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4178 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE APRIL 7 DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN SERVICE motion and relations of the heavenly PAUL G. HOFFMAN TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENI• bodies and by the laws of science which Mr. GRANT of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, POTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA govern the motion a:nd relations of I ask unanimous consent to address the TO PORTUGAL atoms, of which all matter consists, may House for 1 minute. Lincoln MacVeagh enlighten the minds of this Congress so The SPEAKER. Is there objection to TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENI• that His will in respect to the relation of the request of the gentleman from In POTENT1ARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA man to his fellow man may also be fol- difma? TO CEYLON , lowed by the art of government. There was no objection. Felix Cole MercifuJly grant to us, 0 God, the Mr. GRANT of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, TO BE CONSUL GENERALS OF THE UNITED STATES spirit to think and to do the things that the country will applaud the action of OF AMERICA are proper and just, so that we, who can· the President in nominating Mr. Paul Thomas C. Wasson not exist without Thee, may be enabled G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker Raymon d P. Ludden to act according to Thy will. Through Corp., as Administrator of the Europ.. ~an J ames S. Moose, Jr. Christ our Lord. Amen. recovery program. TO BE CONSULS OF THE UNil'ED STATES OF Mr. Hoffman brings to this tremen AM ERICA The Journal of the proceedings of yes dously important assignment a wealth Nicholas Feld. terday was read and approv~d. of experience in business and in civic R~er L. Heacock MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT affairs that augurs well for the program. UNITED . STATES MARSHAL A message in writing from the Presi As a member of the committee of citizens Edney Ridge to be United States marshal headed by Secretary of Commerce Har- , for the middle district of North Carolina. dent of the United States was communi cated to the House by Mr. Miller, one of riman, he has already given much work POSTMASTERS his secretaries, who also informed the and study to this foreign-aid program. KANSAS House . that on the following dates the We are further encouraged by the Warren E. Harlan, lola. speed with which the nomination was Wilmer G. Boothe, Lehigh. President approved and signed bills of the House of the following titles: made. An early confirmation of this ap MINNESOTA pointment can serve to keep the fum Clarence Wall, Hayward. On April 3, 1948: bling fingers of the State Department Olice S. Erickson, Willmar. H. R. 986. An act for the relief of Leslie H. Ashlock; out of this program, as was definitely TENNESSEE H. R. 4478. An act to provide basic au· intended by Congress in its formulation. John G. Hughes, Clifton. thority for certain administrative expendi· Realizing as we do the waste and the Samuel G. Bazemore, Cordova. tures for the Veterans' Administration, and extravagance of the public funds that Samuel A. Leftwich, Hampshire. for other purposes; and all too.often has marked these interna Lee T. McDaniel,., Pittsburg Landing. H. R. 4943. An act to extend the authority tional programs in the past, the appoint Ross Bass, Pulaski. of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to Earnest T. Browder, Sweetwater. ment of Mr. Hoffman gives encourage establish and continue offices in the terri· ment to many of us who supported ERP, TEXAS tory of the Republic of the Philippines. but who frankly had serious misgivings Robert L. Phinney, Austin. On April 5, 1948: about the administration of these funds. Glenn H. Henderson, Bryson. H. R. 1215. An act for the relief of Kazue Walter G. Marek, Burlington. Oda Takah!lShi; and There were grave doubts that we would Thomas A. Vaughan, Caddo Mills. H . R. 4938. An act to amend the Tariff Act realize the beneficial results that could Richard A. Bowers, Caldwell. of 1930 with reference to platinum foxes and come if the foreign-aid program were Grace G. Sanderlin, Camp Wood. platinum-fox furs, and for. other purposes. placed in capable hands. Jesse ·L. Howard, Chester. On April 6, 1948: · Mr. Hoffman will bring to this pro Louise I. Lintelman, Crosby. H. R. 2214. An act · for the relief of Dave gram a good, sound business leadership. James R. Brown, Denison. Hougardy; and Charles H. Yowell, Dodd City. We expect him to gather into· that or- · Euna C. Kelly, Freer. H. R. 3118. An act for the relief of Mrs. ganization people who are made of such William R. Ginnings, Frisco. Susan W. Roe. good stuff as himself. ERP is of! to a Sam S. Devall, Hallettsville. - On April 7, 1948: good start. Ernest A. Cryer, Jr., Hamshire. H. R. 3229. An act to exempt. Hawaii and Frederic E. Edgar. High Island. Alaska from the requirements of the act of COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND Halbert McQuinn, Jefferson. April 29, 1902, relating to the procurement FISHERIES Herschel P. McCown, Kerens. of statistics of trade between the United Mr. 'WEICHEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask Robert A. White, La Porte. States and its noncontiguous territory; and unanimous consent that the Committee Harold Sparks, La Villa. H. R. 4177. An act for the relief of William John C. Groce, League City. L. Cunliffe. on Merchant Marine and Fisheries may Charley J. Nichols, Mansfield. sit today during general debate. Isaac E. White, Markham. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Roy B. Hennington, McCaulley. A message from the Senate, by Mr. the request of the gentleman from Ohio? Harrier 0. Gainer, Melvin. There was no objection. Andrew J. Dennis, Moran. Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced · Marvin C. Warncke, Needville. that the Senate had passed bills of the EXTENSION OF REMARKS H. L. Riddle, Ovalo. following titles, in which the concurrence · Mr. POTTER asked and was given Mark L. Hodges, Paris. · of the House is requested: ' · permission to extend his remarks in the Ambrose w. Caufield, Phillips. S. 1481. An act to authorize the Board of Edna A. Sutherlin, Selman City. RECORD and include a radio broadcast Otis Avary, Seymour. Commissioners of the District of Columbia and a letter. to establish daylight-saving time in the Dis. Alton Joyce Evans, Shallowater. PAUL REVERE'S HORSE Pearl H. Hardy, Shepherd . trict; and J._oe R. Christian, Tenaha. • S. 2287. An act to amend the Reconstruc. Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask Wallace Fred Cannon, Thornton. tion Finance Corporation Act, as amended, unanimous consent to address the House Ralph W. Palmer, Tornillo. and for other purposes. for 1 minute and to revise and extend Quel A. Hughes, Vera. my remarks. Dessie K. Bowden, Whiteface. The message also announced that the Senate· had ordered that Mr. McCARRAN The SPEAKER. Is there objection to be appointed a conferee on the bill the request of the gentleman from Ohio? H. R. 2192, "An act for the relief of There was no objection. the Massman Construction Co.," vice Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, Sun HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES day, Apri118, marks the one hundred and Mr. McGRATH, excused. seventy-third anniversary of Paul Re· WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1948 The message also announced that the vere's celebrated ride. In poetry and in Senate agrees to the report of the com prose this famous historical event, has The House met at 12 o'clock noon. mittee of· conference on the disagreeing Rev. Paul Bussard, of St. Paul, Minn., been made known to every school child votes of the two Houses on the amend in America. Paul Revere has been hon· editor of the Catholic Digest, offered the ments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. following prayer: · ored for his gallantry and high patriotic 1799) entitled "An act for the relief of purposes. Neglected in the annals of Let us pray that God, whose will is Eva L. Dudley, Grace M. Collins, and history has been the steed that carried expressed by the laws which govern the Guy B. Slater." Revere on his mad dash ·through the 1948 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-·HOUSE 4179 Massachusetts countryside on that nota many people for a full and useful civilian reason. .These men would have been ble evening. Little is known about the life. This great and merited educational qualified if proper attention had been horse that carried Revere as ,he spread program was not~ conceived primarily as given to their instruction in childhood. · his message which proclaimed one of the· a-reward, however, but rather as a means Instead, however, their educatior.al lack first steps in the freedom of our great of meeting future needs of the Nation. impaired the speed and efficiency of the Nation. Lost to posterity is the name, For otherwise, there soon would have entire Nation in preparing for the sci the breed, ~and the ultimate end of this been an acute shortage in the trained entific struggle that was thrust upon us brave animal. personnel, whose services are funda at Pearl Harbor. On this next Saturday, Apri110, 1 week mental to the general welfare. For these What we must not forget is the fact previous to the celebration of the one reasons, the laws providing for GI educa that the educational demands for serv hundred and seventy-third anniversay tion are perhaps the most significant ing on.e's country now are fully as great. of this historic ride, over the Mutual ones ever passed by Congress for the en Yet we have in our country approxi Broadcasting System, at 3 p.