9212 ' CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 31 PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS time, and handed down unimpaired to surance provisions of section 8 of the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private our children; and grant that from gen­ National Housing Act. It raises the per­ bills and resolutions were introduced and eration to generation we may remain a centage amount of the mortgagen which severally referred as follows: united people loyal to the principles upon may be insured from 95 percent to 100 By Mr. GRANAHAN: · which this Nation was founded. percent for those building low-cost H. R. 5004. A bill for the relief of 'l ..,rminal Through Jesus Christ our Lord. homes to replace hous~s which have Warehouse Co.; to the Committee on the Amen. been destroyed by floods or reconstruct­ Judiciary. The Journal of the proceedings of ing homes which have been so exten­ H. R. 5005. A bill for the relief of Terminal yesterday was read and approved. sively damaged as to require reconstruc­ Warehouse Co.; to the Committee on the tion. The money is already available Judiciary. HOUSING RELIEF IN THE MISSOURI­ under the Disaster Relief Act for pro­ H. R. 5006. A bill for the relief of Galla­ KANSAS-OKLAHOMA FLOOD DISASTER viding temporary housing or other gher's Warehouses, Inc.; to the Committee EMERGENCY on the Judiciary. emergency shelter. By Mr. HILLIN GS: Mr. BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. It :'"!. R. 5007. A bill for the relief of Gerzon unanimous consent for the immediate affects only the disaster area? Gruszka, Stella Gruszka and Tamara Grusz­ consideration of the joint resolution Mr. BOLLING. Yes, sir. I might say ka; to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States States and local govern.ments. in major dis­ souri [Mr. BciLLING] with 'reference ·to to revise the treaty of peace with Italy; to asters, and for other purposes' (Public Law this resolution, and I think it is a neces­ the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 875, 8~s~ Cong., approved S~ptember 30, 370. Also, petition of Iowa .state Federa- . 1950) , has determined to be a major disaster, sary and important measure, and I do tion of Labor, Des Moines, Iowa, relative to such maximum doilar limitations may be hope that it is passed quickly and ex- ·calling upon the Congress to i~plement ·the increased by the Commissioner from $4,750 peditiously. · · anti-infiation program of the administration, to $7,000, and from $5,600 to $8,000, respec­ Last week I visited the devastated flood which. has been endorsed by the American tively, and the percentage limitation may be areas in Kansas. · As I saw the stricken Federation of Labor; to the Committee on increased by the Commissioner from 95 per­ people returning· to their honies, I real­ Banking and CurrencY:· cent to 100 percent ef ·the appraised value." ized that immediate and effective action SEC. 2. Section 3 of the act entitled "An act to authorize Federal assistance to States shouid be taken to assist them in re­ and local governments in major disasters, building and reestablishing themselves. and for other purposes" (Public Law 875, . I am happy to have had a part in pro­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 81st Cong., approved September 30, 1950), is posing the· first legislation designed to amended by inserting in clause (d) of the meet this problem. I want to congratu­ TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1951 first sentence thereof after the words "in late our committee, the House Banking such major disaster" the following: "pro­ and Currency, upon its speedy action this The House met at 12 o'clock noon. viding temporary housing or other emer­ Rev. John Nelson Taylor, St. Mark's gency shelter for fammes who, as a result morning in approving the legislation Church, Fort Dodge, Iowa, offered the of such major disaster, requite temporary unanimously. The attitude of both th.e housing or other emergency shelter,". Democratic and Republican leadership following prayer: of the House in expediting consideration O Lord God Almighty, Supreme Ruler The SPEAKER. Is there objection to of the measure is also gratifying. I am of Nations, without whom no people can the request of the gentleman from Mis­ sure that this House will approve the be great: We thank Thee for the prog­ souri? bill unanimously, and speed it on its ress and prosperity vouchsafed to this Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. way. · Nation, and for the countless blessings, Speaker, reserving the right to object, The people of Kansas who have suf­ 'temporal and spiritual, bestowed upon will the gentleman explain the resolu­ fered the loss of their homes will be its people.' Make us, we beseech Thee, tion? heartened to know that Congress can act more sensible of Thy goodness, and our Mr.·BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, the pur­ efficiently and quickly to meet their responsibility as stewards of Thy gifts. pose of this resolution is to provide cer­ emergencies. · This legislation will not And grant us such virtue and true re­ tain immediate relief to affected indi­ accomplish all of the things needed by ligion that by our deliberations, our leg­ viduals in the disaster areas of Missouri, our people, but it is a step in the right islation, and by our lives Thy holy name Kansas, and Oklahoma with respect to direction. may be forever glorified and the wel­ temporary housing and other emergency The provisions of the bill are simple, fare of Thy people advanced. Endue shelter. The director of relief activities providing for 100 percent FHA insurance with wisdom, patience, understanding, in that area, Mr. Foley, of the Housing on houses to be constructed by people counsel, and strength our Representa­ and Home Finance Agency, finds that in who have lost their homes due to the tives here assembled, and all who are order to provide even. temporary and flood. It is hoped that this will, in a ~ngaged in the Government of this Na­ emergency shelter for a number of great measure, be beneficial in the long­ tion; that upholding what is right and people whose homes have been complete­ range rehabilitation program. following what is true, they may obey ly or almost entirely destroyed by the Many people are now homeless, living Thy holy will and fulfill Thy divine pur­ flood, he 1.aust have this additional au­ in schools, auditoriUms, and in the f)ose. Grant them strength so to serve thority. homes of their neighbors. The bill fur­ Thee that the heritage received from In ·addition, the resolution provides for ther provides for the erection of tempo­ our fathers may be preserved in our the liberalization ·of the mortgage-in- rary shelters for these people until such 1951 CO NG RES SI ON AL · RECORD-HOUSE 9213 I time as they ar.e.able to lo~ate permanent The resolution provides for 100 per­ especially if he has five small children. living quarters. . cent Federal Housing Administration in­ It is for the Gossett family, and not for Mr. Speaker, I recommend that tbe surance on new homes that take the myself, that we return to Texas. House pass this measure at once in order place. of those totally destroyed or wholly Perhaps these so-called swan songs that this assistance may be made avail- made uninhabitable.because of the :flood should just as well be left unsung. Per­ able without further delay. . , disaster. This will give opportunity to haps the retiring Congressman, like the The SPEAKER. Is there objection those who want to reestablish their now-famous old soldier, should just fade to the request of the gentleman from homes and begin again as nearly as they away. However, I know you will indulge Missouri? can where they were before this :flood me the privilege of saying only a few of There was no objection. overtook them. It will also offer encour­ the many things that I would like to ex­ Mr. BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, I offer agement to people who are terribly dis­ press. First, let me say that fc:- every an amendment to the resolution. tressed at the present time. single Member of this House I have the The Clerk ·read as follows: The resolution further provides for highest personal regard, and for those I Amendment offered by Mr. BOLLING: granting authority to the Disaster Loan have been fortunate enough to know Page 1, line 4, after. "is hereby amended"• Corporation to construct temporary well, I have the deepest affection. I wish insert: . . · housing that will take the place of homes that more people realized the high cali­ " ( 1) By inserting after the word 'construc­ lost by reason of the :flood. These homes ber of the men and women who serve in tion'. in both places where it appears therein, will be used by people who lived . in the words 'or reconstruction'; and - the Congress and the heavy burdens they "(2) Page 1, line 10, strike out 'statisfac­ rented houses, and will give another have to bear. I wish they knew of the tion' and insert 'satisfaction';'' , · - group of people, who have lost practi­ patriotic zeal and love of country which Page 2, line 1, after "destroyed", insert "or cally everything they had through no prompts you in your arduous work. damaged to such an extent that reconstruc- fault of their own, a chance to reestab­ As I return to the practice of law and tion is required." · lish themselves in the communities what I hope to be the practice of good where they had been living. citizenship, I am not changing ideas and The committee amendments were · Mr. Speaker, you may be assured that agreed to. objectives. It shall be mJ constant pur­ the people of Kansas, who have suffered pose and endeavor to be of public service. The House joint resolution was ordere~ so much by reason of the great disaster to be· engrossed and read 'a third time, To that end, in my speeches and contacts, that has .overcome our country will, if I will constantly remind those who will was read the third time, and passed, and given a chance,· do everything they can a motion to ·reconsider was laid on the listen of several ·important things:. First, to recover from the ·great misfortune that politics is the science of goven.unent, table. over which · they. had no control.. and is an ancient and honorable profes­ Mr. BOLLING. "Mr. Speaker, I ask The· people of Kansas, who have met sion in which every good citizen should unanimous consent that all Members , with these mis.fortunes, are ever grate;. take an• active part; second, that Con­ may have five legislative 'days in. wh,ich ful for the benefits they have received gress has been, is, and,must ever be, the to revise and.extend their remarks at this from those who have . so willingly as;.. point on' this resolution . . bulwark of our liberties; third, that those sisted them in time of trouble: · who would destr.oy freedom and de~oc;.. The SPEA~ER. , Is there object-ion RESIGNATION FROM .THE HOUSE OF racy always· first attack the·-iegislative to the request of the gentleman from ' REPRESENTATIVES branch of the Government and seek its Missouri? - · destruction.; fourth, that, if we would There was nQ objection. The SPEAKER laid before the House the following communication, which was preserve America, our demands upon our Mr. SCRIVNER. Mr. Speaker, pas,­ elected representatives must be based sage of House Joint Resolutl.on 3'03 wql read· by the Clerk: JUNE 29, 1951. upon ·the general welfare and not upon go a long way toward helping alleviate short-sighted selfishness; suffering,' hardship, and t.omelessnes,s Hon. SAM RAYBURN, in the . flood-devastated areas of the Speaker of the House of Representa-. To have served. here is a high honor tives, the Cap'itol, Washington, D. C. which will be cherished always by me Midwest. MY DEAR MR. SPEAKER: I beg leave to in:­ and my family. I shall remain forever In iny home-city, _Kansas City; Kans;, form you that I have this day_transmitted to humbly grateful to the good citizens who thousands are homelei;;s, living in hastily the Governor of. Texas my resignation as a have seven times elected me a Member provide~ -~helters. . Representative in the Congress of the Uni!. .l of this Congress. Then I shall always The city, county, an,d State has ex:­ States from the Thirteenth Distdct of Texas, remember, and forever be grateful for, hausted alf of their resources in provid:­ such resignation to become effective on the the many generous and kind friends who ing aic:i and comfort. Open-h,earted in.­ 31st of this July. · Most sincerely yours, have helped me f.ischarge, with some dividuals have pr,ovided hpmes and shel:­ ED GOSSETT. degree of success, at least, the many ter for the homeless. The Red Cross responsibilities of congressional service. ·and. other agencies have' done a remark:­ The SPEAKER~ The Chair recognizes Finally,-Mr. Speaker, to you and all my able job. But all these efforts were not the gentleman from Texas [Mr. colleagues here I wish to say: May the enough to m~et t}].is emergency, the GOSSETT]. Lord give you wisdom, faith, and courage worst :flood disaster in the history of RESIGNATION OF HON. ED. GOSSETT in your difficult task. My prayers, hopes, our country. · . and affectionate regards will continue to Each community affected by this leg­ Mr. GOSSETT. Mr. Speaker, some of my good friends and colleagues have be yours. islation will move swiftly to .take all steps Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. necessary . to cooperate with Federal made note of the fact that I am resigning from Congress. This decision comes as Speaker, I wish to give my simple trib­ agencies in providing this absolutely ute to the distinguished Member from essential housing. . In fact, most of these a result of long and serious consideration, Texas, Congressman GossETT, who is re~ communities have already taken some and I take this :floor for the last time with mixed emotions. Some of you have told signing from Congress. I want to say steps to be ready to immediately under­ to him that all of us, not only on the take this task of providing temporary me that I should be exceedingly happy living quarters. to escape from the terrific pressure and Republican side of the· aisle but on the the terrific responsibilities of congres­ Democratic side, appreciate the splendid I trust that the Senate, as has the sional life. I would not leave, however, service he has rendered to .his country. House, will take immediate action. The if I thought myself to be an indispensable He is a man of high character, splendid need is not only great-the need is now. individual or that my congressional dis­ ability, and served with the one desire to THE KANSAS FLOOD DISASTER trict could not, and would not, be able to make America a better land and a better · Mr. REES of Kansas. Mr. Speaker ~ more than adequately replace me. Con­ country. He brought a patriotic birth­ as one of those who represents a con­ gressional service has become more and right into the public service. We are all siderable part o(the are~ that was·dver-: more difficult, and living in Washington sorry to see him leave. We have suffered taken by the recent :flood disaster, I wan~ has become less and less desirable in re­ a great loss. We hope for him and his to express appreciation for the· prompt cent years. This we are forced to admit. family every blessing in the days ahead. approval of this legislation. I trust It has become absolutely impossible for Mr. BECKWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I there will be no unnecessary delay in its a man to do his full duty as a Congress­ know ·I express the feeling and the sen­ administration. • ' man and to do his full duty to his family, timent of every member of the Texas XCVll-580 CO.NGEESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY Hl del-egatlon and, ..as -a :matter of fact, of those whom he appreciates and owes lea'Ving· this body, because I felt that every Member of the .House, when I say .such a great -Obligation, to wit, the mem- men of his caliber were far Bind few be­ that in the leaving of .Representative 11ers of his .fam.ily, and in .so recognizing tween.. GossET.T 4-om the Congress we -all .are their needs and their welfar.e is willing We are going to miss En GosSETT. We losing the services of one of the most to forego An opportunity which he loves · llite ·gomg to miss his voice in thi"s Cham­ outstanding Members of the Congress. and aippreciates, the opportunity to serve ber. We are going to miss his compan­ This certainly is true of the Texas dis­ in the Congress. We all shall miss the ionship and his wisdom. trict he has .so ably re_presented for some -s-ervices of.Representative GOSSETT. We I can honestly say that in the time I 13 years. shall -miss the vision which he .has ex­ have served in this House, I know of ..no lt -was the privilege of Representative ..enu>lified as a Member here. We shrul man who has.Eerved the Nation and his .KILDAY and me to come here to Congress miss his _penetrating mind .concerning constituency with more integrity, more with Representative OusSETT. I had not the intricate subjects with which he has sincerity of purpose, ·more ability, or had the opportunity to know him per­ dealt. W€ shall miss every effort that more courage than has "En UossET.T. As .sonally before I cam.e here, but I had he has made to perpetua.te principl-es he leaves these halls, .I, along with .his heard much about him. .As every Mem­ that are fundamental to this country. many friends, ~ess the.hope that hap­ ber knows, Repreaentaitive 10.ossETT has We waint you to know, .Ed, as you piness and prosperity will be his con­ been a real leader in the Congress, .one leave the Congress today, that we shall stant "Coml)anions as hce journeys down who has led in the fight for those things 11e thinking Df you; that -we will be wish­ the road of life. in ·which he has sincerely believed. ing ior you and ~ lovely wife -and .Mr. BRYSON. Mr. S_peaker,it was.my 4ie has always been a real leader. .He those Temarkable children every success privilege now more than a dozen years was an outstanaing stud-ent ..at the Uni­ and every happiness .that can -come to -a ag9 to ·stand in the well of this :House v.ersity of Texas. He -was so reco_gnized deserving family. Your friendlin-ess and alongside the distinguished gentleman by his fellow stuCLents there by being _y.our _genuineness,. ·your tearlessness, from the great plains of"Texas-who.now chosen president of the -student boqy of your constr.uctive leadership will .be .not absents .himself irom our presence, and that great university. After he 1inished soon, if ever, iorgotten; indeed, you will with uplifted bands take the sacred oath Jaw school he became one of the out­ be recalled by all of us who.have known and obligation as a Member of this }tigh- standing lawyers, .Particularly in his you as one who has fought a good fight . est ana most power! ul legislative parlia­ ..s-ection of Texas, then was a very suc­ and ·who at all times.has kept the faith. ment in the world's history. .cessful district attorney in several coun­ Mr. WHITI'EN. Mr. Sp'e'aker, it is "I have had the ,good privilege to sit by ties in his section of .Texas. .not alway:S easy to find words to express ED UosSETT through the years, first on .As all of you know, REUrr.esentativ.e oneself as you w.ntfld want to when you the ..Committee on veterans'..Af!airs and GoSSEm is not .afraid to .fight for his :s:e:e a go.ad .friend mo--ve from -your midst, now for th~ past few years un the Com­ convieti~. We fr_om Texas •particu­ hut in .the Cnngre"SS "We have learned, mittee on the Judwiar~ larly are aware of the fact that in his !mld other-s will Jmi,rn :it 11.bout us, that Our souls and minds seem to clea-ve efforts to be elected to Congress he .sac­ as time passes people come and go. But .togeth-er more th-an in the usual fashion, .rificed none of his cl>nviction&, and in his I do say that of thu.s-e who have leflt because not infreguently did we find our­ eftort to .remain a Member of Congress her.e, those who have .xesigrned, in most s.elves on th-e same side of many of the he has never sacrificed a conviction. .He instances have been the ones that we must controversial issues coming before rstan.ds for something. .No ·man can he could hardly give up. Jt is .not every our committee. motivated by a hi_gher o'Qjective when Member that comes to Congress that I found him to be an -astute student elected to ,the Congress than to vote and makes a tient ur impression upon ,politi­ of tlre law. In this connection, I hope, --stand for those princtples in which he cal affairs or makes himself felt 'in th~ as he -returns to his firSt love, he -will not firmly believes. This has typified the affairs oI 'the Congress, but in ED Gos­ find her as exacting aB we were taught in -service 'Of Representative GOSSETT. SETT we have a man who has stood for· olden tiays in that she was a jealous .Furthermore, lle .has been one of 'those the· things he believed in, and he stood mistress. I ·hope that his charge will .Members who has been willing to work for them forcibly eno.u_gh to make an permit him to come back to Washington om big issues, issues that have not been .impression .on all of us. The quality as often as he may. .found along the beaten legislative path. that we all Jik€ about him ls the fact I sbould lik-e to make reference to his ·Those of you who have been here rdur­ that .:hEl ilan .make A hard fight, 'Rnd ~yet domestic life, his family "Iif.e. As great ing the years I have know that he has ha.ve the respect, love, ami devotiun cif as he is as a lawyer, from i:µy own per­ fillccessf ully carried forward a iight in t:tros-e who me.y dHier with him. We are sonal experience and observation I know which he believes with .reference to .the not going to take up further time, i that be is a aevoted lmsbaind and a 1lne ..election ·of the President of the United know, by all of us-saying-things that are father. He is all that could be desired States. He nas received much acclaim in our hearts, but we do wish him the in a young man. We can ill affortl to lose ..and attention throughm.it th€ Nation for vezy finest ·and the very best, because he him . this.fight. .hm; earned and deserves ·them. He has ~t . was ~aid of Naipoleon that.his pr€s• .:It was evidenced yesterday that llis made a record of fine citizenship and ence in ithe ·ba1Jtle line was estimated ·to iniluence is felt significantly by the mem­ outstanding congressional B.ervlce; he be equivalent to lOlli\JOO men. Similafily bership of this boqy, for no i>ther Mem­ leaves a high mark in the Halls of the is the presence of ·En GOSSETT iin 'Chis ber has worked more arduously and Congress oI the United States; he has Chamber. We felt:comfortable when he more diligently Jn hehalf of the tide­ dune well for his country, and I think was here, prorticularly those of ·us wllo lands le_gislation, in which lie sincerely those of us who here remain will have oom-e from the far sguthlami. believes~ the passage of the tide1ands 'learned much from En GossErr's career Of course, ·we .hope that ms suocmisor bill yesterday is a tribute to the contin­ here. ~I hope in the future that we .can will be equal. to him, but s.eldom du we uous effort made by Representativ.e GOS­ live up to the high qualities that :ED find an an-ai-rcmnd ·capable, conscien­ SETT in behalf of this legislation. :His GOSSETT pt>ssesses and which have been •tious, courageous, anti tlevoted colleugue tlommftte·e, on which he and another -so well demonstra:ted by him in his serv­ EUCh a;s..ED GosaErr. 'We, uf course, -wish great Texan, Hon. FRANK W,ILSDN, of ic.e to his country. him well in his new undertaking. Dallas, serv.e, has _done a _great job nn We wish for him and his family con­ The :SP.E.AKlilR. W.iithout .Dbj:ection, this legislation. Re_presentative Gos­ tinued success-and hap_piness in theyears all ·Memb-ers who ::an desire may extend -SETT mentioned the:.fact that to some ex­ ahead. · Dhmr::nemm:ks:a.t this 'POint:in tthe .R&aaRD tent h-e .has been a ·victim of inflation. Mr. WILI,"l·AMS uf Mississtppi. Mr. on the aervices .of the ,:gentleman from We all know that he ts an ab1e man, we Speaker, I -camrot let tl1is moment Texas [Mr, GOSSETT]. know that he h-as been and is an able pass without joining -my colleagues in :.There was .no ..objection. legislator. I wish to Stzy that:.perhaps in paying tribute to a man who is not only Mr. ..RA"YBURN. Mr. ,Speaker, I join no manner noes he ·exael more thMI in my -close personal 1rrend, b~in mY with Jlls other .frienils in wishing ED the manner in which he bas reared and «:u>inion-on-e of America's _great states­ GasSE'l'.T GoClspee:tl an.a e:\tery good wish is -rearing five of the most beautfful :and men, ED GOSSETT. As were most of the tha.t health, pr..Q&Perity, and peace ms;y remarkable c.bildren 'there are. W-e _can 'other Members of the House, I was accom~y liim thrauihont the years :to understand why he would 'think :firSt uf gr.eatlyilisappointetl to 1.earn-that he was come. "I especially want to exp11ess .my 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-' HOUSE 9215 great admiration for his lovely and ou - by his many friends, we ·an wish En Gos.­ ·dren is a tremendous one and I speak standing wife .and his children. SETT well in his future undertakings from: experience, myself, when I say . Mr. AUCHINCLOSS. Mr. Speaker, at which he so richly deserves. that the income which a Member here this time of strain- and stress when our Mr. THOMPSON of Texas. Mr. rec.eives is certainly insufficient. It is a country needs men with the courage of Speaker, there is little that I can add sad commentary upon public service their convictions, honest and sincere, and t(., the fine tributes which have already that officials like En GossETT must be devoted to their country's welfare, it is been paid to our hard-working and able lost to the people because the salary a great loss to have En GossETT leave the colleague, En GossETT. Nothing has which is offered for this position .is in­ House of Representative~. During his been said with which I would in any way adequate for the raising of a family. service here he has contributed much, disagree, and, if time would permit, I Of course, my fellow Members here know he has always been fair, and he has made might even recall some little personal ·only too well that in addition to bring­ many friends. One always knows where services which Ed.in his official capacity ing up a family, if fortunate enough to he stands because there is no sham or has from time to time rendered to me in hav.e one, we who are elected officers pretense in his make-up. He is a fine my problems. must bear the expense of political cam­ man. In his opening remarks a few moments paigns every 2 years. I know that En I wish him well in the days to. come ago, Ed touched on a matter which I GossETT, while he has not had serious and hope that, busy as he may be in his believe should be carefully considered by opposition in his district for years, has new life, he will have the time to re­ the Members of the House in the imme­ taken this action because he wants to member his friends, return to v.isit with cliate future. I am. concerned that Ed .exercise his talents_in a .way which will them as often as he can, and realize that felt that he must leave the Congress in produce the highest standard of living · they are wishing him the best of every­ order to adequately support his young for his family. thing, wherever he may be. family. That unfortunate circumstance The honor came to me not long ago to . Mr. BENTSEN. Mr. Speaker, sincer­ poses a problem which ought to be of the represent the Texas delegation at a tes­ ity of purpose id one of the most impor­ greatest interest to the Nation and to timonial dinner for Eri GossETT among tant attributes for a man holding pub­ the Congress. Here. is a comparatively his new 'neighbors in Dallas. At that lic office. En GossETT has been a legis- young :man with his congressional ap­ time I expressed, I think, the universal . Iator who has not only had sincerity of prenticeship well behind him occupying admiration which was felt for him purpose but has combined his deep con­ now a place of importance in the de­ among his colleagues here. I told his victions with a sharp penetrating mind . . liberations of this essential governing new friends and neighbors that En. Gos­ After watching E:a:> GossETT for the last body. The salary which the people pay SETT was not one WhO reckoned the po­ 3 years I have been in Congress, I have him is not adequate and so he turns to litical effect of a roll-call vote, that he come to the conclusion that Webst..er private industry and leaves the public sought to serve his. country first, above could coin a new antonym for fence · service on the threshold of his period of the demands of politics or personalities. rider, the word could well be "Gossett." greatest influence. · This process is re­ I cited the results of Ms. efforts here, ·. His character, personality, and ability peated too frequently in public service. which I need not now repeat, and ·I · ex­ have resulted in his-rightfully assuming You and I ~now of other colleagues of pressed my envy that they were obtain­ leadership on many of. the most impor­ ours wh~ are contemplating the same ing the GossETT family as their new tant issues which have faced the step. Some men, of course, become tired neighbors. Congress. . of public service with its constant drain Mr. Speaker, as much as we love him, We who have taken pride in his mem­ on a man·s patience and its innumerable not one of us who knows En Goss:ETT's bership in the Texas delegation join calls for personal services which are un­ reasons for his resignation would have with all Members of Congress in realiz­ doubtedly a privilege to perform but him return. He is entering into a place ing the loss to Texas and the Nation which to some must become a burden. of even higher responsibilities than he in his retirement from public life. But Other Members when they entered pub­ has borne here, for he is carrying his knowing his almost inexhaustible en­ lic service never intended that it should -X.iJeriences as a legislator back to the ergy and capabilities we know that he be t:b.eir careers. They merely wanted people as an enlighteneu private citizen. will be continually working for a better the background of congressional experi­ In such a capacity he may, and I am informed c~tizenry-an alert people who ence for later use in private affairs and sure he will, increase his stature as a will zealously guard their heritage of practices. These reasons are under­ citizen of America. representative goverJ&ment. standable and nothing can be done about Joining with all these others of his Ed, you have rendered the Nation a them. However, the great number of friends who have spoken here about him, great service, your coHeagues are better those who leave Congress go because they I wi~h for Ed and Mary Helen, and all for having known you. We will be look­ cannot, in justice to their families, afford GossETT children a fond god speed. ing forward to seeing you often. to remain. En GossETT is an excellent Mr. LYLE. Mr. Speaker' En GOSSETT Mr. WILSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, example of this last category. leaves this body today. We will miss him I want to speak a .few minutes of our If these fine tributes to him are de-. personally and we will miss his very beloved, mutual friend and colleague, served-and we know that they are­ great ability, his tireless energy, his En GossETT, on this the last day of his then the Nation can ill afford to let him clear-thinking approach to all problems. service in the House of Representatives. and those like him leave public service. He leaves a warm spot in the hearts In the retirement !Tom Congress of Let us hope that those of us who remain of each of us. There is a closeness in the En GosSETT to the well-deserved life of behind him in the Congress may have Texas delegation which heretofore I have a private citizen, we part company in our the courage to take the obvious course to found only in the Army.in combat. Any official association with a fine gentle­ eliminate the financial aspects of the vacancy saddens all of us. man of high integrity and principle problem. En QossETT brought ~onor, dignity, whose sound ability, strength of char­ Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, it is with and respect to our State, our delegation, acter, wisdom, courage, and common heavy heart that I ri. .:1e to express my and this body. sense have set him aside as one of the personal regret at the departure of my As he leaves, we wish for him and for ·great and outstanding men who have good friend ED GossETT from this House his lovely family great happiness and served their cquntry in these Halls of of Representatives. I hope that the rec­ contentment. Congress. ord which I have made here during my A record of honorable and able serv­ En GossETT's service to his c.istrict, service with him discloses my admira­ ice in the House of Representatives is the State of Texas, and our country is tion and, indeed, my attempt at emula­ one of great d ~ ::.tinction. As he leaves immeasurable and has always been char­ tion. Such a man as En GOSSETT in­ Congress today, En GOSSETT holds such acterized by steadfast adherence to prin­ spires imitation, and I frankly confess a record. ciple, honor and right, and the courage that I have so1·ght be like him. Mr. CURTIS of Nebraska. Mr. Speak­ of his convictions. Mr. Speaker, I daresay that En Gos­ er, l want to join with others in saying I am particularly fortunate that Mr. SETT would not be leaving these Halls something about Representative En Gos­ GossETT will be my constituent and is were he not a parent-a parent of a SETT who is leaving-this body. moving to Dallas in a very fine position. rather large family, in these days. The He is a great American, a consc\en­ . • Although his loss here will be keenly felt responsibility of bringing up five chil- tious and courageous legislator _and he ' ..

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·9216 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY. 31· will be greatly missed in the House of and I entered the practice of law and remain after En Goss-ETT has gone pledge Representatives. he became district attorney in one part to him our determination to carry on Mr. GossETT is indeed a pillar of the of west Texas and I became district at- the fight where he left off -and to hold · Republic. His service here has been an torney in another area of west Texas. aloft the lighted torch of individual free­ unselfish and patriotic service. I know We were students together, we were dis- dom-.and private enterprise. that he leaves us carrying the good trict attorneys at about the same time, It is :fitting and proper that Louisi- · wishes of every Member of this body. and we have served in Congress together ana's Representatives in the Congress· I personally wish to extend to him and since January 1939. sho~ld join ii\ paying tribute to ED Gos-· to his fine family my best wishes for So, Mr. Speaker, it is with a feeling SETT because it was only yesterday that a. very fine future in every respect. ·of keen personal loss that I mark the he stood in-the front ranks fighting with, :. · Mr. POAGE. Mr. SpeR.ker, my dear departure from Congress of my old-time every weapon at his command to pre.:. friend, En GossETT, is today completing friend, En GossETT. ·Moreover, there are serve and protect.property rights which an outstanding term of outstanding other ties which bind us together. Mr. the people of Louisiana held sacred to service. Ed came here of his own voli­ GOSSETT'S mother is •a citizen of Post, themselves. Obviously I mean his fight tion, to serve his State and Nation. He Tex., within the congressional dis"trict in tne interest of the so-called tidelands served well and honorably, He leaves which I have the honor to represent, and , bill. ·I feel we could not, have achieve'd · of his own volition, with the satisfaction members of the Gossett family live in the ~ the victory which we did without the. of a big job well done. general area. The Gossetts are the right undying courage and tenacity of En He and his family return to their kind of people. They are real Texans GossETT. neighbors, and their friends, in Texas. and real Americans. The characteristics It was not yesterday that he began We are the poorer· because of his loss,. which have been exe.ll).plified here by · the fight. It was year-s ago but it was : but I fee1 a degree of satisfaction in the Congressman GossETT are typical of the yesterday that~e saw his banner planted _ knowledge that Ed and his family will sturdy Americanism of the Gossett clan : ~· on the rampart-s of victory and as long be in the surroundings they sg properly At a special luncheon given by the as vie carry on in the spirit of ED Gos- . love. Our best wishes to you, Ed. Texas delegation honoring Mr: GossET't , SETT it will wave there. Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Speak­ la.st week many of us took advantage.of In the name of the peoJ'le of Louisiana er, it was with deep personal regret that .the opportunity to pay tribute to him . I say to E:D GossETT, "Thank you for a I learned that our colleague, En GossETT, and express regret over his departure · job done and done well." of Texas, was resigning from the House f:·om Congress. Upon that occasion, In my own name I wish ED GossETT of Representatives. - however, our choice words were re- success in his new field. He goes wtth I have served with him in the years served for Mrs. Gossett and the five Gos- the best wishes and heartfelt admira­ that he has been in Congress, and I sett children. Mrs. Gossett and the tion of his colleagues. What more'co.uld feel that his resignation from the House children were not present, but they. re- . any marr·desire from those with whom is a great loss both to the State of Texas ceived ~ the plaudits of the assembled · he has served so long. _ . • ·and to the Nation. delegation. . In En GqssETT is exemplified the finest I regard him as one of the scundest Mr. Speaker, .we are· going to miss En ·· type of representation under our Ameri- . statesmen and most profound lawyers GossETT and his lovely family. But, can system. of government. It has been that I have served with dur:ng my years really, this is no time for good-bys. a privil~ge to know µim. I ~sh him in the House. · · After all, geographical location is not as Godspeed.' ... While he has always been conserva­ signifieant as it once was, and we . shall Mr. BURLESON. Mr. Speaker, may tive, he has always been fair and he has claim the privilege of seeing the Gos- the richest blessings and the best things ~ always been tolerant of the views of setts. whenever possible ~, t their new-· of life come to our esteemed colleague , · those who disagreed with him. home iri Dallas, Tex., and we shall exer- . .and his splendid famiJy 'as he leaves the His pleasant and affable conduct to- . cise. the happy privilege of remember- halls" of this Congress .and assumes du- - ward his colleagues in all circumstances ing them always as friends worth ties which he has chosen to accept. have made him beloved by all who have having. - I must admit a feeling ofpersonal loss served with him. So, to you, Ed, may I say, go.od luck by reason of En GossETT's going because · While I feel a deep 'Personal sense of · and God bless you · and your family. · Df his wise counsel and his strong lead­ loss at his leaving the Hoi.lse, I wish him You have written a record in public life , ership. ~ His advice has often been .. well-deserved success and happiness in of which you and your family can al- ' sought on fundamental issues arising the new field which he is about to enter. ways be pr~ud. Myou have sought in almost constantl,y and frorp his cooper- ·. Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, this is a every. possible wa~ t<;> promote the atio.n and willingness in this respect., I very unh~ppy day for me-the ..clay that American way of llfe here-, everybody , bave found great ElSSis ance alld guid- the House takes official notice of the re­ who knows ED GOSSETT knows that when _.. ange in his help. · tirement from Congress of. the gentleman y~u .re_turn to the State of Texas you ~ In the.se times there is, the call for from Texas [Mr. GOSSETT]. ED GOSSE'.&T will earr~ on the good work. _ men ·of strong convictions, regardless of and I have been associated together in Mr. ·HEBERT. Mr. Speakef, the State party ·-or popular acclaim. ED GOSSETT many ways and upon many occasions 'of -Louisiana and its· people today lose has been such a legislator, as hai:: been through the years and I regret very much a friend in Congress, a dear and_close evidenced by the many statements made · to see our paths separate. I think per­ frie~d, in ~he resignation of En GossETT. on this floor. He is.a man of this caliber - haps I have known Mr. GosSETT longer En GossET-:-'s p1ace in the hearts Qf , and hi~ services to his ~ ·onstituents and than any other Member of the House. I .. ~misianians comes ~ not only from the to the Nation iS truly, in my opinion, ~ H b and I v.•ere students together in the closeness of the great State of·Texas .but a severe loss. ·. · • .. early twenties at the University of Texas. from the things Which ED GOSSETT and En GOSSETT has servE::d well. He has Vie participated together in student ac­ the people ·of Louisiana have in common. ··. been true to the trust and confidence tivities there and on one occasion, memo­ The great majority of ou.r people in · which has been placed in him as a pub­ rable to us at the time, we tied for first Louisiana beli~ve in the things En Go_s- · lie servant. At this time there are doubts· place, along with some other stude.nt SETT believes and thinks like En GOSSETT in minds of many regarding the worthi.: whose name I no longer remember, in :;i, thinks. ness of public officials. It is tragic to contest designed to select the best extem. We both hold si:.ered the high princi- me that many· people tena ~ to confuse a poraneous speaker in the university. ples which motivated the founding few rotten apples in the barrel and rain .. · Not much came of the contest and the . fathers of this country when they wrote down indictments by association. As a oilman who had offered the prize money the Declaration of Independence and the result._ by such confusion and misunder­ went broke and we did not collect the Constitution of the United States. ·We standing, confidence is lost in govern­ funds which we had so devoutly sought.· both have consistently refused·to accept · ment-not only_,,in its leadership, but ac-· However, our friendship has endured and any other philosophy of government , tually in the system of government brought dividends of pleasure through other than that upon which. this Nation .: which has made us a great people and a the years. was built. · - great Nation. En GossETT has been one When we had finished our formal We stm stand fast in defepse of those of those statesmen of our' time who en:­ schooling at the university, Mr. GossETT same princ_iples' and those of us wh9 gen?ers . confidence by his unyie~.din .g • . "·

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'•l ··./ ,• . :·; 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .9217 devotion to duty and his deep sincerity sistently cast his lost with those who The SPEAKER. Is there objection to of purpose. believe in the 6nstitution, in the rights the request of the gentleman from We will miss him here but rejoice he is reserved to the States in that document, Louisiana? going into more fer tile fields and in a in the welfare of the Nation as contrasted There was no obj~ction. position which will afford a greater hap­ with the speci.al interest and high­ piness for himself and family. His rec­ pressure groups who constantly gnaw at INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIA­ ord and his influence will live long among the vitals of our American institutions. • TION BILL, 1952 us who have had his official and personal Mr. GossETT has·never been known to Mr. NORRELL. Mr. Speaker, I call association here in the Congress of the waver in his devotion to a principle, has up the conference repc rt on the bill United States. never yielded to that easy and enticing (H. R. 3'90) making appropriations for Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, the resig. line of least resistance in the applica­ the Department of the Interior for the nation of ED GOSSETT from the House of tion of his courage and statesmanship; fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for Representatives is a severe loss to this has never hesitated to champion a good other purposes, and ask unanimous con­ body, as indeed it is· to his district, to cause, and he has las:tied out time and sent that the statement of the man­ the State of Texas, and for that matter again against evil in all its forms and agers on the Part of the House be read to the entire Nation. applications. in lieu of the report. We all know Mr. GossETT to have been I join in wishing Mr. GossETT and his The SPEAKER. Is there objection to one of the truly profound and outstand­ family Godspeed, with a full measure of to the request of the gentleman from ing Members of the House. I believe it happiness and success in his new en­ Arkansas? is safe to say that he more nearly re­ deavor. There was no objection. ftected the thinking, the temperament, COMMITTE'E ON ARMED SERVICES The Clerk read the statement. the courage, and the independence of the Mr. CLEMENTE. Mr. Speaker, I ask The conference report and statement average Texan on Main Street during the are as follows: period of his service here than did any unanimous consent that the Reserves Subcommittee of the Committee on other Member of our delegation, and CONFERENCE REPORT .(H. REPT. No. 775) that is no reflection on the rest of us Armed Services be permitted to sit dur­ ing general debate today during theses­ The committee of conference on the dis­ because we all strive to do so. But some­ agreeing votes of the two Houses on the how Ed has had a way of asserting that sion of the House. amendments of _the Senate to the bill (H. R. Texas thinking, of vitalizing it, of mak­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to 3790) making appropriations for the Depart­ ing articulate and of applying it to the the request of the gentleman from New ment of the Interior for the fiscal year ending humdrum of everyday legislative life. York? June 30, 1952, and for other purposes, having I believe it was Confucius who once There was no objection. met, after full and free conference, have CALL . OF THE HOUSE agreed to recommend and do recommend. to said that to see what is right and not to their respective Houses as follows: do it, is lack of courage. The gentleman Mr. M:LLER of Nebraska. Mr. That the Senate recede from its ame.nd­ from Wichita Falls is one person who has Speaker, I make the point of order that ments numbered 9, 17, 25, 103, 109, and 130. never been accused of want of courage, a quorum is not present. That the House recede .from its disagree­ whether measured by that or any other The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum ment to the amendments of the Senate num­ yardstick. He has never hesitated to is not present. bered 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, go to battle when the cause of right and Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I ·justice, as he saw it, was being chal~ 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48; 49, 50, 52, 60, move a call of the House. 64, 65, 6i, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, lenged, and when the best interest of A call of the House was ordered. his district and of the Nation was in­ 8~ 81, 8~ 8~ 8~ 8~ 8~ 8~ 89, 9~ 91, 9~ 93, The Clerk called the roll, and the fol­ 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, volved. lowing Members failed to ·answer to their 107, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, Mr. Speaker, when we study the lives names: 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, and 125, and agree of the great .and near·-great men who (Roll No. 142] to the same. have served here or elsewhere in public Baring Hall, Price Amendment numbered 6: That the House life, we hardly find even honorable men­ Bates, Mass. Edwin ArthurRabaut recede from its disagreement to the amend­ tion given men of expediency-the sort Blatnik Hall, Redden ment of the Senate numbered 6, and agree who go along just for· the sake of going Basone Leonard W. Regan to the same with an amendment, as follows: along, following the line of least re­ Breen Irving Rogers, Colo. In lieu of the sum proposed by said amend­ Brehm Jackson, Calif. Saylor ment insert "$200,000"; and the Senate agree sistance and thinking in terms of po­ Bu.sbey Javits Scott, Hardie to the same. litical rewards or of some temporary Byrne, N. Y. Kennedy Scott, Camp Kersten, Wis. Hugh D., Jr. Amendment numbered 7: That the House advantage, real or fanciful. The men Case Kilburn Shelley recede from its disagreement to the amend­ who live in history are those who stand Cell er · Kilday Short ment of the Senate nu.mbered 7, and agree for something and are willing to fight Chatham King Sikes to the same with an amendment, as follows: for it, who dare swim .againt the chan­ Chenoweth McDonough Smith, Kans. In lieu of the matter stricken out and in­ Coudert Machrowicz Smith, Va. serted by said amendment insert "four"· nel of momentary unpopularity, if need Davis, Tenn. Mack, Ill. Spence be, in order to achieve or maintain a Dawson Morgan Staggers and the Senate agree to the same. ' principle. It has been just such men Dingell Morton Stockman Amendment numbered 19: That the House Durham Moulder Taber recede fr.om its disagreement to the amend­ as that, symbolized in the record of Eberharter Murdock Thomas ment of the Senate numbered 19, and agree ED GossETT, that has made America the Ellsworth Murray, Tenn. Velde to the same with an amendment, as follows: strongest remaining bulwark in this El st.on Murray, Wis. Vinson In lieu of the matter inserted by said amend­ Engle O'Neill Vursell world against the inroads of communism Fisher Perkins Watts ment, insert the following: "of which not to and creeking socialism. Gamble Pickett Werdel exceed $8,387,470 shall be available for per­ It will be recalled that· on a great deci­ Gillette Poulson Whitaker sonal services, except force account personal sion day in Israel it was Joshua, a man Golden Powell Yates services, and"; and the Senate agree to the of few words but of mighty deeds, who same. The SPEAKER. On this roll call 358 Amendment numbered 26: That the House single-handed turned the tide toward Members have answered to their names, · recede from its disagreement to the amend­ God and right. "Choose ye this day a quorum. ment of the Senate numbered 26, and agree ·whom ye will serve," he began, and when By unanimous consent, further pro­ to the same with an amendment, as follows: he did thus speak he made a challenge ceedings under the call were dispensed In lieu of the matter stricken out and in­ and an appeal that thrilled the nation with. serted by said amendment, insert the follow­ like the blast of a trumpet. Men of deci­ ing: "twenty-nine"; and the Senate agree sion live in history and live in the hearts COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL to the same. of men. SERVICE Amendment numbered 30: That the House ~ith ED recede from its disagreement to the amiend­ So it has been our friend, Mr. MORRISON. Mr. Speaker, I ask .ment of the Senate numbered 30, and agree GossETT. There has never been any unanimous consent that the Committee to the same with an amendment, as follows: doubt in the minds of honest men as to on Post Office and Civil Service be per­ In lieu of the sum proposed by said amend­ whom he chose to: serve while in the mitted to sit this afternoon during gen· ment insert "$41,824,7EO"; and the Senate Congress. He has courageously and con- eral debate. agree to the same. 9218 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 31 Amendment numbered 51: That the House motor vehicle (other than a bU:S or ambu­ priated the -sum of $500,000 for miscellaneous recede from its disagreement to the amend­ lance and two passenger ntbtor vehicles as­ constr'uction, $251),000 for the purchase of ment of the Senate numbered 51, and agree signed one to the Secretary and one to the electric power and energy and for leasing of to the same with an amendment, as fol­ Under Secretary), unless such appropriation transmission fac111ties of others, and $810,- lows: In lieu of the matter stricken out and is specifically authorized to be used for pay­ 60'.) for continuation of construction of the inserted by said amendment, insert the fol­ ing the compensation of employees perform­ facilities designated as comprising the west­ lowing: "one hundred and sixty passenger ing such duties." ern Missouri project. motor vehicles for replacement -only"; and And the Senate agree to the same. With respect to the·western Missouri proj­ the Senate agree to the same. Amendment numbered 128: That the ect, it is expected that a determined effort Amendment numbered 54: That the House House recede from its disagreement to the will be made by the Secretary of the Interior recede from its disagreement to t:llte ame.nd­ amendment of the Senate r.1umbered 128, to negotiate with the private utilities to ob­ ment of the Senate numbered 54, and agree and agree to the same with all amendment, tain a contract that will make unnecessary to the same with an amendment, as follows: as follows: In lines four and five of the tt.e ust of this appropriation for such proj­ In lieu of the sum proposed by said amend­ matter inserted by each amendment, strike ect and that no new obligation will be in­ ment insert "$4,500,000"; and the Senate out t:\le words "one hunc\red and fifteen" curred under authority of this appropriation agree to the same. and insert in lieu thereof the following: for such project unless the Secretary of the Amendment numbered 55: That the House "one hundred and ten"; and the Senate agree Interior determines, after such negotiations, recede from its disagreement to the amend­ to the same. that additional facilities of such project are ment of the Senate numbered 55, and agree Amendment numbered 131: That the House required to be constructed by the Govern­ to the same with an amendment, as follows: recede from its disagreement to the amend­ ment for the integration of Federal projects In lieu of the sum named in said amend­ ment of the Senate nurribered 131, and agree or for service to a Federal establishment or ment, insert the following: '. '$4,234,533"; and to the same with an amendment, as follows: preferred customer. the Senate agree to the same. Omit the matter stricken out and inserted Amendment No. 10: 'Provides that not to Amendment numbered 56: That the House by said amendment; and the Senate agree exceed $586,800 of the construction appro­ recede from its disagreement to the amend­ to the same. priation shall be available for personal serv­ ment of the Senate numbered 56, and agree The committee of .conference report in ices, as proposed by the Senate. to the same with an amendment, as follows: disagreement amendments numbered 3, 4, Amendment No. 101/:i: Reported in dis­ In lieu of the sum proposed by said amend­ 6, 8, 10V2, 14, 24, 40, 53, 57, 61, 62, 63, 72, 76, agreement. ment insert "$3,810,000"; and the Senate 83, 108, 124, and 129. Amendment No. 11: Strikes out the limi­ agree to the same. MICHAEL J. KIRWAN, tation upon the use of funds for construc­ Amendment numbered 58: That the House W. F. NORRELL, tion of the western Missouri project, as pro­ recede from its disagreement to the amend· HENRY M. JACKSON, posed by the Senate. ment of the Senate numbered 58, and agree FOSTER FURCOJ 0, to the same with an amendment, as follows: CLARENCE CANNON, Operation and maintenance, Southwestern In lieu of the sum proposed by said amend• BEN F. JENSEN (except as to Power Administration ment insert "$202,767,725"; and the Senate amendment No. 131), Amendment No. 12: Appropriates $1,255,- agree to the same. IVOR D. FENTON (except as to 712 as proposed by the Senate; instead of Amendment numbered 59: That the House amendment No. 131), $1,275,000 as. proposed by the House. recede from its disagreement to the amend­ Managers on the Part of the House. Amendment No. 13: Provides that not to ment of the Senate numbered 59, and agree CARL HAYDEN, exceed $900,712 shall be available for per­ to the same with an amendment, as follows: JOSEPH c. O'MAHONEY, sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. In lieu of the sum named in said amend­ PAT McCARRAN, Transfer of certain facilities, Denison Dam ment, in:>ert the following: "$38,104,672"; DENNIS CHAVEZ, protect and the Senate agree to the same. Guy CORDON, . Amendment No. 14: Reported in disagree­ Amendment numbered 68: That the House KENNETH S. WHERRY, ment. recede from its disagreement to the .amend· MILTON R. YOUNG, ment of the Senate numbered 68, and agree Managers on the Part ·of the Senate. Administrative provisions, Southwestern to the same with an amendment, as follows: Power Administration In lieu of the sum named in said amend­ STATEMENT Amendment No. 15: Authorizes the pur­ ment, insert the following: "$10,698,514"; The managers on the part of the House chase of eight automobiles as proposed by and the Senate agree to the same. at .the conference on the disagreeing votes the Senate, instead of fifteen as proposed by Amendment numbered 99: That the House of the two Houses on the amendments of the House. recede from its disagreement to the amend­ the Senate to the bill (rl. R. 3790) making Amendment No. 16: Strikes out unneces­ ment of the Senate numbered 99, and agree appropriations for the Department of the sary language. to the same with an amendment, as follows: Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, COMMISSIO~ OF FINE APTS In lieu of the sum proposed by said amend­ 1952, and for other purposes, submit the fol­ ment insert: "$6,678,196"; and the Senate Amendment No. 17--:Salaries and expenses: lowing statement in explanation of the effect . Appropriates $20,000 as proposed by the agree to the same. of the action agreed upon and recommended Amendment numbered 126: That the House, instead of $14,530 as proposed by the in the accompanying conference report as Senate. House recede from its disagreement to the to each of such amendments, namely: amendment of the Senate numbered 126, and BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY agree to the same with an amendment, as Construction . Enforcement of Connally Hot Oil Act follows: In line two of the matter inserted Amendment No. 18: Appropriates $67,500,- by said amendment after the word "or", in­ Amendment No. 1-Expenses: Appropriates 000 as proposed by the Senate, instead of sert "by it"; and in line four of the matter $158,670 as proposed by the Senate, instead $62,000,000 as proposed by the House. The inserted by said amendment after the word of $174,000 as proposed by the House. conferees have agreed to defer action on the "persons", insert "which"; and at the end Amendment No. 2: Provides that not to La Grande-Baker line owing to incomplete of the matter inserted by said amendment exceed $137,970 shall be available for per­ information indicating its immediate need. and before the period, insert: ": Provided, sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. It is suggested that the Department make a That this section shall not be construed as Southeastern Power Administration further study and re-submit the authoriza­ having applicatiqn to the preparation for Amendments Nos. 3, 4, and 5-Construc­ tion when more complete information is publication of reports and maps resulting available. from authorized scientific and engineering tion: Reported in disagreement. investigations and surveys, to photography Amendment No. 6-0peration and mainte­ Amendment No. 19: Provides that not to incident to the compilation and reproduc­ nance: Appropriates $200,000, instead of exceed $8,387,470 shall be available for per­ tion of maps and reports, or to photocopy­ $275,000 as proposed by the House and $125,- sonal services, as proposed by the Senate, ing of permanent records for preservation"; 000 as proposed by the Senate. with the modification agreed to by the con­ Amendment No. 7-Administrative pro­ ferees that force account personal services and the Senate agree to the same. shall not be included within this limitation. Amendment numbered 127: That the visions: Authorizes the purchase of four House recede from its disagreement to the automobiles, instead of five as proposed by Operation and maintenance amendment of the Senate numbered 127, and the House and three as proposed by the Amendment No. 20: Appropriates $5,368,- agree to the same with an amendment, as Senate. 439 as proposed by the Senate, instead of follows: In lieu of the matter inserted by Amendment No. 8-Continuing fund: Re· $5,250,000 as proposed by the House. said amendment, insert the following: ported in disagreement. Amendment No. 21: Provides that not to "SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation Construction, Southwestern Power Adminis­ exceed $3,983,862 shall be available for per­ contained in this Act shall be used to pay tration sonal services, as propt>sed by the Senate. · Amendment No. 9: Appropriates $3,375,000 the compensation of any. civilian employee AdministratiVe provisions of the Government in the District of Colum­ as proposed by the House, instead of $2,564,• bia whose duties consist of acting as chauf· 400 as proposed by the Senate. This action Amendment No. 22: Strikes out unneces­ teur of any Government-owned passenger provides within the total amount appro• sary language. 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9219 BUltEAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Revolving fund 'tor loans Central Valley project, California Amendment No. 23-Mal'lagement of lands Amendment No. 45: Inserts a heading. Amount of and resources: Appropriates $7,722,605, de­ Amendment No. 46: Strikes out an un­ 1952 estimate letes earmarking of funds for soil and mois­ necessary heading. Keswick-Tracy via Elverta 115- ture conservation, and provides that not to kilovolt line ______$1, 400, 000 exceed $4,864,096 shall be available for per­ Payment to Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, Oklahoma Port Chicago-Mare Island 115- sonal services, as proposed by the Senate; kilovolt line and 2 substations_ instead of making an :tppropriation of $6,- Amendment No. 47: Inserts a heading. · 300,00Q Amendment No. 48: Strikes out an un­ Tracy-Patterson-Naval Supply 900,000 without a limitation on personal serv­ 69-kilovolt line and 2 substa- ices, as proposed by the House. This action necessary heading. ratifies the Senate approval of $1,200,000 for Amendment No. 49: Appropriates $22,655 . tions ·------450,ciOO as proposed b:y the Senate, instead of $25,000 CVP-BPA interconnection and soil and moisture conservation, even though substation, 230-kilovolt, in- it will not be earmarked in the bill. as proposed by the House. Amendment No. 50: Provides · that not to cluding $400,000 contained in Amendment No. 24-Construction: Re­ S. Doc. 39______2, 100, 000 ported in disagreement. exceed $21,105 shall be available for personal Amendment No. 25: Deletes the proposal services, as proposed by the Senate. Tracy-Livermore-Ames Labora- tory line and substation ______700,000 of the Senate to amend the basic law relat­ Administrative provisions ing to the distribution of receipts from sale: Tracy-Contra .costa-Clayton- of timber from the revested Oregon and Cali­ Amendment No. 51: Authorizes the pur­ Ygnacio 69-kilovolt line and 2 fornia grant lands. chase of one hundred and sixty automobiles substations------­ 201,170 · Amendment No. 26-Administrative provi­ instead of one hundred and ninety-one as Keswick-Shasta Dam area PUD sions: Authorizes the purchase of twenty­ proposed by the House and one hundred and 115-kilovolt line and substa- nine automobiles, instead of thirty-two as t~renty-five as proposed by the Senate. · tion ------105,308 proposed by the House and twenty-five as Tribal funds Elverta-Sacramento switchyard•• 150,000 proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 52: Makes a grammatical Total 1952 estimate dis- BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS change. · allowed ______. 5, 406, 478 Amendment No. 53·: Reported in disagree- Amendment No. 27-Salaries and expenses: Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado Deletes the paragraph making one appro­ ment. . priation of $65,000,000 for ·an of the· activi­ BUREAU OF RECLAMATION The $100,000 included in the 1952 Budget ties of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as pro­ · General investigations estimates for the Estes-Leyner 115-kilovolt posed by the Senate. Amendment No. 54: Appropriates $4,500,- transmission line has been disallowed, but, 000, instead of $4,000,000 as proposed by the ~or the Estes power plant-Pole Hill power Health; education, and welfare services plant 115-kilovolt line $100,000 has been ap- Ame,ndment No. 28: Inserts a.heading. House and $4,600,000 as proposed by the proved for the 1952 program. · Senate. This action ratifies the action of the Amendment No. 29: Deletes ·an unneces- · Minidoka project, American Falls power sary heading. · the· Senate in approving $100,000 for investi­ Amendment No. 30: Appropriates $41,824·,• gations of the Collbran project, Colorado. . division, Idaho 750, instead of $43,600,000 iii: proposed by the Amendment No. 55: Provides that not to Amount of House and $41,324,750 as proposed by the exceed $4,234,553 shall be available for per­ 1952 estimate Senate. The amount approved for health, sonal services, instead of $3,163,396 as pro- · American Falls power plant ____ $1, 067, 000 education, and welfare services includes posed by the Senate. · American Falls switchyard______133, 000 $400,000 to continue public assistance con­ Alllendment No. 56: Provides that $3,810,- Transmission line (American tributions to Indians in Arizona, and an ad­ 000 shall be derived from the reclamation Falls-Minidoka Dam)------100, ooo ditional $100,000 for placement services, fund, instead of $3,500,000 as proposed by the House and $3,903,500 as proposed by the Total 1952 estimate disal- making a total of $600,000 for placement lowed ______1,300,000 services. Senate. Amendment No. 31: Provides that not to Construction and rehabilitation Transmission division, Missouri River Basin exceed $23,699,661 shall be available for per­ Amendment No. 57: Reported in disagree­ Amount of sonal services,. as proposed by the Senate. ment. In approving this limltation it is the inten­ 1952 estimate Amendment No. 58: Appropriates $202,- Canyon Ferry-Great Falls 115- tion of the conferees. that it not be applied 767,725, instead of $197,000,000 as proposed against the budgeted amounts for personal kilovolt line and substation.. $753, 450 by the House and $208,535,450 as proposed by Canyon Ferry-Three Forks-Ana- services of medical personnel, school teach-. _the Senate. The allotment of the appropria­ ers, and others essential to the hospital, conda 115-kilovolt lines and tion to the· projects covered by the budget 703,000 disease preventative, and curative services estimates is left to the administrative deter­ substations ·------­ !tnd the educational assistance programs. Miles City-Yellowtail 115-kilo- mination of the Secretary of the Interior with volt. lines and substatior.s ___ _ 85,000 Resources mahagement the understanding that funds will not be Yellowtail-Billings 115-kilovolt Amendment No. 32: Inserts a heading. allocated in excess of the respective sums lines and substations ______810,000 Amendment No. 33: Strikes out an un­ indicates · in column four of the project Siqux City-Omaha line ______207,463 necessary heading. breakdown appearing at pages 15 and 16 of Omaha substation ______70,242 Senate report No. 499, and that there will be Sioux Oity-Storm Lake line ___ _ Amendment No. 34: Appropriates $10,· no allocation of current year or prior appro­ 118, .428 921,360 as proposed oy the Senate, instead Storm Lake - Denison - Holland- of $11,400,000 as proposed by the House. priations for any project item not heretofore . Omaha line ______30,624 Amendment No. 35: Provides that not to appropriated for or included in the fiscal Sioux City-Sibley line ______467,643 1952 program presented to Congress or for Additional reduction ______exceed $6,843,485 shall be available for per­ any project item eliminated by the action 500,490 sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. of the House, the Senate, or both, upon the Construction budget estimates, with the :(allowing excep:­ Total 1952 estimate disal­ Amendment No. 36: Inserts a heading. tions. The managers on the part of both lowed------3, 746, 340 Amendment No. 37: Strikes out an unnec­ Houses agree that of the 1952 appropriation . The managers on the part of both Houses essary heading. $191,000 is to be available for operation and strongly reamrm the language contained in Amendment No. 38: Appropriates $10,000,· maintenance of the All-American Canal, as the House Committee Report accompanying 000 as proposed by the Senate, instead of provided for in the Senate report, that $500,- H. R. 3790 with reference to prohibiting $12,000,000 as proposed by the House. 000 is to be available for the initiation of con­ the proposed inter-connection of the Cen­ Amendment No. 39: Provides that not to struction of a single circuit 230-kilovolt tral Valley Power system and the Bonneville exceed $2,500,000 shall be available for per­ transmission line, for other than customer Power system. Reports have been received sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. service, from Folsom Dam power plant to in­ that work on the proposed inter-tie has con­ Ameriu;lment No. 40: Reported in disagree­ terconnect at the nearest feasible point with tinued despite the categoric denial in the ment. the east side Shasta-Tracy transmission .line; reports issued by the Appropriations Com­ that the Secretary should make available General administrative expenses mittees of both the House and the Senate from unobligated balances of prior appropria­ this year and approved by both Houses of Amendment No. 41: Inserts a heading. tions approximately $1,463,000 for emergency Congress, and a similar categoric injunction Amendment No. 42: Strikes out an un- work on the Middle Rio Grande project, New necessary heading. · Mexico; and that the proposed allocation of last year i;i.pproved by both Houses of Con­ Amendment No. 43: Appropriates $3,300,747 an additional $185,000 to the Rapid Valley gress denying the use of funds for this as proposed by the Senate, .instead of $3,600,• unit, South Dakota, is not approved. purpose. 000 as proposed by the House. It is to be understood that this action by 'fhe .Conferees hereby request the Secre­ Amendment No. 44: Provides that not to the conferees expressly ·denies any appro­ tary of the Interior to supmit immediately exceed $2,693,281 shall be available for per­ priation for the following transmission fa­ a full and complete report including dis­ sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. · ·cilities. ciplinary action taken by him in this case. 9220 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE , JULY 31 Amendment No. 59: Provides that not to BUREAU OF MINES FISH A,ND WILDLIFE , SERVICE exceed $38,104,672 shall be available for per­ Conservation and development of mineral Management of resources sonal services, instead of $29,160,408 as pro- resources Amendment No. 99: Appropriates $6,678,- posed by the Se.nate. . . Amendment No. 86: Appropriates $16,858,• 196, instead of $6,870,000 as proposed by the Amendment No. 60: Provides that $28,- 603 as proposed by the Senate instead of House.and $6,606,.558 as proposed by the Sfln­ 972,650 shall be derived from the reclama­ $17,950,000 as proposed by ":.he House. The­ ate. This action restores the amount of tion fund as proposed by the Senate, instead cqnfe:iees have approved $356,000 for control $263,442 contained ir.1. the budget estimate of $29,202,200 as proposed by the House. of fires in inactive coal deposits, such sum for river basin studies except that the entire Amendment No. 61: Reported in disagree­ to be-absorbed from the total appropriation sum appropriated is to be subject to the re­ ment. approved for the conservation and develop­ duction in funds to be available for personal Amendment No. 62: Reported in disagree- ment of mineral resources. The entire services: ment. amount of the budget estimate for engineer- Amendment No. 100: Provides that not to Amendment No. 63: Reported in disagree- , ing and other research on the development exceed $4,259,363 shall 'be available for per­ ment. and production of petroleum and natural sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. Operation and mai ntenance gas has been approved by the conferees. No Investigations of resources Amendment No. 64: Appropriates $15,977,- reduction is to be made in the sums to be Amendment No. 101: Appropriates $3,858,- 594 as proposed by the Senate, instead of available for personal services with respect to 986 as proposed by the Senate, instead of $15,094,000 as proposed by the House. the t wo afore-mentioned activities: $91,775 is to be available for personal services at the $3,875,000 ?-S proposed by the House. , Amendment No. 65: Strikes out unneces­ Amendment No. 102: Provides that not to sary words. taramie Station and $545,572 is to be avail­ able for personal services at the Bartletts­ exceed $2,487,629 shall be available for per:. Amendment No. 66: Provides that $12,476,- sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. 494 shall be derived from the reclamation ville Station. Amendm.ent No: 103: Strikes out the pro­ fund as proposed by the Senate, instead of Amendment No. 87: Provides that not to posal of the Senate to prevent the use of $12,592,000 as proposed by the House. exceed $10,446,575 shall be available for per­ this appropriation for investigations, sur­ Amendment No. 67: Strikes -out unneces­ sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. veys, and similar work in foreign countries. sary words. Construction Amendment No. 68 :. Provides that not to Construction exceed· $10,698,514 shall be available for per­ Amendment No. 88: Appropriates $1,5?7,412 Amendment No. 104: Appropriates $733,­ sonal services, instead of $10,331,434 as pro­ as proposed by the Senate, instead of $1,250,· . 742 as proposed by the Senate, instead of 000 as proposed by the House. This action $750,000 as proposed by the House. posed by the Senate. includes approval of $350,000 for completion General administrative expenses Amendment No. 105: Provides that not to of the pilot plant started during World War exceed $146;324 shall be available for per• Amendment No. 69: Appropriates $5,478,- II at Laramie, Wyoming, for research by the sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. 203 as proposed by the Senate, instead of Bureau of Mines on the production of $5,500,000 as proposed by the House. alumina from low-grade ores. The ores to General administrative expenses Amendment No. 70: Provides that not to be experimented with are different from . Amendment No. 106: Appropriates $806,· exceed $4,696,178 shall be available for per­ bauxite ores found ·in other areas of the 631 as proposed by the Senate,. instead of sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. country. In approving this appropriation it $882,000 as proposed by the House. ·Emergency fund is the intent of the conferees that, even Amendment No. 107: Provides that not to though the experimental operations w111 exceed $678,319 shall be available for per­ Amendment No. 71: Appropriates $400,000 not be financed from this appropriation, no sonal services, as proposed by t~e ~enate. as proposed by the Senate, instead of $500,- research shall be conducted at this station OFFICE OF TERRITORIES ' 000 as proposed by the House. on processes or methods whether patented Transfer of facilities, Fort Peck project, or not unless all royalty and other beneficial Amendment No. 10,8-Administration of Montana rights to developments or· discoveries from Territories·: Reported in disagreement .. Amendment No. 72: Reported in disagree­ such research accrue exclusively to the Gov­ Alaska . public works - ment. ernment. I .. mendment No. 109: Appropriates $'7,- Administrative provisions . Amendment No. 89: Provides that not to . 000,000 as proposed by the House, instead of Amendment No. 73: Authorizes not to ex­ exceed $113,287 shall be available for per­ $8,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. ceed $50,000 for consultant services as pro­ sonal services, as propose.ct by the Senate. · Amendment No. 110: Provides that not to posed by the Senate, instead of $30,000 as General administrative expenses exceed $463,000 shall be available for admin­ istrative expenses as proposed by the Senate, proposed by the House. Amendment No. 90: Appropriates $1,176,- Amendment No. 74: Increases 'to $100 per instead of $500~000 for this purpose as pro• 841 as proposed by the Senate, instead of posed by the House. day the amount that can be paid for con­ $1,290,000 as proposed by the House. sultant services as proposed by the Senate, · Amendment No. 111: Provides that not to instead of $50 per day as proposed by the Amendment No. 91: Provides that not to exceed $333,000 shali be available for per­ exceed $1,018,434 shall be available for per .. sonal services, SiS proposed by the Senate. House. Amendment No. 75: Reported in disagree­ sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. Construction of roads, Alaska ment. NATIONAL !'ARK SERVICE Amendment No. 112: Provides that not. to Amendments Nos. 76 and 77: Strike out Management and protection exceed $2,493,000 shall be available for per­ limitation inserted by the House, as pro­ Amendment No. 92: Provides that not to sonal services, as provided by the Senate. posed by the Senate. exceed $6,584,342 shall be available for per­ Ope:-ation and maintenance. of roads, Alaska Amendments Nos. 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, and sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. 83-Coachella Distribution System: Author­ Amendment No. ll3: Appropriates $2,900,• ize expenditures of not to exceed $2,783,000 Maintenance and rehabilitation of physical 000 as proposed by the Senate, inf'tead of as proposed by the Senate, instead of not to ' facilities $2,600,000 as proposed by the House. exceed $1,684,000 as proposed by the House, Amendment No. 93: Appropriates $7,369,- Amendment No. 114: Provides that not to for completion of construction of the Coa­ exceed $1,935,840 shall be available for per­ 790 as proposed by the Senate, instead of $7.- sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. chella division of the All-American Canal 300,000 as proposed by the House. system; make the expenditure of such funds Amendment No. 94: Provides that not to Administrative provisions (Alaska Road mandatory as proposed by the Senate, in­ exceed $4,193,747 shall be available for per­ Commission) stead of permissive as proposed by the House; sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. Amendment No. 115: Provides that not to and instead of requiring a definite repayment exceed 20 percent of the construction ap­ arrangement in advance of expenditure as Construction propriation be available for force account proposed by the House, adopt the proposal Amendment No. 95: Appropriates $11,370,· work as proposed by the Senate, instead of of the Senate that such expenditure shall be 000 as proposed by the Senate, instead of not to exceed 25 percent as proposed by the repayable unless it shall be judicially deter­ $11,975,QOO as proposed by the House. · House. mined by a court of competent jurisdiction Amendment No. 96: Provides that not to Virgin Islands public works that the irrigation district is not liable exceed $945,000 shall be available for personal Amendmer.t No. 116: Appropriates $992,• therefor. Amendment No. 83 is reported in services, as proposed by the Senate. 970 as proposed by the Senate, instead of $1.· disagreement. General administrative expenses 000,000 as proposed by the House. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Amendment No. 117: Provides ,that not to Amendment No. 84: Appropriates $21,300,- Amendment No. 97: Appropriates $1,l 71,- exceed $63,270 shall be available for personal 000 as proposed by the Senate, instead of 774 as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,- services, as proposed by the Senate. $21,900,000 as proposed by the House. 284,500 as proposed by the House. Amendment. No. 118: Inserts a proviso that Amendment No. 85: Provides that not to Amendment No. 98: Provides that not to no part of the appropriation shall be used exceed $13,455,000 shall be available for per.;. exceed $1,014,538 shall be available for pet­ for waterfront development work on St. sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. Thomas and ~rovides that the amount in· 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9221 eluded in the 1952 budget estimates for such which was inserted by the House and also Gross Latham Scrivner work be made available for school and hos­ strikes out the proposal of · the Senate to Gwinn Lecompte Scudder pital facilities, as proposed by the Senate. add a provision which would enumerate re­ Hageu Lovre Seely-Brown Hale Lucas Shafer Administration, Department of the Interior ductions already made in the various para­ Hall, McConnell graphs throughout the bill as a substitute Simpson, Ill. Amendment No. 119: Salaries and expenses, Leonard W. McCulloch Simpson, Pa; for the Jensen amendment. The conferees Halleck McGregor Sittler Office of the Secretary: Appropriates $2,154,- have agreed to amendments to the House Hand McMillan Smith, Va. 911 as proposed by the Senate, instead of bill which have the total effect of reducing Harden Mc Vey Smith, Wis. $2,000,000 as proposed by t(he House. the sums available for personal services by Harrison, Va. Mack, Wash. Springer Amendment No. 120: Provides that ·not to $13,841,606 below the amount requested in Harrison, Wyo. Martin, Iowa Stanley exceed $1,890,798 shall be available for per­ the Budget for 1952 for such purposes. Harvey Martin, Mass. Stefan Herlong Mason Talle sonal services, as proposed by the Senate. MICHAEL J. KIRWAN, Herter Merrow Taylor Rescission of unused ccntract authority W. F. NORRELL, Heselton Miller, Md. Thompson, Amendment No. 121: Strikes out the word HENRY M. JACKSON, Hess Miller, Nebr. Mich. FOSTER FURCOLO, Hill Miller, N. Y. Tollefson "unused" and in lieu thereof inserts the Hillings Morano Towe word "unobligated", as proposed by the CLARENCE CANNON, Hinshaw Mumma ·vau Senate. BEN F. JENSEN (except as to Hoeven Nelson Van Pelt Amendment No. 122: Changes the effective amendment No. 131), Hoffman, Ill. Nicholson Van Zandt date of the rescission from June 30, 1951, as IVOR D. FENTON, (except as to Hoffman, Mich. Norblad Vaughn amendment No. 131), Holmes O'Hara Vorys proposed by the House, to June 30, 195~. as Managers on the Part of the House. Hope Ostertag Vursell proposed by the Senate. Horan Patterson Weichel Amendment No. 123: Adopts the Senate Jackson, Calif. Phillips Werdel proposal to strike out the words "except · Mr. NORRELL. Mr. Speaker, this re­ James Potter Wharton public works in the Virgin Islands." port is the best we have been able to Jarman Prouty Wheeler work out with the Senate. I trust that Jenison Radwan Widnan Transfers of property-Office of Territories the recommendations of the committee Jenkins Reece, Tenn. Wigglesworth Amendment No. 124: Reported in disagree­ Jensen Reed, Ill. Williams, Miss. will be accepted. That is the only state­ Johnson Reed, N. Y. Williams, N. Y. ment. ment I care to make, Mr. Speaker, and I Jonas Rees, Kans. Wilson, Ind. Virgin Islands Corporation move the previous question. Jones, Riehlman Wilson, Tex. Amendment No. 125: Appropriates $2,595,- Woodrow W. Robeson Winstead 000 as proposed by · the Senate, instead of The previous question was ordered. Judd Rogers, Mass. Wolcott Kean Rogers, Tex. Wolverton $1,800,000 as proposed by the House. Mr. JENSEN. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to recommit. - Kearney Sadlak Wood, Idaho GENERAL PROVISIONS Kearns St. George Woodruff The SPEAKER. Is the gentleman Keating ·scliwabe Expenditures for informational and propa­ opposed to the conference report? NAYS-170 ganda purposes Mr. JENSEN. I am, Mr. Speaker. Amendment No. 126: Strikes out the pro­ Addonizio Gore Morrison posal of the House for limiting the use ·of '!'he Cier~ read as follows: ~lbert Granahan Multer . Mr. JENSEN moves to recommit -the con­ Allen, La. Granger Murphy funds for propaganda purposes, a.nd adopts Anfuso Grant Norrel ference report on H. R. 3790 to the commit­ the proposal of the Senate to impose limita­ Aspinall Green O'Brien, Ill .. ~ tions upon expenditures for suc:i purposes; tee of conf-erence witl;l instructions to the Bailey Greenwood O'Brien, Mich. but modifies the Senate proposal by adding managers on the part of the House to insist Barden Gregory O'Konski at the end thereof a provision that the on disagreement to Senate amendment No. Barrett Hardy O'Toole limitation shall not apply to the publication 131. Bates, Ky. Harris Passman Battle Hart Patman of reports and maps resulting from. author­ The SPEAKER. The question is on Beckworth Havenner Patten ized scientific and engineering investiga­ Bennett, Fla. Hays, Ark. Philbin tions and surveys or to photography inound us in this one-world oTganization? our princi,ple. of .the separation of church ·.Mr. Glllette for, with Mr. Morgan a_gainst. In the Times-Herald of Sunday is an and state: Belgium, the Netherlands, Lux­ Mr. Short for, with Mr~ Machrowicz.against. article ·by Col. Robert R. MeCor.mick emburg, Italy, and France. Mr. Murray of Wisconsin for, wit'h Mr. which is well worth reading, especially Socialist states: England, Denmark, and Rogers of Colorado against. by those who ha'Ve been citing the action Sweden. . I Mr ... Morton for, with Mr. Vinson against, States with oonstitutio~l governments Mr. McDonough for, with . Mr. C.amp taken by the Original Thirteen Colonies in establishing the United States of are Australia, .Be~gium, Boli:via, Br.azil, Chile, against. Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, ~cuador, El 'Sal­ Amerlea, as a similar move. ~he colum­ Mr. Armstrong "for, with ·Mr. Whitaker vador, Greece, Guatemala, Eaiti, Honduras, agail:ilSt. · · ' nist's st1:litement is as f dllows: Ioeland, r"uxemburg, Mexico, Norway, 'Pan­ Mr. 'il'aber for, with Mr.1Rabaut against. When President Trum:m denounced the ama, Peru, the Philippines, and Sweden. Mr.-Poulson for, with Mr. Engle against. icanviction of Associated Press Correspondent Some of these cons'titut.ior'l are obviously Mr. Chenoweth for, wit'h Mr. .Dollinger ())atis by Czechoslovakia, he omitted to say shaky. against. that Oze.choslovakia is an original m"ember The three solid Republics in the world are Mr. Coudert for, with Mr. Durham ag~inst. of the 'U:nited Nations. A great deal has the United states, 'Turkey, 'imd 'Uruguay.. As Mr . .Busbey for, with Mr. Buckley against. been said oI the c.enviction of the Ca'tholic I .have said before, a large majority of use­ Mr.. .Eaton for, with .Mr. :'.Price ag:aim;t. prelates in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, ful inventions have been made in the United Mr. :Xlaton for, with Mr. Mack of IDinois secured by torture-induced oollfe&Sions, and Stat·es. Of the other United Nations, only against. · · tlle oppression of ·religion in Poland, and Britain, France, and Italy have made any; Mr. iQamble for, 'With Mr. . O'Neill _against. again the fact that 'these -countries -were at all. Mr. Sheehan for, with Mr. Perkins against, members in good standing in >the United I am not considering the countries of Mr. Kilburn for, with Mr. Sikes age.inst. Nations has been '.RVoided. central and south Africa which 1: have· not Mr. Velde for, with Mr~ Moulder age.inst. .The prevs.iliJ:!g habit of misstatement, half visited. \ Mr. Golden for, with Mr. Dingell against. truth, and'no statement has pretty w.ell per­ .Fr.a.m:c.e and Gre.at iBr.itain, so longltlae dom .. Mr. Smith of Kansas for; with Mr. 'Byrne suaded the ignorant ..that tbe United N:ations inant nations of the ;world, have fallen on of New 'York, against. · 1s an enlightened, beneficia1, even. holy or­ .hard times. Britain, for lack of a constitu• Mr. Kersten of w.tsconsin for, witn Mr. g.antzation. The worst the we11-1nformed tion, has become a socialized state, tyran• Powell against. thmught of it -was that its highfalutil!lg lan­ nized over by the par"Gy in power in the H'oune Mr. Hunter for, wJth Mr. . Blatnik against, guage was a fraud to cover the sinister acts of Commons and far nearer in theory and Mr. Saylor for, with .Mr. Xennedy against. that got us bito the Korean war. practice to 'Russia than to us. Mr. Redden 'for, with Mr. >Ebe.rhart-er When the organization was formed under The peripatetic gyrations of 'France in the against. the leadershi,p of ..Alger Hiss, his treas.on was last 12 years are too wen known to need Mr. Eugh D. Scott, Jr., for, with Mr. Daw­ undreamed of; .nor was the decision of the comment. Tts strongest pal'ty i.s the Com­ son Against. appellate court of California that it i ::: the munist Party. Both .England a:nd France M.r. Hardie Scott f0r, with Mr. Baring supreme law of'the land contemplated, whieh .have treaties of lilliance with Soviet Russia. aga.lnst. partly l!>ut not .entirely excuses tlie senators The Appellate C!om:t of California }las .held Mr. Wood of Georgia for, with Mr. Irving who, under pressure of _pro_paganda and po­ that the l!Jnited Nations Charter , as the . against. litical coercion, voted for its ratification . supreme law of i:the land, repealed the Cali­ Until further notice: The 60 countries which compose the fCilrllia law f.orhiddtr;rg ..Japanese to own rE;al United Nations are not similar in history, estate in California, on the gr©und that the Mr. Chatham with Mr. Bates of .Massachu­ race, religion, lmrguage, imd law, as were tp.e Charter was ''.Promoting and encouraging setts. Thh'teen Original States, and as are the 48 · respect for human rights and for funda­ Mr. Murray of Tennessee with Mr. "Edwin present States. They can be divkled into mental fi'eednms for all, without distinction Arthur Hall. clas.sifications: primitive, dictatorial, iron as to race, sex, language, or religion." Mr. i:::>avis of Tennessee with Mr. Case. curtain, countries with ineifective or no .con­ :BY"the same theecy, it would hold that the Mr. Pickett with .Mr . .Brehm. · stitutions, subject states, aggressor states, laws forbidding polygamy in . this country Mr. 'I:eague with Mr. Meader. states wi.th religious politicBJ. parties, polyga­ discriminate.cl .against people practieing .that Mr. Murdock with Hr. Javits. mous ·states, and Socialist states. custom. Ladies supporting the 'United 'Na­ Among the primitive states, !"find Afghan­ Mr. .:HOFFMAN of Illinois changed his tions, bear this in_min.d. vote from "nay'' to "yea.'? istan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, :Israel, The lJnited Nations ls proposing a dec.lar_a­ Lebanon, Thailand, India, and Pakistan, all tion of .human rights and .a com_panion piece, The r.esult of the vote was announced of them polygamous. a convention on .freedom of information, as above recorded. The dictator states: Argentina, Dominica, w.hich would replace the..first amendment to A motion to recamsider-was laid.on the Paraguay. · our Constitution, providing for freedom of table. Iron curtain states: Czechoslovakia, Yugo­ speech and of the press, with a very dan­ MT. slavia, Pciland, Russian Soviiet, Byelorussian ger.ous code to suppress fr.eedom of religion, Mr. HOFFMAN of 'Michigan. Soviet, ..and Red China, which the State De• speech, .and the press. · Speaker, across the front par,-e of the partment is .conspiring to recognize. -'l'he genocide conv.ention .adopt ed by the Washington Daily News is Army Secre­ Sta'tes with undesirable or no constitu­ "United Nations and· sent to the Seuate by tary Frank Pace's warning that an at­ tions: Egypt and New 'Zealand. C_anada has Presi~ent Truman would render illegal a tack on Iran and Yugosiavia 1by 'Russia no constitution, but proximity, history, and g.uerut de.al of ste.Jirdard literature. including may be .imminent, and that "the United ' close intercourse have im.Planted our :µrinoi- the New Testament. 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9223 . Between the dictator states, iron curtain laid down- in tlie Declaration of Inde­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. There is states, Socialist states, and primitive states, pendence, in the Constitution, the Bill some difference of opinion on this side. we m!ght get a statute providing for com­ of Rights. munifl m and socialism in this country. Thi;tt I think the chairman handling the bill may Well be the administration's object. As Colonel McCormick clearly pointed on that side is in favor of the bill as is As well put by the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger: out:- the ranking minority Member of this "The Supreme Court has never expressly It ls plain that 40 of the 60 . United Na­ side. We would like some understand­ declared any treaty ratified by the Senate tions countries do not subscribe to our ideas ing as to whether the opposition will be invalid. of constitutional government, and many recognized. I should like to have 15 "This Supreme Court has upheld a law more are uncertain, and that any agree­ minutes. enacted to place teeth in a treaty after it ments that they can reach will be utterly The CHAIRMAN. 'l'he Chair would had declared the same law unconstitutional destructive of our way of l~fe. ·n is equally before a treaty was ratified. plain that all informed people who support like to know who is asking for control of "This instance of the Supreme Court rul­ the United Nations plan just that. the time on the Republican side. ing that the treaty-making power could be Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, I de­ used successfully where the Constitution With the last sentence I cannot agree, sire to yield 10 minutes to the gentle­ forbade the Congress to act is pointed to by for many "informed people" sincerely man from .Nebraska [Mr. MILLER], and Frank E. Holman of Seattle, a former presi­ believe that we can join and follow I ask the gentleman from South Caro­ dent of the American Bar Association, in ·an United Nations, surrender a portion of lina whether he will yield 5 minutes t.o article in the September issue of the ABA :our ~overeignty, l:'ut not lose our inde­ the gentleman from Nebraska. Journal, entitled: ·'Treaty Law Making: a pendence. I know well-informed indi­ Mr. McMILLAN. I will yield 5 min­ Blank Check for Writing a New Constitution.' ·viduals just as patriotic as I, who are "Here's how it came about: In 1913, Con­ utes to the gentleman. gress enacted a Federal Migratory Bird Act. entirely convinced that if we would be The CHAIRMAN. Does' the gentle­ After its approval by the President, its con­ saved we must join United Nations. man from Minnesota [Mr. O'HARA] claim stitutionality was questioned on the grounds 'l,hey belong to that group referred to in 30 minutes of the time? that it invaded the reserved powers of the the good book as "having eyes, see ye M.r. O'HARA. Yes, Mr. Chairman. States, and the statute was declared un­ not? and having ears, hear ye not? and Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Chairman, I constitutional in 1914 by the Supreme Court do ye not remember?" Some never yield 8 minutes to the gentleman from in United States v. Shauver. The Court learn. Massachusetts [Mr. McCORMACK], the held: The Colonel might well have added · "'That the National Constitution is an en­ author of the bill. abling instrument and, therefore, Congress that if a·nd when a "show down" comes, Mr. McCO.d.MAGK. _Mr. Chairman, possess only such powers as are expressly and come it will, we will find each one this is a simple bill. We already have by necessary implication granted by that of the 60 nations, if it thinks it is pow­ on the statute books an act which is instrument is not questioned. Unless, erful enough, in determined disagree­ known as the Hospital Center Act, which therefore, there is some provision in the ment with our views. Recent aid given was approved August 7, 1946, and Which National Constitution granting to Congress to the Communists with whom we are is Public Law 647 of the .Seventy-ninth either expressly or by necessary implication at war in the Far East by Britain and Congress. the power to legislate on this subject, the other nations illustrate this point. act cannot be sustained.' When that bill was reported favorably "Supporters of the regulations governing · For my country I want no hauling to the House it provided for an author- the taking of migratory birds then sought down of the Stars and Stripes, no sur­ • ized expenditure of $35,000,000. Of this the treaty route. The President concluded a render of our independence, no Armed sum about $22,000,000 was to be r:p.ade treaty with Great Britain, and the Senate Forces of American youth fighting un­ available for three hospitals, which were ratified it. der an internationalist flag and com­ to comprise the Hospital Center. The !'A second Migratory Bird Act was then en­ mander, for the interest of some other acted. It was practically identical with the balance was to be available for &11 other nation, or group of nations. hospitals in the District which could first, and it was attacked as unconstitutional I am beginning to wonder just how also. qualify. "This time, the Supreme Court, in Missouri many wars those who advocate member­ On the House fl-0or the section dealing v. Holland, upheld the law as valid, since ship in-subjugation to-a one-world with the hospitals other than the three · it was implementation of a valid treaty. organization, United Nations, think this in the Center was stricken by a floor "'This decision,' Mr. Holman writes, 'in country can survive. · · amendment, although the Committee on effect, and really for the first time, opened ESTABLISHMENT OF A HOSPITAL CEN- the way for amending the Constitution of the District of Columbia reported out the United States by and through a treaty, TER IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA the .bill in 1946 as I have described. because it proclaims that an otherwise un­ Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Speaker, I Later, in 1947, H. R. 5307 was reported constitutional law may become constitu­ move that the House resolve itself into favorably out of the District Committee, tional when, as, and .if the President nego­ the Committee of the Whole House on and the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. tiates a treaty on the subject and obtains MILLER] handled the report at that time approval of the Senate.' the State of the Union for the consid­ "This is nothing more nor less than gov­ eration of the bill

9224 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE . JULY 31 - Mr. McCORMACK. I yield to -the to all hospitals. The first building of which he presented his case, we did ex­ gentleman from 'Illinois. this hospital was erected in 1895. Other tend the District funds in we,lfare cases Mr. MASON. Will the gentleman ex­ buildings were erected in 1903 and an­ through the appropriation bill to Provi.. plain why the District Commissioners other building in 1913, and an annex to dence, Sibley, and the Episcopal Eye, have made this change in their atti­ the main building was built about 25 Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospitals; we tude? years ago. He testified they do the extended welfare-fund benefits to at Mr. McCORMACK. The change in laundry work for Providence Hospital least three or four additional hospitals.· · their attitude was because in this bill which is located in the District of Colum­ The charity-case costs were a heavy and there is a formula provided for the re­ bia and which will benefit by the passage a dangerous load. At that time I think_ payment by the ·District of its share, a of this bill. He said there is a definite only four hospitals were permitted -to specific formula that was not contained need for rehabilitation of these old receive help from the Welfare Depart­ in the previous hospital center bill or buildings and the plant and for an ex­ ment, repayments for charity-case in the bill of the Eightieth Congress; tension of our program. In Washington, costs. in other words, to pay back 3 percent Sibley Hospital conducts a hospital con­ Mr. McCORMACK. Three of them. . O':er a period of 33 % years, a specific sisting of hospital, plant, and in addition Mr. HORAN. Due to that fact, I hope provision to that effect. a nurses' training school. It has about the House will act with favor upon this Under this. bill any hospital must raise 120 nurses training at the present time. biil. 50 percent. Of the remaining 50 percent About 40 nurses graduated last June. He Mr. McCORMACK. ~ tha~ my the Federal Government makes contri­ emphasized the fact that this hospital friend. butions, which will amount to 35 percent ts in the dire need of new facilities. It In conclusion I make this further ob­ of the Whole amount, and the District contains about 350 beds. Last year they servation: that this does not increase the Commissioners 15 percent of the whole performed about 6,COO operations. About authorization. The authorizaiiQn in amount. 250 babies were born each month, or a 1946 was for $35,000,006. So there is no Then there is provision for the District total throughout the year of 2,954 babies. increase in authoiization. The com­ Commissioners paying back their 15 per­ It has the advE:.ntage of placing facilities mitment to the hospital center is about cent to the Federal Government over a close to the people who need to use them. $21,700,000. This permits the balance . period of 33 % years. There is need for a modern hospital. to be used ih accordance with the pro­ There- appeared before the subcom­ Sibley will be able to maintain more pa­ visions of the law to help other hos­ mittee of the District of Columbia that tients each year than before. pitals in the District, Just the same as was hearing this bill a ntimber of wit­ The hospitals that will benefit by the the Congress did in relation to the three nesses. At the present time there are passage of this bill, and it is not con­ hospitals that now constitute the hos­ three voluntary nonprofit hospitals serv­ fined to these hospitals, are as fallows; pital center. So there is no additional ing the community that benefit from the Sibley Memorial Hospital, Casualty Hos­ · money. There is no additional au­ hospital-center bill. One of the wit· pital, Homeopathic Hospital, and the thorization. It is something that' the nesses was William E. Reynolds, Com­ Providence Hospital. • ,. District needs, and as the debate de­ missioner of Public Buildings, and he I have here testimony of other per­ velops I am sure we can satisfy Mem­ testifled in substance that the present sons who appeared before the commit­ bers of the House that there is a justi­ hospital center consists of three hospital · tee. During debate under the 5-minute fiable need and justification for the pas­ units, the Emergency Hospital, the Gar­ rule I shall take the floor and call at­ sage of this bill. field Hospital, and the Episcopal Eye, tention to their testimony. For exam­ The CHAIRMAN. .The time of the Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital. He ple, John M. Arem, president of the Sib­ gentleman from Massachusetts has· ,. also testified that a hospital plan for the ley Memorial Hospital, also appeared and again expired. center has been worked out and that testified. There was Daniel W. O'Dono­ Mr. 9'HARA. I will be glad to yield while no actual construction work has hue, Jr., representing the Providence the gentleman two additional minute~. ~· started, the funds have been appropri­ Hospital. There were other witnesses Mr. McCORMACK. I thank the ated to start the project aI)d there al­ representing another hospital who ap­ gentleman. ready exists the contract authority up to peared before the subcommittee and Dr: John M. Orem, superintendent of $21,700,000 to complete it. The delay testified. Sibley Hospital, said: has been over the selection of a loca- · Mr. O'Hf.. RA. Mr. Chairman, will the For all practical purposes Sibley Hospital tion. . gentleman yield? serves the public and practicallt operates as The bill I have introduced has the Mr. McCORMACK. I yield. a public hospital. This ~ due to the- exi­ fallowing advantages. It spells out Mr. O'HARA. Is it not a fact that gencies of the District Qf Columbia and the clearly the manner in which the District most of these hospitals which the gen· peculiarities of the District in relation to of Columbia will meet its obligation. tleman has mentioned are run on a hosp_ital facilities. under any construction program, name­ charity basis completely and that they He further "said that if thiS"" bill were · ly, 3 percent a year, which I refer to. do all sorts· of charity work for which enacted into law his hospital wouid be Second. It includes other hospitals in of course they are not paid? able to make a greater contribution ·to the District of Columbia-nonprofit hos­ Mr. McCORMACK. Absolutely. the medical-requirement needs of the pitals, most of whose buildings are Mr. O'HARA. Is it not also true that people of the District. He further testi­ old and in bad shape physically. the hospital situation in the city of fied that if we did not have these hos­ Third. It would give a distribution of Washington at the present time is in a pitals function in a modern way the ef­ hospital facilities throughout the area. very serious condition, both as to the fect on the District would be disastrous. Commissioner F. Joseph Donohue plants of the hospitals and their need for He also 'said that his hospital, which, as testified and strongly favored the bill. enlargment, and the demands upon them I said, was founded by members of the Paul B. Cromelin, representing the are terrific? Methodis't Church; treats persons with­ Sibley Hospital, chairman of the board Mr. MCCORMACK. Absolutely. As out regai:d to race, color, or creed. That of the Sibley Memorial Hospital, also the debate continues we will disclose was his .testim9ny, and he is to be com- testified. that fact. . mended. This hospital comes under the pro­ Mr. HORAN. Mr. Chairman, .will the The same thing applies to all other gram of the Methodist Church. It is one gentleman yield? hospitals. They treat persons without of the projects of the Women's Society of Mr. McCORMACK. I yield to the regard to race, color, or creed. Further­ Christian Service, a national organiza­ gentleman from Washington. more, they treat them ·whether or not tion conducting some 50 or more schools Mr. HORAN. I happened to be chair­ they have any·money. They do not ask and hospitals and missionary training man of the subcommittee on the Dis­ them when they come in if they have schools and orphanages throughout trict of Columbia appropriation in the any·money. North America. Eightieth Congress, when the plight of Furthermore, the District has to serve Mr. Paul B. Cromelin testified that these hospitals was brought to our at­ the-metropolitan area. The.metropoli­ many of the people they treat cannot tention. Mr. Donohue came before us tan area has about 1,400,000 population,· even pay in part for their treatment. and was an excellent witness. Due to and tlte District about 820,000. The al­ The same situation exists with relations his testimony and the honesty . with ' loca.tion under . the Hill-Burton -Act is

... 1951 CONGRESSIONAL . RECORD-HOUSE 9225 based on 820,000 rather than the metro­ I am in position to speak rather ·frankly This measure is designed just for the politan population of 1,400,000. about hospital situations in the District District of Columbia. We have these Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ of Columbia. In the District of Co­ three hospitals that want to come in. man, will the gentleman yield? lumbia there is no question that more Providence is the only one that is ready Mr. McCORMACK. I yield. hospitals are needed. We have some to come in, a very fine Catholic hospital. Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Of course, hospitals here, as in other communities, A Methodist hospital would like to come the metropolitan hospitals in Maryland that need repair, that need additions, in. Now I think it is a very dangerous and Virginia get aid under the Hill- that need some help. The Congress set procedure when we let religious organi­ Burton Act. ' up the Hill-Burton bill on a formula of zations put their hands into the public Mr. McCORMACK. That is true, but allocating funds to different communi­ till to take out tax money to add to or to it is inadequate, and the testimony pre­ ties throughout the Nation on a formula build hospitals when they do not try to sented to the committee from reliable of population base, and income base. do that for themselves. All over this medical authorities shows that the hos­ The District income is high. country religious organizations have pitals in the adjoining counties, like The gentlemeh ·who preceded me say gone out and asked their people to con­ Montis·omery, while very excellent, are the District of Columbia does not get tribute for hospitals and the people have inadequate to meet the demands made very much funds under the Hill-Burton done that over and over again. upon them, and that the major part of bill, but I point out that perhaps one Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, will the the patient load has to be treated in hos­ reason is that we have the highest per gentleman yield? pitals in the District of Columbia. capita income in the District of Colum- · Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, I yield bia of any· place in the United States. the gentleman from Minnesota. 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman So, on that basis, they should not be Mr. O'HARA. It is true that under from Massachusetts [Mr. MARTIN I. coming here and a.:;king for help under the Hill-Burton bill they also come in. Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. this bill. The gentleman recognizes that. Speaker, there is no question but what · We passed the hospital bill back in Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Yes, but the city of Washington badly needs in­ 1946. It was to allocate some $35,000.000 very, very few came in under that bill. creased hospital facilities. Neither is for a ho ~· pital center. At one time they Mi'. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, there any question that unless this bill thought it would be built on the Naval will the gentleman yield? is passed as reported out of the com- · Observatory grounds, but they did not Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to mittee the District will not obtain those find a place until recently; they thought the· gentleman from Mississippi, facilities. I understand there may be it might be built out on the old Soldiers' Mr. ABERNETHY. That is not true some opposition to the bill; that an Home grounds. ·Of the $35,000,000, except in cases where it became a part amendment will be offered to increase $_12,000,000 was to be allocated to hos­ of the hospital program of the State. the amount to be contributed by the city pitals that did not come in. There were Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. That is of Washington. I believe Washington three hospitals coming into the hos­ right. Under the Hill-Burton bill the is in a somewhat different position from pital center-and this is important-of State must set up its own organization other cities in the country. While I be­ the three hospitals that are to come into and allotments for hospitals are made lieve normally. a 50-50 division is a fair the hospital center, when they come in to the State machinery. Here in the one in the question of Federal aid to they deed their property to the District Oistrict of Columbia, the District Health hospitals, Washington stands in an ex­ of Columbia; they would get out of the Department makes the decisions. That ceptional position. The entire country hospital picture entirely. I think that is the department or the machinery and people from every section of the is as it should be, 100 percent partici­ through which Hill-Burton funds are al­ country will share in the benef.ts of these pation. located to the District of Columbia, and hospitals. Under the Hill-Burton bill at one time Hill-Burton money has been allocated to Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, will the we provided one-third, then a half, and, the tune of $1,375,000 in the District of gentleman yield? in some instances, I think, two-thirds­ Columbia. Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. I a very few of those-participation within Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Chairman, will yield. the cities and. counties and States. The the gentleman yield? Mr. GROSS. Do we not pay for those thing that we have here in this bill as Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to facilities? I see it and under the Hill-Burton bill, the gentleman from Indiana. , Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Of the District has not been forgotten; they Mr. HALLECK. Does not the gentle­ course we pay for the facilities, but few get $275,000 a year; they received man agree with me in the statement that hospitals can operate at a profit. $1,375,000 under the Hill-Burton bill the situation in the District of Columbia Washington is also limited in its op­ since it has been put into effect. The is a little different- from the other cities portunities for raising money. 'It can­ District has -already had many millions, of the Unitecj States? The District of not obtain loans with the freedom of the the Georgetown Hospital, the George Columbia and the city of Washington other cities and the States. It cares for Washington Hospital were 70-percent present an entirely different problem. a large area outside the confines of the grants, the Freedmen's a total gift. The Many of us have our permanent resi­ city itself, located in Maryland and Vir­ Congress has been liberal. There are dences out in the States, our voting re­ ginia. People from outside areas come 820,000 people in the District. What did sidences, we pay our State-income tax here for treatment because the facilities the State of Massachusetts get out of the there. I think many people who live are better. Any campaign for funds is Hill-Burton bill? With a population of here in Washington recognize insofar restricted because many people make nearly 4,600,000 people that State re­ as contributions are concerned the pri­ their charity contributions to their home ceived $8,000,000 on about the same basis mary responsibility to make those con­ communities. As a matter of plain jus­ as we get it here, because Massachusetts tributions back in their· home States, the tice to Washington, I favor the bill and is a very rich State. What did they get States of their residence. Does not the want to be so recorded. If any amend­ in Minnesota? Minnesota with nearly gentleman think that sets up a little dif­ ment is offered to increase the burden on 3,000,000 population received $8,000,000. ferent situation here in the District? Washington, I hope it will not prevail. Minnesota is not quite as rich. North Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. As the Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, I yield Carolina with a population of 4,000,000 gentleman from Washington has said, 10 minutes to the gentleman from received nearly $17 ,000,000 because it is the Appropriations Committee. made Nebraska [Mr. MILLER]. a State with a big population and low some money available to these hospitals Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Chairman, I income. So the Hill-Burton money does for charity work. We have done that yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from not reflect against the District of Co­ through the Congress, not under this Nebraska [Mr. MILLER]. lumbia. new policy. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman I point that out because Mr. Johnston, Mr. ABER.NETHY. Mr. Chairman, from Nebraska is recognized for 15 when he came before .our committee, and will the gentleman yield further? minutes. he is the one that is going to administer Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ this bill, said: the gentleman from Mississippi. man, as a physician who has operated It is, however, more liberal for the District Mr. ABERNETHY. In answer to the a hospital for more than 20 years I think of Columbia than the Hill-Burton bill. · gentlemau from Indiana, the Congress 9226 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 31 has already recognized that situation. if any, consideration out of the Hill-Bur­ pitals, or state hospitals. . It seems to The Con5ress has authorized the con­ ton Act allocations. Just where does this me that twelve million for the hospitals struction of a hospital center for the additional money come from that is pro­ is too liberal. The principle is wrong, _ District and that law has been passed. vided in this bill? An1, is that money I say if they want to get this money, The Congress has also appropriated 70 going to have to be replaced by the tax­ then let the people of the District. of percent of all the dollars that went in­ payers at some future date? Columbia pay back the mon€y that is to Georgetown Hospital, the Congress Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. This bill going to come under this bill. When appropriated and gave to George Wash­ provides that the hospitals may parti­ you start doing these things, what about ington University '?O percent of all the cipate up to 50 percent. That does not the loss of our strength of character? dollars that went into that hospital and mean that they put up the money. These What about the generatior..s that are it constructed Freedmen's Hospital 100 hospitals own land and have many as­ going to follow us? Because we are p~rcent. So the Congress has already sets. Providence Hospital, for instance, b.orrowing this money from all the peo­ recognized that situation and has con­ wants $3,000,000, and they will get half ple in the United States. What about tributed dollar after dollar after dollar of it. I think the District should be our grandchil.dren, when the bill is due? after dollar for hospital purposes in the charged for all of it, just as we are You and I are saddling them with a debt District of Columbia, and we think there charged in our cities at home. and an obligation such as we have never ought to be an end to it at s0me time. Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Would the seen before. Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Yes. I gentleman propose an amendment for M.r. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, will the do not think the gentleman from In­ repayment of the entire sum? gentleman yield? diana needs to worry about the Congress Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. The Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to not con~ributing to the hospitals of the amendment I expect to offer as a sub­ the gentleman from Iowa. District of Columbia. If we had towns at stitute for the bill will require the Dis­ Mr. GROSS. The gentleman does not home with a population of a million peo­ trict Commissioners and the people in · need I.iv talk about the gencr'l.tions to ple that got as much money out of the the District of Columbia to pay back the come He can talk about the c,hildren Federal till through the avenues just money that goes into hospitals of this that are here today, not our children's elucidated by the gentleman from Mis­ type. I think that is only right. We do children. sissippi, we would be mighty well off. it at home and every other place, and Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Certainly; Let me say this to you, too. You talk there is no reason why these people I ·do not think we ought to be raiding the about charity hospitals. Sure, they do should not do it. The District Com- Federal Treasury to meet community charity work. I did charity work in my . missioners have a balance of $2,500,000. needs. That is what it amounts to when little hospital, $40,000 in 10 years, and I My colleagues, the District of Columbia you come down to this bill. There are marked it off the books. Every hos­ is in a better position than the Federal certain intimate duties .and responsibili­ pital does some charity work, and do not Governnient. They can raise the taxes. ties that citizens should assume. This is forget, too, that when you go into a · Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. It would one. This Congress should ·not break hospital in the District of Columbia that seem to me that such a proposal to be down these responsibilities. the average charge is $16.11. That is offered by the gentleman from Nebraska Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Chairman, I what they charge whether your secre­ would be eminently fair. I do not see yield 10 minutes to the gentleman from tary goes or whether you go in as a pa­ why the House should object to passing Mississippi [Mr. ABERNETHY]. tient. You pay an average of $16.11. My · his amendment. Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairmap, .· goodness, out in Kimball, Nebr., I Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Well, I this bill ought not to pass in its present thought I was lucky to get $5 a day. hope they will. I did not vote for the form. I dislike very much to find my­ Well, it is different now. Many of the hospital center bill because I did not feel self in disagreemen_t with my majority hospitals make money. that some of the provisions in it were leader, the author of the bill. I am very M;r. DONDERO. Mr. Chairman, will proper. We spent 4% hours debating fond of him. I can appreciate his inter­ the gentleman yield? it in the House where 109 Members voted est in the legislation and the sincere in · Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield. against it. Some $21,000,000 have been manner which he has approached it. earmarked for the hospital center. We Nevertheless, in all good conscience and . Mr. DONDERO. Does the gentleman to satisfy my own convictions, I feel that meah $16.11 'per day? have these hospitals coming in, and they need money, but in. the process of getting I should take the well of the House and . Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Yes. it, it seems to me that the people of the · oppose passage of the bill in its pres­ Mr. DONDERO. Ill a ward? District of Columbia ought to be treated ent form. · Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Yes. That just as we treat our folks back home. This legislation is new to many of is the average char~ So, it is not all .We should say, "Yes; there is money you. It has a very long history running charity work. If you were to look at the available here, but you are going to have over a period of about 6 % or 7 years. ~alance sheet of Providence 'Hospital and to pay it back over a period of 25 years The legislation was originally introduced Sibley Hospital and others, you .would in equal installments." What is wrong by the former Senator from Maryland, find that they are not in the red, even with that? You do it at home. Why Mr. Tydings. After holding hearings though they are doing some charity should we not do it here? · the Senate committee reported out a work: Bless your hearts, I am in sym­ I am fearful that we in Congress do hospital bill which provided for the es­ pathy with what the hospitals have to something to people. We take a way tablishment of a hospital center in the do, because I know. some of the prob­ something from them when we do every­ form of a corporate body, permitting lems of a hospital. I think the gentle­ thing for them. We give them this and many hospitals in the Dis~rict of Colum­ man from Massachusetts, said a bill was we give them that. We destroy that bia to participate in the hospital center. passed in the Eightieth Congress that self-confidence, that ability to do some­ After the bill passed it came .over to contained these provisions. Well, the thing for themselves. Certainly in the the House. . and the proponents thought bill was reported out" but it never came <;ase of these strong church institutions they had done so well that they would before the House. That was the Dirk­ that can go out and raise money, and go a little further and seek more free sen bill. :t w~s never before this body have done it, and God bless them, they Federal money. So they changed the for consideration. At that time the Dis­ have done a great job in the hospital form of the bill. They eliminated the trict Commissioners opposed the bill. field, and they ought to continue to do corporate feature and provided for a di­ Now, with a change of complex~on, the it. I doubt if the Congress should per­ rect Federal grant from the Federal District Commissioners come in and mit these fine religious institutions to Works Administrator for the establish­ they are in favor of the bill. put their hand into the public till and ment of a hospital center to be under Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Mr. say, "We are going to get some tax money the control of the Federal Government. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? and we are not going to pay anything Having made very satisfactory prog­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to back," then I think that proposition is ress in that field some of the priVate the gentleman from Minnesota. wrong; deadly wrong. hospitals, arid I cannot blame them, felt Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Back in Ninety percent of the funds that have that they· should get in on the gifts, so Minnesota, in my district, we have had been allocated under the Hill-Burton they came in and. were included in the considerable difficulty even getting little, Act went to city hospitals, county hos- bill. 1951 CONGRESSIONAIJ RECORD-HOUSE 9227 The bill came to the :floor of the House if the gentleman will recall, the orig­ There are a number of reasons you in 1945, and the very provisions, almost inal act was before the Judiciary ·Sub­ could give your people back home why in identical words, which you are asked committee of the Committee on the Dis­ you did not vote for this bill; you could to pass here today for the benefit of pri­ tric.t of Columbia, because I remember tell them you did not want the people vate hospitals, were defeated by the sitting in on the hearings for some time. . in the District of Columbia to "get House of Representatives. Since that Mr. ABERNETHY. Well, I hope my away" with something. That might be a day there has been a very vigorous ef­ friend is correct, but the report that was perfectly good argument; yet, Mr. Chair­ fort carried on by the proponents to get filed before came from the Committee man, we are dealing with a very prac­ the private hospitals in under the cover on Health and Education. That is what tical proposition. We have crowded into of a direct Federal grant from the tax­ the report shows. the city of Washington not only the payers of the 48 States. Now, this is what those of us who op­ members of our staff, the Members of The hospital ~enter which is now au­ pose this bill propose to do, and I think Congress, but thousands and tens of thorized and which will be very largely it is more than fair. I honestly believe thousands of people who are connected paid for by the Federal Government that it is more than fair. I do not feel with the operations of Government. I will sooner or later become a part of that the Federal Gqvernment, by any do not think there is anyone, even my the hospital facilities for the people of stretch of the imagination, is duty bound friend the gentleman from Nebraska the District of Columbia. I do not know to make any contribution whatsoever to [Mr. MILLER] or the gentleman from why it has not been constructed. ·The these hospitals. I do not feel that the Mississippi[Mr. ABERN~THY], who would authorization is on the books. I under­ Federal Government, by any stretch of not agree that the hospital situation in stand they are just waiting to take over the imagination, is in duty bound to loan Washington is. very serious. There is a some particular piece of naval property one dollar for the construction of these great deal of expanding to be done in as a site, and the reason it has not been hospitals, but as a compromise of the the plants and facilities of the hospitals constructed is because they do not seem whole problem-and I concede it is a in this city to meet the needs of this to be able to get that property. compromise-the gentleman from Ne­ particular area and those hospitals that There is one question to be decided braska [Mr. MILLER] and I intend to have been mentioned as the charity hos­ and that is whether or not in addition sponsor an amendment which will make pitals, where they do render a tremen­ to the benefits of the Hill-Burton Act-­ available a Federal loan.for the purposes dous service of treating and taking care the only source that the people in your · in the bill. We propose to offer an of the sick of this community, and in own State have to look to for Federal amendment which will loan to them your many instances are not paid when the money for hospitals-you are willing to money without a dime interest-not a people cannot pay them. make additional n10neys· available to .the dime. It is to be repaid over a period of I hope tpis bill wili pass in the form District of Columbia which your people 2·5 years. I think that is. more than fair. and in the language which it carried in yolir -own States and ·districts con­ . The . CHAIRMAN. . The time of the when reported out of the committee. It tribute in the form of taxes. gentleman from Mississippi has expired.· is· true that the gentlemen who spoke . Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, I yield against the bill opposed it. I do not re­ I pointed out a moment ago in answer myself 5 minutes. -member anybody else in the District of to the gentleman from Indiana that the Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that the Congress 'has certainly met its re13pon­ Coll,lmbia Cmp.mittee who did oppose the problem which is before the House today bill~ I recognize ·that they are sipcere sibility, if it has · any responsibility, in is one which deals solely and peculiarly in their opposition, but I do urge that building hospitals for the people in the with the situation which exists in the the bill be not amended, and repeat that District of Columbia. The Federal Gov­ city of Washington. I remember when I this legislation has been given very seri­ ernment contributed 70 percent of every sat in on the hearings of this original ous consideration by the committee. I dollar that went ·into the construction of legislation in the Seventy-ninth Con­ hope it will pass in the form in which it Georgetown Hospitd. The people paid gress as a member of the District of Co­ was recommended by the committee. and the Federal Government contributed lumbia Committee. I remember at that I now yield to the gentleman from 70 percent of every dollar that was put time I approached it with some feeling Nebraska. · into the George Washington Hospital. . of suspicion. I felt it was giving some Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I just Your people paid that. The Federal consideration unduly to · the city of Government contributed every· dollar · wanted to call the gentleman's attention Washington, which was beyond what was to the formula of the !!ill-Burton bill. that went into the construction of Freed­ being measured out to the States under The gentleman stated that it was on an men's Hospital, and your people paid for the Hill-Burton Act. As time went on, area basis. The bill very definitely states that. Your people will also pay to the ex­ and I accumulated more' and more in­ in section 2 that it is on a population tent of approximately $20,000,000 that formation, as I lived here longer, I felt which will go into the construction of the and per capita income basis. The rea­ that we had a problem in the city of son ~he District of Columbia may get a hospital center and only a small portion Washington which is distinctly different ·little less than other areas is because of that will be returned to the Federal :from any that we have in our States the income per capita in the District of Treasury. back home. Columbia is higher than any place in the It is not a very pleasant task to op­ It also happens that I sat as a member country. The area has nothing what­ pose legislation sponsored by close of the subcommittee on the committee ever to do with it; it is on a population friends. On the other hand, I have a which brought out the Hill-Burton Act, basis. very deep f.eeling about this matter. I the Cpmmittee on Interstate and Foreign Mr. O'HARA. I think the gentleman am as familiar with it as any Member Commerce. I became a strong supporter will find that an amendment was adopted of the House because I have sat on this of that bill, and I have lived long enough to the Hill-Burton bill which included committee for about 8 % or 9 years and · to see the many fine accomplishments area in the formula. Certainly the needs during 7 years of that time this legis­ that have resulted from that legislation. of a community·or the needs of a State lation has been before the committee. When you start talking about what comes enter into it, and that, of course, is a In the original instance this legislation to the District of Columbia under the lot different in the various States. was referred to a subcommittee of which Hill-Burton Act, one of the important Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, I was for a long time chairman, but for things which was a part of the formula will the gentleman yield? some reason when· the sarr.e bill was of the Hill~Burton Act was the area. Of Mr. O'HARA. I yield. referred this time it was not referred course, no State wou.ld be hit as hard as to my Committee on Health and Edu­ the District of Columbia. . Mr. ABERNETHY. . Assuming that cation. It occurs to me that is where a Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ what th~ gentleman has said is correct, bill of this kind should be referred. man, will the gentleman yield? that the hospital situation in the Dis­ Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, will the Mr. O'HARA. No; I do not yield at trict of Columbia is very bad, and it may gentleman yield? . this time. be, although I think it is just as bad in Mr. ABERNETHY. I yield to the gen­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. The basis many cities around the country, and as­ tleman from Minnesota. is not area but populatioI).. · suming further that the Hill-Burton Act Mr. O'HARA. I think the gentleman Mr. O'HARA. I :will yield to the gen­ does not give the people of the District is probably giving the impression that tleman later on but not now. The gen­ of Columbia the relief to which they are somebody sidetr:;i.cked him, but I think, tleman did not yield to me. entitled, is not the approach to this 9228 CONGRESSIONAL-RECORD-· HOUSE JULY 31. thing an amendment to the Hill-Burton Mr. McCORMACK. Now the gentle­ construct buildings' and inserting in lieu Act? man opposes the very bill he handled in thereof 'acquire land, construct buildings, Mr. O'HARA. No; I do not think so. the l!":ightieth Congress. and make loans to private agencies.' "SEC. 2. The first section of such act of I think we have to deal with· this prop­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. It is .an August 7, 1946, is further amended by adding lem by legislation, and this Congress is entirely different bill. The gentleman at the end thereof the following new subsec­ charged with the responsibility of legis­ knows that. Be honest with yourself. tion: lating for the District of Columbia, and The CHAIRMAN. The time of the " ' ( c) to make loans to private agencies to I think we have to legislate as a body gentleman from South Carolina has ex- enable such private agencies to make surveys which is charged under the law to do so. pired. . and investigations, to plan, design, construct, Personally, I always hope that responsi­ Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Chairman, I remodel, relocate, rebuild, renovate, extend, bility remai!lS with the Congress. yield myself two additional minutes. equip, furnish, or repair hospital facilities Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Chairman, I in the District of Columbia. Each such loan Mr. Chairman, ti•e testimony pre­ made under this subsection shall be charged yield myself 2 minutes. sented to the committee on this bill was against the District of Columbia and shall be Mr. Chairman, I supported the central very convincing. Having two brothers repaid in full to the Federal Government by hospital center bill and worked hard to who own a hospital in South Carolina the Commissioners of the District of Colum­ get it through the committee. I sup­ and knowing the conditions under which bia, in equal annual installments, without ported it on the :floor of the House. I they are operating at the present time, interest over a period .of not more than 25 supported this bill that is before us to­ doing about 38 percent each year of years: Provided, That in no event shall the day not because I think we particularly charity work, I would like this bill to amount or value of the loan exceed 50 per­ owe the District of Columbia anything, cent of the value of the hospital plant of a apply to the whole United States. We do private agency as improved with the aid of but I do think we need additional hos­ not spend enough money in this country such loan: Provided further, That, except in pital facilities here and much better on hospitals and similar public health. the case of the construction and equipment hospitals than we have. The h:>spital I agree that the churches and the States of a new hospital, no such loan shall be made situation in the District of Columbia is should spend more of their own money to any private agency unless such private certainly serious. I have had some ex­ in taking care of hospitalization and in agency shall obligate itself to pay at least 50 perience with the hospitals here due to taking care of the sick in general; but p'ercent of the cost o~ any project fat which illness in my own family, and I know that does not relieve us of the responsi­ such loan is made. of the hospital shortage from first-hand bility of trying to relieve the situation in As used in this act, the term 'private agen­ information. cies' shall mean any nonprofit private agency the District of Columbia today. operating hospital facilities in the District Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair-. I hope the bill will pass, even though, man, will the gentleman yield? of Columbia.' as I ·stated, I do not feel we are particu­ "SEC. 3. The fifth section of such act of Mr. McMILLAN. I yield tu the gen­ larly duty bound to do it. We have August 7, 1946, is amended ( 1) by inserting tleman from Nebraska. helped hospitals in the District of ' (except subsection ( c) of the first section)• Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I want to Columbia more than we have in any after 'act' the first time it appears therein keep the record straight. On July 22, other ten States combined; still, we are and (2) by striking from the first sentence 1946, when the bill was up for vote the compelled to stay here, we compel Gov­ thereof the words 'at such times and in such gentleman is recorded as not voting. ernment employees to come here and amounts, without interest, as the Congress Mr. McMILLAN. I thought I was shall hereafter determine', and by inserting work and it is our duty to see that they in lieu thereof 'at the annual rate, without present and voted. have proper hospital facilities. interest, of 3 percent of such 30 percent.' Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. There Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Does the "SEC. 4. The title of such act of August 7, were 162 who did not vote, so the gentle­ gentleman know of a Government em­ 1946, is amended to read as follows: 'An act man was not alone in that respect. ployee either in our office or in any other to provide for the establis.hment of a mod-: Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, branch of the· Government who has ern, adequate, and efficient hospital center will the gentleman yield? never paid a bill after he went to a in the District of Columbia, to authorize the Mr. McMILLAN. I yield to the gen­ making of loans for hospital facilities to hospital? private agencies in the District of Columbia tleman from Massachusetts. Mr. McMILLAN. I agree with the Mr. McCORMACK. To keep the rec­ to provide a basis for repayment to the Gov­ gentleman and I do not understand my­ ernment by the Commissioners of the Dis­ ord straight also, the gentleman from self how the hospitals continue to go into trict of Columbia, and for other purposes.'" Nebraska [Mr. MILLER] handled this bill the red charging $16 a day. Amend the title so as to read: "A bill to on a favorable report, substantially the Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Has the amend the act of August 7, 1946, so as to au­ same bill as. this, with a favorable re­ gentleman looked at their records.? I' thorize the making of loans for hospital fa­ port? happen to be a director of the Columbia cilities, to provide a basis for repayment to Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. That is Hospital and I attend those meetings. the Government by the Commissioners o! not so. It never came before the House. the District of Columbia, and for other pur­ They are not running in the red and I poses." Mr. McCORMACK. The bill was re­ know the other hospitals are not running ported out. in the red, either. Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. C'hairman, Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. There is · The CHAIRMAN. If there are no first I want to give assurance that this not one word of debate in the legislative further requests for time, the Clerk will amendment has been very carefully procedure. read the bill for amendment. drawn. It was drafted by the legislative Mr. McCORMACK. I am asking the The Clerk read as fallows: counsel. gentleman, Was not the bill reported · Be it enacted, etc., That the first section When I was in the well a few moments out? of the act entitled "An act to provide for the ago I called your attention to the fact Mr. McMILLAN. Yes. establishment of a modern, adequate, a,nd that the bill as it was reported from the Mr. McCORMACK. Did not the gen­ efficient hospital center in the District of committee authorizes grants of Federal tleman from Nebraska handle it from Columbia," approved August 7, 1946, . is money to private hospitals.· I told you the committee? amended by striking out "acquire land and that I would offer an amendment which construct buildings" and inserting in lieu would be sponsored by myself and the Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Yes, and thereof· "acquire land, construct buildings, the District Commissioners were opposed and make grants to private agencies." gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. MILLER], to it, but it never came up on the :floor which would authorize the Federal Gov­ of the House. Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, I ernment to lend to the people of the Dis­ Mr. McCORMACK. The gentleman offer an amendment. trict of Columbia or to their private would not handle a bill unless he was The Clerk read as follows: hospitals an amount of money to carry favorable to it, would he? Amendment offered by Mr. ABERNETHY: out the objectives of the bill. The lend­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. '!'he gen­ Strike out all after the enacting clause and ing provision is a very liberal one. It tleman knows it did not come up on the insert the following: "That the first section provides that the money, which would of the act entitled 'An act to provide for the :floor of the House. establishment of a modern, adequate, and be collected from your people, will be Mr. McCORMACK. 't'h.e gentleman efficient hospital center in the District of loaned to them without interest over a bandied it? Columbia,' approved August 7, 1946, is period of 25 long years . . It means that Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Yes. amended by striking out 'acquire land and the money would be paid back at the 1951 CONGRESSIONALI RECORD-HOUSE 9229 rate of only about $500,000 a year, may­ ment is adopted by the Committee of the fered by the gentleman from New York, be $600,000 a year. I do not know of Whole? while it is offered to the substitute, and anything any more liberal than such a The CHAIRMAN. It could not be if the substitute is defeated, which I provision unless it be a direct grant as amended after it is adopted. hope it will be, it will be otiered to the the bill provides. If the people of my Mr. KLEIN. Then, Mr. Chairman, I bill, would relate to future hospitals, of State, whose hospital facilities are far offer an amendment. course within the $35,000,000. It would inferior to those in the District of Co­ The Clerk read as follows: not be for all time. I want to state that lumbia could get a loan from the Federal Amendment offered by Mr. KLEIN to the frankly to the committee. This relates Government on terms like that, they amendment offered by Mr. ABERNETHY: After to the remainfler of about $11,500,000 would jump at it, and your people would, the word "a3encies" insert the words "either of an original $35,000,000 authorization. too. now or in the future." I think the amendment of my friend Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Chairman, will the Mr. KLEIN. As the proposed bill without some tangible evidence of a· real gentleman' yield? reads at the present time, and I assume effort in existence to establish some Mr. ABERNETHY. I yield to the gen­ the amendment of the gentleman from other hospital, should not be adopted. tleman from New York. Mississippi reads the same way, it says: That someone told my friend from New York about a group of doctors that Mr. KLEIN. I did not hear the gen­ As used in this act the term "private agen­ tleman's amendment read, but I assume cies" shall mean any nonprofit private agen­ might propose it is so vague and so un­ you used the same language as in the cies operating hospital facil1ties in the Dis­ certain that we should confine the bill bill which would, unintentionally, I be­ trict of Columbia. to the intended purpose, as relating to hospitals already operating. Of course, lieve, limit the aid to those nonprofit Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ organizations which are presently op- . these hospitals have operated for many man, will the gentleman yield? decades in the District of Columbia. erating. Mr. KLEIN. I yield. Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. Mr. ABERNETHY. My amendment Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I see Chairman, will the gentleman yield? limits the lo·an to identically the same nothing wrong with the · gentleman's Mr. McCORMACK. I yield. hospitals that would be entitled to re­ amendment if we are going to make it Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. May ceive grants· under the bill. possible to have loans without interest. I as!t the gentlem£<,n from Massachu­ Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Chairman, I have an .It gives the District some advantages setts. if eithe1 one of these amendmer:.ts amendment which would simply extend over our towns at home, but, as some­ is adopted it will probably mean no leg­ this to any nonproqt organization which one has said, we are in a little different islatioa? may be formed or may be operating or position here. This does make a loan, Mr. McCORMACK. Exactly, .. in the process of being formed at the not a grant. which is paid back by the Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. present time. institutions that are able to pay it back. Then there will be a lack of hospital Mr. ABERNETHY. What you want to Mr. KLEIN. I might say to the gen­ fa~ilities in the city? do is what has been going on for 5 or 6 tleman I have discussed this with both M;. McCO.t-:MACK. Exactly. years. We started out with a hospital the ranking minority member and the M'r. MP-RTIN of Massachusetts. Un­ center and then we increased that by chairman of the committee, and they der those conditio'ns I certainly hope bringing in all the existing private hos­ have indicated they will accept it. the amendments will be defeated. pitals, and now what you want to do is Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, Mr. McCORMACK. I thank the gen­ to take a third step and bring in those to will the gentleman yield? tleman very much. be hereafter established. Mr. KLEIN. I yield to the gentleman There is a lot said about the Hill­ Mr. KLEIN. No, it is not. All I want from Mississippi. Burton Act. The District of Columbia to do, and I am sure the gentleman Mr. ABERNETHY. I assume the gen­ occupies an entirely different position would not have any objection because tleman is looking into the future and has than States and Territories. The for­ the committee would have no objection in mind some agency that might be mula under which the allocations are to a similar amendment to the pending formed that would participate. Can the made, as we know, not only includes bill, is instead of using the words here, gentleman tell us what agency might be population but is weighted heavily by "as used in this act the term 'Private formed to participate in this? the per capita income of the State or agency' shall mean any nonprofit pri­ Mr. KLEIN. The reason for my offer­ Territory. vate agency operating hospital facilities ing this amendment is that I have spoken The District has limited boundaries in the District of Columbia" my amend­ to a Member of the House who told me and is adversely affected. The District's ment would say "either now or in the fu­ that there is a group of doctors at the allocation is based on its population of ture" operating hospital facilities. By present time who are in the process of 802,000 legal residents, while the actual that I mean if a nonprofit group were to farming a group to build a nonprofit hos­ population ot •the metropolitan area is be farmed here. pital here in the District. 1,464,000. Mr. ABERNETHY. They want the Mr. ABERNETHY. I see. If another In nearby Virginia or Maryland they Government to let them have the loan? cannot provide themselves with the nec­ nonprofit group were to be farmed here, Mr. KLEIN. No; they simply felt that you would want them to be cut in on it. essary hospital facilities. The needs of it might be possible for the language of these communities must, to a great ex­ Mr. KLEIN. Exactly. Would the this bill to be interpreted in such a way gentleman have any objection to that? t nt, be met by the District of Columbia as to say that it applies only to those hospitals. Mr. ABERNETHY. I think we might nonprofit agencies which were in exist­ For example, in a report published in ·as well include those and get them all in ence at the time of the passage of this 1950 by the Montgomery County Hospital now, because I imagine a number of them bill. Therefore, they want to make sure Facilities Advisory Committee it is re­ would be persuaded to organize in the they will be brought in under it. ported that while the county has three next few days alter this bill passes, on Mr. ABERNETHY. There are some fine hospitals, with a total beu cap~city the presumption that they too ·can come doctors that have spoken to the gentle­ of 455, the hospitals of the District of to Congress and get some free money. man that want to form a hospital and Columbia provide the greater portion of I do not think there is any question the gentleman wants to get them in? th~ total hospitalization required by the about that. I think the amendment is Mr. KLEIN. They would have to com­ people of that county. That same con­ aM right. We. might as well include all ply with the same provisions as would dition applies in all territories adjacent future private hospitals if we are to in- any other organization. to the District of Columbia which might . elude any. Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, I be termed "Metro:rolitan Washington." Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Chairman, a parlia­ rise in opposition to the amendment. So that extra $'500,000 is not inCluded. . mentary inquiry. Mr. Chairman, I am very sorry to On the question of income, a great The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will take a position that differs from that deal of income is lost by reason of the state it. · of my distinguished friend from New fact that so many persons pay their in­ Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Chairman, I have a. York, whom I admire very much. How­ come taxes elsewhere, as the distin­ similar amendment. Now, what would ever, the purpose of this bill relates to guished gentleman from Indiana [Mr. be my position if the gentleman's amend- existing hospitals. The amendment of- HALLECK] so ably stated earlier in debate. XCVII-581 9230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .JULY 31 When drives are made for funds, my of Brig. Gen. David J. Crawford affords the a false charge of sedition. The principal contributions in the :main are given to best possible means of protecting the high attorney, the Government attorney, who standards required of an Army officer which drives in my own city and my own State. the general so patently violated. There was carried on the proceedings was one Wil­ While I do not say this to advertise it, nothing criminal in the general's conduct. liam Power Maloney, condemned several I made a contribution to the Children's So far as can be determined there was noth­ times by the Federal courts, including Hospital fund and to others here within ing that can even properly be called venal. the United States Supreme Court, in fact my means, but most of my contributions One may, indeed, readily accept his own the condemnation in effect was that he go to drives that are made in Boston assertion that he was uninfluenced by the was a pettifogging shyster. Ee was and Greater Boston and the State of favors he received from a contractor doing finally arrested here in Washington for business with the tank-automotive center Massachusetts. I am sure the same he commanded. Secretary Pace declared assault and battery on a Chinaman who thing applies to all of you here. You that there was no evidence of contractual was here I understood as a representative contribute to the drives in your home irregularities in General Crawford's han­ of his government. So you can see what ·community more than you might here dling of some $6,000,000,000 of defense orders the Post was then doing-it was by its in the District of Columbia. There are and described his work in organizing and own later admission engaged through countless tens of thousands of Federal developing the center as outstanding. trickery and fraud in attempting to employees who make their contributions Judgment of the general must be tempered, silence those who were morP. opposed to therefore, with regret tha'.t so promising a back home and not here in the District. career has ·been wrecked on the shoals of the New Deal and communisPl. It has Furthermore, there are countless thou­ indiscretion and impropriety. had a leftist red tinge for at least the sands of Federal employees who pay General Crawford has now denied making last 10 years. If there ever was any fel­ their income taxes elsewhere and be­ the statement that he did nothing anybody low here in Washington accused o:!' com­ cause of that the District of Columbia, else wouldn't have done. He is entitled to munism, who was not def ended by the so far as income is ·concerned, is ad­ the benefit of the doubt. This reservation · Washington Post, the Eugene Meyer versely affected. certainly does not apply, however, to the paper; I do not know when or who it was. Also, in connection with· drives for morally obtuse comment of Representative CLARE HOFFMAN, who said that the general I do not recall any such instance. The funus, I want to point out there is very was just doing what most of them do and Washington Post criticized, abused, and lit::e manufacturing in the city of Wash­ got caught. It would be a lamentable state lied about the Dies committee which was ington and you know that in drives for of affairs indeed if the Congressman were attempting to expose communism. The funds for hospitals and for the Red Cross right in assuming that most officers do what Post finally apologized for the persecu­ and so on and other community funds, General Crawford did. tion of those thirty-odd people and said the business establishments in the com­ Most officers, we are confident, respect the that it had no case and said in effect its munities, particularly the manufacturing standard that those who serve the United States can no more properly receive special alleged charge was a dirty, crooked deal. establishments,· especially in relation to favors than they can grant them. General Their man who carried out the fraud was drives for new hospitals, make very large Crawford's disregard of this standard is the one Dillard Stokes, who went under an ·contributions because in case of injury more surprising in that he is a West Point.er. assumed name. the employees of the manufacturing es­ The great prestige of that institution has In this editorial referring to General tablishments will receive the benefit of been earned by almost uniform adherence Crawford, they say that the general said such new h'ospitals. to an exacting code of conduct-and by "he did nothing anyuody else wouldn't Of course, you and I know there are tough treatment of defections when they oc­ cur. Ethical standards are most in danger hav~ done." I understood the general to very few manufacturing establishments when responsible officials tend to express say just about what he is quoted as say­ in the District of Columbia. indifference to their breach. Secretary . ing. He now denies that is what he said. Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I feel the Pace's handling of the Crawford case sug­ But let it ride. Now, I attended the bill as reported out of committee, and gests that, in the Army at least, the concept hearing. He said he had ' some trees, well considered by the committee and by of an officer and a gentleman remains un­ though'~ they were white birch-turned the Dis~rict Commissioners, should be changed. out to be wild cherry-which he picked passed by the House, and I hope it will So I thought I should make a further up in Michigan and hauled down to be passed. inquiry about the bill. I assume, of Maryland on an Army truck. Of course, I C:.esire to emphasize strongly that course, that this bill provides for hos­ that was wrong. - He accepted an oak this bill is applicable to the peculiar con­ pitalization of the people of the District keel, worth about $50, from some firm ditions that exist in the District of Co­ of Columbia, as well as others? who had business with the Government. lumbia and has no application, and Mr. O'HARA. That is true. Of course that was wrong. Then he would not be applied, to any other place Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. And it came down to the Congressional Hotel in our country. The unusual conditions applies to mental cases? in Washington and while here on Gov­ existing in the Capital City of our coun­ Mr. O'HARA. I would say "Yes." try justifies the exception provided for ernment businC;F;S accepted the hospital­ in the pending bill. Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. If that. ity or' some friend who I think also had is true, then I think we shoµld have some business with the Government. At the The CHAIRMAN. The time of the increased facilities here in the District of gentleman from..,Massachus~tts has ex­ same time he drew a subsistence allow­ Columbia, especially to take care of those ance from the Government. pired. who are responsible for the editorial Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. Mr. opinion expressed so often by the Wash­ Nov:, the general had done a remark­ Chairman·, I move to strike out the last ington Post, and who seem so often to able job at Wayne.· I made comment word. _ · have a mental quirk which is somewhat. about that. The Post did not get the (Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan asked and difficult for Midwest Americans to un­ comment quite right. The Post says was given permission to revise and ex­ derstand. "this reserYation certainly does not ap­ tend his remarks and to proceed for I recall-I have a very, very vivid rec­ ply, however"-tha ·~ is, the general's ex­ an additional 11h minutes.) ollection of the time some years ago­ pression that most fellows are doing it­ Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. Mr. w hen the Washington Post fathered the "this reservathn does not apply, how­ Chairman, I am always reluctant to vote persecution by subterfuge and fraud of ever, to the morally obtuse comment of for appropriations for the District to be some thirty-odd citizens of the United paid by the people of the States unless 1 P..epresentative CLARE HOFFMAN, who said States. The Post caused them to be that the general was doing what most they are for a Federal as distinguished brought here from all over the country­ of. them did but got caught." What I from a local activity and unless I think some of them from as far away as 3,000 the expenditures are necessary. I ex­ or more miles. In that group there were said was that many of them did it. If pect to vote against this bill. I walked maybe four or five bad actors-people I had time I could show you thousands out in the lobby just a few moments ago who had been convicted of cri·minal of­ of Federal employees whc do just exactly and I happened to pick up this morning's fenses. The rest were patriotic citizens what the general did with ref.erence to Washington Post. In it I found an edi­ with some sort of hobby or prejudice his entertainment at the Congressional torial which.I will read: against one group or another. Hotel. They get a subsistence allowance OFFICER STANDARDS The Post had them all brought down and take it even when they are being 'l'riE! prompt disciplinary aptic;m announced here. I think it was 4 years that they ·entertained. They are just that much to ~by Army Secretary Frank Pace in the case persecut~d them here in Washington on the good when someone else pays the 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9231 bill. For example, Congressmen can get other body from Virginia if you wish to period of 25 years that would be ap­ a subsistence allowance of $9 a day, as save tax dollars and cut down unethical proximately $500,000 a year. That is can some Federal employees, or we can spending. all. put in our actual expenses and be repaid. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the Mr. WERDEL. I say again that the Assuming, when I went to Detroit as a gentleman from Michigan has expired. problem in my mind and in that of member of that committee, I went to Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Chairman, I ask many other Members is that these pri­ the Book-Cadillac Hotel and there hap­ unanimous consent to change the word­ vate organizations that have these hos­ pened to be a friend of mine at the desk ing of the amendment which I offered, pitals are in a peculiar area where peo­ and he just put on my bill "Compliments to strike out "line 21" and make it ple are transient; they do not support of the hotel," and instead of paying my · "line 4." those organizations like they do in other bill I used that slip and put the hotel The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection parts of the country. Do they repre­ bill into my expense bill to the com­ to the request of the gentleman from sent the only hospital facilities we have mittee and it was paid and not being New York? in the District? Do we have any Gov­ out anything I took the money. Now, Mr. ABERNETHY. Reserving the ernment agency that will build hos­ that would be stealing or fraudulently right to object-- pitals? accepting money to which I was not en­ Mr. KLEIN. That simply conforms to Mr. ABERNETHY. No; I beg the titled. I do not condone what the gen­ your ·amendment. The lines are differ­ gentleman's pardon; they do not repre­ eral did. What I was trying to do was ent from what they are in the bill. It sent the only hospital facilities we have to point out that it is customary for alto­ was 21 in the proposed bill but it hap­ in the District of Columbia by any man­ gether too many Federal ofilcials to pad pens to be line 4 in your amendment. ner of means; this is a minority group their expense account and to accept The CHAI3.MAN. Without objection, of hospitals. funds to which they are not entitled, it is so ordered. · Mr. WERDEL. The real point to being the old tr:weling man's "swindle There was no objection. which I wish the gentleman to reply is: sheet," as it was called. We have all Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Chair­ Have the hospitals expressed the inten­ heard about that. I am wondering if man, I should like to see if we can reach tion to use the gentleman's amendment those who are so bitter against the gen­ an agreement on closing debate on this to provide the expanded facilities that eral have not sometimes done just that amendment. we all admit are needed? very thing. Mind you, I am not con­ \I ask unanimous consent that all de­ Mr. ABERNETHY. There is no obli­ doning what he did. He has paid, will bate on the pending amendment and all gation on the part of the hospitals in pay a bitter price, and while he pays amendments thereto close in 15 minutes, either instance in these bills; there is many higher-ups will escape detection the last 5 to be reserved to the com­ no obligation whatsoever on the part of and punishment. The President and the mittee. the hospital to do anything except to Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, went The CHAffiMAN. Is there objection pg,y for half of it themselves. They do up to Detroit the same week, to cele­ to the request of the gentleman from that under either bill. There will be no brate the two hundred and fiftieth anni­ Virginia? ... obligation on the part of the hospital to versary of Detroit. That was all right. . There was no objection. do anything other than that if the com­ Did they travel at Goverr..ment expense? The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman mittee bill passes, and there will be no Of course they did. Was it a Govern­ from California [Mr. WERDEL] is recog­ obligation on the part of the hospital to ment job they were on? No. They were nized. pay the whole sum if either bill passes. up there as guests of Detroit-proper? Mr. WERDEL. Mr. Chairman, I take Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, Sure. Accepting hospitality of Detroit-­ this time merely to ask the gentleman will the gentleman yield? again quite proper. But, incidentally, · from Mississippi a question. The Mr. WERDEL. I yield to the gentle-. the President while on this Detroit trip, amendment that he has offered is at­ man from Massachusetts. , travel expenses paid by the United tractive to a lot of Members, but the Mr. McCORMACK. May I call atten­ States, got in a few licks for his political problem that we have is that there are tion to the fact that the weakness of the friends, Senator MoonY and Governor not enough hospital facilities in the Dis­ argument of my friend from Mississippi is that under the present hospital-center Williams, both up for reelection in 1952. trict; there is no Government agency or Is anybody kicking about it? Not that Government hospital district that can bill this very formula except in general I have heard. And what about that language exists: The District pays 30 t.uild the hospitals or will build them. percent or 50 percent. This bill under across-the-country nonpolitical trip The question in my mind if the gentle­ when the President was up for reelec- man's amenument should pass limiting consideration specifies definitely how tion? · they pay it back. · our Government assistance merely to The amendment offered by the gentle­ I repeat, the general should not have loans is whether th~ existing hospitals done what he did. He should not have man from Mississippi would be appli­ have expressed an opinion or a state­ cable to these hospitals-the remaining hauled those trees down to his· Maryland ment of any kind that they will accept home in an Army truck. He should not $1~,000,000. A different situation exists the loan and expand their facilities. with reference to these hospitals than have taken that boat keel. He should Mr. ABERNETHY. The loan is not not have let somebody pay his expenses does with reference to the three hos­ made to the hospital; in a sense it is pitals that constitute the hospital center and at the same time accept Govern­ given to the hospital, but it is to be paid ment funds to reimburse himself for an now. All we are doing in this bill is to back by the people of the District of provide in substance the same contribu­ item someone else bought. There is al­ Columbia. As the bill now reads the together too much spending of tax dol­ tion in respect to the remaining $12,- people of the District of Columbia will 000,000 as has already been made in the lars on trips for items that are not prop­ be required through taxes to be levied erly chargeable to the Government. case of the three hospitals. on them to pay back 30 percent of the Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, will the Why should we let General Vaughan and amount. They have already recognized gentleman yield? how many others, who are just profiting that the District has its responsibility, Mr. WERDEL. I yield. at Government expense, get away with and they have gone so far as to say that Mr. O'HARA. And which are getting it? Do not misunderstand me. One of we will pay you 30 percent of it; they $23,000,000 of the fund. the newspapers said, "HOFFMAN defends have agreed to do that. That brings up Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, Crawford." I did not. I am not de­ the question: Is there any duty or re­ will the gentleman yield? fending him for what he did. I am just sponsibility on the National Govern­ calling attention to the fact that there Mr. WERDEL. I yield. ment to give them the other 70 percent Mr. ABERNETHY. There is a good is altogether too much of that petty, and in addition to the grants that have here­ reason for what the gentleman has just sometimes not so petty, grafting by om­ tofore been made to the hospitals in the said with regard to the distinction be­ cials, some of whom are very, very high District of Columbia? tween the two groups of hospitals-the in ofilcial position, and no complaint is There is about U2,000,000 that would private hospitals and the public hospi­ made about it. What about the recent be available. T!ley agreed to pay back tals; there is good reason for it. The trip of Secretary of Labor Tobin abroad 30 percent of it. Our amendment sim­ grant under the hospital center is given and on which he is reported to have ,ply provides that they shall pay it all to public hospitals; they are public hos­ taken his wife? Page a Member of the back, and if they paid it back over a pitals that will be operated as a Federal 9232 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 31 institution-as a hospital center. There The full committee by a one-vote mar­ ther reading be dispensed with, and the is where the difference is. gin reported the bill out on May 6, 1948. gentleman had a right to object. Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. That is The gentleman who is now speaking did Mr. SMITH of Virginia. And I did not right. not· support the bill but as chairman of object. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog­ the committee I was delegated to make Mr. ABERNETHY. I know the gen­ nizes the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. .the report. I did not support the orig­ tleman did not object. MILLER]. inal hospital bill, nor did I support the · Mr. SMITH of Virginia. No; and I do Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ 1948 bill except to report same. not yield further because my time is lim­ man, there seems to be some difference Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, ited. I did not object, no; I wanted it to of opinion relative to what happens to will the gentleman yield? be in just exactly the position that it is these three hospitals. I think it should Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to in. Here comes a brand new bill offered be made clear that the three hospitals the gentleman from Massachusetts. to you gentlemen that, so far as I know, which will go into the center, if and when Mr. McCORMACK. The gentleman and I repeat my statement, has never it is formed, are the Emergency, Gar­ has ref erred twice to the Providence Hos­ been seen or read by anybody but the field, and Episcopal hospitals. They are pital being a fine Catholic hospital. But gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. ABER­ going into the hospital center. When there is a fine Methodist hospital to be NETHY] and the gentleman from Nebras­ they go in they give up all of their prop­ included also. ka [Mr. MILLER]. Now, those gentle­ erty to the District of Columbia. When Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I make this men are opposed to the bill. I see a good they go to the Hospital Center they be­ statement without any passion, and I deal of merit in that position, coming as come public institutions run as Federal hope I will not be misunderstood: I do they do from distant points, and I do not institutions in the District of Columbia. not think it is wise for an Episcopalian, blame them for being opposed to tt. So these three hospitals, Emergency, Methodist, or Catholic hospital to dig That is their privilege and that is their Garfield, and Episcopal, when they go into the pockets of the taxpayers of the right, but the fact is that this is a move - into the hospital center will lose their people of the Nation and say, "Here, we to kill the bill. If you want to kill the identity and their property worth mil­ want some money to build a hospital." bill, let us vote down this amendment lions of dollars is given over to the Dis~ What does it do to their drives for that none of you know what is in it, and trict of Columbia. The other hospitals money? The Children's Hospital has I do not know what is in it, except that that want to go in, that we are provid­ raised $1,500,000 by public subscription~. verbal explanation. If you want to vote ing the money for, are Providence, Cas­ Do you think that would go on, with pul5- down the bill, vote down the amend­ ualty, Sibley, Homeopathic, perhaps Co­ lic subscriptions, if these organizations ment, and then if you want to vote down lumbia, not the Doctors Hospital be­ can go to the taxpayers instead and get the bill, vote it down, and let us approach cause they say they make a little money. money? Of course they would not. it in the direct way. We talk about these hospitals being Why do you not do the sensible thing Here is the situation that I am afraid nonprofit hospitals. Let me say to you, about this. If you do this for the District we so of ten do not realize here in the all you need to do is to look at their of ·Columbia you should do it for every House of Representatives. That the financial statements to see whether they State in the Union, and that is the an­ District of Columbia is entirely a differ­ are nonprofit or not. Of course, they swer. The principle is wrong. ent proposition from the rest of the use their funds for a good thing, and I Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Chairman, will coun~ry. This is a Federal city. This am for them. But they charge $16 for the gentleman yield? is a city where it is the responsibility of every patient-day you arc in those hos­ · Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I yield to the Congress to see that there are the pitals on the average. They are making the gentleman from Michigan, proper facilities here not only for the· some money. These hospitals have Mr. CRAWFORD. In my home town residents, but for the Government em­ agreed to give back 50 percent and all we have had, as I recall, three hospital ployees and for the thousands and thou­ we are trying to do in this bill is to say drives running over the past 5 years sands of visitors that come here. Now, to the District of Columbia and the peo­ where private individuals have paid their you say the Federal Government ought ple of the District of Columbia, "You subscriptions. · Just a few weeks ago we not to pay for it. Why, my friends, tax yourselves to pay back this loan with­ opened a great Lutheran hospital, paid these hospitals which have been built out interest." for by private funds. I agree with the voluntarily, which are run from charita­ We have not been stingy with the Dis­ gentleman that the religious organiza­ ble instincts and do the charitable work trict of Columbia because 70 percent of tions should not come to the Federal of hospitals in this city, do it not for the funds, amounting to many millions, Government to raise funds to build hos­ the residents of the District of Colum­ went into Georgetown and George Wash­ pitals. bia alone; they do it for your constitu­ ington University hospitals, 70 percent Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. ·n was ents and mine. You can look in these Federal money taken from the taxpay­ wrong in principle. galleries now or any day you want to, ers. We gave every penny to the Freed­ Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Chair­ you can walk out into these corridors men's Hospital, a fine Negro hospital. man, I rise in opposition to the Miller­ any day you want to, and you will see It is worthy, it is justified. All we are Abernethy amendment to this bill. hundreds and maybe thousands of your asking is that the hospitals that come in That is a rather shrewd move and a constituents. and my constituents who under this bill, and there is one hospital good move for those who are in opposi­ come here as visitors and as tourists. that is ready to come in, put up their tion to this legislation. It confuses the They fall down and break a leg; they get 50 percent. They are going to put up situation thoroughly. It presents to you into an automobile accident, and these their money and all we are asking is that a bill that has never been considered by charitable hospitals, whether they are the District put up its funds and pay a committee, has never been even read religious or nonreligious, take care of back 50 percent in 25 years. to you, and as far as I know, nobody them, and if they cannot pay the bill it Mr. Chairman, I want to reply to a ever read it but the gentleman from is charged up to the general fund. Now, statement made by the majority leader. Mississippi [Mr. ABERNETHY] and the these hospitals are old hospitals. They On April 28, 1948, we had hearings in gentleman from Nebraska EMr. MILLER]. have been in ex istence ~ some of them, for committee. May I say to the majority Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, 30 or 40 years. Many of them are not leader that we had the bill before my will the gentleman yield? fit for people to be in because of the committee and while I did report the bill Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I yield to the danger of fire and other hazards. Some­ out, the committee was divided and I gentleman from Mississippi. thing has to be done about it. We are said this, after discussion with the gen­ Mr. ABERNETHY. Now, I think the presented with a practical proposition tleman from North Carolina EMr. gentleman wants to be fair. here. This committee has given this DEANE], and the chairman: Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I do. matter the most serious consideration. Sup pose we report out the three bills favor­ Mr. ABERNETHY. Let me say this. We have considered it over the years. ably, including the hospit al bill, but no ac­ The gentleman directed his remarks to The District Committee comes in here tion on the hospital bill, and leave it up t o me. The amendment was being read and says to you that this iJ;l our judg­ t h e full committee to decide. and I asked unanimous consent that fur- ment is the thing to do and the best CONGRESSlONAL RECO~D-HOUSE .9233 thing to do. We do hope that this House printed in the RECORD at this point, and The CHAIRMAN. The question is on will have sufficient confidence in the that it be open to amendment at any the amendment offered by the gentle­ District Committee to go along with us point. man from New York [Mr. KLEINJ. on this proposition. The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection The amendment was rejected. Mr. McMILLAN. Mr. Chairman, will to the request of the gentleman from Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ the gc.atleman yield? Minnesota? man, I offer an amendment. Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I yield. There was no objection. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. McMILLAN. I hope the gentle­ Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Chairman, I offer Amendment offered by Mr. MILLER of Ne­ man will also agree with me that the. an amendment. braska: Beginning on page 2, line 24, strike newspapers· of Washington should give The Clerk read as follows: out everything down through page 3, line 3, us some credit if we pass this bill for Amendment offered by Mr. KLEIN: On and insert the following: "is amended to doing something for the District of page 2, line 21, after the word "agencies", read as follows: 'Section 5. The total amount Columbia. insert the words "either now or in the expended by the Federal Works Administra­ Mr. SMITH of Virginia. A vain hope. future." tor under this act shall be repaid to the The CHAIRMAN. All time on this Government by the Commissioners of the Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Chairman, I am not District of Columbia within 25 years without amendment has expired. going to take much of the time of the interest'." The question is on the amendment of­ Committee because this is exactly the fered by the gentleman from New York same amendment as I offered previously. Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. [Mr. KLEIN] to the amendment offered I am very sorry the gentleman from Chairman, since the committee has tak­ by the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Massachusetts took occasion to object en the action it has in admitting these ABERNETHY]. . to it. As he knows, I discussed this institutions, it seems to me only fair The amendment to the amendment amendment with both sides and with that my colleagues should know the was rejected. the gentleman himself, because he is the amendment here s!mply requires the The CHAIRMAN. The question is author of this bill. I did not think there Commissioners to pay back the funds on the amendment offered by the gen­ was any objection to it. I venture to say over a period of 25 years without inter­ tleman from Mississippi [Mr. ABER­ that neither did he at that time. est. NETHYl. Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, I point that out because under the The question was taken: and on a will the gentleman yield? Hill-Burton Act tl~ey are getting funds division (demanded by Mr. MILLER of Mr. KLEIN. I yield to the gentleman now; $1,350,000 came to the District un­ Nebraska) there were-ayes 19, noes 62. from Massachusetts. der the Hill-Burton bill. More moneys So the amendment was rejected. Mr. McCORMACK. The gentleman will be coming. I refer to the metropoli­ The Clerk read as follows: will agree that I did not say I would ac­ tan area and I call your attention to the SEC. 2. The first section of such act of cept it. Is not that true, in all frank­ figures in Maryland. Maryland, with a August 7, 1946, is further amended by add­ ness, now? population of 2,343,000 has received $4,- ing at the end thereof the following new Mr. KLEIN. In all fairness, that is 177,000 under the Hill-Burton bill. Vir­ subsection: true, but neither did the gentleman say ginia, that is also a part of the metro­ "(c) To make grants to private agencies politan area, with a population of three in cash, or in land or other property (which he was objecting to it. the Administrator is hereby authorized to Mr. McCORMACK. That is true. and one-third millions received $10,- acquire for such purpose by purchase, con­ Mr. KLEIN. The gentleman and I 670,000. So that the total amount is a demnation, or otherwise) upon such terms have had very, very few differences. I pa:rt of the funds received in the metro­ and in such amounts or of such value as am very sorry that .he takes this posi­ politan area. It does seem to me we are the Administrator may deem to be in the establishing a dangerous policy for the public interest to enable such private agen­ tion, because I feel if we had been cog­ nizant of this in the committee, this District of Columbia. cies to make surveys and investigations, to I say this with a great deal of reflec­ plan, design, construct, remodel, relocate, provision would have been in the bill rebuild, renovate, extend, equip, furnish, or and no one would have objected. tion, that if you do this for the District repair hospital facilities in the District of Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Chairman, of Columbia, then you should do it for Columbia: Provided, That in no event shall will the gentleman yield? the States throughout the Nation. Then the amount or value of the grant exceed 50 you will be on the road toward making percent of the value of the hospital plant Mr. KLEIN. I yield to the gentleman these :fine institutions that have gone of a private agency as improved with the from Mississippi. out and gotten public subscriptions and aid of such grant: Provided further, That, Mr. ABERNETHY. In view of the been supported by the community no except in the case of the construction and situation and the action just taken by longer desirous of raising funds. They equipment of a new hospital, no such grant the committee, I will support the gen­ will no longer have the desire or the ne­ shall be made to any private agency unless tleman's amendment. My reason for such private agency shall obligate itself to cessity, if I may say, of going out and pay at least 50 percent of the cost of any that is that we started this program with asking the people of the community to project for which such grant is made. As a hospital center and a hospital center support the hospital or other institu­ used in this act the term 'private agencies' only. Then the private hospitals at­ tions, because they know then they may shall mean any nonprofit private agencies tempted to come in under the bill, and be able to come to the Treasurer and operating hospital faciliti'es in the District they failed. It appears now that they put their hands into the tax pocket of of Columbia." are going to succeed. I am quite sure the people. Here in Congress we are SEC. 3. The fifth section of such act of that in a year or two if there are other August 7, 1946, ls amended by striking from going to support that. That is what the first sentence thereof the words "at such private hospitals that do not get in under you are doing. times and in such amounts, without inter­ the bill, we will have another bill here to . I do not want to hear any more econ­ es';, as the Congress shall hereafter deter­ bring them in. I think we might as well omy cries on my side of the House, when mine", and by inserting in lieu thereof "at include all future private hospitals and they are setting up a new policy here the annual rate, without interest of 3 per­ let the gentleman and his friends come cent of such 30 percent." which permits religious organizations to in. I think it is only fair that they do. come to the Federal Treasurer for hand­ SEC. 4. The title of such act of August 7, Mr. KLEIN. It is particularly fair be­ 1948, is am~nded to read as follows: An act outs. It is one of those things that you to provide for the establishment of a mod­ cause this is not in the too distant fu­ ture. As I understand it, this group is are starting which is entirely new. It ern, adequate, and efficient hospital center is a change in policy. Under the amend­ in the District of Columbia, to authorize the presently about to be formed and these making of grants for hospital facilities to doctors have already formed this asso­ ment it simply requires, as we would do private agencies in the District of ColUmbia, ciation, the purpose of which will be to in our own towns and counties and cities,. to provide a basis for repayment to the Gov­ come in under this' plan. I insist that at home, to say to the city commission­ ernment by the Commissioners of the Dis­ it is merely an oversight, and that if it ers; or the county officials, "This money trict of Columbia, and for other purposes." had ·been thought of in committee, it · has to be paid back," except that we Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Chairman, I ask would be in the bill now. I wish the are a little more liberal here. We say, unanimous consent that the remainder gentleman from Massachusetts would "You do not have to pay any interest of the bill be considered as read and be withdraw his objection. over 25 years." CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 31 We say, "You do· not have to pay any with the recomrriendatfon that the bill The SPEAKER. T!Je·gentleman quali­ interest." do pass. fies. Mr. MORANO. Mr . .· Chairman, a The motion was agreed to. The Clerk will report the motion to point of order. I understood we voted Accordingly the Committee rose; and recommit. a minute ago. to close debate on all the Speaker having resumed the chair, The Clerk read as follows: amendments. Mr. DEMPSEY, Chairman of the Commit­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska moves to recommit The CHAIRMAN. That applied to the tee of the Whole House on the State of the bill (H. R: 2094) to the Committee on the pending amendment and amendments the Union, reported that that Commit­ Di- ·.,..i-t of Columbia with instructions to thereto. tee, having had unGer consideration the report the same back forthwith, with the _ Mr. MORANO. I thought we closed bill CH. R. 2094) to amend the act of following amendment: Strike out all after debate on the bill and only permitted the enacting clause and insert the following: August 7, 1946, so as to authorize the "That the first section of t:ie act entitled 'An amendments. making of grants for hospital facilities, act to provide for the establishment of a The CHAIRMA!'· The motion was to to provide a basis for repayment to the modern, adeqt:.ate, L.nd efficient hospital cen­ close debate on the pending amendment. Government by the Commissioners of ter in tb) District of Columbia,' approved Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. The Dis­ the District of Columbia, and for other · August 7, 1946, is amended by striking out trict has a surplus of over $2,000,000. purposes, directed him to report the 'acquire land and construct buildings' and Of course, the Federal Government has same back to the House with the recom­ jnserting in lieu thereof 'acquire land, con­ gone into helpins people all over the mendation that the bill do pass. struct buildings, and make loans to private country-waterworks, sewage-disposal agencies.' The SPEAKER. The question is on "SEC. 2. The first section of such act of plants, libraries, and public construc­ ordering the previous question. August 7, 1946, is further amended by adding tion. It is becoming the habit for mu­ The previous question was ordered. at the end thereof the following new subsec­ nicipalities to get their foot into the CALL OF THE HOUSE tion: door of the Treasury. This is .another "'(c) to make loans to private agencies to foot in the door of the Treasury that is Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, I make enable such private agencies to make surveys going to permit private hospitals and the point of order that a quor~m is not and investigations, to plan, (;esign, construct, institutions all over the country to do the present. remodel, relocat;:!, rebuild, renovate, extend, same thing. If we adopt this for the Dis­ The SPEAKER (after counting). equip, furnish, or repair hosr~tal facilities Evidently there is no quorum present. in the District of Colum!:>ia. Each such loan trict of Coiumbia we should adopt it for made under ·this subsection shall be charged the Nation. Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I against the District of Columbia and shall be I think it is a bad policy, and I pffered move a call of the House. repaid in full to the Federal Governinent by the amendment with the hope that the A call of the House was ordered. the Commissioners of the District of Colum­ House might adopt it in order to say to The Clerk called the roll, and the fol­ bia, in equal annu&l installments, without the District population and the District lowing Members failed to answer to their interest over a period of not more than 25 Commissioners that these grants should names: years: Provided, That in no event shall the be paid back over a period of 25 years. [Roll No. 1441 amount or ··alue of the loan exceed 50 per­ cent of the value of the hospital plant of a The CHAIRMAN. The time of the Armstro~ F•ernandez Pickett Bakewell FiEher Poage private agency as impro•-ed with the aid of gentleman from Nebraska has expired. · Baring Gamble Poulson such loan: Provided further, 'I'hat, except in Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, I Barrett Gillette Powell the case of the construction and equipment ask unanimous consent that all debate Bates, Mass. Golden Rabaut of a new hospital, no such loan shall be made on the bill and all amendments thereto Blatnic'k Gossett Ramsay to any private agency unless su-::h private Boggs, La. Hall, Redden agency shall obligate itself to pay at l~ast 50 close in 2 minutes. Bosone Edwin Arthur Regan The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection Breen Hand Rogers, Colo. percent of the cost of any project for which to the request of the gentleman from Brehm Hebert Saylor such loan is made. Massachusetts? Buckley Hedrick Scott, Hardie As used in this act, the term "private :i.gen­ Busbey Irving Scott, cies" shall mean any nonprofit private agen­ There was no objection. Camp Javits Hugh D:, Jr. cy operating hospital facilities in the District• Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, Case Kennedy Seri vner Cell er Kerr Sheppard of Columbia.' the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. Chatham· Kersten, Wis. Short "SEC. 3. The fifth section of such act of MILLER] has offered in tll.e form of an Chenoweth Kilburn Sikes August 7, 1946, is amended (1) by inserting amendment the same amendment, or Cooley Kilday Smith, Kans. '(except subsec. (c) of the first section)• substantially the same amendment, as Coudert Lyle Spence after 'act' the first time it appears therein Davis, Tenn. McDonough Taber and (2) by striking from the first sentence the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Dawson Machrowicz Teague ABERNETHY] offered in the nature of a Dingell Mack, Ill. Thomas thereof the words 'at such times and in such substitute. The Committee of the· Dollinger Morgan Vinson amounts, without interest, as the Con5ress Doyle Morton Vursell shall hereafter determine', and by inserting Whole voted on this same amendment a Durham Moulder Watts in lieu thereof 'at the annual rate, without few minutes ago and it defeated the sub­ Eberharter Murray, Tenn. Whitaker interest, Of 3 percent Of SUCh 30 percent.' stitute offered by the gentleman from Ellsworth Murray, Wis. Winstead "SEC. 4. The title of such act of August 7, Elston O'Neill Wood, Ga. Mississippi [Mr. ABERNETHY]. Engle Perkins · 1946, is amended to reacl as follows: 'An act Might I emphasize-as strongly as pos­ to provide for the establishment of a mod­ sible, so there will be no misunderstand­ The SPEAKER. On this roll call 349 ern, adequate, and efficient hospital center ing in the minds of any of my colleagues Members have answered to their names; in the District of Columbia, to .authorize the or in the RECORD, that this situation is a quorum. making of loans for hospital facilities to By unanimous consent, further pro­ private agencies in the District of Columbia peculiar to the District of Columbia. It to provide a basis for repayment to the Gov­ has no application to any other part of ceedings under the call were di&pensed ernment by the Commissioners of the Dis­ the Nation. The fear about legislation with. trict or Columbia, and for other purposes.' of this kind applying to the rest of the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOSPITAL "Amend the title so 2 - to read, 'A bm. to Nation has no justification and would CENTER AND FACILITIES amend the act of August 7, 1946, so as to au­ receive my opposition. These unusual thorize the making of loans for hospital fa­ circumstances within the District of The SPEAKER. ... The question is on cilities, to provide a basis for repayment to Columbia, as the distinguished gentle- the engrossment and third reading of the Government by tpe Commissioners of the bill . the District of Columbia, and for other pur­ . man from Virginia [Mr. SMITH] so elo­ poses." quently stated, from a practical angle The bill was ordered to be engrossed justify it. I hope that the amendment and read a third time, and was read the Mr. McCORMACK (interrupting the offered by the gentleman from Nebraska third time. reading of the motion). Mr. Speaker, I [Mr. MILLER] will be defeated. The SPEAKER. The question is on ask unanimous consent that the further The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the passage of the bill. reading of the amendment be dispensed the amendment offered by the gentle- · Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Speak.. with, and that it be printed in the RECORD man from Nebraska [Mr. MILLER]. er, I c,ffer a motion to recommit. at this point. The amendment was rejected. The SPEAKER. Is the gentleman op­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Chair­ posed to the bill? the request of the gentleman from Mas­ man, I move that the Committee rise Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. I am, Mr. sachusetts? and report the bill back to the House Speaker. · There was no objection. 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE 9235 Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I (1) of subsection (a) and that no offer abuses in the sale of potent drugs with­ move the previous question on the mo­ was received in accordance with clause (2) out prescriptions. ' of such subsection shall, when filed and tion to recommit. recorded in the office of the county clerk Second. It relieves the public and re­ The previous question was ordered. and recorder of the county in which such tail druggists from unnecessary restric­ The SPEAKER. The question is on lands are situated, be conclusive evidence tions on dispensing of drugs which can the motion to recommit. of compliance with this section. be used safely without medical supervi­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. " ( c) That, if the land is purchased by sion. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and the Blackfeet Tribe or a member thereof, I think that it is a bill to protect the nays. title shall be conveyed by deed to the United public health and also a bill for the States in trust for the purchaser, and if the The yeas and nays were refused. land is purchased by a non-Indian a patent relief of more than 80,000 pharmacists in Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. in fee shall be issued to the purchaser." the Nation's 47,000 drug stores who fill Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry. I be­ nearly 600,000,000 prescriptions every lieve the majority leader asked for the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to year. These professional men perform a yeas and nays on the previous question. the request of the gentleman from Okla­ most important service and should be I desire to have a vote on the passage homa? assisted in that service to the extent of the bill and on the motion to recom­ Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. possible through wise legislation. mit. Is it in order to ask for tellers on Speaker, reserving the right to object, Retail druggists and manufacturers the vote on the passage of the bill? will the gentleman explain what the agree that most of the provisions of the The SPEAKER. We have not reached Senate amendments are? bill are not controversial. The present that point yet. Mr. MORRIS. Mr. Speaker, I may Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in section The question is on the motion to re­ say to the gentleman from Massachu­ 503 (b) recognizes only "a written pre­ commit. setts that the only purpose of the scription signed by a physician, dentist, Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. On that I amendment is to give preference right in or veterinarian." This is unnecessarily ask for tellers, Mr. Speaker. the purchase of this land to a member burdensome on both the public and the Tellers were ordered, and the Speaker of or to the tribe of Blackfeet Indians. druggist. The evidence is conclusive! appointed as tellers Mr. McMILLAN and Mr. MA TIN of Massachusetts. They that good medical practice today r..equires Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. live on the reservation at the present the use of the telephone in prescribing The question was taken; and the tel­ time, do they? medicines. Under appropriate safe­ lers reported that there were-ayes 103, Mr. MORRIS. Yes, sir. guards a pharmacist should be allowed noes 153. The SPEAKER. Is there objection · ~o to fill and refill prescriptions when the So the motion to recommit was re­ the request of the gentleman from physician authorizes him to do so by jected. Oklahoma? telephone. The SPEAKER. The question is on There was no objection. The present law does not authorize the passage of the bill. The Senate amendments were con­ pharmacists to refill any prescription Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, on without the written authorization of the that I ask for the yeas and nays. curred in. doctor. This is unrealistic. House bill The yeas and nays were refused. A motion to reconsider was laid on the 3298 will permit the refilling without re­ The bill was passed. table. striction of prescriptions for drugs that A motion to reconsider was laid on AMENDING SECTION 503 (B) OF THE can safely be taken by a layman witho11t the table. FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC medical supervision. . But tt.e bill re-· AUTHORIZING SALE OF CERTAIN AL­ ACT quires that before a prescription for a Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Speaker, by habit-forming drug, a dangerous drug, LOTTED LAND ON THE BLACKFEET a drug that is •otherwise unsuitable for RESERVATION, MONT. direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 354 and ask for use by a layman, or a new drug that is Mr. MORRIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask limited to professional use can be refilled unanimous consent to take from the its immediate consideration. The Cterk read as follows: the doctor must be consulted and his au­ Speaker's desk the bill asis of evidence adduced at report of the committee states: such hearing by such experts) , to be safe Under this standard a drug will be ad- · That is the reason I have received scores and e1flcacious for use only after · profes­ judged a prescription drug if because of its of communications from members of the sional diagnosis by, or under the supervi- toxicity or any other potentiality for harm- medical profession back home opposing_ 9238 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 3.1 paragraph B which grants Oscar Ewing Mention has been made today of pro­ the bill the authority to do the thing he all this power. prietary medicine sold in country stores fears might be done is there. How far I am of the belief that Congress has and drug stores, mentioned, I believe, the Administrator will exercise his au­ already delegated too much authority to by the gentleman from North Carolina, thority, of course, is not known. As has departments and agencies and the fur­ asking whether the Administrator would been pointed out there are 30,000 drugs. ther delegation of power tending to the be given the power to determine what This is about the mechanics of the situ­ socialization of pharmacy, dentistry, drugs and medicine could be sold over ation: The Federal Security Administra­ nursing, and medicine merits our most the counter in drug stores if section (b) tor if he decided, let us say, to put Bromo­ serious consideration. of this bill is adopted. Seltzer on the prescription list, a thing Since I have been in Congress I have Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, will the which has been sold over the counter continually opposed the granting of ex­ gentleman yield? for years, he would have three, four, or cessive powers to bureaucrats. A review . Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield. five experts testify that in their opinion of the legislation proposed by Oscar Mr. BONNER. I am not talking about it was a dangerous drug, not safe or effi­ Ewing clearly shows that he is a con­ country drug stores; I am talking about cacious to be sold over the counter at firmed adherent to the socialization of country stores that have been selling drug stores. The drug industry would many of our institutions and professions. patent medicines, household remedies, present experts who would testify to th~ That is the reason the doctors in our for years. I want to know whether one contrary. Then there would be a con­ districts are opposed .to paragraph B. man is going to be given the power to flict of medical opinion and the final au.­ That is the reason various State phar­ decide whether or not such medicine and thority under the decision as to whether maceutical associations are opposed to ·remedies can be sold only by a doc­ or not the sale of the drug should be by paragraph B. That is the reason the tor's prescription, whether a man has prescription or over the counter would national medical association is opposed got to go to a · doctor to get a dose of lie with the Administrator. He would to paragraph B. Bromo-Seltzer. have final arbitrary authority. That is All opposition to this bill would be Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I may say to one of the principal objections to that eliminated if paragraph Bis eliminated. the gentleman from North Carolina that section. This can be done if paragraph B is that is my understanding, Under this Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. . I thank the stricken and in lieu thereof the follow­ bill as presently written Mr. Ewing would gentleman for his usual sound logic and ing be substituted: determine which ones would come un­ reasoning. (B) Because of its .toxicity or other poten­ der prescription. It is an exaggeration, Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, will the tiality for harmful effect or the method of but he could go so far as to require a gentleman yield? its use or the collateral measures n.ecessary prescription for milk of magnesia or for Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield. to its use is not safe for use except by or Mr. O'HARA. My distinguished col­ under the supervision of a practitioner li­ aspirin. censed by law to administer such drug. Mr. JAVITS. Mr. Speaker, will the league from New Jersey [Mr. WOLVER­ gentleman yield? TON] inquired of the Administrator, Mr. I understand such an amendment is Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield. Ewing, when he testified in connection to be offered by a member of the com­ Mr. JAVITS. I wish to call the gen­ with this bill as to aspirin, and this is mittee having jurisdiction. tleman's attention to the strange word­ what Mr. Ewing said: Mr. JAVITS. Mr. Spea:{er, will the ing of paragraph (b). It does not say Well, as of today, I would say "No"- gentleman yield? "which has been determined by the Ad­ Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. Not just at ministrator to be safe and efficacious;" Whether it would have to be on the this moment. it says "has been determined by the Ad­ list-- The reason there is so much contro­ ministrator on the basis of opinion gen­ but I think you have to recognize that versy about thi ~ bill is that the retail erally held among experts qualified by under this bill you might have an Admin­ druggists are for the part of the bill istrator who would call a hearing to put scientific training and experience." aspirin on the list of dangerous drugs. If which permits refills. They have sent I say that with such attitude as that he held that aspirin was a dangerous drug niany telegrams to Members of this the Administrative Procedure Act would and that was appealed to the circuit court House. We are all agreed about that. not control the Administrator at all. of appeals and they upheld it, then you On the other hand, the American Med­ Mr. MORANO. Mr. Speaker, will the would be in that situation. ical Association have sent telegrams op­ gentleman yield? Mr. Ewing frankly says that is the sit­ posing paragraph B. I have received Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield. many telegrams from my local doctors uation under this bill. Let me say that Mr. MORANO. Has the gentleman you have in that connection on appeal back home who are dealing directly with any idea as to whether an amendment the druggists. I believe they are all op­ the language of the Food and Drug Act will be offered to delete that section from which says in effect that if the opinion, posed to paragraph B. the bill, and if so, will it emasculate the I have a telegram from the American the judgment, of the Administrator is bill? supported by substantial evidence, which Medical Association. They oppose para­ Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I understand graph B. They say: means practically any evidence, the such an amendment will be offered. If Circuit Court of Appeals has to affirm American Medical Association wishes to the committee does not offer it I will off er that decision. So what we have is a advise that it filed statement at close of it myself, which will bring the bill into tremendous power given to one man to hearings opposing H. R. 3298 which unfor­ conformity with the wishes of the drug tunately was not printed with hearings. make a decision that is all important to Association favored original Durham bill re­ stores back home as to the provisions re­ the people in your community and mine. lating to refilling prescriptions but objects garding refilling, but which will' take Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, will the very definitely to later addition which would a way from this Oscar Ewing the power gentleman yield? give Federal Security Administrator power to issue orders and regulations affecting Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield to the to determine therapeutic value of drugs. drugs. and medicine. Such authority should remain with physi­ gentleman from Arkansas. Mr. MORANO. I want to vote for Mr. HARRIS. I should say, in re­ cians and pharmacists if public interest is to I be respected. This provision gives Federal such an amendment but also want to sponse to the statement read by my dis­ Security Administrator unnecessary and un­ vote for a bill that will enable the drug­ tinguished colleague, a member of the warranted power t9 regulate the dispensing gist to refill prescriptions. committee, the gentleman from Minne­ of drugs. Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I agree with sota [Mr. O'HARA] that the statement the gentleman; I feel the same way about of the Administrator referred to the orig­ Then, I have one from the National it and I think a great majority of the Pharmaceutical Association. These inal Durham bill which did give the people are druggists. They say: · Members of the House feel as we do. Administrator unlimited authority to go Mr. BENNETT of Michigan. . Mr. Difference between various groups and as far as he wanted to; but since then drug industry on proposed form of H. R. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? the committee wrote into the bill the 3298 will be considered at anr.ual conven­ Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield. standards that are set up here, which . tion and request you to withhold action Mr. BENNETT of Michigan. On this would, of course, limit thi:! administrfl,tive ' until our association of 25,000 members can question raised by the gentleman from authority to make such a far-reaching give consideration to the revised bill. North Carolina, under the provisions of determination. 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9239 Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Mr. senting 94 percent of the dr.uggists in nitely stated that it is opposed to this Speaker, will the gentleman yield? New York, and they come out and op­ bill ratber than the legislativ.J commit­ Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield to the pose any part except the r.efilling of tee of the American Medical Associa­ gentleman from Mississippi. drugs. 1 mentioned the refilling of pre­ tion? Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Of scriptions. I mentioned that to my col­ Mr. BENNETT. Well, all of these course, I agree with my distinguished leagues here because I want you to know associations are speaking through their friend from Arkansas, but in response to that the druggists are for the refilling representatives. what the gentleman from Michigan said part but most of them are definitely op­ Mr. BECKWORTH. But has the a few minutes ago about putting aspirin posed to giving Oscar Ewing the power association gone on record saying it op­ on this list, I may say that the commit­ to determine what drugs shall be sold, poses this bill as an association, or was tee heard and went over all of these where, and under what. conditions. it the committee? arguments. Amendments were offered, Mr. MORANO. Mr. Speaker, will the Mr. BENNETT. The~r ... legislative amendments were voted on, and the gentleman yield? representatives said they were oppnsed committee voted by a vote of 19 to 4 to Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield to the to it. The Retail J;Jruggist did not come include the language that is contained in gentleman from Connecticut. before our committee. He was repre­ this bill, with the administrative list and Mr. MORANO. And the capricious sented by a spokesman here in Wash­ with an administrative and judicial re­ use of any such power would create a ington. view. If the Administrator should act chaotic conditi-On in the retail druggist Mr. BECKWORTH. It has been the arbitrarily, and place such an innocuous business, would it not? impression of a good many of us that drug as aspirin on this list, and I am Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. Definite1y, the American Medical Association actu­ . going to read from the bill: yes. As I have said, I think there is ally has not taken a .very definite and Any interested person may file with the going to be an amendment offered oy specirc position on it, and to evidence Administrator a petition proposing the mak­ the gentleman from Minnesota which that fact the committee wanted the ing of a determination, or the modification will take out paragr&ph Cb), and in lieu doctors to come before the committee, of a determination made or proposed to be thereof irJsert the following language, urged and requested them to, but they made, by the Administrator.pursuant to sub­ which I have previously stated: never did do it at all. That is the paragraph ( B) of paragraph ( 1) . The filing strange thing. _ of a petition for the purpose of opposing a (b) because of its toxicity or other po­ proposed determination that a drug is one tentiality for harmful effects or the method Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I do not ex­ to which such paragraph (B) applies shall of its use or the collateral measures neces­ pect to ask for a roll call upon the rule stay the operation of paragraph ( 1) with re­ sary to its use is not safe for use except by because I firmly believe that after debate ' spect to such drug until a petition for judi­ or under the supervision of a practitioner this h-0dy Will eliminate paragraph B, cial review can be filed and interim relief licensed by law to administer such drugs. thus having a bill that will be satisfac­ sought under section 10 (d) of the Admin­ Now, this amendment, I understand, tory to the druggists, to the doctors, to istrative Procedure Act. has been devised to give the doctor or the the pharµiacists, to the mant!facturers, Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts. Mr. druggist the type of a bill that, so far to the wholesalers, to the law enforce­ Speaker, will the gentleman yield? as I can ascertain, will be satisfactory. ment officials, and above all to the gen- Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield to the Mr. BENNETT of Michigan. Mr. eral public. · · gentlewoman from Massachusetts. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts. Will Mr. ALLEN of Illi1.ois. I yield to the my time. the decision of tqe Administrator super­ gentleman from Michigan. Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Speaker, I sede State laws in regard to the refilling Mr. BENNETT of Michigan. To illus­ yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from of prescriptions? It would certainly be trate the confused situation that ex- ' Illinois [Mr. SABATH]. very dangerous if a prescription for the ists with respect to this provision gi v­ Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, when the derivatives of phenobarbital could be re­ ing the Administrator this wide author­ proponents of this legislation appeared filled in the States that have laws pre­ ity, there is this to say: The American before the Committee on Rules tliat venting the refilling of a doctor's pre­ Medical Association is opposed to it. The committee desired to know how the com­ scription without the physician's order. American Pharmaceutical Association, mittee stood in reporting the bill. We Here in Washington there have been which is composed of the pharmacists were informed then that only 4 of a number of suicides that have taken who work in drugstores, and the Ameri­ the 25 members were opposed to it and place as a result of overdoses of bar­ can Drug Manufacturers who manufac­ that after many weeks of r.onsideration biturates. People get a dual personal­ ture drugs, are opposed to it. The and investigation and hearings 19 of the ity, and also as a result of that medicine American Asspciation of Druggists is for members agreed to report this legisla­ their hearts become very much weak­ it, tho,ugh many of its members are op­ tion. ened. I think the Senate will pass a posed to it. My colleague from Illinois [Mr. AL­ companion bill to one I have introduced Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. It is my LEN] implies that Mr. Ewing, Adminis­ and now pending before . the Ways and understanding that the rank and file of trator of the 3ucial Security Agency will Means Committee which will rectify and druggists are satisfied with the refill administer the act. He is at the head control that situation. section. of this agency, but will not ~ctually en-· Mr. WILLIAMS . of Mississippi. The Mr. BENNETT of Michigan. But force this law or provide the rules and gentlewoman from Massachusetts can here are the people who deal with this regulations. The admini~tration of the allay her fears with regard to State laws problem from day to day intimately, the act will be under the supervision of the conflicting with the Federal laws in this doctor, the druggist, the pharmacist, Food and Drug .Administrat:on which respect. If the State laws prohibit the and the manufacturer. They cannot has functioned for many, many years in refilling of phenobarbital prescriptions, agree; in fact, most of them agree that enforcing food and drug laws. that will be prevented. delegation of this authority would be Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, will the Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts. We most unwise, and they are fearful as gentleman yield? should have a national law, bec~use the to how it would be exercised. I think Mr. S.ABATH. The gentleman knows states are not enacting these laws. I that certainly is an·unfortunate atm-0s­ I am right on this. Please do not take know the gentleman remembers some phere for a bill to be presented to this up time on that point. cases of suicide as the result of an over- House when the very people it atfect.s Mr. O'HARA. The gentleman is in er­ dose of phenobarbital. · cannot agree among themselves as to ror on that point. Under the l~w. let Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. In conclusion, just what it will do. me say to the gentleman-- Mr. Speaker, I will say that I have h~re Mr. BECKWORTH. Mr. Speaker, will Mr. SABATH. Oh, yes; he will be the scores and scores of telegrams objecting the gentleman yield? nominal head of it. to paragraph (b) which gives Mr. Ewing Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. I yield to the Mr. O'HARA. He is the Administrator unusual power. gentleman from Texas. under the bill. Here is one from the New York State Mr. BECKWORTH. Is the gentleman Mr. SABATH. I know that, but he Pharmaceutical Association. They say positive that the American Medical will not provide the rules and regula­ they have a membership of 6,328 repre- Association as an association has defi- tions that are necessary and that will 9240 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 31 be submitted to h:m by the Food and United States which have come to me as tive session. But I attended enough of Drug Administration for signature, per­ chairman of the ComJillittee on Rules . them to know that this is one of the sonnel who are very familiar with this urging and pleading to be relieved of most complicated pieces of legislation type of legislation and whJ have been the uncertainty that exists today. that has ever been presented to a com­ protecting the lives of American citizens Mr. Speaker, I do not wish to en­ mittee of this House and ultimately to for many years. cumber the RECORD by inserting many the House itself. Mr. -EVINS. Mr. Speaker, will .the of the telegrams I have received, but I It is not as simple as it might appear gentleman yield? shall take the liberty of inserting a tele­ on the surface, or as some people who Mr. SABATH. I yield to the gentle­ gram that I received from my home city, have spoken would make it appear. It man from Tennessee. Chicago, Ill., signed by Mr. John M. is exceedingly complicated, and its im­ Mr. EVINS. I am endeavoring to find Meyers, executive secretary of the Chi­ portance can also be judged by the out some information as to why the need cago Retail Druggists' Association, and amount of interest that has been dis­ and necessity for this particular section, a telegram signed by Thomas J. Vratny, . played in it by the various professional because the Food and Drug Adminis­ secretary of the Illinois Pharmaceutical and trade associations throughout the trator has authority at the present time Association, as follows: country. to confiscate and take off the market CHICAGO, ILL., July 18, 1951. Just to take the opposite viewpoint deleterious or dangerous drugs, under Hon. Anor.PH J. SABATH, from some of my colleagues on the left existing law. Also the Feder!ll Trade House Office Building, at the moment, I point out that while Commission has authority to stop the Washington, D. C.: it is possible such things as aspirin and advertising, sale, labeling, and branding The members of the Chicago Retail Drug­ Hadacol may come within the terms of of drugs that are dangerous. So why gists Association which represents the retail this bill, there are some very important drug stores owners of metropolitan Chicago, t:i.1e necessity for this additional legis­ embracing the counties of Cook, Lake, Kane, drugs which ·indeed should come under lation? Du Page, and Will, at a regularly assembled it. I might point out the antibiotics, Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. Mr. quarterly meeting held July 17, 1951, di­ such as aureomycin, streptomycin, and Speaker, will the gentleman yield? rected the undersigned to advise you of their triptomycin, and all of such things. Mr. SABATH. I yield. immediate concern and interest in the fa­ Somebody should be able to determine Mr. WILLIAMS C'f Missirnippi. There vorable pas;::age of H. R. 3298, the so-c~ Ued and have authority to determine whether is a definite need for this legislation, I Durham-Humphrey bill now pending before or not those drugs are deleterious if sold am sure it will be admitted by the gen­ the Rules Committee. This measure seeks to amend the present Federal Food, Drug and under a freely refillable prescription and tlemen on the other side who oppose this Cosmetic Act so as to enable the retail drug­ whether or not prescriptions should be particular provision, for the reason that gists of the country to serve to public with refilled only on d·octors' orders. I am there is and has been for some time in­ medicaments mo1e effi~iently and more eco­ not too concerned about those harmless creasing confusion under the present nomically. In the interest of the public drugs that we have known for a long, provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, health the undersign3d respectfully requests · long time; but I am concerned about and Cosmetic Act as to which drugs can that you make possible the immediate con­ some of these new and border-line cases. be legally and lawfully and properly sold sideration of this measure b1r the entire This has been: a subject that has been over the counter and which drugs should House membership. • JOHN M. MYERS, very difficult to consider in the commit-· be restricted solely to.the prescription of Executive Secretary, Chicago Retail tee. The vote to report the bill to the a physician. . Druggists' Association. floor was 19 to 4. The committee itself, Mr. EVINS. I think that is a point even among the 19 and among the 4, are on which some decision should be made. CHICAGO, ILL., July 23, 1951. not so certain that they are right. This Mr. WILLIAMS of Mississippi. This COJ !gressman ADOLPH J. SABATH, is not an. easy subject, and I beg of you is for the purpose of making that deter­ House of Representatives, in the course of this discussion for as mination. Washington, D. C.: many as possible to remain on the floor Mr. SABATH. I recollect that many The pharmacists of the State of Illinois and hear the truth spoken as our vari­ years ago Dr. Wiley advocated food and especially the Seventh Congressional District ous committee members see it. Let us drug legislation to protect the American beg of you to give consideration to granting get a way from the baloney and let us public. Gentlemen then opposed the a ruling for H. R. 3298 that it may get to the stick to the truth. This is too impor­ regulations he advocated. I am surprised floor of the House for action. THOMAS J. VRATNY, tant for us to mess around with a lot of that some of you gentlemen are not in­ Secretary, Illinois Pharmaceutical fancy statements that do not have real formed or are being led astray by the Association. substance. This is important to the manufacturers. This is legislation pro­ health and welfare of the people of the posed to protect the American people. Consequently I feel, and even though United States as a bill relating to the The druggists surely should be and are the gentlemen on the other side, and administration of the Food and Drug entitled to some protection and a better some on this side, agree that the rule Act. Government-regulated method in dis­ should be granted, that any Member The SPEAKER. The time of the gen- pensing drugs to the public. There are should have the right to offer amend­ tleman has expired. - not any finer type of businessmen serv­ ments to the bill as provided in the rule. Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Speaker, I move ing the needs of the people of our coun­ This is an open rule. If any gentle­ the previous question. · try than the druggists and we should man feels that he in his wisdom can im­ The SPEAKER. The question is on · · heed their request for this legislation. prove the bill and safeguard the interest the' resolution. Of course, there are some doctors that ·of the people, all well and good. Let us The resolution was agreed to. may object to this legislation because it take that up in committee when the bill Mr. CROSSER. Mr. Speaker, I move will not be necessary for a patient to go is being read under the 5-minute rule. that the House resolve itself into the to the doctor every time a prescription .The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ Committee of the Whole House on the has to be refilled, because many of those tleman from Illinois has expired. State of the Union for the consideration prescriptions can be refilled without any Mr. ALLEN of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, of the bill

1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9243 Mr. BECKWORTH. My colleague The SPEAKER. Is there objection to United States, to increase the efficiency of knows I have the greatest respect for the request of the gentleman from New American business and industry, to improve him, but the American Medical Associa­ York? quality, reduce price and increase output and real wages, and to promote the free flow tion should know that to be most ef­ There was no objection. of goods and services to the American people fective it should make its position known Mr. JAVITS. Mr. Speaker, I am today by (1) strengthening the laws prohibiting to the committee before the committee introducing a bill to establish a Federal monopoly and unreasonable restraints on acts and, if possible, come before the Commission similar to the Hoover Com­ trade and commerce; (2) clarifying stand­ committee and state its position, be­ mission on the revision of the antitrust ards of conduct deemed lawful under- the cause our committee is one that will laws. This bill is being introduced in antitrust laws; (3) adjusting the policies of give consideration to the opinion and the other body by the junior Senator the Federal Government toward business, position of the American Medical As­ from Oregon, Mr. MoRsE. industry, investors, agriculture, and labor to conform with the present-day needs of sociation just as it will to that of any­ . Fundamental changes have taken place the American people; (4) eliminating con­ body else's group. Since the gentleman in our own economy and in the economy flicts in policy and inconsistencies in the has brought up the position of the of the world ~ince the·antitrust laws were said antitrust laws as interpreted by the American Medical Association-- enacted in 1890, making a specific review courts and administrative agencies; (5) re­ Mr. BENNETT of Michigan. The ·vital today. The problem of gearing our lieving industry of responsibility under said gentleman from Texas asked me the vast industrial machine to the demands laws for conduct performed at the request question as to whether the board of of world leadership both in defense and of duly constituted United States Govern­ ment authorities; (6) revising Federal anti­ trustees of the American Medical As­ civilian production require new rules. In trust laws, the effect of which is to impair sociation had approved the action. I addition, the relationship of the United initi!!-tive and the development of new enter­ gave him the answer. States to foreign economic systems needs prises; (7) coordinating the activities of the Mr. BECKWORTH. I am truly in­ redefinition in terms of what will con­ Government in relation to the admin istra­ terested in getting information. May I tribute most effectively to the defense of tion and enforcement of the antitrust laws; ask the gentleman to place in the REC­ the free world and to its maximum inte­ and (8) improving the methods and pro­ ORD at this point the position of the grated production 6ffort. cedures of administration and enforcement American Medical Association as they There has been much complaint in re­ of such laws. stated it and the date they passed on it? cent years that antitrust policies have ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMISSION ON REVI• I think it would be of interest to have it crippled small business, particularly in SION OF THE ANTITRUST LAWS in the RECORD, because so far we do not its trnde-as!lociation activities and in its SEC. 2. For the purpose of carrying out have it. efforts to pool resources to achieve a the policies set forth in section 1 of this better competitive position, denied con­ act, there is hereby established a bipartisan Mr. BENNETT of Michigan. I will commission to be known as the Commission refer to it in my remarks. sumers the benefits of integration, ham­ on Revision· of the Antitrust Laws (in this Mr. CROSSER. Mr. Chairman, I move pered the cooperation of business in the act referred to as the "Commission"). that the Committee do now rise. defense effort, and sought to change drastically the geographical pattern of MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION The motion was agreed to. SEC. 3. (a) Number and appointment: The Accordingly the Committee rose; and commerce. On the other hand, it has Commission shall be composed of 12 members the Speaker having resumed the chair, been charged that big business, due to as follows: Mr. COLMER, Chairman of the Committee policies in the last two decades, has just (1) Four appointed by the President of tbe of the Whole House on the State of the grown bigger, that price leadership has United States, two from the executive branch Union, reported that that Committee, become price uniformity, and that the of the Government, and two from private having had under consideration the bill monopolistic privileges of patents are life; · (H. R. 3298) to amend section 503 (b) being grossly abused. (2) Four appointed by the President pro We are convinced that our system of tempore of the Senate, two from the Senate. of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic and two from private life; and Act, had come to no resolution thereon. the free economy of which .the major regulatory statutes are the antitrust (3) Four appointed by the Speaker of the CONTROL OF EXPORTS House of Representatives-two Jrom the laws can be refreshed and revitalized House of Representatives and two from pri­ Mr. COLMER, from the Committee on through a review of the antitrust laws in vate life. Rules, reported the following privileged the light of the problems which have (h) Political affiliation: Of each class of resolution omm1ttee cha1rman ______· ------~------1, 990. 26 executive department, bureau, agency, board, - Mr. SHAFER in two instances, in one William J, Neary, clerk-stenographer to sub- commission, office, independent establish­ to include an editorial. committee chairman ______1, 990. 26 A.lice C._ Keeffe, clork-stcnograph(lr to sub- ment or instrumentality, inf ~rmation, sug- Mr. FARRINGTON. committee chairman ______1,326.84 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-H_OUSE 9245 Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Total Total and ordered to be printed. gross gross 665. A letter from the Secretary of the In·­ salary salary Name of employee and profession during Name of employee and profession during terior, transmitting a draft of a proposed 6-month 6-month bill entitled "A bill to authorize the Secre­ period period tary of the Interior to undertake the North Fork· Kings River development, California, Norajean Ray, clerk-stenographer to sub· REIMBURSEMENTS TO GOVERNMENT as an integral part of the Central Valley < committee chairman ______$1, 990. 26 AGENCIES-continued project, and for other purposes; to the Com­ Michael J. McGrath, clerk-stenographer to mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. subcommittee chairman ______1, 990. 26 Tennessee Valley Authority: James E. 666. A letter from the United States Marie Silvers, clerk-stenographer to sub- Goddard, investigator_ ------···-········- $1, 050. 20 . committee chairman ______995.13 Treasury Department: AtomiC Energy Commission, transmitting the Ethel C. Hester, clerk-stenographer to sub· Alonzo J. Covel, investigator ______1, 993. 88 Tenth Semiannual Report of the United committee chairman ______232.19 T. Jack Gary, Jr., investigator .••••••.•.. 1, 774. 05 States Atomic Energy Commission, as re­ W. Harold Lane, investigator ______2, 386. 78 quired by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946; to Wilbur R. Ziehl, investigator ..•.....••.• 2,032.00 Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Veterans' Administration: the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. mittee expenditures.·····-··············· $232, 000. 00 Stephen J. Grillo, investigator ••••.•••••. 522.00 667. A letter from the Secretary of the ----- Joe M. Hansman, investigator ...••••.••. 535. 37 Army, transmitting compilation of prelimi­ Amount of expenditures previously reported_ 104, 389. 72 Department of Justice: nary examination, survey, and review re­ John J. Donnelly, Jr., counsel. ..••...... 1, 456. 42 Amount expended from Jan. 1 to June 30, Roy E. Curtis economist. ______ports on river and harbor and flood-control 1 526. 02 1951. ------·-············· -············· 114, 526. 90 Bernard A. Friedman, asgist!l.llt counsel.. 197. 66 improvements, authorized by the River and Hubert Peters, assistant counsel.·-·---·- 437. 08 Harbor Act approved on May 17, 1950 (H. Total amount expended from July 1, 1950, to Department of Agriculture: William Burke, Doc. No. 214); to the Committee on Public June 30, 1951. ______218, 916. 62 temporary clerical and editorial assistant __ _ 727. 00 Atomic Energy Commission: Isabel G. Belt, Works, and ordered to be printed. Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1951..... 13, 083. 38 temporary clerical and editorial assistant ___ 1 232.14 668. A letter from the Chairman, Muni­ CLARENCE CANNON, Department of Commerce: tions Board, transmitting the semiannual Earle F. Allen, temporary clerical and report on the stockpiling program, pursuant Chairman. editorial assistant. •. ______. --_- ----___ _ 661. 85 Joseph R. Melvin, temporary clerical to section 4 of the Strategic and Critical Ma­ and editorial assistant·---·-·---······-· 438. 38 terials Stock Piling Act (Public Law 520, JULY 15, 1951. Economic Cooperation Administration: 79th Cong.), for the period January 1 to Dorothy T. Scheele, temporary clerical June 30, 1951; to the Committee on Armed COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS (INVESTIGATIVE and editorial assistant. ______201. 27" Services. STAFF) Esther M. Robbins, temporary clerical and editorial assistant ______24.00 669. A communication from the President To the CLERK oF THE HousE: General Services Administration: John C. pf the United States, transmitting a report Aukward, temporary clerical and editorial PY the Secretary of the Treasury in con­ The · above-mentioned committee or sub­ assistant_ ... ______. ______. __ . ______. 583. 44 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Department of the Interior: Francis M. sultation with the Secretary of Commerce, Wiles, temporary clerical and editorial as· relative to the preparation of a study: of the the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, sistant. __ . _. ·--______••. ___ .... _...... Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress ap­ 583. 84 assistance to the United States maritime Department of Justice: industry which is provided through special proved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits Mary E. McGovern, temporary clerical and editorial assistant ______453.18 tax provisions of the Merchant Marine Act the following report showing the name, pro­ Kathryn B. Morris, temporary clerical of 1936 and the various revenuf,l acts (H. Doc. ~ession, and total salary of each person em­ and editorial assistant ______16. 24 No. 213); to the Committee on Merchant ployed by it during the 6-month period from Department of Labor: Marine and Fisheries, and ordered to be Izabell R. Craig, temporary clerical and January l, 1951, to June 30, 1951, inclusive, editorial assistant. ... ·-·-______652.16 printed. · together with total funds authorized or ap- Robert P. Vanzant, temporary clerical propriated and expended by it: · and editorial assistant ______1, 326. 90 Post Office Department: Francis G. Merrill, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC temporary clerical and editorial assistant. __ 586. 68 BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Public Housing Administration: Robert L. Total Michaels, temporary clerical and editorial Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of gross assistant ___ --· .. ______... ·--______-...... 2, 511. 56 Name of employee and profes,ion salary Department of State: Delbert D. Mehaffy, committees were delivered to the Clerk during temporary clerical and editorial assistant. .. 1, 150. 86 for printing and reference to the proper 6-month Department of the Treasury: Reese V. Bean, calendar, as fallows: period temporary clerical and e,ditorial assistant..• 911. 54 Mr. BOLLING: Committee on Banking and Frederic D. Vechery, chief investigator __--·· $4, 212. 48 currency. H. J. Res. 303. Joint resolution Funds authorized or appropriated for com- to provide ho.using relief in the Missouri­ James J. Maloney, chief investigator (from mittee expenditures __--··------·----·--- $185, 000. 00 Jan. 1to31).------·-··-········· 712. 46 Amount of expenditures previously re- Kansas-Oklahoma flood disaster emergency; James E. Nugent, investigator ....•.•.••••••• 3, 577. 24 ported .. ----·------·--·-----·------· 96, 083.15 with amendment (Rept. No. 776). Referred Florence M. Leonard, clerk-stenographer •••. 1, 793. 79 Amount expended from fan. 1 to June 30, Lois A. Eggers, clerk-stenographer ..•••.••••• 1, 305.12 1951. ______82, 695. 30 to the Committee of the Whole House on the Hazel N. Wara, clerk-stenographer ______90. 46 Total amount expended from July 1, 1950, to State of the Union. . An.na R. Murabito, clerk-stenographer ••.•..• 562. 04 June 30, 1951.. .. ------·------·--·· 183, 042. 07 Mr. COLMER: Committee on Rules. House Balance unexpended as of June 30, 1951..... 1, 957. 93 REIMBURSEMENTS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Resolution 363. Resolution for considera­ CLARENCE CA C'iNON, tion of H. R. 4550, a bill to provide fo:r; the Department of Agriculture: Chairman. control by the United States and cooperating John C. Cooper, investigator·-··········· 1, 731. 42 foreign nations of exports to any nation or . William D. Strang investigator .•••.••••. 492. 30 Hubert S. White, mvestigator1 .•••••••••• 723. 52 EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. combination of nations threatening the se­ Civil Service Commission: curity of the United States, including the George R. Boss, investigator_ •••••••••••• 1, 173. 41 Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and all Bernard Rosen, investigator._------·­ 701.42 countries under its domination, and for Export-Import Bank of Washington: John communications were taken from the D. Fitch, investigator ______1, 607. 71 Speaker's table and ref erred as .fallows: other purposes; without amendment (Rept. Federal Bureau of Investigation: No. 777). Referred to the House Calendar. Marshall J. Bell, investigator ..•••••••••. 1, 582. 36 662. A communication from the President Mr. BATES of Kentucky: Committee of Charles G. Haynes, investigator .•.•••••. 1, 466. 96 of the United States, transmitting a proposed Conference. H. R. 4329. A bill making James J. Maloney, investigator •..••••... 838. 86 supplemental appropriation for the fiscal Adrian L. Meyer, investigator. ...•••••.. 1, 266. 64 appropriations for the government of the James E. Nugent, investigator______474.16 year 1952 in the amount of $273,000,000 for District of Columbia and other activities Robert E. Rightmyer, investigator .•••.. 2, 078. 36 the Atomic Energy Commission (H. Doc. No. chargeable in whole or in part against the Federal Security Agency: 210); to the Committee on Appropriations, revenues of such District for the fiscal year G. Richard Olague, investigator •••.••••. 1, 286. 04 anA ordered to be printed. · C. Erwin Rice, investigator. •••••.••••••• 427. 49 ending June 30, 1952, and for other pur­ Department of the Interior: 663. A communication from the President poses (Rept. No. 778). Ordered to be Arnold 0. Babbi investigator •••••••••••• 70. 76 of the United States, transmitting a proposed printed. D

9246 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE AUGUST 1 By Mr. RIVERS: dare not be disobedient. Pressed by the thorize the sale of certain allotted land H. R. 5011. A bill to amend the Civil Service practical problems which crowd our on the Blackfeet Reservation, Mont. Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, The message also further announced to provide annuities for those civillan em­ hours and which cry for solution, we ployees engaged in hazardous occupations in would keep clear in our vision and faith that the House had passed tlre following any branch of the Federal service, and for the eternal things amid the tempests of bills and joint resolution, in which it re­ other purposes; to the Committee on Post the temporal. quested the concurrence of the Senate: Office and Civil Service. Teach us the secret of dwelling in H. R. 2094. An act to amend the act of By Mr. WINSTEAD: a world full of hate and, yet, not be­ August 7, 1946, so as to authorize the mak­ H. R. 5012. A bill to amend the Navy ration coming hateful persons .. Giving our best ing of grants for hospital facilities, to pro­ statute so as to provide for the serving of ability to the peoples' good, may we rise vide a basis for repayment to the Govern­ oleomargarine or margarine; to the Cam­ ment by the Commissioners of the District mittee on Armed Services. above life's bitterness by an unshakable of Columbia, and for other purposes; and By Mr. HART: belief in the shining splendor of hu­ H. R. 4484. An act to confirm and estab­ H. R. 5013. A bill to authorize the President manity. We ask it in the Name which lish the titles of the States to lands beneath to proclaim regulations for preventing col­ is above every name. Amen. navigable waters within State boundaries lisions at sea; to the Committee on Merchant THE JOURNAL and to the natural resources within such · Marine and Fisheries. lands-and waters, to provide for the use and By Mr. POULSON: On request of Mr. McFARLAND, and by control of said lands and resources, and to H. R. 5014. A bill to provide benefits for unanimous consent, the reading of the provide for the use, control, exploration, de­ certain Federal employees of Japanese an­ Journal of the proceedings of Monday, velopment, and conservation of certain re­ cestry who lost certain rights with respect to July 30, 1951, .was dispensed with. sources of the Continental Shelf lying out­ grade, time in grade, and compensation by side of State boundaries; and reason of their evacuation from military MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT­ H.J. Res. 303. Joint resolution to provide areas during World War II; to the Committee APPROV AL OF BILLS housing relief in the Missouri-Kansas-Okla­ on Post Office and Civil Service. homa flood disaster emergency. By Mr. JAVITS: Messages in writing from the President H. R. 5015. A bill for the establishment of of the l!Jnited States were communicated ENROLLED BILL SIGNED a Commission on Revision of the Antitrust to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his The message further announced that Laws of the United States; to the Committee secretaries, and he announced that the the Speaker had affixed his signature on the Judiciary. President had approved and signed the to the enrolled bill (H. R. 629) to author­ By Mr. RICHARDS: following acts: ! H. J. Res. 304. Joint resolution authorizing ize the sale of certain allotted land on and directing the performance of an agree­ On July 30, 1951: the Blackfeet Reservation, Mont., and ment with the Republic of Panama regard­ S. 259. An apt to fix the responsibilities of it was signed by the Vice President. the Disbursing Officer and of the Auditor of ing the relocation of the terminal facilities HOUSE BILLS REFERRED of the Panama Railroad in the city of the District of Columbia, and fcir other pur­ Panama; to the Committee on Foreign poses; The following bills were each read Affairs. S. 261. An act to amend section 7 of an act twice by their titles and referred as indi­ By Mr. FLOOD: entitled "An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government cated: H. Res. 362. A resolution creating a select H. R. 2094. An act to amend the act of committee to conduct an investigation and of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other pur­ A'Ugust 7, 1946, so as to authorize the mak­ study of the disappearance of the report, re­ ing of grants for hospital facilities, to pro­ lating to the Katyn massacre, dictated by poses," approved July l, 1902; S. 488. An act to increase the fee of jurors vide a basis for repayment to the Govern­ Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet, Jr., on May 22, ment by the Commissioners of the District 1945; to the Committee on Rules. in condemnation proceedings instituted by the District of Columbia; of Columbia, and for other _purposes; to the S. 490. An act to amend the act entitled Committee on the District of Columbia. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS "An act to regulate the practice of podiatry H. R. 4484. An act to confirm and estab­ Under clause 1 of rule· XXII, private in the District of Columbia"; lish the titles of the States to lands beneath bills and resolutions were introduced S. 494. An act to provide for the appoint­ navigable waters within State boundaries ment of a deputy disbursing officer and as­ and to the natural resources within such and severally referred as follows: sistant disbursing officers for the District of lands and waters, to provide for the use and By Mr. JAVITS: Columbia, and for other purposes; and control of said lands and resources, and to H. R. 5016. A bill for the relief of Fred S. 573. An act to amend the act entitled provide for the use, control, exploration, de­ Deckwitz; to the Committee on the Judiciary. "An act to regulate barbers in the District of velopment, and conservation of certain re­ By Mr. O'TOOLE: Columbia, and for other purposes,'' approved sources of the Continental Shelf lying out­ H. R. 5017. A bill for the relief of Jose dos June 7, 1938, and for other purposes. side of State boundaries; to the Committee Barros Lopes; to the Committee on the On July 31, 1951: on Interior and Insular Affairs. Judiciary. S. 262. An act to amend section 3 of -in COMMITTEE MEETING DURING SENATE H. R. 5018. A bill for the relief of Antonio act authorizing the Commissioners of the Felope Moises; to the Committee on the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits SESSION Judiciary. against the District of Columbia, approved On request of Mr. LEHMAN, and by By Mr. VAIL: February 11, 1929, and for other purposes; and unanimous consent, the Labor and La­ H. R. 5019. A bill for the relief of Stavrula S.1717. An act to amend and extend the bor-Management Relations Subcommit­ Perutsea; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Defense Production Act of 1950 and the tee of the Committee on Labor and Pub­ Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended. lic Welfare was authorized to meet this PETITIONS, ETC. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE afternoon during the session of the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, A message from the House of Repre­ Senate. 371. Mr. FELLOWS presented a resolution sentatives, by Mr. Snader, one of its read­ TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE BUSINESS by Maine Federation of Women's Clubs at ing clerks, announced that the House had Mr. McFARLAND. Mr. President, I Poland Springs, Maine, relative to wise exer­ disagreed to the amendments of the Sen­ ask unanimous consent that Senators be cise of freedom, which was referred to the ate to the bill (H. R. 4329) making ap­ permitted to make insertions in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. propriations for the government· of the RECORD, and transact routine business, District of Columbia and other activities without debate, and that the time occu­ chargeable in whole or in part against pied in doing so not be charged to either the revenues of such District for the side in connection with the business for SENATE fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for today, Senate bill 719. other purposes, agreed to the conference The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1951 asked by the Senate on the disagreeing jection, it is so ordered. votes of the two Houses thereon, and that The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown Mr. ·BATES of Kentucky, Mr. YATES, Mr. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. Harris, D. D., offered the following F'uRCOLO, Mr. CANNON, Mr. STOCKMAN, The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the prayer: and Mr. WILSON of Indiana were ap­ Senate the following letters, which were Our Father God, we would lift our gaze pointed managers on the part of the referred as indicated: from the valley of the daily round to House at the conference. REPORT ON ASSISTANCE TO UNITED STATES the far horizon of our fairest dreams, The message also announced that the MARITIME INDUSTRY from the tyranny· of drab details to the House had agreed to the amendments of A letter from the President of the United glory of the heavenly-vision, to which we the Senate to the bill (H. R. 629) to au- States, transmitting a report on a study of