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10288 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 27 The· next amendment was, under the [Mr. STENNIS], and the Senator from in line 3, after the word "amount", to heading "Displaced Persons Commis­ Kentucky [Mr. WITHERS] are detained on strike out "not to exceed $2,122,000 shall sion," on page 14, line 11, after the word omcial business. be available for personal services in the "amended," to insert "purchase

11 has done everything possible to solve situation as an emergency problem to 12 Only the fifth paragraph on this page, reading 'The Secretary of the Treasury may this problem and he Is enthusiasti­ give them an education. char.g':l the serial numbers of the several cally supporting this bill. At that point I yield to the distinguished gentleman distric~ as may ·Je necessary to conform to a number of additions to the schools from Michigan [Mr. LESINSKI], chair­ the provisions of this act.' " are necessary because of the extra num- man of the committee. 10300 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 27 Mr. LESINSKI. I understand accord­ city of Bridgeport are deprived not only but why should these communities· take ing to the testimony that in the State of the plant but of any opportunity for care of these two Army camps in Massa­ of Oklahoma the original school district receiving school aid for the children of chusetts, permanent camps, take care of had 126 c.hildren in its taxable unit and workers who have lost th.eir jobs be­ the children in the schools in those when the Government installations ~me cause of this Government decision. My camps, and then you off er money to some in and the Government bought up 80 or question is-is any of the money author­ other camps and we do not get any in 90 percent of that land, they brought in ized in this bill going to schools which Massachusetts, and, as was pointed out something like 2,600 children to this par­ will be attended by children of workers by the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. ticular school district and naturally the who will now be employed by the Chance­ LODGE], they do not get it either. facilities which were able to take care of Vought division of the United Aircraft Mr: WHEELER. Mr. Speaker, will the 127 children could not absorb 2,600 school Corporation in Dallas, Tex.? gentleman yield? children, and that is why these additional Mr. McSWEENEY. I would imagine Mr. McSWEENEY . . I yield. funds are necessary. they would come under· the provisions Mr. WHEELER. Was an application Mr. MCSWEENEY. I thank the dis­ of the bill as it applies to children of made by the authorities to the Federal tinguished chairman for the contribu­ people employed in work for the Govern­ Works Agency for aid? tion. ment of the United States. May I refer Mr. NICHOLSON. No, I do not think Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Sp·eaker, will the the gentleman to the distinguished so. If this application for aid for chil­ gentleman yield? chairman of the committee, who has dren connected with these camps or their Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. heard all the testimony on this bill, the parents is necessary, then I do not have Mr. KENNEDY. In reply to my col­ gentleman from Michigan [Mr. LESIN­ any objection to it. league, the gentleman from Massachu­ SKI]. This will take care of the migra­ Mr. MCSWEENEY. ·The application setts [Mr. NICHOLSON] in the bill that tion of employees of any aircraft, or has to be made, of course. we have before us I do not think any of other corporation interested in the pro­ Mr. LESINSKI. There was an appli­ the money goes to Massachusetts. There duction of materials entirely for the use cation made. There is a possibility that are a number of different agencies to of the United States Army and entirely the Army, out of certain appropriations which money is given, but referring to for the Navy or entirely for the use of they have, may have made a gift to that this bill, I do not think any money is the Government. particular school district. We are going given to Massachusetts. Is that not Mr. LODGE. Mr. Speaker, will the to try to make a study this fall, to bring correct? gentleman yield? all of these agencies within one group, Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. Speaker, if the Mr. MCSWEENEY. I yield. with a general law, so that the Appro­ gentleman will yield, may I state that Mr. LODGE. Then the taxpayers of priations Committee can deal with it no money goes to Massachusetts. Stratford, Conn., aside from losing this itself and we do not have to bring in Mr. KENNEDY. Then that is the an­ great industrial facility, aside from the this type of legislation every year. swer to the question asked by the gen­ resulting unemployment, aside from the Mr. LODGE. Mr. Speaker, will the tleman from Massachusetts [Mr. NICH­ depressing impact on many other busi­ gentleman yield further? OLSON]. nesses because of the loss of purchasing Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. Mr. McSWEENEY. I had a very inter­ power of these thousands of workers, now Mr. LODGE. I would like to ask the esting interview with Charles Tarzinski, are going to have to contribute in taxes gentleman whether in his opinion he principal of the North Ridge High School to the school support of the children of thinks it is fair and equitable for the citi­ in Dayton. He is a conscientious teacher workers employed in Dallas, Tex., at that zens of Stratford, Conn., which is a com­ trying to absorb these youngsters and plant. munity of hard-working people of mod­ trying to give to them ~ome . semblance Mr. McSWEENEY. Did they make erate means, having. been deprived of this of an education. The facilities are over­ their school facilities of a size predicated important business, which involves some taxed and he is looking forward to this upon the needs for this aircraft group? 7,000 workers, now to be called upon to aid to make it possible for these young­ . Mr. LODGE. All I can say is that I contribute to a school in a community sters to have better facilities so that understand that the State of Connecticut like Dallas, which my friends from Texas they can get an education. has at least during the past 2 years re­ tell me is a wealthy community? Mr. LODGE. Mr. Speaker, will the ceived no funds under this act, and it is Mr. McSWEENEY. All of those in­ gentleman yield? not proposed that it will. equalities arise in a matter of this kind. Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. Mr. McSWEENEY. I do not know I do not see how we can take care of it Mr. LODGE. The Chance-Vought di­ what they have done in the past with in this present legislation. The facili­ vision of the United Aircraft Corp. has regard to it. ties you have for those youngsters will moved from Stratford, Conn .• to Dallas, Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, w111 the probably be absorbed in the needs of your Tex.. thereby throwing some 7 ,000 gentleman yield? · growing community. skilled workers out o:. work and adding Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield to my dis­ Mr. LODGE. I know I speak for seriously to the problem of unemploy­ tinguished colleague of the Rules Com­ my friend and colleague Congressman • ment in the entire Stratford-Bridge­ mittee. SADLAK, of Connecticut, when I say that port-Milford area. All during the time Mr. COLMER. I think it should be the people of Bridgeport and Stratford that the plant operated in Stratford the . understood that this bill is a continua­ are having a very difficult time since the children of the workers went to schools tion of the Lanham Act funds for these removal of this plant, and this will be an supported exclusively by the taxpayers distressed communities that had their additional burden on them. of Stratford. No aid at all was received population swollen tremendously as a re­ Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, will the under this legislation. Furthermore, sult of the installation of these Federal gentleman yield? having removed this plant from Strat­ installations, and that is the purpose of Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. ford, the Federal Government has left this legislation. Mr. LUCAS. The gentleman from not only thousands of parents unem­ Mr. McSWEENEY. It is merely a con­ Connecticut may be concerned about ployed but it has also left to the town of tinuation of an old policy that we have Stratford, but I do not think he should Stratford the burden of educating the had. penalize the citizens of Texas because children of these parents who formerly Mr. -NICHOLSON. Mr. Speaker, will the children of people in Connecticut received their incomes from the now the gentleman yield again? have been moved to Texas. empty plant. This is truly a war cas­ Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. Mr. LODGE. That is not exactly the ualty. This is the direct result of a Mr. NICHOLSON. We had this bill fact. Only 1,500 workers have been Government decision. If the Govern­ before us last year. We had two la:r;ge brought to Texas from Connecticut and ment has a responsibility in Texas and Army camps in Massachusetts, Camp many of those have returned. to Con­ in Kansas, why not in Connecticut? Un­ Devens and Camp Edwards. We never necticut. der the theory here advanced the great got any money; that is, the towns sur­ Mr. LUCAS. Just a minute. Surely State of Texas will receive not only .the rounding those two Army camps, from the gentlemar.. does not want to penalize enormous benefits accruing from the the Federal Government. The only rea­ the schools of Texas simply because some presence of the Chance-Vought plant son I am asking is that last year we had of the schools cannot afford to continue but will also receive school aid, while the a roll call on it and there were very few educating these children whether they towns of Stratford and Milford and the who voted against it, as I remember it; come from Connecticut or Texas; he 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10301 would not want them to have to close up; sistance. I believe there are 148 dis­ by a multiplicity of agencies. No one and that is the case. These war-incurred tricts in the United States that are so has been able to determine the exact title programs have brought children into the affected, and it is simply to take care of at this point but it is still in the hands of district where there are simply not these few districts where the difficulty the Government. Therefore it is largely enough school facilities in the area and and crowded condition was created by a nontaxable item. where the schools would have been forced the Government itself that this relief is Mr. McSWEENEY. The gentleman's to close after 6 months if they had not proposed. It is relief that should be assumption is probably correct. had assistance last year. The principal given. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, will the purpose of this bill is to provide educa­ Mr. McSWEENEY. I believe as does gentleman yield? tion for children who would not get·it if the gentleman from Michigan, that it is Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield to the we did not provide this help. a Government obligation. It is not an gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. LODGE. Mr. Chairman, will the expenditure; it is an obligation of the Mr. KENNEDY. I think it is im­ gentleman yield further? Government to share the load created by portant to stress that some of this is Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. conditions brought on by the war effort. needed in places where there are private Mr. LODGE. May I reply to the gen­ Mr. GOLDEN. Mr. Chairman, will plants that were set up, where no Gov­ tleman from Texas. First I am in­ the gentleman yield? ernment plant or property is involved, terested to find out from the gentleman Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. where a private plant came in and that these particular schools in Dallas Mr. GOLDEN. Does this bill deal only brought a number of people in, yet 5 will receive aid. Second, while of course with the war increase of school enroll­ years afterward we are paying money I am very fond of my good friends from ment or does it deal also with increase for a situation caused not by Govern­ Texas and have no desire to deprive the caused by the undertaking of public ment seizure of property but by a private children of Texas of schooling, I would works? plant bringing in people to work. like to point out that the people in Strat­ Mr. MCSWEENEY. Public works, as Mr. DONDERO. In my particular ford did not get any such aid, and Strat­ well. It deals with those conditions area, the Detroit area, it was the result ford, I may say, is not a community com­ wherever because of conditions brought of a great influx of people coming in to posed of people of large incomes. about by Government programs there work in connection with the war effort. Mr. McSWEENEY. Did they make ap­ has been an overburdening and overtax­ Now, when the war is over they remain. plication for it? ing of the school facilities. With them came their children and in Mr. LODGE. That I do not know. Mr. GOLDEN. That is what I want spite of everything the school board can Mr. McSWEENEY. They would be en­ to bring out. In my district a dam has do for them, they have the problem of titled under the law to make application been built across the Cumberland River. keeping a roof over the children and giv­ for it. It is creating a lake 110 miles long and ing them an education. Mr. LODGE. They should not be pun­ this has flooded out many schools, and Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, will the ished for their self-sufficiency, for their it also has reduced the taxable property. gentleman yield? unwillingness to ask for Government aid. I want to know if this bill would take Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield to the I do not want to penalize the people of care of such situations. gentleman from Georgia. Dallas, but neither do I want to penalize Mr. MCSWEENEY. The gentleman is Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, I would like the people of Stratford beyond the de­ correct; the bill is designed to meet that to call the attention of the House to the gree to which they have already been kind of situation. presence in Washington this week of a penalized by the removal of the Chance­ Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. Speaker, will most distinguished citizen of Japan. He Vought airphne factory to Dallas. I the gentleman yield? is the Honorable Tetsu Katayama, the think it is penalizing them when in addi­ Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield. first postwar Prime Minister to be elected tion to having lost this industry they Mr. McCONNELL. I wish to say in under his country's new constitution. are taxed to support the children of connection with this general discussion, He is also the chairman of the Social these workers in Dallas. that in determining the school districts Democratic Party of Japan. He is the Mr. McSWEENEY. Do you, in Con­ to receive Federal assistance, the Gen­ first Christian premier in Japanese necticut, not find that it works out that eral Services Administration considers history. the stronger sections take care of the the amount of taxable property that has Mr. Katayama is accompanied by Mr. weaker sections of the State in the school been taken away from them by Govern- . Shigeru Uyehara, Mr. Shinzo Takahashi, program? It is the same· with the Na­ ment activities of a defense nature. executive editor of Mainichi, the Tokyo tion; there will be other groups who will Then they also look to see whether the newspaper, and Mr. Masaru Fujimoto, be taxed to support these crowded emer­ trix~. ble property in the school district is assistant foreign editor of Mainichi. gency areas. adequate to cover the increased enroll­ These citizens, who are on their way Mr. LODGE. I favor that general ment due to the defense activities. If back to Japan from Europe, are among principle, but I was not aware that the they find it is inadequate they will allot the 18 delegates whom General Mac­ Dallas, Tex., community needed and de­ only the necessary amount to make up Arthur authorized to represent Japan at sired financial support from the people the deficit which occurs because of in­ the World Assembly for Moral Re-Arma­ of Bridgeport and Stratford. In this sufficient local and State funds. That ment at Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzer­ case there seems to me to be double in­ is the amount allotted to them. For land, in June. The House will recall its jury, for not only has Stratford lost this instance, there is no assurance that Dal­ action under House Resolution 232 industry, one of its main supports, but las, Tex., will get additional money. whereby ftve Members of this body were its people must now pay taxes to support They may have the necessary taxable appointed as a special committee under these children in the schools of Dallas. property to take care of the increase in the chairmanship of our distinguished It would appear that if the Government enrollment needs. In the district repre­ colleague, the gentleman from Georgia helps a community by placing a plant sented by our distingUished colleague [Mr. PRESTON], to attend as observers there then that community is entitled to from Connecticut [Mr. LODGE], it may be this same conference. Government aid, whereas if the Gov­ they have had enough taxable property Mr. Speaker, I believe that all of us ernment removes a plant, then no aid is to take care of the increased enrollment. are concerned with the ideological con­ forthcoming. . Mr. McSWEENEY. May I say to the ftict in which the world now finds itself Mr. DONDERO. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman from Connecticut that he may engaged. The United States has in­ gentleman yield? need those added facilities as we do in evitably been thrust into a position of Mr. McSWEENEY. I yield to my dis­ every other locality and you may be re­ leadership in this conflict. On Monday, tinguished colleague from Michigan with leased from a lot of pressure on your July 25, 1949, the President signed the whom I have served for many years. local school facilities. historic North Atlantic Pact, which was Mr. DONDERO. I think the spirit Mr. LODGE. I believe I am right in ratified by the Senate last week. This and principle of the bill is to provide saying, that if a plant is owned by the treaty has thus become, under the United temporary aid to children in military in­ Navy or by any of the Government States Constitution, the supreme law of stallations in these distressed districts agencies it would be tax:.exempt. The the land. We are now being asked to where the load had-become so heavy that Chance-Vought plant in Stratford, consider a far-reaching military-assist­ the local board of education because of Conn., ts owned 20 percent by Chance­ ance program to implement the pact in the war effort had to have outside as-:- Vought and 80 percent ~Y the ~~vy anQ. its· security objectives. In addition to 10302 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 27 these measures, we also have before us gest that appropriate ways and means be Mr. PACE. The gentleman recognizes the question of further appropriations to found, both here on Capitol Hill and in that where the Government has acquired maintain the life-giving momentum of the executive departments, to show our a high percentage of property that is the Marshall plan. appreciation and understanding and our now nontaxable that something needs to It is eminently fitting, Mr. Speaker, help in their fight for a peace-loving and be done about it; either that the Govern­ that we should be thus engaged. But I democratic Japan. ment make contribution in lieu of taxes, should like again, as distinguished Mem­ Mr. McSWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I or else make a contribution toward the bers of both this body and the Senate now yield 30 minutes to the gentleman educational facilities. have done before me, to underline the from Massachusetts [Mr. HERTER]. Mr. HERTER. I agree. I think prob­ preeminently important phase of our do­ Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, so far as ably the better course is to make the con­ mestic, and foreign policy to which: we I know, there is no objection to this rule. tribution in lieu of taxes, which is a still need to give more traction, namely, I think the RECORD ought to show one better principle of government. the ideological sphere-the world-wide thing, however, and that is that the re­ Mr. Speaker, I now yield 5 minutes to battle for the minds, wills, hearts, alle­ port of the committee and the bill itself the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. giances, and souls of the millions. There do not correspond. The report of the DONDERO]. are other ideologies, Mr. Speaker, hardly committee, I imagine through error, in­ Mr. DONDERO. Mr. Speaker, this democratic and hardly Christian, which dicates that this is a 2-year $10,000,000 legislation is not new. It has been before are doing ·a far superior job than we are program, which is not the fact, as I un­ the Congress for several years, and many doing in this ideological competition. I derstand from members of the commit­ of us had hoped that the time would submit, Mr. Speaker, that we neglect this tee. The amendment as printed in the come when it would be terminated, but part of our fight at our peril, for it un­ report so states. The bill itself makes it does not seem that that desired end derlies all else that we do. Without it all provision only for a single year and is in sight. There are 148 school districts forms of material rehabilitation must $7,500,000. in the Unitecl States a1Iected and which fail. Mr. LESINSKI. There was a techni­ received assistance under a previous bill. It is for these reasons that the House cal error made. There is a supplemen­ The report shows that there are 25 or action to send observers to the World tary report filed which corrects the 30 more districts which may come in Assembly for Moral Rearmament was a amount. under the provisions of this bill. Last significant step. We need all the study Mr. HERTER. I am glad it has been year we granted $6,000,000 for this pur­ we can absorb as to how to improve the corrected so there will be no confusion. pose. Many of these school districts are ideological arm of our policy. I hope the Mr. PACE. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ in distress through no fault of their own, House may have the benefit of a further, tleman yield? but because of the activity of the Federal documented report on the observations Mr. HERTER. I yield to the gentle­ Government. It is a problem resulting of the Preston committee. · man .from Georgia. from the aftermath of war. I have in It is for these reasons also that the visit Mr. PACE. Does the gentleman un­ mind one school district in the Detroit, of these distinguished Japanese to our derstand the pending bill has for its Mich., area which I think is typical of Nation's Capital is significant. Japan primary purpose relief of a case of this other districts in the United States: That needs our help. The situation in the Far kind, where the Government during the school district is on the very edge of East is perhaps more serious than that war went into an agricultural area and Detroit. It is in very close proximity to in other sectors of the world. The sarids established a large air base. A small the industrial area. During the war are running out, and if we are not able. town grew up where the Government thousands of people moved into th-a.t area to help Japan maintain itself as a hastion owns half of the property in the town, because of the war e1Iort. When the of freed om, we may find ourselves unable . where the taxable property is insignifi­ war was over, most of them remained. to withstand the tide. ' cant,. where the Government has brought With those people who were engaged in I expect the other Members were im­ in from every State of the Union expert the war effort came their families and pressed, as I was, by the dispatches craftsmen with their families and their their children, and this school district, earlier this month reporting the return children, where the taxable property in Livonia Township, Wayne County, of 10,000 repatriated Japanese war pris­ would not run the school for over 3 or 4 Mich., found itself in a position where oners from the continent of Asia to their months, yet those children are there in it had more children than it had taxable homeland. These were not the bedrag­ . large numbers, thousands of them, and property to support. The school board gled, browbeaten prisoners one might they must be educated. The taxable and the people of the district have ex­ expect. They were well fed, physically property is inadequate if it were to be hausted every possible legal means to fit, disciplined, and thoroughly indoctri­ entirely confiscated at 100 percent of its provide adequate school facilities for nated and trained fighters for a dynamic value. It would not be sufficient to carry those children. I have met with mem­ totalitarian idea. Doubtless they have on the necessary educational facilities. bers of the board-they have come . to their commission to conquer Japan with In an instance of that kind relief would · Washington for help. Today they are that idea. be a1Iorded under this legislation. not able to do it. This help that they are When I read these reports, I asked my­ Mr. HERTER. I think the gentleman getting from the Federal Government is self, "What are we doing to match that is correct I think the Lanham Act, in the nature of aid in lieu of taxes to type of planning?" I had to answer, which originally provided funds for the tide them over. They have even pur­ "Not enough." years from 1941 to 1946, made provision chased or otherwise obtained from the Here are a group of outstanding Japa­ for the very emergency that the gentle­ Federal Government temporary houses nese, in positions of influential leader­ man speaks of. or barracks-moved them together and ship in their country, who have seen a Mr. PACE. This bill does, too. made schoolrooms out of them. They di1Ierent idea-:-a democratic ideology­ Mr. HERTER. This bill continues were barracks used for troops and work­ and who are beginning to point the way that, although I think it has been point­ ers during the war. They did that in an to comparable training for that ideology, ed out that the original Lanham Act pro­ e1Iort to provide adequate facilities to Mr. Katayama and his associates have posals have been stretched a ·little to take take care of the children. Certainly, had a most cordial reception in the coun­ care of certain areas where, through sud­ urider those conditions the Federal Gov­ tries they have visited since leaving the den congestion, the moving of a large ernment owes an obligation that we can­ conference in Switzerland, naniely, in not very well evade. Germany, France, and Great Britain, population, whether because of private I am for this bill and hope that it wm where they have been received officially industrial expansion or governmental pass without any opposition. But, I also by cabinets and by industrial leaders defense plant, emergency aid is given. want it known that I would not like to representing both labor and manage­ Mr. PACE. But this would cover a see this kind of program become per­ ment. They have thus increasingly be­ defense establishment. manent legislation. It should be ended come members of the fraternity of dem­ Mr. HERTER. Yes; as a matter of at the first possible opportunity. Per­ ocratic nations. I feel that we in the fact, this bill actually extends the haps the States will have to provide these United States should give them every amount of aid that is given. It is ex­ school districts with additional funds or warmth of encouragement in the diftl­ pected that some 25 or 30 new school raise the bonding limits to a greater ex­ cult tasks which confront them on their districts will 'be taken in under this b111 tent than they have now in order to pro­ return to their native land; and I sug- beyond those helped in the past. vide sufficient money to care for them- 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10303 selves. That may be the solution in my Mr. HERTE~. Mr\ Speaker., I yield 2 Mr. Speaker, this is a very essential State and other States affected. Here. minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas piece of legislation. The question in­ is a school district. The problem has [Mr. HAYS]. volved simply is whether or not these baffled them; the problem is overwhelm­ Mr. HAYS of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, children are going to. receive educational ing. What would you do if you were fortifying what the gentleman from benefits under this program as the gen­ a member of that board and you used Michigan has said about ihe condition in tleman from Michigan pointed out a every legal means at your command to Michigan, may I confirm that the same momen_t ago. So far as the obligation provide facilities? You would do just condition exists in some of the rural of the community or the State is con­ what they are doing now. They have areas with which I am familiar. When cerned, there is none; this is a Federal appealed to us to help them solve their the Government established great camps, obligation which was brought about by problem temporarily. I hope the House or bought land for military facilities, for the Federal Government moving in there. will support this measure and continue an artillery range for example, it often I have a couple of illustrations of that it for 1 year more. As explained by the bought the very poorest land; sparsely type myself, but I shall not burden the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. settled. It was the kind of land we House with them. HERTER] it provides for $7,500,000 for 1 should have acquired. So the facilities Mr. Speaker, 1 hope the legislation will year and not $10,000,000 each year for that were available for the localities to be unanimously: passed. 2 years. provide for the schooling of an infiux of I yield back the balance of my time, That is about all I have to say about children were entirely· inadequate. The Mr. McSWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I this. I feel that there is a Federal opli­ situation described by the gentleman yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from gation here which we should meet. from Michigan is identical with many. Pennsylvania £Mr. FuLTONJ. Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. Mr. Speak­ situations with which I am familiar in · Mr. FULTON. Mr. Speaker, there is a er, will the gentleman yield? the South. great need in many townships and Mr. DONDERO. I yield. This legislation is necessary, there is boroughs around the city of Pittsburgh Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. I am for no question about it. I do not want to for this legislation. The plants during this legislation, but it does seem to me prolong the discussion but merely want the war were expanded. These people that we ought to give some thought to to say that we have parallel situations who worked in these pJants are still living the fact that we are expanding this pro­ growing out of inadequate facilities there, in many cases in federally placed gram, we are not confining it. We are where people have strained themselves to war-housing projects. The plants now taking in 25 or 30 more school districts. meet the new demands. In one of these have been converted to peacetime uses It seems that it is much easier for these little districts with which I am familiar and there are these large populations p:cple to come to the Federal Govern­ where the war population has remained badly in need of adequate school facili­ ment for the money than to go to their and congested conditions have con­ ties. In particular, in Moon Township, own State legislatures. Why is not that tinued, the people voted a tax of 45 mills south of Pittsburgh, there is a desperate done? a larger part of which is for school pur­ need for assistance to schools according Mr. DONDERO. I think there is great poses, but still even with other taxes, to information given me by J. A. Allard, force and-merit in what the gentleman they cannot meet the situation. The supervisinv, principal. The Federal Gov­ says.. The only way I. can explain it is State contributes through its equaliza­ ernment with the State and county au­ that undoubtedly, because of new instal.­ tion fund to these districts. There is no thorities in Pittsburgh have combined lations of a military nature on the part question about the States having ex­ to make one of the largest airports in the of our Government, new problems have tended themselves in an effort to meet world just ::;outhwest of Pittsburgh in been created which we must meet. I am the emergency situation. Since the Allegheny: County, which is now being not a member of the committee. condition was created by the Federal used by the Army. That development Mr. PACE. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ Government, it is our responsibility. I has taken much taxable land from the tleman yield? am convinced that this is meritorious taxing authorities. Therefore, I am sup­ Mr. DONDERO. I yield to the gentle­ legislation and the principle of the Lan­ porting this legislation to help these local man from Georgia. ham and Landis Acts should be con­ governments to assist them in meeting Mr. PACE. When the Federal Gov­ tinued. this immense burden which was not of ernment comes in and acquires property Mr. McSWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, the their own making. The program of aid same situation as has been referred to to such school districts has worked well and removes it from the tax rolls of both and should be continued. the local authorities and the State, the exists in Ohio. My distinguished col­ Mr. McSWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield Federal Government. which brought league from Ohio, an earnest worker [Mr. 2 minutes to the gentleman from Cali­ about the condition, should make the BREHM], is working out a situation in fornia [Mr. MILLER]. contribution, not the State authorities. Dayton similar to this. He is very much Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. It has made the State less able to con­ interested in this bill. Speaker, I want to cite the situation in tribute than it was before that was done. Mr. Speaker, I now yield such time Alamed9. in my home city in California, a Mr. DONDERO. It becomes a Federal as he may desire to my distinguished commup.ity with a prewar population of responsibility. colleague from Mississippi [Mr. CoLMER]. some 36,000 people. It now has a popu­ Mr. PACE. That is right. Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, there lation of about 90,000 people. During Mr. COMBS. Mr. Speaker, will the really is no room for confusion about the war period the Federal Government gentleman yield? this legislation. It is just a repetition built ships in Alameda-lots of them. It Mr. DONDERO. I yield to the gen­ of what we have been doing both during took fee title to shipyards previously in tleman from Texas. the war and subsequent to the war in private ownership, thus reducing the tax Mr. COMBS. With reference to the helping the communities, whose popula­ · base of the city; it built the biggest inquiry about the enlargement of this tions were swollen as the result of the naval air jtation on the west coast in program, the only enlargement that oc­ Federal installations, to take care of Alameda. Today 54 percent of that land curs under this bill is to take care, as those children. Many of us have in­ area of the city is owned by the Federal has been pointed out, of some new situa­ stances such as have been related here Government. Within the area of the tions that have been brought about by byi the gentlf;man from Michigan, the naval air station there are a number of Government activities. To illustrate, gentleman from Arkansas, and others. permanent homes for the staff. Their there is now under construction out near Certainly, in response to the inquiry children, in these homes, use the school Pocatello, Idaho, which is just one I facilities of the city of Alameda. In ad­ happen to remember, a large installation made by the gentleman from Georgia dition. the Navy owns some 621 housing that has something to do with atomic [Mr. PACE], this legislation is aimed at · units occupied by personnel at the naval energy development. It is a big installa­ taking care of just such a situation as air station, and the city receives not 1 tion that the Government is putting in he mentions. A number of us have been cent in taxes or the school district 1 there. The Government is removing sponsoring this legislation over the cent of contribution toward its func­ property from the tax rolls and moving period of the pa~t 3 or 4 years including tions from these houses in which re­ in there people whose childr'en must be the distinguished gentleman from Texas side a substantial number of children. teken into that little country community. (Mr. COMBS], as well as the author of What I have said with reference to Ala­ That is one of the new communities this bill, the gentleman from Minnesota meda can be applied to the city of Rich­ coming under the act. [Mr. WIER], myself, and others. mond in Contra Costa County and the 10304 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 27 Richmond ·school district. These other Cronkhite. The children from these have the relief so necessary because of instances that have been cited make it reservations attend the public schools Federal war activities within their imperative that this legislation be passed. and the Government is not contributing boundaries. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, will the in ~ny way to the support of these I urge the House to act favorably. gentleman yield? schools. There is also located in this I ask unanimous consent to revise and Mr. MILLER of California. I yield. same school district, a Federal· housing extend. my remarks at this point, Mr. Mr. KENNEDY. In California, which unit, constructed to house.workers at the Speaker. was hardest hit by the war, they have Marin shipyards. There are approxi­ The SPEAKER. Without objection, it done more in that State to solve this mately 1,000 children living in this proj­ is so ordered. problem and they are asking only $30,- ect who attend the local schools and the There was no objection . 000 under this program and all the rest total amount of money which is forth­ . Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield will come out of their own State funds. coming to the district is approximately such time as he may desire to the That should be an example to all the $16 per child. This sum amounts to less gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. other States. than 20 percent of the actual cost in pro­ GOLDEN]. Mr. MILLER of California. That is viding schooling for these children. Mr. GOLDEN. Mr. Speaker, I very correct. I trust that through the passage of this much favor H. R. 3829. A few moments Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield bill, it may be possible for the Govern-. ago I inquired of the members of this such time as he may desire to the gentle­ ment to reimburse these school districts committee that brings this legislation man from Illinois [Mr. CHURCH]. · in a more substantial manner. Without before Congress as to whether or not· it Mr. CHURCH. Mr. Speaker, perhaps .a doubt the same condition exists in was the meaning and intent of this act one of the best illustrations as to the many other parts of the. country and I to provide Federal aid to school districts need for H. R. 3829 is the situation at desire to express myself as being whole­ where congestion and increases in school north Chicago, Ill., in my district. heartedly in favor of this legislation. I population had been brought about by North Chicago, Ill., adjoins the Great trust it may receive the favorable vote the Federal Government acquiring large Lakes Naval Training Station. The of the Congress. · bodies of land for flood-control projects, Great Lakes Naval Training Station Mr. HERTER.- Mr. Speaker, I yield public works, and national forests and Center and the Veterans' Administration such time as he may desire to the gen­ where the property acquired by the Fed­ have removed 50 percent of the taxable tleman from Oregon [Mr. ANGELL]. eral Government had been permanently area in Shields Township where the Mr. ANGELL. Mr. Speaker, in my removed from the tax rolls of the States, north Chicago school is located, while State we have a large number of Govern­ counties, and school districts. I was supplying 50 percent of the pupils to be ment installations and we have met with assured here on the floor of the House educated. Because the Government still a very serious situation in attempting to· that this bill would cover and take care owns all that land, because of the in­ find housing and school facilities. This of that sort of a situation. · crease of the school population, there ls bill is very satisfactory to my district, and The Members of the House will realize no possibility of the local school district I am glad to support it. The war brought that this bill, in the first section thereof, taking care of the situation. It pre­ many new families and school children on page 2, not only provides for Federal vents an impossible financial burden. into our State· who settled in war instal­ aid to school districts where the increase This bill is very necessary and I hope lations or near them. School facilities in school population has been brought it will pass. were made wholly inadequate. Many about by the location of defense or war Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield school districts did not have funds or tax­ plants-in any locality, but beginning with such time as he may desire to the gentle­ ing ability to provide facilities and teach­ line 19 on page 2, the bill further provides man from Washington [Mr. HOR AN]. ers for this heavy influx of school popu­ that where reductions in the school Mr. HORAN. Mr. Speaker, I very lation. Oregon has the largest increase revenues result from the acquisition or much favor this legislation. As the in population since the war of any State ownership of land by the United States, Members of the House know, Washington in the Union. The Federal Government then in that situation Federal aid can is one of the three Pacific Coast States owns much of the land in many Oregon be granted to such districts for school which has had a tremendous increase in districts, thus depleting the tax rolls. purposes. Furthermore, in the conclud­ population since 1940. This of necessity Federal financial help is necessary to ing paragraph, number 6 of the bill, has thrown unequal burdens on many meet this critical situation. I will support found on page 4, the act provides that of our school districts and the operation this bill, Mr. Speaker. the term local school agency means any of this legislation has served to help Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield public school district, cpunty, city,. town, bring equity to many difficult problems such time as she inay desire to the gen­ political subdivision, public agency, or incurred therewith. tlewoman from Ohfo (Mrs. BOLTON]. State agency operating and maintaining Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield Mrs. BOLTON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, public school facilities. such time as he may desire to the gen­ the funcls authorized in this measure­ With these plain provisions appear­ tleman from California [Mr. ScUDDER]. H. R. 3829-for the years 1950 and 1951 ing in the bill and with the Republican Mr. SCUDDER. Mr. Speaker, under are very necessary to one of the school and Democratic Members of this great this bill, H. R. 3829, to assist local school districts in my . congressional district. committee that has brought this legis­ agencies in providing educational oppor­ During the war the Government acquired lation before Congress stating that tunities for children residing (a) on Fed­ considerable land in this particular com­ Federal aid to schools can be had by lo­ eral reservations or on other federally munity for defense-plant operation, af­ calities where additional burdens have owned property, or (b) within the fecting materially the tax collections by been placed upon the school districts boundaries of local school agencies over­ removing the property from the tax list. by the Federal Government acquiring burdened financially by defense-incurred Federal assistance was provided under large bodies of lands for reforestation, school enrollments or reductk>ns in the the Lanham Act for such school districts public works, dams, flood control, and school revenues resulting from the acqui­ from 1940 to 1946 as a war measure. knowing that it will take care of the sit­ sition or ownership of land by the United Since 1946 we have continued this aid uation in my congressional district in States, the General Services Adminis­ through special appropriations annually. Kentucky, I shall strongly support this trator is authorized to make contribu­ The property taken for the defense measure. tions to such local school agencies for the program has not been returned to taxable In the Ninth Congressional District of operation and maintenance of their status so that these schools are still suf­ Kentucky the Federal Government has school facilities. fering from lack of adequate local income acquired several thousand acres of the There are in my district a number of due to the war program. Naturally, since best farm land in four or five counties schools that fall within the purview of j940 school enrollments have increased for flood control, and the Federal Gov­ . this legislation, which are direly in need because of the moving of war workers ernment is now building the Wolf Creek of and are entitled to contributions from and their families into the community, Dam across Cumberland River. To give the Federal Government. Most of them are stm there. This is the Members of Congress some conception i For instance, in the Sausalito School ~ituation that exists in the village of of the hu~e proportions of this project, District, located in Marin County, Calif., Brooklyn, a suburb of Cleveland, and I knowing that most of you are familiar there are three military reservations, hope that this measure may pass so that with Norris Dam in the Tennessee Val­ ,namely, Fort Baker, Fort Barry, and Fort communities so affected may continue to ley, I wish to say that Norris Dam is 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10305 approximately 1,800 feet across while I can cite as an example a situation in application naturally it would not get Wolf Creek Dam in my district of Ken­ the State of Georgia where the Govern­ relief. tucky is more . than 5,000 feet across. ment purchased 280,000 acres of land in Mr. NICHOLSON. I do not think we This will create an inland body of water one body, second only to the Louisiana did during wartime because we thought almost entirely in my congressional dis­ Purchase in size. When this land was it was our duty to educate the children trict more than 110 miles long and in purchased they even took a half of a par- · of the men who were in these camps many places in excess of 6 miles wide. ticular county-just cut it in half. That . fighting for us. It will cover up some of the best farm land is still owned by the Government, Mr. WHEELER. Mr. Speaker, will the lands in Russell, Wayne, Clinton and and they are using it for National Guard . gentleman yield? Pulaski Counties. These lands will be training only. It is not occupied by our Mr. NICHOLSON. I yield. removed from taxation. It has caused Regular forces at all, but yet the Govern­ Mr. WHEELER. The gentleman just a great additional burden upon the ment has title to all this land. Certainly referred to this as a handout. Does the school districts. Even though our peo­ those people, where half of the county gentleman feel that when the Federal ple are taxed very heavily in Kentucky has been taken off the tax rolls, are en­ Government moves into a district and for school purposes, much above the av­ titled to some relief and, of course, they take an appreciable amount of the tax­ erage in the United States, we do not would come under the provisions of this · able propez:ty from the tax books and have sufficient remaining property to tax bill. then makes payment in lieu thereof that for school purposes to take care of our I would like to ask the gentleman from it is a handout? school children. Michigan, chairman of the committee, Mr. NICHOLSON. Such a transac­ In addition to this, the Federal Gov­ whether he contemplates that $7,500,000 tion is not a handout. ernment has acquired.hundreds of thou­ will anywhere near meet the needs of the Mr. WHEELER. That is exactly what sands of acres in my district in the coun­ various communities that will come un­ this legislation proposes to do. ties of McCreary, Whitley, Jackson, Clay. der the provisions of this bill? Mr. NICHOLSON. I do not see that Bell, Harlan, and Rockcastle for refor­ Mr. LESINSKI. The testimony shows it does. estation purposes and for national that it will be enough, but we will make Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield parks. 'These lands have all been re­ a study of the entire situation this fall, 2 minutes to the gentleman from Cali­ moved from State, local and school and I have already appointed a commit­ fornia [Mr. JOHNSONJ. taxation. tee. We will see if we cannot combine Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. Speaker, as the I introduced in Congress a bill to pro­ all of the different affected school dis­ gentleman from California [Mr. MILLER] vide ·that the Federal Government, when tricts into one. said, we face a very acute problem in it takes land and property for public use, The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ California. In my district I now have shall pay the tax equivalent back to the tleman from Georgia [Mr. PRESTON] has 10 military, naval, and Afr Force instal­ States, counties, and school districts. I expired. lations and many of our school districts think such legislation should be passed Mr. HERTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 are overburdened with the large num­ and I was called as the first witness be­ minutes to the gentleman from Massa­ ber of Federal employees' children from fore the great Committee on Public chusetts [Mr. NICHOLSON]. these various military installations who Lands of this Congress, and they are now Mr. NICHOLSON. Mr. Speaker, I do are and must be educated by our school considering that measure. not have any idea of trying to kill this districts. Some of the districts are ut­ I find in the legislation under con­ bill this year, but I think we ought to terly helpless in trying to handle the sideration that it is the belief of this make some study of this proposition. financial problem involved in the situa­ great committee that brings forth H. R. As I pointed out when I asked the gen­ tion. They have not the bonding ca­ 3829, that we are now debating, that tleman from Ohio a question, Massa­ pacity, they have not the taxing capacity where the Federal Government takes chusetts, or the towns around these to take care of the educational require­ land and property for any purpose and Army camps, have never received a cent. ments of these children. '!'he extra load thereby creates additional burdens upon We kind of thought that it was our which has- been thrust upon them cannot schools because the tax revenues have patriotic duty to educate the children be met. I therefore hope that this bill been reduced, that it is the responsibility of the soldiers or other people who may will pass and that we may work out some and the obligation of the Federal Gov­ have been employed in our districts in a permanent pattern later whereby the ernment to replace those funds through wartime capacity, and we did it. But Federal Government will assume part of Federal aid to the schools. when I come here, as I did 2 years ago, the financial responsibility of taking care While this is a temporary measure for and again last year, and all these bills of the children of military personnel in 1 year only, I strongly advocate that it come up and I find that some States are these various installations as long as should be made permanent. Further­ getting all the money and the others they continue to have children who need more, I think that more money than $7 ,- none, I think there is something wrong education from our local California 500 ,000 should be appropriated -for this with the principle. school districts. No group of public of­ worthy purpose. Mr. WHEELER. Mr. Speaker, will the ficials', in any layer of government, have Because of all of these reasons, I gentleman yield? done a finer job than our California urge my colleagues to vote favorably Mr. NICHOLSON. I yield. . school district trustees. on this measure and I shall do so my­ Mr. WHEELER. I wish to ask the Mr. McSWEENEY. Has the gentle­ self. It is my opinion that it will bene­ gentleman whether the localities in his man from Massachusetts any further fit many other localities and communi­ district have made application for relief, requests for time? - ties throughout America as it will my and also to remind him that the chair­ Mr. HERTER. I have no further re­ . own congressional district, and I again man of the committee has just advised quests for time . urge all of my colleagues to vote for the the House that his committee intends Mr. McSWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I passage of this ·legislation. to make a complete and thorough study move the prevtous question on the reso­ of this situation this fall with a view of lution. Mr. McSWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I reporting back to the House at the end CALL OF THE HOUSE yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from of that study something which will take Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. Mr. Speak­ Georgia [Mr. PRESTON]. care of the whole situation. Mr. PRESTON. Mr. Speaker: I fear er, I make the point of order that a quo­ Mr. NICHOLSON. I agree that the rum is not present. that the sum of money set up in the bill study is an excellent thing. The only The SPEAKER. The Chair will count. is highly inadequate. My recollection is reason I wanted this time was to say that [After counting.] Does the gentleman that under the Lanham Act there were Massachusetts from 1775 to 1949 has insist on his point of order? approximately $6,000,000 available for done her share of taking care of the Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. I do, Mr. this program. This bill adds only $1,- Federal Government to the best of her Speaker. 500,000 to that amount. According to my ability without asking for any hand­ The SPEAKER. A quorum is not construction of this bill, it opens the outs from the Federal Government or present. proposition to many areas that were not anybody else. Mr. McSWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I qualified under the provisions of the Lan­ Mr. LESINSKI. The testimony shows move a call of the House. ham Act, and I think very properly so. that if a school district did not make an A call of the House was ordered. 10306 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 27 The Clerk called the roll, and the . Mr. Chairman, it is the purpose of school year to any school district be following Members failed to answer to H. R. 3829 to assist local-school agencies limited to the amount of the actual their names : in providing educational opportunities deficit in the school agency's mainte­ [Roll No. 146] for children living (a) on Federal reser­ nance and operation budget during the Barden Fogarty Patterson vations or other federally owned property year. Your committee believes that Barrett, Pa. Ford Perkins or (b) within the boundaries of local­ these provisions are sufficient safeguards Bates, Mass. Gilmer Pfeifer, school agencies overburdened financially to assure that this Federal assistance Bla nd Goodwin Joseph L. Bolling Gosset t Potter by defense-incurred school enrollments will be made available only to those Boykin Green Powell or reductions in the school revenues re- school districts where activities of the Brehm Gwinn Price ·sulting from the ownership of land by Federal Government have caused such Brooks Hall, Ramsay a serious financial burden that they can­ Buckley, N. Y. Leonard W. Redden the United States. Bulwinkle Hardy Reed, Ill. Under this bill, the General .Services not finance normal school programs wit!\ Burnside Harrison RibicofI Administrator is authorized to make their own resources. The Federal assist­ Byrne, N. Y. Hedrick Riehlman grants to such local school agencies for ance is necessary in order that the chil­ Canfield Heller Rooney Case, N. J. Hoffman, Ill. Scott, Hardie the operation and maintenance of their dren living in these communities can Case, S. Dak. Jennings Scott, schools. have the benefits of a normal school Celler Jensen Hugh D., Jr. This bill. would autl1orize the appro­ program. Chatham Kea rney Shafer $7,500,000 Chelf Kilburn Short priation of for the fiscal year The committee has considered the Clevenger Kilday Sikes ending June 30, 1950. various bills proposed to provide a perma­ Cole, N. Y. Lemke Smathers During the period between 1940 and nent method of meeting the needs in Corbet t Lichtenwalter Smith, Ohio June 30, 1946, Federal funds were made those areas where the Federal Govern­ Coudert Lovre Stanley Cunningham McGra th Stigler available by Congress under the provi­ ment has caused the p'roblem. The com­ Davenport McGregor Taylor sions of the Lanham Act to assist in the mittee feels that the objectives of such Davies, N. Y. McKinnon Thomas, N. J. construction 1.nd maintenance and bills are sound, but that there is not Davis, Wis. Macy Thomas, Tex. DeGraffenried Marshall Towe operation of school facilities in war-con­ sufficient information now available on D'Ewart Mitchell Vinson gested areas where they were needed, in which to base legislation that would Dingell Morris Vursell order that war activities would not be establish a permanent method of meet­ Durham Morton Walter Eaton Murdock Williams hindered. In 1947, Congress amended ing this need. A subcommittee has been Elston Murphy Withrow the Lanham Act and authorized assist­ appointed to study this problem ·at first F allon Murray, Ten n. Wolcott ance to these schools for the fiscal year hand, and to make specific recommenda­ Fellows O'Toole of 1947. tions to the full committee at the next Fisher P a:tten A~ain in 1948 Congress continued, on session of Congress for a permanent The SPEAKER. On this roll call 331 a temporary basis, to grant this assist­ program. Members have answered to their names; ance. This bill passed the committee by a a quorum is present. In 1948, evidence was submitted to vote of 24 to 1. I feel it is a meritorious By unanimous consent, further pro­ Congress to show that some of these one and I hope the bill will pass ceedings under the call were dispensed schools which had been receiving funds unanimously. with. were still in need of assistance, and that Mr. Chairman, I now yield 5 minutes COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS due to the renewal of activity at certain to the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask defense installations or the operation of WIER]. unanimous consent that a subcommittee new defense plants, a few additional Mr. WIER. Mr. Chairman, I do not of the Committee on Public Lands may schools would be in need of assistance. know as I can add much to the many For this purpose, Public Law 839 was comments that were made by about 20 sit during the session of the House this passed, authorizing an appropriation of afternoon during general debate. Representatives here when the rule was The SPEAKER. Without objection, it $6,000,000 for the fiscal year of 1949. being considered. From the observation Your committee is convinced that of members of the Labor Committee, the is so ordered. There was no objection. there is a continued need for Federal situation is quite alike all around the assistance in this field. One hundred country. There were about 15 bills in­ ASSISTANCE FOR LOCAL SCHOOL AGEN­ and forty-eight schools received aid dur­ troduced from various parts of the coun­ CIES ON FEDERAL RESERVATIONS OR IN ing the last fiscal year, and it is esti­ try dealing with this subject. A num­ DEFENSE . AREAS mated that there will be ·25 or 30 addi­ ber of Members of the House appeared The SPEAKER. The question is on tional school districts that will be in need before the Committee on Labor and sup­ agreeing to the resolution. during the coming fiscal year because of parted this legislation. The resolution was agreed to. further expansion of defense installa­ Mr. Chairman, I introduced a bill Mr. LESINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I move tions and other Federal Government early in the session due to a very critical that the House resolve itself into the activities. situation which existed just outside of Committee of the Whole House on the Your committee considered that Minneapolis and St. Paul, created in the State of the Union for the consideration $6,000,000, the amount spent in fiscal early days of the war by the Government of the bill

• 10318 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JULY 27 HON. MARY T. NORTON SENATE BILLS AND A CONCURRENT H. R. 1127. An act for the relief of Sirkka RESOLUTION REFERRED Siiri Saarelainen; Mr. DAVENPORT. Mr. S:leaker, H. R.1303. An act for the relief.of Dr. Elias there is an appalling misstatement con­ Bills and a concurrent resolution of Stavropoulos, his wife, and daughter; tained in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of the Senate of the following titles were H. R. 1360. An act to extend the times for Tuesday, July 26, and I wish to quote taken from the Speaker's table and, un­ commencing and completing the construc­ from that statement made on the floor der the rule, referred as follows: tion of a free bridge across the Rio Grande of this House, an insult which was S. 88. An act to amend section 60 of an act at or near Del Rio, Tex.; H. R. 2417. An act to authorize the Secre­ hurled at one of the most valued and entitled "An act to establish a uniform sys­ valuable Members of this body, whose tem of bankruptcy throughout the United tary of the Air Force to operate and maintain States," approved July 1, 1898, as amended; a certain tract of land at Valparaiso, Fla., record goes back over 25 years of fine near Eglin Air Force base, as a recreational service to her country. to the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 204. An act for the relief of Eugenio facility; Mr. Speaker, it is not so much that Maisterrena Barreneche; to the Committee on H. R. 2474. An act for the relief of Frank the Members of the House may be in­ the Judiciary. E. Blanchard; fluenced by these irresponsible and in­ S. 555. An act for the relief of Eiko Naka­ H. R. 2799. An act to amend the act en­ sulting remarks. Every Member of Con­ titled "An act reg'Qlating the retent on con­ mura; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tracts with the District of Columbia," ap­ gress has a deep respect and warm af­ S. 586. An act for the relief of certain proved March 31, 1906; fection for the gracious gentlewoman civilian personnel employed by the Navy De­ H. R. 2853. An act to authorize the Secre­ from New Jersey, Mrs. MARY NORTON. partment, for expenses incurred incident to tary of the Interior to issue duplicates of Certainly the biting and bitter words, so temporary duty performed at the Navy Yard, William Gerard's script certificates No. 2, ungracious, so uncalled for, must have Philadelphia, Pa., in 1942; to the Committee subdivisions 11and12, to Blanche H. Weedon on the Judiciary. and Amos L. Harris, as trustees; hurt the gentlewoman; but we can rest S. 787. An act for the relief of William assured that no Member of this body H. R. 3467. An act for the relief of Franz (Vasilios) Kotsakis; to the Committee on the Eugene Laub; would even begin to consider the insult­ Judiciary. . H. R, 3512. An act to amend the Civil ing remarks of the gentleman from Mis­ S. 939. An act to remove certain lands from Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as sissippi seriously. The thing we have to the operation of Public Law 545, Seventy­ amended, to authorize the exemption of cer­ bear in mind is that the CONGRESSIONAL seventh Congress; to the Committee on Pub­ tain employees of the Library of Congress .and RECORD has a wide circulation: Tens of lic Lands. of the judicial branch of the Government S. 1026. An act for the relief of Roman whose employment ls temporary or of un­ thousands of copies go out to a vast read­ Szymanski and Anastasia Szymanski; to the ing audience from coast to coast. High certain duration; Commi~tee on the Judiciary. H. R. 4022. An act to extend the · time for school and college students all over the S. 1128. An act to amend the act entitled commencing the construction of a toll Nation read this publication. And we "An act to regulate the practice of podiatry bridge across the Rio Grande at or near Rio cannot expect these readers to know in the District of Columbia"; to the Com­ Grande City, Tex., to July 31, 1950; mittee on the District of Columbia. what we do know: That the unfortunate H. R. 4261. An act authorizing the Secre­ remarks of the gentleman from Missis­ S. 1166. An act for the relief of Toriko tary of the Interior to issue to L. J. Hand a sippi are unfounded and misleading. Tateuchi; to the Committee on the Judiciary. patent in fee to certain lands in the State of S. 1350. An act to provide for two judges Mississippi; Here is what the gentleman from Mis­ of the Juvenile Court of the District of Co- sissippi said on the floor of the House, H. R. 4646. An act to authorize the Secre­ 1umbia, and for other purposes; to the Com­ tary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, Tuesday, July 26: mittee on the District of Columbia. and the Secretary of the Air Force to lend It is very amusing to hear the chairman S. 1525. An act! to provide for the appoint­ certain property to national veterans' organ- of the committee get up here and deliver a ment of a deputy disbursing officer and as­ izations, and for other purposes; ,.-. . moral lecture to the people in the Southern sistant disbursing officers for the District of H. R. 4705. An act to transfer the omce of States when we remember that that indi­ Columbia, and for other purposes; to the the probation officer of the United States vidual has probably been here as a result of Committee on the District of Columbia. District Court for the District of Columbia, the wishes of Boss Hague, of New Jersey, S. 1834. An act for the relief of the widow the omce of the Register of Wills for the DlB­ of Robert V. Holland; to the Committee on trict of Columbia, and the Commission on probably one of the most corrupt political the Judiciary. leaders in America. Mental Health, from the government of the S. 1870. An act prohibiting the sale in the District of Columbia to the administrative Mr. Speaker, knowing the time-hon­ District of Columbia of rockfish weighing office of the United States courts, for budg­ ored southern custom of chivalry toward more than 15 pounds; to the Committee on etary and administrative purposes; the District of Columbia. H. R. 4804. An act to record the lawful ad­ women, many of us were shocked to hear S.1871. An act to amend the Reconstruc­ the esteemed chairman of the House Ad­ mission to the United States for permanent tion Finance Corporation Act to prohibit the residence of Karl Frederick Kueker; ministration Committee referred to as employment of certain personnel of the cor­ H. R. 5508. An act to amend the Army and "that individual." Surely that does not poration by organizations receiving loans or Air Force Vitalization and Retirement follow the pattern of southern chivalry. other financial assistance therefrom; to the Equalization Act of 1948; and As to the attempt to smear the gentle­ Committee on Banking and Currency. H.J. Res. 170. Joint resolution designating S. 1949. An act to authorize the lease of June 14 of each year as Flag Day. woman from New Jersey [Mrs. MARY the Federal correctional institution at Sand­ NORTON] with that "·Boss Hague political stone, Minn., to the State of Minnesota; to ADJOURNMENT corruption nonsense," we believe that to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. PRIEST. Mr. Speaker, I move be downright unfair and contemptible. S. Con. Res. 51. Concurrent resolution fa­ voring the susp. -ision of deportation of cer­ that the House do now adjourn. · First of all we are not convinced that tain aliens; to the Committee on the Judi­ The motion was agreed to; accordingly Hague was "one of the most corrupt po­ ciary.

• 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE 10319 Department of Justice; to the Committee on Mr. DELANEY: Committee on Rules. By Mrs. WOODHOUSE: the Judiciary. House Resolution 800. Consideration of H. R. 5796. A b111 declaring the continuing 807. A letter from the Secretary of De­ H. R. 4007, a bill to amend the act entitled policy and responsibility of the Federal Gov .. fense, transmitting a proposed bill entitled "An act to authorize the construction of ernment to promote maximum employment, "A b111 to provide for the organization of the experimental submarines, and for other pur­ production, and purchasing power and set­ Army and the Department of the Army, and poses," approved May 16, 1947; without ting forth ways and means of achieving these for other purposes"; to the Committee on amendment (Rept. No. 1137). Referred to objectives; to the Committee on Banking and Armed Services. the House Calendar. Currency. 808. A letter from the Secretary, Depart­ By Mr. YATES: ment of Agriculture, transmitting a draft of PUBLIC BILI:.S AND RESOLUTIONS H. R. 5797. A bill declaring the continu­ a bill entitled "A bill to permit payment by ing policy and responsibility of the Federal means of regular salary installments in lieu Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public Government to promote maximum employ­ of payments in a lump sum for all accumu­ bills and resolutions were introduced and ment, production, and purchasing power and lated and accrued annual leave to career em­ severally referred as follows: setting forth ways and means of achieving ployees who are affected in a reduction-in­ By Mr. BROOKS: these objectives; to the Committee on Bank­ force program"; to the Committee on Post H. R. 5783. A bill to establish a United ing and Currency. Office and Civil Service. States Air Forces Academy; to the Committee By Mr. KERR: 809. A letter from the Acting Secretary of on Armed Services. H.J. Res. 327. Joint resolution making an the Treasury, transmitting a draft of a pro­ By Mr. BUCHANAN: additional appropriation for control of emer­ posed bill entitled "A b111 to amend the act of H. R. 5784. A bill to require legislative rep­ gency outbreaks of insects and plant diseases; May 26, 1936, authorizing the withholding of resentatives to register and report, to require to the Committee on Appropriations. compensation due Government personnel"; those raising or spending money for legisla­ By Mr. JUDD: to the Committee on Expenditures in the tive representatives to register and report, to H.J. Res. 328. Joint resolution providing Executive Departments. provide a penalty, and for other purposes; that Reorganization Plans Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 810. A letter from the Secretary of State, to the Committee on the Judiciary. 7 of 1949 shall take effect at the close of transmitting a draft o.f a proposed bill en­ By Mr. CROSSER: August 19, 1949; to the Committee on Ex­ titled "A bill to authorize the carrying out H. R. 5785. A bill to amend the Interstate penditures in the Executive Departments. of provisions of article 7 of the treaty of Commerce Act, as amended, with respect to By Mr. JENKINS: February 3, 1944, between the United States common or contract carriers by conveyor belt H. Con. Res. 112. Concurrent resolution pro­ and Mexico, regarding the joint development or other similar device; to the Committee on viding for adjournment sine die of the of hydroelectric power at Falcon Dam on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce. two Houses of Congress; to the Committee on Rio Grande, and for other purposes"; to the By Mr. DOYLE: Rules. Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. R. 5786. A bill to authorize payments by By Mr. BEALL: 811. A letter from the Acting Comptroller the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on the H. Res. 299. Resolution to authorize an in­ General of the United States, transmitting purchase of automobiles or other convey­ vestigation of fiood control on Georges Creek the report on the audit of Federal Deposit ances by certain disabled veterans, and for in Allegany County, Md.; to the Committee Insurance Corporation for the fiscal year other purposes; to the Committee on Vet­ on Public Works. Expenditures in the Executive Departments erans' Affairs. and ordered to be printed. By Mr. HERLONG: H. R. 5787. A bill to make inapplicable to PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS future actions and proceedings section 200 (1) and (2) of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC Relief Act of 1940, relating to default judg­ bills and resolutions were introduced and BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ments; to the Committee on Armed Services. severally referred as follows: Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of By Mr. HUBER: By Mr. CANFIELD: committees were delivered to the Clerk H. R. 5788. A bill to amend the Service­ H. R. 5798. A bill for the relief of Federick for printing and reference to the proper men's Readjustment Act of 1944 to extend Joseph Reeve; to the Committee on the Ju­ calendar, as follows: the period during which readjustment allow­ diciary. ances may be paid; to the Committee on By Mr. CARROLL: Mr. KERR: Committee on Appropriations. Veterans' Affairs. H. R. 5799. A bill for the relief of the Acme House Joint Resolution 327. Joint resolu­ By Mr. KEARNS: Finance Co.; to the Committee on the Judi- tion making an additional appropriation for H. R. 5789. A bill to authorize the appro­ ciary. control of emergency out breaks of insects priation of funds to assist .in more adequate­ By Mr. HARE: and plant diseases; without amendment ly financing education in the· elementary and H. R. 5800. A bill for the relief of Benjamin (Rept. No. 1132). Referred to the Com­ secondary schools of States found to be T. Gaines; to the Committee on the Judiciary. mittee of the Whole House on the State of needy, and for other purposes; to the Com­ By Mr. KLEIN: the Union. mittee on Education and Labor. H. R. 5801. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Mr. PETERSON: Committee on Public By Mr. KLEIN: Anna Soldester; to the Committee on the Lands. H. R. 3480. A bill to authorize the H. R. 5790. A bill to provide more adequate Judiciary. Commonwealth of Kentucky to use for cer­ and effective rent control until June 30, 1951, By Mr. JOSEPH L. PFEIFER: tain educational purposes lands granted by and for other purposes; to the Committee on H. R. 5802. A bill for the relief of Antonio the United States to such Commonwealth Banking and Currency. Simonetti; to the Committee on the Judi­ for State park purposes exclusively; without . By Mr. MORTON: ciary. amendment (Rept. No. 1133.). Referred to H. R. 5791. A bill to authorize the appro­ By Mr. WICKERSHAM: the Committee of the Whole House on the priation of funds to assist in more adequate­ H. R. 5803. A bill for the relief of Benny State of the Union. ly financing education in the elementary and Eduard Ulsfeldt; to the Committee on the Mr. COOLEY: Committee on Agriculture. secondary schools of States found to be needy, Judiciary. H. R. 5557. A bill to provide for coordina­ and for other purposes; to the Committee on tion of arrangements for the employment of Education and Labor. agricultural workers, admitted for temporary By Mr. NOLAND: agricultural employment from foreign coun­ H. R. 5792. A bill to extend to July 25, 1950, tries in the Western Hemisphere, to assure the time within which readjustment allow­ SENATE that the migration of such workers will be ances may be paid under section 700 of title limited to the minimum numbers required to V of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1949 meet domestic labor shortages, and for other 1944, as amended; to the Committee on Vet­ purposes; without amendment (Rept. No. erans' Affairs.