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ELECTION REFORM MOTTO OF "FATS" EVERETT WAS Institution, aided farmers In obtaining per­ WORK lll.!.ssion for them to hay and graze restricted land during periods or drought, and ob· HON. HUGH SCOTT tained federal appropriations for hospitals, nursing homes and libraries throughout the OF PENNSYLVANIA HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE district. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF TEXAS Because he was instrumental In getting Friday, January 31, 1969 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the federal government to transfer owner­ Thursday, January 30, 1969 ship of the airport to Obion County, its Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, on Janu­ name--Everett-Stewart Airport-has become ary 23, 1969, I propased a constitutional Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, a monument to his labors. And in Dyer amendment to abolish the electoral col­ Mr. Bill King, staff writer for the Daily County, a. lake created by a drainage project lege and provide for the allocation of Messenger, Union City, Tenn., has writ­ he promoted is called Everett Lake. electoral votes by oongressional district. ten a most memorable tribute to our late These will help to perpetuate the memory of Congressman Everett but the Individual An editorial published in the Harris­ colleague, Congressman "Fats" Everett. things he did for indlvidual persons make burg Patriot of January 24, 1969, further As you all know, "Fats" served on my it certain he will never be forgotten as long exemplifies the need for this amend­ Committee of Veterans' Affairs and he as these people live. ment. was a real worker. It is only fitting that He was never too busy to talk to anyone I ask unanimous consent that the the press has recognized this great at­ and it didn't matter if his visitor was dressed editorial be printed in the RECORD. tribute of "Fats." in overalls or a business suit. A letter to There being no objection, the editorial The article referred to follows: him often was answered in less than a week. It was a rare occurrence when he couldn't was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Hrs MOTTO WAS "WORK" be reached by telephone. as follows: (By Bill King) "I will always be as near to you as your ELECTION REFORM: SCOTT'S PROPOSAL MAKES There were many thousands of friends he telephone or mailbox,'' he said thousands of SENSE called by name--there were countless other times whlle addressing civic or service clubs The bolting last month by Dr. Lloyd W. thousands who called him "Fats" and who and other special groups in the Eighth Dis­ Bailey, the North Carolina maverick who considered him their friend. trict. And he meant every word. voted tor George c . Wallace in the Electoral Perhaps this is the best way to remember Asked by a reporter a few years ago how College even though the Republicans carried that unusual and gifted man whose love he managed to handle so many different his state, reinforced the popular notion that tor people turned him Into one of the finest problems for so many dltrerent people, he the nation's 18th-Century election system and most dedicated civil servants that Ten­ laughed and said: "If a man don't want to requires some careful tinkering to accom­ nessee--and perhaps the country-has ever work, he hadn't ought to hire out." modate It to 20th-Century demands. known. Working for his people was his philosophy This does not necessarily mean the entire Robert Ashton "Fats" Everett was a man in life. Truly, we shall not see his like again. system should be consigned to the scrap heap. of simple yet great heritage. He sprang from What is needed Is cautious reform, not revo­ the fertile soil of Obion County, a son he lution. carried proudly on his massive shoes the rest The "district plan"-proposed in a consti­ or his life. tutional amendment by Sen. Hugh Scott His booming and infectious laugh, the THE MILITANT VISION yesterday as a Senate Judiciary subcommittee voice that could be heard for blocks and his opened hearings on election reform-would native and homey wit enhanced the "country seem to fill the bill. It promises to preserve boy" role he enjoyed and never sought to HON. HERMAN E. TALMADGE the best in the Electoral College system while abandon. OF GEORGIA avoiding the pitfalls of a direct popular vote. But beneath the sometimes brash exterior IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Under the Scott approach, which would was an astute and canny politician. A continue the Electoral College in the federal man who got things done, red tape was no Friday, January 31, 1969 tradition, each state would continue to have match tor the scissors he wielded when he Mr. TALMADGE. Mr. President, Mr. a number of electoral votes equal to its rep­ sought the core and the cure of a problem. Francis Merchant, of Demorest, Ga., has resentation in Congress. A candidate would The secret of his success was simple and win one vote tor every congressional district direct-Just llke the man. forwarded to me an article by Mr. M. A. he carried, plus two tor every state he carried. "Let's Just go to the head of the stream," Larkee entitled "The Militant Vision." Each vote would tally in the national count. he was fond of saying when confronted by a Although written in satire, many of the The plan would thereby help to underwrite problem involving one or his constituents. very good points made by Mr. Larkee are the two-party system by encouraging politi­ This meant going directly to the man, no more truth than fiction. There is no need cal efforts in all districts and states, es­ matter who he was, who would most likely to comment further on this article, which pecially perhaps In those areas where minor­ be able to solve the problem. And he knew speaks eloquently by itself. ity parties now tend to have a defeatist atti­ personally hundreds or such persons. tude. Republicans in Mississippi are a case Those who worked with him soon learned I wish to bring the article to the at­ in point; it is conceivable they could muster he was no prey tor the "city slickers" despite tention of Senators and ask unanimous enough popular votes in some districts to his country boy exterior. consent that it be printed in the RECORD. earn an Electoral College vote under the Scott Mr. Everett, It he was anything, was a There being no objection, the article proposal. reallst, an earthy but lovable man who saw was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Thus the plan would also overcome the things like they were. It was this quality that as follows: unfairness of the present scheme or win­ enabled him to accomplish so much during THE Mn.rrANT VISION ner-take-all. And since It would block dele­ his relatively short Ufe. gates to the Electoral College from defecting He grew up in a county which suffered (By M. A. Larkee) as Bailey did, it would assure the "little man" annually from the ravages of floods and he, The mllitant spirit abroad in the land 1s or a more direct voice. Uke other Obion Countlans, heard the oft­ transforming society under our very eyes. The The chief drawback to the proposal is that repea ted promises that something would be full implications are as yet not clear, but It no candidate were to receive a clear ma­ done. But it wasn't untll he reached the halls already It has done much. Our educational jority, the House and Senate in Joint session of Congress that the red tape surrounding system is in turmoil, and our cities are tom would choose a President from the top three the flood control work was snipped away and by dissension and demonstrations. All this tickets. the project undertaken. is but a foretaste, however, of what is to But even so, unlike a direct popular vote, Because of his membership on the House come. The drift of the times will produce it would safeguard the fundamental Ameri­ Public Works Committee he was able to even more radical changes than any we have can concept or a federal republic whereby the make sure his people in the Eighth Congres­ seen-and It behooves us to be prepared for people are "citizens of the United States and sional District were not left out when it coming upheavals. or the state wherein they reside." came to projects tor their benefit. The fundamental principle of the new radl· This concept Is too intifnately associated In addition to his flood control projects calism is that all rules, laws, and regulations with the American idea or states' rights and and the vital role he played in making the are man-made, and hence, ought to be chal­ citizens' rights to be abandoned in a stam­ Reelfoot-Indlan Creek Watershed District lenged. Society has been created by men, and pede brought on by the Bailey defection or project a reality, Mr. Everett helped indus­ therefore it is right and proper for those who the recent fear that Congress might have had tries In his district obtain federal contracts, find its demands oppressive to change its very to break a presidential vote deadlock because used his influence to help the University of structure. This principle may be called the or Wallace's candidacy. Tennessee at Martin to become a four-year inversion of values. 2426 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 31, 1969 For example, we have long held that stu­ There are some persons, it is true, who WILLIAM AVERELL HARRIMAN dents go to school to be taught by teachers. may !eel that the destruction o! our society Inverting this relationship, we arrive at the and the harm done to a few individuals are conclusion that teachers shoUld go to school too great a price to pay for developing a HON. DON EDWARDS to be taught by students. The consequences truly free and truly inclusive society. To may, of course, be unorthodox, but that is such persons, who haven't caught up with OF CALIFORNU surely to be expected. the twentieth century, the militants reply IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Again, the police have traditionally been that every great revolution required sacrlflces. Wednesday, January 29, 1969 considered the guardians o! law and order. How can we expect to bring the new order The resUlt of their endeavors has been a Into being I! we are timorous and anxious? Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. static society in which human beings are In a time o! ferment, we must expect a few Speaker, few of us were surprised when restricted and inhibited. The militant rebels contretemps every now and then. President Johnson asked W. Averell Har­ against the drabness and oppression o! such Even mlnisters are beginning to see the riman to represent our country in the a society. He prefers a more crea,tive atmos­ light. Not so long ago they were talking delicate peace negotiations to be under­ phere of disorder, riot, and excitement. Nat­ about man's relation to God and the need urally, he resents the fact that policemen to cleanse the soUl from sin. Now, however, taken in Paris. It is the kind of critical wish to impose laws upon him that prescribe they declare that true Christianity involves assignment he has been asked to assume forms of behavior uncongenial to him. Hence, participation in social and political violence, time and again by Presidents of the last he woUld like to be free of the law's heavy in the disruption or society, in direct action three decades, for no American is so and restrictive hand. All action, he bolds, to produce creative anarchy. It is most re­ highly respected by heads of state and should be the resUlt of free choice, not of freshing that these men of the cloth have the diplomats of the world than W. coercive prescriptions. If the mllltants have been so quickly converted to a view that Averell Harriman. their way, the police of the future, far from their predecessors considered wholly un­ Tha.t trust and respect which he enjoys enforcing repressive laws, Will become the christian. Of course, the change is not so promoters o! disorder and encourage the remarkable when they explain that they throughout the world is only a limited average citizen to express his pent-up emo­ have simply shifted their emphasis from reflection of our own pride and affection. tions and dislikes. In this way a freer, richer the sinning individual to the sinning so­ It is as though we could all take some society, unflawed by present stereotyped and ciety. credit for his being what he is-the best repressed urges, wlll come Into being. It was thought at one time that only per­ public servant this country has produced In the past, those who govern made laws, sons with good minds and a thirst !or knowl­ in our time. Although he has had a va­ and those who are governed obeyed them. edge should attend college. This theory was upheld by trustees and administrators, but riety of titles, from Governor of New This simple relationship has been impugned. York to Ambassador Extraordinary and Why shoUldn't those 'Pho are governed-a it is now considered old-fashioned and obso­ majority, to be sure--make the laws, and lete. Colleges are not for the special few, but Plenipotentiary to Europe, the title has those selected to govern merely enforce them? for the sociable many. A diploma should be not always indicated the importance of Were this principle generally accepted, the regarded as a status symbol, not a mark of his mission. Indeed, it is very likely that Supreme Court might have no function to Intellectual achievement. Admission require­ much of his highest service to his coun - fulfill. The people would interpret the law, ments are wholly irrelevant. The issue should try was done without benefit of title. In not nine elderly gentlemen who have little not be whether colleges are willing to accept the dark days immediately following sympathy !or the innovative tendencies of prospective students, but whether those who apply for admission are willing to endure Pearl Harbor, it was plain Mr. Harriman youth. who met repeatedly with Prime Minister The militants have taken seriously the be­ what the college offers. lief that all men are created equal. From Of course, many at. the subjects taught at Churchill and his aides. There were two this basic assumption it follows logically that college have little ll!e value and ought to men with whom President Roosevelt no one is Inferior and no one is superior. In be stricken from the curriculum. Higher edu­ shared an extraordinary rapport and other generations this conclusion was not cation should teach students about life, not confidence during that difficult period drawn. Today, however, the milltants tell us about such abstract subjects as mathematics, and one of them was Averell Harriman. that the assumed superiority of any particu­ grammar, anthropology, history, and lan­ He made repeated trips for the Presi­ lar group is a myth. The ignorant need no guage. Teachers should be chosen by students and the chief criterion should be the Instruc­ dent, sometimes in response to a terse longer bend the knee to those who have cable from Winston Churchill, "Send knowledge, and the dishonest no longer !eel tor's will1ngness to re-shape society along the guilty before those who obey moral prescrip­ lines that the pupils recommend. There Is Harriman." tions. The worst criminal In prison is the no real reason why the teacher should have Averell Harrtman's service to his coun­ equal of the president o! the country, and a degree or why he should have been ex­ try in its foreign relations has been so were the mores different their roles might be posed to deadening academic discipline. If outstanding that we tend to forget that reversed. Criminals, felons, homicides, and criminals and pickpockets know more about he entered government to fight depres­ sadists w1!1 take new heart from this modern life, why should they not be given the op­ portunity to share their knowledge with stu­ sion and poverty in the 1930's, leaving a view o! the world and will understand that substantial career in private business. there is a respectable place for them In our dents? society. They are no longer the alienated and How invigorating It is to live in a time Never wedded to old dogma, he became excluded. Pornographers-formerly con­ when the world Is exchanging old lamps for a Democrat and worked in various ca­ demned as moral perverts-are now coming new. It is our good fortune to witness the pacities for New Deal programs that are into their own. Even the Supreme Court Is substitution of creative violence for passive now part of our social and economic life. acknowledging their right to thrive and grow obedience, the Inversion of values at our uni­ He served in President Truman's Cabi­ rich. versities so that teachers and administra­ net as Secretary of Commerce. There­ The new militants are altering our atti­ tors are becoming pupils of those they for­ merly taught, and the development of new after his gifts for international diplo­ tudes to words that have become stereotyped. macy were always in competition with For example, violence has been a mtddle­ rights that make It possible for the most class, bourgeois expression with unpleasant case-hardened criminal to live at ease with his keenness for national and local connotations. Recently the slgnUlcance o! his conscience In a society that honors rather politics. this term has been more carefUlly studied. than rejects him. It is a time when youth, After the Marshall plan days and the The newly liberated Individual asks himself With Its Idealistic candor and refreshing ig­ setting up of NATO, he ran and was norance, moves into the center of the stage, What's so wrong about violence? Wasn't th~ brushing aside old and archaic customs, and elected Governor of New York. Although American Revolution an example of direct he competed for the highest elective of­ action? Does not the government rule by blows the trumpet o! a new day. What the future w111 bring, no one knows. fice in our country, that defeat was force? Are not labor unions effective only to quickly shaken off and he made himself the degree that they can impose their will The brave hope of the hour is that anarchy on employers? Nature herself expresses vio­ and disruption will succeed where order and available for any job where he was lence In tornadoes and thunderstorms. Why, reason have failed, and that those who are needed. In his own words, "I started as fundamentally Ignorant may achieve what a p1ivate with Roosevelt and worked to then, should we have such an abhorrence for the wise and experienced could not. the coercive method? Violence has created the top. And then I had to start as a In this atmosphere of confusion bordering our society, violence sustains it, and violence on chaos, let us always remember that the private all over again with Truman and produces new values for the future. Those worse the social strife becomes, the closer we work to the top. This is what I intend to who destroy our cities and engage in unlaw­ are to the brotherhood o! uninhibited free do again," and this is what he did do. ful action are, by this reasoning, our bene­ men. Therein lies hope. Let no one count Although he had been a member of the factors, that Is, the forgers of new attitudes the cost when the dawn of a new age ap­ Cabinet and a Governor of our largest and a new vision of life. pears on the far horizon. State, he did not hesitate to accept the January 31, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2427 job he was offered by President Kennedy ENCOURAGEMENT CITED of bureaucracy. He was a vtgorous that some thought too lowly, in the De­ He acknowledged the "great encourage­ champion of the constructive force of our partment of State. But he soon became ment" the program received from the Fed­ private enterprise system. He had the indispensable to President Kennedy and eral Aviation Administration and, by infer­ courage to insist that it be given the op­ ence, admitted that the ultllr.ate STOL air­ portunity to work. He believed in the was named Ambassador at Large so that craft which would truly answer the conges­ he could go where needed-whether it tion and delay problems is a long way off. abundant life for our citizens. All of us was Geneva to head the negotiations on But considering the time envisioned for are beneficiaries of the wisdom and work a cease-fire in Laos, or Moscow to get the complete modernization of the airways and of this great American. test ban treaty. airports system, the STOL concept he so After his voluntary retirement at the Although Ave Harriman has already hopefully described !tom the test experience end of the 84th Congress, Jesse Wolcott lived at least a half-dozen careers, it is might arrive first. served with distinction as a member of a relief to all of us that he w1ll be here Quick "endorsement" of the proposal by the Board and Chairman of the Federal where he can be called, as he has been the Aero Club was seen in presentation of Deposit Insurance Corporation. the club award to Eastern President Floyd In this hour of bereavement, his lovely called so many times before when his D. Hall. country needed him. He has our highest Crossfield, in lauding the capability of thr, wife, Grace, their children and grand­ gratitude and thanks. STOL operation, pointed out that It "uses children can take comfort in the rich unused concrete on the airports and un­ heritage left by their departed loved one. used space in the air." Its rapid climb-out Our sympathy is extended to all. and quick descent reduces noise and would ROCKET PLANE PIONEER PUSHING eliminate some of today's noise-abatement STOL IDEA turns, which he described as the "most dan­ gerous maneuver." Loaded with its own electronic navigation "FATS" EVERETT GRIEVED BY HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH gear, the STOL needs a minimum of atten­ MANY OF WEST vmGINIA tion from air traffic control; can fly on and off the established airways. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MINIMUM ATTENTION HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE OF TEXAS Friday, January 31, 1969 The late summer tests with the McDon­ Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, speak­ nell Douglas Model 188 also demonstrated, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing here yesterday, I called attention to Crossfield said, an ability to "operate with­ Thursday, January 30, 1969 the favorable report on short take-off out precision approach radar" and to give air traffic controllers confidence that the Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, and landing aircraft experiments con­ STOL "can do what we promised it would the press of Union City, Tenn., rendered ducted by Eastern Airlines and Mc­ do." a great service to the people of that State Donnell-Douglas. The report to which I The ultimate in STOL aircraft, he said, in reporting to them the greatness and referred was made by A. Scott Crossfield, might be large enough for 200 passengers character of our late colleague, "Fats" a vice president of Eastern Airlines, in ("the bigger the better for Eastern," he Everett. Under leave to extend my re­ addressing the Aero Club of Washing­ grinned) and as small as 50 to 60 for smaller airlines. marks, I include an article carried by ton at a Tuesday luncheon meeting. the Daily Messenger of Union City in I noted with gratification that the The United States aircraft industry has no such plane, but Crossfield says a number which appear the comments of many of Washington Post report on Mr. Cross­ of proposals have been received since the "Fats" closest friends made about this fleld's discussion of the STOL trials STOL tests started last year. quoted the Eastern vice president for truly wonderful man: American Airlines is preparing a STOL test NATION GRIEVES OVER EVERETT flight research and development as hav­ program, largely in the Midwest, uslng a ing termed those trials an unqualified similar McDonnell Douglas plane. The death of Rep. Robert A. Everett Sun­ success. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Clifton von day has drawn many expressions of sadness, Kann, vice president of the Air Transport ranging from the poor of Obion County to Last night, I read in the Washington the President of the United States. Evening Star the article written by the Association, was elected president of the Aero Club and Edward Lightfoot, vice presi­ One local official burst into tears while Star's aviation editor, Charles Yar­ dent of Lockheed, named club vice president talking to a Messenger reporter about Mr. brough, and I noted that Charley had at the Hotel Washington luncheon. Everett. emphasized some significant paints Obion County Judge Dan McKinnis ex­ which are worthy of special attention as pressed the sentiments of Obion Countlans we study this vital subject of aviation, when he said, "Our people are heartbroken, our state is stunned and from the sidewalks airpart/ airways development to over­ THE LATE HONORABLE JESSE P. o! the nation a great voice has been hushed­ come air traffic and airport congestion. WOLCOTT our voice." Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ SIInilar comments were heard today from sent that Mr. Yarbrough's article be State Senator Milton Hamilton Jr., Mayor printed in the RECORD. HON. WILLIAM B. WIDNALL Charles "Red" AdaillS, former Mayor James There being no objection, the article OF NEW JERSEY L. Rippy and Circuit Court Judge Phil Harris. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Judge McKinnis went on to say: "From the ranks of the common people, as follows: Wednesday, January 29, 1969 the Eighth District has suffered its greatest ROCKET PLANE PIONEER PuSHING STOL IDEA Mr. WIDNALL. Mr. Speaker, for a loss. (By Charles Yarbrough) third of my 19 years as a member of the "The only man I ever knew who could A test pilot-engineer who literally rocketed 'walk with kings nor lose the common touch' to speed records, has proposed a tantalizing Banking and Currency Committee it was Is gone. lower and slower solution to airline conges­ my high privilege to serve under the "From the depths of our sympathy and de­ tion in what he terms "that combat zone able leadership of the late Jesse P. Wol­ pression, we pause in respect and tribute to known as the Northeast corridor." cott. As ranking minority member, then one of our own. A. Scott Crossfield, a pioneer of the spec­ as chairman, and again as ranking mi­ "Our greatest honor to him would be to tacular Xl5 rocket plane, yesterday told an nority member he enjoyed the love, trust, resolve to serve every man, every woman and Aero Club audience of the vast potential of and respect of his colleagues on both every child faithfully, honestly, and diligent­ the airline-type STOL (short-takeoff-and­ ly as he has done. landlng) airplane which could double the sides of the aisle not alone in committee "His great mind could open the gates to capacity of National Airport. but also on the floor of the House. the lowly as well as the nation's great. Crossfield, now division vice president of Although short and rotund in stature, "But nature has ordained that we must flight research and development !or Eastern the "Little General" was a commanding suffer and subinit. Airlines, summarized the test program on a leader. His warm personality eased ten­ "In our sadness, let us c~rry on as he would STOL-type aircraft which the airline and sions in acrimonious floor debate and his have us to do." McDonnell Douglas operated out o! National incisive analysis of complex problems Of Mr. Everett, a man who at the age o! late last summer. pointed the way for the House to achieve 23 was elected Obion County Circuit Court The aircraft, a modified version of the Clerk, the youngest man in the nation to French Breguet, also piled Eastern's routes sound legislative accomplishments. He hold such a position, Senator Hainilton had in the busy Northeast corridor using New was a master of the art of constructive thls to say: York's LaGuardia and Boston's Logan air­ compromise. "Fats was truly a representative o! the ports. Jesse Wolcott was a foe of the blight people. He knew and loved people from all 2428 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 31, 1969 walks of life, from the coon hunter to the ment, the military service and-most recent­ the impossible. Last year few gave them banker, from the farmer to the businessman ly-in the Congress of the United States. much of a chance when the season and from the poor to the very wealthy. "He will be missed by all who knew him." started, and few gave them much of a "Anyone who wrote him always received Tennessee political leaders referred to an answer. He had an approach to problems Everett, a 6-foot-4 and 300-pound "giant," chance when the State championship which can best be illustrated by quoting him. as a "provider of good humor" an able repre­ game was played. But they came through He often said, 'If you want to get things sentative, and a "wheelhorse" for the Demo­ to win that victory which showed they done, go to the head of the stream.' His cratic Party. wanted to win that much. heart was as big as he was big. Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., said: Again this season not too many "In his years In congress he accomplished "The nation has lost a patriot, Tennessee thought they would go all the way to the drainage of the Obion River, a project has lost a dedicated and distinguished son, the State championship a second time. that was much talked about but very little and the Democratic Party has lost a wheel­ But the boys did, and that was what done about until he came along. Through horse. his efforts on both the state and national "One of the most colorful political leaders, mattered. This proves they are made levels, the Reelfoot-Ind.ian Creek Watershed he was warm, Jovial, earthy, beloved by the of the stuff that champions are made was formed and now ls becoming reality. people. His personality was a strange mixture; of and I am proud to know that they live "The greatest tribute I could pay Fats ls he mixed humor and reality, humility and in the 10th District of Texas--Austin­ to change a song title and say 'Fats Everett energy, the common touch and a doggedness where we have splendid educational and was a blg, blg man'. to achieve. recreational opportunities, and where "Fats will be missed by the Eighth Con­ "These characteristics made of hlm an ef­ young men are taught to become young gressional Dlstrlct. We ln Obion County will fective representative of the people." Gov. Buford Ellington, a close personal leaders. And, when this happens, you miss hlm more than most because we knew know that each boy comes from a good hlm better and we loved him more. May he friend of the congressman, said he cherished rest in peace for a job well done." Everett's friendship and "respected him as a home where parents love them and en­ A close friend of the congressman, Mayor man who had spent a lifetime doing some­ courage them to do their best. Adams said: thing for others ... he was a man of great I believe that their coach, Travis Intelligence and possessed a great under­ Raven, deserves a special word of credit "All of his friends suffered with him dur­ standing of people." ing his several weeks of illness but I don't Expressions of sympathy also came from for maintaining the high standards he think the shock Sunday morning could have Tennessee Reps. Joe L. Evins, James Quillen, has demanded in the past. Also, each been greater. Personally, I didn't have a Ray Blanton, William Brock, William R. member of the squad is due our admira­ dearer friend and I don't suppose I ever will. Anderson and Dan Kuykendall and from Sen. tion for reflecting so well the spirit and He couldn't have been closer to me had he Howard Baker. enthusiasm of our Alperican youth. been my own brother. Rep. Kuykendall of Memphis, a Republi­ At this point, Mr. Speaker, I include "He was the most dedicated man I ever can, said: a full roster of the team. met. And he did more personally for indi­ Congressman Everett's greatness as a per­ viduals in Union City, Obion County and son and as a public servant has been best ROSTER OF JOHN H. REAGAN HIGH SCHOOL the Eighth District than any other man has demonstrated to me by the way he helped me, RAIDERS ever done or probably ever will do. a freshman congressman from the opposite Billy Schott, Emory Bellard, Robert Miller, "He was important to everybody. He was party, with problems far beyond all formal Chuck Lipscomb, Steve Ph!lllps, Howard a friend to everybody. As sick as he was, he courtesy. I shall miss him as a true friend, Shaw, Pete Huffman, Alan Moore, Jackie was still interested in helping people. He sat as our community will miss him." Llnam, Steve Grant, Jerry Johnson, Donald in that office and worked when we knew he Ealey, Lester Ealey, Gene Sanders, James had no business working. Hendricks, Morris Hoover, Mickey Vann, "Grief has always been difficult for me to AUSTIN'S REAGAN RAIDERS MAKE Bobby Bacon, Preston Matthews, Hap Feur­ express. At a tlme like this, the right words IT TWO IN A ROW bacher, Stan McElrath, Tom Kelly, Tobin Just won't come." Haynes. Former Mayor James L. Rippy recalled Tommy Moorman, Curt Swenson, Jerry some of the many projects upon which Rep. HON. J. J. PICKLE Carpenter, Cary Kipp, Donald Nichols, Doyle Bridgefarmer, Troy Schulz, Jimmy W!lllams, Everett had lent hls help. OF TEXAS "The State of Tennessee, the Eighth Con­ Bill Bluntzer, Tim Harkins, Bobby Reynolds, gressional District, Obion County and Union IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Rusty Campbell, Larry Arrants, Mike Bayer, City have suffered the loss of a dynamic Thursday, January 30, 1969 Rickey Smith, Gary Morrison, Stan Manley, congressman. James Cawthon, Leven Deputy, Roger "Despite his size, I knew few such untiring Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, about this Roeglln, Mike Ray. workers as 'Fats' Everett. He was ready at time last year I called to the attention any hour of the day or night to help anyone of my colleagues in the House the fact who called on hlm for assistance. that Austin, Tex., Reagan High School APOLLO STATUS SUMMARY "As former mayor of Union Clty, I am had won the 1967 Texas AAAA State thankful for his assistance to our city ln Football Championship. securing federal aid for expansion of our HON. JAMES G. FULTON Now I have the pride and pleasure to OF PENNSYLVANIA water and sewer systems and on a number of announce again that the Raiders per­ other programs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "The Houser Creek, Grove Creek, and Reel­ formed the same feat for 1968. Topping foot-Ind.ian Creek watersheds, plus his drain­ off a tough season by an encounter with Thursday, January 30, 1969 age work on the Obion River, will afl'ect the the Odessa Permian High School team, Mr. FULTON of Pennsylvania. Mr. lives of many people for years to come. the Raiders again seized the champion­ Speaker, as the ranking minority mem­ "Although we cannot forget the material ship title for the 4-A division-the top ber of the Committ.ee on Science and benefits, his booming voice, welcoming smile, high school sports category in the State. Astronautics as well as the Subcommit­ friendly greetings and love of life also will This is only the fourth time in the sports be missed by all of us. Our thanks and pray­ tee on Manned Space Flight, it is a pleas­ ers go out to the mother of a tireless worker." history of our State that a high school ure to call to the attention of Congress And Circuit Court Judge Phil Harris of has won State championships, back to and the American people the most recent Greenfield said: back, in consecutive years. status report of the Apollo program to "Fats was a representative who has meant Mr. Speaker, I do not have to tell you place an American astronaut on the more to the individuals of this district than how proud we are of the Raiders. Their moon this year. We in Congress have any other congressman I have ever known. kind of success reflects hours of hard applauded the flight of Apollo 8, mark­ He was able to be a representative of his work and training as well as the spirit of district and, at the same tlme, he was close ing the first time that man has escaped to his people. teamwork so essential in this sport. the gravitational pull of the earth and "Whether you were rich or whether you At a time when so many of our youths the first time man has orbited the moon. were poor you still had equal access to him are engaging in some form of riots or dis­ With the rest of mankind, we watch and he took each person's problem to heart. turbance, when a few of the hippies get anxiously as the preparations proceed "I think this was an attribute few people the headlines, and when even educational for the flight of Apollo 9, scheduled for possess and this was what made him a great processes are interrupted because of the launch on the 28th of February. congressman and a true representative of the improper antics of a few misguided people. The status report follows: The President's message to Mrs. Lella Ash­ youths, it is heartwarming to see the APOLLO STATUS SUMMARY ton Everett, expressed President and Mrs. young men of Reagan High School band The Apollo 9 flight readliness test was suc­ Nixon's sadness and pointed out that the themselves together in such a splendid cessfully completed last week with the prime· Congressman's "public contribution came in unit and win the State championship. and back-up crews participating In the mis­ many ways, In both oounty and state govern- These young men have almost done sion simulations. On Saturday, a success- January 31, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2429 ful manned test ot the launch Complex and Woodrow Wilson in 1912 with 41.85 % party, !ts pledges and principles and popu­ 39A slide wire was completed. The slide wire and in 1916 with 49.26 % of the popular vote. larize the party's officials already serving in is an emergency egress system to evacuate With these two lonesome arguments for office, making their party greater and more up to nine men from the spacecraft level the direct vote plan thoroughly d!sproven responsible and responsive. of the moblle launcher to the outskirts ot we may proceed to giye the reasons why the 19. On September 6, 1787, Alexander Ham­ the launch pad. Astronaut Stuart Roosa ot direct vote plan Is wrong and why the Con­ Uton declared, "Let the election of the Pres­ the Apollo 9 support crew, Arthur Porcher gressional District Plan is right: ident be confined to electors." Hamilton had of Kennedy Space Center Design Engineer­ 4. The in:tant nation that fashioned the been leading the fight for a highly central­ ing, and Charles Billings, a Kennedy Space political miracle of Constitutional Govern­ ized government. Center Safety Officer rode the 2,200-foot-long ment at Philadelphia in 1787 has become the 20. The electoral method o:r selecting a wire In the test. 2oth century colossus of the world. The con­ President was decided upon after long weeks Leak checks are now being conducted on stitutional fabric woven by those patriots o:r debate, deliberation and thorough con­ the ground support equipment for loading through eloquence, persuasion, a strong sense sideration. bypergollc fuels aboard the Apollo 9 space o:r justice, logic, and love of liberty bas held 21. At the end o:r many weeks of study and vehicle. Hypergolic fueling is scheduled to firm through the ages. debate at the Constitutional Convention, get underway late this week. 5. The reform in an orderly manner of our Benjamin Franklin was asked by interested Guidance and control checks are underway historic Electoral College system would win a parties outside the convention, "What do on the Apollo 10 launch vehicle assembled great test!monial from :tree world and from we have?" His reply was, "A Republic 11 you on its mobile launcher in the Vehicle As­ Communist nations abroad to the workabil­ can keep It." Congress, in the adoption of sembly Building. The Apollo 10 spacecraft is ity or government to meet problems within an amendment, should reel a responsibility in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Build­ the :tramework of our Republic, which has to the memory of Benjamin Franklin. ing undergoing final tests and preparations bunt the greatest nation In history. 22. The present system which needs re­ before being mated with the launch vehicle 6. There is nothing sacred about direct forming makes of the electors straw men, in early February. The service module SPS voting. Whether or not there is, dictators and the direct vote would dispense com­ engine nozzle was installed and leak checks sanctimoniously claim to have been "elected" pletely with electors destroying their tre­ were conducted this week. The high gain through the direct vote. mendous potential as public servants. antenna has been installed and is being 7. The direct vote cannot impress the en­ 23. Former nominees could constitute an checked out. The command/ service module slaved subjects In dictatorships that Repub­ unofficial committee influential in rendering will be mated to the lunar module adapter lic USA affords the participation o:r the gov­ services such as the Hoover Commission per­ later this week. erned. Their masters have pretended to give formed. Apollo 11 command/service module arrived them a direct voting privilege which they 24. A committee of former nominees :tor at Kennedy Space Center last week where :round to be only a delusion and a snare, al­ presidential elector (FNPEC) would have a it underwent receiving inspection prior to though a direct vote. wide range of activities open to It, giving being placed in the altitude chamber. The 8. With the direct vote the prestige of Re­ significance to everything they did. lunar module leak and functional checks public USA would be :rurther decimated. It 25. Members of such a committee could are expected to be completed later this week. would be considered little 11 any better than grant press Interviews on subjects of public The launch vehicle third stage is in the the "direct vote" their dictators enforce on interest, write articles, appear on public af­ Vehicle Assembly Building low bay under­ them with an ultimatum ot "vote or else," fairs programs on network television, and going checkout. The second stage is sched­ the penalty being "get out of the party" and make reports to the President that would be uled to arrive at Kennedy Space Center the sometimes worse. more objective and helpful than those be end of this week and the booster is due in 9. James Madison said that the district receives from his advisors. mid-February. system of choosing electors was "mostly, 11 26. The committee could name a spokes­ not exclusively, in view when the Constitu­ man for its membership in such fields as tion was framed and adopted." The electoral foreign affairs, agriculture, de:tense and other system was foremost in the minds of the vital areas. ELECTORAL COLLEGE REFORM delegates. 27. Even the Supreme Court Inight be less 10. On July 26 , 1787, George Mason of Vir­ supreme when wrong, such as in event of a ginia told the Convention that at least 7 pro­ series of decisions favorable to communists HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN posals had been considered !or the selection and other subversives which such committee OF NEW HAIICPSHIRE of a President. It had been open to full de­ may :find not in the public interest or un:tav­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bate and study for nearly two months. orable to continued survival o:r the Republic. 11. He said It was proposed that the Chief 28 . A committee o:r Former Nominees !or Thursday, January 30, 1969 Executive should be elected by popular vote Presidential Elector would be a great force Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, among the and this proposal for the "direct vote" had for good and a source of strength for the various proposals for reforming the elec­ always :Called. country's future. toral college is the congressional district 12. The direct vote was most criticized. 29. Early in the Convention It was apparent Mason said or it, "It has been proposed that that the least populous states were :tearful plan. Mr. H. L. Hunt, of Dallas, Tex., who the election should be made by the people of the power that Inight be wielded by the has been active in many civic causes and themselves; that is, that an act which ought more populous states. This fear was a factor helpful in the continuing quest for sound to be per:tormed by those who know most in the rejection of the direct vote as a government, has stated his view of 123 of eminent characters and qualifications manner of electing the President o:r the reasons why the congressional district should be performed by those who know United States. Their :tears were well-founded. plan is the best. least." The popularizing of universal suf­ Of the first six Presidents or the United States, These reasons were presented in testi­ frage should not replace wisdom. four were from V!rgln!a and two from Mass. mony before the Senate Judiciary Sub­ 13. Later on August 24, a motion in the 30. If Members of Congress and State Legis­ Convention that the President be elected latures abolish the Electoral College with committee on Constitutional Amend­ by direct vote was rejected, seven states to the direct vote plan as a result of a catch ments in August 1967. Because of con­ three. phrase or a whim, they will show little venera­ tinuing interest in this important sub­ 14. The Congressional District Plan in­ tion for the Founders o:r Freedom, who after ject, I believe they ought now to be in­ stead of a direct vote would cause presiden­ many weeks of deliberation, debate and bal­ cluded in the RECORD for general review: tial electors to be chosen by people who loting wrote a Constitution which nurtured know them best and they would be citizens Republic USA, the greatest nation ever on SOME REASONS WHY THE CONGRESSIONAL of stature Instead o:r nonentities. DISTRicn' PLAN Is THE BEST earth. 15. Under the Congressional District Plan 31. The contest between Alexander Ham11- (By H. L. Hunt) the qualifications and attributes of the nom­ ton who advocated a strong central govern­ We who favor a Congressional District Plan inees tor the two electors representing the ment and Thomas Jefferson who was introduced as SJR 86 and HJR 511-i say and State and the elector from the District would dedicated to a democracy fortunately gave give the :tollowing reasons why the district be well known to the electorate of their State birth to our Republic. plan Is best. or District. 32. The need of the immortals !or the 1. The Direct Vote could prevent the elec­ 16. The prolninence and reputation of elec­ smaller of the States in :rounding our Repub­ tion of a minority vote President only by tors would add to the prestige o:r the can­ lic was Imperative. The States with less pop­ employing run-off elections. A run-off na­ didates for whom they are pledged to vote ulation were granted a bonus of Electoral Col­ tion-wide election is not practical. and all other candidates and officials of their lege votes with an elector for each of the two 2. The reduction in the excessive power o:r political party. U.S. Senators and one elector for each of their the big city machines by the direct vote 17. Nominees to the Electoral College Representatives In the House. The direct vote would be no more than 20 % and the Con­ would be expected to campaign for the can­ plan would destroy this bonus system which gressional District Plan would reduce the ex­ didate for whom they are pledged to vote has been wisely :tollowed !or them and for cessive voting power ot big city machines and In the event of his election to become new states when admitted. 80 % or four times as much. Presidential advisors, Cabinet Members, Am­ 33. The generous assignment o:r presidential 3. During the past 97 years Abraham Lin­ bassadors and occupy other positions vital electors to the scantly populated states was to coln was elected in 1860 with 39.79% o:r the to the nation's interest. compensate for the :tailure in their being popular vote; Grover Cleveland with a mi­ 18. Nolninees for Presidential electors given Cabinet posts, Supreme Court Justices nority of the popular vote in both hIB terms; would campaign :tor other candidates o:r their and other high positions in government. 2430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 31, 1969 34. Many of the best informed people in the Secretary of Defense or an Army Chief merit, unfortunately abolishes the Electoral the nation today who deplore the present of Sta.ff by direct vote. College system, a vital part of our republic electoral college system say that a direct vote 53. In spite of the deep disappointment form of government which has nurtured the would be far worse than the present system with the present Supreme Court, there has greatest nation on earth. The abolishment of by advancing the centralization of our never been a time in the life of our Republic the Electoral College system should not be government. that the people would have tolerated choice toyed with in any way which is not needed 35. It would cause the Federal Govern­ of a Supreme Court Justice by the direct in effecting a reform. ment to come into the States to conduct each vote. 67. The Mundt Plan for districts to be Presidential election. 54. Members of the Catholic faith venerate formed to elect presidential electors equal to 36. The direct vote would nullify the their Pope who Is elected by Cardinals serv­ the number of Representatives ln the Lower present system of absentee voting formulated ing as electors as effectively as presidential House from a Senate and 2 for each Senator, for the convenience of the citizens of each electors serve. The laity would never venerate and the Lodge-Gossett Proportionate Reso­ state. a Pope who was elected by direct vote of the lution, both with good merit, have dl!fered 37. The Federal Government would estab­ laity. enough to nullify each other for many years, lish rules for absentee voting 1! direct vote 55. When the heads of Protestant denomi­ blocking much needed reform of the Elec­ prevails. nations are selected, it would be impractical toral College system. Their supporters may 38. In two states suffrage begins at age 18; to try to elect them by a direct vote of the now center on the Congressional District in one state at age 19; in four states at age laity; and few of the members of any Plan (SJR 86 and HJR 584) for a needed 20. The zealous Federal Government would denomination would have confidence in a victory. impose age llmits for voting to apply to all head of their denomination elected by direct 68. The direct vote does not have suffi­ states. vote. cient merit for it to win a replacement of the 39. The direct vote necessitating the Federal 56. Donors of great universities and the present antiquated Electoral College system, Government conducting elections will bring students attending them would have little however much it needs reforming. highly centralized government into the states confidence in a Chancellor or University 69. A great storm reduces materially the to prescribe the required residence in the President who was elected by their direct voter turnout In one or several states. Under state for suffrage. vote. direct voting, the weather could become more 40. The centralized government's necessity 57. Nominating committees are nearly al­ decisive in a Presidential election. to conduct presidential elections within the ways employed in the selection of a President 70. A power failure in one section of the states under the direct vote plan would be of large corporations and associations. These country could likewise alter the outcome of the forerunner of its conducting the elections officers are no doubt better officials than lf a national election. for U.S. Senators, Governors, Congressmen, elected by the stockholders through "one 71. Under the Congressional District Plan State Legislators, County Officials, Mayors man-one vote" suffrage. nearly every state with 10 or more electors and School Directors. 58. Vermont, Delaware, and New Hamp­ would give a part of its electoral vote to each 41. It would increase the size and central­ shire, all of which participated in the ratifi­ of the major party candidates and break the ization of the big Federal system and add to cation of the Constitution, and a fourth big-population-state monopoly. the power of the big city bosses. state, Rhode Island, were never given an 72. Members of State Legislatures are dele­ 42. The Constitutional Convention at which appointment to the Supreme Court bench gates elected by the people to make laws for this miracle was fashioned opened May 14, until Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire, was their state. They will be Influential in elec­ 1787. A quorum of 7 states was attained on appointed in 1845. This one appointment tions for Congressmen and presidential May 25 , 1787. from these four States was the first and only electors. 43. On July 19, James Madison of Virginia one to the Supreme Court. 73. With the District Plan, a Congressman declared that the substitution of electors for 59. In transmitting the Constitution to would be influential in the election of a the direct vote in electing a President of the the President of the Continental Congress, presidential elector from his district. United States seemed likely to encounter few­ George Washington wrote in a letter of 74. Since the time element now precludes est objections. September 17, 1787: "It ls obviously imprac­ a ratification by the State Legislatures In 44. Madison continued, "It is a funda­ tical In the Federal Government of these time for the reform amendment to affect the mental principle of free government that the States, to secure all rights of Independent 1968 presidential elections it has become a Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the truly non-partisan issue, for none can say shall be separately exercised; it is equally so interest and safety of all: Individuals enter­ which of the major political parties might that they be independently exercised." ing Into society must give up a share of benefit most in 1972 from its enactment. 45. James Monroe, the fifth President of the liberty to preserve the rest.•' In making this 76. In a recent poll only 10% favored con­ United States and famous for originating the sacrifice, everyone, regardless of where they tinuation of the Electoral College system in Monroe Doctrine which protected the West­ live, should be treated as fairly as possible. its present form. The time for action Is now. ern Hemisphere from foreign aggression up to 60. Direct vote would lead to big govern­ 76. The direct popular vote proposals are a few years ago, was one of the immortal ment. George Washington said, "Government, co-sponsored by Senators from Vermont, founders who decided for the Republic of like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful North Dakota, Nev., Mont., Maine and Idaho, the United States of America to use an Elec­ master." lessening the voting power of their constitu­ toral College system and not a direct vote in 61. More and more, students of govern­ ents drastically. the election of Presidents. To abandon the ment are realizing that the district electoral 77. Eight of the original 13 states and 28 Electoral College system instead of reforming plan presented to the Constitutional Con­ other states, 41 in all, have never had any it would be to abandon the principles of vention by James Wilson of Pennsylvania on of their citizens elected President. June 2, 1787, is the best method by which James Monroe today, just as the Monroe 78. The direct vote would result in the Doctrine was abandoned in permitting the the intentions of our forefathers to create a republic form of government in the United people of 36 States losing voting power, and setting up of the Communist dictator Fidel 16 States gaining from both the Present Castro. States can be realized and perpetuated. Now antiquated, the Electoral College system Electoral College system and from the Con­ 46. The election of a President by direct gressional District Plan if In effect. vote would be tantamount to electing Sena­ needs only to be wisely reformed, never abolished. 79. It would take away much of the voting tors and Representatives on a national basis power from the states whose citizens suffer rather than each State and District electing 62. The Congressional District Plan, SJR 86 and HJR 584, for reform of the Electoral near disenfranchisement In presidential Its own, and probably will eventually result elections. in a nationwide election of Congressmen and College system will help guarantee and per­ Senators without regard for their place of petuate what our Founding Fathers sought 80. Judging from the population trend residence. to achieve. since the 1960 census the population Increase 47. Any delegate voting system is better 63. The direct vote plan popularized with In large population stat es ls growing faster than direct voting. catch phrases would go a long way toward than the other states, and a projection to the 48. Members of Congress are delegates and destroying their creation when they appear 1970 census Is even more awesome. electors for the people. The laws which mem­ to the greatest students of government to 81 . IDghly populated States have predomi­ bers of Congress enact are far superior than have been "guided by Divine Providence." nated In having their citizens become U.S. if the people convened to enact them. It was appraised by Gladstone a hundred Presidents. Twenty-two of the 32 Presidents 49. The direct vote In abolishing the Elec­ years later as the most wonderful work ever who have been elected to office were from toral College would elect the President with­ st ruck off at a given time by the brain and only four States. out the states participating as individual purpose of man. 82. The direct vote would result In a gain entitles. 64. Nearly without exception the Founders of voting power for California of 18 % , for 50. It would result in a government with­ feared the creation of a democracy, and the New York and Pennsylvania each a gain of out "maintaining our nation as a union of adoption of a direct vote now would confirm 17 % , for Illinois a gain of 16 % , for Ohio and states" as requested in President Johnson's their fears. Michigan each a gain of 12 % . message to Congress, January 28, 1965. 65 . To substitute the Electoral College sys­ 83. The direct vote plan would reduce the 51. In the current debate for reform, it tem with the direct vote would be to aban­ voting power of the people of Alaska down should be remembered that the direct vote don an important provision the Founding to 23 % of their present voting st rength; Ne­ system of elections is far inferior to delegate Fathers relied upon to establish our nation vada to 29 %; Wyoming to 32 %; Vermont to voting. as a Republic. 39 %; Delaware to 46 %; and Hawaii and 52. None would feel safe in the choice of 66. The proportional Plan, which does have North Dakota each to 47 %. January 31, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2431 84. Under the Electoral College system a presidential electors they had nominated and 112. These states under the present system combination of many small states where calm the presidential elector which they elect. can be overridden by the 9 states containig thinking prevails could be the deciding !actor 100. An ideal delegate (presidential elec­ very large cities and this Is true under a In a candidate being elected President. tor) plan would be for voters In the pre­ direct vote, but could hardly be possible with 85. Under the direct vote plan small states cinct where they would be voting on elector the District Plan. Any few suburbs or small would lose even this possibility. For example, candidates within their acquaintance, to cities could break the pattern. In 1966 the combined plurality obtained by elect a delegate elector from those in the 113. The Congressional District Plan (SJR the Governors of New York and California precinct most familiar with and interested 86 and HJR 584), different from any other exceeded the population of 24 of the indi­ in the Executive Department. The elector proposal, provides that in the event of death, vidual states of the Union. from this precinct would meet In a con­ disab111ty or inab111ty to act of any elector 86 . Reforming the Electoral College system vention with other Executive Department prior to completing his duties of office, a of allocating votes protects small states and electors from other precincts within their substitute who shall honor his pledge shall small groups and minorities. Congressional Districts. This ~nventlon of be designated by a standing committee of 87. The direct vote would utterly destroy electors would in turn elect an elector to seven established for that purpose by the the Electoral College system, an important the National Convention which would elect State Legislature. tenet of the Founders of Freedom to make the President. In addition to this delegate 114. SJR 86 and HJR 584 of the 90th Con­ our government a Republic protecting ml­ there would be a duplicate delegate who gress wisely originates the provision that nori ties, and not a democracy, often ruled would attend only to the choice of officials in the event of the death of any candidate for by the uncertain whims or a majority. at each respective level. The same system President and Vice President during the elec­ 88. The election of electors by popular vote could be employed in the Legislative De­ tion campaign, substitutions shall promptly within Congressional Districts would enable partment and in the Judicial Department. be made by a committee of seven established every American to have a fair voice in the 101. The Congressional District Plan, SJR for that purpose by the convention at which selection of the President of the United 86 and HJR 584 Is of highest merit. If an they were nominated. States, regardless of whether he lived in the election ever resulted in a tie, which might 115. It provides that in addition to the municipality of a city, a suburb, town or be once in a thousand years, the election District of Columbia and other areas (with rural area. would be resolved by the House of Repre­ Puerto Rico the first area involved) to which 89. Under t he direct vote plan, the premi­ sentatives by secret ballot. suffrage may be extended, suffrage shall be um for fraud would be greatly Increased. 102. The most populous states are con­ treated in such manner as Congress may 90. In times past Kansas City, Mo. and tinuing to increase in population rapidly. direct. recently'"Chlcago, Ill. have been noted regard­ Unless the Electoral College system is re­ 116. In the Soviet Union, China, and many ing their questionable tallying of votes which formed and the direct vote Is not a re­ Communist countries, the ruling elite Is decide the election of officials _n those states. form, within a few years, 9, 8, or 7 states can now wavering. Khrushchev's total loss of Greater harm would come from this practice completely dominate the election of the power overnight has disturbed them. The being extended to the election of President President and Vice-President. The voters defection of Stalin's daughter to the free through a direct vote. from the other states are practically dis­ world seeking religious freedom makes their 91. When suspicions arise concerning the enfranchised. Without reform, the manipu­ "liberation" system questionable. adequacy of poll watchers or the vote count lated vote prevalent In the mid-city section 117. Dictator Mao's resort to dependence In some states in a close national election, of large metropolises would be increasingly on the Red Guard, many of whom are mere if the election was a direct vote there would difficult to control. Suburbs where calmer children, in order to maintain his domina­ be less assurance of its fairness and less views may prevail would often comprise a tion indicates they are considering other chance of a correction of a fraudulent return large part of an Electoral College district and types of government. of a vote than there would be in the election their people's voice would be heard in the 118. The extreme bitterness between So­ of the two presidential electors from each presidential race through their District Plan viets and Chinese Reds was unexpected and state. presidential elector. a departure from the amicable meetings they 92. There would be far more assurance of 103. A provision for a presidential elector have convened for the purpose of denouncing the integrity of an election for a presidential from a Congressional District would add to freedom as "imperialism." They may have elector m a Congressional District, !or the the stature of presidential electors. It is been reading a model Constitution which has voters would be choosing from among candi­ likely that the outstanding theologian, ed­ been translated into Mandarin and made dates of their own or their neighbor's ac­ ucator, community leader, could be nom­ available to them in quantity, 'printed and quaintance and In many instances whom inated and campaign for the office of presi­ on radio. they know well. dential elector from his Congressional Dis­ 119. Riots started by students In Indo­ 93 . With a direct nationwide vote, a ques­ trict. nesia and continued by long suffering anti­ tion could arise, as sometimes it has in past 104. The members or the United States communists where there was supposed to State elections, regarding any ballot box Senate and the House of Representatives be none, have dethroned Sukarno who was among thousands in any country in the will have studied in vain if they send a supported for years by the U.S.A. and the USA. Constitutional Amendment to the state leg­ Soviet Union. Indonesia is another one of the 94. In some cases the validity of the total islatures which the state legislatures will not series of unsual problems of the Communist election returns have been questioned be­ confirm. world. Indonesia is another Communist mis­ cause of the votes for presidential electors 105. If the Congressional District Plan is hap which establishes a fertile field wherein in one or two States. In a direct vote this not right, it should not be transmitted to Republic U.S.A. with the best handling of its suspicion could arise as to any or all of the the state legislatures nor confirmed. If it Electoral College system could win a blood­ 50 States of the Union. is right and the best solution for the reform less victory. 95 In the past 97 years, two other Presi­ of the Electoral College, every member of 120. The direct vote plan has too little dents were elected with a minority of the the Congress who supported it in sending merit and too many serious faults to win popular vote-Benjamin Harrison and John it to the State legislatures can aspire to a in the campaign to change the present Elec­ F. Kennedy. higher office or more prestige in exercising toral College system. A poll would have shown 96. President John F. Kennedy and Vice the prerogatives of the office which he now a few months ago that 7 to 1 of the electorate President Lyndon Johnson might have been occupies. wanted a change, but there has been a dirth forced into a run-off election under some 106. Of the portraits of the five Senate ot publicity, and members of Congress are of the direct vote plans which are proposed. "immortals" on the wall of the Senate visit­ becoming confused with the different changes 97. The Congressional District Plan could ing room, only one, Taft, was elected by the under considera.tion. Time Is of the essence, truly be the application of the "one man­ direct vote method. and action will be appreciated by the public. one vote" principle. When these districts 107. Only a select few of the public would 121. A sensible and logical improvement in become Electoral College Districts as well have confidence in and feel comfortable with the Electoral College system will be a fine as Congressional Districts, the necessity for a Chief of Police who was elected by a direct testimonial in favor of individual initiative proper proportionment of districts to the vote. and the Republic form of government as total population of the Nation and the best 108. It is agreed that Mayors elected by compared with dictatorship, Communists or delineation of boundaries of these districts a City Council deliver a better administra­ otherwise directed. becomes two times more imperative than tion than Mayors elected by a direct vote. 122. SJR 86 and HJR 584 of the 9oth Con­ before. 109. Appointed officials, 1f not bureaucrats, gress will bulld a strong two-party system in 98. The importance of the Districts for serve better than those elected by the direct U.S.A. Communist countries take pride in dual purposes would be cumulative, and as vote. their one-party system and the penalty for dual purpose districts they could become 110. The President elected with a minority trying and failing to start a second party four times more Important. Any artifice or vote may be much better than a President in their country would be a ghastly death. misconstruction of these districts such as who commanded a landslide majority in his The desirab111ty of the two-party system in gerrymandering would no longer be tol­ election with friends delighting in telling the U.S.A. Is recognized by 90% of its citizens, erated by an aroused public. him he received a "mandate." but is being lost by ineptness such as the 99. The philosophies in dual purpose dis­ 111. A President can be elected over the failure to reform the Electoral College system tricts woud be more bl-partisan and the opposition of 41 States. The direct vote would within the framework of our Constitution. residents would take increased pride in their further penalize these 41 states in an The Electoral College system must be re­ Congressman as well as great pride in the election. formed. 2432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 31, 1969 123. The members of our Armed Forces in in U.S. Air Force planes to Union City for the the original time 11m1t had expired. H ? also South Vietnam deserve no less than the best funeral. Heading a delegation of state offi­ sponsored a measure which has opened in­ we can do at home in maintaining our Re­ cials who wm attend t he services will be surance !or servicemen who are veterans of public against the onslaught of Communism Gov. Buford E111ngton, who will fly home the Vietnam war. directed at our Republic from throughout from Florida. His mother spent much of her time with the world. Our heroes a.re giving their all. With Mr. Everett at the time of his death, the congressman in their apartment in the They suffer, bleed and die. We a.t home, whom in addition t o doctors, was his assistant, W. Congressional Hotel in Washington. Mrs. they protect, must, in t urn, give our best. C. Tate of Union City. Mr. Tate said that Mr. Everett accompanied the congressman back Everett was awake and talked with him a. to Washington after Christmas but then re­ number of times through the night and that turned to her home in Union City after Mr. he appeared drowsy an d lapsed into sleep Everett entered the Veterans Hospital in HON. ROBERT ASHTON EVERETT about 4 :30. Nashv1lle on Jan. 8. Cause of death was given as heart !allure Mr. Everett's 1llness sent him to Bethesda which followed a kidney allment, which was Hospital In Maryland last Oct. 3, where he discovered last October, and a Jung infection was a patient until Oct. 16 when he was HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE which sent him back to the Nashvllle hos­ OF TEXAS flown to Nashvllle Veterans Hospital where pital in January. he was a patient untll the last week in No­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Everett was born on t he Everett farm vember. He suffered a kidney ailment which Thursday, January 30, 1969 on the Troy highway (now the Johnny necessitated treatment regularly by a kidney Semones farm) on Feb. 24, 1915, son of the machine. Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, late Charles Everett, farmer and livestock Leaving the hospital Mr. Everett returned the Daily Messenger, Union City, Tenn., dealer, who died in 1954, and Lella Ashton to Union City and opened his office here in carried a front page editorial on the late Everett, who has been the congressman's the old Union City Cllnic Building. He was Congressman Robert Everett. "Fats," as home companion during the period he served active during the Christmas season, ad­ in Congress. Mrs. Everett was at her home at dressed a number of groups and made calls he was popularly known to us all, was a 519 Washington Ave. when death came to the most remarkable man as the following on many of his friends. congressman. Although he had been out of the hospital editorial sets forth: Mr. Everett first attended Westover School, but a short time, and although he was so "FATS" EVERETT DIEs--SERVl'.CES SET TuESDAY attended a school at Jordan when the family weak he had to have assistance to stand and Robert Ashton Everett, regarded by thou­ moved to their farm on the State Line Road, walk, Mr. Everett went to New Orleans on sands of his friends as the best congress­ and returned to Union City to finish high Dec. 3 to a meeting of the Lower Mississippi man in the United States, died in his sleep school in 1932. Valley Flood Control Association and was about 5:15 Sunday morning in Veterans The following fall, Mr. Everett entered Mur­ ray State College, graduating in 1936. And elected president of t hat body. Hospital at Nashville following an illness He ascended to the presidency from the which dated from early last October when he in the same year he was elected a member of the Obion County Court. He taught school office of first vice-president. He was accom­ entered Bethesda Hospital in Maryland. panied on this trip by P. T. English and Aaron Services will be held at 2 Tuesday after­ at Cloverdale for two years and was elected Circuit Court Clerk in 1938. Prather and both said that his speech of noon at the Cumberland Presbyterian Mr. Everett entered the Army at Fort Ogle­ acceptance was one of the best he ever de­ Church of Union City With the Rev. Scott thorpe in 1942 and, at the time, was the sub­ livered. On Dec. 27, he and his mother re­ Johnson, church pastor, officiating, as­ ject of widespread publlclty and photographs turned to Washington. sisted by the Rev. Dr. Morris Pepper of Members of Congressman Everett's staff Scottsboro, Ala., former pastor of the local because there was not a uniform in stock that would flt him. The government made his who Will be winding up the affairs of his church. to measure. office are: Woodfin McLean of Alamo, admin­ The body Is at White-Ranson Funeral On his release from the service after 31 istrative assistant; Mrs. Mary Louise Rowe of Home and Will be taken to the Cumberland months, he became administrative assistant Washington, Miss Katie Balley of Murray, Presbyterian Church at 10 Tuesday morn­ to Senator Tom Stewart, serving in that ca­ Mrs. Linda Perry of Union City, Miss Andrea ing where it wm Ile In state untll the hour pacity untll January 1949. He served as ad­ May of Trenton and Miss Jane Myers of of the service. ministrative assistant to Gov. Gordon Brown­ Medina. Though Mr. Everett accomplished the ing of Tennessee in 1950-52. He was executive Mr. Everett is survived by his mot her, Mrs. passage of major legislation and served his secretary of the Tennessee County Services Lelia Ashton Everet t; an aunt, Mrs. Effie Hays area most effectively, he w1ll be remembered Association from Jan. 1, 1954 until Feb. 1, of Union City; first cousins, Edwin Stone and too for the services which he Just as ener­ 1958. He also served for a number of years Mrs. Jess Rose, both of Union City, Mrs. L. getically gave to persons in all walks of life. as secretary of the Tennessee Cotton Growers D. Allen and Mrs. George Hall, both of Martin, No individual was ever sllghted by Congress­ Association. Mrs. Abe Burchard of Knoxvme, Frank Hays man Everett and he was as pleased to get a For years, Mr. Everett was a leader In the of Union City, Mrs. Martha Hall of Battle mall box moved for an elderly person In Junior Chamber of Commerce and he served Creek, Mich., Mrs. Clay Barnes of Clarks­ Troy as he was to obtain thousands of dol­ a year as state president of this organization. ville and Charles Nolan of Paris. lars both from the federal government and Mr. Everet t was elected to Congress In Feb­ Pallbearers wm be Lt. Bllly Moore, Barry the state for the major improvements of the ruary 1958 In a special election called fol­ White, Aaron Prat:tier, David Wells, Dr. M. Obion and Forked Deer Rivers, improvements lowing the death of Congressman Jere Cooper A. Blanton, W. C. Tate, Mayor Charles Adams which are still in progress, which have halted of Dyersburg. Mr. Everett won, defeating E. and Allen Pierce of Michigan. flooding of t he two rivers and which have re­ T . "Rocky" Palmer of Dyersburg and z. D. Among the honorary pallbearers wm be claimed t housands of acres of good farm Atkins of Trenton. land. members of the United States House of Rep­ Since that election Mr. Everett had been resent atives and of the U.S. Senate, Gov. El­ As a congressman, Mr. Everett also at ­ re-elected, most of the time without opposi­ t ained many objectives for the good of the llngton, Lewis H. Allen, former vice-president tion, every two years and he had no opposi­ of the L&N Railroad, and v. T. Moss. people as a member of the Publlc Works tion at the polls last November. Accompanying members of Congress to Committee and of the Veterans Affairs Com­ Mr. Everett was a member of t he American mittee. Union City will be one of Mr. Everett's close Legion, the Farm Bureau, the Cumberland friends, Zeake W. Johnson, sergeant-at-arms One of his most notable achievements in Presbyterian Church, the Masonic Lodge, the of the House. Obion County was the attainment of ap­ Shrine and was an honorary member o:! the proval, both by the federal government and Union City Rotary Club. the state, of the Reelfoot-Indian Creek Wa­ Upon taking office, Mr. Everett reallzed that tershed project which Will see numerous one of the greatest tasks he !aced was the small lakes formed With the plan aimed at obtaining of a cooperative move on both the UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY saving Reelfoot Lake, by stopping the flow part of the federal government and the state of sllt into that body of water. to eliminate the annual flooding of the Obion Over the years, Congressman Everett was and Forked Deer Rivers. This was a projeci HON. WILLIAM B. WIDNALL one of the leaders in the campaign in which which long had been worked on and for OF NEW JERSEY both Tennessee and Missouri participated which funds were appropriated but which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for the erection of a bridge across the Mis­ was never activated because o:! !allure to sissippi River to serve this Wide area. Suc­ obtain the agreement o:! the state to main­ Wednesday, January 29, 1969 cess came when the project was given a fin al tain the river work once it was done. Mr. WIDNALL. Mr. Speaker, on Janu­ approval by ex-President Lyndon B. Johnson. Mr. Everett did succeed in this great project ary 22 of this year, Ukraine patriots in Bids are soon to be received for the first where all others had failed. actual work on this structure, the bulld­ Mr. Everett, as a member of t he Veterans the United States and in free nations ing of piers. Committee, visited many of the veterans hos­ around the world celebrated the 51st an­ A large delegation of congressmen, headed pitals in the U.S. and served veterans well by niversary of the Ukrainian National Re­ by Rep. Richard Fulton of Nashville, one obtaining passage of a b111 four years ago public, declared in 1918. This small Re­ of Mr. Everett's closest friends, will be flown which re-opened vet erans Insurance after public of less than 45,000,000 people has February 3, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 2433 been an involuntary part of Soviet Rus­ and in the Eastern European countries, Soviet Union since the Ukraine was in­ sia for almost 50 years, yet their valiant which make up the Communist bloc. The vaded in 1919. fight for independence and freedom in jailing of intellectuals who dare to devi­ Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join my 1918, continuing in exile even today, can ate from the Soviet line, the suppression colleagues today in commemorating this certainly be an example to us all in these of all the basic freedoms which Ameri­ 51st anniversary, and I want to extend troubled times. cans hold dear, and finally, the ruthless my special regards to the Ukrainian In commemorating this independence invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, are Americans for keeping up a fight involv­ day, we are forced to remember the con­ all part of Soviet policy, both past and ing incredible odds, for a country an tinuing acts of Soviet oppression still present, and an indication that attitudes ocean away, which some of them have existing in the so-called Soviet republics and methods have not changed in the never seen.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Monday, February 3, 1969 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF H.REs.177 The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE Resolved, That Jorge Luis C6rdova-Diaz, D.D., offered the following prayer: NONESSENTIAL FEDERAL EX­ the Resident Commissioner to the United PENDITURES States from Puerto Rico, be, and he ls here­ Our sufficiency is from God.-2 Corin­ by, elected an additional member of the thians 3: 5. The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro­ following standing committees of the House Eternal Father of our spirits, whose visions of section 601, title 6, Public Law of Representatives: Committee on Agricul­ grace makes us sufficient for every task 250, 77th Congress, the Chair appoints as ture, Committee on Armed Services, and and whose strength holds us steady as we members of the Committee To Investi­ Committee on Interior and Insular Afl'airs. live through troubled times, speak Thou gate Nonessential Federal Expenditures AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. ALBERT Thy word to us this day and make known the following members of the Committee The Clerk read as follows: Thy will that we may now and always on Ways and Means: Mr. MILLS, Mr. Amendment offered by Mr. ALBERT: Strike walk along the paths of righteousness BOGGS, Mr. BYRNES of Wisconsin; and the out all of line 1, after the word "Resolved," and justice and love. following members of the Committee on and insert: "That Jorge L. C6rdova, the Unite us as a nation that we may con­ Appropriations: Mr. MAHON, Mr. KIRWAN, Resident". tinue to seek the release of the captives, and Mr. Bow. The amendment was agreed to. give light to those who sit in darkness, The resolution as amended was agreed bridge the gulf which separates our APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF to. people, and support every endeavor NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICA- A motion to reconsider was laid on the which creates and maintains under­ TIONS COMMISSION table. standing and good will in our national life. The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the provi­ In the spirit of Christ we offer this our sions of title 44, United States Code, sec­ VACATING PROCEEDINGS ON AND morning prayer. Amen. tion 2501, the Chair appoints as a mem­ RECONSIDERATION OF HOUSE ber of the National Historical Publica­ RESOLUTION 176 tions Commission, the gentleman from THE JOURNAL California (Mr. MILLER). Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to vacate the pro­ The Journal of the proceedings of ceedings whereby the House agreed to Thursday, January 30, 1969, was read VACATING PROCEEDINGS ON AND House Resolution 176 on January 29, and and approved. RECONSIDERATION OF HOUSE ask for its immediate consideration with RESOLUTION 177 an amendment which I send to the desk. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Mich­ A message from the Senate by Mr. unanimous consent tD vacate the pro­ igan? Arrington, one of its clerks, announced ceedings whereby the House agreed to that the Senate had passed a b1ll of the House Resolution 177 on January 29, There was no objection. and ask for its immediate reconsidera­ The Clerk read the resolution, as following title, in which the concurrence follows: of the House is requested: tion with an amendment which I send H.RES.176 to the desk. S. 17. An act to amend the Communica­ Resolved, That the following-named Mem­ tions Satellite Act of 1962 with respect to The SPEAKER. Is there objection to bers be, and they are hereby, elected mem­ the election of the board of the Communica­ the request of the gentleman from bers of the following standing committees tions Satelllte Corp. Oklahoma? of the House of Representatives: The message also announced that the Mr. GROSS. Well, Mr. Speaker, re­ COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE: Page Belcher, Vice President, pursuant to Public Law serving the right to object, what is the Oklahoma; Charles M. Teague, California; 90-448, appointed Mr. SPARKMAN and Mr. resolution and what is sought to be Catherine May, Washington; William C. done? Wampler, Virginia; George A. Goodling, HOLLINGS as members, on the part of the Pennsylvania; Clarence E. Miller, Ohio; Senate, of the National Advisory Com­ Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the Robert B. Mathias, California; Wiley Mayne, mission on Low Income Housing. gentleman yield? Iowa; John zwach, Minnesota; Thomas S. Mr. GROSS. Yes, I yield to the gen­ Kleppe, North Dakota; Robert D. Price, tleman from Oklahoma. Texas; John T. Myers, Indiana; Keith G. APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF Mr. ALBERT. The resolution was the Sebelius, Kansas; Martin B. McKneally, New JOINT COMMITI'EE ON ATOMIC regular resolution assigning the Resident York; Wilmer D. Mizell, North Carolina. ENERGY Commissioner from Puerto Rico vari­ COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS: Jack to Edwards, Alabama. The SPEAKER. Pur;.uant to the pro­ ous committees and there was merely COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES: W1lllam visions of title 42, United States Code, a technical error contained therein. H. Bates, Massachusetts; Leslie C. Arends, section 2251, the Chair appoints as mem­ Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw Illinois; Alvtn E. O'Konski, Wisconsin; Wil­ bers of the Joint Committee on Atomic my reservation of objection. liam G. Bray, Indiana.; Bob Wilson, Cali­ Energy the following members on the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to fornia; Charles S. Gubser, California; the request of the gentleman from Charles E. Chamberlain, Michigan; Alex­ part of the House: Mr. HOLIFIELD, Mr. ander Pirnie, New York; Durward 0. Hall, PRICE of Illinois, Mr. AsPINALL, Mr. Oklahoma? Missouri; Donald D. Clancy, Ohio; Robert YOUNG, Mr. EDMONDSON, Mr. HOSMER, There was no objection. T. Stafford, Vermont; Carleton J. King, New Mr. BATES, Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois, and The Clerk read the resolution, as fol­ York; William L . Dickinson, Alabama; Mr. McCuLLOCH. lows: Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Ohio; Ed Foreman,