UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SENATE H. R. 1962. An act granting the consent of Congress to the I city of Youngstown, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and op- . MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1939 erate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at , The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the or near Cedar Street, Youngstown, Ohio; following prayer: H. R. 2635. An act granting the consent of Congress to Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania to con Lord of our life, star of our night, Thou hope of every struct, maintain, and operate a free highway intercounty nation: Make us to understand more clearly day by day that bridge and approaches across the Allegheny River, connect life has no more to give than the opportunity of loving ing Valley Camp in Westmoreland County and East Deer service, that infinite pity is needed for the infinite pathos Township in Allegheny County, to connect State Highway of the world, and that we cannot touch our neighbor's heart Routes Nos. 28 and 56; with anything less than our own. H. R. 2661. An act to extend the times for commencing Inspire us with the passion of a larger claim than we have and completing the construction of a bridge across the st. ever known, that we may breathe the world thought, do the Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, N. Y.; world deed, and, linking our hopes t~ humankind, we may H. R. 3225. An act authorizing the department of high become such channels of good will and understanding azr.ong ways of the State of Ohio to construct, maintain, and op the nations that, with evil thoughts assuaged, men may erate a free highway bridge across the Ottawa River at or find peace on earth, and, after they have striven, may find near the city of Toledo, State of Ohio; peace in Thy heaven. We ask it in our Saviour's name. H. R. 3234. An act to provide for the completion of the Amen. Navy and Marine Memorial; THE JOURNAL H. R. 3418. An act granting the consent of Congress to the On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, Highway Department of Davidson County, of the State the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the cal of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across Cumberland endar day Thursday, April 20, 1939, was dispensed with, and River, at a point approximately 1% miles below Clees Ferry, the Journal was approved. connecting a belt-line highway in Davidson County, State of MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE DURING ADJOURNMENT Tennessee, known as the Old Hickory Boulevard; Under authority of the order of the 20th instant, H. R. 3589. An act granting the consent of Congress to the On April 21, 1939, the following message was received by State Highway Commission of North Carolina to construct, the Secretary of the Senate from the Hol:lse of Representa maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Wac tives: That the House agreed to the amendments of the camaw River between Old Dock and Ash, N.C.; Senate to the bill Whereas the economic situation of this region has steadily become Resolved by the House of Representati1Jes of the State of Minne- ! less favorable since the lumber industry passed its peak early in the sota (the senate concurring), That we respectfully urge and peti century, culminating with the depression years since 1929; and tion the Congress of the United States and President Franklin D. Whereas the relief measures undertaken during this depressicn Roosevelt to pass legislation specifically known as H. R. 3759, pro period, though timely and effective for relief, are not designed to viding for cooperation by Federal and State agencies as to the : achieve substantial and permanent rehabilitation of the region necessary surveys and investigations for such parkway; and be it , which will make it self-supporting to the same degree as other por further tions of the State; and Resolved, That the secretary of the State be instructed to send , Whereas such rehabilitation is in the interest of the Nation as a copies of this resolution to the Honorable Franklin D. Roose whole as well as the State and the region itself; and velt, President of the United States, the Honorable JOHN GARNER, Whereas the President o<: the United States, through the National Vice President of the United States, the Honorable WILLIAM BANK- , Resources Committee, has directed that an "economic survey for the HEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United i Great Lakes cut-over area" be made, such area consisting of large States, and to each of the Senators and Representatives of the ·' areas in the northern portions of the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, State of Minnesota in the Congress of the United States. as well as Minnesota; and Whereas through such direction the Northern Great Lakes Re The VICE PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate the fol gional Committee of Sixteen has been set up, consisting of four lowing joint resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, which members from each State and four Federal representatives, and such committee has been working d111gently for 8 months in making were referred to the Committee on Finance: plans for the rehabilitation of the region in collaboration with more Assembly Joint Resolution 12 than a hundred associates selected for their special knowledge of conditions in the region, such associates being in part scientists Joint resolution memorializing Congress to amend the Social Se connected with the universities of the three States, in part Federal, curity Act so as to repeal the maximum contribution of $15 for State, and local officials, and in part leading citizens from the three each old-age pensioner to the States States; and Whereas the Congress of the United States has enacted the Social Whereas the report of the Northern Lakes States Regional Com Security Act providing for aid to the aged and other needy persons, mittee, outlining a plan for such rehabilitation, which is nearing and therein further provided for payments to the . States of $15 completion and about to be published and issued by the National for each aged perscn, conditioned upon the State's passing legisla Resources Committee, recommends a program for rehabilitation tion conforming to the requirements of such act, and matching in based on the encouragement of agriculture in the region through proportion the required funds of the United States; and aids and measures which w111 tend to stimulate individual self Whereas these provisions afford a maximum sum of $30 for each help and initiative, the restoration of the original great forest re old-age pensioner unless the State is willing to assume and pay the source both for its own sake and as a means of providing useful entire amount above the contribution of $15 of the United States; employment within the region during the period of rehabllitation, and the more extensive development of the recreational possibilities, and Whereas it is believed that this sum is inadequate for eligible the ut111zation of all industrial opportunities; and persons ln not permitting bare sustenance, and that the Federal Whereas it appears that such a program embodies the considered Government should encourage the States to grant proper and sum opinion of those who have been most intimately concerned with clent aids for aged person.;; in accordance with American ideals and the problems of the region, with many years of experience, and is American standards by matching the contributions of the State capable of making progress toward the complete rehabilitation without limitation as to amount; and which is necessary, and will be effective if persevered in; and Whereas the aged people should be enabled to live in decency and Whereas the report recommending such a program is the direct health and be relieved of their fears and miseries: Now, therefore, result of the expressed direction of the President of the United be it States: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the assembly (the senate concurring), ·That the Resolved by the Senate of Minnesota (the house of representa Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully memorializes the tives concurring), That this Legislature of Minnesota memorialize Congress of the United States to amend the Social Security Act by the President and Congress of the United States to take cognizance removing the limitation of $15 for each such aged person as the of the report of the Northern Lakes States Regional Committee and maximum Federal contribution so as to enable the Federal Gov to enact such legislation, supported by adequate financial provisions, ernment to match any contribution of a State without restriction as as may be necessary to aid the State and local governments and the to amount; be it further people of the region 1n rehabilitating the Great Lakes cut-over area; Resolved, That properly attested copies of this resolution be be it further transmitted to the President of the United States, to both Houses of Resolved, That attested copies of this resolution be sent to the the Congress of the United States, and to each Wisconsin Member President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, to each thereof. Member in Congress from the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, to the Governors of such States, and to each house of Assembly Joint Resolution 18 the Legislatures of Michigan and Wisconsin. Joint resolution memorializing the Congress of the United States The VICE PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate the to enact legislation removing the reciprocal exemption from tax following concurrent resolution of the Legislature of Minne on income of municipal, State, and Federal employees Whereas the reciprocal-tax exemption claimed· by and granted sota, which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands to employees of the municipal, State, and Federal Governments was and Surveys: formerly an inequity of no great importance as their numbers and Concurrent Resolution 21 salaries were then relatively small; but with the astonishing in Concurrent resolution memorializing the Congress of the United crease in the vast army of such employees with an estimated income States to pass legislation providing for cooperation by Federal in excess of $3,000,000,000 such tax exemption has become an alarm and State agencies as to the necessary surveys and investigations ing defect in the fiscal system of our governmental units which for the proposed Mississippi River Parkway have increasingly relied upon graduated income taxes for their Whereas the Mississippi River for nearly 400 years from the days revenues; and of Indian trails and discovery routes has been used as a natural Whereas the reciprocal exemption of salaries of governmental em travel route of increasing historic, scenic, and general importance; ployees has created a vast reservoir of tax-exempt income in the and possession of people who should equitably bear their just propor Whereas interstate north and south travel trade from the 10 tion of governmental expenses and relief costs; and States bordering on the Mississippi River, containing approximately Whereas the removal of such exemptions should produce much 30,000,000 people, constituting one-fourth of the population of added and needed income on the basis of present tax laws to both the Nation, with over 5,000,000 passenger automobiles, is continu State and Federal Governments; and ally increasing, due to greater industrial leisure and tourist Whereas the time has come in a democracy that those people who attractions; and obtain their livelihood from the Government should receive the Whereas the recent creation of splendid lakes by construction same treatment as those working for private employers, and should of 26 locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River, the moderni be terminated as a matter of principle and not of politics; and zation of the levees along the river, and the great variety of its Whereas the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the climate, agricu~tural, mineral, and industrial developments pro United States, approved in 1913, expressly authorized the Congress vide greater Nation-wide travel inducements than ever before of the United States "to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from along the Mississippi River; and whatever source derived," should now authorize the taxation of all Whereas the demands and needs for a national park and rural income derived from municipal, State, and Federal Governments: trunk parkway through the Mississippi Valley with connections Now, therefore, be it for future branch tributary valley parkways and public areas for Resolved by the assembly (the senate concurring), That this recreational purposes as a part of the Nation-wide parkway sys legislature memorializes the Congress of the United States to enact tem justify the authorization of this particular parkway as timely; legislation removing the reciprocal-tax exempt ion on Government and salaries of all kinds, and conferring powers on the State with respect Whereas it is proposed to construct this parkway from the to Federal salaries and powers to the Federal Government with re source of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca in Itasca State spect to State and local governmental salaries; be it further Park, Minn., to the mouth of the Mississippi in the Gulf of Mex Resolved, That properly attested copies of this resolution be sent ico, and the State of Minnesota is, therefore, one of the terminals to the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, ()f the proposed parkway: Now, therefore, be it and to each Wisconsin Member thereof. 4644 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE APRIL 24 The VICE PRESIDENT also laid before the Senate the oil tax on June 30, 1939, which was referred to the Committee following communication and resolution of the House of on Finance. Representatives of Puerto Rico, which was referred to the He also laid before the Senate a resolution of the Bridge Committee on Agriculture and Forestry: port (Conn.) Council of Catholic Women, condemning war HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PUERTO RICO, and its attendant propaganda, and urging that the Congress San Juan, P. R., April 15, 1939. do not relinquish its constitutional rights pertaining to war Hon. JoHN N. GARNER, and neutrality, which was referred to the Committee on President of the Senate, Congress of the United States, Washington, D. C. Foreign Relations. SIR: The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico approved He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the today, by unanimous vote, the following resolution, introduced by thirty-ninth council of the Ohio Society, United States the Speaker, Hon. Miguel A. Garcia Mendez: Daughters of 1812, favoring the deportation of all undesirable "Resolution requesting from the Congress of the United States of · America the appropriation of sufficient funds to establiEh a aliens illegally in the United States, which was referred to tropical forest experiment station in the island of Puerto Rico the Committee on Immigration. "Whereas the Congress and the President of the United States He also laid before the Senate petitions of sundry citizens of America, through the passage and approval of the McSweeney of the States of Alabama, Nebraska, and New York, favoring McNary Act of May 1928 (Public, No. 466, 70th Cong.), authorized the establishment of a tropical forest experiment station in the the enactment of the so-called Wagner-Van Nuys-Capper West Indies; antilynching bill, which were referred to the Committee on "Whereas such a forest experiment station would fill a distinct the Judiciary. need and would prove to be a valuable supplement to the Federal and insular government agencies now engaged in working on agri He also laid before the Senate a resolution of the Maryland cultural and land-use problems in Puerto Rico; Chapter, International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, fa "Whereas the original forests of Puerto Rico have long ago dis voring the return and stationing of the frigate Constellation appeared and the government of Puerto Rico is now engaged in at the port of Baltimore, Md., which was referred to the reforestation on a large scale; "Whereas a forest experiment station would materially assist in Committee on Naval Affairs. solving a critical and imminent problem now confronting the for . Mr. MEAD presented a memorial of sundry citizens of est program of the island of Puerto Rico: Now, therefore, be it Buffalo, N. Y., remonstrating against the enactment of any "Resolved by the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, That the government of Puerto Rico thoroughly endorses the contem neutrality legislation which might involve the United States plated establishment and requests that the Congress of the United in any foreign entanglement or war, which was referred to States of America will appropriate sufficient money during the the Committee on Foreign Relations. present session of Congress, to insure the early establishment of such forest experiment station in the island." Mr. TYDINGS presented a petition of sundry citizens Respectfully,
Tongr(Sstonal R(Cord Proceedings and DEBATES of T.HE 76Th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
