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. , 7990 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE June 10 the completion· of the construction of the H. R. 51'17. An act to authorize tlie Admin­ SENATE . Inter-American Highway; and istrator of Veterans' Affairs to reconvey to H. R. 6410. An act to authorize the con­ Richland County, S. C., a portion of the Vet­ FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1955 struction of a. building for a Museum of His­ erans' Administration hospital reservation, tory and Technology for the Smithsonian Columbia, S. C.; ·(Legislative day of Wednesday, June 8. Institution, including the preparation of H. R. 5695. An act to continue until the 1955) plans and specifications, and all other work close of June 30, 1958, the suspension of cer­ incidental thereto. tain import taxes on copper; The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, S. J. Res. 6. Joint resolution to provide for on the expiration of the recess. investigating the feasibility of establishing The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT a coordinated local, State, and Federal pro­ Harris, D. D., offered the following RESOLUTIONS SIGNED gram in the city of Boston, Mass., and gen­ prayer: The message further announced that eral vicinity thereof, for the purpose of pre­ the Speaker had affixed his signature to serving the historic properties, objects, and o God, in whose strong hands are the the following bills and joint resolutions, buildings in that area; threads of every man's life, who · dost and· they were signed by the President S. J. Res. 51. Joint resolution extending an control the raging of the wind and the invitation to the International Olympic pro tempore: Committee to hold the 1960 winter Olympic sea and not less the tempestuous activi­ S. 39. An act for the relief of Stanislavas ties of man which seem to defeat Thy games at Squaw Valley, Calif.; and Racinskas ( Stacys Racinskas) ; S. J. Res. 60. Joint resolution directing a purposes and hinder Thy kingdom: Into S. 68. An act for the relief of Evantiyi study and report by the Secretary of Agricul­ Thy hands we would commit our lives, Yorgiyadis; ture on burley tobacco marketing controls. with all their details, all their desires, S. 89. An act for the relief of Margaret and our Nation also, with all its freedoms, Isabel Byers; s. 93. An act for the relief of Ahti Johannes as well as its faults, and with all its po­ HOUSE BILLS REFERRED tentialities for the weal or woe of the Ruuskanen; S. 121. An act for the relief of Sultana world. The following bills were each read Coka Pavlovitch; twice by their titles, and referred to the May we be able in Thy strength so to S. 129. An act for the relief of Miroslav respond to all those experiences which Slovak; Committee on Public Works: befall us, whether of loss or of gain, S. 193. An act for the relief of Louise H. R. 5923. An act to authorize certain that we may mold them, even the evil Russu Sozanski; sums to be appropriated immediately for the that is in the world, into the final pat­ · S. 236. An act for the relief of Johanna completion of the construction of the Inter­ tern of Thy purposes, and thus wring Schmid; American Highway; and s. 265. An act to amend the acts author­ H. R. 6410. An act to authorize the con­ from all the tangled life of these days izing agricultural entries under the non­ struction of a building for a Museum of His­ victory in our own souls and spiritual mineral land laws of certain mineral lands in tory and Technology for- the Smithsonian gain for the world. And so, take our order to increase the limitation with respect Institution, including the preparation of impulses, strivings, and longings, so often to desert entries made under such acts to plans and specifications, and all other work frustrated and thwarted, and even with 320 acres; incidental thereto. what is broken and imperfect make Thy G. 266. An act authorizing the Secretary of dreams come true. We ask it through the Interior to transfer certain property of the Government (in the Wyo­ Him who made of human life a sacra­ ming National Guard Camp Guernsey target COMMI'ITEE MEETINGS DURING ment, of thorns a crown, and of a cross a and maneuver area, Platte County, Wyo.) to SENATE SESSION throne. Amen. the State of Wyoming; S. 320. An act for the relief of Mrs. Diana On request of Mr. STENNIS, and by Cohen and Jacqueline Patricia Cohen; unanimous consent, the Subcommittee THE JOURNAL S. 321. An act for the relief of Anni Mar­ on Investigations of the Committee on On request of Mr. STENNIS, and by jatta Makela and son, Markku Paivio Makela; Government Operations was authorized unanimous consent, the reading of the S. 351. An act for the relief of Ellen Henri­ to meet during the session of the Senate Journal of the proceedings of Wednes­ ette Buch; today. day, June 8, 1955, was dispensed with. S. 407. An act for the relief of Helen Za­ fred Urbanic; S. 439. An act for the relief of Lucy Per­ AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIA­ MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT­ sonius; TIONS COMMITTEE TO FILE RE­ APPROVAL OF BILL S. 504. An act for the relief of Priska Anne PORT AND NOTICES OF MOTIONS Kary; Messages in writing from the Presi­ S. 528. An act to revive and reenact the act TO SUSPEND THE RULE DURING dent of the United States were communi­ authorizing the village of Baudette, State of ADJOURNMENT cated to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one Minnesota, its public successors or public Mr. STENNIS. Mr. President, I have of his secretaries, and he announced that assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate three unanimous-consent requests to on today, June 10, 1955, the President a toll bridge across the Rainy River, at or make which have been approved by the had approved and signed the act (S. near Baudette, Minn., approved December 21, 1950; minority leader. 2061) to increase the rates of basic com­ S. 755. An act to authorize the. conveyance I ask unanimous consent that during pensation of officers and employees in of certain war-housing projects to the city the adjournment of the Senate follow­ the field service of the Post Office De­ of Warwick, Va., and the city of Hampton, ing today's session the Committee on partment. Va.; Appropriations be permitted to report S. 844. An act for the relief of Zev C.ohen the Department of Commerce appropria­ MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE (Zev Machtani); S. 998. An act to authorize the conveyance tion bill, and file its report and notices A message from the House of Repre­ of a certain tract of land in the State of of motions to suspend the rule. sentatives, by Mr. Bartlett, one of its Oklahoma to the city of Woodward, Okla.; Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, re­ clerks, announced that the House had S. 1398. An act to strengthen the investi­ serving the right to object, will the Sen­ agreed to the amendments of the Sen­ gation provisions of the Commodity Ex­ ator give his assurance that the bill will ate to the bill

By Mr. ELLENDER (for Mr. JOHNSON (b) Section 4 of these amendments shall PUERTO RICO WANTS TO BE INCLUDED of Texas, Mr. DANIEL, himself, and be effective with respect to remuneration The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ls Mr. LONG): paid after 1955 for services performed after anxious to be brought under the Federal­ S. J. Res. 77. Joint resolution to modify the 1955. State unemployment-insurance program. authorized project for Ferrells Bridge Reser­ Officials of the Commonwealth have had fre­ voir, Tex., and to provide for the local cash The statement presented by Mr. IvEs quent conferences with staff members of the contribution for the water supply feature of is as follows: Department of Labor in their efforts to de­ that reservoir; to the Committee on Public STATEMENT BY SENATOR IVES velop a financially sound and acceptable Works. This proposed legislation is designed to ex­ plan. The Puerto Rican Legislative Assem­ tend the present Federal-State unemploy­ bly passed a concurrent resolution on Feb­ ment compensation program to the Common­ ruary 18, 1955, expressing its desire that the EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT wealth of Puerto Rico. The proposal is a program be extended to the Commonwealth. COMPENSATION PROGRAM TO part of the legislative program of the De­ This resolution was presented to the House partment of Labor and the Bureau of the on February 28, 1955, and to the Senate on PUERTO RICO Budget- has advised that it has no ob]ection :March 2, 1955. Appropriate legislation to es­ Mr. IVES. Mr. President, I intr.oduce, to its submission. Enactment of this pro­ tablish an unemployment-insurance system for appropriate reference, a bill to ex­ posed legislation will. involve no additional for Puerto Rico has already been introduced tend the unemployment insurance com­ costs to the Federal Government. in the Puerto Rican Legislature and is pensation program to Puerto Rico. I ask Under the present Federal-State system, presf::ntly in co~mittee. The provisions of unemployment insurance benefits are paid in that legislation are such as to permit its ap­ unanimous consent that the text of the accordance with State laws to workers, who, proval for incorporation into the existing bill as well as a statement in explanation while able to work and available for work, Federal-State system of unemployment of the provisions contained therein be are unemployed through no fault of their compensation insurance. included in the body of the RECORD fol­ own. The benefits are paid from the pro­ lowing these remarks. ceeds of State payroll taxes which are depos­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The ited in the unemployment trust fund in the REINSTATEMENT OF WILLIAM A. bill will be received and appropriately United States Treasury. BURKETT AS SENIOR SPECIAL referred; and, without objection, the bill NEED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN AGENT, TREASURY DEPARTMENT and statement will be printed in the PUERTO RICO Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, on RECORD. The need for unemployment insurance in behalf of myself, the senior Senator from Puerto Rico has long been apparent. The The bill (S. 2183) to extend the un­ Commonwealth is plagued by unemployment [Mr. KNowLANn], the Senator employment compensation program to and lacks sufficient industrial activity to ab­ from [Mr. KEFAUVER], and the Puerto Rico, and for other purposes, sorb its labor surpluses. As a result, three junior Senator from California [Mr. introduced by Mr. IvEs, was received, of its major industrial areas has "substan­ KUCHEL], I introduce, for appropriate read twice by its title, referred to the tial" and "very substantial" labor surpluses reference, a bill to provide for the rein­ Committee on Finance, and .ordered to in January of this year, according to figures statement of William A. Burkett as a be printed in the RECORD, as follows: compiled by the Department of Labor. This senior special agent, United States lack of balance between employment supply Be it enacted, etc., That paragraph (2) of and demand has produced serious economic Treasury. I ask unanimous consent section 901 (b) of the Social Security Act, problems in Puerto Rico and led to a large­ that a statement, prepared by me, relat­ as amended, is amended to read as follows: scale migration of workers from the island ing to the bill be printed in the RECORD. "(2) the amount estimated by the Secre­ to the mainland in search of employment. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The tary of Labor as equal to the necessary ex­ The basic solution to this problem, of bill will be received and appropriately penses incurred during the fiscal year for the course, requires more industry to provide referred; and, without objection, the performance by the Department of Labor of jobs for those now unemployed. Great statement will be printed in the RECORD. its functions under (i) this title and titles strides toward this goal are being made III and XII of this act, (ii) the Federal Un­ through Puerto Rico's dynamic program for The bill (S. 2189) to provide for the employment Tax Act, (iii) the provisions of bringing in new industry. Along with this reinstatement of William A. Burkett as the act of June 6, 1933, as amended, (iv) title development, however, the unemployment a senior special agent, United States IV (except sec. 602) of the Servicemen's insurance protection provided for the rest of Treasury, introduced by Mr. WILLIAMS Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, and the United States should be extended to (for himself and other Senators) was (v) title IV of the Veterans' Readjustment Puerto Rico. In helping to alleviate the received, read twice by its title, and re­ Act of 1952; and" hardships of the temporarily unemployed ferred to the Committee on Post Office SEC. 2. Paragraph (1) of section 1101 (a) unemployment insurance would help main­ of the Social Security Act, as amended, is tain purchasing power and thus stabilize and Civil Service. amended to read as follows: and bolster Puerto Rico's economy. The statement presented by Mr. WIL­ "(1) The term 'State' includes Alaska, The only domestic program Puerto Rico LIAMS is as follows: Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and the presently has to cope with the problems of STATEMENT BY SENATOR WILLIAMS Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and when unemployment is a limited unemployment­ This bill would restore William A. Burkett used in titles I, IV, V, X, and XIV includes insurance program for employees of its sugar to the position of senior special agent, United the Virgin Islands." -industry. Unemployment insurance pro­ States Treasury, with the same seniority that SEC. 3. Paragraph (2) of section 1101 (a) tection is provided under other programs, he would have attained had he not volun­ of the Social Security Act, as amended, is of course, for employees of the Federal Gov­ tarily resigned his position on August 18, amended to read as follows: ernment and veterans. A full unemploy­ 1950, in order to bring to light evidence of "(2) The term 'United States' when used ment-compensation program is badly needed. corruption especially in the offices of the in a geographical sense means the States, EXTENSION WILL ROUND OUT THE SOCIAL collectors of internal revenue in northern Alaska, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and SECURITY PROGRAM California and Nevada. the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico." The desirability and feasibility of meet­ No better recommendation for the enact­ SEC. 4. Section 8306 (j) of the Internal ing serious social problems in Puerto Rico ment of this bill can be given to the Senate Revenue Code of 1954 is amended to read has long been recognized by Congress and than to quote from the book by Senator as follows: is reflected in its inclusion in a number of KEFAUVER entitled "Crime in America." "(J) State, United States, and citizen: For remedial statutes. The Wagner-Peyser Act This is what he said: purposes of this chapter- was amended in 1950 to extend the Federal­ "Credit for originally breaking the internal (!) State: The term 'State' includes State employment service program to Puerto revenue scanda.ls, involving employees of the Alaska, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, and Rico. All the provisions of the Social Se­ offices of the collectors of internal revenue the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. curity Act except the unemployment-com­ for northern California and for Nevada must (2) United States: The term 'United pensation program have already been extend­ go to William Burkett, a young and diligent States' when used in a geographica1 sense ed to Puerto Rico: The maternal and child­ former special agent of the Treasury Depart­ includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. welfare program was extended to the Com­ ment's Intelligence Unit in the northern An individual who is a citizen of the Com­ monwealth as early as January 1, 1940; the Califorinia district. The shame of it is that monwealth of Puerto Rico (but not other­ program for old-age assistance, aid to de­ neither the district office nor the Internal pendent children, aid to the blind, and aid Revenue Bureau in Washington acted wise a citizen of the United States) shall be to the permanently disabled was extended on promptly on Burkett's disclosures. Event­ -considered, for purposes of this section, as a October 1, 1950; and the old age and survi­ ually the young agent resigned in dis­ citizen of the United States." vors' insurance programs were made effective gust • • • SEC. 5. Effective date: to Puerto Rico on January 1, 1951. Includ­ "Mr. Burkett's courage, high spirit of (a) The effective date of sections 1, 2, and ing Puerto Rico in the unemployment-com­ decency and loyal se),'vlce to our Government 3 of these amendments shall be January pensation program will round out the so­ was one of the real bright spots in the Crime 1, 1956. cial-security program for the Commonwealth. Committee's investigations, and I hope Mr. 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 7995 Burkett will be appropriately awarded for provided for the hearing of cases by the segment of the total work of the court. being such an outstanding American." court. At the conclusion of such hearing the While the proposed b111 would not impair the Mr. Burkett is a graduate in law and ac­ referee shall transmit to the judge all papers authority of the judge to delegate these deci­ counting and is a World War II disabled relating to the case, together with his find­ sions to the Director of social work, it does veteran with a to-point veteran's rating un­ ings and recommendations in writing. No­ make it clear that when they are made they der civil-service regulations. tice of the referee's findings and recommen­ shall be made in accordance with guidelines I am not sure that Mr. Burkett desires dations shall be given to the parent, guard­ set forth by the judge. reemployment with the United States Gov­ ian or custodian of any child whose case S. 2192. A bill to amend section 13 of the ernment at this time; however, in view of has been heard by. the referee, or to any Juvenile Court Act of the District of Colum­ the fact that he was forced to give up his other person concerned. bia: employment sta.tus in order that he might "'(3) Any interested person aggrieved by "Be it enacted, etc., That section 13 of the be free to cooperate with the California any findings or recommendations c" the ref­ Juvenile Court Act of the District of Colum­ Crime Commission, the Kefauver committee, eree may request in writing, within 3 days bia, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 11-914), is and the Congress, I feel that Congress can do after the receipt by such person of notice of amended by inserting after 'investigation,' no less than to reinstate Mr. Burkett with such findings and recommendations, a hear­ the following: 'and after the Chief of Police full civil-service rights, thus affording him ing by the judge. Such hearing shall be of the Metropolitan Police Department and an opportunity to make his decision. treated as an appeal from the decision of the the United States attorney for the District Prompt action by the Congress to recog­ referee and upon the same evidence, but any of Columbia have been accorded an oppor­ nize the contribution made in the interest newly discovered evidence may be admitted tunity to appear and present their views in of clean government by this former employee in the discretion of the judge. In case no the matter.' " not only will give proper recognition to the hearing before the judge is requested, or if outstanding service of Mr. Burkett but also the right to such hearing is waived, the find­ The analysis accompanying Senate bill will have a tendency to reimpress upon all ings and recommendations of the referee, 2192 is as follows: Federa.1 employees that once highly respected when confirmed by an order of the judge, AN AL YSIS OF BILL TO AMEND SECTION 13 OF THE principle-"that a public office is a public shall become the decree of the court.' " JUVENILE COURT ACT OF THE DISTRICT OF trust." COLUMBIA I am introducing this bill on behalf of my­ The analysis accompanying Senate bill self, the Senators from California, Mr. KNow­ 2190 is as fallows: This bill would amend the District Juvenile Court Act so as to make it mandatory that LAND and Mr. KucHEL, and the Senator from ANALYSIS OF BILL To AMEND THE Acr EN­ Tennessee, Mr. KEFAUVER, and together we the Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police TITLED "AN ACT To CREATE A JUVENILE Department and the United States attorney urge the prompt enactment of this legisla­ COURT IN AND FOR THE DISTRICT OF CO!,UM­ tion. for the District be accorded an opportunity BIA," So AS To PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINT­ to .appear and present their views before MENT OF A REFEREE judgment is passed by the court in petitions PROPOSED LEGISLATION ON This bill adds a subsection to section 19 for waiver of jurisdiction. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY of the District Juvenile Court Act and pro­ S. 2193. A bill to amend the law relating to vides for appointment, qualifications, and the indecent publications in the District of Co­ Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. President, on duties of a referee. lumbia: behalf of myself, the Senator from Mis­ Appointment would be made by the judge "Be it enacted, etc., That section 872 of the souri [Mr. HENNINGS], the Senator from in accordance with existing civil-service laws act entitled 'An act to establish a code of law North Dakota [Mr. LANGER], the Sena­ at a rate to be fixed in accordance with the for the District of Columbia,' approved March tor from South Carolina [Mr. JOHN­ Classification Act of 1949. The appointee 3, 1901, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 22-2001), STON], and the Senator from Texas [Mr. must be a member of the bar, preferably of is amended (1) by inserting '(a)' immedi­ the District, and familiar with the philoso­ ately after 'SEc. 872,' and (2) by adding at DANIEL], I introduce, for appropriate ref­ phy and practices of a juvenile court. erence, a series of six bills dealing with the end thereof a new subsection as follows: The referee would hear cases designated by " '(b) Any vehicle, fixture, equipment, juvenile delinquency, and relating to the the judge, submit his findings and recom­ stock, or other thing of value (including District of Columbia. I ask unanimous mendations in writing, and notify the parent, without limitation, vehicles, equipment, fix­ consent that the bills, together with a guardian, or custodian of the child, and any tures, or things adaptable to a lawful use) statement by me, and an analysis of each other person concerned. An interested per­ used or to be used in connection with ( 1) bill, be printed in the RECORD. son aggrieved might appeal to the judge in the sale, distribution, manufacture, or show­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The writing within 3 days, in which case the judge ing of any article or material, or (2) the ad­ bills will be received and appropriately would grant a hearing. In case no hearing vertising or staging of any exhibition, the before the judge is requested, the findings sale or advertising of which is prohibited by referred; and, without objection, the and recommendations of the referee, when subsection (a) of this section, shall be sub­ bills, statement, and analysis will be confirmed by order of the judge, shall be­ ject to seizure by any member of the Metro­ printed in the RECORD. come the decree of the court. politan Police force or the United States Park The bills, introduced by Mr. KE­ S. 2191. A bill to amend section 7 of the Police, or the United States marshal, or any FAUVER (for himself and other Senators), Juvenile Court Act of the District of Co­ deputy marshal, for the District of Columbia, were received, read twice by their titles, lumbia: and shall, unless good cause is shown to the appropriately referred, and ordered to "Be it enacted, etc., That section 7 of the contrary by the owner, be forfeited to the be printed in the RECORD, as follows: Juvenile Court Act of the District of Colum­ District of Columbia, by order of any court bia, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 11-908), is having jurisdiction, for disposition by public To the Committee on the District of amended (1) by inserting "(a)" immediately auction or as otherwise provided by law. Columbia: after "Petition.-", and (2) by adding at the Bona fide liens against property so forfeited S. 2190. A bill to amend the act entitled end thereof a new subsection as follows: shall, on good cause shown by the lienor, be "An act to create a juvenile court in and for " '(b) The director of social work shall transferred from the property to the proceeds the District of Columbia," so as to provide carry out his duties and functions under of the sale of the property. Forfeit moneys for the appointment of a referee: this section in accordance with policies and and-other proceeds realized from the enforce­ procedures established by the judge.' " ment of this section shall be deposited in "Be it enacted, etc., That section 19 of the the Treasury of the United States to the act entitled 'An act to create a juvenile court credit of the District of Columbia.'" in and for the District of Columbia,' ap­ The analysis accompanying Senate bill proved March 19, 1906 (34 Stat. 73; D. C. 2191 is as follows: The analysis accompanying Senate bill Code, sec. 11-920), as amended, is amended ANALYSIS OF BILL To AMEND SECTION 7 OF THE 2193 is as follows: by ( 1) inserting ' (a) ' immediately after JUVENILE COURT ACT OF THE DISTRICT OF 'SEC. 19,' and (2) adding a new subsection as COLUMBIA ANALYSIS OF BILL To AMEND LAW RELATING To follows: INDECENT PUBLICATIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF This bill would amend the District of Co­ COLUMBIA · "' (b) Appointment, qualifications, and lumbia J~venile Court Act so as to make it duties of referee: perfectly clear that the Director of social The bill adds a subsection to the existing "'(1) The judge shall appoint a referee work carries out his duties under the direc­ law providing for the seizure and sale of in accordance with the civil-service laws tion of the juvenile court judge. Under the any vehicle, fixture, equipment, stock, or and regulations at a rate of compensation to present statute, some question has been other thing of value used or to be used for or be fixed in accordance with the Classifica­ raised as to whether the Director of social in connection with (1) the sale, distribution, tion Act of 1949. To be eligible for appoint­ work, in determining which cases shall be manufacturing or showing of any article or ment as a referee a person shall be a member -brought into court and which not, must material, or (2) the advertising or staging of of the bar, preferably of the District of Co­ follow the judge's policies and procedures. any exhibition, the sale or advertising of lumbia, and shall be familiar with the Testimony before the subcommittee indi• which is prohibited under the existing sec­ philosophy and practice of a juvenile court. cated that about 25 percent of the complaints tion of this law. •• '(2) The referee shall, at the request of made to the juvenile court are handled by S. 2194. A bill to amend certain provisions the judge, hear any case designated by the the Social Work Division without ever being of the laws relating to the functioning of the judge in the first instance in the manner referred to the judge. This is an important juvenile court of the District of Columbia so 7096 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE June 10 as to permit the waiver of the jurisdiction of the court, and that the court may grant such other· State with the crime of failing to pro­ the court in certain additional cases, and for petition waiving jurisdiction of the court vide for the support of a person in such other other purposes: and ordering the child held for trial under State. The provisions for extradition of "Be it enacted, etc., That section 11-914 of regular procedures of the court which would criminals not inconsistent herewith shall the District of Columbia Code ( 1951) is have jurisdiction of such offenses if com­ apply to any such demand although the per­ amended by inserting the designation ' (a)• mitted by an adult. son whose surrender is demanded was not immediately before the first word thereof and Section 2 of the bill provides that a full in the demanding State at the time of the by adding the following new subsection at report of the effectiveness of this act, to­ commisssion of the crime and although he the end thereof: gether with recommendations, be submitted had not fled therefrom. Neither the de­ "'(b) With respect to any child 16 years to the Congress by the Board of Commis­ mand, the oath, nor any proceedings for of age of older who has been committed to sioners after 5 years. extradition pursuant to this section need the Department of Public Welfare, the De­ state or show that the person whose sur­ partment may file a petition with the court To the Committee on the Judiciary: render is demanded has fled from justice, or alleging that it has found that the child S. 2195. A bill to make uniform the law at the time of the commission of the crime cannot benefit from the Department's re­ of reciprocal enforcement of support in the was in the demanding or other State. sources for care and treatment because the District of Columbia: "RELIEF FROM THE ABOVE PROVISIONS child's personality and his stage of social "Be it enacted, etc., That the following and emotional development are such that provisions to improve and extend by recipro­ "SEC. 7. Any obligor, contemplated by sec­ the child cannot profit from a program ap­ cal legislation the enforcement of duties of tion 5, who submits to the Jurisdiction of propriate for the treatment of children, that support and to make uniform the law in the court of such other State and complies such child, while in institutions operated respect thereto, shall be in effect in the with the court's order of support, shall be by the Department, has repeatedly violated District of Columbia on and after the ap­ relieved of extradition for desertion or non­ sections 22-504, 22-403, and; or 22-3112 of proval of this act, namely: support entered in the courts of the District of Columbia during the period of such com­ the District of Columbia Code (1951), and "PART I-GENERAL PROVISIONS that such violations were harmful to the pliance. other children in, or disruptive of the pro­ "PURPOSES "PART III-CIVIL ENFORCEMENT gram of, such institutions, and petitioning "SEC. 2. The purposes of this act are to "CHOICE OF LAW the court to waive jurisdiction and order improve and extend by reciprocal legislation such child held for trial for such offenses tr~ enforcement of duties of support and "SEC. 8. Duties of support applicable under to m ake uniform the law with respect this law are those imposed or imposable under the regular procedures of the court under the laws of any State where the ob­ which would have jurisdiction of such of­ thereto. "DEFINITIONS ligor was present during the period for which fenses if committed by an adult. The court support is sought. The obligor is presumed shall grant such petition if, after full study, "SEC. 3. As used in this act, unless the to have been present in the responding State including psychiatric examination, and hear­ context requires otherwise- during the period for which support is sought ing on the petition, the court shall find "(!) 'State' includes any State, Territory, until otherwise shown. that- or possession of the United States and the " ' ( 1) there is probable cause to believe District of Columbia in which this or a sub­ "REMEDIES OF A STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDI• that such child repeatedly violated those stantially similar reciprocal law has been VISION THEREOF FURNISHING SUPPORT sections of the law as alleged in the peti­ enacted. "SEc. 9. Whenever the State or a political tion; "(2) 'Initiating State' means any State in .subdivision thereof furnishes support to an "'(2) such violations were harmful to the which a proceeding pursuant to this or a obligee, it has the same right to invoke the other children in, or disruptive of the pro­ substantially similar reciprocal law is com­ provisions hereof as the obligee to whom the grams of such institutions, and menced. support was furnished for the purpose of "'(3) the child cannot benefit from the "(3) 'Responding State' means any State securing reimbursement of expenditures so Department's resources for care and treat­ in which any proceeding pursuant to the ma~e and of obtaining continuing support. ment because his personality and his stage proceeding in the initiating State is or may "HOW DUTIES OF SUPPORT ARE ENFORCED of social and emotional development are be commenced. such that the child cannot profit from a pro­ "(4) 'Court' means the United States Dis­ "SEC. 10. All duties of support are en­ gram appropriate for the treatment of chil­ trict Court for the District of Columbia and, forcible by action, petition, proceeding, or dren; and when the context requires, means the court complaint irrespective of relationship be­ "'(4) there are no treatment facilities in of any other State as defined in a substan­ tween the obligor and obligee. Jurisdiction the community which might be utilized ef­ tially similar reciprocal law. of all proceedings hereunder shall be vested fectively for the rehab111tation of such child. in the United States District Court for the " ( 5) 'Law' includes both common and District of Columbia. If, thereafter, any child with respect to whom statute law. the court has waived Jurisdiction under this "(6) 'Duty of support• includes any duty "CONTENTS OF PETITION OR COMPLAINT FOR subsection, comes within the provisions of of support imposed or imposable by law, or SUPPORT section 11-906 of the District of Columbia by any court order, decree, or judgment, "SEc. 11. The petition or complaint shall Code (1951), the court may, after investi­ whether interlocutory or final, whether in­ be verified and shall state the name and, gation, waive jurisdiction and order such cidental to a proceeding for divorce, judicial so far as known to the plaintiff, petitioner, or child held for trial under the regular pro­ separation, separate maintenance, or other­ complainant, the addresses and circum­ cedures of the court which would have wise. stances of the defendant or respondent, his jurisdiction of such offenses if committed "(7) 'Obligor' means any person owing a dependents for whom support is sought, and by an adult.' duty of support. all other pertinent information. The plain­ "SEC. 2. At the expiration of 5 years from tiff, petitioner, or complainant may include the enactment of this act, the Board of "(8) 'Obligee' means any person to whom Commissioners of the District of Columbia a duty of support is owed. in or attach to the petition or complaint any shall report to the Congress with respect "REMEDIES ADDITIONAL TO THOSE NOW EXISTING information which may help in locating or identifying the defendant or respondent in­ to the operation and effect of this act and ''SEC. 4. The remedies herein provided are with respect to any changes or amendments in addition to and not in substitution for any cluding, but without limitation by enumera­ which it deems necessary or desirable." other remedies. tion, a photograph of the defendant or re­ spondent, a description of any distinguishing The analysis accompanying Senate "EXTENT OF DUTIES OF SUPPORT marks of his person, other names and aliases bill 2194 is as follows: "SEC. 5. Duties of support arising under by which he has been or is known, the name ANALYSIS OF BILL To AMEND CERTAIN PRO­ the law of the District ·of Columbia, when of his employer, his fingerprints, or social VISIONS OF LAW RELATING TO THE FuNCTION• applicable under section 7, bind the obligor, security number. ING OF THE JUVENILE COURT OF THE DIS• present in the District of Columbia, regard­ less of the presence or residence of the "OFFICIALS TO REPRESENT PLAINTIFF, PETI• TRICT OF COLUMBIA So AS To PERMIT THE TIONER, OR COMPLAINANT WAIVER OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURT obligee. "PART II-CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT "SEC. 12. The district attorney of the Dis­ IN CERTAIN ADDITIONAL CASES, AND FOR trict of Columbia or such other official as orHER PURPOSES "INTERSTATE RENDITION may be appropriate shall represent the plain­ Some children committed to the Depart­ "SEC. 6. The ch\ef judge of the United tiff, petitioner, or complainant in any pro­ ment of Public Welfare, who are over 16 years States District Court for the District of ceeding under this act. of age, commit acts in violation of the law Columbia ( 1) may demand from the governor and do not benefit by a program appropriate of any other State the surrender of any per­ "PETITIONER FOR A MINOR for children; in fact, their presence in the son found in such other State who is charged ''SEC. 13. A petition or complaint on be­ institution operated by the Department con­ in the District of Columbia with the crime half of a minor obligee may be brought by stitutes a disruptive influence on the pro­ of failing to provide for the support of any a person or agency having legal custody of gram, and their violations are harmful to person in the District of Columbia and (2) the minor without appointment as guar­ other children. may surrender on demand by the governor dian ad litem or by a person or agency hav­ This blll provides that in such cases the of any other State any person found in the ing responsibility of support of the minor Department of Public Welfare may petition District of Columbia who is charged in such obligee. 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE .7997 . ' "DUTY OF COURT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AS ting State, shall on its own initiative use pelled to testify to any relevant matter, INITIATING STATE all means at its disposal to trace the defend­ including marriage and parentage. "SEC. 14. If the court of the District of ant or respondent or his property, and shall 1 'RULES OF EVIDENCE Columbia acting as an initiating State finds hold the case pending the receipt of more accurate information or an amended peti­ "SEC. 27. In any hearing under this law, that the petition sets forth facts from which the court shall be bound by the same ruies it may be determined that the defendant or tion or complaint from the court in the initiating State. of evidence that bind the United States respondent owes a duty of support and that District Court for the District of Columbia. a court of the responding State may obtain "PROCEDURE "APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS jurisdiction of the defendant or his property, "SEC. 20. The court shall conduct proceed­ it shall so certify and shall cause three copies ings under this act in the manner pre­ "SEC. 28. Any order of support issued by a of (1) the petition or complaint, (2) its scribed by law for an action for the en­ court of the District of Columbia, when act­ certificate, and (3) this act to be transmitted forcement of the type of duty of support ing as a responding State, shall not super­ to the court in the responding State. If the claimed. sede any previous order of support issued in name and address of such court is unknown a divorce or separate maintenance action, and the responding State has an informa­ "ORDER OF SUPPORT but the amounts for a particular periOd paid tion agency comparable to that established "SEC. 21. If the court of the responding pursuant to either order shall be credited in the initiating State it shall cause such State finds a duty of support, it may order against amounts accruing or accrued for the copies to be transmitted to the State infor­ the defendant or respondent to furnish sup­ same period -under both. · · port or reimbursement therefor and sub­ mation agency or other proper official of the· "EFFECT OF PARTICIPATION IN PROCEEDING responding State, with a request t h at it for­ ject the property of the defendant or re­ ward them to the proper court, and that the spondent to such order. "SEc. 29. Participation in any proceedings under this act shall not confer upon any court of the responding Sta.te acknowledge "RESPONDING STATE TO TRANSMIT COPIES TO their receipt to the court of the District of court Jurisdiction of any of the parties INITIATING STATE thereto in any other proceeding. Columbia. "SEc. 22. The court of the District of Co­ "COSTS AND FEES lumbia, when acting as a responding State, "SEVERABILITY "SEC. 15. A court of the District of Colum­ shall cause to be transmitted to the court "SEC. 30. If any provision hereof or the bia acting either as an initiating or respond­ of the initiating State a copy of all orders application thereof to any person or cir­ ing State may in its discretion direct that of support or for reimbursement therefor. cumstance is held invalid, such invalidity any part of or all fees and costs incurred in shall not affect other provisions or applica­ the District of Columbia, including with­ "ADDITIONAL POWERS OF COURT tions of the act which can be given effect out limitation by enumeration, fees for filing "SEC. 23. In addition to the foregoing pow­ without the invalid provision or application, service of process, seizure of property, and ers, the court of the District of Columbia, and to this end the provisions of this act stenographic service of both plaintiff, peti­ when acting as the responding State, has are declared to be severable. the power to subject the defendant or re­ tioner or complainant, and defendant or re­ "CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK spondent, or either, shall be paid by the Dis­ spondent to such terms and conditions as trict of Columbia or other political subdi­ the court m ay deem proper to assure com­ "SEC. 31. This act shall include a duty of vision or agency thereof. Where the action pliance with its orders and in particular- support to children born out of wedlock: is brought by or through the District of "(a) to require the defendant or re­ Provi ded, however, That said duty of support Columbia or an agency thereof, there shall spondent to furnish recognizance in the arises from the conditions enumerated in be no filing fee. form of a cash deposit or bond of such char­ section 12 (b) of the act of Congress dated acter and in such amount as the court may January 11, 1951 (64 Stat. 1240), entitled "JURISDICTION BY ARREST deem proper to assure payment of any 'An act relating to children born out of "SEC. 16. When the court of the District amount required to be paid by the defendant wedlock.' of Columbia, ·acting either as an initiating or respondent. "APPEALS or responding State, has reason to believe "(b) to require the defendant or respond­ "SEC. 32. Any defendant or respondent in that the defendant or respondent may flee ent to malce payments at specified intervals an action brought under the provisions of the jurisdiction it may (a) as an initiating to the clerk or probation office of the court t:1is act shall have the right of appeal. Any State request in its certificate that the court or the obligee and to report personally to order for support made by the court shall of the responding State obtain the body of such clerk or probation office at such times nc,t be affected by an appeal but shall con­ the defendant by appropriate process if that as may be deemed necessary. tinue in effect until the appeal is decided be permissible under the law of the respond­ "(c) to punish the defendant or respond­ anu thereafter, if the appeal is denied, until ing State, or (b) as a responding State, ob­ changed by further order of the court. tain the body of the defendant by appropri;.. ent who shall violate any order of the court ate process. to the came extent as is provided by law "APPROPRIATIONS. for contempt of the court in any other suit "SEC. 33. There are hereby authorized to "STATE INFORMATION AGENCY or proceeding cognizable by the court. be appropriated for the purposes of this act "SEC. 17. The United States attorney for "ADDITIONAL DUTI:C::l OF THE COURT OF THE DIS- such sums as Congress may from time to the District of Columbia is hereby designated TRICT OF COLUMBIA WHEN ACTING AS A RE­ time determine to be necessary. as ~he State information agency under this SPONDING STATE act, and it shall be his duty- "SEC. 34. This act shall take effect imme­ "(l) to compile a list of the courts and "SEC. 24. The court of the District of Co­ diately." their addresses in the District of Columbia lumbia, when acting as a responding State, having jurisdiction under this act and trans­ shall have the following duties which may The analysis accompanying Senate bill mit the same to the State information be carried out through the clerk or proba­ 2195 is as follows: tion office of the court: agency of every other State which has ANALYSIS OF BILL TO MAKE UNIFORM THE LAW adopted this or a substantially similar act. " (a) Upon the receipt of a payment made OF RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT by the defendant or respondent pursuant "(2) to maintain a register of such lists IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA to any order of the court or otherwise, to received from other States and to transmit This bill will improve and extend, by recip­ copies thereof as soon as possible after re­ transmit the same forthwith to the court of the initiating State. rocal legislation, the enforcement of sup­ ceipt to every court in the District of Co­ port and make such enforcement uniform lumbia having jurisdiction under this ·act. "(b) Upon request to furnish to the court of the initiating State a certified state­ and reciprocal with the law in 47 States of "DUTY OF COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ment of all payments made by the defend­ the Union in which substantially similar AS RESPONDING STATE ant or respondent. laws have been enacted. "SEC. 18. When the court of the District "ADDITIONAL DUTY OF COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS of Columbia, acting as a responding State, COLUMBIA WHEN ACTING AS AN INITIATING Part I defines terms and provides that receives from the court of any initiating STATE State the aforesaid copies, it shall (1) docket remedies provided in this law are in addition the cause, (2) notify the official charged "SEC. 25. The court of the District of Co­ to other remedi.es. with the duty of carrying on the proceed­ lumbia, when acting as an initiating State, shall have the duty which may be carried PART II. CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT ings, (3) set a time and place for a hearing, The sections under part II make it pos­ and ( 4) take such action as is necessary in out through the clerk or probation office of accordance with the laws of the District of the court to receive and disburse forthwith sible to· charge a person with the crime of Columbia- to obtain jurisdiction. all payments made by the defendant or re­ nonsupport while in residence in another spondent or transmitted by the court of the State and provides means of extraditing him "FURTHER DUTY OF RESPONDING COURT responding State. for his crime, even though the person specifi­ "SEC. 19. If a court of the District of Co­ "EVIDENCE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE cally may not be charged with fleeing from lumbia, acting as a responding State, is un­ justice. Submitting ~o the court's order for "SEC. 26. Laws attaching a privilege against able to obtain jurisdiction of the defendant support relieves the person from extr/:1.dition. or respondent or his property due to inaccu­ the disclosure of communications between racies or inadequacies in the petition or com­ husband and wife are inapplicable to pro­ PART III. CIVIL ENFORCEMENT plaint or otherwise, the court shall com­ ceedings under this act. Husband and wife The various sections under part III, besides municate this fact to the court in the initia- are competent witnesses and may be com- setting up procedures and explaining the 7998 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE June. 10 mechanics of implementing the law, make Ing period Involved in the disposition of cases tion 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment the provisions described in the. following before it. Representatives of the press are Act of 1938, as amended, relating to cot­ paragraphs. now admitted to hearings of juvenile-delin­ ·ton acreage allotments. I ask unani­ By provision of this bill the obligor is quency cases in the juvenile court. We be­ brought under the law of the State where he lieve that both of these developments will mous consent that the bill, together with lived while incurring the obligation and is enable the juvenile court to render a more an explanation of its provisions, be made liable to apprehension and the process effective and better · understood service for printed in the RECORD. of law in all cooperating States. Provision the District of Columbia. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The is made that the complaint must give full The subcommittee also notes with satis­ bill will be received and appropriately information for the apprehension of the faction the reorganization of the police referred; and, without objection, the bill obligor so that he may be brought to court department which gives bureau status and statement will be printed in the for hearing as prescribed by law and ordered to its protective work in behalf of juveniles. to make payment under penalty of further We believe that this reorganization and the RECORD. action under the laws of that State. efforts being made to provide improved train­ The bill i OF PROVISIONS OF or (2) 3 percent of the State acreage allot­ STUDY OF CONTRACT FOR OPERA­ s. 2196 ment. The acreage so reserved would be 1. The bill would amend section 344 (b) allocated to counties and added to the TION OF SENATE RESTAURANTS of the act by adding two provisos as follows: county acreage allotment after the county Mr. KILGORE submitted the following · (a) Under the first proviso the Secretary acreage reserve had been deducted. With resolution (S. Res. 107), which was re­ would be required to determine for each enactment of section 4 of this bill, the ferred to the Committee on Rules and State the additional acreage required to in­ county acreage allotment in all counties crease allotments for farms to the minimum would be used first to establish minimum Ad.ministration: levels prescribed in subsection (f) (1), which farm allotment for all old cotton farms. Resolved, That the Committee on Rules levels are the smaller of 4 acres or 80 percent 3. Section 3 of the bill would amend section and Administration is requested to make of the highest acreage planted to cotton on 344 (f) (1) of the act to change the minimum such study and to enter into such negotia­ the farm in the preceding 3 years. For 1956 farm-allotment levels from the smaller of 5 tions as may be necessary to determine the and years thereafter, the minimum would be acres or the highest acreage planted to cotton desirability, upon the .expiration on July the smaller of 4 acres or the highest acreage in the preceding 3 years to the smaller of 4 1, 1955, of the existing contract for the op­ planted to cotton on the farm in the pre­ acres or 80 percent of the highest acreage eration of the Senate restaurants, of enter­ ceding 3 years. The Secretary would appor­ planted to cotton in the preceding 3 years. ing into a contract with Government serv­ tion to the States, on the basis of their needs In addition, language would be added to the ices, Inc., for the operation of such restau­ for additional acreage to establish minimum provision to make it clear that farm allot­ rants. farm allotments, the total acreage available ments are to be established at the minimum for this purpose, which total would be levels specified in subsection (f) (1) only if AMENDMENT OF TRADING WITH limited to 1 percent of the national acreage the county acreage allotment (less the coun­ allotment. The acreage apportioned to a ty reserve) plus the additional acreage allo­ THEENEMY ACT-AMENDMENTS State would be apportioned to counties on cated to the county under this bill for es­ Mr. STENNIS. Mr. President, on be­ the basis of county needs for such acreage. tablishing minimum farm allotments, is suf. To illustrate the operation of this proviso, half of the Senator from New Mexico ficiently large to establish such allotments. [Mr. CHAVEZ], I submit· amendments, in­ if the Secretary determined for 1956 that 4. Section 4 of the bill would amend· para­ 300,000 acres of additional allotment would graph (6) of section 344 (f) of the act to tended to be proposed by him to the bill be required to establish minimum farm remove the authority which the county com­ (S. 9.95) to amend the Trading With the allotments in all States, he would neverthe­ mittees have under the present provisions Enemy Act. I ask unanimous consent less be limited to making available for such of paragraph (6) to decide whether the coun­ that the amendments may be printed in increase an acreage equal to 1 percent of ty allotment, less the county reserve, will be the RECORD, and appropriately referred. the 1956 national acreage allotment, which used first to establish allotments at the on the basis of the 1955 national allotment There being no objection, the amend­ minimum levels specified in paragraph ( 1) of ments were received, referred to the would be approximately 180,000 acres. If section 344 (f) of the act. With enactment the needs of a State represented 10 percent of this section of the bill, minimum farm Committee on the Judiciary, ordered to of the total needs of 300,000 acres, the State allotments would be established in all coun­ be printed, and to be printed in the would receive 10 percent of the 180,000 acres ties, regardless of whether farm allotments REcoRD, as follows: · available, or 18,000 acres; and the apportion­ were to be established in the county under On page 3, line 13, after the word "defined", ment to counties would be on the same the so-called cropland-factor procedure or strike out " ( 3) " and insert in lieu thereof: basis. (b) Under the second prov_iso ·the the historical procedure, "or (3) to the owner of s:uch property at the 8000 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 10 time of vesting, !Jr to the legal representa.t~ve of the Senate Committee on Banking "(3) The establishment and maintenance or successor, as· the case may be, of such and CUrrency, I desire to give notice of an endowment fund to promote the de­ owner, until the Attorney General or other that a public hearing will be held on velopment and application of the policies officer or agency authorized to make such and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt for the return (whose decision shall be final and not S. 2054, a bill to amend the Securities benefit of the American people." subject to review) is saiisfied after a full Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 'J;his Prior to its incorporation a nonpartisan hearing, that such owner did not, directly hearing will begin at 10 a. m., Monday, group known as the Roosevelt Permanent or indirectiy, after 1933 (A) use, or partici­ June 27, 1955, in room 301, Senate Office Memorial National Committee, with head­ pate in or benefit from or permit the use of, Building. quarters in New York City, had, in the course slave labor, or (B) -use, or participate in or All persons who desire to appear and of a nation-wide campaign, received con­ benefit from or permit the use of, prisoners tributions from the American people, in­ of war, political prisoners, civilian popula­ testify at the hearing are requested to cluding upward of a million children, to the tion, hostages, or others, for medical or bio­ notify Mr. J. H. Yingling, chief clerk, amount of $2,049,164.49. logical or similar experimentation, or (C) Committee on Banking and Currency, On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of utilize any product, service, facility, or agen­ room 303, Senate Office Building, tele­ the incorporation of the association, the cy which used, or participated in or bene­ phone National 8-3120, extension 865, trustees feel impelled to inform the Con­ fited from or permitted the use of, slave before the close of business on Tuesday, gress what they have done to fulfill the pur­ labor, or such medical, biological, or similar June 21, 1955. poses for which the association was incor­ experimentation, or ( 4) ." porated, and how they have administered On page 3, line 22, strike out "(4)" and the funds which they have held in trust for insert in lieu thereof "(5) ." the American people. REPORT TO THE CONGRESS BY THE Under the first aim, acting on the recom­ mendation of a committee of which Mr. Elihu UNITED STATES PARTICIPATION IN THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSOCI­ ATION Root, Secretary of War and Secretary of State INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPO­ in President- Theodore Roosevelt's Cabinet, RATION-AMENDMENT Mr. IVES. Mr. President, 35 years and Mr. James R. Garfield, Secretary of the ago, by Public Law No. 233, a national Interior, were successively chairmen, and Mr. PAYNE (for Mr. CAPEHART) sub­ charter was granted to the Roosevelt Secretary Luke E. Wright, Senator Hiram W. mitted an amendment, intended to be Memorial Association, now, by act of Johnson, and Senator Frank B. Kellogg, sub­ proposed by Mr. CAPEHART, to the bill sequently Secretary of State in President Congress, the Theodore Roosevelt As­ Coolidge's Cabinet, were members, the asso­ (S. 1894) to provide for the participa­ sociation. On this 35th anniversary of tion of the United States in the Interna­ ciation purchased, at a cost of $364,000, a the incorporation of the association, the 90-acre island in the Potomac, between the tional Finance Corporation, which was trustees desire to inform the Congress of Francis Scott Key Bridge and the Memorial referred to the Committee on Banking what they have done to fulfill the pur­ Bridge, since called Theodore Roosevelt and Currency, and ordered to be printed. pose for which the association was in­ Island, and presented it to the Nation as corporated and how they have admin­ "a natural park for the enjoyment and recre­ ADDRESSES, EDITORIALS, ARTI­ istered the funds which they have held ation of the people." The distinguished landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, CLES, ETC., PRINTED IN THE i_n trust for the American people. chosen by the trustees to plan the develop­ RECORD They have prepared a report to the ment of the island, urged that no monu­ On request, and by unanimous con­ Congress, covering the years 1920-55, mental structure be imposed upon the sent, addresses, editorials, articles, etc., and I ask that the text of this report be island's natural beauty, recommending rather printed in the body of the RECORD at this that trees native . to the region. be. planted were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, and permitted to develop as a Potomac cli­ as follows: point in my remarks. There being no objection, the report max forest. Such a forest, he pointed out, By Mr. HILL: would, in the course of the centuries, be­ Statement by Senator MAGNUSON relative was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, come a monumental creation, "comparable," to the celebration of the 300th anniversary as follows: in Mr. Olmsted's words, "only to the greatest of the first Swedish mission in Pennsyl­ THEODORE ROOSEVELT AsSOCIATION-A REPORT masterpieces of the hand of man." vania. (1920-55) The island was accepted for the Nation by By Mr. STENNIS: To the Congress of the United States: act of Congress in 1932 (Public Law 146, Article entitled "Senate Strategist-LYN-· It is 35 years since the Congress (by Public 72d Cong.). Certain utility structures, a J>ON JOHNSON Runs the Smoothest Demo­ Law No. 233, 66th Cong., approved, May 31, watergate for ferry service from Columbia cratic Show in Years," written by Albert 1920, 41 Stat. 691) granted a national char­ Island, with access to the Virginia shore, Clark, and published in the Wall Street ter to the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and a simple memorial overlook, are now Journal of June 10, 1955. (now, by act of Congress, Theodore Roose­ being constructed by the National Park Serv­ By Mr. CASE of New Jersey: velt Association). Among the signers of the ice to which the Congress gave jurisdiction Editorial from the Times-Advertiser of articles of incorporation were such distin­ over the island. It is hoped that this appro­ Trenton, N. J., paying tribute to Senator guished contemporaries of Mr. Roosevelt as priate memorial to a great President who was SMITH of Maine and Senator SMITH of New John Burroughs, Walter Damrosch, Cleve­ also a great lover of the outdoors may be Jersey. land H. Dodge, John H. Finley, James R. dedicated on the hundredth anniversary of Garfield, James W. Gerard, James Cardinal Theodore Roosevelt's birth, October 27, 1958. Gibbons, Judson Harmon, Clark Howell, Under the second aim, the association ~OTICE OF HEARING ON SUNDRY William Dean Howells, Charles E. Hughes, established the proposed memorial park at NOMINATIONS BY COMMITI'EE Harold L. Ickes, Hiram W. Johnson, Frank­ Oyster Bay, N. Y., and in 1942, presented it ON FOREIGN RELATIONS lin K. Lane, Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert R. to the town of Oyster Bay, which is adminis­ Moton, Alton B. Parker, George W. Perkins, tering it with notable success under the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. As a Gifford Pinchot, Elihu Root, John S. Sargent, supervision of an advisory committee of local Senator, and chairman of the Commit­ Henry L. Stimson, Oscar S. Straus, William residents of which President Roosevelt's tee on Foreign Relations, the Chair de­ Howard Taft, William Boyce Thompson, Hen­ daughter, Mrs. Richard Derby, is chairman. sires to say that the Senate received ry Watterson, Leonard Wood, Luke E. Wright. Under the third aim, "the development and . Section 3 of the act of incorporation de­ application of the policies and ideals o! today a list of 39 persons for appoint­ Theodore Roosevelt," the association has ment, promotion, and designation in the clared the purpose of the association to be: "To perpetuate the memory of Theodore carried on a wide range of activities. Foreign Service of the United States. Roosevelt for the benefit of the people of the 1. It contributed $165,000 to the comple­ The list is printed elsewhere in the pro­ United States of America and of the world, tion of Theodore Roosevelt House, New York ceedings of today. Notice is hereby and to that end, but without restriction to City, restored by the Women's Theodore given that these nominations will be the objects enumerated below, to solicit, hold Roosevelt Memorial Association. This group considered by the Committee on For­ and maintain a fund or funds, and to apply of patriotic women has welcomed thousands eign Relations at the expiration of 6 the principal thereof and income therefrom of schoolchildr~n as well as adult visitors to to any one or more of the following objects: the house. During the school year, classes days. from the schools in New York and the sur­ "(l) The creation and maintenance of a rounding area come almost daily to the house suitable and adequate monumental meino­ and are shown motion pictures of Mr . .Roose­ NOTICE OF HEARINGS ON S. 2054 BY rial in the city of Washington, District of velt. Essay contests are held in the schools THE SUBCOMMITI'EE ON SECURI­ Columbia, to the memory of Theodore Roose­ to stimulate intere~t in Mr.-Roosevelt's life TIES OF' THE COMMITTEE . ON velt; and in his ideals of responsible citizenship. BANKING AND CURRENCY "'(2) The acquisition, development, and The Theodore Roosevelt Association estab­ maintenance of a public park in memory of lished its national headquarters in the house Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. President, on be­ Theodore Roosevelt in the town of Oyster and has shared the cost of its maintenance. half of the Subcommittee on Securities Bay, N. Y.; and · The association, however, has installed 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 8001 extensive exhibitions of valuable Roosevelt 8. The association has, directly or indi­ dore Roosevelt was the greatest teacher of memorabilia, and has recently completed rectly, sponsored the publication of other the essentials of popular self-government arrangements with the Library of Congress volumes of Rooseveltiana, notably the Col­ the world has ever known." for the display at the house from time to lected works of Theodore Roosevelt in a Attached is an auditor's statement of the time of such of its exhibits as are related limited memorial edition in 24 volumes, and financial position of the association at the to the purposes for which the house was a popular and inexpensive national edition in end of the last fiscal year, September 20, established. 20 volumes (Charles Scribners Sons, pub­ 1954. In order to avoid duplication of effort and lishers), the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, Respectfully submitted. expense, the association has asked the Con­ a collection of quotations from his writings OsCAR s. STRAUS II, President. gress for permission to merge with the and speeches on about a thousand different HOWARD CASWELL SMITH, Women's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Asso­ subjects, edited by the late Albert Bushnell HORACE MARDEN ALBRIGHT, ciation, and a bill to that effect is now pend­ Hart, professor of history at Harvard, and Dr. Vice Presidents. ing. Plans for the expansion of the work in Herbert R. Ferleger, and a volume of Mr. WILLIAM M. CHADBOURNE, behalf of responsible citizenship are now Roosevelt's wartime editorials in the Kansas Treasurer. being prepared in order that Theodore Roose­ City Star; as well as Roosevelt in the Bad HERMANN HAGEDORN, velt House may play an increasingly effective Lands, the story of Mr. Roosevelt's ranching Secretary and Director. part in the life of the city and the Nation. days, and The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore 2. Immediately following the death of Mrs. Hill, an account of the President's family BOARD OF TRUSTEES Theodore Roosevelt, in 1948, the association life, both by Hermann Hagedorn. Horace M. Albright, Joseph W. Alsop, Jr., purchased Sagamore Hill, the President's 9. The association has brought together Robert P. Bass, Walter F. Brown, William M. home at Oyster Bay, N. Y., with its contents: from many sources in the United States and Chadbourne, Roscoe H. Channing, Grenville Furniture, furnishings, rugs, books, paint­ Europe what is generally regarded as the Clark, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Gilmore D. ings, hunting trophies, and other memora­ most notable collection of motion pictures Clarke, Mrs. Thomas L. Clarke, Winthrop M. bilia of Mr. Roosevelt's adventurous life. The related to a single individual that has yet Crane III, W. J. Crawford, Jr., Charles A. house has been structurally rehabilitated, been made. The material covers the period Dana, Harry Darby, Jay N. Darling, Frederick equipped with a modern system of fire detec­ from 1897 to Mr. Roosevelt's death in 1919 M. Davenport, Frederick M. Davenport, Jr., tion and protection, and restored as of the and includes newsreel shots of his inaugu­ F. Trubee Davison, Thomas C. Desmond, period of 1901-09, when it was the summer ration in 1905, of the building of the Pan­ James H. Duff, Elisha Dyer, Guy Emerson, White House. ama Canal -and Mr. Roosevelt's visit to the Robert Munro Ferguson, Arthur S. Flem­ The house was dedicated as a national isthmus in 1906, of the Progressive campaign ming, Henry P. Fletcher, W. Cameron Forbes, shrine by President Eisenhower on June 14, in 1912 and of Mr. Roosevelt's activities dur­ Karl T. Frederick, James A. Garfield, U. S. 1953, in the presence of a distinguished au­ ing the First World War, as well as film rec­ Grant III, Gordon K. Greenfield, Joseph C. dience which included former President ords of him . in Europe, Africa, and South Grew, Bronson Griscom, Lloyd C. Griscom, Herbert Hoover and the Honorable Thomas America. Four productions are available in Hermann Hagedorn, Leonard W. Hall, Donald E. Dewey, Governor of New York. During 16-mm. for loan, free of charge, to schools. M. Halstead, Chauncey J. Hamlin, Mrs. John the period since the house was opened to the 10. The association awards distinguished Henry Hammond, Learned Hand, William public it has welcomed approximately service medals annually in two or more out Hard, Robert Y. Hinshaw, John Jay Hopkins, 180,000 visitors. of a dozen fields associated with Mr. Roose­ Stanley M. Isaacs, Hiram W. Johnson, Jr., The trustees regard Sagamore Hill as a velt's many-faceted career. The medals, pre­ Robert L. Johnson,- Christopher La Farge, symbol of American family life at its best sented for the first 3 years by the President Walter Lippmann, Earle Looker, John M. and, expect, as funds become available, to of the United States in the White House, Lupton, Theodore R. McKeldin, Charles Merz, conduct rad~o and television programs there have, since 1926, been presented at a dinner Schuyler M. Meyer, Spencer M1ller, Jr., Robert with the purpose of deepening the apprecia­ at Theodore Roosevelt House on October Moses, Guy Murchie, Allan Nevins, William tion of family life throughout the Nation. 27, the anniversary of Mr. Roosevelt's birth. B. Nichols, Vincent Ostrom, John H. G. Pell, Those who visit the spacious, 70-year-old Among the statesmen, Jurists, soldiers, sci­ George Wharton Pepper, George W. Perkins, house receive, indeed, an impression not only entists, humanitarians, and men of letters William Phillips, Walter Merriam Pratt, of the background against whicll the great who ha·ve received the medals on these occa­ Carleton Putnam, Roy A. Roberts, Oren Root, American lived his rich and active life, but sions have been Oliver Wendell Holmes, Her­ George Rublee, C. Melvin Sharpe, Howard of those home virtues which, he declared, bert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John J. Caswell Smith, Caswell Moen Smith, Ph111p were the basis of free government. Pershing, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles A. B. Stewart, Leslie C. Stratton, Oscar S. Straus 3. The association has gathered an ex­ Lindbergh, Cordell Hull, Carter Glass, Carl II, Roger W. Straus, Julian Street, Jr., Mrs. R. tensive collection of books and pamphlets Sandburg, Robert A. Millikin, W111iam Allen Mee. Tankersley, Harry Tappen, Lyman M. by and about Mr. Roosevelt and about his White, Helen Keller, George Washington Tondel, Jr., William L. White, John Hay time, as well as thousands of photographs, Carver, Joseph C. Grew, John Foster Dulles, Whitney. original and printed cartoons, and a vast Learned Hand, Ralph J. Bun·che, George C. number of press clippings. These collec­ Marshall, and Bernard M. Baruch. Theodore Roosevelt AssOCiation-Statement tions, originally lodged at Theodore Roose­ 11. The association sponsored the erec­ of sources and disposition of capital and velt House in New York were, in 1943, pre­ tion in Santiago de Cuba of a bust by James current funds from May 31, 1920 (incep­ sented to Harvard University, in the convic­ Earle Fraser of Mr. Roosevelt as colonel of tion) to September 30, 1954 tion that this material, so important to his­ the Rough Riders, set against a granite back­ torians now and in the future, would be ground, designed by the architect, Henry Subscriptions and special more easily available to scholars at a great Bacon, designer of the Lincoln Memorial. donations received ______$2, 049, 164. 49 institution of learning. The bust was unveiled by Mrs. Roosevelt in Gifts of books, magazines, 4. Extensive collections of biographJcal 1924, in the presence of President Alfredo photographs, and museum Zayas and other Cuban dignitaries. articles, at appraised val- data of Mr. Roosevelt's life, made by the as­ ues______346,053.27 sociation, are also available to historical 12. Following Theodore Roosevelt's elec­ scholars at Harvard. tion to the Hall of Fame at New York Uni­ Excess of income over ex­ 5. A Theodore Roosevelt fellowship of versity in 1951, the association presented the penditures ( including gains $1,000, open to graduate students in history bronze bust and tablet unveiled there on or losses realized on sales at Harvard, working on the Roosevelt papers, May 10, 1954, by Mr. Roosevelt's daughter, of securities)------·272, 867. 51 has been established on an annual basis and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. has proved effective in stimulating interest The Congress will note that the activities Total------~---- 2,668,085.27 in the Theodore Roosevelt period, roughly listed above have, without exception, been 1899 to 1919. nonpolitical and nonpartisan. They have, Less, memorial grants: furthermore, stressed less the personality of Oyster Bay Memorial Park_ 702,094.67 6. The association financed the calendar­ Theodore Roosevelt Island_ 439,499.63 ing of Mr. Roosevelt's presidential letters in Mr. Roosevelt than the ideals that he fought for and that he represents in history. Items to Harvard Library__ 3.02,420.43 the Library of Congress, and the microfilm­ Theodore Roosevelt Letters_ 129. 315. 64 ing of the letter copybooks of Mr. Roose­ The trustees are mindful of the approach Roosevelt Cyclopedia ______11,735.73 velt's presidential and postpresidential pe­ of the centenary of Theodore Roosevelt's Bronzes of Theodore Roose- riods which were fading to the point of birth, on October 27, 1958. A Joint resolu­ velt in Hall of Fame ____ _ 8,022.65 1llegibility. The microfilms nave been added tion for the establishment of a Theodore to the Theodore Roosevelt collections at Roosevelt Centennial Commission has been Harvard Fellowship ______4,000.00 Harvard which include also microfilm copies introduced in the Senate of the United of other valuable collections of Roosevelt States by Hon. IRVING M. IVES, of New York, Total ------1,597,088.75 letters. and in the House by Hon. JOSEPH w. MARTIN. 7. One of the· association's major projects There ls a fruitful suggestion of the possible Capital of the association at has been the preparation of the manuscript focus of the proposed observance in Elihu September 30, 1954, con­ by Prof. Elting E. Morison of the collected Root's appraisal of Mr. Roosevelt's ultimate sisting of: letters of Theodore Roosevelt, which were significance: "Review the roster of the few Investment in Sagamore published by the Harvard University Press, great men of history, our own history, the Hill, less mortgage and in cooperation with Harvard University and history of the world, and, when you have contract payable of the Massachusetts Institute of .Technology. finished the review, you will find that Theo- $51,333 ------306,749.67 8002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE June 10 Theodore Roosevelt Association-Statement · At this point I ask unanimous consent and farmers, regardless of income, and to of sources and disposition of capital and that a copy of the resolution as sub­ other taxpayers with gross income above current funds from May 31, 1920 (incep­ mitted on January 14, along with a copy $10,000, and the identification markings were tion) to September 30, 1954-Continued necessary in order to assure mailing the right of the Department's letter under date of kinds of packages to taxpayers. Capital of the association at June 3, be printed in the RECORD. September 30, 1954, con­ The Treasury Department has made and sisting of-Continued . There being no objection, the resolu­ will always make every effort consistent with I_nterest in Roosevelt House tion

Theodore L. Hodson, Robert R. Ritzman LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) subject to qualification therefor as provided Jr. Milton D. Robinson, Alan H. Bath George B. Hey by law: William H. Holbert, Jr. Jr. Harry L. Benson Joseph M. McNabb The following-named for temporary ap­ Nathan C. Holway Earl C. Rockwood, Jr. Bertram R. Carraway Phinehas S. Newton, pointment: Robert L. Horton Charles W. Roe Paul H. Davis, Jr. Jr. LIEUTENANT Richard L. Hoyt Ralph E. Rogers Richard D. Duncan Richard S. Pattee, Jr. Jean-Pierre E. Bou- Wendell E. Montgom- Robert J. Hurley Warren F. Rogers Jonas L. Goldstein Barnaby F. Smith quet ery Clifton M. Hussey Gerald K. Roland Herbert E. Hetu Edward T. Sullivan Raymond E. George John J. Webb Eldon D. Johnson Martin Ruch, Jr. Joseph E. Hartnett William R. Johnson Roger H. Ruhsenber- ENSIGN Arthur L. Jones, Jr. ger Paul G. Duffy Harry E. Padgett The following-named for permanent ap­ Donald S. Jones Richard E. Runyon Lewis R . McClellan Charles W. Shepherd pointment: Samuel W. Kaai John M. Rusch The following-named women officers to LIEUTENANT Richard W. Kaiser, Jr. James A. Ryan, Jr. the grade indicated in the line of the Navy, Lloyd M. Armstrong Kenner F. Hawkins E-verett D. King Ben T. Sa nders subject to qualification therefor as provided William H. Cook, Jr. James P. Lynch Clayton c. Knight Richard E. Sargent by law: Norman E. Duggan Ernest W. Small Walter J . Knipp . John H. Shaw The following-named for temporary ap­ Harold R. Englander Michael Zustiak Don H. Knoerr Jean P. Sheets pointment: Robert C. Fromuth Robert J. Kowalski John D. Shilling LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Curt H. Kretzschmann Ed"'.in D. Shropshire, LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Richard E. LaBarre Jr. Mary F. Andersen Eleanor K. Hunn Jean-Pierre E . Bou- Wendell E. Montgom- Robert L. Lage Philip W. Signor, Jr. Patricia F. Barrett Genevieve D. Kunce quet ery Durwood E. Lashbrook Reginald C. Simmons Mary L. Brown Nancy A. Lewis Raymond E. George John J. Webb Frederick M. Low Alfred Skolnick Jean L. Campbell Sylvia G. Radyx Joseph E. Hartnett George C. Lowry Frederick J. Slyfield Joanne G. Carter Marjorie A. Reese The following-named officers for temporary Daniel G. McCormick Herbert W. Smevog Rose E. Coleman Marjorie S. Rohde or permanent appointment to the grade in­ Johnny B. McDaniel Aaron W. S. Snyder Maureen T. Dwyer Sheryl T. Ross dicated in the Medical Service Corps in the James M. McNaughton Herman L. Snyder, Jr. Mary S. Ebeling Mary J. Team Navy, subject to qualification therefor as Cornelius E. Mandel, Thomas W. Speelman Dorothy L. Erhart Nell V. Voltaire provided by law: Jr. Russell E. Spencer Martha A. Eubanks Evelyn D. Way The following-named for temporary ap­ Alan "J" :M:argeson Jack D. Stevens Effie J. Hilyard poinment: Donald E. Martin James H . Strawn The following-named for permanent ap­ LIEUTENANT Wesley R. Mason Doyle L. Sutherland pointment: Harold R. Bower Lucien E. Puckett Donald M. Mercer William E. Temple- Dennie L. Briggs Paul W. Scrimshaw Floyd H. Miller, Jr. man LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Lucille R. McKearney James W. DuckworthMichele J. Testa Roy L. Mock Billy B. Traweek Janet L. Buckner William J. Mccarville Wayne E. Williams Alan G. Murdoch Sam Visnich Elizabeth Chadwick Jeanne M . Mitchell Allen E. McMichael Paul E. Neville Charles E. Waite Irene J. Endreikis Janet M. Stewart Robert M. Owens Harold E. Walker, Jr. Frances Hamilton Jean L. Tullar LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Joe Parks Joseph E. Wall Sarah E. Koestline Dorothy J. Wagner Lois R. Livingston James F. Pribnow Samuel S. Pearlman ~obert B. Ward ENSIGN Bettie L. Pflueger Robert L. Smith William A. Pearson Robert N. Weaver John E. White Jane C. Alexander Eleanor K. Hunn The following-named for permanent ap­ Roland A: Petrie Mary F. Andersen Mar.::;uerite J. Jackson pointment:- Robert L. Phelps James F. Whittier Marion Willhauck Barbara L. Bales Genevieve D. Kunce LIEUTENANT Robert A. Poor Patricia F . Barrett Nancy A. Lewis Thomas E . Powers James A. Wilson, Jr. Ervin W. Blasinski Woodbury Johnson · waiter P. Price Robert W. Wisdom Mary L. Brown Nadine L. Moriarty Kenneth R. Coburn Arthur N- King Robert E. Reddick, Jr. John R. Witcher Barbara R. Browne Lillian M. Murphy William G. Cumming.Lawrence J. McGrael Frederick J. Reeg William W. Wright Jean L. Campbell Sylvia G. Radyx Jr. Granville M. Moore Randolph L. Rhodes John O. Yanaros Joanne G. Carter Marjorie A. Reese Francis A. Ervin William H. Nelson Lloyd W. Richards Alfred A. Young III Rose E. Coleman Marjorie S. Rohde Edmund H. Gleason Alan C. Pipkin Maureen T. Dwyer Sheryl T. Ross Walter L. Goldenrath John E. Rasmussen The following-named temporary officers of Mary S. Ebeling Jean P. Sloman Chester H. Johnson, Jr.Leslie W. Teller, Jr. the United States Navy to be appointed per­ Dorothy L. Erhart Mary J. Team manent lieutenants in the line in the Navy, Martha A. Eubanks Nell V. Voltaire LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) subject to qualification therefor as provided Effie J. Hilyard Evelyn D. Way Harold R. Bower Allen E. McMichael by law: Emile L. Horn Dennie L. Briggs Lucien E. Puckett Charles DeV. Cook Newton L. Wheat The following-named officers for tempo­ James W. Duckworth Paul W. Scrimshaw "R" "H" Dorman David T. Williams rary or permanent appointment to the grade George E. Fry Michele J. Testa Thomas J. Guilday, Jr. Walter T. Zebrowski indicated in the Medical Corps in the Navy, William J. -Mccarville Wayne E. Williams Roy R. Miears subject to qualification therefor as provided ENSIGN Harrison M. Walker, by law: Jr. "J" "M" Dennis Lois R. Livingston The following-named for temporary ap­ Leonard F. Devine Bettie L. Pflueger The following-named officers for tempo­ pointment: Richard S. Gilbert James F. Pribnow rary or permanent appointment to the grade LIEUTENANT James F. Johnston Robert L. Smith indicated in the line in the Navy (special­ Buell C. ·cole duty officers), subject to qualification there­ The following-named officers for temporary for as provided by law: The following-named for permanent ap­ or permanent appointment to the grade in­ The following-named for temporary ap­ pointment: dicated in the Supply Corps in the Navy, pointment: LIEUTENANT subject to qualification therefor as proviQed LIEUTENANT Samuel A. Heaton, Jr. James A. Reeves by law: Harry L. Benson Joseph M. McNabb William H. Howell, Jr. Roger F. Reinhardt The following-named for temporary ap­ Bertram R. Carraway Phinehas S. Newton, William B. Ingram Lloyd C. Rohrs pointment: Richard D. Duncan Jr. Ernest F. Latham Max J. Trummer LIEUTENANT Patrick F. O'Connell Matthew W. Wood LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Albert A. Arcand Leary B. Kreiss! The following-named for permanent ap­ Leonard H. Benfell, Jr.Grenes J. Lennox Paul G. Duffy Harry E. Padgett pointment: Leonard E. Brock William N. Leonard, Lewis R. McClellan Charles W. Shepherd Jr. LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Everett G. Brown Frederick W. Lewis The following-named for permanent ap­ Claiborne R. Carter Mitchell c. Liska pointment: Buell C. Cole George J. A. Magnant George I. Chegin Francis J. Malerich LIEUTENANT Ronald W. Glover Richard J. Miller Bryan R. Colbert James A. Naismith Richard B. Gresham Joseph L. Murphy Leo J. Anderson William R. Newsome Charles W. Cross John P. Prestwich Milton E. Henderson Howard A. Pearson Walter G. Andry, Jr. Thomas A. Nutt, Jr. Thomas R~ Downs George W. Ray Frederick E. Jackson William O. Pischnotte Robert P. Brett Larry G. Parks Paul E. Erzen Paul L. Rendelson M. Gilbert A. LeBlanc Pascual Sanchez- Hugh K. Fraley Robert Casey Harvey S. Parrish, Jr. Norman G. Lewis Munoz Raymond B. Renne Turner DeHart Willard D. Pfeiffer Frederick S. McAlpine Richard L. Slack Herbert S. Goldfield James E. Riley Robert E. Duval Richard B. Phillips Howard P. Granger Frank H. Rutter, Jr. Gerald J. Mcclard Gerald I. Shugoll Charles D. Everhart Cecil R. Rosier Harold E. Haas Claiborne T. Selden Howard W. Holschuh Philip B. Shepard James W. McDaniel B111y D. Viele Paul C. Herndon Lyle E. Thomas Robert S. Jones Paul K. Trahan The following-named officers for tempo­ Gordon M. Herr Harry F. Thompson Kenneth W. MoorheadJoseph N. Williams, Jr. rary or. permanent appointment to the grade Richard S. Hudson Vernon F. Vikingson Horace H. Morgan George H. York indicated in the Dental Corps in the Navy, Louis A. Janezic 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 8013

LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Gerald H. King Lloyd I. Pearson Edward H. Marsh II Lewis B. Taylor, Jr. Joseph P. Adair Billie K. Long Frederick J. Kirch Charles P. Phleger Leiv N. Rydland Robert P. Woodworth George R. Badger Charles W. Long John A. Kitko John P. Prestwich LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Leary B. Kreiss! James R. Ratley Russell M. Brown Claude c. McCandless, Roy L. Allen Joseph Lapolla Louis K. Bruyneel Jr. Philip H. LaFrance George W. Ray Henry L. Lane Paul L. Rendelson Horace M. Barber Frank H. Lewis, Jr. Harvey J . ChristensenDonald E. McCrab-b Ernest J. Bischof James R. Lincoln, Jr. Robert N. ChristopherJohn T. Ranken, Jr. Jack B. Leavitt Raymond B. Renne Grenes J. Lennox James E. Riley Richard A. Bowers Richard 0. Luster William W. Davis Preston Sawyer, Jr. William J. Burns, Jr. James W. Morse, Jr. Richard J. Donzell George S. s:iackelford William N. Leonard,Frank H. Rutter, Jr. Jr. Thomas E. Salsman Irwin D. Crowley, Jr. John F. O'Leary Merwyn C. Greer William H. Smith, Jr. Ralph E. Deady Ronald B. Reeves Roy W. Gunther Robert G. Stevenson Murray Lesser Claiborne T. Selden Helen R. Levin Allen S. Selinger Charles W. Gates Charles F. Robinson Gerald R. Henry Joseph P. Sullivan Paul R. Gates Matthias J. Smith Braxton R. King Frank L. White Frederick W. Lewis Allen L. Spaulding Mitchell C. Liska Elvin H. Steeg Roy D. Gaulden, Jr. Morris Stern Achilleas E. Kollios Jeremiah Wilczynski William K. Harten Stanley P. Stewart, Jr. Charles F. Lathrop Ralph C. Woodward Robert F. Lukens Virginia P. Stryker Joseph F. McKinney James A. Taylor Howard H. Haynes Gordon A. Tuveson James L. Lenderman William R. Yakopin Edmund C. Hughes Stanley N. Verdi Robert E. Livermore Paul T. McMahan Lyle E. Thomas Joseph J. McNally Harry F. Thompson Michael C. Koblos John R. Wear The following-named for permanent ap­ Francis J. Malerich Vernon F. Vikingson Lawrence Kreshin Dean G. Wilson pointment: Bernard L. Margason John S. Vishneski, Jr. The following-named for permanent ap .. LIEUTENANT Crozier C. Mauer George H. Webb pointment: James V. Allen Edward N. McKeen William H. Mayer William M. Weisskopf LIEUTENANT Neshan Ayrassian Francis E. Malone Billy R. Mitchell Lawrence "S" Wiener Raymond A. Bafus William R. Kinworthy, Robert J. Banghart John T. Martin James A. Naismith John A. Wirsing Arthur C. Beard Jr. Alfred A. Baratta Chester S. Matthews George S. Offerman Lynn McG. CavendishJohn M. Nutter William H. Barnett, Jr. James P. Morgan, Jr. ENSIGN Roy W. Douthitt Wllliam F. Nutting Michael Bat Harrison G. Packard Lawrence L. Dugdale Coy M. Porter John W. Beale Rodney K. Purnell Joseph P. Adair Billie K. Long Barry B. Babcock Charles W. Long Richard T. Hardy William J. Richeson Stanley R. Burrowes Robert LeR. Reed Daniel L. Hirst William H. Semple George R. Badger Claude C. McCandless, Horace G. Bussell Chester F. Riegle Frank W. Jones Jack E. Washburn James L. Byrd George G. Ryon· Russell M. Brown Jr. Thomas N. Calhoun Michael Safonov Louis K. Bruyneel Donald E. McCrabb LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Arthur L. Child III Frank A. Saksa Harvey J. Christensen Robert W. O'Connor William G. Adams Marion H. Massee III Donald L. B. Combs Herbert C. Sharp Robert N. ChristopherJohn T. Ranken, Jr. Delmar A. Bartley Jack C. Rickels Francis B. Cosby Thornton L. Slater William W. Davis Preston Sawyer, Jr. Leo L. Baton Leiv N. Rydland William K. Crockett William J. Snyder Richard J. Donzell George S. Shackelford Philip G. Belcher Benjamin L. Saravia Chester B. Czarnecki Leslie H. Steele Merwyn C. Greer William H. Smith, Jr. James R. Borberg Alexander Surko, Jr. James C. Daniel Ogden K. Stratton Roy W. Gunther Robert G. Stevenson Ray C. Clark Andrew G. Sutherland Arthur R. Edsall, Jr. James R. Strohm Gerald R. Henry Joseph P. Sullivan Louis H. Clerc Lewis B. Taylor, Jr. Edward C. Eliot John J. Sullivan Braxton R. King Frank L. White Leslie c. Guthrie, Jr. Robert J. vanDiven- Dan D. Ellis William J. Sullivan, Achilleas E. Kollios Jeremiah Wilczynski Richard D. Harris der J oseph L. Elwood Jr. Charles F. Lathrop Ralph C. Woodward Erik K. F. Hay William L. Wilson Carl W. Ertley Daniel G. Sundberg James L. Lenderman William R. Yakopin Raymond W. Loomis Robert P. Woodworth Robert G. Fabian Ralph F. Taylor, Jr. Robert E. Livermore Edward H. Marsh II John F . Finn Carl W. Thomas The following-named officers for tempo­ ENSIGN rary or permanent appointment to the grade Timothy G. Flaherty Alfred J. Thurner Roy L. Allen Joseph Lapolla Herschel E. Futral, Jr. Max O. Vanlanding- indicated in the Chaplain Corps in the Navy, Horace M. Barber Frank H. Lewis, Jr. Claude O. Garrett ham subject to qualification therefor as provided Ernest J. Bischof James R. Lincoln, Jr. Robert A. Gentel Peter H. B. VanTol, by law: Richard A. Bowers Richard O. Luster Robert L. Gifford Jr. The following-named for temporary ap­ William J. Burns, Jr. James w. Morse, Jr. John D. Graziadei John W. Veazey pointment: Irwin D. Crowley, Jr, John F. O'Leary Ellwood W. Growden Harry P. VonK.ennel, LIEUTENANT Ralph E. Deady Ronald B. Reeves Herbert L. Gurnee Jr. John D. Gould Henry W. Stroman Charles W. Gates Charles F. Robinson Lawrence D. Hagedorn Robert L. Wagner Paul F. W. Pieper William T. Hamill, Jr. William E. Wallace Paul R. Gates Matthias J. Smith John F. Hardy Melville J. Walters, Jr. The .following-named for permanent ap­ Roy D. Gaulden, Jr. Morris Stern Joe M. Harris Joh'n A. Ward pointment: William K. Harten Stanley P. Stewart, Jr. Howard H. Haynes Gordon A. Tuveson John H. Hatfield Richard A. Weiss LIEUTENANT Edmund C. Hughes Stanley N. Verdi John C. Hay, Jr. Richard A. Wier Warren L. Bost Robert C. McMillan Donald D. Heindel Edgar E. Williams Michael C. Koblos John R. Wear Leon S. Darkowski Thomas D. Parham, Jr. Lawrence Kreshin Dean G. Wilson "J" Scott Kirkwood Argyle M. Wolf Francis J. N. Fltzpat-George I. Paulson Robert J. Lang George M. Wolford Tick Adam J. Schutz, Jr. The following-named officers for temporary Lee R. Ledbetter Orpheus L. Woodbury, Henry H. Hayes Mark Sullivan or permanent appointment to the grade in­ Myrton "J" Leslie Jr. Joseph C. Hilferty Anthony C. Volz dicated in the Nurse Corps in the Navy, Walter J. McCrory Bryan W. Ziegler Noah L. McDowell Bruce H. Williams subject to qualification therefor as provided Austin F. McGovern by law: The following-named for permanent ap­ The following-named for temporary ap­ LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) pointment: pointment: William H. Alexander Paul E. Erzen LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) LIEUTENANT Albert A. Arcand Charles E. Felthousen Mortimer F. Barton, Robert R. Fischer Charles I. Fay Charles L. Jenkins Kathleen M. Laughlin Jr. Hugh K. Fraley Calvin G. Gardner Asa W. Jones Helen Roller Leonard H. Benfell, Jr. Richard M. Galvez Joseph F. Geary Edward H. Kicklighter The folloWing-named for permanent ap­ Frank H. Blue, Jr. Anthony P. Garbarini, Boris Geeza Leo J. McDonald pointment: Robert J. Gentile- Paul F. W. Pieper J ames A. Brady Jr. LIEUTENANT Justin D. Brett Herbert S. Goldfield John D. Gould William W. Poynter Owen A. Hardage, Jr. Edward J. Read Janet B. Beyer Frances E. Nieranow- Leonard E. Brock Austin F. Gore, Jr. Marie F. Dalton ski Everett G. Brown Howard P. Granger Harold V. Heaney Ronald L. Roberson William F. Hollis, Jr. Joseph E. Ryan Inabelle L. Doolan Irene V. Prue Wayman G. Caliman, Wellard R. Guffy Bessie A. Glembocki Jr. Harold E. Haas William R. Howard Harold A. Shoulders Margaret R. Ruppert James A. Janeway Henry W. Stroman Marion B. Haire Mary L. Schmotzer Joseph D. Carr Thomas Hamilton, Jr, Irma C. Helmstein Claiborne R. Carter William C. Hamilton, The following-named officers for temporary Dorothy C. Tidwell Florence K. Job Bessie R. Weeter Alfred G. Cavanaugh Jr. or permanent appointment to the grade indi.. Virginia C. Lux George I. Chegin John S. Henderson cated in the Civil Engineer Corps in the Raymond L. Clevenger Paul C. Herndon Navy, subject to qualification therefor as­ LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) Bryan R. Colbert Gordon M. Herr provided by law: Charlotte E. Clark Dorothy L. Meadows Barrett Crane Robert W. Hopkins, Jr• . The following-named for temporary ap.. Mary K. Cordingley Lorraine M. Murphy Charles W. Cross Richard S. Hudson pointment:. Evelyn M. DeMarco Helen Roller David D. Davison, Jr. Richard O. Hurt Florence R. Dinneen 'Rita J. Shelley Thomas R. Downs Arthur E. Hutchinson. LIEUTENANT Barbara Hayes Alison Utley R aymond V. Duke- Louis A. Janezic Delmar A. Bartley Louis H. Clerc Kathleen M. Laughlin Imogene L. Vesper sherer Darrell M. Kibby Leo L. Baton Leslie C. Guthrie, Jr. Sylvia F. McCarthy Dora T. Zamparuttl Van T. Edsall David L. Kick Philip G. Belcher Raymond"!{. Loomis Barbara A. Maley 8014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE June 10

ENSIGN Burris B. Moore, Fort Scott, Kans., in Louis T. Wigdortz, Asbury Park, N. J., in Constance Cummings place of H. C. Brooks, removed. place of Edward Brodstein, resigned. Richard A. Carpenter, Girard, Kans., in Paul G. Peterson, Rumson, N. J., in place John R. Johnson, midshipman (Naval place of J. E. 'Gaitskill, deceased. of J. E. Porter, Jr., deceased. Academy), to be ensign in the Navy, subject Harold H. Kneisel, Powhattan, Kans., in Clarke L. Newman, Titusville, N. J., in place to qualification therefor as provided by law. place of R. B. Volz, resigned. of J. S. Chamberlain, removed. POSTMASTERS KENTUCKY NEW ¥EXICO The following-named persons to be post­ Robert S. Smallwood, Beattyv~lle, Ky., in Bill Foster, Portales, -N. Mex., in place of masters: place of C. P. Hall, resigned. L. E. Howard, retired. ALABAMA Everett E. Pfanstiel, Carlisie, Ky., in place NEW YORK Hobson J. Horton, Fort Payne, Ala., in of H. K. Veach, retired. place of F. L. Avery, retired. Frank L. Coldiron, Greenup, Ky., in place Peter Hillen, Jr., Amityville, N. Y., in place Flora T. Mauldin, Killen, Ala., in place o! of R. B. Forsythe, resigned. of T. L. Wardle, deceased. ·R. H. Parker, retired. Alva H. Kelley, Madisonville, Ky., in place James H. Donohue, Bridgehampton, N. Y., in place of M. E. Dickinson, retired. ARKANSAS of J. D. Shain, retired. Grant Phillips, Jr., Pikeville, Ky., in place Florence I. Burnett, Cranberry Lake, N. Y., Emma Hurst, Hartman, Ark., in place of of Mil ton Tackett, deceased. in place of M. F. Finley, resigned. H. D. Estep, resigned. Norma L. Rich, Uniontown, Ky., in place of Doris A. Curtis,·Great Valley, N. Y., in place Leland T. Lewis, Huntsville, Ark., in place M. C. Greenwell, retired. of M. M. Ward, retired, of 0. E. Faubus, resigned. Joseph K. Burton, Utica, Ky., in place of Lucille L. Wood, Jasper,. N. Y., in place of CALIFORNIA John Howard, removed. S. L. Rowe, resigned. Robert F. Smith, Big Bear Lake, Calif., in LOUISIANA Helen S. Record, Sherburne, N. Y., in place place of H. S. Bullock, resigned. Bobbye G. Culverhouse, Sibley, La., in of E. H. O'Connor, retired. Roberta K. Paranick, Lee Vining, Calif., in place of G. W. Harkness, resigned. Donald O'Keefe Miller, Tahawus, N. Y., in place of M. F. Gilbert, deceased. place of M. F. Chase, resigned. Richard E. Bolton, Monrovia, Calif., in MAINE Edna H. Purcell, Waterloo, N. Y., in place place of F. J. Bole, retired. George Burton Glidden, South China, of J. F. Marshall, resigned. Alma G. Ackley, Plaster City, Calif., in Maine, in place of V. B. Stimpson, resigned. place of I.E. Upshaw, removed. Walter C. Rich, Union, Maine, in place of ~ORTH CAROLINA Walter A. Page, Redlands, Calif., in place M. A. Lucas, retired. Junius Paul Cheek, Chapel Hill, N. c., in of J. B. Stone, resigned. Robert R. Littlefield, York Harbor, Maine, place of W. S. Hogan, deceased. Eugene P. Guenther, Shafter, Calif., in in place of G. A. Wood, retired. Lala C. Shell, Elk Park, N. C., in place of place of G. E. Guenther, transferred. B. H. Winters, retired. Beth Rinden, Waterman, Calif., in place MASSACHUSETTS Cecil B. Vuncannon, Ellerbe, N. C., in place of Hazel Hooker, retired. Joseph A. Whitney, Paxton, Mass., in place of B. B. White, retired. of R. P. Rossler, retired. COLORADO Ben F. McGregor, Shannon, N. C., in place Forrest P. Bradshaw, South Sudbury, of P. R> Dozier, retired. William G. Tucker, Kremmling, Colo., in Mass., in place of Anna Wohlrab, retired. place of R. R. Menhennett, resigned. Alfred L. Morlock, South Vernon, Mass., :NORTH DAKOTA Cleo F. Talcott, Weldona, Colo., in place in place of S. J. Martineau, deceased. Ralph L. Colgrove, Mott, N. Dak., in place of of Christine ~espersen, retired. Leonard W. Potenza, West Medway, Mass., W. T. Wakefield, retired. FLORIDA in place of D. J. Kenney, removed, OHIO William W. Hooker, Jr., Citra, Fla., in place MICHIGAN Donald Rupert Kyle, Dorset, Ohio, in place of 0. B. Fowler, removed. Duane E. Castor, Covert, Mich., in place of L. E. Seaver, retired. . Richard L. Schweizer, Winter Park, Fla., in Robert H. B~nton, Holland, Ohio, in place place of G. N. Denning, retired. of W.W. Derby, deceased. Wilbur I. Garrett, Glennie, Mich., in place of E. V. Hartman, retired. GEORGIA of M. W. Carter, transferred. Dean E. Mallernee, Tippecanoe, Ohio, in Rae N. Neville, College Park, Ga., in place Earl L. Gay, Williamsburg, Mich., in place place of R. S. McConnell, retired. of J. T. D. Conley, retired. of H. E. Pray, transferred. Richard D. Oberlin, West Unity, Ohio, in place of R.R. Newcomb, retired. ILLINOIS MINNESOTA OKLAHOMA Roy J. Bowen, La Harpe, Ill., in place of Earl J. Johnson, Henderson, Minn., in M. M. Conwell, retired. · place of C. L. Beecher, deceased. Ivan A. Southwick, Garber, Okla., in place Virgil H. Ruff, Modesto, Ill., in place of · Bessie W. Meyers, Porter, Minn., in place of of A. A. Stebbins, retired. A. R. Hart, deceased. F. C. Meyers, deceased. Charles E. Doolin, Jennings, Okla., in place Theodore W. Wh,itehouse, Mount Olive, Ill., Palmer A. Nyberg, Vining, Minn., in place of F. D. Bordenkircher, resigned. in place of J. J. Fedor, retired. of E. W. Finke, resigned. William A. Craig, Miami, Okla., in place of William E. McElroy, Springfield, Ill., in Roy McGhee, removed. place of A. T. Oswald, retired. MISSISSIPPI PEN~SYLVANIA INDIANA James Frank Pou, Hattiesburg, Miss., in place of J. L. Brown, removed. Mark D. Reber, Centerport, Pa., in place of Bonita M. Weimann, Laketon, Ind., in place R. P. Rentschler, retired. of A. C. Henry, deceased. Luther P. Robertson, Merrigold, Miss., in :riace of W. W. Cochran, transferred. Ruth C. Mccrabb, Delta, Pa., in place of Maxine R. Bailey, Mulberry, Ind., in place J. 0. Anderson, retired. of J. F. Huffer, transferred. MISSOURI Thomas M. Benner, Ford City, Pa., in place Lee H. Williamson, Rolling Prairie, Ind., in George H. Palmateer, McCredie, Mo., in of F. L. Bucko, removed. place of H.B. Worden, retired, place of J. W. Epperson, retired. Leo A. Patterson, Homestead, Pa., in place IOWA Herold P. Heidel, Rousebud, Mo., in place o! of E. P. Lawlor, deceased. Glenn 0. Jones, Atlantic, Iowa, in place of C. N. Bruton, resigned. George D. Henrie, Mifflinville, Pa., in place S. M. Childs, deceased. MONTANA of E. R. Eisenhauer, retired. Leland M. Gardner, Cambridge, Iowa, in Eugene Wallace Wade, Cooke, Mont., in Howard F. Rabold, Newsmanstown, Pa., in place of C. 0. Fatland, retired. place of E. J. Soderholm, retired , place of Edwin Zimmerman, retired. Richard E. Staples, McGregor, Iowa, in Elnore M. Shields, Grassrange, Mont., in Sharon L. McHenry, Parker, Pa., in place place of F. G. Huebsch, retired: place of J. J. Grogan, resigned. of William Leslie, deceased. Clarence A. Norland, Marshalltown, Iowa, Herrwood E. Hobbs, Pottsville, Pa., in place in place of C.H. Kemler, deceased. NEBRASKA of J. H. Rattigan, retired. Robert L. Grange, Ruthven, Iowa, in place Otto J. Guretzky, West Point, Nebr., in Walter L. Alexander, Sharpsville, Pa., in of H. A. Berg, removed. place of R. H. Schwedhelm, retired. place of K. W. McIntyre, transferred. Ervin F. Plueger, Scotch Grove, Iowa, in place of Arend Balster, Jr., retired. NEW HAMPSHIRE SOUTH DAKOTA Hoyt E. Carrier, Vinton, Iowa, in place of John L. Dole, Campton, N. H., in place of Marie Logue, Oelrichs, S. Dak., in place of L. B. Urice, resigned. I. H. Brown, retired. M. L. Williams, retired. Odette B. Kastler, Woolstock, Iowa, in George w. Conway, Concord, N. H., in place Helen Olvia Putnam, Quinn, S. Dak., in place of Letha Doughten, retired. of J. P. Collins, deceased. place of Knute Te~nyson, removed. · David L. Rundberg, Yale, Iowa, in place of Gerald P. Merrill, Pittsburg, N. H., in place TENNESSEE C. E. Caslow, deceased. of R. V. Hawes, resigned. Clyde M. Guffey, Johnson City, Tenn., in KANSAS NEW JERSEY place of J. M. Hunt, deceased. Gordon K. Ethridge, Ada, Kans., in place Helen B. Abbott, Alloway, N. J., in place of Mable F. Harlow, Pulaski, Tenn .• in place of L. S. VanMeter, deceased. J, R. Powell, retired, of Ross Bass, resigned, 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 8015

TEXAS Everett M. Marshall Charles E. Mueller the Coast and Geodetic Survey subject to William B. Hudson, Dallas, Tex., in place Lee S. Roe Marin M. Cornell qualifications provided by law: of J. H. Payne, retired, Burton E. Howell Alvin L. Kool To be commissioned captain Henry J. Harris John K. Cross, Jr. . Robert W. Davis, Texas City, Tex., in place Ralph L. Pfau Alvin C. Thorson of R. J. Meskill, retired. William Reitz James B. Burbine Charles R. Dowlen Wilbur G. Simpson William M. Gibson Joseph C. Partington VERMONT Leroy Mullens Frank Lord To be commissioned lieutenant Donald C. Shedd, Wallingford, Vt., in place Merritt 0. Wright Carl H. May Alfred C. Holmes of F. J. Mt.llin, deceased. James C. Henthorn Edwin W. Hansen To be commissioned ensign VIRGINIA Albert C. Lamb Myron C. Richmond Wilburn P. Connor Henry A. Minard John H. Bennett Ralph G. Jourden Adrian T. Smith, Chantilly, Va., in place Lee W. Bothell Thomas R. Warren Robert J. Black J. Frank May, Jr. of N. M. Bywaters, resigned. Earl C. Jones Robert H. Doyle Oscar L. Doster Lavon L. Posey Leo F. Marks, Charles City, Va., in place of James M. Barker Harold C. Wilson Albert J. Hamlett, Jr.James E. Sommerer V. H. Major, retired. Clarence E. Rankin Robert A. Frediani Page A. Herbert William H. Tidwell WASHINGTON Edmund S. Handor Robert L. Glenn POSTMASTERS Cecil E. Phillips James J. Barrett Dean W. Larimore, Granger, Wash., in place ARKANSAS of W. I. Peterson, retired. Victor V. Keifer Harold M. Ball Thomas Mays Augustus R. Mackriss Isaac H. Roland, Malvern. WEST VIRGINIA Gale T. Blundell Thomas J. Kiernan CAL~FORNIA Don Shields, Jr., Coal Mountain, W. Va., Louis Sandler John H. Merada in place of W. W. McGraw, resigned. Harry Sorensen, Grover City. James B. Gaffney Victor W. Sutton, Jr. Walter B. Townsend, Universal City. WISCONSIN Emile J. Dreuill Talmadge H. Sivils FLORIDA Herbert C. Lee, Dallas, Wis., in place of Rudolph Grady Richard R. Hoover Francis W. McGrath "J" "P" Ford A. M. Beggs, retired. Wayne R. Dickerson, Dade City. James C. Seidl, Jr. Melvin H. Handley James N. Peacock, Ocoee. Arthur F. Hammes, Jefferson, Wis., in place Lawrence 0. Hamilton Thomas J. Collins o!' C. J. Mueller, retired. Philip S. Lincoln Lyle W. Glenny INDIANA David P. Berger, Port Edwards, Wis., in Charles A. McQuaid Ralph 0. Douglas Mark M. Hadley, Coatesville. place of A. G. Buehler, deceased. Frederick H. Raumer Edward R. Harris IOWA WYOMING The following-named persons to be chief Mable C. Schuck, West Point. Harry L. Estes, Thermopolis, Wyo., in place warrant officers, W-2, in the United States KANSAS o.: H. G. Murphy, deceased. Coast Guard: Milton M. John, Jr., St. John. Lavine Hubert Robert P. Ellard Milton L. Black Lester G. Quarles MAINE CONFIRMATIONS Allen M. Wilson Ferdinand J. Selissen James 0. Ricker, West Enfield. Martin J. Ruebens Julian R. Sherman MASSACHUSETTS Executive nominations confirmed by Daniel S. Bishop Horton Y. Mullins the Senate June 10 (legislative day of Eugene C. Colson Edwin R. Silkey Allan C. Williams, Jr., Falmouth Heights. June 8), 1955: Robert H. Kollmeyer Sidney Cruthirds NEBRASKA Kenneth L. Drake Harry S. Hayman Teddy W. Mundell, Kimball. UNITED STATES COAST GUARD Daniel C. Giller Rudolph T. Lenac The following-named persons to be chief Roland J. Magee Leo C. Horner NEW HAMPSHIRE warrant officers, W-4, in the United States Edward Petroski Julian B. Guard Bernerd A. Marcotte, Epping. Coast Guard: John M. Brady Charles M. McHenry NEW JERSEY John H. Graham Woodley T. Clark James T. Mead Robert H. Wiggins Evelyn H. Way, Ocean View. Wayne C. Wallace Frank A. Mattson Hoyt H. Fuller Roy I. Anderson Mark K. Hutchinson Gordon White James E. Watson Harry J. Backman NORTH CAROLINA Floyd J. Jester Alton E. Fowler Ernest T. Bittman James J. Doherty James K. Ballance, Fairfield, Bannister M. BarnettCharles J. Wood Hubert Craven John W. Babcock Ray B. Wyche, Hansboro. Herman F. Rogan William P. Williams Raul Zavaleta Harold W. Jones Floyd 'H. Shoaf, Linwood. William R. Gill Alton W. Meekins George D. Doll Joseph D. Stowe Jesse Bennie Joyce, Madison. Bernard Hogan James P. Magee Claud E. Simmons Joseph C. Runquist OHIO James Martin Elnar H. Nilsen Dayle C. Carlson Wilbur C. Jaynes Arnold J. Anderson Glenn C. Furst Gladys L. Via, Gratis. Duncan W. Herr William H. Burgess Blaine Van Tilburg, Rockford. Aubrey L. Smith Leo J. DeGraw Lewis H. Keeton Raynard W. Tuttle Alva 0. Wise Herman F. Helgesen Walter H. Becker James M. Peterson OREGON Paul J. Schonwald Ellsworth O. Swett William B. Davis John W. Colby Julia H. Decker, Island City. Lawrence E. Wagner Henry T. Peele John W. Sommers Albert E. Holloway PENNSYLVANIA Eligha Trickey Joseph A. Haynes Barney M. Thomason William F. Burton Marshall H. Furtaw Earl L. Hoover Morris J. Marshall Ulmer C. Wilson Edwin A. Barnitz, York. Olof W. H. Johnson George W. Cooper Ruben M. Donovan Ernest L. Killian TEXAS Robert W. Young Ralph P. Bebeau Harris W. Shive, Jr. James F. Beaumont Harold K . Grinnell Ludwig K. Rubinsky Jesse A. Armstrong, Angleton. Carl A. Stanton Clifford J. Hudder Tilman C. Richards, Banquete. Carl A. Fenske Edward J. Ellwood John C. Williams Henry E. Ask, Jr. Werner A. R. Winkel Daniel Sullivan Floyd L. Tondre, Castroville. George D. King Leroy Teele Conrad H. Starr, Elkhart. Farrell E. Harvey Joseph B. Blanchard John L. Morrison Wilbert S. Mathis William Maki Harold H. Rohr Charles T. Boyce, El Paso. Oskar Johansen Robert J. Collins Berney C. Kempf, Fabens. Jesse S. Cockrell Ervin Frye Leonard L. Thomas Kenneth G. Sherwood William H. A. Herbst Herbert N. Litchfield James B. Miller, Mount Calm. William J. Hill Ralph A. Palmer Eleanore L. Walston, Nome. Clifton A. Thompson Gunnar E. Hansen Charles Plowman Timothy P. Callahan, John M. Lambert Jr. James Everett, Jr., Oglesby. Edward W. Powers Charlie H. Hale Gerald J. Shipp, Ore City. Guy R. Hunter Joy A. Weatherford Melvin F. Cramer Joseph P. Dollard Lennith L. Groves Sterling Fulcher Felix R. Garza, Roma. Martin J. Hacker Marvin T. Duncan Paecter T. Hoovestol, South Houston. David S. Williams Myron S. Squires Raymond T. Rawls Emery C. Milligan Eugene P. Farley Alroy F. Jensen Ruth Brown, Sylvester. Frederick W. Doherty Arthur M. Hudgins WISCONSIN Lester F. Baker George R. Rollinson Frank L. Ryman Gilbert Ortiz Wayne E. McElroy Ward R. Turner William R. Claborn John Kinnunen Rhoda A. Burns, Blue Mounds. Lynn I. Decker Carl K. Scarborough Kenneth Templeton Daniel M. Griffin, Jr. William E. Sparks Thomas C. Crabe Howard H. !stock Philip E. Barnard Carl M. Mortensen Walter L. Czechanskl WITHDRAWALS The following-named persons to be chief Clarence H. Checklin Elwood S. Hudson warrant officers, W-3, in the United States Robert F. Anderson Edgar W. Thomas Executive nominations withdrawn Coast ·Guard: Edward J. Ard Stanley J. Salabor from the Senate June 10 (legislative day Arthur P. Dillow Irvin C. Wilson Robert P. Harmon David D. McCormick of June 8), 1955. Henry C. Lodge William H. Strickland Joseph A. Nartonis Byron A. Barr POSTMASTERS Roy V. Sogaard Marion O. Hulbert David D. Albee Michael Sivacek Mrs. Jimmie L. Matheson to be postmaster Henry V. Devereaux Merritt B. Richards COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY at Fry in the State of Arizona. John W. Beach Gustave M. Lundgren The following-named persons for perma­ Mrs. Mary B. Farmer to be postmaster at John T. MacKay Clarence E. Gaylor nent appointment to the grades indicated in Princeton in the State of Louisiana. 8016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE June 10

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

Lyndon Johnson: Senate Strategist fiuential Member 'and has been known to When the atomic measure was returned say that if he had the power to pick the from House-Senate conference, however, the next President, it would be DICK RUSSELL, conferees had dropped the Senate's anti­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS Whatever one may think of Mr. JOHNSON­ monopoly amendment and provision for OF he has his share of critics, as the ADA at­ preferential treatment of co-ops, among oth­ tack suggests-nearly everyone agrees he ers. Thereupon Mr. JOHNSON got back in HON. JOHN STENNIS has succeeded in welding Senate Democrats solid with the liberal wing by rallying south­ OF MISSISSIPPI into a more unified force than anyone erners to the support of the northerners to force modification of the conference measure. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES thought possible when he took over 2 years ago. And be outwits his GOP adversaries That LYNDON JOHNSON is a Senator and Friday, June 10, 1955 almost by habit. the Democrats• floor leader is no accident. The Texas Senator's customary mode of He decided long before he got there that he Mr. STENNIS. Mr. President, I hold operation is to grease the skids before a was going to the Senate. Once there, he in my hand an article entitled "Senate bill ever reaches the floor, as with the reci­ wasn't going to be just another member. He Strategist,'' written by Albert Clark and procal trade bill. Before the measure left looked after that, too, by hard work and get­ published in the Wall Street Journal of Senator BYRD'S Finance Committee, a pow­ ting to be friendly with the right people. June 10, 1955. The article deals with erful bloc of protectionist forces was push­ BORN TO POLITICS our distinguished majority leader, the ing import quotas for such products as oil, Lyndon was figuratively born to politics Senator from Texas [Mr. JOHNSON]. I fluorspar, hardboard, lead and zinc. Mr. on a farm near Johnson City on August 27, JOHNSON, who had an oil problem himself, ask unanimous consent that it may be decided that if one of these provisions ever 1908. His father, Sam Ealy Johnson, was a printed in the RECORD. got into the bill it was dead. sort of community counselor and served in the Texas Legislature. As a boy, Lyndon There being no objection, the article So quietly behind the scenes, where he was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, began to learn about politics and people by likes to operate, Senator JOHNSON worked out listening to his father advise his neighbors as follows: with Mr. BYRD and administration represent­ and playing around the Texas House cham­ SENATE STRATEGIST--LYNDON JOHNSON RUNS atives a compromise which said the Presi­ ber when the legislature was in session. THE SMOOTHF.ST DEMOCRATIC SHOWS IN dent could adjust imports of any article Somewhere along the way Lyndon ac­ he found coming into the United States in YEARS quired another trait of his father. "He talked (By Albert Clark) such quantities as to "threaten to impair less and got more bills passed than any­ WASHINGTON.-The day before yesterday the national security." body," oldtimers recall of the elder Johnson. the Senate passed a highly controversial "To be for this amendment," one Senator This bit of philosophy is summed up in a bill-raising the minimum wage from 75 noted later, "you didn't have to be for oil, framed motto on Senator JOHNSON'S office cents an hour to $1-with hardly any con­ or fluorspar, or lead. All you had to do was wall-"You ain't learnin' nothin' when troversy. The day before that the Senate vote for national security." Looking back­ you're talkin'." He seldom makes a speech rejected the Eisenhower administration's ward, this all seeins very simple. But at one on the Senate floor. housing bill, which most everybody had ex­ point some reciprocal-trade backers had se­ After working his way through college, pected to pass. rious doubts that the bill could be saved Lyndon taught in the Texas public schools A week or so ago, the annual foreign aid from protectionist onslaughts. for a spell and then came to Washington in authorization measure, usually a source of Perhaps Mr. JOHNSON'S smoothest feat re­ 1932 as secretary to the late Representative considerable dispute, slid through the Sen­ sulted in last year's Senate vote that dashed Richard M. Kleberg. He had scarcely ar­ ate uncut after just 3 days of tame debate. President Eisenhower's hopes for keeping his rived when he got himself elected speaker of And just before that, the Senators passed, campaign promise to amend the Taft-Hart­ "the Little Congress," an organization of again in 3 days, the Reciprocal Trade Act ley law. In this instance, Senator JOHNSON congressional secretaries. He took over this extenion that was, by most predictions, sup­ is credited with-or blamed for-prevailing group just as he runs the Senate--by going posed to take 3 weeks of senatorial wrangling. on southern T-H supporters to vote to out and rounding up the votes. Behind these legislative feats was the send the GOP bill back to committee. They could go home and tell their constituents Apparently young Lyndon decided after a skillful hand of LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, of couple of years there was no future in being Texas, who, at 46, is not only the youngest they had helped save Taft-Hartley. Getting liberals to vote accordingly was easy. a Congressman's secretary. So he gave up floor leader in the Senate's history but by his job-and took a cut in pay-for a job as common consent one of the most adroit poli­ UNIQUE UNANIMITY House door boy. This gave· him an oppor­ ticians to occupy the post in recent yea.rs. The upshot was the first unanimous tunity to get personally acquainted with the Mr. JOHNSON was picked for his job by con­ Democratic vote in history on a major labor politicians and learn more about their way servative southerners. But he manages to issue, so far as anyone knows. Senator of doing things. get along surprisingly well with northern JOHNSON, of course, hadn't unified his party In 1935 he went back to Texas as State liberals-despite this week's blast by Ameri­ on Taft-Hartley. He had merely buried National Youth Administration director. cans for Democratic Action, who accused their differences. Had the measure come to And 2 years later, upon the death of Repre­ him of acquiescing in a Republican assault a vote on its merits, Democrats would have sentative James P. Buchanan, of Texas• 10th on liberalism. split wide open on its specific provisions. District, Lyndon jumped into the race and In fact, Senator HUBERT HUMPHREY, a for­ When Senator JOHNSON ascended to the won against a dozen candidates on a down­ mer president of ADA, is one of Mr. JoHN­ Democratic leadership as the GOP returned the-line New Deal platform, including Mr. soN's closest political allies. The day after to power, the liberals made little attempt to Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing plan. the ADA attack, Mr. HUMPHREY defended, on veil their misgivings. Moreover, the experts In the House, Mr. JOHNSON attracted little the Senate floor, the integrity of Mr. JoHN­ expected 2 more years of wrangling, with national attention, though he became an ex­ soN's liberalism and went on to praise the the North and the South struggling for con­ pert on naval affairs and was the first House Texan as "a genius in the art of the legis­ trol of a defeated party. The struggle has Member to volunteer for active duty after lative process. • • • I have no hesitation gone on, of course. Pearl Harbor. Nor was much heard from in saying that I am proud of the leadership But the Texas-sized Texan remembered the young man from Texas when he first and of the skills portrayed by the Senator another one of his homey sayings-"in ad­ came to the Senate; he won in 1948 after from Texas." versity the family draws closer together"­ having narrowly lost a special election in THE BEST COMBINATION and applied it by persuading some of the 1941. Virginia's conservative Senator HARRY elder Democrats to give up their claim to His first real political break in the Senate, BYRD, who agrees with Mr. HUMPHREY on choice committee seats. Thus, the way was in fact, came only in 1951. Under the spon­ few matters, will also talk in glowing terms cleared for coveted assignments for the crop sorship of Senator RussELL, he was picked to of his party's floor leader. And Senator of liberal freshmen Senators who won de­ fill a vacancy as party whip, or assistant floor RICHARD RUSSELL, of Georgia, Mr. JOHNSON'S spite the 1952 defeats. Everybody wound leader. This post carries little prestige but mentor and idol, recently remarked that up with at least one good assignment. With requires a lot of work-and in Senator JOHN­ ''LYNDON JOHNSON hasn't got the best mind 1 or 2 exceptions, everybody was fairly happy. soN's case it put him in the right place at Jn the Senate. He isn't the best orator. He Despite this initial stroke, not everything the right time. isn't the best parliamentarian. But he's the went smoothly with the Democrats. Last His predecessor, former Senator McFarland, best combination of all those qualities." year, for instance, the liberals mumbled mu­ of Arizona, was defeated for reelection in Senator JOHNSON, for his part, might ex­ tiny against the fast-working JOHNSON when 1952, leaving the leadership spot open. No plain his admiration for Mr. RUSSELL with he helped Senator KNoWLAND break up a sooner had the election returns come in than one of the earthy sayings he likes to quote. liberal filibuster against the atomic energy Senator RUSSELL-and Senator JOHNSON­ "My daddy," he says, "used to tell me that revision bill. The liberals were perhaps more again got busy rounding up the votes to elect you're going to have about the same kind of surprised than anyone else when they later the Texan to the job. friends as you are." He considers the discovered they got most of the amendments Though he manages to get along with all Lyeorgia legislator the Senate's most in- they wanted. Senate factions, Mr. JOHNSON occasionally is 1955 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 8017 accused of thinking more in terms of advanc­ centennials. One of these is coming in In all, there were some 4,000 Indians, repre­ ing himself politically than of looking after Walla Walla, Wash., on June 11. senting the 5 most powerful Indian tribes, at the good of his party. When one asks for It is the Stevens Treaty Councll Centen­ the treaty conference. At the first council details, the first thing usually mentioned in nial observance and will furnish the occasion some 50 chiefs representing the various tribes his support of State ownership of tidelands for many Indian tribes in the Pacific North­ took up the preliminaries. The meeting oil-just as if he'd be in the Senate or have west to gather with descendants of the settled down; it went on for many days. any hope of coming back if he did otherwise. pioneers who settled the area. Significantly, Perhaps, significantly, the first Sunday TAKING CARE OF TEXAS? there will be a plaque unveiled at the June found the Indians worshiping with the 11 ceremony which carries the words "Pe­ white conferees, just as the missionaries had Still another criticism of the Texan is that Wa-Oo-Yit." Of course, they are Indian taught them to do. he left his seat on the Coinmerce Committee words, but their English translation is just this year to join Finance to look after Texas' During the long days of meeting such as important today as when the Stevens things were settled as the location of the interest in protecting oil and gas depletion Treaty was signed in 1855, because they allowances. That he is in better position to reservation where the Indians would live, mean "May the promises of our treaties al­ the right of fishing, gathering roots, and do so is true, of course. But that's not the ways be kept." whole story. More nearly what happened other food that they needed. There had to In other respects, the plaque to be un­ be grazing land for their animals. There was that Senator DOUGLAS, of Illinois, was veiled carries a story, too. It says, "To com­ bidding for ·a Finance Committee berth, and must be farms available for the Indians who memorate the 100th anniversary of the sign­ wanted to farm. There had to be payment Senator BYRD all but laid down the law that ing by their forefathers of the treaties with he wouldn't serve as chairman with two addi­ for the lands the whites were taking. Final­ the United States of America near this place ly, the treaty was signed. tional New Dealers, Senators BARKLEY and on June 9 and 11, 1855, this plaque is pre­ DOUGLAS. So Mr. JOHNSON decided to take sented by the people of Yakima, Nez Perce, Now, 100 years later, on June 11 will come the job himself to head off a party crisis. Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Indian the centennial celebration which will find Even so, Mr. DouGLAS was not left out; Mr. Tribes." in attendance many of the descendants of JOHNSON wangled him the chairmanship of To get the setting of the treaty signing, those who participated in the signing. Prob­ the House-Senate Economic Committee. you must look back 102 years to be exact. ably as significant as the treaty itself and Other Johnson critics, usually the "lib­ The Washington Territory had just been or­ as the celebration which is to be held, is the erals," think the Senator doesn't attack ganized. Isaac Stevens had been appointed fact that that treaty has held for 100 years, President Eisenhower as much as he should. first Territorial Governor. The Oregon Trail, and has been respected by both sides-both To this, the Texan's friends reply that any which we today traverse by car in a com­ whites and Indians. Democrat is free to attack the President any paratively few days, or by airplane in only Equally significant ls the fact that the time he wants. Moreover, Mr. JOHNSON is a few hours, was crowded with immigrants Members of the United States Senate have said to feel that the mood of the country heading west by covered wagon. Only 3 made sure through the years that our Gov­ demands "responsible, constructive" Govern­ years before, in 1850, Congress had passed ernment has lived up to the commitments ment and not a lot of "television shows." the · Donation Land Act which promised a made by Gov. Isaac Stevens in that Stevens Treaty. But whether his fellow-Democrats agree square mile of land free to any citizen and with him or not, they all seemingly agree his wife who would come West and claim it. I hope that our Indian brothers will al­ that he is one of the most accomplished pro­ Most of these people traveling the Oregon ways feel that their ancestors represented. fessional politicians who's guided the Sen­ Trail by covered wagon were farmers. With them ably and well, and that there is a treaty ate in a long time. And the impression is them were their plows, their cattle, and until perpetuity. inescapable that the Texas Senator consid­ horses. In their hearts was a determination ers politics one of the most honorable of to take their square mile of land, build a professions. Were he not from the South home on it, fence it, cultivate it and make there's little doubt he'd have to be reckoned it their own. Tribute to Hon. Margaret Chase Smith, of with for the Presidency. There are those Cut were the ties of the Eastern States who think he might wind up in the White and the homes that they had known. With Maine, and Hon. H. Alexander Smith, House anyway. them was a determination to enter this land to stay in this Pacific Northwest Territory. of New Jersey Watching this westward migration with evergrowing interest and considerable fore­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS boding were the Indians of the tribes I've OF Stevens Treaty. Council Centennial Ob­ just named. servance at Walla Walla, Wash. This land had been theirs. They had not HON. CLIFFORD P. CASE been able to till the soil. Theirs had been homes of wigwams, ready to move as the OF NEW JERSEY EXTENSION OF REMARKS food supply dwindled in one place, expand­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF ing in another. They looked with consider­ Friday, June 10, 1955 able curiosity, too, at these whites. There HON. LISTER HILL had been considerable bickering. Here and Mr. CASE of New Jersey. Mr. Presi­ OF ALABAMA there had been quarrels between the reds dent, I ask unanimous consent that an and the whites. Killings had occurred on IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES editorial from the June 5 Sunday Times­ both sides. Only a few years before, there Advertiser of Trenton, N. J., be printed Friday, June 10, 1955 had been a war. Isaac Stevens knew this. So did Gen. Joel Palmer, Superintendent of in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. The Mr. HILL. Mr. President, on behalf Indian Affairs for Oregon. Something had editorial pays worthy tribute to Senator of the senior Senator from Washington to be done to insure permanent peace be­ SMITH of Maine and Senator SMITH of [Mr. MAGNUSON], I ask unanimous con­ tween the Indians and the whites in the New Jersey, who have served this body sent to have printed in the CONGRESSIONAL Pacific Northwest. The lands which had be­ so well and so long. RECORD a statement by him relating longed to the Indians now had to have their There being no objection, the editorial titles clear. These new settlers must actu­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, to the celebration of the 300th anniver­ ally own the land on which they were locat­ sary of the first Swedish mission in ing. All the Indian tribes had to be dealt as follows: Pennsylvania and the observance of the with by treaty. Treaties must be drawn up THE Two SMITHS Stevens Treaty Council Centennial at which would place the Indians on reserva­ New Jersey shares with Maine a deep sense Walla Walla, Wash., on June 11. tions as had happened earlier in the East. of pride in the honor bestowed by Columbia There being no objection, the state­ It finally was decided that the place for the University upon two Smiths who are Mem­ ment was ordered to be printed in the treaty signing would be the Walla Walla bers of the United States Senate-MARGARET RECORD, as follows: Valley. It was to be a big occasion. Gover­ CHASE SMITH and H. ALEXANDER SMITH. nor Stevens and General Palmer made their Columbia has displayed admirable judg­ STATEMENT BY SENATOR MAGNUSON camp on the north bank of Millcreek. They ment in singling out for distinction the lady Only a few days ago I attended a meeting arrived first. Both hoped the meeting would from Maine, who for 7 years has been a in Philadelphia and talked with people cele­ be peaceful. But in case it should not be, member of the "most exclusive gentlemen's brating the 300th anniversary of the first Governor Stevens had asked the military post club in the world," and the gentleman from Swedish mission in Pennsylvania. The at The Dalles, Oreg., to send a detachment New Jersey, who for more than a decade has same occasion was the 175th anniversary of cavalry to the Walla Walla Valley to guard represented his State .. with "unchallenged of the arrival of the Swedish officers who them and give some display of strength be­ integrity, with eloquence and with wisdom." helped us in the American Revolution. fore the Indians. He had hoped for several The two Smiths have indeed been credit­ Along the eastern seaboard especially, his­ hundred soldiers, but only 47 men arrived. able public servants. They have consistently tory is a vital subject. It is along our west There would be thousands of Indians. The brought intelligence, independence, anc:1 coast, too. Nez Perce Tribe arrived first. Twenty-five courage to their political careers. In many But our history, as Members of the Senate hundred of them. Next came the Cayuse, ways, they have done a great deal to deserve well know, doesn't extend back into the hun­ Walla Walla, and the Umatillas, Then the the degree of doctor of laws conferred upon dreds of years; we are still celebrating our Yakimas came. them.