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WASHINGTON The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the Kenneth K. King, Addy, gentleman from South Carolina? Hannah L. Parker, Alderwood Manor. There was no objection .. Ernest H. McComb, Everson. REPORTS FROM COMMITTEE ON RULES John H. McAfee, Ilwaco. Mr. O'CONNOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Mary Mallory, Mansfield. that the Rules Committee may have until midnight tonight Arthur A. Barnes, Pasco. to file several reports from that committee. Bertha H. Welsh, Prescott. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the Jessie A. Knight, Shelton. gentleman.from New York?. . · Richard H. Lee, Wilsoncreek. There was no objection. SCHUYLER MERRITT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. TREADWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD at this point and FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1935 include therein a citation given to our colleague from Con The House met at 12 o'c)ock noon. necticut, SCHUYLER MERRITT, on receiving the degree o!.. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., LL. D. from Yale University at its two hundred and thirty offered the following prayer: fourth commencement at New Haven on June 19. [Ap- Father in Heaven, we thank Thee that there is no cry so plauie.1 · faint, no cause so weak, and no man so humble as to be The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the beyond divine sympathy. We rejoice that all distinctions gentleman from Massachusetts? are swept away. O welcome those who wish for Thee and. There was no objection. live with those who long for Thee. Bless us with the more The citation referred to follows: abundant life which is to heal wounds, lead others to hidden SCHUYLER MERRITT, LL. D. truth, open new realms of thought and new vistas of hope. Professor NETTLETON. Dean of the Connecticut Congressional delegation; hardy, and well-nigh perennial. Representative at Subdue in us any arrogant motives of self-interest and fits Washington of the Fourth Connecticut District; even more firmly of temper-they disturb and even defeat our usefulness; seated in the constant atrection of a constituency which gladly they so often dull the. finer instincts and crush the more transgresses party law and local limits. Born in New York City; but, after a single experimental year, withdrawing to Connecticut, compassionate feelings. ·Let the .streams tha~ flow from the he made Stamford his immediate home and Yale his future col- fountains of heavenly grace flood our lives and fructify our lege, graduating in the class of '73, and taking his law degree minds. In our Savior's name. Amen. from Columbia. For 50 years and more he ha.S followed, as he has set, the highest standards of professional and public service, The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and mating knowledge with integrity, and manhood with modesty. approved. At home, administrator of civic charities, schools, and libraries; within the State, member of the convention which il)lportantly MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE revised the constitution, and chair:rµan for 10 years of the Con A message from the Senate, by Mr. Home, its enrolling necticut Board of Education; in Congress, valued member of the clerk, announced that the Senate disagrees to the amend Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee; ever an active agent of the common weal, fulfilled in the honors of half a century, ments of the House to the bill CS. 1958) entitled "An act to but pressing forward with unclouded vision and unfaltering diminish the causes of labor disputes burdening or obstruct energy. It was written of an elder lawgiver who led the · people ing interstate and foreign comm~rce, to create a National out of the wilderness that, though he long outlived a century, "yet was not his eye dim, nor his natural force abated." May Labor Relations Board, and for other purposes", requests a this be the law and the prophets. Quod bonum., felix, faustum., conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the fortunatumque sit. two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. WALSH, Mr. MURPHY, President ANGELL. Sturdy son of a sturdy stock, you have long Mr. MURRAY, Mr. BORAH, ~nd Mr. L4 FOLLETTE to be the con and faithfully represented in the Halls of Congress the finest. qualities of your native State. Shrewd wisdom, integrity, indus ferees on the part of the Senate. try, unfiinching honor, and the spirit of fair play-these have CALL OF THE HOUSE ever characterized your varied forms of public service and have justly won for you the admiration of friend and foe alike. Your Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, I make the point of order alma mater, proud of your distinguished record, confers upon you that there is no quorum present. her highest honor, the degree of doctor of laws, admitting you The SPEAKER. Evidently there is no quorum present. to all its rights and privileges. Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I move a call of CHARLES A. LINDBERGH the House. . Mr. LUDLOW. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to A call of the House was ordered. extend my remarks briefly in the RECORD. The Clerk called the roll, and the following Members The SPEAKER. Without objection it is so ordered. failed to answer to their names: There was no objection. [Roll No. 100] Mr. LUDLOW. Mr. Speaker, a few moments ago I read Andresen Dickstein Marshall Shannon in an afternoon newspaper that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, in. Bacon Dorsey Mitchell, Ill. Sisson Bankhead Doutrich Murdock Smith, Conn. his unobtrusive way, is achieving great results in a new field Brooks Fish Oliver Smith, Va.. of service with which his name has not heretofore been asso Brown. Mich. Gassaway Palmisano Sweeney ciated. It seems that this modest, unassuming pioneer of. Buckley, N. Y. Gi1Iord Patman Tobey Bulwinkle Hartley Patton Tolan the air is pushing forward toward new frontiers, this time Cannon, Wis. Hennings Perkins Underwood in the field of scientific research, which recalls to my mind Casey Kopplemann Pettengill Whelchel Cell er Lam.neck Peyser White a flood of memories of one of the most extraordinary char.. Chapman Larrabee Polk Whittington acters of American history. Cochran Lea, Calif. Richards Wolcott Eight years ago this month, on his return from his epochal Connery Lewis, Md. Rogers, N. H. Wood Cooper. Ohio McClellan Russell :flight to Paris, it was my duty and responsibility, as presi Dear McGroarty Seger dent of the National Press Club, to introduce him at the The SPEAKER. Three hundred and seventy-one Mem Washington Auditorium to what I believe was the largest bers have answered to their names. a quorum. audience ever assembled under one roof at the Nation's Capi Mr. TAYLOR of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I move to dis tal. By unanimous consent of the House, I am going to pense with further proceedings under the call. insert in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the speech I made on The motion ·was agreed to. that occasion. It was as follows: Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen, not for ages has the imag SESSION OF COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS ination of man been stirred as It was 3 weeks ago when Charles Mr. McSWAIN. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Commit A. Lindbergh, fired by the intrepid spirit of the Western World, tee on Military Affairs, I ask unanimous consent that that launched forth in his airplane alone, provisioned with four sand wiches and a bottle of water, a pioneer of the trackless seas. As committee may sit today during the session of the House . America's shores receded in the distance he faced a vast wildernesa after half-past 2. · ot treacherous ocean. 1935 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9853
As 1! roiled by the ·very boldness of this Columbus of the air CLARENCE HERBERT PELTIER this winged Mercury, speeding like a thunderbolt of Jove--nature sent her tempestuous elements athwart his path, and while he Mr. SUMNERS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous battled with the storm and sleet millions upon millions of his consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged fellow beings sent up prayers for his safety to the throne of God. from further consideration of the bill CH. R. 669) for the re The 33 hours and 30 minutes from New York to Paris was a period of tragic suspense, when the whole world poured forth in a lief of Clarence Herbert Peltier and that the bill be referred myriad of mystic ways its admiration for the incomparable aviator to the Committee on Naval Affairs. and its love for the mother who had brought forth such a boy. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the To him mountains of peril were as nothing. His faith was gentleman from Texas? buoyant and his hopes were high. Courage was his woof and fiber, and it is not difficult to imagine that stern fate, surprised by this There was no objection. peremptory challenge of her inexorable decrees, lifted her beetled PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE brows and was touched by the very sublimity of his heroism, ·for she gave him a sporting chance. . Mr. McLAUGHLIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con And when he reached the other shores he arose to another test sent to address the House for 3 minutes. of character as greatly as when he battled with time and the The SPEAKER. The Chair hopes the gentleman will with elements. Amid all of the adulations of kings and parliaments he remained draw that request. The Chair will not recognize Members a modest, unassuming American, an honor to his home country, an to make speeches until after the Committee on Appropriations ambassador of good will, doing more to foster amity between na has concluded its business. tions than could have been done by a thousand ministers of state. Mr. McLAUGHLIN. I will withdraw the request, Mr. "After all," he said in London, "two Britishers were the first to fly across tb,e Atlantic." Again, when he learned that Chaml!erlin Speaker, and I ask unanimous consent for the immediate had started on the long !light, he remarked fervently, "I hope he consideration of a joint resolution which I have introduced. makes it." Here he struck the major chord of his character in his The SPEAKER. The Chair hopes the gentleman will with desire to give to his comrades at home and across the seas a share of his imperishable glory. And when, in foreign lands, the ties of hold that request until after the consideration of the appro home began to press and strain against his heart and he confessed, priation bill. · in simple truth and sincerity, to being homesick, how America did Mr. McLAUGHLIN. I will withdraw the request, Mr. yearn to take him to her bosom! His name is now among the immortals. Around .the firesides and Speaker. in the vast, crowded halls of the future, wherever worth is recog SECOND DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, 1935 nized and genius is extolled, his achievement will b~ recalled with pride by countless generations yet unborn. Nothing finer could Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House have been done; nothing grander could have been done; no greater resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the epic could have been written into history, and tonight we thank state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill Almighty God that in His infinite goodness and mercy He has per mittell Charles A. Lindbergh to return to the arms of those who CH. R. 8554) making appropriations to supply deficiencies love him. in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, I now present Colonel Lindbergh. 1935, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental ap Mr. Speaker, nothing has happened during the last 8 propriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1935, and eventful years to mar the prophecy which I uttered on that June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. occasion or to shake the Nation's faith in this remarkable The motion was agieed to. young man. Although his life has been seared by one of the Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee cruelest tragedies ever known in all the annals of crime, of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further he goes serenely on trying to do good and seeking by a record consideration of the bill H. R. 8554, with Mr. HANcocK of of service to justify his existence in a world where there is North Carolina in the chair. always so much worth while to be done by those with right The Clerk read the title of the bill. eous minds and willing hands. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Speaker, the news that Colonel Lindbergh is seeking TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY through scientific research to ameliorate the condition of For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act en mankind once more stamps him as a man of purpose, as a titled "The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 ", approved May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58), including the acquisition of necessary many-sided genius who is described by his collaborator, Dr. land, the clearing of such land, relocation of highways, and the Alexis Carrell, as possessing one of the " keenest and most construction or purchase of transmission lines and other facili intuitive and inventive minds." He does not need to do these ties, and all other necessary works authorized by said act, and for printing and blnd.ing, law books, books of reference, news things to win immortality, for immortality almost beyond papers, periodicals, purchase, maintenance, and operation of comparison is his already. He does them because he loves passenger-carrying vehicles, rents in the District of Columbia his fellow men. and elsewhere, and all nece&Sary salaries and expenses connected Mr. Speaker, since that other June, now rapidly fading with the organization, operation, and investigations of the Ten nessee Valley Authority, $34,675,192: Provided, That this appro into the mists of the past, when the youthful Charles A. priation and all appropriations, allotments, and other funds made Lindbergh returned amid riotous acclaim from Paris to a available heretofore to the Tennessee Valley Authority, including Nation that for the time had banished every other thought any unexpended balances remaining from the appropriation of $50,000,000 made to the Tennessee Valley Authority by the Fourth except the thought of throwing her arms around him, I have Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933, the allocation of $25,000,000 made met him often, under diverse conditions and varying cir to the Tennessee Valley Authority under the Emergency Ap cumstances, and I have never-ceased to admire him for his propriation Act, fiscal year 1935, and the receipts of the Tennessee· sincerity, for his determination, for his freedom from com Valley Authority from all sources, except as limited by section 26 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act approved May 18, 1933 mercialism, for his altruism which has prompted him to de (48 Stat. 58), ·shall be covered into and accounted for as one vote his life's efforts to the common good and for the fact fund to be known as the " Tennessee Valley Authority Fund " that under conditions that would have turned the beads of and shall remain available until June 30, 1936. less well-poised mortals he has always remained a simple, Mr. McLEAN. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment. true American, utterly free from affectation, courting no The Clerk read as follows: favors from the rich and powerful and standing on the prin Amendment offered by Mr. McLEAN: On page 48, line 16, after ciple that" a man's a man, for a' that", whether that prin the figures "1936 ", insert the following: ciple be applied to those who dwell in hovels or in palaces. "All moneys of the Corporation of whatsoever nature hereafter Every time I look at him I say to myself: received by or for the Corporation shall be immediately and without diminution deposited and covered into the Treasury of He has walked with kings, nor lost the common touch! the United States, and such portion thereof as is authorized by the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended, or RAILROAD REORGANIZATION LEGISLATION other law, to be used by said Corporation in carrying out the Mr. SUMNERS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous provisions of said act, as amended, shall be transferred to an appropriate appropriation account, withdrawable only on war consent that the Committee on the Judiciary may have un rant as are other appropriated public moneys, and subject to til midnight tonight to file a report on the bill, H. R. 8587, authority specifically granted by the Tennessee Valley Authority the railroad reorganization bill. Act of 1933, and as amended, all laws regulating the obligating The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the or expenditure of other public moneys shall be applicable thereto: Provided, That the provisions of section 3709, Revised Statutes, gentleman from Texas? shall be applicable to purchases of supplies and equipment neces· There was no objection. sary for dam construction. Accounts of all transactions involv· 9854 _CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 21 tng receipts or disbursements of the Corporation shall be duly matter ordinarily- coming within the jurisdictlon of the rendered to the General Accounting Office at such times and in such substance and form as may be prescribed by the Comp Committee on Military Affairs. troller General of the United States, and said accounts and such The point of order is sustained. claims as may arise shall be settled and adjusted by the Gen Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment. eral Accounting Office under and pursuant to the provisions of The Clerk read as follows: title m of the Budget and Accounting Act approved June 10, 1921: Provided, That the expenses of such portion of the audit Amendment offered by Mr. TABER: On page 48, line 16, strike as the Comptroller General may authorize to be done in the field out " $34,675,192 " and insert in lieu thereof " $28,675,192 "; shall be paid from moneys advanced therefor by the Corporation, page 48, line 16, strike out the period, insert a colon and or from any appropriation or appropriations for the General the following: "Provided, That none of the funds herein or else Accounting Office, and appropriations so used shall be reimbursed where made available to the Tennessee Valley Authority or the promptly by the Corporation as billed by the Comptroller Gen Tennessee Valley fund shall be used for the construction of any eral. In such connection the Comptroller General and his repre new dam or power lines until further action by Congress." sentatives shall have free and open access to all papers, books, records, files, accounts, plants, warehouses, offices, and all other Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of things, property, and places belonging to, under the control of, order against the amendment that it is additional legisla or used or employed by the Corporation, and shall be afforded tion on an appropriation bill and changes existing law, for full facilities for counting all cash and verifying transactions with the balances in depositaries. The officers · of the Corporation to it broadens the language of the pending bill by use of the whom moneys may be advanced on accountable warrant shall words "or elsewhere." - · each give a bond to the United States for the faithful discharge The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from New York of the duties of his office according to law ln such amount as desire to be heard on the point of order? shall be directed by the Comptroller General. Should there be any administrative delinquency in the rendering of the accounts Mr. TABER. I desire to be heard briefly, if the Chair as directed, or any unsatisfactory condition of the accounts, requi please. The first portion of the amendment to the effect sitions for funds shall be disapproved by the Comptroller Gen that none of the funds shall be available for the construc eral unless, for good cause shown, he shall elect to withhold such disapproval." tion of any new dam or power lines until further action by Congress, is purely a limitation and strictly within the Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of Holman rule. order against the amendment that it is legislation on an Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, the word "elsewhere" appropriation bill and changes eXISting law. used in the amendment constitutes additional legislation. The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman from New Jersey The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is ready to rule. £Mr. McLEAN] desire to be heard on the amendment? In the opinion of the Chair, while the amendment is in Mr. McLEAN. Mr. Chairman, the amendment really the form of a limitation, yet the words "or elsewhere" con changes only to a limited extent the language of the com tained in the amendment apply to other appropriations. mittee amendment by limiting the manner in which the and is therefore legislation; and for this reason the point of funds of the Tennessee Valley Authority shall be spent order is sustained. under the jurisdiction of the Comptroller General; and it Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I offer another amendment. makes the money applicable only to such disbursements as The Clerk read as follows: are made as a result of competitive bidding and not as a Amendment oft'ered by Mr. TABER: On page 48, line 16, strike result of negotiated contracts, as has been the practice of out "$34,675,192 " and insert in lieu thereof " $28,675,192 '', and the Tennessee Valley Authority. My amendment is· purely on page 48, line 16, strike out the period, insert a colon, and the a limitation on the activities of the agency to which this following: "Provided, That none of the funds herein made available to money is to be given. the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Tennessee Valley fund shall Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, may I be heard on the point be used for the construction of a.ny new dam or power lines until of order? further action by Congress." The CHAIRMAN. ·The Chair will be pleased to hear the Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman-- gentleman. Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, a point of order before the Mr. TABER. This amendment is not only a limitation gentleman argues this matter. upon the funds carried in this bill which are in effect re Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, I make the point of appropriated, but it is also germane to the language of the order that the amendment is out of order because the use of bill covering the full appropriations that have been made the word " fund " implies funds not carried in the pend for this purpose into one fund. It is, also, a direction as to ing bill. how and in what manner the funds shall be accounted for. Mr. BLANTON. Mr. 9hairman, I desire to make a further By the rule under which we are proceeding in the con point of order against the amendment before the gentleman sideration of this bill, anything germane to the language of from New York begins his argument. the bill is made in order, and I believe the gentleman's Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I wish to submit a unani amendment in its entirety is in order. mous-consent request. Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, I desire to be heard on Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, I want to make a further the point of order. point of order against the amendment before any proceedings The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will be pleased to hear the intervene. gentleman on the point of order. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will be heard on the Mr. RANKIN. In answer to the argument of the gentle point of order. man from New Jersey [Mr. McLEAN] and the gentleman Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, I make the further .Point from New York [Mr. TABER], I maintain that the amend of order that the amendment constitutes a change in existing ment of the gentleman from New Jersey goes far beyond the law unauthorized on an appropriation bill, in that the present effect claimed for it. The amendment changes existing law law authorizes these funds to build dams. and is, therefore, legislation on an appr9priation bill and Mr. RANKIN. And transmission lines. entirely out of order, as pointed out by the gentleman fiom Mr. BLANTON. And transmission lines. The gentleman's Texas. amendment seeks to change existing law, and this cannot be The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is of the opinion that the done in an appropriation bill. point of order is well taken. The Chair bases this conclu Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I notice there is a mistake in sion upon a ruling handed down by the gentleman from the amendment I sent to the Clerk's desk. I intended to say, Connecticut [Mr. Tilson], while presiding over a Commit " On page 48, line 2, strike out ' $34,000,000 ' and insert tee of the Whole. At that time and in a similar case it was '$28,000,000.',, held that although the amendment then offered was ger Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the amend... mane it contained additional legislation beyond the juris ment may be so modified. diction of the Committee on Appropriations. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment will The Chair believes that this amendment is germane but be modified as requested. that it proposes additional legislation which is a subject There was no objection. 1935 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9855 Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, has the point of order been thing. We have a lot of power available out of the Norris disposed of? and Wilson Dams to sell. Now, let us find out what the The CHAIRMAN. The point of order is still pending. constitutional situation is with reference to the right of the Mr. BLANTON. Mr. Chairman, the point of order is Government to go ahead and sell power. Let us :find out lodged also against the modified amendment. what the flood-control situation is going to be before we go The CHAIRMAN. That is correct. ahead and fool away a lot more money. Mr. RANKIN. What is the gentleman's amendment? [Here the gavel fell.] Mr. TABER. It changes the line reference; I had the Mr. McREYNOLDS. Mr. Chairman, I ri~e in opposition wrong line. to the amendment. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will hear the gentleman Mr. Chairman, the gentleman's contention against build from New York on the point of order. ing these dams is that we do not know the situation in Chat Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, the amendment in its pres tanooga as to the floods and consequently we ought to wait. ent form is a limitation applying solely to funds herein If you want a picture of the flood situation in Chattanooga appropriated. during different floods, there it is [displaying a large pic There is absolutely no question but what it is entirely ture]. Practically all the city was covered with water in a limitation upon the language that already appears in the 1917. The gentleman from New York knows that the proof bill as read. I can see no reason for sustaining the point produced shows that the building of the Norris Dam will of order. lower the flood stage 6 feet, and that the Chickamauga Dam The CHAIRMAN. The Chair is ready to rule. will lower it 37'2 feet. We do not have to wait until my city The Chair takes the position that the amendment is a is swept from the banks of the Tennessee River to have limitation; therefore the point of order is overruled. the proper proof of need for protection, and no one on the Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, the Tennessee Valley Au committee knows the situation better than the gentleman thority proposes with the funds that are herein made avail from New York. Here is a picture of flood stage there of able to start work, as I understand it, upon two dams, known 47 feet and 35 feet. You can see the serious troubles we as "Chickamauga" and "Guntersville." These dams are may have by this blue print. We do not have to wait. quite expensive propositions. The total cost of these dams Mr. Chairman, this is the usual old cry of the Republican when completed, will be $27 ,000,000. If we start construc Party in trying to def eat the construction of these dams on tion we will have to finish them. the Tennessee River. There is not a dam included in this Mr. Chairman, we haive gone already ahead and started appropriation which was not approved by the Congress in to build four dams, the Wheeler Dam, the Pickwick Dam, 1932. I regret the fact that they on the other side are try the Norris Dam, and the Wilson Dam. When those dams ing to make this a party measure. You know they tried to are completed some kind of a size-up may be then made junk the Wilson Dam because it was named after that great as to whether there is any possible excuse for more dams. President of the World War, Woodrow Wilson. [Applause.] We are ailso in the process of constructing a lot of power We passed bills some two or three times disposing of lines. There is now an injunction suit pending to prevent Muscle Shoals, and the Cove Creek Dam, and it was vetoed the Tennessee Valley Authority engaging in the power busi by Hoover and by Coolidge. The reason we have authority ness. Whether or not that will be sustained in the Supreme to construct these dams now is because Franklin D. Roose Court no one knows. velt was elected President. The only possible excuse for these dams is to ·control Mr. Chairman, if the Membership votes to amend this the flood situation at Chattanooga. appropriation, if they interfere with it in any way, it will be May I say that Engineering Document No. 328, page 188, a strike at the administration. I appeal to the Democrats to shows the flovd situation. It is expected thait the Norris uphold the Appropriations Committee in passing this appro Dam will cut off a very large portion, if not all, of the flood priation as it is. It has already been cut down from the damage that will accrue to Chattanooga. Personally, I be Budget estimate of $60,000,000 to $34,000,000. It provides for lieve it will. Why should we go ahead and appropriaite the commencement of ·these two dams, Guntersville and money for more dams until we find out whether it will or Chickamauga, which are necessary for the navigation of. not? If we go head and spend $17,000,000 for the Chicka the Tennessee River. It is necessary to control the :Hood mauga Dam we have that much money invested. There is situation existing in my city, and may I say that the average not navigation enough there to justify such an expenditure. damage to that city, as estimated over a period of years, is It is not a power proposition, becaiuse the Pickwick Dam $687 ,000 per year. Then· they tell me to wait to see-whether and the Wheeler Dam are not now equipped with a power or not we need-this dam. I say again that the gentleman· house, with generators or with wheels to generate power. from New York knows the situation, because the proof was The Commission itself, even in the way it is being managed, offered before his committee, and he is thoroughly familiar recognizes that there is not demand enough to justify that with the situation. I ask the Democrats to stand by the sort of thing. Therefore we ought to stop the further con administration and to stand by these dams that in 1932 were struction of power lines or dams until we find out what the endorsed by the Congress for the improvement of navigation situation is going to be. We ought to stop this until we find in the Tennessee River, for flood control, and to create power.· out whether or not the Chattanooga situation is going to Mr. TAYLOR of Tennessee. Will the gentleman yield? be entirely corrected, because that is the only excuse for Mr. McREYNOLDS. I yield to the gentleman from Ten the Chickamauga Dam or any of the others. nessee. Mr. MAY. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. TAYLOR of Tennessee. Eliminating the problem of Mr. TABER. I yield to the gentleman from Kentucky. . :Hood control, if the Tennessee River is to be made navigable, Mr. MAY. We ought to at least make the Tennessee these dams are necessary? Valley Authority submit a report or give an estimate of what Mr. McREYNOLDS. Absolutely necessary. These dams these things are going to cost before they are permitted to will make the Tennessee River available for navigation for go ahead and start construction? 71 miles above Chattanooga. There is nothing, in my opin Mr. TABER. Frankly, may I say I think we have a state ion, that has come before this House With more merit than ment from them as to what these dams will cost; but we this item in the pending appropriation bill. ought to have a picture of this whole situation, and whether I appeal to you not to let them cut the amount one cent or not it can be made to operate successfully. or put one modification upon it. It aids the South, but it According to their own statement, which appears in the aids the entire United States as well. [Applause and cries of RECORD, it will cost at least $192,000,000 to build the dams "Vote."] which they want to build, and in 1941 the only revenue they Mr. STARNES. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the expect to receive will be about $5,000,000, which would not proforma amendment. Mr. Chairman, we have opposition more than half pay the depreciation charges, not alone the to this section of the proposed measure from two sources. interest on the money invested. We are already in this The first is political in its nature; certain members of the 9856 _CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 21 Republican Party oppose it because the Tennessee Valley limited power possibilities, private utilities and private in Authority is the brain child of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the dustry, of which the opposition so glibly prate, have failed greatest leader of modern times. The other source of opposi to develop this section and by obstructionist tactics would tion is from the electric utility and coal companies. If we prevent the proper development of this great region by the brush aside the curtain of suspicion and misrepresentation T. V.A. we see the directing hand of the utility companies of this The program of t..'tie T. V. A. is essentially a program of country. They read the handwriting on the wall. There has utilization and conservation. It is time for the people of this been a great deal of misleading infonnation brought to this country to realize that in order to continue the march of House, as well as a distortion of the facts with reference to progress we must utilize our vast natural resources and the aims and purposes of the T. V. A. We have been told conserve them for future generations. In this manner, and it is not necessary to build the Guntersville or the Chicka in this manner only, can we properly fulflll our destiny. mauga Dams at this time. They overlook the fact that these [Applause.] two dams are primarily for the purpose of developing navi Mr. ANDREWS of New York. Mr. Chairman, I move to gation and to provide flood control. The Army engineers strike out the last two words. estimate that there is an annual loss from floods of $1,784,000 Mr. Chairman, the Military Affairs Committee of the each year on the Tennessee River alone. If we consider the House has been holding hearings on this T. V. A. proposition loss on the tributaries, the amount will be increased. A total for over 4 months. acreage of 666,154 is inundated each year. Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, will tlie gentleman yield? Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? Mr. ANDREWS of New York. Yes. Mr>. STARNES. Gladly. Mr. RANKIN. Have they not really been holding an in- Mr. RANKIN. This is also a most insidious move to try quisition on the T. V. A.? to paralyze the Tennessee Valley Authority by preventing the Mr; ANDREWS of New York. I think they have. building of power lines to carry on its work. Mr; RANKIN. Yes; I think so, too. , Mr. STARNES. Absolut;ely, . Mr. ANDREWS of New York. I may say to the Com With reference to the question of navigation, the Pickwick mittee that the early edition of the hearings, which in Dam, the Wheeler Dam, and the Wilson Dam will bring 9 feet cluded the testimony given to the House committee during of navigable water to Guntersville, Ala. Guntersville is in the months of February and March, has been published. the heart of the Tennessee River Valley. Chattanooga and The more important and more illuminatmg hearings by the Knoxville and the great industrial area lying back of these House Military Affairs Committee were held on this subject cities are approximately 120 and 250 miles to the northeast. during the months of April and May. In accordance with · It is absolutely essential that the Guntersville Dam be built the usual courtesy of a congressional committee, a transcript next in order to open navigation to a 7-foot stage to the city of these hearings was sent to Messrs. Morgan and Lilienthal of Chattanooga, Tenn. This dam will also assist in flood over 2 weeks ago for their correction. The bill in its entire ' control and provisions can be made for developing power form is coming before the House next week, and I believ~ I when needed. am correct when I state that your Chairman of the Military These two dams are essential to this program, and I hope Affairs Committee wired Mr.- Lilienthal and Mr. Morgan 2 I the Committee will vote down the amendment offered by the days ago requesting a return of this transcript so that these : gentleman from New York. . hearings may be printed and available to Members when : Mr. HILL of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman the House bill is considered. . I know, as a matter of fact, yield? that at least up to an hour ago the transcript of the hearirtgs Mr. STARNES. I yield. · had not been received in the Military Affairs Committee, and Mr. HILL of Alabama. As a matter of fact, there can be we had not had even the courtesy ·of a reply to the request no economic development of this entire project without these by wire. I here and now call upon Mr. Morgan and Mr. two dams. Lilienthal to return the transcript of these hearings by next Mr. STARNES. Absolutely not. This is the heart of the Monday morning so they may be published by the Military program. Affairs Committee. We must not overlook the fact that in addition to the Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, let me say to the gentle-· development of navigation the T. V. A. program embraces the man from New York [Mr. ANDREWS] ·that Dr. Morgan will prevention of soil erosion, reforestation, the development of be here next week with this transcript. He is not holding cheaper power, the manufacture of cheaper fertilizer~ and it out. There was so much information called for in the ex-· provisions for the national defense. This program. is the amination of the directors of the T. V. A. that it is taking most far-reaching plan in the history of this Nation for the some time to get it up. betterment of the social and economic condition of the people of this Nation. It is absolutely essential that the T. V. A. The object of this amendment is to harass the T. V. A. It have an opportunity to develop the program unhampered by is an insidious movement on the part of the Power Trust, unnecessary litigation, unnecessary political sniping, and by indirection, through their friends in Congress, to try to legislation which will restrict its operations to a point where hamper the work of the Tennessee Valley Authority in order that they may not be able to do the very things we provided the directors cannot function. I hope the Committee will in the law of 1933. It is an attempt to prevent their bwlding vote down the amendment. [Appla~.l I have unbowided confidence in the ability, honor, and the transmission lines necessary to keep from being bottled up by the Power Trust and to destroy the great work the integrity of the directors of the T. V. A. They are_m~n who have a passion for service. Each is an outstanding leader T. V. A. is now doing. in his particular activity. The plans and aims of the Au I have seen what has been going on before this Committee thority are in line with the legislative will of the Congress on Military Affairs, and I have seen the outrageous inquisi as expressed in the original T. V. A: Act. tion to which Dr. Morgan has been subjected at the hands Members of Congress realize that this is not a local nor of those men who are more in sirnpathy with the Power a sectional program. The Tennessee Valley covers an area Trust than they are with the American people. of approximately 42,000 square miles and has a population I want to take this occasion to say that one of the great of two and a quarter million. The area touches upon seven men of this Republic, one of the great men of this day, is southeastern States. There is a wide variety of natural re Dr. Arthur E. l\4organ, of the Tennessee Valley Authority. I sources in this region. The T. V. A. proposes to utilize these believe he is the greatest constructing engineer on this con resources to better the social and economic condition of the tinent. people in this region and to demonstrate to the people of the ·If Dr. Morgan had been financially minded, he might Nation that similar programs can be successful anywhere in have become a multimillionaire. He might have gone to our. country. England and become a resident there-as another great Although this region has a fine native white-stock popula engineer did. He might have gone to Australia and got .tion and an infinite variety of ·natural resources and un-· rich exploiting the people of Australia. He might have gone · 1935 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9857 to China and transported Chinese coolies to South Africa So far as the Power Trust is concerned, I made my living, to die under the burning rays of an African sun and made until I came to Congress to starve, largely off the power a fortune in that way, regardless of the condemnation of companies as a prosecutor .of litigation against them. I have the British courts. no interest in them, but I am :interested in the great coal He might have become food administrator and come back industry in this country, that employs thousands of men in here heralded as a great humanitarian as well as a great my district and hundreds of thousands of others in the States engineer. of Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, He might have become a Republican candidate for Presi and Illinois, and all throughout this country. dent, after he decided which party he belonged to, and been We were literally told by Dr. Morgan that the coal indus heralded as a great statesman, a high-powered intellect, a try is doomed in this country; that electricity proposes to superman, and organizing genius, who could put 2 cars in take its place; and the situation is this, that you are build every garage and 2 chickens in every pot. [Laughter and ing a bureau in Tennessee with 2,500 while-collar employees applause.] riding around in cars at 7 cents a mile extra over regular After the failure of his administration, he might have been salary and per diem; $140,000 was paid out last year, over found groveling among the grass roots of the drought and above their daily and monthly wages, for car hire. stricken area, seeking for an issue or searching for an alibi. You are building a bureau with 2,500 white-collar employees [Applause.] in Knoxville, Tenn., bigger than half the departments in But Dr. Morgan chose to devote his life to building up Washington, and you propose to turn loose three bureaucrats, America. dreamers, who believe in the socialistic doctrines of Edward If you want to know whether he has been successful, go Bellamy, the first great socialist in America, as stated by to the people along the Miami River in Ohio, where for Dr. Morgan last week in a speech in Knoxville. He said merly thousands of men, women, and children were drowned, that he visualized a great utopian state, and that it was the and see what this great man has done there in protecting T. V. A. plans to establish in the southeastern part of the those people from such disasters in the future. United States such a state as Edward Bellamy wrote about I resent these insinuations against Dr. Morgan by Mem 50 years ago, and that means communism in its vilest form. bers of Congress who are more in sympathy with the Power All this amendment proposes to do is to tell them to come Trust than they are with the American people. I never met to Congress when they want to do something and tell us a more earnest, firm, patriotic man in my life than Dr. what it is. Instead of that, they propose to build a string Morgan. He will bring the records here, and when you bring of dams, and they say there ought to be 50 or 60 in the this bill out on the floor of the House the Congress of the Tennessee Valley that will cost over a billion dollars. All United States will be here to take care of it. [Applause.] this amendment does is to tell them to work on through the Mr. MAY. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike ·out the last next 2 years on the Norris Dam, which will take a year, three words. when it is done, to fill it up with water; on the Wheeler Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, I move that all debate Dam, that is a year and a half behind; and on the other on this amendment be closed in 5 minutes. dam they have started, in which they have just begun their Mr. McLEAN. O Mr. Chairman, I reserve the right to foundation, the Pickwick Dam, before commencing other object. dams. That is all it means. They are going around the The CHAffiMAN. No unanimous-consent request is pend Military Affairs Committee and going into the Appropria ing. The question is on the motion of the gentleman from tions Committee, demanding multiplied millions, and after Texas. awhile they will be down at the White House to get another Mr. McLEAN. Mr. Chairman, in view of the statements $100,000,000 out of the $4,800,000,000 that we handed over that have been made, I think I am entitled to be heard for to the President to do with as he pleases; and after a while 5 minutes. you will have a monster in Tennessee and Alabama that Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, in view of the fact that will swallow every right of every one of the States in the three Members have spoken against the amendment and South. [Applause.] two for it, I shall change my motion and move to close de The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Ken bate in 10 minutes. tucky has expired. The CHAffiMAN. The question is on the motion of the Mr. McLEAN. Mr. Chairman, I was elected to Congress gentleman from Texas, that all debate upon this amendment to take part in its deliberations. I was assigned to a com close in 10 minutes. mittee of this House, charged with a certain duty, and in The motion was agreed to. the exercise of that duty there developed certain conditions Mr. MAY. Mr. Chairman, in view of the statement made which I considered worthy of attention and which should by my distinguished friend from Mississippi [Mr. RANKIN J have investigation. Pursuant to my obligation as a Member I am impelled to take a position on the floor of the House, of Congress and as a member of that committee, I proceeded though I do so most reluctantly, because of the request of my to inquire into matters which I believed the country was good friend and colleague from Tennessee [Mr. MCREYN entitled to know about. I have no feeling of disrespect for OLDS], who is personally interested in one of these dams. For Dr. Arthur E. Morgan. On the contrary, I am willing to months the House Committee on Military Affairs, which is agree with the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. RANKIN] the legislative committee in the House which has charge of that he is a most distinguished and capable man, but there the Tennessee Valley Authority legislation, has been holding must be some merit in the opposition which arose against hearings, and in those hearings we have had the testimony this proposition to have excited so much interest. There is of all of the directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. We not a man in the Congress who knows the program of the have had the testimony of scores of other witnesses in oppo Tennessee Valley Authority. There is no document to which sition to the proposed amendment to the Tennessee Valley we can refer to ascertain what the Tennessee Valley Au Act. Throughout that whole hearing-and I state this fear thority intends to do. If the Tennessee Valley Authority less of contradiction-there has been a tendency and disposi had, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, made a study of tion on the part of the directors of the Tennessee Valley the situation and reported it to Congress, we could have in Authority to ignore the Congress of the United States and vestigated it and looked into it and perhaps have deter do as they please in the Tennessee Valley. Under the provi mined upon it as a plan of comprehensive development, and sions of the original basic act by which the Tennessee Valley we would know what the ultimate was going to be and how Authority was created it was provided that they should report much is going to be spent each year, in an orderly way, just to Congress their conduct, their actions, and their doings in as we do in other matters. that valley and give a constructive, detailed program of what The Tennessee Valley Authority does not intend to let they were spending and how they proposed to spend it. That Congress know how far it expects to go. They could not they steadfastly refuse to do, and this amendment, if put into now because they do not know themselves. There must be this bill, will require them to come to us for money. some merit in this opposition because their budget request "9858 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 21 · .was for $56,000,000. Later when the opposition started and Mr. BUCHANAN. Will the gentleman yield for a mo they looked into the matter they returned to Congress and ment? they said, "We can get along with $40,000,000." The Com Mr. RICH. . Yes; I yield. . mittee on Appropriations~ after mature deliberation and Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous con consideration, has determined that they can get along with sent that all debate on this paragraph relative to the Ten $34,878,000. nessee Valley Authority and all amendments thereto be What I want is a square deal for American business men, closed in 25 minutes. and they are not getting it now in the Tennessee Valley. The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of When a constituent of mine .says "I was the lowest bidder the gentleman from Texas? for concrete mixers or for equipment that they are using There was no objection. . in the Tennessee Valley, and my equipment was all that was Mr. RICH. Mr. Chairman, I proposed this amendment required of it, it complied with the specifications, but I did because I am opposed to the Government in business. I do not get the contract; I stayed in Knoxville for 2 weeks wait not believe the Government of the United States should try ing to be consulted by representatives of the Tennessee Val to pattern after Russia. The administration of Mr. Roose ley Authority, only to find out on ·the street that the con velt recognized Russia about a year ago, and we are trying tract had been awarded to the highest bidder", it is time to pattern after that nation as much as any nation in the to look into these things. These men defy the statutes of world. It seems to me it is about time the American people the United States when it comes to negotiating contracts woke up and found out that their rights are being taken and granting awards to the highest bidders on contracts. away from them. It is about time that the American people That is an illustration of the kind of thing that we tried realized that this administration is putting the Government to impress upon Dr. Morgan before the committee as being into business with such rapidity that it will not be long until wrong. Those are the things that came to me through cor we will be a socialized nation; that we will be a nation respondence and through the newspapers. I asked Dr. Mor patterned a,fter Russia. gan if they were correct, and we found out that they were. We have heard this called an administration measure, and Am I not justified, under those circumstances, in inquiring we have seen it baqked by the party. I want to say that the into them, and on that account and because of that should party that is recommending the Government to be in all I be held up to ridicule by the gentleman from Mississippi lines of business, competing with the citizens of its own -[Mr. DUNN] yesterday afternoon, prompted by the gentle country, socializing it, robbing it of its taxpayers, robbing man from Tennessee [Mr. MCREYNOLDS] who sent for the the citizens of a right the Constitution gave to them, will book. and when the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. soon find out that the day will come in America, and it is RANKIN] this afternoon inferred that I am a representa not far away, when the people will rise up and put down any tive of the Power Trust? The·people of Union County, N. J., party that proposes Russianizing the United States, and it know me. I have no fears for the slurs that are thrown at is right that it should. me in this exercise of my public duty. I just picked out of the newspaper this morning a most Mr. RANKIN. Will the gentleman yield? interesting statement: Mr. McLEAN. I yield. COURT REFUSES TO LET ESTATES BUY UNITED STATES BONDS--PRORATE Mr. RANKIN. How could the gentleman know I was JUDGE IN ILLINOIS HOLDS RATE IS TOO LOW, NATION.AL DEBT TOO HIGH him I talking about when said " friends of the Power SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 20.-Probate Judge Benjamin S. DeBoice, Tnlst "? of Sangamon County; today refused authority to the First State Mr. McLEAN. I know the gentleman's inference. Every Trust & Savings Bank, as conservator in seven estates, to invest the body in the House knew it. But I say to you that though estate funds in United States Government securittes. · The court, in a ·thousanQ.-word opinion, held that "during this my activities perhapg may have appeared as though I was period of business uncertainty and lowering prices the investing alined with the power interests, I have no interest in any public has turned to Government obligations as a cyclone cellar in J?ower Trusts. I believe there are things going on in the whtch to place ·investments." · Tennessee Valley that the American people ought to know Predicting that " we are upon the eve of a period of inflation,... Judge Boice held that the trend of prices upon most tangible goods about. I say there ought not be another dollar appro was upward and that real estate prices showed. a definite gain. priated for this organization until they put their house in " Today bank reserves are the largest in history and every bank order. They have $10,000,000 to use to finish ~he work, and insurance company in the country 1s full to overflowing with and they can go ahead and finish their work, and they will cash, awaiting the opportunity for investment. have plenty of money to put their house in order and get This is worth while for the members of the Democratic ·this thing on an orderly basis. Then they can send a report Party to hear. The court refused to permit the estate to buy to Congress and come here and tell us how much it is going Government bonds because we are spending the taxpayers' to cost and what we are going to ultimately get, and then money recklessly and are not trying to do anything to in we will be able to deliberate without all this excitement. crease the revenues or repaying the expenditures. Quite true, [Applause.] the other day the President sent down a message on the sub The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from New ject of increased taxation, but it was the biggest camoufi.age Jersey [Mr. McLEAN] has expired. ever put over on the American people. WhY did he not make The question is on the amendment offered by the gentle recommendation for immediate increases of taxes to balance man from New York CMr. TABER]. his Budget as he promised the people when he was elected. The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by He is only fooling the people, and you know what they say Mr. TABER) there were ayes 59 and noes 123. about that-you can fool all the people some of the time, but So the amendment was rejected. yon cannot fool all the people all the time. And Mr. Roose Mr. RICH. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment, which velt will be no exception to that. is at the desk. Read the speech of Lew Douglas, former Director of the . The Clerk read as follows: Budget for Mr. Roosevelt, at the commencement at Am Amendment offered by Mr. RICH: Page 48, line 2, after the herst a few days ago, and you will know · that the adminis word "Authority ", strike out "$34,675,192 " and insert " 2 cents." tration fooled him, and he quit Mt. Roosevelt. I think . Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman~ I make the point of order Lew Douglas would be great presidential timber for the that that amendment is merely dilatory. Democratic Party. He would fulfill his promises and those The CHAIRMAN. The Chair could not pass on a matter of the Democratic Party. ,of that kind at this point. When the situation gets to the point where a judge re The question is on the amendment offered by the gentle fuses to permit estates to buy bonds of the Federal Govern man from Pennsylvania. ment as an investment for trust fundsr the position is very Mr. RICH. Mr. Chairman, I desire to be heard. precarious indeed. [Applause.] I say that if this adminis The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is tration recognizes that inheritance taxes should be in recognized for 5 minutes. creased, that the taxes. on those who make great incomes 1935 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9859
should be increased, you ought to do ~t and not talk about hospitals for veterans should be pretty well confined to it, for you cannot increase the national debt any more than mental cases, tubercular cases, and a few other types that it is, and the greatest in history, without endangering our require special hospital equipment. very safety as a Nation. Mr. Roosevelt is the greatest I believe that the majority of veterans' cases could be spender of all time, and probably the greatest promiser, but handled better and with less expense to the Government in he does not fulfill his promises. We should not appropriate the local hospitals. I am sure that it does not contribute but two cents for T. V. A.-it is unconstitutional-it should to a veteran's comfort nor to his recovery to have him die and die now. I hope the amendment does pass. taken away from his home, his family, and his friends to be [Here the gavel fell.] cared for by total strangers and to encounter the depressing The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment of loneliness of a strange city. There are thousands of empty fered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania. beds in the non-Government hospitals of the country, which, The amendment was rejected. it seems to me, could well be occupied by veterans. In his Mr. ANDREWS of New York. Mr. Chairman, a unani home-town hospital the veteran would be cared for by a mous-consent request. doctor who knows him. waited on by nurses who know him, The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it. and visited by his family and his friends. Such surround Mr. ANDREWS of New York. Mr. Chairman, I think ings, I am sure, would be much more favorable to the we all agree that there are no serious amendments to be veteran's comfort and recovery than the strange surround offered for consideration during the further reading of the ings of a far-away Government hospital. bill; and I ask, therefore, unanimous consent that the bill The local hospitalS usually are supported by the donations may be considered as having been read for amendment. of public-spirited individuals or by the benevolence of The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of churches. These hospitals need the business. The use of the gentleman from New York? them would assist in their :financial support. It surely would Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, for the Congress, in the be more satisfactory to the veterans, and obviously. less ·consideration of an appropriation bill dealing with large expensive to the Government. sums of money, to establish the precedent of considering the I earnestly hope that the proper committee will give bill as read would be very bad. The Members should know serious consideration to a change in our veterans' hospitali all there is in the bill. The bill can be read rapidly, and it zation system to the end that: (1) Government hospitals can be passed in the regular order. I think every dollar ap shall be used almost, if not quite, exclusively for mental, propriated out of the Treasury should be appropriated· in a tubercular, and other cases requiring special hospital equip . regular, systematic, and considered way. ment, and that (2) the veteran shall be permitted to .receive Mr. MERRIT!' of New York. Mr. Chairman, I object. his treatment at Government expense in his local hospital The Clerk read as follows: • in all cases where that hospital. is properly equipped to care for him. VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION Hospital and domic111ary facil1ties: For hospital and dom1c111- The Clerk read as follows: ary facilities, $20,000,000, to remain avallable until expended: INCREASE OF THE NAVY Provided, That this amount is authorized ·to be used by the Ad Armor, armament, a.nd ammunition: For an additional amount ministrator of Veterans' Affairs, with the approval of the Presi toward the armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels here dent, for extending any of the facilities under the jurisdiction of tofore authorized, and so forth, including the same objects spe the Veterans' Administration or for any of the purposes set forth cified under this head in the act making appropriations for the · in sections 1 and 2 of the act approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat.' Navy Department for the fiscal year 1935, $6,110,000, to remain 1550) : Provided further, That not to exceed 3 percent of this available until expended. amount shall be available for the employment in the District of Columbia and in the field of necessary technical and clerical as Mr. MARCANTONIO. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike sistants at the customary rates of compensation exclusively to aid out the last word. in the preparation of the plans and specifications for the projects Mr. Chairman, I wish to direct a question or two to the authorized herein and for the supervision of the execution thereof, and for traveling expenses, rentals in the District of Columbia, chairman of the committee. Will the chairman please in· field-office equipment, and supplies in connection therewith. form the Committee how much money has already been ap ') Mr. BIERMANN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the propriated to the NavY Department for other naval pur last word for the purpose of asking the chairman a couple poses? of questions with reference to the Veterans' Administration. Mr. BUCHANAN. For the next fiscal year? Mr. MARCANTONIO. Yes. Is a considerable part of the $~'0,000,000 to be used for the care of mental cases? Mr. BUCHANAN. $458,684,379 is the amount in the Mi·. BUCHANAN. There are over 11,000 ailing veterans pending Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936. without hospitalization, which number includes 7,000 mental Mr. MARCANTONIO. And, with the appropriations car- cases. ried in this deficiency bill, what will the total amount to? Mr. BIERMANN. Does the chairman know off-hand bow Mr. BUCHANAN. $20,000,000 more, or $478,684,379. the bill affects the situation in Iowa? Mr. MARCANTONIO. I thank the gentleman. Mr. BUCHANAN. No; I know only that substantial pro By unanimous consent, the pro forma amendment was vision has been made for the Knoxville Hospital. The hos withdrawn. pital facilities are to be increased in strategic parts of the The Clerk read as follows: country in such way as to accommodate the greatest number QUARTERMASTER CORPS Construction of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances at mili of veterans around and near their homes. tary posts: For construction, remodeling, recondition, and installa Mr. BIERMANN. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous . con tion at military posts of buildings and appurtenances thereto, sent to extend my remarks in the RECORD at this point. including interior facilities, necessary services, roads, connections The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the to water, sewer, gas, and electric mains, and similar improvements with reference to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes gentleman from Iowa? (U. S. C., title 10, sec. 1339; title 40, sec. 267), including also the There was no objection. engagement by contract or otherwise without regard to section By unanimous consent, the pro form.a amendment was 3709, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), and without re gard to the restrictions of existing law governing the employment withdrawn. or compensation of employees of the United States, and at such Mr. BIERMANN. Mr. Chairman, I am glad that the rates of compensation as the Secretary of War may determine of committee is appropriating a large part of this money for the services of architects or firms or corporations thereof and other technical and professional personnel as may be necessary, the care o.f mental cases. There has been a serious short and including also general overhead expenses of transportation, age of facilities for the care of veterans amicted with mental engineering, supplies, inspection and supervision, travel connected disabilities in Government hospitals. This has resulted in therewith, and such services as may be necessary in the office of the assignment of some of them to State insane hospitals, the Quartermaster General, to remain available until expended, $9,850,000 as follows: Toward construction a.t the United States where sometimes the care has not been satisfactory. My Military Academy, $5,324,250; toward construction of an aird.rome opinion has been, and continues to be, that Government in Hawa.11, $4,525,750. 9860 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 21 Mr. MARCANTONIO. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out The Clerk read as.. follows: the last word in order to ask similar questions with reference Amendment offered by Mr. BUCHANAN: On page 43, line 14, strike to the War Department. out " 1934 " and insert in lieu thereof " 1914." Will the chairman please tell us how much has been appro The amendment was agreed to. priated heretofore for the War Department for the next fiscal The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the Committee rises. year? Accordingly the Committee rose; and the Speaker having Mr. BUCHANAN. The War Department Appropriation resumed the chair, Mr. HANcocx of North Carolina, Chair Act for the fiscal year 1936 carries $341,348,204 for military man of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the activities and $60,649,966 for nonmilitary activities, making Union, repmted that that Committee, having had under con a total of $401,998,170. sideration the bill