1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2673 The problem posed for the future by these nors of the System. I provisions presents important political and might say that the Committee on Bank- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES legal considerations, which must be care­ . ing and Currency voted this morning fully examined before any position can be TUESDAY, MARCH 20, -1951 publicly stated. We are, of course, continu­ to send this nomination to the Senate, ally studying all aspects of this problem. and I trust the nomination will be taken The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Sincerely yours, up as soon as possible. The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Bras­ JACK K. McFALL, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The k::.!:tp, D. D., offered the following prayer: Assistant Secretary nomination will be received and placed (For the Secretary of State.) on the Executive Calendar. Eternal God, our Father, grant that The PRESIDING OFFICER u to know how outrageous incorporate into the text of your bill a ref­ suggested to you that consideration be given we think the whole situation is and how erence to the etfect that "the United States to changing the wording of the present leg­ anxious we are to have this directive with­ Displaced Persons Commission is hereby au­ islation to <:<>nform to that of s. 716. On drawn or amended. I have contacted Mon­ thorized and directed to provide by regula­ page 54 of S. 716 membership In totalitarian signor Swanstrom of the National Catholic tions that," etc. - organizations is defined as voluntary mem­ Welfare Conference who has agreed to join Trusting that I will hear favorably from berst ·p. Those persons whose past mem­ hands with us in this matter. I also pre­ you '..n the very near future on this matter. bership or past affiliation wa:s involuntary sented a resolution before the general board and wishing you and your colleagues com­ or occurred and terminated prior to the age of the newly formed National Council of the plete success in the Eighty-second Congress. of 14 are specifically excepted in S. 716. Churches of Christ in the United States of lam The position of the Lutheran Resettle­ America, ·which represents nearly all of Prot­ Sincerely yours, ment Service in making the above request estantism in this country, and secured fa• is consistent with the principle it has em­ Rt. Rev. Msgr. EDWARD E. SWANSTROM, vorable action for this group also to be rep­ Executive Director. phasized in all its discussions with Govern­ resented and to join us in the conference; ment services and commissions on the reset­ so this is not a sentimental ranting of a tlement program; viz, that each individual single individual. The principle involved NEW YORK, N. Y., February 20, 1951: should be judged on the basis of his own here affects, I bel1eve, the pro~als which Hon. FRANCIS E. WALTER, worth, and not categorically denied con­ you, yourself, imply in the report of inves­ House of Representatives, sideration for immigration because of nomi­ tigation of a year and a half agt' regarding Washington, D. C.: nal affiliation with a totalitarian govern­ the necessity and desirabllity of assisting Unless language in S. 728 and H. R. 2839 ment. Therefore, in the interest of justice ethnic Germans to immigrate to other coun­ is changed to conform to language on page and equality of treatment to all distressed tries, including the United States. 54 of s. 716, Lutheran resettlement program peoples and in the Interest of a united stand I do hope with all my heart that you will under Displaced Persons Act will be seriously of this Government with all peoples resist­ regard this matter as of sufficient importance impaired because many displaced persons ing communism, we urge that the language to assist Mr. Markel in securing the appoint­ and re+-ugees from Baltic States, the Ukraine. of the two resolutions this week under con­ ment with Attorney General McGrath and and other eastern European countries who sideration In both Houses of Congress be to join us in the conference whenever it is fled communism would be barred by present revised to conform to that in S. 716. being held. language relating to communism, as is in­ Sincerely yours, Most cordially yours, terpreted in House Committee Report 118. CORDELIA Cox, PAUL C, EMPIE, Urgent request suggested revision be made. Resettlement Executive. Executive Director. CORDELIA Cox, (Copies to Mr. A. C. ~ackey, Mr. H. J, National Lutheran Council. L'Heureux, Mr. Edward M. O'Connor.) WAR RELIEF SERVICES-NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE, NATIONAL LUTHERAN CoUNcn., NEW YORK, N. Y., March 19, 1951. New Y01·k, N. Y., February 8, 1951. NEW YORK, N. Y., February 21, 1951. Hon. FRANCIS E. WALTER, The Honorable FRANCIS E. wALTER, Hon. FRANCIS E. WALTER, Chairman, House Subcommittee on The House of Representatives, House of Representatives, Immigration, House of Representa­ Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. tives, Washington, D. C.: DEAR CONGRESSMAN wALTER: Those of us DEAR MR. WALTER: On February 20, 1951, Out of concern for displaced persons perse­ engaged in locating sponsorship for displaced you received a telegram from the National cuted by Nazis and Communist, I urge final persons and refugees take great comfort in Lutheran Council calling to your attention approval of S. 728 as amended and passed by the fact that you and other members of the the difficulties which will arise in the opera­ the Senate. House Judiciary Committee are now putting tion of the resettlement program under the ALBERT J. PENNER, forward a bill which will amend the Code Displaced Persons Act as amended should Minister, Broadway Tabernacle Church. of Federal Regulations related to the Sub':' the language of S. 728 and H. R. 2339 not versive Activities Control Act of 1950. be modified. The fact that Senator McCARRAN, to whom Under the present wording of the resolu­ NEW YORK, N. Y., March 20, 1951. I have directed a similar letter, and the mem­ tions displaced persons and refugees who Representative FRANCIS E. WALTER, bers of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are have had any relationship to a Communist House Office Building: also putting forward a comparable, if not regime would be automatically excluded Urge approval S. 728 as amended and identical, bill related to the same issue, from consideration for immigration to the passed in Senate. would appear to augur well for the expedi- Unitec'l. StateS-; Rev. JOSEPH HOWELL. 2676 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH ·20 NEW YORK, N. Y., March 19, 1951. attitude of the United States ·Government section 13 of the Displaced . Persons Act, as The Honorable FRANCIS E. w ALTER, has varied in the matter of their admission. amended." Commi ttee on the Judiciary, For the first 6 months or so of the actual In the future, therefore, applicants for House of Representatives: operation of Public Law 774 the Latvian admission into the United States under the As special legal adviser of Church World legionnaires were not admitted. Displaced Persons Act, as amended, w:io have Service, strongly urge . amendment of your Then, in June, July, and the first part of been members of the Baltic Waffen SS will bill 2339 to pick up Senate amendment of its August, 1949, they were being admitted. be considered on their individual merits. l companion McCarran bill. This will elim­ Then they were banned again. If you have further questions on this mat­ inate grave injustice to escaped persecutees The automatic ban imposed against all ter, we shall be pleased to hear. from you. of Moscow who were forced into a nominal Latvian legionnaires in August 1949 lasted With kind regards, I am, membership situation. until September 1, 1950, when the Displaced Sincerely yours, HOWARD B. VAIL. Persons Commission adopted the following EDWARD M. O'CONNOR, policy: Acting Chairman. "The Baltic Waffen SS units (Baltic NATIONAL COUNCIL OF legions) are to be considered as separate and PRIVATE CALENDAR THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST distinct in purpose, ideology, activities, and IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, The SPEAKER. This is Private Cal­ NEW YORK, N. Y., March 15, 1951. qualifications for membership from the endar day. The Clerk will call the first German SS, and therefore the Commission The Honorable FRANCIS E. WALTER, holds them not to be a movement hostile individual bill on the Private Calendar. · House of Representatives, JACK A. WITHAM -WashiJtgton, D. C. :to the Government of the United States un­ MY DEAR MR. WALTER: I am sorry I had to der section 13 of the Displaced Persons Act as amended. The Clerk called the-bill (H. R. 1253) leave Washington yesterday before I could "In the future, therefore, applicants for for the relief of Jack A. Witham. have an opportunity to see you and to thank admission into the United States under the There being no objection, the Clerk you for your courtesy to me in connection read the bill, as fallows: with the hearing on the omnibus immigra­ Displaced Persons Act, as amended, who have been members of the Baltic Waffen SS will tion bill. Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of Also, I wanted to thank you for your real be considered on their individual merits." the Treasury be, and he is hereby, author­ statesmanship in connection with the action This pqlicy had just begun to be applied ized and directed to pay, out of any money in in the processing of Latvian displaced per­ in the Senate on S. 728. It was particularly :the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the fine and generous of Senator McCARRAN to sons, when in December 1950, the Latvian sum of $1,103.70 to Jack A. Witham (Marine accept Senator FERGUSON'S proposal. I hope legionnaires were banned again. Corps serial No. 323988), of Cincinnati, A grave injustice-and untold hardships­ Ohio, in full settlement of all claims against that the action by the Senate is wholly satis­ have been caused the Latvian legionnaires factory to you and I as~ume _from our earlier the United States for Marine Corps pay and conversations that this is so. We are en­ and their families by the confusing changes allowances from February 2, 1946, through tirely content to allow the parentheses in o:: administrative policy. February 2, 1948: Provided, That no part of section 2 to stand, because we do not hon­ Latvian Relief, Inc., has unceasingly re­ the amount appropriated in this act in ex­ estly believe that any of our people. would quested the admission of the Latvian legion­ cess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid be deported on this basis and should there naires, as a matter of elementary fairness, or delivered to or received by any agent or be any Communist infiltree of whom we do and on the merits of the case. ~ttorney on account of services rendered in not know, we will cooperate instantly in ac­ · There is little time left before the expira­ connection with this claim, and the same complishing their deportation. tion of Public Law 774. Only an immediate shall be unlawful, any contract to the con­ One very ·important point you made in and unmistakable clarification of the eligi­ trary notwithstanding. Any persqn violating your statement as recorded in the CONGRES­ bility of the Latvian legionnaires can in the provisions of this act shall be deemed SIONAL RECORD of February 19, is the one ·some measure help them to gain admission guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction .which refers to the importance of making to the United States. There are many cases theerof shall be fined in any sum not exceed­ these new provisions applicable straight of divided families, and many cases that ing $1,000. across the board, including the administra­ have been pending since 1948 and 1949. tion of section 13 of the Displaced Persons Therefore, I respectfully wish to request The bill was ordered to be engrossed Act. I hope that you will press this pqint in that the policy of the Displacec;l Persons '• and read a third time, was read the third .the joint conference on H. R. 2339 and S. 728, · Commission adopted on September 1, quoted time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ so that the Commission will be influenced above, with respect to the eligibility of sider was laid on the table. in their administration of section 13. the Latvian legionnaires and set forth in EDULJI DIN SHAW AND SISTER Again thanking you for all of your hospi­ the letter of Mr. Edward M. O'Connor, Act­ talities to me, I am, ing Chairman of the Displaced Persons Com­ The Clerk called the bill (S. 58) for the Cordially yours, mission, of September 8, 1950, be incorpo­ relief of Edulji Dinshaw and his sister ROLAND ELLIOTT, rated in the legislative materials p_ertaining Mrs. Bachoo Dinsha Woronzow. ' D irector, Resettlement Program. to S. 728 and H. R. 2339. There being no objection, the Clerk Attached, I beg to submit a photostat of read the bill, as follows: LATVIAN RELIEF, INC., the above letter of Mr. Edward M. O'Connor. I wish to take this opportunity to express . Be it enacted, etc., That, for the purposes · New York, N. Y., March 17, 1951. of the immigration and naturalization laws, The Honorable FRANCIS E. WALTER, on behalf of Latvian Relief, Inc., to you, sir, our sincere appreciation for the benevo­ Edulji Dinshaw and his sister, Mrs. Bachoo The House of Representatives, Dinsha Woronzow, shall be held and con­ Washingt on, D. C. lent and humanitarian attitude that you. have effectively displayed in so many of the sidered to have been lawfully admitted to the SrR: I should like to offer my appreciation United States for permanent residence as of for the legislation now being considered displaced persons' problems. Sincerely yours, the date of the enactment of this act, upon under S. 728 and H. R. 2339. payment of the required visa fees and head The bill as passed by the Senate is most HARRY W. LmLNORS, President, Latvian Relief, Inc. taxes. Upon the granting of permanent resi­ necessary to avoid unfairness or injustice in dence to such aliens as provided for in this the operation of the Displaced Persons Act ac_t, the Secretary of State shall instruct the (P~blic Law 774). DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION, proper quota-control officer to deduct two One of the groups of displaced persons Washington, D. C., September 3, 1950. numbers from the appropriate quotas for th.e that is now excluded from the United Stat es Mr. HARRY W. LIELNORS, first year that such quotas are available. is the group of the so-called Latvian legion­ President, Latvian Relief, Inc., naires. During the Nazi occupation of Lat­ New York, N. Y. The bill was ordered to be read a third via these Latvians were, in 1943 and 1944, DEAR MR. LIELNORS: In view of the pre­ time, was read the third time and passed forcibly mobilized under threat of military vious interest you have shown in the matter and a motion to reconsider was laid or{ law and impressed into German military of the Baltic Waffen SS Units (Baltic le­ the table. · service in strictly combat units, under vari­ gions), we would like to take this opportu­ ous Nazi German designations. nity to acquaint you with the decision taken MARIE LOUISE ARDANS The units of the so-called Latvian legion by the Commission in this matter. The were combat units exclusively, and they were Commission on September 1, 1950, adopted The Clerk called the bill

With the following committee amend· · ·There being no ob~ection, the Clerk time, and pas:::ed, and a motion to recon­ ment: read the bill, as fallows: sider was laid on the table. Page l, line 6, strike out "$1,699.28" and Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of SISTEF, ANNA ETTL insert "$1,130.50." the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not The Clerk called the bill nent residence to such aliens as provided Gee. for in this act, the Secretary of State shall f pr the relief of Kimiko Shibuya. instruct the proper quota officer to deduct With the following committee amend­ Ther.e being no objection, the Clerk three numbers from the appropriate quota ment: read the bill, as follows: for the first year that such quota is avail­ .strike out all after the enacting clause and Be it enacted, etc., That the provisions of able." insert "That, in the administration of the the immigration laws relating to the exclu­ The committee amendment was immigration and naturalization laws, the sion of aliens inadmissible because of race provisions of sections 4 (g) and 9 of the shall not hereafter apply to Kimiko Shibuya, agreed.to. Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, shall ) the Japanese fiancee of Wilburn L. Rash, a The bill was ordered to be engrossed be held to be applicable to the alien John citizen of the United States and an hon­ and read a third time, was read the third Yan Chi Gee, the minor, unmarried child orably discharged veteran of World War II, time, and passed, and a motion to re­ of James Kwong Gee, a citizen of the United and that the said Kimiko Sh1buya shall b.e consider was laid on the table. States." eligible for a visa as a nonimmigrant tempo­ rary visitor for a period of 3 months: Pro­ BELA ABELES AND MARIA ABELES The committee amendment was agreed vided, That the administrative authorities The Clerk called the bill (H. R. 783) to. find that the said Kimiko Shibuya is coming for the relief of Bela Abeles and Maria The bill was ordered to be engrossed to the United States with a bona fide inten­ Abeles. and read a third time, was read the third tion of being married to the said Wilburn L. There being no objection, the Clerk time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ Rash, and that she is found otherwise ad­ sider was laid on the table. missible under the immigration laws. In read the bill, as follows: the event the marriage between the above­ Be it enacted, etc., That the Attorney Gen­ MALKA DWOJRA KRON named parties does not occur within 3 eral be, and he is hereby, directed t o cancel The Clerk called the bill . for the relief of Joseph Bernstein. Strike out all after the enacting clause The bill was ordered to be engrossed There being no objection, the Clerk and· insert in lieu thereof the following: and read a third time, was rea( th.. !'third read the bill, as follows: "That, for the purposes of sections 4 (a) and 9 of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ Be it enacted, etc., That in the adminis­ the minor child, Lucia Adamo.·, shall be held sider was laid on the table. tration of the immigration and naturaliza­ and considered to be the natural-born alien tion laws, Joseph Bernstein, presently resid­ PAOLO DANESI child of Mr . .and Mrs. Apolonio Adamos, ing in New York, Nf;W York, shall be held and citizens of the United States." The Clerk callad the bill CH. R. 1163) considered to have been lawfully admitted for the relief of Paolo Danesi. into the United States for permanent resi­ The committee amendment was There being no objection, the Clerk dence as of the date of his last entry into agreed to. . the United States, upon payment by him The bill was ordered to be engrossed read the bill, as follows: of the requirec head tax and Visa fee. and read a third time, was read the third Be it enacted, etc., That, for tJ- e purposes · SEc. 2. Upon enactment of this act, the of the immigration and naturalization laws, Secretary of State is authorized and directed time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ Paolo Danesi shall be held and considered to to instruct the proper quota-control officer sider was laid on the table. have been lawfully admitted to the United to deduct 0ne number from the nonprefer­ CONCETTA SANTAGATI GIORDANO States for permanent residence as of the ence category of the first available immigra­ date of his last entry into the United States tion quota for nationals of Rumania. The Clerk called the bill

Date A.mount Name and address Date Amount Name and address Date Amount Name and address -

1950 1947 1947 -Oct. 6 ~ 500 Stockham Valves & Fittings Co. Jan. 15 $500 Public Service Co. of Indiana, Inc., Feb. 25 $500 Wisconsin Power & Light-· Co., Post Office Box 2592, Binning. May 22 500 110 North Illinois St., Indianap­ May 7 500 Madison 1, Wis. ham 2, Ala. Oct. 2 500 olis, Ind. 1, 500 Janney-Semple-Hill & Co., Minne· 1, 000 apolis, Minn. 1, 500 12 500 The Tracy-Wells Co., 175 North Feb. 26 1, 000 Supplee-Biddle-Steitz Co., Phila· Front St., Columbus, Ohio. Jan. 15 500 Montana Retail Lumbermen's As­ Nov. 22 1, 000 delphia, Pa. 13 500 Buhl Sons Co., Post Office Box 1378, sociation, 10n~ East Main St., Detroit 3, Mich. Missoula, Mont. 2,000 22 500 Tex-O'Kan "Flour Mills Co., Post Mar. 500 St. Paul Live Stock Exchange, Office Box 448, Dallas, Tex. 16 500 Uhlmann Grain Oo., Board of St. Paul, Minn. 25 500 Mr. Robert Wolohan, Birch Run, May 26 500 Trade Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Mich. Aug. 1 500 4 500 Colorado Milling & Elevator Co., 25 500 Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co., 4th June 27 500 Equitable Bldg., Denver, Colo. and Main Sts., Cincinnati 1, 1, 500 Sept. 9 500 Ohio. 26 1, 000 Alabama Retail Hardware Associa­ Jan. 16 500 Kentucky ·utilities Co., Inc., 159 1, 500 tion, 509 North 19th St., Birming· July 18 500 West Main St., Lexington, Ky. ham 3, Ala. 18 500 Mar. 5 500 Tri-State Milling Co., Rapid City, 27 500 W r.stern Cotton Oil Co., Box 521, July 28 500 S. Dak. Abilene, Tex. 1, 500 30 500 Swan Rubber Co., Bucyrus, Ohio. 1,000 Nov. 1 l, 000 Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., Jan. 16 500 Southwestern Gas & Electric Co., Mar. 1, 000 Federal Compress & Warehouse 15 Washington St., Newark 2, May 23 500 Post Office Box 1106, Shreveport Co., Post Office Box 125, Mem­ N. J. Sept. 10 500 83, La. phis, Tenn. 500 Consolidated Gas, F.lectric Light & Power Co., Lexington and Liberty 1, 500 8 1, 200 Texas Power & Light Co., Inter· Sts., Baltimore 2 Md. July 23 1, 200 urban Bldg., Dallas, 'l'ex. 2,000 Shapleigh Hardware Co., St. Louis, Jan. 16 500 Eagle Roller Mill Co., New Ulm, Mo. Apr. 17 500 Minn. 2,400 1, 000 Lurnhermens' Association of Texas, 615 Second National Bank Bldg., 1,000 Mar. 13 1, 000 The Bostwick-Braun Co., Corner E ouston 2, Tex. Oct. 10 500 Summit and Monroe, Toledo, 500 New Orleans Public Service, Inc., Jan. 17 500 Louisiana Power & Light Co., 142 Ohio~ 317 Baronne St., New Orlt'ans, Oct. 23 500 Delcronde St., New Orleans 14, La. . June 27 350 La. 1, 500 7 1,000 Morley Bros., Saginaw, Mich. Mar. 14 500 Continental Grain Co., 141 West 14 500 George Worthington Co. 802-832 1, ~50 Jackson Blvd., Chieago, Ill. St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Jan. 18 500 Associated Seed Growers, 205 21 500 Continental Grain co Board of i4 500 · American Chain & Cable Co., Inc., Church St., New Haven, Conn. Trade Bldg., Kansas 6 ity, Mo. 230 Park Ave., New Yo~· k, N. Y. 17 500 DukL Power Co., 422 South Church 18 500 Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwau· . 22 750 Virginia-C;:i.rolina Chemical Corp., St., Charlotte, N. C. · July 28 500 kee, Wis. Apr. 15 500 Richmond, Va. 20 3, 000 Belknap Hardware & Manufactur­ Oct. 20 500 in ~ Co., 111 East Main St., Louis­ 1, 250 ville 2, Ky. 1, 500 28 1, 000 Kelly-How-Thompson Co.., Duluth, Mar. 24 500 Carolina Power & Light Co., Minn. Jan. 20 500 Northern States Power Co., 15 May 26 500 Box 1551, Raleigh, N. C. 29 500 St. Louis Cordage Mills, Eleventh May 23 500 South lith St., Minneapolis, Dec. 27 500 and Lafayette, St. Loui ~ 4, Mo. Oct. 3 500 Minn. 1,500 Apr, 500 Samson Cordage Works, Boston, 1, !iOO Mass. 1947 500 Paxton & Gallagher Co., 9th and The contributions listed below were made Jan. 22 500 Columbus & Southern Ohio Elec· Jones St., Omaha, Nebr. May 23 500 tric Co., 215 North Front St., for the purpose of supporting the research, Columbus 15, Ohio. 1 500 Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., J..Ublicity, and general activities of NTEA. July 8 500 Post Office Box 1498, Oklahoma Contributions are not made for special pur­ 1, 000 City 1, Okla. poses. All funds received are used to sup­ Jan. 24 500 New Orleans Public Service, Inc., 'l,000 port the general activities of the organiza­ June 30 500 New Orleans, La. · Sept. 19 500 Apr. 7 250 Public Service Co. of Colorado, tion. None are earmarked for specific pur­ Aug. 13 500 Box 840, Denver, Colo. poses. 1, 500 ·750 Apr. 11 500 Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 245 Jan. 25 500 Buhl Sons Co., Detroit, Mich. Market St., San Francisco. Calif; Date Amount Name and address Sept. 12 500 12 500 Mashack Hardware Co.,_~330 Hud· 1,000. Nov. 19 500 so11 St., New York 13, .N. Y. 1941 Jan. 30 500 Central Power & Light Co., Corpus 26 500 !ran. 2 $1, 000 Fullerton Lumber Co., 918 Roanoke Christi, Tex. Apr. 21 500 Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. 1,500 Oct. 9 500 31 1, 000 Tcx-0-Kan Flour Mills Co., Dallas June 26 1, 000 1, Tex . Apr. 14 500 Valley Grain Co., Moorhead, 2, 000 Aug. 25 1, 000 Minn. 22 500 CN~br~wanson & Sons, Omaha 2, !ran. 2 500 Marsh & McLennan, Minneapolis, 3, 000 Dec. 22 2, 500 Minn. ' . 23 500 Louisville Gas & Electric Co., 311 Jan. 31 500 The Washington Water Power Co., West Chestnut St., Louisville 2, 3, 000 Mar. 1 500 Spokane, Wash. . Ky, Sept. 12 500 :ran. 500 Haxton Canning Co., Oakfield, 24 1, 000 Lone Star Gas Co., Dallas, Tex. N.Y. 1, 500 June 26 1, 000 500 W. N. Clark Co., Rochester, N. Y. Nov. 6 1, 000 Feb. 1 500 Chas. Wolohan, Inc., Birch Run, 3 500 Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Aug. 13 500 Mich. 3, 000 May 31 500 80 Park Pl., Newark, N. J. Oct. 20 500 1, 000 Apr. 25 500 Florida Power & Light Co., Miami, Feb. 3 500 Central Hudson Gas & Electric Aug. 18 500 Fla. 1, 500 Corp., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 15 500 Abbotts Dairies, Inc., Philadelphia 1, 000 Jan. 5, 000 Osborne-McMillan Elevator Co., 4, Pa. Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Apr. 30 500 Consumers Power Co., 212 Michl· (610), Minneapolis 15, Minn. 18 500 Montana Power Co., Butte, Mont, gan Ave. West, Jackson, Mich. 500 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance May 26 600 30 500 Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., Co., St. Paul, Minn. Sept. 13 500 Allentown Pa. . 500 Capital Fertilizer Co., Room 1824, May 500 Smith Dougiass Co., Inc., Norfolk, 61 Broadway, New York, N. Y, 1, 500 Va. 1, 500 American Hardware & Equipment 7 500 Connecticut Light & Power Co., Feb. 20 500 Park & Pollard Co., Inc., 356 Hertel Co., Charlotte 1, N. C. Mar. 25 500 Hartford, Conn. Aug. 23 500 Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 500 Northern Indiana Public Service Oct. 24 500 Co., 5265 Hohman Ave., Ham· 1, OQO mond, Ind. 1, 500 16 500 Fairmont Foods Co., 1515 14th St., lran. 10 500 Morris Grain Co., 141 West Jackson Feb. 500 Philadelphia Electric Co., Phila· Omaha, Nebr. May 31 500 Blvd., Chicago, Ill. delphia, Pa. ..A.Ui 13 500 24 1, 000 International Minerals & Chemical 22 500 The Salt Lake Hardware Co., Salt Corp., 20 North Wacker Dr., Sept. 11 500 Lake City 9, Utah. 1, 500 Chicago, Ill. 1,000 • 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2715

· Date Amount Name and address Date Amount Name and address Date Amount Name and address

1947 1947 194 ~ May 7 $500 Duquesne Light Co., P\ttsburgb, Nov. 21 $500 Swan Rubber Co., Bucyrus, Ohio. Jan. 'XI $500 Norris Grain Co., 141 West Jackson Pa. . 22 500 Fresh Milk Institute, 1200 Spruce June 10 500 Blvd., Chica.go, Ill. St., St. Louis{ Mo. June 1 500 F. S. Royster Guano Co., Box 479, 24 500 Baker &: Hami.ton, 760-768 7th St,, 1, 000 Oct. 21 500 Norfolk, Va. San Francisco, {Jalif. Dec. 500 Arkansas Power & Light Co., Sim­ Jan. 27 5, 000 Osborne-McMillan Elevator Co., 1,000 mons National Bank, Pine Bluff, June 21 2, 500 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Ark. (610), Minneapolis 15, Minn. June 500 Rosenbaum Bros. Inc., 141 West 750 Roberts Dairy Co., 2901 Cuming St., Jackson Blvd., Chicago, rn. Omaha, Nebr. 7, 500 5 2,000 Lnmbermen's Association of Texas, 500 Alexander Lumber Co., 111 Downer Feb. 1, 000 International Minerals & Chemical Houston 2 Tex. Pl., Aurora, Ill. Corp., 20 North Wacker Dr., 500 Montana Elevator Co., Great 17 500 Maytag Co., 512 North 4th St., Chicago,m. Falls, Mont. Newton, Iowa. 9 500 American Cyanamid Co., 30 Rocke· 19 1, 500 Kelley-How-Thomson Co., Duluth, 10 500 Uhlmann Grain Co., Board of feller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. Mino. May 29 500 Trade Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 12 500 Wood River Oil & Refining Co., 22 1,500 Janney-Semple-I;fill & Co., Min· Inc., 335 West Lewis St., Wichita, neapolis, Minn. 1, 000 Kans. 23 1,000 Charles W. Sexton C~:.i 1140 Mc­ Feb. 13 500 Lampert Lumber Co., Snelling and 27 500 James E. Bennett & Co., 141 West Knight Bldg., 1VJ.inneapolis, Grand, St. Paul, Minn. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, rn. Minn. 27 500 Virginia Electric & Power Co., 29 550 George C. Bagley Elevator Co., 13 600 Montana Flour Mills Co., Box 631, Spokane, Wash. Minneapolis, Minn. June 7 500 Great Falls, Mont. · 30 500 Utah Power & Light Co., Salt Lake 30 5, 000 International Elevator Co., 374 City, Utah. Grain Exchange, Minneapolis, 1, 100 July 500 Idaho Power Co., Boise, Idaho. Minn. Feb. 18 500 Columbus &: Southern Ohio Elec- 7 500 Northwestern-Hanna Fuel Co., - June 4 500 tric Co., 215 North Front St., Sept. 17 100 ~ight Bldg., Minneapolis, 1948 Columbus 15, Ohio. 250 Nov. 5 The contributions listed below were made 1,000 850 for the purpose of supporting the research, Feb. 21 500 The Ohio Fuel Gas Co., 99 North publicity, and general activities of NTEA. Front St., Columbus, Ohio. . July 10 500 A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Contributions are not made for special pur­ 23 500 Louisiana Power & Light Co., 142 Oct. 22 500 Decatur, ill. poses. All funds received are used to sup­ June 2 500 Deleronde St., New Orleans 14, port the general activities of the organ­ 1,000 Ls. July 14 500 Iotermountain Elevator Co., ization. None are earmarked for specific Brighton Blvd., Denver, Colo. purposes. 1,000 21 500 Southwestern Public Service Co., Box 1261, Amarillo, Tex. Feb. 25 500 Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., Post July 12 Box 1498, Oklahoma City 1, 29 500 Arcady Farms Milling Co., 223 Date Amount Name and address ~ g~~ West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Dec. 13 Aug. 1 900 Texas Electric Service Co., Fort Worth, Tex. 1, 500 1948 Feb. 25 750 Orgill Bros. & Co., ~emphis, Tenn. 2 500 John I. Paulding, Inc., New Bed- !an. 2 $1,000 Belknap Hardware & Manufactur­ ford, Mass. . July 16 1,000 ing Co., 111 East Main St., Mar. 2 1, 000 Tex-0-Kan Flour Mills Co., Dal· 500 Western Cotton Oil Co., Abilene, Nov. 8 1,000 Louisville 2, Ky. Oct. 5 1, 000 las 1, Tex. Tex. Nov. 8 500 20 500 D allas Power & Light Co., Dallas, 3,000 Tex. 2,500 Jan. 2 500 Zenith Machine Co., Duluth, 30 1, 000 Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., Dec. 14 500 Minn. Mar. 500 Tri-State Milling Co., Rapid City, Nov. 3 . 500 2201 Howard St., Evanston, Ill. Nov. 500 S. Dak. 1,000 1,500 1,000 Jan. 3 500 Montana Power Co., Butte, Mont. Aug. 30 1,.500 The W. l3ingbam Co., Box 6026, May 13 500 Mar. 6 500 The Washington Water Power Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 24 500 A.pr. 15 500 Spokane, Wash. Sept. 12 500 Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co., Sept. 9 500 401 West Maryland St., Indian­ 1, 500 apolis, Ind. 1, 500 13 500 American Cotton Shippers Associa­ Jan. 5 500 Capital Fertilizer Co., Room 1824, Mar, 500 Wisconsin Power & Light Co., tion, Memphis, Teno. 61 Broadway. Madison 1, Wis. 15 1, 000 Federal Compress & Warehouse 17 1,000 The George Worthington Co., 5 1, 000 Victoria Elevator Co., Chamber of Co., Post Office Box 125, Mem· Dec. 11 500 Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 29 1, 500 Commerce Bldg., Minneapolis, phis, Tenn. Minn. 1,500 20 500 Northern States Power Co., 1.5 Sept. 18 1, 500 Shapleigh Hardware Co., 900 Spruce 2,.500 June 4 500 South 5th !St., Minneapolis, Minn. St., St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 17 500 25 1,000 Lampert Lumber Co., Snelling Jan. 6 500 Western Paint &: Varnish Co., and Grand, St. Paul, Minn. Dec. 14 500 Duluth, Minn. 1,500 27 3,000 Marshall-Wells Co., Duluth, Minn. Mar. 24 750 Virizinia..Carolina Chemical · Corp., Oct. 6 1,000 Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co., St. 1.000 Richmond, Va. Paul, Minn. Jan. 500 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance 11 500 Thomson-Diggs Co., Third and R Co., St. Paul, Minn, 24 1, 200 Texas Power & Light Co., Inter· Sts., Sacramento, Calif. Aug. 8 1, 200 urban Bldg., Dallas, Tex. 500 Central Power & Light Co., Corpus 13 500 Arkansas Power & Light Co., · Dec. Po 500 Christi, Tex. , 2,400 -Dec. 1 500 Simmons National Bank, Pine Bluff, Ark. 1,000 Mar. 25 500 Samson Cordage Works, Boston, Jan. 17 500 Montana Retail Lumbermen's As­ Sept. 29 500 Mass. 1,000 sociation, 107).2 East Main St., Oct. 16 500 Montana Flour Mills Co., Box 631, Missoula, Mont. 1,000 Great Falls, Mont. · 23 500 New Orleans Public Service, Inc. Mar. 26 500 Virginia. Electric &: Power Co., 22 500 J, F. Anderson Lumber Co., 2700 June 26 500 New Orleans, La. July 6 500 Richmond, Va. Dec. 16 1, 000 Foshay Tower, Minneapolis 2, Minn. 1,000 1, 000 Jan. 24 500 Gibson Refrigerator Co., Greenville, Mar. 27 700 J. R. Parker, 41 Hendrie Lane, 1, 500 Mich. Grosse Farm, Mich. Oct. 29 1,000 Kellogg Commission Co., Chamber 27 500 Arkansas Louisiana Gas · Co., ~~erce Bldg., Minneapolis, 24 1, 000 The Bostwick-Braun Co., Corner Shreveport, La. May 26 500 Summit and Monroe, Toledo, 31 750 Morley Bros., Saginaw, Mich. Ohio. 29 500 Carolina Power & Light Co., Box Nov. 8 1,000 Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jean• June 1 500 1551, Raleigh, N. C. nette Pa. 1,500 Aug. 26 500 14 500 Moore-Handley Hardware Co., Birmingham Ala. Ian. 26 750 Baker & Hamilton, 760-768 7th St,, 1, 500 15 500 Peck, Stower & Wilcox Co., South· San Francisco, Calif. ington, Conn. Mar. 30 500 Continental Grain Co., Board of 17 680 Mississippi Cottonseed Products 26 500 Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk &: Co., St. Aug. 12 500 of Trade Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Co., Standard Life Bldg., Jackson, Sept. 28 l, 000 Paul, Minn. Mi.<;S. Dec. 21 1,000 1, 21 750 Strong-Scott Manufaetqring Co.1 Mar. 17 ~o8 Abbotts Dairies, Inc., Philadel­ Minneapolis 13, Minn. 2, 500 phia 4, Pa. 2716 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 20

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1948 1948 1948 Apr. 5 $1, 500 American Hardware & Equipment June 23 $500 Northwestern-Hanna Fuel Co., Nov. 4 $500 Comnlidated Gas, Electric Li!!ht & Dec. 31 1, 500 Co., Charlotte 1, N. C. McKnight Bldg., Minneapolis, Power Co., Lexington and Liberty Minn. Sts., Baltimore 2, Md. 3, 000 25 500 Moncrief-Lenoir Manufacturing 750 Consolidated Edison Co., of New Apr. 8 500 F. S. Roy~ter Guano Co., Box 479, Co., Houston, Tex. York, Inc., 4 Irving PL, New Norfolk, Va. York, N. Y. 26 1, 000 Roberts Dairy Co., 2901 Cuming 1, 000 Nichols Wire & Aluminum Co., 20 500 Colorado Milling & Elevator Co., Nov. 22 750 St .. Omaha, Nebr. 1725 Rockingham Rd., Daven­ Nov. 15 500 Equitable Bldg., Denver, Colo. port, Iowa. 1, 750 1,000 9 500 Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., Apr. 20 500 Fairmont Foods Co., 1515 14th St., July 2 500 Charles Wolohan, Inc., Birch Run, May 5 500 Allentown, Pa. Omaha 8, Nebr. Nov. 2 500 Mich. 23 500 Hendrie & Bolthoff, 1635 17th St., 1, 000 Denver, Colo. 1 Nov. 19 500 'l'he Dayton Co., Nicolet Ave., 7th 23 1, 000 Louisville Gas & Electric Co., ;lll July 6 ' ~g Arkansas Power & Light Co., and 8th Sts., Minneapolis, Minn. West Chestnut St., Louisville 2, Simmons National Bank, Pine 22 500 Strong-Scott Manufacturing Co., Ky. Bluff, Ark. Minneapolis rn, Minn. 26 500 Dwiham, Carriimn & Hayden Co., 6 500 Idaho Power Co., Boise, Idaho. Dec. 7 500 Alexander Lumber Co., 111 Downer Post Office Box 3024, San Fran­ Pl., Aurora, Ill. cisco, Calif. 6 500 Public Service Electric & Gas Co., 8 600 Mississippi Cottonseed Products 27 300 Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 245 Mar­ Nov. 19 500 80 Park Pl., Newark, N. J. · Co., Standard Life Bldg., Jackson, ket St., San Francisco, Calif. Miss. 27 500 Tho Salt Lake Hardware Co., Salt 1,000 15 2, 000 Lumbermen's Association of Texas, Lake City·9, Utah. Houston 2, Tex. 29 500 Sloss & Brittain, 100 Potrero Ave., July 6 500 Texas Electric Service Co., Fort 20 500 Supplee-Biddle-Steitz Co., Phila­ San Francisco, Calif. Oct. 27 900 Worth, Tex. delphia, Pa. 29 500 Western Metal Supply Co., San 21 1,000 Mashack Hardware Co., 330 Hud­ Diego, Calif. 1, 400 son St., New York 13, N. Y. July 7 1, 000 Texas Wholesale Hardware Asso­ 23 1, 000 Charles W. Sexton Co., 1140 Mc­ 30 500 Park & Pollard Co., Inc., 356 Hertel ciation, Pearsall, Tex. Knight Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Oct. 22 500 Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 27 1, 000 Morley Bros., Saginaw, Mich. 20 500 Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwau- 28 500 Dallas Power & Light Co., Dallas, 1, 000 Dec. 1 500 kee, Wis. Tex. 29 1, 500 Kelley-How-Thomson Co., Duluth, May 3 500 Kentucky Utilities Co., Inc., 159 Minn. luly 12 500 West M ain St., Lexington, Ky. July 27 ~; · ggg Peden Iron & Steel Co., Houston, Tex. 1, 000 28 500 Arcady Farms Milling Co., 223 1949 May 500 St. Paul Live Stock Exchange, West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill. South St. Paul, Minn. The contributions listed below were made 500 Northern Indiana Public· Service 29 500 Florida Power & Light Co., Miami, for the purpose of supporting the research, Co., -5265 Hohman Ave., Ham­ Nov. 3 500 Fla. mond, Ind. . publicity, and general activities of NTEA. 500 Consumers Power Co., 212 Michi· 1,000 Contributions are not made for special pur­ gan Ave., West, Jackson, Mich. Aug. 6 500 Wilcox' Lumber Co., Lock Drawer ·poses. All funds received are used to sup.; 500 Philadelphia Electric Co., Philadel­ 651, Detroit Lakes, Minn. port the general activities of the organiza­ phia, Pa. 6 500 Pennsylvania Rubber Co., Jean­ 500 Eagle Roller Mill Co., New Ulm, nette, Pa. tion. None are earmarked for specific Minn. 10 500 Montana Elevator Co., Great Falls, purposes. Mont. 12 500 Duquesne Light Co., Pittsburgh, Fa. 17 500 Western Cotton Oil Co., Abilene, Date Amount Name and address Nov. 1 500 Nov. 2 500 Tex. ------1,000 1, 000 1949 May 13 500 Paxton & Gallagher Co., 9th and Aug. 20 500 Public Service Co. of Colorado, Box Jan. 3 $500 Lampert Yards, 1565 Selby Ave., Jones Sts., Omaha, Nebr. 840, Denver, Colo. St. Paul, Minn. 10 500 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance 15 500 Connecticut Light & Power Co., Sept. 1 l, 500 Shapleigh Hardware Co., 900 Spruce Co., St. Paul 2, Minn. , Nov. 9 500 Hartford, Conn. Nov. 8 500 St., St. Louis, Mo. 11 500 The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn. 1, 000 2,000 12 800 Alabama Power Co., Box 2641, Sept. 2 500 Mississippi Power & Light Co., Birmingham, Ala. May 22 500 Public Service Co., of Indiana·, Inc., Jackson 113, Miss. 12 1, 000 Fullerton Lumber Co., 918 Roanok Aug. 28 500 110 North Illinois St., Indianap­ 6 5,000 Marshall-Wells Co., Duluth, Minn. Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. olis, Ind. 10 500 A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., 14 500 Montana Retail Lu.mbermen's As Decatur, Ill. sociation, McKay Bldg., Mis 1, 000 May 28 soula, Mont. 500 American Cyanamid Co., 30 Rocke­ 13 500 Fullerton Lumber Co., 918 Roanoke 17 ;oo Connecticut Light & Power Co. feller Plaza, ew York 20, N. Y. Jan. 14 1,000 Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Hartford, Conn. jJune 1,000 Moore-Handley Hardware Co., Birmingham, Ala. l , 500 17 500 Carolina Power & Light Co., Box Sept. 16 1,000 American Cotton Shippers Associa· Aug. 22 500 1551, Raleigh, N. C. 1 500 James E. Bennett & Co., 141 West tion, Memphis, Tenn. lruly 26 500 Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 20 l, 500 The W. Bingham Co., Box 602~ l, 000 Cleveland, Ohio. 1, 000 27 1, 500 The George Worthington Co., Jan. 21 500 The Chain Institute, Inc., 20 Cleveland, Ohio: June 4 South LaSalle St., Chicago 4, Ill 500 Southwestern Public Service Co., 28 500 Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co., 28 500 New York Wire Cloth Co., 44 Nov. 17 500 Box 1261, Amarillo, Tex. 401 West Maryland St., Indian· Park Ave., New York 22, N . Y. apolis, Ind. Feb. 3 500 Arkansas Power & Light Co. 1, 000 Simmons National Bank, Pin June 1, 500 Smith Douglass Co., Inc., Norfolk, Oct. 1 1, 000 Lone Star Gas Co., Dallas, Tex. Bluff, Ark. Va. · Apr. 21 1,000 4 500 St. Paul Live Stock Exchange, St :500 • Rosenbaum Bros., Inc., 141 West Paul Minn. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 2, 000 4 500 Capitai Fertilizer Co., 61 Broadway 11 New York, N. Y. 500 Southwestern Gas & Electric Co., Oct. 1 1, 500 Janney-Semple-Hill & Co., Minne. 1 500 Virginia Electric & Power Co. Dec. 10 500 Post Office Box 1106, Shreveport • Nov. 8 500 apolis, Minn. Richmond, Va. 83, La. 7 500 Rheem Manufacturing Co., 40 2,000 Russ Bldg., San Francisco, Calif 1, 000 Oct. 500 Intermountain Elevator Co., Brigh- 8 500 Stockham Pipe Fittings Co., Pos ton Blvd., Denver, Colo. · Office Box 2592, Birmingham 2 June 11 2, 500 International Elevator Co., 374 12 500 Maytag Co., 512 N ortb 4th St., Ala. Dec. 14 5,000 Grain Exchange, Minneapolis, Newton, Iowa. 10 750 The Lufkin Rule Co., Saginaw Minn. . 18 500 Stratton-Warren Hardware Co., Mich. Memphis, Tenn. 11 500 Northwestern-Hanna Fuel Co., 219 7,500 21 500 John I. Paulding, Inc., New Bed­ University Ave., St. Paul, Minn lune 12 500 Fones Bros. Hardware Co., Little ford, Mass. Rock, Ark. 22 500 Delaware Power & Light Co., Wil· 14 11 500 Texas Electric Service Co., Pos 500 Utah Power & Light Co., Salt Lake mington, Del. July 27 900 Office Box 970, Fort Worth 1, Tex City, Utah. 29 2,000 Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., 17 500 The Rike-Kumler Co., Dayton, 2201 Howard St., Evanston, Ill. 1, 400 Ohio. Nov. 2 500 Pacific Power & Light Co., Public Feb. 14 1, 000 500 Pacific Power & Light Co., Publi 18 Allison-Erwin Co., 209 East 5th St.1 Service Bldg., Portland 4, Oreg. Service Bldg., Portland 4, Oreg. Charlotte, N. C. 3 500 Gold Seal Co., Bismarck, N. Dak. 1951 CQNGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2717

Date Amount Name and address Date Amount Name and address Date Amount Name and address

1949 1949 1949 Feb. 1,5 $500 Hart-Bartlett-Sturtevant Grain Co., May 9 $500 California Packing Corp., 101 Cali· Oct. 6 Fones Bros, Hardware Co., Little July 6 500 Board ol Trade Bldg. fornia St., San Francisco, Calif. Rock, Ark. 10 2,000 Lumbermen's Association of Texas, 1, 000 615 Second National Bank Bldg., 12 1,000 George Worthington Co., 802--832 Houston 2, Tex. Dec. 6 500 St. Clair Ave., Clevelan.d, Ohio. Feb. 22 750 Tex-O'Kan Flour Mills Co., Post 16 500 Consumers Power Co., 212 Michi· June 22 1, 000 Office Box 448, Dallas, Tex. gan Ave. West, Jack~on, Mich. 1, 500 19 500 F. S. Royster Guano Co., Post Oct. 14 500 Wilcox Lumber Co., Lock Drawer 1, 750 Office Box 479, Norfolk, Va. 651, Detroit Lakes, Minn. Feb. 25 500 Louisiana Power & Light Co., 142 20 1,500 Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., Deloronde St., New Orleans 14, 20 500 Columbus & Southern Ohio Elec­ 2201 Howard St., Evanston, Ill. La. Aug. 2 500 tric Co., 215 North Front St., Co­ 21 1,000 American Cotton Shippers Associ· lumbus, Ohio. ation, 801 Cotton Exchange Bldg., 25 500 Maytag Co., 512 North 4th St., Memphis, Tenn. Sept. 30 500 Newton, Iowa. 1, 000 28 500 Stratton-Warren Hardware Co., May 26 750 Coleman Co.1 Inc., St. Francis and Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 1,000 2d St., Wicnita 1, Kans. 28 2,000 Shapleigh Hardware Co., St. Louis, Feb. 28 500 Wisconsin Power & Light Co.~ 122 June 500 Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., Mo. West Washington Ave., Maaison 9th and Hamilton Sts., Allen­ Nov. 1,000 Lampert Lumber Co., Snelling and 1, Wis. town, Pa. Grand Ave., St. Paul 5, Minn. Mar. 500 Ebasco Services, Inc., 2 Rector St., 3 500 Northern States Power Co., 15 4 1, 500 Van Dusen Harrington Co.. 713 New York 6, N. Y. South 5th St., Minneapolis, Chamber of Commerce, Minne­ 1,000 Marsh & McLennan, Minneapolis, Minn. apolis 15, Minn. Minn. 8 750 George A. Clark & Son, 1:01 North 500 Bowman Dairy Co., 140 West On­ 3 500 Uhlmann Grain Co., 1480 Board of Third St., Minneapolis, Minn. tario, Chicago 10, Ul. July 22 500 Trade Bldg., Chicago 4, Ill. 500 Allison-Erwin Coi' 209 East Fifth 4 1,000 The Bostwick-Braun Co., Summit St., Charlotte, N. C. and Monroe Sts., Toledo, Ohio. 1,000 500 Ahbotts Dairies, Inc., 31st and June 500 Bostwick-Braun Co., Summitt and 10 100 Edward K. Tryon Co., 815 Arch St., Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia 4, Pa. Monroe Sts., Toledo, Ohio. Dec. 20 500 Philadelphia, Pa. 10 500 The Colorado Milling & Elevator 13 500 Carolina Power & Light Co., Box Co., Equitable Bldg., Denver 2, 1551, Raleigh, N. C. 600 Colo. · Nov. 10 500 Buhl Sons Co., Detroit, Mich. 11 500 Orgill Bros. & Co., 10 West 21 500 Belknap Hardware & Manufactur­ 11 1,000 Masback Hardware Co.t.330 Hud· Calhoun Ave., Memphis, Tenn. July 20 500 ing Co.JU East Main St., Louis­ son St., New York 13, .N. Y. ville 2, Ky. 28 1, 500 The W. Bingham Co., Box 6026, 14 500 Florida Power & Light Co., Miami, Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 1 500 Fla. 1, 000 29 500 Western Cotton Oil Co., Box 521, Abilene, Tex. 1,000 June 24 500 Colorado Milling & Elevator Co., 30 500 Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co., Mar. 17 500 New Orleans Public Service, Inc., Equitable Bldg., Denver 2, Colo. 401 West Maryland St., Indian· 317 Baronne St., Post Office Box 24 1,000 Lone Star Gas Co., 1915 Wood St., apolis, Ind. 340, New Orleans, La. Dallas, Tex. Dec. 1, 500 Janney-Semple-Hill & Co., Min· 17 1,000 Lone Star Oas Co., 1915 Wood St., 27 500 Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., neapolis, Minn. Dallas, Tex. Oklahoma City, Okla. 1, 000 Supplee-Biddle-Steitz Co., Phila· 22 500 Samson Cordage Works, Boston, 28 500 Idaho Power Co., Boise, Idaho. delphia, Pa. Mass. 29 1, 250 King Midas Flour Mills, Minne· 12 1, 000 J. F. Anderson Lumber Co., 2700 23 fiOO Public Service Co. of Indiana, Inc., apolis, Minn. Foshay Tower, Minneapolis, 110 North Illinois St., Indianapolis 29 1,000 Peavey Elevators, Minneapolis, Minn. 9, Ind. Minn. 15 1,300 International Elevator Co., 374 23 500 Fresh Milk Institute, 1200 South 29 1, 250 Peavey Lumber Yards, Minneapo· Grain Exchange Bldg., Minne­ Spring Ave., St. Louis, Mo. apolis 15, Minn. 24 2, 500 Smith-Douglass Co., Inc., Norfolk 29 1, 500 F!\~:1vey & Co., 312 Chamber 21 500 Western Paint & Varnish Co.; 1, Va. of Commerce, Minneapolis, Minn. Duluth, Minn. 30 500 Wisconsin Electric Power Co., 231 July 500 Kentucky Utilities Co., Inc., 159 22 1, 21i0 John Pritzlaff Hardware Co., 335 West Michigan St., Milwaukee 1, West Main St., -Lexington, Ky. North Plankinton Ave., Milwau­ Wis. 12 5,000 Marshall-Wells Co., DuluthJ.Minn. kee, Wis. 30 500 Southwestern Public Service Co.1 14 500 Roberts Dairy Co., 2901 uuming 23 1, 250 Globe Elevators, Division of F. H. Box 1261, Amarillo, Tex. St., Omaha, Nebr. Peavey & Co., Duluth, Minn. 31 l, 000 International Minerals & Chemical 15 750 Consolidated Edison Co. of New 30 1,000 Morley Bros., Saginaw, Mich. Corp., 20 North Wacker Dr., York, Inc., 4 Irving Pl., New Chicago 6, Ill. York,N. Y. Apr. 4 750 Baker & Harrtilton, 700-768 7tb St., 25 500 Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Mil· Mr. Speaker, I want to give you a little San Francisco 19, Calif. wankee, Wis. 500 Sloss & Brittain, 100 Potrero Ave.; 26 500 Public Service Co. of Colorado, idea what this association is doing so San Francisco 1, Calif. Post Office Box 840, Denver 1, far as vilifying Congress is concerned. 500 Mississippi Power & Light Co.1 Colo. Jackson, Miss. 26 500 Public Service Co. of Indiana, Inc., I hold in my hand some of the scurrilous 500 C. L. Gange, Leamington Hotel, 110 North Illinois St., Indianapo­ literature that it has sent out. Minneapolis Minn. lis 9, Ind. 11 500 Washinirton Water Power Co., Aug. 500 Alexander Lumber Co., 111 Downer Protest in your own words in your own Post Office Box 1445, Spokane 6, Pl., Old Second National Bank way. Wash. Bldg., Aurora, Ill. 300 Delaware Power & Light Co.; Then in red ink: 13 500 The Detroit Edison Co., Detroit 26, Wilmington, Del. Aug. 1 500 Mich. 750 Utah Power & Light Co., Salt Lake Your Congressman and Senators need a City, Utah. letter from you. ~ 9 500 Simonds-Shields-Theis Grain Co., · Apr.18 500 The Salt Lake Hardware Co., Post Kansas City, Mo. Office Box 510, Salt Lake City 9, 11 500 Montana Flour Mills Co., Box 631, Many of you received copy of a letter Utah. Great Falls, Mont. just as this is worded: 19 1, 000 H. D. Hudson Manufacturing Co.1 12 500 Montana Elevator Co., Great Falls, 589 East Illinois St., Chicago 11, Mont. DEAR MR. CONGRESSMAN: You raised my in­ Ill. 15 500 Norris Grain Co., 1637 Board of come taxes. Now I hear you are going to 21 500 Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co., Trade Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Post Office Box 3024, San Fran­ do it again. But you still let billions in 16 500 C. M. McClung & Co., Inc., Knox· business and profits escape. How come you cisco 19, Calif. ville, Tenn. 22 500 Stratton Grain Co., 7~720 Grain raise my taxes, but let co-ops, mutuals, and 17 500 Moncrief-Lenoir Manufacturing Co.1 and Stock Exchange, Milwaukee Houston, Tex. other profit-making corporations get off scot 2, Wis. 18 500 Peden Iron & Steel Co., Houston, free, or nearly so? I want a straight an­ 25 500 Louisville Gas & Electric Co., 311 Tex. West Chestnut St., Louisville 2, 26 500 Montana Power Co., Butte, Mont. swer-and I want these businesses full,,· taxed Ky. 30 500 James E. Bennett & Co., 141 West before you increase my or anyone else's 28 500 Northern Indiana Public Service Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, I11. Co., 5265 Hohman Ave., Ham­ income taxes again. Sept. 6 1,000 Public Service Electric & Gas Co.1 mond Ind. 80 Park Pl., Newark, N. J. I received that letter from people in 29 500 Philadelphia Electric Co., 1000 8 500 San Antonio Machine & Supply Chestnut St., Philadelphia 5, Pa. Co., Drawer No. 660, San Antonio, my district. These are cards making 30 1, 000 American Cyanamid Co., 30 Rocke­ Tex. contributions. The whole thing is a feller Plaza. New York, N. Y. 12 500 Southwestern Gas & Electric Co., 30 300 Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 245 Post Office Box 1106, Shreveport, scurrilous attack upon the Congress. Market St., San Francisco, Calif. La. May 2 2,500 Standard Oil Co., 910 South Michl· To give you a little further idea on gan Ave., Chicago 5, Ill. that score, showing the abusive char­ Oct. Ii 1,000 Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co.1 St. Paul 1, Minn. acter of these people, let me read you 4 500 Duquesne Light Co., 435 6th Ave.; Dec. 19 1,000 Aug. 17 500 Pittsburgh 19, Pa. this telegram to the gentleman from l,OoO 2,000 North Carolina [Mr. DouGHToNl from 2718 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 20 Mr. Lester, president of the National I would not be quite so audacious as man was a master stroke. The letter of Tax Equality Association: to define the meaning of the word appointment struck the keynote of the MAY 15, 1950. "pandering" in the presence of the problem to be considered and solved. I Hon. ROBERT L. DOUGHTON, Members of this House, but if you look quote from his letter of appointment: Chairman of the House Ways and up the definition you can see what it The farmer must first of all grow good Means Committee, New House Office means. This is a slur and an abuse on crops in order to support himself and his Building, Washington, D. C. one of the outstanding men of this family but when he has been assured, the Press carries information to effect that country, the Honorable ROBERT DOUGH­ effort for better farming should cease to your committee is now considering closing TON. They have been collecting over stand alone and should be accompanied by of tax loopholes. We have seen no mention $600,000 the effort for better living on the farm. It of the closing of the cooperative tax loop­ for carrying on this propagan­ is at least as important that the farmer hole. Please advise by wire collect if your da against the farmers of this country. should get the largest possible return in · committee contemplates consideration and Mr. Speaker. I shall now present a money, comfort, and social advantages from action on the cooperative tax exemption. few facts relating to our basic indus­ the crops he grows, as that he should get We have been informed that co-ops would try-agriculture. That agriculture is. the largest possible return in crops from not be considered and have many inquiries our basic industry will be disputed only the land he farms. Agriculture is not the regarding this omission. It is therefore im­ by the ignorant. whole of country life. The great rural in­ portant that we be correctly advised. terests are human interests and good crops G P.RNER M. LESTER, On December 7, 1796, President Wash­ are of little value to the farmer unless they President, National Tax Equality ington, in addressfng Congress, observed: open the door to a good kind 'Jf life on the Association . It will not be doubted that with reference farm. either to individual or national welfare, agri­ Next I would like to read a telegram culture is of primary importance. The Country Life Commission made a · from the gentleman from North Caro­ profound study covering the entire coun­ lina [Mr. DOUGHTON] to Mr. Lester: This observation was made by Presi­ try. Its report and recommendations MAY 16, 1950. dent Washington in his Eighth Annual were made on January 23, 1909, and "for GARNER M. LESTER, address to ·Congress. the first time suggested the cooperation President, National Tax Equality Asso­ Abraham Lincoln, speaking in MUwau­ procedures which today are. in common ciation, Chicago, Ill.: kee September 30, 1859, said: use throughout much of the industry, The Committee on Ways and Means has The farmer's interest is most worthy of making the significant observation: 'It i~ for some time been in executive session in all to ba cherished and cultivated-that if of the greatest consequence that the per.t­ the preparation of a tax bill. Careful con- · there be inevitable conflict between that in­ ple of the open country should learn to sideration is being given to the testimony terest and any other, that other should work together.'" of all witnesses including the two full days yield. of testimony on cooperatives, but no de­ With reference to this study President cision has yet been reached on this as well Agriculture was a depressed industry Roosevelt further remarked: as some other subjects. during the early part of the twentieth The Country Life Commission cost the R. L. DOUGHTON, cent11ry. Government not one cent, but laid before~ Chairman. This basic industry had long been the President and the country a mass of infor­ mation so accurate and so vitally important Here is another telegram, dated May victim of exploitation by commission­ as to disturb the serenity of the advocate of 17, from Mr. Lester to the gentleman men, middlemen, and a highly organized things as they are; and therefore it incurrea from North Carolina I Mr. DOUGHTON]: gang of parasites. The depressed state the bitter opposition of the reactionaries. MAY 17, 1950. of American agriculture aroused the in­ terest of President Theodore Roosevelt, The fight against the farmers and Hon. ROBERT L. DOUGHTON, their right to organize for group welfare Chairman of the House Ways and who in 1909 had this to say: Means Committee, New House Office So far the farmer has not received the at­ and the right to use nonprofit, corpora­ Building, Washington, D. C.: tention that the city worker has received tive form of organization to secure Replying to your wire stating that the • • • the problem of farm life has re­ greater efficiency and group bargaining Ways and Means Committee has not yet ceived very little consideration and the re­ power in selling farm products and in reached a decision on plugging the co-op tax sult has been bad for those who dwell in purchasing farm supplies has continued loophole, we urge that the committee act the open country, and therefore bad for the for more than a quarter of a century. to close this loophol~ immediately. We do whole Nation. We were founded as a Na­ As pointed out by the American Insti­ not see how your committee can fail · to tion of farmers, and in spite . of the great tute of Cooperation: close the cooperative loophole, which is the growth of our industrial life it still remains biggest loophole of all, . when it h as voted to true tt.at our whole system rests upon the It seems apparent that because of the tax the mutual savings banks and building farm, that the welfare of the whole com­ monumental success of the program thus and loan associations. It is apparent that munity depends upon the welfare of the far, it is experiencing a repetition of all the your committee and the administration are farmer. I am well aware that the working criticism and denunciation of 25 years ago. playing politics at the expense of the tax­ farmers themselves will in the last resort Perhaps we ought not to be surprised that payers. The clerk of your committee in a have to solve this problem for themselves; those middlemen who have been so long press conference stated that the co-op cor­ but as it also affects in only less degree all favored through their own ingenious devices porations were not included when your com­ thJ rest of us, it is not only merely our duty, are stricken with fear that some of their ad­ mittee voted on the dividend withholding but in our interest to see if we can render. vantages are now being passed on to the tax. The failure of the committee to include any help toward making the solution satis­ workers on the family farm. It is hardly to co-op corporations in the withholding tax factory. be expected that they will be farsighted is viewed with great apprehe.nsion as a clear enough to see in it their own final security. indication of your committee's ultimate un­ I recall vividly the visit of Theodore Roosevelt to Ithaca, N. Y., to inspect the No, these selfish parasites, blind t() willingness to tackle this problem. This is their own interest and welfare, lost no additional proof that your committee is abandoned farms in Tompkins County, considering this problem on a purely politi­ a coun:y in which the agricultural opportunity through court action and­ cal basis instead of attempting to meet the college at Cornell University is located. unscrupulous lobbies to destroy every at­ revenue needs of the Nation. It is hereby I had walked over this vast area of tempt of the farmer to improve his eco­ requested that the committee take action abandoned farms in Tompkins County nomic position. to include the co-ops in the dividend with­ many times and having been born and First, the enemies of the farmer­ holding tax. Failure to tax co-ops and in­ those who wished to exploit him, haled clude them under withholding provisions reared on a productive farm, the desola­ the associated farmers with their in­ will prove beyond any reasonable doubt that tion of the uncultivated land, the de­ creased .bargaining power into court, your committee and the administration are serted houses and barns made a deep and charging their cooperation marketing pandering to co-op leadership at the ex­ lasting impression upon me. associations as combinations in restraint pense of small-business men and taxpayers­ President Theodore Roosevelt was a of trade. The farmers lost the first a tactic which they · will understand and man of conviction and action. He ap­ resent. court battle, but later won a complete GARNER M. LESTER, pointed a Commission on Country Life. victory in the Burley Tobacco Society v. President, National Tax Equality His selection of Dean Liberty Hyde Gillaspy (100 N. E. 89-1912). The court Association. Bailey, of Cornell University, as its chair- declared that the purpose of the ·associa- 1951 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2719 tion was not to take unfair advantage of They were secured by legislation and Second. The corporation or society ultimate consumers, but was, on the con­ favorable judicial decisions, both Federal must be organized in such manner as trary, to organize producers for more ef­ and State as summarized in part as fol­ to legally_bind it to operate upon a cost ficient marketing, to the end that they lows: or nonprofit basis for the benefit of its might enjoy a more equitable and ade­ The right to organize for group welfare, patrons. quate price for their agricultural without being declared to be in restraint of Third. If organized with capital stock, products: trade. substantially all of such stock must be Acts which furthered such a worthy objec­ The right to use the nonprofit, cooperative, owned by producers except nonvoting tive- corporate form of organization to secure preferred stock, which must not partic­ greater efficiency and group bargaining ipate in corporate profits-if any-upon Said the court- power in selling farm products and in dissolution, or at all, except in unpaid ought not to be declared illegal. purchasing farm supplies. The privilege of freedom from double taxa­ fixed dividends. The enemies of the farmers were per­ tion. Fourth. Dividends on capital stock sistent in their effort to keep the farmer . must not exceed the legal rate in the in a state of peonage. There were many A new enemy of the farmers of the State of incorporation or 8 percent, decisions in the courts adverse to the United States, as I have heretofore indi­ whichever is greater. farmers' right to organize for their own cated, has appeared on the scene, a high­ Fifth. The association reserves may welfare and economic stability. ly unscrupulous organization to destroy not exceed those required by State law Even after the enactment of the Clay­ the farmers' hard-won Magna Carta. or reasonable reserves for any necessary ton Act of 1914 which expressly ex­ This lobby is known as the Tax Equality purpose. empted from the provisions of the Sher­ Association. It is a propaganda lobby, Sixth. Member and nonmember pa­ man Antitrust Act "agricultural organi­ the chief function of which is to collect trons must be treated alike in all busi­ zations instituted for the purpose of mu- contributions from these businessmen ness transactions, including the return . tual self-help," the Government indicted and utilities, middlemen, speculators, of patronage net margins . the Dairy Cooperative Associati9n of who wish to weaken and destroy the Seventh. Nonmember business shall Portland, its directors and officers for economic stability of the American farm­ not r xceed member business. monopolizing and controlling the pro­ er, and again reduce them to the position Eighth. And in purchasing coopera­ duction of milk in violation of the Sher­ of serfs. This racketeering lobby is pro­ tives, nonmember, nonproducer business man Antitrust Act. ceeding now on the theory: "The power shall not exceed 15 percent of the total Justice Mccollough held that the ex­ to tax is the power to destroy." These value of annual purchases, excluding emption of the Clayton Act was legal foes of the farm·er who have a vested in­ purchases by the United States Govern­ ground to · quash the indictment and terest in the farmers' distress and pover­ ment. quoted the act as follows: ty under the old exploitation system The charge that farmers are tax Nothing contained in the antitrust laws would now destroy the income tax dodgers because the farm cooperative shall be construed to forbid the ·existence exemption of the internal revenue law .to which they belong are tax exempt, is and operation of labor, agricultural, or as set forth in section 101 (12). a false and misleading statement. horticultural organizations instituted for the The lobby organization promoting the When the farmer member receives his purpose of mutual help or to forbid or re­ repeal of the farm cooperative exemption patronage dividend from his cooperative, strain the individual members tb.ereof of such under subdivision 12 of section 101 has, he pays Federal income tax oii the organizations from lawfully carrying on the by its printed propaganda and its field dividend received. He also pays a State legitimate object thereof, nor shall such lobbyists, led people to believe that the income tax on the patronage dividend, organizations, or the members thereof be held or construed to be illegal confirmations loss of revenue from tax exemption of assuming in both cases that he falls or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under cooperatives would, if siphoned into the within an income bracket, and assuming the antitrust laws. Treasury, pay the national debt and pro­ that the State in which h~ . lives has a vide all Federal taxpayers with a refund! State income-tax law. Speculators, commission men, middle Now, then, let me repeat· these facts Let this be kept in mind that if the men, for the past quarter of a century for emnhasis. racketeering enemies of the farmers have tried every legal device to destroy succeed in weakening or destroying the the farm cooperatives, but so far without The Secretary of the Treasury in his recent testimony before the Ways and farm cooperatives, the possibility of ob­ success. The Congress recognized the taining Federal revenue from the result­ unjust onslaught on the farmers by those Means Committee on cross-examination admitted that the loss of revenue from ing pauperization of the farmers will be who had fattened and flourished at their diminished to the vanishing point. expense, and to stop this racket passed the exemption of farm cooperatives un­ der subdivision 12 of section 101 would I quote from a piece of false and in­ the Magna Carta -of agriculture, the flammatory literature sent out by NTEA Capper-Volstead Act, February 18, 1922. not exceed $25,000,000 annually. Colin Stam, chief counsel of the Joint to each of its subscribers of $500 or The Capper-Volstead Act, reaffirmed more, which literature submits a form the rights of the agriculturalists to uti­ Committee on Internal Revenue Taxa­ tion, last year testified before the Ways letter to each subscriber to send to his lize the nonprofit cooperative corpora­ Congressman: tion as their marketing agent. and Means Committee that loss in reve­ DEAR CONGRESSMAN: You raised my income It made clear the right of cooperatives nue from the exemption would be only $18,000,000. taxes, now I hear you are going to do it to federate with each other. It em­ again. But you still let billions in business powered cooperatives to contract with The propagandists in an effort to pad and profits escape. How come you raise my · patrons to build centralized revolving the revenue loss have sought to deceive taxes, but let co-ops, mutuals, and other capital by withholding net marginal pro­ their contributing stooges by including profit-making corporations get off scot free, ceeds of the patrons as loan or as ca}!>ital. the proposed 10 percent withholding on or nearly so? I want a straight answer­ It authorized farmers to organize and patronage dividends which proposal was and I want these businesses fully taxed made last year .and defeated. · before you increase my or anyone else's contract their own corporate marketing income taxes again. and purchasing agent. It enabled them The 0ongressional exemption of farmer to provide their marketing agent with cooperatives was written into the Federal They assume that the people they were the skilled services of managers, ac­ income-tax law of 1926 (44 Stat. 39, sending it to are so illiterate they could countants, lawyers, and marketing 1926). not frame their own letter to their Con­ specialists which the farmers had so long The Federal income-tax law set up a gressman. needed and deserved. series .of detailed requirements for de­ Thus, Mr. Speaker, this unscrupulous The fight against the farmers has been termining a tax-exempt, nonprofit, co­ racketeering propaganda group collects long, vicious, unrelenting, and expensive operative corporation as follows: vast sums from the foes of the farmer for them. The farmers, until recently, First. The marketing or purchasing with which to fight the farm coopera­ thought that they had finally won the association must be organized by farm­ tives. It is the law of the land that a -bill of rights of United States cooperative ers, fruit growers, or like associations on lobby, either individual or an associa­ agriculture. a cooperative basis. tion engaged in lobbying must report to XCVII-171 • 2720 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 20 the Clerk of th'3 House of Representa­ situation. The great mass of the Mem­ Mr. DORN asked and was given per­ tives all contributions of $500 or more. bers are for the farmers of this country. mission to extend his remarks and in­ I have inserted the list of contribu­ And I might add this to my speech, that clude an article, notwithstanding the tions made to the lobby which seeks to the businessman can just remember what fact that it is estimated by the Public ~ut the throats of the American farm­ it means for the farmers to be prosper­ Printer to cost $266.50. ers. ous. What I am about to tell you comes Mr. MULTER asked and was given I am inserting at this point a sample frQm a noted economist. permission to extend his remarks and of the type of letters used to stir up ill A careful check of the record v1ill re­ include additional matter. will towards the Congress, and by such veal that each $1 of gross farm income Mr. RANKIN asked and was given per­ invidious means to gain further contri­ will generate $7 of national income and mission to extend his remarks and in­ butions. in the operation of our economy. gen­ clude excerpts from a fact sheet issued This is signed by Garner M. Lester, erate $4 of retail sales volume, $1 of fac­ by the Veterans' Adminfstration. president of the National Tax Equality tory payrolls and approximately $4.20 Mr. KEARNE~ asked and was given Association: of total wage payments, and so forth. permission to extend his remarks. NOVEMBER 27, 1950. All segments of our economy will ratio Mr. VAN ZANDT asked and was given 'Io all trade association and chamber of up and down with the gross farm income permission to extend his remarks and commerce executives: I have written you many times in recent with a normal lag of 6 to 12 months. include r.dditional matter. years seeking your help in the fight for tax Once we realize this simple, yet posi­ Mr. WIGGLESWORTH asked and was equality. Your response has always been tive, ratio of gross farm production to given permission tc extend his remarks prompt and the results splendid. Fre­ national income we can set up this dog­ and include a resolution. quently we have received constructive sug­ ma tic conclusion-no political party can Mr. BOGGS of Delaware asked and gestions that have been extremely helpful to operate the economy of the United States was given permission to extend his re­ us in making our combined efforts to secure on a basis of full employment and na­ marks and include additional matter. tax equality more effective. The enclosed tional solvency unless it is willing to sta­ Mr. HESS asked and was given per­ Bulletin No. 101 and tax 4F card came about as a result of such a sugg,estion that came bilize our gross farm income at a level mission to extend his remarks and in­ from Kentucky. high enough to provide the national in­ clude an editorial. Our most pressing problem is, as it al­ come required. Mr. PATTERSON asked and was given ways has been, to secure an eyer-increasing Businessmen in this country ought to permission to extend his remarks. volume of mail flowing to the Members of know, whether it be in the field of utili­ Mr. SADLAK asked ?.nd was given the Congress demanding the taxation of the ties or elsewhere, that only when the permission to extend his remarks and untaxed. farmer is prosperous can they be pros­ include an editorial. We think the tax 4F idea is attention get­ ting and, as a result, thought provoking. perous. That is a lesson we want to Mrs. ST. GEORGE asked and was We believe it will stimulate activity in the keep in mind as the years go on. given permission to extend her remarks form of mail or other contacts with the tax­ In conclusion, I am convinced that the in two instances. law framers in Washington. We want mil­ farm cooperative has been helpful to the Mr. DONDER0 (at the request of Mr. lions of income-tax payers to see the card, farmer, the stock raiser and the laborer, CANFIELD) was given permission to ex­ in the firm belief that hundreds of thou­ as well as the manufacturer. Millions of tend his remarks and include additional sands of them will write as suggested on farmers know this to be true. matter. · the back. The farm cooperatives give all of these Mr. MADDEN asked and was given The last election proved that the mass of voters and taxpayers are alert to the Federal a ch~nce to rise to a higher standard of permission to extend his remarks and tax situation and - are ready to translate living in the United States than obtains in~lude a telegram from Councilman their concern into action, particularly a anywhere else in the world among those John E. O'Donald, 'Of Hammond, Ind., Nation-wide demand for the equal taxation similarly engaged, and therefore makes and several other telegrams. of all income. for better, happier and more prosperous Mr. MANSFIELD asked and was given Please use the enclosed order blank to citizenship. perll\ission to extend his remarks, rela­ secure a supply of both the bulletin and EXTENSION OF REMARKS tive to the thirty-eighth and thirty­ the 4F card. Send them to your members. ninth parallels in Korea.· We will supply reorder blanks-addressed to Mr. ROONEY asked and was given Mr. LANE asked and was given per­ us--so that your members in turn can re­ permission to extend his remarks and mission to extend his remarks in three order additional supplies to circulate among include an address by His Excellency business associates and as mail enclosures. instances and include additional matter. The bulletin and tax 4F card are both avail­ Sean MacBride, Minister for External Mr. LECOMPTE asked and was given able in any quantity you or your members Affairs of Ireland, to the Overseas Press permission to extend his remarks and can effectively use to good advantage-free Club, New York, on Monday, March 19, include a letter from a constituent. and postpaid. We will welcome any novel 1951. Mr. KEATING asked and was given methods of distribution you may have and Mr. FOGARTY asked and was given permission to extend his remarks in two will work with you in carrying them out. permission to exte1id his remarks on a The well-known Co-op Tax Free Buck has instances and include editorials. 1 bill he has just introduced on a survey of Mr. D'EWART asked and was given exc'eeded 2~.000,000 circulation. We believe chronic diseases, and further to extend the tax 4F cards can enjoy comparable dis­ permission to extend his remarks. tribution. We believe that such mass dis­ hi:.; r~marks and include three addresses Mr. SAYLOR (at the request of Mr. tribution will produce a renewed volume of delivered during the past week, two by JAMES) was given permission to extend mail to Congress that will surpass anything the Minister for External Affairs of Ire­ his remarks. heretofore. land, Mr. MacBride; also an address by The more we get to write, the quicker we'll the Librarian of Congress, and a news­ Mr. COOLEY (at the request of Mr. win this fight. paper article. CHATHAM) was given permission to ex­ Very truly yours, Mr. FLOOD asked and was given per­ tena his remarks on the presentation of GARNER M. LESTER, mission to ·extend his remarks in two an award to ROBERT L. DOUGHTON. President. instances. Mr. CHA THAM asked and was given And yet these people claimed for 1947, Mr. ALBERT asked and was given per­ permission to extend his remarks. 1948, and up to December 1949, that they mission to extend his remarks and in­ LEAVE OF ABSENCE were not trying to influence legislation clude an address. By unanimous consent, leave of ab­ at all and leading people who contributed Mr. JONES of Alabama asked and was sence was granted to Mr. BucHANAN