436 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 19 PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H. R . 1896. A bill for the relief of Lech Szczepan Korgol; to the Committee on the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private Judiciary. bills and resolutions were introduced and By Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts: MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1953 severally referred as follows: H. R. ~ 897 . A bill for the relief of Mrs. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. By Mr. ADDONIZIO: Betty E. Lamay; to the Committee on the H. R. 1872. A bill for the relief of Joseph Judiciary. The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, F. Lounsberry; to the Committee on the By Mr. REGAN: D. D., offered the following prayer: Judiciary. H . R. 1898. A bill for the relief of Sister May Jacinta, nee Elena Natalia Carvalho; Almighty God, we rejoice that Thy By Mr. ALLEN of California: thoughts toward us are always those of . H. R. 1873. A bill for the relief of Michel to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. ROONEY: peace and good will, of love and mercy. Bandak; to the Committ ee on the Judiciary. We humbly confess that we are fre­ H . R. 1874. A bill for the relief of Cesar H. R . 1899. A bill for the relief of Herm­ Grana; to the Committee on the Judiciary. inegilda Sanz; to the Committee on the quently greatly troubled as we face prob­ H. R,. 1875. A bill for the relief of Mir Judiciary. lems for which our fallible and finite Kazem Kashani; to the Committee on the H. R. 1900. A bill for the relief of Samuel minds seem to have no adequate and Judiciary. Fogel; to the Committee on the Judiciary. worthy solution. By Mr. ALLEN of California (by re­ H. R . 1901. A bill for the relief of Ciro May we never surrender to despair or quest): Picardi; to the Committee on the Judiciary. allow our efforts to languish. Make us H . R. 1876. A bill for the relief of Denning By Mrs. ST. GEORGE: confident that the spiritual resources are Mills, a copartnership; to the Committee on H . R. 1902. A bill for the relief of Samuel mightier than all the forces of evil which the Judiciary. T . Pomess, Jr.; to the Committee on the are arrayed against us. H. R. 1877. A bill for the relief of Erwin Judiciary. Irving Spira; to the Committee on the Judi· By Mr. SAYLOR: Grant that our newly chosen President ciary. H. R. 1903. A bill for the relief of Phyllis and leaders, in the business of statecraft, H. R. 1878. A bill fQr the relief of Lloyd D. Hertzog; to the Committee on Post Office and may be . inspired with unerring wis­ Bernard; to the Committee on Armed Serv­ Civil Service. dom and indomitable courage as they ices. By Mr. SHELLEY: daily set themselves to the adventurous H . R. 1879. A bill for the relief of Ezra H. R. 1904. ·A bill for the relief of Patricia crusade and arduous task of building a H. Y. Eliahou; to the Committee on the Ju­ A. Pembroke; to the Committee on the Judi­ nobler era of understanding and concord diciary. ciary. among the nations of the earth. By Mr. BARTLETT: H. R . 1905. A bill for the relief of Mont­ In all our hopes and endeavors may we H. R. 1880. A bill to authorize the sale of gomery of San Francisco, Inc.; to the Com­ be guided and sustained by the invincible certain public lands in Alaska to the Catho~ic mittee on the Judiciary. spirit of our b~essed Lord in whose name bishop of northern Alaska for use as a mis­ H. R. 1906. A bill for the relief of Anna E. we pray. Amen. sion school; to the Committee on Interior Hollander; to the Committee on the Judi­ and Insular Affairs. ciary. The Journal of the proceedings of By Mr. BATES (by request): H . R. 1907. A bill for the relief of Letizia Friday, January 16, 1953, was read and H . R. 1881. A bill for the relief of Pasquale Pugliares; to the Committee on the Judi­ approved. De Leonibus; to the Committee on ·the Ju­ ciary. diciary. H. R. 1908. A bill for the relief of Thomas By Mr. BELCHER: C. Cox; to the Committee on the Judiciary. MESSAGE FROM THE _PRESIDENT H . R. 1882. A bill for. the relief of Harold H. R. 1909. A bill for the relief of Francois A message in writing from the Presi­ Joe Davis; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Kloo; to the Committee on the Judiciary. dent of the United States was communi­ H. R. 1883. A bill for the relief of Frankiin H. R . 1910. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Jim; to the Committee on the Judiciary. cated to the House by Mr. Hawks, one of Arusik Tchakalian, Samuel Tchakalian, and his secretaries. By Mr. COUDERT: Manuel Tchakalian; to the Committee on H. R. 1884. A bill for the relief of Peter K. the Judiciary. Stein; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. WIDNALL: SWEARING IN OF MEMBERS By Mr. CRUMPACKER: H. R. 1911. A bill for the relief of Wally H. R. 1885. A bill for the relief of Fortu­ Krausnick Paeschke; to the Committee on The SPEAKER. The Chair under­ nato Portilla Delgado; to the Committee on the Judiciary. stands there are two Members .present the Judiciary. H. R. 1912. A bill for the relief of Hayik this ·morning who have. not taken the By Mr. GOLDEN: (Jirair) Vartiyan and Annemarie Vartiyan; oath of office. If. they will presen,t them­ H. R. 1886. A bill for the relief of Paul to the Committee on the Judiciary. selves in the well of the House, the Chair Myung Ha Chung; to the Committee on the By Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi: will administer the oath of office. Judiciary. H . R. 1913. A bill for the relief of William Mr .. FERNANDEZ and Mr. BLATNIK By Mr. HAYS of Arkansas: B. Ross; to the Committee on the Judiciary. presented themselves at the bar of the H. R . 1887. A bill for the relief of Marjorie By Mr. WILSON of California: House and took the oath of office. Goon (Goon Mei Chee) ; to the Committee H . R. 1914. A bill for the relief of Priscilla on the Judiciary. Anne Stephenson (Shizuko Hosokawa); to H. R. 1888. A bill for the relief of Gary Mat­ the Committee on the Judiciary. thew Stevens (Kazuo Omiya); to the Com­ COMPOSITION OF COMMITTEES OF By Mr. YATES: THE HOUSE mittee on the Judiciary. H. R. 1915. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H . R. 1889. A bill for the relief of Cecil Sarah.Hirshorn; to the Committee on the Ju- Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, I offer Wilson Hinkson, Jr.; to the Committee on diciary. ' · a resolution New York; Albert P. Morano, Con­ nard W. (Pat) Kearney, New York; Donald Fisheries shall be composed of 29 members; necticut; Marguerite Stitt Church, Illinois; L. Jackson, California; Kit Clardy, Michigan; and E. Ross Adair, Indiana; Winston L. Prouty, Gordon H. Scherer, Ohio. The Committee on Public Works shall be Vermont; Alvin M. Bentley, Michigan. Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Edith compo~ed of 29 members. Committee on Government Operations: Nourse Rogers (chairman), Massachusetts; Clare E. Hoffman (chairman) , Michigan; R. Bernard W. (Pat) Kearney, New York; Wil­ The SPEAKER. The question is on Walter Riehlman, New York; Cecil M. Harden, liam H. Ayres, Ohio; E. Ross Adair, Indiana; agreeing to the resolution. Indiana; George H. Bender, Ohio; Charles B. William L. Springer, Illinois; Winston L. The resolution was agreed to. Brownson, Indiana; Marguerite Stitt Church, Prouty, Vermont; Edmund P. Radwan, New A motion to reconsider was laid on Illinois; George Meader, Michigan; Frank C. York; Russell V. Mack, Washington; John P. the table. Osmers, Jr., New Jersey; Clarence J. Brown, Saylor, Pennsylvania; Edward J. Bonin, Penn­ Ohio; Louis E. Graham, Pennsylvania; Walter sylvania; Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., New Jer­ H. Judd, Minnesota; Gordon L. McDonough, sey; William. S. Mailliard, California; Paul A. ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO STAND- California; Katharine St. George, New York; Fino, New York; Albert W. Cretella, Con­ ING COMMITTEES OF THE William E. Miller, New York; Jeffrey P. Hillel­ necticut. HOUSE son. Missouri; Richard H. Poff, Virginia. The SPEAKER. The question is on· Committee on House Administration: Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, I offer Oliver P. Bolton, Ohio. agreeing to the resolution. a privileged resolution (H. Res. 99) and Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: The resolution was agreed to. ask for its immediate consideration. A. L. Miller (chairman), Nebraska; Wesley A. A motion to reconsider was laid on the The Clerk read as follows: D'Ewart, Montana; Norris 'Poulson, Califor­ table. Resolved, That the following-named Mem­ nia; John P. Saylor, Pennsylvania; William Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I offer a bers be, and they are hereby, elected mem­ H. Harrison, Wyoming; J. Ernest Wharton, privileged resolution Alabama; E. C. Gathings, Belcher, Oklahoma; Clifford G. Mcintire, Arkansas; John L. McMillan, South Carolina; Maine; James S. Golden, Kentucky; William James I. Dolliver, Iowa; John W. Heselton, Thomas G. Abernethy, Mississippi; Carl R. Williams, New York; Karl C. King, Penn­ Massachusetts; John B. Bennett, Michigan; Albert, Oklahoma; Watkins M. Abbitt, Vir­ sylvania; Robert D. Harrison, Nebraska; Wil­ Richard W. Hoffman, Illinois; John V. Beam­ ginia; James G. Polk, Ohio; Pat Sutton, Ten­ liam C. Wampler, Virginia. er, Indiana; William L. Springer, Illinois; nessee; W. M. (Don) Wheeler, Georgia; Clark Committee on Armed Services: Dewey Alvin R. Bush, Pennsylvania; Paul F. W. Thompson, Texas; Paul C. Jones, Missouri; Short (chairman), Missouri; Leslie C. Arends, Schenck, Ohio; Joseph L. Carrigg, Pennsyl­ A. S. Herlong, Jr., Florida. I111nois; W. Sterling Cole, New York; Paul vania; Herbert B. Warburton, Delaware; Committee on Armed Services; Carl Vin­ W. Shafer, Michigan; Leroy Johnson, Cali­ Steven B. Derounian, New York; Thomas M. son, Georgia; Overton Brooks, Louisiana; fornia; Leon H. Gavin, Pennsylvania; Walter Pelly, Washington; J. Arthur Younger, Cali­ Paul J. Kilday, Texas; Carl T. Durham, Nortl1. Norblad, Oregon; James E. Van Zandt, Penn­ fornia. Carolina; L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina; sylvania; James T. Patterson, Connecticut; Committee on the Judiciary: Chauncey W. Philip J. Philbin, Massachusetts; F. Edward Paul Cunningham, Iowa; William H. Bates, Reed (chairman), Illinois; Louis E. Graham, Hebert, Louisiana; Arthur Winstead, Mis­ Massachusetts; William E. Hess, Ohio; Pennsylvania; Clifford P. Case, New Jersey; sissippi; Melvin Price, Illinois; 0. C. Fisher, Charles P. Nelson, Maine; James P. S. Dev­ Kenneth B. Keating, New York; William M. Texas; Porter Hardy, Jr., Virginia; William J. ereux, Maryland; C. W. (Runt) Bishop, Illi­ McCulloch, Ohio; Edgar A. Jonas, Illinois; Green, Jr., Pennsylvania; Clyde Doyle, Cali­ nois; Alvin E. O'Konski, Wisconsin; Wint Ruth Thompson, Michigan; Patrick J. Hill­ fornia; Victor Wickersham, Oklahoma; Smith, Kansas; William G. Bray, Indiana; ings, California; Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr., George P. Miller, California; Harold A. Pat­ Robert C. Wilson, California. Indiana; William E. Miller, New York; Dean ten, Arizona; Charles E. Bennett, Florida. Committee on Banking and Currency: P. Taylor, New York; Usher L. Burdick, North Committee on Banking and Currency: Jesse P. Wolcott (chairman), Michigan; Dakota; George Meader, Michigan; Laurence Brent Spence, Kentucky; Paul Brown, Ralph A. Gamble, New York; Henry 0. Talle, Curtis, Massachusetts; John M. Robsion, Jr., Georgia; Wright Patman, Texas; Albert Iowa; Clarence E. Kilburn, New York; Merlin Kentucky; DeWitt S. Hyde, Maryland. Rains, Alabama; Abraham J. Multer, New Hull, Wisconsin; Gordon L. McDonough, Cali­ Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish­ York; Charles B. Deane, North Carolina; fornia; W111iam B. Widnall, New Jersey; Jack­ eries: Alvin F. Weichel (chairman), Ohio; George D. O'Brien, Michigan; Hugh J. Ad­ son E. Betts, Ohio; Wesley A. D 'Ewart, Mon­ Thor C. Tollefson, Washington; John J. Al­ donizio, New Jersey; Isidore Dollinger, New tana; Myron V. George, K:ansas; Walter M. len, Jr., California; Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., York; Richard Bolling, Missouri; William A. Mumma, Pennsylvania; William E. McVey, Connecticut; Timothy P. Sheehan, Illinois; Barrett, Pennsylvania; Wayne L. Hays, Ohio; Illinois; D. Bailey Me.rrill, Indiana; Charles Walter M. Mumma, Pennsylvania; William Barratt O'Hara, Illinois. G. Oakman, Michigan; Edgar W. Hiestand, K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin; Walter Norblad, Ore­ Committee on the District of Columbia: California; Douglas R. Stringfellow, Utah. gon; Frank C. Osmers, Jr., New Jersey; John L. McMillan, South Carolina; Oren Committee on District of Columbia: Sid Stuyvesant Wainwright II, New York; Kit Harris, Arkansas; Thomas G . Abernethy, Simpson (chairman), Illinois; Joseph P. Clardy, Michigan; John H. Ray, New York; Mississippi; Howard W. Smith, Virginia; O'Hara, Minnesota; Henry 0. Talle, Iowa; William S. Mailliard, California; Francis E. Arthur G. Klein, New York; Olin E. Teague, A. L. Miller, Nebraska; James C. Auchincloss, Dorn, New York. Texas; Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama; James New Jersey; John J. Allen, Jr., California; Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: c. Davis, Georgia; James H. Morrison, Louisi­ Carroll D. Kearns, Pennsylvania; Harold C. Edward H. Rees (chairman), Kansas; Harold ana; Paul c. Jones, Missouri; Pat Sutton, Hagen, Minnesota; James T. Patterson, Con­ C. Hagen, Minnesota; Robert J. Corbett, Tennessee; John E. Moss, California. necticut; Charles S. Gubser, California; Joel ·Pennsylvania; Katharine St. George, .New Committee on Education and Labor: T. Broyhill, Virginia; DeWitt S. Hyde, Mary­ York; Gardner R. Withrow, Wisconsin; Graham A. Barden, North Carolina; Augus­ land; Jeffrey P. Hillelson, Missouri. H. R. Gross, Iowa; Cecil M. Harden, Indiana; tine B. Kelley, Pennsylvania; Adam C. Powell, Committee on Education and Labor: Sam­ William C. Cole, Missouri; Albert W. Cretella, Jr., New York; Wingate H. Lucas, Texas; uel K. McConnell (chairman), Pennsylvania; Connecticut; Charles S. Gubser, California; Cleveland M. Bailey, West Virginia; Carl D. Ralph W. Gwinn, New York; Wint Smith, Edward J. Bonin, Pennsylvania; Joel T. Broy­ Perkins, Kentucky; Charles R. Howell, New Kansas; Carroll D. Kearns, Pennsylvania; hill, Virginia; Oliver P. Bolton, Ohio. Jersey; Roy W. Wier, Minnesota; Carl Elliott, Harold H. Velde, Illinois; Clare E. Hoffman, Committee on Public Works: George A. Alabama; Phil M. Landrum, Georgia; Lee Met­ Michigan; Charles J. Kersten, Wisconsin; E. Dondero (chairman), Michigan; Homer D. calf, Montana; HowardS. Miller, Kansas. Y. Berry, South Dakota; William H. Harrison, Angell, Oregon; J. Harry McGregor, Ohio; Committee on Foreign Affairs: James P. Wyoming; Albert ~. Bosch, New York; Joseph James C. Auchincloss, New Jersey; Russell Richards, South Carolina; Thomas S. Gordon, F. Holt, California; John J. Rhodes, Arizona; V. Mack, Washington; Hubert B. Scudder, Illinois; Thomas E. Morgan, Pennsylvania; Stuyvesant Wainwright II, New York; Peter California; Myron V. George, Kansas; Charles Laurie C. Battle, Alabama; A. S. J. Carna­ J. Frelinghuysen, Jr., New Jersey. B. Brownson, Indiana; Alvin R. Bush, Penn:­ han, Missouri; Thurmond Chatham, North Committee on Foreign Affairs: Robert B. sylvania; Charles G. Oakman, Michigan; Carolina; Clement J. Zablocki, Wisconsin; Chiperfield (chairman), Illinois; John M. Frank Small, Jr., Maryland; Herbert B. War­ Omar Burleson, Texas; Brooks Hays, Arkan­ Vorys, Ohio; Frances P. Bolton, Ohio; Law­ burton, Delaware; Will E. Neal, West Vir­ sas; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., New York; rence H. Smith, Wisconsin; Chester E. Mer­ ginia; Frank J. Becker, New York; S. Walter Edna F. Kelly, New York; Henderson Lanham, row, New Hampshire; Walter H. Judd, Min­ Stauffer, Pennsylvania; Gordon H. Scherer, Georgia; Burr P. Harrison, Virginia. nesota; James G. Fulton, Pennsylvania; Jacob Ohio. Committee on Government Operations: K. Javits, New York; Donald L. Jackson, Cali­ Committee on Un-American Activities: William L. Dawson, Illinois; Chet Holifield, fornia; Karl M. LeCompte, Iowa; Edmund P. Harold H. Vel de (chairman), Illinois; Ber- California; Frank M. Karsten, Missouri; 438 CONGRESSIONAL _RECORD- HOUSE January 19 John W. McCormack, Massachusetts; Sidney ADJOURNMENT ON MONDAY AND_ The general studies of the Commis­ A. Fine, New York; Bill Lantaff, Florida; Earl TUESDAY sion will shortly be supplemented by spe-· Chudoff, Pennsylvania; Frank Ikard, Texas; cific field studies of resource development Jack B. Brooks, Texas; Lester Holtzman, New Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, I offer York; Robert L. Condon, California; Thomas a privileged resolution Robe­ tant additional field checks for particu­ son, Jr., Virginia; Eugene J. Keogh, New As I leave the office of President, I York; James J. Delaney, New York; Martin should like to call to the attention of the lar regions upon the desirable pattern of Dies, Texas; Mrs. John B. Sullivan, Missouri; Congress several recent actions designed development for each area. T. A. Thompson, Louisiana; Don Magnuson, to provide a better basis for the develop­ These studies have been undertaken Washington; Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Massa­ ment of our water and related land against a background of great accom. chusetts. resources. plishment, and in accord with the Na... Committee on Post Office and Civil Serv­ These resources are a foundation, upon tion's well-established tradition of pub.. ice: Tom Murray, Tennessee; James H. Mor­ which rest our national security, our lie interest in its water and land re­ rison, Louisiana; James C. Davis, ·Georgia; George M. Rhodes, Pennsylvania; John Le­ ability to maintain a democratic society, sources. I believe them to be in accord sinski, Jr., Michigan; John Jarman, Okla­ and our leadership in the free world. All with our record of vigorous action to pro. homa; Harley 0. Staggers, West Virginia; too frequently their significance has been teet the public welfare in river-basin de­ Garrett L. Withers, Kentucky; John Dowdy, obscured among the dramatic events velopment, a record which dates from Texas; Edward P. Boland, Massachusetts; which have characterized our time. the first years of this century. Hugh Q. Alexander, North Carolina; Frazier Realizing the importance of properly The first real impetus to sensible river­ Reams, Ohio. planned water resource development, in basin development came as a part of the Committee on Public Works: Charles A. 1950 I appointed a special commission to conservation movement which was led Buckley, New York; George H. Fallon, Mary­ land; Clifford Davis, Tennessee; James W. recommend a consistent and forward· by President Theodore Roosevelt. He Trimble, Arkansas; John A. Blatnik, Minne­ looking national policy for the conser· and his advisers realized that the sota; Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama; John J. vation, development, and use of our continuing misuse of our natural re­ Dempsey, New Mexico; Frank E. Smith, water and related land resources. This sources through unbridled private de­ Mississippi; John C. Watts, Kentucky; Thad­ was the Water Resources Policy Commis· velopment would seriously endanger deus M. Machrowicz, Michigan; John c. sion, under the chairmanship of Mr. -the Nation's welfare within a very Kluczynski, Illinois; Tom Steed, Oklahoma; Morris L. Cooke. few generations. His dynamic leader­ Vera Buchanan, Pennsylvania. The Commission reported to me in ship brought the first real safeguards Committee on Un-American Activities: 1951. Their report has been under care­ to assure that benefits from resource Francis E. Walter, Pennsylvania; Morgan M. ful and detailed study by the executive development would accrue to all the Moulder, Missouri; Clyde Doyle, California; branch agencies since then. I now am people, rather than just to special in­ James B. Frazier, Jr., Tennessee .. transmitting formally the Commission's terests. At the same time, he sought Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Olin E. report to the Congress for its considera· to assure permanently productive for­ Teague, Texas; Joe L. Evins, Tennessee; tion in treating problems of resource de­ W. J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina; Robert ests, waters, and lands .. T. Secrest, Ohio; Elizabeth Kee, West Vir­ velopment. I believe that the report is During the period prior to the First ginia; George S. Long, Louisiana; Harlan of great value. The Commission's un­ World War ·the Congress also demon­ Hagan, California; James A. Byrne, Penn­ derstanding of cooperative effort in the strated a bipartisan interest in publicly sylvania; Brady Gentry, Texas; D. R. (Billy) American system, its clarification of the beneficial river-basin development. In­ Matthews, Florida; Ed Edmondson, Okla­ complex problems of multiple-purpose deed, its interest in waterway develop­ homa; Armistead Selden, Alabama. planning, its detailed professional analy­ ment and flood control in the nineteenth sis .of water management, and its recog· century marked the beginnings of Fed­ The resolution was. agreed to. nition of the broad public interest make eral water policy. A motion to reconsider was laid on· the the report an important public docu.. The interest of both the Congress and table. ment. · :the executive branch ·in comprehensive 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- H0USE 439 treatment of our river basins was re- at the great works of the Central Val­ wife can electrify her kitchen-at rates fleeted in the enactment Of laws which ley, or of the Colorado, which literally which he can afford. established and provided for the admin- move rivers from one basin to another. We have learned that small towns can istration of the national forests-one Look at the great developments which compete with cities for the location of main purpose of which was to protect are getting under way on the Missouri industry and factory jobs without hav­ jmportant watersheds which are sources and in the Southwest. ing the disadvantage of high electricity for many streams. It was shown in the No wonder professional visitors from rates, and without the disadvantage of enactment of the Reclamation Act of all over the world come to see our works, high transportation rates-.for their ma­ 1902 to provide Federal aid for the de- and to study our ideas. The stream of terials and goods. Frequently dams velopment of irrigation on the arid lands several thousand professional visitors which produce electricity l}lso make it of the West. The interest continued, who come every year to study the De­ possible for vessels to move at low cost as indicated by passage of the Federal partment of Interior's, TVA's, the De­ ·on a river. Water Power Act in 1920. That act re- partment of Agriculture's, and the Corps We have learned that the advantages quired selection of electric power proj- of Engineer's work is not a matter of of flood control can be extended on a ects or plans which developed and used chance. Only something solid and stim­ large scale through multiple-purpose water resources most efficiently. The in- ulating could be so lasting an attraction. reservoirs and watershed improvements, terest was further illustrated in the During those 20 years, we have learned aiding town and farm alike. 1927 authorization of the Corps of En- the true place of electric power-gener­ All these now nationally acknowledged gineers 308 reports, which specifically ating facilities in our national life. They benefits of comprehensive river basin provided for comprehensive planning. are vital to the Nation-physically, eco- development were little but the vision Although the dynamic influence of nomically, socially. We now know they of a few foresighted men 20 years ago. Theodore Roosevelt was important in are so vital that never again can we trust But they were visions which had existed the conservation movement, the legisla- to haphazard planning for their con­ for many years before we were able to tion enacted to conserve and to develop struction. act upon them. I hope that the demon­ our water and land resources for the We know that electricity can be pro­ stration we now have before us will never most part was broadly supported by both duced and sold cheaply; and that when be forgotten, nor its significance lost parties. The steps taken were in recog- it is so produced, the market for it is of sight of. nition of the overriding public interest hitherto undreamed size. I am happy to report that we have in sound resource management. We know that large reserves of gener- made impressive additions to our re­ The experience of this early period of ating capacity are vital to economic source foundation during my adminis­ public action showed that constant vigi- health and to national security. tration. We have continued on the pro­ lance and competent professional guid· We know that the public construction grams which were so well started in ance are essential to prevent irreparable of main transmission lines from genera­ previous years. losses. In spite of earlier efforts, whole tors to wholesale distribution points un· Since 1945, we have added about 2,· sections of our national resource founda- locks this generating capacity for the 700,000 irrigated acres to our farm lands. tion were crumbling as recently as 20 public at large, and eliminates the dan­ By the middle of 1953, works constructed years ago. We had not yet fully awak- ger of monopoly. by the Federal Government will be sup­ ened to some of the dangers to national · We know these things because we had plying irrigation water to 135,000 farm interest which lay in short-sighted pri- . the foresight to commence multiple-pur­ units m the West. Several million addi­ vate actions. Our land~ were disappe~r· . pose riv.er development. 't;ional acres would be irrigated under ing in gale and flood; our streams still TVA proved a lot of these things to us, projects which have been authorized by were destructive giants unchained. and our works in other parts of the coun· the Congress but not yet constructed. .During the two eventful decades which try have confirmed and extended that Since 1945, also, we have made sub­ have followed since 1933,. the Nation has proof. · I need hardly remind you that stantial progress toward the protection undergone som~ d,eeply moving . expe- without the electricity of the TV A and of our many valleys from disastrous riences, like the appearance of the Great . Bonneville systems, which resulted from· ftoods. We have provided additional Plains Dust Bowl which directly or in- Federa·l · multiple-purpose development, flood control on the Mississippi, the Ohio, directly affected millions of people. In we should not have had enough alumi- the Columbia, in New England, the . part under the stimulus of catastrophe, num for planes, and we should not have Southwest and California, and in the but with the advantage of wise counsel had the timely atomic-energy program mid-Atlantic States: We have made en­ during those years, we have changed of the last World War. In fact those two couraging progress on the vast works for greatly our attitudes toward using our public power systems are still the energy control of the giant ·Missouri, probably lands and waters. life lines for that greatest development our most important remaining problem We have learned that the mark of a of our time. in river development. Between 1945 and well-managed land lies in the care a We have learned much more. We 1953, about 3,000,000 acres of valley land · Nation gives to its 1·ivers. We have now know that fertilizer can be produced were given flood protection. Works now learned that rivers truly can be our and sold more cheaply than it was in the under way will provide protection to an servants, har·nessed to provide vast ad- past. That can be done through having additional 7,600,000 acres. Three hun· ditions to oui· wealth. And as we have low-cost electric power in the right place, dred and fifty communities and 2,700,000 learned we have been working to restore as for the huge phosphate deposits of the people are located in the areas which will the ci·umbling parts of our resource Pacific Northwest. Or it can come be protected. foundation in a manner which has cap- through new processes, as have been de- In this period we have continued to . tured the imagination of the world. veloped by.' TVA. Both i:neans help us improve our navigable waterways. We, . During t;hese years I. believe that we to produce more food and clothing. And now have 28,600 miles of them, 11,100 demonstrated for all time the efficiency the fertilizer has been made to help the miles to a depth of 9 feet or more. They and the humanity of comprehensively upstream farmer keep his soil on his are important parts of the Nation's planned multipurpose river-basin devel· farm. That is where the soil belongs, transportation .sy~tem, and their use has opment. Compare the Tennessee Valley and not in the·· flooded basements and increased g-reatly in these years. of 1933, which lacked even . hope, with on the warehouse floors of valley cities. We have continued our soil conserva­ the vigorous region TVA in 1953 is as.. · We have learned that private citi­ tion program. In these last 8 years, 1,296 sisting the people to build further. zens-farmers, ranchers, forest owners­ new soil conservation districts were There you now will find· several million in their own interest as well as that of · formed. This addition nearly doubled people who are working aggressively to the Nation, should ·plan the use of the the number of such districts in the c·oun­ make the best use of their resources. resources they control so that those re­ try. A unified management of their water.. sources will be more fruitful as the years Our additions to the country's means shed has helped them to create new op- go by. All across our country individ­ of producing and distributing electric portunities. uals and private companies have dem- energy have also been great in this Or compare. tlie great dams and thou- onstrated the value and the practicality period~ During these 8 years, the Fed­ sands of acres of fertile green fields of (;;ffective conservation in · the daily eral Government alone has constructed which are beginning to grace· ea.stem management of their own enterpri~es. 5,000,000. ·kilowatts ·of generating ca­ Washington State, with the sagebrush We have learned that the farmer can pachy. This has fncreased the size of and scabland of a few years ago. Look have electricity in his dairy barn, and· his our public powe1· systems by 50 percent. 440 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 19 Further ultimate capacity of 10,600,000 mind. Each new structure must be rec­ The type of organization need not be kilowatts will be added when we com­ ognized as part of a plant which com­ the same for all regions. The breadt h plete projects now in construction. prises a whole system of river develop­ of our land and the number of rivers in Since 1945, we have constructed 12,200 ment. In planning for each function, it inevitably have given rise to many miles of main transmission lines. They we must be mindful of its relation to all differing needs. A fixed pattern may not assure widespread benefits to the people other purposes. be the sole answer to the problems of all from public power. And we especially must make sure that these rivers. 'T'hrough the ,Pirect efforts of the Rural we safeguard the use of these resources But whatever the outward form, the Electrification Administration since for the benefit of all the people. Where objectives should be the same. The 1945, we have brought electricity to the public moneys are invested, the re­ organizations we decide upon should be 1,500,000 farrirs· which never before had sulting gains must accrue to the public, strong enough to uphold the people's in­ it. More than 88 percent of our farms . and not be diverted to the undue benefit terest in their resources. They should be are now electrified, as compared to 46 of any private group. strong enough to be efficient. They percent in January 1945. Through the As we consider what the Nation has should be strong enough to see that uni­ lines constructed by the Department of done, and what we now know, we must fied multiple-purpose development is the Interior and the TVA we also have admit that we still have much to do. But planned for, and works operated har­ brought the benefits of low-rate public a great deal will depend on the way we moniously in each basin-wide compre­ power to 65 additional municipalities. do it. We now are at a stage where we hensive system. Their responsibilities I have not the slightest doubt that can capitalize on the extensive ground­ should embrace related land as well as these works, by the example they gave as work which has been laid for unified water programs. well as the electricity they delivered, were planning and management and multi­ The Water Resources Policy Commis­ an important reason for the small change ple-purpose development of our regional sion recommended in favor of decen­ in our rates for electric service through­ water and land resources. tralized but unified or coordinated ad­ out the Nation during this period when There are many reasons why we should ministration for these resource pro­ many prices rose sharply. Since 1945, take steps as soon as possible to improve grams. The need for better coordinated during a period when private utilities further our resource development policy basin administration also was recognized have experienced unprecedented pros­ and administrative machinery, and why by the Commission on the Organization perity, national average residential and we must modernize Federal Government of the Executive Branch, which reported commercial electric rates actually have techniques which determine the speed, earlier to me and to the Congress. decreased, and industrial rates have in­ justice, and efficiency we can muster for Second, we should increase our efforts creased less than 10 percent. Compare this work. to see that every affected State and every that to the general rate increase of al­ The national investment in resource affected community in a region is given most-80 percent authorized in the same development from all sources has taken opportunity to share in the responsibility period for rail freight rates. Without a sharp upward turn since the end of for basin development. I think it is a multiple-purpose river basin develop­ the Second World War. The Federal good rule .that where States and com­ ment, I believe that few of these ac­ Government alone is now spending about munities assume a greater share in ad­ complishments would have been possible. a billion dollars a year to help develop ministrative or planning responsibility, I have been privileged to see during our river basins through irrigation, pow­ they should also assume greater financial this administration the beginning or er, flood prevention, navigation, water­ responsibility. completion by our Federal Government shed treatment, and in other important We hear more and more of manage­ of great dams, gigantic irrigation enter­ ways. The Congress has authorized over ment and planning by the States from prises, huge generating stations, and $10,000,000,000 of projects for under­ the regions where work now is being other monuments which will stand as taking in the future. However, in tlie done, or is about to be undertaken. But symbols of the truths about water and face of this program, Federal organiza­ we have found, I regret to say, that this land developments we have now accepted tion for carrying out water resources growing demand for local administrative as a Nation. responsibilities remains diffuse, and responsibility, with few exceptions, is not I might speak of the engineering ac­ there is no uniform congressionally ap­ matched by an equal willingness to re­ complishments alone: The Corps of proved Federal water resources policy to lieve the Federal Government of finan­ Engineers' McNary Dam on the Colum­ govern large parts of this program. cial responsibility for a proportionate bia, the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand More and more people are beginning to share of the required investment. The Coulee irrigation diversion in Washing­ realize the importance of immediate assumption of greater State and com­ ton, and its Hungry Horse Dam in Mon­ changes to assure wise investment. munity financial responsibility is one of tana, the corps' Fort Randall Dam on the Ther~ is an encouraging tide of rising the ways we can avoid irresponsible spe­ Missouri; and TVA's Shawnee steam interest in this hitherto specialized tech­ cial pressure for undesirable projects. plant, to be the largest in the world. nical field by farmers, businessmen, We can view with favor the increas­ These are among the great engineering workmen, · civic organizations, and oth­ ing local awareness of the necessity of accomplishments of all time. · ers. Increasingly large volumes of pub­ planned, cooperative improvement of Yet it seems more important to me that licity are being given to definite pro­ our streams, but we also must foster an all these, and other projects too, are sym­ posals for changed policy and organiza­ understanding of the huge size of the bols of the things we have learned about tion; some of these have real merit, and job. There is much more to it than Fed­ efficient, orderly, organized development some, if adopted, would be very harmful. eral Government funds are likely to of river basins. Finally, some of our regions are in need accomplish in a reasonable time. We built the Bureau of Reclamation's of immediate help. I cannot think of We must also see that improved Fed­ great new Hungry Horse Dam in Mon­ the wasting resources of the Rio Grande eral organization accompanies increased tana not as an isolated structure, but as Basin, the Arkansas Basin, the Red River, local and State participation. States a part of the Columbia Basin system. or New England without considering and communities cannot cooperate effec­ Its value lies much more in the water it what a unified multiple-purpose program tively with the ageP,.cies of the Federal stores for use in a score of places down might do for each of them, and in help­ Government where sharp differences of the long Columbia system than in its ing them, what it might do for the Na­ opinion exist and where machinery for own sizable electricity production. tion. These are not jobs for isolated, resolving these differences is cumber­ We are building TVA's Shawnee plant unrelated single-project development. some or absent. where it is because we want to make the They demand comprehensive plans for Third, we should strengthen and sim­ best possible use of the whole TVA elec­ water and land alike. We cannot escape plify our Federal procedures for selec­ trical system for the development of the obvious relation of such improve­ tion among the great volume of project atomic energy in the interest of our ments to our national security. proposals which come to the executive national defense. For these reasons I commend to the offices and the Congress every year. This is what we must do for every one Congress for its serious attention several It has been estimated that full devel­ of these great works that we plan or build lines of action. opment of our water and land resources in the future. If we are to use our First, we should organize more efficient over the years may require the invest­ money and our effort wisely, they must means of regional river basin planning ment of as much as a hundred billion all be planned and built with the full and management in those parts of our dollars by private citizens and their Gov­ needs of the region and the Nation in country which need. such improvement. ernment. Not far in the future the 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 441 mold will be formed which will deter.;. can learn exactly where his tax dollar in anything but the' best interest of the mine the pattern of works for most of has gone, and what chance his Govern­ community, the State, and the Nation. our important regions. Whether or not ment has of getting it back. This job of getting our land and water the investment is to be sound or un­ Fifth, we should see that our devel­ developed, I repeat, is so big that we sound, for all the people or for a fortu­ opment procedure is so designed that it must enlist the participation of all nate few, will be decided by what the can provide the most in farms, and jobs, agencies-Federal, State, community, . Federal Government does within a few and opportunity for business en.terprise private enterprise. The results can be years. for every dollar spent. With these ob­ timely and economical only if States and Thus far we have not even been able to jectives in mind, we should modernize communities invest their dollars, as well compare projects on the same basis. our laws for promoting additions to as the Federal taxpayer. There are a number of Federal resource­ cultivable land, and adapt the revision to I report finally, then, that we now development laws,. and they establish the needs of the 48 States. We should have well charted the obstructions to differing procedures and differing stand­ retain the requirements of ·acreage limi­ efficient national water resource devel­ ards. We have had to. judge irrigation -tation but we should modernize them, opment of widespread benefit. In doing proposals by one standard, flood control in order to make them a true instru­ this we have found much that is good, by another, pollution control by a third, ment for encouraging the settlement of and I would hold fast to it. But I also and so on. In some cases, we have not family farms. We should further see believe that a more certain route to these even been able to get the facts as to · that balanced industrial employment op­ benefits can be planned. When that is whether or not benefits will be greater pprtunities and private business oppor­ done, the Nation can build even more than costs, even though the proponents tunities are available, and that Federal surely and more rapidly than before. always assure us of the great value of resource works are used to provide them HARRY S. TRUMAN. their particular proposal. You cannot wherever and whenever possible and THE WHITE HOUSE, January 19, 1953. make rapid progress without effective necessary. meanS' for selecting projects wisely. Toward these ends the Bureau of the I am pleased to report that we have Budget has been preparing legislative SUSPENDING CERTAIN IMPORT found it possible to move forward by proposals for desirable changes in policy TAXES ON COPPER Executive action toward better project and org~nization. The results of this Mr. REED of New York. Mr. Speaker, selection. With my approval, the Direc­ work will be available to the new admin­ I ask unanimous consent to take from tor of the Bureau of the Budget recently istration. the Speaker's desk the bill hats and coats tomorrow nel have been brought only by constant sur­ Sincerely yours, was very timely. I, with many more of veys of our work and the elimination of pro­ LINDSAY C. WARREN, my colleagues on this side of the aisle, cedures which serve no useful purpose under Comptroller General of the United States. am thoroughly confused about the cos­ present-day conditions. In cases where tumes for tomorrow. It is a matter of changes were needed but legal obstacles pre­ protocol and a matter of economics. cluded them, we asked and received from the STANDARD TIME ACT For many years I have been letting out Congress revisions in the law. In bringing about changes we have always tried to make Mr. REAMS. Mr. Speaker, I ask my long-tail morning coat. I under­ sure there would be no loss- of control of unanimous consent to address the House stand we are to wear morning clothes public funds. There has not been. In fact, for 1 minute and· to revise and extend my and a Homburg hat, which to me has the revised procedures are enabling the GAO remarks. become the badge of the State Depart­ and the Government generally to do a far The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ment. I ,think it has done more harm more competent job. the request of the gentleman from Ohio? to the State Department than the Alger I know statistics are dull, but these will There was no objection. Hiss affair. give some idea of the volume of our work last year: Twenty-one million vouchers au­ Mr. REAMS. Mr. Speaker, I have in­ Four years ago, as I recall, our distin­ dited; 508,000 claims settled; 264,000,000 troduced a bill to amend the Standard guished Speaker wore a derby-a bowler, checks reconciled; 12,000 decisions rendered Time Act of March 19, 1918, to provide as the English would say. I fully intend to departments, agencies, claimants, and for daylight savings throughout the Na­ to wear my high silk hat and my morn­ others; inspections made by investigators of tion on the standard time zones, and to ing coat. I only hope I will get some 691 different Government offices; 28 audit provide that the standard time shall be light as to whether that will constitute reports submitted to the Congress, including the measure of our time throughout the my first break with the new administra­ reports of 1951 audits of all Government cor­ year. tion, which I hope to work with. I porations; work on accounting systems done in nearly every department and agency of This act is particularly requested by would be happy if my distinguished the Government; 820 reports made to the people in interstate commerce. Fo1; 35 friend would tell-me whether it would Congress and its committees; and 3,500 re­ years we have been changipg the time be proper for me to go in what I think plies made to individual Members of Con­ sporadically, and it has caused a tre­ is the proper garb; If we were rigging gress. - mendous amount of confusion. · In a ·a ship, I think we would call it a rig that The GAO has continued to make collec­ few weeks we will have before us a bill has been set officially as a hermaphro­ tions of amounts illegally or utherwise im­ to change to daylight saving for the Dis­ ditic rig. properly paid out far in excess of the cost trict of Columbia. I hope at that time The SPEAKER. The gentleman's re­ of operating the office. The GAO is one of the few agencies in the Government that that this bill which I have introduced quest is referred to the committee on more than pays its way. Collections from will be adopted instead. Only by such etiquette. 1941 through December 31, 1952, total over a law can we have .orderly time proce­ $816,000,000. It is a fair statement to say dure. This is in keeping with the request ADVICE TO THE NEW SECRETARY that little of this amount would have ever and wishes of the television people, the OF DEFENSE been recovered, except for the work of the railroads, and .others engaged in inter­ GAO. Naturally, ~ am proud of this record. state commerce, and the general con­ Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I ask But I feel of greater importance is the work venience of the-public. unanimous consent to address the House the office is doing to prevent illegal or im­ ·There are many people who are op­ for 1 minute, to revise and extend my provident use of funds by the improvement remarks, and to include a magazine of accounting and auditing throughout the posed to daylight saving because-of the Government. confusion that it causes, who are not article. · In the past few years the GAO has placed opposed to a daylight saving on a nation­ · The SPEAKER. Is there objection to a great deal of emphasis on the joint pro­ wide basis. All of the work that has the request of the gentleman from North gram of the Secretary of the Treasury, the been built up for years in . developing Carolina? Director, Bureau of the Budget, and the standard time for our country is nega­ There was no objection. Comptroller General for the iq1provement of Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I desire accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, tive and destroyed during the summer and auditing in the Government. Equal months. No one can predict accurately to take this 1 minute to call the attention emphas!§ has been placed on the adoption what the time is in any community of of the House to an article that appears by the GAO of comprehensive and other on­ the United States unless he is advised in the issue of the Pathfinder magazine site audits of the departments and agencies .. whether or not it .observes the standard dated January 21. The title of the article The concepts of these two programs were time or some deviation thereof, referred is "An Open Letter and Warning to the unanimously adopted by the Congress in the to as daylight saving. New Defense Secretary." I would not Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of This bill, H. R. 1722, if enacted into law have made this the title of the article; 1950. Remarkable results are being achieved. I would have said, Mr. Speaker, "Advice Although we who are working with the will be an intelligent compromise which programs every day know we are just com­ will give us an orderly time system. .to the New Secretary of Defense." mencing to get beneath the surface of many The article embodies much of the in­ of the problems involved, actual savings al­ formation and many of the facts and ready accomplished run into millions of dol­ ANNOUNCEMENT observations of the Subcommittee on lars each year. In ·addition, improved effi­ The SPEAKER. The Chair wishes to Government Organization of which I had ciency of operations in the accounting and remind Members that when they come the honor to be chairman for th'e past 4 auditing fields, which cannot always be es­ timated dollarwise, has been of great sig­ . tomorrow to bring their hats and coats, years. If the new Secretary of Defense. nificance. as they will probably need them out­ Mr. Speaker, will carry out the sugges­ . With the tremendous growth of Govern­ side. tions made in this article, then millions ment activities and their supporting appro­ Furthermore, the Chair wishes to re­ of dollars can be saved to the taxpayers priations, we in the GAO are keenly aware mind the Members that there is o;nly a .of America. 444 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE January 19. I shall follow the proceedings and the who comes in to run the three branches can vation: "We have complete agreement on possibly· know enough about what he has to this. All you have to do is sign it:" work of the committee as it goes on un .. do and must ultimately find himself in the But a Secretary who goes at it the right der this Republican administration. It hands of the Chiefs of Staff. This, he says, way can lick the system that has been built was with deep regret that I had to select is exactly what the military want. For­ up to frustrate civilian control. If you man­ another committee and give up the Com­ restal cracked under the pressure and com­ age it, you will go down in history as a great mittee on Government Operations, but I mitted suicide by jumping out a window. man-the first to earn that estimate as civil­ hope it will proceed and do the splendid Your friend and one of your predecessors, ian Chief of Defense. These are some of the work in the future that it has done in retiring Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett, things you must do to lick the system: is regarded by congressional investigators as Get under way quickly and make basic the past. a weak man who failed at his job because changes the first year-before they get onto cloak rooms. In the days come, as we favored unification but let himself be used the report-prepared by men who get their look back with regret on the passing­ to scuttle it. In his published diary For­ promotions from the service-recommends temporarily of course-of the good old restal says that when he had been in the what .the military want. Reports, arrived at days, we suggest·that you regale andre­ Navy 6 years his knowledge of the Depart­ by bargaining among the services, will be fresh yourselves at the cloak-room founts ment was only fra-ctional. No man, he said, laid on your desk with this persuasive obser- where golden, delicious, healthful, in.. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 445 vigorating orange JUICe made available jority of the American people, in wishing with Mexlco in t h e control and eradication by the Florida Citrus Commission, under President and Mrs. Truman Godspeed, of foot-and-mouth disease for the month of a plan developed by our colleague the and that God will shower upon both of November 1952, pursuant to Public Law 8, Eightieth Congress; to the Committe~ on Ag­ gentleman from Florida [Mr. LANTAFFJ, them for many, many years to come His riculture. is waiting for all of you. choicest blessings. 344: A letter from the general counsel, Of­ President Truman ha.s been a strong fice of the Secretary of Defense, transmitting and courageous President, a man who a draft of legislation entitled "A bill to THE HOMBURG HAT employed his unusual ability in. an out­ amend the Dependents Assistance Act of 1950 Mr. AYRES. Mr. Speaker, I ask standing manner and now that differ­ to continue in effect certain of the provisions unanimous consent to address the House ences of opinion and the conflicts that thereof"; to the Committee on Armed Serv­ 1 ices. for minute and to revise and extend my exist disappear, I know that we all wish 345. A letter from the general counsel, Of­ remarks. for him and Mrs. Truman every happi­ fice of the Secretary of Defense, transmitting The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ness and success during the years that lie a draft of legislation entitled "A bill to pro­ the request of the gentleman from Ohio? ahead of them. vide for the orderly settlement of certain There was no objection. claims arising out of acts or omissions of Mr. AYRES. Mr. Speaker, I was quite civilian employees and military personnel of interested in what the gentleman from EXTENSION OF REMARKS the United States in foreign countries and of civilian employees and military personnel of North Carolina [Mr. CHATHAM] had to By unanimous consent permission to foreign countries in the United States, and say regarding the attire Members of extend remarks in the Appendix of the for other purposes"; to the Commit tee on Congress should wear tomorrow or at RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, Foreign Affairs. any other formal function during the was granted to: 346. A letter from the Librarian of Con­ new regime. Let me say to the gentle­ Mr. GRAHAM and to include extraneous gress, transmitting the Annual Report of the man from North Carolina that in my matter. · Librarian of Congress, for the fiscal year.end­ judgment the question is not the hat or ing June 30, 1952, as well as a complete set Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin in three in­ of the Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisi­ the coat, but what is underneath that stances and to include extraneous tions; to the Commit tee on House Adminis­ hat and underneath that coat; that is matter. tration. what counts. I am quite certain that Mr. WALTER and include copy of a let­ 347. A letter from the Administrator, De­ the heart underneath the coat General ter by Father Hurley to Monsignor fense Transport Administration, transmit­ Eisenhower will wear, and the brain un­ O'Grady concerning immigration. ting a draft of a proposed bill entitled "A bill derneath his hat, will give us the direc­ to continue the effectiveness of certain provi­ Mr. LANE in four instances and to in­ sions of sections 1 and 420 of the act of Feb­ tion we need and for which our country clude extraneous matter. voted last November 4. ruary 4, 1887, as amended, relating to trans­ Mr. CRETELLA and to include an edi­ portation of certain traffic in time of war or torial from the New Haven Register. threatened war, for the duration of the na­ Mr. RIVERS and to include an editorial tional emergency proclaimed December 16, PRESIDENT TRUMAN 1950, and 6 months thereafter"; to the Com­ Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I from one of the oldest papers in the mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. ask unanimous consent to address the United States, celebrating its one hun­ 348. A letter from the Secretary of the In­ House for 1 minute. dred and fiftieth anniversary, the terior, transmitting the report of action The SPEAKER. Is there objection ·to Charleston News arid Courier. taken or instituted by the Secretary of the the request of the gentleman from Mr. MuLTER in four instances and to Interior in connection with the saline water include extraneous matter. program, pursuant to section 6 of Public Law Massachusetts? 448, Eighty-second Congress; to the Commit­ There was no objection. Mr. WILSON of Texas and to include tee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Mr. McCORMACK. · Mr. Speaker, as two articles from the Communist Daily 349. A letter from the Assistant Secretary President Truman leaves office tomor­ Worker demanding repeal of the McCar­ of Interior, transmitting copies of certain row he carries with him the respect of ran-Walter Act. legislation passed by the Municipal Council the American people without regard to Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi in two in­ of St. Croix, pursuant to section 16 of the whether they agreed with him on every­ stances and to include extraneous Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the matter. United States, approved June 22, 1936; to the thing he has advocated during the past Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. 7% years; the American people respect Mr. PATTEN in five separate instances, 350. A letter from the Secretary of State, him for his sincerity and for his courage. in each to include extraneous matter. transmitting the fifth annual report of He assumed office a little over 7% Mr. BARTLETT and include excerpts claims paid by the Department during the years ago as a result of the tragic death from several essays. calendar year 1952, pursuant to section 404 of the immortal Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. HIESTAND and include an article of the Federal Tort Claims Act, as amended; During the period since he has had many from the January 12 issue of the Bur­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. challenging questions confront him. 351. A letter from the Secretary of Com­ bank Review entitled "Money and merce, transmitting Report No. 23, pursuant Some may differ with him in his deci­ Wealth." to section 217 of the Merchant Marine Act of sions, but I do .not think anyone can Mr. SHORT and include an address he 1936, as amended, Public Law 498, Seventy­ differ as to his sincerity, as to the hon­ delivered at the Marine Corps League at seventh Congress; to the Committee on Mer­ esty of his decisions, and as to his cour­ the Hotel Statler, Washington, D. c., last chant Marine and Fisheries. age. There is no question but what every Friday night. 352. A communication from the President action of his has been actuated by a Mr. BENDER. of the United States, transmitting a letter desire to strengthen America and to ad­ relative to Public Law 586, Eighty-second vance the national interest of our Congress, relating to long-range shipping; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and country. ADJOURNMENT Fisheries. Without going into detail as to the Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, I move many acts that have taken place during that the House do now adjourn. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS his administration, I simply recount the The motion was agreed to; accord­ atomic era, the Greece-Turkey Act, the ingly (at 12 o'clock and 43 minutes p. m.) Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public Marshall plan, the North Atlantic Pact,· pursuant to House Resolution 101, the bills and resolutions were introduced and the Military Assistance Act, the decision House adjourned until tomorrow, Tues­ severally referred as follows: to resist open aggression, the first act of day, January 20, 1953, at 11:15 o'clock By Mr. BARTLETT: open aggression after World War II, a.m. H. R. 1916. A bill to provide for an elective which brought about the North Korean Governor and an elective Lieutenant Gover­ conflict, and many other important nor of the Territory of Alaska; to the Com­ decisions. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. I recognize that Americans may hon­ ETC. By Mr. BOGGS: H. R. 1917. A bill to authorize the coinage estly disagree on some of them, and in Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive of 50-cent pieces to commemorate the ses­ this disagreement I respect their views, communications were taken from the quicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase; to I know that President Truman does, too, Speaker's .table and referred as follows: the Committee on Banking and Currency. but as he leaves office I am sure that I 343. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, H. R. 1918. A bill to provide for t he issu­ speak the sentiments of my colleagues Department of Agriculture, transmitting the ance of four special postage stamps in com­ and the American people, the great ma- report on cooperation of the United States memoration of the · sesquicentennial of t he 446 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE January _19 Louisiana Purchase; to the Committee on litical subdivisions thereof, or by any mu- Representatives; to the Committee on House Post Office and Civil Service. nicipality; to the Committee on Ways and Administration. H . R. 1919. A bill to amend the Internal Means. ------Revenue Code to provide that annuities re· By Mr. MILLS: TIONS ceived under the Civil Service Retirement H.R.1935. A bill to authorize the print- PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLU Act shall be exempt from income tax; to the ing and mailing of periodi~al ~ublications of .. . Under clause ·1 of rule Xxii, private Committee on Ways and Means. certain societies and inst1tutwns at places bills and resolutions were introduced and other than places fixed as the offices of pub- f . d f s. By Mr. CHENOWETH: lication; to the Committee on Post Office and 1Y 11 H. R. 1920. A bill to amend the National several re erre as o ow ·. Labor Relations Act with respect to collec· Civil Service. . By Mr. CHENOWETH: t.ive-bargaining contracts which have been By Mr. ROBESON of Virginia: · H. R. 1945. A bill for t:t:e relief of J. Don in existence for a continuous period of 20 H. R. 1936. A bill authorizing the accept- Alexander; to the Comm1ttee on the Judi­ years or more; to the Committee on Educa­ ance, for purposes of Colonial National His- ciary. torical Park, of school board land in exchange By Mr. COUDERT: tion and Labor. for park land, and for ot her purposes; t? the H. R. 1946. A bill for the relief of Hugo By Mr. D'EWART: Committee on Interior and Insular Affarrs. Nicolas Solamo; to the Committee on the H. R ..1921. A bill to settle possessory land By Mr. SADLAK: Judiciary. claims in Alaska; to the Committee on In­ H. R. 1937. A bill to provide for the By Mr. HINSHAW: terior and Insular Affairs. naturalization of persons serving in the H. R. 1947. A bill for the relief of Nelson By Mr. FINO: Armed Forces of the United States after Shig-Liang Sheng; to the Committee on the H. R. 1922. A bill to amend title II of the June 24, 1950; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Social Security Act to provide that those Judiciary. H. R. 1948. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Fung monthly insurance benefits which under By Mrs. ST. GEORGE: Hwa Liu Lee; to the Committee on the Ju­ present law are not payable until age 65 shall H. R. 1938. A bill to create the position of diciary. hereafter be payable at age 60 in the case mail handler in charge in the Postal Trans­ H. R. 1949. A bill for the relief of Tosbiko of men and at age 55 in the case of women; portation Service; to the Committee on Post Nakamuta Takimoto and her minor son; to to the Committee on Ways and Means. Office and Civil Service. the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. HILL: H. R. 1939. A bill to authorize films, and H. R. 1950. A bill for the relief of the Union H. R. 1923. A bill to provide for the estab· related material, for educational use to be Oil Co. of California and the Matson Naviga­ lishment of a Veterans' Administration dom­ transmitted through the mails at the rate tion Co.; to the Committee on the Judiciary. iciliary facility at Fort Logan, Colo.; to the provided . for books; to the Committee on H. R. 1951. A bill for the relief of Hebbanl Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Post Office and Civil Service. Krishnamurthi Jairaj; to the Committee on By Mr. HINSHAW: By Mr. THOMPSON of Louisiana: the Judiciary. H. R. 1924. A bill to amend the Civil Aero­ H. R. 1940. A bill to amend the Social H. R. 1952. A bill for the relief of Cecile nautics Act of 1938, as .amended, to authorize Security Act to permit individuals entitled Lorraine Vincent; to the Committee on the the construction, operation, and mainte­ to old-age or survivors insurance benefits to Judiciary. nance of heliports on or near Government earn $125 a month without deductions being H. R. 1953. A bill for the relief of Paula buildings; to the Committee on Interstate made from their benefits; to the Committee Vetter; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and Foreign Commerce. on Ways and Means. By Mr. KING of California: H. R. 1925. A bill to aid in meeting the By Mr. THORNBERRY: H. R. 1954. A bill for the relief of Edward defense mobilization requirements of the H. R. 1941. A bill to confirm and establish B. Palmer; to the Committee on the Judi· United States by providing for the training or the titles of the States to lands beneath ciary. retraining of civilian aviation personnel; to navigable waters within State boundaries By Mr. LESINSKI: the Committ_ee on Interstate and Foreign and to the natural r'esources . within such H. R. 1955. A bill for the relief of Al.vio Commerce. lands and waters, to provide for the use and Innamorati; to the Committee on the Ju- H . R. 1926. A bill to provide for Federal control of said lands and resources, and to diciary. . participation in the design, development, and provide for the use, control, exploration, de· By Mr. McDONOUGH: service testing of jet-transport aircraft in velopment, and conservation of certain re· H. R. 1956: A bill for the ·relief of Khadr the manner recommended by the Civil Aero­ sources of the Continental Shelf lying out­ Su'od Sad ed Din; to the Committee on the nautics Board, and for other purposes; to the side of State boundaries; to the Committee Judiciary. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ on the Judiciary. H. R. 1957. A bill for the relief of Abdel merce. By Mr. VAN ZANDT: Karim Ahmad Ali Sham'a, also known as H. R. 1927. A bill to .exempt air carriers H. R. 1942. A bill to provide that voluntary Abdel Sham'a; to the Committee on the from statutory provisions requiring payments agreements for the coverage of State and Judiciary. for compensation for customs employees' local e_mployees under _1;he Federal old-age H. R. 1958. A bill for the relief of Khalil overtime services, and for other purposes; to and survivors insurance system may include Abus Su'd Sa'd ed Din, also known as Charlie the Committee on Ways and Means. positions covered by retirement systems; to Sood; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 1928. A bill to authorize the inter­ the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. MOULDER: service transfers of officers; to the Committee By Mr. WITHROW: H. R. 1959. A bill for the relief of Nakako on Armed Services. H. R. 1943. A bill to amend the act of July Kana; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 6, 1945, as amended (Public Law 134, 79th H. R. 1960. A bill for the relief of Mrs. By Mr. HOEVEN: Cong.), to provide overtime compensation for H. R. 1929. A bill to amend the Defense Grace Owsley; to the Committee on the Production Act of 1950, as amended, to pro­ employees of the Postal Transportation Serv­ Judiciary. hibit the grading of livestock and to remove ice for service in excess of 32 hours per­ By Mr. MULTER: formed in any calendar week in which a H. R. 1961. A bill for the relief of Leonardo price ceilings from livestock; to the Commit· holiday occurs; to the Committee on Post tee on Banking and CUrrency. Gargano; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Office and Civil Service. By Mr. SCHERER: H. R. 1930. A bill to grant permanent and By Mr. ZABLOCKI: total disability ratings to veterans suffering H. R . 1962. A bill for the relief of the Ed­ H. R. 1944. A bill to amend Section l020c, wards Manufacturing Co., Inc.; to the Com­ from severe industrial inadaptability as a Title 12, Banks and Banking, United States result of war service; to the Committee on mittee on the Judiciary. Code, and · to provide for payment by the By Mr. SEELY-BROWN: Veterans' Affairs. Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation of the By Mr. HOSMER: H. R. 1963. A bill for the relief of Anneliese unpaid balance due on defaulted joint-stock Schillings; to the Committee on the Judi­ H. R. 1931. A bill to set aside Executive land bank bonds; to the Committee on Agri­ Order No. 10426 relating to submerged lands ciary. culture. H. R. 1964. A bill for the relief of the East of the Continental Shelf; to the Committee By Mr. HINSHAW: on the Judiciary. Coast Ship & Yacht Corp., of Noank, Conn.; H. J. Res. 144. Joint resolution defining to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. KEATING: certain terms, defining and extending cer­ H . R. 1965. A bill for the relief of Khalil H. R. 1932. A bill to terminate certain ex· tain boundaries, and for other purposes; to S. A. Aoun; to the Committee on the Ju­ cise taxes; to the Committee on Ways and the Committee on the Judiciary. diciary. Means. By Mr. McDONOUGH: By Mr. SMITH of Virgina (by request): By Mr. KERSTEN of Wisconsin: H. Res. 102. Resolution authorizing and di· H. R. 1966. A bill for the relief of Dezso H . R. 1933. A bill to amend title 18, United recting an inquiry by the Committee on Ap­ Szilagyi; to the Committee on the Judiciary. States Code, section 396, relating to the im­ propriations of the House of Representatives . By Mr. STEED; porting and transporting of obscene books into the commercial and proprietary activi­ H. R ." 1967. A bill to reimburse the Steb· and other material;· to the Committee on the ties of the Government of the United States, bins Construction Co.; to the Committee on Judiciary. and for other purposes; to the Committee on .. the Judiciary: By Mr. LANTAFF: Rules. By Mr. WIGGLESWORTH: H. R. 1934. A bill to provide that the tax By Mr. SMITH of Virginia: H. R. 1968. A bill for the relief of David on admissions shall not apply to admissions H. Res. 103. Resolution for the relief of Ida Demarest Swift, Anne Hathaway Swift, and to historical sites and museums operated by Seringer Sanford, widow of Robert .Edgar Samuel Hyde Swift; to the Committee on the the United States, the several States, or pa. Sanford, late an employee of the House o! Judiciary. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE . 447 PETITIONS, ETC. THE JOURNAL which was read, a.nd, with the accom­ Under clause of rule XXII, On request of Mr. TAFT, and by unani­ panying papers, referred to the Commit­ tee on Labor and Public Welfare; 20. Mr. PATMAN presented a petition of mous consent, the reading of the Journal Fred D. Garner, of Winnsboro, Tex., and 97 . of the prOceedings of Friday, January 16, mantle. of the great public servants the following Senators answered to' their .· United States and other free ·1;1ations whose hands · have grasped it · fall in names: · - have chosen to build up their strength. · double portion upon him and upon all Aiken . Griswold McClellan That is what 'the Mutual Security Pro- Anderson ·Hayden Millikin .. gram is all about. who· here serve the public. weal. Give Barrett Hendrickson Monroney During t~e ·6-month period reviewed them, we pray rhee, fairness Of ap- Beall HE)nnlngs Morse · th' t 1 · d f t ·Bennett _Hick_enlooper Mundt. m 'IS repor •. rea ·progress· was ·made -praisal, poise ami Mn usioii, he no- Bricker Hili · Murray in strengthening the free world. ·. AI.:. · bility of goodness, and 'the simple faith Bridges Hoey· Neely - though much remains to be done, we are in man that is more than coronets. Bush Holland Pastore · heading in the right direction. If we And as before the twilight falls a new . Butler, Nebr.Md. HuntHumphrey PaynePotter · k eep on, if each of the partners in this Chief Executive of the :a,epublic turns to Byrd Ives Purtell joint effort makes every effort to meet problems more tragic and thorny than Capehart Jackson. Robertson problems in a sensible manner, we shall Carlson Je~ner Russell any man in history ever knew, may there case _Johnson, Colo. Saltonstau eventually reach our goal of a secure , be given to him and to his advisers in · Chavez Johnson, Tex. Schoeppel peaceful, and confident world. ' Government the wisdom . that is from g~~~!~ts i~~~~~~~· s. c. ~:~~e~alne HARRY S. TRUMAN. above, as our ship of state plows on cordon Kennedy Smith; N.J. THE WHITE HousE, November 18, 1952. through perilous seas. In spite of rock DirksenDaniel KilgoreKerr Smith,Sparkman N.c. ·and tempest roar, in spite of false lights Douglas Knowland Stennis DEVELOPMENT OF WATER ANDRE­ on the shore, bring OUr national barque Duff Kuchel Symington . LATED LAND RESOURCES-MES­ · to the desired haven of peace, with vic- ~:S~f!~~k t!~::n i~;;e SAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT tory for truth and justice. We ask it Ellender Long Tobey in the name of the Prince of Peace. Ferguson Magnuson Watkins The ACTING PR~IDENT 'pro tern .. Flanders Malone . Welker PQre ~aid befo:re the Senate -a message Amen. . . ;Freav · ·Mansfield Wiley Gillette Martin Williams · from the President of the United States, · Goldwater Maybank Young relating to development of water and DESIGNATION OF ACTING PRESI- . - Gore McCan:an · related land resources, which was read; DENT PRO TEMPORE Green Mccarthy and, ·with the accompanying document, · · Mr. CLEMENTS. I announce that the referred to the Committee on Public The Chief Cler~ . read the following ·· Senator from Arkansas [Mr: FuLBRIGHT] Works. letter-: and the Senator from Georgia [Ml~ . (See similar message printed in full in UNITED STATES SENATE, PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, GEORGE] are.necessarily absent. . RECORD of a:ouse proceedings of Jan­ Washington, D ; c., January 20; 1953. ·The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern- uary 19, 1952, pp. 438-441.) To the senate: pore. A quorum is present. Being temporarily absent from the -Senate, I appoint Ho:ri. EuGENE D. MILLIKIN, a Sena­ MARITIME SUBSIDY PROGRAMS- tor from. the State of Colorado, to perform , CONVENTIONS ON MIGRATION FOR COMMUNICATION · FROM THE the duties of the Chair· during my a'bsence. ·EMPLOYMENT-MESSAGE ·· FROM . PRESIDENT STYLES BRIDGES, '!'HE PRESIDENT