. I wish of food commodities at completely· inde­ apply against handling and transportation to thank the gentleman for his comment fensible waste of the taxpayers' money costs. in connection with the remarks I have was well known to the American public It ls the intention cf the sponsors of this made. last January. legislation that it be considered entirely non- 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10893 political. It is believed to be in keeping with respect to authority to dispose of surplus commodity involved, its place of storage, and the best American traditions to help one's foods through donations: H. R. 7125, H. R. the distance of the various recipients from own and those deserving and in need of 7135, H. R. 7139, and H. R. 7327. the points of s'torage-that a much more help. · H. R. 7125 would authorize the Department complicated order and delivery procedure According to the latest figures, there are to operate a stamp plan to "facilitate the dis­ would be needed. It would -be particularly 2,715,751 persons receiving old-age pensions, posal of accumulated surplus commodities difficult to develop a satisfactory system tor 1,486,404 receiving dependents and children under the support program." The stamp the payment of railroad or trucking-company benefits, 92,000 blind receiving help, and plan for disposition of Government-owned. charges when the Government would be re­ 543,GOO on State and local relief rolls. surplus foods to domestic recipients would sp'onsible for varying portions of the costs of The Commodity Credit Corporation on appear to be a more cumbersome and more each shipment. We feel certain that any Dacember 31, 1949, had in inventory over costly method of disposing of surpluses of such system of apportioning costs between 23,000,000 pounds of cheese, over 215,000,000 price-support commodities than the present the Federal Government and recipients pounds of dried milk, nearly 50,000,000 program of direct distribution. The former would tend to impede rather than to facili­ pounds of prunes, 23,000,000 pounds of food stamp plan, operated by the Department tate program operations. raisins, over 9,000,000 hundredweight of dried from 1939 to 1943, did not attempt to dispose If the cost provisions of section 416 are to beans, 1,600,000 hundredweight of rice, over of surpluses already acquired by the Govern­ be amended, we would recommend that the 70,COO,OOO pounds of dried eggs, 725,000 ment; its purpose was to prevent the ac­ Federal Government be given authority to pounds of turkeys, and is committed to buy cumulation of surpluses by increas\ng the pay the cost of transporting, to central re­ over 50,000,000 bushels of potatoes. food purchases of low-income groups out of_ ceiving points within the States, all com­ Why not bring these two sets of statistics regular market supplies. . modities offered eligible domestic recipients. together, for they are more than statistics? The other bills seek to increase the vol--­ The Bureau of the Budget advises as fol­ They are people and food. Better to get the . ume of surplus commodities that may be dis­ lows: "* * * While the objectives of the food to the deserving people than to pay posed of through donations to needy groups legislation appear to be meritorious, the de­ storage, and ultimately hire more people to by authorizing the Federal Government to ficiencies in the bills, which are delineated dest roy the food. _ pay some part of the handling and trans­ in your reports, are so serious that we be­ HUGH D. SCOTT, Jr., Pennsylvania; JoHN portation costs now borne by recipient agen­ ·lieve none of the bills would be acceptable to PHILLIPS, California; JESSE P. WOLCOTT, cies. H. R. 7135 would authorize the dona­ the President unlm:s amended along lines Michigan; RICHARD M. NIXON, Califor­ tion of those foods of which the Commodi­ suggested by you. Further, section 2 of -H. R. nia; HARDIE SCOTT, Pennsylvania; WIL­ ty Credit Corporation has excess supplies 'to 7125 presents questions of policy which are LIAM L. PFEIFFER, New York; JOHN w. .groups now eligible under section 416, with now under study and concerning which no HESELTON, Massachusetts; KENNETH. B. the Federal Government advancing funds commitment can be made at this time.· You KEATING, New' York; J. GLENN BEALL, for the payment of handling and transpor­ are therefore advised that enactment of this Maryland; DONALD JACKSON, Califor­ tation costs, up to an amount equivalent to bill would not be in accord with the program nia; ROBERT J. CORBETT, Pennsylvania; 6 months' storage costs.- H . R. 7139 would of the President at the present time." - EDWIN ARTHUR HALL, New York; R. permit the Department to pay transportation Sincerely, WALTER RIEHLMAN, New York; THOMAS costs incurred in the delivery of potatoes to CHARLES F. BRANNAN, A. JENKINS, Ohio; ALBERT M. COLE, local administrative officers or private wel­ Secretary. Kansas; HENRY 0. TALLE, Iowa; ANTONI fare agencies in areas affecteq by industrial It is through this letter, filed nearly N. SADLAK, Connecticl,lt; HENRY J. work stoppages for distribution to needy 7 weeks' after the bills were filed, that LATHAM, -New York; WILLIAM, s. HILL, groups. H. R. 7327 would authorize the De­ Colorado; CHARLES B. HOEVEN, Iowa; partment to pay delivery costs on surpluses the Secretary now wishes it to be under­ AUGUST H. ANDRESEN, Minnesota; PAUL not disposed of under section 4t6 when of­ stood that he recommended action. B. DAGUE, - Pennsylvania;- GERALD R. fered to any officer .or agency, public or. pri­ Certainly, ·1 did not understand, and· l FORD, Jr., Michigan; HAROLD O. LovI:E, vate, to relieve hardships caused by unem­ do not see how anyone could expect the South Dakota. ployment within the United States. members of the committee to under­ With respect to both H. R. 7139 and H. R. stand, that the Secretary was as serious­ From that date until March 22, l re­ 7327, we believe that any _legislation con­ ly concerned as he now asserts he is and peatedly and almost daily brought these cerning donations to needy families should was urging Congress to take prompt and proposals and the developing facts ·to clearly direct the Department tc; work in co­ opera~ion with public and . private welfare affirmative action. the attention of the. President and the In any event, in the period of 18 weeks Department, but with no results, except age~cies for the a!>sistance of needy persons. These. are the agencies in the best position since that time, there has· been precious a reported statement by the President at to determine the need of applicant families. little evidence that anyone· in the De­ a press conference that he was filing all At the same time it will tend to prevent partment of Agriculture or in the execu­ such communications in the round file duplicate distribution that would inevitably tive department _has been · particularly under his desk. occur if several agencies were ·authorized to concerned about -this problem, or has l also repeatedly urged the Secretary act as agents for the needy in any one city done anything constructive toward its to see that favorable reports on these or local area. solution. l do have letters from the De­ bills be filed immediately. The payment by the Federal Government partment 1n the last few weeks reporting On March 17, the House Committee of transportation: costs to a central receiving point within the various States_ would un­ generally upon the program of distribu­ on Agriculture issued notices of a full doubtedly tend to increase the volume of tion, btit there is absolutely nothing in committee hearing on March 22 for the surplus food moving to eligible groups, par­ this correspo.ndence which led me to be­ consideration of these bills and others ticularly to schools and institutions. The lieve that the Department was at all dealing with the same subject. extent to which distribution to welfare concerned about having additional On March 21, Secretary Brannan sent groups would increase would dep.end, in means of disposing of these food com­ a letter to the chairman of the House large part, upon the facilities available with­ modities before they spoiled or were de­ Committee on Agriculture. ·1 want the in the various States to make food deliveries to · a larger number of welfare families. stroyed. full text of that letter to be in the REC­ State-wide distribution on a family basis re­ Perhaps the key to this current ex­ ORD, but ·first l want to emphasize the quires more elaborate delivery facilities than pression of concern lies in the amazing following sentence: "We do not believe, does distribution to schools and inst:.tutions developments of the last few weeks. however, that it would be administra­ where wholesale packaging can be used and The latest official report of the Com­ tively feasible for this Department or the deliveries made on a mont_hly or bimonthly modity Credit Corporation covers the States to operate the program under basis. fiscal year up to May 31, 1950. The 'fig­ the cost provisions proposed under H. R. We do not believe, however, that it would ures showing the increases in four ·or 7135." l urge that you read particularly be administratively feasible for this Depart­ ment or the State to operate the progr-am un­ these commodities alone for the month the full paragraph, raising then the der the cost provisions proposed in H. R. of May are revealing. The follqwing enormous objections to -the proposal 7135. The portion of the costs to be bor-ne tabulation shows the ending inventories which now has, in effect, the full en­ by various recipients would be subject to in pounds on April 30, 1949, April ·30, dorsement of the Secretary. The letter so much variation-depending upon the 1950, May 31, 1949, and May 31, 1950: follows: MARCH 21, 1950; J Hon. HAROLD D. COOLEY, .Apr. 30, 194!J .Apr. 30, 1S50 May 31, 1949 May 31, rn.50 House Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives. Butter __ ------­ 702, 381 !)8, 695, 04.6 2, 427, 928 117, 497, 963 DEAR MR. COOLEY: This is in reply to your Dried eggs __ ------­ 45, 983, 259 88, 444, 915 56, 581, 257 87, 891, 563 Dried milk __ ------Nono 315, 913, 638 21, 652, 464 311. 065, 022 request for a report on the following bills Cheese ______----_------______None 21, 352, 133 None 29, 475, 919 to &mend the Agricultural Act of 1D49 with XCVl--6e6 10894 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24 The following tabulation showing the Members of Congress are elected to enact stlll have to dispose of m111ions of bushels increase in holding during the month laws wb.ich members of the executive depart­ of potatoes on the farms where they are of May is significant. ment,_Jncluding you as Secretary of Agricul­ produced, for _livestock feed or fertilizer. ture, are supposed to administer. A Member We will still have extreme difficulty in find­ Increase in inventory, month of May 1950 of Congress does well to have an average of ing outlets for surplus butter, and then only Pounds three people employed in his office . .A ,Mem- at appreciable financial loss. The problem Butter ------22, 377, 266 ber of Congress naturally has many sources of immediate concern to us today is the Dried eggs ______12, 909, 978 of information, but the staff of the entire efficient disposal of these perishable holdings. Dried milk _____ .: ______51, 292, 060 Congress is no more than a fraction of the Cheese ______10, 698, 223 staff that you have at your disposal. One point was not mentioned by the Naturally there should be close coopera- Secretary in his statement this morning. I have repeatedly tried to get current tion between the executive and legislative I am sure we can all understand his re­ information as to the situation at the branches of our Government, but under the luctance to discuss it. I refer to the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 1950, policy of passing the buck to Congress which tremendous amount involved in storage but until the Secretary's statement this you are following, the line between coopera­ charges on these commodities during all morning I had received only an informal tion and "buck-passing" is becoming far too these weeks. report indicating that there was now in thin in Government today. I brought this particular point to the storage some 180,000,000 pounds of but- Another significant portion of the attention of the President and to the ter. The Secretary states that the pres- statement made by the Secretary to the Secretary's attention early in February. ent holdings in butter are 192,000,000 House Committee on Agriculture is as I confined my report to accumulating pounds. Consequently, more than 74,- follows: storage charges on 16 food commodities 000,000 pounds of butter must have Potatoes are also being supported under which could and would be eaten by people been purchased between May 31 and a mandatory provision of the law. They are who need them but who cannot afiord July 17, the date given by the Seer~- now supported at approximately $1.01 per them. I have in my file copies of many tary. bushel. Not much difficulty was experienced messages on this point. The last letter The figures given by the Secretary with the early 1950 crop, but we have re­ I sent to the President is as follows: show that on July 17 there were in stor- cently been purchasing potatoes at the i:ate of 150,000 to 200,000 bushels per day from JUNE 17, 1950. age 107,000,000 pounds of dried eggs. farmers in North Carolina and Virginia wrw THE PRESIDENT, This means that there was a · purchase are unable to dispose of their production The White House, between May 31 and July 17 of over 19,- in the normal channels of trade. Washington, D. C. 000,000 pounds. The next foreseeable area of appreciable DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: For over 3 months I The figures given by the Secretary purchase will be in New Jersey, and then, of called your attention repeatedly to the tragic, show that on July 17 there were in stor- course, the Maine crop later in the mar- inexcusable waste of the taxpayers' money keting year. , Purchase may also be expected age 322,000,000 pounds of dried milk. in other States, such as Idaho, Oregon, and through paying carrying charges on 16 sur­ plus food commodities. I urged that these This means that there were purchased Washington. There is·a good deal of reason funds could be spent much more wisely for betw~n May 31 and July 17, over 11,- to believe that the price-support operation transporting these foods to people who 000,000 pounds. , for potatoes may cost the Commodity Credit could and would eat them but could not af­ The figures given by the Secretary Cor.poration as much as $75,000,000 for the ford to buy them. I stated that this waste show that on July 17 there were in stor- 1950 crop. was continuing at an estimated rate of at age 80,000,000 pounds of cheese. This It is possible that this development, least $60,000 daily. means that there were purchased be- particularly in terms of reports and The report of the Commodity Credit Cor­ tween May 31 and July 17, over 50,- large-scale dumping in the mid-South,· poration of April 30 shows that this esti­ mate of daily waste was too low. Actually, 000,000 pounds. is a reason for this sudden interest in the total amount spent for this purpose for That is not all, because the Secretary the seriousness 'of this problem. the first 10 months of the current fiscal year stated that the Federal Government is Again the Secretary points out that was $24,760,056.10. This was at the rate of currently accumulating more butter, at this disposal program, although it in­ $81,447.55 a day. There is no possible rea­ the average rate of about 9,000,000 eluded approximately 8,000,000 school son for continued failure to take immedi­ pounds per week, which means probably children, 1,000,000 inmates of institu­ ate, constructive action to remedy this con­ dition. Will you please order such action about 50,000,000 pounds a month; more tions, and about 1,000,000 welfare re­ at once? dried milk, at the rate of approximately cipients, has not been able to reach sev- Respectfully yours, 45,000,000 pounds per month; more eral scores of millions who are just as JOHN W. HESELTON. cheese, at the rate of 23,000,00 pounds much in need of food commodities but per month; and more. dried eggs, at the who are unable to obtain them because If the daily rate continued from June rate of about 15,000,000 pounds per of the cost factor. I have pointed out 17 in the amount of $81,447.55, and month. · repeatedly to the President and to the surely in terms of the terrific increases During the hearing this morning the Secretary, the unfairness of any such in purchases between May 31 and July question was raised as to why the De- program, and I am glad that the Secre­ 17 it must have been substantially more, partment had not, through its numerous tary has at this late date recognized that then at least $27,773,615.45 has been ex­ persting curplus stocks, neither will it pre­ signed by the Speaker: · 41. Edgar A. Jenas. vent the future accumulation of additional 42. A. surplus holdings. Even though increasing H. R. 3506. An act for the relief of Louis Charles Wolverton. the distribution for human consumption by P. Murphy, United States immigrant in­ 43. Gordon L. McDonough. these groups would be only a partial answer spector, El Paso, Tex. 4.4. Jacob K. Javits. to our current problem, I nevertheless feel BILL PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT 45. Joseph L. Pfeifer. that it would be a very important step and · 46. James S. Golden. one which should be taken now. I therefore Mrs. NORTON, from the Committee 47. Antoni N. Sadlak. urge your committee to consider the enact­ on House Administration, reported that 48. Peter W. Rodino, Jr. ment of authorizing legislation in line with that committee did on July 21,' 1950 pre­ 49. Eugene J. McCarthy, the r,::neral recommendations I suggested to sent to the President, for his approval, the committee on April 27 of thic year. 50. Eugene D. O'Sullivan. • a bill of the House of the following title: 51. R. W. Hoffman. EXTENSION OF REMARKS H. R. 7477. Providing for the conveyance 52. Harold C. Hagen. to the town of Nahant, Mass., of the Fort 53. Mr. HAVENNER asked and was given Ruckman Military Reservation. C. W. Bishop. .permission to extend his remarks and 54. James T. Patterson. include a speech. ADJOURNMENT 55. James F. Lind. Mr. WOLVERTON asked and was Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Speaker, I move 56. William J. Green, Jr. given permission to extend his remarks that the House do now adjourn. 57. Hugh D. Scott, Jr. in four instan'ces, and in each to include The motion was agreed to; accordingly 58. Chester E. Merrow. news articles. (at 5 o'clock and 22 minutes p. m.), the 59. John J.. Rooney. Mr. DONOHUE asked and was given House adjourned uritil tomorrow, Tues­ 60. Earl T. Wagner. permission to extend his remarks in the day, July 25, 1950, at 12 o'clock noo:;.1. 61 . Thomas H. Burke. 62. Chester C. Gorski. Appendix of the RECORD. MOTION 'IO DISCHARGE COMMITTEE Mr. SHELLEY asked and was given 63. Harry J. Davenport. permission to extend his remarks; in one . JULY 10, 1£50. 64. Donald L. O'Toole. instance to include an editorial and in To the Clerk of the House of R2pre­ 65. John Phillips. another instance to include a statement sentatives: 66. T. Millet Hand. by himself and his colleagues f ram Pursuant to clause 4 of rule XXVII, I, 67. Clifford P. Case. California. · Hon. JOHN R. WALSH, move to discharge 68. John W. Heselton. Mr. SABATH Dixie Gilmer. 1578. A letter from the Secretary of De­ 181. Carl Elliott. fense, transmitting a draft of legislation en­ 103. Mike Mansfield. titled "A bill to amend the act entitled 'An 104. Edward A. Garmatz. 182. Hugh B. Mitchell. act to authorize certain administrative ex­ 105. Reva Beck Basone. 183. Lansdale G. Sasscer. penses in the Government eervice, and for 106. Carroll D. Kearns. 184. Harry L. Towe. other purposes,' " approved August 2, 1946 107. Morgan M. Moulder. 185. Victor Wickersham. (60 Stat. 806), and for other purposes; to the 108. W. F. Norrell. 186. T. H. Werdel. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive 109. Ben F. Jensen. 187. Lawrence H. Smith. Departments. 110. Paul Cunningham. 188. William W. Blackney, 1579. A letter from the Archivist of the 189. Charles A. Plumley. United States, transmitting a report on rec­ 111. Henry O. Talle. ords proposed for disposal and lists or sched­ 112. John A. Blatnik. 190. Thomas E. Morgan. ules covering records proposed for disposal 113. Melvin Price. 191. Michael A. Feighan. by certain Government agencies; to the Com­ 114. Sidney R. Yates. 192. Francis E. Walter. mittee on House Administration. 115. Joe R. Bryson. 193. J. B. Frazier, Jr. 1580. A letter from the Attorney General 116. Harold 0. Lovre. 194. E. H. Hedrick. transmitting copies of the orders of the Com­ 117. Ernest K. Bramblett. 195. Cecil F. White. missioner of the Immigration and Naturali­ 118. John H. Marsalis. 196. Tom Steed. zation Service granting the application for 119. Robert L. Ramsay. 197. W. L. Pfeiffer. permanent residence filed by the subjects of such orders, pursuant to section 4 of the act 120. Herbert A. Meyer. 198. L. C. Battle. of Congress approved June 25, 1948, and pur­ 121. Reid F. Murray. 199. Thomas J. O'Brien. suant to the amendment thereof as approved 122. Sid Simpson. 200. Edward deGraffenried. June 16, 1950; to the Committee on the 123. Cecil R. King. 201. Frances P. Bolton. Judiciary. 124. Jos. P. O'Hara. 202. George Howard Wilson. 1581. A letter from the Administrator, 125. Norris Cotton. 203. R. B. Chiperfield. Housing and Home Finance Agency, trans­ 126. M. G. Burnside. 204. Leo E. Allen. mitting the annual report with respect to 127. George M. Rhodes. tort claims paid within the Housing and 205. Harold A. Patten. Home Finance Agency for the calendar year 128. George H. Fallon. 206. Frank Fellows. 1949, pursuant to Public Law 601, Seventy­ 129. Edward .H. Kruse, Jr. 207. Jesse P. Wolcott. ninth Congress; to the Committee on the 130. Frank W. Boykin. 208. John P. Saylor. Judiciary. 131. Geo. H. Christopher. 209. James J. Delaney. 1582. A letter from the Acting Secretary of 132. Chester A. Chesney. 210. Ben H. Guill. the Treasury, transmitting a draft of a pro­ 133. James B. Hare. 211. Robert Crosser. posed bill entitled "A bill to amend subsec­ 134. Clement J. Zablocki. 212. Boyd Tackett. tion ( b) of section 10 of the act of June 26, 135. Charles E. Bennett. 1884, as amended (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 599 213. Wesley A. D'Ewart. (b)) "; to the Committee on Merchant Ma­ 136. Charles B. Hoeven. 214. Hubert B. Scudder. rine and Fisheries. 137. Walter A. Lynch. 215. John B. Bennett. 1583. A letter from the Secretary of the 138. Arthur G. Klein. 216. L. Mendel Rivers. Interior, transmitting a draft of a proposed 139. John C. Davies. 217. Stephen M. Young, bill entitled "A bill to authorize the Secre­ 140. L. H. Gavin. 218. Louis Rabaut. tary of the Interior to compromise, adjust, or 141. Monroe M. Redden. This motion was entered upon the cancel certain debts of individual Indians 142. Hamilton C. Jones. and Indian tribal organizations, and for Journal, entered in the CONGRESSIONAL other purposes"; to the Committee on Public 143. Wayne N. Aspinall. RECORD with signatures thereto, and re­ 144. Charles A. Buckley. Lands. f erred to the Calendar of Motions to Dis­ 1584. A letter from the Secretary of the 145. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. charge Committees, July 24, 1950. Interior, transmitting a report and findings 146. J. Harry McGregor. .on the Middle Rio Grande project, New 147. Jack Z. Anderson. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. Mexico (H. Doc. No. 653); to the Committee 148. Walter E. Brehm. on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed, 149. Cecil M. Harden. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, execu­ with illustrations. 150. Harold H. Velde. tive communications were taken from 1585. A letter from the Secretary of the 151. George P. Miller. the Speaker's table and referred as fol­ Army, transmitting a letter from the Chief 152. John C. Kunkel. lows: of Engineers, United States Army, dated June 153. Merlin Hull. 1573. A letter from the Postmaster Gen­ 8, 1950, submitting a report, together with 154. John E. Miles. eral transmitting a report of claims paid by accompanying papers and an illustration, on the Post Office l>epartment under the pro­ a preliminary examination and survey of 155. J. Hardin Peterson. visions of the Federal Tort Claims Act dur­ Turtle Cove, Tex., authorized by the River 156. John Kee. ing the fiscal year 1949-50; to the Commit· and Harbor Act approved on July 24, 1946 157. John F. Kennedy. tee on the Judiciary. (H. Doc. No. 654); to the Committee on Pub­ 158. George Smathers. 1574. A letter from the Under Secretary of lic Works and ordered to be printed, with one 159. Alvin F. Weichel. the Navy, transmitting a report of the num­ illustration. 160. Henry J. Latham. ber of professors and instructors and the 1586. A letter from the Secretary of the 161. Ray J. Madden. amount of compensation for each employed Army, transmitting a letter from the Chief by that activity, pursuant to Public Law 303, of Engineers, United States Army, dated June 162. Joe L. Evins. Eightieth Congress; to the Committee on 19, 1950, submitting a report, together with 163. Hardie Scott. Armed Services. acompanying papers, on a preliminary exam­ 164. W. K. Granger. 1575. A letter from the Comptroller of the ination of Smith River and tributaries, Cali­ 165. Charles E. Potter. Currency, transmitting the annual report of fornia and Oregon, authorized by the Flood 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10899 Control Act approved on July 24, 1946; to the accept cert ain gifts tend€red by foreign gov­ risdiction to determine their qualifications Committee on Public Works. ernments; without amendment (Rept. No. to manage their own affair$ without super­ 1587. A commt,nication from the President 2711). Referred to the Committee of the vision and control by the Federal Govern­ of the United States, transmitting a supple­ Whole House on the State of the Union. ment; without amendment (Rept. No. 2723). mental estimate of appropriation for the Mr. PETERSON: Committee on Public Referred to the Committee of the Whole fiscal year 1951 in the amount of $10,000,000 Lands. H. R. 7342. A bill to provide for House on the State of the Union. for the Executive Office of the President (H. boundary adjustments of the Badlands Na­ Mr. DOUGHTON: Committee on Ways and Doc. No. 655); to the Commit tee on Appro­ tional Monument, in the State of South Da­ Means. House Joint Resolution 497. Joint priations and ordered to be printed. kota, and for other purposes; without resolution excluding from gross estate of a 1588. A communication from the President amen dment (Rept. No. 2712). Referred to nonresident alien works of art on loan to the of the United States, transmitting a supple­ the Comm ittee of the Whole House on the trustees of the N:i.tional Gallery of Art; with mental estimat e of ·appropriation for the St at e of the Union. a mendment (Rept. No. 2724). Referred to fiscal year 1951 in the amount of $2Q,476,000 Mr. PETERSON: Committee ~n Public the Committee of t he Whole House on the for t h e Selective Service System (H. Doc. No. Lands. H. R. 8158. A bill to repeal certain State of the Union. 656); to the Committee on Appropriations laws as they affect the Territory of Alaska; Mr. JONES of Alabama: Committee on Pub­ and ordered to be printed. without amendment (Rzpt. No. 2713). Re­ lic Works. House Joint Resolut ion 506. Joint 1589. A communication from the President ferred to the Committee of the Whole House resolution to modify the aut hority of the of the Un ited States, transmitting supple­ on the State of the Union. White County Bridge Commission created by mental estimates of appropriation in the Mr. MORRIS: Committee on Public Lands. the act approved April 12, 1941; to authorize amount of $10,486,976,000 for the fiscal year H . R. 8463. A bill to aut horize the sale of said Commission and its successors to pur­ 1951 for t he Armed Forces (H. Doc. Nq. 657); cert ain small tract s of Indian land lying to chase or construct, and to maintain and to the Committee on Appropria.tions and or­ the south and east of the Tongue River in operate, bridges across the Wabash River dered to be printed. the State of Montana; without amendment at various locations and to purchase, m ain­ (Rept. No. 2714). Referred to the Committee t ain, and op::i rate ferries; and for ot her pur­ of the Whole Hom:e on the State of the poses; without amendment (Rept. No. 2725). REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC Union. Referred to the House Calendar. BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Mr. COOLEY: Committee on Agriculture. Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of H. R . 8613. A bill to authorize loans to make available in any area or region credit for­ REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE committees were delivered to the Clerk merly made available in such area or region BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS for printing and reference to the proper by the Regional Agricultural Credit Corpora~ calendar, as follows: tion; wit h amendment (.Rept. No. 2715). Re­ Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports Mr. BECKWORTH: Committee on Inter­ ferred to the Committee of the Whole House of committees were delivered to the Clerk state and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 7802. A on the State of the Union. for printing and reference to the proper bill to amend the War Claims Act of 1948, Mr. COOLEY: Committee on Agriculture. calendar, as fallows: as amen ded, with respect to hearings, exami­ H. R. 8350. A bill to establish two additional Mr. BYRNE of New York: Committee on nations, or investigations; with amendment offices of Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture the Judiciary. H. R. 9062. A bill for the (Rept. No. 2705). Referred to the Committee and office of an Administrative Assistant Sec­ relief of Mrs. Willie G. Heath; without of t h e Whole House on the State of the retary of Agriculture, and for other purposes; amendment (Rept. No. 2726). Referred to Union. without amendment (Rept. No. 2716). Re­ the Committee of the Whole House. Mr. PETERSON: Committee on Public ferred to the Coil1mittee of the Whole House Lands. H. R. 6537. A bill to provide funds on the State of tne Union. for cooperation wlth the Territorial school Mr. STANLEY: Committee on House Ad­ PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS authorities of Nome, Alaska, in the construc­ ministration, H. R. 9023. A bill to amend Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public tion, extension, improvement, and equip­ the Hat ch Act; with amendment (Rept. No. 2717). Referred to the Committee of the bills and resolutions were introduced and ment of school facilities, to be available to severally referred as follows: both native and nonnative children; with Whole House on the State of the Union. amendment (Rept. No. 2706). Referred to Mr. VINSON: Committee. on Armed Serv­ By Mr. EDWIN ARTHUR HALL: the Committee of the Whole House on the ices. H. R. 9177. A bill to authorize the H. R : 9213. A bill to guarantee benefits of President to extend enlistments in the Armed State of t he Union. the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 194:4, Forces of the United States; without amend­ to all members of our armed services now Mr. BECKWORTH: Committee on Inter­ ment (Rept. No. 2718). Referred to the Com­ state and Foreign commerce. S. 4. An act on active duty in Korea and to others; to mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. authorizing the advanced training in aero­ the Union. nautics of technical personnel of the Civil By Mr. HOLIFIELD: Mr. VINSON: Committee on Armed Serv­ H. R. 9214. ·A bill to amend the Recon­ Aeronautics Administration; with amend­ ices. H. R. 9178. A bill to suspend the au­ ment (Rept. No. 2707). Referred to the Com­ struction Finance Corporation Act to pro­ thorized personnel strength of the Armed hibit the employment of certain personnel mittee of the Whole House on the State of Forces, and for other purposes; with amend­ the Union. of the Corporation by organizations receiving ment (Rept. No. 2719). Referred to the Com­ loans or other financial assistance therefrom; Mr. ROGERS of Florida: Committee on mittee of the Whole House on the State of Interstate and Foreign Commerce. S. 442. to the Committ.ee on Banking and Currency. the Union. By Mr. JACKSON of Washington: An act to amend the Air Commerce Act of Mr. PETERSON: Committee on Public 1926 ( 44 Stat. 568), as amended, to provide H. R. 9215. A bill to authorize the Presi­ Lands. S. 192. An act to confer jurisdiction dent to control the anchorage of foreign­ for the application to civil air navigation of on the courts of the State of New York with laV;'.S and regulations related to animal and flag vessels in waters of the United States respect to ci Vil actions between Indians or to when the national security of the United plant quarantine, and for other purposes; which Indians are parties; without amend­ without amendment (Rept. No. 2708). Re­ States is endangered, and for other purposes; ment (Rept. No. 2720). Referred to the Com­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. ferred to the Committee of the Whole House mittee of the Whole House on the State of on the State of the Union. the Union. By Mr. JUDD: Mr. BECKWORTH: committee on Inter­ Mr. PETERSON: Committee on Public H. R. 9216. A bill to permit the admis­ state and Foreign Commerce. S. 2875. An Lands. H. R. 1662. A bill authorizing the sion of alien spouses and minor children act to extend for a period of 5 years the time Secretary of the Interior to acquire on behalf of citizen members of the United States for appropriating and expending funds to of the United States Government all prop­ armed forces; to the Committee on the carry out the Federal Airport Act; without erty and facilities of the Rainier National Judiciary. amendment (Rept. No. 2709). Referred to Parle Co.; with amendment (Rept. No. 2721). By Mr. KEOGH: the Committee of the Whole House on the Referred to the Committee of the Whole H. R. 9217. A bill to exempt persons who State of the Union. House on the State of the Union. served as cadets in the United States Mer­ Mr. McGUIRE: Committee on Interstate · Mr. PETERSON: Committee on Public chant Marine Academy in excess of 90 days and Foreign Commerce. S. 3377. An act to Lands. H. R. 8979. A bill to provide for at sea beyond the continental limits of the amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as the transfer or quitclaim of title to certain United States between September 16, 1940, amended; without amendment (Rept. No. lands in Florida; with amendment (Rept. and September 2, 1945, from induction or 2710). Referred to the Committee of the No. 2722). Referred to the Committee of the service under the Selective Service Act of Whole House on the State of the Union. Whole House on the State of the Union. 1948; to the Committee on Armed Services, Mr. BONNER: Committee on Merchant Mrs. BOSONE: Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. DONDERO: Marine and Fisheries. S. 2240. An act to House Joint Resolution 490. Joint resolu­ H. R. 9218. A bill to outlaw the Communist authorize certain personnel and former per­ tion to authorize and direct the Secretary of Party with respect to candidacy for Federal sonnel of the United States Coast Quard and the Interior to study the respective tribes, or State elective offices; to the Committ-ee the United States Public Health Service to bands, and groups of Indians under his Ju- on House Administration. 10900 -CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24 By Mr. STIGLER: Also, memorial of the Legislature of the Falcon Dam provided for and required by H. R. 9219. A •bill to promote the rehabili­ State of New York, requesting the enact­ the treaty betwe~m the United States of tation of the Five Civilized Tribes and other ment of appropriate legislation returning to America and the Republic of Mexico; to the Indians of eastern Oklahoma, and for other the several States excess amounts collected Committee on Appropriations. purposes; to the Committee on Public Lands. by the Federal Government for the admin­ 2284. Also, petit:_n of 0. N. Burgess, sec­ By Mr. DOYLE: istration costs of the unemployment insur­ retary, Virginia-Carolinas Typographical H.J. Res. 507. Joint resolution to provide ance and employment service programs; to Conference, Charlotte, N. C., endorsing the for the continuation of operations under the Committee on Ways and Means. principle of the 35-hour workweek, to in­ certain mineral leases issued by the respec­ clude all Government employees, both an­ tive States covering submerged lands of the nual ahd per diem; to the Committee. on Continental Shelf, to encourage the con­ PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Hou se Administration. tinued development of such leases, to pro­ Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private 2285. Also, petition of E. A. Munyan, vide for the protection of the interests of the bills· and resolutions were introduced Atomic City Post, No. 199, American Legion, United States in the oil and gas deposits of and severally referred as follows: Oak Ridge, Tenn., requesting that they be said lands, and for other purposes; to the placed en record as protesting the defiant Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BATES of Massachusetts: attitude of the Atomic Energy Commission By Mr. HOLIFIELD: H. R. 9220. A bill for the relief of Giovanni officials at Oak Ridge in ignoring veterans' H.J. Res. 508. Joint resolution to provide Pepe; to the Committee on the Judiciary. preference rights, and that an appropriate for the continuation of operations under cer­ By Mr. DEANE: committee of the Congress be requested to tain mineral leases issued by the respective H. R. 9221. A bill with respect to the na­ immediately investigate this terrible situa­ States covering submerged lands of the Con­ tional service life insurance in the case of tion; to the Committee on Post Office and tinental Shelf, to encourage the continued the late Guy P. Harris; to the Committee .on Civil Service. development of such leases, to provide for the Judiciary. 2286. Also, petition of F. Kennedy Carr, the protection of the interests of the United By Mr. PATTEN: secretary, Townsend Clubs of Volusia County, States in the oil and gas deposits of said H. R. 9222. A bill for the relief of Eiko Fla., Daytona Beach, Fla., requesting passage lands, and for other purposes; to the Com­ Moriyama; to the Committee on the Judi­ of House bills 2135 and 2136, known as the mittee on the Judiciary. ciary. Townsend plan; to the Committee on Ways By Mr. MASON: By Mr. SABATH: and Means. H.J. Res. 509. Joint resolution proposing H. R. 9223. A bill for the relief of Zora 2287. Also, petition of Mrs. Charles H. Nut­ an amendment to the Constitution of the Novacek, Daniela Novacek, and Frantisek ting and others, Ormond, Fla., requesting United States limiting the taxing and spend­ ·Novacek; to the Committee on the Judi- passage of House bills 2135 and 2136, known ing powers of the Congress; to the Commit­ ciary. as the Townsend plan; to the Committee on tee on the Judiciary. By Mr. SADOWSKI: Ways and Means. By Mr. MANSFIELD: H. R. 9224. A bill for the relief of Balsina H.J. Res. 510. Joint resolution to exempt Borrelli; to the Committee on the Judi- certain counsel employed by committee from ciary. COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES certain Federal laws under Special Commit­ By Mr. SHEPPARD: COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE H. R. 9225. A bill for the relief of Lee Lai tee on Campaign Expenditures, 1950; to the JULY 17, 1950. Committee on the Judiciary. Ha; to the Committee on the Judiciary. To the CLERK OF THE HousE: By Mr. SMATHERS: By Mr. SIKES: H. ·R . 9226. A bill for the.a-elief of Capt. and The above-mentioned committee or sub­ H.J. Res. 511. Joint resolution providing committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of for recognition and endorsement of the Mrs. Jens Einer Hermann Henrichsen as the Legislative Reorganization Act of ~946, Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center; owners of the yacht Viking; to the Commit­ tee on the Judiciary. Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits By Mr. HOLIFIELD: the following report showing the name, pro­ H. Con. Res. 248. Concurrent resolution to PETITIONS, ETC. fession, and total salary. of each person em­ express the sense of the Congress with re­ ployed by it during the 6-month period from spect to universal service and total mobiliza­ Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950,. inclusive, tion of national resources in any future war and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk together with total funds authorized or in which the United States may be engaged; appro~riated and expended. by it: to the Committee on Armed Services. and referred as follows: By Mr. KEE: 2278. By Mr. GOODWIN: Resolutions of the Massachusetts Legislature, providing that Total H. Res. 731. Resolution authorizing a re­ gross print of House Report No. 24~5. Background Congress be petitioned to pass legislation au­ Name of employee · salary Information on Korea; to the Committee on thorizing the issue of a commemorative post­ Profession during House. Administration. age stamp in recognition of the outstanding 6-month By Mr. RABAUT: ser_vice to the Nation of Maj. Gen. Henry period H. Res. 732. Resolution to create a select Knox; to the Committee on Post Office and committee to ipvestigate and study the high Civil Service. Joseph ·o. Parker __ __- __ Attorney ______$5, 250. 98 cost of living; to the Committee on Rules. 2279. Also, resolution of the Board of John J. Heimburger___ Commodity and re- 5, 250. 98 search specialist. By Mr. SHEPPARD: Aldermen of the city of- Somerville, with Altavene Clark______Executive officer 2, 711. 49 H. Res. 733. Resolution to increase com­ regard to pollution of the Mystic River; to the (from Jan. 1 to pensation to certain employees under the Committee on· Public Works. Mar. 31, 1950). jurisdiction of the Doorkeeper; to the Com­ 2280. By M1·. MACK of Washington: Mabel C. Downey ____ Clerk ______5, 250. 98 Lydia Vacin ______Staff assistant ______2, 627. 57 mittee on House Administration. Memorial of the Washington State House of Lorraine Adamson ______do ______2, 207. 55 Representatives, presently in session, with Betty Prezioso ______do ______2, 015. 63 reference to the President's action in send­ Alice M. Baker ______d.o ______2, 627. 52 MEMORIALS ing military aid to Korea; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Under clause 3 of rule XXII, merp.o­ m!ttee ex~enditures ____ ~------$50, 000, 00 rials were presented and referred as 2281. Also, memorial of the Washington State Legislature, asking Federal assistance Amount of expenditures previously reported_ 9, 030. 65 follows: in the maintenance of highways in the Fort Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Legisla­ Lewis area; to the Committee on Public 1950_ ------6, 576,- 66 Works. ture of the State of Massachusetts, urging Total amount expended from Jan. 1 to legislation to authorize a commemorative 2282. By Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts: June 30, 1950______15, 607. 31 postage stamp in recognition of the out­ Memorial of the General Court of Massachu­ B:Uance unexpended as of July 1, 1950______34, 392. 69 setts, urging legislation to authorize a com­ standing service of Maj. Oen. Henry Knox; HAROLD D. COOLEY, to the Committee on Post Office and Civil memorative postage stamp in recognition of Chairman. Service. the outstanding service of Maj. Gen. ~enry Also, memorial of the Legislature of the Knox; to the Committee on Post Office and State of New York, requesting the enactment Civil Service. COMMITI'EE ON APPROPRIATIONS of appropriate legislation to bring to the 2283. By the SPEAKER: Petition of E. E. JULY 15, 1950. attention of various countries the feeling of MacDonald, manager, Hidalgo County Water· To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: world-wide revulsion at the forcible deten­ Control and Improvement District No. 6, The above-mentioned committee or sub­ tion of 28,000 children from their homes in Mission, Tex., deploring the long and· inex­ committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) .of Greece; to the Commit\ee on Foreign Affairs. cusable delay in construction work on the the Le~islative Reo~ganization Act of 1946, 1950 CONGRESSIONAL- RECCY:Rn'=-H:otJSE l090l

Public Lsw 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Reimbursements to Government agencies ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits INVESTIGATORS JUNE 30, 1950. the following report showing the name, pro­ To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: fession, and total salary of each person em­ Total The above-mentioned committee or sub­ p loyed by it during the 6-month period from gross committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of J anuary 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, N ame of employee Profession salary the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, together with total funds authorized or during Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ appropriated and expended by it: 6-month period proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the following report showing the name, pro­ fession, and total salary of each person em­ Total Atomic Energy Com­ gross mission: ployed by it during the 6-month period from salary Name of employee Profession Albert P. Pollman_ ------$1, 519. 38 January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, during 1, 697. 36 together with total funds authorized or 6-month Ned Willi:J.ms ____ _ ------·------Department of the Air ------­ 260. 29 appropriated and expended b;(. it: period Force: Thompson J. Simpson. George Y. Harvey ____ The clerk ______D epartment of the $5, 422. 98 Army: Total Kenneth Sprankle__ __ Tho assistant clerk __ 5, 422. 98 gross Corps of Engi------­ 58.46 William A. Duvall_ ___ Second assistant 5, 242. 50 neers: Name of employee Profession salary clerk. Allen W. Burk­ durin~ Corhal D. Orcscan ____ Assistant clerk ______5, 242. 50 6-month Robert E. Lambert______do ______holder. period Arthur Orr______do ______5, 242. 50 Civil Service Commis­ 4, 896. 90 sion: Paul M. Wilson ______do ______4, 896. 90 Ross D. Pope ______do ______Alfred F. Fraser ___ ------420. 00 Robert H. Harper_____ Chief r.J erk ______4, 758. 60 530. 90 $5, 422. 98 Robert P. Williams ______do ______4, 551. 24 EdwardJ. Ilickey_ ------­ James Deakins______Assistant rlerk (Jan­ 357.06 Claude E. Hobbs, Jr______do ______Federal Bureau of In- 4, '.!().5. 64 vestigation: uary). 4, 205.64 William Wingate _____ Assistant clerk ______1, 785. 30 Harold H. Hair ____ ------450. 00 John R. Blandford____ Professional staff 5, 422. 98 3, 859. 98 WarrenA. Hughes ------­ 438. 47 ~~~l·Lawrence Ji~'d!rs======C. Miller ___ =====~~======Junior assistant 2, 642. 04 438. 47 member. clerk. Arthur J. Nor· ------Charles F . Ducander______do ______5, 422. 98 G. Homer Skarin ______do ______strorn. Bryce N. Harlow ______do. __ ------2, 424. 78 1, 590. 00 5, 422. 98 Earl C. Silsby ______do ______James E. Nugent __ ------­ Robert W. Smart.---- _____ do. __ ------5, 42"2. 98 2, 207 ..52 Robert E. Right------­ 1, 386.16 Melvin E. Lefever_ ___ Clerk-stenographer __ 1, 990. 26 myer. Agnes H. Johnston____ Secretary_------2, fi85. 48 Robert W. Thompson _____ do ______1, 990. 29 Rosemary Curry______Stenographer ______2, 482. 74 Ralph A. O'Malley ______do ______Paul G. Travers ___ ------1, 549. 24 Gladys Flanagan ______do __ ------1, 326. 84 Federal Power Com- 2, 41!2. 74 James A.. Eastop ______do ______.: __ _ ], 9!l0. 26 Berniece Kalinowski______do ______2, 482. i4 Rohert M. Lewis ______MeRsengcr ______m ~ssion : l, 686.12 Oscar A. Arnold ___ ------276. 92 Frank B. Avery, Jr__ . Page------··--'-----­ 1, 555. 74 553. 84 E. L. Eckloff______Clerk to the major- 4, 205, 64 Arne H. Ronka ___ ------Fu.ads authorized or appropriated for com- Federal Security mitt.ce expenditures_-·------$35, 000. 00 ity. Agency: Robert E. Lee ______Clerk to the minor- 5, 422. 98 Charles M. Eris------­ 1, 050. 00 Amount of expenditures previously reported_ 16, 318. 82 man. Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, Lawrence A. DiCenzo_ cl~ik-st enographcr l, 990. 26 C. Erwin Rice ____ ------854. 40 1950_ ------3.10 to ranking minor­ Department of Jus- ity member. tice: Julia M. Elliott______Clerk-stenographer Total amount expended from Jan. 1 to . 1, 990. 26 . George S. Swarth__ ------­ 329. 68 June 30, 1950______3.10 to subcommittee D enartment of Labor: Balapoe unexpended as of June 30, 1950______18, 678. 80 chairman. l,017.69 Vivian V. Martin ______do ______1, 990. 2R Charles E. Hutsler__ ------­ Eula D. Rigsby------_____ do ______.__ D epartment of the CARL VINSON, 1, 990. 26 Navy: Marion B. Lacoy ______do ______], 990. 26 Chairman. Josephine E. Frick_; ______do ______Donald M. Pat------­ 318. 24 1, 990. 26 terson. Alice C. Keeffc ______do ______1, 91!0. 26 William J. Neary ______do ______Paul G. Ross ______------283. 68 COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY l., 990. 26 Securities and Ex- N. C. Barrott______do ______1, 990. 26 JULY 15, 1950. John F. Byrne ______do ______change Commission: 1, 326. 84 Josepl]. Bernstein __ ------·-----­ 1, 263. 01 To the CLERK OF THE Houi::E: . Michael J. LaPa------­ 2, 240. 50 - The above-mentioned committee or sub­ ·Funds authorized or appropr-iated for com- · dula. mittee expenditures ______$212, O the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: merce: Royal E. 6-mon£h The above-mentioned committee or sub­ Olmert. period Federal Security ------1, 445. 52 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Agency: John Wal- the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, ter Hambleton. Orman S. Fink______Professional staff ___ _ $4, 758. 60 Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Government Printing ------939. 36 John E. Barriere ______do ______3, 680. 22 Office: Donald G. William J. Hallahan __ Clerk ______5,422. 98 proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits Fulton. the following report showing the name, pro­ Elsie L. Gould_ : ______Assistant clerk ______3, 721. 74 Department of the -----·------1, 227. 60 Margaret P. Battle____ Stenographer______2, 124. 78 fession, and total salary of each person em­ Interior: Carl vV. Helen E. Long ______Assistant clerk ______2, 388. 54 ployed by it during the 6-month period from Carlson. Department of Jns------·------415. 38 January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, tir.c: Donald W. Funds authorized or appropriated for com- together with total funds authorized or Phelan. mittee expenditures ______$25, 000. 00 appropriated and expended by it: D epartment of Labor: Robert P. VanZanL ------·------775. 20 Amount of expenditures previously reporte:L 6, 038. 40 Department of State: ·• Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, Total Harold G. Kissick.------·------1, 155. 36 1950______5. 671. 74 gross Treasury Department: salary Reece V. Bean ______---·------1, 4.45. 77 Total amount expended from Oct. 19, Name of employee Profession dtuing 1949 to June 30, 1950 ______11, 710.14 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950______13, 289. 86 6-month Funds authorized or appropriated for com· period mittee expemlitures. ------$150, 000. 00 BRENT SPENCE, Chairman. Amount of expenditures previously re­ James J. Maloney __ ___ Chief investigator ___ $4, 274. 76 ported______35, 713.11 Edward E . Hargett ___ Chief investigator 735. 50 COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (from Jan. 1to31). AmountexpendcdfromJan.1toJune30,1950_ 53, 608. 73 Frederic D. Veohcry __ Investigator ______3, 426. 9() Total amount expended from July 1, JUNE 30, 1950. Hazel N. Ward ______Clerk-stenographer __ l, 507. 70 1949, to June 30, 1950______89, 321. 89 To the CI.ERK OF THE HOUSE: Anna R. Murabito ______do ______I, 124. 08 Lorenc Hudgens.----- _____ do ______605. 48 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950____ 60, 678.11 The above-mentioned committee or sub­ R ena F. Sylvestre ______do ______I 273. 78 CLARENCE CANNON, committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) cf Chairman. tha Leg'..slative Reorganization Act of 1946, 10902 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24

Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ COMMI'ITEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits JULY 12, 1950. Total the following report showing the name, pro­ gross fession, and total salary of each person em­ '.i'O the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Name of employee Profession salary The above-mentioned committee · or sub­ during ployed by it during the 6-month period from 6-month . January l, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive. committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of period together with total funds authorized or the Legislative Reorganization Act of. 1946, appropriated and expended by it: Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Executive and Legis------$17, 393. 57 proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits lative Reorganiza· Total the following report showing the name, pro­ tion Subcommittee, gross fession, and total salary of each person em­ Congressman CHET HOLIFIELD' chair- salary ployed by it during the 6-month period from Name of employee Profession during man. 6-montb January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, period together with total funds authorized or Total spent from ------66, 940. 00 Jan. 1 to June appropriated and_ expended by it: 30, 1950. William N. McLeod, Clerk ______$5, 422. 26 Jr. Total Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1950 ______$58, 802. 98 Mabel Haller______Professional staff ___ _ 4, 55L 24 Additional appropriation May 11, 1950_ ----- 150, 000. 00 Ruth Butterworth ___ _ Assistant clerk ______2, 424. 78 l!TOSS Witmer Kelley ______salary TotaL ______208, 802. 98 Investigator (ap- 3, 216. 65 Name of employee Profession duriD.g pointed Feb. 1, 6-month Amount spent from Jan. 1toJune30, 1950___ 66, 940. 00 1950). period Charles D. Farmer•••• Minority clerk ______3, 859. 98 Balance unexpended July 1, 1950_ ----- 141, 862. 98 Harry Charles_------Messenger------450. 00 Joseph Koski______Chief clerk and exec· $5, 422. 98 Total Funds authorized or appropriated for com- utive assistant. gross mittee expenditures. __ ------$2, 000. 00 JohI). S. Forsythe ______General counsel 5, 422. 98 salary (p r o f e s s i o n a 1 Name of employee Profession during Amount of expenditures previously reported__ one staff). 6-month Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, Joseph S. Jarosz______Research specialist Ii, 422. 98 period (p r o f e s s i o n a 1 1950 _------923. 87 staff). Total amount expended from Jan. 1 to Frank E. Boyer______Investigator (profes­ 5, 422. 98 William A. Young ____ Staff director ______$5, 422. 98 June 30, 1950 ______923. 87 sional staff). Thomas A. Kennedy __ General counseL ____ 5, 422. 98 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950______1, 076.13 John 0. Graham______Minority clerk (pro· 5, 422. 98 Christine Ray Davis __ Chief clerk ______5, 422. 98 fessional staff). Francis T. O'DonnelL Minority counsel, 758. 54 JOHN L. MCMILLAN, Frances A. Los______Assistant clerk ______2, 859. 30 Jan. 1 to 31, 1950. Mary Pauline Smith ______do ______2, 728. 92 Chairman. Mary E. Gilbert San- _____ do ______J. Robert Brown ______Research analyst ____ 3, 859. 98 2, 728. 92 Martha C. Roland ____ As i5tant chicr clerk. 4,4.16.04 ders. Dolores Fel'Dotto __ ___ Clerk-stenographer __ 2, 931. 72 Barbara A. White ___ ~- _____ dQ ______2, 728. 92 , SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE DIS­ Myrtle S. Locher_---- _____ do ______Adrienne O. Master- Clerk-stenographer, 1, 693. 86 TRICT COMMITTEE To INVESTIGATE CRIME IN 2, 728. 92 son. Jan. 1 to Apr. 14, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 1950. Annabelle Zue __ _• ____ Minprity clerk ______3, 671. 26 JUNE 30, 1950. Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Olive M. Willeroy ____ Clerk-stenographer, 1, 237. 82 mittee expenditures __ _------__ $30, 000. 00 Apr.15to June30, To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: 1950. The above-mentioned committee or sub­ Amount of expenditures previously reported. 13, 484 .. 31 Teresa Barrett ______Clerk-typist______Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1, 845. 42 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of 1950_ ---- _____ : ___ ------8, 8_69. 33 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE, CON• Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Total amount expended from Jan. 1, GRESSMAN PORTER HARDY, JR., CHAIRMAN proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits 1949, to June 30, 1950______22, 353. 64 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950_____ 7, 646. 36 the following report showing the name, pro­ Carl H. Monsees ______Operations analyst__ $4, 850. 76 fession, and total salary of each person em­ GRAHAM A. BARDEN; George Miller Rose____ Administrative ana- 3, 282. 96 ployed by it during the 6-month period from Chairman. lyst. John C. Vick ______do ______2, 015. 58 January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, Stephen D. Carnes .• _. _____ do ______Hester H. Harper ______do ______2, 832.13 together with total funds authorized or COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE 2, 768. 76 appropriated and expended by it: Herbert E. Wicken- -~---dO------· 2, 424. 78 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS heiser. Ann F. Cavanagh ______do ______JUNE 30, 1950. 2, 931. 72 Total Joseph V. Mach ugh___ Legal analyst, Jan.1 1, 507. 43 gross To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: · to Apr.8, 1950. salary The above-mentioned committee or sub­ George H. Bowers, Jr__ Legal analyst ______2, 207. 52 Name of employee Profession Charles Futterer ______Adrninistrati ve ana- during committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of 1, 974. 55 6-montb lyst, Jan. l to Mar. •period the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, 31. 1950. Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Mildred H. Lang ______Stenographer ______2, 015. 58 proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits Oli ve M. Willeroy _____ Stenographer, Jan. 1 1, 164. 55 Hyman Fischback ____ Counsel (voucher $5, 000. 00 to Apr. 15, 1950. submitted for serv- the following report showing the name, pro­ Carlotta Dondero..... Stenographer, A pr. 699. 11 ices from Oct. 23, fession, and total salary of each person em­ 17 to June 30, 1950. 1949 to Feb. 28, ployed by it during the 6-month per.iod from Eloise Gray Menefee__ Stenoi?rapher, Jan. 212. 74 1950). 19 John F. Woog ______Investigator (salary) 808. 26 January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, Go r don P i ck et t F~; ie~~~O. services 3, 570. 00 (January and Feb- together with total funds authorized or Peyton. rendered as spe­ ruary 1950). cial counsel in in­ P. Gabrielle Tarter ____ Secretary (salary) 964. 96 appropriated and expended by it: quiry into the (January, Febru- Maritime Com­ ary, and May mission for period 1950). Total Jan. 2 to May 31, Richard Ford, M. D .. Special employee 100. 00 gross 1950. (March 1950). Name of employee Profession salary Do______For legal services as 294. 00 EXPENSES during special counsel in 6-month inquiry into Rural Hyman I. Fisch back __ ------1, 124. 75 period Electrification John F. Woog ______------158.17 Administration, p. G. Tarter_------19.15 for period June Richard Ford ______------130. 09 Full committee ______------·------$467. 94 1-27, 1950. Harry Sack ______------10.00 Int.er-Governmental---···------2, 062. 68 Sohn H. Dorsey______For legal services as 3, 612. 00 John A. Edwards _____ ------6.00 Relations Subcom- special counsel in Chesapeake & Poto------14.00 m i tteo, Congress- inquiry into the mac Telephone Co. · man HERBERT c. national service Stationery room ______------7.90 BONNER, chairman. life-insurance pro­ Public Accounts Sub· ---·······-··--·------2, 875. 09 gram analysis of committee, Con- fiscal costs and Funds authorized or appropriated for com- gressman FRANR' operations, for mittee expenditures ___ ------$10, 000. 00 KARSTEN, chairman. 2 Federal Relations with -········----··--··--- 4, 489. 89 ~~~1{~~5o~ to Amount of expenditmes previously reported_ · 1, 653. 38 International Or- Sohn H. Dorsey______For legal services as 756. 00 Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, ganizations Subcom· special counsel in 1950. ------8, 343. 28 mi t tee, Congress- inquiry into the man HENDERSON national service Total amount expended from Nov. 4, LANHAM, chairman. life-insurance pro­ 1949, to June 30, 1950______9, 997. 66 Government Opera- --············------39, 650. 83 gram analysis of Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950______3.34 tions Subcommittee fiscal costs and JOHN L. MCMILLAN, Congressman · POR· operations, for TER HARDY, Jr., period June 1-27, Chairman. chairman. 1950. 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECO'RD-- HOUSE 10903 together with total funds authorized or Total appropriated and expended by it: Total gross gross Name of employee salary salary Profession during Total Name of employee Profession during 6-month gross 6-month period salary period Name of employee Profession during 6-month :EXPENSES period CLERICAL STAFF-Con. . Ilester H. Harper _____ ------;- $18. 20 Georgia G. Glasmann_ Assistant clerk-ste- $2, 294. 40 Herbert E. Wicken------35. 50 Boyd Crawford ______Staff administrator __ $5, 423. 00 nographer. hciser. C. Burton Marshall___ Staff consultant (re­ 4, 519. 15 Helen A. Grickis ______do______2, 207. 52 Ann F. Cavanagh _____ ------25.16 signed May 31, Frances W. Galvin ____ Assistant clerk-ste- 2, 106.12 Charles Futterer ______------3.60 1950). . nographer (au- Carl H. Monsees ______------102. 32 Ira E. Bennett_,______Staff consultant_ ___ _ .5, 423. 00 thorized H. Res. Sheldon Z. Kaplan ______do ______5, 423. 00 Stephen D. Carnes ____ --~------49. 75 George Lee Millikan:. _____ do ______157). 63.40 5, 423. 00 Roy P. Wilkinson _____ ·Assistant clerk______1, 917. 84 John H. Dorsey ______------June Nigh______Staff assistant ______John C. Vick __ ------10.90 2, 859. 31 Winifred G. Osborne ______do ______3, 076. ,57 Southern Railway ____ ------12. 74 Doris Leone ______do ______PROFESSIONAL STAFF United Air Lines ______------100. 98 Mabel Wofford ______do ______2, 859. 31 Stationery supplies ____ ------98. 01 Mary G. Chace ______do ______2, 642. 06 Arlin E. Stockburger__ Aviation and en- 5, 422. 98 0 hes ape a k e & ------8.10 3, 583. 50 gineering consult- Potomac Telephone ant. Co. Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Andrew Stevenson____ Expert______5, 422. SS Truman Ward-mirn------­ 2.00 Kurt Borchardt.______Professional assist- 5, 422. 98 eographing. mittee expenditures ___ ------$50, 000. 00 ant. Sam G. SpaL ______Research specialist._ 4, 551. 24 Amount of expenditures previously reported.. 6, 442. 94 Total______------39, 650. 83 .Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 20, 1950. ------. 8, 488. 87 Funds authorized or appropriated for com­ mittee expenditures (funds authorized EXPENSES OF FULL Total amount expended from Jan. 1, 1949, to under H. Res. 157) ______$60, 000. 00 COMMITTEE June 30, 1950______14, 1'31. 81 Balance unexpended as of July 1, 1950_ 35, OG9. 19 Amount of expenditure's previously reported 11, 324. 22 Stationery supplies ____ ------355. 76 .Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June30, 1950. 5, 965.18 112.18 JOHN KEE, Chesapeake & Poto------­ Chairman. mac 'l.'elcphone Co. Total amount expended from Jan. 1, 1949, to June 30, 1950______17, 289. 40 · TotaL. _------467. 94 COMMITTEE ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION B alance unexpended as of June 30, 1950______42, 710. 60 JULY 10, 1950, ROBERT CROSSER, INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE, To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Chairman. CONGRESSMAN HERBERT C. BONNER, CHAIRMAN The above-mentioned committee or sub­ committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY the LegislP,tive Reorganization Act of 1946, Hilary E. Price ______, Clerk.~------! $2, 062. 68 JULY 12, 1950. Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits To the CLERK OF THh HOUSE: PUBLIC ACCOUNTS SUBCOMMITTEE, CONGRESSMAN the following report showing the name, pro­ The above-mentioned committee or sub­ . FRANK KARSTEN, CHAIRMAN fession, and total salary of each person em­ committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of ployed by it during the 6-month period from the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Harry E. Harper______Staff director, Apr. $2, 016. 39 January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ 1 to June 30, 1950. together with total funds authorized or proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits Ellis Barnard.------Clerk stenographer, 795. 15 appropriated and expended by it: the following report showing the name, pro­ Mar. 29 to June 30, 1!)50. fession, and total salary of each person em­ Stationery supplies ____ ------63. 55 Total ployed by it during the 6 -month period from gross January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, TotaL ______------2, 875. 09 N ame of employee Profession salary dnrin~ together with total .funds authorized or 6-month appropriated and expended by it: FEDERAL RELATIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL period ORGANIZATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE, CONGRESS• Total MAN HENDERSON LANHAM, CHAIRMAN Jeanne McDonagh ____ Clerk ______$4, 263. 24 Name of employee Profession gross Marjorie Savage ______Assistant clerk ______4, 124. 95 salary J ack Watson ______do ______3, 986. 71 Franklin D. Rogers ___ Clerk ______$2,85!?. 30 Maureen Sandiford. ______do ______2, 823. 09 Maisie 0. Hudnall ___ _ Assistant clerk, 1, 581. 39 Lura Cannon ______do ______2, 823. 09 Dick, Be s~ Etirat_ ____ Chief clerk ______$5, 422. 98 Feb. 13 to June 30, Merle Harris______Assistant clerk and 2, 823. 09 Bernhardt, C . Murray Committee counseL 5,422. 98 1950. stenographer. Besterman, Walter M_ Legh•lative assistant_ 5, 422. 98 Stationery supplies __ __ ------49. 20 Foley, William R_____ Committee counseL 5, 422. 98 Lee. Walter R ______Legislativeassi.,tant_ 5,422. 98 TotaL ______------4, 489. 89 MARY T. NORTON, Smedley, Velma ______Assistant chicfr!erk_ 5, 422. 98 Chairman. B enn, Violet 'f.t ______Clerk-stenographer__ l,417.03 2, 527. 37 EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ~t~1~f/J1:1a~~;3:::::: =====~~=::: :::::::::: 2, 497. 20 SUECOMMI'I'IEE, CONGRESSMAN CHET HOLI• COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND Fo;:EICN 2, 279. 94 COMMERCE 1, '.!48. 60 FIELD, CHAIRMAN 3, 743. G8 JULY 11, 1950. ~~~?: ~16i:;:::::: :=J~ :: :::::::::::: 2, 279. 94 W. Brooke Graves ___ _ Staff director ______$5, 42?. 98 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Julian Fahy ______Staff member______4, 5.'il. 24 The above-mentioned committee or sub­ 1 Purmant to H. Res. 461. Herbert Roback ______cto______4, 437.18 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of l. Funds for preparation of U. S. Code and DorothJ D. Morrison_ Clerk______2, 931. 72 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Revision of the Laws: Stationery supplies ____ ------50. 45 Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ A. Preparation of new edition of U.S. proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits Code (no year): TotaL ______------17, 393. 57 Unexpended balance Jan. 1, the following report showing the name, pro­ 1950 ______$13, 036. 89 fession, and total salary of each person em­ Expended______0 'WILLill.M L. DAWSON, ployed by it during the 6-month period from Chairman. January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, Balance June 30, 1950______13, 036. 89 together with total funds authorized or B. Preparation of U.S. Cocte: COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS Unexpended balance Jan. 1, appropriated and expended by it: ] 950 ______$145, 248.12 JULY 15, 1950. Expended______5, 813.10 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Total ----' The above-mentioned committee or sub­ gross Balance June 30, 1050 ______139, 435. 02 salary committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Name of employee Pro ~es slon durin~ C. Revision of the Laws 1950: the Legislative Reorganization Act of 19~6, 6-rnontll Unexpended bal- Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ period ance Jan. l, 1950 ___ $6, 749. 02 Deficiency appro- proved August 2, 1916, as amended, submits priation 1950______345. 00 the following report showing the name, pro­ CLERICAL STAFF 7,094. 02 Expended ______------_ 6, 972.16 fession, and total salary of each person em­ Elton J. Layton ______Clerk ______$5, 422. 98 ployed by it during the 6-month period from Glenn R. Ward ______Assistant clerk______3, 004.14 B alance June 30, 1950 ______121. 98 January l, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, _ Royice -~~no ______do______2, 569. 62 _ 10904 CON(}RESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 24

1. Funds for preparation of U. S. Code and Funds authorized or appropriated for com· Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Revision of the Laws-Continued mittee expenditures------··r··· $15, 000. 00 mittee expenditures ••• ------$50, 000. 00 D. Preparation of new edition D. o. Code (no year): · Amount of expenditures previously reported. 7, 560. 82 Amount expended from Jan. 1, to June 30, .Authorized by deficiency ap· .A.i;nount expended from Jan. 1, 1950 to June • 1950 •• ------8, 514. 55 propriation 1950 ______$30, 000. 00 30, 1950______500. 69 Expended...... 0 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950. 41, 485. 45 Total amount expended from Feb. 28, Balance June 30, 1950...... 30, 000. 00 1949, to June 30, 1950______8, 061. 51 TOM MURRAY, Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950______6, 938. 49 Chairman. 2, Funds authorized or appropriated for com­ ~ttee expenditure by H. Res. 156, H. EDWARD J. H4RT, :Res. 415, and H. Res. 637 (pursuant to Chairman, Committee on Merchant COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS H. Res. 137)------85, 000. 00 Marine and Fisheries. .Amount expended...... 39, 793. 37 JULY 11, 1950 . To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Balance unexpended June 30, 1950.... 45, 206. 63 SPECIAL INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE The above-mentioned committee or sub­ 8, Funds authorized or appropriated for com- MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES COM­ committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of mittee expenditure by H. Res. 246 (pur· MITTEE the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, suant to H. Res. 238). ------45, 000. 00 (Pursuant to H. Res. 215, 8lst Cong.) Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Amount expended...... 25, 016. 51 proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits JULY 11, 1950. Balance unexpended as of June 30, the following report showing the name, pro­ 1950______19, 983. 49 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: fession, and total salary of each person em­ The above-mentioned committee or sub­ ployed by it during the 6-month period from EMANUEL CELLER, committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Chairman. January l, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, together with total funds authorized or Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ appropriated and expended by it: COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND prov~d . August 2, 1946, as amended, submits FISHERIES the following report showing the name, pro­ Total JULY 11, 1950. fession, and total salary of each person em­ gross salary To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: ployed by it during the 6-month period from Name of employee Profession during The above-mentioned committee or sub­ January 1, 1950, to Juna 30, 1950, Inclusive, 6-month committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of together with total funds authorized or period the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, appropriated and expended by it: Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ George H. Soule...... Technical consult- $5, 422. 98 ant. proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits - Total Saul Corwin (resigna- Counsel. •••••••••••• 903. 83 the following report showing the name, pro­ gross tion effective Feb. fession, and total salary of each person em­ Name of employee Profession · salary l, 1950). .Arthur during !Tames Brookshire ployed by it during the 6-month period from 6-month employed as investi- January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, period gation clerk to com- mittee and charge- together with total funds authorized or able to special fund. appropriated and expended by it: Charles A. Miller •••• _ Investigator.•••••••• $4, 205. 64 Gross salary during 6-month period Funds authorized or appropriated for com- $2,424.78. Total mittee expenditures ______$50, 000. 00 Preston E. Peden ______do...... 5, 332. 74 gross Mary L. Steele (resig- Clerk...... 451. 91 Name of employee Profession salary. nation effective Jan. during Amount of expenditures previously reported. 8, 718. 74 16, 1950). 6-month Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, Claude E. Ragan .•••• _____ do •••••••••..•••. 5, 422. 98 period 1950. ------13, 432. 64 Nancy .Arnold._ .•.•.•.•••.do .••••.••.•••... 3, 721. 74 Virginia McMichaeL .••••.do .•••••••••••••• 3, 004. 14 Total amount expended from June 30, Geraldine Eaker .••••.••••. do ______2, 424. 78 John M. Drewry______General counseL •••. $5, 422. 98 1949 to June 30, 1950...... 22, 151. 38 Betty Lee Angus .••••..•.•. do ••••••.••••••• _ 2, 062. 68 Lynn E. Mote______Assistant counsel__ __ 4, 551. 24 Reginald S. Losee..... Chief investigator __ _ 4, 482.12 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950...... 27, 848. 62 Gus S. Caras______Investigator to the 4, 482.12 Funds authorized or appropriated for com- minority. EDWARD J. HART, mittee expenditures •... ------$30, 000. 00 Frances Still...... Chief clerk ______3, 859. 98 Chairman. Marie Wilson______Secretary ______3, 148. 98 .A.mount of expenditures previously reported. 4, 563. 63 Madonna Haworth ___ Assistant clerk ______Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2, 503. 45 COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE Frances B. Hoover ______do ______2. 236.40 1950. ------9, 289. 23 Leonard P. Pliska_____ Clerk to the minor- 3, 004.14 JULY 13, i950. ity. Total amount expended from Apr. 1, To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: · 1949, to June 30, 1950______13, 852. 86 Total. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 33, 691. 41 The above-mentioned committee or sub­ Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950______16, 147.14 committee, pursuant to section l.34 (b) of J, HARDIN PETERSON, EDWARD J. HART, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Chairman. Chairman. Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits COMMITI'EE ON PUBLIC WORKS SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE PANAMA CANAL the following report showing the name, pro._ JULY 1, 1950. TOLLS fession, and total salary of each person em­ To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: ployed by it during the 6-month period from The above-mentioned committee or sub­ (Pursuant to H. Res. 44~ 8lst Cong., 1st sess.) January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of JULY 11, 1950. together with total funds authorized or the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: appropriated and expended by it: Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ The above-mentioned committee or sub­ proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the following report showing the name, pro­ committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Total the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, gross fession, and total salary of each person em­ ployed by it during the 6-month period from Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Name of employee Profession salary proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits during January l, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, 6-month together with total funds authorized or tl1e following report showing the name, pro­ period fession, and total salary of each person em­ appropriated and expended by it: ployed by it during the 6-month period from George M. Moore_____ Chief counsel. •••••. $5, 422. 98 January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, Inclusive, Frederick C. Belen.... Counsel______Total 5, 422. 98 gross together with total funds authorized or !fohn B. Price______Staff assistant ______2, 786. 88 Lucy K. Daley ______Assistant clerk ______Name of employee salary appropriated and expended by it: 2, 786.88 Profession during Elayne M. Hoffman___ Secretary ______2, 424. 78 Lillian Hopkins.....•• _____ do ______6-month 2,424. 78 period .Total Ann Hayden...... Stenographer..•••••• 2, 279. 94 gross Profession salary EMPLOYED UNDER H. Thomas E. Massie_.:_ Counsel.______$4, 343. 88 Name of employee during RES. 114 1115 AND 472 1 Joseph H. McGann, Clerk.------4, 343. 88 6-month Sr. period Russell A. Heddleston. Staff director.•••••• _ 3, 873. 62 Robert F. McConnell. Assistant clerk______3, 293. 82 Reginald I. Heath_____ Investigator...... · l, 306. 90 Joseph H. McGann, _____ do __ ------2, 786. 88 Henry C. Cassel. ••••. ___ __ do______1,303. 90 Jr. Madonna Haworth ____ Stenographer______~500. 69 Jean H. O'Brien_..... Stenographer...... 954. 21 Mrs. Margaret R. Clerk-stenographer__ 2, 786. 88 Beiter. 1950 CON_GRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10905 fession, and total salary of each person em­ Total Total ployed by it during the 6-month p eriod from gross gross January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, N ame of employee salary salary Profession during Name of employee Profession during together with total funds authorized or 6-montb 6-month appropriated and expended by it: period period Total Miss Mary Elizabeth Clerk-stenographer __ $2, 786. 88 Ruth T ansil!______Clerk-stenographer__ $2, 424. 78 gross McBee. Jo B. Kennedy______Clerk-typist______2, 424. 78 N ame of employee Profession salary Mrs. Helen Dooley ______do __ ------2, 322. 40 Virginia McGraw ______do ______2, 131i. 16 during Catherine Crews______File clerk ______2, 424. 78 6-month Lucille Fitzgerald ______do ______2, 424. 78 period Funds authorized or appropriated for committee 2, 304. 08 expenditures __ ------$15, 000 2, 27\l. 95 Charles W. Davis_____ Clerk (0)______$5, 422. 98 Dalance unexpended as of June.SO, 1950______15, 000 Alice~lre~~ Walker_ i~:~k======______====_____=~g= do ______======______2, 424. 78 Gladys Slack______Filo clerk (May 1 L eo H. Irwin______Professional assist- 3, 721. 74 WILLIAM M. WHITTINGTON, 759. 98 ant (P). Sil through June 30, Ste!la 0. Miller ______· Assistant clerk (C)__ 3, ITT6. 56 Chairman. 1950). Gladys L. Kullberg Staff assistant (C)___ 880. G8 EMPLOYEES CARRIED (from Jan. 1 to Feb. ON PERMANENT 28, 1950) . COMMITTEE ON RULES HOUSE PAYROLL R alph G. Simmerson _____ do______1, 041?. 46 JUNE 21, 1950. Frank S. Tavenner, Jr. CommitteecounscL_ 5, 422. 98 (from Jan. 1 to Mar. 31, 1950). Louis.J. Russi;ll______Senior in ve ~tigator __ 5, 422. 98 T J the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: H arriet B. L amb ______do______2, 207. 52 John Carrington______Clerk __ ------­ 4, 781. 60 Doris C. Mickr.lson ___ __ do______1, 375. 12 The above-mentioned committee or sub­ Benjamin MandeL_._ Director of research __ 4, 970. 94 Donald T. AppelL ____ Investigator ______4, 724. 07 (from Mar. 1 to June committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of 30, 1950). th., Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Ann Turner ______Chicfoffllcs ______4,067. 40 Johnnie Koontz (from _____ do ______Carolyn Roberts______Assistant chief offiles. 2, 714. 46 eo1. 34 Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Rosella A. Purdy______Secretary to counsel. 3, 197. 26 May 8 to June 30, proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submit s 1950). Thelma Scearce______Secretary to senior 2, 907. 58 Gordon Grand, Jr ____ _ the following report showing the name, pro­ investigator. Minority adviser 5, 242. 50 Juliette Joray _ ------Secretary to clerk ___ _ 2, 473. 06 (P). fession, and total salary of each person em­ Susan Alice T aylor____ Minority stenogra- 2, 377. 68 ployed by it during the 6-month period from pher (0). January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, Funds authorized or appropriated for com- H arry P arker______Messenger __ ------], 381. 92 Sam Hardy_------_____ do ______1, 339. 80 together with total funds authorized or mittee expend itures------~ ------$350. 000. 00 Esmer Durham ______do ______1, 425. 42 appropriated and expended by it: H. R es. 78, Fr.b. 9, 1949 ______200, 000. 00 H. R es. 482, Mar. 23, 1950_ ------150, 000. 00 Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Total Amount of r.xpenditures previously re- mittee expenditures ___ ------$25, 000. 00 gross ported, December 1948 to December 1949_ _ 131, 267.11 Amount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, Name of employee Pro:ession salary Amount expended from Dec. 31, 1949, to during 1949_ ------19. 50 6-month June 30, 1950------104, 614. 51 Total amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1950______7, 074. 32 period Total amount expended from Decem- ber 1948 to June 1950 ______:: ______235, 881. G2 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950_ 17, 925. 68 Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950. ----- 114, 118. 38 Humphrey S. Shaw ___ Clerk ______$5, 380. 74 R. L. DOUGHTON, Merritt R. Kotin ___ __ Assistant clerk ______4, 551. 24 JOHN S. Woon, T. Howard Dolan _____ Assistant to the 2, 642. 04 Chairman. clerk. Chairman, Committee on Un-Ameri­ can Activities. Elliodor M. Libonati _ Stenographer-clerk __ 3, 018. 60 SELECT COMMITTEE ON LOBBYING ACTIVITIES J ane W. Snader ______Minority clerk ______3, 018. 60 COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS JULY 12, 1950. Tu the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: ADOLPH J. SABATH, JULY 11, 1950. The above-mentioned committee or sub­ Chairman. To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of The above-mentioned committee or sub· the Legislative Reorganization Act of 194.6, COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ JULY 13, 1950, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, proved August 2, 1946, as amended, sub:nits Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ the following report showing the name, pro­ To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits fession, and total salary of each person em­ · The above-mentioned committee or sub­ the following report showing the name, pro­ ployed by it during the 6-month period from committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of fession, and total salary of each person em.­ January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, ployed by it during the 6-month period from together with total funds authorized or Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ December 31, 1949, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, appropriated and expended by it: proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits together with total funds authorized or the following report showing the name, pro­ appropriated and expended by it: fession, and total salary of each person em­ Total gross ployed by it during the 6-month period from Total Name of employee Pro;ession salary December 31, 1949, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, gross during together with total funds authorized or G-montb Name of employee Profession salary ai:.propriated and expended by it: during period ~ 6-montb period Lucien Hilmer------Staff director ______Total $4, 194. 08 gross Thomas F. Flynn, Jr_ _ Assistant staff di­ 3, 418. 98 Ida Rowan______Chief clerk ______rector. salary $5, 422. 98 Louis Little ______L egal-investigative Name o ~cmployce Profession Edwin B. Patterson__ Professional aid ____ _ 5, 422. 98 4, 793.16 during staff. 6-month 5, 422. 98 D enedict F. Fitz- _____ do ______period 5, 422. 98 4, 482.12 Paul~~T~~~l~~~======K. Jones ______=====~g======Assistant clerk ______4, 551. 24 Gerald, Jr. Joseph M. Mannix ______do ______2, 708. 6(! Frances Montanye____ Clerk-stenographer__ 2, 448- 92 William Earl Griffin __ Clerk ______EMPLOYEES PAID BY Mary Schmidt Ponow ______do ______2, 424. 78 3, 004.14 VOUCHER . George J . 'l'urner______Assistant clerk ______2, 497. 20 Edward Hart_ __ ------R esearch consultan t. H8-86 Noah S. Sweat ______do ______1, 347. 05 Charles B . Holstein___ Research director __ _ 4, 482.12 Irene Salmans______Clerk-stenographer __ 325. 63 William A. Wheeler ___ Investigator ______$4, 447. 56 E va B. Hester ______do ______Courtney Owens ______do ______4, 171. TotaL ______------34, 961.11 858. 38 Charles E . McKillips ______do ______rs Vivien I. McConnelL ____ _do ______572. 93 3, 998. 22 Rose Mary B asile ______do ______WiUiam J. Jones ______do ______3, 998. 25 180. 84 Alvin Stokes ______do ______3, 963. 63 J. E. RANKIN, TotaL ______------29, 819. 89 Lillian Howard_------Research clerk_----- 2, 786. 88 Chairman. Belen Mattson ______do ______2, 931.18 M ary Ann Moffett______do ______2, 424. 78 Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Asselia Poore ______do ______3, 005. 76 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS Blanche McCa!L ______do ______2, 159. 29 mittee expenditures_ ------$85, 000. 00 Pearle Gay ______C lerk-stenographer ___ JULY 12, 1950. ---- 2, 304. 08 Amount of expenditures previously reported. 8, 525. 70 J ane Gordon ___ ~------___ __do ______2, 159. 29 Helen McCarthy______do ______T J the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Amount expended 1rom Jan. 1 to June 30, 2, 304. 08 1950 ______$21, ~77. 24 Lorraine Nichols ______do ______2, 424. 78 · The above-mentioned committee or sub­ Rose Sanko ______do ______2, 424_ 78 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Katherine Zimmer- _____ do ______Total amount expended from J an. 1 to 2, 497. 20 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, June 30, 1950______51, 097.13 man. Public. Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1950______25, 377. 17 Evelyn Hinshaw______Clerk-stcnogragl.:er 665. 77 (Mar. 20 through proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits FRANK BUCHANAN, I 31, 1950) . . the following report showing the name, pro- Chairman. 10906 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JULY 25 SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS As the bugles sound for the defense of printed in the RECORD at this point, in­ JUNE 30, 1950. precious things that are dearer than dicating the calendar number and the To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: life, out of the depths we cry unto Thee, bill number. The above-mentioned committee or sub­ Thou Kindl~ Light. Our anguished .The list is as follows: committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of hearts leap the seas to that far-away land Calendar No. 1817, S. 1800. the Legislativ~ Reorganization Act of 1946, where this very hour our own are con­ Calendar No. 1829, H. R. 1697. Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, ap­ tending so gallantly against the pagan Calendar No. i833, S. 3245. proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits powers of darkness. We pray that a Calendar No. 1834, S. 2484. the following report showing the name, pro­ sense of Thy presence may gird them as Calendar No. 1835, S. 2786. fession, and total salary of each person em­ Calendar No. 1837, S. 3109. ployed by it during the 6-month period from today they face unnumbered foes and in Calendar No. 1838, S. 3244. January 1, 1950, to June 30, 1950, inclusive, the tomorrows, when the gathering Calendar No. 1839, S. 3246. together with total funds authorized or might of freemen shall push back the Calendar No. 1840, S. 3687. appropriated and expended by it: ft.cod of ruthless aggression. We ask Calendar No. 1843, S. 3682. this in the calming assurance that con­ Calendar No. 1844, H. R. 7265. Total quer we must, Calendar No. 1845, H. R. 4390. gross Calendar No. 747, S. 1837. salary Name of employee Profession "For our cause it is just; Calendar No. 795, S. 2294. during Calendar No. 956, S. 17. 6-month And this be our motto: period In God do we trust." Calendar No. 968, H. R. 5647. Calendar No. 1272, H. R. 1056. We ask it in the dear Redeemer's name. Calendar No. 1596, H. R. 4653. Victor P. Dalmas ____ _ Executive director __ $5, 422. 98 Calendar No. 1813, 1260. Mildred Deen ______Stenographer ______1,888. 86 Amen. s. Otis Il. Ellis ______Special counsel for 2, 714. 46 THE JOURNAL Calendar No. 1744, H. R. 5372. petroleum (part Calendar No. 1106, H. R. 4815. time). On request of.Mr. McFARLAND, and by Calendar No. 1696, S. 858. Richard R. Haas ______Research assistant_ __ 1, 806. 82 Rowan F. Howard ___ _ Special investigator 399. 30 unanimous consent, the reading of the (May 1 to 15). Journal of the proceedings of Monday, Mr. WHERRY. Mr. President, reserv­ Inge Kaiser ______Research assistant 1, 171. 96 July 24, 1950, was ·dispensed with. ing the right to object, there is no objec­ 7 (Feb. 19 to May tion on the part of the minority to adding 15). MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT­ Joseph W. Kaufman._ Chief counsel______5,422. 98 these bills to the call of measures to be Eugene Kelly_------Research assistant 1, 263. 62 APPROVAL OF BILL called, to which there is no objection. (Jan. 1 to Feb. 28) . Arthur F. Lucas ______Economist- consult­ 525. 00 ·A message in writing from the Presi­ Of course, any Senator has the right to ant (various dates, dent of the United States was commu­ object to the consideration of any bill. Apr. 28 to June 30). nicated to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one However, I wish to ask the acting ma­ La Verne Maynard___ _ Stenographer ______2, 106.12 of his secretaries, and he announced that jority leader whether it is his intention Vernon A. Mund ____ _ Economist - consult- 425.00 to resist or object to the consideration ant (June 12 to 30). on July 24, 1950, the President had ap­ Bertha A. Padgett_ __ _ Secretary ______2,424. 78 proved and signed the act WRIGHT PATMAN, LEAVE OF ABSENCE bills, to which any Senator, of course, Chairman. On his own request, and by unanimous may object. consent, Mr. MILLIKIN was excused from The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob­ attendance on the sessions of the Senate jection to the unanimous-consent re­ until Wednesday of next week. quest of the Senator from Arizona? The SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING SENATE Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE BUSINESS TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1950 SESSION On request of Mr. McFARLAND, and by By unanimous consent, the following