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March 25, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7577 86. By Mr. LANDGREBE: Memorial of the PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 9496. A bill for the relief of Eugenio House of Representatives of the State of Martinez; to the Committee on the Judi Indiana, relative to commending Secretary Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private ciary. of Agriculture, Clifford M. Hardin, for his bills and resolutions were introduced and By Mr. McCARTHY: outstanding record of achievement in the severally referred as follows: H.R. 9497. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ele field of agriculture; to the Committee on By Mr. BLACKBURN: anor D. Morgan; to the Committee on the Agriculture. H.R. 9488. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ruth Judiciary. 87. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Brunner; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. PEPPER: House of Representatives of the State of By Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts: H.R. 9498. A bill for the relief of Enrique Idaho, realtive to enactment of necessary H.R. 9489. A bill for the relief of Ann Marie G. Balart; to the Committee on the Judi legislation to appropriate full authorization Parada and Oscar Nelson Parada; to the ciary. for financing cooperative fire control; to Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. RYAN: the Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. BURTON of California: H.R. 9499. A bill for the relief of Juanita 88. Also, memorial of the Senate of the H.R. 9490. A bill for the relief of Dapen Cecile Sawyer; to the Committee on the State of Washington, relative to the citizen Liang, his wife, Alice Tsai-hunk Y. Liang, Judiciary. ship of members of the Colville Indian Res and their children, Gladstone C. K. Liang, H.R. 9500. A bill for the relief of Michael ervation; to the Committee on Interior and Nancy C. C. Liang, Dora C. F. Liang, Mary C. Waithe; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Insular Affairs. M. Liang, and John C. P. Liang; to the Com By Mr. STEIGER of Arizona: 89. Also, memorial of the Senate of the mittee on the Judiciary. H.R. 9501. A bill for the relief of Miguel State of Indiana, relative to changing the H.R. 9491. A bill for the relief of Harold Arrastio Esponda; to the- Committee on the method of judicial review of convictions un George Pereira, his wife, Winifred Caroline Judiciary. der State laws concerning obscenity and Pereira, and their children, Joseph Maurice, By Mr. VAN DEERLIN: pornography; to the Committee on the Anthony Francis, Bevery Ann Maria, Na H.R. 9502. A bill for the relief of Digna Judiciary. thaniel Francis, Joachim Boniface, and Espartero Angeles; to the Committee on the 90. Also, memorial of the Senate of the Thomas James Pereira; to the Committee on Judiciary. State of Washington, relative to extension of the Judiciary. H.R. 9503. A bill for the relief of Giovanni navigation on the upper Columbia River; to By Mr. DULSKI (by request): Susca; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 9492. A bill for the relief of Dr. He the Committee on Public Works. By Mr. WEICKER: lena V. Strandstrom; to the Committee on H.R. 9504. A bill for the relief of William 91. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the the Judiciary. J. Walsh; to the Committee on the Judiciary. State of Indiana, relative to locating a new By Mr. FALLON: national cemetery in Terre Haute, Ind.; to H.R. 9493. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Olga the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Castro; to the Commiti ~ e on the Judiciary. PETITIONS, ETC. 92. Also, memorial of the House of Repre By Mr. HALPERN: sentatives of the State of Indiana, relative to H.R. 9494. A bill for the relief of Gloria Under clause 1 of rule XXII, amending the Social Security Act to provide . Blackwood; to the Committee on the Judi 82. The SPEAKER presented a petition of for Federal payment of the cost of welfare ciary. the City Council, Los Angeles, Calif., relative benefits paid to persons who do not meet H.R. 9495. A b1ll for the relief of Gwendo to a Federal tax-sharing program, which was State-imposed residency requirements; to the lyn Bowman; to the Committee on the Judi referred to the Committee on Ways and COmmittee on Ways and Means. ciary. Means. Since then, the Byelorussian people nlsm, among them the Byelorussian nation. BYELORUSSIAN INDEPENDENCE This is why we ask you, as a United States DAY have been suffering under Communist Congressman, to make this year a statement totalitarian tyranny. But the idea of from the House .fioor in defense of the na freedom and independence has never tional and political rights of the Byelorussian HON. WILLIAM T. MURPHY deserted them, and they still cling to people. OF ILLINOIS the hope that someday they will once Speeches in the halls of Congress give IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES again-and this time permanently-at strength and hope to the Byelorussian people behind the Iron Curtain and encourage them Tuesday, March 25, 1969 tain their national goal. On the 51st an niversary of Byelorussian Independence in their spiritual resistance against Com Mr. MURPHY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, munist slavery. Day we all pray that their just cause will Respectfully yours, Byelorussians are one of the little-known prevail against the forces of tyranny, and VLAD KURYLLO, Slavic peoples whose homeland in the that they will attain that freedom. National President. northwest of Russia and east of Poland Correspondence recognizing Byelorus has been part of the Russian empire for sian Independence Day follows: UNITED BYELORUSSIAN-AMERICAN centuries. These sturdy people, never nu BYELORUSSIAN -AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE COMMITTEE, merous or strong enough to cope with ASSOCIATION, INC., Kew Gardens, N.Y., March 7,1969. their more powerful foes, had been over Jamaica, N.Y., February 18, 1969. Han. WILLIAM T. MURPHY, whelmed by the Russians. For many cen Hon. W. T. MURPHY, House of Representatives, turies they endured all sorts of hard House of Representatives, Washington, D.O. ships under the czarist regime, and when Washington, D.O. DEAR Sm: The day of March 25, 1969 will that regime was no more, in 1918 they DEAR CONGRESSMAN MURPHY: On March 25, mark the anniversary of great importance for 1918, the Byelorussian people proclaimed American citizens of Byelorussian origin. On attained their goal of freedom and in their independence. On that date the Byelo this day Byelorussians · everywhere in the dependence. russian Democratic Republic was born. In countries of the free world will celebrate On March 25 of that year, Byelorus spite of all the sacrifices, the young state was the 51st anniversary of the proclamation of sian leaders proclaimed their national unable to preserve its Independence against independence of the Byelorussian Democratic independence and founded the Byelorus the onslaught of overwhelming Bolshevik Republic. sian Republic. They formed their own forces. In Byelorussia, however, this national cele democratic government, began rebuild The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic bration is not permitted. This year, instead, which was created in its place is nothing but marks the 50th anniversary of the existence ing their war-torn country and were do an administrative arm of the Moscow govern of the Byelorussian SSR. ing their best to reconstruct the shat ment and does not represent the will of the The Byelorussian SSR is not a sovereign tered fabric of their social, economic, and Byelorussian people. state. Soviet Russia turned Byelorussia into political life. Unhappily, however, they This is why March 25th is being celebrated its own colony by military conquest. At the were faced from the beginning by nu by Byelorussians throughout the Free World time of the First World War, the Tsarist Rus merous insurmountable difficulties, and as a symbol of their national aspirations. sian Empire was disintegrating. All the non the defenses of the country were totally Americans of Byelorussian descent will also Russian nations liberated and restored them celebrate the twenty-fifth of March this year, selves as free, independent and sovereign inadequate. Soon the country became an which marks the fifty-first anniversary of the countries. The Byelorussian constituent easy prey for the Red Army of Commu- struggle of Byelorussian people for freedom body-the First All-Byelorussian Congress nist Russia. Late in 1918, the Byelorus and independence. assembled on December 17, 1917 in Miensk, sion people were robbed of their richly We deeply appreciate your moral support the capital of Byelorussia. It was composed of deserved, but short-lived, freedom. of the nations enslaved by Russian Commu- 1,872 freely elected delegates from all areas 7578 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 25, 1969 of Byelorussia. Their first task was to take Created by Soviet Russian government in makers complete action on a controversial the necessary steps for establishing an in this way, the BSSR is camoufiaglng the ac debt limit b111 that passed the House on dependent Byelorussian Republic. Since par tual colonial status of Byelorussia. For the Wednesday. Administration plans call for ticipating communist delegates were of a entire 50 years af this Soviet Russian domi urging Congress to repeal the statutory 4%, small minority, they were unable to change nation, Byelorussians, have been subjected per cent ceiling both on savings bonds and thb: trend. Therefore, an armed force, dis to a systematic and ruthless persecution on a on marketable bonds. patched by the Bolshevik-Russian govern national level. The best reason for increasing the savings ment, overran and dispersed the Congress. This rule has been marked by economic bond rate is that small savers are not being Immediately following this action, however, exploitation, social oppression, mass terror, treated fairly by their Government.