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4266 CON_GRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MAY 1 _ The PRESIDENT pro tempore ap . llshment we want to maintain, then au SENATE pointed Mr. BARKLEY and Mr. BREWSTER thorize its maintenance on a voluntary members of the committee on the part of basis." WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1946 Mr. Goss proposes three changes: the Senate. "1. A rate of pa.y which would permit an <Legislative day ot Tuesday, March 5, REDUCTION OF NONESSENTIAL FEDERAL ambitious young man to save enough to 1946) EXPENDITURES-REPORT ON POSSIBLE give him a start in life-one competitive FIELDS OF REORGANIZATION IN THE with existing wage levels. The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, EXECUTIVE BRANCH (S. DO.C. N0.178) "2. An extension of vocational educational on the expiration of the recess. facilities so that a graduate will be well Dr. C. Leslie Glenn, rector, St. John's The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be- equipped to enter civilian life. If military Church, Washington, D. C., offered the fore the Senate a letter from Mr. BYRD, service provided an opportunity for young following prayer: chairman of the Joint Committee on Re men to get an education they could not duction of Nonessential-Federal Expendi otherwise obtain, there would be no lack of Almighty God, who alone gavest us ambit ious, capable young men to fill the tures, transmitting, pursuant to law, an ranks, and the quality of peacetime mili the breath of life; and alone ~anst keep additional report of the joint committee tary personnel would be improved. alive in us the holy desires Thou dost on the subject of possible fields of reor "3. Effective reform tn the officers' caste impart, we beseech Thee, for Thy com ganization in the executive branch, system, which has been the subject of so passion's sake, to sanctify all our which was referred to the Committee on much criticism by patriotic, self-respecting thoughts and endeavors that we may Appropriations. young men who have been made the vic neither begin an action without a pure Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, shortly be tims of personal abuse, and who have pro intention nor continue it without Thy fore the reorganization bill was passed tested at the favoritism and inefficiency blessing. And grant that, having the which has thrived under military custom. by the Congress last fall President Tru "Every effort must be made to prevent eyes of the mind opened to behold things man asked me for some suggestions war," Mr. Goss said, "but it must be recog invisible and unseen, we may in heart be relative to reorganization in the execu nized that defense is a means. of prevention. inspired by Thy wisdom, and in work be tive branch of the Federal Government. Modern warfare requires a highly trained, upheld by Thy strength, and in the end In reply I presented this memorandum technical army. To get such an army by be accepted of Thee as Thy faithful serv- to him personally last November. It is voluntary enlistment, service in the armed ants. Through Jesus Christ our Saviour. based upon detailed studies made by the forces must be attractive, and a good prepa Amen. Joint Committee on Reduction of Non ration for civilian life." ' THE JOURNAL essential Federal Expenditures. It shows BONUS FOR WHEAT PRODUCTION On request of Mr. HILL, and by unani the organizational status of the executive Mr. LANGER. Mr. President, on Fri mous consent, the reading of the Journal branch in the immediate postwar period day last I introduced Senate bill 2118, to of "the proceedings of the calendar day and contains a plan consisting of four provide for the t)ayment of a bonus of Tuesday, April 30, 1946, was dispensed phases or steps for reorganization. I 30 cents per bushel on wheat produced with, and the Journal was approved. - believe this report will be of inestimable and sold between· January 1, 1945, and value to the Members of Congress and April 18, 1946. Today I received a letter MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT others interested in reorganization in the from the secretary of agriculture of the APPROVAL OF BILL near future. I ask unanimous consent State of North Dakota, Mr. Math Dahl, Messages in writing from the Presi that the report may be printed as a which I wish to read. The letter is as dent of the United States were commu Senate document. follows: nicated to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one .The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, of his secretaries, and he announced . out objection, it is so ordered. COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND LABOR, that on April 30, 1946, the President had PETITIONS Bismarck, April 29, 1946. Hon. WILLIAM LANGER, approved and signed the act <S. 1610) The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be for the rehabilitation of the Philippines. United States Senate, fore the Senate the following petitions, Washington, D. C. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE-ENROLLED which were referred, as indicated: DEAR SENATOR LANGER: On behalf Of the BILL SIGNED Petitions of sundry citizens of the United farmers of North Dakota, I want to highly States praying for the enactment of legis commend you for your efforts to see that A message from the House of Repre justice is done with regard to the so-called sentatives, by Mr. Chaffee, one of its lation to continue the Office of Price Admin istration; to the Committee on Banking and 30-cent bonus which the Government is now reading clerks, announced that the Currency. offering to pay for wheat to be delivered by Speaker had affixed his signature to the A letter in the nature of a petition from the farmers to the local elevators for the enrolled bill <S. 2) to provide Federal Torros Tuber Martinez, of Rio Riedros, P.R., destitute nations. aid for the development of public air praying for the appointment of Hon. Jesils T. The fact that you have introduced a bill ports, and it was signed by the President Pinero as Governor of Puerto Rico; to to make ·this payment of 30 cents per bushel: pro tempore. · the Committee on Territories and Insular retroactive for all the wheat that was pro Affairs. duced in 1945, I think, is highly commendable EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. and also justifiable from a standpoir.t of fair PERSONNEL NEEDS OF MILITARY ness to the farmers. The farmers that sold The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be FORCEs--STATEMENT BY ALBERT S. their wheat last fall and in the early months fore the Senate the following letters, GOSS of 1946 are just as patriotic as those that held which were referred as indicated: onto their wheat and are now receiv-ing the REPORT OF AMERICAN NATIONAL THEATER AND Mr. CAPPER. Mr. President, I ask benefit of this bonus payment. ACADEMY unanimous consent to present and to The fact in the case is that this 30-cent A letter from the secretary of the American have printed in the RECORD a statement bonus that is now offered is only bringing National Theater and Academy, transmit made by Albert S. Goss, master of the the commodity up to where it ought to have ting, pursuant to. law, the annual report of National Grange, with respect · to the been last fall when the farmers sold most that Academy for the year 1945 (with an personnel n·eeds of our military forces. of their grain. The price of wheat in rela accompanying report) ; to the Committee on This statement appearet! in the May tion to other commodities and the price of the Judiciary. bread at retail should have been at $1.90 issue of the Farm Journal, and in it to $2.05. · DISPOSITION OF E>..'ECUTIVE PAPERS Mr. Goss makes three proposals for the The Government ceiling under OPA regu A letter from the Archivist of the United maintenance of our armed forces on a lations at $1.4.J and $1.50 per bushel deprived States, transmitting, pursuant to law, a list voluntary basis. I believe his remarks the farmer of receiving a just price for his of papers and documents on the files of sev merit our consideration. commodity and, under the bonus provisions eral departments and agencies cif the Gov There being no objection, the state which they are offering, in my opinion, ap- ernment which are not needed in the con - pears that tpis is a black-market proposi duct of business and have no permanent ment was received and ordered to be tion, since they are offering the 30-cent value or historical interest, and requesting printed in the RECORD, as follows: bonus and the ceiling still remains at $1.50 action looking to their disposition (with ac "What is needed," says Albert S. Goss, per bushel. Certainly, there can be no jus companying papers); to a Joint Select Com · master of the National Grange, in a state tice in the program as proposed unless they m ittee on the Disposition of Papers in the ment to Farm Journal, "is for Congress to are willing to adjust it and pay the same Executive D~p artments. determine the size of the Military Estab- price for all the wheat produced by the 1946 CONGRESSIONAL' RECORD-SENATE· 4267 farmer and marketed for the season of 1945, 3,583, Treasury Department with 2,326, ruary. Excluding a decrease of 25,105 in the as well as what is being marketed now. Interior Department with 1,412, and War Department civtlian personnel overseas, I trust that you will do everything in your Commerce Department with 1,034. of which 24,976 were industrial workers, there power to see that this bill will be passed by would be an increase of 1,047 employees from Congress, to the end that the wheat farmer The War and Navy Departments ef the February figure of 122,314 to the March of this Nation, in this particular case, will fected a reduction of 57,161 within the :figure of 123,361.