8010 ..CON-GRESSIONAL RECORD~.HOUSE JULY 1 Byron H. Johansen, San Jacinto. Kenneth 0. Martwiok, Kief. LANGER and Mr. CHAVEZ members Of the Roy J. Summers, San Simeon. Odin H. Haagenstad, Maddock. jo.int select committee on the part of the C. Harold Calef; Saticoy. .Naom F. Goldesberry, Osnabrock. Senate, as provided for in the act of Harold H. Neustel, Robinson. · Genevieve DuBois, Selby. August 5, 1939, entitled "An a~t to pro­ Eddie D. Robertson, S~erra Madre. SOUTH CAROLINA Mary Louise Reid, Sloat. vide for the disposition of certam records Margaret M. Hale, Snelling. William D. Adair, Clinton. of the United States Government," for Mable Clara Galle, Sunset Beach. Willie LeRoy Miles, Coward. the disposition of executive papers in the Grace D. Hyde, Thousand Palms. Clarence E. Crocker, Glendale. following departments and agencies: John F. Buchholz, Three Rivers. . Nelle C. Wells, Manning. 1. Department of Commerce. Laurence G. Bornholtz, Walnut Creek, James E. Sanders, Mount Pleasant. 2. Department of the Interior. Elaine Wood, Weott. Jasper C. Moore, Simpsonvme. 3. Departm.ent of the Navy. John A. McConnell, Westley. TEXAS 4. Department of the Treasury. Otto C. Meeks, White Water. Wilbur H. Propes, Arp. 5. Department of War. - Palmer A. Wells, Woodbridge. Andrew J. Hayes, Barsj;ow. Dennis T. Pelton, Woodlake. 6. National Archives. Cordelia C. Hill, Beeville. 7. Office of Selective Service Records. Rudolf H. Kaisrlik, Yermo. Marvin E. Ezell, Bovina. CONNECTICUT Lula Lee Anlsler, Clarkwood; ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION SIGNED Herbert W. Coleman, Cheshire ~ Melvin E. Johnson, .Cookville. Mr. LECOMPTE, from the Committee Margaret B. Thornton, East· Windsor Hill. Iris. H. Wicker, Genoa. on House Administration, ·reported that Arthur F. Merrill, Guilford. Maggie F. Bobo, Giddings. Melviri L. RitChey, Hale Center. that committee had on June 30, 1947, Edward J. Dillon, Hartford. examined and found truly enrolled a John R. MacLean, Pine Orchard. David L. Haberle, Jacksonville, Henry B. MacQuarrie, Southport. ·Bonnie S. Langford, Mertens. jojnt resolution of the House of the fol­ Earle G. Donegan, Windsor. Arthur C. Black, North Zulch. lowing title: J. Leonard Gibson, Pickton. H. J. Res. 221. Joint resolution to provide DELAWARE David c. Waters, Poolvme. for permanent rates of postag_e on mail mat­ Sidney A. Benne-t:,t. Bethany Beac~. Charles L. Haynes, San Marcos. ter of the first class, and for ot er purposes. ILLINOIS Ludie C. Mitchell, Saratoga. · Nelle M. Edgeworth, Seabrook. The SPEAKER. The Chair desires to LaVerne E. King, Ashku~. William Christian Horn,. Spring. announce that, pursuant to the authority James H. Randolph. Beason. L. H. Searcy, Stinnett. granted him on June 30, 1947, he did on Jesse B. Thacker, Butler. Louise E. G.ordon, _Talpa. . James A. Giesler, Cisco. that date sign the following joint res- Donald R. Toberman, Coffeen. Ozena H. Sharp, Vanderbilt. . olution: . ·Joseph H. Pulcher, East Carondelet. VERMONT H. J. Res. 221. Joint resolution to provide McOannon~ James P. Flora. · Fay E. Wright, Westminster St~tion. permanent rates of postage on mail matter of Marvin Randall, Forsyth. the. first ~lass, and for other purposes. Oscar Hayward Holman, Get!. ·Frank R. Johnson,. Geneseo. APPOINTMENT OF· CONFEREE John G. Robben, Germantown. · Mr. KEEFE. Mr. Speaker, the con­ Arthur Lloyd Sinclair, Kansas. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES George A. Brown, Mahomet. · ferees on the Labor-Federal Se~urity Harold E. Hohenstein, Mount Auburn. TUESDAY, JULY-1, 1947 Agency appropriation bill have practi-. Eva S. Hooe, Niantic. cally reaqhed an agreement. It is neces­ Gerald L. Hamer, Olivet. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. sary to have foU:r signers of. the con:fer­ T. Arthur :Dyson, Palmer. Rev. Bernard Braskamp, D. D., pastor ence report. The· gentleman from Guy E. Midget, Pittsburg. of the Gunton-Temple Memorial Pres- · Minnesota [Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN] left · Lincoln A. Hardcastle, Royalton. his proxy with me before he went to James F. Hartman, Sadorus. byterian Church. Washington, D. C., offered the following prayer: Mexico, but under the rules I am not William P. Hohs, Skokie. permitted to. sign that report for hiin. Roy M. Martin, Springerton. 0 Thou God of all majesty, grant unto Ada J. Ulrich, 'Thomasboro. The gentleman from Minnesota is in . Waldo M. Hennings. Wayne. us a vital and victorious experience of Mexico as a representative of the Com­ Thy divine presence as we address our­ mittee on Appropriations on the hoof­ MARYLAND selves to tasks which are far beyond our Harry R. Ringle1, Bishopville. and-mouth-disease matter, which is very, own wisdom and strength. very important, and therefore is not here Frank A. Beachley, Braddock Heights. We thank Thee for the great principles Milton T. Holt, Brandywine. to sign the conf~rence report. Mary R. Schmidt, Eccleston. of righteousness and justice which are I therefore ask unanimous consent, Vera M. Gordon, Fork. implanted in our national life and em­ under those circumstances, Mr. Speaker, Gertrude s. Chapman, Lanham. bodied in our leaders. · Sustain us in that he be excused, and that the Chair be Anita G. Swann, Piney Point. fidelity to that which is highest and best. authorized to appoint another conferee. John T. Smullin, Jr., Pocomoke City. May we follow with confidence and cour­ Cosette I. Hopl"ins, Tyaskin. age those ways which Thou hast marked The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Alice A. Kellner, White Marsh. the request of the gentleman from Wis­ out for us. consin? MINNESOTA Enrich our hearts with feelings of good There was no objection. Lester L. Matzke, Bingham Lake. will toward all mankind, and may we Irvin R. Johnson, Clarks Grove. The SPEAKER. The Chair appoints seek one another's welfare and so fulfill the gentleman from New York [Mr. Robert B. Miller, Sr., Freeborn. the law of the Christ in whose name we Otto C. Drenkhahn, Goodhue. TABER] to fill the vacancy on the com­ Elbert J. Larson, Hewitt. pray. mittee. Laurie J. Hilger, rona. Amen. The Clerk will notify the Senate of the Raynold E. Olson, Lake Lillian, The Journal of the proceedings of yes­ action taken. Henry E. Grube, Nassau. terday was read and approved. Hilda G. Ruthenbeck, Okabena. THE LATE JOHN H. TOLAN MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE NEW MEXICO The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes Antonio D. Baca, Las Vegas. A message from the Senate, by Mr. the gentleman from California [Mr. Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced ALLEN]. NORTH CAROLINA that the Senate had passed a concurrent Fred E. Sluder, Alexander. Mr. ALLEN of California. Mr. Speak­ Exam A. Elliott, Barium Springs. resolution of the following title, in er, it is with great regret that I report Ruby P. Edwards, Bolivia. which the concurrence of the House is to the Congress the death of Hon. John Henry Max Gunter, Bostic. requested: H. Tolan, to whose seat I succeeded in Clarissa M. McDaniel, Garland. S. Con. Res. 22. Concurrent resolution rela­ this Congress. Beulah Johnson, Holly Springs. tive to House bill 493, concerning the pos­ Mr. Tolan was spending some time in Russell A. Parker. Middlesex. session, sale, transfer, and use of dangerous his summer home in the Sierra Nevada weapons 1n the District of Columbia. ' · ' NORTH DAKOTA Mountains in California. His health had Madelyn F. Moulsoff, Barney. The message also anno~nced that. the not been good. ·One of his grandchildren Nicholas ·a. Abel, Karlsruhe. · President pro tempore'has appointed Mr. became lost, and the worry occasioned 1947 CONGR·ESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE 8011 when she was not.quickly found brought to his bereaved widow and fine family He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend ot death to him from heart failure. He our deep sorrow. the oppressed. A thousand times I have was about 70 years old. Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, ·will the heard him quote these words: "For justice Mr. Tolan served in the Seventy-fourth gentleman yield? all place a temple, and all season, summer." He believed that happiness was the only good, Congress and continued to represent our Mr. ALLEN of .california. I yield to reason the only torch, justice the only wor­ district through the Seventy-ninth Con­ the gentleman from Mississippi. ship, humanity the only religion, and love gress. I think that he retired, in part, Mr. RaNKIN. Mr. Speaker, a more the only priest. He added to the sum of hu­ so that lie might spend some years with worthy man never served in this House man joy, and were everyone to whom he did the growing family · of · grandchildren than John Tolan, of California. I was some loving service to bring a blossom to his whom he loved so well thrown with him intimately during all grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wil­ It is regrettable that he could not have the years he was a Member of this body. derness of flowers. lived to enjoy longer the years of leisure I once made a trip of investigation with Mr. JENKINS of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, which he had so well earned. It is equally him to the Hawaiian Islands, and en­ 1t was my good fortune tc have knbwn regrettable that Mrs. Tolan, who worked joyed his cooperation on many meas­ ·Mr. Tolan well. He was a noble man. and with him while he was in Washington, ures of vital interest to the people we a courteous gentleman at all times. I will not enjoy more of those same happy both represented, and I am prepared to shall miss him, for he was one of my good years with him to which she was look­ say that he was one of the finest char­ friends. ing forward. My sympathy is extended .acters I have ever known. In the words Mr. BENDER. Mr. Speaket, I rise to to the children and grandchildren whose of Shakespeare·: pay tribute to my good. friend, John To­ more intimate company he had wanted His life was gentle, and the elements lan, who suffered a heart attack on learn­ to enjoy. · So mixed in him that Nature might stand up ing ~f his lost grandchild. Mr. Speaker, the Nation has lost one And say to all the world, "This was a man." A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, who served it well through many diffi­ Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, will the Fram'd in the prodigality of nature. cult years. My home community has. lost gentleman yield? -Shakespeare. one that it loved more than most of those Mr. ALLEN of California. I yield to Only a day or two ago in going over it loves quite well. the gentleman from Nebraska. · the contents of my billfold, I took out a Mr. PHILLIPS of California. Mr. Mr. CURTIS. In the death of John little Catholic medal given me years ago Speaker, will the gentleman yield? · Tolan I have lost a sincere friend. It by Mr. Tolan. Even though I do not Mr. ALLEN of California. I yield to was my privilege to work closely with embrace the same faith that lie did, he the gentleman from California. · him. John Tolan was a great citizen wanted me to have something that was Mr. PHILLIPS of California. Mr· and a great legislator. His family life dear to him, something that he knew Speaker, tragedy struck twice yestel·day represented everything that is fine and would assure me protection from the ·in the home of a man who served in this good. I wish to extend to Mrs. Tolan and dangers that face us all daily. I put the Congress for 12 years, retiring the end all his loved ones my most sincere sym­ little medal back into my wallet, not of last year. pathy. He was a man of great · faith knowing that today I would learn of my Everyone who knew John Tolan liked and I know that he has gone to his well­ good friend's passing. John Tolan was .him; everyone respected him. There earned reward. - a fine Christian gentleman-kindly, tol­ would be a ·feeling sadness and of' per­ Mr. ENGLE of California. Mr. Speak­ erant, considerate, ·and humble. sonal ioss had his death last evening er, the name of John Tolan has been in- There are some spirits nobly just, unwarp'd c.ome as the normal ending of a life of . timately associated for many years with by pelf or pride, more than the proverbial threescore and the Second Congressional District which Great in the calm, but greater still when ten years. Instead, his death came as I represent. His many friends there will dash'd by adverse tide; the result of the shock to a weakening be deeply shocked and grieved to learn They hold the rank no king can give, no heart caused by the disappearance of his of his passing. He was a former assist­ station can disgrace; little granddaughter, Greta Mary Gale, ant district attorney of Shasta County, Nature puts forth her gentleman, and mon­ known to everyone as Toni. Searching Calif., a position of high public trust archs must give place. parties have been in the hills near Mount similar to the one he held in Montana. -Eli;za Cook. Lassen National Park, unsuccessfully, Some years ago he established a summer Mr. HAVENNER. Mr. Speaker, the and it is reported today that the FBI has home near Chester, Plumas County, tragic death of Han. John H. Tolan has entered the search, on the suspicion that Calif., in the high Sierra Mountains, saddened many Members of this House kidnaping may be involved. Our sym­ where he co11ld be close to the great who knew and loved him during the 12 pathies go to Mrs. Alma Tolan and to mountains and the magnificent Califor­ years he served as a Member of Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Gale, and our prayers are nia forests he loved so well. It is sad John Tolan was devoted to his family, that Toni will be found safe and returned indeed that ·the tragedy which struck and he was adored by his wife, his chil­ to them in the very near future. The him down, the loss of his infant grand­ dren, and his grandchildren. Indeed, I California Members of the Congress have daughter, happened there. But I am have never known a man who had a more been stunned by the news of the tragedy. happy for the rest and tranquillity he beautiful family life. The tragedy of his Mr. MILLER of California. _Mr. did enjoy in his mountain home, and the death lies in the fact that it was directly Speaker, will the gentleman yield? many friends he made who deeply ad­ due to shock resulting from the disap­ Mr. ALLEN of California. I yield to mired him and valued his friendship. pearance of a beloved grandchild in the .the gentleman from California. All who served with him here remember mountainous wilderness surrounding his Mr. MILLER of California. The him for his kindness, his patience, and summer home. death of John 'l'olan mean!; a great deal his unaerstanding of his fellow man. He was my very dear friend. During more to me than it does perhaps to the John Tolan never had an enemy or even our joint service in Congress we spent rest of those who served in Congress with a critic in this House; he represented his many hours together, in and out of this him, because he was my close personal people diligently, ablY, and well. I can chamber. When he decided to retire friend and my mentor when I came to think of no tribute which will apply so Congress. well as that spoken by Robert Ingersoll last year he told me that his heart was at the graveside of his brother: very weak and that his doctors had ad­ Mr. Tolan was a graduate of the Uni­ vised him that he could not stand the versity of Kansas Law School and at This brave and tende- man in every storm one time was county attorney of Deer of life was oak and rock, but in the sunshine strain of additional official life. So he Lodge County, Mont. He moved to Oak­ he was vine and flower. He was the friend went back to California to live his re­ land in about 1914, where he earned an of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights maining days with the family that he enviable reputation for himself as a and left all superstitions far below, while on loved so well. Recently his son Jack told member of the bar and a public-spirited his forehead fell the golden dawning of' the me that he was absorbed in his grand­ citizen. His subtle, dry humor, his great grander day. children and that nearly all of his time He loved the beautiful and was, with col­ was spent in their company. I can well knowledge of human nature, and ·his or, form, and music touched to tears. He interest in the welfare of man are a ­ sided with the weak, the poor, the wronged, understand how his failing heart gave fitting monument to him. I know the and lovingly gave alms. With loyal heart, way when one of these beloved little ones House feels keenly the shock of his pass­ and . with purest hands, he faithfully dis­ was so mysteriously lost. And I am sure ing, as I do, and joins me in expressing charged all public trusts. that all of the.Memb.ers of- the House will 8012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 join· me in praying that the missing child perfume of precious oils." John Tolan marks in the RECORD and include the text may be safely returned to its parents. does, indeed, leave a good name. He did 'of -the bill, H. R. 4019. John Tolan was one of those rare spir­ what the great Prophet Micah asked us ~ Mr. PHILLIPS of California asked and its who radiated the sunshine of life. It all to do; to love mercy, do justice, and was given permission to extend his re­ has been the fate of many men who have walk humbly. He was indeed just, and marks in the RECORD. served in Congress to be forgotten soon merciful, and humble. SPECIAL nRDER GRANTED after they retired from office. Not so Mr. MANSFIELD of Montana. Mr. with John. Almost every day during the Speaker, the news of the passing of our Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, I ask present session some Member of this former colleague, the Honorable John unanimous consent that on Thursday, House who knew of our friendship has Tolan, of California, comes as a deep July 3, after the disposition of business asked me about him in most affectionate shock to me. Words fail to express the on the Speaker's desk and the conclu­ terms. His service in Congress was able sorrow in my heart and in the hearts of sion of special orders heretofore entered, and distinguished. . He will live long in the people of Montana. John Tolan I may address the House for 30 minutes our memories. , My heartfelt sympathy. was not only the Congressman from on the subject Pertinent Observations goes out to Mrs. Tolan and the members CaHfornia, but was also, in our opinion, Concerning Uncle Sam's Tax System. of the family he loved and who loved him the third Congressman from Montana. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to 'so well. Having lived much of his young man­ the request of the gentleman from Illi­ At a later time I hope to pay a more hood in our State, .he earned a position· nois? fitting tribute to the career of this fine there achieved by few men in our his­ There was no objection. public servant. tory. We loved him for his kindness EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. and consideration and we appreciated Mr. RAMEY asked and was given per­ Speaker, this is a sad day. The shoclc­ the many good things he went out of mission to extend his remarks in the ing .and sudden death of our former . col~ his way. to do for us. The Nation .has RECORD and include an article from the league~ the Honorable John Tolan, of lost a great statesman, Mrs. Tolan has Christian Science Monitor of June 27 on California, leaves a void that cannot be lost a good .husband, .. California and the subject, Probe -Bares .Plight of" Vet­ filled. , My family anP. I join with the Montana have lost an outstanding erans Under GI Bill, and to add to that membership of the House in extending citizen. the justification found on page 2 of the our deepest and most sincere sympathy To Mrs. Tolan and her family I. ex.tend report to accompany the bill, H. R. 246. to Mrs. Tolan and her bereaved family. the sympathy of the pJopl-! of Montana John Tolan was a fine man. Qu'iet, in her hour of bereavement. A great, SPANISH WAR VETERANS' BILL gentle, and of the highest character. good, and understanding man has gone Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ He loved his family and he loved his to his reward.. May his so~l rest in imous consent to address the House for friends and his friends are legion. I peace. 1 minute. do not believe 1 have ever known a fam­ CONTROLLING FIREAE.MS IN THE The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ily where there was such a close and DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA the request of the gentleman from New loving .relationship as existed in the York? Tolan family. Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask ~nanimous consent to take fro'm the There was no objection. Mr. Tolan served his country and his Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, due to im­ people faithfully and well. His life Speak~r's table Senate Concurrent Reso­ lution 22, relative to House bill 493, con­ portant business concerning the district among us here will be long remembered. I represent, I was necessarily absent The Nation has lost an able citizen, and cerning the possession, sale, transfer,· and use of dangerous weapons in the from the House yesterday afternoon un­ I have lost a friend. til about 4 o'clock. Had I been present, Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, like many of District of Columbia. The Clerk read the concurrent resolu­ I would have voted in favor of the Span­ my colleagues, I was sad. when I read in ish War veterans' bill. the pape,r this morning of the death of tion, as follows: EXTENSIQl, OF REMARKS our dear friend, J oh~ Tolan. He and I Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep­ came ·to the Seventy-fourth Congress at resentatives concurring), That the President Mr. DORN asked and was given per­ the same time, and through a decade I of the United States be, and he is hereby, mission to extend his remarks in the requested to return to the House of Repre­ have watched him. He was my friend. .sentatives the· enrolled blll (H. R. 493) to RECORD and include an article by Ansel I realize how earnest and sincere and amend section 4 of the act entitled "An act E. Talbert on naval research and de­ able was his service to his country. to control the possession, sale, transfer, and velopment. I remember last year he and I were use of pistols and other dangerous weapons TERMINAL-LEAVE BONDS standing in ~ack of the Chamber one in the District of Columbia," approved July day and he said to me: "Jasper, I am not 8, 193·2 (sec. 22, 3204 D. C. Code, 1940 ed.); Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speak­ going to run again because I want to go that if' and when the said bill is re­ er, I -ask unanimous consent to address turned by the President, the action of the the House for 1 minute . .back to California. I have been gone so Presiding Officer of the two Houses in signing much that my grandchildren do not ev~n The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the said bill be deemed to be rescinded; and the request of the gentleman from know me." He said, "I am going home, that the House engrossed bill be returned to and I am going to spend my retiring the Senate. Florida? years with my family." There was no objection. He hoped and I hoped that those years The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speak­ might be many. His untimely death the request of the gentleman from er, I am very happy that the subcom­ brings to all of us the uncertainty of Illinois? mittee of the Committee on Armed life. I cannot let this moment pass with­ There was :10 objection. Services which had under considera­ out joining others of my colleagues, those The concurrent resolution was agreed tion the terminal-leave pay bill has who have spoken and those of you who to. recommended to the full committee feel as we do without having spoken, in A motion to reconsider was laid on the that this bill be passed. It was 6 paying this tribute to a great American, table. months ago-on January 3-that I in­ a kindly, sincere gentleman, a man I am COMMITTEE ON /.GRICULTURE troduced this bill to make these bonds proud to have called my friend. Mr. HOPE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ payable and now the Committee on Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, I am sure Armed Services is giving it their consid­ mous consent that the Committee on eration. Althol..

Committee on Armed. Services reported historical setting it stirs feel4lg of awe and THE ASSOCIATED . PR_ESS that bill out this morning. pride in one's country." The same season Associated Press Arts Edi­ Mr. ROGERS of Florida. I thank the ·Robert Coleman, dramatic critic of the tor John Selby wrote in part: "To Paul Green gentleman. I know you have been in­ New York Daily Mirror, · declared that "the and his associates, .the whole Roanoke Island terested in this and have done what you most impressive theatre in America is the venture has become a broad canvas for the­ Waterside Theatre" where The Lost Colony atrical experiment. This has been done along could to get the bill passed. Is presented. "It is an eloquent tribute to the most independent lines, and with no re­ Mr. RICH. Mr. Speaker, will the-gen­ the pioneers who gave their lives that a na­ gard for what Broadway and the Shuberts tleman yield? tion dedicated to liberty might be born. would have done under ·similar circum­ Mr. ROGERS-of Florida. I yfeld. • • • Should be seen by every American." stances. • • • Mr. RICH. I hope your baby . grows . The Newspaper- PM, ·of New · York City, "They shy from producing a 'pageant,' just to be a big boy. ' called The Lost Colony "genuine Ameri­ as many audiences refuse to watch them. Mr. ROGERS of Florida. I thank the cana." Tom LeBrum, writing in the Phila­ But in the Lost Colony, there are scenes in delphia News, called The Lost Colony "North which masses of people on the wide stage rich gentleman. Carolina's tribute to American democracy." Mr. DURHAM .. Mr. Speaker, will the make the effects. • • • An opera could gentleman yield? MRS. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS be written on the Virginia Dare story, but The opening performance of the third the superb music of the Westminster Choir Mr. ROGERS of Florida. I yield. summer season of The Lost Colony was and an organ woven subtly into the story Mr. DURHAM. I congratulate the greeted by a large audience, including Mrs. serves far better. • • • gentleman on his 'fine work in behalf of Eleanor Roosevelt, who came in a CCC truck "All the so-called modern staging systems this legislation. with a party of friends; Louis Kronenberger, are used. A permanent set behind movable fiats and props and two side platforms are THE LOST COLONY dramatic critic of the magazine, Time; and John Selby, Associated Press arts edit or. used alternately. By clever lighting, the 11 Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I ask To quote from the report of Mrs. Roose­ scenes move along without a second's watt. unanimous consent to address the House velt's popular column, My Day, which ap­ • • • The production pleased the F'irst for 1 minute. peared throughout the country: "Hyde Park, Lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who arrived Tuesday. I ·want to tell you about the last night sitting in the back of a CCC truck The S!?EAKER. Is there objection to with a large party. It probably wm please the request of the gentleman from North drama on Roanoke Island. N. C., and its lost colony. We saw the opening perform­ equally the 100,000 expected to see it before Carolina? ance of the year, and I must say that it the season closes. • • • Paul Green's There was no objection. made the greatest impression on all of us. major dram~tic experiment·." Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, this year Mr. Paul Green, the author, has achieved a FIRST YEAR REVIEW marks the three hundred and sixtieth remarkable artistic success. I was inter­ Brooks Atkinson, dramatic critic of the anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, ested to find that there were cars from al­ New York Times, was the only Broadway the first child of English speaking par­ most every State in the Union, which shows writer to review the original production. entage to be born in America. She was that people are beginning to know that it is Writing tn the Times for August 15, 1937, born at Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island, worth seeing, not only because of its histori­ he said in part: "A community celebration N. C., August 18, 1587. cal interest, but because of i~s intrinsic • • • in a reverent mood • • • The beauty. History is interesting to me pri­ Lost Colony has made an extraordinarily Nineteen hundred and forty-seven marily because of the bearing it bas upon versatile use of spectacle, sound, pantomime, also is the tenth anniversary of the the present. As we watched the hardships and cadenced speech. • • • The dances showing at Fort Raleigh of the sym­ of The Lost Colony, I kept thinking what it translate the freshness and Wildness of the phonic drama, The Lost Colony. The bad cost to establish this Nation. How lonely New World more eloquently than words or - play was written by Paul Green and first this little handful of men, women, and chil­ scenery could. dren were. How infinitely small our diffi­ "The glory of the ancient English hymns, - shown in 1937. Showings were suspend- culties look in comparison with what they ed during the war years. It portrays the carols, and ballads, sung to an 'organ accom­ faced in such utter solitude." (Reprinted by paniment, pulls the lost colonists into the story of Sir Walter Raleigh's ~olonies, permission United Syndicate Service from great stream of human nobility. • • • The the hardships the colonists underwent, Mrs. Roosevelt's column, My Day.) Lost Colony 1s a simply stated idealization of and the determination of the English to TIME MAGAZINE the adventurious impulse that founded this establish a new world in America. Writing in the July 10, 1939, issue of Time, Nation ln the restless image of Shakespeare's On behalf of the Roanoke Island His­ Louis Kronenberger praised both The Lost England. Paul Green has written history torical Association and the management Colony and Roanoke Island. To quote part with a compassion that turns his characters of the drama, it gives me pleasur~ to ex­ of the review: "Picturesque is Roanoke ·into unconscious symbols of a brave new tend to the Members of Congress an in­ Island, with its masses of rose-red japonicas world." vitation to visit Roanoke Island and en­ and milky-white gardenias, its nut trees, fig THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD joy seeing this drama. trees, scuppernong grapes. Yet with the tra­ ditions and island resort possib111ties of a Mr. PRICE of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Nantucket or Mackinac, for generations ask unanimous consent to address the to include therein outstanding reviews Roanoke Island remained obscure, poverty­ House for 1 minute. by leading Americans on this subject. stricken, almost unpopulated. Today it ·bas The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The SPEAKER. Is there objection to a boom-town look-new stores,· cottages, the request of the gentleman from Dli­ the request of the gentleman from North hotels. nois? Carolina? "Real cause of the boom was the three There was no objection. There was no objection. hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Virginia Dare's birthday in August 18, 1937. For this Mr. PRICE of Dlinois. Mr. Speaker, The matter referred to follows: North Carolina's No. 1 playwright Paul for the past several days my ears have NATION-WIDE PRAISE FOR THE LOST COLONY Green (In Abraham's Bosom, The House of been attuned to the radio and my eyes Outstanding critics, writers and commen­ Connelly) wrote a historical play about affixed to the headlines of the daily tators greeted the opening of the fifth season Roanoke called The Lost Colony. President papers as the flood waters of the Missis­ of The Lost Colony with unanimous critical Roosevelt and 70,000 others visited Roanoke acclaim. Ann Batchelder, noted staff writer Island that year. sippi reached their crest in the neighbor­ of The Ladies' Home Journal, wrote that "By this summer Roanoke Island was a hood of East St. Louis, East Alton, Wood Paul Green had dramatized "one of the most hustling resort. The sweeping open-air am­ River, Granite City, Venice, Dupo, and moving and tragic events in all our eventful phitheater has been enlarged to seat 4,000 St. Louis. Year by year this disaster in­ history. It was incomparably beautiful. people. The Lost Colony opened last week creases in size. This is the worst flood • • • I write this, wishing that you who with a cast made up of Broadway actors, in 103 years reaching its crest at St. Louis haven't seen this play wm go when you can. Federal theater people, CCC camp youngsters, today. You won't forget it for the rest of your life. and natives who perform for the fun of it, You will go again." and Eleanor Roosevelt arrived to see it in a Some 30,000 people are homeless and Burns Mantle, dramatic critic of the New CCC truck. 1,500,000 acres of farm land are under York Daily News and e~itor of the standard "An elaborate spectacle, Paul Green wrote water. Best Plays of the Year series, wrote: "The no glib anniversary pageant. His scenes This afternoon we commence consid­ Lost Colony is an impressive exhibit in a range from the humorous to the heroic. eration of the War Department Civil gorgeous setting. • • • It 1s a profitable With great sincerity he infused into the vacation pilgrimage." Writing in Variety, dreams of his lost colonists his own living Functions bill. There will be flood con­ hard-hitting Broadway theatrical magazine, dream of democracy. And by using lovely trol provisions in that bill which I shall Hobe Morrison said: "The Lost Colony is one and moving old Elizabethan ballads and support, but it seems to me that the old of the most impressive shows to be seen any­ hymns he gave the Lost Colony a lyric quality method of river control does not work; where. But more than that, in its unique that words could not have achieved.'' . the higher we build the levees the higher 8014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 the rivers rise. It would seem about time French, and Russian ministers to agree Any amount of money, equipment, or we adopted the program of flood control in Paris on the Marshall plan for Europe personal effort could be given by the or­ which has been demonstrated to be so is not unexpected. It means, however, ganizations. Some contributed money, effective in the Tennessee Valley project. that the United States and the democ­ others gave bats, balls, catchers' equip­ The Missouri Valley Authority, which racies of western Europe must proceed ment, while some assisted with their I think should have the attention of regardless of the attitude of the Soviet talents and physical assistance. Congress immediately is the answer to Union. The unification of Europe, as I In. the community of York, which has the annual flood problems of the Mis­ have pointed out on many occasions, is a population of 80,000 persons, the asso­ souri Valley and the Mississippi Valley. the only answer to its economic, politi­ ciation ·collected $1,100. They netted I have fought hard, and with success, cal, and social problems. Therein lies . $600 from a benefit baseball game fea­ for improvement of the levee systems the revival of democracy in western Eu­ turing the American Legion and Veter· along the Mississippi and will continue rope and the means whereby it may find ans of Foreign Wars. my interest in levee programs because at within itself the weapons to eliminate Professional supervisors were hired. the present time levees are our only pro­ communism. I trust that the Commit­ High-school coaches and war veterans tection. They are, however, only stop­ tee on Foreign Affairs will soon hold hear­ with baseball experience took over the gap measures. But in the face of the ings on my resolution calling for a United five fields secured from private sources, records of recent years it is about time States of Europe. . the city government, and the school dis­ we realize that we must seek a final The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ trict. solution to the important problem of tleman from Louisiana has expired. Each coach is paid $20 a week for a flood control. EXTENSION OF REMARKS 10-week period. The baseball program The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ opens on the day school closes. Bats, tleman from Illinois has expired. Mr. MANSFIELD of Montana asked balls, and catchers' equipment were and was given permission to extend his purchased. The local sporting-goods EXTENSION OF REMARKS remarks in the RECORD and include copy stores made a vital contribution to the Mr. PRICE of Illinois asked and was of Dean Acheson's speech and also a undertaking. given permission .to extend his remarks newspaper account. The boys are divided into age groups, in the Appendix of the RECORD and in­ Mr. FORAND asked and was given per­ 8 to 12, 13 to 15, and 16 to 18. They are clude an editorial from the St. Louis mission to extend his remarks in . the highly organized and there is real com­ Post-Dispatch. RECORD and include a newspaper article. petition. Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana. Mr. Speak­ Mr. POAGE asked and was given per­ In the inauguration of this program er, on last Friday I secured permission mission to extend his remarks in the the youngsters were brought together to insert in the Appendix of the RECORD AppendiX of the RECORD. for a show of fun. In York we had a a decision of the Supreme Court. I am Mr. MICHENER asked and was given half-hour broadcast during which time advised by the Public Printer that this permission to extend his remarks in the local high-ranking city officials placed will take two and a half pages of the RECORD on the death of John Tolan. their blessings on the baseball program. RECORD and cost approximately $177.50. Mr. STEFAN asked and was given per­ For example, early in May we had Bob Nothwithstanding the cost, I ask unani­ mission to extend his remarks in the Hoffman and the world champion weight mous consent that the extension may be AppendiX of the RECORD. lifters, Joe Selak and his two talking made. crows, a high-school orchestra gave the The SPEAKER. Notwithstanding the YORK, PA. boys 2 hours of entertainment. After excess, without objection, the extension Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ that the boys enrolled, then they were may be made. imous consent to address the House for told what the coaches had in store for There was. no objection. 1 minute, to revise and extend my re­ them. Plans are now under way to play Mr. MEADE of Maryland. Mr. marks and include a newspaper article teams of the three age groups with the Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to which appeared in the York Dispatch on neighboring cities of Harrisburg, Lan­ extend my remarks in the Appendix of April 19, 1947. caster, and Philadelphia. the RECORD and include an editorial The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The newspapers and broadcasting sta­ from the Air Line Pilot; secondly, that the request of the gentleman from Penn­ tions are back of Baseball for Boys 100 I may extend my remarks in the Ap­ sylvania? percent. The city government liked the pendix of the RECORD and include a There was no objection .. set-up so much that they gave $1,000 radio address given over Station WBAL, Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, in most through the recreation department t,o Baltimore. communities in America today there is be used exclusively for baseball for boys. The SPEAKER. Is there objection a dire need for greater recreation facili­ Mr. Speaker, I include in my remarks to the request of the gentleman from ties, and in York, Pa., which is my home a newspaper article concerning this pro­ Maryland? town, they decided to do something gram which appeared in the York Dis­ There was no objection. patch on April 19, 1947, as follows: Mr. LANE asked and was given per­ about it. A group of public-spirited citi­ mission to extend his remarks in the Ap­ zens decided that the boys wanted to PRAISE PROGRAM OF BASEBALL FOR BOYS-JUSTICE play baseball more than other sports DEPARTMENT AND FAMED SPORTS EDITOR LlKE pendix of the RECORD in three instances, last year. The equipment, supervision, SET-UP--NAME NEW YORK SPONSORS in one to include an editorial which ap­ Congratulations and high praise to the peared in the Boston Daily Record; and and general support were missing. What they attempted in the summer sponsoring organizations of the Baseball for in the second, to include an editorial Boys Association was recently extended by from the Lawrence Evening Tribune on of 1946 grew into a tremendous program the juvenile delinquency department of the the veto of the wool bill, and in the third which has received the commendations Department of Justice and Bus Ham, sports to include the platform of the Italian of the local citizenry as well as many editor of the Washington Post. World War Veterans of the United States important people of the baseball world. A representative of the association, who of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Representatives of the many veter­ went to the Nation's Capital to explain how at their regular convention held in..Lynn ans, athletic, fraternal, and civic or­ the local baseball program for 8 to 18 years ganizations met together early in the of age boys works was told that it was one over the past week end. of the best in the country. ~pring of 1946 to discuss the possibilities FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN STATES The Justice Department and the sports of organizing a set-up which would pro­ writers and broadcasters have united to form Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana. Mr. vide the youngsters with a baseball pro­ a set-up that will benefit the youngsters Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad­ gram. They were brought together by throughout the United States, They have dress the House .for 1 minute and to re­ Harry J. McLaughlin, assistant sports combined their efforts to give the boys and vise and extend my remarks. editor of the York Dispatch and com­ girls between 8 and 18 an opportunity to The SPEAKER. Is there objection to munity athletic director. participate in athletics. the request of the gentleman from Each organization delegate talked over Several communities in which a particular Louisiana? program has been workable has been sug­ the problem with his own particular gested to the sportswriters and they in turn There was no objection. · group. They met again and here is how will pass them along to other interested Mr·. BOGGS of Louisiana. Mr. the "Baseball For Boys Association" was cities. Among them is the York plan. Speaker, the failure of the British, formed: Over 1,000 boys are expected to participate 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8015 this year in the local program. There were for 1 minute and revise and extend my and to make bigger bungles 1f it can be done. 750 last season. remarks. Maybe those families being evicted from the Sargent Shriver of the Justice Department, The SPEAKER. Is there objection to housing projects of Bridgeport will be sent assistant to Miss Eunice Kennedy, director down to Alabama to live on the potatoes of the juveline delinquency section, _ and the request of the gentleman from Con- which the Government is throwing away. Sports Editor Ham said they liked the necticut? · Suppose private capital were destroying BFBA plans of no individual publicity for There was no objection. those potatoes when the world is starving­ sponsoring organizatio!Ils, the cooperating Mr. LODGE. Mr. Speaker, the occu­ what a roar there'd be. Suppose private spirit among them, the pooling of funds pants of the Federal Public Housing Au­ capital built those houses and was now and efforts, and the fact that the coaches thority projects in Fairfield County, evicting more than a thousand families? of the boys are paid for their duties . . Conn., have written me several hundred The trains wouldn't be big enough to carry George Trautman, president of the National di­ the demonstrators to Washington. Professional Baseball League, expressed his letters protesting the recent eviction But the Government can apparently get approval of the York set-up. He has been rective issued by the Commissioner of away with anything-and still there are peo­ urging local }?aseball teams, like the York the Federal Public Housing Authority. ple who want more government in every­ White Roses, to aid in backing similar pro­ A careful reading of the many letters thing. grams. I have received indicates the fact that With the other sponsoring group, the White these tenants are honestly alarmed over There follow quotations from letters Roses have generously assisted in the cam­ these eviction notices, since there are no which I have received relative to this paign. other rentals available to them in that matter. Harry J. McLaughlin, president of the as­ Fi·om a letter written to me ·by the sociation and assistant sports editor of the area. Many of them would gladly move Honorable Jasper McLevy, mayor of the York Dispatch, said today that all civic, fra­ i~ other quarters could be found. city of BrJdgeport: The clergy, elected State officials, city ternal, athletic, and veterans' organizations These proposed mass evictions would cer­ should help give the boys of York the oppor­ officials, veterans' organizations, and tainly be calamitous in a city like Bridge­ tunity to play baseball. "The association leaders of labor unions have written to port at the present time, due to the fact should grow large enough that it can turn to me in behaJf of these tenants, protest­ that no rents or housing facilities are avail­ other sports when baseball is over. By pool­ ing the eviction order. able either for those people who would be ing money, talent, and efforts much more can I have exchanged several communi­ affected thereby or for the people who are be accomnlished for the youngsters." now looking for living quarters. Continuing he remarked, "The cooperation cations with the Commissioner of the and active interest by the sponsors is genu­ Federal Public Housing Authority with From a letter received from the hous­ ine. The representatives were and are still respect to this unfortunate situation. I ing authority of the city of Bridgeport: unselfish in their support. However, the job have informed him that I do not believe The housing authority feels that the tim­ is not for 1 or 10 men to handle. Spon­ that the availability of housing in Fair­ ing of this directive is bad and is only going soring groups should send their delegates to field County has improved to such an to work undue hardship, not on~y on the all meetings to make it a continuing success extent that the execution of his direc­ adult members of the ineligible families, but in 1947." tive is feasible at this time. The per­ particularly on the children of those fami­ All associations, fire companies, borough sonal knowledge I have of this serious lies. Inasmuch as forced removal at this organizations are being sent written invita­ time would lead not only to the families' tions to join in the baseball association's situation is reinforced by the comments of the tenants and of other persons thor­ breaking up, but leaves the children in a work. position of having to transfer from school Members of the association include: Ro­ oughly familiar with real estate in this to school until such time as their parents tary, Kiwanis, York EXchange Club, Opti­ area. can establish themselves permanently in a mists, York White Roses, American Legion These tenants are being caused need­ new location. The directive in itself fol­ Post No. 127, Veterans of Foreign Wars, White less worry and anxiety .. lows the existing State and Federal statutes Rose Post No. 556, Amvets, York Post No. 2, I am of the opinion that the Commis­ and unless legislative relief can be given by West York Vikings, Prince, Yankees, Girard, Congress to prolong the necessity of evicting Victory, York Recreation Commission, Loyal sioner's directive is ill-timed. I believe also that the Commissioner, knowing untll such time as one-half ot 1 percent Order of Moose, Fraternal Order of Elks, vacancy exists in this area, or until such time Crispus Attucks, York City School Board, that there are no other available rentals, as private enterprise can produce shelter to Old Timers and York Umpires Association. does not intend to evict these people. I meet the requirements of the city's popula­ Several individuals also contributed money suggest, therefore, that he postpone the tion, we feel that an unfair hardship is be­ and prizes last year. However they wish to effective date of these eviction notices ing placed upon these families in ordering remain anonymous. by at least 6 months, thereby relieving them to move when we know, ourselves, ANNOUNCEMENT the tenants in these Fairfield County· that there is absolutely no pla~e for them to go. Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speaker, yes­ projects from the apprehension he is. terday I was unavoidably absent and causing them. From the United Electrical, Radio, and therefore unable to vote on the Spanish Mr. Speaker, it 1s time to stop playing Machine Workers of America, Local 203, War veterans' pension bill. Had I been politics on the heartstrings of ·innocent states: here I would have voted in favor of that people. Mr. Myer takes the position that there is bill. I a_sk unanimous consent to revise I shall do all that I can to prevent this no appeal to the directive ordering the evic­ and extend my remarks in the REcORD administration from evicting the good tions, stating the law is on the bo.oks and on that subject. people of Fairfield County, Conn., under the Federal Publlc Housing Administration circumstances which would transform and the Bridgeport Housing Administration The SPEAKER. Is there objection to have to obey the law. We contend that the request of the gentlewoman from them into American DP's, consigned to there is just cause to stay the evictions be­ New York? the curbstone with their children and cause of the present complete lack of hous­ There was. no objection. their belongings. ing in Bridgeport for those families facing An editorial which appeared in the eviction. This protest by local 203 is not SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED Bridgeport paper: aimed at keeping high-income families in Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask UNCLE SAM: BAD LANDLORD housing projects built tor the express pur­ unanimous consent that on Thursday pose of providing homes for incomes rang­ All we can say of the Government order ing from $2,160 for 3-room apartments and next, after disposition of matters on the evicting 1,100 famllies from Government­ less than three minor chlldren, to $2,460 Speaker's desk and at the conclusion of built low-rent hou.Sing in Bridgeport is that for an 8-room apartment. Nor, do we any special orders heretofore entered, I if a private landlord did it he'd be tarred and blame the Bridgeport Housing Administra­ may be permitted to address the House feathered. tion in issuing notices of ineligibility early for 1 hour. Here are all these tenants, many of them in June to all families who are above the The SPEAKER; Is there objection to with children, to be turned out with no visi­ eligibility limits. But, we do say, ~hat the the request of the gentleman from ble housing in sight. It is a good example same dire need that prompted the Federal of the way Government housing works in Government to permit war high-income de­ Nebraska? practice, no matter what the theories may be. fense workers and following the war, veterans There was no objection. Some bureaucrat in Washington orders it in need of housing regardless o:t J.ncome, ex­ FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY done and it must be done. Great are the ists just as acutely today. It is small con­ EVICTION ORDERS bureaucrats and red tape is their god! solation that 5 percent per month of these There are stlll some people who want the so-called high-income families will receive Mr. LODGE. Mr. Speaker, I ask muddling, fuddling Government to inter­ their notices to quit and given 6 months be­ unanimous consent to address the House fere in more ways, in more private affairs, fore eviction. The complete lack of homes 8016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 will exist 6 months from now just as at by the Communist Party -which takes. advan­ the acute 'housing shortage in the Bridgeport present. tage of these conditions and tries to use area, these evictions come at a time when them to further its own objectives. it is impossible to secure a rent. I quote from a letter forwarded to Last Wednesday night an overflowing The mass eviction is a terrible nightmare me by the Bridgeport Central Labor crowd completely filled our Community Hall to everyone here. Union: at the Men's Club-Ladies' Auxiliary rally. Since we have received our ineligibility A critical sit uation exists in Bridgeport Representatives from practically all commu­ not ice, we have h ad many sleepless nights since the Federal Housing Authority, in nity, church, labor, political, and other not knowing where to turn. In Marina compliance with t he law, has called upon groups ·were on h and to convey their regrets Village there are many more like myself. the Bridgeport Housing Authority to issue at the threat facin15 us, to offer advice and I am a veteran of World War II. I waited eviction orders to certain tenants in housing encouragement, and to promise support in 15 months to obtain this apartment and projects because their incomes have reached alleviating the dangerous condition created h ave only been in it 6 months. My wife, beyond the limits set for families entitled to by the eviction threat. The city and local child, and I have no place to go. Would you occupy such premises. As you know. an housing officials have gone on record as recog­ kindly see what you can do about this mat­ acute housing shortage exists in Bridge­ nizing our plight and offering to do what they ter? port. It is inhumane, therefore, to oust can to help us. This is an appeal asking you to please save these people from their homes at present. Why should we jeopardize all this good will our home for us. We have received a letter by permitting the Communist Party to act stating us ineligible to live here any longer. Father Kenneth C. Flint, of the Sacred as a spearhead for us? Don't be fooled. We are a family of eight * * • two Heart Church in Bridgeport, states: Avoid signing any petition or paper which adults and six children. I couldn't find a But it is also true that there is simply bears' the name of the Communist Party, rent anywhere with the family I have that no place for these people to go if they are no matter how well worded or appealing the is why I am asking you to intercede for us. ejected from housing. That is an indis­ petition m: paper may appear to be. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. putable and quite obvious fact. For this Above all, keep cool heads. The threat· of I am a widow with a son and daughter. reason, I must protest against such a direc­ eviction is not immediate. At most, the My son served for 2 years in the Army over­ tive on the part of the Federal Public Hous­ evictions, even if intended to be carried out, seas. Why is it that a veteran is being ing authority. It is most difficult to see couldn't be carried out in less than 6 months. evicted from a Government housing project? much justice or prudence in their order. Quite a bit of effort can be exerted during If there was a rent available in the city that that time. we could afford to pay we would gladly give The resolution adopted by the resi­ up our rent to so-called low-income fami­ dents of Marina Village in Bridgeport This serious situation is· one that we lies. sets forth the following facts: could expect the Communist Party to u3e An eviction is a pretty gruesome word. Whereas evictions, if carried out at this to their advantage. Notice the clear After knocking around for 8 months in fur­ time, would cause extreme hardship and thinking on the part of these fine cit­ nished rooms then succeed in finding a suffering for thousands of American men, izens in the remarks I have quoted. home; only to find that we have to move. women, and children, who, through no I have chosen some pertinent para­ Where? Do you have room for my wife and fault of ·their own, would be turned out in graphs from letters received· from ten­ two children? After 4 years• military serv­ the street, with no means of procuring a ants of these housing projects for your ice overseas, I looked forward to a real home. home, a rent, or even shelter: Therefore information: It seems I have a private battle to keep a Resolved by the tenants of Marina Village, roof over my family's head. That our duly elected Connecticut repre­ H&e's hoping you can do soinething to I am writing you in regards to our home sent atives in Congress be informed of this stop what I consider a mass eviction and a in Marina Village. It is a shame the way dire emergency existing here in our village, disgrace to what we fought for. I'm lucky­ we poor people are getting pushed around. and that they be requested to contact the l'm only totally disabled. I'm still Jaere, They say our income is too high. It wouldn't proper Government officer or officers, agency though. A lot of my buddies are still over be if I didn't have a son and his wife with or agencies, with the view of urging them to there. Please see what you can do. me. They have no house to move into, and either suspend or abolish the directive of I'm a widow living in the FPHA with two I can't find a home, not even a room. There the Federal Public Housing Authority until children who support me. I have always is a baby coming too. It's an awful thing such time as the housing situation in this been a sick woman. Now that we are get­ to have on your mind. Please do what you area is relieved, so that rents will . be avail­ ting along a little better, I am being evicted. can to help us. able to the people. Where are we to go when there are no homes for us? Please help us so that we may keep As a citizen and elector of Fairfield County From the Men's Club News of Yellow on living here. This home is the best home I demand that you take immediate steps to Mill Village: we ever had. prevent the vicious evictions that are taking place in the Federal housing projects. If DON'T BE FOOLED There are many fam111es who will suffer these evictions are permitted to go on, it Folks, don't be fooled by a petition which greatly if something isn't done at once about this terrible situation. There are no will magnify juvenile delinquency. work the 1s being circulated by a Communist Party most vicious hardship upon our citizens of group in the village. rents available at thir:; time for anyone to move Into and even if there were, we could Fairfield County, take the most unfair ad­ There is no doubt that the threat of evic­ vantage of our veterans who have served our tions facing most villagers is a serious one; not get them as landlords don't even want one child, never mind five or six or more. country so well. Are you going to let these that this threat may require quick and dras­ people down now in their hour of need? tic action; that the villagers facing eviction It is also impossible to buy a house at the must unite and act together; and that ag­ prices they are asking -for them. • • • Won't you please help us? We are being gressive leadership is required to handle We are all worried sick about this terrible evicted. Where are we to go? ·Are we still such a situation. situation which confronts us and hope you free people or are we going to go through Were it not for the fact that the village will not let us down. what the people of Europe went through? men's club and its ladies' auxiliai"y under On June 3 I received a notice from the Please help us. We need your help. the excellent leadership of Daniel Rodia, are Bridgeport Housing Authority through order I am a widow with eight children, six of taking all st eps necessary to do what can be from the FPHA in Washington to vacate which are of school age. One girl is gradu­ done to alleviate the serious condition which within 6 months. In a few words I wish to ating from high school this year, and I have concerns so many of us, it might be under­ stress my efforts in looking for a suitable one girl working. I also receive . State aid. standable why drowning people might grasp place to lodge my family which was done . I pay $42 a month rent. Could you please for any help. without the slightest success. What are we tell me if there is anything that can be done. Reasonable people who are drowning can­ going to do? Eviction and no place to go. There isn't a rent available in the city. not be expected to be worried about the po­ There are eight of us in _my family and only Thank you. litical or other beliefs of others who offer two working. to rescue them from.danger. But, if a drown­ I am a nervous wreck trying to selve this Mr. Speaker, I repeat: This is a seri­ ing man has a choice to make, one choice problem which is heavy upon my shoulders. ous situation. providing a safer and surer way of being I am a mother who gave two boys to defend GLENNA J. HOWREY saved, l'\'OUldn't it be foolish not to favor the rights of our wonderful land. I was very such a choiQe? lucky to have one return but one, a chief Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, I ask No ~:me can deny that the local housing pilot for the Navy, met his death in a plane unanimous consent to take from the situation-at the present time and for some crash 26 months ago and upon receipt of the Speaker's table the bill Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincinnati, half of the northeast quarter, the south United States Army vehicle on United States Cleveland, St. Louis, Detroit, and all half of the north half of the southwest Highway No. 521, near Ca-mden, S. C.: Pro­ those places, which could be returned by quarter, the south half of the southwest vided, That no part of the amount appro­ this short inland water route, with sav- quarter, and the southeast quarter of sec- priated 1n this act in excess of 10 percent XCIII--505 8018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 thereof shall be paid or delivered to or re­ tzed and directed to pay, out of any money United States arising out of the death of hiS ceive~ by any agent or attorney on account in the Treasury not otherwl,se appropriated, daughter, Patricia Ann Moore, deceased, as a of services rendered in connection with this the sum of $5,000, to Walter R. and Kathryn result of an accident involving an Army ve­ claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any Marshall, of Healdsburg, Calif., in full satis­ hicle in which she was riding, which accident contract to the contrary notwithstanding. faction of their claims for damage to their occurred on August 2, 1945, about 3 miles Any person violating the provisions of this property located at 1251 Sunset Avenue, •ea.st of Lenanon Junction, Ky." act shall be deemed guilty of a m1sdemeanor Santa Rosa, Calif., caused by United States and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in Navy airplane TBF-1, bureau No. 06307, on The committee amendment was agreed any sum not exceeding $1,000. October 2, 1944: Provided, That no part of to. the amount appropriated in this act in ex­ The bill was ordered to be engrossed With the following committee amend­ cess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or de­ and read a third time, and was read the ments: livered to or received by any agent or attor­ third time, and passed. Page 1, line 7, after "$4,000" insert a semi­ ney on account of services rendered in con­ The title was amended so as. to read: colon and the following: "to pay the sum of nection with these claims, and the same "A bill for the relief of William B. $2,500 to Mrs. Mabel Jones, of Camden, S. C." shall be unlawful, any contract to the con­ Page 1, line 11, strike out "the said Mrs. trary notwithstanding. Any person violating Moore.'' Mildred Wells Martin" and insert "them." the provisions of this act shall be deemed A motion to reconsider was laid on the Page 2 line 2, strike out "she was" and in­ guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic­ table. sert "they were", and strike out "a pas­ tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not P. L. (SPUD) MURPHEY senger" and insert "passengc·rs." exceeding $1,000. The Clerk called the bill Murphey, agreed to. ments: coowner and manager of Spud's Tailors, The bill was ordered to be read a third Page 1, line 7, strike out "satisfaction of Laundry & Dry Cleaning Works. time, was read the third time, and their claims" and insert "settlement of all There being no objection, the Clerk passed. claims against the United St ates." read the bill, as follows: The title was amended so as to read: Page 2, at the end of the bill insert the Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of "A bill for the relief of Mrs. Mabel Jones following: · the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and Mrs. Mildred Wells Martin." "SEc. 2. Such sum shall be a final release and directed to pay, out of any money in A motion to reconsider was laid on the from any and all damages both insured and the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, uninsured." table. toP. L. (Spud~ Murphey, coowner and man­ ager of Spud's Tailors, Laundry & Dry THOMAS M. FARLEY AND OTHERS The committee amendments were Cleaning Works, Honolulu, Territory of agreed to. Hawaii, the sum of $22,000, in full settle­ The Clerk called the bill (H. R. 405) The bill was ordered to be engrossed for the relief of Thomas M. Farley, Mrs. ment of all claims against the United States and read a third time, was read the third on account of losses suffered as the result Susie Farley, ,Mrs. Helen Moss, the legal time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ of the destruction of the accounting records guardian of Donna Louise Farley, aad sider was laid on the table. of hiS company ordered by the Navy Intelli­ the legal guardian of Melvin Moss. gence in Honolulu on or about February 13, There being no objection, the Clerk ESTATE OF PATRICIA ANN MOORE, 1942: Provided, That no part of the amount read the bill, as follows: DECEASED appropriated in this act in excess of 10 per­ Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of The Clerk called the bill money in the by any one attorney or firm of attorneys, Ann Moore, deceased. on account of services rendered in connec­ Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the There being no objection, the Clerk sum of $1,434.70 to Thomas M. Farley, of tion with this claim, and the same shall be Olivehurst, Calif.; the sum of $158.50 to Mrs. read the bill, as follows: unlawful, any contract to the contrary not­ Susie Farley, of Manton, Calif.; the sum of Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of withstanding. Any person violating the pro­ $528 to Mrs. Helen Moss, of Centra1· Valley, the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized visions of this act shall be deemed guilty Calif.; the sum of $50 to the legal guardian and directed to pay, out of any money in the of a misdemeanor and upon conviction there­ of Donna Louise Farley, a minor; and the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of shall be fined in any sum not exceeding sum of $150 to the legal guardian of Melvin of $5,534, in full settlement of all claims $1,000. . Moss, a minor; · such payments being in full against the United States of America which With the following committee amend­ settlement of all their claims against the are legally due and payable to the estate of United States for property damage, personal Patricia Ann Moore, deceased, who was killed ments: injuries, losses, and expenses arising out of in an accident on, or about August 2, 1944, Page 1, line 6, strike out "coowner", and an accident which occurred on September 13, near Lebanon Junction, Bullitt County, Ky., insert in lieu thereof "owner." 1942, near Crescent City, Calif., and which as a result of the wanton negligence and Page 1, line 8, strike out "$22,000", and involved an Army truck: Providec, That no reckless and dangerous operation of a United insert in lieu thereof "$9,540,48." payment shall be made under this act until States motor vehicle (a jeep) by a private in the above-named claimants have released all the United States Army, who, at a later date, The committee amendments were their claims against Anthony E. Badaracco, was both tried and convicted by courts mar­ agreed to. the driver of the Army vehicle involved in tial for converting the said United States The bill was ordered to be engrossed this accident, in a manner satisfactory to the Army motor vehicle to his own use and for and read a third time, was read the third Secretary of the Treasury: And provided fUr­ operating the same in such a reckless, dan­ time, and passed. ther, That no part of the amounts appropri­ gero~. and grossly negligent manner as to The title was amended so as to read: ated in this act in excess of 10 percent there­ cause the fatal injuries which resulted in the of shall be paid or delivered to or received by death of little Miss Patricia Ann Moore, de­ "A bill for the relief of P. L. Mur­ any agent or attorney on account of services ceased, who was at the time of her death 15 phey, owner and manager of Spud's rendered in connection with these claims, years of age: Provided, That no part of the Tailors, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Works.'' and the same shall be unlawful, any contract amount herein appropriated in this act in A motion to.reconsider was laid on the to the contrary notwithstanding. Any per­ excess of 10 percent shall be paid or delivered table. son violating the provisions of this act shall directly or indirectly to any agent or at­ 0. DEAN SE'ITLES ET AI... be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon torney on account of any service or services conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum claimed to have been or actually rendered in The Clerk called the bill dam­ The bill was ordered to be engrossed ages sustained by the said A. E. McCartney and read a third time, was read the third RALPH STANFIELD and 0. A. Foster to their 1943 and 1944 rice time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ The Clerk called the bill sider was laid on the table. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for the relief of Elsie L. Rosenow. ELMER A. NORRIS and read a third time, was read the third There being no objection, the Clerk time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ read the bill, as follows: The Clerk called the bill r the relief of Mack Gene Odom, a L. Rosenow, of Highland Park, lil., the sup1 the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized minor• . 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8021 There being no objection, the Clerk passed, and a motion to reconsider was half of the southeast quarter, and the north read. the bill, as_ follQWS: laid. on tJ:!e table. half of the south ha·lf of the south quarter, and the north half of the south half o! the Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of RICHARD JAY DOYLE the Treasury be, and he is hereby, author­ south half of the southeast quarter, of sec­ ized and directed to pay, out of any money The Clerk called the bill heast 'quarter, of In writing,_the Secretary of the Interior is ful, any contract to the contrary notwith.­ authorized- and directed to issue to Gladys.-· standing. Any person violating the provi­ section 31; and lots 1 and· 2, the northwest' quarter, and the north half of the southwest May Doyle a patent in fee to the following­ sions of this act shall be deemed guilty of described lands situated in Big Horn County, a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof· qua.rter of section 32; township 9 south, rang.e 36 east, Montana principal meridian. Montana: The south half of -the southwest shall be fined in any sum not exceeding quarter of section 10; the west half of section $1,000. Mr. POTTS. Mr. Speaker, I offer an 15; the northeast quarter of the southeast· With the following committee amend- amendment which I send to the desk. qua-rter of ·section 16; the east half of the ment: - The Clerk read as follows: east half of the northeast quarter of section 21; and the north half, and the north half of Page 1, line 7, strike out "$10,000" and · Amendment offered by Mr. PoTTs: After the the south half of- section 22; township 8 Insert "$6,000." word "to" in the title, insert "Kathleen Doyle south, ra:Q.ge 37 east, Montana principal Harris, sole devisee of"; and after the name meridian. · The committee amendment was agreed "Doyle" in-the title, insert "deceased." to. - The bill was ordered to be read a third The bill was ordered to be engrossed . The amendment was agreed to. time, was, read the third time, and and read a third time, was read the third The bill was ordered to be read a third passed, and a motion to reconsider was time, and passed, and a motion to recon-· time, was. read the .third time, and passed, laid on the table. and a motion to reconsider was laid on sider was laid on the table. the table. BECKER LITTLE LIGHT HAROLD TURCEAN THURLOW GREY DOYLE The CI'erk called the bill dams and the expenditures of government by rais- . Mr. CASE of South Dakota. If it reservoirs in these mountain streams. ing taxes, paying some on the debt, and were not for the gentleman's able pres­ Ohly in that way can the people living r-ehabilitating our veterans. Those are entation along that line, as the gentle­ below be protected. They are not our tremendous problems. They necessitate man knows, this project would not have people. They are your people coming to cutting expenditures, and finding new had any money last year. It was be­ our State to live. Seven hm'ldred and fif­ sources of revenue. But the bill which cause of his able presentation and as a ty thousand of them are veterans of the we have before us today takes us dia­ result of the agreement in conference last war who have come to California to metrically in the opposite direction. · If that there was some money provided. make their home. we continue to pursue the policy of en­ Had it not been for more understanding All I am asking the Members of Con­ couraging public versus private enter­ of that, there would not have been any gress to do is to give consideration to prise, we will soon find this country ( I

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wrecked economically, and on the direct to reimburse the Federal (3ove~nment for I could quote from a dozen clippings path to national socialism. its expenditures and to builQ, the Clark · , here, but time does not permit. In this I want to refer specifically, in the lit­ Hill project ou,t of their own funds with- · ar~icle, I now pic~ up, the engineers tle time I have, to one particular item in out any cost to the Gove~'llment. again emphasize the fact that' Govern- this bill. It is known as the Clark Hill Let me show you further how the ac- ment ownership and operation provides project and is located on the Savannah tions of this committee are working to- cheaper power for the people than pri­ River, about 22 miles upstream from ward taking this country down the road vate ownership and private operation. Augusta, Ga. In 1935 the project was to national socialism. In a hearing held last week before the suggested as a "make work" PWA power Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana. Mr. Chair- Subcommittee on Flood Control, an om- project. Later on, in 1944, the Army man, will the gentleman yield? cial of the Georgia Power Co., which has engineers, finding themselves hard Mr. WILSON of Indiana. I decline to offered to purchase Clark Hill power pressed for justification, reported that yield. If the gentleman will get me from the Savannah River Electric Co. the project, which was estimated to cost another 10 minutes I will yield. I have at the SWltchboard at rates to be ap­ $35,300,000, had an annual average value but 10 and I need 20. ·. proved by the Federal Power Commis- for flood control of only $16,7~0 which The Subcommittee on Appropriations, sion and to distribute it at rates ap- capitalized at 4.6 percent would warrant 1 am sure, must realize that the money proved by the State regulatory body, the allocation of only $364,000 or slightly has to come from somewhere. When the testified that the use of electricity in the more than 1 percent for flood control. Government builds a $46,334,700 project Augusta area, which they now serve and This year, the cost of construction hav­ which private enterprise is willing, ready, which is the area involved in this dam, ing gone up, the Army engineers esti­ able, and anxious to build they are taJcing has trebled in the p~t 10 years and is mated the cost of the project at $46,- that amount of property off the tax-pro- one of the highest in the East, exceed­ 334,700 and reported the flood-control ducing assets of this country. They are ing the average of the 'I;'VA area. He benefits at $32,000 a year or approxi­ not only doing that, they are competing further stated that the res~ dential rate mately double the amount in dollars es­ with private enterprise which is presently and rate to REA cooperatives are among timated in 1944. Capitalized at 4.6 per­ paying taxes to reduce the debt, to re- the lowest in the United States ~nd that cent the benefits on this increased basis habilitate our soldiers, and pay the ex- there is no substantial complaints on the would warrant the allocation of less than penses of running this Government; also, quality or quantity or price of service 2 percent for flood control. In 1944 the they are spending $46,334,700 out of our amongst their customers. Such a record Army engineers estimated the benefits, already depleted Treasury. I for one is ample evidence that private enterprise to navigation at $201 ,000, with a loss in believe in doing a little more than just is doing a satisfactory job in tnis area potential annual power value of $147,000, ­ giving plain lip service to our form of and should be permitted to develop Clark resulting in a net annual gain of $54,000 government, to private enterprise, if you Hill at its own expense and risk and at in naVigation benefits. This year, the please. I deplore the fact that Members a saving of at least $46,334,700 to the Army engineers report the annual bene­ rise on the floor of the House and let their Government. fits from navigation as $201,000 but no hearts bleed for private enterprise, yet At the proper time I shall introduce an reference was m~de t9 the loss in poten­ while looking in that direction, travel in . amendment striking from this bill all tial power value. another. funds allocated to Clark Hill for the in-- There is no assurance that the present I have clippings here from some of the itiation-and it is only the initiation-of estimate of $46,334,700 would be sufficient southern papers to show you what has the work. They have not started on the and based on the experience with other been going on down there and how the dam proper. The money so ·rar spent projects it would probably cost $50,000;- Army engineers have been trying to whip' has been principally for surveys and pre­ 000 to $60,000,000 before being com­ up public sentiment for the Government liminary work. I hope my amendment pleted. building this. project. The Army engi- will be supported. I ·have introduced a Private enterprise Is willing, anxious, neers say that if this project is built by bill (H. R. 3819) to deauthorize the con- · ready, and able to build this project. I private enterprise that private enter- struction of the Clark Hill project by the have a letter from the president of the prise will have to pay taxes. Sure they Government. Hearings are now being Savannah River Electric Co., under date will. It is the taxes from private enter- held and I hope to have my bill enacted of March 27, 1947, reading as follows: prise and others that provide the funds into law at an early date. This Iegisla-·· The Savannah River Electric Co., when for Government projects. The Army tion will pave the way for the construe­ granted a license by the Federal Power Com­ engineers say that therefore the power tion· of the Clark Hill project by private mission, will construct the Clark Hlll hydro­ from a private-enterprise development enterprise which is willing to reimburse electric development on the Savannah River of Clark Hill will cost more because pri- the Government for its expenditures to substantially as planned by the Army en­ vate enterprise has' to pay taxes, because da~e, anxious, _wil~g~ ready, and able to gineers, and will reimburse the Federal Gov­ ernment for its out-of-pocket expenditures private enterprise has to put up the build ~lark Hill within 3lh years and at on this project to date. · money, because private enterprise has a savmg to the Government of over to make a profit. That is the argument $46,000,000. I ask that you support my A total of $5,500,000 has been allotted that was used in whipping up public amendment to t~ bill remoying funds for the Clark Hill project to date. The sentiment. for further use m construct10n of the Army engineers have been hurrying to Here is a statement made by Col. P. M. Clark !!ill project. try to get that amount obligated before Strong, of the Army engineers, in charge The CHAffiMAN.. The time .of the this bill came to the floor of the House. of the project.. Let me quote what he gentleman from Indi~n~ has exp~ed. In this they have been successful and the said at a meeting of a Lions Club· Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I YJ.eld 10 · minutes to the gentleman from Georgia report of the committee shows an esti­ If the people give up control of Clark Hill M · mated unobligated balance of $979,000 as to the power company they are selling their [ r · BROWN J · · of June 30, 1947. The fact is that only birthright for a mess of pottage. Mr. BROWN of Georgia. Mr. Chair- about a million dollars have actually been man, I am very happy to reply to the spent and the balance is in obligations He further said. that the rates for serv- distinguished Representative from the which would be disposed of without any ice would be higher because they must State of Indiana and to notify him that loss to th e Government. The Govern- produce dividends. That is how senti- a majority of Congressmen clear across . ment would not lose a single penny un­ ment was whipped up by telling the the country, east and west, north and der the proposal submitted by the Sa­ people that if the Government builds the south, has heretofore endorsed the de­ vannah River Electric Co. Clark Hill project that electric power velopment of Clark Hill by the Govern­ will be cheaper than if private enterprise ment, and before I take my seat I will I have heard the statement made on does it. They ::;ay that if private in- prove to each of them that they are the floor here today that because the terests build it the rates will have to be justified in taking this position from the Government has spent appvoximately higher because private enterprise will evidence submitted· to the House Appro­ $1,000,000 on a project we should go have to pay taxes and earn a profit to priations Subcommittee, considering the ahead and continue the project or the pay dividends. ~hat is as anti-Ameri- War Department civil functions appro­ money would be wasted. That is not true can as any statement that possibly ·could priatton bill for 1948. of the Clark Hill project since private be made by the most high-ranking Com- The gentleman says that only $1,000,- enterprise -is willing, anxious,·and· ready munist in this country. 000 has been spent on this project. 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8031 Here is a report from the Appropriations In 1928, shortly after the passage of paper editors, and others who had long Subcommittee on the War Department this authorization, the Savannah River been interested in seeing the Savannah civil function::; appropriation bill stating Electric Co., a subsidiary of the Common­ River, the greatest natural resource in that there was appropriateq $1,000,000 in wealth & Southern Corp. of New that _section, developed. 1945 and 1n May last year $4,500,000, York, secured a license from the Fed­ Among those who attended the meet­ which makes a total of $5,500,000 and eral Power Commission to construct a ing was Mr. Preston S. Arkwright, presi­ the report of this honorable committee dam near Clark Hill on the Savannah dent of the Savannah River Electric Co. shows that all of the $5,500,000 has been River, about 20 miles about the city of and the Georgia Power Co. He made spent or allocated except $979,000. Augusta. Upon filing an application for quite a lengthy statement and said, Mr. WILSON of Indiana. There is a this license the company announced among other things: difference between "allocation" and through the press and otherwise that "spent." work on the project would proceed as I did not come here for the purpose of hurting this enterprise. I came here with Mr. BROWN of Georgia. Yes. You soon as a license could be obtained. the view of helping wherever possible. We had the representatives of the power In 1932, after having had a license for are not in objection or antagonism toward company up before your subcommittee 4 years permitting the company to build it. We wish to cooperate with it to the full on June 23, 1947, and up to this time you Clark Hill Dam, the company voluntar­ extent of our ab1lity. _ I would like to say have not given the other side the op­ ily surrendered the license without hav­ that we are here for the purpose of its sup­ portunity to appear and testify- against ing started any construction work what­ port. deauthorization. ever on the project. Mr. Arkwright further stated: If it was your purpose to defeat the In 1935 the report on the Savannah appropriation for this project, why did River, which·was authorized in 1927, was I do not demand that we distribute it (the power). ·I merely say that we have the you not quote the evidence of both sides made public. The engineers in this re­ faciUties and the market and a.re willing to which appears in the printed hearings of port described · the Savannah River in do it 1f you wish. · tlie subcommittee of the Committee on great detail and enumerated and empha­ Appropriations on the War Department sized its tremendous possibilities. The Continuing further, Mr. Arkwright , civil functions appropriation bill for report stated that the river was capable said: Hi48, instead of quoting-the evidence of of large-scale development and recom­ I state again that company information, the power company before your commit­ mended· its development by the United records, men, and engineers are at your serv­ tee and not giving our side a chance to States Government. Ice. Any information we have will be avail­ be heard before your motion to strike the Shortly ·after release of this report a able to you. Regardless of what plan you Clark Hill item from the pending bill committee of citizens from the Savan­ .may finally recommend, we stand ready to coop~ate to the fullest extent in making was made? nah River Basin conferred with Mr. available to you any information we may · Mr. WILSON of Indiana. Would-you Prest.on S. Arkwright, president of the .have which you think pertinent to your in­ like to be recognized? · Savannah River Electric Co. and also vestigation. Mr. BROWN of Georg_ia. Thank God, president of the Georgia Power Co., in we have good men on both sides of this an effort to ascertain what, if any, plans _In concluding his statement before the aisle. Men in Congress should not and his company had for renewing its in­ President's special board, he said: do not vote on account of prejudice, and terest in the construction of the Clark I hope you will act favorably on the project. tliat applies to both sides of the aisle. Hill Reservoir. In 1943 Col. P. A. Feringa, resident The gentleman from Indiana stated a Mr. Arkwright assured these citizens member of the Board of Engineers for few moments ago that he did not want that his company had no plans for re­ any Yankee dollars sent south to- de­ questing another license for this project. Rivers and Harbors, in testifying on the velop a project like Clark Hill. Men of \ The committee then came to :Washing­ Clark Hill project before the Rivers and this Congress from the North appreciate ton and conferred with Representatives Harbors Committee of the House, testi­ the fact a Yankee dollar is worth no in the lower and upper Houses of Con­ fied in part as foilows: more than a Southern dollar and the gress from the States of Georgia and There is no competition with private in­ people of the South appreciate the fact South Carolina, and with representatives terests. I have received a letter in favor of of the United States Army engineers. the construction from Mr. Arkwright, who is that the Southern dollar is worth as president of the Georgia Power Co., which much and is equal to your so-called Yan­ Upon advice of these representatives, the company would be as much affected by con­ kee dollar. Certainly no one will get committee prepared a letter to the Presi­ struction of this proposed dam as any other anywhere with this Congress in .attempt­ dent of the United States, with a brief power company. ing to arouse one section of the country attached, urging the President to ap­ against the other. The Members of this point a special board to analyze all pre­ Continuing, Colonel Feringa s~id: Congress will support any great worth­ vious reports on the Savannah River and I would like to read the last paragraph of while project regardless of .the section in to recommend to the President some Mr. Arkwright's letter and I have been told which it is located. The members of practical plan for getting the Clark Hill by the Georgia Power Co. they would be glad this-appropriations-committee who Dam started, provided the board found to have it go into the record. heard the evidence, members from both it to be a sound and justifiable project The letter referred to by Colonel Ferin­ sides, voted it out unanimously-. and one that would be in the public in­ ga was made a part of the record. Surely no one would desire to create terest. The Representatives in Congress The Rivers and Harbors Committee of prejudice between the peoples in the dif­ delivered this letter and brief to the the House approved the Clark Hill proj­ ferent sections of this country when a President and requested him to appoint ect in 1941 ana in 1943 without a dissent­ meritorious project, like Clark Hill, is in­ a committee to look into the Savannah ing vote. The House approved it unani­ volved, and I am surprised that the gen­ River possibilities. mously. tleman from Indiana should undertake Within a few days the President ap­ In 1944 the Senate Committee on Com­ to give any assistance to the Common­ pointed Col. Earl,!. Brown, United States merce approved it unanimously for in­ wealth & Southern Corp. of New York, division engineer, Mr. Roger B. Mc­ or the Savannah River Electric Co., to Whorter, chief engineer of the Federal clusion in both the rivers-and-harb_ors take from the people of my country what Power Commission, and Mr. Sherman and the flood-control bills. - they own, the Savannah River, which Woodward, water consultant of the De­ In December 1944 the flood-control has been a navigable stream tor over 200 partment of the Interior, as a special bill, with the Clark Hill project included years and belongs to the people in that board to make a report, as quickly as as a part of it, passed Congress and it area. • possible, on the Savannah River and was signed by the President on December In 1927 Congress authorized the Army particularly as to the feasibility of the 22, 1944. It passed both branches -of engineers to make a complete survey of Clark Hill Dam. Congress without any objection on the the Savannah and all other navigable The board made an extensive study of part of anyone. rivers and streams in the United States the subject assigned to it and in 1935 Nor was there any objection when with the view of finding out their poten-_ conducted a public hearing at Augusta, Congress in December 1945, a year after . tialities for the generation of power, flood Ga., which was attended by a large num­ Clark Hill was authorized, passed the control,. navigation, conservation of the ber of citizens, including manufacturers, deficiency appropriation bill appropri­ soil, and for other purposes . . public officials, farmers; bankers, news- ating $1,000,000 to start work on it. 8032 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 There was no objection from any least two excellent sites on the Chatta­ South Carolina and fought with us to source to the inclusion of. an appropri­ hoochee River near West Point, Ga. get the Government to develop the proj­ ation of $4 ,500,000 for Clark Hill when These sites have been owned by the pow­ ect, and stayed with us until last Au­ Congress passed the regular appropria­ er interests for probably 20 years, but gust-11 long years. No one was more tion bill in May 1946. This was the no effort has been made to develop them, faithful to get the Government to de­ third time that - Congress had acted though in the meantime they have tre­ velop this project than the power com­ favorably on this project, without a.ny bled the capacity of a steam plant­ pany. opposition or objection, and this last Plant Atkinson-near Atlanta, a.nd near It was revealed at a public hearing congressional action came 18 months Macon they have built during the last held by the Federal Power Commission after the project was authorized. few years a large steam generating plant in Atlanta last October that the Com­ For the long period from 1932 to which is known as the Arkwright Plant. monwealth & Southern Corp. showed August 1946, the Savannah River Elec­ A study was made in March of this their persuasive efforts to change the tric Co. never made the slightest effort year by Thomas and Hutton, two emi­ mind of the Savannah River Electric Co. to undertake to reestablish the license nent engineers of Savannah, on the when State Senator Brown, of South which it surrendered in 1932, and since flood-control feature of the Clark Hill Carolina, asked Mr. Arkwright if the de­ the passage of the flood-control bill in project. These gentlemen have done cision to again apply for a Federal license 1944 Congress has made no change in much work for tne Army engineers. The was made in Atlanta or New York, and the bill as it was originally passed. cost of the survey was borne by the busi­ Mr. Arkwright said the decision was The provisions with respect to Clark ness people of Augusta. These engineers made in New York, and, of course, every­ Hill and the other projects included in received the cooperation of the Regional one knows that the general offices of the the 1944 flood-control bill are exactly Office of the Soil Conservation Service parent company, the Commonwealth & the same as they were when the bill was ' at Spartanburg, S. C. They went into Southern Corp., are located in New York. signed by the President. the possibilities and potentialities of this The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. The power company knew as much flooded area. They demonstrated that WILsoNl has just read a letter from the about the provisions in the bill in 1944 the land was rich. They found that Savannah River Electric Co. saying, it as it knows today, therefore it is rather only the recurring floods prohibited its was willing, ready, and able to con­ late for the power company to raise any use for farming and stock raising. They struct .and operate this project. question about how the power is to be found a definite annual return and us­ The vice president of the company distributed. ing the same process of capitalizing this may have said his company is ready, In August 1946, about 21 months after annual return, which is used by the Army willing, and able to develop this proj­ the authorization of Clark Hill, the engineers, they came to a value for flood · ect, but he did not give any supporting power company filed an application with control of $25,610,000 or more than a evidence of its financial ability. He did the Federal Power Commission for a million dollars annually. Tbe potential not even state the .capitalization of his license to construct Clark Hill. This benefits to this area for flood control company;· he did not say whether it was was done after the project was author­ were not taken into consideration by the capitalized at $10,000, $100,000, or a ized: after two congressional appropri­ Army engineers-that is in the area be­ million dollars, nor did he list any prop­ ations had ' been made ·for it; after a tween Augusta and Savannah, which is erty holdings the company may have. contract had been let to Chas. T. Main some 202 miles. The land is level and & Co. to prepare the plans, blueprints, this would be the potential value in that When asked by Mr~ CASE in the Ap­ and specifications for the project; after area alone if the dam is built by the Gov­ propriations Committee: a contract had been awarded for an ernment. If the dam is built by the What guaranty did you give that you access railroad into the site; and after would proceed with it expeditiously, if the Government it would not be full and Army engineers were to step out of the two field offices of the United States would be positive flood control which picture? · Army engineers, one at Augusta and only the United States Government can one at Lincolnton, Ga., had been set up provide. Should the power company Mr. Collier replied: and staffed by the Government at con­ build the dam, they, of course, would I give no guaranties other tban the ap­ siderable expense. want the dam full because their interest plication and our commitment and our good The Federal Power Commission con­ would be entirely one of profit and gain faith and our good word which, to us, is more ducted a public hearing in Atlanta, Ga., for the stockholders. valuable than any bond. in October 1946, on the application of Han. Roger B. McWhorter, Chief En­ When asked by Mr. CASE why he was the power company for a license. After gineer of the Federal Power Commission, so anxious to defeat the appropriation hearing the evidence presented, the testified before the Rivers and Harbors rather than secure a legislative act to Commission dismissed the application of Committee of the House and said in part: deauthorize the project, Mr. Collier the power company. A few days after It ts of prime importance that Clarks Hill replied: the dismissal order was made public the Reservoir be operated with a view to protect­ The time element does not permit. If power company asked for a rehearing ing the paramoun interests of navigation they go ahead with a lot of construction and this request was dismissed. below Augusta at all times. work down there, there is a question In my The power companies say they are now He further stated: mind as to whether we could offer to reim­ willing to develop Clark Hill at this late burse the Federal Government for the addi­ date, but why should we expect them to The investment for power could be. amor­ tional cost. do it? I might ask why haven't they de­ tized, in my opinion, within a period of 30 years; that is, if the profits from the opera­ Now, if the company is not able tore­ veloped some of the other power sites ti'on were set aside each year to accumulate imburse the Government $1,481,000, as is which they have owned for a good many at 3 percent Interest. If that were done, I years on many of the large rivers in think the power investment would be ex­ provided in this bill, how in the name of Georgia. tinguished in less than 30 years. There­ common sense would the company be· One of these sites is situated nn the after the profits would, within a period of ready and able to pay the remainder of Oconee River, and is known as Furman a few years, reimburse the Gove.rnment for the cost of $40,000,000 or $45,000,000, if Shoals, where the· power company owns 1ts entire investment; and the dam a.nd they should be given another license? a dam site and the lands needed for the power plant, properly maintained, would In other words, Mr. Chairman, they say still be In excellent condition and service­ in one breath "we are ready, willing and reservoir. Some 18 or 20 years ago the able. This project 1s just as sound as a power company started a large dam at dollar and the public can never lose a cent able" to construct the plant· at a cost of this site and spent several million dol­ by constructing it, and I might say that 1m­ $45,000,000 or $50,000,000 if you will just lars on construction work which was sus­ ~edlately after the war, if Congress is dis­ defeat this appropriation and give them pended along about 1930 and which posed to build such projects, the Clark Hill a new license, and then they say in effect stands there today in a partially com­ project should be among the first to be con­ in the next breath that if you do not de­ pleted condition. Mr. Arkwright stated structed. feat the appropriation they will not be in a public hearing at Augusta that the The company which owned the dam financially able to reimburse the Govern­ Furman Shoals project could be com­ site and a part of the land, through its ment $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. It is clear, pleted for about $4,000,000. omcials, came to the rescue of the people therefore, that the only purpose of this The power company owns many other and joined our Congressmen and Sen­ company at this tlme is to defeat the hydroelectric power sites, including at ators from the States of Georgia and Government development of this project. 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8033 The financial apprehension of the com­ He is deserving of these compliments and tragic flood submerged this city that pany is well-grounded because it was or­ more too. took 2,300 lives. Since then the city ganized 20 years ago primarily for the Our committe, impressed with the im­ prospered moderately, but at every heavy purpose of constructing this project, but partial cooperation of the Army engi­ rain people would dash to the hills and admittedly it has failed to do so because neers in their administering costly gov­ conscientious industrialists would avoid of financial inability. ernmental activities-on rivers, was very the city in spite of its iron and coal. In This company can change its philoso­ careful in its analysis of all the points the freak :flood of 1936 one-third of the phy just as quickly, or more quickly brought out by the very many witnesses city was inundated. Though only 15 than a chameUon. It obtained a licenSe appearing before us. lives were lost the damage to property to develop the project in 1928. Then in Floodwaters are national problems, was $40,000,000. The United States 1932 it changed its mind and volun­ the solution of which are of vital im­ Army engineers solved the flood problem tarily surrendered the license because it portance to our Nation. Taking into by the construction of the Johnstown did not want to be bothered with Gov­ consideration the cost of such projects Channel, which was completed after 5 ernment red tape, Government supervi­ as we have in the bill now under discus­ years work at a cost of $8,670,000. I be­ sion, and Government direction, but sion, the protection which is provided lieve and I think most everyone is in now they are saying we are "ready, will­ is immeasurable. accord with me that the amount expend­ ing and able" to construct it under There are many important dams to be ed on the Johnstown project is an in­ "Government specifications and operate constructed within a little more than a vestment which our country can well it completely under Government control, year, the appropriations for which are appreciate. Johnstown has been reju­ Government supervision and Govern- found in this bill. These flood-control venated and no longer has any reason ment direction. · projects will hold back millions of gal­ to fear high water. During the recent The power company says it is willing lons of water, the result of which will war industry and its workers went ahead to reimburse the Government for any mean protection of homes, health, agri­ at top speed realizing that if there were expenditures made, but when pressed to culture, and industry. a major flood in the community that it be more specific, its Vice President stated Most of us from Pennsylvania know would not interfere with War Depart­ to your committee on June 6, 1947, that how disastrous -the :flood of 1936 was to ment production of defense materials. his estimate was the Government has the Pittsburgh area, ·where a short dis­ The construction of the channel gave spent only $1,000,000 and he is offering tance from this city the Conemaugh Dam to the city and the country the protec­ to reimburse the Government for this will give the much-needed protection. tion for which fiood-free Johnstown is amount, showing conclusively that his Every major flood in and around an in­ grateful. offer now is based solely upon the com­ dustrial section means huge property I have always been, and I still am, pany's estimates and interpretations losses and loss in Federal income running a strong advocate for economy. My rec­ which is certain to result in disagree­ into the millions of dollars and untold ord in Congress proves that I have been ment between the company and Govern­ agony suffered by those living especially consistent in my opposition to waste, ment officials, and can only mean the close to the rivers. Within the past sev­ extravagance, and inefficiency in Gov­ project will not be developed by the eral weeks we have witnessed what ftood­ ernment. I have cooperated in every power company regardless of what ac­ waters have done over a large area of the way possible to stand by those who be­ tion the Congress may take. entire country. lieve in a stable economy. In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, some of In 1926 in cooperation with the Com­ There are so many projects in this the officials of the company say they want monwealth of Pennsylvania the War De­ bill which are definitely on the side of to develop this project without burden­ partment made detailed studies of the sound investments that I have no hesi­ ing the Federal Treasury with this ex­ Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. In tancy in supporting them as justifiable pense. It is a mighty late day for them to 1927 Congress, realizing that it was time projects. It is my opinion that if the take this position when for 11 long years something should be done toward water Members of this House had the time to they joined in a request to the Govern­ conservation, authorized more than 300 go over the hearings conducted by our ment to develop the project. surveys of the major rivers of the coun­ committee that there would not be a This is a self-liquidating project, and try in the combined interest of ftood con­ single point raised against the proj­ General Wheeler stated before the House trol, navigation, power development and ects which we have reported. There Appropriations Subcommittee recently irrigation. In these studies there was is a large number of authorized river and that within some ten or fifteen years the included the Ohio River and 23 of its harbor fiood-control projects in this income from the project would be suffi­ tributaries and the reports thereon were measure. Flood-control projects now cient to reimburse the Government for submitted to Congress in 1930. The under way are at a conservative but eco­ its cost. . major flood in March 1936 demonstrated nomical rate. The estimates for initia­ Han. Roger B. McWhorter, chief engi­ most conclusively the need for a national tion of work on additional projects in neer of the Federal Power Commission, policy in flood control. Our Nation be­ the fiscal year of 1948 provide additional testified in effect before the Rivers and came conscious of a deep responsibility funds for continuation of wotk on those Harbors Committee of the House that the fdr flood-control legislation, the outcome projects now under way or scheduled project was self-liquidating and that after of which was the 1936 Flood Control Act. for actual construction operations dur­ the project is paid for from revenues from Subsequent acts of Congress have- gone ing the 1947 fiscal year. the same that the dam and power plant, far in the interest of flood control too. The total river and harbor project au­ properly maintained, would still be in ex­ It is our duty, from a social and eco­ thorizations date back more than 100 cellent condition and serviceable. nomic standpoint, to authorize flood­ years,' but have been modified from time The CHAIRMAN. The time of the control work in any fiscal year through­ to time to meet changing conditions. gentleman has expired. out the country. Without doubt :flood Generally speaking, the work now re­ Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Chair­ protection is important to our national maining to be done has been authorized man, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman defense. I hesitate to think what the within the last 10 or more years. The from Pennsylvania [Mr. TIBBOTTJ. outcome of our war efforts would have total amount requested in the budget for Mr. TmBOTT. Mr. Chairman, our been had a fiood occurred 2 or 3 years ago this bill is $291,000,000. There are 76 very able chairman, the gentleman from such as we witnessed in 1936 and which fiood-control projects requested in the Michigan [Mr. ENGEL] has given you the we are witnessing today in the West. bill. over-all picture of this bill. The Ohio River is one of the bulwarks The fundamental principle underlying· Once again I must compliment him of our Nation as it can be depended the Corps of Engineers in carrying out upon his untiring efforts and willingness upon to produce a large proportion of its civil functions fiscal practice is that at all times to cooperate, not only with our needs in time bf war. Floodwaters appropriations are requested and made, the Members of our committee, but with have a most damaging effect on life and based on a specific schedule of work on the witnesses coming from all over the health and cannot be measured in dollars specific designated projects over a defi­ country who appeared before us. One and cents. nite period of time. When an appropria­ having the privilege of serving on the While discussing worth-while projects tion is made available to the Corps of committee with the gentleman from I want to make reference to Johnstown, Engineers, the funds are immediately Michigan [Mr. ENGEL] cannot help but Pa., a city in the congressional district earmarked for the specific projects and admire him for his honesty and integrity. which I represent. On May 31, 1889, a related work which has been designated XCIII--506 8034 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 , by the Committees on Appropriations of sections of the country. There is no and are greatly in need of this flood­ Congress, after consideration of the data false economy when it comes to flood­ control project. Such a dam would also furnished to Congress by the Corps of control appropriations. I am sure that protect present industrial areas which Engineers in support of the request for all agree with our position in this direc­ are of increasing value to the States of funds. Upon receipt of the appropria... tion. North Carolina and Virginia, through tions, allotments are made to district en­ Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 10 which the Roanoke River runs. gineers for the specific projects desig­ minutes to the gentleman from Virginia The report of the Chief of Engineers nated. The allotted funds can be used [Mr. DREWRY]. of the United States Army, based upon by the district engineers only for the Mr. DREWRY. Mr. Chairman, for a iong, extended survey, sets out in full specific project indicated with the allot­ many years, in fact, for so long has the detail the entire project, which was ment. Roanoke River been ravaging southern favorably recommended by said Chief of As the work proceeds during the fiscal Virginia and eastern North Carolina, that Engineers of the United States Army, year, the funds allotted .for each proj­ the testimony of one witness was that it and was the basis of the favorable rec­ ect are applied by the district engineers went back beyond the recorded history ommendation of the first appropriation in one Dr more of the following ways: of man. The Roanoke River, which flows for the project. The Board of Engineers First. Contracts which will be· com­ into Albemarle Sound, drains an area of for Rivers and Harbors recommended pleted wJ th funds available. 9,580 square miles. improvement of the Roanoke River and Secorld. Continuing contracts for com­ The matter has been before Congress its tributaries for flood control, naviga­ pletion f">l as much work as funds are for some time, and the Flood Control Act tion, the generation, transmission, and availa!>lt! in the current fiscal year. of December 22, 1944, in its general plan sale of hydroelectric power and for other Third. Hired labor work, land acqui­ for the construction of the Buggs Island beneficial uses by the construction of the sition, and necessary government super­ Dam and Reservoir on the Roanoke River, dam, the initial steps of which have been visory work for the project. approved the project, and $4,500,000 has made and the project is being proceeded As soon as contracts are let for work been authorized and partially expended with. This report is so full and com­ on the project, most of the funds allotted on this project. The item in this bill ap­ plete that I can only refer those in­ for the project-are obligated, thus be­ proved by the Appropriations Committee terested to a study of 'same. coming legally binding obligations of the is $3,800,000. It will be seen, t.herefore, From the hearings, I quote: United States. In this way the entire that this appropriation is .a continua­ The plan of the United States Govern­ amount of available funds is either ob­ tion of a project which has been approved ment, which has been approved by Congress ligated or committed to the work desig­ by Congress since 1944, and as said above and for which. an initial appropriation of nated by Congress and is not available a large percentage of the $4,500,000 for­ $4,500,000 has already been made, and. an r for any other work. · The funds cannot merly appropriated has already been ex­ additional appropriation of $3,800,000 has be diverted to other work except by ac­ been recommended, is to construct such a tion of Congress. Even at that, such pended. dam at Buggs Island as will provide maxi­ -action would involve breaches of con­ It has been estimated that the flood mum flood control based on a type flood tract.' The unobligated- funds refer to · damage on the Roanoke River in North similar to that of 1940 and at-the same time money which has not been expended. It Carolina alone, of which there have been will' provide electrical. energy, together with is money committed but actually not ob­ 187 floods since 1899, totals $16,546,000. controlled stream flow and other benefits.· The largest flood of ·record on the Roa­ The hydroelectric power is included in the ligated 'in the contract. Floods come at project for the reason that . under thP. law such seasons of the year and many times noke River, that of 1940, caused flood the Army engineers were required to sub­ last so long that protection against them damage of $4,886,000. According to the mit to Congress a proposal which would be is absolutely essential to the livelihood to report of the Army engineers, had the self-liquidating, and it is a conceded fact millions of people. Buggs Island Dam been in existence dur­ that however, great the flood benefits may Perhaps the most serious problem on ing the period from 1899 to 1945 spoken be, it will be necessary to have the power many rivers at the present time, is that of above, the damage from floods during dEwelopment· in order for the project to be of bank caving, which if not controlled that period would have been eliminated. s·elf-liquidating. would ultimately destroy the riparian Even in the tremendous flood of 1940 While to my mind the most important developments and lengthen rivers to such practically the ehtire flood damage would part of this project is flood control, an extent that flood heights would be­ have been eliminated below the proposed nevertheless, I cannot understand the come more and more disastrous. 1 Buggs Island site. and the only damage force of the objection to building such a There is evidence from the hearings which would have resulted would have dam for flood control purposes that it that there are some 192 general flood­ been some negligible flooding of extreme will also create power. It would seem to control projects throughout the cou_.ntrY low areas immediately adjacent to the· me that a multiple-purpose dam would . that are ready to go forward, that are river bed. be welcomed. Of course, I can under­ of high economic ratio, and which will The flood of .September 1945 caused stand the objection of power companies be recommended annually for appropria­ damage on the Roanoke River estimated to any interference with the sale of their tions. As new projects come up and the at $970,000. The floods, apparently, are power, but the existing power companies urgency is indicated especially on flood causing more damage than formerly, may have an opportunity to acquire control, and when the records of the probably due to the fact that the water­ some of the power generated by this Corps of Engineers on floods are being sheds of the tributaries of the Roanoke project to add to their ·existing power .substantiated by actual occurrences, the River and the watershed of the Roanoke production. The rates will be deter­ War Department considers it important River itself are being denuded of timber. mined by the Federal Power Commis­ to put them in at that time. At the The drainage area of the Roanoke River, sion, and it would seem to me that the present a request was made for a list of as said above, is approximately 10,000 selfish reasons of ·a power company projects which would give Congress 192 square miles, and the construction of the should not prevail, and that they, the:m­ to consider as important. Accordingly, dam and reservoir will save from inun­ selves, would be willing to witlidraw their projects under way apparently are not dation 300,000 acres of the richest land opposition, when the enormous benefits considered problems by the Corps of En­ in Virginia and North Carolina, as well that will be derived by the great number gineers; however, those that have not as save from devastation by flood large of people in the Roanoke River· Valley been started but are ready to .start are industrial developments in the river are taken into consideration. This receiving proper engineering considera­ valley. It is proposed to build this dam project has been approved by a very tion from the -Army engineers. at Buggs Island 178 miles above the large majority of the people of the area Our committee, as evidenced by the n,.outh of the river which will control affected, and the Legislature of the State report on the civil functions bill, is not the run-off of water' from 7,800 miles. of North Carolina has recently voted deaf to fiood destruction and suffering. The total number of individuals who will overwhelmingly pledging cooperation of We are not denying the necessary ap­ be affected in the counties and outside the State to the project and giving it ap- . propriatiPns for bringing the desired re­ of the actual area to be flooded, that is, proval. In addition, the Virginia State lief to our people, but we have provided in the basin generally, total more than Planning Board has endorsed the proj­ the funds for this fiscal year, which we a million persons. In the actual basin ect, and the State Highway Department believe are sufficient to prevent catas­ area there reside a total of 700,000 citi­ it,nd State Health Departments of both trophes caused by floodwaters in many zens, 56 percent of whom live on farms Virginia and North Carolina are active 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8035 in support of it. The National Rivers Along the San Gabriel River, which is money from Dillon Reservoir, but I do and Harbors Congress has also given the the other valley, which is a treacherous think that in the economy that this com­ project its approval and urges speedy flood-control problem in Los Angeles mittee has exercised in appropriating construction. This project should be County, the committee is recommending funds for Los Angeles County, they have pushed to a rapid conclusion in order $1,085,000 with $10,000 left over from overlooked the fact-and I think I am that this economic waste may be con­ last year. This does not even approach fair in stating-that we are justified in verted into economic benefit to the peo­ the recommendation of the Army engi­ receiving more than has been allowed, ple in the communities of the Roanoke neers for the district. They realized that when they allow some $4,264,000 for two River Valley. more than that should be appropriated. other projects that are subject to de­ Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Chair­ Let me say that in comparison with authorization. man, I yield 10 minutes to the gentleman these amounts that I have just given The total amount in this bill for tlood from California [Mr. McDoNOUGH]. you the committee has recommended an control in Los Angeles County is $3,299,- Mr. McDONOUGH. Mr. Chairman, I appropriation of some $2,460,000 for 000. At the rate of the authorizations would like to discuss the recommenda­ Clark Hill Reservoir in Georgia and that have already passed this House and tions of the committee in reference to South Carolina, which, in spite of all the come before the Committee on Appro­ Los Angeles County flood control proj­ arguments to the contrary notwithstand­ priations for consideration it will take 50 ects in particular and in this connection ing, a bill is now before the Public Works years for Los Angeles County to meet the may I say that previous to coming to Committee of which I am a member ask­ comprehensive flood control plan that the Congress I was a member of the Los ing that it be deauthorized, because pri­ the United States Army engineers have Angeles County Board of Supervisors for vate interests want to get in there and outlined to protect the life, limb, and 12 years which included the responsibil­ build the dam which they claim they can property in southern California. Let me ity of Director of the Los Angeles County build in 3 years and the Army engineers tell you that as far as the life, limb, and Flood Control District. For these rea­ "Claim it will take 7 years to complete. property in southern California is con­ sons I feel I am quite familiar with most Now, they may need a dam down there, cerned, what I mean is this, that it affects of the projects that have been requested and if private interests want to build it, thousands and thousands, yes, 3,000,000 and especially with the limitation that all right, but where there is a protest to and more population in Los Angeles the committee has placed upon projects the United States providing money for County, growing at the rate of 20,000 a that it appropriated money for. that project and where there is an ap­ . month, coming there from the various I should like to refer to the situation peal on our side of the picture in south­ States of the Union. That is an actual in southern California. I do not know ern California for justifiable flood-con­ count at the border, at the agricultural whether all of you are familiar with it trol projects where we are contributing check stations, showing that the people or not, but our problem is far different half of the cost out of our own taxpayers' from all parts of the United States are from most of the flood problems in other money it does not seem fair that $2,460,- flooding in there to live. parts of the country. We do not have 000 should go to a project that is subject Now. gentlemen, I think that in fair­ the watershed to hold the water back to consideration by the Public Works ness the Members of the House will agree in the mountainous areas. We have Committee on this House for the deau­ that the amount of money allowed here flash floods, we have a terrific downpour thorization. is not fair to Los Angeles County. I of rain from time to time and usually Mr. BROWN of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ trust that when this bill goes to the Sen­ in the season of the year when the rain­ man, will the gentleman yield? ate there will be some consideration • fall comes it comes for a period of some­ Mr. McDONOUGH. I yield to the given to some of these projects that were times 10 days to 2 weeks with a steady gentleman from Georgia. so badly neglected in this bill. As to the downpour. . Mr. BROWN of Georgia. Does the Santa Fe Reservoir in Los Angeles Los Angeles County is not asking the gentleman know that $1,000,000 annually County, I will say that the committee did Government for something for nothing. can be saved on account of four floods meet the recommendation of the Army We have established this flood-control a year on the land extending from Au­ engineers. They appropriated $730,000 district and we assess ourselves to the gusta, Ga., to Savannah; a distance of for that project, and with the $40,000 extent of some 20 to 22 cents per hun­ 202 miles, involving 241,000 acres of land; unexpended from last year it will carry dred dollars assessed valuation to main­ that it will save that amount of money, along. But they did nothing about the tain our flood-control projects and we are and General Wheeler said it could be Tujunga Wash, which is an important this year raising some $3,400,000 to carry paid for in 10 years? development in Los Angeles County. It on maintenance work on flood-control Mr. McDONOUGH. I do not doubt. is not even mentioned in your report. projects that have been built in the that at tall, and that same amount of The Lopez flood-control basin, which was county. It was only back some few years money could be saved if the dam was an important project there, the Tujunga ago, about 10 years ago that the Fed­ built by private interests as well as by Wash channel, the Burbank western eral Government recognized the flood­ the Federal Government. project and other parts along the San control problems in Los Angeles County Mr. BROWN of Georgia. But the pri­ Gabriel River are not included in this as a national responsibility together with vate interests will not do it. appropriation, for which of course they the other parts of the United States. Mr. McDONOUGH. I beg the gen­ allowed nothing. The chairman ac­ We appreciate what aid we have had, tleman's pardon. I have heard testi­ counted for the reason this morning. but we want you to know that we are mony to the contrary. They allowed nothing for Whittier Nar­ carrying on a lot of it ourselves and for Mr. BROWN of Georgia. The gentle­ rows Dam, which affects a population of that reason we think we are entitled to man just heard what the private power half a million people immediately below more than the present bill provides. companies had to say. in the area in the southeast part of Los The bill provides new work along the Mr. McDONOUGH. No; I beg the Angeles County toward Long Beach. Los Angeles River $1,314,000 with $50,000 gentleman's pardon. I heard the com­ Mr. KERR. Mi-. Chairman, I yield 5 left unexpended from last year, giving mon ordinary citizens, the people who minutes to the gentlema1~ from Loui­ a total of $1 ,364,000. That is not one­ prided themselves on being common or­ siana [Mr. BROOKS}. third the amount of money that is fair dinary citizens, the duly elected officials Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Chairman, we and justifiable for that important proj­ in the counties concerned, who came be­ down at the mouth of the Mississippi ect in Los Angeles County. fore the committee and said they were Valley, of course, are as vitally intererted When I speak abo.ut tlood control representing the interests of the com­ in tlood control as is any section of the along the Los Angeles River I am not mon people and wanted that dam to be country. We are alsC' vitally interested speaking of an area in wide open spaces; deauthorized. · in the development of rivers and harbors. I am talking about a thickly populated Another project which the committee I am disappointed in this bill, espe­ section of the county, built up on both has been very generous with and which cially in one item in the bill. This one sides of the river. Where it is not built is subject to deauthorization before the item which I am especially disappointed with homes it is industrial along its committee I am a member of, is the Dil­ in has reference to future planning. shores. We will be spending out of our lon Reservoir in Ohio where this com­ This means that over a long period of own money this year practically the same mittee recommended $2,000,000. Now, I years there will be a slow-up in the pro­ amount that the Federal Government is do not want to take any money from gram of development of rivers and har­ contributing. Clark Hill nor do I want to take any bors and in tlood control. The reducing 8036 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 of one item from $2,500,000 to $1,250,000 look for- an immediate promotion from Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Chair­ for planning, and this covers 20 items of that grade to that of Chief of Engineers man, I yield such time as he may desire planning, will have the eiiect of retard­ or Assistant Chief of Engineers. They to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. ing the whole program of rivers and har­ must work up in the regular way until SPRINGER]. bors development over a long period of they have become a general officer or a Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Chairman, I years. I had hoped that the committee major general and then be transferred wish to thank the chairman of this sub­ might see fit in its wisdom to include this over to the position of Chief of Engineers. committee for granting me this time to item at least to the full amount recom­ I think that is going to hurt the morale speak on the pending bill, H. R. 4002. mended by the Army engineers. of the engineers. I think that is going I especially wish to compliment this sub­ Mr. Chairman, the express purpose of to hurt the morale o:.L the people con­ committee for the care and attention my taking the floor at this time is to nected with the rivers and harbors flood­ that has been given to this measure, and mention something to this committe~ in control work. to the many and various items included which I think this committee especially Therefore, I have taken this time to therein. One of the projects included in is fundamentally interested. It i1: in ref­ protest that particular provision of the this measure is an item of $60,000 for the erence to the item we placed in the Army bill which was passed the other day and completion of a flood-control project in personnel bill of 1947 which passed the to express the hope that the other body the city of Muncie, Ind., which is within House of Representatives the other day. may see fit to make a change in that the Tenth Congressional District of In­ I think it is an unfortunate item and a provision. diana. That being in the district which mistake, because this item :n thai: com­ Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Chair­ I have the honor to represent, I am very prehensive Army personnel bill specifi­ man, I yield such time as he may desire familiar with this project. It is located cally affects the organization of the to the gentleman from California· [Mr. in Delaware County, and on both sides Army engineers. That one item, while it BRADLEY]. of . the West Fork of White River, and is written in a generic manner covering . Mr. BRADLEY. Mr. Chairman, I note this project is located 322 miles above the all branches of the Army service, will with great regret that the Whittier Nar­ mouth of that river. White River runs have this· effect upon the engineers: It rows Dam project has not been recog­ directly through the city of Muncie, and means that in the future there is no re­ nized in this bill for 1948 appropriations. for many long years flood control has quirement that the- Chief -..f the United It is difficult to discover any project been one of the very serious problems. States Army engineers, who is charged under flood control which is of more During high water much damage is done with the responsibility of the work we are vital importance.to a community than is to that city and to the surrounding com­ now discussing, must be an engineer. In this Whittier Narrows project to the munities. A large amount of channel future, the Chief of Army Engineert un­ City of Long Beach and its immediate excavation is required, and the construc­ der that bill, if it becomes law, may be surroundings. tion of some 15,000 feet of boulevard an infantry man, he may be an artillery -Few realize the configuration .of the levee is required, together with the.con- . man, he may be from any other branch land in this section of southern Califor­ struction of concrete walls and four of the service, yet his responsibility is go­ nia. Few understand that we have a pumping plants. When this flood-con­ ing to be to see that the work of· the En­ great plain extending from the moun­ trol project is completed, it is estimated gineer Corps of the Army is carried out. tains on the north for about 40 miles to that this will fully protect both the busi- . I think that is a big mistake. I hope the the Pacific Ocean on the south. Natural ness and residential sections of this S:mate will rectify the mistake so we can drainage is largely lacking on this flat rather large city, and that it will also prevent it from becoming law. area and when a sudden heavy down­ protect the surrounding communities. Even more important than that, Mr. pour occurs the floodwaters rushing to Mr. Chairman, much of this work is Chairman, is a provision in the sa nt. bill the sea sometimes sweep all before them. already completed, and the rather small which states that a vacancy in the office In an effort to alleviate these condi­ amount of money contained in this bill • of Chief of Army Engineers must be filled tions, the Army engineers have worked is requested in order that this project by an officer having the rank of a general out a comprehepsive plan for improv~ng may be completed, and the flood w~~ters officer in the Army, in other words, ma­ flood-control channels-for putting in controlled in that city and in its vicinity. jor general. It meto.ns that a major gen­ dams or other controls where needed. In order to review the need and neces­ eral in the Army will be transferred over Whittier Narrows Dam is an integral sity of this project, may I say that the to the position of Chief of Engineers. part of one of these flood-control sys­ city of Muncie has a population of ap­ Offhand, that does not look so bad, but tems and failure j.o construct that dam is proximately 70,0.00 people. This river if you will consider just how the engi­ endangering the homes of tens of thou­ passes through this city quite near the neers have worked over a period of more sands of Americans living along the San business section, and, also, it passes_ than 100 ~·ears you will understand the Gabriel River. through one of the very fine residential importance of it. The United States Disastrous floods in the Long Beach sections of this city. When floods come Army Engineer Corps was founded and area are not just dreams or figments of both of these sections of this fine city­ organized by George Washington him­ the imagination. We have had these which has been denominated as the typi­ self at a time when the British were mov­ floods. We have seen the land covered cal American city-are ftooded, and ing down through New Jersey, in the with floodwaters almost as far as one much damage is done. The completion dark h0urs of the American Revolution. can see. We have suffered loss of life of this project will prevent this occur­ Since then it has func.tioned in thC; man­ and heavy damage even during recent rence, and it will protect the people from ner as indicated by General Washing­ years, and one does not know when such suffering the damages they have suffered ton. losses may come again. in the past. I am happy that this item Under the operation of the engineers Many of the people who now live in is included in this measure, as it is de­ as presently functioning, the Chief of floodable areas bought their homes dur­ served and greatly needed. It is my hope Engineers is often taken from the field · ing war years without having any knowl­ that this measure is passed today and offices of the engineers. In other words, edge of the danger of flooding in their that this item for flood control will be let us say you have a district office of the areas. They came to southern Califor­ retained in this measure. United States Engineers down in your nia because their services were needed Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I yield territory. The head of that office may by the Government in the conduct of the such time as he may desire to the gentle­ · be doing a brilliant job in flood-control war. They had no choice as to where man from Arizona [Mr. MURDOCK]. work and in rivers and harbors work. He they could settle. They are in their pres­ Mr. MURDOCK. Mr. Chairman, there may be a lieutenant colonel, under the ent homes because of imperative govern­ are many items no doubt scattered present law, with 28 years service; and mental needs. It is the duty of this throughout the entire country that Mem­ if he is doing such a magnificent job, if same Government to give them such pro­ bers would like to see included in this bill he is satisfying the country and pleas­ tection as may be :.,Jossible both in their which are not included. Some of these ing the people and getting the result persons and in their property. Mr. are large items and some are small items. Congress intends, he has a· chance to be Chairman, I am sorry that this bill does I am assuming that many that might be elevated to the position of Chief of Engi­ not carry an appropriation for the Whit­ included in the bill have not been in­ neers. Under the bill which passed the tier Narrows Dam. I hope most sin­ cluded because some part of the prelimi­ House the other day that cannot be done. cerely that the committee will see fit to nary :report has not been completed in No longer can the head of the district have such an appropriation in the next time for the committee to act thereon. offices or the field ofilces of engineers bill of this character. This is probably the case with a flood- 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8037. control project involving Tucson, Ari~. I vey includes the estimated cost, 25 per­ The Tennessee River at one time prob­ know that the need for that particular cent of which is to be borne by local ably :flowed down the Tombigbee ValleY. project is great, and I would like to see contribution and 75 percent by the Fed­ Hernando De Soto, who discovered· the all the various steps which are required eral Government. Knowing the hazard Tennessee River up near its source, fol­ by law taken so as to make this project to property and life which the present lowed it down to the present site of eligible for inclusion in the tlood control uncontrolled situation offers, I feel that Guntersville where he left it and went part of this bill. true economy dictates the expenditure South. When he later discovered the I think the various steps which the law for this purpose as recommended by the Mississippi he thought it was the same now requires to make tlood-control proj­ engineers. stream. He published a map showing ects eligible for consideration are wise Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 15 the Tennessee curving southward and steps. These necessary examinations minutes to the gentleman from Missis­ tlowing down the present course of the and surveys and approvals all tend to sippi [Mr. RANKIN]. Mississippi. It never occurre·d to him eliminate possible pork-barrel features THE TENNESSEE-TOMBIGB$E INLAND WATERWAY that the Tennessee would turn north which have a tendency to creep into such Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, I de­ and tlow in that direction for hundreds bills as the one before us today. Every sire. at this time to talk to you about the of miles. step from the surveys by the Army engi­ Tennessee-Tombigbee Inland Waterway. Some upheaval in prehistoric times neers down to the submission of reports seems to have lifted that grounC:. up and to the committees in the preparation of I shall offer an amendment at the turned the Tennessee north, to where it a bill all help to make successful projects proper time for funds to start the work tlows into the Ohio River at Paducah. appear feasible and to screen meritorious on this, the most important inland wat­ The Tennessee River at the mouth of projects from those of lesser merit. erway project that has ever been pre­ Yellow Creek is 100 feet above the Therefore I approve of the policy which sented to the Congress of the United Tombigbee, where it is formed by the we follow. States. contluence .of Brown and Mackeys Sometimes, however, after the Army As I pointed out to you a few days ago, Creeks less than 25 miles away. So by engineers have made their studies an for 200 years the American people have cutting through this sand ridge anci intermediate step is found to be missing been virtually denied the use of the Mis­ building locks and dams from the mouth and thus the committee is unable to in­ sissippi River, because of their inability of the Warrim River up to the Ten­ clude that project in the tlood-control to stem the swift tide of that stream for nessee, they can put the summit of this bill. I had a case of that sort a few upbound traffic. Only recently the busi­ project in the Tennessee River and pro­ years ago with regard to a tlood-control nessmen along the Ohio River were look­ vide a slack-water route up the Tombig­ project on the Little Colorado River at ing for an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean bee 481 miles from Mobile into the Ten­ Holbrook, Ariz. On that occasion, find­ so they might escape the penalties .of nessee and then a downstream route 215 ing that only one of the intermediate this devastating current. miles on the Tennessee River to Paducah steps had been delayed after the Army For more than 100 years engineers and then down the Ohio 47 miles to engineers had completed their survey and have tried to develop a slack water route Cairo, Ill. stated the great necessity for · the pro­ connecting the Tennessee River and the ' If you will turn to page 7911 of yes­ tective work, I called attention to it in Gulf of Mexico by way of the Tombigbee terday's RECORD, you will find a table the House and the Arizona Senators River. showing what this means. My time is completed the process and included the If you remember, the Tennessee-River limited, so I am going to talk to you in appropriation necessary. I do not know tlows in a southwesterly direction to terms we can all understand. that the conditions are such as to per­ about Guntersville, thence westward to From Cairo, Dl., to New Orleans down mit that to be done in this.bill with refer­ the Mississippi State line, then turns· the Mississippi River 869 miles, then 156 ence to this :flood-control matter at Tuc­ northward and tlows 215 miles to where miles across to Mobile, along the inter­ son, Ariz., but I regard the need of it it empties into the Ohio River at Padu­ coastal waterway, which is slack water, as great. It may be that the Senate can cah. From Paducah the Ohio :flows west, then 481 miles up this proposed Tom­ include the item to protect Tucson which or southwest, 47 miles and empties into bigbee inland waterway, through slack I. do n'>t find incorporated in this bill. the Mississippi at Cairo. water, to the Tennessee River, then 262 The city of Tucson, Ariz. occupies a Until recently the engineers were un­ miles downstream to Cairo, Ill., a vessel unique place geographically. It is al­ able to find a way to connect the Tom­ or a barge from Cairo, or Paducah, mak­ most entirely surrounded by mountains bigbee with the Tennessee without locks ing the round trip would travel 1,768 and yet it lies on the level plain of the going up from ·the Tennessee and also miles. Of that 1, 768 miles, with this Santa Cruz River, which is a tributary locks going up from the Tombigbee. The new development, 1,131 miles of it, or of the Gila River. Most of the year the two streams were separated t>Y a sand approximately two-thirds of the way, Santa Cruz River is as dry as a bone. In ridge about 25 miles wide-and there was would be downstream, and the rest of it fact, its waters lose themselves in the no water supply at the summit. You would be in slack water. desert plain and the location of the river cannot operate locks to lift water traffic General Robins said to the Senate can scarcely be traced on the surface. to a higher level unless you have a water committee that if he were to promise The whole area including and surround­ supply at the summit. Those of you to provide a slack water route all the way ing the city of Tucson is subject to cloud­ who have seen the Panama Canal re­ up the Mississippi to Cairo, just as if it bursts and violent rains at times, and on member that we changed the course of were across the Gulf of Mexico, all the such occasions great destruction of prop­ the Chagres River and turned it into way up and back, they would throw up erty is wrought, and sometimes lives are Gatun Lake in order to provide a water their hats and shout. lost, and always lives are jeopardized. supply at the summit of the Panama But, he said, "This is infinitely better, Such tloods more recently occurred Canal project, 85 feet above sea level. because," he said, "we give you a slack­ in August 1940, in September 1943, and In 1938 the Tennessee Valley Authority water route up to the Tennessee, and­ in August 1945 in and near Tucson, built the Pickwick Dam on the Tennessee then a downstream route to Cairo, 262 causing evaluated damages of $320,000, River, just below the mouth of Yellow miles, and save the swift current of the together with very large ·intangible Creek where this proposed project joins Mississippi for the downstream traffic." damages and the loss of 12 lives. Our the Tennessee. That raised the water As it is today, your vessels cannot go own former colleague, Congressman level at the mouth of Yellow Creek about back up the Mississippi River, except J. Buell Snyder, now deceased, had his 55 feet. The Army engineers were at tremendous expense. own life jeopardized a few years ago called upon to make a new survey, and I have here some photographs which in one of those storms.· The accident they came back the most enthusiastic were supplied me by the Army engineers. created in his mind a most unfavorable group I have ever seen. They said, "We You will notice one of these barges is attitude toward Tucson, Ariz., although find now that we can cut through the coming down from Pittsburgh, Pa., in every other respect he had entertained sand ridge separating the Tennessee down the Ohio River. It is loaded with a most favorable attitude toward and River from the Tombigbee 25 miles away, 14,000 tons of freight. When that feeling for that old pueblo in southern and put the summit of this project in the barge gets to the mouth of the Missis­ Arizona. Tennessee River." That project was sippi River, or to New Orleans, with that The Army engineers have completed recommended by the Chief of Engineers, stream raging as it is today, it is practi- . their survey on this project and submit~ authoriz3d by a vote of both Houses of cally paralyzed so far as returning up the ted their reports in due form. That sur- Congress and signed by the President. Mississipi River is concerned. The same 8038 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 thing is true of this 14,000-ton barge com­ lions, of tons of raw materials that have terials down the Mississippi River; I ing down from Chicago. Here is one to be brought in for that purpose. This am speaking of the people of Pennsyl­ from Detroit, loaded with automobiles short water route will cut the water dis­ vania whose vessels come down the Ohio and automobile parts. Here is one prob­ tance from Oak Ridge to Mobile by more River; I am speaking of the people of ably coming down the Missouri River, than 800 miles. Minnesota whose material comes down probably from Omaha or Kansas City or Suppose you are going from Mobile from St. Paul and Minneapolis; 1 am down the Mississippi from St. Paul, Min­ with a load of materials for Oak Ridge; speaking of the people of Iowa and Ne- neapolis, or St. Louis loaded with 14,000 let us see how you would go. You would 1 braska whose wheat we buy and with tons of freight. go along the intercoastal slack water whom we exchange oil, lumber, and other If they desire to take back the raw route 156 miles to New Orleans, then you products; I am speaking of the people materials, cotton, cottonseed, or cotton­ would have to fight the swift current on of those great middle western States seed meal and hulls, oil, lumber, bauxite, the Mississippi River all the way to . between the Allegheny and the Rocky sea foods, tropical fruits, or other raw Cairo, Ill., 869 miles, go up the Ohio Mountains, or the Cascades, and between materials, if they are so loaded and un­ River 4.7 miles to Paducah and then the Great Lakes and the Gulf. dertake to go back, here is the difference up the Tennessee 215 miles to the I urge you to join me when the time they would pay: mouth of Yellow Creek, where this proj­ comes to adopt an amendment that will Let us take a 14,000-ton barge. We ect intersects the Tennessee River which give us a start in building the greatest will say it is returning from New point you could have reached by moving transportation project ever proposed on Orleans to Cairo. To go across along 481 miles in slack water from Mobile up any river system throughout the entire the slack-water route from New Or­ the Tombigbee along this new route. world. leans to Mobile, up this slack-water route I repeat, there is not another project Mr. McDOWELL. How much money to the Tennessee River, and then down­ like it on earth. is involved? stream to Cairo, Ill., the saving would What we want is funds with which to Mr. RANKIN. The cost of the entire amount to $9,800; and if it were just begin this construction. With the dev­ project is estimated to be $116,000,000, to going to Paducah, or any point on the astating :floods that periodically occur be spent over a period of 5 or 6 years. upper Ohio, it would save $11,760. on the Mississippi River and its tribu­ The Army engineers testified before the Such a barge load going from Mobile taries, with the need for their control Rivers and Harbors Committee that they up the Tombigbee to the Tennessee and an·d for the development of these water­ ought to have $9,000,000 to begin with. then downstream to Cairo would save ways, I have no patience with this policy But we decided that to carry on this work $20,000 on its fuel bill alone. of pouring billions of dollars into the cof­ until the next Congress, they can get If that barge were going from Mobile fers of Europe, and denying funds with along with $3,000,000. Therefore, I shall to Paducah, Ky., Pittsburgh, Pa., Wheel­ which to develop our own resources or offer an amendment for that amount. ing, W. Va., Cincinnati, Ohio, or to any protect our own people. I am not for burdening the Treasury, I other point on the Ohio River, it would All we are asking is that you give us am not after piling upon a national debt, save $22,120 on its fuel bill alone. a reasonable amount to begin this con­ but I am tremendously interested in de­ There is not another project-and I struction in order that you may put us veloping our national resources to take am quoting the words of the Army engi­ one or 2 years ahead of what we would care of the American people now and neers-there is not another project on be if we waited until the next Congress for all time to come. the face o{ the earth, or a place where for this appropriation. 1 am taking the same attitude I took one can be constructed, where the traffic This project has already been ap­ on the construction of the Cape Cod Ca­ can be transferred from one major proved. It was approved by the House nal; I am taking the same attitude I took watershed to another with so little cost, in 1946. It went over to the Senate and on the development of the Columbia so much ease, and such tremendous sav­ it was approved by the Senate by more River, and the Central Valley project in ings in transportation costs and dis­ than 2 to 1--44 to 21 and signed by the California. I am taking the same atti­ tances. The nearest we have found is President. tude I took on the developing of the TVA the connection between the Don and This project is just as sure to be con- and the Arkansas and Missouri Rivers the Volga Rivers in Russia, and even . structed as night follows day. All the projects. that does not have the benefit of a down­ forces of the opposition could not take This is one project the construction of stream route for approximately two­ this project off the statute book and which we cannot afford to postpone; be­ thirds of the round trip. thereby deny this relief to the shippers cause the longer we delay the-longerthe­ In addition, we have right here on in the great Mississippi Valley extending Ameribari people will be denied its the Tennessee River the greatest defense from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Sioux City, Iowa, benefits. project the world has ever known, Oak from Chicago, Ill., to El Paso, Tex., and Every year this construction is delayed Ridge, covering 70 square miles, where from Minneapolis and St. Louis to New will cost our people untold millions of our atomic bombs are made. That is Orleans, La., and Mobile, Ala. dollars, to say nothing of the e17ect on the project on which we are going to The sooner this project i.s constructed our national defense. Let us start work have to rely for our national defense in the sooner your people will reap the bene­ on it now. case of attack probably for generations fits, and I am speaking of the people of Here is the table showing what the to come. Not a man in this House Michigan and Illinois who shipped these saving of this great project would knows the number of thousands, or mil- boat loads of automobiles and other rna- amount to for up-bound traffic.

ViaMissis- Via Tom- Via Tom- Average Average ViaMissis- sippi, per bigbee- Average From- To- sippi, per big bee- Tennessee, savings savings per savings per ton tow of Tenne:osee, per tow of per ton tow of · tow of 3,500 tons per ton 3,500 tons 14,000 tons ---- - 3,500 tons Houston, Tex. .•.• _____ • ______------Cairo. __ ------______------___ $2.34 $8, 190 $1.94 $6,790 $0.40 $1,400 $5,600 Paducah .•• ____ ------______2, 42 8, 470 1.88 6, 580 .54 1, 890 7,560 Tom higbee-Tennessee junction .. ______New Orleans, La ______! 2. 74 9, 590 1.60 5, 600 1.14 3, 990 15,960 Cairo . . _------2.02 7, 070 1. 32 4, 620 • 70 2, 450 9,800 Paducah ______------_ 2.10 7,350 1.26 4,4JO . 84 2,940 11,760 Tombigbee-Tennessee junction ______M obi!«', Ala ______: ______2. 42 8,470 .99 3,465 1. 43 5, 005 20,020 Cairo._.------2. 39 8, 36fi .95 3, 325 1. 44 5,040 20, 160 Psd ucah __ ___ .. __ ... __ .. ______• _• • _ 2.47 8,645 .89 3, llli 1. 58 5, 530 22, 160 Tombigbee-Tennessee junction ______2. 79 9, 765 .62 2,170 2.17 7, 595 30,380 Port Birmingham, Ala ..••••••••••••••••••• Paducah.Cairo ___ .. ______------______•• _ 2.96 10,360 .95 3,325 2.01 7, 035 28, 140 3.04 10,640 .89 3,115 2. 15 7,525 30, 100 Tomb!gbee-Tennessee junction ______3.36 11,760 .62 2,170 2. 74 9, 590 38,360 Demopolis, Ala.------•. Cairo __ ___ ------2.68 9, 380 .67 2,345 2. 01 7,035 28, 140 Paducah ______------2. 76 9, 660 • 61 2,135 2.15 7, 525 30,000 Tombigbee-Tennessee junction.. ______3. 08 10,780 .34 1,190 2. 74 9, 590 38,360 Col urn bus, Miss.--.--.------_------Cairo_ . . _• • ------•..• ____ •• ------2.83 9, 905 .51 1, 785 2. 32 8,120 32,480 Paducah __ . ____ ------_____ ------______2. 91 10, 185 .45 1, 575 2. 46 8, 610 34,440 Tom higbee-Tennessee junction..••••..•••• 3.23 11,305 .17 595 3.06 10,710 42,940 Aberdeen, Miss...• •••• ------Cairo. __------2.88 10,080 .46 1,610 2.42 8,470 33,880 Paducah ____ ._. ___ • ______2.96 10,360 .40 1,400 2.56 8,,960 35,840 Tom higbee-Tennessee junction.••••••••••• 3.28 11,480 .13 455 3.15 11,025 44,100 Fulton, Miss •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Cairo. __ ------2.93 10,255 .41 1,435 2.52 8,820 35,280 Paducah •.• _••••• __ ••• __ •••••••••••••••••• 1.01 10,535 .35 1,225 2.66 9,310 37,240 Tombigbee-Tennessee junction••••• ;-···:-·~ .33 11,655 .08 280 3.25 11,375 45, 500 .1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8039 As I said, it is the greatest project of of testimony. Many of Dr. Townsend's we heard a lot last week about the Town­ its kind ever proposed, and the sooner it former associates in his organization send movement. is constructed the better it will be for the came forward under oath and testified. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the people of the entire Nation. · Their testimony together portrayed · a gentleman from Missouri has expired. I hope you will all support my amend­ story of the most shameless abuse of Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I yield ment. trusting old people. It disclosed the ugly the gentleman three additional minutes. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the past of a number of Dr. Townsend's Mr. BELL. When Dr. Townsend was gentleman from Mississippi has expired. closest associates, some of whom had in town last week with about 3,000 people, Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 criminal records of a disgusting char­ I saw many of them; they looked like minutes to the gentleman from Missouri acter. One of the highlights of the in­ fine, good people, apparently they [Mr. BELL]. vestigation was the fact that Dr. Town­ believed in Dr. Townsend just like those Mr. BELL. Mr. Chairman, I want to send was cited for contempt by the House poor people did who were fleeced 10 thank the gentleman from North Caro­ of Representatives. He was prosecuted years ago. lina for granting me this time. I am not and convicted in the United States Dis­ I picked up a copy of the Washington going to talk about rivers, but I am going trict Court and sentenced to serve a term Post the other morning and I read this to talk about a matter which deeply af­ in jail. At the time of his conviction, short article quoting Dr. Townsend at a fects our country. I would not intrude he and his associates were making elabo­ meeting held down here at the Uline at this time upon you if I did not feel the rate plans to portray him in the role of Arena: remarks I am about to make concern a a martyr and to raise vast sums of money "Many voters have lost faith in the sin­ matter of great general interest. for his release. Much to the disappoint­ cerity of both of the old parties. Back in 1929, and for a decade prior· ment of himself and his associates, the "The good old American· game of cops and thereto, we had a period of very unusual President of the United States pardoned robbers;• he continued, "is being replaced by prosperity. During that period all over him at my request. I was moved to make a new one called Commies and Reaction­ the Middle West thousands upon thou­ this request of the President because I aries and both these names are often mis­ applied." sands of farmers had grown well to do, was opposed to seeing Dr. Townsend and Through most of .his speech, Dr. Townsend had retired, and had gone to the west his associates use this proposed synthetic waged a recurrent attack on Representative coast to spend their last years in that martyrdom as another device through JoHN C. BUTLER, Republican, New York, who, balmy climate out there in California. which to fleece his trusting followers of he said "would deprive this organization of In 1929 the great depression was sud­ further sums. its right to free speech and a free and un­ denly upon us. There is an old saying During the course of the investigation trammeled press." Representative BuTLER, he that "where dead meat lies the vultures it was learned that Dr. Townsend had asserted, had called hlm a Communist and the Townsend group communistic ln a gather." been employl3d by the promoter who had "skulking cowardly· assault upon our patri­ As I say, thousands upon thousands made a fortune at the expense of these otism." of these good industrious farmers had midwestern farmers. As time went on "The old-age pension planner declared that moved to the west coast. A man who the land racket was beginning to wear when banks and other financial institutions lived out there on the west coast--a off a little, and Dr. Townsend and his abuse, for private profit, their usurped power shrewd, aggressive promoter-saw in that partner conceived the idea that there ov~r the people's credit, we attack-and we situation a chance to make a fortune. was a hlore lucrative field, so they ·got shall continue to attack ·and attack and He '!)ought a strip of sandy land along the busy. They· organized a corporation attack. "If these things be communism make the coast; he planted it, divided it up, and and Dr. Townsend took half of the stock most of it," he challenged. put out some propaganda with the idea and his partner took half of it. One this land was going to be immensely valu­ share, to qualify him as a director of The doctor has been proclaiming his able. So for a period of t.tme he and the corporation was given to a brother of patriotism for many years, but I want to those employed by him were very busy Dr. Townsend, who was working as a say to you gentlemen here today that contacting these retired farmers, fleecing hotel porter out in Los Angeles. They although Dr. Townsend sold his plan to some of them out of the farms they had started preaching the so-called doctrine those poor,innocent, old folks to the tune left in the Middle West and trading them · of Townsendism. Discouraged people of $150,000 a month in those days, and in return this land which it was pictured from all over the country began to flock although he held his meetings in suddenly was to become very valuable. in contributing their little mite, and it churches and proclaimed himself a super The Townsend movement had grown was not long until that organization was American he bas never hesitated for one by leaps and bounds and had come to taking ~n something like $150,000 a moment to cooperate with those agents the attention of the Congress in those month. It was not very lo:1g until that of Russia who have been attempting to days. Time magazine had just chal­ movement, like other movements, at­ destroy this country, if it was to Dr. lenged it and described it as the major tracted its racketeers, in addition to Townsend's financial profit to do so. Fascist threat to the American form of those who started it. A man by the I hold in my hand a copy of the Town­ government. Many of you who were in name of Margett on the west coast be­ send Weekly under date of Monday, July Congress then were the recipients of came Townsend's manager for all that 29, 1935. Here on page 14 of the Town­ thousands of cards and ·letters and tele­ great west coast area. Margett was well send Weekly is almost a half-page ad put grams of a very threatening nature de­ known to the authorities of the law. in by the agents of Communist Russia. manding that you come out for the Town­ He had been indicted for accepting the They are offering a free trip to Russia send plan. earnings of a prostitute. He had been for the man on the West coast who or­ In addition to the propaganda letters, the head of a big rug and jewelry steal­ ganizes the biggest Communist club. cards, and telegrams which were coming ing ring. He was at the head of a dope They are peddling Communist literature. to the Members of Congress, there began smuggling ring. During the First World There on the face of this page in the also to come in from people all over the War be was at the head of a bootlegging Townsend Weekly you see frontispiece country, stories of some of the shameful ring, and at that time the papers up in pictures of Communist magazines, sell­ things that were perpetrated by this Seattle were filled with front-page items ing their diabolical doctrines to poor in­ band of racketeers who were running the of gun battles between his outfit and nocent unthinking people of America, so-called Townsend movement. At that another one. But when he hooked up attempting to destroy the rights and time, I introduced in the House a resolu- · with Dr. Townsend, he proclaimed him­ privileges of the people of this country tion ·to investigate. The resolution was self a super A~_l erican. He had been under the guise of doing something good. adopted by the House with only four born in Vilna, Russia. He denied his It has been some time since that in­ votes against it. The Speaker of the birth in Russia. This, however, was vestigation took place. Many of the House appointed an investigating com­ later proved under his own signature. gentlemen and ladies of this body have mittee consisting of eight Members, four But, he became the dominating figure become members since then. In view of of whom were Republicans and four were for a while in the Townsend movement. the recent activities of that organiza­ Democrats. I had the honor of serving I wish that I had more time, but my tion, in view of the recent statement of as the chairman of that committee. For time is limited, and I just want to call Dr. Townsend indicating that he is going many months this committee worked your attention to the fact that for the to join hands with Henry Wallace and tirelessly. We took thousands of pages first time in years around Washington his fellow travelers in a third party 8040 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 I might digress to explain that under West movement, I· think it is high time that the relocating of the 1railroad. Is my un­ the people of this country know some­ derstanding correct? Virginia law and practice, taxes or charges­ thing about the record that was made Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. The gentle­ we call them charges here; we are obliged to do so, under West Virginia law-become a back there a decade ago. man is correct. lien against the property as of the 1st day I insert in the RECORD at this point­ Mr. McGREGOR. I thank the gen­ of January of a given year. They are col­ having just obtained unanimous consent tleman. lected, the first half, in October of that year, to do so-the page from the Townsend Mr. ELLIS. Mr. Chairman, I am in­ and the second half in May of the following Weekly which I exhibited during the terested today in a project in my own year. But the benefit ·nust be there as of course of my remarks: district, in Parkersburg, W. Va., a flood the 1st day of January of the year for which wall. May I say in the beginning that in the tax or charge is levied; else it would be WHAT Do You REALLY KNOW ABOUT RUSSIA? invalid under West Virginia law. Regardless of what political views one may the report there is listed $288,000 as un­ If the wall is not completed on or before hold, every intelligent person is tremendously expended money. I am informed by the December 31, 1948, Parkersburg will have no interested in what really is going on in the delegation that came here from Parkers­ further funds to meet interest payments and Soviet Union. More than anything else, it is burg that the money has been expended bond maturities in 1950 and subsequent important to know the truth. At the present in its entirety; there are no remaining years as its general tax revenues are exempt time a campaign of slanders -and lies unpar­ funds from the past fiscal year. from such use by law, even if they were not alleled in the history of publishing is being Our purpose in going before the com­ most urgently required for other municipal conducted against the Soviet Union by a mittee was to ask the committee not purposes. number of leading American publishers. merely to allocate $300,000 toward the If the wall is not completed on or before Soviet Russia Today is a monthly magazine, December 31, 1948, Parkersburg will be devoted entirely to spreading truthful, fac­ continuation of the construction or the obliged to do one of two things: (1) Make tual information about the Soviet Union. It wall, but to ask the committee to recom­ default in the payment of its bonds, with is the only magazine of its kind in the United mend the allotment of sufficient funds to ruinous attendant consequences, as it has States. Each issue contains numerous arti­ insure the completion of the wall within never defaulted in the performance of any cles by world-famous authorities which de­ the originally contemplated time, that is, financial undertaking. pict clearly the great advancement of the December 31, 1948. The sum that will Of course, an answer to that might be that Soviet workers, of their struggles to build a the general credit of the city of Parkersburg be required in these 2 years is approxi­ is not pledged, but all that the investing Socialist society. Learn why workers in the mately $3,000,000. Soviet Union have full social insurance, need public ever remembers is that they defaulted fear no insecurity in their old age, have vaca­ There is a situation prevailing there the bond issue. tions with pay. Learn why wages mount that, outside of the fact that we want a (2) Refinance the existing issue over a constantly as living costs drop. Read the flood wall to protect the property of a longer term and at prohibitively high loss truth about the Soviet Union. great city, a great manufacturing center, and with a resultant irrecoverable loss of from the damages of flood, we have a whatever interest there would be on $300,000, WHO LIES AND WHY? for whatever period of time completion is You should know why lies are published bond situation that is very involved and delayed. against the Soviet Union because these lies will cause the city a· money loss and con­ It is gravely doubtful whether a refip.ancing may affect you directly. Find out why they siderable trouble. Mr. Hoff, the flood­ issue of flood-wan revenue bonds could be lie. Read and subscribe to the profusely 11- wall attorney, had a very concise state­ sold at all, as such bonds have never been lustJ;ated monthly magazine, Soviet Russia ment on this feature of our difficulty. It popular with investors, and the very circum­ Today. Regular price, $1 a year. is contained in the hearings, but they are stances here being discussed, such as uncer­ FREE TRIP TO THE SOVIET UNION very lengthy. I know a great many have tainty as to completion and completion date, would render such a refinancing bond issue Right now this magazine is holding a con· not had the time to read them. I be­ _particularly unattractive. test which you may easily win. The first lieve I can save time and give you a better These factors would make the new interest prize is a free trip to the Soviet Union. Send picture by quoting from the statement rate prohibitively high. We now have an us $1 today and we will enter your subscrip­ of Mr. Hoff: interest rate of 2¥.i percent. But if we could tion for a whole year to this splendid maga­ The factual, legal, and financial situation not tell investors when charges could become zine. We will also send you free the two im­ effective, as we originally did, then they would portant pamphlets shown above by Corliss in reference to the Parkersburg flood wall is unique. There is no similar situation any­ say, Lamont, which will give you a complete un­ "We do not know when or if we are ever derstanding of what is going on in the Soviet where else in the whole of the United States. That point will be elaborated. going to get our money." Union and why; and how it affects you. Send My judgment is, from some considerable your order today. Irreparable injury and irretrievable finim­ cialloss with no offsetting benefit will result experience with bond issues and the sale of 1\lAIL THIS COUPON to the city of Parkersburg if the partially municipal bonds, that such a refinancing SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY, constructed Parkersburg flood wall is not bond issue would go begging at any price Desk 26, 824 Broadway, completed within the originally scheduled under the circumstances here obtained. New York City: time; that is, December 31, 1948. The cost of refinancing and the interest Enclosed is $1. Please send me a year's The first and least-expensive section of the paid during the period of delay in construc­ subscription to ~viet Russia Today together wall, an earthen dike, has been built. What tion would be irretrievable losses. In other with your two pamphlets, Socialist Planning remains to be done is a concrete and vastly words, we have borrowed $300,000 upon the in Soviet Russia and on Understanding Soviet more expensive portion of the wall, and pump theory that it was going to be ut1lized in dis­ Russia, by Corliss Lamont. Give me full de­ stations. charging our part of the undertaking within tails of your contest in which I may win a Parkersburg financed its part of the cost as sh!Jrt a time as possible; and because of free trip to the Soviet 'Union and $200 in of the wall; that is, $300,000, for rights-of­ the delay, for whatever reason, 1f we have to cash prizes. way and clearing rights-of-way by the issu­ pay interest on that money for a longer term ance and sale of flood-wall revenue bonds, than we contemplated, for those extra years Name------­ pursuant to chapter 8 of the West Virginia the interest will be irrecoverable losses. Address------Act of 1935, which are payable solely from CitY------State ______charges against real property in the benefited At the rate of $300,000 annually and Canada. and foreign, $L50 areas and under applicable West Virginia law if conditions remain the same it would such charges cannot be levied or collected taken 10 years to complete the wall. Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Chair­ until the wall is completed so as to protect This project was authorized in 1938 man, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman the property charged. and work started, I believe, in 1945. We from West Virginia [Mr. ELLISL · In reliance upon the Government's assur­ are indeed sorry the committee has not Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Chairman, will ances that the wall would be completed on or before December 31, 1948, Parkersburg fully appreciated our predicament. If the gentleman yield so that I may pro­ made allowance for the payment of interest this bill is not improved in the House to pound a question to the chairman? during the construction period out of the allow for a material increase in the allot­ Mr. ELLIS. I yield to the gentleman bond proceeds, and made the bond maturi­ ment for Parkersburg it is our intention from Ohio. ties begin in the year 1950, upon the theory to appeal to the other body for relief. Mr. ·McGREGOR. On page 7 of the that interest payments after the contem­ If we succeed there, and I believe we will, report is an item of $2,000,000 marked plated construction period and bond matur­ it is my prayer that the conferees, and ities in 1950 and subsequent years could be "Dillon Reservoir, Ohio." It is my un­ met from charges collected beginning with in turn the House, will give our case their derstanding that no part of this money the year 1949. approval. If-the Congress fails in this will be used for actual dam construction. This plan will be defeated if the funds are they will do great injury to a community It can only be used for the land and not made available to complete the wall on or which was not intended when the flood rough grading work that is necessary in before Dceember 31, 1948. wall was authorized. 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE 8041' Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 the Mississippi emptied into Lake Pont­ tions that arise in the minds of the minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana chartrain, about 200,000 people living in committee and can give us the informa­ ,[Mr. BoGGS]. my congressional district have been en­ tion that we need. That will help us Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana. Mr. Chair­ dangered, and many millions of dollars . do a much better job. man, the people whom I have the honor worth of property has been endangered.­ Some of you have undoubtedly, as to represent naturally have a very vital Despite the fact that the Army engineers have members of the committee, been interest in the legislation now pending have recommended that project, the Bu­ criticized because these floods have before the committee. ·My distinguished reau of the Budget did not recommended occurred, they say. because Congress has colleague from Mississippi [Mr. Rt.NKIN l it; so I am not critical of the committee not legislated enough money. In all a few moments ago, talking in behalf of today. fairness to Congress you should tell the tae Tomblgbee project, bad here for the I can cite another illustration: the folks that the bill we are working on benefit of the Members of the House a great Morganza fioodway. The intent of now is the 1948 fiscal year bill. You very splendid map. That map, if you that fioodway is to divert the waters of might also refer them to page 204. con­ looked at it very carefully, traeed the tbe Mississippi about 120 miles north of tinuing over to page 208 of the hearings. tremendous amottnt of water which flows New Orleans out through tbe so-called There you will fuid a statement cf the into the Father of WaterS, the Mississippi, Atchafalaya Basin. About 2 years .ago sums of money appropriated for rivers which eventually fiows past my front the ~ngineers w.ere on the verge of open­ and harbors and fiood control for the door in the old city of New Orleans. · ing that fioodway. The Mississippi was fiscal year 1947. You will find that in The Mississippi River, as aU of _you at flood stage, and there was danger to rivers and harbors they have had a little know, is a fabulous river. It is steeped millions upon millions of acres of the over $110,000,000, but the President­ in tradition and charm and commerce richest and finest alluvial land in the and where he gets the power I am still and industry. More than that, it 1s a United States. Had that floodw.ay been unable to find-the President placed a very vital river because it drains about forced open, had the situation become so spending ceiling of $90,000,000 on the two-thirds of the entire continental acute that it had to be opened, much of Engineers for those particular projects. United States. But it is also treacherous the southwestern section of Louisiana.. Later, under pressure, I assume, he and, when in flood, endangers lives and including much of the sugar-producing raised it to $105,000,000. Last year we property. Sooner or later every drop of area in that State, and much of the rice­ provided the Engineers with $144,000,000 that water must go down its long tor­ producing area would have been flooded. appropriations and. $165,000,000 avail­ tuous path and into the Gulf of Mexico. This legislation today carries $200,000- able from the previous year, making a Naturally, I say, the people of New Or­ for work on the Morganza fioodway. net available of $30'7,000,000; but if you leans who have lived with that river, Despite the fact that hundreds upon will read the hearings you will find that fought that river, and made their living hundreds of millions of dollars have been the President placed a spending ceiling out of that river, are vitally interested spent upon it, and if the time should ar­ later raised to $190,000,000 on the Engi­ in this legislation. I stand here today, rive next spring that that fioodway would neers for fiood-contl'Ol work. not in criticism of the committee which have to be opened-and it is not ready Therefore, some of -the blame for has brought out this bill. I think the to be opened-millions upon millions, if some of these breaks that may have oc­ committee has done a splendid job but not billions, of dollars of damage would curred in the- levees should not be placed I say7 advisecUy, it is with regret that I be done throughout that entire area of on the doorstep of the Congress which have read the recommendations of the the United States. appropriated the money. but could well Bureau of the Budget on the projects, 'The CHAmMAN. 'lbe time of the be placed upon the doorstep of 1600 both for new projects and for mainte­ gentleman from Louisiana rMr. BoGGS] Pennsylvania Avenue which did not per­ nance in the lower Mississippi Valley. I has expired. mit the money to be spent for the pur­ think those recommendations are a step Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Chair­ pose intended. backward. In approving today only $24,- man, I yield the remainder of my time You might also find by reading a little 000,{)00 for the entire lower Mississippi to the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. further that for the :fiscal year 1948 and Valley area, we are being very short­ ScRIVNER]. apparently regardless of this Congress sighted. We are taking chances that The CHAffiMAN. The gentleman which makes the appropriations, the from Kansas -[Mr. SCRIVNER] is recog­ President has set a tentative spending we can ill afford to take. I realize the ceiling of $253,000,000. arguments that have been made and I nized for 11 minutes. realize their validity. Mr. SCRIVNER. Mr. Chairman, it is Going back to the matter of these dele­ easy to understand why we are more gations as they came before us there was As a member of the House Committee flood conscious at this particular session not one of them but what painted a on Banking and Currency, it is ·one of of Congress than in previous ones, be­ glowing picture of the returns that would our duties to know something about the cause every time we pick up our papers come to the Government, but I must say costs of construction. I know the cost from the ho.JDe town we find headlines that as I analyzed it the return to the of labor and maintenance is up an over which say that hundreds of thousands of Federal Government was either remote the United States. I believe the Chief acres washed away; that this now is the or too long delayed. Although some of of Engineers testified that costs were up worst flood in a period of 103 years of these delegations would paint a very about 70 percent. But nevertheless, American history; and so it is that we glowing picture of their particular proj­ floods, rivers, rains, snow, and ice do not are aware of the :flood situation that ect and how much it "':Vould return, when wait for construction costs to come down. exists in this country. we made inquiry of some of their repre­ It has taken us many, many, many years I might say· in passing just as a mat­ sentatives as to how much the local com­ to develop ·the sy.stem of flood control ter of suggestion to the Members of the munity was going to invest in thil:i par­ which we now enjoy in the lower valley. House that 1 realize the position they ticular project, we found that it was not This inadequate appropriation puts us in are in sometimes, but if they desire to going to invest anything at all. We have a position of danger, the like of which cooperate with the committee and make had experience along this line for many we have not experienced for many years. its work easier and more proficient they years. In my -own home town, Kansas I could cite many examples. I could might help us by ti·ying to cut down the City, KanS., which is right at the junc­ talk about specific projects in my own size of some of these large delegations tion of the Kansas and the Missouri and area which have been pending for as which come from hundreds and even probably the third most critical point in long as 10 years. One of the famous thousands of miles to appear before the Ur.ited States as far as fioods are pr ojects completed by the engineers was committees · of Congress. You might con~ernect. throughout that c..ity and the Bonnet Carre spillway, which cuts off just as well tell the folks back home that county drainage districts have been es­ the Mississippi River about 25 miles north the committee is not swayed by the tablished and the people are spending of New Orleans and diverts the water out numbers that appear from the home their own money building levees and into Lake Pontchartrain and finally town, nor is it influenced by the num­ have been for scores of years. They will eliminates it Into the Gulf of Mexico ber of letters or wires. Its judgment continut. to spend their own money, and through two famous passes, Chef Men­ is based upon the facts. If you have they have no hesitation doing it., because teur and Rigolets. some project you might better have some they are willing to help them~elves, a,nd 'That spillway has been opened twice. one man who is particularly conversant when somebody else helps them they can On both occasions as the floodwaters of with the project who can answer ques- help themselves that much more. I 8042 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 think that practice might well be fol­ process now of being further developed. expect the elements to control themselves lowed throughout the Nation, because if Is that correct? for human benefit. Moreover, by just these communities put some of their own Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Will the wringing our hands instead of turning money in it you can be more assured that gentleman repeat the question? off' the water, we appear hypocritical as maybe it has some real value; otherwise Mr. DEANE. I was directing the at­ well as stupid. For we do know how to I think we are justified in believing that tention of the committee to page 11 of turn off the water. It can be accom- · some of these advantages that are point­ the report, "Plans and Specifications" plished through comprehensive flood­ ed out to us are nothing more than concerning not exactly new projects but control measures. mirages. projects that the Army engineers have Among my first efforts upon entering One other point I think might well be recommended and upon which certain this Congress was to make an exhaustive discussed is the fact that while these work has been started. study of flood control, soil erosion a~d floods are serious, while they do great Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Yes. The reforestation as it applies to the Yadkin damage, there is a certain limit to the item there has reference to $2,000,000 for Basin. I find many precedents wherein legislative right, and the financial ability plans and specifications on flood control the Congress was faced with identical of this Nation to meet all the requests projects. The Bureau of the Budget esti­ situations in other pa~ of the country that are being made on us. These dele­ mated $4,000,000 for plans, but in that and this body had the courage and wis­ gations come not merely from the Missis­ group of projects for which it proposed dom to take remedial steps and I suggest sippi Valley, for instance, and the Mis­ to apply $4,000,000 were some very urgent the Eightieth Congress emulate the wise souri Valley, but they are now coming project::; that we moved over into the con­ and sufficient action of its predecessors. from almost all over the United States. struction program; so that the amount As a result of· this courage and vision, For instance, the small State of Ver­ requested for plans will be something less we witness not only the complete elimi­ mont· had floods that did more than than $4,000,000. For that we provided nation of floods in the rich Tennessee $7,000,000 worth of damage in the last $2,000,000 and it is within the discretion Valley but the entire southwest has been few weeks. That story is repeated all of the Chief of Engineers as to where transformed into a land of great beauty over the United States. that ·$2,000,000 should be applied. We and bountiful crops. If we had ui'llimited funds, if we had assume he will divide it between the most In like manner we can bottle Up not unlimited power, if we had unlimited urgent projects. only the Yadkin, but the Missouri and resources and unlimited legislative au­ Mr. DEANE. I thank the gentleman. the Mississippi. We, who live on the thority, we could comply with many Among these .projects referred to by the highlands, cannot justify our seat in requests. As far as the pull on the heart­ gentleman from South Dakota [Mr. ·Congress, when we see with our own eyes string is concerned, the pull was there. CAsE] is the Yadktn-Pee Qee project in the devastation, witness the pain of hu- Of course, we sympathize with -these Wilkes County in my congressional dis-. man distress and the destruction of whole groups. Their plight is pitiful, but with trict. .countrysides, unless we take steps to 'the emergency fund of $15,000,000 The grim specter of ghost· towns and bring hope and relief to these grief­ recently appropriated and with the funds communities located in one of the choice stricken farmers, business establish­ now available, many of these critical bread baskets of North Carolina moves ments, ·and home~ which have 'been de­ situations can be corrected during the me to seek ·support of my friends · and stroyed. They have suffered these losses coming fiscal year. colleagues of this distinguished body in many times before; they live in constant The CHAffiMAN. The time of the the matter of the appropriation for flood horror of the next flood which they know gentleman has expired. control contained in the bill w.e consider is sure to come. Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 today. It is my duty-my responsibility at this minutes to the gentleman from North The district which I have the honor of time to place the entire influence of my Carolina [Mr. DEANE]. :representing is greatly concerned as we office behind a program which I am con­ Mr. DEANE. Mr. Chairman, if I may -of this deliberative body literally grasp vinced will alleviate a situation which digress for a moment I would like to the valve or spigot that controls the presently causes totally unnecessary suf­ join with my colleague, the gentleman waters of the Yadkin River. The Yadkin fering and anguish amongst the good from Louisiana [Mr. BROOKS J, and voice drains an area of 16,340 square miles in people of the Yadkin Basin. my deep concern over the proposed pro­ the coastal plain, Piedmont Plateau, and I heartily agree with the Honorable motion system involving the Corps of mountain region of my home State. Our Josephus Daniels' recent warning to the Army Engineers which cleared this House failure t6 close the spigot will result in effect that "this is not a piecemeal job." within recent days. devastating flood waters periodically Mr. Daniels recalled when the late Presi­ I voice the earnest hope that the other rushing unchecked through fields and dent Roosevelt was asked by newspaper­ body will revise the House legislation meadows, leaving in their wake scenes of involving the promotion of this group of heart-rending ruin and frustration. men in 1937-when floods were raging in able, conscientious, and deserving mem­ Mr. President, the Yadkin River must the Ohio Valley-if there should not be bers of the Corps of Army Engineers, and be bottled up. I submit this can be ac­ permanent flood control in that area, Mr. to the end that this faithful group 'of complished through an adequate flood­ Roosevelt replied: public servants may not be penalized control measure, which I now urge you Whenever we ha·ve a flood we have three or four different groups who rush to the under any new promotion system to adopt. Government to get money for this, that, or devolved by' the armed services. I speak in behalf of a great host of the other thing. There are the people down­ Mr. Chairman, I would like to address people residing along the meanderings stream, who want more and better levees: myself to the committee and highly com­ of this river rising on the eastern slopes and then the next group that wants dams mend the Subcommittee on Appropria­ of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western in the rivers; and another group that wants tions for its painstaking work and the North Carolina, flowing northeasterly, to go up in the headwaters and plant trees: very serious approach I am sure it took easterly, and southeasterly about 202 and another group that says it is entirely a with regard to all of these flood-control miles to the mouth of the Uwharrie River question of soil erosion. So you get all these different groups that say their own measures. I realize that we are trying to near Baden, where it changes its name particular theory will stop the flood. I reach a legislative budget and these men to the Pee Dee, or the Great Pee Dee have come to the cop.clusion that we have are charged with the responsibility of River; there it continues southeasterly to pursue all of these things simultaneously. trying to bring in a fair, reasonable ap­ about 253 miles to enter the· Atlantic propriation with reference to all these Ocean through Winyah Bay, near Mr. Chairman, I call upon this Con­ projects. However, I would like to direct Georgetown, S. C. gress to get behind a three-point pro­ you attention to page 11 of the report. This beautiful valley is productive of gram and urge that we play our part in "Plans and Specifications" which in great quantities of nature's contribution making available the necessary appro­ speaking with the gentleman from South to the sustenance and well-being of not priations. Having in mind the Yadkin­ Dakota [Mr. CASE] of the committee only the gentle folk in the immediate Pee Dee Basin, I shall unceasingly strive represents, as I understand it, certain area but people within a wide contiguous for immediate adoption of the following projects that are not exactly new but for region. The beneficence of this graceful program: _ which the Army engineers have made river is exceeded only by its ravishing de­ First. EFection of flood-control or de­ certain plans or specifications and the struction as we permit it, the spigot to tention dams in Wilkes County where projects throughout the country are in remain wide open. Certainly we do not the spigot is primarily located. 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8043 Second. Promotion and carrying out conservationist; and County Supervisors a program will make a definite contribu­ of the Tri Creek Soil Conservation Dis­ Paul Speer, of Boonville, R. S. Burrus, tion, not only for flood control but such trict wogram, the details of which are of Dobson, · and M. A. Hester, of Belew practices will bring added benefits in the now in the process of development at the Creek. The reports brought by these form of better crops, better pastures, Washington level. men are the annual recurring story of and better soil conditions for the general - Third. Fire prevention in the remain­ great loss and devastation. welfare of not only .this watershed but ing forests and a cooperative reforesta­ The floodwaters in the recent flood the Nation. Strip cropping, contour tion program on the slopes of the Blue came principally from heavy rains cov­ plowing, diversion ditches, terracing, Ridge. ering approximately 60,000 acres of pasture reseeding, vegetative cover of Time and space prevent the year-by­ mountain territory, centering in the vi­ lands during the winter season and a year review of the devastating floods cinity of Cub Creek on the south side great many other soil-conservation which have visited the Yadkin Basin of the Yadkin River. The heavy erosion measures to adjust the use of the farm area. Yet I briefly scan the report of damage and high run-off on approxi­ land, will not only contribute to the over­ the United States Army engineers who mately 50,000 acres of poorly managed all objective of-aiding in the reduction of have submitted an exhaustive study on and partially burned woodland and ap­ floods but will result in an additional the flood damage. I quote from their proximately 10,000 acres of open land benefit of greater fertility of the soil, in­ report on the 1940 flood: in this territory on which the rain fell creased incomes for the farmer, and a This region is subject to frequent damag­ made worse the flood damage down­ general improvement of the welfare of ing floods, the most severe of which are stream. There were approximately 6,000 this section and the Nation. caused by tropical hurricanes. A total of acres of cropland along the Yadkin Let me repeat that installation of 27 damaging floods were recorded during the River damaged, of which at least 4,000 wat€fshed measures in aid of flood con­ SO-year period 1916 to 1945, inclusive. The were actually in crops such as corn, trol is good business for the f~rmers and greatest fiood of record occurred in August small grain, and hay. There were at ·forest owners whose land is involved. 1940 ·when a rainfall of 24 inches in 186 hours was reported and the average over the least 2,000 acres more of cropland also The measures fit in well with the con­ watershed above North Wilkesboro ·was 13.3 damaged by this flood along Cub Creek servation measures designed to retain inches. The resulting direct and indirect and other minor tributaries to the upper and build up soil fertility, make farming damages in the reach above Donnaha were Yadkin River. Many small farmers had operations easier, increase production, $1,632,000 and $621,000, respectively, a total their crops so completely destroyed that and maintain farms a.nd forests in stable of $2,253,000, exclusive .of resulting fire they feel it hopeless to continue their condition. The soil-conservation dis­ losses, estimated at $1,000,000. The loss of farming operations. trict program is doing some of these nine lives was reported, one of which was The latest flood being so severe, at my measures now. Intensification and ex­ downstream from the proposed dams. About 6,500 acres of cropland and the raiiway be­ request, the Farmers Home Administra­ pansion of the work for the purpose of tween Wilkesboro and Donnaha were tion through the county supervisors reduction of run-off and therefore flood fiooded. - The principal centers of urban made 5-year / loans available to the control is essential. damage were at North Wilkesboro and stricken farmers to purchase seed, ferti­ My third point concerns the fire-pre­ ·Elkin, and the small communities between lizer and farming machinery. While vention and cooperative-reforestation and below Elkin. The avera~e annual direct this brought some temporary relief, I program. The forests must be given fiood damages in the reach above Donnaha want to see the spigot turned off. The greater protection from fire and a co­ 1s estimated at $121,700 and $50,400, .respec­ independent farmers of the Yadkin Basin operative-reforestation program must be tively, a total of $172,100. do not seek pity through loans; they launched at once. The engineers recommend, and the want the Yadkin bottled up and that is It is of great interest, not only to the Seventy-ninth Congress ,approved, the my plea to you ladies and gentlemen of local people, but to those here in Con­ erection of flood-control detention dams the House, as you consider the appropri­ gress, that recommendations in the in Wilkes County which they point out ation for flood control now pending be­ forthcoming flood-control survey report _... will prevent most of the direct and in­ fore us. be carried out as intensively and ex­ direct flood damages suffered under pres­ This recent flood emphasizes my sec­ peditiously as possible to obtain the im­ ent conditions. ond point in the development of this provements of not only these forests but In support of my first objective for the great Yadkin Basin to save it from be­ all land in the watershed. erection of these dams, there appeared coming a wasteland, namely, the promo­ A great area of woodland at the head­ before the Committee on Appropriations, tion of an outstanding soil-conservation waters of this river is in a natural unit at my request, Hon. Johnson J. Hayes, program under the sponsorship of the for a national forest because to the north Wilkesboro; John E. Justice, J. B. Wil­ Tri Creek Soil Conservation District 1n and to the south lies the Pisgah National liams, Watson Brame, U. S. Forester, cooperation with the farmers and the Forest which is an outstanding demon­ Jr., each of North Wilkesboro; as well as United States Department of Agricul­ stration of how to wisely and carefully citizens from adjoining counties who ture. manage large areas of woodland not only joined me in urging the carrying out of A means must be developed whereby for flood control but production of a the United States Army engineers' rec­ the waters from the smaller streams and most needed resource. ommendation. tributaries must be slowed down to a On the many small woodland tracts in I am pleased to note, Mr. Chail·man, walk. The farmers, all of them, must the watershed, in-the-woods advice and that the Committee on Appropriations practice a soil-conservation program assiStance, which is now available in a has seen fit to give to the engineers suffi­ that will save their topsoil. For ex­ small measure, must be afforded every cient funds which will enable them to ample, after the large flood in 1940, the farmer or small woodland owner. These launch this project. fertile topsoil was washed down the farmers and woodland owners need to Mr. Chairman, when I appeared be-, river to a depth of 3 and 4 feet. This soil understand· that to manage their wood­ fore the committee in support of the is gone forever. land for timber production is not enough needed appropriation to launch this It is interesting to note that the dis­ in itself. They must go a step further flood -control program on June 6, 1947, trict supervisors of the Tri Creek Soil and initiate certain other measures that I pointed out that another flood could Conservation District, who came to will add to the value of their own indi­ be expected at any time. Little did I Washington with me, confirm my opinion vidual woodland as an aid in flood con­ dream that it would come so soon. Yet that this is a three-point program. Cer­ trol. I call to the attention of this Congress tainly, these men have the interest of all Everyone living in the area and every­ that on June 13, 1947, another devastat­ the people in the area at heart. one interested in this serious problem of ing flood hit this same Yadkin Basin. The attacks we must undertake, I re­ flood control should recognize that just Following the June 1947 flood and at peat, are first flood control, detention as the lowlands provided astronomical my request representatives of the Tri dams in Wilkes County, soil-conserva­ quantities of. food and fiber for the phys­ Creek Soil Conservation District com­ tion measures, and a wise forestry pro­ ical conduct of the recent war in all parts prising Wilkes, Yadkin, Surry, and For­ gram. of this globe, the forest provided over syth Counties came to Washington to The soil-conservation program I have 1,200 different items for military and advise with me and Department of Agri­ in mind will provide that the agricul­ naval equipment. culture omcials. These men were Stan­ tural land be farmed under the best soil It took 1,400,000 truckloads of pulp­ ton Mciver, North Wilkesboro, district and water-conservation practices. Such wood each year to package food supplies I

8044 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 and munitions sent overseas to our sol­ partment of Agriculture is tremendously The Clerk read as follows: diers. The war was planned on paper interested in preventing further deterio­ CORPS OF ENGINEERS made from wood pulp and each year our ration of the land in this watershed and RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL Nation produced annually enough blue­ that the Army engineers have made defi­ To be immediately available and to be ex­ print paper to make a band 1 yard wide nite recommendations for adequate flood pended under the direction of the Secretary which would go around the world six control on the main stem of the river. of War and the supervision of the Chief of times. The damage can and must be repaired. Engineers, and to remain available until ex­ Enough nitrocellulose to produce the Improvement work that will contrib­ pended: Provided, That the services of such smokeless powder used in 7,500 Garand ute to flood control and thereby reduce additional technical and clerical personnel as the Secretary of War may deem necessary rifle cartridges was obtained from one not only the hazards of living but the may be employed only in the Office of the pine tree whose roots provide hundreds losses which periodically recur must be Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the of small reservoirs under the soil. made. These improvements cannot be various appropriations for rivers and harbors The same trees that were cut from the made overnight and many of the bene­ and flood control, surveys, and preparation slopes and valleys of this Nation produced fits will not be recognized or forthcoming for and the consideration of river and harbor 85 percent of the rayon used in para­ immediately. and flood-control estimates and bills, to be chutes or other fabrics of this type used However, all along the way with the paid from such appropriations: Provided fur­ integrated program of flood control re­ ther, That the expenditures on this account in the war. for the fiscal year 1948 shall not exceed $1,- The deck of each battleship o.L· aircraft tention dams. soil conservation and for­ 100,000, and the Secretary of War shall each carrier was covered with 10 boxcar loads estry, untold benefits will result. I em­ year, in the budget, report to Congress the of lumber and I was informed that on phasize that the best and the only ap­ number of persons so employed, their duties, some occasions, 25 percent more wood proach to flood control' in this area is this and the amount paid to each: Provided fur­ by weight was used than ~teel each year comprehensive closely interwoven pro­ ther, That the various appropriations for riv­ during several critical years of the war. gram including all the land use practices ers and harbors and flood control may be used To visualize what these forests con­ for better soil and forest conservation for the purchase, in the fiscal year 1948, of which I have mentioned several times 200 passenger motor ' vehicles and 10 mot0r­ tributed, picture a train of boxcars ex­ boats, and the purchase, maintenance, re­ tending in triple column from San Fran­ preceding and the engineering structures pair, and operation of 12 aircraft: Provided cisco to New York City all loaded with recommended by the Corps of Engineers. further, That no appropriation under the lumber. That will give you some idea of All this will produce the most flood con­ Gorps of· Engineers for the fiscal year 1948 the lumber required for just 1 year of trol for the least expenditure of funds shall be available for any expenses incident war or that is now being required for both locally and on the national level. to operating any power-driven boat or vessel peacetime construction and other uses. We do not.undertake any, piecemeal job. on other than Goverpment business: Thus, our forests not only in this great It is a challenging responsibility. MISSOURI RIVER FLOOD CONTROL watershed of the Yadkin but in the Na­ Mr. Chairman, to this task I join hands Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. tion must receive every attention if they with the citizenship of the Yadkin-Pee Chairman, I move to strike out the last are to contribute their maximum in the Dee Basin to bring hope to the splendid word. aid of flood control and the · important citizenship of this area where despair Mr. Chairman, in view of the fact that service of providing forest products_ to now is more often the feeling. this bill carries funds for flood control in strengthen and maintain the stability of We must and we can turn off the spigot a large amount,'and in view of the cur­ our democracy. and bottle up the Yadkin. rent interest in the flood problems on the I again call to the attention of every­ Mr. :r:mRR. Mr. Chairman, I yield Missouri River, I thought it might be ap­ one living in the Yadkin River watershed 1 minute to the gentleman from South propriate at this time to call attention and most particularly those people in the Carolina [Mr. DoRNL to certain maps and explain to you what upper counties where the damage is al­ Mr. DORN. Mr. Chairman, I would the approved plan for the Missouri flood ways so severe that the watershed- has like to say in answer to the distinguished control means in terms of the reduction been terribly abused. gentleman from California ~Mr . . Mc­ of the flood flows at points of present The 1940 flood changed the picture DoNOUGH] that I live in the Clark Hill damage. and in the place of many familiar valleys, area of South Carolina, and that more The Missouri River might properly be · that produced crops or income, bare rock than 90 percent of the people in that called the longest river in the United resulted. area are in favor of continued Govern­ States. I suppose if the Missouri had The recent flood in June still further ment construction and completion of · been known fully at the time the Missis­ changed the picture even to the poin": the Clark Hill Dam. I would like to sippi was named, it might have been that the technicians of the Soil Conser­ add also that I agree 100 percent with called the Missouri River system instead­ vation Service responsible for the flood the authentic character, the truthful­ of the Mississippi. The Missouri River ness and the sincerity or the statement control survey report, and the foresters ha~;i its heaclwaters up in the mountains that assist, must take another quick look and speech today on this floor made by of Montana and Wyoming. I am bor­ to see if still additional changes have my distinguished colleague, the gentle­ rowing this map of the ·United States occurred. man from Georgia [Mr. BROWN] and I which the gentleman from Mississippi It behooves every individual living in wish also to thank the chairman of this used because I want to relate this to the · this area to seriously and conscientiously committee, the distinguished gentleman other map of the Missouri River basin discuss at all farm meetings this flood from Michigan [Mr. ENGEL] for his only. control problem wnich each year is be­ courtesy throughout these hearings in The Missouri starts back up in here in coming a greater menace. In the in­ allowing us to present our side of this Montana and Wyoming and runs for terim elapsing between submission of the most important matter. The commit­ some 2,600 miles before it joins the Mis­ completed flood control survey report on tee has been most kind. sissippi. The water that comes from the the Yadkin to the Congress and the GENERAL LEAVE TO REVISE AND EXTEND melted snows up there comes down here time when watershed improvement work Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. Mr. Chair­ and causes the June rise in the lower in the interest of flood control can be man, I ask unanimous consent that all Missouri. When you reach this point at started, every effort should be made to Members may have five legislative days Sioux City, the river, which has been accelerate the soil conservation prac­ to revise and ex.tend their remarks on following a reasonably narrow valley tices on the farm and pasture lands and the pending bill. back up in here, comes into a broad flood to instensify the forestry practices on The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection plain, several miles wide. all the woodlands in the watershed. •to the request of the gentleman from If you will now transfer your atten­ Every contribution to better land man­ Michigan? tion to this map over here, you will see agement, no matter to what use the land There was no objection. that it shows merely the Missouri to the is now being put will result in some minor Mr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, I have no point where it reaches the Mississippi at contribution to the solution of this prob­ further requests for time. St. Louis. The program that was ap­ lem. The CHAIRMAN. There being no fur­ proved for the Missouri River Basin in It has been demonstrated most sig­ ther requests for time, the Clerk will read the Flood Control Act of 1944 proceeded nificantly to me and others that the De- the bill for amendment. on the theory that if these waters were 1947 CONGRESSIONAL-RECORD-HOUSE 8045 stopped up here where the river channel (The memorandum letter referred to Mr. CASE of South Dakota. You will is practically a canyon, and reservoirs follows:> note that the reduction of the :flow by can be created with large storage, it WAR DEPARTMENT, 100,000 cubic feet per second again would .would reduce the floods from Sioux City OFFICE OF THE CHIEF 011' ENGINEERS, have meant a reduction in the water at Washington, D. c., June 30, 1947. St. Louis of something ·in the neighbor­ on down all the way to the Gulf of Mex­ Memorandum to Hon. FRANCIS CASE, House ico. The flood-control program was pro­ of Representatives, Washington, D. C. haaG of 1 foot. You can judge for your­ posed in response to a resolution which As requested by you in a telephone con­ selves what these reductions of from 1 asked for a system of flood control for versation with General Wheeler this morn­ to 3 feet would have meant all along the protection from Sioux City down. ing, the following information is furnished. line in this great :flood. The damages in the 1943 and 1944 The Garrison Reservoir, 1t it had been in LANDS FLOODED FOR RESERVOIRS floods exceeded $50,000,000 per year. operation, would have reduced the preva1llng flood flows in the Missouri River by about Now. the suggestion has been made to The damage from the Missouri River 100,000 cubic feet per second. me that the people of South Dakota and flood at the present time I have seen esti­ At Kansas City the peak flow is about the people of North Dakota will be mated in the papers at something in ex­ 300,000 cubic feet per second, so that opera­ getting too much money in case this pro­ cess of $100,000,000. tion of Garrison Reservoir would have re­ gram is appropriated for. I think the The authorized program for the Mis­ duced the flow by about one-third, which record should show very clearly that as a souri Basin contemplates using the Fort would have resulted in reduction of peak stage by about 2'/:z to 3 feet. matter of fact the people of North Peck Dam up here at Fort Peck, Mont., At Hermann, Mo., on the lower Missouri Dakota and the people of South Dakota which is already constructed, construct­ River, the peak flow would be about 500,000 are going to :flood a lot of land forever for ing another large reservoir at the so­ cubic feet per second and operation of Gar­ the purpose of taking the :flood waters called Garrison site in North Dakota, an­ rison Reservoir would have reduced this flow off the cities and the farm lands down other big one at the so-called Oabe site by about one-fifth, with reduction in peak here. These big dams are not being built in South Dakota, a smaller one at the stage of about 1 foot. for the benefit of the Dakotas; they are Fort Randall site in South Dakota, and a The reduction in flow of 100,000 cubic f~et being built for the benefit of the States couple of smaller dams in ·here, for addi­ per second would also be effective at St. Louis, but as the extreme flood stages at downstream all the way to the Gulf. tional power production and stream Jeg­ that locality are caused by flows from both I have in my hand a table submitted to ulation when needed, and completion of the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, nie by the engineers yesterday which a levee system below Sioux City based information on the reduction in stage is not gives the :figures on this point. upon the controlled stream. · available. It would doubtless be somewhat The Oahe reservoir, which would be WOULD REDUCE FLOOD 100,000 CUBIC FEET PER less than 1 foot. about 200 miles long and have a storage SECOND If the Oahe 'Reservoir had been in opera­ tion, its effect on the current 'flood would capacity of 21,800,000 acre-feet, will :flood , I think the Members will be interested have been similar to that described above forever a total of 342,000 acres. Seventy­ in knowing that had this Garrison Res­ for the Garrison project. three thousand of that is cultivated land ervoir or had the Oahe Reservoir been The effect of other authorized projects in and 63,000 is meadowland, 91,000 pasture constructed and in operation at the pres­ the Missouri River Basin on the current land, and 90,000 woodland, and about ent time it would have reduced th~ pre­ flood is briefly as follows: 25,000 islands and sandbars. The Fort vailing :flood :flow in the Missouri River (a) The authorized levees along the main Randall reservoir as presently contem­ by 100,000 cubic feet per second. What stem of the Missouri River between Sioux plated at the height at which the engi­ I am giving you here is not a guess or an City and the mouth would have been ex­ tremely important in preventing the wide­ neers have proposed to build it would opinion of mine but the measured opin­ spread overflow and damage along the bot­ :flood another 115,830 acres, of which ion of General Wheeler, the Chief of tom lands of the main Missouri River and 24,000 would be cultivated land; that is, Engineers, as stated in a letter to me the lower portions of its tributaries. These 25 percent of it is cultivated land, and from the Office of the Chief of Engineers levees in conjunction with the authorized the balance pasture and meadowlands dated yesterday. I shall place the letter reservoirs would have given full protection and woodlands. Fifty-two thousand in the RECORD. along the main stem of the Missouri River. acres of it is pasture land so that, in other (b) Harlan County Reservoir: The Harlan words, 75,000 of 115,000 acres would be At Kansas City, down here, the peak County Reservoir would have completely · flow of the present flood has been 300,000 controlled the Republican River flood below either cultivated or pasture land. cubic feet per second. In other words. the dam and would have reduced flows in There is no beneftt whatsoever to the had either this Garrison Reservoir or the Kansas River, thereby reducing the flood State of South Dakota from the build­ -this Oahe Reservoir been in operation on the lower Missouri and middle Missis­ ing of the Randall Reservoir, except the the flood :flow would have been reduced sippi Rivers. The Republican River flood possibility that Nebraska and Iowa will by one-third, which would have resulted below Harlan County Dam site is the second consent to letting us have a little of the in the reduction of the peak stage by highest flood of record, having been exceeded power to be generated and will permit it only by the great flood of 1935. from 2% to 3 feet. Anyone who knows (c) Tuttle Creek Reservoir: Tuttle Creek to be constructed so as to aid navigation anything about a :flood knows that a dif­ Reservoir would have controlled the flood on instead of destroying it. ference of 2% to 3 feet is very material the Big Blue River. and would have reduced We will lose 75,000 good acres forever when it comes to the damage that ensues. fiow in the Kansas River, thereby reducing in the Randall Reservoir under the pro­ At Hermann, Mo., on the lower Mis­ the flood on the lower Missouri and middle posal for a high earth-fill dam there of souri, between Kansas City and St. Louis, Mississippi Rivers. 160 feet which would be a bar to naviga­ the peak flow is about 500,000 cubic feet (d) Osceola Reservoir: During the current tion. The only possibility of beneftt from flood the Osage River is not in flood. There­ per second. The operation of one of fore, the Osceola Reservoir would have had the Randall Reservoir in South Dakota these reservoirs up here would have re­ only minor effect. In the great flood of 1944 would be if some power is developed and duced the :flood flow by one-ftfth and the on the lower Missouri and middle Mississippi we are permitted to buy some of it_ peak by 1 foot. Rivers, the Osage was a heavy flood-produc­ Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. Chairman, will the The CHAffiMAN. The time of the. ing stream, and reservoirs on the Osage gentleman yield? gentleman from South Dakota has ex­ would have been very beneficial. Mr. CASE of South Dakota. I yield to (e) Grand River, Mo.: The Grand River the gentleman from Iowa. pired. has been in very heavy flood and is con­ Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. tributing large amounts of water to the Mis­ Mr. HOEVEN. The gentleman men­ Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to souri and Mississippi Rivers. The Chilli­ tions Sioux City, which, of course, is proceed for :five additional minutes. cothe Reservoir or alternates therefor which mentioned by the War Department as The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection are now proposed would have controlled the being a very critical area. The peop,le of to the request of the gentleman from Grand River and have reduced flows and my district are certainly interested ;n the South Dakota? stages on the Missquri and Mississippi Rivers. completion of the Fort Randall project There was no objection. In addition, it would have eliminated large and the Garrison Dam and the others damages which have occurred in the lower because they will retard the water as it Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. Grand River Basin itself. Chairman, at this point I will insert the P. A. F'ERINGA, reaches that peculiar bend in the river memorandum letter to which I have re­ Colonel, Corps of Engineers, at Sioux City, which can readily be seen ferred, and for the insertion of which Assistant Chief of Engineers from the map. So it is for the purposes I shall ask permission of the House. for Civil works. of :flood prevention, even though the rlam 8046 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE ·JULY 1 is being built in South Dakota and else­ tion. With a concrete dam, locks could produce substantial quantities of power where and is a protection for Sioux City be built at the time· the dam is built. under any plan, and if the lower dam at that critical point. Mr. DONDERO. Would it flood those should be used, the remaining head could Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Yes, deposits? be developed by building additional dams • there are hundreds of thousands of acres Mr. CASE of South Da~ota . It would at known sites if the need ever arises. of good land down here which will be not flood the projects materially because NAVIGATION LOCKS HAD BEEN PROMISED protected. But the subcommittee han­ they are on the exposed bluffs of the When money was appropriated a year dling this bill has requested that the river at a sufficient height that the water ago to start construction of the Randall engineers give us a report on the possi­ would not cover them. Dam, it was supposed that the plans of bility of reducing the height of the Ran­ Mr. Chairman, for the purposes of the engineers included provision for dall Dam and expediting the construc­ convenient reference, with permission of navigation works. Back in 1945, the tion of the Oahe Dam with a capacity of the House, I shall place in the RECORD summer following the adoption of the 21,800,000 acre-feet which can take the at this point, the recommendations in Flood Control Act of December 1944, entire flow of the Missouri River, both the committee report on the Randall and which authorized the Missouri Basin flood and normal, during the entire year Oahe Reservoirs. I shall also insert a program, when there was a doubt raised and stop your floods forever. letter from the Chief of Engineers, which as to provision for navigation, I wrote a Mr. Chairman, you could put the entire gives a short table setting forth the acre­ specific inquiry to the then Chief of average flow of the Missouri River for ages of land which will be flooded for­ Engineers, Lt. Gen. Eugene A. Reybold, 1 year in this big 200-mile reservoir at ever by the proposed reservoirs. I shall and under date of July 13, 1945, received Oahe and stop it completely, so that not also insert a table from the hearings giv­ a reply which included this statement: a drop of water will go beyond it. That ing tentative estimates by the Chief of I am pleased to inform you that provision is why the committee feels that con­ Engineers on the costs, capacities, and wlll be made for the installation of naviga­ sideration should be given to the possible comparative power features of the sev­ tion locks at the Fort Randall and Gavins reduction in the height of the Fort Ran­ eral reservoirs, with comparative col­ Point Dams authorized in the Flood Control dall Dam at a saving of $80,000,000 and umns to show these features as orig­ Act approved December 22, 1944. expediting this Oahe Dam or expediting inally proposed by Gen. Lewis A. Pick, It was with that understanding in my the Garrison Reservoir so that you would in House Document 475 of the Seventy­ mind, as a member of the committee~ get some real flood control. · eighth Congress, the same for th3 pres­ that funds were appropriated to com­ RANDALL CANNOT HANDLE SILT ently contemplated plan, now known as mence work on Randall Dam, along with The Fort Randall Reservoir cannot be the Pick-Sloan plan, and the same for Garrison a year ago. closed until these dams above are built the Pick-Sloan plan if modified by a 40- It was not until I attended a meeting because the Yellowstone River and the foot dam at Randall. This table will be of the so-called interagency committee tributaries which flow in here carry a found at page 418 of the printed hear­ at Pierre, S. Oak., last fall, Mr. Chair­ great deal of silt. Randall's maximum ings, but, because of the limited supply of man, that I learned the plans under capacity is only 6,000,000 acre-feet; Oahe the books, I shall include it with this which the engineers were proceediJ.1g did is, three and one-half times that-21,... other material. not include a positive provision for navi­ 800,000. Garrison will store from 19,- I should add, Mr. Chairman, that the gation. General Pick, chairman of the 000,000 to 23 ,000 ,000 acre-feet, depend­ possibility of using a concrete dam at interagency committee, answered my ing on its height. If you were to close Randall, instead of earth, came to light oral inquiry on the point at Pierre by Fort Randall Reservoir first, and let the through a statement in a letter from saying, "You can't build locks in an silt from the Yellowstone and these other the Secretary of War to me to the effect earth-fill dam." Which, of course, I tributaries go into Randall then you that while the foundations at the Gar­ did not dispute, but certainly my under­ would lose the Fort Randall Reservoir, rison and Oahe sites would not support standing as a member of the committee and it would not be of any value for flood a concrete ·dam, the foundation condi­ appropriating funds for the project, up control. tions at Randall were the best on the to that time, was that navigation works That explains in part the action of the river, being the Niobrara chalk. In­ of some sort would be a part of the Ran­ committee in recommending further quiry on that point developed that a con­ dall structure, locks in the dam if con­ study on the question of the height of crete dam of 40-feet height could be built crete, locks around or a marine railroad, the Fort Randall Reservoir and consider­ at least, and perhaps more depending electrically operated perhaps if locks ing the possibility of using a concrete upon what a specifie study on that point were not used. dam there with locks which would not would reveal. This point should be kept in mind in be a barrier to navigation as the high The action of the committee in re­ considering the matter and the expendi­ earth dam would be. questing the engineers to look into the ture of funds approt'riated last year, as The reason for wanting navigation to matter is purely exploratory. We have well as the oonsideration of vhe possibility continue into this area in here is· because not made a positive requirement or re­ for locks, now perhaps revealed in the right at this point where the map shows striction. Because of the importance-of preliminary estimates by the Chief of En­ the words "Chamberlain" and "Oacoma," the Missouri River program to flood con­ gineers. In studying'the table, I should there is probably the largest manganese trol we provided money to prosecute the point out that General Wheeler in his deposit in the world-certainly the larg­ Randall Dam witb less reduction from testimony on the matter, appearing at est in the United States. It is a man­ the budget estimates than were made on pages 408 to 425 in our printed hearings, ganese deposit which the Bureau of some of the other large dams. The con­ stated that the cost figures given for the Mines says is larger than all the other templated work for the coming year con­ modified Randall concrete dam includes manganese deposits in the United States sists of access roads and railroad, pre­ naVigation locks while $28,600,000 at least and, if developed, would make us en• liminary excavation and other things would have to be added if ever you were tirely independent of outside sources of which can be carried on and will be need­ to lock around the high earth-fill dam. supply. ed regardless of the height and type of This in addition to the direct saving of Mr. DONDERO. Mr. Chairman, will structure eventually decided upon. The $80,000,000 difference in the estimated the gentleman yield? action of the committee, then, in no way cost of the dams makes the approximate Mr. CASE of South Dakota. J yield to delays the project and may, in fact, ex­ $110,000,000 saving in appropriations the gentleman from Michigan. pedite it, besides possibly saving from which might be applied to expediting the Mr. DONDERO. Will the building of $80,000,000 to $110,000,000 -which can real flood-control dams, Garrison and the dam affect those deposits by flooding then be applied to the larger reservoirs Oahe, or meeting other possible costs such the land? which bring very much larger benefits in as a desilting dam on the White River, Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Not the all lines, flood control, power production, or building additional power dams be­ dam itself. But if you built an earth irrigation, and so forth. tween Randall and Oahe, if ever desired. dam here 160 feet high, you will have In fact, it should be understood that Until the engineers have studied the difficulty getting around it. The engi­ there is absolutely no irrigation proposed matter further, the maximum height for neers say you cannot get through it with from Randall Dam; very -limited flood a concrete dam at Randall cannot be locks, but you might lock around it, control, especially when you consider the told; the figures in the table are based which is estimated would add another 85,000 acres of farm land in the reser­ upon a 40-foot dam which General $30,000,000 to the cost of the construe- voir that will be flooded forever. It will Wheeler felt safe in saying could be con- 1947 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8047 structed on the basis of information in The acreages relative to those reservoirs 1s a 40-foot eoncrete dam as suggested are: Cul­ the Washington office on the bearing listed in the following tabulation: tivated, 8,000 acres; pasture, 7,000 acres; wooded, 1,000 acres; islands and waste, 10,000 strength of the Niobrara chalk. That is acres; total 26,000 acres. the picture which the committee wants Classification Oahe Fort Big Gavins Total I note your comment regarding the height explored. Randall Bend Poin~ --- of the Fort Randall Dam and I assure you LANDS REQUIRED FOR RESERVOIRS -- that in the studies which we shall make as WAR DEPARTMENT, Cultivated ____ 73,000 24,000 7,000 8,000 112,000 requested by the Committee on Appropria­ Meadow ______63,000 8,000 ------71,000 OFFICE OF CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, P asture.------91,000 52,000 7,800 9,000 159,800 tions, full consideration wm be given to the Washington, June 30, 1947. Woodlands ___ _ 90,000 11,000 1,000 1,000 103,000 heights of dam mentioned in your letter. Hon. FRANCIS CASE, Islands, sand- The above data are approximate. only, but bars ______25,400 20,830 8,000 12,000 66,230 House oj Representatives, ------it is hoped that they will meet your present Washington, D. C. TotaL_ 1342,400 115,830 23,800 30,000 1 512,030 needs. If other information on these projects DEAR MR. CASE: Receipt is acknowledged of is desired, it will be furnished promptly on your letter dated June 21, 1947, requesting 1 Includes approximately 25 percent of the Oahe your request. the area of various classifications of land that Reservoir area located in North Dakota; no break· Sincerely yours, will be acquired for the reservoir projects down of classifications by States is available. R. A. WHEELER, proposed for the Missouri River Basin in The approximate figures for comparative Lieutenant General, South Dakota. purposes on the Fort Randall Reservoir wtth Chief oj Engineers. PRELIMiNARY EsTIMATES BY CHIEF OF ENGINEERS Missouri River Basin main-stem reservoir• in comprehensive plan

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Oahe Fort Ran- Fort Ran- Gavins As recom- Plan with Feature Garrison 1 u Oak Creek 1 0 ahe Oow ) I (high) 1 1 Big Bend u dall• 2 dall (low) Point 3 1 2 3 mended in As now pro- modified H. Doc. 475, d F t R 78th Cong., pose 2 or an- 2d sess.l dall a

As proposed in H. Doc. 475, 78th Cong., 2d sess.: Height, feet..______210 150 147 ------160 ------50 Stomge capacity, acre-feet.____ 17,000, 000 6, 000,000 6, 000,000 ------6, 000,000 ------200,000 --35;200;00<>- ======Cost estimate ______$130,000,000 $60,000,000 $50,000,000 ------$75,000,000 ------$15.000,000 $330.000,000 ------Cost per acre-foot.------$7.65 $10. 00 $8.33 ------$12.48 ------$75. 00 $9.37 ------; ------Present estimate: Height. ------l====21=0=l====15=0=I====l4""7=l==='==2=Z7=i====70=l====16=0=i====4=0=!====4=5=!=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=--=l:-=-=--=·=--==-=--=--=-=l=-=--=·=--=·=--=·=-- Cost estimate: Dam and appurtenances __ $110, 000, 000 $88, 5q7, 000 $72,775,000, $81, 750, 000 $25, 200, 000 $97, 327, 000 $34, 500, 000 $14, 750, 000 $383, 409, ooo· $328, 827, 000 $266, 200, 000 Power facilities. ------15,000,000 12,000,000 8, 000.000 30,000,000 7, 000, ()()() 23,000,000 17, 100,000 3, 000,000 61,000,000 78,000,000 72,100,000 Lands._------12,460,000 8, 000,000 5, 250,000 16,600,000 300,000 2, 882,000 500,000 969,000 29,561,000 33,242,000 30,829,000 Relocations ______------20,540,000 12,000,000 8, 000,000 29,650,000 ------9, 923,000 1, 000,000 31,000 50,494,000 60,313,000 51,221,000 TotaL------158, 000, 000 120, 557, 000 94,025,000 158, 000, 000 32,500,000 133, 132, 000 53; 100, 000 18.750,000 524, 4fl4, 000 500,382,000 420, 350, 000 Storage capacity, acre-feet _____ 24,500,000 5, 280,000 4,140, 000 21, 800,000 450,000 6, 200,000 500,000 170, 000 40, 290, 000 53, 100,000 47,420,000 Cost per acre-foot ______$6.45 $22.83 $22.71 $7.25 $72.30 $21.50 $106.20 $110.00 $13.00 $9.42 $8.88 Power in~tallation, kilowatts: InitiaL __ ------128,000 32,000 24,000 90,000 40,000 80,000 27,000 10,000 274,000 348,000 295,000 Ultimate ______------_---- 320, ()()() 120,000 90,000 360,000 120,000 240,000 80,000 20,000 790,000 1, 060,000 900,000

1 Plan recommended in H. Doc. No. 475, 78th Cong., 2d sess. (original "Pick" plan). 2 Plan as now proposed (the "Pick-Sloan" plan). a "Pick-S loan" plan with Fort Randall Reservoir modified. ' STATEMENT FROM COMMITTEE REPORT ON H. R. at Randall, generators for 80,000 kilowatts taken and the extensive investigations 4002 could be installed and their production and examinations that have been made Fort Randall and Oahe: Preliminary con­ would come many years earlier than from in the preparation of this appropriation. struction begun at the Randall site includes the high dam. Again, the original recom­ Speaking for the people of North Da­ construction of the town site and access mendations contemplated total generative roads. Before actual construction of the dam capacity of the connected dams for 790- kota, whom I represent at large, I am itself is begun, the committee believes the 000 kilowatts; the revised plan even with a glad to say to you, Mr. Chairman, and to Corps of Engineers should investigate the lowered Randall wlll provide 900,000 kilowatts your committee, we feel grateful to you possibility of substituting a• lower concrete and another low dam could be built at some for what you have done in this appro­ dam with navigation locks for the high, later date, if ever needed, to fully utilize all priation for the projects which e:'l

8054 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 1 1948? Who knows but what he will do port on the bill H. R. 3150, the Railroad of the Committee on Education and the same thing this year. ' Unemployment Insurance Act. Labor holding hearings on minimum Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. I do not The SPEAKER. Is there objection to wages be allowed to sit tomorrow during want to cross that bridge until we come the request of the gentleman from the session of the House. to it. I say let us not :toad this bill down. Ohio? The SPEAKER. The Chair cannot Mr. JENSEN. I have a number of There was no objection. recognize the gentleman for that pur­ projects in my district, small projects, EXTENSION OF REMARKS pose. Tomorrow the House will be read­ that would cost a few hundred thousand ing the civil · functions appropriation dollars or maybe two or three million Mr. LYLE asked and was given per­ bill for amendment, and committees can­ dollars, just as most everybody has in mission to extend his remarks in the REc­ not sit during sessions of the House while their districts. Certainly those projects ORD and include an editorial. bills are being read for amendment; only should have priority at a time when we Mr. BRYSON asked and was given during general debate. need flood control instead of going into permission to extend his remarks in the Mr. McCONNELL. We have a full these great big projects that will swal­ RECORD and include an article by David schedule that we want to get through. low up all of the money that we need. Lawrence. The SPEAKER. That is the policy Mr. BELL asked and was given per­ that has been adopted. The minority Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. I want a mission to insert in the RECORD at the certain amount designated for smaller leader has stated that he would object conclusion of his remarks in the Com­ to any requests of that character. projects. I said that in my earlier re­ mittee of the Whole this afternoon about marks today. the Townsend movement. a page from LEAVE OF ABSENCE Mr. JENSEN. At some future time the Townsend Weekly of July 29, 1935. By unanimous consent, leave of ab­ when the Nation can afford it, and I hope Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was given sence was granted to Mr. COOLEY there of the United Nations Relief and Rehabili­ were-ayes 68, noes 78. Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. tation Administration for meeting adminis­ Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that trative expenses of United States Government Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, I de­ agencies in connection with United Nations mand tellers. all Members may have five legislative Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Tellers were ordered. days in which to extend their remarks in liquidation. Mr. ENGEL of Michigan. ~ir. Chair­ the RECORD on the War Department civil functions appropriation bill. BILL AND JOINT RESOLUTION PRESENTED man, I move that the Committee do now TO THE PRESIDENT rise. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The motion was agreed to. the request of the gentleman from South Mr. LECOMPTE, from the Committee Accordingly the Committee rose; and Dakota? - on House Administration, reported that the Speaker having resumed the chair, Mr. RANKIN. Reserving the right to that committee did on June 30, 1947, Mr. MICHENER, Chairman of the Com­ object, Mr. Speaker, as I understand, we present to the President, for his ap­ mittee of the Whole House on the State will take up this bill tomorrow at 12 proval, a bill and a joint resolution of of the Union, reported that that Com­ o'clock just where we quit today? the House of the following titles: mittee, having had under consideration The SPEAKER. Unless a conference H. R. 2369. An act providing for the &us­ the bill making appropria­ report precedes it. pension of annual assessment work on min­ tions for civil functions administered Mr. RANKIN. Unless some privileged ing claims held by location · in the Terri­ matter comes up. tory of Alaska; and by the War Department for the fiscal H. J. Res. 221. Joint resolution to provide year ending June 30, 1948, and for other Mr. KEEFE. May I say, Mr. Speaker, for permanent rates of postage on mail purposes, had come to no resolution that we expect to take up the conference matter of the first class, and for other pur­ thereon. report that has just been filed on the poses. Labor-Federal Security appropriation ADJOURNMENT EXTENSION OF REMARKS bill the first thing tomorrow, if it is Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. Mr. REEVES asked and was given per­ agreeable to the leadership. Speaker, I move that the House do now mission to revise and extend the remarks The SPEAKER. The conference re­ adjourn. he made in Committee today and to in­ port will come first. The motion was agreed to; accord­ clude an editorial. Is there objection to the request of the ingly