1568 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE January 30 NOMINATIONS committee of conference on the disagree expediting consideration of this pressing Executive nominations received by the ing votes of the two Houses on the problem. Senate January 30 (legislative day of amendments of the Senate to the bill In order that the principal provisions January 16), 1956: (H. R. 7871) entitled "An act to amend of the bill may be appreciated, I am the Small Business Act of 1953.'' · COURT OF MILITARY .APPEALS including herewith for the RECORD a Homer Ferguson, of Michigan, to be a copy of the letter of January 25, 1956, judge of the Court of Military Appeals for DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TRANS to you from Mr. Samuel Spencer, Presi the remainder of the term expiring May 1, PORTATION SERVICE dent, Board of Commissioners, outlining 1956, vice Paul W. Brosman, deceased. the nature of the legislation they have Homer Ferguson, of Michigan, to be a Mr. HARRIS~ Mr. Speaker, I ask proposed: judge of the Court of Military Appeals for unanimous consent to address the House the term of 15 years expiring May 1, ~971. for 1 minute, to revise and extend my re GOVERNMENT OF THE . DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, marks, and to include a letter. EXECUTIVE OFFICES, CONFIRMATIONS The $PEAKER. Is there objection to Washington, v: C., January 25, 1955. the request of the gentleman from Hon. SAM RAYBURN, Executive nominations confirmed by Arkansas? The Speaker of the House the Senate January 30 (legislative day of There was no objection. of Representatives, January 16), 1956: Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, a few Washington, D. C. DEAR SPEAKER RAYBURN: In my letter of FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM days ago the Board of Commissioners William Mcchesney Martin, Jr., of New December 30, 1955, to Congressman JOHN L. of the District of Columbia sent a letter McMILLAN, chairman of the Committee on York, to be a member of the Board of Gover to you transmitting a draft of a bill nors of the Federal Reserve System, for a term the District of Columl;>ia of the House of of 14 years from February 1, 1956. which they had prepared, providing for Representatives, reporting on the develop the creation of a transit authority that ments which had taken place in the matter DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND next August would succeed to all of the of furnishing mass transportation in the WELFARE franchise rights presently exercised in District of Columbia since the enactment Herold Christian Hunt, of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia by the Capital of Public Law 389, 84th Congress, approved to be Under Secretary of Health, Education, August 14, 1955, I informed him that the and Welfare. Transit Co. District Commissioners were preparing leg Under the rules, Mr. Speaker, you re islation for the creation of a transit au THE TAX COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ferred it to the House Committee on thority in the Washington metropolitan area John Edward Mulroney, of Iowa, to be a Interstate and Foreign Commerce for to provide mass transportation service be judge of the Tax Court of the United States consideration. Accordingly, as chairman ginning on August 15, 1956. I have the honor for the unexpired term of 12 years from June to transmit herewith a draft of the recom 2, 1944. of the Subcommittee on Transportation mended legislation. TREASURY DEPARTMENT and Communications of the Interstate The enclosed draft of legislation has been S. Power Warren, of Colorado, to be assayer and Foreign Commerce Committee, I am prepared by the District Commissioners in of the mint of the United States at Denver, today introducing the bill as requested by collaboration with the Public Utilities Com Colo. the District Commissioners. mission, and with the assistance of Messrs. COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS Mr. Speaker, we are all aware of the Portland Merrill and Walter Cleave of Blyth Frederick C. Peters, of Pennsylvania, to be importance of this problem and of the & Co., bankers, and Mr. John Mitchell, attor collector of customs for customs collection complications involved. The Congress ney, of the firm of Caldwell, Marshall, Trim district No. 11, with headquarters at Phila- had this difficult problem in the last ble & Mitchell, of New York City. The proposed legislation would create a delphia, Pa. · session as a result of an unsettled strike Wilbert H. Beachy, of Pennsylvania, to be Transit Authority which would succeed on collector of customs for customs collection which deprived the citizens of the Dis August 15, 1956, to all of the franchise rights district No. 12, with headquarters at Pitts trict of transportation so vital to the presently exercised by the Capital Transit burgh, Pa, continued conduct of their affairs. Co. in the District of Columbia and which The Congress thought it had resolved would be authorized to extend its service •• ...... -.--- the problem when it passed legislation within the metropolitan area by agreement with the jurisdictions concerned outside the giving certain authority to the Commis District 'Of Columbia. The Authority is given HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sioners which the Commissioners had re the exclusive right to provide mass trans quested. Under the legislation the Com portation service in the District of Columbia, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1956 missioners succeeded in restoring transit except for franchise rights of passenger car The House met at 12 o'clock noon. operations, but they have been unsuc riers (other than Capital Transit Co.), exist cessful in their negotiations for a succes ing on the date of the enactment of this The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, act. The act provides further that the In D. D., offered the following prayer: sor to Capital Transit Co. Thus, the major issue of assured continued transit terstate Commerce Commission shall not au thorize additional interstate service within Eternal and ever-blessed God, daily facilities for the people of the District· the Washington metropolitan area when such Thou art challenging us with the notle is still unsettled. s_ervice is in competition with the service task of seeking and striving for the The Commission_ers' .authority to re r.end~red by the Authority, without the ap spiritual unity of all mankind. solve the problem, under the legislation: proval of the Authority. It also provides that Show us how we may put forth a more passed during the last session, expires the A-uthori-ty shall not operate its inter heroic effort in behalf of building a so this coming August 14, without any pro state service in competition with existing cial order of friendship and fraternity. gram as yet having been worked out pro-· services of other systems. May the welfare and happiness of· The powers of the Authority would be vi ding for continued transportation. vested in a board of 5 directors appointed every member of the human family be· Therefo i-:e, we have receiv.ed this pro for 5-year terms so staggered-as to provide our deep personal concern and may we posal. for the appointment cif 1 new director each be partners in establishing good will Our committee has a heavy schedule .year beginning in 1958 . . The compensation among men. of legislative matters before it, a sched of the direct·ors is limited to $3,600 in any Grant that we may be inspired to give ule set up for some time. Notwithstand 1 year of service; except ,in the :first year ourselves unreservedly to the glorious ing this heavY schedule, the committee following the date of organization of the enterprise of world peace. immediately will seek to obtain the re Authority, when an -amount of $5,000 would Hear us in Christ's name. Amen. be allowed. The Qommissioners consider this port·s from the various governmental to be a nominal compensation for citizens The Journal of the proceedings of agencies concerned"as to their views and of the stature for such an authority, and Thursday, January 26, 1956, was read suggestions on -this bill. Usually, it re feel that the primary incentive to service and approved. quires some time to obtain reports which on the board of directors must be a sense o{ are a necessary prerequisite in the con public interest and duty. sideration1of any bill. However, as soon The Authority is granted broad powers to MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE as these reports are received from the create and manage an effective transporta tion system in accordance with sound busi - A message from the Senate,. by Mr. departments and agencies, our commit-· ness practices. It is exempted from laws Ast, one of its clerks, announced that tee will endeavor to work out a schedule and regulations which are designed for the Senate agrees to the report of the of hearings on the bill '\3/'ith the view of normal governmental functions but are too
... - ~ -.i.-...... 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 1569 restrictive for an operation of this kind. Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, it will be delivered in Chicago called for the quar In carrying out its duties the Authority my purpose to take but a few minutes antining of all aggressors. People were would be granted the power of eminent do- of the hour's time allotted to observe the absorbed in domestic affairs-they had main in the Dist:t:ict of Columbia under the 74th birthday of Franklin Delano Roose- not begun to think about their position conditions set forth in the act. velt and then I will gladly yield to as in a world which was becoming danger The Authority would be financed through . its own revenue bonds or other instruments many Members of the House as desire to ous. of its own credit and would not be empow- speak on this same subject. It was not surprising this state of mind ered to pledge the credit of the United Seventy-four years ago today Franklin continued until the invasion of France States or of the District of Columbia. The Delano Roosevelt was born at Hyde Park, and the Netherlands brought the real proposed legislation sets forth in detail the N. Y. Although 11 years have passed ization of total war. Roosevelt knew power of the Authority to issue its own since he departed life from the American that our globe is one world, and from the credit instruments. Because of the impera- scene, the memory of his greatness is beginning he was prepared for the full tive requirement for the Authority to act fresh in our minds. Much has been implications of the truth. promptly in acquiring the necessary proper- f t 32d p · ties to meet its service obligations on August written about the li e of he resi- A war Government in the United 15, 1956, and the impracticability of floating dent of the United States, but I regard States is a stupendous structure, but the a private· bond issue while the cost of these it as a singular honor to pay tribute to mind of Franklin D. Roosevelt ranged . acquisitions are yet unsettled, the act pro- his greatness on the anniversary of his over the entire field of war production vides for a loan of not exceeding $20 million birth. It was my high privilege, and it and management. with interest from the United States Treas- will always remain a great inspiration to He chose his military leaders well and ury to the District of Columbia, which me to know that I served as a Member of supported them with unswerving loyalty. would be advanced by the District to the the 79th Congress while he occupied the Never in our history have our armies and Authority to provide for the initial opera- highest office within the gift and trust tions. It is contemplated that the initial fleets been so ably commanded from the operations would be financed through the and confidence of the American people as very outset of war. President Roosevelt use of this government loan and that this President of these United States. would have been the last to wish that loan would be paid off from the proceeds With each passing year, we become anyone should assert that he was the of private financing as soon as the initial more and more conscious of the world's author of our victories; but he made uncertainties as to the obligations and pros- debt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He them possible through his wise choice of pective earnings of the Authority could be has been enshrined among the great leaders, by his clear understanding of clarified. n:en of all time-a world leader with the basic principles of strategy and by The Authority would be self-regulating in d th bTt t · ld the establishment of schedules, routings, and vision, courage, an e a 1 1 Y O wie his ability to mobilize behind the fighting changes therein and conditions of service, his power as President of this land for forces the full resources of the American and in setting fares· or other fees for service. the good of all mankind. He worked Nation. The Board is directed to establish a suit- mightily for the things he loved. He It has been said that it was one of able organization and to make its own pro- loved people. fate's most tragic ironies that Franklin visions with certain limitations for the History will undoubtedly remember D. Roosevelt was cast in the role of the terms of employment and compensation of Roosevelt as a great war leader, as a re supreme leader of the most powerful cfflcers and employees. former, and as an architect of inter- Nation the world had ever known, en The Authority is not clothed with Govern- national policy. But we cannot forget th gaged in the most tremendous war in ment immunity but is subject to suit, wi his profound understanding of the stra history. For he was a man who loved the provision that notice of injury or dam- tegic needs of every man, woman, and age to persons or property must be given child in this Nation. On his success as a peace, who sought for his countrymen to the Board within 6 months after the and his fellowmen of other nations alleged occurrence if the suit is to be main- leader of his party, hinged his oppor peace, prosperity, brotherhood, and free tained. tunity as a statesman. He was not only dom. The Authority is given the power to issue a Democrat, but he was a politician of The steps he took in building power regulations governing the use of its proper- unusual adroitness. He possessed a high for war were constantly accompanied ties and to set limited penalties for enforce- degree of political skill. He used this ment thereof. It is authorized to initiate magnificent skill to the ultimate end by the clearest insistence upon the pur investigations into matters relating to its that all people might have life . in its pose of the war as the protection and fulfillment of the principles of democ activities. broadcast sense and have it more abun- Because of the urgency of preparatory racy. work to enable the Authority to meet its dantly. That insistence was the essence of the operating obligations to begin on August 15, After winning a resounding victory at Four Freedoms attached to the lend 1956, this act would authorize the Board of the polls in 1932, Mr. Roosevelt entered lease proposal of 1941. The same essen Commissioners of the District of Columbia the White House in the darkest hour of to exercise the powers of the Board of Di- the depression, and found it necessary to tial freedoms were fixed in the fighting rectors of the Authority until such time as close the doors of every bank in the purposes of Britain and America in the the Board of Directors of the Authority United States. Then he set about the Atlantic Charter in 1941. In 1944 he could be organized to assume these responsi- initial tasks of recovery and reconstruc advanced from freedoms to rights in the bilities. economic bill of rights which he em The Commissioners of the District of co- tion. The greatest business country in bodied in his January message to Con lumbia and the Public Utilities commission the world was being set on its feet. As a gress on the state of the Union. He re join in recommending the prompt enact- first move toward that tremendous peated that bill o, rights in his speech ment of the enclosed legislation to create a undertaking the people had to be awak Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority ened. They were prepared by their Pres at Soldier Field, Chicago, October 28, to operate mass transit in the District of ident for a new concept of government 1944. It is worth remembering now: Columbia after August 14, 1956. and for the shaping of a national com- The right of a useful and remunerative Section 27 of ~he enclosed bill which has munity. He demonstrated his un- job in the industries or shops or farms or to do with interim financing of the Au~h~r- , bounded belief in America-in its re- mines of the Nation; ity by a Federal loan has been submitted . . The right to earn enough to provide ade to the Bureau of the Budget and the com-- sources and In its future. quate food and clothing and recreation; missioners have been informed that the Actually, Mr. Roosevelt was sailing The right of every farmer to raise and Bureau has no objection to that section a -:: over an uncharted sea. But if the course sell his products at a return which will give presently drafted. he took proved to be wrong, he was ready him and his family a decent living; Sincerely yours, for change. Time and again the Con- The right of every businessman, large and SAMUEL SPENCER, gress was shaken by his convictions- small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom President, Board of Commissioners, but the Nation moved ahead. from unfair competition and domination by District 0 1 Columbia. Roosevelt had been President for more monopolies at home or abroad; The right of every famly to a decent home; than 6 years when the German armies The right to adequate medical care and THE LATE PRESIDENT FRANKLIN marched into Poland. He had foreseen the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good that war in Europe must confront the DELANO ROOSEVELT health; United States with enormous complica- The right to adequate protection from the The SPEAKER. The Chair recog- tions. In October 1937, 12 months be economic fears 0f old age, sickness, accident, nizes the gentleman from California fore the crisis of appeasement, he sound and unemployment; [Mr. DoYLE]. ed a first alarm. An emphatic speech The right to a good education. .,
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1570 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE January 30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is gone·. We have learned that we must live as men, RoosEVELT was on the White House staff and But the task of facing the facts and pre and not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the was called in when the President asked hiS' serving the legacy he gave the world is manger. advisors to confer with him and submit rea ours. We have learned to be citizens of the world, sons why he should run. When the confer members of the human community. . ence was over, Jimmy said: "Are you trying On this anniversary of his birth, may We have learned the simple truth, as Em to kill my father? No man can live through we look to his formulas which have in erson said that "the only way to have a friend three terms in that job." spired Americans to face realities for is to be one." "Jimmy," said a conferee, "he's your father, themselves and to shoulder their respon We can gain no lasting peace if we ap but he belongs to the world." sibilities fearlessly. proach it with suspicion and mistrust-or There is other evidence that members of In 1956 Members of the Congress of the with fear. the family did. not expect or want F. D. R. to United States and all Americans would We can gain it only if we proceed with the submit to more than 8 years of the Presi understanding and the confidence and the dency. do well to linger on the wisdom of the courage which flow from conviction. words President Roosevelt spoke in 1945 :_ In his message to Congress January 4, 1935, he said: The creed of our democracy is that liberty In his message to Congress, January 1, ls acquired and kept by men and women 1939, he said: The test of our progress is not whether we who are strong and self-reliant, and pos The world has grown so small and weapons add more to the abundance of those who sessed of such a wisdom as God gives to man of attack so swift that no nation can be safe have much; it is whether we provide enough kind-men and women who are just and in its will to peace so long as any other for those who have too little. understanding and generous to others-men powerful nation refuses to settle its griev In his address at Dallas, Tex., June 12, and women who are capable of disciplining ances at the council table. themselves-for they are the rulers and they There comes a t ime in the affairs of men 1936, he said: must rule themselves. when they must prepare to defend, not their The net result of monopoly, the net result homes alone, but the tenets of faith and of economic and financial control in the In his message to Congress January 7, humanity on which their churches, their hands of the few, has meant ownership of 1943, he said: governments, and their very civilization are labor as a commodity. It would be inconceivable-it would, in founded. The defense of religion, of de If labor is to be a commodity in the United deed, be sacrilegious-if this Nation and the mocracy, and good faith among nations is States, in the final analysis it means we shall world did not attain some real, lasting good all the same fight. To save one we must now become a nation of boardinghouses instead out of all these efforts and sufferings and m ake up our minds to save all. of a nation of homes. bloodshed and death. The · men in our If our people ever submit to that, they Armed Forces want a lasting peace and, In his address to the Democratic Na will have said goodbye to their historic free equally, they want permanent employment tional Convention, July 9, 1940, he said: dom. Men do not fight .for boardinghouses. for themselves, their families and their We face one of the great choices of history. They will fight for their .homes. neighbors when they are mustered out at It is not alone a choice of government by In his second inaugural address, Jan the end of the war. the people versus dictatorship. uary 20, 1937, he said: We fight to retain a great past-and we It is not alone a choice of freedom versus fight to gain a greater future. Today the slavery. Here is the challenge to our democracy~ United Nations ar~ the mightiest coalition It is not alone a choice between moving In this Nation I see tens of millions of its in history. They can and must remain forward and falling back. citizens-a substantial part of its whole pop united for the maintenance of the peace by It is all of these rolled into one. ulation-who at this very moment are denied preventing any attempt to rearm in Ger It is the continuance of civilization as we the greater part of what the very lowest many, in Japan, in Italy, or in any other know it versus the ultimate destruction of all standards of today call the necessities of nation that seeks to violate the 10th Com that we have held dear-religion against life. mandment-"Thou shalt not covet." godlessness; the ideal of justice against the I see miliions of families trying to live on practice of force; moral decency versus the incomes so meager that the pall of family In his speech accepting the Presiden firing squad; courage to speak out, and to act, disaster hangs over them day by day. tial nomination on July 11, 1944, he versus the false lullaby of appeasement. I see millions whose daily lives in city and said: on farm continue under conditions labeled In Washington, D. C., October 24, 1934, indecent by a so-called polite society half To win this war wholeheartedly, unequivo he said: a century ago. cally and as quickly as we can is our task I see millions denied education, recreation, of the first importance. To win this war in I need not tell you that true wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out and the opportunity to better their lot and such a way that there be no further world the lot of their children. I see millions wars in the foreseeable future is our second of the disposition of men to create and to distribute the good things of life with rising lacking the means to buy the products of objective. To provig.e occupations, and to farm and factory anct by their poverty de provide a decent standard of living for our standard of living. Wealth grows when men cooperate; but it stagnates in an atmos nying work and productiveness to many men in the Armed Forces after the war, and other millions. :for all Americans, are the final objectives. phere of misunderstanding and misrepre sentation. I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill And, in his last address to Congress, Here, in America, the material means are clad, 111-nourished. March 1, 1945, he said: at hand for the growth of true wealth. It In his speech at Chicago, October 28, is in the spirit of American institutions that For the second time in the lives of most 1944, he said: of us, this generation is face to face with wealth should come as the reward of hard labor-hard labor, I repeat-of mind and I believe in free enterprise-and always the objective of preventing wars. To meet have. I believe in the profit system-and al that objective, the nations of the world will hand, That is a pretty good definition of what we call the profit system. Its real ful ways have. I believe that private enterprise either have a plan or .they will not. The can give full employment to our people. If groundwork of a plan has now been fur fillment comes in the geneml recognition of the rights of each factor of the community. anyone feels that my faith in ,our ability to nished, and has been submitted to humanity provide 60 million peacetime jobs is fan for discussion and decision. · It is not in the spirit of partisans, but it is in the spirit of partners, that America has tastic, let him remember that some people No plan is perfect. Whatever is adopted at progressed. thought the same thing about my demand in San Francisco will doubtless have to be 1940 for 50,000 airplanes. I believe in excep amended time and again over the years, just In our midst this day as a distin tional rewards for innovation, skill, and risk as our own Constitution has been. guished Member of this House from my taking by business. I am confident that the Congress and the native State of California sits JAMES American people will accept the results of In his address at Roanoke Island, Au this conference as the beginning of a perma RoosEVELT, a distinguished son of the gust 18, 1937, he said: nent structure of peace upon which we can great American whose birthday we com My anchor is democracy-and more de begin to build, under God, that better world memorate today. And because he is mocracy. And, my friends, I am of the firm in which our children and grandchildren, with us as a Member I relate an incident belief that the Nation, by an overwhelming yours and mine, the children and grandchil about him while his father, Franklin majority supports my opposition to the vest dren of the whole world must live and can Delano Roosevelt, was President and ing of supreme power in the hands of any live. while the Roosevelt family lived at the class, numerous but select. In his fourth inaugural address on White House, as stated by Clark Kin I seek no change in the form of American naird in his book, The Real F. D. R., and Government. Majority rule must be pre January 20, 1945, he said: served as the safeguard of both liberty and We have learned that we cannot live as published by the Citadel Press in 1945 civilization. alone, at peace; that our own well-being is at page 17 thereof the editor wrote: Under it property can be secured; under i_t dependent upon the well-being of other na In 1940, when demands rose within the abuses can end; under it order can be main tions, far away. party for him to run for a third term, JAMES tained-and all this for the simple, cogent 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 1571 reason that to the average of our citizenship and years into a brighter day of hope of political affiliation, to pause at this can be brought a life of greater opportunity, and well-being. He lifted the hopes not moment in our history and reflect upon of greater security, of greater happiness. only of our Nation, but of the world and the significant contributions he made; In his message to Congress, January 6, his place in history was never more de- how he served his country in the dread 1941, he said: served or earned. times of depression and during the There is nothing mysterious about the Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, I would tragedy of the World War; how he gave foundations of a healthy and strong democ- like to join the other Members of the courage to the people; and how, through racy. The basic things expected by our House of Representatives in paying trib that leadership, he saved the very struc people of their political and economic sys- ute to the memory of a great and unfor- ture of this country's democracy. . terns are simple. They are: gotten American - Franklin Delano Today the country goes forward in Equality of opportunity for youth and for Roosevelt. It is fitting that on this an- the heritage bequeathed to us by his others. Jobs for those who can work. niversary of his birthday we should pay administration. Much of what was Security for those who need it. our respects to the man who, probably called heresy in his lifetime has now The ending of special privilege for the few. more than anyone else in our history, become unmistakably part of the Ameri The preservation of civil liberties for all. epitomized the strength and greatness can way of life. The bulk of the legisla The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific of the American Nation. It was his own tion enacted during his administration progress in a wider and constantly rising personal courage and vision which gave . has remained on our books. regardless standard of living. direction to a floundering ship of state of the party in power. And, in his address to Democratic in the dark days of the depression and He was loved throughout the world, Party workers October 5, 1944, he said: which stood as a tower of strength dur- and I recall, as do all of you, the grief, The right to vote must be open to our citi- ing the war years. the personal grief, that shook the coun zens irrespective of race, color, or creed, with- Seldom has there been a man who try and the friends of our country at out tax or artificial restriction of any kind. 1 knew and understood so well the com his passing. The sooner we get to that basis of political mon man and the role of the Federal He preserved our traditions because equality, the better it will be for the country Government in providing for his general he understood tradition, understood as a whole. welfare. It was Franklin Roosevelt's what is flexible and courageous, and that The written record from all peoples philosophy of government and politics very flexibility and that very courage and all nations of the world spoke elo- which enabled the New Deal to help the are the underlying principles which led quently in eulogies of this great Ameri- American people pull themselves up from us from the status of colonies to the can. But, perhaps the eulogy most fre- the mire of a depression. It was a phi stature of world leadership. And these quently thought of as perhaps the losophy which did not abhor govern are the qualities· that bid us not to stand greatest was by his great friend, Winston ment, but which saw in it a force for ·still, not to be fearful, but to move for Churchill on April 17, 1945, in the House good rather than a mere necessary evil. ward in keeping with the urgency of of Commons when Mr. Churchill was It was this philosophy, coupled with un our needs. Prime Minister. At that time on the flinching courage in carrying out his pro Our country is stronger today because floor of the House of Commons Prime gram, that puts us in Franklin Roose that solid foundation was reinforced by Minister Churchill said of him: velt's debt forever. No one has put it the vision and imagination and courage He was the greatest American friend we better than one of his former political of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. No coun have ever known, and the greatest champion opponents, former Gov. Alf Landon, who try's strength is built overnight. The of freedom who has ever brought help and said:. testimony which demands we give honor comfort from the new world to the old. I to Franklin Delano Roosevelt is before conceived an admiration for him as a states- I think his greatest accomplishment was us, the testimony of the fearful years man, a man of affairs, and as a war leader. giving leadership to the awakening of the when hunger and chaos threatened to I felt the utmost confidence in his upright, Amercan people to a new sense of civic con engulf us and the testimony of the mag inspiring charac~er and outlook, and a per- sciousness in dealing with the social and sonal regard and affection beyond my power economic problems of an expanding, com- . nificent unity and power of the country to express today. It is a loss, indeed a bitter plex industrial society. in the ·conduct of war. There is a memorial to Franklin loss, to humanity that these heartbeats are Not everyone agreed with Franklin st Delano Roosevelt in the confidence with illed forever. Roosevelt's philosophy. Like every great which this country can face the future. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent man in history he was as well known for There is a memorial to Franklin Delano that all Members may be permitted to his enemies as for his friends. But in Roosevelt each time we recognize that extend their remarks at this point in the four unprecedented elections a hundred there is nothing to "fear but fear itself." RECORD. million of the latter outnumbered the Mr. RHODES of Pennsylvania. Mr. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to former many fold. All the flowing words Speaker, I join my colleagues in paying the request of the gentleman from Cali- and phrases we can put forth today will tribute to our late beloved President, f ornia? never measure up to this tribute paid Franklin D. Roosevelt on this, the 74th There was no objection. this man by the American people while anniversary of his birth. · Mr. EVINS. Mr. Speaker, although he lived. They saw in him a leader em It is difficult to measure in historical we are aware of the fact that Franklin bodying their hopes and dreams of a terms the extent of the great contribu Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest better life and a brighter tomorrow. The tion which Franklin Roosevelt made to Presidents this Nation has had-and one American people understood the man the welfare of the American people. We who stands revered throughout the free who wrote the day he died: remember well his clear voice, reassur world-it is most interesting to note that The only limit to our realization of to ing us in the depths of depression and in a recent impartial survey of the pub- morrow will be our doubts of today. Let us despair, urging all Americans to remain lie and the press the three greatest Pres- move forward with strong and active faith. calm and steadfast in the belief that our idents were listed as Washington, Lin- Neither the man who wrote them nor shattered economy could be rebuilt from coin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. the works will ever be forgotten. There the ruin to which it had fallen in those In the listing of our greateSt Presi- in a sentence is the greatness of Frank days of crisis. dents the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt Under the leadership of Franklin is invariably included. His place in our lin Roosevelt; and in this Nation, as well. · We would all do well to remember his Roosevelt, great social and economic re history as one of our greatest Presidents last words and apply them to our con- forms were established. Millions of is clearly and unmistakably established. siderations of the great domestic and Americans returned to their jobs. Our From the tragic days of the depression, ·foreign problems facing us today, economy was rejuvenated. Emergency when farms were being foreclosed on relief and public-works projects were set every hand and businesses closing their Franklin Roosevelt's life is not a mere up. Social security and unemployment doors, through victory in time of the memory to be honored once a year. It compensation programs were enacted in greatest threat our Nation has known- is a guidepost lighting our way to a bet to law. Labor was given the right to or in World War II-and into a period of ter and fuller life for all mankind. ganize and bargain collectively. A farm stability and prosperity-the name of Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, on the program was established. Securities and Franklin D. Roosevelt stands out. He birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt exchange practices were brought under lead our Nation in her most trying days it would be well for all of us, regardless public regulation. A reciprocal-trade 1572 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE January 30 program and fair-labor standards legis the immortal Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hyde Park, one of the most beautiful lation was enacted, along with many Franklin D. Roosevelt's memory and places that I ever saw for the interment other milestones in his program to. al spirit will always live. It will always of a human being. One of the most im leviate the effects of the depression. live in the heart and mind of the aver pressive things to me was that on that Franklin Roosevelt's dynamic New Deal age person, whether of our country or of long, all-night trip, at every crossroads, program paved the way for a brighter any other country, because he symbol every village, every hamlet, every town, and more secure future for all Ameri ized those great things that epitomized and every city, as that funeral train cans. the ideals of the average person. In my passed through, there were vast throngs As war clouds gathered in the world opinion, Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of people standing there, openly weeping, and dictators began their oppression of of the foremost constructive figures of as the remains of their friend passed by. free peoples in other nations, Franklin the world's history and always will be. So it is fitting and proper that we Roosevelt took the necessary steps to pre As the other day we paused to pay trib should pay this brief tribute on this pare our Nation in the defense of our ute to another one of our former late occasion. cherished way of life. His understand Presidents, William McKinley, so is it Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield to ing and devotion to the needs and desires well that we pause today to pay tribute the gentleman from Georgia. of our people during the depression was to not only one of our greatest Presi Mr. PRESTON. Mr. Speaker, 74 equaled by his courageous leadership of dents but one of the greatest figures of years ago there was born to a wealthy our country in time of war and interna all time in the known history of man, New York family a son. This lusty in tional crisis. The combined strain of de Franklin D. Roosevelt. fant, born into the lap of luxury and pression and war finally exacted its toll It was my pleasure to work shoulder reared in an atmosphere of abundance and Franklin Roosevelt succumbed pre to shoulder with him during the years that is known to few of us, became in maturely on the eve of our triumphant that he was President of the United due course the foremost champion of the victory over the forces of totalitarian States. I did so because I believed in his common man that this century has pro aggression. philosophy. duced. Indeed, few men have been pro On this occasion we can best com His love of the average person was duced by any century who equal Frank memorate his birthday by rededicating noticeable. I think the finest tribute lin Delano Roosevelt, whose birthday we ourselves to continue the fight for his that was paid him upon his death ap celebrate today. peared in a newspapEr, by some person timeless humanitarian goals of world I mention his wealthy heritage be peace and by renewing our efforts to unnamed, who said: cause it is rare that any individual who achieve the . objectives of full employ He must have been a great man because, has been so far removed from want and ment and economic abundance for the when I heard of his death, the tears came need himself dedicates his life to im average American citizen whom Frank to my eyes. lin Roosevelt loved and whose interests proving the lot of the common man. We he so vigorously championed. So we pay tribute today to Franklin have all seen and heard scores of men Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, D. Roosevelt, the man. We pay tribute who profess their deep concern for tlie I join with my colleagues in tribute to to his memory as Franldin D. Roosevelt, rank and file, but none of us have seen one of the great men of history, a man the President. Greater than that, we any man accomplish for the poor, the whose courage and example will be re pay tribute to the memory of Franklin oppressed, and the downtrodden what membered throughout the centuries. D. Roosevelt who will always be remem Franklin D. Roosevelt achieved. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took bered in history as one of the greatest How well do I remember the desperate the helm we were sailing in troubled constructive figures of all time. plight of our Nation when his inspired waters which threatened us with ship Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield to hand took over the reins of our Govern wreck. He steered us into the calm sun the gentleman from Tennessee. ment in 1933. How deeply is engraved lit waters of a new day. · Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I deem on my mind the sight of the farmers and Tonight throughout the Nation people it quite a distinguished honor to join business people of my small Georgia will be gathering to pay tribute to his with my colleagues in paying brief but town, who, in too many instances were statesmanship as well as to that smiling very sincere tribute to the life, character, unable to buy for their families the food indomitable courage which lifted him in and public service of Hon. Franklin D. they needed and the clothes they re his own life above physical handicap. Roosevelt. It was-my privilege to cherish quired to maintain a meager existence. In life we followed him when he a very warm friendship with him and to As a young lawyer, I was shocked at guided us from the darkness of the work very closely with him throughout the seeming callousness of the fore wilderness of despair into the sunlight of his administrations. I believe· it can be closures, the evictions, the dispossession a new day. His spirit remains to inspire truly said that his heart beat in tune of the people in my rural community, us to conquer new world dangers and to with the interest and the welfare of the Verily, even hope was almost gone when guide us through a maze of perplexities masses of our people and that he enjoyed on the steps of this same Capitol this as we go on and on and on in the task a degree of confidence, respect, and gen scion of great wealth took his s~lemn of broadening the horizons for all man uine affection of our people and the peo.:. oath as President of this desperate Na kind. ple throughout the world unsurpassed in tion. Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the annals of history. Of course, the Reconstruction· Finance the distinguished majority leader, the It is my conviction that when the his Corporation, the Federal Home Loan gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. torian comes to record the history of his Bank Board, and other devices had been McCORMACK]. administrations, and especially the his instituted in an effort to relieve the crisis Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, as toric 100 days at the beginning of his that was shaking this Nation to its foun we study and view history, we find that administration, there will be found more dations. These institutions had been there are two lines of outstanding per material out of which to fashion the his bailing out the great railroads, the bank sonages recorded therein. One line of tory of this country than in any similar ing empires, and other huge corpora persons who have made great construc period in all time. tions, but the farmers, the homeowners, tive contributions to the progress of It was my privilege to attend many the small-business people, the investing mankind and whom I term the "con conferences with him and to observe the public were without any semblance of structive figures" in history, and the great courage and the matchless leader shelter from the storm of adversity that other line, those who are "destructive ship that he exhibited on all occasions. crushed them to earth. figures." The list is not so large either I believe it can be truly said that he stood In a comparatively brief time, under way, but it is· a list that those of us who out in bold relief as one of the greatest the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt have studied history are aware exists. statesmen of all time. , hope replaced fear and panic. Homes Those who have contributed, as history It is, indeed, f.tting and proper that were saved, farms were restored. The records to the progress of mankind, are we should pause on this occasion, the farmers' income began to rise. People the constructive figures, those who dur anniversary of his birth, and pay brief who for months had had no paycheck ing their lifetimes gave leadership of and sincere tribute to his memory. were given work. progress of mankind and not of the de It was my privilege to be a member of The panic was gone. This Govern .struction of mankind. And, among the the funeral committee that traveled with ment's great energy was devoted to great constructive figures of history is his remains to his last resting place in marshaling the country's vast resources 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 1573 to heal the scars of the great d_epression always be found in the hearts of his so now he summoned the Nation to do that had threatened its very existence. grateful countrymen. A memory ever battle with the scourge with which it But neither my words, nor anyone's green, nurtured forever by the fruits of was afflicted. From his own spirit, he words, even though they be graven on his splendid accomplishment in behalf infused courage into the whole Nation. stone will serve properly to honor this of our so long forgotten man. Who can for get the new thrill of hope great American. Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield to that coursed through the Nation when His works are his own most enduring the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. they heard the new President's words? memorial. Over this land stretch more ALBERT). Here was a man who would act-a man than 4 million miles of REA power lines Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, today is who would exhaust all his energies to bringing blessed light and current to al a memorable date. On this day, 74 years alleviate the people's suffering. Those most 20 million rural Americans. With ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. first 100 days showed the mettle and the out the inspired leadership of Franklin Our country has been blessed with some spirit of the man. Much was done in Roosevelt whose courage and vision in great Presidents. Especially in our mo haste but those days showed the philoso augurated this vast movement to elec ments of crisis, providence has provided phy of the man; Government was not trify rural America, our millions of us with great men to guide us. There are going to stand by while the wealth of the countrymen would have been deprived true giants among our Presidents: Wash Nation was dissipated. Business was to of this blessing for added generations. ington, who led our armies to victory be revived, the farmer. aided, labor be put Today millions of Americans are en and then accepted the unanimous call to back to work and given the opportunity joying a secure old age, reaping the the Presidency until the new Constitu to earn a fair wage. From that day on, benefits of the social-security system tion was firmly established; Jefferson, there has no longer been a "forgotten that was instituted by Franklin D. the philosopher of democracy; and Jack man" in American society. Roosevelt over the determined opposi son, who led the common people in their Those hundred days began a new era tion of entrenched interests. These so struggle. The emergence of a Lincoln in American history. Since that time, cial-security benefits, made possible in during our greatest crisis, when the fab President and Congress have accepted large measure by the investment of the ric of our national existence was almost the responsibility for ensuring that the workers themselves of portions of their rent in twain, encourages us to see a conditions for a sound economy exist. wages, dispel the specter of want that for special destiny in our national life. There were no antibusiness measures so long haunted the great body of Ameri The man wltose anniversary we honor far from it. The great achievement can workers. today has taken his place securely among of the period was to create an economy Another segment of the population, those great men in our history. He was in which free private enterprise could the investing public is no longer subject inaugurated in the midst of the great.est flourish. The permanent achievements to the marauding tactics of willful greed peacetime crisis of our history, and he of the Roosevelt administrations come and avarice which fleeced so many thou led us back into prosperity; he was Presi from the legislation of a later period but sands for so many years of their hard dent when the Nation was attacked by they were the culmination of the spirit earned savings. The Securities and Ex the greatest alliance of evil that had ever of 1933-of the spirit that tried to create change Commission is another innova sought to enslave the world, and he be a vigorous economy in which all would tion of Franklin Roosevelt's administra came the architect of our victory. He get their due reward. tion. The bill creating this body was died over 10 years ago, but the passage The Roosevelt program of reform and authored and sponsored by our distin of time and the growth of historical per recovery made immeasurable and per guished Speaker, SAM RAYBURN. This spective have not diminished his stature. manent contributions to the American significant law protects the investors No, the eulogies spoken when he died way of life. Who would turn back the from the conscienceless manipulations need no revision now; the passage of the clock to the days before social security? of a greedy few. years has only added to our certainty Who would deny to labor the just rights Let me mention just one more en that 74 years ago today was eborn the of collective bargaining? Who wishes during stone in the lasting monument of greatest man of the 20th century. to deprive the farmer of his fair share achievement of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. Speaker, what shall I say of this of the national income? Under Roose Today millions of Americans know their man who guided the destinies of this velt's leadership an economy on the bank deposits are safe because the Fed Nation for a longer time than anyone in brink of ruin was converted into one in eral Deposit Insurance Corporation its history? Franklin Roosevelt gave us which free enterprise flourishes as in guarantees the safety of these institu unprecedented executive leadership in no other country in the world. We have tions. How swiftly did Franklin Roose peacetime and yet those years were our different party affiliations and dif velt restore to this Nation its confidence unparalleled in legislative accomplish fer amongst ourselves, as I hope we al in its banks which had been so badly ment. The years of Roosevelt's peace ways will, yet there is much in that rec shaken by the thousands of bank fail time administrations witnessed the ord that all of us regardless of party ures of the early thirties. The founda greatest transformation of the Nation's welcome as a blessing to all Americans. tion stone .of this serene confidence is fortunes from ruin back to prosperity. Mr. Speaker, Franklin D. Roosevelt the Federal agency which owes its being On that March day, 23 years ago, when was a great leader but even more, he to Franklin Roosevelt's leadership. he was inaugurated, the country was was a great democratic leader. In an We all know that during his lifetime paralyzed in the grip of a depression age when economic chaos resulted in the and since his death malicious detractors such as it had never experienced before. subversion of democratic liberties in so have sought to blacken Franklin Roose Twelve million were unemployed, farm many countries, he led us out of the velt's name and memory. We also know ers were ruined and daily being evicted chaos while strengthening our liberties. that while this vitriol has stained the from their land, business was at a stand Reconstruction and reform did not come pages of many publications it has not in still, banks were failing with dreadful by executive flat but by the constitu any lasting fashion scarred the monu regularit.y, the soup kitchens, the apple tional process of legislation. The Presi ment of his achievement, nor for one sellers, starvation, human misery on a dent proposed and persuaded, he could passing moment clouded the clear image scale so vast one can only shudder to not command. He proposed measures of his greatness engraved in the hearts remember it. the Corigress did not like-and they were of millions of grateful Americans. The Nation was on the brink of de not passed. The triumph of Roosevelt's Napoleon is reputed to have said: spair. The crisis was desperate and who . leadership was that it was based on tol can envisage the calamities that might eration and consent, that it rested on The memory of my 40 victories in battle have o..vertaken us if constructive meas persuasion and reason. will be forgotten, but my code Napoleon Those powers of persuasion I need not will live for 40 centuries. · ures to alleviate the Nation's plight had not been taken? recall to you, Mr. Speaker, or to any of Franklin Roosevelt, indeed, guided our On inauguration day a new spirit came my colleagues here. Who can forget imperiled Nation successfully through to America. The people had elected a when he used to come into our living the most devastating war the world has fighter-a man not to be dismayed by rooms in his fireside chats and tell us ever known, a feat that history will most disaster but rather to be encouraged and the situation and then convince us of our surely remember. emboldened by it. As he had mastered ability to master it. ''We have nothing But it is my conviction that Franklin the paralysis that had attacked him, to fear but fear itself," is not an isolated Roosevelt's most enduring memorial will through his own great courage and vigor, text from one of his speeches-it is the 1574 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE January 30 message that he gave to America. He The SPEAKER. Is there objection to "(b) Subsection (f) of section 207 of taught us all the confidence that demo the request of the gentleman from such Act is hereby repealed." cratic government can master the dan Kentucky? And the Senate agree to the same. gers that attack it from within and That the Senate recede from its amend- There was no objection. ment to tJ:ie title of the bill. without. The Clerk read the statement. BRENT SPENCE, I have already said that Roosevelt was The conference report and statement PAUL BROWN, a great :fighter. His :first great victory are as follows: WRIGHT PATMAN, was a personal one. With indomitable ALBERT RAINS, courage, he fought and conquered the CONFERENCE REPORT (H. REPT. No. 1685) JESSE P. WOLCOTT, dread disease that attacked him after he The committee of conference on the dis RALPH GAMBLE, had already spent 10 years in the public agreeing votes of the two Houses on the HENRY 0. TALLE, service. After that he fought the pub amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. Managers on the Part of the House. lic's battles. The same courage that sup 7871) to amend the Small Business Act of WAYNE MORSE, 1953, having met, after full and free confer A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, ported him then, now became a constant ence, have agreed to recommend and do JOHN SPARKMAN, inspiration to all others. During the recommend to their respective Houses as HERBERT LEHMAN days of the New Deal, he fought the follows: By WAYNE MORSE, great :fight against poverty and destitu That the House recede from its disagree IRVING IVES tion, but in the last years of his life, he ment to the amendment of the Senate to By WAYNE MORSE, led the Nation in · an even greater the text of the bill and agree to the same J. GLENN BEALL, struggle. with an amendment as follows: In lieu of FREDERICK PAYNE, the matter proposed to be inserted by the Managers on the Part of the Senate. Roosevelt was a great peacetime Presi Senate amendment insert the following: dent; he was an even greater. wartime "That subsection (b) of section 204 of the STATEMENT President. The President was a soldier Small Business Act of 1953, as amended, is The managers on the part of the House· at in that :fight as surely as the private in hereby amended to read as follows: the conference on the disagreeing votes of the ranks, and he was killed in that :fight "'(b) The Administration is authorized to the two Houses on the amendme11ts of the just as surely as so many other brave obtain money from the Treasury of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 7871) to amend the men. United States for use in the performance of Small Business Act of 1953 submit the fol the powers and duties granted to or 'imposed lowing statement in explanation of the effect The ordeal of preparation for the war upon it by law, not to exceed a total of of the action agreed upon by the conferees was immense but the burden of decision $375,000,000 outstanding at any one time. and recommended in the accompanying con was even greater. Our President is the For this purpose appropriations not to ex ference report: Commander in Chief and he must bear ceed $375,000,000 are hereby authorized to The Senate amendment struck out all of the :final responsibility for those ago be niade to a revolving fund in the Treasury. the House bill after the enacting clause and nizing decisions that launch the great Advances shall be made to the Administra inserted a substitute amendment. The con tion from the revolving fund when requested ferees have agreed to a substitute for both campaigns-and send so many to their by the Administration. This revolving fund death. Roosevelt never shrank fro,n the the House bill and the Senate amendment. shall be used for the purposes enumerated Except for clarifying and clerical changes, decision but the toll of suffering that it subsequently in section 207 (a), (b) (1); the following statement explains the differ caused to a man of his warm humanity ( b) ( 2) , and ( b) ( 3) . Not to exceed an ences between the House bill and the substi is u_nimaginable. aggregate of $150,000,000 shall be outstand t.ute agreed to in conference: He led us to the dawn of victory but he ing at any one time for the purposes enu merated in section 207 (a). Not to exceed INCREASED AUTHORIZA,TION FOR DISASTER LOANS was not spared to see the day of peace. an aggregate of $125,000,000 shall be out The Small Business Act now authorizes the He was a :fighter to the end and only standing at any one time for the purposes Small Business Administration to make busi death itself could call him from the enumerated in section 207 (b) (1). Not ness loans up to $150,000,000 outstanding at struggle. to exceed 1n aggregate of $100,000,000 shall any one time and disaster loans up to $25,- Mr. Speaker, my words can never ade be outstanding at any one time for the pur 000,000 outstanding at any one time. The quately express the debt that this Nation poses enumerated in section 207 (b} (2) House bill continued the existing separate and (b) (3). The Administration shall pay limitations for business loans and disaster owes to Franklin Delano Roosevelt nor is into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury loans and raised the authorization for dis it possible for me to depict in full the at the close of each fiscal year, interest on aster loans to $125,000,000. The Senate regard which this country felt for him. the net amount of the cash disbursements amendment merged the two loan authoriza But on this, the anniversary of his birth, from such advances at a rate determined by tions and raised the combined limit for busi it is fitting that we remember him and the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into ness and disaster loans by $35,000,000. The consideration the current average rate on Senate recedes and the conference agree try to express our gratitude that in its outstanding interest-bearing marketable ment follows the provisions of the House bill. days of crisis, in war and in peace, Amer public debt obligations of the United States Because of the many differences between the ica had such a man to lead it. Franklin of comparable maturities.' disaster-loan program and the regular small Roosevelt came of patrician stock but he "SEC. 2. The proviso in paragraph ( 1) of business-loan program, the conferees agreed loved the common people even as they subsection ( b) of section 207 of the Small to continue the separate authorizations, and Business Act of 1953, as amended, is hereby thus emphasize that the regular small-busi loved him. Throughout his long years amended to read as follows: 'ProVided, That ness program should be vigorously pursued, of public service, through three full no such loan including renewals and exten independently of the needs for disaster loans. terms as President and for part of a sions thereof may be made for a period or MAXIMUM MATURITY FOR DISASTER LOANS fourth, he fought with all his great cour periods exceeding twenty years: And pro age and strength for right and decency. ·vided further, That the interest rate on the Under the Small Business Act the maxi Administration's share of loans made under mum maturity is fixed at 10 years for all The years have cooled the heat of parti this paragraph' shall not exceed 3 per centum disaster loans except for certain types of san passion that used to envelop his name per annum;' home loans which may have maturities up and now all of us can rejoice in the good "SEC. 3. (a) Subsection (b) of section 207 to 20 years. The Senate amendment author fortune that gave to America a Franklin of the Small Business Act of 1953, as ized the Small Business Administrator to Delano Roosevelt. , amended, is hereby further amended ( 1) make disaster loans of all types up to terms by striking the word 'and' which follows the of 20 years. The House bill contained no semicolon at the end of the paragraph (3); corresponding provision. The House recedes (2) by striking the period at the end of and the conference substitute follows the AMENDING THE SMALL BUSINESS paragraph ( 4) and inserting in lieu thereof language of the Senate amendment in this ACT OF 1953 '; and'; and (3) by adding at the end of respect. The committee of conference does not expect that all disaster loans will be Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, I call up such subsection a new paragraph as follows: " ' ( 5) to further extend the maturity of made with a term of 20 years. However, the the conference report on the bill (H. R. or renew any loan made pursuant to this committee believes that in many cases a term 7871) to amend the Small Business Act longer than 10 year.s might be desirable for section, beyond the periods stated therein, disaster business loans as well as home loans of 1953, and ask unanimous consent that or any loan transferred to the Administra and in such cases a 20-year maximum term the statement of the managers on the tion pursuant to Reorganization Plan Num should be available under the statute. part of the House be read in lieu of the bered 2 of 1954, for additional periods not to report. · exceed ten years, if such extension or re INTEREST·RATES ON DISASTER LOANS newal will aid in the orderly' liquidation. of The Senate amendment contained a pro The Clerk read the title of the bill. such loan.' vision clarifying tlie Small Business Act as 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 1575 to interest rates on the Federal share of dis tleman from Kentucky [Mr. SPENCE] has The SPEAKER. Is there objection to aster loans under the Act. The amendment given a true summary of what occurred the request of the gentleman from New makes no change in the existing practice of at the conference last Friday afternoon. Jersey? SBA as to interest rates on this Federal share. I may add that all of the House conferees It fixes the maximum interest rate at 3 per There was no objection. cent on SBA direct disaster loans and on were eager to preserve the principle of Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, we can SBA's share ot disaster loans made tn par separation of the two kinds of loans, and do much to insure the peace of the world ticipation with private lenders, including under the provisions of the conference by bringing about a solution to the ex deferred participation loans. For example, report they will be independent. That plosive problem confronting us in the on a deferred participation loan of $1,000, principle was approved in the House bill, Middle East. We must be realistic-we SBA might agree-to assume $500 of the loan and it was sustained by a unanimous vote must be firm for the threat to peace in if requested to do so by the lender. The of the conferees. maximum interest rate on this $500 portion the Middle East is not an isolated one would be 3 percent. The House bill con Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, I move instead it spreads out as a threat to tained no corresponding provision. The the previous question on the conference world peace. The pouring of Commu House recedes, and the conference substitute report. nist arms into this area is but another includes this provision of the Senate amend The previous question was ordered. means of infiltration to spread commu ment. The committee of conference, in ap The SPEAKER. The question is on nism-to enlist supporters who will plying the 3 percent maximum interest rate the conference report. carry out Moscow's orders-a diabolical only to SBNs portion of disaster loans, does The conference report was agreed to, Communist maneuver to upset the pre so with the understanding that private lend and a motion to reconsider was laid on ers will be permitted to participate in such carious balance of power in this area. loans at interest rates in excess of 3 percent the table. The United States must restate and im only in those unusual cases where such par plement its basic principles in such a way ticipation will be advantageous to the bor COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND that there can be no uncertainty as to rower. where it stands. BRENT SPENCE, FOREIGN COMMERCE The State of Israel has committed PA.UL BROWN, , Mr. ROGERS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, itself to the practice and defense of WRIGHT PATMAN, I ask unanimous consent that the chair democracy. It has demonstrated as an ALBERT RAINS, ·man of the Committee on Interstate and JESSE P. WOLCOTT, historical fact that a people inspired RALPH GAMBLE, Foreign Commerce, the gentleman from with a belief can with human skill and HENRY 0. TALLE, Tennessee [Mr. PRIEST], be given until perseverance make grow from the Managers on the Part of the House. midnight to file a report on the bill desert a nation that stands as a strong Journalism still was In Its Infancy when !dent upon the retirement of Enos M. Jones There is so much to say to sum up a hun the Tribune first began operations January in 1916. dred years. What can we say? Shall we be 3, 1856. The date of formal incorporation is MERGER come dull and dreary with figures? Shall we listed as January 1, 1856. In January of 1920 the Altoona Times belabor the columns, and the reader, with Thus, the Altoona Tribune has seen, and merged with the Tribune. Colonel Shoe pile upon pile of statistics? reported, some of the most eventful times maker continued as president with Bert No. A century of recording the life of a of world history, and, certainly, it has re Leopold as vice president. A. D. Houck be community is more than a stack of statistics, ported all of the story of the growth of our came vice president and general manager of more than dusty columns recounting the own community. the job printing plant with A. M. Whitaker chronological events, people and dates, in But, in looking back through our files, · general manager of the newspaper. Charles every local organization and group through only a few of which remain from this early K. Kelley who had been editor of the Times the years. period, we found that many of the great retired. w. H. Schwartz, editor of the Trib We were astounded to read an editorial in events of our Nation had not yet found a une, continued in that post. a paper of 1866 advising the people of Al dramatic spot in history, and were treated as Colonel Shoemaker purchased the Times toona that someday they would need more very prosaic news. interest in January of 1921. different types of industries. The report of President Lincoln's Emanci Adam J. Greer was editor of the Tribune The Tribune urged diversification of in pation Proclamation was published on an in for a number of years in the early days of dustry at the very beginning of the indus side page, and for example, nowhere does that publication. He was succeeded February 1, trial age. familiar title appear in the wording. 1881, by Wesley H. Schwartz, native of Wil And so, we are not looking forward with The meeting of the loyal war governors liamsburg, who resigned as editor in 1922 the vain regrets of old men who lament the. here at the Logan House is regarded as a to be succeeded by A.O. Vorse, J. V. Taylor, J. passing years, and to whom only the old turning point in the Civil War. Imagine Herbert Walker, Henry T. Baldwin, Thomas C. days were good. how we should treat such an event in our Langdon, Robert 0. Price, and James F. We do not delve into the ancient records news columns today. Brantinger who preceded Robert W. Boyer, to bewail the past, nor to shed tears for a But, this simple item appears in the col present managing editor. day that is no more. But, to pull aside the umns of the Tribune, Thursday, September curtain. of time and glance . backward 25, 1862: ' OTHER OFFICIALS momen":;arily can serve to give us a deeper "Meeting of Governors." Other Tribune officials since 1923 have in appreciation of today, and of the life's "On Wednesday, last, the Governors of all cluded Parson H. Crawford, advertising man struggle of the many who have gone faith the loyal States with the exception of the ager; Herbert D. Brauff, business manager; fully through their daily tasks, and, step Governor of Minnesota, who was detained B. I. Levine, advertising manager; and Robert by step and year by year, built a better by Indian difficulties, and Governor Morgan, Keys, advertising manager. First directors world, a better Nation, and a better city. of New York, were present either in person or of the organization headed by Colonel Shoe There are many things to be learned in a by proxy. Their sessions were secret and maker were Enos H. Jones, John D. Meyer, hundred years, whether it is a man or a although a number of reporters have given J. C. Quiggle, J. H. Chatham, Joseph Ar newspaper which has lived them. sketches· of their proceedings, we are inclined buckle, and William F. Gable. Prior to the And only a very amateur philosopher 's to the thought that there was considerable purchase of the Tribune by Shoemaker, E. required to see that the wisdom of the years guesswork about the reports. The conven Warren Everhart was city editor for many point toward a better tomorrow. tion adjourned to meet again, in Washington years and William W. Witherow was circula - That is the thought and the urge which Qity, and the Governors have gone thither." tion manager a long time. John Kelly was drive men and communitiet forward. city editor before being called into the service NO BIG HEADLINES It is the future that counts. For the several years ag.o, and is now stationed in future is the very stuff of life itself. The day of headlines had :riot yet been Germany. Joseph Berger served as city e.di One can go adventuring through the files ushered in by William Randolph Hearst, and tor several years before accepting a posi of the Tribune, and through its pages of the story of the Civil War appears in Tbe tion with the State Department at Wash- history; and one can look with interest back Tripune in a series of brief, sketchy dis"". ington, D. C. · ward through the years, and see the tiny patches, seldom with anything more than a Several years ago Colonel Shoemaker sold village of. Altoona, and its mud streets, and small, one-line 'heading. · his interest in the Altoona '.l'ribune. Col. hear the lonely wail 9f a locomotive's whistle This, of course, was in the day of slow Theodore Carter is now owner. A. B. Crane coming up the valley, heading bravely to-' communications. The telegraph had come is now vice president and publisher; and ward the ramparts of the mountains, and into general use only shortly before the Joseph A. Faul is general manager; John · the newly opened West beyond, but, at the Tribune saw the light of day, and its f\ervice P. NardeJla, business manager. Leo P. Car- · threshold of another century of service, the was limited, and often interrupted by broken roll is advertising' manager; Bernard Krauth, 'l;'rib'une and all who' now comprise its per lines. head of circulation; Robert W. Boyer, man sonnel, look forward to the future with zest, There were no telephones, and even the aging editor; and Donald N. D'Elia, city proud of an ancient masthead, but inter mails were slow and irregular. editor. ested only in tomorrow, for, our past is now Through all this, the Tribune carried on, Close to the time of the Spanish-American history. endeavoring by such means as were available War the Tribune proprietors erected a neat to keep the people of the community in and substantial three-story brick building Mr. Speaker, the worth of any institu formed. especially designed as a printing house be tion to the community, State, arid Nation The development of the Pennsylvania Rail tween 11th and 12th Avenues, fronting 32 is measured by its record of service in the road Co. here was reported steadily through feet on 12th Street, with a depth of 60 feet. common good. In this respect the Al the years; the. industrial expansion of the This edifice is still in use. city., the annexations, the social and cultural toona Tribune has earned its laurels in growth, and, among the most vital news to the field of journalism as evidenced by our people, the reporting of their own doings, THE TRIBUNE LOOKS FORWARD the warm messages of congratulations their meetings, their accidents and tragedies, (By Robert W. Boyer) that flooded its editorial offices the week their marriages, births, and deaths. As we look backward across the years dur of January 3, 1956. The first newspaper in Blair County was ing which the Altoona Tribune has served These expressions of widespread com The Altoona Register published for a short Altoona, and all of Blair County, we become mendation came from President Dwight time by William H. and J. A. Snyder in ·the conscious, humb1y so, cif a oneness, a perfect spring of 1855. After its suspension it. was unity, which exists, and has existed for all D. Eisenhower, United States Senator succeeded by the Tribune, January 1, 1856, the long years of its life, between the Tribune Edward Martin, United States Senator Mccrum & Allison, proprietors. and the community of which it is so vital a James H. · Duff, Gov. George Leader, On May 1, 1858, William M. Allison of the daily part. State Senator Charles R. Mallery, State Altoona Tribune disposed of his interest to For a full century, this month, the Tribune Assemblymen Charles A. Auker, Daniel H. C. Dern. On July 19, 1875, the interest has served as a voice of the city. Sometimes H. Erb, Harold G. Miller, and Mayor Rob of Ephriam B. Mccrum passed into the hands it has been raised in exhortation, sometimes ert W. Anthony, of Altoona; along with of Hugh Pitcairn who for many years con in denunciation, but, by the records, always ducted the paper with Mr. Dern. on behalf of the city, always defending, ad scores of congratulatory messages from On April 14, 1873, Mccrum and Dern be vising, suggesting, striving always for a bet other business, industrial, church, and gan the Daily Tribune. The firm of Dern ter c.ity, a more informed people. civic leaders throughout Pennsylvania Pi.tcairn took over January 28, 1878, con A century is a long time to serve a com and the Nation. tinuing until Mr. Dem's death in 1905. At munity. The very thought of the past, It was highly pleasing to me to be able that time the company was reorganized as dwindling faintly into the depths of the dis to join in extending centenary congratu the "Altoona Tribune" with Dr. Pitcairn as tant years, and of the men and women, the lations in my capacity as Representative president, Henry C. Dern as treasurer, and brilliant and the able, and the mediocre who Alonzo D. Houck as general manager. have worked here, who have kept finger to in Congress of the 20th Congressional Col. Henry Shoemaker purchased the Trib pulse while the community lived its daily District of Pennsylvania, which is com une and became president and publisher· life, leaves us humbly casting about for a prised of Blair, Centre, and Clearfield November 12, 1912. Hr. Houck retired as way to express our own feelings as we mark Counties, because I belong to the Tribune general manager and became first vice pres- this 100th anniversary. alumni, having been employed in the 1596 " CONGRESSIONAI. RECORD - - HOUSE· January so- folding room and also as a newsboy de- a second century with the finest -of greetings· newspaper office when he took my sister afid livering Altoona's popular morning news- , and the heartiest of congratulations. me on a tour of the Tribune office. d d t · th Al , For 82 years of the 100 years of existence Later he encouraged my early attempts at paper while a gra e s t u en in e - of the Altoona Tribune, this newspaper, the column writing. Because I was shy and re- . toona schools. · Altoona Mirror, has traveled side by side in tiring, I did not sign my name. Instead, I I have many pleasant memories of my the production of· a newspaper and the pro used the Greek initials for my name-Gamma boyhood employment with the Altoona- motion of a progressive Altoona, and the Kappa-I learned the Greek alphabet Tribune and feel that the training I re- association has been most friendly. through listening in to class recitations dur ceived there in my early youth proved The 100-year-old Altoona Tribune has had ing what was supposed to b.e study periods. helpful to me in developing into man- a most interesting history, dating as it does I can still hear the clear, ringing voice of the hood. ; back to a period 10 years after the formation teacher reading passages from the textbook~ It has been my good fortune to have of Blair County. The Tribune was antedated in a way to make them sound like sublime known personally many of the officials only by the Altoona Register, which appeared music--even though I did not understand in 1855 and this paper was purchased to the words. and employees of the Altoona Tribuµe launch the Altoona Tribune. For a brief Sue Schwartz, a daughter of the Tribune's over the past 50 years. span it was known as the Daily Tribune, the editor, was at that time editorial assistant, On the occasion of this centennial ob- title Altoona Tribune being first applied in and when she began planning her marriage servance of one of Pennsylvania's lead- 1905. to Prof. Joseph Barker--everyone called him ing daily newspapers I extend best . In 1914 the Tribune acquired the Altoona Professor Barker-I set my sights as next in wishes to the present publishers and staff Gazette, an afternoon paper, which early line for the job. for continued success in their efforts to began as the Altoona Sun. In 1920 the Al I was a real greenhorn. Today I would '. meet the challenging future as. ably as toona. Times, a morning paper, was procured not have the courage to ask for a job in a · and the paper was issued as the Times-Trib newspaper office, but I did make good. their predecessors met the test since 1856. une, the present title continuing however Like Barkis, I was "willin' " to learn, and Mr. Speaker, it has been said often that since 1923. . under the kind and patient tutelage of Mr. if you wish to probe the sincerity, hon- · The Altoona. Tribune is rich in news-· Schwartz I soon became familiar with edi esty, and ability of a man, ask his neigh- pap.er tradition and in personnel, newspaper torial duties, reading proof, writing heads bor. men of outstanding ability being associated for inside copy, editing the country corre This -admonition of an age-old adage with the business. On this anniversary spondence and, a little later, being sent out aptly applies to the newspaper field be- date are recalled the names of E. B. McCrum to cover educational or religious meetings of importance in ·the city. cause in the not too distant past mem- and Wllliam H. Allison, first owners; Henry rs of the fourth estate in their pub-· c. Dern, Dr. Hugh Pitcairn, Alonzo D. Houck, l never learned shorthand, I never learned be Enos M. Jones, Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, typing. Like my teacher, Mr. Schwartz, I lishing activities were not reluctant to as owners. began with a hunt-and-peck system on an repeatedly .attack policies and personal- · The dean of Altoona newspapermen, the old typewriter at home, though in the office ities of a rival newspaper. This prac- late Wesley Howe Schwartz, served the paper it was all pencil work. tice of verbally lambasting another news- from 1881 up until a few years prior to his Sometimes I held copy while the editor paper is happily on the wane but it has death in 1937. Miss Lizzie Akers is remem did the proofreading on the ads, or statistics always proved f.oreign to the precepts of tiered as the faithful editorial room em- of various sorts. ·ournalism as pra_cticed in the Altoona ployee. Long in the service were J. Virgil ,And every now and then Oliver Danley, J Taylor, Parse H. Crawford, Karl Isenberg, foreman in the composing room, would shout area with the result that all newspaper Matthew Smith (now the Monsignor Smith down the little well for more copy to be put editors respect each other and as a re- of Denver) and a host of others, all who in the tiny box and pulled upstairs by a rope. sult dwell in amity and contentment as achieved fine newspaper reputations. Many I have never regretted leaving high school, they cooperate in promoting the best in- continued to other positions distinguishing for the experience I had under the tutelage terests of the community. themselves. of Wesley Howe Schwartz was to me price · 'd f th To the present officers and staff, Presl-- less. Like the noted Msgr. Matthew Smith, There IS no stronger evi ence O e dent Theodore Arter, Jr., Publisher A. B. now dean of Catholic publications, and fa cordial relations that prevail among the crane, Editor Robert w. Boyer, General Man mous editor of the Catholic Register, in newspaper fraternity in Altoona than the ager Joseph A. Faul and Advertising Direc Denver, Colo .• who also served as proof glowing editorial of cordiality and good- ·tor Leo Carroll, the very best of anniversary reader and reporter on the Altoona Tribune, will that appeared in the Altoona (Pa.) wishes and hearty congratulations on the I feel that my association with Mr. Schwartz. Mirror on January 12, 1956, warmly con- historic edition. May the future add to the was in itself a liberal education. Just as gratulating the Altoona Tribune on its l;>right pages of the Altoona Tribune. Monsignor Smith gives credit to the wise 100th birthday. and capable teaching-more by example than precept--of Wesley H. Schwartz, so do I feel Mr. Speaker, as a fitting conclusion [From the Altoona (Pa.) Mirror of January that those 4 years of working side by side to this tribute to the publishers and the 16, 1956] with this great man was far, far more valu staff of the Altoona Tribune, I wish to MEMORIES able to me than any college degree I might include at this point in my remarks the (By Grace K. Ebright) have won, had I been able to go to college. Altoona Mirror editorial and to add the This is being written before seeing the two fine articles by Mrs. Grace K. 100th anniversary issue of the Altoona [From the Altoona (Pa.) Mirror of January Ebright, staff writer of the· Altoona Tribune, but the very fact that the morning 18, 1956] Mirror, in saluting the Altoona Tribune paper is celebrating its 100th anniversary A GREAT MAN for its contribution through able and ·brings a flood of memories that goes back learned journalists in promoting the best to more than half that period of time, when (By Grace K. Ebright) interest of the newspaper profession in I deliberately left high school to fill a va Addressing Williams College alumni al cancy in the editorial office of the city's most a hundred years ago, President James my home city of Altoona: morning paper, as assistant to Wesley Howe A. Garfield made the immortal statement [From the Altoona (Pa.) Mirror of January Schwartz, a self-educated man of towering concerning Mark ·Hopkins, the president of 12, 1956] literary ability who was then the Tribune's the college, 1836 to 1872: "Give me a log editor. TRmUNE ANNIVERSARY hut with only a simple bench, Mark Hop Educators today would certainly frown on kins on one end and I on the other, and· For 100 years residents of Altoona have my temerity. I had little "book larnin" as you may have all the buildings, apparatus, welcomed the daily arrival of one of the city's such. My earlier school years were spent in and libraries without him." first newspapers, the Altoona Tribune, and a 1-room country school. Before I could The famous quotation hau been often used this anniversary year of that newspaper finds enter high school I was obliged to take a as "Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and the officers of the company, the newspaper year and a half in grade school-the Adams I on the other," to express the powerful staff and its readers all celebrating the birth School-where, under the most efficient influence of a great man's mind. day event. training of Della K. Yingling, I had many of · And it is with a feeling of a reverence Birth date of the Altoona Tribune ls Jan the rough edges polished off. somewhat like that of Garfield when I pause uary 3, for the first issue appeared back in In high school my Latin teacher was John to pay tribute to the helpful influence on· 1856, and the newspaper has continued as a S. Fair-a most ambitious young man with a my mind that was given in the few years morning paper ever since. leaning toward Army life, but filling in the I was privileged to be an assistant to Wesley The Altoona Mirror heartily congratulates interim with a heavy double schedule of Howe Schwartz, editor of the Altoona Trib the Tribune and its newspaper family on its teaching Greek and Latin by day, working on une for 40 years 'where, through his schol centenary year. An existence of 100 years the morning newspaper 'oy night. arly editorials and wise presentation of facts, 1s an achievement most outstanding in any· Colonel Fair-as he later became-took an he became a great influence for good and business, and the Tribune, ancient in its interest in my longing to write, and it was he was considered one of the brainiest men of years, but up to date in its operation, starts who first introduced -me to the inside of a his day and time. 1956 CONGRESSIONAL ~CORD - -HOUSE 1597 He was self taught. All his life books land. after the conquest of California, his employ and under his control he pro wielded a powerful influence over him and and indemnity for the seizure and de tected his immense herds of stock.and culti• he told me that the first dollar he ever made struction of large quantities of his ·uve vated his large fields of grain. · went for a book. stock by parties of emigrants from the . His known devotion to the principles of How his reading was guided and directed American institutions drew to his fort and to I do not know, unless by Providence, but he United States., was submitted to the Con his support many American settlers. soon cultivated a taste for the best in books gress on January 15, 1866. The petition We find the following account of General and periodicals and once a week he would was referred to the Committee on Claims Sutter and his operations in California con go down to Joe Bridenstein's newsstand on and printed as Senate Miscellaneous tained in the Report of the Exploring Expedi 12th Street and come back with an armload Document No. 38, 39th Congress, 1st ses tion of Admiral Wilkes (vol. 5, pp. 178, 179), of the best in magazines-Harper's Bazaar, sion. in which Lieutenant Commandant Ringgold Atlantic Monthly, Review of Reviews, to On June 30, 1876, 41st Congress, 1st states that- mentio·n just a few. · - . "When Captain Sutter first settled here in His family had to live in a big house, 1n session, the Committee on Private Land Claims submitted the fallowing report 1839 he was surrounded by some -of the most his later years, to make room for his big hostile tribes of Indians on the river, but by library--one of the finest in the city. As to accompany H. R. 3818: his energy and management, with the aid of I visited often in the home, I remember The Committee on Private Land-Claims, a small party of trappers, he has thus far how crowded bookcases were to be found to whom were referred the .memorial and prevented opposition to his plans. He has in every room, the halls, all the bedrooms attendant papers of John A. Sutter. have even succeeded in winning the good will of and even the kitchen. had the same under considtlration, and now the Indians, who are now laboring for him in In later years the family moved to a big ask leave to report the accompanying bill building houses and a line of wall to protect brick house in Fairview and ther-e was a (H. R. 3818), and to recommend the passage him against the inroads or attac~s that he spacious sunporch where Mr. Schwartz did of the same (H. Rept. 718, 44th Cong., 1st apprehends more from the present .authori his writing ancl most every time · I visited sess.). ties than from the tribes about him, who are there, 1 or 2 of the huge Maltese cats would now working in his employ. The extent of be found fast asleep on the desk top, amid During the 46th Congress an appro his stock amounts to 1,000 horses, 2,500 cattle, the pages he was writing, or on the books priation bill was again introduced for a.nd about 1,000 sheep, many of which are he kept ready to browse in. the relief of John A. Sutter, known as now to be seen around his premises, giving Unobtrusively, Mr. Schwartz w:as a good H. R. 5678. tbem an appearance of civilization. The tnfluence on my reading l;labits, lending me This was considered ·by the Committee duties I have already named might be good books to read. And a good book was on Claims, whi-ch recommended its pas thought enough for the supervision of one always my pay for carrying on, as best I sage in a report-No. 867-of the 2d person, but to these must be added the di could, in the office in his absence. rection of a large party of trappers and He was frequently called on to speak be session of the 46th Congress, dated April hunters, mostly Americans, who enter into fore religious or educational groups and he 8, 1880, which read as follows: competition with those of the Hudson Bay was absent {)n lodge nights and if be went JOHN A. SUTTER Company, and attention to the property of the Russian establishment at Ross and Bo out of town he was sure -to bring me back Mr. Dickey, from the Committee on Claims, a good book on his return. submitted the -following report: dega, which has just been transferred to him for the consideration of $30,000. He gave me the golden key to the treas~e The Committee on Claims, to whom were house of the printed page and through him referred the memorial and papers of John A. "During our stay, there was much appre I learned that with a mind fortified with Sutter, asking relief, respectfully report that hension on the part of some that the present good reading, or with good books at hand, governor of the district next west of New they have had the same under consideration, Helvetia-the name of Sutter's possessions one need never be idle or lonely and never and find: beset by the present-day plague. -even in felt jealous of the power and influence that · That it appears from the memorial signed Captain Sutter was obtaining in the country, young children, that constantly demands by Gen. w. T. Sherman and other prominent entertainment. and it was thought that had it not been for and distinguished Army as well as Navy offi the force which the latter could bring to op For many years he wrote a popular column cers, who were operating as such ln Califor.. which he signed "The Saunterer" and which, pose any attempt to dislodge him it would nia and on that coast during the Mexican have been tried. In the meantime Captain though often of a personal nature, carried War, and a large number of prominent and a fund of worthwhile information. · Sutter is using all his energies to render him well-known citizens, early resiclents of that self impregnable." ·In his later years he wrote often and muc_h State, "that they w.ere and are familiar with of his experlences as _a youth when he worked This is the official account of the operations the history and career of Gen. John A. Sutter of General Sutter by one of our most distin on the Juniata Canal, long since passed into during many" of the years of his residence in oblivion; but hearing him tell of those long guished nav:al officers in 1841. Afterwards, that country, and conversant with his deeds General Sutter was visited by Col. John C; .ago days. it seemed to me I could recapture of public philanthropy and private gener the magic of the slow-movlng barges on the Fremont, in charge of an overland exploring osity in the early days of the settlement of expedition sent out under . the direction of still waters-barges drawn by mules on the California." wen-worn towpath alongside the canal. the United Stat-es, who reached Fort Sutter · These memorialists, who are personally with his surveying party in an almost starv Passengers and freight were hauled and cognizant of the willing sacrifices made and nobody then complained a.bout lack of speed. ing con LEAVE OF ABSENCE . COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JANUARY 15, 1956. By unanimous consent, leave of ab- · JANUARY 15, 1956. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS sence was granted as follows to: To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Mr. RICHARDS, on account of official The above-mentioned committee or sub- . The above-mentioned committee or sub committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of business-attendance as representative the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, of United States at inauguration of Pres the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved ident of Brazil. Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the Mr. VORYS, on account of official busi August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the following report showing the name, profes ness-attendance as representative of following report showing the name, profes sion, and total salary of each person em United States at inauguration of Presi sion, and total salary of each person em ployed by it during the 6-month period from dent of Brazil. ployed by it during the 6-month period from · July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, Mr. O'BRIEN of New York (at the re July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, together with total funds authorized or ap quest of Mr. MULTER), for 2 weeks, be together with total funds authorized or ap propriated and expended by it. ginning -January 30, 1956, on account of propriated and expended by lt. Total illness. l,!'ros~ Mrs. PFOST (at the request of Mr. MET Name of employee Profession salary Total durin EXPENDITURES IN PREVIOUS PERIOD NOT RE• P<;lRTED, AGAINST 1955 APPROPRIATION A.mount expended from Jan. 3 to June 30, Total 1955______$25,657.87 gross salary Total amount expended from July 1 to Name of employee Profession during Total Dec. 31, 1955______33,550. 78 gross 6-month salary Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955_____ 90, 79L 35 period Name of emp~oyee ;profession during CARL VINSON, 6-month Chairman. period George R. Stewart____ Attorney______$7,088. 63 Ruth Butterworth____ Assistant clerk______4,219.47 Dixon D. Davis ______do______1,593.12 COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY Margaret S. Rogers ______do______2, 588. 48 Reimbursements to Government JANUARY 2, 19,56, agencies: To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Funds authorized or appropriated for com- DepartmentofAgri- Investigator______$496.19 mittee expenditures ______$2,000.00 culture: John B. The above-mentioned committee or sub Holden. . committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Federal Comm uni- _____ do ______,______240. 85 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Amotmt o. expenditures previously reported__ 11. 60 cations Commis- Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved Amount expended from July 1, 1955, to Dec. sion: Alexis P. August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the 31, 1955_ ------3, 45 Bukovsky. Tota, amount expended from ______International Coop- _____ do______186. 88 following report showing the name, profes to ______eration Adminis- sion, and total salary of each person em trati9n: Michael J. ployed by it during the 6-month period from Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955______1,971, .. 5 La Padula. ' 1 July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, General Sl!rvices · JOHN L. McMILLAN1 Administration:· together with total funds authorized or ap J. W. Flatley ______do______429. 23 propriated and expended by it. Chairman. JohnH. Holmead, _____ do______317. 08 Jr. Travel and miscella------762. 52 Total COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR neous expenses, gross JANUARY 13, 1956, Name of employee Profession salary Total. ______------· 2, 432. 75 during To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: 6-month periodt The above-mentioned committee or sub Funds authorized or appropriated for. com- 1 committee, pursuant to section 134 ' (b) of mittee expenditures ______$500,000.00 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Robert ,L. Cardon_. __ Clerk and counsel $5,796.65 Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved •~mount of expenditures previously ~e- (Aug. 10, 1955). ported ______.______William J. Hallahan __ Clerk (July 1 to 1,795.96 August 2, 1946, a§! amended, submits the Amount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, Aug. 9, 1955). following report. showing the name, profes 1955 __ ------209,825. 06 Orman S. Fink ______Staff ditector ______7,592.61 sion, and total salary of each person em John E. Barriere ______Technical staff ______7,592.61 ployed by it during the 6-month period from Total amount expended from July 1 to Elsie G. Whitney ____ _ Deputy clerk ______5,116.37 Dec. 31, 1955______209,825.06 Helen E. Long ______Assistant clerk ______3, 766. 74 July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive; Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955__ __ _ 290; 174. 94 Mary W. La)'.ton ____ _ Secretary ______3,766.74 together with total funds authorized or ap propriated and expended by it. CLARENCE CANNON, EMPLOYEES PURSU· Chairman. ANT TO H. RF:$. 203- . SURCOMMITTEE ON Total HOUSINO gross COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES Name of employee salary Eleanor Hamilton ____ _ Research assistant 3,616.62 Profession during JANUARY 3, 1955, (July 1, 1955). 6-month JohnJ. McEwan,Jr __ Housing economist 4,621.30 period To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: (Aug. 1, 1955). Robert R. Poston ____ _ The above-mentioned committee or sub Chief counsel (July 5,553.46 16, 1955) . Edward A. McCabe._ General counsel_ ___ _ committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Betty B. Ridgell ______$6,808.86 Secretary (July 1, 3,021.48 Russell C. Derrickson_ Chief investigator __ _ 6,808.86 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946; 1955). John 0. Graham ______Minority clerk ______6,808. Su Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved Fred G. Hussey______Chief clerk ______6,808.86 Kathryn Kivett______Assistant clerk ______August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the 1 Includes retroactive pay. 3,226.98 following report showing the name, profes Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Jeanne Thomson ______Assistant to minor- 3,226.98 mittee expenditures_------$75,000.00 ity clerk. sion, and total salary of each person em Gloria Ann Baysden__ Assistant clerk ______3,226.98 ployed by it during the 6-month period from Marion 0. Riddiford ______do ______Amount of expenditures previously reported_ None Mary Lynn Smith ______do ______3,226.98 July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, A.mount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, 3,226.98 together with total funds authorized or ap 1955------24,316.42 propriated and expended by it. NOTE.-Tbe above figures do not include retroactive Total amount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, 1955______24,316.42 pay of Mar. 1 through June 30, 1955. Total retroactive Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955______50,683.58 pay 'to staff of Committee on Education and Labor, Total $1,802.48. gross BRENT SPENCE, Funds authorized or appropriated for com- salary Chairman. mittee expenditures ______$12.5, 000. 00 Name of employee Profession during 6-month periodt A.mount of expenditures previously re- COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ported______1,536. 52 JANUARY 4, 1956. A.mount expended from July 1, 1955 to Dec. Robert W. Smart_____ Chief coun1jeL ______$7,592.61 31, 1955______9,360. 71 John R. Blandford____ CounseL ______7,564.46 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Charles F. Ducander______do ______7,518.01 Total amount expended from Jan. 1, Philip W. Kelleher ______do ______The above-mentioned committee or sub 1955 to Dec. 31, 1955______10,897.23 7,518.01 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Janice G. Angell ______Clerical staff ______3,352.25 Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955_____ 114,102. 77 Berniece KalinowskL ______do ______3,352. 25 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Mary Ellen Williams. _____ do ______2,690.50 Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved GRAHAM A. BARDEN, Patricia Burtner ______do ______2,924.31 Oneta Stockstill ______do ______August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the Chairman. 2,924.31 following report showing the name, profes L. Louise Ellis ______do ______234. 30 James A. Deakins ______do ______2, 534.67 sion, and total salary of each person em John J. Courtney ____ _ Special counsel. ____ _ 7,592.61 ployed by it during the 6-month period from COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS Edward T. Fogo ______Investigator ______Lloyd R. Kuhn ______do ______5,025.83 July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, JANUARY 6, 1956. 4,201.58 together with total funds authorized or ap- Dorothy Britton______Secretary ______2,911.10 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Dorothea Clore ______do ______2,911.10 propriated and expended by it. • Adeline Tolerton______Clerk ______2,731.84 The above-mentioned committee or sub Ethel L. Mott ______do ______2,731.84 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Total the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, gross Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved 1 This statement includes retroactive pay, salary Name of employee Profession during August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the (Office of the Special Counsel operating under H. Res. 6-month tollowing report showing the name, profes 112 and H. Res. 113, 84th Cong.) periodi sion, and total salary of each person em Funds authorized or appropriated for com- mittee expenditures ______$150, 000. 00 ployed by it during the 6-month period from W. N. McLeod, Jr____ Clerk--~------$7,600.157 July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, Amount of expenditures previously re- Wendell E. Cable_____ Minority clerk______6, 550, 07 together with total funds authorized or ap ported ______------25, 657. 87 1 Inc.udes retroactive pay increase. propriated and expended by it. 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD..,;;..; HOUSE 1607 together with total funds authorized or ap Total gross Total propriated and expended by it. salary Funds for preparation of United States Code, COMMI'ITEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES District of Columbia Code, and revision of Total JANUARY 13, 1956, the laws-Continued gross B. Revision of the laws: salary To the CLERK OF THE HousE: Appropriated by Legislative Name or employee Profession during The above-mentioned committee or sub 1956Branch ______Appropriation Act, • $13,700.00 6-month committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of period Expended July 1-Dec. 31, 1955 __ • 7,301.46 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved Balance, Dec. 31, 1955 __ ••••••• - 6,398. 54 Elsa Thornton_.-·---- Stenographer ______$2,696.06 Blanche Simons ______do ______August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the 2,696. 06 following report showing the name, profes C, Preparation of new edition of District Retroactive pay re------·-----··----·- 1,533.59 of Columbia Code (no year): ccived by the com- sion, and total salary of each person em Unexpended balance, June 30, mittee staff, July ployed by it during the 6-month period from 1955______9,159. 71 1955. July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, Expended July 1-Dec. :n, 1955___ 6,395. 70 together with total funds authorized or ap Balance, Dec. 31, 1955______2,764.01 Funds authorized or appropriated for com- propriated and expended by it. mittee expenditures ______$75,000.00 EMANUEL CELLER, Amount of expenditures previously reported ______Amount expended from August 1 to Decem- Total Chairman. ber 31, 1955______7,604.35 gross Balance unexpended as of December 31, 1955_ 67, 395. 65 salary Name o; employee Profession during CoMMITrEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND TOM MURRAY, 6-month FISHERIES Chairman. period ' JANUARY 9, 1956, COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: JANUARY 10, 1956. Standing committee: The above-mentioned committee or sub Donald 'l'. Appell___ Investigator----·-·-- $6, 402. 64 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Thomas W. Beale, Chief clerk ____ ----·- 7, 494. 09 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of The above-mentioned committee or sub Sr. the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Juliette P. Joray ___ _ Secretary to chief 4,862.32 Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved clerk. the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Courtney E. Owens_ Investigator ______5,934.83 August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved Rosella Purdy ______Secretary to counseL 4,147.83 following report showing the name, profes August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the Carolyn Roberts ___ _ Assistant chief of 3,896.86 sion, and total salary of each person em following report showing the name, profes reference section. ployed by it during the 6-month period from Thelma I. Scearce __ _ Secretary to investi 4,147. 83 sion, and total salary of each person em gators. July 1, 1955, to January 1, 1956, inclusive, ployed by it during the 6-month period from Frank S. Tavenner, Counsel. ______._ 7,494.09 together with total funds authorized or ap July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, Jr. propriated and expended by it. together with total funds authorized or ap Anne D. Turner ____ Chief of reference 4,947.84 section. propriated and expended by it. William A. Wheeler_ Investigator______6,245.90 Total Investigating commit- gross Total tee: salary Alice W. Anderson __ Name of employee Profession gross Information analyst_ 2,971.22 during salary Margaret Bentz ____ _ Information special 2,552.63 6-month Name of employee Profession during ist. period 1 6-month Elizabeth Bentley __ Consultant · (Aug. 268. 57 period 1 1-15). Frank Bonora ______Investigator ______4,076.12 Ralph E. Casey______Chief counseL ______$6,084.43 John W. Carrington. Assistant to the 4,076.12 Bernard J. Zincke_____ Counsel______7,100.01 Charles G. Tierney___ Chief clerk and $7,301.46 clerk. John M. Drewry ______do ______7,100.01 Investigator ______Frances Still ______Clerk ______counsel. Raymond T. Col- .3, 896. 86 5,725.70 Robert F. McConnell_ Counsel______7,301.46 lins. Charles F. Warren____ Assistant counseL __ _ 4,610.51 Joseph F. McGann, Staff consultant_ ___ _ 6,808.86 Annie! Cunning Information analyst_ 3, 179. 91 William B. Winfield__ Assistant clerk ______3,936.55 Ruth Brookshire ______do ______Sr. ham. 3,377.07 Margaret R. Beiter___ Assistant chief clerk_ 5,322.60 Barbara H. Edel Editor______· 2,814.14 Vera Barker______Secretary ______3,000.71 Helen Dooley______Staff assistant______4,564.44 schein. Shirley Schwartz______Minority clerk ______4,255.33 Helen A. Thompson ______do ______3,766.50 Elizabeth L. Edin- Clerk-stenographer __ 3,260.61 Louise B. Cullen ______do ______3,676.58 ger. 45,190.32 S. Philip Cohen______Staff member ______3,809.34 Earl L. Fuoss______Investigator (retro 32. 91 Herman J. Slowes ______do ______3,103.05 active pay). Ester Saunders______Clerk-messenger ____ _ 1,839. 72 Kathleen Hagen- Clerk-typist______2,269.82 1 Includes retroactive pay. buch. Lillian Howard_____ Research analyst ___ _ 3,717.65 Funds authorized or appropriated. for com- 1 Includes retroactive pay. W. Jackson Jones ____ Investigator ______mittee expenditures_------$50,000.00 5,174.45 Funds authorized or appropriated for com- Olive M. King______Editor ______3,322.31 Amount of expenditures previously reported_ 12, 143. 84 mittee expenditures ______$50,000.00 Stephen V. Kopu· Clerk-typist.. ______2,182.21 Amount expended from July 1, 1955 to Jan. 1, Amount of expenditures previously reported_ None nek. Amount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, Kathleen M. Luc- _____ do ______1, 717. 20 1956_ ------18,869. 21 1955------7,865.73 ious. Total amount expended from Feb. 2, Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955______42,134.27 Helen I. Mattson____ Research analyst ___ _ 3,896.86 1955, to Jan. 1, 1956______31,013.05 CHARLES A. BUCKLEY, Isabel B. Nagel______Clerk-stenographer __ 3,436.83 Balance unexpended as of Jan. 1, 1956______18,986.95 Robert Newsom ____ Investigator (Aug. 310. 30 Chairman. 1-15). HERBERT C. BONNER, Katharine Phillips__ Switchboard opera- 2,114.30 COMMITrEE ON RULES Chairman. tor. JANUARY 9, 1956. Maureen P. Roselle_ Clerk-stenographer __ 2,544.66 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Delores F. Scotti_ ___ Investigator______3,853.56 Josephine E. Sheetz_ Clerk-typist.______2,552.63 COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE The above-mentioned committee or sub Lela Mae Stiles______Clerk-stenographer __ 2,544.66 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of Cele F . Sweeney _____ Clerk-typist______2,355.44 JANUARY 9, 1956, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Ruth K. Tansill_____ Information analyst_ 3,269.57 To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Lorraine N. Veley___ Clerk-stenographer __ 3,269. 57 Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved Richard S. Weil _____ Research analyst ___ _ 3,766.96 The above-mentioned committee or sub August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the George C. Williams_ Investigator ______5,156.92 committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of following report showing the name, profes Billie Wheeler______Clerk-stenographer 1,554.62 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, sion, and total salary of each person em (resigned Sept. 30, Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved ployed by it during the 6-month period from 1955). August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, following report showing the name, profes together with total funds authorized or ap 1 Includes retroactive pay. sion, and total salary of each person em propriated and expended by it. Funds authorized or appropriated for com- ployed by it during the 6-month period from mittee expenditures ______$225,000.00 July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, Total Amount of expenditures previously re together with total funds authorized or ap gross ported______102,702.95 propriated and expended by it. salary Name of employee Profession during Amount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, 6-month ,1955 __ ------120,167.18 period I Total Total amount expended from Jan. 4 gross to Dec. 31, 1955______222,870.13 salary Name of employee Profession during Thomas M. Carruth- Clerk______$4, 757. 55 Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955----· 2, 129. 87 6-month ers. FRANCIS E. WALTER, period Jane W. Snader ______Minority clerk______3,896.86 Chairman, Agnes R. Hanford----· Assistant clerk______3, 412. 93 COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS Fred.erick 0. Belen____ Chief counsel______$7,301.46 Charles E. Johnson___ Counsel______. '.rotaL------·----·---·------12,067. 34 JANUARY 6, 1956. H enry C. Cassell ______Clerk ______6,938.89 5,607. 48 11ncludes retroactive pay. To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: John B. Price______Assistant clerk ______3,723.66 HOWARD W. SMITH, The above-mentioned committee or sub Lillian Hopkins_·-··-- ·----dO------··- 3,609.50 Lucy K. DaleY----··-- _____ do------·------·3, 466. so Chairman. committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of 1610 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE January 30 the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, sion, and total salary of each person em.. August 2, 1946, as amended, submits. the Public Law 601, . 79th Congress, approved ployed by it during the 6-month period from following report showing the name, profes August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, sion, and total salary of each person em following report showing the name, profes together with total fundo authorized or ap ployed by it during the 6-month period from sion, and total salary of each person em propriated and expended by it. July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, ployed by it during the 6-month period from together with total funds _authorized or ap June 30, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, propriated and expended by it. Total together with total funds authorized or ap gross propriated and expended by it. Name of employee Pro.ession salary Total during gross 6-month salary Total period 1 Name o. employee Profession gross during salary 6-month Name of employee Pro ·ession during Everette MacIntyre___ Staff director and $7,494.09 period 6-month general counsel. period 1 William Summers Chiefeconomistand 6,905.21 Carnes & Co______Consultants______$8,800.00 Johnson. assistant staff di Audrey A, Lockett____ Stenographer (in- rector. Staff director ______Marie M. Stewart. ____ Clerk ______cluding retroac- Oliver E. Meadows __ _ $7,100.01 3,717.65 tive pay increase)_ 1, 494, 26 Edwin B. Patterson __ CounseL ______7,100.01 Jane M. Deem ______Administrative as- 3, 717, 65 Casey M . Jones ______Professional aide ___ _ 7,100.01 sistant-clerk. · George Fisher ______Clerk ______George L. Arnold _____ Assistant counsel 7, 100.01 5,538.48 NOTE.-The firm of Carnes & Co. is retained by the Harold A. L. Law- Professional aide, 7,100.01 and investigator. Irving Maness ______do ______5,414.63 committee under contract to provide all staff personnel rence. . minority. Justinus Gould ______do ______required for the committee's study. Those serving with Ida Rowan______Clerk, minority ____ _ 7,100.01 4,311.65 the committee are on the _payroll of Carnes & Co, Paul K. Jones ______Assistant clerk ______5,570.16 Eunice V, Hutton_____ Research analyst- 3,717.65 J. Buford Jenkins _____ Staff consultant (se· 6,537.63 secretary. Funds authorized or appropriated for com- lect). Katherine C. Black- Research analyst_ __ _ 3,583.22 mittee expenditures ___ ~------$35,000. 00 Helen Wright BiondL Assistant clerk ______4,344.99 burn. George Turner ______do ______3,672.82 Clarence D. Everett.. Investigator ______3,717.65 Amount of expenditures previously reported_ 22, 350, 00 Alice V. Matthews____ Clerk-steno!!rapher .. 3,527.26 Ila D. Coe ______·Stenographer ______2,731.84 Amount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, Joanne Doyle______Clerk-stenographer 1,987.67 Clara G. Romero ______do ______2,389.97 (select). Milton S. Fairfax ______do ______2,753.51 1955. ------·------10, 486. 42 Charles S. Allen ______Investigator (select). 117. 38 Alice Fay Ebert______do ______2,032.85 Total amount expended from Jan. 1 Margaret Fallon Research analyst. __ _ 3,448. 78 to Dec. 31, 1955______32,836.50 Palmer. Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955______2,163.50 1 Includes retroactive pay. Pauline Chatemuck __ _ etenographer ______981. 95 Samuel Moment. ____ _ Funds authorized or appropriated for com· Consulting econ o 3,588.37 PORTER HARDY, Jr,, mittee expenaitures ______$50,000.00 mist. Cliairman. Amount of expenditures previously reported_ 6, 493. 31 Victor P. Dalmas ____ _ Assistant to minor 4,777.59 Amount expended from July I to Dec. 31____ 21,401.57 ity. Rosalie Dawes Apple Clerk-typist______371. 8_1 Total amount expended from Jan. 1 to Dec. ton. EXECUTIVE COM:MUNICATIONS, 31______27,894.88 Marita K. Fanning____ Secretary (May 10, 97.04 Balance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955 ______22,105.12 1955 left commit ETC. tee). OLIN TEAGUE, Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, execu Chairman. 1 Includes retroactive pay due to Federal pay increase. tive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as Funds authorized or appropriated for com- COMMITl'EE ON WAYS AND MEANS mittee expenditures ______$170,000.00 foilows: JANUARY 12, 1956. Amount of expenditures previously . re- · 1434. A letter from the Acting Director, To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: ported______47,185. 73 Office of Defense Mobilization, Executive Of The above-mentioned committee or sub Amount expended from July 1 to Dec. 31, fice of the President, transmitting a report committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of 1955 __ ------82,071.00 entitled "Report on Borrowing Authority" the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Total amount. expended from Jan. 4 to for the quarter ending September 30, 1955, Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved Dec. 31, 1955______129,256.73 pursuant to section 304 b of the Defense August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the R,llance unexpended as of Dec. 31, 1955_____ 40; 743. 27 Production Act as amended; to the Commit following report showing the name, profes WRIGHT PATMAN, tee on Banking and Currency. sion, and total salary of each person em Chairman. · 1435. A letter from the Manager, District ployed by it during the 6-month period from of Columbia Armory Board, relatt-ye to ask July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, ing for a 30-day extension of time in which together with total funds authorized or ap SELECT COMMITTEE To CONDUCT AN lNVESTI• to submit the Eighth · Annual Report and propriated and expended by it. GATION AND STUDY OF THE FINANCIAL POSI Financial Statement of the District of Co TION OF THE WHITE COUNTY BRIDGE COM lumbia Armory Board which, pursuant to MISSION section 10, Public Law 605 ( act of June 4, · Total JANUARY 4, 1956. gross 1948), is to be presented to Congress on or To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: Name of employee Profession salary before· January 31, 1956; to the Committee during The above-mentioned committee or sub on the District of Columbia. 6-month period, committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of 1436. A letter from the vice president, the the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., trans Leo H. Irwin ______Clerk (0) ______Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved mitting a statement of receipts and e.xpendi $7,592.61 August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the tures of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele Russell E. Train ______Minority a~viser 7,592.61 (P). following report showing the name, profes phone Co. for the year 1955, pursuant to Thomas A. Martin____ Professional assist- 7,230.68 sion, and total salary of each person em chapter 1628, Acts of Congress, 1904; to the ant (P). James W. Riddell ______do ______ployed by it during the 6-month period from Committee on the District of Columbia, 5,505. 71 July 1, 1955, to December 31, 1955, inclusive, Frances C. RusselL___ Staff assistant ______4,629.68 1437~ A letter from the vice president, the Susan Alice Taylor ______do ______4,255.33 together with total funds authorized or ap Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., trans June A. Kendall ______do ______3,861.36 propriated and expended by it. . mitting a comparative general balance sheet Anne Gorden_. ______do ______3,493.61 Virginia M. Butler______do ______NOTE.-Personal serviCi'.,s were furnished to the select of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Grace Kagan ______do ______3,493.61 3,493.61 committee by the United States General Accounting for the year 1955, pursuant to paragraph 14 Irene Wade ______do ______3,126.16 Office without charge lor salaries. of the act of March 4, 1913; to the Committee Hugblon Greene._____ Messenger ______Walter B. Little ______do ______2,247.91 Funds authorized or appropriated for com- on the District of Columbia. 2,247.91 mittee expenditurp,g ______$10,000.00 1438. A letter from the Comptroller Gen Amount of expe11ditures previously reported. None eral of the United States, transmitting a re 1 Includes retroactive pay, Amount expended from July 21 to Dec. 31, port on audit findings relating to civil serv JERE COOPER, 1955_ ------$2,106.85 ice retirement and disability fund, United Cliairman, Balance unexpended 8'3 of Dec. 41, 1955 ,.______7,893, l!i States Civil Service Commission, for fiscal WINFIELD K. DENTON' years 1954 and 1955; to the Committee on SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS Chairman. Government Operations. 1439. A letter from the Secretary of Health, JANUARY 12, 1956. Education, and Welfare, transmitting a draft SELECT COMMITTEE ON SURVIVOR BENEFITS To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: of proposed legislation entitled "a bill to pro The above-mentioned committee or sub- JANUARY 10, 1956. vide for a continuing sur-,ey and special . committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of To the CLERK OF THE HOUSE: studies of sickness and disability in the the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, The above-mentioned committee or sub United States, and for periodic reports of the Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved committee, pursuant to section 134 (b) of results thereof, and for other purposes"; to August 2, 1946, as amended, submits the the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign following report showing the name, profes- Public Law 601, 79th Congress, approved Commerce. 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 1611 1440. A letter from the Secretary of Health, separate matching of assistance expenditures of 1955; without amendment (rept. No. 1697). Education, and Welfare, transmitting a draft for medical care, to provide gradually for Referred to the Committee of the Whole of proposed legislation entitled "a bill to ex equal matching of old-age assistance ex House on the State of the Union. tend for 2 years the duration of the hospi penditures supplementing old-age and sur tal and medical facilities survey and con vivors insurance benefits, to make clear the struction provisions (title VI) of the Public purpose of encouraging States to provide Health Service Act"; to the Committee on assistance and services to help strengthen REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRI Interstate and Foreign Commerce. family life and to help needy families and VATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 1441. A letter from the Assistant Secretary individuals attain self-support or self-care, Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a pro to assist in improving administration of committees were delivered to the Clerk posed concession contract with Degnan, Don public assistance programs through research ohoe, Inc., which, when executed by the Di and training, to improve aid to dependent for printing and reference to the proper rector of the National. Park Service, will au childr~n, and for other purposes"; to the calendar, as follows: thorize the concessioner to conduct a res Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. ENGLE: Committee on Interior and In taurant, delicatessen, fountain, and bakery sular Affairs. H. R. 6703. A bill to authorize business in Yosemite National Park, Calif., in the sale of certain land in Alaska to Victor the New Village area of the park, for the term REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUB Power, of Juneau, Alaska; with amendment of 20 years from January 1, 1955, pursuant to (Rept. No. 1689). Referred to the Committee the act of July 31, 1953 (67 Stat. 271); to the LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of the Whole House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of Mr. ENGLE: Committee on Interior and 1442. A letter from the Chairman, United committees were delivered to the Clerk Insular Affairs. H. R. 7513. A bill to author States Atomic Energy Commission, transmit i7e the conveyance of certain lands in Alaska for printing and reference to the proper to the Matanuska Valley Lines, Inc., and to ting the 19th Semiannual Report of the calendar, as follows: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Russell Swank and Joe Blackard; with pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; Mr. BONNER: Committee on Merchant amendment (Rept. No. 1690>. Referred to to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Marine and Fisheries. S. 2286. An act to the Committee of the Whole House. 1443. A letter from the executive officer, amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 so National Advisory Committee for Aero as to provide for the utilization of privately owned shipping services in connection with nautics, transmitting a report on all tort PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS claims paid by the National Advisory Com the transportation of privately owned motor mittee for Aeronautics for the period Janu vehicles of certain personnel of the Depart Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public ary 1 to December 31, 1955, pursuant to ment of Defense; with amendment (Rept. No. bills and resolutions were introduced and Public Law 773, 80th Congress; to the Com 1686). Referred to the Committee of the severally referred as follows: mittee on the Judiciary. Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. DURHAM: Committee on Armed Serv By Mr. ANFUSO: 1444. A letter from the Secretary of the H. R. 8874. A bill to establish an effective Army, transmitting a letter from the Chief ices. H. R. 8100. A bill to authorize the loan of two submarines to the Government of program to alleviate conditions of excessive of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated unemployment in certain economically de April 12, 1955, submitting an interim report, Brazil; with amendment (Rept. No. 1687). Referred to the Committee of the Whole pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways together with accompanying papers and an and Means. illustration, on Mississippi River at Winona, House on the State of the Union. Mr. VINSON: Committee on -Armed Serv By Mr. BUCKLEY: Minn. This report is submitted in response H. R. 8875. A bill to estab.lish an effective to resolutions of the Committee on Flood ices. H. R. 8710. A bill to amend the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947; with program to alleviate conditions of excessive Control, House of Representatives, adopted unemployment in certain econoinicaily de on September 18, 1944, requesting a review of amendment (Rept. No. 1688). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the pressed areas; to the Committee on Way.s report on the Mississippi River between Coon and Means. Rapids Dam and the mouth of the Ohio River, State of the Union. Mr. BURLESON: Committee on Un-Ameri By Mr. CELLER: with a view to determining the advisability H. R. 8876. A bill to establish an effective of providing flood protection along the Mis can Activiti-es. House Resolution 352. Reso lution to authorize the expenditure of cer program to alleviate conditions of excessive sissippi River above the mouth of the Mis unemployment in certain economically de souri River (H. Doc. No. 324); to the Com tain funds for the expenses of the Committee on Un-American Activities; without amend pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways mittee on Public Works and ordered to be and Means. printed, with one illustration. ment (Rept. No. 1691). Referred to the House Calendar. By Mr. DAVIDSON: 1445. A letter from the Secretary of the H. R. 8877. A bill to establish an effective Army, transmitting a letter from the Chief Mr. BURLESON: Committee on House Ad ministration. House Resolution 355. Res program to alleviate conditions of excessive of Enginers, Department of the Army, dated unemployment in certain economically de July 22, 1954, submitting a report, together olution to provide funds for the Committee on the Judiciary with amendment (Rept. No. pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways with accompanying papers and an illustra and Means. tion, on a review of report on Purgatoire 1692). Ordered to be printed. (Picket Wire) River, Colo., requested by a Mr. BURLESON: Committee on House Ad By Mr. DOLLINGER: resolution of the Committee on Flood Con ministration. House Resolution 359. Res H. R. 8878. A bill to establish an effective trol, House of Representatives, adopted on olution to provide funds for necessary ex program to alleviate conditions of excessive March 20, 1945 (H. Doc. No. 325); to the Com penses of the Committee on House Admin unemployment in certain economically de mittee on Public Works and ordered to be istration, without amendment (Rept. No. pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways printed, with one illustration. 1693) . Ordered to be printed. and Means. 1446. A communication from the President Mr. BURLESON: Committee on House Ad By Mr. KEOGH: H. R. 8879. A bill to establish an effective of the United States, transmitting a proposed ministration. H. R. 8787. A bill to provide supplemental appropriation for the fiscal for a prorated stationery allowance in the program to alleviate conditions of excessive year 1957 in the amount of $994,285 for the case of a Member of the House of Represent unemployment in certain economically de Department of State, in the form of an atives elected for a portion of a term; with pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways amendment to the budget for said fl.seal year out amendment (Rept. No. 1694), Ordered and Means. (H. Doc. No. 322) ; to the Committee on to be printed. By Mr. KLEIN: Appropriations and ordered to be printed. Mr. ENGLE: Committee on Interior and H. R. 8880. A bill to establish an effective 1447. A communication from the President Insular Affairs. H. R. 4781. A bill to au program to alleviate conditions of excessive of· the United States, transmitting proposed thorize the Territory of Alaska to incur in unemployment in certain economically de amendments to the budget for the fiscal year debtedness, and for other purposes; without pressed areas; to the Committee on ways 1957 for the Department of Labor, involving amendment (Rept. No. 1695). Referred to and Means. decreases in the amount of $30,500,000 (H. the Committee of the Whole House on the By Mr. MULTER: Doc. No. 323); to the Committee on Appro State of the Union. H. R. 8881. A bill to establish an effective priations and ordered to be printed. Mr. COOLEY: Committee on Agriculture. program to alleviate conditions of excessive 1448. A letter from the secr,etary of Health, H. R. 8320. A bill to amend the Agricultural unemployment in certain economically de Education, and Welfare, transmitting a draft Act of 1~49 and the Agricultural Act of 1954 pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways of proposed legislation entitled "A bill to with respect to the special school milk pro and Means. provide domestic and community sanitation gram and the brucellosis eradication pro By Mr. ROONEY: facilities and services for Indians, and for g~am for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956; H. R. 8882. A bill to establish an effective other purposes"; to the Committee on In with amendment (Rept. No. 1696) . Referred program to alleviate conditions of excessive terior and Insular Affairs. to the Committee of the Whole House on the unemployment in certain economically de 1449. A letter from the Secretary of Health, State of the Union. pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways Education, and Welfare, transmitting a draft Mr. PRIEST: Committee on Interstate and and Means. - of proposed legislation entitled "A bill to Foreign Commerce. H. R. 8704. A bill to ex By Mr. ZELENKO: amend the public assistance and related pro tend through June 30, 1957, the duration of H. R. 8883. A bill to establish an effective visions of the Social Security Act to provide the Poliomyelitis Vaccination Assistance Act program to alleviate conditions of excessive 1612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE Janv..ary 30 unemployment In certain economically de purpb"ses; to the Committee on Ways and By Mr. PERKINS:· pressed areas; to the Committee on Ways Means. , H. R. 8911. A bill to revise the Civil Service and Means. By Mr. DIXON: Retirement Act; to the Committee on Post By Mr. ANFUSO: . H. R. 8898. A bill to provide an additional Office and Civil Service. H. R. 8884. ·A bill to correct · an Inequity authorization of appropriations for the pur By Mr. PRIEST_: resulting from the setting of _the effective chase by the Secretary of Agriculture under H . R. 8912. A bill to extend for 2 years the date of Public Law 68 of the 84th Congress; the act of May 11, 1938, of lands within the duration of the hospital and medical facili to the committee on Post Office and Civil boundaries of the Cache National Forest in ties survey and construction provisions (title Service. the State of Utah; to the Committee on VI) of the Public Health Service Act; to the By Mr. BAILEY: Agriculture. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com H. R. 8885. A bill to extend the duration of By Mr.FORD: merce. the water Pollution Control Act, to author H . R. 8899. A b111 to direct the Interstate . H. R. 8913. A bill to provide for a continu ize additional amounts for construction loans Commerce Commission to make regulations ing survey and special studies of sickness -thereunder, and for other purposes; to the that certain railroad vehicles be equipped and disability in the United States, and for committee on Public works. with reflectors or luminous material so that periodic reports of the results thereof, and By Mr. BAUMHART: they can be readily seen at night; to the for .other purposes; to the Committee on In H. R. 8886. A bill to encourage construc Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com terstate and Foreign Commerce. tion and maintenance of modern Great Lakes merce. By Mr. REUSS: bulk cargo vessels in the interest of peace By Mr. GUBSER: H. R. 8914. A bill to establish a conserva time commerce and the national defense; to H . R. 8900. A bill to authorize the con tion-civil defense acreage; to promote con the Committee on Mer.chant Marine and struction of flood protection measures, with servation of soil, water, vegetation, and fish Fisheries. partictJlar reference to areas where severe and wildlife; to aid civil defense; to help By Mr. BECKER: damages have recently occurred as the result farmers to achieve a more adequate income; H. R. 8887. A bill to authorize certain beach of extraordinary floods; to provide for the to adjust total agricultural production to erosion control of the shore of the State of construction or alteration of dams under cer consumer and export needs; to maintain an New York from Fire Island Inlet to Jones tain conditions, and for other purposes; to abundant and even flow of farm commodi Inlet; to the Committee on Public Works. the Committee on Public Works. ties in interstate commerce, and for other By Mr.BERRY: By Mr. HARRIS: purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 8888. A bill to amend the wheat H. R. 8901. A bill to provide for an adequate By Mr. ROBERTS: marketing quota provisions of the Agricul and economically sound transportation sys H. R. 8915. A bill to amend the Agricul tural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended; tem or systems to serve the District of Co .tural Adjustment Act of 1938 so as to in to the Committee on Agriculture. lumbia and its environs; to create and estab crease acreage allotments for the 1956 crop By Mr. BOSCH: lish a public body corporate with powers to of cotton; to the Committee on Agriculture. H. R . 8889. ·A bill to amend section 601 (a) carry out the provisions of this act; and for By Mr. RODINO: of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 to re other purposes; to the Committee on Inter H. R. 8916. A bill ·to provide for loans to quire the Civil Aeronautics Board to issue state and Foreign Commerce. enable needy and scholastically qualified certain regulations concerning air traffic at H. R. 8902. A bill to amend subsection 406 students to continue post-high-school edu La Guardia and New York-International (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as cation; to the Committee on Education and (Idlewild) Airports in the State of New York, amended; to the Committee on Interstate Labor. and Newark Airport in the State of New and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. ROGERS of Colorado: Jersey; to the Committee on Interstate and By Mr. HINSHAW: H. R. 8917. A bill authorizing condemna Foreign Commerce. H. R. 8903. A bill to amend subsection 406 tion under certain conditions; to the Com 0 H. R . 8890. A bill to amend section 902 (a) (b) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, mittee on Appropriations. of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, so that as amended; to the Committee on Interstate By Mr. SMITH of Mississippi: the penalties provided therein will apply and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 8918. A bill to provide that the Sec to violations of civil aeronautics safety regu By Mr. KILDAY: retary of the Interior shall investigate and lations; to the Committee on Interstate and H. R. 8904. A bill to amend certain laws report to the Congress as to the advisability Foreign Commerce. relating to the grade of certain personnel of .of establishing Fort Pemberton, Leflore H. R. 8891. A blll to amend the Civil Aero the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps County, Miss., as a national monument; to nautics Act of 1938 to prohibit ·jet-propelled upon retirement; to the Committee on the Committee on Interior and Insular Af aircraft from using airports located in densely Armed Services. faiz:s, populated areas; to the Committee on Inter By Mr. McCARTHY: By Mr. THOMPSON of Texas: state and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 8905. A bill to amend section 4141 H : R. 8919. A bill authorizing improvement By Mr. BROOKS of Texas: of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, for of a deep draft navigation channel from the H. R. 8892. A bill to provide for research the purpose of repealing the manufacturers Gulf of Mexico through Pass Cavallo to Point and technical assistance relating to the con excise tax on children's phonograph records Comfort, Tex., designated as the Matagorda trol of salt-marsh and other pest mosquitoes retailing for 25 cents or less; to the Commit Ship Channel; to the Committee on Public of public health importance and mosquito tee on Ways and Means. Works. vectors of human disease; to the Committee By Mr. MATTHEWS: By Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey: on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. . H. R. 8906. A bill to prohibit the courts H. R. 8920. A bill to provide for the pro By Mr. BROYHILL: of the United States and all other Federal motion and strengthening of international H. R. 8893. A bill to amend the Civil Serv ~encies from deciding or considering any relations through cultural and athletic ex ice Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as matter drawing in question the administra :changes and participation in international amended, to provide that annuities shall be tion by the seyeral States of their respective fairs and festivals; to the Commitee on For adjusted simultaneously with general ad educational systems; to the Committee on eign Affairs. justments in Federal employees' salaries; to the Judiciary. By Mr. THOMPSON of Louisiana: the Committee on Post Office and Civil By Mr. MOSS: H. R. 8921. A bill to provide for research Service. H. R. 8907. A bill to correct an inequity and technical assistance relating to the con By Mr. CEDERBERG: resultint from the setting of the effective trol of salt-marsh and other pest mosquitoes H. R. 8894. A bill to encourage construc date of Public Law _68 of the 84th Congress; of public health importance and mosquito tion and maintenance of Great Lakes cargo to the Committee on Post Office and Civil vectors of human disease; to the Committee vessels for peacetime and national defense Service. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. use; to the Committee on Merchant Marine By Mr. NORRELL: By Mr. VINSON: and Fisheries. H. R. 8908. A bill to amend the Career H. R. 8922. A bill to provide for the relief By Mr. CHIPERFIELD: Compensation Act of 1949 to provide that of certain members of the uniformed services; H. R. 8895. A bill authorizing the recon certain enlisted men retired with credit for to the Committee on Armed Services. struction, enlargement, and extension of the service counted as double time shall receive By Mr. WILLIS: bridge across the'Mississippi River at or near retired pay computed oii the basis of the - H. R. 8923. A bill to provide for research Rock Island, Ill.; to the Committee on Public highest federally recognized officer rank or and technical assistance relating to the con Works. grade held by them during World War I; to trol of salt-marsh and other pest mosquitoes H. R. 8896. A bill to provide for effecting the Committee on Armed Services. of public health importance. and mosquito the disposition of the Illinois and Mississippi By Mr. PELLY: vectors of human disease; to the Committee Canal, and for other purposes; . to the Com H. R. 8909. A bill to amend section 6 of the on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. mittee on Public Works. act of August 24, 1912, as amended, with re . By Mr·. BENNET!' of Florida: By Mr. DINGELL: spect to the recognition of organizations of H. Con. Res. 207. Concurrent resolution to H. R. 8897. A bill to repeal provisions of postal and Federal employees; to the Com create a joint congressional committee to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 granting mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. make a full and complete study and investi special income-tax treatment for dividends H. R. 8910. A bill to amend paragraph 1629 gation of all matters connected with the elec received by individuals, and to increase the of the Tariff Act of 1930 so as to provide tion, succession, and duties of the President amount of ·ea<:h personal exemption allowed for the free impo;rtatlon of tourist literature; and Vice President; to the Committee on by such code as a deduction for income-tax to the Committee on Ways and Means. Rules. 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - -HOUSE 1613 By Mr. ABBITT: PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS PETITIONS, ETC. H.J. Res. 496. Joint resolution to avoid Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions false representations to the consuming public Under clause 1 of rule XXJ:I, private as to the true weight of prepared meat and bills and resolutions were introduced and and papers were laid on the Clerk's meat food products subject to shrinkage and severally referred as follows: desk and referred as follows: to avoid the economic waste and duplication By Mr. BAILEY: 462. By Mr. BEAMER: Petition of the In of effort in the weighing of such products; H. R. 8924. A bill for the relief of Kath diana Council of Churches setting forth to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign erine S. Collins; to the Committee on the resolutions adopted unanimously by the Commerce. Judiciary. Assembly of the Indiana Council of By Mr. DINGELL: By Mr. BAKER: Churches on Friday, January 20, 1956, at H.J. Res. 497. Joint resolution to provide H . R. 8925. A bill for the relief of James Indianapolis; to the Committee on Inter for the observance and commemoration of Kanji Hoskins; to the Committee on the state and Foreign Commerce. the 50th anniversary of the official founding Judiciary. 463. By Mr. NORBLAD: Petition of G. B. and launching of the conservation movement By Mr. CRAMER: Harbison and 20 other citizens of Newberg, for the prote<:tion, in the public interest, of H. R. 8926. A bill to authorize the sale and Oreg., urging enactment of legislation to the natural resources of the United States; to conveyance of certain of the publicly owned prohibit the transportation of alcoholic bev the Committee on the Judiciary. lands of the United Stat-es to the American erage advertising in intertsate commerce; Federation of the Physically Handicapped By Mr. FERNANDEZ: to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Institute for Human Engineering; to the Commerce. H.J. Res. 498. Joint resolution to provide Committee on Agriculture. for the observance and commemoration. of 464. Also, petition of Mrs. R. W. McCor By Mr. GUBSER: mick and 20 other citizens of Dallas, Oreg., the 50th anniversary of the offic_ial founding H. R. 8927. A bill for the relief of Carlos and launching of the conservation movement Manuel DaSilva; to the Committee on the urging enactment of legislation to prohibit for the protection, in the public interest, of Judiciary. the transportation of alcoholic beverage ad the natural resources of the United States; to H. R. 8928. A bill for the relief of Miho vertising in interstate commerce; to the the Committee on the Judiciary. Sinko; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com By Mr. MACHROWICZ: merce. H. R. 8929. A bill for the relief of Bernard 465. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the ex MEMORIALS T. Frydrysiak; to the Committee on the Ju ecutive director, League of California Cities, ·diciary. Berkeley, Calif., petitioning consideration Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memorials By Mr. NORRELL: of their resolution with · refer:ence to re were presented and referred as follows: H. R. 8930. A bill for the relief of Mrs. questing the appropriation of funds neces Micheline Marie Ponder; to the Committee on sary to permit the United States Army Corps By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Legis the Judiciary. lature of the State of Georgia, memorializing of Engineers to construct adequate flood con By Mr. OSTERTAG: trol works on authorized projects in Cali the President. and the Congress of the ·united H. R. 8931. A bill for the relief of Hubert States relative to congratulating the Com ·Wellington James; to the Committee on the for_nia which have been approved by the monwealth of Virginia for its leadership in Judiciary. State of California; to the Committee on the struggle to preserve the time-honored By Mr. SIEMINSKI: Appropriations. American concept of State and local control H. R. 8932. A bill for the relief of certain 466. Also, petition of Frank A. Hourihan, over _education, etc.; to the Committee on the Polish sailors; to the Committee on the Ju Chicago, Ill., relative to case No. 388 Misc., Judiciary. diciary. Frank A. Hourihan of Chicago, Ill., petitioner, Also, memorial of the Legislature of the By Mr. STAGGERS: v. National Labor Relations Board, Paul M, State of Kentucky, memorializing ·the Presi H. R. 8933. A bill to provide for the con Herzog, Chairman and; or the General Coun dent and the Congress of the United States veyance of certain real property of the United ·sel of the Board, and case No. 11346, Frank to provide Federal funds for education; to States to the former owners thereof; to the A. Hourihan of Chicago, Ill., appellant v. the· Committee on Education and Labor. -Committee on Government Operations. National Labor Relations Board, Paul M. Her By Mr. YOUNG: zog, Chairman of th_e Board and; or tne Gen Also, memorial of the Legislature of the H. R. 8934. A bill for the relief of Curtis State of Kentucky, memorializing the Presi w. Strong; to the Committee on the Ju eral Counsel of the Board, appellees; to tne ·dent and the Congress of the United States diciary. Committee on the Judiciary. · relative to requesting immediate action on By Mr. YOUNGER: 467. Also, petition of the city clerk, Rah legislation designed to establish for America H. R. 8935. A bill for the relief of the estate way, N. J., requesting enactment of the a modern highway system; to the Committee of John A. Sutter; to the Committee on the bill H. R. 8190, for the relief of Christa E. on Public Works. Judiciary. Holder; to the Committee on the Judiciary. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Address by Senator Potter at _Salute !o have gathered with one purpose in mind and other system anywhere in the world. It's a that is to render a well-deserved salute to system that will involve everyone in the Eisenhower Dinner a truly great man, our President, Dwight D. country if they're willing to be involved. It Eisenhower. welcomes the participation of any and all. I have always been a hearty supporter of Our political system is responsive to the EXTENSION OF REMARKS President Eisenhower and extremely fond of participation of its citizens. It is flexible and OF him as a man and an individual and I hold it is sensitive to changing times and, as we ·the greatest respect and reverence for him all know, it's even good , for a few laughs _ HON. CHARLES E. POTTER as the most inspired leader of our day. The once in a while. One of the chuckles that OF MICHIGAN record of Tennessee's support of Mr. Eisen I get out of our present politicai system is THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATF.8 hower proves that you feel as I do about the fact that we can always seem to find m him. And so I say "thank you" for the signal members of our particular party not only Monday, January 30, 1956 honor you have conferred upon me in in at any place in the country but at any time viting me to be here with you tonight. in history. All we have to do is read a Mr. POTTER. Mr. President, I ask The historic significance of t'his area forms history book, pick out someone we like in unanimous consent that there be printed a great chapter in the history of our coun times past and say, "Well, now, he is a good in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD an ad 'try. Your land is beautiful, your recreation Lopublican." . Funny thing about it is, a dress I delivered at the Salute to Eisen facilities are unlimited, the enthusiasm and Democrat can pick up the same book and hower Dinner in Chattanooga, Tenn., on progr.essiveness of your industrial and civic say, "Why, he's a good Democrat." January 20, 1956. development is outstanding. It is a natural desire to want to associate There being no objection, the address So my visit here is not only an honor but · ourselves wit'h the men who have been a real personal pleasure. Again I thank you great leaders. It is history itself which out was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, for the warm and genuine welcome you have lines to us the great men of past ages but as follows: given me. it is not always easy to see the great men The first thing I want to say to you folks I'm willing to stand up here or anywhere of our own times. It is only occasionally tonight is '.'thank you." It is a real pleasure and tell anyone that I think we"ve got the 'that a man of our own times stands out so and a great honor to be here with you best political system in the world. Right distinctly by his own character and his own tonight. ·away I'll agree with you that it's not per accomplishments that he is known and ac Right at this moment in more than 50 ·fect and it may never be perfect, but in knowledged as a great man during his own cities across the country over 70,000 persons this day and age it's far better than any lifetime. CII--102