1957 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 3239 and 30 percent surtax; to the Committee on MEMORIALS toria, Maria, Carlo, and Caterina Sciannameo: Ways and Means. Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memo­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. ALGER: H. R. 5712. A bill for the relief of Erika H. J. Res. 259. Joint resolution proposing rfals were presented and referred as Fackler; to the Committee on the Judiciary. an amendment to the Constitution of the follows: By Mr. ELLIOTT: United States relative to taxes on incomes, By Mr. BERRY: Senate Concurrent Reso­ H. R. 5713. A bill for the relief of Dr. inheritances, and gifts; to the Committee lution No. 5, adopted by the South Dakota Kwang Wouk Rowe and Mrs. Hyo Suk (Lee) on the Judiciary. ·- State Legislature, memorializing the Con­ Rowe; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 260. Joint resolution proposing gress of the United States to recognize the By Mr. FOGARTY: an amendment to the Constitution of the importance of continuous and adequate plant H . R. 5714. A bill for the relief of William United States relative to the balancing of research and increase the present appropria­ Frederick Werner; to the Committee on the the budget; to the Committee on the Judi­ tion of funds for the purpose of carrying on Judiciary. ciary. an adequate program of rust control and By Mr. McCONNELL: H. J. Res. 261. Joint resolution proposing plant research; to the Committee on Appro­ H. R. 5715. A bill for the relief of E. Burke an amendment to the Constitution of the priations. Wilford; to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States relative to prohibiting the By Mr. PRICE: Memorial of the 70th Gen­ By Mr. McDONOUGH: United States Government from engaging eral Assembiy of the State of Illinois urging H. R. 5716. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Sole­ in business in competition with its citizens; that the Congress of the United States repeal dad C. Upton and Wilhelmina C. Brady; to to the Committee on the Judiciary. excise taxes upon transportation of persons the Committee on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 262. Joint resolution proposing and of goods; to the Committee on Ways By Mr. MADDEN: an amendment to the Constitution of the and Means. United States providing for the election of H. R. 5717. A bill for the relief of Maria By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Legis­ Undi; to the Committee on the Judiciary. President and Vice President; to the Com­ lature of the State of Georgia, memorializing mittee on the Judiciary. the President and the Congress <;>f the United By Mr. MAHON: H. J. Res. 263. Joint resolution proposing States relative to urging enactment of "such H. R. 5718. A bill for the relief of Juanita an amendment to the Constitution of the legislation as they may deem fit to declare Gibson Lewis; to the Committee on the Judi­ United States relating to the procedure for that the 14th and 15th amendments to the ciary. amending the Constitution; to the Commit­ Constitution of the United States were never !By Mr. MARTIN: tee on the Judiciary. validly adopted and that they are null and H R. 5719. A bill for the relief of Clara M. H. J. Res. 264. Joint resolution proposing void and of no effect"; to the Committee on Briggs; to the Committee on the Judiciary. an amendment to the Constitution of the the Judiciary. By Mr. ULLMAN: United States relating to the legal effect of Also, memorial of the Legislature of the H. R. 5720. A bill for the relief of Domingo certain treaties and other international State of South Dak-ota, memorializing the Zubieta Laca; to the Committee on the Judi­ . agreements; to the Committee on the Judi- President and the Congress of the United ciary. ciary. - States relative to the land-acquisition pro­ By Mr. WALTER: By Mr. FARBSTEIN: _ gram in the Missouri River Basi.n; to the H. R. 5721. A bill for the relief of Marian H. J. Res. 265. Joint resolution authorizing Committee on Public Works. Diane Delphine Sachs; to the Committee on the President to iE"sue a proclamation desig­ the Judiciary . . nating January 22 of each year as Ukrainian H. R. 5722. A bill for the relief of Teresa Independence Day; to the Committee on the PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Pecchia and Mauro Pecchia; to the Commit· Judiciary. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private tee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MILLER of New York: By Mr. ZELENKO: H. J. Res. 266. Joint resolution designating bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows: H . R. 5723. A bill for the relief of Anastase the month of February of each year as Na­ and Elefteria HarJtos and Simone Haritos; tional American History Month; to the Com­ By· Mr. ADDONIZIO: to the Committee on the Judiciary. mittee on the Judiciary. H. R. 5705. A bill for the relief of Giacomo By Mr. POWELL: Alfonso Freda; to tlie Committee on the H. Con. Res. 129. Concurrent resolution rel­ Judiciary. ative to inviting Spain to become a member H. R. 5706. A bill for the relief of Antoni­ PETITIONS, ETC. of NATO; to the Committee on Foreign etta Ferrante; to the Committee on the Judi- Affairs. ciary. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions By Mr. SCOT!' of Pennsylvania: By Mr. CELLER: and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk H. Con. Res. 130. Concurrent resolution ex­ H. R. 5707. A bill for the relief of the A. C. and referred as follows: pressing the sense of the Congress that ef­ Israel Commodity Co., Inc.; to the Commit­ 123. By Mr. BURDICK: Resolution of the forts should be made to invite Spain to mem­ tee on the Judiciary. North Dakota State Wate-r Conservation Com­ bership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi­ By Mr. DELANEY: mission memorializing the Congress of the zation; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. R. 5708. A bill for the relief of Angelina United States to authorize the Corps of En­ By Mr. VAN ZANDT: DeLuca Pisani; to the Committee on the gineers to install or extend the siphons H. Con. Res. 131. Concurrent resolution ex­ Judiciary. through Highway No. 85 when reconstruct­ pressing the sense of the Congress that ef­ H. R. 5709. A bill for the relief of Dimitrios ing the portion of the highway through the forts should be made to invite Spain to mem­ D. Kantartzoglou; to the Committee on the Lewis ·and Clark Irrigation District of Mc­ bership in the North Atlantic Treaty Or­ Judiciary. Kenzie County, N. Dak., so as to permit the ganization; to the Committee on Foreign . By Mr. DELLAY: irrigation of lands in the district so long as Affairs. H. R. 5710. A bill for the relief of Mario irrigation can be carried on th!:lrein; to the By Mr. TELLER: Colombo; to the Committee on the Judi­ Committee on Public Works. H. Res. 186. Resolution changing the name ciary. 124. By Mr. SHEEHAN: Petition of the of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to that By Mr. DONOHUE: board of directors of the Chicago Dental So­ of the Committee on International Affairs; H. R. 5711. A bill for the relief of Mrs. ciety favoring enactment of H. R. 9 and H. R. to the Committee on Rules. Rosalia Sciannameo and her children, Vit- 10; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

E X T E N S.l 0 N: S 0 F R E M A R K S Comment on a Speech of Hon. Wayne L. taken from the Houston Herald, Hous- commenting on a speech by Congressman Hays . ton, Mo. Houston is located in the heart WAYNE L. HAYS, of Ohio: of the Missouri Ozarks, drought stricken Mr. EDIToR: Congressman HAYS, Democrat, for several years, but not counted so by of Ohio, is a real smart man. He has come EXTENSION OF REMARKs· the Department of Agriculture. The forth with a. wise solution of a. knotty prob· OF . writer of this article is a retired printer lem. Of course we all know Dulles and Ben­ and newspaperman who served Houston son are misfits, but it looks like the sug. HON. A. S. J. CARNAHAN newspapers for 60 years. This man is gestion of Congressman HAYS will chase the OF :MISSOURI C. E. (Deacon) Elmore, of Houston, Mo. clouds away from the darkness that envelopes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our national affairs. Elmore is a Democrat who has voted in Mr. HAYS made a short speech in Congress iVednesday,A!arch6,1957 every election~National, State, county, a few days ago that is printed in the CON• Mr. CARNAHAN. Mr. Speaker, under and local-since 1903 except one special GRESSIONAL RECORD, as follOWS: permission to extend my remarks in the election. Last week Elmore had the fol- "Mr. Speaker, there have been some people RECORD, I include a newspaper cli-pping ·Iowing article in the Houston Herald · who have suggested that the Secretary o! 3240 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 6 State should resign. I think the Secretary of The air-mile has not only cut down dis­ order to adjust the present inequities in state and Secretary of Agriculture should tance but has evoked new and more close­ the Internal Revenue Code. exchange places and then perhaps Mr. Dulles ly knit space-time dimensions for good The orthopedically handicapped, by would come out with a Middle West plan and evil. reason of their disabilities, are compelled and we could give $200 million to the hard­ to spend substantial sums of money to aid pressed farmers of the Middle West while Discarding the word "foreign" for Mr. Benson who has again cut the farmers' the word "international" is a vehicle for and maintain their rehabilitated status. income could devote his talents to cutting expressing a number of policies and Their expenditures -'frequently include: out some of the $200 million we are going to points of view. The Republican-domi­ First. Expenses incurred for the pur­ give to King Saud and the Middle East." nated Midwest isolationism would be re­ chase and repair of orthopedic and How about HAYS for President in 1960 in pudiated, and for it would be substituted prosthetic devices not entirely deductible case senator SYMINGTON or Congressman a hospitable reception for the require­ under the medical deduction provision of CHARLIE BROWN don't run? Thanks for liS• ments of international cooperation, a the law. Specially built shoes are also tening. in this category. DEACON ELMORE. more realistic appraisal of our significant 1·ole in the United Nations. Second. Unusual wear and tear of We would need also to abandon the clothing caused by constant friction with preoccupation with the military aspects orthopedic and prosthetic devices, and of our relations with other countries and crutches, and falling. Committee on International Affairs assume a greater responsibility for the Third. Additional expenses often in­ well-being of our friends and allies. clude higher apartment rentals due to EXTENSION OF REMARKS Some of this is being done already, but at need of ground floor quarters or elevator OF times its grudging and unsystematic apartment accommodations, which are character impairs its value. Piecemeal naturally higher rental apartments. HON. LUDWIG TELLER charity is different from a coordinated Fourth. Many disabled find it neces­ OF NEW YORK system of mutual assistance in interna­ sary to hire taxicabs in going to and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional relations such as the Truman from work. The average weekly cost na­ doctrine and the Marshall plan. tionally is $15. VVednesday,~arch6,1957 Upon our country has fallen the heavy Fifth. In approximately 10 percent of Mr. TELLER. Mr. Speaker, I am in­ tasks of world leadership. Free nations the cases the disabled, as defined in the troducing a resolution today-House look to us for guidance and help in com­ bill, find it necessary to purchase auto­ Resolution 186-to change the name of bating communism, in developing a mobiles to allow for mobility. These au­ our standing committee which deals with sound economy. Asiatic peoples watch tomobiles, of necessity, must be of good our relationship to neighboring countries our profession of a new approach to their condition to avoid mechanical failure. and nations abroad from "Committee on problems to see whether we really mean Hand controls are a requisite. The busi­ Foreign Affairs" to "Committee of Inter­ some of the nice things some of us are nessman can deduct transportation ex­ national Affairs." My purpose in pro­ saying about them. It does not help, for penses for the production of income while posing the resolution is to point up the example, to have a McCarran-Walter his physically handicapped employee in grave responsibilities of world leader­ Immigration Act, which distinguishes a wheelchair cannot. ship which have been imposed upon our between native-born and naturalized cit­ Sixth. Paraplegics often find it neces­ country. izens, and which incorporates a racist sary to purchase their own homes which My proposed resolution is not an ex­ national origins clause governing admis­ are specially equipped with fixtures in­ ercise in semantics. Words help to mold sion of immigrants. stalled at lower levels. Ramps must be thinking, and the thinking evoked by the I do not desire to extend this state­ built to allow for ingress and egress to words "foreign relations" is bad because ment unduly to scrutinize all the rami­ and from the premises. it pictures our neighboring nations and fications of my proposed resolution. In Seventh. The disabled are frequently nations beyond the seas as foreign to our a way, its purpose should be obvious. compelled to hire someone to do house­ interests, peopled by foreigners in whose particularly with this purpose expressed, hold cleaning and repairing. welfare presumably we have no concern. as I have sought here to do, my proposed Eighth. Due to discrimination in the The name and existence of the pr~sent resolution should be adopted as a for­ labor market, physically handicapped Committee on Foreign Affairs was estab­ ward step in our developing preeminence persons are frequently forced to accept lished in 1822, when we were a country in international relations. lower wages and salaries. barely recovered from the struggle for Ninth. They are of necessity, as sub­ independence from foreign shackles, standard riskg, compelled to pay higher when the war of 1812 was still fresh in life insurance rates where they are able the minds of our lawmakers, and when Tax Relief for Orthopedically to afford the minimums of life insurance facilities for traveling were so slow that coverage. By the same token, they are countries in Europe, and particularly in Handicapped Persons rejected for health and accident insur­ Asia, were regarded as being in a different ance and as a result have higher medical world. EXTENSION OF REMARKS and hospital expenses than the average The present situation has not the OF taxpayer. slightest resemblance to the time in 1822 Tenth. The renewal of inflationary when the committee on Foreign Affairs HON.EUGENEJ.KEOGH business trends has resulted in the high­ was established. Nineteenth century OF NEW YORK est cost of living index to· date. This, in wars tended to local conflicts, most of . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES turn, has created havoc with the low them foreign encounte-rs which we incomes of the orthopedically handi­ viewed at safe distance, but in this cen­ VVednesday,~arch6,1957 capped. tury we were participants in two world Mr. KEOGH. Mr. Speaker, legislation From all the foregoing, it is obvious wars and even more recently saw the affording Federal income-tax relief to· that the orthopedically handicapped are necessity for sending our soldiers to far­ -the physically handicapped taxpayer has · faced with heavy expenses and burdens. away Korea in defense of ·our ultimate for some time been introduced in Con­ Many physically handicapped persons national interests and world peace. gress. H. R. 1154 is a bill to provide a could have been rehabilitated were it not The airplane, the rocket and, over­ deduction for income-tax purposes, in for their expenses due primarily to low whelmingly, the consequences of atomic the case of a disabled individual, for ex­ wages and the high cost of their rehabil­ energy have reduced space and increased penses for transportation to and from itated status. Many are frequently in­ interdependence to a degree which not work not exceeding $600 per annum; timidated into remaining home since even Jules Verne's imaginative mind and to provide an additional exemption their low gross income less tax deduc­ preconceived. Add to this the world­ for income-tax purposes for a taxpayer tions would give them a lower net income wide menace of gangsterism which goes or spouse who is physically disabled. than if they stayed home on relief. by the name of Soviet communism, and This bill will, if passed, grant a measure Often, rehabilitated persons receive as we see the utter realism of the word of tax relief to those physically handi­ low as $14 per week in wages in New ''foreign" to describe our relationship capped persons most in need of it. It York City. From these small earnings with the world community of nations. deserves the support of Congress in taxes are deducted. 1957 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 3241 According to figures gleaned from the We all recognize the traditional con­ full deduction instead of the present 1956 United States Statistical Abstract cept of American business ingenuity limitation of $1,000 capital gains loss in the total number of 1955 job placements which in the past enabled a man or group the present tax bill; t hrough public employment omces of men to start a small business and To enable small business to exercise amounted to 14,957,977. Thi~? figure in­ carry it forward until it prospered and the option of depreciating property, ma­ cludes 264,316 physically handicapped grew in size and capital. During the past chinery, and so forth, on a 5-year basis persons who were also placed. They 24 years our tax laws have served to which would enable them to provide for comprise 1. 77 percent of all workers choke small business and we find today a faster write-off; and placed by public employment omces. that small business cannot effectively To enable small business to obtain Of the 264,316 physically handicapped compete and prosper in our present-day more time in paying off estate taxes so placed in 1955, there were included economy of big business, big Govern­ that the businesses would not have to be 57,981 persons who were rehabilitated ment, and big labor unions. liquidated becau::;e of Federal estate by Government funds. Of this latter In order to provide a healthy atmos­ taxes. number, 23,502 persons or 40.5 percent, phere for small business it is the purpose There are other provisions in the bill had amputated or missing members, im­ of the bill being introduced today- which will benefit all small-business pairment of extremities and impairment To provide for growth, expansion, and establishments and provide for a health­ of other parts of the body. modernization for small and independ­ ier economy. First. Amputated or missing members, ent business enterprises engaged in trade It is admitted by all economic students 6,435 persons. or commerce; that present trends in our economy work Second. Impairment of extremities, To provide an election for filing in­ far more hardships on small business 12,332 persons. come-tax returns for small and inde­ than they do on big business. The swing Third. Impairment of other parts of pendent businesses engaged in trade or of the business cycle bears much harder body, 4,695 persons. commerce whether or not such busi­ on the small business firms because they Total, 23 ,502 persons. nesses operate as individuals, partner­ are less diversified, have fewer products, Since 1.77 percent of all workers ships, or corporations; have fewer distribution channels, and placed by Public Employment omces are To provide a normal tax rate of 20 per­ have fewer key personnel. handicapped, and since there are a total cent for taxable years after March 31, The change in the economic weather of 64,165,000 gainfully employed persons 1957, and to increase the surtax ex­ affects small business more strongly be­ in the United States, by multiplying the emption; cause like a gambler with a small bank latter figure by the former we find that To provide credits for losses incurred roll, they may have a good system of there would be 1,135,721 physically hand­ through investment or loans to small and winning on the average, but they cannot icapped taxpayers in the United States. independent business enterprises en­ win all the time and are more easily Then by multiplying 1,135, 721 by 40.5 gaged in trade or commerce; wiped out with a run of bad luck. percent we find that there should be To provide a growth, expansion, and Under present tax laws, as soon as a about 459,967 persons who would qualify modernization exemption on net taxable small business corporation earns $25,000, under the tax exemption and deduction earnings for small and independent busi­ 52 percent of all its profits go to Uncle bill I propose herewith. nesses engaged in trade or commerce; Sam with the result that under present­ If all 459,967 taxpayers claimed the To provide for rapid amortization of day conditions, the small-business man $600 tax exemption with savings of $120 property utilized for the production of cannot, as in the old days, depend upon each, the savings would amount to $54,- profit by small and independent busi­ earnings to enable his business to grow 395,920. If as many as 15 percent of the nesses engaged in trade or commerce; and prosper. The larger corporations 459,967 taxpayers took advantage of the To provide small and independent can float stock issues, sell bonds, make transportation deductions, they would business an exemption for good will in adequate bank loans, whereas, small save up to $8,159,388. The grand total the determination of the value of an business mainly has to depend upon for both types of savings would be in the estate; · plowing back earnings which it cannot amount of $62,555,308. To provide family-sized farmers and do today under the present-day struc­ . The granting of tax relief during this others engaged in agricultural pursuits ture. This is the most serious problem session of Congress would rectify, to a an exemption for the improvement, mod­ of small and new businesses today-the limited degree, some of the financial ernization, and renewal of buildings or raising of capital to satisfy their financial hardships faced by the orthopedically equipment used in the production, care, needs. handicapped. and marketing of farm products; and The upshot of the many varied and To provide family-sized farms, new tax rules over the last 24 years is whether or not such farms are owned in such that there is little to encourage the Tax Relief for Small Business fee or occupied by renters or tenants, an furnishing of venture capital to small exemption for the improvement, mod­ and new business. There is no ready ernization, and renewal of buildings or market, such as is available for the se­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS equipment used in the production, care, curities of publicly held corporations, nor OF and marketing of the products of such is there likely to be, unless and until HON. TIMOTHY P. SHEEHAN farms. the business has grown out of the small­ some of the outstanding features of business category and entered the ranks OF ILLINOIS the bill are-- of the large successful companies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES To enable small businesses earning un­ Under present tax laws there is no in­ Wednesday, March 6, 1957 der $150,000 of taxable income per year, centive for a group of small investors or Mr. SHEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, today I to treat as expenditures a certain propor­ small-business men to get together and and other Republican Members of the tion of money spent for construction, form new small corporations. If their House Select Committee on Small Busi­ improvements, or installations of land, gamble is successful, the Government im­ ness are introducing a bill to provide in­ building, and machinery, to increase pro­ mediately confiscates 52 percent of the come-tax relief for small businesses. The ductive capacity; earnings of the corporation in excess of Republican Party . platform of 1956 .To reduce the normal corporate tax to $25,000. If the venture is unsuccessful, pledged a continuation and improvement 20 percent instead of the 30 percent the taxpayer is allowed to only deduct of our drive to aid small business and existing at the present time; his losses up to $1,000. In other words, strongly endorses the recommendations To increase the surtax exemption from the dice are loaded in favor of Uncle of the Cabinet Committee on Small Busi­ the pTesent $25,000 to $150,000 of income Sam. ness, which recommendations embody before surtax rates apply; It is my earnest hope that all of the certain tax -.relief suggestions. During To enable individuals or parties en­ platitudes of both party platforms, both their campaign speeches the President, gaged in a trade or business to be taxed presidential candidates, and most Mem­ many Members of Congress, as well as as a corporation and to enable small cor­ bers of Congress and Senators will be the Democratic presidential candidate, porations to be taxed as individuals; effectively put -into action and provide all agreed that the tax situation for small To enable investors in small corporate some tangible tax relief for the small­ business had to be alleviated. business ventures to treat such losses as a business community~ 3242 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March fJ Message from Congressman John W. It is also imperative that America always as such believe the Hou~e membership should be strong, not only from a military angla, be allowed to express itself on the subject of McCormack, House Majority Leader, to but particularly from a moral angle. The an overall iimitation of appropriations. people of America should also insist that Respectfully, the Delegates Attending the National our Government keep its promises and RICHARD H. PoFF, 6th, Virginia; NoAH Convention of the Chinese Communi· pledges made to other governments, and this M. MASON, 15th, Illinois; EuGENE SILER, particularly relates to all agreements made 8th, Kentucky; RoBERT HALE, 1st, ties of the United States by the United States with the Nationalist Maine; ALVIN E. O'KoNSKI, lOth, Wis­ Chinese Government in Formosa under tl'le consin; EoGAR W. HIESTAND, 21st, Cal­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS leadership of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek. The ifornia; AUGUST E. JOHANSEN, 3d, people of America must also keep in mind OF Michigan; PHIL WEAVER, 1st, Nebraska; that (1) we must have an affirmative pol­ Bernard W. KEARNEY, 32d, New York; icy. A negative policy, or no policy at all, Mrs. MARGUERITE S. CHUR.CH, 13th, Illi­ HON. JOHN W. McCORMACK means appeasement and is the road to war. OF MASSACHUSETTS nois; JOHN J. RHODES, 1st, Arizona; (2) That the calculated risks of an affirma­ ALBERT H. BoscH, 5th, New York; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tive policy could be less dangerous than UsHER L. BuRDICK, North Dakota; the calculated risks of no policy at all. (3) VVednesday,~arch6,1957 WILLIAM E. McVEY, 4th, Illinois; CRAIG That America, as I have said before, must HosMER, 18th, California; JoHN R. PIL­ Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, un· be strong militarily and morally. From a LION, 42d, New York; ALVIN M. BENT­ der permission to extend my remarks military angle it is best for us if we are LEY, 8th, Michigan; VICTOR A. KNOX, I include a message that I sent to the going to err, to err on the side of strength 11th, Michigan; ROBERT D. HARRISON, national convention of the Chinese and not on the side of weakness. ( 4) The 3d, Nebraska; H. ALLEN SMITH, 20th, people of America and the non-Communist California; ROBERT P. GRIFFIN, 9th, Communities of the United States, world must realize that the leaders of in­ which convention is meeting now in Michigan; OTTO KRUEGER, North Da­ ternational communism are still bent on kota; JOHN V. BEAMER, 5th, Indiana; Washington and which started on world revolution and world domination, and JACKSON E. BETTS, 8th, Ohio; JoHN M. March 5, 1957. This message I sent to it is imperative that there be unity, strength, ROBSION, JR., 3d, Kentucky; THOMAS and understanding among the non-Com­ the delegates of the national convention A. JENKINS, lOth, Ohio; FRANK T. Bow, munist nations with the United States as through my very close and valued A. their leading nation in order to successfully 16th, Ohio; PAUL FINO, 25th, New York; WILLIAM M. McCULLOCH, 4th, friend, Most Reverend Paul Yu Pin, defeat the vicious and destructive intentions D. D., archbishop of Nanking in China. ef the Communist leaders. Ohio; ALBERT W. CRETELLA, 3d, Con­ necticut; WILLIAM K. VAN PELT, 6th, We must constantly keep in mind that I again extend to you and all present my an important element of strength in very best wishes for a most successful con­ Wisconsin; MELVIN R. LAIRD, 7th, Wis­ vention, as well as my kindest regards. consin; THOMAS M. PELLY, 1st, Wash­ combatting communism throughout the ington; J. ARTHUR YOUNGER, 9th, Cali­ world, and particularly in the Far East, fornia; JAMES B. UTT, 28th, California; is the approximately 12 million Chinese GoRDON H. ScHERER, 1st, Ohio; THoR now living in, or who are citizens of the C. TOLLEFSON, 6th, Washington; Rus­ various non-Communist countries of Cut the Budget SELL V. MACK, 3d, Washington; JACK Southeast Asia. The power and influ­ WESTLAND, 2d, Washington; CHARLES S. GUBSER, lOth, California; WALTER NoR­ ence of these fine Chinese, who are anti­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS Communist, in preventing the spread of BLAD, 1st, Oregon; A. D. BAUMHART, Jr., OF 13th, Ohio; C. R. JoNAS, lOth, North communism into the still free countries Carolina; ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, lOth, of Southeast Asia should not and cannot HON. THOMAS M. PELLY Michigan; WILLARD S. CURTIN, 8th, be underestimated by our country. OF WASHINGTON Pennsylvania; CHARLES W. VURSELL, The message follows: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 23d, Illinois; BoB WILSON, 30th, Cali­ fornia; GERALD R. FoRD, Jr., 5th, Mich­ MESSAGE FROM CONGRESSMAN JOHN W. McCOR• Wednesday, March 6, 1957 MACK, HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER, TO THE DEL­ igan; J. ERNEST WHARTON, 29th, New EGATES ATTENDING THE NATIONAL CONVEN­ Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I men­ York; KEITH THOMPSON, Wyoming; TION OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITIES OF THE tioned recently the widespread willing­ J0E HOLT, 22d, California; HAMER H. UNITED STATES BUDGE, 2d, Idaho; GLENN CUNNINGHAM, ness of Republican House Members to 2d, Nebraska; VINCENT J. DELLAY, 14th, I regret very much my inability to be pres­ support an attempt on the part of the New Jersey; WILLIAM E. HEss, 2d, Ohio; ent this evening due to another important majority party to reduce Federal ap­ WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, 23d, Ohio; engagement that I cannot cancel or post­ propriations. I include herewith a let­ CLIFF CLEVENGER, 5th, Ohio; PAUL F. pone. I extend to all present my kindest re­ SCHENCK~ 3d, Ohio; WALTER M. MUMMA, gards and my sincere best wishes for a most ter revealing sixty-odd Republicans ·who jointly urged the Rules Committee to 16th, Pennsylvania; S. WALTER STAUF­ successful convention; also my assurances of FER, 19th, Pennsylvania; HUBERT B. cooperation in every way possible, particu­ give the House an opportunity to set ScUDDER, 1st, California; ARCH A. larly in combating the forces of atheistic some overall limitation on Government MooRE, Jr .•. 1st, West Virgini!t; LAw­ and international communism. spending. Many Republican Members RENCE H. SMITH, 1st, Wisconsin. The Communist hope of peaceful coexist­ who did not sign this letter have told me ence has been exposed, particularly by the they would have been glad to do so. brutalities imposed by the forces of the Soviet Union upon the people of Hungary. Others advise me they support the ob­ We must constantly be on our guard against jective of the letter and are for a budget Twelfth Anniversary of Rumanian En­ the hypocrisy and deceitfulness of interna­ reduction, put for one reason or another tional communism and the leaders of this preferred not to sigl).. slavement by Communist Forces vicious and destructive movement which is The Republican House leadership has dedicated to world revolution and world officially stated it favors a cut in the EXTENSION OF REMARKS domination. We must constantly be on budget. Now it is up tci the majority guard in the United States and elsewhere party to start the ball rolling. OF against those individuals and forces . who would try to lull our people into an atmos­ Text of the letter and its signatories HON. CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI phere of complacency which results in lower­ follow: OF WISCOl'li'SIN ing our guard, which plays into the hands of · CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, the Communists. In the United States and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES elsewhere we must constantly be on our Washington, D. C., February 28, 1957. .Wednesday, ]larch 6,1957 guard against admitting Red China into the The Honorable HowARD W. SMITH, _ United Nations. There are the voices of the Chairman, the Committee on Rules, Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Speaker, today false prophets and the demagogs among us House of Representatives, Washing­ marks the 12th anniversary of the date who are pro-Communist and who are trying ton, D.C. on which the Rumanian Nation was en­ to lay the foundations in the United States DEAR SIR·: The undersigned Members of the slaved by the Communist forces of the for the early admission of Red China into the House of Representatives respectfully urge Soviet Union. United Nations. It would be a crime against your ·co.mmittee to report Resolution 170 to an decent mankind for the forces of destruc­ the House. · · . This anniversary should bring to our tion as represented by the leaders of Red We individually do not necessarily agree minds the tragic plight of the nations China to be admitted into this international on the language or amount of this resolu­ which are still suffering under the chains organization• . tion, but we do support its objective and of Communist bondage. · 1957 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 3243 I would like to take this occasion to ex· that all of my colleagues may be aware loans to really small firms, but PATMAN re­ press my hope that full freedom and in· of the impression this report has created fuses to entertain this possibility. To back up his charges that SBA isn't do­ dependence will soon be restored to those among responsible Washington ob· ing anything for the little guy, he switches countries which, like Rumania, are still servers. back to quoting somebody else. An official dominated by Soviet Communists. We must stop playing politics and step of the Pittsburgh Small Manufacturers' up to a very serious national problem, Council, he said, complained as follows: namely, the assistance of small business "If you can get a loan from the SBA, you without the destruction of big business: can certainly get it from a bank. You can't Comments on the Report of the Select There's a prophetic statement in the latest get an SBA loan unless you sign away your property and your wife's property." Committee on Small Business report of the House Small Business Commit­ tee. "The [Republican] minority is con­ SBA, of course, is not in competition with vinced," it says, "that if this final report is private banks. It doesn't even accept a loan published in its present form, it will reflect application until a businessmen's local banks EXTENSION OF REMARKS have turned him down. OF little or no credit on the committee, its members, or the House of Representatives." But there's another point here. SBA, like The report was published the other day, all private banks, demands adequate collateral. HON. B. CARROLL REECE By quoting the Pittsburgh executive, PATMAN OF TENNESSEE 191 pages of it, and it looks as if the minority prediction was correct. leaves the impression that he believes col­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Counting the tables in the appendix, this lateral requirements to be unfair. But he doesn't say so, and you can bet that he never Wednesday, March 6, 1957 free-wheeling attack on big business runs some 111,000 words, the equivalent of 2 good will. The day that a Government agency Mr. REECE of Tennessee. Mr. Speak· detective novels. starts handing out unsecured loans totaling The minority portion of this heavy work millions of dollars, taxpayers will really have er, my colleague, the distinguished Rep­ reason to complain to their Congressmen. resentative from Colorado [Mr. HILL], covers only nine pages; the majority report, addressed the House on January 17 with which seems to have been composed by the UNFORTUNATE COMPARISON reference to the work of the Select Com­ committee chairman, takes up the bulk of Finally, PATMAN criticizes SBA for failing the book. The chairman of course, is Rep­ to lend as much money as its predecessor mittee on Small Business during the 84th resentative WRIGHT PATMAN, Texas Democrat. agency, the Reconstruction Finance Corpo­ Congress. The gentleman from Colo­ No one can deny that the report takes up ration. Anyone who recalls the scandals and rado spoke on behalf of the Republican a subject which is both serious and impor­ investigations connected with some of the members of the committee. tant. It is concerned with the needless de­ RFC loans will wonder at PATMAN'S making He said: struction of small business through sheer such a comparison. abuse of big business power. In the 84th Congress, we are convinced, the It is hard to decide whether PATMAN really But PATMAN has attacked his subject in wants to take constructive steps to help small Select Committee on Small Business did not the same way that Carrie Nation attacked fulfill the purpose for which it was created. business or whether he simply wants to make Demon Rum with her hatchet. He has run as many people angry as he can. The objections which the minority has had through the world of business and Govern­ to the committee's operation and procedures The majority report of his committee is of ment swinging his ax, hoping that enough practically no value in helping the admin­ have been called to the attention of the wild swings will chop down a few sinners. House by the minority on several occasions. istration and private business groups to The Republicans who disagree with PAT• understand the genuine problems of smaller The minority is frank to say that if the com­ MAN's methods do not claim that some cor­ mittee's business is to be conducted in the firms. It is so wordy, so full of half-truths porations never have abused their great and insinuations, so crammed with emo­ same manner during the 85th Congress the power. They admit, in addition, that small­ committee has outlived its usefulness. tional broadsides, that it is nearly impossible business men face tough problems today. to separate the facts from the bunk. He suggested that if this select com­ But they point out that few will agree As the minority forecast, it reflects no mittee is to serve any useful public pur­ with the report that small business is sub­ credit on the committee or the House. pose the majority and minority mem­ ject to a giant conspiracy conducted by If needed small-business legislation is ap­ the heads of the country's largest corpora­ proved this session, it is going to have to be bers must work together in complete tions and by highly placed officials of the preceded by careful factfinding and a clear cooperation and in good faith. The Federal Government in this or any other statement of small-business problems. The gentleman from Colorado said: administration. · unemotional findings of the President's The absence of free and frank intercourse, LIGHTS OUT ON MAIN STREET? Cabinet Committee on Small Business are a good starting point for both parties. which was the case during the 84th Congress, PATMAN doesn't claim the existence of such has defeated the very purpose for which the a conspiracy in so many words. He just hints House established the committee. Actually, at it. He bobs and weaves like the old pro­ as I stated on May 2, 1956, the methods of fessional he is. When he's short on facts, he operation which were in vogue during the quotes letters from citizens. Here's part of An American Tragedy: Russia's Ever­ 84th Congress made the minority sometimes doubt whether or not we were actually mem­ a typical one: Increasing Lead in Scientific Manpower bers of the committee. The minority does "You know the situation is bad in your home town. Salesmen are all talking about not propose to submit to another 2 years of EXTENSION OF REMARKS discourteous treatment or to political exigen­ the empty store buildings on Main Street. cies which only serve to create prejudice The street is dark. Unless one is content OF through the subordination of facts. The to work for a chain or corporation or the minority does not propose to sit idly by and Government, there is no incentive to risk HON. ELMER J. HOLLAND view the spectacle of the committee or its anyone's capital in the face of such discour­ OF PENNSYLVANIA staff depriving the minority of its rights as aging odds as we now face." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES members of the committee and publishing PATMAN identifies the letter as coming from numerous documents and other media which a small-business constituent of one of his Wednesday, ]larch 6,1957 have not been properly presented or passed colleagues. He fails to state the man's busi­ Mr. HOLLAND. Mr. Speaker, "Russia upon by all members of the committee, and ness or the size of his town or the economic today has the most dangerous weapon in especially by the minority members ef the conditions in his area. He simply throws the whole world-the atheistic, scientific, committee. the letter into the record for what it is worth, hoping the casual reader will accept trained mind-and she has it in plentiful The report of the Select Committee on it as evidence that the lights on Main Street supply." Small Business for the 84th Congress has are going out all over America. These words should cause every clear· now been published. Mr. William Ull­ When he gets to the Small Business Ad­ thinking American to shake off his or her man, the Washington correspondent of ministration, PATMAN really hits his stride. complacent attitude and face the stark, the publication Automotive News, in He complains that SBA is making smaller and up to now, inevitable, truth-that their issue of February 18, made certain loans than ever. While the average loan in the Soviet Union has surpassed this observations with respect this report. 1954 was $53,000, he reports, it had dropped to to $39,000 by mid-1956. From this, PATMAN country in the development of scientific His comments lend great weight to the concludes that "Government credit assist­ manpower. statements made by the gentleman from ance to small business (has} declined dras• They were uttered, not by any wide· Colorado. tically." eyed alarmist, but by a trained American Under unanimous consent, I request BANK LOANS AND SBA newspaperman who spent some time in that Mr. Ullman's article may be in­ The figures could more logically be inter­ Russia last year with his family, digging cluded as an extension of my remarks so preted to mean that SBA is making more out the facts to prove his case. 3244 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 6 John A. Keimedy, editor in chief and Also in 1900', 27 percent of public,high- A Ceiliag on Appropriatioas and Expeadi.. publisher of the Sioux Falls Argus­ school students studied geometry. In tures for. the Fiscal Year 1958 Leader, in recent testimony before a sub­ 1955 only 11 percent of the. students committee of the House Education and studied the subject. In physics, the fig­ Labor Committee declared that "schools ure dropped from 19 percent in 1900 to EXTENSION OF REMARKS and colleges-not jet planes nor H­ 4 percent in 1953. OF bombs-are the greatest Russian latent I agree with Mr. Kennedy that on the threat to America and the West." basis of these figures, it is little wonder HON. JOHN H. RAY Mr. Kennedy backed up his charges that last year only 228 new physics teach­ OF NEW YORK with documentary ev-idence gathered by ers were graduated to staff 28,000 high IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES talking to hundreds of individuals dur­ schools in A,merica. WednesdOJJ,.March 6, 1957 ing his visit to Russia. He quizzed Another pertinent point on which we school teachers, college professors, stu­ Mr. RAY. Mr. Speaker, under leave were in complete agreement is tha~ to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I dents and the man in the street. His American industry is defeating its owl}. concl~ions made a frightening picture include the following statement made by ends by employing a policy of enticing me before the Rules Committee March 5, for American mothers and fathers to. science instruct€lrs away from teaching contemplate. 1957, in support of House Resolution 170 positions by offering salaries far in ex~ which would set a ceiling of $65 billion I happen to be very much interested in cess of those paid by educational insti­ this problem myself. So much so that for appropriations and expenditures for tutions. fiscal year 1958: last session I introduced a bill to en­ When I introduced my bill last session, courage the training of additional engi­ I pointed out that while American output Mr. ·Chairman and members of the Rules neers. The bill also provides :for ex­ Committee, I appreciate your courtesy and of engineers lags~ the Soviet Union has .consideration in holding this hearing so panded facilities for engineering educa­ been expanding its output by leaps and promptly after the introduction of House tion by providing supplementary salary bounds. Resolution 170 on February 19. Such recog­ grants for engineering teachers and The Russians are now graduating 10 nition that the subject matter is of great scholarships for engineering students. times as many engineers as they did 25 publi-c importance and that time available According to Mr. Kennedy, Soviet col­ short years ago. In 1954, they turned out for action is rapidly running out, is both leges and universities graduated 2% welcome and encouraging. times as many engineers and scientists 53,000 engineers and scientists. In 1955, Going directly to the issues; I plan to deal as we did in 1956. the number is estimated at 63,000- with them in the following order: First, Not only that, Russia has more than nearly 3 times as many as were graduated is legislative action in this field needed; sec­ double the number of science students here in the United States that year. ond, will an amendment of the House rules In an attempt to get to the real reasons provide the quickest and most nearly ade­ in their higher educational institutions quate remedy; and third, are the particular this year than wehave. behind the engineel'ing shortage, I went to those· best qualified to judge, the deans limitations set forth in House Resolution The very real and potent danger~ he 170 reasonable and will they be practieable said, however, lies in what Russia is ac­ of all accredited engineering· schools in in operation. complishing at the secondary school the country. · Our forefathers were acutely conscious ol level-where every nation should de­ In answer to questionnaires they de­ the danger that the free government they velop its future scientists. clared they were unanimous in their con­ were creating and the new individual liber­ ·cern over the problem and they were in ties tl!ey were establishing might be lost by He called their accent on education, uncontrolled national spending and taxation. which he said filters through to the low­ agreement on two main reasons for the They sought to guard against that danger est base-the l

or the particular projects covered by that that if the House adopts the resolution, com~ billion compared with the budget estimate budget. I am sure every member of this mittees of the House will do their best to of $1.4 billion. committee has them vividly in mind and conform to it and that they can do so. "(4) The committee recommends that the that each has been forced to face up to the Please note that the amendment is in the maximum amount to be appropriated for ex­ facts of that budget by the wave of indig~ nature of emergency legislation, effective penditures in the fiscal year 1948 shall not nation and resentment which has spread only for fiscal year 1958. exceed $24 billion compared with the budget across the country and which constituents Adoption of the resol-ution under discus­ estimate of $28.6 billion. have, I am sure, pressed upon the attention sion will go far to restore the public's confi~ "(5) The committee recommends the in· of every Member of Congress. The trend of dence in Congress. elusion of a reserve for deficiencies which spending and spending and taxing and tax~ Going back to the terms of the resolution, might be expended in the fiscal year 1948 of ing must be reversed. I happen to believe the first clause fixes $65 billion as the limit $250 million compared with a budget recom~ that can be done. on aggregate appropriations for fiscal 1958, mendation of $25 million. It seemed to me that the only remedy, as and that same figure as the limit on expend~ "(6) The committee recommends that a far as the fiscal year 1958 is concerned, lies itures for that year. Control of expendi~ portion of excess receipts over expenditures in Congress. As one Member I tried to find a tures is the more important. With budget be applied on the public debt. way which might bring the problem before figures of the magnitude of those before us, "(7) The committee believes that the pro~ the House for full discussion and quick ac~ it seems entirely reasonable that a cut of posed reductions which in the main become tion. House Resolution 170 was the result. approximately 10 percent could be made. I effective beginning July 1, 1947, substantial• It took only brief study to convince me do not think in terms of a 10-percent cut in ly 2 years after the termination of hostili· that it was not necessary to propose a bill or all appropriations, but the overall target of ties, will not impair the national economy. a resolution which would require joint ac~ 10 percent seems reasonable. tion. Corrective power lies in the House, and Among the additional reasons for that ~'summary therefore it seems that action by the House view are the following: is all that is necessary, at least as a first step. ( 1) Sixty-five billion dollars is approxi~ Budget Jointcom­ Further study and discussion with those I (billions) mittee mately the amount of expenditures for fiscal (billions) consider well informed in this field led to the year 1956. idea to propose the particular amendment (2) I have been advised, and some who which is before you. Timing for such an advised me will testify here today, that there "Estimate of overall receipts, as· amendment seemed right. February 15, the suming enactment of legisla­ is ample room to cut expenditures and ap­ tion as hereinbefore indicated __ 38.9 39.1 date by which section 138 of the Legislative propriations to at least the limit suggested "Estimate of overall expendi- Reorganization Act required a joint commit~ without endangering the national economy tures _____ ._------•••• 37. 5 31.5 tee to present a legislative budget, had passed or the national security. In some cases this ------without any action by the committees of "Excess of receipts_------­ 1.4 7.6 might require deferring natural resources "Maximum amount to be appro­ either the Senate or House. Accordingly development items, rather than going at priated for and which may be House Resolution 170 was drawn up and in~ them full scale this year. obligated in fiscal year 1948 __ __ _ 32.2 27.0 traduced. (3) Opinions will differ as to particular "Maximum amount for expendi­ Section 138 reads as follows: ture of 1948 appropriations in cases where cuts can be made. Just as a fiscal year 1948 ______28.6 24.0 "LEGISLATIVE BUDGET starter I would eliminate Federal aid to "Reservation for deficiencies schools, and that might mean as much as which would be expended in "SEC. 138. (a) The Committee on Ways and fiscal year 1948 ______.025 .250'~ Means and the Committee on Appropriations $500 million in fiscal 1958. of the House of Representatives, and the Last year the Appropriations Committees Committee on Finance and the Committee on of the House and Senate provided funds for Those recommendations were accompanied Appropriations of the Senate, or duly author~ starting activity on more than 50 separate by a resolution which read as follows: ized subcommittees thereof, are authorized projects which had not been included in "Resolved by the House of Representatives and directed to meet jointly at the beginning the President's budget, ·and which were not, (the Senate concurring), That it is the judg­ of each regular session of Congress and after therefore, regarded as being of pressing im­ ment of the Congress, based upon presently study and consultation, giving due considera­ portance. If those projects are all com­ . available information, that revenues during tion to the budget recommendations of the pleted they will involve costs running into the period of the fiscal year 1948 will ap~ President, report to their respective Houses the hundreds of millions over a foreseeable proximate $39.1 billion and that expend!· a legislative budget for the ensuing fiscal future. I am not able to suggest which tures during such fiscal year should not ex· year, including the estimated overall Federal of those items can be canceled out or at ceed $31.5 billion, of which latter amount receipts and expenditures for such year. least deferred, but I submit those projects not more than $25.1 billion would be in con~ Such report shall contain a recommendation require careful and determined study to fix sequence of appropriations hereafter made for the maximum amount to be appropriated the cuts which can be made. available for obligation in such fiscal year:• for expenditure in such year which shall in~ The program I am suggesting will require That resolution was adopted without elude such an amount to be reserved for de­ an intensive reexamination of all grant-in~ change by the House. In the Senate, how~ ficiencies as may be deemed necessary by aid programs and it should provide adequate ever, an amendment was adopted which such committees. If the estimated receipts pressures to enforce additional economies would reduce the requested budget total by exceed the estimated expenditures, such re­ throughout the length and breadth of the only $4,500,000,000 instead of the $6 billion port shall contain a recommendation for a National Government operations. cut for which the House had voted. Con~ reduction in the public debt. Such report After House Resolution 170 had been in~ ferees were unable to agree, so the concur­ shall be made by February 15. traduced, I discovered that there had been rent resolution was not adopted. The record "(b) The report shall be accompanied by House action a few years ago which estab~ stood, however, that the House had expressed a concurrent resolution adopting such lished a sound precedent for that resolution. its judgment that an overall cut of $6 billion budget, and fixing the maximum amount to When section 138 in the House Rules be­ could and should be made and the Senate be appropriated for expenditure in such came effective in 1947, the Appropriations had gone on record for a cut of only $4,500,~ year. If the estimated expenditures exceed and Finance Committee of the Senate and 000,000. For our purposes here today, we the estimated receipts, the concurrent reso­ the Appropriations and Ways and Means may ignore the difference between those cuts. lution shall include a section substantially Committees of the House formed a joint The points I desire to emphasize are that by as·follows: 'That it is the sense of the Con­ committee to consider the budget submitted its action the House expressed its judgment gress that the public debt shall be increased by the President in January of that year and its committees respected and conformed in an amount equal to the amount by which and to develop the legislative budget con­ to that judgment. . the estimated expendit-ures for the ensuing templated by section 138. In February 1947, The last clause of House Resolution 170 fiscal year exceed the estimated receipts, such Congressman TABER reported to the House dealing with the application of any excess amount being $ .' " and Sena tor BRIDGES reported to the Senate of revenues over expenditures would, of House Resolution 170 would add this para~ the following recommendations: course, have only the force, but, like the graph to section 138 : "The joint committee, therefore, submits other clauses I have discussed, it would "(c) The aggregate amount which.may be the following findings and recommenda~ have the force of a formal expression of the appropriated for the fiscal year beginning tions: sober judgment of the House. July 1, 1957, shall not exceed $65 billion; "(1) The committee finds that the esti· It is often said that ours is a big country that expenditures for said year shall not mated overall receipts assuming enactment and it needs a big government. I agree, but exceed $65 billion; and that any revenues re~ of legislation with respect to excise taxes and I submit that big government must oper~ ceived during said fiscal year in excess of postal revenues will be $39.1 billion compared ate within constitutional limits and that $65 billion shall be applied one-half to the with a budget estimate of $38.9 billion. bigness in government is not justifiable as reduction of the national debt and the other " ( 2) The committee recommends a ceiling an end in itself. half to the reduction of taxes.'' on expenditures for the fiscal year 1948 of The task ahead calls for courage and de· I am satisfied that if sent to the floor by $31.5 billion as compared with the budget termination to exercise our constitutional this committee, House Resolution 170 will estimate of $37.5 billion. powers and to perform our constitutional provide a basis for full debate and enable the "(3) The committee :finds that the ex~ duties in the interest of the Nation as a House to work its will. I am also satisfied cess of receipts over expenditures will be $7.6 whole. 3246 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 6 I hope this committee wlU report favor­ tor entitlement to ben.e:flts under the pres­ 2'. A new Government employee :who had ably on House Resolution 170. In closing ~ I ent clvtl-se:rvice .retirement system. Thus, no prior private employment would . acquire should like again to-express my d~ep appre­ . an employee .separated before. completing 5 _social sec..uctty survivor protection as soon as . elation for the careful attention which all years of: service is entitled to Withdraw his he completed the necessary year and a half ·members of this committee are giving to conttlbuti:ana to the retirement fund, with -(six quarters) oi Federal service. He would retain such protection until he completed this resolution. interest, and nothing more. Neither he nor . his dependents receive any real protection in 5 years' Federal service at which time he line with the staff annuity purpose of the would acquire survivor protection und~r the retirement system. retirement system. .. The committee views with sympathy the lf the individual moved from Govern- ~ Legislation To Correct a Deficiency in the problems of employees who tall in this cate­ .ment to private employment after completing gory and believes that appropriate provi­ a year and a half but less than 5 years' Fed­ Civil Service Retirement Act sions should be worked out and incorpora te-U eral servi-ce, he would retain and add to his in the Civil Service Retirement Act to pro­ social security survivor protection. EXTENSION OF REMARKS vide at least minimum protection for such If the individual moved from Government employees and their survivors. It is felt that to private employment before completing a OF leg,i.slation to provide these employees and .year and a half of Federal service he could HON. CHET HOLIFIELD su.rvivors minimum social-security benefits add his private employment to his Govern­ will be appropriate and will give them ade­ ment employment and acquire social secu­ OF CALIFORNL\ quate protection not now afforded by either rity survivor protection as soon as he com­ ' IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the civil-service retirement plan or the So­ pleted a combined total of a year and a half cial Security Act. of service. VVednesday,~arch6, 1957 "In view of the lateness in the session and 3. A Government employee who, befor~ Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I am the compleXities of working out legislation to completing 5 years' Federal service, moved today introducing legislation which will accomplish the purpose, however, the com­ permanently to private employment would correct a serious deficiency in the Civil mittee decided that it is not desirable to have credit for his Federal service transferred delay legislation to liberalize civil-service re­ to social security and counted toward his old­ Service Retirement Act. tirement benefits in order to make the nec­ age or survivor benefits. This transfer of At the present time, if a Federal em­ essary changes at this time. Accordingly, it credit would be m_ade only if and when he or ployee die,s ·or leaves the service before - was decided to postpone action to close this his stUvivors applied for social security he has completed 5 years of Federal serv­ gap in retirement provisions for Federal em­ benefits. ice.. his dependents who survive him will ployees with the understanding that the The plan has the following characteristics not receive benefits-under the Civil Serv­ Civil Service Commission will study the fea­ which we believe are essential if any transfer ice Retirement Act. Employees who are sibility of providing, for short-service em­ of credit plan is to be adopted: ployees, a plan for transferring credits be­ 1. It is relatively simple and its operation covered by the Social Security Act are tween the Civil Service Retirement Act and would be generally understood by the people protected after 18 months of covered the ·sociai Security Act. The Commission whom it will affect. service. will submit its report to the committee be­ 2. It.does_ not entail any -options or elec­ My bill will correct this inequity. It fore January 3, 1957, together with a draft tions by the individual or his survivors. provides that the Federal service and of legislation to carry out the objective of ex­ This eliminates: salary after 1950 of any employee who tending to these short-service employees, by (a) The necessity of the individual having leaves Government before completing 5 transfer of credit, the basic protections of to make a critical decision which he may years' Federal service will be deemed the Social Security Act. The committee ex­ later regret. "employment" and "wages" for social- pects that the proposal will incorporate these (b) In large measure, the opportunity for basic principles: manipulation calculated to produce unwar­ . security purpoaes. This has the effect ..'The committee strongly recommends that ranted benefits. of transferring credit for short-service legislation with this objective receive prompt 3. It requires only a one-time transfer of employees. It also affords them social­ consideration and become law at the earliest credit, thus avoiding the administrative diffi­ security survivor protection during and practicable date in the new Congress ... culty and cost of retransfer and possible re­ after their Government employment in Subsequently the committee extended the retransfer of a credit whenever the individual the same manner as though they were time for the Commission to submit its report moves from private to Government employ­ and legislative draft to March 1, 1957. ment or vice versa. working in private employment. Once In response to this request, there is en­ the employee completes 5 years of Fed­ The draft bill excludes Members of Con­ closed a draft of legislation which, if enacted, gress and Congressional employees from the eral service, he acquires retirement and would permit short-service employees to plan because the Commission usually ex­ survivor protection under the Civil Serv­ transfer credit for Federal employment from cludes Members and Congressional employees ice Retirement Act, and credit for his the civil service retirement system to the from pay and related legislation drafts and Federal employment may no longer be old-age and survivors insurance (social se­ because participation of Members in the re­ transferred for social-security purposes. curity) system. In essence, the legislation tirement system is not mandatory but op­ provides that a Government employee who tional with the individual. Members and This legislation was drafted by the is separated before completing 5 years' Fed­ Civil Service Commission at my request Congref'sional employees can be included hy eral service will have so much of this service minor changes in the language, as indicated made during hearings on Federal em­ as was performed after 1950 while he was in the analysis which accompanies the draft. ployees' retirement last Congress. It has subject to the Civil Service Retirement Act If the draft legislation is enacted, it may just been received. counted under the social security system as also be desirable to amend the Social Secu­ Under leave to extend my remarks in ­ though it were private employment. Federal rity Act. The Secretary of Health, Educa­ employment after 1950 not subject to the the RECORD, I include a letter of trans­ Civil Service Retirement Act (or another Fed­ tion, and Welfare is, of course, beat able to mittal from the Chairman of the Civil eral retirement system) is generally already determine whether, from his point of view, Service Commission, an analysis of the c.reditable under the social security system. any changes in the Social Security Act or bill, and a copy of the bill : This is how the transfer-of-credit plan in this draft legislation would be required. We believe the bill meets your committee's UNITED STATES Crvn. SERVICE contained in the legislation would work in the most common types of cases: stated objective of permitting short-service COMMISSION, employees to transfer credit. However, the Washington, D. U., Februa:ry 28, 1gs1. 1. An individual in private employment who had S()Cial security survivor protection plan does have at le.ast two major short­ Han. TOK MURRAY, comings: Chairman, Committee on Post Office and who moved to Government employment 1. As · soon - as an individual completes and Civil Service, Hous~ of Repre­ would retain this survivor protection until 5 sentatives. he had completed 5 years of Federal service. years' Federal service (and assuming he DEAR MR. MURRAY: In its report of July 21, If the indiv~dual had less than a year and is then -under the retirement system), he generally exchanges his social-security sur­ 1956 (No. 2854), on the bill S. 2875, 84th Con­ a half (six social security quarters) of private employment within the last 3 years, he would vivor-benefit protection for the usually gress, the Committee on Post Office and Civil lesser ret-irement-system protection. This Service stated: acquire social security survivor protection as soon as he completed enough Federal service abrupt change will in many cases result in ••paOTECTION OF EMPLOYEES SEPARATED BEFORE to give him the social security-required total a wide disparity in benefits to the survivors COMPLET.lNG 5 YEARS OF SERVICE of six quarters of coverage. These six quar­ of individuals who are similarly situated, "In the consideration of this legislation ters would then consis.t of combined private except that one dies shortly before he com­ the committee h~arecognized a serious defi­ and Federal employment. pletes 5 year&' Federal service and the other ciency in the law with respect to protection Upon completion of 5 years' Fede:tal serv­ dies. shortly after completing 5 years' Federal or employees who are separated, by death c.r ice, the individual would acquire survivor service. · otherwise, before having completed 5 years protection under the Civil Service Retire­ 2. An individual who leaves Government or servtce. The completion of 5 years of ment System and credit for his Federal serv­ employment before coxnpleting 5 years' Fed­ creditable service is an absolute requirement ice could not thereafter be transferred. eral service will, in most cases, have residual 1957 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 3247 social security survivor protection for 18 Social Security Administration must request age, disability, or survivors benefits under the months, whereas an individual with 5 or certification of the record upon receipt ot Social Security Act be deemed to be 'employ­ more years ar Federal service would not have an application for social-security benefits, ment' within the meaning of section 210 of ·this residual protection when he left Gov­ but it may request the record at an earlier the Social Security Ac.t. SUch a former em­ ernment employment. date if occasionally it is called upon to make ployee shall be deemed to have received dur­ Even if these -shortcomings were cor:. an advance determination of an employee's ing such service 'wages' within the meaning rected:.._and we have not attempted to do so or his survivors' social-security rights. of section 209 of the Social Security Act in an in the draft bfil because it would have ex­ Because the transfer of credit is not made amount equal to the lesser of (1} the basic ceeded the bounds of the committee's re­ until the employee or his survivors apply for salary paid to him fa::: such service, or (2) the quest-the plan would still not achieve the .social-security benefits, no retrans:fer of maximum yearly amoun.t whic.b may be con­ goal of worker mobility between the social ..credit is involved if the employee moves sidered as wages under section 209 of the -security and the civil service retirement sys­ more than once between Government and. Social Security Act." . tems without loss, diminution, or duplica­ private employment-so long as such move­ SEC. 3. Section 3 of s&id act is amended tion of benefits. This, as we see it, can be ment occurs before he applies for the social­ by adding at the end thereof the following achieved only by completely coordinating the security benefits. new subsection ~ Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance System Section 4 permits refunding of a Federal "(k} For any former employee to whom ·and the Civil: Service Retirement System. · employee's civil-service retirement. contribu­ section 2 (h) applies, the Commission shall I should not want the·committee to believe ·tions but .provldes for the wtthholding of furnish, at the l'equest o.f the Secretary of that because we have performed this tech­ the tax equivalent from the refund paid to a Health, Education, and Welfare, a reeord of nical service at the commitee's request, the • short-service employee. Should the shvrt­ service wherein the employee was subject to Commission has receded in any particular service employee return to Government em­ this act, the basic salary paid for such serv­ from its position of last year favoring com­ ployment under the Civil Service Retirement ice, and a certification that the Commission's plete coordination of the Old-Age and Sur­ Act and complete at least 5 years of Federal records S'how that such service and salary may vivors Insurance System and the Civil Service Service, the tax equivalent withheld will be be deemed to be 'employment' and 'wages' Retirement System. No transfer of credit recredited to his retirement contributions as provided in section 2 ( h}. The said Secre­ plan, however carefully devised, will provide account. tary shall not reqeust such record unless and a fully satisfactory solution of the problems Section 5 permits refunding of a deceased until a determination of the former em"" inherent in the present imperfect relation­ employee's civil service retirement. contri­ ployee's or his survivors' entitlement to or ship. between these two Systems. . butions but provides for the withholding of amount of old-age, disability. or survivors The Civil Service Retirement Act as it the tax equivalent from the refund paid to benefits under the Social Security Act be­ stands today provides an excellent staff re:. the survivor of a short-service employee. comes necessary. Such record and certifica­ tirement system. But, like other staff sys­ Section 6 requires the Civil Service Re­ tion shall be :final and conclusive upon said tems, it needs coordination with the Social tirement and Disability Fund to reimburse Secretary." ·Security System. Without the minimum -the social security trust funds for the benefit SEC. 4. Section 1I (a) of said act is am~nd­ protection afforded by the Social Security costs incurred on account .of transferring ed to read as follows: Act, many Federal employees suffer a rela­ credit f.or Federal employment to the social "SEC. 11. (a) (1) Except as provided in tive disadvantage. And in the ·absence of security system. It is recommended that paragraph (2) of this subsection, any em­ coordination with the Social Security Act, .at the time any hearings are held on this ployee or Member who is sepaz:ated from the many Federal employees reap windfall bene­ legislation, the Committee develop and in­ service. or is transferred to a position wherein fits. Neither result is desirable. ClJlde in this section a more detailed formula he does not continue subject to this act, shall In the case of legislation which the Com­ for determining the benefit costs. The be paid the lump-sum credit provided his mission recommends to Congress. we ordi­ formula should be one which is equitable separation or transfer occurs. and application narily obtain the views of Federal employee both to the Civil Service Retirement and for payment is filed with the Commission at organizations. Because we are not sponsor­ Disability Ftl1ld and the social security trust Jeast 31 days before the earliest commencing ing the enclosed draft bill. but are merely funds. date of any annuity for which he is eligible. performing a technical service for the com­ Sect.ion 7 provides for the legislation to be­ The receipt of payment of the lump-sum mittee, we have not done so here. Neither come effective upon enactment. Transfer of credit by the individual shall void all annuity have we sought the advice of the Bureau of credit is permitted !or an Federal service rights under this act, unless and until he the Budget as to whether the enclosed draft performed after December 31, 1950 (except shall be reemployed in the - service subject legislation is in accord with the program of "temporary., service which, if performed to this act. This subsection shall also apply the Presid&nt. · after 1950, is already creditable for social to any employee or Member separated prior By direction of the Commission: security: purposes in most eases) for an em­ to October 1, 1956, after completing at least Sincerely. ployee who was subject to tbe Retirement 20 years. of civilian service. PmLIP YoUNG,. Act on or after the effective date of the leg­ "(2) The tax equivalent shall be withheld Chairman. islation. from the lump-sum credit paid any employee, (NoTE._:_The legislation is worded so as to other than a congressional employee, whose ANALYSIS OF Bn.L exclude Members of Congress and congres-­ ·separation from the service occurred before Section I defines the term "tax equivalent." ·sional employees from its operation. If the he completed 5 years. of civilian service. The as an amount equal to the. tax which would legislation is to apply to Members and con.­ tax equivalent so withheld from ·an em· have been levied after December 31, 1950, gressional employees, Members should be ployee shall not again become part of the the date on which "temporary" Government included by · specific references, and the lump-sum credit .unless and until he is re.. employees were originally covered by the phrases which exclude congressional em­ employed in the service subject to this act." Social Security Act, on the basic salary of a ployees should be deleted.) SEC. 5. Section 11 (d) of said act is amended Federal employee who was subject to the to rea:d as follows: Civil Service Retirement Act had his Federal . "SEC. 11. (d) (1) Except as provided in A bill to provide for transfer of credit from paragraph (2) of this subsection, if an em­ service been covered employment under the the civil-service retirement· system to th,e SOcial Security Act. The tax equivalent is ployee or Member dies (A) without a surviv:. ·old-age and survivors insurance system, or, or (B) with a survivor or surivors and .a consideration for the transfer of credit tor and !or other purposes Federal service to the social-security system. the right of all survivors shall terminate be­ Section 2 provides that the Federal serv­ Be it enacted, etc., That section I of the fore claim for survivor annuity is filed, or if a. ice and salary after 1950 of any employee Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended, Is former employee or Member not retired dies, who leaves Government before completing amended by ~dding at the ·end thereof the the lump-sum credit shall be paid. 5 years' Federal service will be deemed ..em• following paragraph: .. (2) If an employee or. former employee, ployment!' and "wages•• for social-security "(t) The term 'tax equivalent' shall mean other than a congressional employee, dies be­ purposes. This has the effect o1 transferring an amount equal to_ the tax on employees fore completing 5 years of civilian service, the credit t;or short-service employees. It also under the Federal Insurance Contributions lump-sum credit less his tax equivalent shall affords them social-security survivor protec­ Act with respect tO basic salary paid for em­ be. paid." tion during and a.fte:r their Go.vernment em­ ployment wherein they were subj,ect to this SEC. 6. Seet!on 17 of said act is amended by ployment in the same manner as though act· after December 31, 1950, had such em­ adding at the end thereof the following new they were working in private employment. ployment been covered eJl!ployment within subsection: Once the employee compl~tes 5 years o! the meaning-of the Social Security Act." "(f) The Secretary of the Treasury is Federal serviee, he acquires retirement and SEc. 2. -Section 2 of said. act is amended by authorized and directed to transfer each year smvivor protection under the Civil Service adding the following new subsection: from the fund to the Federal old-age and sur­ Retirement Act. and. credit .!or his Federal "(h) Notwithstanding any other provl• vivors trust fund and the Federal disability emJ?lO~nt may no longer be. transfer:red sion of law o~ exequtive order and provided insurance trust fund a sum determined by :for soci,al-security_ purposes. be is separated before completing an aggre­ the Secretary of Health, Education., s.nd Wel­ Section 3 requires the Civil Service. Com­ gate of 5 years of civilian service, the service fare. and the Chairman of the Commission as mission to certify to the Social Security Ad­ perf9rmed after_Dece _mber 31, 1950, by a for­ necessary to meet the benefit costs incurred ministratfo~ a record o! the service and the mer employee, except a- congressional em­ during the previous :fiscal year by the salc;l salary which is- being transferred for credit ployee, whi-le he was subject to· this act, shall, trust funds on account of section 2 (h) of under_ the . _ sociAl-security system. The at the -time he-or his. survlvo:rs apply for old- this. .act." · CIII--205 3248 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 6 SEc. 7. The amendments made by this act carries the following notation: "A most date which resulted in monetary savings · shall take effect upon enactment. This act capable, efficient, and fearless officer.'' and better services. He also brought into shall not apply in the case of employees re­ While in France on August 25, 1918, he being the now famous historical division tired or otherwise separated prior to such effective date and the rights of such persons visited the grave of Lt. Quentin Roose­ of the county clerk's office which mate­ and their survivors shall continue in the same velt, son of President Theodore Roose­ rial had laid dormant for over 100 manner and to the same extent as if these velt, who had been shot down in aerial years industry files and corners. At the amendments had not been enacted. combat on July 14, 1918, near Chaucery. behest of Mr. Sinnott, Mr. James A. At that time, Lieutenant Sinnott had a Kelly, deputy county clerk, was ap­ suitable white headstone made by Pvt. pointed Brooklyn Borough historian Leland Easton, a stonecutter in his com­ which position he still retains besides his Francis J. Sinnott: His Life and Character pany, which was placed on young Roose­ duties as deputy county clerk. Thou­ velt's grave. Five photographs of this sands of documents and books were event, suitably framed, with historical cleaned, bound, and indexed, and today EXTENSION OF REMARKS data will be presented to the Roosevelt Kings County truly boasts the finest col­ OF collection at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, lection of borough history to be found in Long Island, by his widow, Mrs. Mar­ the United States. HON. EUGENE J. KEOGH_ guerite B. Sinnott. On March 17, 1949, at the request of OF NEW YORK Upon returning from the war, Mr.· Mr. Sinnott, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sinnott became secretary in the office of signed a bill authorizing a county seal the transit construction commissioner for Kings County. This seal, depicting ~ednesday,n!arch 6,1957 from 1919 to 1921. This was the prede­ the 6 original townships of Brooklyn Mr. KEOGH. Mr. Speaker, to have cessor to the board of transportation with the colors of Holland, is the only known Francis J. Sinnott, late county and the st~rt of young Sinnott's long and descriptive county seal of the 62 counties clerk of the county of Kings was to have honorable public service career. In 1921 in New York State and was originated by known a distinguished, dedicated public he became engineering adviser for the Mr. Sinnott and Mr. Kelly. servant and American. He was, until special transit committee, board of esti­ During his term of office he also inter­ his death, my friend and adviser and mate and apportionment, corporation ested himself in the early township his­ throughout my public life I was most counsel's office. During his tenure of tory of Brooklyn and caused ·to have fortunate to have had his sound, cour­ office he was in charge of the investiga­ printed 6 detailed historical books, 1 on ageous, and foresighted counsel and the tion of the famous Malbone Street rail­ each township, which were made avail­ benefit of his broad, objective and con­ way disaster. Here he supervised the able to many educational institutions in structive criticism and thinking. He investigation and resulting report which Brooklyn. Together with Mr. Kelly, he was a good man, truly great and un­ was cited as a most complete and com­ also proved beyond doubt that Sir Wins­ selfishly dedicated to American politics­ prehensive report with outstanding con­ ton Churchill's mother, Jennie Jerome, and one who proud to be of politics­ structive suggestions for the future safety was born in Brooklyn and was successful added distinguished luster to the word of the railway system in New York City. in bringing the Prime Minister to the "politician." For he was always of, with, In 1924 he became the first secretary ancestral home on Henry Street. and for the people. It is worthy, there­ of the board of transportation in which As county clerk he was also in charge fore, that his life and character, com­ post he served until 1933 .• While with of calling, qualifying, and empaneling piled with the assistance of his devoted the board he took an active and practical jurors in the county. Here too he friends and deputy, Stephen C. Sanzillo, part in every new subway project then brought the system up to date and re­ be spread for those interested in the in progress. It was his habit to leave the ceived the highest commendations from cause of good government to read and safety of the office, don his boots, and members of the bar and bench for the study. · enter the subway pits with the men to high type administration he introduced Francis Joseph Sinnott was born on supervise the construction, shoring, and for the benefit of the service and for July 3, 1891, at 118 Arlington Avenue, dynamiting phases of the subway. Many better relations with the public. Brooklyn, N. Y., where he resided all of of the safety factors that went into the· At the time of his death on September his life, the third of five sons of James independent railway system of New York 16, 1956, he was deeply engrossed in the Peter and Frances Carroll Sinnott. were the brain children of Mr. Sinnott. plans for his office in the new building In 1897 he entered St. Malachy's Paro­ Here he also, as in his war years, gained which he watched each day rise across chial School, in East New York, where a reputation far and wide for his hu­ the street from his office. He left behind his father had attended before him and mane manner in handling men whether a complete detailed layout of where all his four children after him. Upon they were laborers or engineers. His equipment, furniture and material were graduation in 1905 he went to St. John's anxiety for their well-being and safety to be placed in the new building. His High School and in 1909 entered New brought to him a devotion that is still great engineering mind functioned to the York University where he graduated with talked about by the oldtimers in the new last for that which was always highest a degree in civil engineering. transit authority. on his list-service to the public. Upon completion of his education in In 1933 he was appointed postmaster Frank, as he was known to his friends, 1913 he joined the firm of Frederick L. of Brooklyn by President Franklin D. was born to politics. His father, who Cranford as an engineer. On May 19, Roosevelt, where he served until Decem­ came to East New York from Collins­ 1917 he joined the Army in World War I. ber 31, 1939. Here he revamped many of ville, Conn., as a young boy with his He went to Plattsburgh Training Camp the old systems and brought into the ·widowed mother, entered into the doings for Officers with tne 15th Regiment and Brooklyn Post Office a new relationship of the village at an early age. He won was commissioned as second lieutenant between the postmaster and the men and local fame as a baseball player and good of Engineers. He was transferred to women in the service. Here again his sport in all that he partook. In his Fort Belvoir, Va., for advanced training personal attention to the individual em­ youth he met John Maguire and together and went overseas with the 302d Engi­ ployee brought to him the cooperation the·y battled the entrenched Adams­ neers of the 77th Division. He partic­ which resulted in a great uplifting of the ·Sutter dynasty jn East New York Demo­ ipated in the Baccarat, V~sle Riv·er, morale of the office and better service to ·cratic circles. After many bitter de­ Aisne-Marne, and Oise-Aisne offensives. the public. feats, Maguire succeeded in unseating It was in the Aisne River on September · On January 1, 1940, he was appointed Adams and became the Democratic 5, 1918 that he was severely wounded in county clerk of Kings County, N.Y., by leader. · On April 29, 1901, Maguire, a the left leg which awarded him the Order the unanimous vote of the members of young attorney of note and uncle of the of the Purple Heart. He was hospital­ the appellate division of the second de­ now president of the board of elections. ized in Paris and was there when the partment' of New York. He was the first James M. Power, turned over the leader­ armistice was signed. He returned to county clerk to be appointed; the office ship to his trusted aid James P. Sinnott. the United States and was discharged on having been an elective one. In this 'The elder Sinnott stayed in the leader­ May 20, 1919 at Camp Upton, Long Is­ "office he continued to demonstrate his ship until his death on September 10. land as a captain, Company A, 302d amazing ability to administrate, and 1928. During this time he welded one of Engineers, ·77th Division. His discharge brought many systems in the office up to the strongest political machines ever 1957 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 3249 seen in New York City district polities. bas· served the district for the past 20 ance firm tn · Manhattan. Two other In 1917 he was successful in convincing years. He was succeeded in his leader­ brothers. carroll, formerly of the Na­ Tammany leader Charles F. Murphy to ship by his assemblymanp Anthony J. tional Transportation System~ and John, recommend John F. Rylan for mayor. Travia. son-in-law o! the late Mayor John F .. From then on the Sinnott political star On December 9, 192.2, he married Mar­ Hylan, died a few years ago. was in its ascendency and continued that guerite Babc.ac~ o:.f Richmond Hi:a, Mr. Sinnott was a member of the rise when young Prancis J. Sinnott took Queens. Of this marriage came four Kings County Democratic executive com­ over the leadership of the 22d Assembly children, Edith. Gloria., Francis, and mittee; Democratic State committee: District Democratic Organization in Oc­ James. Edith is now Mrs. Paul Cullen .. Elmer E. Bennett,. Jr., Post, No. 725, tober of 1928. He also held the leader­ residing in East Williston, Long Island. American Legion, Cypress Hills National ship until his death 28 years later and with 6 children; Miss Gloria Sinnott was,. forged an even stronger organization until recently resigned, secretary to Fed­ Cemetery Pilgrimage Committee. Ameri­ than his father had left to him. His eral Judge Leo Rayfiel, of Brooklyn; can Legion; 302d Engineers Post, Agonist fame as · an honest arid civic--minded Francis Sinnott, a graduate of Kings Benevolent Association; Cypress Hills leader spread far and wide and on July Point Merchant Marine Academy is an Board of Trade, and took an intensively 28, 1950, he was elected Kings County official in the Alcoa Co., and is married to active part in the Red Cross and Boy leader of the Democratic Party. He Florence Fagan. They live in Mineola. Scout drives of the country. stepped down from this post on Decem­ with their 2 sons, Michael and ·Jeffrey. I shall pass through this world but once: ber 29, 1952. During his term of leader­ James Sinnott is studying for the priest­ Any good that I can do, any kindness that ship he recommended the nomination of hood at Maryknoll, N. Y. r can show to any human being: and elected to Congress three outstand­ Of his four brotbers, Desmond, re­ Let me do it now, let me not defer it or ing Members of the House of Represent­ siding in Nashville, Tenn., is a retired neglect it, atives: David o·connell, Stephen A. naval captain and, Paul, who resides in For I shall not pass this way again. Rudd, and Eugene J. Keogh. The latter New Rochelle, conducts his own insur- That was Francis Joseph Sinnott.

the gentleman from Texas estimated a Committee on Rules. Meanwhile let us HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3-year obligation of more than $2¥2. remember every authorization such as billion. Then the measure, I gathered. is included in H. R. 4901 is a mandate to THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1957 goes on to give the same treatment to all the Bureau of the Budget and the Presi­ The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. feed grains. One committee member dent to up the annual budget. The Con­ The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, stated the saddling onto the soil bank of gress has the respcnsibility of limiting D. D., offered the following prayer: grain sorghums alone would cost $900 Federal expenditures. million a year, in his opinion, and doom Most merciful and gracious God, may any type of continuing program to help the 40 days of this Lenten season be for farmers. There was no agreement as to CALL OF THE HOUSE all of us a time of quest and o-f conquest, the cost to the taxpayers, but I gathered of self-examination ·and self-mastery. Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I make the a majority guess, at least o-n my side of point of order that a quorum is not pres­ We humbly and penitently confess the aisle, was almost $1 binfon a year. that so frequently we are not on speak­ ent. In speaking earlier on the rule. the The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum ing terms or at peace with our own souls gentleman from Virginia [Mr. SMI.THJ for our conscience tells us that we bave is not present. said he had read that the net take-home Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker,. I broken faith with our nobler and better income of farmers in this country is $10 self. _ move a call of the House. billion~ and that we spend $5 billion to A call of the House was ordered. Show us how we may conquer and rehabilitate them. He suggested, but not crucify every insurgent impulse, every The Clerk cal!ed the roll and the fol­ too seriously, I gathered~ distributing $5 lowing Members .failed to answer to their inordinate desire, every self -indulgent, billion direct and increasing the take­ habit, and all those temptations and sins names: home pa,y 50 percent. As for me, I think 'Roli No. 14] which degrade and destroy our capacity the best way to help the farmer is to to reach the higher levels of life to which Allen, calif'. Diggs Morrison reduce Federal spending and start paying Bailey Frelinghuysen Powell Thou hast called us. otf the national debt and cutting income Belcher Friedel Preston Grant that in each new day we may taxes. I think this farm bill is highly Bolton HUlings Saund have an inspiring and uplifting sense Bowler Hosmer Siler inflationary and will hurt everyone's Boykin Jackson Staggers of Thy grace and power, transforming take-home pay in America. It will in­ Buckley Kearney Young our lives from what 'they are to what crease the grocery bill of every house­ Celle:r Kee they ought to be and can be. wife in the country. Dies Mailliard Hear us in the name of the Captain From the discussion dw·ing the general The SPEAKER. On this rollcall 407 of our Salvation. Amen. debate it became obvious to me that H. R.. Members have answered to their names, The Journal of the proceedings of 4901 would increase Federal expenditures a quorum. yesterday was read and approved. over and above the $73 billion Eisenhower By unanimous consent, further pro­ budget. I am going to vote against it. I ceedings under the can were dispensed am in. :favor of cutting. not raising Fed­ with. CORN AND FEED GRAIN PROGRAM eral spending. So much for that measure M'r. FELLY. Mr. Speaker, r ask reported out by the Democratic majority COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS­ unanimous consent to extend my re­ of the Committee on Agriculture. GENERAL GOVERNMENT MAT• marks at this point in the RECORD. The Republicans are going to try and TERS APPROPRIATION BILL The SPEAKER. Is there objection to cut out all but the corn part of the bill the request of the: gentleman from I shall support this effort. But thi$ will Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, I ask Washington? . be purely to reduce the possible authori­ unanimous consent that the Committee There was no objection. zation of a. greater sum. On final pas­ on Appropriations have until midnight Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, yesterday sage I shall vote against the bill in either tomorrow to file a privileged report on I listened carefully tc the general debate form that it comes up fer a vote. the general Government matters appro­ on H. R. 4901, a so-called emergency bill Mr. Speaker, in the cverall national in­ priation bill for 1953. to cut back corn production. This obiec­ terest to avoid all-out infiation a cut. in The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ti.ve would be accomplished~ as I under~ Federal spending prog:rams must be ac­ the request of the gentleman from Ala- stand. by allowing farmers $42.5a an acre comp!ished. There should be a Iegisla.­ bama? · for every. acre they retire from. planting .ti.ve limit on appropriations, as suggested There was no objection. in corn. Nobody seemed to.. agree on the by House Resolution 170 on which hear­ Mr. FENTON reserved all points of cost of tbis part a! the bill on corn, bu.t ings are presently in progress in the ·order on the bill.