<tongrcssional Record United States of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 80th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Appendix of the RECORD and include a off their markets. Once again we learn HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES letter she received from a constituent. that reciprocity is a one-way street. Mr. AUCHINCLOSS asked aqd was Wool is one of the items on which the TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1947 given permission to extend his remarks tariff is to be cut 25 percent. This news The House met at 12 o'clock noon. in the Appendix of the RECORD and in­ leaked some time ago. We learned about The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera clude a speech. it from Australia, not from our own State Montgomery, D. D., offered the following . Mr. ROBERTSON asked and was Department, when the world price of prayer: given permission to extend his remarks wool increased 8% cents, exactly the in the Appendix of the RECORD and in­ amount of our tariff reduction. The Breathe upon us, 0 breath of God; clude an address by t:Q.e Honorable Rob­ British wool organization is no free-trade fill us with an unshakable conviction ert E. Freer, Commissioner of the Fed­ outfit, and the American consumer is that these are days of challenge. Amid eral Trade Commission. not going to benefit by one penny from the perplexities of a changing order, let the reduction in our tariff. us be rid of all devastating influences, EFFECT OF THE MARSHALL PLAN ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE If the American consumer does not - putting the privations and hunger of the benefit, and free trade is not promoted,· world above selfishness, for there can be Mr. SMITH of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I what is the effect of this wool tarllf no peace nor security without good will ask unanimous consent to address the reduction~ among individuals and among nations. House for 1 minute and to revise and ex­ First. Wool in 1946 provided one-third Face to face with great new tasks, give tend my remarks. of all the duties collected by the United us eyes to see, that in Thy light we may The SPEAKER. Is there objection to States Treasury, $146,000,000. On that see light; make us loyal and true to those the request of the gentleman from Ohio? basis the reduction in tariff will cost immortal verities which hold our Repub­ There was no objection. our Treasury $35,550,000-money which lic as the sanctuary of human rights Mr. SMITH of Ohio. Mr. _Speaker, must come from some other source. and the ultimate hope of man. whoever is for the so-called Marshall Second. Wool duties provided $10 , 650~- Grant blessings of wisdom and good plan, or anything that smacks of that 000 in section 32, funds which support health upon our beloved Speaker, the plan, is of necessity for the President's many farm programs and agricultural leaders and all Members, that by our de­ proposal to enslave the American people, commodities. Wool has never received cisions we may demonstrate to the world which he put before the Congress yes­ any benefits from this fund. Now the the righteousness of free government. terday. farm programs will have to go looking Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Pass the Marshall plan and compliance elsewhere for money. with the President's request will follow Third. The American w.ool industry, The Journal of the proceedings of yes­ as night follows day. terday was read and approved. one of the keystones of our agricultural With ever-mounting shortages of vi­ economy, will suffer another set-back in ADJOURNMENT OVER tally needed supplies and increasing its fight for survival. Wool is a vital Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, I ask prices, caused in great measure by giv­ strategic material which we need, and we unanimous consent that when the House ing away so much of our goods to foreign must have an adequate domestic supply. adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 12 countries, the carrying out of the Mar­ A firm tariff is essential to a strong Amer­ o'clock noon on Thursday next. shall plan would inevitably exaggerate ican wool industry. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to these evils. These forces_.:._and not the To sum it up, the free-traders have the request of the gentleman from In­ Congress-would determine the issue of not helped the American consumer, they diana? price controls, rationing, and regimenta­ have definitely injured the American There was no objection. tion in general. President Truman and his strategists producer, and they have cost our Treas­ CORRECTION OF ROLL CALLS know this. ury a great source of income. The only Mr. STEVENSON. Mr. Speaker, I Is the Republican Party going to per­ winner in this strange game is the low­ have just discovered that on roll calls 17 mit itself to be tricked into betraying its cost foreign producer, to whom our State and 18 I was recorded as not voting. I pledge to the country to save the Nation Department has handed another huge voted "yea" on both those occasions. I from regimentation by supporting the subsidy. have a 100-percent record in answering Marshall plan? EFFECT OF REDUCTION OF WOOL TARIFF roll calls, and I ask unanimous consent EFFECT OF REDUCTION OF WOOL TARIFF Mr. BARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I ask that the RECORD SO state. unanimous consent to address the House The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. D'EWART. Mr. Speaker, I ask for 1 minute and to revise and extend the request of the gentleman from Wis~ unanimous consent to address the House my remarks. consin? for 1 minute and to revise and extend my The SPEAKER. Is there objection to There was no objection. remarks. the request of the gentleman from The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Wyoming? EXTENSION OF REMARKS the request of the gentleman from Mon­ There was no objection. Mr. POTTS asked and was given per­ tana? Mr. BARRETT. Mr. Speaker, with the mission to extend his remarks in the There was no objection. cuts announced by the State Department REcORD and include therewith a radio Mr. D'EWART. Mr. Speaker, today's yesterday, we now have the lowest tariffs address. newspapers inform us that once again since the turn of the century. The live­ Mr. STEVENSON asked and was given .the administration's free-traders have stock industry has been sacrificed in permission to extend his remarks in the sat down with foreign experts, and the order to close the bargain with the 14 RECORD and include an article from the western wool producer loses some more other countries at Geneva. Otherwise · World Report entitled "Cause of French of his market, and the American con­ the whole negotiations at Geneva would Hunger Failure of Farm Policy." sumer gains nothing. Foreign nations have collapsed. In fact, Australia de­ Mrs. ST. GEORGE asked and was given may, when and if they see fit, remove the manded the scalp of the American wool permission to extend her remarks in the import bans which now keep our goods grower, and got it. XCIII--671 10u45 10646 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE NOVEMBER 18 The wool grower is hit the worst of all. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S RECOMMENDA­ political, as well as economic, advice, and The tariff on raw wool has been cut from TIONS TO CONGRESS I will feel his loss especially in "the trying 34 to 25% cents per clean pound. On top Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I ask months ahead. of that the duty on woolens and worsteds unanimous consent to address the House I sincerely hope that the principles he has also been cut 25 percent. for 1 minute. inaugurated during his long experience Our livestock industry is the greatest The SPEAKER. Is there objection to with the vital subjects of economy and source of new income in the Nation. The the request of the gentleman from good government will be taken to heart investment in livestock is equal to the Pennsylvania? some day before it is too late by a Nation combined investment in the steel and There was no objection. now apprehensive and fearful over the automobile industries. The sheep indus­ Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I want to tragedies of inflation. ; try has been in a bad way since Pearl read a telegram from a York business­ EUROPEAN OBSERVATIONS Harbor. Our sheep population has man which I think reflects the trend of Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask dropped from 49,000;000 head in 1942 to thought of every farsighted and think­ 32,000,000 head in 1947. During the unanimous consent to address the House ing individual in this country. The tele­ for 1 minute. 5-year period before the war our do­ gram reads as follows: mestic wool supplied on the average 82 The SPEAKER. Is there objection to percent of the wool consumed in this After reading President Truman's recom­ the request of the gentlewoman from mendations to Congress yesterday am deeply Ohio? country. but last year our domestic wool concerned about ominous threat in his re­ supplied only 20 percent of the wool con­ quest for authority to apply controls at his There was no objection. sumed in the United States. We simply · option. This would be beginning of peace­ Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Speaker, it was cannot compete with the low-cost pro­ time regimentation and the ultimate result my priviiege this summer to be among ducers abroad.· And so the Government is inevitable. Guided as Mr. Truman is by the traveling Congressmen. I had the has been buying our domestic wool and a radical left.-wing element it is regretted opportunity of going through some of the · that he is gullible enough to lead this Nation areas of Europe and out into the Near stock piling it and the mills have been into the wilderness for sheer political ex­ .