8372 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April .~6, 1965 Albert E. Knauf, Jr. Anthony P . Pyrz His sacrifice, that we may live freely the Consent Calendar and the Private John W. Koletty Thomas A. Ridenour with joy and happiness amidst all the Calendar will be called today. Joseph P . Kosciusko Dennis J . Sellers glories of Thy creation. Amen. Richard E. Kramer Dennis A. Shantz The Clerk will call the first bill on the David B. Kuhn, Jr. Charles F. Shaw, Jr. Consent Calendar. Richard A. Leary Thomas R. Sheckells Anthony G. Livic Michael T. Shulick THE JOURNAL Gordon A. Long Grover C. Starling The Journal of the proceedings of SECTION 502 OF THE MERCHANT John A. Madia Jerry R. Stockton Thursday, April 22, 1965, was read and MARINE ACT David V. Mastran Francis P . Tantalo approved. Walter H. Oehrlein Thomas D. Thompson The Clerk called the bill (H.R. 4346) Richard M . Osgood, Terrence R. Tutchings to amend section 502 of the Merchant Jr. James R. Webb III MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Marine Act, 1936, relating to construc Karl J . Plotkin Richard G. Wirth tion differential subsidies. Frank J . Prokop Adolf H. Zabka A message in writing from the Presi The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Richard E. Pullen Andrew A. Zaleski II dent of the United States was communi the present consideration of the bill? The following midshipmen, U.S. Naval cated to the House by Mr. Geisler, one Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, reserving Academy, for appointment in the Regular of his secretaries, who also informed the the right to object, I would like to ask Air Force, in the grade of second lieutenant, House that on the following dates the someone how much longer it is antici effective upon their graduation, under the President approved and signed bills of pated it will be necessary to pay a 60- provisions of section 8284, title 10, United . the House of the following titles: percent subsidy for the construction of States Code. Date of rank to be determined On April 11, 1965: by the Secretary of the Air Force: passenger vessels and 55-percent sub H.R. 2362. An act to strengthen and im sidies for the construction of freight and Richard D. Bayer . Boyd K. Knowles prove, educational quality and educational Robert F. Cook Thomas 0. Koch opportunities in the Nation's elementary and other vessels. Robert D. Hennessy Bernd McConnell secondary schools. Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, let me Jan M. Jobanek Nicholas A. Paldino On April 16, 1965: say as chairman of the Committee on Henry B. Keese Furman E. Thomas H .R. 5721. An act to amend the Agricul Merchant Marine and Fisheries that the tural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, gentleman raises a very good question. to provide for acreage-poundage marketing If we are going to have an American quotas for tobacco, to amend the tobacco merchant marine, we are going to have HOUSE OF.REPRESENTATIVES price support provisions of the Agricultural to subsidize the construction of vessels Act of 1949, as amended, and for other and the operation of American-flag ves MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1965 purposes. On April 20, 1965: sels. So you can take your choice. We The House met at 12 o'clock noon. H.R. 4527. An act to authorize appropria recently held hearings and were advised Archbishop Hrant Katchadoorian, tions for procurement of vessels and aircraft by high officials of the Navy that the prelate of Armenians of North America, and construction of shore and offshore es American merchant marine was essen offered the following prayer: tablishments for the Coast Guard. tial to the operation of the national de fense. This bill is a continuation of the In the name of the Father, and of existing law. It extends it for 1 year. the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE It is just that plain, I say to my fine Almighty God, divine Guide of all na A message from the Senate by Mr. friend; we are going to have to have this tions and people, direct us along the path Arrington, one of its clerks, announced or we are just not going to construct any of justice and honor in the conduct of that the Senate had passed a bill of the more vessels. our daily affairs. Shower Thy blessings following title, in which the concurrence Mr. GROSS. Would the distinguished on this noble Nation so that it may con of the House is requested: · gentleman from North Carolina be able tinue to shine with a warm brilliance S. 327. An act to provide assistance· to the to give us any assurance that these sub amidst the darkening clouds of tyranny States of Oregon, Washington, California, sidies can be reduced in the foreseeable and oppression. Give of Thy eternal and Idaho for the reconstruction of areas future or must they continue at the high wisdom to the several Members of this damaged by recent floods and high waters. rate of 55 and 60 percent? august body, that they may be inspired The message also announced that the Mr. BONNER. There is a matter of toward a greatness of purpose, that they accelerating costs under the situations may be ennobled in the urgent search for Senate disagrees to the amendments of the House to the joint resolution (S.J. that now exist. The gentleman knows peace, freedom, and justice for all of what those costs are due to. mankind. Res. 1) entitled "Joint resolution propos ing an amendment to the Constitution of Mr. GROSS. In other words, if infla In particular, we beseech Thee, O God, tion continues in this country-- to be mindful of the Armenian people the United States relating to succession to the Presidency and Vice-Presidency Mr. BONNER. I do not think it is who this year sorrowfully commemorate inflation so . much. I think it is the the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom and to cases where the President is un able to discharge the powers and duties manner in which they operate with re of one and a half million Armenians in spect to labor contracts. the Turkish massacres of 1915. Mindful of his office," requests a conference with of the teachings of Thy Son, our Lord, the House on the disagreeing votes of the Mr. GROSS. Of course, inflation and Jesus Christ, we ask not for retribution two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. increasing costs enter into that. or vengeance but for repentance and BAYH, Mr. EASTLAND, Mr. ERVIN, Mr. Mr. BONNER. If you want to call that redemption. The Armenians have suf DIRKSEN, and Mr. HRUSKA to be the con inflation then, of course, that is your fered too long the pain of tyranny and ferees on the part of the Senate. privilege. I am not opposed to unionism, oppression. They, too, wish to share in but we do have a difficult time keeping Thy most precious gifts of liberty and our ships and our merchant marine COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND operating. We have difficulty on the justice. Their once joyous land, that CURRENCY nation of Christian warrors, O Lord, is shore side as well as the floating side. now but a barren wasteland of sad and Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask So, I feel very much concerned about painful memories. Grant that they and unanimous consent that the Committee this. I know we must have these ships Thy other homeless children be soon on Banking and currency have permis and I know the position of the gentle given the hope and re~lity of freedom. sion to sit today while the House is in man from Iowa. We pray, Almighty God, that never session, during general debate. Mr. GROSS. One further question: again on this earth will the horror of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Are the American shipyard owners genocide afflict any of Thy children. the request of the gentleman from Okla spending any money to modernize the Spare them, through Thy divine inter homa? shipyards of this country to meet the cession, the pain and grief which we try There was no objection. modernization and lower costs of foreign to forget but in our human weakness yards? cannot. Mr. BONNER. If the gentleman will Grant to all of the nations of the CONSENT CALENDAR yield further, I believe ,we have good family of mankind, the compassion and The SPEAKER. · Pursuant to the management in our American yards. I love which Thy Son offered to us through unanimous-consent request of April 14, believe they have modern equipment. April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8373 They have tried to stay abreast of the Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Mr. HALL. The gentleman feels it advance in technology and engineering. will the gentleman yield? would not have any effect on the general The gentleman from Iowa can visit the Mr. HALL. I yield to the gentleman laws administered by the Veterans' Ad yards themselves. I would be delighted from Texas. ministration, and the enlistment or en to have the gentleman go with us some Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, rollment in the military or naval service, time. The gentleman served on this this bill does one very simple thing. An selection by the draft, or the length of committee and he knows our problems in American citizen up in the hills of Ar time served in a capacity other than in connection with this matter. kansas was ordered to an induct~on sta time of emergency or war. Mr. GROSS. Is the gentleman from tion to be inducted into the armed serv Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. No, sir; it North Carolina speaking of foreign yards ices. On the way to this induction sta does not change that in any way, form or the domestic yards in extending to the tion he was involved in a bus wreck and or fashion. gentleman from Iowa that invitation? was injured. Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the Mr. BONNER. Under the prevailing The Veterans' Administration says he gentleman yield? arrangements we did help build some has a service-connected disability and Mr. HALL. I yield to the gentleman very nice foreign yards. But it is not the they pay him service-connected disabil from Iowa. yard itself, but the cost of material and ity. But he does not have a discharge Mr. GROSS. What would happen in the necessary manpawer t,o construct the because he was never inducted and the the event an enlistee or inductee lost vessels. Civil Service Commission will not give his life in an automobile accident in re Mr. GROSS. I thank the gentleman him veterans' preference. porting to a center for induction into from North Carolina for his explanation. This bill proposes to do that one single the service? Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation thing of granting to this man a service Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. I do not of objection. connected rating as far as the Civil think this bill changes that at all. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Service Commission is concerned. Mr. GROSS. Would he be covered by the present consideration of the bill? It does not affect the 90-day rule and the bill? it does not affect the 6-month inductee Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. He should be There was no objection. or anything of that nature. As far as covered, but he is not. This is strictly The Clerk read the bill, as follows: our committee knows it only applies to a civil service bill. He should be cov H.R. 4346 one person. ered, in my opinion. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, if I may Mr. HALL. Is there any need for Representatives of the United States of query further, it would of course, estab haste in connection with this legisla America in Congress assembled, That the Ush the tradition and the precedent for tion? Because of lack of full informa proviso in the second sentence of subsection tion and study immediately after the (b) of section 502 of the Merchant Marine future similar instances whether they Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1152(b) ), is are inductees or the man is being in Easter recess, I am prone to ask that amended by striking out "June 30, 1965," and ducted and traveling from the hills of this bill be passed over without preju inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1966." Arkansas to an induction center in the dice. On the other hand, I do not mean hills of Missouri, is that correct? by that, as one of the official objectors, The bill was ordered t,o be engrossed Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. That is I want to get a rule or want it to come and read a third time, was read the third correct. Here is one department of the up on the Consent Calendar. I want to time, and passed, and a motion to recon Government saying that he is service be for this legislation if it is needed. I sider was laid on the table. connected and another branch saying · happen to be the only one who Qas had no. If a man is to be inducted and on an oppartunity to review it as much as the way to his induction center he is in I have. BENEFITS FOR DISABILITY IN LINE jured, there should be some disability al Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. There is a OF DUTY lowance made. degree of haste in that one of our col The Clerk called the bill (H.R. 3413) Mr. HALL. Does the gentleman have leagues has recommended this man to to amend section 106 of title 38 of the any further comment on his being given be postmaster in his hometown. I United States Code to provide that indi a 5-Point or a 10-paint preference? thought every Member on that side had viduals who incur a disability in line of Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Yes, he would been contacted during this situation, duty during certain service shall be en be given 10 points. and had it explained. That gentleman titled to certain veterans' benefits. Mr. HALL. Part of the objection of is not on the floor today. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the Civil Service Commission is that he Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani the present consideration of the bill? would have five paints more than another mous consent that this bill be passed over Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, reserving individual might have. without prejudice. the right to object, I would like to ask Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. He has no nie SPEAKER. Is there objection to the honorable chairman of the Commit veteran preference today. He is not the request of tl:le gentleman from tee on Veterans' Affairs, the gentleman considered to be a veteran. Missouri? from Texas [Mr. TEAGUE], about the Mr. HALL. But he is going from zero There was no objection. Civil Service Commission being opposed to 10 over those who have only 5 points. to this bill and so reported in the hear Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. If a man has EXEMPTION OF POSTAL FIELD ing on the same, on the basis that this a service-connected disability he gets 10 · SERVICE FROM SECTION 1310 OF represents five more points than a non points, and if he is simply a veteran he SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION disabled ex-serviceman receives for a would get only 5 points. ACT, 1952 rating on examination. Secondly, with Mr. HALL. Let me clarify this a little The Clerk called the bill Mr.' .GROSS. So theTe is a restric- . Mr. GROSS. ,l\1r. •Speaker, reserving ments: r \ . l j tion that would prohibit that? the right to object, I should like to ask ,Page 1, line 8, after "land," strike out ,Mr. DULSKI. ·Yes, there is. someone knowledgeable about this pill, "of" and insert "or". . Mr. GROSS .. I thank the gentleman. why there should be a $500,.000 cost if Page 2, after line 4, add ·a new section Mr. HALL. Further reserving the some 300 acres of land are being do reading as follows: · right to object, Mr. Speaker, I under-, nated? , ·: SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be stand, and this question is analogous to , Mr. . MORRlS. Mr. Speaker,. wiJl the appropriated isuch sums~ ,but not· more than the one asked by the gentleman from gentleman yield? - 1 , 1 $500,000, as are required :(or construction of, Iowa, that this will release the- Post Mr. GROSS. I am happy to yield ·to facilities and excavation and stabilization Office so far ·as nonpostal agencies are the gentleman. , . of the ruins 'in the Pecos National Monu concerned, but is there anything known Mr. MORRIS. The cost is going, to be ment up.der' this Act. about the other agencies insof.at as the for the restoration and development o~ The committee amendments · were administration plans ave concerned fot the Indian pu_eplo. 'I'l).e.land will be free, agreed to. ·1 r filling these specific positions when 'they The pueblos are to be rrestored like tqey The bill was ordered to be engrossed are vacated, and which nonpostal agen were in the 13th century., There will be and read a third time·, was read the third cies may fill? What would be the overall no cost for the land.· , time, and passed, and a motion to recon cost to. the taxpayers? Mr. GRO.SS.- There is going t9 be a sider was ·laid on ~he, table. Mr. DULSKL Relating ito the posi c~t of $60,000 -a year on top of ,that, EliP~ tions; in 1966 there will be a decrease in parently, and that seems to be a little positions from the 44, 728 if the "trend hl~. , . AUTHORIZI~G CERTAIN MEMBERS continues. Mr. MORRIS. It is going to be a part OF THE ARMED FORCES TO AC Mr. HALL. That is a decrease in the of the national park system. It will original number to be I requested?·, , come under the same type of .treatment CEPT AND WEAR DECORATIONS Mr. DULSKI. That nis I correct, ,·as so far as fees and other items are con OF CERTAIN .FOREIGN NATIONS shown on page 2 of the report. ce:rmed as other units of the national The Clerk called the bill (H.R. 3045) Mr. HALL. Does the gentleman have park system. The $60,000 is the esti to authorize I C~rtain members of the any information about whether other mated cost ·of operation and mainte Armed Forces to accept and wear decora agencies will take up this slack thereby nance of the facilities and with reference tions of !certain foreign nations. . J • to the regular prpjects that are held in created? The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. DULSKI. That is the positions all naqonal park installations. 1 shown on page 2 of the report. Mr. GROSS. They are not going to the present consideration of the bill? Mr: HALL. I have read this. As I put hot and cold running water in those Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, reserving understand it, the cost has not .been pueblos, are they, at a cost of $500,000? the right to object, this is strictly limited extended to the tax·payers? The com Mr. MORRIS. ,No, sir. I do not be to the war in Vietnam; is it not?, mittee in rits report ·-states that higher lieve ,the . pueblos had ,that in the 13th Mr. PHILBIN. The gentlem·an is cor.:. rates per hour can be expected ·to offset century. rect-that is right. , a smaller increase in the miinpower, but , Mr. GROSS. I doubt it too. But . I Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I with~ there is no estimate indicated. cannot quite understand why it should draw my reservation of objection. •· Mr. DULSKI. I do not · have any cost $500,000 with the land being doT The SPEAKER. Is there objection to definite figures, but the last three lines nated. These pueblos must· be getting the present consideration of the bill? of the report sh0w there will be some quite expensive as have a great many There being no objeGtion, the Cl~rk additional cost. r, . things in the Great ·Society. , read the bill, as follows: Mr. HALL: I withdraw my reserva.: Mr. MORRIS. This1 pueblo is in a H.R. 30~5 tfon of objection, Mr. Speaker. rather isolated part ' of tlr>.e ·country or Be it enacted by the Senate ·. ,and House The SPEAKER. Is there' objection .to relatively so at least. But there is no of Repres~ntatives of ~he United, States of the present consideration of the bill? construction cost involved and the fig America in Congress assembled, That, sub! There being no objection, the Clerk ures are on the basis of being a little bit ject to such regulations as may be pre read the bill, as follows:. · scribed by the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, higher than they would be in places Air Force, and Treasury, members and for.:. H.R. 6622 ·r where there is a great deal of construc mer members of the Armed Forces of the · Be it er,fLcted by the Sena,te and House .of tion activity. But there is no intention United States- holding any of\ice ,of profit or Representatives of the United States of of having any elaborate structures built trust under the Uniyed States, who. have America in Congres3 assembled, That (a) and they are just going to try to recreate served, subsequent to February 28, 1961, in section 1310(a) of the Supplemental Appro the pueblos as they were in the 13th Vietnam and such of the waters or lands priation Act, 1952, as amended (5 U.S.C. 43, adjacent thereto as may be designated by the note), is amended by striking out "That in century. respective Secretaries; are authol'ized, dur creases in the number of perm:anent person Mr.• GROSS. Mr: Speaker,- I • with ing any period in which members of . the nel in the Postal Field Service not exceeding draw my reservation of objection. Armed Forces of the United, States are ser.:v• 10 per centum above the tot.al number of its ,The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ing with friendly foreign forces engaged -in permanent employees on September 1, 1950, the present consideration of ,the bill? · an armed conflict in :Vietnam against an op shall not °Qe c~a,rgeable to this limitation: ·There being no objection, the Clerk posing armed force in ;which. t1te · United And provided further,". read the bill, as follows.: States, is not a belligerent partY,, or. during (b) Section 1310 of· such Act, as amended any perio~-of hostilities in Vietnam in which (5 u.s.c. ' 43, note), is amended; by adding 1·1 ' '·R.R. •3165 r l . 1 the United States' may be ' engaged, and for at the end thereof the following subsection: Be 'it enacted by the Senate and House of one year thereafter, to accept from the' Gov• "(f) This section shall not apply to the Representatives <>f the United States of ernment of the Republic of Vietnam or from postal field service of the Post Office De America in Congress assembled, That, in the government of any other foreign nation partment.". order to set apa.rt and preserve tor the benefit whose personnel are ,serving in Vietnam iq. and enjoyment of the Am~rican people a site the cause Qf the Go ernment of the Republic; of Vietnam, such decoration!;!, oraers,. and ,The bill was ordered to be ,engrossed of e~c.~~ional h1ist9ric a:q(\ archeological im and read a third time, was read the third portance, the Secretary of the Interior may emblems as may' be tendered them for sucfi accept ori. behalf of the United States 'the service, and w;hich are conferred by such gov~ time, and passed, and a motion to recon dona'tion of approximately three hundred and ernments upon members of their own mili sider was laid on the table. forty.:two ll,Cres of land, of interests therein, tary forces. 'For purposes of this Act the including the remains and artifacts of •the consentr of Congress required in accordance seventeenth century Spanish ·mission , and with claus~. 8 of i,ection 9, article I of ,the PECOS NATIONAL MONUMENT, ancien~ Indian pueblo p.ear Pee<:¥, New ¥ex C,onstitution i_s hereby granted. ~ubject to ico, for administration.as the Pecos National such regulations as may be P,r~scribed by thy · N. MEX. Monument. · Secretary concerned, any such member or The Clerk called the· bill (H.R. 3165) ' SEC. 2. The Secretary shall administer, pro former member holding any office or' profit or to. authorize the establishment of the tect, and develop the national monument in trust under the United States 'is' authorized April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8375 to wear any decoration, order, or emblem ac I The joint resolution was ordered to be There being no objection, the Clerk cepted pursuant to authority in this· Act. engrossed and read a third time, was read the bill, as follows: The bill was ordered to be engrossed read the third time, and passed, arrd1 a H.R. 1356 and read a third time, was read the third motion to reconsider was laid on the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of time, and passed, and' a motion to re table. Representatives of the United States of consider was laid on the table. r : America in Congress assembled, That, not withstanding any period of1 lim,ita,tions or CODIFICATION OF GENERAL AND lapse of time, claim for credit or refund of PERMANENT LAWS RELATING TO any overpayment of income taxes for the AUTHORIZING THE DISPOS1\L OF DECEDENTS' ESTATES AND FIDU taxable year 1953 made by Johanna Gris RAW SILK AND SILK NOILS FROM tede, late of Scarsdale, New York, may, be ·cIARY RELATIONS .' IN THE DIS filed by the estate of Johanna Gristede, de THE NATIONAL STOCKPILE TRICT OF COLUMBIA-PART III, ceased, at any time within one year after the The Clerk called the concurrent reso DISTRICT 0F COLUMBIA CODE date of the enactment of this Act. The pro lution (H. Con. Res. 100) expressing the visions of sections 322 (b), 3774, and 37r76 of approval of Congress for the disposal of The Clerk called the bill (H.R. 4465) to the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 sh~ll not raw silk and silk noils from the national enact' part III of the District of Colum apply to the cr~dit or refund of any OV!3rpay stockpile. · Ma Code, entitled "Decedents' Estates m~nt of tax with respect to which a claim is The SPEAKER. Is there· objection to and Fiduciary Relations," codifying the filed pursuant to this Act within such one- general and permanent laws relating' to year period. ' ' the present consideration of the concur I rent resolution? decedents' estates and fiduciary relations The bill was ordered to be engrossed There was no objection. in the District of Columbia. ' and read a third time, was read the third The SPEAKER. Is there objection to time, and passed, and a motion to recon The Clerk read the concurrent resolu the present consideration of the bill.? tion, as follows : sider was laid on the table. . { Mr. HALL. Mr. , Speaker, reserving H. CON. RES. 100 the right to object, and I shall not object. Resolved qy the House of Representatives I simply want to state prior ·to putting CWO ELDEN R. COMER (the Senate concurring), That the Congress over this bill because of failure of' com expressly approves, pursuant to section 3(e) The Clerk called the bill Jr • .fl .! .., . •JJCl' ( I •JC ... f ' '', ',l. J.,·,v ;.''J1 ' 'J iU • !( I !I q, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 26, 1965 The SPEAKER. Is there objection They look at it this way: The present ro medical bills. They can go buy that washing to the request of the gentleman from bust economy is expected to slow somewhat machine instead of saving it for an in the second half of this year. It will be operation." California? given a stimulus by expected higher social There was no objection. security cash payments and excise tax cuts. Mr. DYAL. Mr. Speaker, yesterday but whether that can maintain the present PONTOOK FLOOD-CONTROL AND · marked the 17th anniversary since Prime momentum is debatable. WATER PROJECT A BOON TO Minister Ben Gurion, standing in the art On next January 1, according to the bill GRANITE STATE museum at Tel Aviv in 1948, declared the passed by the House and now awaiting Sen establishment of an independent state of ate action, payroll tax increases to finance Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina. Israel and the return of the exiles to higher social security benefits and hospital Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that land. His declaration was followed care for the aged will go into effect. They that the gentleman from New Hampshire will take money out of circulation at the rate [Mr. CLEVELAND] may extend his remarks by recognition of President Truman and of about $5 billion a year. the United States of America. at this point in the RECORD and include But medicare payments for hospitalization extraneous matter. My travel in that land causes me to would not begin until July 1966 so for at day to compliment the people of Israel least 6 months the Government will be draw The SPEAKER. Is there objection to and their leaders for wresting the land ing considerably more money out of the the request of the gentleman from North from its barrenness and bringing produc economy than social security improvements Carolina? tivity. These people are planting 10 mil can pour back into it. Less take-home pay There was no objection. lion trees a year in a formerly desolate means less money to buy goods and less in Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Speaker, it and ravaged land. The mortality rate of centive for business to expand-the exact was a pleasure today to be able to inform ·these trees is in excess of 20 percent, but opposite of the effect the 1964 tax cut was my constituents that the first and most designed to produce. ·major hurdle has been cleared and they they are continuing to create new soil by "It ls a problem," said an official at the these conservation methods. President's Council of Economic Advisers. can look forward to construction of the I witnessed the accomplishment of "We are keenly aware of it. The economy $56 million Pontook flood-control and bringing water from Lake Huleh to the will be given substantial stimulus the second water conservation project in northern Negev. They are determined to fulfill half of this year. But if the economic mo New Hampshire. the ancient promise that "the desert m entum slows. pulling that much money This project has been approved by the out of circulation the first half of next year New England division, U.S. Army Engi shall blossom as the rose." could hurt." Israel's early leaders got the vision of neers and sent to Washington for final AWARE OF FACTORS action by the Army and the Congress. Theodor Herzl in his Judenstaat that "a The administration was aware of these fac home would be created secured by public tors when the political decision was made to As a member of the Public Works Com law." Some of the early leaders going push the blll. The effective dates in the mittee, I shall do everything I can to into history are Chaim Weitzman, David House blll for increases in benefits and taxes bring this project to fruition. Ben Gurion, Izhak Ben-Zvi, and others. were those spelled out in the President's It is going to mean a tremendous eco New leadership seems just much im January budget. nomic boost to the northern part of the bued with a desire for freedom and the To partially offset any deflationary effect, . Granite State and, because of its con principles of democracy. This little na the administration has said it will ask for trol of flooding on the Androscoggin tion has shown leadership and compe .a $1.75 billion annual reduction in excise River. it will be of immense value to the taxes, though economists are divided on the State of Maine as well. tence in the free world. econon,.lc stimulus from such tax cuts, which Our recent program of assistance in are n(>t reflected in pay checks. I have been urging this project for a the further exploration of desalination of There is heavy pressure from affected in long time and its approval by the Divi sea water indicates our continuing inter dustries-such as autos and communica sion Engineers is most gratifying. ests in their welfare. tions-to blow the excise tax bill up to a re The Pontook project, as recommended I desire to join other Members of the duction of at least $2.5 blllion and perhaps by the Engineers. will consist of a multi Congress in extending compliments on more than $4 billion. The impending social ple-purpose storage reservoir with a -the anniversary. security tax increase doubtless will be used as rockfill, main dam in Dummer and a an argument for it. Secretary of the Treas small, earthfill reregulating dam in ury Henry H. Fowler felt compelled to urge Milan. There would be a 135,000-kilo THE NEW MEDICARE TAX last weekend in his first speech in office that the excise tax bill be held within "prudent" watt power facility at the main dam but, Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina. limits. it should be noted, private development Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent There has been some talk of taking further of power is not ruled out. Recreation that the gentleman from California [Mr. steps to cushion the impact of next year's facilities would be provided along the · · •:YOUNGER] may extend his remarks at tax increases. One proposal has been to put shoreline of the 10-square-mile power this point in the RECORD and include the tax in.creases into effect more gradually, pool created by the main dam for swim extraneous matter. or even delay them until medicare payments ming, picnicking, camping, boating, The SPEAKER. Is there objection to begin. But this runs into opposition from hunting, and fishing. About 23,000 acres, tlie request of the gentleman from North many, including original battlers for social including land and water areas, would Carolina? · security. that the fund must be kept actu be acquired for the project. There was no objection. arially sound so that it can pay its way. Mr. YOUNGER. Mr. Speaker, already BIGGER REFUNDS the administration seems to have some Apparently no action has been decided on NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE URGES -doubts about the effect of the medicare now beyond excise tax cuts. And not all STAMP TO HONOR ABIEL ABBOT, bill which was steamrolled through the economists are convinced the payroll tax in FREE LIBRARY PIONEER House and on which no hearings had crease will pose a serious problem. been held. Even the new Secretary of A Treasury economist said the second step Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina. the Treasury Department, in an inter of the income tax cut, now in effect, will mean Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent view on "Meet the Press" yesterday, bigger refunds next spring and this wm help that the gentleman from New Hampshire seemed to express some doubts about the take up some possible slack. He also noted [Mr. CLEVELAND J may extend his remarks $6 billion tax involved in the new·medi that the last increase in social security taxes, at this point in the RECORD and include in 1963, had no effect on the economy extraneous matter. care bill. This is well pointed up by an though then the income tax cut was antici article prepared by Richard L. Lyons, The SPEAKER. Is there objection to pated and business had. received other tax the request of the gentleman from North which appeared recently in the Wash benefits. ington Post. The article by Mr. Lyons Nelson H. Cruikshank, AFL-CIO economist Carolina? follows: and a longtime battler for social security, There was no objection. PAYROLL TAX UP- MEDICARE COULD SLOW said he was convinced there was nothing to Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Speaker, the ECONOMY worry about. free public library system, which is ac (By Richard L. Lyons) "They neglect the psychological factor," he cepted generally throughout our country Now that the long-fought medicare fight said of his economist colleagues. "There will today, has not always been with us. Its appears won, some administration econo be a release of purchasing power when older beginnings occurred over 100 years ago mists are jittery about its possible depres people and young people responsible for old in the New Hampshire town of Peter sive impact on the economy next year. people are relieved of the anxieties of big borough, where, in 1833, the Reverend April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8381 Abiel Abbot founded the first, tax Mr. MIZE. Mr. Speaker, when I was Kansas. The fact that Kansas industry is supported free public library in the in Kansas last week, I had an op growing and prospering is evident in the world. This interest and leadership in portunity to participate in a luncheon at record expansion program in services and facilities planned by the Southwestern Bell the education and enlightenment of its Manhattan, Kans., in recognition of In Telep;tione Co. ·citizens has continued to be characteris dustry Appreciation Week. · This was While Kansas ranks sixth in the Nation as tic of the State of New Hampshire. one of several such observances held a farm State-it ·is rapidly coming to the This year, 1965, marks the 200th anni throughout the State to call attention to front as an industrial State. The emphasis versary of the birth of this forward the progress Kansas is making in balanc this week on saluting existing industry is looking clergyman who was to set a pat- ing its farm · economy with sound in long overdue . • Too often, people tend to ·tern for the .world to follow-a pattern dustrial development. think of industrial development only in to which nearly all of us owe our fa At the start of Industry Appreciation terms of bringing in somebody new from out side. It is well for Kansas to take stock this miliarity with the world's literary heri Week, Thad M. Sandstrom, general man week of the many fruits of our years of _tage. The many hours of our childhood ager of radio and television station labor--of the tremendous accomplishments spent in the wonderland of books and WIBW, Topeka, Kans., delivered an in the State-of the great growth Kansas has the enlightenment, enjoyment, and wid editorial on the importance of taking enjoyed. No finer example exists than the ening of our horizons which we have note of Kansas' place in the sun. I am Goodyear plant in Topeka-which is growing found all our lives between the covers of sure my colleagues will be just as im ·.and expanding because Kansas people are books, have been made available to us pressed as I am over the outstanding hard working people-and Goodyear has ,through· our public library system. found the Topeka plant to be most produc list of accomplishments which make tive. ,Industry can expand and provide more · Mr. Speaker, the State of New Hamp Kansas the great State. Under leave to jobs only if it is located in a State which has shire has not forgotten the debt we owe extend my remarks, I include this WIBW a healthy business climate-a State in which Rev. Abiel Abbot. The New Hampshire editorial to appear in the RECORD at this the .people recognize the fact that govern House of Representatives recently point: · ment produces no jobs--that the only source adopted a ,resolution urging the Nation WIBW NEws EDITORIAL, No. 28, APRIL 18, 1965 of wealtn in this country is from private in vestment. In short-business must be ,able to·honor this man by means of·a suitable (By Thad M. Sandstrom) postage stamp. Under unanimous con to make a profit if it is to exist. The only , This week has been designated by Gover way in which Kansas can create new jobs is to sent, I off er a copy of a letter from the nor Avery as Industry Appreciation Week. encourage existing industry to expand and clerk of the New Hampshire House of The Topeka Chamber of Commerce is spon make the State so attractive that new indus Representatives ·transmitting the text of sorinf; a luncheon Wednesday noon at the ex try Will want to locate within the borders of .this resolution: position center at the Mid-America Fair Kansas. STATE OF NEW liAMPSHmE, grounds to honor Kansas industry. The We salute the industries of Kansas. We are HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 'Manhattan Chamber of Commerce is having proud to have them. They help nfake Kansas Concord, N.H., April 21, 1965. a similar luncheon Wednesday noon where a great State in which to live, work, and play. Congressman CHESTER MIZE will speak, and It's great to be a Kansan . .Hon. JAMfS G. CLEVELAND, there will be others around the State. House Office Building, Sometimes we tend to forget what we have Washington, D.C. in Kansas. Almost everyone knows that Kan DEAR MR. CLEVELAND: The following con sas is the No. 1 wheat State in the Nation CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY current resolution was offered by Mr. Brown, and Kansas produces 50 percent more wheat The SPEAKER. Under previous order of Peterborough, on Tuesday, April 20, 1965, than the second leading State. But, here are of the House, the gentleman from Geor and on a viva voce vote the resolution was just a -few of the other things of which Kan ·adopted by the house of representatives. gia [Mr. WEt.TNER] is recognized for 30 sas can be proud. Kansas has a livestock and minutes. "CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ISSUING A STAMP IN meat packing industry that pumps nearly $1 COMMEMORATION OF THE FmsT FREE PuBLIC billion annually into the Kansas economy. Mr. WELTNER. Mr. Speaker, today LIBRARY IN THE W, ORLD _Kansas ranks third among the 50 States in is April 26. Up north that date is mean "Whereas the first free public library in the total miles of highway, roads, and streets. ingless, but to some of us who iive in the world supported by taxation was founded in Kansas is exceeded only by California - and Old Confederacy, it has a mystical, 1833 in the town of Peterborough, N.H.; and Texas-a great credit to the job done by the magical aura. For it is Confederate "Whereas December 14, 1965, will be the Kansas highway commission over the years. Memorial Day. I do not know how that 200th anniversary of the -birth of the Rev Kansas is the fifth leading State in the Unit day is celebrated in other Southern erend Abiel Abbot whose inspiration .made ed States in oil.production. The largest farm States. In mine, it is rapidly falling into this library possible: Therefore be it machinery plant in Kansas is at Hesston and it ranks among the 10 largest in the country. disuse. A few years ago, there was al "Resolved by the house of representatives ways a big speaking--often in connection (the senate concurring), That we, the mem One of the world's largest and longest grain b~rs of the 1965 General Court of New Hamp elevators is at Hutchinson-not to mention with ·ceremonies in the small Confederate shire, respectfully request the President of hundreds of other grain elevators of enormous cemeteries. Now, the speakers and the the United States and the Postmaster. Gen capacities at Topeka, Salina, Wichita, and hearers are fewer and older. Many of eral of these _United States to issue a suitable elsewhere around the State. Big Brutus, one the old cemeteries have sunk under the commemorative stamp ,on the anniversary of of the world's largest electric shovels, works ravages of weeds and time, of change and the birth of Rev. Abiel Abbot; and be it in the coal mining area around Pitt.sburg in progress. Confederate Memorial Day is, further southeastern Kansas. Eighty percent of the Nation's helium capacity is in Kansas, and for many, just a "day off" for State em "Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be the largest helium extraction plant in the ployees. And, because the capitol and forwarded to the President of the United world is near Liberal. One out of every six courthouses are closed, it is sometimes States, the Postmaster General, and to our loaves of bread baked in the United States is Senators and Representatives in Congress." considered a nuisance to the impatient made from Kansas flour. Wichita is the air who must wait for tomorrow to transact Sincerely yours, capital of the world and 70 percent of the FRANCIS W. TOLMAN, .world's private aircraft are made in Kansas. their business. Clerk. Hugoton is near the centei: of the largest I, for one, regret its declining signif natural gas field in the world. There are 43 icance. For it should be a day of deep INDUSTRY APPRECIATION WEEK IN colleges and universities in the State. meaning to our Nation, to the South, Kansas is one of the Nation's leading and to the age-old struggle of men to KANSAS EMPHASIZES MANY OF States in man-made lakes. The Kansas win, in their lifetime, some measure of THE REASONS WHY KANSAS IS · Turnpike, which stretches 236 miles from freedom. THE GREAT STATE Kansas City to the Oklahoma line, is the Like most southerners, I love the tales fourth largest toll road in the Nation. Kan Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina. sas is the leading State in the Nation in the of glory that hover around and about the ·Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent manufacture of mobile homes and camper mighty efforts of our great-grandfathers. that the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. type trailers. In Topeka, the Goodyear plant The scenes of those battles and their MIZE] may extend his remarks at this is the largest Goodyear installation anywhere relics have for me a deep fascination. point in the RECORD· and include ex in the world under one roof. The Fleming Truly, there were mighty men in those traneous matter. Co. is perhaps the best known and most re 'days. There were men who did not st.op spected name in the field of independent to figure the odds, or to count the cost. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to wholesale grocery · merchandising in the the request of the gentleman from North United States today. The Santa Fe-the best And there were great victories at Ma Carolina? · run and best managed railroad in the Na nassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellors There was no objection. tion--continues to add more employees in ville. 8382 CONGRESSIONAL, RECORD - HOUSE April 26, 196'5 But Confederate Memorial Day does Ku Klux Klan, soon to enter upon its When we are just, we do not harm not come on the. anniversary of those second century of dishonor. through neglect the aging. bygone struggles, ndr of the formation History, for these men, stopped at And this is nothing new. of the Conf ed'erate States of America, Manassas. · For them, Appomattox Indeed, our nati:onal purpose is•no new nor of secession. , Toda~, April 26, was never occurred. , thing, nor need our ·Government seek not the beginning, ,nor the high point But history moves nonetheless, and new bench marks. · of the .Confederacy." It was the end of we sh.ould try to learn from it. Other It is the old ideal, as yet unrealized, that dark and bloody war. It memo:.. wise, as it has been said, we are con that we must follow. rializes the last defeat of the Confedera.te demned to relive it. Our goal must be "All men are created equal." Is that forces. It was the end of the trail, it was in accord with its moving tide. The pre not the standard to which we must re the final act in a great national tragedy. amble of the Constitution declares its pair ·in the racial struggle? One hundred years ago today it was all purpose to form. "a more perfect "Love thy neighbor." Have we the over. Lee had already surrendered. Union." wit and the will to achieve this for the Now the last battle had been lost. The Here is' a goal worthy of the· most nations of the world? Federal forces had won. The Confed- astute statesman, the most gifted · And so, as one people, we seek justice. erates had lost. 1 scholar, the most dedicated citizen. Justice for men and · women, justice for That war proved many things. It And this, I believe, should be the goal of races, .and justice for nations. • ) established forever a new group of na our great Nation. 1 These are not new goals, but there are tional heroes, who will live for so long as Without the intellect of Jefferson, the new paths leading to them. We neetl the Reputilic stands. It prov.ed the valor new Republic would have soon subsided imagination. We need ideas-ideas and courage of the men and the women into a constitutional monarchy, with that flash and crackle. We need vibrant of the South. It proved that those qual hereditary titles, and all the waste and minds and electric spirits. ities in themselves can overcome, for a mockery of a nobility. Without the de You and I can see our old dream at time, seemingly insuperable odds. And termination of Jackson, the Republic last a, reality1 We can build a republic it proved, as Mr. Lincoln had said, that might well have become an oligarchy, str.ong and·secure against every foe, yet this Nation cannot endure half slave and ruled by giant and corrupt money in charitable rand, generous to the world. half free. It proved that the Union terests. Without the dre·am of Wilson, We can build a nation that is rich and must prevail. our Nation would never have shaken off prosperous, yet ever mindful of those Now, that was 1,00 years ago. The Re the cocoon of isolationism nor ever been who do not share in the rewards of that public has weathered many storms in its ready to assume the burden and the prosperity. We can build a nation histopr, but none so violent as those 4 great opportunities of world leadership. where every citizen is limited in his periloue years from 1861 to 1865. And Without the genius of Roosevelt, the toils achievement solely by the bounds of his we have seen many crises come and go of a grinding depression might violently own ambition and determination. since the last shot was fired in 1865. and disastrously have altered our form of We can build, in this day and genera· But none so deadly as that. government into some strange and alien tion, a just nation, and a more perfect I think it not inappropriate at this thing that surely would have destroyed union. · ' · occasion to refer to the moving events our liberties. Without the grit of Tru And 'in so >doing, we will take with us, of a century ,ago. , We Americans pride man, communism may well have envel as Lee so nobly'stated it a hundred year;; ourselves .on looking forward, on serving oped all of Europe, and later, all of Asia. ago, "satisfaction· that proceeds from the future, on viewing the road ahead. Without the vision of John Kennedy, the consciousness of duty faithfully .per Yet, there is much we can learn from the formed." past. The War Between the States country would still be in its state of drift, holds a great lesson-as yet not quite never approaching full use of its marvel learned-for us in the South. It is sim ous and varied natural and human re CHAIRMAN PATMAN CHALLENGES ply this: We are one Nation, one Union, sources. Without his courage, we might CONSERVATIVES TO GET BEHIND today have found ourselves isolated to HI$ NEW BILL WHICH WOULD RE inseparable and indivisible. The needs one-half of our hemisphere, with all of Georgia are the concern of the Nation. South America a giant outpost of com DUCE THE FEDERAL DEBT BY $30 And the needs·of the Nation are the con- BILLION AND ANNUAL "INTEREST cern of Georgia. , , munism; And without the steadiness and peerless ability of Lyndon Johnson, PAYMENTS '. BY $1.2 BIL~ON , • One hundred. years ago the Nation was 1 split asunder over the question of slav we may never have come through that The SPEAKER. Under previous order ery. It is to our shame that we tried to dark and foreboding day in November of the House, the gentleman from Texas justify and defend the pr~>Position that 1963, when a bright and shining ' light [Mr. PATMAN] is recognized 'for 30 one man could buy and. sell, rent and was forever dimmed from the world's eye. minutes. r . hire, a fellow human being. We were Here is our heritage--men of ability, Mr. PA.TMAN. Mr. Speaker, what I dead wrong, but it took 4 years of blopd courage, wisdom, vision, and accomplish am about to say on the bill I am throwing and fire to prove it. One hundred years ment--a record of achievement, and in the hopper today may upset, a few peo ago, 11 States seceded over the proposi liberty. And here is our challenge--to ple, but let me assure you that my in tion that the will ,of any one State is l:iuild, here and now, during dur lifetime, terests are for the many rather than for equal to or greater than the will of the a more perfect Union. the few-the many· being the people of Nation as one Union. We were wrong, as We hav'e an exciting world to win; we the United States. · that first April 26 proved. have, as each generation before us, a new For years the ' big bankers in' the Those were the great lessons of 1865- nation to build. country were screaming ' about how union, and the rights of man. How Our mandate is for a land where jus terrible the public debt was and that strange it is that t0day, April 26, some tice exists, not merely for the select, but something should be done about it. among us are prating the same argu for' all the people. Since the Eisenhower regime, however, ments, stirring the same passions, and We have wealth. We have power. We when interest rates were arbitrarily waving the same bloody ~irt, all with have vitality. upped, the bankers have not found any out regard to the inescapable dictate of But our most awesome responsibility thing wrong with the public· debt ·and are perfectly willi~g to see·it rise. history. 1 is justice. We sing of it, and pray for it, How strange that we still hear the old but somehow it eludes us. Of course, the more it rises, the more arguments about "interposition.", We When we are j'ust, the poor are lifted it costs the public. I I am., therefore~ intro still hear those voices proclaim th~ir up, helped forward to independence and d'ucihg: a bill'today which would make1 it tender and solicitous regard for the stability, and ultimately free of assist mandatory to transfer $30 billion worth rights of .property, while totally insen... ance. When we are just, education is of interest-bearing Government securi sate to the rights of man. How .strange available to .everyone, including those ties from the Federal Reserv~ banks to to hear States rights still argued as jus thus far denied it. When we are just, the Treasury of the United States. Ac 1 tification for States wrongs. otir people are not punished for 1 the' ac tual~f • ~his $3Q ~il)ion is held QY the'New How strang~ that ,we permlt in our cident or coldr of religious belief or place York Federal Reserve Bank, run by one midst such vehicles of violence as t'1e of birth. · · Mr. Alfred Hayes, whose monetary posi- d f I JI"'"' 1., .,. I) • .n!a IJ..... { • .. r I • I ,J , ' April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8383 tion is identical with that of the fat-cat are venal and antipublic spirited. Money cess which would indicate the need for money managers of America. Mr. Hayes is their god. They believe the public is such a tightening. Indeed, we have had on · frequent occasions takes a position made up of suckers who can be fooled a remarkably stable economic expansion. counter to that taken by Mr. Martin, while their pockets are picked. Our price level has been the most stable Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, I ask that the public understand that of any advanced industrial nation for and the rest of the Board. my legislation will not upset the econ over 7 years. And President Johnson's Mr. Hayes also is the second highest omy. It will not ruin our banking sys programs to cut our payments deficit paid official receiving a stipend from the tem. It will not destroy confidence in have been so successful that several writ public till. The President of the United the dollar. It will reduce the national ers have begun to worry about a dollar States gets $100,000, Mr. Hayes $70,000. debt by $30 billion and interest on this · gap. For his $70,000, he works incessantly for section of the debt by $1.2 billion a year I say let us do not upset the apple higher interest rates in accordance with that can remain in the pocketbooks of cart by upping interest rates and restrict the wishes of the American Bankers As the American people. ing credit, a formula that has proven dis sociation and the rest of the big banking In conclusion, I would like to point out astrous so many times in the past. Let lobby. They, of course, will accuse me that those who may oppose my bill are in us be conservative. Let us reduce the of being a "funny money" man and my reality insisting that that part of the pub national debt by $30 billion, instead of proposal as being rash and irrational. lic debt now held in the vaults of the bringing on a depression. They would say the same of anything Federal Reserve bank in New York A copy of my bill, H.R. 7601, intro designed to cut the national debt, be should be paid twice by our citizens. I duced today, is as follows: cause at the interest rates we have been care not what shade of the political spec R.R. 7601 paying since Eisenhower, banks are very trum my colleagues may represent, I do A bill to provide for the retirement of $30,- happy with U.S. Government paper and not believe a majority want the Ameri 000,000,000 of interest-bearing obligations they are drooling to get more at higher can people to pay twice over for any of the United States held by the twelve rates. thing. Federal Reserve banks I would like to point out one extremely There is one other matter I would like Be it enacted by the Senate and House important fact concerning my proposed to bring up that is pertinent to our money of Representatives of the United States of legislation. The Government securities · system. I am going to talk for a moment America in Congress assembled, That the that I would transfer from the Federal about a tightening of credit which has twelve Federal Reserve banKs shall transfer Reserve Board vaults in New York to resulted since the beginning of the year to the Secretary of the Treasury interest the U.S. Treasury have already been from the activities of the Federal Reserve bearing obligations (including discounted System. obligations) of the United States in the ag paid for once. This is a fact, because gregate principal amount of $30,000,000,000. Federal Reserve notes-that is, folding In brief, they have been cutting down The respective amounts of the several issues money which people carry in their pock on the money supply of the Nation and to be transferred, and the valuation o.f dis ets-have already been issued to pay for when you do that, you tighten credit. I counted issues, shall be determined by the these interest-bearing securities. There certainly am not in favor of loose credit, Secretary of the Treasury, and the respective fore, this paper money is not. "funny nor am I in favor of a weakened dollar amounts to be transferred from the several money." It is not flat money. It is not or inflation or deflation. However, the banks shall be determined by the ~oard of best economists in the country are agreed Governors of the Federal Reserve System. what the financial press will say that it Obligations transferred to the Secretary of is, printing press money. It is money that if you tighten the money supply, you the Treasury pursuant to this section shall be backed up by the full faith and credit cut credit. This can result in disaster canceled and retired. of the American people and their gov.:. because it curtails normal business ex SEc. 2. Each Federal Reserve bank shall be ernment. It is backed by the total pro pansion and, yes, it curtails business. relieved of its liabllity upon an amount of ductivity of the Nation and by its capac This means more unemployment and re Federal Reserve notes issued to it equal to ity to expand its economy. sults in more Federal appropriations to the valuation at which the obligations trans What the Federal Reserve System has take care of the unemployed. ferred by it to the Secretary of the Treasury All of us want a steady business situa pursuant to the first section are carried on done is to buy in the open market in its books, and the Secretary of the Treasury terest-bearing securities of the U.S. Gov tion. That is why we must concern our shall transfer an equal amount, on the books ernment and pay for them with Federal selves with what the Federal Reserve is of the Treasury, from contingent liability on Reserve notes which are noninterest doing, or has been doing, regarding the Federal Reserve notes to direct currency lia bearing. These non-interest-bearing money supply. For weeks now, newspa bill ty. Federal Reserve notes, of course, were pers have been carrying stories to the ef created by the System under the powers fect that the Federal Reserve is tighten THE WORLD'S WORST TIME delegated to it by the Congress a long ing credit. The figures support these time ago and are printed by the Bureau stories. KEEPER OR THOSE COO-COO of Engraving and Printing here 1n Wash The basic measure of the amount of CLOCKS ington, D.C. money which is available for lending and The SPEAKER. Under previous or What my bill proposes is that we cut spending-the money supply-has con der of the House, the gentleman from the $30 billion principal from the amount tinued to increase at an abnormally low Tennessee [Mr. FULTON] is recognized for of our national indebtedness, since it has rate. The level of free reserves, which 15 minutes. been paid for once. By this action, we measures the amount of money which Mr. FULTON of Tennessee. Mr. automatically reduce our annual interest is immediately available to banks for Speaker, once again that confounding payments on the national debt by $1.2 lending, has been negative throughout season of confusion and consternation is billion. March and April. Banks have had to upon us. It is the daylight saving time If the alleged conservatives were true borrow an average of $76 million in season and it commenced again this to their faith-which, of course, they March and an average of $139 million in past weekend. Before the season is out are not if it affects their own pocket the first 3 weeks of April in order to it will have cost this Nation's industry books-they would insist that the na make the loans they have made. millions of dollars and millions of Ameri tional debt be cut by nearly 10 percent As our economy produces more goods cans will be inconvenienced. as here proposed. Instead, we will hear and services, people and businesses must This past weekend some 21 States, a loud noise against the legislation from have more money with which to buy the either statewide or on a local-option both the banker dominated Federal Re added goods and services if we are not basis, switched from standard to day serve System and its Open Market Com to have an inadequate demand leading to light time. Between now and the last mittee, which is a closed shop deal where unemployment and recession. Every re- Sunday in May that number will in by the credit of all the people is regu ~ cession since World War II has been crease to 31. Then, on the first Sunday lated by a few self-anointed believers preceded by a sharp decline in the rate in September the annual switchback to in the divine right of money kings. All of growth of the money supply. I hope standard time will commence and it will these will sing out in a mournful dirge the Federal Reserve is not going to repeat be completed by the last Sunday in Octo along with the big banker dominated the same mistake in 1965. ber except in some counties in Indiana American Bankers Association. I care There is no inflation nor balance-of where, I am told, the people enjoy saving not what these people say because they payments problem, nor any sign of ex- time so much they just observe it year CXI--530 8384 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 26, 1965 round despite the fact that it is tech The problem is particularly acute in States where fast time is not observed nically illegal. the transportation industry. The Na to that list where it is observed on a local In Virginia today certain portions of tion's railroads estimate this annual option basis. that State, particularly those around the change in time costs them $2 million a The time has come, however, to put to District of Columbia, are on daylight year. The Nation's buslines estimate an end this piecemeal policy of switch time. Later this year the rest of the their loss at $1 million with $250,000 of ing the clocks at local convenience. State will switch except for those areas this loss incurred in printing costs neces There may have been a time in this in the southwestern portion of the State sitated in keeping their schedules up to country when observance of time was near and bordering Tennessee. They date. For the communications industry strictly a matter of local convenience will not switch because Tennessee does· the revenue loss each year is now esti and concern. In the age of the jet, how not observe daylight saving time. It is mated at $2 million. ever, this time has long passed. illegal in the Volunteer State by act of Let me cite an example. New York, There is a very simple but direct an the Tennessee General Assembly. New Jersey, and New England represent swer to this problem. That is for the Every year the crazy quilt of time ob the Nation's largest trade center. There Congress to enter this field of time regu servance across this Nation alters its pat are 34 million persons who live in this lation and put it on a rational basis. tern. In 1963 there wer'e 29 States where area. To do this I have introduced a bill, daylight time was observed either state A great deal of trade and business in H.R. 76, which would put the entire Na wide or on a local option basis. In 1964 my home city, Nashville, Tenn., is con tion on saving time 6 months each year there was 31. In 1963, 16 States observed ducted back east. In Nashville, as from the last Sunday in April to the last daylight time on a statewide basis; 13 throughout Tennessee, we observe stand Sunday in October. did not. In 1964 saving time was state ard time throughout the year. Nash Under the weights and measures wide in 15 States; in 16 it was not. I ville is on central time. This means that clause of our Constitution the Congress believe these figures will be the same for during the saving time season there is a has the authority to regulate time in this 1965 with the exception, however, that 2-hour time difference between Nashville Nation. There is also precedent for the over the past year changes have oc and, say, New York City, though Nash exercise of this authority. During curred in the · duration of observance. ville is hardly more than 500 miles di World War II, when this Nation's de Changes, I must add, which are for the rectly west. The observance of saving fense effort could little afford the waste better. There is a · trend toward uni- time in the east and the failure to ob occasioned by the annual time scramble . formity. serve it in Nashville has these results: the entire Nation was put on saving time . · For this much credit must go to the First, very little of any business can be For years the Interstate Commerce Committee for Time Uniformity and its transacted before it is 11 a.m. in the east Com.mission has requested the Congress able executive director, Mr. Robert Red which is 9 a.m. in Nashville. Second, to take the jurisdiction for regulating ding. This nonprofit organization is in very little business will be transacted time from its hands or put some teeth terested in only one thing-the estab after 4 p.m. in Nashville because it will into the law so that it can enforce it. lishment of a sane and uniform observ then be after 6 p.m. in the east. Now, Congress has done neither. The result ance of saving time across the Nation. take another hour out of the day for the has been this continuing annual piece The committee has been working at eastern businessman to have lunch and meal shifting of the clocks. the State and National level to bring this an hour for the Nashville businessman If we are to build the Great Society, it about and, over the past year, has had to have his lunch and you have lost would seem to me our first task might some limited results in working through another 2 hours from the day's business well be to synchronize our watches. Let State legislatures to achieve this uni time. us do it now, without any further waste formity. But much remains to be done You can see from a very practical point of time. and I feel that only through action by of view the adverse effect this has on the Congress can we accomplish what commerce. THE LAPP INSULATOR CO., OF LE needs to be accomplished to put an end Now, suppose also I want to contact a ROY, N.Y. to this unnecessary and costly annual constituent back in my district. I can time scramble. not very well call him at his office until Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina. Examples of the extent and the ex 11 a.m. here in Washington because he Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent tremes to which this problem can be car will not be there. Therefore, I can prob that the gentleman from New York [Mr. ried are numerous. ably get him between 11 a.m. and noon CONABLE] may extend his remarks at this We are all aware, no doubt, of that Washington time. Then it is lunchtime point in the RECORD and include extrane celebrated 35-mile bus ride from Stuben here. At 2 p.m. Washington time it is ous matter. ville, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va. lunchtime in Nashville. Then, if by The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Until 1963, when the State of West Vir some stroke of fortune I am able to get the request of the gentleman from North ginia made saving time mandatory on a away from my office here by 6 p.m. and Carolina? statewide basis, passengers on that bus someone at home attempts to call me he There was no objection. could change their watches seven times will be a little irked and probably think Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, the to conform to local time observance. Lapp Insulator Co., of Le Roy, N.Y., lo I am neglecting my duties because it is cated in -the congressional district I am Admittedly this is a rare and extreme only 4 p.m. in Nashville. privileged to represent, has been engaged case which has now been corrected. Every day in dozens of similar ways However, it could happen again. It is my in a program to settle actions for triple the inconvenience and economic waste damages brought against it as a result of understanding that there are efforts arising from this annual time scramble the antitrust indictments of the electri afoot in West Virginia to again change is becoming more and more intolerable. cal equipment manufacturers in 1960. the time laws of that State. Across the Nation there is growing senti The company has settled more than 65 Or in Colorado, for example, where ment for bringing order to this annual percent of its litigation to date. public debate over the time issue grew chaos of the clock. Ev-en°the Farm Bu The company has been proceeding on so heated that one lady legislator, I am reau Federation, so long opposed to the the basis of -the Internal Revenue Service told, was threatened with her life if she . observance of saving time, is now on rec ruling of last year, but is now disturbed did not abandon her efforts in behalf of ord in favor of uniformity of observance by the efforts to change these rulings in daylight time. where it is observed. a manner which would be highly dam These are extreme cases, isolated in In this Nation it can be said that our aging to it. Mr. Brent Mills, the presi stances. What is more important is the people favor daylight saving time. It is dent of Lapp Insulator, has written to adverse effect these helter-skelter time observed in 31 States by over 100 million the Joint Committee on Internal Reve changes generally have on industry and persons. It can also be said that there nue Taxation, which is studying this commerce in this Nation. is a trend to ever greater acceptance of matter, and has put forth the position of Each year, the simple act of changing saving time. In the past 2 years two his company in a sound and clear the Nation's clocks cost millions of additional States, Kentucky and South fashion. I submit a copy of Mr. Mills' dollars. Dakota, have moved from ·the list of letter for the RECORD so that all my col- ' April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8385 leagues may read his discussion of this An article appearing in the Baltimore reach foreign markets and that we would matter: Sun March 23, tells of this helpful effort, have the necessary facilities to assure car LAPP INSULATOR Co,, INC., arising from the suggestion of U.S. Sec riage of our domestic commerce as well. February 16, 1965. retary of Commerce, John T. Connor, The Congress was aware that without ships Mr. LAURENCE N. WOODWORTH, under our own flag we could not be cer Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Internal that American exporters and importers tain of maintaining our foreign trade. Revenue Taxation, New House Office increase the use of American-flag ves In the -carriage of general cargo or pas Building, Washington, D.C. sels. The article follows: sengers in regular liner service, it does not DEAR MR. WOODWORTH: This letter is ad USING U.S. SHIPS HELD WAY To Am cost 1 cent more to use an American-flag dressed to you upon my understanding that PAYMENTS SITUATION ship. Through the various conferences cov you are conducting a preliminary investiga NEW YORK, March 22.-This Nation's ad ering the'- trade routes of the world, identical tion in connection with revenue rule 64-224 verse balance-of-payments situation could be rates are set for ships in that service, re relating to the deductibility as a business substantially helped-by millions of dollars gardless of the flag they fly. expense of amounts paid in settlement of if American shippers would increase the use Again on October 10, 1963, Secretary private treble damage actions under the of U.S. vessels. antitrust laws. This is the theme of a message being sent Reed, speaking at the American Mer My company, Lapp, is one of the smallest, to leading American industrial executives by chant Marine Conference in Baltimore, if not the smallest, of the companies who the United States Lines; one of the Nation's Md.,said: became involved in the treble damage liti leading steamship companies. gation which followed the indictments in Obviously our balance of payments is Philadelphia in 1960 of various electrical JOHNSON APPEAL BACKED helped by the use of American shipping * • * equipment manufacturers. My company had the Department of Commerce has found The message, contained in a letter sent by that during 1962 our ships received freight never before been a party to any lawsuit the steamship line, supported and em during the many years of its existence; revenues from foreigners approximating $600 phasized President Johnson's recent appeal million, while U.S. customers paid over $800 practically over night, however, we found to American industry to explore every means ourselves confronted with almost 100 law million for the carriage of ocean freight on toward eliminating tlie balance-of-payments foreign ships. This deficit reflects the de -suits brought by hundreds of plaintiffs in deficit. many jurisdictions throughout the country. clining participation of U.S.-flag vessels in The President made the appeal Febru the transportation of foreign trade. Obviously, whether or not we were under ary 18 at a White House meeting of top any liab111ty, it was impossible for my com American industrial executives. That meet Mr. Speaker, I hope the Members of pany to litigate these cases to a conclusion; ing was fpllowed closely by another, called Congress will exert their influence in our only salvation was a settlement pro by the Secretary of Commerce, John T. gram which we promptly inaugurated and their respective districts in urging do Connor. mestic industries doing business over which we have for several years now pur At his meeting, Connor-among other sued with vigor and success. My company things-suggested that exporters and im seas to utilize U.S. ships, thereby helping has settled now more than 65 percent of the porters increase their use of Am~rican-flag to build up our U.S. merchant marine, litigation, and we have, for a company of our ships for the movement of corr.. merce. maintain and create U.S. jobs, and con size, paid out very substantial amounts as By doing so, Connor said, the shippers tribute greatly to our adverse balance-of price adjustments in connection with the would be making a definite contribution to payments condition. settlement. ward helping to stem the drain of American I am no tax expert, and I do not intend dollars overseas. to express my view as to the legal precedents involved, but I do want to bring to your SENT TO. 21,000 SHIPPERS INTRODUCING A BILL TO PROVIDE attention and to the attention of the com Connor's statements were mentioned in FOR THE EQUAL TAXATION OF mittee the belief of at least one small com the letter, which was sent to more than COMMERCIAL BANKS, SAVINGS pany that any reversal of the ruling in 21 ,000 shippers. A similar letter, signed by AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS, AND question could be disastrous to our con Will1am B. Rand, president of the steam tinued competitive standing. I fervently ship company, was also sent to more than MUTUAL SAVINGS BANKS hope that the ruling, which I am told was 800 company chairmen and presidents Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina. most carefully and thoroughly considered by throughout the Nation. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent the Internal Revenue Service before it was "When an American-flag ship is used to that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. issued, will not be subject to reversal. I transport your cargoes overseas," the letters CURTIS] may extend his remarks at this believe that in relationship to the problems said, "virtually all the freight dollars are and situation of this company, at least, the conserved to the benefit of the United point in the RECORD and include extrane ruling is sound and eminently fair. States-whereas, the opposite is true if other ous matter. Moreover, we have made a number of set vessels are used." · The SPEAKER. Is there objection to tlements in reliance on the holding of the As a result of this fact, the letters con the request of the gentleman from North ruling that amounts paid in settlement are tinued, the American-flag shipping industry Carolina? · deductible. I think it would be completely contributes almost $1 billion a year directly There was no objection. unfair to now reverse the publicly announced to the U.S. balance of payments. policy of the Internal Revenue Service. It Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, legisla would double the cost to us of the settle "If there were no American-flag fleet, our tion enacted in 1962 recognized the in ments previously negotiated and, in view balance-of-payments deficit would be some $2 billion greater," the letters added. equitable situation then existing where of our limited capital resources, would seri by savings and loan associations and ously jeopardize our competitive position. Mr. Speaker, over the years U.S. ship mutual savings banks were virtually free Sincerely yours, pers have on a number of occasions been BRENT MILLS, from the Federal corporation income tax. President. urged to increase their use of U.S. ships The 1962 enactment apparently has by Members of Congress, leaders in the failed to attain its full purpose. It per maritime unions, steamship executives, mitted savings and loan associations and THE UNITED STA TES LINES and members of the executive branch mutual savings banks to deduct as bad Mr. BROYHILL of North Carolina. of Government. debt loss reserves a substantially larger Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent One of those who has constantly car part of their taxable income than that that the gentleman from Maine [Mr. ried this message to American indus permitted the commercial banks. There TUPPER] may extend his remarks at this try is the Honorable James A. Reed, As seemed to be and still seems to be sound point in the RECOR'D and include extrane sistant Secretary of· the Treasury. On reasons for some differential treatment. ous matter. March 21, 1963, speaking before the Phil However, the prospe~tive revenue yield The SPEAKER. Is there objection to adelphia Maritime Association, Secretary from the measure had been estimated by the request of the gentleman from North Reed said: the Treasury at $200 milliop-$168 mil Carolina? I sometimes think we are not altogether lion from savings and loan associations There was no objection. mindful of the intent and purposes of · and $32 million from mutual savings Mr. TUPPER. Mr. Speaker, it is the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. It be banks--but actual collections for the hooves us to remind ourselves and our for year 1963 were only about $98 million. gratifying to note that one of our Na eign associates, that this legislation was tion's great steamship companies, the written not with the intent of benefiting The commercial banks stili argue that United States Lines, has taker.. the lead shipping companies as such. It was written an inequity exists in this bad-debt dif in urging American shippers to increase for the benefit of American business as a ferential and results in an unfair com their use of U.S. vessels to help th~. bal means of insuring that the products of our petitive position. There has been some ance-of-payments situation. firms and factories would have a vehicle to argument to increase the amount that 8386 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 26, 1965 commercial banks should be allowed to I want to compliment and thank the science of an awakened, aroused, united deduct as bad debt. However, because beloved archbishop for his eloquent and humanity pledging itself to find a better of the unexpected small amount of reve moving prayer which so touched the way to live, a more decent way to settle nue derived from the 1962 enactment, hearts of the Members of this House. problems, and to usher in the healing, the other aspect of the problem that of In my remarks, I do not propose to antiseptic light of a new day in which an unrealistically high figure for the make an assessment of the perpetration people will live together in love, har savings and loan and mutual banks needs or total impact of this terrible event in mony, and peace. For this day we must further looking into. Certainly in the history. Though it is past, it will never all seek and pray. interest of all the financial institutions, be forgotten, either by the Armenian Mr. Speaker, it should be said here the Congress should review the entire people who so cruelly suffered this un today that the gallant people of Armenia situation. speakable, unbelievable tragedy, or their suffered more during World War I than In order to bring this matter before many friends in the world. any other people involved in that war. the Congress, I am introducing H.R. It can never be stricken from the an They not only lost all their worldly pos 7585. It is a simple measure. It merely nals of recorded history. Down through sessions, but more than half of the 2 removes the present allowance for bad the long, unbroken channels of time, the million Armenian people living in Turkey debt loss reserve deductions by savings recollection of the Armenian massacre lost their lives under circumstances of and loan associations and mutual sav will stand out in all its starkness and terrible brutality and cruelty. ings banks and permits them to use the brutality as an example of one of the In the course of less than 1 year, this same bad-debt loss reserve deduction most horrifying episodes in history, il heartless genocide was accomplished and formula now applicable to commercial lustrative of unrestrained inhumanity to more than 1 million Armenians were banks. man. massacred or died of starvation, while In my opinion, enactment of this bill Many people of Armenian blood re hundreds of thousands were enslaved. amended to provide possibly for some in side in the United States, with many of This is an awful story to recount, but crease in bad-debt reserves for commer them in my district, and they are among as we have seen in the history of the cial banks and possibly leaving some our foremost citizens, loyal Americans, world, unrestrained force, cruelty, bru differential to reflect valid differences who have sustained and upheld the tality and slaughter were not able to de existing in the bad-debt reserves of the ideals, principles, and security of this stroy the spirit of the courageous different financial institutions, will pro country in war and in peace. Armenian people and they have found vide more equitable basis for the taxation These great people are second to none the way to their place in the sun. of the competing financial institutions, in their love of God, of family, love of They have given to America the full savings and loan associations, mutual humanity, love of this country, and de ness and the richness of their ancient savings banks, and commercial banks. votion to the highest concepts and prac culture. They have won here in our The. total result should also lighten tices of ordered liberty and freedom. midst the respect and admiration that somewhat the burden on all other tax Many citizens of Armenian blood re is reserved for those who live, work, and payers by broadening the tax base and side in my district, I repeat, and they are serve with honor, vitality, loyalty, and producing additional revenue. friends and neighbors of mine, and I fortitude. They have won our affections cherish, respect, and admire them for also, and as we sorrow with them, we their fine qualities as human beings, and ask the good Lord to bring them com THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE am grateful to them for their warm fort and resignation and to engender in ARMENIAN MAS-SACRE friendship to me, and for their unsur them more and more through spiritual passed citizenship and for their loyalty The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. encouragement and the God-given pow to the loftiest truths and principles of er, of spiritual strength, the way to lift RoNcALIO) . Under previous order of the this great Government and this great House, the gentleman from Massachu their hearts in forgiveness and to join free way of life so precious and dear to with all those of us who are c.0mmitted to setts [Mr. PHILBIN] is recognized for 60 all Americans. minutes. the cause of freedom and humanity, as It is not my purpose in these remarks they have been doing, with renewed ded Mr. PHILBIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask by recalling the horrible events of the unanimous consent to revise and extend ication of purpose to promote good will, Armenian massacre to reawaken the love, and brotherhood among all peoples my remarks and include extraneous hatreds and animosities that have matter. of the earth willing to embrace the divine sprung, and that still endure, as a result blessing. The SPEAKER. Is there objection of the dreadful massacre of more than to the request of the gentleman from 1 % million native Armenians and their I want to commend the Armenian peo Massachusetts? families. ple and their leaders, spiritual and tem There was no objection. The passage of time and the deep, re poral, for their patience and forbear Mr. PHILBIN. Mr. Speaker, I want ligious spirit of the Armenian people ance and for the wonderful virtues they to express on this occasion my deep sor have tended to nurture a truly spiritual have displayed in their personal and row and my sense of tremendous emo feeling of forgiveness for these terrible family lives and in so loyally fulfilling tional upset upon the occasion of the crimes. But these wanton outrages can the highest call of citizenship and for the 50th anniversary of the Armenian never be forgotten, because they have exalted order of their patriotism and de massacre. seared deeply into the hearts and souls votion to this country and the cause of Mr. Speaker, on the 50th anniversary of the Armenian people, and other peo peace and freedom. of the atrocious, unspeakable Armenian ples of the earth, who still recall these May their martyred, dear ones rest in massacre, an event so shocking and re incidents with a sense of crushing horror, peace, and may their blessed memory volting to the conscience of mankind, it deepest, most profound grief, poignant bring inspiration, hope, and strength to is appropriate that the House should sorrow, and thoughts of most heartfelt all of us who seek a more enlightened pause once again to note this horrifying sympathy for the pitiaple victims, and humanity and a more peaceful world experience in human affairs so ruth the bereaved families and their survivors, based on principles of freedom and jus lessly imposed upon the helpless, God and the Armenian nation and people, to tice. fearing Armenian people. whom the recollection of this bloody In the words of their great spiritual It is significant indeed that the open mass murder will always bring feelings leader, Archbishop Khatchadoorian, ing prayer in the House this morning which no words could describe. Prelate of the Armenians of North should have been offered by the distin While we live today in a world which America, let us not ask for retribution guished prelate of the Armenian Church has not yet learned how to put love of or vengeance, but have the compassion of North America, His Grace Archbishop human beings ahead of hate, to put and love which the Savior offered to us Hrant Khatchadoorian; and the House decency ahead of mistreatment, to put through his sacrifices, that we may live was deeply moved, as the country will be, kindness ahead of persecution and vio freely with joy and happiness amidst all by his lofty, spiritual message contain lence, there are brightening signs that the glories of His creation. ing sorrowful, but shocking, references much of human kind is now moving to Long live Armenia and the Armenian to one of the most coldblooded, incred soften such feelings and emotions, and is people. ible mass destructions of human lives striving to organize the forces of moral Mr. Speaker, I include as part of my that has ever occurred. ity and righteousness and the con- remarks an article from the Worcester, April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8387 Mass., Daily Telegram; one from the The explanation-for the slaughter is com to the hearts and conscience of humanity Hairenik Weekly containing Bishop plex, but major reasons were the clash of rather than to the established peacekeeping Armenian Christian and Turkish Moslem world organizations, with tears in their eyes, Khatchadoorian's recent remarks at De cUlture and Armenian resentment of long with sad hearts, but with bright aspirations troit, Mich.; and an editorial from the years of tutelage under the Turks. and strong shoulders. Why was this geno Armenian Mirror-Spectator; also an The Ottoman Turks began ruling Armenia cidal crime petmitted against the first Chris article from the Blackstone Valley News in the 16th century and continued, under tian church and against its peacefUl flock, Tribune. I express deep thanks to my more or less liberal regimes, down to the 19th the Armenians? Why was the destruction of friend, Mr. John Der Hovanessian for his century; The system of Armenian self churches, schools, and entire families tol views, counsel, and warm friendship. government under Turkish sovereignty began erated? Why was a whole nation deserted to grow outmoded, however. In the la.te to be massacred or be driven to the burning The articles follow: 19th century, a period of rising nationalism sands of the desert to die of starvation and [From the Worcester (Mass.) Daily Telegram, everywhere, Armenia-partly ruled, then, by thirst? In spite of all that, our martyred Apr. 26, 1965] Czarist Russia-began to demand independ people gazed toward the heavens and uttered SPECIAL SERVICES MARK ARMENIAN ence. the words of our Savior, "Father, forgive OBSERVANCE These ambitions were encouraged by the them, for they know not what they do." (By Craig R. Whitney) war between Russia and Turkey in 1878. The Calvary of the Armenian people had About 700 persons attended a service in When Russia tried to take another slice of thousands of crosses. Those crosses were Tuckerman Hall yesterday in commemoration Armenia at the end of that war, Great the ossified arms and fists of the martyred of the 50th anniversary of the genocide or Britain balked, because important roads lifted in search of justice. Two thousand deportation of hundreds of thousands of from Constantinople to India passed through years ago Christ was crucified on the summit Armenians by the Turks in 1915. Armenia. The British, in effect, implied of Golgotha. His arms stretched back and The special service, uniting members of that they would protect Armenia. nailed on the cross. In 1915, Christ lowered three different Armenian churches in Worces The tensions among the countries gave the His right hand from His cross and uttered to ter, followed traditional services in each Armenians a chance to work harder for inde the Armenian people, "Come unto Me, all ye of the churches, Armenian Church of the pendence from the Turks. They expected that labor and are heavy laden and I will Martyrs (Congregational) Armenian Nation much help, but got little, from the outside. give you rest." In Antelias, there is an oil al Apostolic Holy Trinity Church, and the In the 1880's, they formed revolutionary painting hung on the altar of St. Stephan's Armenian Church of Our Saviour. societies. The Turks took reprisals in the Memorial Chapel appropriately placed op form of slaughters--more than 80,000 Ar posite the bones and skulls of massacred SPECIAL PRAYERS menians perished in 1895. But a period of Armenians that dramatically shows the in Special prayers for the Armenian martyrs reconciliation and improvement followed, vitation of our Saviour to His people. were also held in Catholic churches of the and when Turkey entered World War I on Today, after 50 years, our whole nation diocese by order of Bishop Flanagan. In the side of the Central Powers, Armenians demands, in evangelic spirit "Ask, and it Boston, a solemn pontifical mass in the assured the Young Turk government of their shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find; Cathedral of the Holy Cross was celebrated loyalty. knock, and it shall be opened unto you." by Most Rev. Thomas J. Riley in commemo But harsh treatment of Armenian soldiers We demand the return of our own country. ration of the event, and a delegation from in th~ Turkish armies dissipated this good We seek to shatter the chains of captivity Worcester's Armenian community attended. feeling and caused racial friction. In 1915, and to return to our paternal homeland, Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of the Turkish government decided to "solve" where we want to become the fourth fruit Canterbury, asked Anglicans to join the ob the Armenian problem by exterminating or ful seed, even as the one in Christ's parable servation of the commemoration. deporting all the Armenians. Men, women of the sower. We want to see a healthy de Even a Soviet newspaper in Moscow Sat and children were robbed and killed indis velopment on our soil of our people's mental urday accused Turkey of genocide. criminately or deported. Many of them and spiritual creations. We want to see a DEMONSTRATION PLANNED came to America, whose missionaries had free and independent and whole Armenia. For the last 600 years we have been living Armenian s,tudents there also planned a made our culture known to the Armenians. After the defeat of the Central Powers, with the consolation of a spiritual father demonstration in front of the Turkish Em land. But, hereafter, we demand the eman bassy, but were forced to move away. Armenia was declared an independent nation, but was soon invaded by both the Soviets cipation of our confiscated territories, which In Worcester's observance yesterday, Rev. together with the boundaries Qf present Ar Vartan Hartunian, minister of First Armeni and the Turks, and has been ever since split between the two. An Armenian Soviet Re menia, will reestablish a free Armenia, as an Church (Congregational) of Belmont, rightfully designated by President Wilson. who came to this country in 1922 as a refu public, containing only a part of the former Armenia, which spread from the Black Sea We want the return of our sacred Mount gee of World War I, spoke of the unique Ararat, biblically renowned for Noah's ark ness of Armenian Christian culture and of to the Caspian Sea, was set up in December, 1920. Mount Ararat the granite pedestal of our his experiences in Armenia. spiritual life and power; our silent witness Dr. M. G. Sevag, professor of the University [From the Hairenik Weekly, Apr. 22, 1965] to our rededication and sacred devotion to of Pennsylvania, spoke in Armenian, and Dr. THE PRELATE'S REMARKS ON TuRK GENOCIDE the rebirth of our homeland. Anthony Varjabedian of Worcester in English, Today, after 50 years, we weep no more, we on the history and political goals of the (The prelate's remarks at a 50th anniver- stand proud and victorious before the peo Armenian people. sary observance held at Detroit, Mich., ple·s of the world, shielded by the armor of HONORED GUESTS March 19) our ancient religion, our advanced learning Honored guests included Mayor Mullaney (By His Grace Archbishop Hrant and our perpetuated culture. Our minds (who proclaimed last Saturday as Armenian Khatchadoorian) are clear, our hearts beat with the assurance Martyrs' Day here), Rabbi Joseph Klein (who Fifty years ago a sacrilege took place on a of the sun of justice and with the verdict territory that had been unjustly taken from of the righteous judge. We appeal to hu compared the genocide of the Armenians in manity, we appeal to our beloved Govern 1915 to that practiced on the Jews by the a good Christian people in the 13th century. Th1at territory was called Armenia and Cil ment of the United States and to its diversi Germans in World War II), and Rev. Dr. fied citizenship to join us in our prayers and Ralph L. Holland, executive secretary of the icia, and its inhabitants were called Arme nians. Not in a thousand years in the history in our pleas for Justice on the occasion of this Greater Worcester Area Council of Churches. 50th anniversary of genocide of the Armenian Special prayers, solos, and recitations were of mankind was there such a tragic drama as that enacted by the Armenians 50 years people. included in the program. May the Lord bless the peaceful memory In Whitinsville, a special service was held ago. This crime is now known by the name of genocide. and soul of our 1 'h m1llion dear martyrs. in the Armenian Apostolic Church yesterday My dear friend the Honorable Congressman afternoon. About 200 attended. A genocide that was barbaric and abom inable, negating the teachings. of all reli DERWINSKI, I urge you to be one of our PRINCIPAL SPEAKER gions. It was planned and performed with spokesmen for our demands and our plea Principal speaker was Haigaz Kazarian of an unimaginable savagery. I need not men of justice. You and your fellow Congress Boston, representing an Armenian news tion the name of the government or the peo men speaking out on behalf of captive na paper. State legislators and clergymen from ple who performed that terrible crime which tions have won the heartfelt gratitude and Catholic, Protestant, and Episcopal churches I list as the eighth mortal sin to the known friendship of mil11ons of persons. We re spect and love you and bless your humani in Whitlnsvme and Northbridge also spoke. seven sins. If the people of the world, or the Chairman was George K. Papazian. Pastor Christian churches, want to know the name tarian efforts. of the Host church is Rev. Sahaz Vertanes of the perpetrators of that eighth sin, let sian. them inquire of the Armenian people who [From the Armenian Mirror-Spectator, Apr. 24, 1965] The massacres commemorated occurred in have endured the pain of persecution and in the spring and summe,: of 1915, when, by justice, brought to a tragic conclusion 50 OUT OF SMOULDERING ASHES some estimates, 600,000 to 850,000 Armenians years ago. The Armenian people in Turkish-occupied were killed by the Young Turks and addi Today, dispersed throughout the four cor Armenia had existed in the numbness of a tional hundreds of thousands were deported. ners of the world, Armenians are appealing virtual state of slavery since 1375, when _the 8388 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 26, 1965 last Armenian kingdom in Cilicia fell prey to sacres of the Armenians. The committee has authorities, in the middle of the night the invading Memelouks. In the 19th cen been organized from the chapters of the Ar and deported in groups to distant areas tury, after the infl.uenx of Western ideas of menian Revolutionary Federation, the Ar liberty and democracy into the country, menian Relief Society, and the organizations and a great number were murdered with the leaders of the Armenians awakened, and of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The ex extreme cruelties. there was a general stir and cry for reform ecutive committee is made up of the follow At the same time young Armenians and for a limited amount of self-determina ing: who had been faithfully serving in the tion. The alternatives were eternal slavery Honorary chairman, Rev. Sahag Vertanes Turkish Army were disarmed and mur or death. sian, pastor of Soorp Asdvadzadzin's. Co dered by their Turkish fell ow soldiers The Turkish Government since Sultan chairmen: Mr. John Moscofl.an, Mr. George under the orders of their officers. Hamid had chosen to close the Armenian Papazian. Public Relations: Mrs. Samuel question by the alternative of death. After Sagherian, Mr. Horan Hougasian. Program Having decimated, in this frightful sporadic massacres in the 19th century in committee: Mr. Archie Misakian, Mr. Samuel manner, the country of its leaders and which many thousands of Armenians were Sagherian, Mr. Varkis Arakelian. fighting men the Turkish Government killed by the Turks, the great crime began Subcommittee members: Mrs. Haiganoosh then next proceeded to deport the entire in 1915, 7 years after the young Turk Gov Egsegian, Mrs. Siraphi Johnson, Mrs. Louise Armenian population in historic Arme ernment had declared a new constitution Mantashigian, Mrs. Varter Bedigian, Mrs. nia to distant, desolate regions in Turkey. promising "liberty, equality, and fraternity." Jeannette Sisoian, Mrs. Varsenig Papazian, Nearly 2% million Armenians, mostly Talaat Bey, Minister of the Interior, together Mrs. Horan Hougasian, Mrs. Archie Misakian, with Enver and Jemal, headed the Govern Mr. Carl Tosoonian. old men, women, and children, were ment. They, with the consent and encour The anniversary commemorates the open forced to abandon their homes, their agement of many Turkish officials, started ing of a systematic 4-year-long harassment businesses, their belongings, their the deportations and atrocities. Talaat gave of Armenians by Turks during the period of churches, and schools to form caravans the orders. 1915-18. On April 24, 1915, Turks bent upon for a terrible journey which reached from April 24, 1916, is the day on which hun the virtual genocide of Armenian people ar the Armenian Plateau to the hot sands dreds of Armenian leaders in Istanbul were rested more than 100 Arinenians intellectuals of the distant Arabian Desert. taken into Government custody and killed. in Constantinople, transported them into the The marches in the interior provinces that interior, and murdered them. It is estimated conservatively that 1 % soon engulfed all villages, towns, and cities, In the months and years that followed, million weak and defenseless human be had already begun, and although there was Armenians were subjected to a devastating ings died in the course of that indescrib Armenian defense in many areas, 1 Y2 million war tax, their towns and villages were pil ably inhuman journey from hunger, Armenians succumbed to slaughter, after laged, and their men were forced into Turk thirst, exposure, or at the murderous tortures and atrocities. The massacres con ish labor battalions, later to be slaughtered. hands of cruel gendarmes and Turkish tinued after 1918, when the mask of World All males 12-45 years of age were abducted and Kurdish ruffians all along the way. War I was gone, in Transcaucasia under the from their families and homes and were leade::-ship of Kemal. killed. Older men, women and children un Mr. Speaker, the full extent of this The Turkish Government had its way in der 12 were deported to the Syrian desert most barbarous happening of unprovoked the complete domination and usurpation of in northern Mesopotamia, though many did and senseless murder and rapine of even the western part. of the Armenian historical not survive this journey. Women were at innocent women and children will never homeland and part of eastern Armenia. tacked and murdered. Children were put to be known but even a summary account of Other Christian nations and people who had the sword, property was stolen, and homes only a very small part of such a baseless shown some sympathy to Armenians pre were impounded. viously, ignored the Armenocide and did not and brutal political crime is more than According to experts, a million and a half enough to cause any decent civilized hu intercede on behalf of Armenians, though Armenians were killed, while another mil they acknowledged with gratitude the help lion were permanently scarred, sickened, and man being to be filled with horror and. of many Armenian soldiers that fough~ for maimed. It is estimated that about one revulsion. the Allies. There were notable exceptions, half of all known living Armenians in 1915 However, the most amazing and re men who tried to stop the massacres or to were victims of the Turkish genocide. In markable thing in this long and excruci aid the Armenian cause, men such as Dr. addition, 2,050 churches and 203 Armenian ating visitation of persecution, injustice, Lepsius, Lord Bryce, Gladstone, Morgenthau, monasteries were seized, with a total value and extreme suffering is that the Arme Nansen, Woodrow Wilson, and others. estimated at a billion dollars. A mere 10 The Armenians in Armenia and those in nian people retained their faith, their percent of all Armenian clerics in the af courage, their beliefs, and their hopes the Dispersion have not fo, gotten their fected areas survived attendant atrocities. friends; nor have they forgotten their Turk Only one prelate was spared; the others bru and survived as a Christian nation. ish enemies; nor shall they ever forget their tally murdered. Hundreds of Armenian It is unhappily true that their national martyrs. On this, the 50th anniversary of churches were converted· into armories and existence is even now dark and dis the great crime, they remember that lives, houses of ill repute or were razed. Esti couraging, under the domination of homeland, and $35 billion in savings and mated loss to the Armenian nation during brutal atheistic communism but, by our property were lost to the grace of the Turk the 1915-18 period has been set at $36 bil recognition here this afternoon, we ex ish Government and mob. They remember lion. that the world has not yet recognized the Famous historian Arnold Toynbee called press our determination and our convic need for restitution, and that Turkey itself his account of the massacre "Armenian tion that neither we nor they will ever will never even admit its crime and its Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation." despair about their future liberation. present distortions of history. These Ar During the last session of Vatican Council Those of us who have lived among menians feel that the. cause of justice is II, the Armenian Hierarchy, addressed the American-Armenians as friends and never outdated. matter to the Fathers of the Council meet And they realize that out the smoulder neighbors know full well why the native ing at St. Peter's Basilica, describing the people of Armenia will never give up their ing ashes and the bodily ruins of death and persecution as a horrible crime perpetrated decay, a small Armenia was born and has upon the Armenian people. On December 6, fight for freedom. The American made tremendous progress and contributions 1915, Pope Benedict XV referred to "the most Armenians have been second to no other to the universal cause of education, scien unhappy Armenian people (who) have been nationality in accepting their share of tific advancement, arts, and the renaissance brought close to extinction." the burden and contributing their full of its own cultural heritage. Turkey, by measure of sacrifice to the development comparison, with much more land and many Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker, at this millions more population, has not made any time of the 50th anniversary of the cruel and progress of this country. significant contributions in these fields, even and inhuman Armenian massacre of in In private life the American-Armenian with its billions of dollars of foreign aid. famous history it is most fitting that the .is an honest, industrious, cooperative As an ancient people, Armenians have ex U.S. House of Representatives should citizen in his community. perienced the flow and ebb of many regimes When our Nation has been attacked and many wars, and they know that peace is suspend its business in order to express the only answer. its great horror and deep sorrow con by armed aggression, the Americans of cerning this awful example of man's in Armenian origin have distinguished [From the Blackstone Valley News Tribune, humanity to man and to pay just tribute themselves in all ranks of our Armed Whitinsville, Mass., Apr. 21, 1965] to the faithful and courageous people of Forces, and may be justly proud of their A HISTORY OF ARMENIAN MASSACRE Armenia. military record here. (By Mrs. Samuel Sagherian) l;3ack on the 24th day of April in 1915 In the fields of business and profes The local Armenian Americans have or and during the following several weeks, sional life in America, the Armenian ganized a committee to coordinate local ef thousands of Armenian leaders in all descendant has exhibited the highest forts on behalf of the national observance walks of life were arrested throughout qualities of character and accomplish for the 50th anniversary of the Turkish mas- the Armenian communities, by Turkish ment. April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8389 Having lived and worked among the aroma of cloves, the main product of is most important that these projects be Armenian-Americans practically all my Zanzibar. authoriz.ed and constructed as soon as life, I can personally state my own con Furthermore, differences between Zan . possible. viction that the spirit of the homeland, zibar and Tanganyika were not limited The Oregon State Legislative Assem as evidenced by the descendants, will to physical features alone. The Gov bly, in Senate Joint Memorial 6, has never be defeated by any type of bar ernment of Zanzibar was viewed as drift memorialized the Congress and the exec baric persecution. ing ever further leftward, while Tan utive department in support of these As a fell ow American, I take heart and ganyika was pictured as friendly to the projects, and it is my pleasure to submit courage from their example and the ex West though nonalined. the memorial herewith: ample of the valiant people in their na What brought these two countries to SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 6 tive land. gether? One of the forces was probably To His Excellency, the Honorable President The struggle of Armenia today is essen the appeal of the idea of unity in east of the United, States, to the Honorable tially the same struggle in which the Africa. The four east African territories Stephen Ailes, Secretary of the Army, United States and all other Christian of Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Uganda, and and to the Honorable Senate and, House nations are now :fiercely engaged against Kenya were functionally coordinated of Representatives of the United States the most ruthless enemy the civilized under the British colonial administra of America, in Congress Assembled: world has ever known. tion, and the idea of an eventual east We, your memorialists, the 53d Legislative Mr. Speaker, as we, then, to.day salute African federation is still a potent force .. Assembly of the State of Oregon, in legisla tive session assembled, most respectively rep the martyrdom, the faith, the courage Shortly after the merger of Tanganyika resent as follows: and the dedication of the Armenian and Zanzibar last spring, the President Whereas there has been designated by the people let us here renew our pledge to of the new Republic of Tanzania, Julius Corps of Army Engineers a damsite on the persevere in our common :fight against Nyerere, called once again for an east upper Grande Ronde River in Union County, the modern Communist enemy until the African federation of Tanzania, Uganda, Oreg., known as Spring Creek damsite; and free cause of the United States, Armenia and Kenya. Whereas there has been designated by the and all other peace-loving nations is In any event, on April 26, 1964, Tan Corps of Army Engineers a damsite on upper Catherine Creek in eastern Union County, achieved and may the Almighty speed ganyika and Zanzibar merged into a Oreg., known as Catherine Creek damsite; that happy day. single sovereign state. The articles of and union provided that the new republic Whereas these damsites designated as such would be governed by the constitution of are a part of the multipurpose water develop GENERAL LEAVE TO EXTEND Tanganyika pending the adoption of a ment program of the Columbia River Basin; Mr. PHILBIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask new constitution. Zanzibar would re and · unanimous consent that all Members tain a separate executive and legislature Whereas, if the Spring Creek dam.site anci to handle domestic affairs, but national the Catherine Creek dam.site are developed have 5 legislative days within which to to their full potential by the construction extend their remarks on the subject of matters-external affairs, defense, im thereon of dams, substantial benefits in the this unspeakable occurrence. migration, trade, customs, taxes, and form ·of flood control, farmland irrigation, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. RoN police powers-would be dealt with ex and recreational development would be CALio). Is there objection to the request clusively by the executive and parliament realized in Baker, Union, Wallowa, Grant, of the gentleman from Massachusetts? of the United Republic. and Umatilla Counties in northeastern There was no objection. The first year of the union has wit Oregon: Now, therefore, be it nessed the implementation of the articles Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the of union into a workable governmental State of Oregon: 1. The Honorable Stephen Ailes, Secretary BffiTHDAY OF TANZANIA system. The police force has been suc of the Army, ls memorialized to take all Mr. POWELL. Mr. Speaker, today is cessfully integrated. Foreign relations steps possible to insure that projected multi an especially important date in the Re have been taken over exclusively by the purpose dams be constructed as soon as public of Tanzania, for it marks the first union government. Gradually the di possible on the Spring creek damsite on birthday of the Republic created l year verse institutions and policies of the two the upper Grande Ronde River in Union ago by the merger of Tanganyika and countries are being integrated, and the County, Oreg., and on the Catherine Creek Zanzibar. On this memorable occasion, two countries are genuinely merging damsite in Union County, Oreg. into one. A new development plan has 2. A copy of this memorial shall be trans we wish to send warm felicitations to mitted to the President of the United States, His Excellency, President Julius Nyerere, been drawn up by the union government. the Secretary of the Army, and to each mem of Tanzania. On this important anniversary we sa ber of the Oregon congressional delegation. The merger was a surprise to many, lute you, President Nyerere, Vice Presi Adopted by senate March 22, 1965. who viewed the two governments as ide dent Karume, and the people of Tan CECIL L. EDWARDS, ologically at variance and who con zania, and express our best wishes for Secretary of Senate. sidered such a major political step un the continued successful development of HARRY J. BOIVIN, the Republic of Tanzania. President of Senate. likely at a time when both countries had Adopted by house April 2, 1965. just been through political crises. Pre F. F. MONTGOMERY, dictions differed. Some felt that union OREGON SENATE MEMORIAL- Speaker of House. would not last. But a reassessment at . the end of the first year shows that al GRANDE RONDE DAMS ready important steps have been taken Mr. MACKAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask TRUTH-IN-PACKAGING: CORRECT toward consolidating and strengthening unanimous consent that the gentleman PACKAGING ABUSES the union. from Oregon [Mr. UL-LMAN] may extend Physically the two countries resemble his remarks at this point in the RECORD Mr. MACKAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask each other little. Tanganyika is a large and include extraneous matter. unanimous consent that the gentleman east African country nearly 363,000 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there from Wisconsin [Mr. KAsTENMEIER] may miles square in area. The greater por objection to the request of the gentleman extend his remarks at this Point in the tion of the land consists of an immense from Georgia? RECORD and include extraneous matter. plateau. Tanganyika is also the site of There was no objection. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest moun Mr. ULLMAN. Mr. Speaker, one of objection to the request of the gentleman tain in Africa,- snowcapped the year the river basins that suffered severe dam from Georgia? round even though it is only 3 ° south age during the December-January flood There was no objection. of the Equator, and of Lake Victoria, the disaster in the Pacific Northwest is the Mr. KASTENMEIER. Mr. Speaker, I second largest fresh water lake in the Grande Ronde Basin, of northeast Or am introducing today truth-in-packag world. By way of contrast, Zanzibar is egon. An engineering and feasibility re ing legislation to· deal with various pack an island--or rather two islands, Zan port by the U.S. Army Corps of En aging practices which have grown up zibar and Pemba-lying off Africa's east gineers for the development of dams of within our marketing industry. coast. The islands are low-lying, the Grande Ronde River and Catherine Not so many years ago a shopper in a studded with bays and inlets, lush with Creek in the basin is currently before the grocery store purchased commodities out tropical vegetation, and fragrant with Secretary of the Army for approval. It of bulk supply. She asked for a pound 8390 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 26, 1965 of cookies and the clerk behind the coun The bill would deal with the so-called Second, prohibit the use of misleading ter weighed out a pound of cookies. Al "kitchen and bathroom" items which pictures on packages; most all commodities were handled out make up the great majority of products Third, prohibit cents-off deals or of bulk. In short, the retailer purchased sold in the modern supermarket. The "economy sized" designations by manu food in bulk from a manufacturer or average household spends almost one facturers which imply a control over re processor and broke them down into third of its budget on these items and tail prices they may not have; units for the customer. the current packaging practices are in Fourth, provide means for standard Today our modern supermarket offers creasingly depriving the consumer of izing package weights and measures for an astounding array of prepackaged value in his purchases in this area. specific types of commodities so the merchandise ranging from food items Based on my own family's experience, shopper can compare prices without through hardware and drug items. Food the housewife makes every effort to spend dealing with fractions of ounces; and is broken down into packaged units by this portion of the family budget with Fifth, provide industry with an oppor the manufacturer or food processor. care. In some cases this is easy. She tunity to participate in the formulation Through these showplaces of Ameri can tell the difference in price between of these packaging regulations. can ingenuity and diversity the Ameri different brands of vegetables in stand Hearings are being held this week in can housewife obtains the foodstuffs ard size cans. But she quickly is lost in the Senate Commerce Committee on this which make Americans the best fed peo a maze of fractions and higher mathe very language. While it may be difficult ple in the world. matics when it comes to comparison to write language to assure that the reg In this world of prepackaged splendor, shopping for other items. ulations will not stifle normal growth in however, there has crept a disturbing A Wisconsin State legislator recently the industry, it is not impossible. Fur amount of misleading and deceptive cited interesting facts in support of a thermore, the evidence shows that some packaging practices and unfair trade truth-in-packaging bill he had intro regulation is needed. practices: duced in the Wisconsin State Legislature. This legislation has been before Con Net weight and other important in State Senator Martin J. Schreiber cited gress for several years. It has been the formation is often printed in too small a typical problem faced by a housewife subject of hearings and the growing con type. in purchasing soap powder. One actual gressional concern over these practices Net weight and net contents informa case he cited was a choice between three has been similarly of public record for tion does not appear at the same place sizes of the same brand of soap powder: some time. Yet the conditions persist, on all packages. The "king size" package contained 5 demonstrating that the industry is not Packages are oversized even when con pounds, 11 ounces, and cost $1.33. capable of self-regulation in this respect. sidering the fact that the contents will The "giant size" package contained 3 The time has come for the packaging settle during transit. pounds, 5% ounces, and cost 79 cents. industry to assist Congress in writing "Giant," "jumbo," "large economy The "regular size" contained 1 pound, legislation which will both eliminate the size" often offer no savings over smaller 6 ounces, and cost 32 cents. deceptive packaging practices while containers of the same brand. avoiding any stifling of the development Pictures on packages grossly misrepre It is difficult to tell at a glance or even of new products or growth in the indus sent the contents. with a pencil and paper which is the best try. Claimed "servings per package" have bu¥. However, the "king size" label and no meaning to the consumer. the "giant size" label suggest that they Fractions of ounces are used for no are a better buy. ARMENIAN MASSACRES IN TURKEY apparent reason other than to frustrate Long division will show, however, that IN 1915 comparison shopping. the best buy in this case was the "regular Mr. MACKAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask This bill seeks to deal not only with size" package. It cost 1.45 cents per unanimous consent that the gentleman the packaging aspects which confront ounce, while the "king" and "giant" sizes from Pennsylvania [Mr. FLOOD] may ex the shopper in the supermarket, but also cost 1.46 cents per ounce and 1.48 cents tend his remarks at this point in the the industry conditions which give rise per ounce, respectively. RECORD and include extraneous matter. to these practices. The bill seeks to-- Clearly the manufacturer who pre The SPEAKER pr.o tempore. Is there First, provide the means for the Amer prints the package in this fashion has objection to the request of the gentleman ican consumer to know what she is buy no control over the prices charged by from Georgia? ing; the retailer and the result is tilat these There was no objection. Second, extend the spirit and sub labels have no particular meaning for Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, April 24 of stance of the antitrust laws to the rela the consumer and can be misleading. this year marked the 50th anniversary tively new form of nonprice competition This also holds true for "cents off" of an event of World War I almost for of packaging; and deals preprinted on packages by the man gotten, the outright extermination of the Third, eliminate the unfair trade prac ufacturer. He cannot control the price Armenian communities in the Ottoman tices that have developed along with charged by the retailer and the price Empire. At the beginning of that year packaging gimmickry and deception. charged may be the normal retail price. there were close to 2 million Armenians My bill directs the Food and Drug I recently received a letter from a Wis in the sultan's sprawling domain, and Administration-for food, drugs, and consin housewife, highlighting another about half of these were living in their cosmetics-and the Federal Trade Com packaging device. . She wrote that she historic homeland in eastern Asia Minor. mission-for other consumer commodi had purchased two 1-pound packages of By the end of that terrible year nearly ties-to promulgate regulations that will potato flakes within a 5-month period. all of them had been uprooted from their require packages to accurately and The price had increased from 69 cents to homes-only those residing in the sul clearly give essential product informa 79 cents and the claimed number of serv tan's capital city of Constantinople were tion and fairly represent the contents. ings had risen from 20 to 25, but the less spared through the tireless efforts of the The bill is similar to that introduced expensive first package contained the United States Ambassador, Mr. Morgen earlier this year by Senator PHILIP HART, equivalent of 7 pounds of ordinary pota thau and many hundreds of thousands of Michigan, and incorporates changes toes and the higher priced one only 6 % had been massacred outright. in the language to meet _certain criti pounds. Most of those who were spared this cism of the packaging industry of earlier This illustrates how irrelevant pack cruel but quick form of death were bills. The principal changes include: aging information can be to the actual doomed to suffer longer in the course of First. Once a standardized volume is contents of the container. A provision forced marches, but they also shared a established for a given commodity, any of my bill would establish serving stand similar fate under circumstances of bru shape container may be permitted. ards so that the term "25 servings" would tality and cruelty unsurpassed in the Second. No rules would be allowed have some meaning to the housewife history even of the blood-stained East. which could outlaw existing standardized planning meals and not just be used to Barely one-tenth of the total number containers such as the various standard suggest increased contents. managed to survive this secretly planned can sizes. Other provisions of the bill would and most carefully executed first case of Third. No weight or measures stand First, require the net weight or con genocide in all modern history. Thus ards could be established for packages tents to be printed prominently on the the Armenian people, who throughout under 2 ounces. front panel of all packages; their long and turbulent history had April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8391 steadfastly clung to their ancestral duct such investigations as are necessary any committee in the House. It cer homes, and who in the opinion of those to determine the need and nature of such tainly has more money for less accom- who knew them had long been regarded legislation. plishment than any committee. · as the most energetic, industrious and · There is an apparent need for more In my opinion, this latest appropria progressive element in the Ottoman Em effective criminal laws to deal with vio tion will haunt the House for many years pire, were carried off as if by some afflic lence against civil rights workers and to come and the investigations initiated tion early in the First World War. Negroes who are asserting their rights in pursuant to it will bring no credit to The causes for this tragedy are nu the South. Much of this violence seems this noble body. merous, but the real cause was that the to be perpetrated by members of the Ku Armenians, always oppressed and robbed Klux Klan. Investigation of the need and violated by the unruly Kurds and and nature of new laws should be per MILWAUKEE: BIG LEAGUE CITY unscrupulous government officials, had formed by the Judiciary Committee, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. asked for reforms and improvements in which has been responsible for all previ RoNCALIO) . Under previous order of their status. When these were not ous civil rights legislation. the House the gentleman from Wiscon forthcoming, and the Turks proved un An even greater danger to the cause sin [Mr. REUssJ is recognized for 10 willing to do anything for the Armeni of civil rights arises, however. Virtually minutes. ans, then the latter had appealed to every civil rights leader has been cited Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, the major European governments for their good frequently in the House Un-American league season opened in Milwaukee on offices. These governments, being aware Activities Committee files and publica April 15. The day was cool and cloudy. of the prevailing misgovernment in the tions which have been used by committee Fans who like to root for the home Armenian provinces of Turkey, had members and foes of civil rights as evi team could not forget that next year urged the Turkish Government to intro dence of Communist infiltration in the "their" Braves would be playing for At duce some reforms for the betterment of civil rights movement. For example, lanta, not Milwaukee. the lot of the Armenian people. The during the 1963 civil rights· bill debate, Circumstances were hardly favorable Turks had agreed to do this, but they the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. for a large attendance. never forgave the Armenians for seeking . GATHINGS] read into the CONGRESSIONAL Yet 33,874 Wisconsin baseball fans outside intervention. They felt that RECORD 30 pages of quotes from Un turned out, demonstrating once again one way to a.void foreign intervention American Activities Committee files in that Milwaukee is a big league city that was to eliminate the Armenian element fering that 59 persons prominent in the loves big league baseball. in the country. The First World War NAACP were Communist affiliates or The excellent attendance on opening offered them the golden opportunity to sympathizers. Included were the Rev day added still another entry to the long do this. And they proceeded in this erend Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Ralph record of outstanding support Milwaukee hideous task in a most ruthless manner, Bunche, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Ran has given to the Braves. their sole purpose being the extermina dolph, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and Rob The opening day crowd this year tion of all Armenians regardless of age ert Weaver. should remind baseball's fans and own and sex. Unfortunately they nearly From this, the gentleman from Ark:m ers of the many other crowds that succeeded in this total genocide, and to sas concluded that the NAACP was "sub packed Milwaukee County stadium to day there remain barely 50,000 Arme versive." There have been similar build a 12-year average annual attend nians in a country where there were instances. ance of 1,583,027-a figure surpassed by nearly 2 million before 1915. There is a real danger that the com only one other National League club. On April 24 of this year, on the 50th mittee investigation of the Ku Klux Milwaukee has proved itself a big anniversary of the Armenian massacres Klan will be only a thinly disguised ex league town; there can be no paint in in Turkey, all Armenian communities cuse for a later investigation of sup any further "tests" of the thoroughly throughout the world and their friends posed Communist infiltration into the demonstrated enthusiasm of Milwau everywhere observed that black anni civil rights organizations. Indeed, sev keeans for major league baseball. versary and prayed in memory of more eral southern colleagues who spoke in Mr. Speaker, the leaders of major than 1 million Armenian victims of this favor of the committee appropriation in league baseball have often appeared be unprecedented campaign of genocide. dicated that the civil rights organiza fore committees of Congress and pledged tions should be investigated for Commu to operate "responsibly" and "in the public interest." AGAINST HOUSE UN-AMERICAN nist influence. Mr. Speaker, I hope my prophecy does Yet the oligopolists of baseball have ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE APPRO..; decreed that Milwaukee, a proven major PRIATION not prove true, but I forsee the day when every Congressman interested in pro league city with a proven ability and Mr. MACKAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask moting constitutional rights in this coun willingness to support amply a major unanimous consent that the gentleman try will deeply regret this latest House league team, is to be left without major from New York [Mr. OTTINGER] may ex Un-American Activities Committee ap league baseball after the 1965 season. tend his remarks at this point in the propriation. This committee, with five Unless something is done, Milwaukee RECORD and include extraneous matter. of its nine members from the Deep South, will become the first, but-and I hope my The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there is more likely than not to give the Ku colleagues from Cleveland, Kansas City, objection to the request of the gentleman Klux Klan a "once over lightly," and then and Cincinnati in particular will note from Georgia? turn with a vengeance on the civil rights this-not the last major league city in There was no objection. groups. · · the 20th century to lose big league base Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, the It is noteworthy that virtually every ball entirely. House has voted an additional $50,000 to civil rights leader in the House and every Baseball's moguls cannot justify their the Committee on Un-American Activi Negro Representative present voted abandonment of the loyal fans and sup ties to permit it to undertake an investi against this appropriation, including the porters in Milwaukee as meeting their gation of the Ku Klux Klan. In my view, gentleman from New York [Mr. PowELL] often-stated promise to operate respon this bodes ill for the cause of civil rights. and the gentlemen from Michigan [Mr. sibly. In the first place. this represents a DIGGS and Mr. CONYERS]. These dis The opening game attendance April 15 further extension of nonlegislative inves tinguished civil rights leaders certainly spotlights to burden on the club owners tigations by the committee. I believe would not have opposed a genuine and to remedy that irresponsible action which these investigations to be unconstitu effective inquiry into more effective leg they approved last year. tiopal and in derogation of our basic islation to combat violence by the Ku Fortunately, there is a responsible and freedoms. A congressional committee Klux Klan. public-spirited course of action they can has no business investigating and orga Finally, to give the Committee on Un take if they will. nization or individuals solely for the sake American Activities more money to ex Let them proceed forthwith to expand ·of exposure, no matter how undesirable tend still further its jurisdiction is in baseball by four new franchises for the the organization may. be. The only deed a travesty. The committee already 1966 season and to create from the new proper function for a congressional com has the distinction of being the fourth and existing teams three more geograph mittee is to consider legislation and con- ranking in terms of appropriations of ically compact leagues. CXI--531 8392 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 26, 1965 Let them also agree upon greater shar the House adjourned until tomorrow, assemblies in excess of current needs by the ing of television revenues to equalize Tuesday, April 27, 1965, at 12 o'clock U.S. Marine Corps, Department of the Navy; competition and to wipe out an incentive noon. to the Committee on Government Opera for clubs to engage in profit-seeking city tions. 993. A letter from the Comptroller Gen hopping. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. eral of the United States, transmitting a re Baseball has promised to operate in the port of unnecessary procurement of office public interest. Let it now fulfill that Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive furniture, Department of Labor; to the Com pledge. communications were taken from the mittee on Government Operations. Speaker's table and referred as follows: 994. A letter from the Chief Commissioner, 981. A communication from the President Indian Claims Commission, transmitting a LEAVE OF ABSENCE of the United States, transmitting amend report that proceedings have been finally By unanimous consent, leave of ab ments to the request for appropriations made concluded with respect to two cases involv sence was granted to: in the budget for fiscal year 1966 for the De ing the Colorado River Indian Tribes, namely partment of Agriculture and proposed provi Dockets Nos. 185 and 283-A, with copies of Mr. MATHIAS (at the request of Mr. sions for the Department of Agriculture and the papers relating thereto, pursuant to GERALD R. FORD), through May 15. 1965, the Department of the Interior (H. Doc. No. section 21 of 25 U.S.C. 70t; to the Committee on account of illness. 154); to the Committee on Appropriations on Interior and Insular Affairs. Mr. ST. ONGE (at the request of Mr. and ordered to be printed. 995. A letter from the Attorney General, McGRATH) for the balance of the week, 982. A letter from the Assistant Secretary transmitting a draft of proposed legislation on account of illness in family. of the Interior, transmitting a report on the to permit the compelling of testimony with Touchet division, Walla Walla project, Ore respect to certain crimes, and the granting Mr. RoDINO (at the request of Mr. of immunity in connection therewith; to the McGRATH) , for May 3 and 4, 1965, on ac gon-Washington, pursuant to section 9(a) of the Reclamation Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) . Committee on the Judiciary. count of official business. (H. Doc. No. 155); to the Committee on In terior and Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed with illustrations. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED 983. A letter from the Secretary of the Air By unanimous consent, permission to Force, transmitting a report on the number Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public address the House, fallowing the legisla of officers assigned or detailed to permanent bills and resolutions were introduced and tive program and any special · orders duty in the executive part of the Department severally referred as follows: heretofore entered, was granted to: at the end of the third quarter of fl.seal year By Mr. CURTIS: 1965, pursuant to section 8031(c), title 10, H.R. 7585. A bill to amend the Internal Mr. F'uLTON of Tennessee (at the re United States Code; to the Committee on Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, with re quest of Mr. ALBERT) , for 15 minutes, to Armed Services. spect to the taxation of banks, savings and day; to revise and extend his remarks 984. A letter from the Assistant Secretary loan associations, and other institutions; to and to include extraneous matter. of Defense (Installations and Logistics), the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. SAYLOR, for 60 minutes, on Tues transmitting a report listing Army, Navy, By Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota: day, April 27, 1965; and to revise and ex and Air Force contracts negotiated under H.R. 7586. A bill to amend the Civil Service authority of sections 2304(a) (11) and 2304 Retirement Act to provide for the inclusion tend his remarks. (a) (16) of title 10, United States Code, dur ~r. PHILBIN, for 60 minutes, today; to in the computation of accredited services of ing the 6-month period ended December 31, certain periods of service rendered States or rev1Se and extend his remarks and to in 1964, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(e); to the instrumentalities of States, and for other clude extraneous matter. Committee on Armed Services. purposes; to the Committee on Post Office (The following Members at the request 985. A letter from the Acting Secretary of and Civil Service. of Mr. MACKAY, to revise and extend their the Navy, transmitting a draft of proposed By Mr. BYRNES of Wisconsin: remarks and to include extraneous mat legislation to amend title 10, United States H.R. 7587. A bill to amend the Internal Code, with respect to the Reserve Officers' Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to certain ter:) Training Corps; to the Committee on Armed Mr. BINGHAM, for 45 minutes, on Services. distributions of money by corporations which Wednesday, April 28. have been electing small business corpora 986. A letter from the Secretary of Health, tions; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. HUNGATE, for 30 minutes, on Education, and Welfare, transmitting the an nual report of the Department for fiscal year H.R. 7588. A bill to amend the Internal Wednesday, May 12. Revenue Code of 1954 to remove certain limi Mr. REuss, for 10 minutes, today. 1964; to the Committee on Education and Labor. tations on the amount of deduction for con 987. A letter from the Secretary of State, tributions to pension and profit-sharing EXTENSION OF REMARKS transmitting a proposed draft amendment to plans made on the behalf of self-employed the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, individuals; to the Committee on Ways and By unanimous consent, permission to as amended; to the Committee on Foreign Means. extend remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL Affairs. By Mr. CHELF: RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks 988. A letter from the Comptroller General H.R. 7589. A bill to amend the Interstate was granted to: of the United States, transmitting a report Commerce Act, as amended, in order to make of unnecessary costs resulting from the en unlawful, as unreasonable and unjust dis Mr. PUCINSKI. crimination against an undue burden upon Mr. ANNUNZIO. try into the military supply system of items identical or similar to items previously interstate commerce, certain property tax as (The following Members (at the re .eliminated or to standard items that were sessments of common carrier property, and quest of Mr. MACKAY) and to include ex retained, Department of Defense; to the for other purposes; to the Committee on In traneous matter: ) Committee on Government Operations. terstate and Foreign Commerce. Mrs. KELLY. 989. A letter from the Comptroller General By Mr. GRAY: Mr. ROOSEVELT. of the United States, transmitting a report H.R. 7590. A bill to incorporate the Sixth Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey of unnecessary costs incurred in the produc United States Infantry Association; to the tion of T208 telescope mounts as a result of Committee on the Judiciary. an inaccurate and incomplete technical data By Mr. McDADE: SENATE BILL REFERRED package, Department of the Army; to the H.R. 7591. A bill to amend the Bank Merger Committee on Government Operations. Act so as to provide that bank mergers, A bill of the Senate of the following 990. A letter from the Comptroller General whether accomplished by the acquisition of title was taken from the Speaker's table of the United States, transmitting a report stock or assets or in any other way, are sub and, under the rule, referred as follows: of unnecessary retention of high-value land, ject exclusively to the provisions of the Bank S. 327. An act to provide assistance to the Fort Gordon, Ga., Department of the Army; Merger Act, and for other purposes; to the States of Oregon, Washington, California, to the Committee on Government Operations. Committee on Banking and Currency. and Idaho for the reconstruction of areas 991. A letter from the Comptroller Gen H.R. 7592. A bill to amend section 1498 of damaged by recent floods and high waters; eral of the United States, transmitting a re title 28, United States Code, to authorize the to the Committee on Public Works. port of lack of proper inspection and effec use or manufacture, in certain cases, by or tive maintenance practices for communica for the United States of any invention de tion and electronic equipment in certain scribed in and c;iovered by a patent of the ADJOURNMENT strategic Army Corps units at Fort Hood, United States; to the Committee on the Tex., Department of the Army; to the Com Judiciary. Mr. MACKAY. Mr. Speaker, I move mittee on Government Operations. H.R. 7593. A bill to repeal the exclse tax on that the House do now adjourn. 992. A letter from the Comptroller Gen amounts paid for communication service or The motion was agreed to; accord eral of the United States, transmitting a facilities; to the Committee on Ways and ingly (at 12 o'clock and 48 minutes p.m.) report of procurements of spare parts and Means. April 26, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 8393 By Mr. MATSUNAGA: 216. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of By Mr. RODINO: H.R. 7694. A bill to establish a Federal the State of California, relating to the con H.R. 7616. A bill for the relief of Benito Commission on Alcoholism, and for other struction of dams on the Eel River; to the Caldas and Carmen Caldas; to the Commit purposes; to the Committee on Interstate Committee on Public Works. tee on the Judiciary. and Foreign Commerce. 217. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of By Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina: the State of Florida, relative to a request for H.R. 7595. A bill to amend title 10, United designation of a highway from Tampa, Fla., PETITIONS, ETC. states Code, to authorize transportation at to Miami, Fla., as a part of the National Sys Government expense for dependents, accom tem of Interstate and Defense Highways; to Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions panying members of the uniformed services the Committee on Public Works. and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk at their posts of duty outside the United 218. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of and referred as follows: States, who require medical care not locally the State of Hawaii, relative to requesting the 181. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Board available; to the Committee on Armed Serv continuation of present levels of Federal sup of Commissioners of Martin County, Stuart, ices. port for soil and water conservation districts; Fla., relative to requesting continuation of H.R. 7596. A bill to amend title 10, United to the Committee on Agriculture. the policy of providing technical assistance States Code, to remove inequities in the ac 219. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of to soil and water conservation districts with tive duty promotion opportunity of certain the State of Hawaii, relative to the Congress out new costs to landowners and operators; Air Force officers; to the Committee on Armed amending all Federal laws granting subsidies to the Committee on Agriculture. services. to any industry or agricultural pursuit. to re 182. Also, petition of National Bicycle Deal By Mr. SAYLOR (by request): quire compliance with the Fair Labor Stand ers Association, Inc., Wickliffe, Ohio, urging H.R. 7597. A bill to establish the veterans ards Act of 1938, as amended; to the Com Congre~s to enact legislation for bicycle reopened insurance fund in the Treasury mittee on Agriculture. paths as an integral part of our highway and to authorize initial capital to operate 220. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of system; to the Committee on Public Works. insurance programs under 38 U.S.C. 725; to the State of Maine, relative to requesting 183. Also, petition of Association of High the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Congress to promote the protection of our way Officials of North Atlantic States, Tren By Mr. SIKES: gold reserves; to the Committee on Ways and ton, N.J., relative to resolution petitioning H.R. 7598. A bill to provide an appropria Means. Congress to direct the Secretary of Commerce tion for a preliminary examination and sur 221. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of to develop highway needs of the Nation, and vey for improvement of Lynn Haven Bayou the State of Nebraska, relative to the Missouri recommending an additional Federal-aid and Canal, Fla.; to the Committee on Appro River States Committee reaffirming and urg highway program expanding the Interstate priations. ing early and favorable action by the Con System; to the Committee on Public Works. By Mr. ULLMAN: gress so that construction may be started as 184. Also, petition of Federation of Home H.R. 7599. A bill to amend the Agricultural suring the beginning of another phase of the makers, Arlington, Va., requesting the House Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to permit uses of the waters of the Missouri River of Representatives to create a new standing marketing orders applicable to pears to pro Basin; to the Committee on Interior and In committee to be known as the Committee vide for paid advertising; to the Committee sular Affairs. on Health and Safety, to consider legislation on Agriculture. 222. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of in these specific fields; to the Committee on By Mr. KASTENMEIER: the State of Washington, relative to endorsing Rules. H.R. 7600. A bill to regulate interstate and the orderly development program for the 185. Also, petition of Veterans of Foreign foreign commerce by preventing the use of Columbia Basin Commission; to the Commit Wars of the United States, Washington, D.C., unfair or deceptive methods of packaging tee on Interior and Insular Affairs. relative to urging continued efforts to oppose or labeling of certain consumer commodities curtailment of veterans' benefits; to the distributed in such corr..merce, and for other Committee on Veterans' Affairs. purposes; to the Committee on Interstate PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 186. Also, petition of Local No. 534, Boston and Foreign Commerce. Cement Masons & Asphalt Layers Union, By Mr. PATMAN: Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private Boston, Mass., requesting Congress to allow H.R. 7601. A bill to provide for the re bills and resolutions were introduced and the automatic rate reduction on temporary tirement of $30 billion of interest-bearing ob severally referred as follows: Korean excise taxes; to the Committee on ligations of the United States held by the 12 By Mr. ADAMS (by request) : Ways and Means. Federal Reserve banks; to the Committee on H.R. 7604. A bill for the relief of Bartul 187. Also, petition of Southern Interstate Banking and Currency. Ivcevic; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Nuclear Board, Atlanta, Ga., relative to ex By Mr. WATTS: By Mr. FARBSTEIN: tending the pt"ovisions of the Price-Anderson H.R. 7602. A bill to amend section 1263 of H.R. 7605. A bill for the relief of Weeni indemnity legislation for an additional period title 18 of the United States Code to require cezie Joan Sharma; to the Committee on the of 10 years; to the Joint Committee on that interstate shipments of intoxicating Judiciary. Atomic Energy. liquors be accompanied by bill of lading, or By Mr. FINO: other document, showing certain informa H.R. 7606. A bill for the relief of Pyung Ok •• .... •• tion in lieu of requiring such to be marked Kim; to the Committee on the Judiciary. on the package; to the Committee on the SENATE Judiciary. H.R. 7607. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Flora El Tawil; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 7603. A bill relating to the reserve for MONDAY, APRIL bad debts for income tax purposes in the By Mr. JARMAN: 26, 1965 case of banks; to the Committee on Ways H.R. 7608. A bill to provide for the free and Means. entry of one automatic steady state distribu The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, By Mr. McDADE: tion machine for the use of the University and was called to order by the Vice H. Res. 346. Resolution establishing a Com of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.; to the Commit President. mittee on the Captive Nations; to the Com tee on Ways and Means. The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown mittee on Rules. By Mr. KASTENMEIER: Harris, D.D., offered the following By Mr. THOMAS: H.R. 7609. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Sook prayer: H. Res. 847. Resolution expressing the dis Ihn Saw; to the Committee on the Judiciary. approval of the House of Representatives of By Mr. LINDSAY: Father of all mankind, we come con Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1965; to the H.R. 7610. A bill for the relief of Siu Chun scious that our best contrivings and our Committee on Government Operations. Tsu Chao; to the Committee on the Judiciary. wisest plans will stand but as mute mon By Mr. POWELL: . uments of futility in a valley of dry bones H.R. 7611. A bill for the relief of Muriel C. unless upon them all Thou shalt breathe :MEMORIALS Greaves; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 7612. A bill for the relief of Kaestner the breath of life. Under clause ~ of rule XXII, memorials George Phillips and his wife Miriam Olive If at last, chastened by Thy immu were presented and referred as follows: Phillips; to the Committee on the Judiciary. table laws, a shattered world is to leave 214. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the H.R. 7613. A bill for the relief of Salvatore behind mutual slaughter, exploitation, Legislature of the State of Alaska, relative to Prestigiacomo; to the Committee on the Ju suspicion, and hatred, and is to march endorsing S. 1091, a bill relating to the ex diciary. together, no matter how long and steep ploration and development of the Continen H.R. 7614. A bill for the relief of Lorna the climbing way, toward a fairer earth tal Shelf; to the Committee on Merchant Ma Gloria Reid; to the Committee on the Ju in which nation shall not lift up sword rine and Fisheries. diciary. against nation, neither shall learn war 215. Also, Memorial of the Legislature of By Mr. PUCINSKI: the State of California, relative to a study H.R. 7615. A blll for the incorporation of any more, only Thy pillar of cloud and being made of the flood prevention control the Merchant Marine War Veterans Associa of fire can lead to that golden era. aspects of the Eel River and its tributaries; tion; to the Committee on the District of Anxious about our national welfare, as to the Committee on Public Works. Columbia. with all nations we stand in the valley
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