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laid before the Senate messages from IN THE MARINE CoRPS RESERVE Edwin J. McCue Ted J . Ryder the President of the United States sub­ The following-named naval aviators of the James McDaniel Wilfrid P. Rylander mitting sundry nominations, which were Marine Corps Reserve to be second lieutenants Monroe E. McNiel Kenneth Samples referred to the appropriate committees. 1n the "Regular Marine Corps in accordance John W. McNulty, Jr. George W. Sarbacher, · with the provisions of the Naval Aviation Edward J. McQuillan Jr. (For nominations this day received, Bernard McShane Harold E. Savage see the end of Senate proceedings.) Personnel Act of 1940, as amended, to rank from the dates stated: Ermine L. Meeker William H . Schomers EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF ,COMMITTEES "K" "K" Bigelow, from the 1st day of William E. Melby Nicholas L. Shields Ernest I. Melin Clyde B. Shropshire As in executive session, October 1942. Dellwyn L. Davis, from the 16th day of Herbert E. Menden- Lawrence H. Simmon The following favorable reports of July 1943. hall Carl L. Sitter nominations were submitted: Robert A. Meyer James D. Skinner Wendell M. Waskom, from the 1st day of John B. Michaud Warren J. Skvaril By Mr. McCARRAN, from the Committee August 1943. on the Judiciary: Roland R. Miller Franklin L . Smith Robert L. Ailworth, of Virginia, to be IN THE MARINE CORPS Joseph C. "Missar Lawrence W . Smith, Frank N. Mitchell Jr. United States marshal for the eastern dis­ The following-named officers for appoint­ Reynolds A Moody Loren R. Smith trict of Virginia; and ment in the United States Marine Corps in the ranks hereinafter stated: Kenneth L. Moos Nathan A. Smith J_ohn White Stuart, of Virginia, to be Richard J. Morrisey Raymond Smith Umted States m arshal for the western dis­ TO BE CAPTAINS Herbert P. Mosca, Jr. Walter E. Sparlihg trict of Virginia. John F. Elder Edward D. Murray James F. Stebbins By Mr. REVERCOMB, from the Committee Edward R . Hagenah George Nasif Walter C. Stewart, Jr. on the Judiciary: Joseph A. Nelson DavidS. Stockbridge TO BE FIRST LIEUTENANTS William Holroyd McGinnis, of West Vir­ Harry E. Nevill Andrew J. Strohmen- ginia, to be United States marshal for the Charles L. Granger Arthur W. Nichols ger southern district of West Virginia. TO BE SECOND LIEUTENANTS Richard F. Noble John N. Swartley By Mr. THOMAS of Utah, from the Com­ John T. Nugent Samuel Taub, Jr. mittee on Military Affairs: Charles W. Abrahams George A. Gibson Robert E. Adams Wayne R. Glase James B. Oliver, Jr. Charles F . Temple Sundry officers for promotion in the Regu­ Edward J. Orem Galen M. Thomas lar Army of the United States. Clifford A. Allison Bruce A. Goewey Robert H. Anderson Albert Good Eugene M. Oster Roy H. Thompson RECESS Thomas E. Archer James E. Graatr Donald B. Otterson Gerald J. Tice George C. Arnold Robert J. Graham Eber V. Overby John J . Tooley Mr. HAYDEN. I move that the Senate Roy S . BachStein Harold L. Green Eraine M . Patrias Lud R. Tucker stand in recess until 12 o'clock noon to­ William E. Baird Daniel Greene Nathan B. Peevey, Jr. John E. VanHousen morrow. Frank E. Banks, Jr. Robert M. Greener Edwin Pendrey Edward H. Voorhees The motion was agreed to; and (at John M. Barclay William N. Gustafson Virgil R. Penley" Andrew J. Voyles 5 o'clock and 9 minutes p. m.) the Senate Frank W. Bell, Jr. Clyde P. Guy Philip G. Pickett Art.hur Wagner took a recess until tomorrow, Wednes­ Carlton E. Betterton Kenneth G. Hadcock George W. Piland, Jr. Donald E . Watterson day, June 19,1946. at 12 o'clock meridian. Albert J. Bibee Peter H. Hahn George R. Pillon Robert J. Weaver William Biehl, Jr. Sheldon 0. Hall John B. Piper James H. Webb, Jr . . George F . Bloom Arnold J. Hammons Arthur A. Poindexter Holden C. West NOMINATIONS Richard D. Borgstadt John V. Hanes Richard A. Polen Jack D. White Executive nominations received by the John A. Bowler Robert M. Hanna Elbert F. Price Elmer E. Wiedeman Cloyce K. Box Edwin A. Harper Robert G. Price Charles S. Wilder Senate June 18 (legislative day of March Joseph Pultorak Bruce F . Williams 5)' 1946: Emidio Briganti Esmond E. Harper Ralph A. Britson Charles W. Harris John E . Quigley James B. Williams 3d DIPLOMATIC J. ~ FoREIGN SERVICE Gordon S . Browne, Jr.Howard H. Harris Frederick A. Quint Thomas E. Willingham Paul V. McNutt, of Indiana, to be Ambas­ Harold E. Bryant Lawrence P. Hart Thomas A. Redden John B. Wilson, Jr. sador E)rtraordinary and Plenipotentiary of William W. Bryant Merlin L. Halsey Roy L. Reed Edward B . Winston the United States of America to the Republic William A. Buell, Jr. Roland B. Heilman Richard G. Rees Robert L. Wood of the Philippines. Leo D. Burdon, Jr. Jonce L. Helms Jack R. Rhoades Robert C. Woten The following-named persons to· be for­ George R. Burke Richard Hey, Jr. Clyde R. Roberts Theodore R Yachik John M. Rosebush .William E. Zimmer eig~-service officers, unclassified, vice consuls Loren E. Burnett Harvy c. Hinckel of career. and secretaries in the .diplomatic Richard H. Bushnell Paul L. Hitchcock Jules M. Rouse Harold A. Zimmerman service of the Unite.d States of America: Raymond J. Butters Harding H. Holloway Frederic S. Armstrong, Jr., of Massachu- William 0. Cain, Jr. John Hoogendam setts. John H . Callan Howard M. Humphrey Williams Beal, of Massachusetts. Francis E. campo Robert E . Ingram HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES William T . Briggs, of Virginia. Frank A. Casslano Manning T. Jannell Howard J. Connolly James C. Jewell Charles C. Carson, of Mississippi. TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1946 Wilbur P. Chase, of Ohio. Edward Cook Winston E. Jewson John H. Clagett, of Kentucky. Charles E. Crew Harrel K. Jobe William E. Culp Ray N. Joens The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Donald E. Emerson, of Maryland. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont­ Hubert F. Ferrell, of Virginia. DanielL. CUmmings John w. Johnson Fred L. Hadsel, of Ohio. Paul F. Curtis David M. Johnston gomery, D. D., offered the following Richard M. Hughes, of Ohio. Rex A. Deasy David G . Jones prayer: Thomas M. Judd, of Maryland. Harold V. Deering Robert A. Jones Earl E. Demers John H. Keith, Jr. Heavenly Father, we rejoice that we Donald S. King, of the District of Colum- are all Thy children-fathers and moth­ bia. Nicholas J. Dennis Gordon H. Keller, Jr. William C. Lakeland, of New York. Anthony R. Digiovanni Donald D. Kennedy ers, the ttarless and th~ tearful, those in Jerome R. Lavallee, of Massachusetts. Jack W. Dindinger Walter J. Klimek light and those in darkness, in affluence LeRoy F. Percival, Jr., of Connecticut. Thomas S. Dlugos Charles E. Kollmann and in want, the eager and the discour­ James W. Pratt, of California. Lloyd B. Dochterman, Gordon A. Kroodsma aged; to all of these Thou hast promised Norman K. Pratt, of Pennsylvania.. Jr. George Kuprash James T. Doswell 2d Henry H. Kyle as our day, so shall our strength be. For Robert J. Redington, of Connecticut. Roy M. Ducharm Leo G. Lewis, Jr. as many as are led by the spirit of God, Miss Rebecca M. Stribling, of California. Harry J. T. Ellzey Robert D. Limberg they are the sons of God. John H. Stutesman, Jr .. of New Jersey. Don D. Ezell Roy 0. Loftis Carlin A. Treat, d lllinois. Unshauowed and unchanging, pre­ Norman E. Warner, of Iowa. George B. Farish William J. Longfellow serve our Republic with all its humani­ Robert B. Farrelly James A. MacDonald, ties and philanthropies, and keep it free Richard R. Wilford, of Virginia. Harvey A. Feehan Jr. Ro?Jert A. Wilson, of Maryland. Gordon I. Feid James E. Machin from the corroding influences· of frivoli­ UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE James A. Fell ton William G. MacLean, ties and intemperance. What a land Han. George B. Harris, of California, to be Francis J. Field Jr. Thou hast given us! So many to care United States district judge for the northern Richard B. Fielder Benjamin G. Martin for us and to share our love. 0 teach us district of California. (New position.) Don H. Fisher Reginald G. Martin how to use Thy gifts, and in the place of !Billie C. Forrester Vincent J. Marzelo contention and query give restful minds IN THE NAVY John G. Freeman Gordon Matthew I nominate Vice Adm. James L. Kauffman, Anton Froelich William "S" McCaslin and hearts to all troubled spirits. Take United States Navy, to be a vice admiral in Floyd K. Fulton, Jr. Jr. ' away our distempered imagininr:s, and the Navy, for temporary service, to rank from Alfred F. Garrotto George E. McClane as we walk with Thee may we be un­ the 3d day of April 1945. Baylor P. Gibson, Jr. Wade C. McCoy mindful of our pain and folly and limi- -1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.-HOUSE 7077 tations and breathe the stirimlating air S. 2099. An act to authorize the Adminis­ of land authorized to be conveyed to the of a fellowship which binds us to a high trator of Veterans' Affairs to accept gifts, de­ State of Wyoming by such act. common purpose. Clothe us, we pray vises, and bequests in behalf of the general post fund for the use of veterans and for The message also announced that the Thee, with that deep wisdom that never the sale and conveyance of any such property Senate had pas.sed, with amendments in fails to bear fruits of happiness and good under certain circumstances and the cov­ which the concurrence of the House is will, and Thine shall be the glory. ering of tbe proceeds thereof into the post requested, a bill of the House of the Through Christ our Saviour. Amen. fund, and for other purposes; following title: The Journal of the proceedings of yes­ S. 2100. An act to remove the. limitations H. R. 5990. An act making appropriations terday was read and approved. on the amount of death compensation or for the government of the District of Colum­ pension payable to widows and children of MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE bia and other activities chargeable in whole certain deceased veterans; or in part P.gainst the revenues of such Dis­ A message from the Senate, by Mr. S. 2107. An act for the relief of certain trict for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced postal employees; and for other purposes. S. 2122. An ~ct to facilitate the admission that the Senate had passed, with amend­ into the United States of the alien fiancees of The message also announced that the ments in which the concurrence of the finances of members of the armed forces of Senate insists upon its amendments to House is requested, bills of the House of the United States; the foregoing bill, requests a conference the following titles: S. 2141. An act to amend the act entitled with the House on the disagreeing votes H. R. 3517. An act to authorize the admis­ "An act for the creation of an American Bat­ of the two Houses thereon, and appoint6 sion into the United States of persons of tle Monuments Commission to erect suit­ Mr. O'MAHONEY, Mr. OvERTON, Mr. races indigenous to India, to make them ra­ able memorials commemorating the service cially eligible for naturalization, and for oth­ of the American soldier in Europe, and for THOMAS of Oklahoma, Mr. CHAVEZ, MI\ er purposes; and other purposes," .approved March 4, 1923, as HOEY, Mr. BALL, Mr. WILLIS, and Mr. H. R. 4160. An act to amend an act entitled amended, in order to extend the Commis­ FERGUSON to be the conferees on the part "An act to establish a uniform system of sion's authority to all areas in which our of the Senate. armed forces have oper:- ted during World bankruptcy throughout the United States," TRADE-MARKS approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory War II, and for other purposes; thereof and supplementary thereto. S. 2142. An act to provide for two heads Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Speaker, I ask of departments of military science and tac­ unanimous consent to take from the The message also announced that the tics in the :r:ublic schools of the District of Speaker's table the bill

Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield strayed each year. I quote ·again from EFFECT· ON DAMAGESr TO INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY such time as he may desire to the gen­ pages 15 and 16 of the same report: It is estimated that damages to industrial tleman from New York [Mr. BuTLER]. A systematic survey of every fifth mile of machinery would be reduced as follows by Mr. BUTLER. Mr. Chairman, I take the stream channels showed that stream the stream-bank stabilization work: the floor today to ask your support of bank erosion dumps more than 600,000 cubic Reductions yards of m aterial annually into the main Tributary: Percent section 15 of this bill. I have lived in stream channels. Approximately · 389,000 Cayuga Creek______4.6 the district known as the Buffalo water­ cubic yards are coarser materials which are Buffalo and Cazenovia Creeks ______67.4 shed all my life; and, while the· survey is deposited in the stream channels, thus re­ very good and complete, it only covers. ducing their capacity and increasing the fre­ EFFECT ON LAND DESTRUCTION BY BANK EROSION recent years. I can remember the floods quency of flood in the bottom lands. The The plan for stream-bank stabilization we used to have when I was a boy, and remaining 2.11 ,000 cubic yards of sediment calls for complete treatment. of unstabilize.d pass into Buffalo Harbor, where much of it is banks of the streams and it may safely be while they did a great deal of damage to deposited. assumed that the destruction of agricultural the four hundred and fifty some-odd * * * The stream-bank survey demon­ lands by bank erosion would be practically square miles in that district, we as boys strated that stream-bank erosion is the main eliminated. The benefits arising from this used to look for them, as we had a lot of 'source of sediment. After careful considera­ will, therefore, equal the damages now fun. In those days we in the outskirts of tion of all the information obtained, it ap­ occurring. peared reasonable to estimate that about 80 the city had wooden sidewalks and picket percent of the material deposited in Buffalo Mr. CANFIELD. Mr. Chairman, will fences-sidewalks for rafts-fence pick­ Harbor comes from bank ·erosion. the gentleman yield? ets to keep in the current. Gentlemen, Mr. BUTLER. I yield to the gentle­ we did not realize the damage done by I would like to discuss with you now the man from New Jersey. these floods, and in later years I used to nature of this bank erosion and some of Mr. CANFIELD. Mr. Chairman, I drive along some of our highways and the methods which may be used in effect­ know the gentleman's keen interest in see where these high waters and floods ing its control: the project to which he has referred and swept away acres of the low farm lands. The streams of the Buffalo Creek system are I cannot help but believe that the House exceptionally steep. They are flattest in their will want to lend its support to this very I know from my own observation over a lowest reaches, but even here have a fall of period of years where there has been a more than 14 feet per mile. The stream worth-while improvement. I shall cer­ loss of many hundreds of acres of good gradients increase as the headwaters are ap­ tainly vote for it myself. land. I could go on and point out many proached, some of the slopes having a maxi­ Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield specific cases in this area. Section 15, mum faU in excess of 200 feet per mile. 5 minutes to the gentleman from Illi­ however, does not take in any particular The stream slopes and the nature of the nois [Mr. SIMPSON]. case but it is for the good of this whole stream beds combine to promote bank ero­ Mr. SIMPSON of Illinois. Mr. Chair­ sion. The gradients of the streams are fixed, man, the citizens of Calhoun, Pike, and area in general consisting of about 450 for all practical purposes, by numerous rock square miles, from the highlands down to ledges. The excess energy of the fast-moving Adams Counties in Illinois are indeed the very harbor of the city of Buffalo, on streams thus cannot be dissipated in en­ pleased today knowing that the Sny the Buffalo Rjver, where most of this silt trenchment of the channels, and most of this Island levee and drainage district flood­ is distributed in the channels of naviga­ energy finds an outlet in cutting into the control project is included on page 17 banks and dislodging material. of the authorization in H. R. 6597. tion where the Government does the Bank erosion and meandering will continue dredging. They dredge something like Over 75 years ago the farmers then as long as the flowing water is able to cut living in this area organized and built 187,000 cubic yards annually. This into the banks of the stream channels. The at their own expense levees to protect ·project has been approved by the Soil process can be stopped by reducing the erodibility of the_banks, by providing them them from Mississippi floods. They Erosion Branch of the AAA and will be were protecting some of the most fertile a saving over a period of years both to with a covering which the flowing water can­ not remove. Such covers may be either land in Illinois as well as their homes. the farmers, to industry, and to the Gov- inert, like stone riprap, or living, like willows After these levees were built and, as ~nmen~ · and other vegetation. It is feasible to use time went on, improved, again at their I would like to present for your con­ either or both types of protection for stream own expense, these landowners produced sideration first the problem of sedimen­ banks in the Buffalo Creek watershed. bountiful crops and prospered. The tation in Buffalo Harbor, which the pro­ To control bank erosion effectively on area consists of approximately 110,000 posed stream bank protection work is the streams of the Buffalo Creek sys­ acres and is probably the largest drain­ designed to alleviate. I quote from page tem, a large proportion of the total bank age district above Memphis on the Mis­ 10 of the survey of·Buffalo Creek water­ length would have to be treated. The sissippi River. shed prepared by the Department of survey of bank erosion in the watershed With the construction of the naviga­ Agriculture and printed as House Docu­ indicates that bank erosion in the Buf­ tion dam at Cap aus Gris in the late ment No. 574, Seventy-eighth Congress, falo Creek watershed can be effectively 1930's, the situation of this area began second session: controlled by a combination of heavy to change. This being a gravity district SEDIMENTATION DAMAGES rock riprap on the lower portions of the and containing no pumps to dispose of Deposition of sediment in Buffalo Harbor banks and the planting of tenacious the water, the Mississippi when at flood is a major flood problem of the watershed. shrubby vegetation on the upper parts. stage would flow contrary to gravity and During periods of high water immense quan­ Durable limestone is available at quarries inundate their land. At the time of the tities of sediment are brought down by the within the watershed for riprapping of dam construction these Illinois citizens streams and deposited in the harbor. This the banks below the elevation of average were promised by the Federal Govern­ sedimentation has reduced the harbor depth high water. The following is quoted ment, and it was distinctly understood, so rapidly that it has become necessary to from page 34 of the same report: that the water effect upon the district carry out extensive dredging operations every would be studied over a 5-year period year. EFFECT ON DREDGING It is assumed that the cost of dredging and that the inhabitants should have . The amount of material dredged from drainage facilities comparable with Buffalo River and ship canal annually aver­ varies directly with the quantity of mate­ ages 187,300 cubic yards. Sediment carried rial removed up to the point where the quah­ those prevailing before the dams were by Buffalo Creek also damages machinery of tity is reduced to the extent that the costs built. at least four concerns utilizing water from of mobilizing equipment and providing. en­ For the past 3 years, while other rich the stream for industrial purposes. gineering services would be disproportionate farm lands produced abundantly, this compared with the cost of the actual dredg­ area has been flooded and.property dam­ In addition to the above sedimenta­ ing. The stabilization of the stream banks aged. The United States Engineers tion damage in the harbor, the survey of Buffalo and Cazenovia Creeks would re­ have in the past year met with these cit­ indicates that in numerous places rapid duce t:p.e quantity of material to be dredged by 67.4 percent of its present volume. If izens and outlined their plan, thereby bank erosion is destroying highly valu­ this reduction is accomplished in addition living up to their promise. The citizens able agricultural bottom lands. It is to the reduction of 12.3 percent estimated to affected have approved by an over­ estimated in the report that approxi­ accrue to the farm-land program the unit whelming majority and agreed to the mately 60 acres of such land over the cost of the removal of the material will local contribution as outlined by the whole watershed are damaged or de- probably increase by about 10 percent. engineers. Governor Green, of Illinois, 1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7091 approved as required by law almost im­ flood in 1942. The water was rising so that reassurance, I think we ought to be mediately due to a 'previous study. The fast that the people moved everything satisfied perhaps with this item as it now board of review engineers has approved. that they could move back onto the high appears in the bill. The House Flood Control Committee lands, thinking perhaps they were go'­ Sometimes people say, "Why do these added their approval and included the ing to have the same disastrous flood people, when they know there are these project in this authorization. I sin­ that they had in 1942. It was a terrible recurring fioods, continue to live in an cerely hope that it will now pass the sight after that flood of 1942. I drove up area where -they are likely to be flooded Congress. through there. I went through the and perhaps drowned?" The great at­ Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield houses, where I found beautiful furniture tachment on the part of people to their 10 minutes to the gentleman from New destroyed as well as other equipment. home town or the village where they York [Mr. REED]. The cellars, of course, were filled with were born, where they were brought up, Mr. REED of New York. Mr. Chair­ water. The citizens had to make a where their people lived, is a national man, I am interested in three items that desperate fight all over that area to pre­ stabilizing influence. I remember one appear in this flood-control bill, H. R. vent the breaking out of pestilence of one time many years ago I was in Johns­ 6597. form or another which usually follows town, Pa. It was, of course, many years On page 18, there is the following item: a flood. The beautiful books in that after the Johnstown flood-many years. The local fiood. -protec~lon works at Olean, library were spread out on the lawn. I became acquainted with a very success­ N. Y., on Allegheny River, substantially in They were trying to dry them out in the ful businessman there. He wanted to accordance 'With the recommendations ·of sun and, of course, books an inch thick, show me the town . . the Chief of E_ngineers in his report dated had become 3 to 4 inches thick. They Johnstown, Pa., is located in a valley, April 12, 1946, at an estimated cost of were practically r-uined. There was no as you all know. He took me up on the $2,282,400. chance to salvage many of those fine heights where I could look down on the There is also the next item: books nor some of the fine works of art. city. As we stood there, his eyes became The local flood-protection works at Port­ I remember, too, their school. They moist and he said, "Isn't that a beautiful ville, N. Y., on Allegheny River, substan­ had a beautiful modern school there. city?" I said, "Yes, sir; it certainly is." tially in accordance with the recommenda­ That was flooded. It even destroyed the He pointed out the parks and the public ti.ons of the Chief of Engineers in his report . band instruments of the excellent school buildings. He was thoroughly proud of dated April 12, 1946, at an estimated cost of band. the town. He said, "Do you know, I am $1,281,500. I only mention these things because the only surviving member of a large And the third item: disasters, as they are repeated year after family. When that Johnstown flood The local flood-protection works . at year, run into millions and millions of swept down through this valley it carried Allegany, N. Y., on the Alleghany River, sub­ dollars, and with this appropriation here away all of my relations-father, mother, stantially in accordance with the recom­ much of that, I hope, can be prevented. brothers, and sisters. There were others mendations of the Chief of Engineers in his Mr. GAVIN. Mr. Chairman, will the situated in a similar way." report, dated April 12, 1946, at an estimated gentleman yield? cost of $388,800. Finally, he pointed up to a little ceme­ Mr. REED of New York. I yield to the tery and said, "I suppose all of my peo­ Mr. Chairman, in 1942 there was a gentleman from Pennsylvania. ple are buried in that little cemetery." terrific flood swept down through the city Mr. GAVIN. I want. to substantiate He sa:id, "You know, after that flood of Olean, N.Y., a beautiful city of 21 ,506 what the gentleman has said. I also there were three of us little orphans that population, . destroying innumerable visited that area in 1942 and saw there- · sat down and debated whether or not we homes and industries and inundating suits of that devastating flood. Just would go to Harrisburg or Pittsburgh and many beautiful portions of the city and within the past several weeks that entire become bootblacks in order to get started inflicting great damage. These floods area has been again visited by flood, again and get some food to eat. We have been recurring from time to time, and in one community alone, in the city finally said, 'Well, father and mother with the result that the city is always of Bradford, the losses are estimated at lived here. This is where we played. faced with the possibility of a very dan­ approximately a million dollars. That is Let us stay here.'" He said, "We stayed gerous flood. Many lives have been lost. just in that one town. here half -starved and hungry and we Government surveys have been made I want to support the position of the battled it out. I own that big city block of this situation by the Army engineers distinguished gentleman from New York there. I helped build these parks. and they have come to the conclusion that some relief should be afforded the There has not been a day of my life since that the city of Olean should be ade­ people in that area from these devastat­ that flood that I have not tried to con­ quately protected. ing, recurring floods that are periodically tribute something to the betterment of Just south of Olean there is a beau­ visited upon the communities. I think it this city.'' is a mighty fine project and should re­ tiful village in New York State called That is the spirit of these communi­ Portville. It is one of the most beautiful ceive the wholehearted support of the House. ties when they are wrecked by flood or Villages to be found anywhere, I think, fire. bne of the saddest, one of the ln the State. The library there is not Mr. REED of New York. I thank the most tragic things in the world is for surpassed by any library in any town of · gentleman from Pennsylvania for his ob­ people to be forced out of their homes any comparable size with which I am servation. I appreciate his contribution. and into another environment. The acquainted. Many people contributed There is the village of Allegany, not spirit that makes America great today rare books to the library from all parts very far from Olean. Contiguous to the is that the people love their homes and ·of the world. They had great art village of Allegany is one of the finest are willing to battle to improve the town treasures in there. Well, this flood of universities in western New York--St. Bonaventure. There, again, we had a in which they live. So I believe that 1942 came along and swept 'down through this appropriation is fully justified and that village. They had to send motor­ library, filled with books and wonderful boats from Buffalo to assist the people. works of art brought from all parts of these people should be protected from The railroad tracks, of course, were inun­ the world. They have students there these floods and be able to maintain dated. There were hills back of the vil­ from all parts of the world. It is a splen­ their homes and all the things they love lage of Portville, and as many as could did institution. I made inquiry of the in the community where they live. left their homes downtown and went up Army to find out if the flood-control proj­ Mr. GAVIN. Mr. Chairman, will the there. Many of the people were taken ects provided for in this bill for the vil­ gentleman yield? out from the second story of their homes. lage of Allegany would protect this uni­ Mr. REED of New York. I yield. Many crept out on the veranda roof, and versity. Mr. GAVIN. I might say that this from there were put into motorboats. Of course, this project will not keep project concerns Olean, Portville, and The loss there was something terrific. the water from coming out on the cam­ Allegany, the u'pper stretches of the That occurs from time to time, whenever pus, but War Department engineers as­ Allegheny River, but these flood-control there is a flood. sured me that there is no danger, as far works will be a contribution to flood con­ Here recently, just within a month or as the past history of local floods is con­ trol in the Allegheny Valley and will help so, there was another flash flood that ce.rned, of this water rising high enough the situation at Pittsburgh and in the brought recollections of that disastrous to damage the college buildings. With Ohio Valley. 7092 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE lS Mr. REED of New York. The whole substitution of smaller dams advocated cated that the cost on the part of the length of the Allegheny River and down by those who oppose the large dam. Government will be about $560,000. Of through Pittsburgh and _below. I am Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Chairman, will course, the project has not been com­ glad the gentleman brought out that the gentleman yield? menced and the State of Ohio is about point. , Mr. WHITTINGTON. I yield. to make arrangements to come forward Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield Mr. McGREGOR. Can the gentleman with the proper matching, as provided 5 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio · ~ give us any reason why it is necessary to in the original understanding. [Mr. GRIFFITHS]. construct this dam at this time when it I should like to ask whether tha·t $125,- Mr. GRIFFITHS. Mr. Chairman, be- will destroy approximately 750 homes 000,000 has any application to that situa­ cause a few months ago ·a little state- while at the same time we are giving tion. ment was made on the Dillon Dam I Wilson Wyatt $400,000,000 to construct Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, should like to make one myself, because homes? I have anticipated the gentleman's ques­ the Dillon Dam happens to be situated Mr. WHITTINGTON. I answered the tion. I stated that I was as anxious to in my district practically entirely. gentleman's question by saying that the protect the taxpayers as anybody in the It is not very easy for any Member of dam to which he refers was authorized in country, and I was careful to state the Congress, I know, to know that he has to 1938. There was a protest before the total authorizations as distinguished have three villages in his district moved Committee on Appropriations. The from the total approved projects. I stated because of a dam. I went into it thor- place to file a protest about the actual that it would require the appropriation oughly with the people who protested construction is before the Committee on of all of the authorizations heretofore that live in those villages. They sub- Appropriations, who considered the mat­ made for the Ohio River and its tribu­ mitted other plans. We had the Army ter last December and again this year taries to complete the projects now under engineers go into the matter, and they and made the appropriations. This is way and the projects that have been decided those plans were not feasible, not an appropriation bill. This is an au­ initiated, and that the Ohio River Basin that the present plans were the only way thorization bill. was one of the large basins in the United in reason in which it could be controlled. Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Chairman, will ·states where there are no funds avail-:­ It is true that I have three pretty good- . the gentleman yield further? able for new projects. sized villages that will have to be moved. Mr. WHITTINGTON. I am delighted To answer the gentleman specifically, In regard to the housing situation, let to yield, sir, but I do not have a thing the project to which he refers, having us be fair about that. The engineers on earth to do with Wilson Wyatt, and been previously authorized, could not be stated it was not necessary to move most I opposed housing subsidies. constructed without additional author­ of these until1949. They would not have Mr. McGREGOR. Then the gentle­ ization, and this $125,000,000 will provide to be destroyed. In fact, the majority of man is hiding behind the idea that be- for additional authorizations, and they . them, practically all of them, will be cause it is something that happened in will be constructed in the order and moved without even disturbing the con- the past we cannot start to correct it under the priorities agreed upon by the tents of the homes. now; is that it? local· interests and the Chief of En­ This dam will add materially to the Mr. WHITTINGTON. No, no; I do gineers. protection of Zanesville, Malta, McCan- not hi<:le behind anything. Mr. JENKINS. As I understand it, if nellsville, and Marietta, Ohio. If you Mr. McGREGOR. I know you do not. and when the Army engineers have made people ever lived along a dam and saw Mr. WHITTINGTON. I always speak all the surveys with reference to the Burr your entire business district flooded so out in the open and say what I think. I Oak Dam, then, if they would put that that you could get in a boat and row have tried to answer the gentleman's project on the list and go f>efore the Ap­ across the top of the trolley wire, then question fairly. propriations Committee and ask for an you would realize how much we are in- ·Mr. McGREGOR. I know you have, appropriation, when we pass this bill all terested in flood prevention. I certainly sir. the necessary legislation will have been hope, since this dam was provided for in Mr. GRIFFITHS. Now, Mr. Chair- passed for the Appropriations Commit­ 1939, that any amendment based on the man, I do want to say on behalf of myself tee to act? theory that because it was not started as a member of the Committee on Flt>od Mr. WHITTINGTON. Exactly so. In before the dam should never be started Control that of all the committees with the Ohio River Valley from Olean to will be defeated. I think that is very which I have been associated, our dis­ Cairo-! am not talking about approvals, fallacious reasoning and I certainly hope tinguished chairman is most courteous but all authorizations will be exhausted that amendment when offered will not be and most helpful. He has not tried to in the completion of projects that have accepted. hide behind anything. been put under way and are now in proc­ Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, . The CHAIRMAN. The time of the ess of construction, and that to provide will the gentleman yield? gentleman from Ohio has expired. for appropriations for any project, in­ Mr. GRIFFITHS. I yield. . Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield cluding the project which the gentleman Mr. WHITTINGTON. I think it is 5 minutes to the gentleman. speaks of as having been previously au­ fair to say that the dam under consid- Mr. GRIFFITHS. If any protest came thorized, this authorization of $125,000,- eration is the last of probably 13 dams. up, he was perfectly-willing to go into 000 is essential. Thirteen dams on the Muskingum River such matters and we went into them even Mr. JENKINS. The Governor of Ohio and its tributaries were constructed un- after the hearings were concluded. As is calling into extra session the legisla­ der the original plan proposed by the I said before, anybody who has the idea ture of that State and one of the propo­ conservancy district in Ohio. I know of that 700 homes are going to be destroyed sitions he expects to put in his message no river and the tributaries of no river either has not read the report of the calling the legislators into special session that have been more generously treated. engineers or is barking up a tree. is the construction of the Burr Oak Dam. I know of no river and its tributaries Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield I have told the Governor that I think where more dams have been constructed such time as he may desire to the gentle­ with the previous authorization already under the Flood Control Act than on man from Ohio [Mr. JENKINS]. made and with the authorization we will the Muskingum River. In deference to Mr. JENKINS. I would like to ask make here today, that the Army engi­ my friend, the gentleman from Ohio the distinguished chairman of the com­ neers will be ready to build that project [Mr. McGREGOR], we heard witness after mittee for a little explanation concerning when they have .the plans corr1)::>leted, witness. I think it is fair to say that the the item of $125,000,000 on page 18. The which. will be in a short time. I, there­ proposed substitute of smaller dams, ac- gentleman is one of the most erudite fore, think that the Governor of Ohio can cording to the testimony in the hearings gentlemen in the House and he knows safely instruct his legislature to make the and according to the report of the Chief more about flood-control projects than necessary preparations to go forward of Engineers, shows tliat more property most any man in Congress. I refer with securing the State's part of the would be condemned, more land would to Burr Oak Dam, which is to be located money necessarY for the construction_of be condemned, more homes would be in Ohio on the headwaters of the Hock­ that project. condemned, and it would result in less ing River. As I understand it.. this Con­ Mr. WHITTINGTON. I think the benefits than the dam that is under con- gress has heretofore authorized the gentleman is correct. Where communi­ sideration. Those are the results of the construction of the project and has indi- ties are willing to cooperate, the projects 1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7093 have been constructed more expeditious­ Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. Chair­ Mr. MURDOCK. Mr. Chairman, may ly than elsewhere. man, this bill, H. R. 6597; proposes to con­ I say to the distinguished chairman of Mr. JENKINS. I thank the gentleman tinue the flood-control program which the Flood Control Committee that I am for his information. the Committee on Flood Control has been truly appreciative of one thing that hap­ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman has sponsoring so well during the last few pened last year in connection with this consumed 4 minutes. · years. The purpose of the bill is to cre­ bill? There was at that time a flood Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield ate authorizations so that the program hazard in the State of ·Arizona at Hol­ 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois can go forward in an orderly fashion. brook, on the Little Colorado, which had [Mr. VURSELL]. • I am particularly interested in the au­ been examined, surveyed properly by the Mr. VURSELL. Mr. Chairman, I have thorizations proposed herein for the Army engineers, and their report was been rather concerned about this bill, Missouri River Basin. The existing au­ complete before the bill was brought to and as indicated in my questioning of thorizations will be exhausted by the the House; however, the entire survey the chairman while he was speaking, it completion of the projects presently out­ was not completed, as there were some is because I fear the construction of cer­ lined and on which work has been started other reports yet due. After the bill tain levees on the Indiana side, opposite and funds committed. The bill is nec­ went to the Senate those reports were the district I represent, may work a essary if this program for establishing completed and the item was taken care hardship and cause the destruction of flood control in an area covering one­ of in the other body, the chairman giving considerable property and cause some of sixth of the entire United States is to go support in -conference. It means that a the people on the Illinois nide great in­ forward. flood-control hazard has been looked convenience. I wanted to go along with Mr. WHIT'TINGTON. Mr. Chairman, after so far as the legislative part of it is this bill, on the belief-and I do have will the gentleman yield? concerned and the way cleared for con­ the belief and I know that the chairman, Mr. CASE of South Dakota. I yield. st·ruction. the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Mr. WHITTINGTON. I am glad to Mr. Chairman, again I want to ask a WmTTINGTON], will do everything with­ have the gentleman make that state­ question of the chairman of the com­ in his power· to see that justice is ment, and in order that there may be no mittee. I understand that certain flood­ done-if and when this bill is passed, misunderstanding about the amounts control surveys have been completed by the result of the passage of this bill will heretofore authorized, I repeat what I the Army engineers along and tn the eventually bring flood construction work have previously stated in my general re­ watershed of the Gila River in Arizona, into progress. I am not sure at the pres­ marks on this bill, that while there are especially one concerning the area near ent time whether I can vote for the bill. projects approved aggregating $3,675.- Tucson, another on the upper Gila, and Perhaps the debate will help me make 958,000, and I have them itemized, the still a third survey on the Bill Williams up my mind before it becomes necessary authorizations for appropriations aggre­ River in Arizona suggesting the building for m.e to cast my vote. gate $1 ,680,400,000, and the total cost of of a dam on the Alamo site. These sur- · As I stated before, the floodwaters on completing the projects heretofore be­ veys, so far as the Army engineers are the river at Mount Vernon, Ill., would gun and now under construction is ap­ concerned, have been completed, but the be raised some 5% feet. Restricting the proximately $1,638,485,000. So from a entire requirement for each has not been channel at ·that point by the building national viewpoint there remains an au­ met. If these surveys or any one of of these dams on the Indiana side will thorization of only $42,000,000 for new them, can be completed and the recom­ probably flood a good many thousand projects. mendations can be submitted, may I acres of fertile productive land on the Mr. CASE of South Dakota. I think it ask the chairman of the committee Dlinois side and cause the power plant is well to have that statement by the whether there is a possibility of getting serving a city of 10,000 people at Mount. chairman, who, in my opinion, is the one or more of them in the bill in the · Carmel to be raised at great expense. best qualified man in the country to other body? I have had the matter up with the Gov­ speak with knowledge on the subject. Mr. WHITTINGTON. I will answer ernment and I am in doubt whether the He knows what projects have been ap­ the gentleman's question as I have an­ Government will provide financial aid to proved, what their completion costs are, swered others of the same character. If cover the cost when it becomes necessary and what authorizations for appropria­ the Department of the Interior, the gov­ to elevate this power plant. I know that tions have been made. The figures he ernor of the State and the agencies agree, in the past, because of flood-control dis_. cited, I understand, relate to all projects and it is submitted to the Bureau of the tricts raising their levee heights, con­ and are not limited to the projects in the Budget. I know of no reason why it should siderable damage has been done the peo­ Missouri Basin in which I had expressed not be included in the other body on ple on the Illinois side. For that reason special interest. recommendation of the Chief of En­ I look with con.siderable questioning on The establishment of the ·cash author­ gineers. whether or not strictly from a local point izations is very important for proper con­ Mr. MURDOCK. I thank the gentle­ of view it will be beneficial or whether it sideration of appropriation requests by man. will not be destructive to the people on the Subcommittee on Appropriations for I am calling attention to this matter, the Illinois side. For that reason at the the War Department which handles the hoping again this year that it may be present time I withhold my judgment. I so-called civil functions bill. In that possible to hurry up the necessary addi­ hope that if this bill passes-and it is ap­ committee we are always up against the tional· reports on one or more of these parent that it is going to pass-that the question of whether or not the appro- Arizona projects and thus perhaps get Army engineers will make the resurvey . priations that are requested through the authorization without the lapse of an­ they promised to make in order that Bureau of the Budget are in excess_of other year of time. I cannot say surely justice may be done to the people on the existing authorizations. I hope the gen­ that any of the flood control provisions Illinois side as well as the Indiana side. tleman will place in the RECORD the item­ called for in the present uncompleted Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, iZed list to which he has referred. Such reports are quite so serious as last year, will the gentleman yield? a list would be convenient for reference involving jeopardy of human life to such Mr. VURSELL. I yield. and we desire to have the record per­ a degree as did the one at- Holbrook, Mr. WHITTINGTON. I have no de­ fectly clear so that when w~ report a Ariz., which was incorporated in the bill sire to influence the gentleman's judg­ bill carrying actual appropriations it will last year. However, all of these in Ari­ ment, but I remind him that three of not be subject -to a point of order on zona now do involve great risk to life these projects are located in the State of the ground of being in excess of eXisting a'nd property and do call for early action. Dlinois. I do not know of course whether authorizations for some project or proj­ For that reason, I hope that the Senators they are located in the gentleman's dis­ ects. may be able to add one or more of them trict. I may say also that these projects The CHAIRMAN. The time of the to this authorization bill before it goes are largely revisions of projects adopted gentleman from South Dakota has ex­ to the President's desk. in 1936. pired. I understand that the Army engineers Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, have finished their report on a project 3 minutes to the gentleman from South I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from near Tucson, Ariz., in which some very Dakota [Mr. CASE]. Arizona [Mr. MURDOCK]. bad floods have recently occurred. I 7094 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE 'JUNE 18 distinctly recall that my colleague now Bill Williams River even though it is in and his experience to the consideration decreased, Congressman Buell Snyder, Arizona. of all of these great projects that are of Pennsylvania, told me that on a visit I certainly am interested in it, for the included in this bill. I think that this to Tucson 2 or 3 years ago he was caught reasons just indicated, and also for the Congress and the people of the United in a flood on the outskirts of that city and additional reason that flood protection . States generally owe a great debt of had some risk of losing his life. I re­ further down the Colorado River on both gratitude to the gentleman from Mis­ member that it was reported that con­ sides of the Colorado would accordingly sissippi in this great work. siderable property damage was done by be furnished and also for the further rea­ Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman that flood. I think without doubt there son that some irrigation in my State I yield to the g~tleman from Louisiana is great urgency with regard to this con­ would very likely be made possible by [Mr. BROOKS] such time as he may desire. struction which the Army engineers rec­ such joint construction at or near the Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Chairman, this is ommend. Since this does not involve ir­ Alamo site. Therefore I have felt that an excellent bill and I join my colleague rigation, it may be that the corollary re­ I must, during the consideration of this who has just paid tribute to this great port called for in so many completed bill, call attention to these needs, in the committee and its members in the lauda­ reports will in this case either be un­ hope that the finishing up of the re­ tion and plaudits that are due them. necessary or in the meantime quickly quired reports might be had on the more Mr. Chairman, Red River is one of the obtained. urgent of these proposals. great rivers of the world. It is 1,208 I am not quite sure about the engineers' Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chair­ miles long. It rises at Canyon, Tex., reports on other portions of the Gila man, I yield such time as he may desire and flows along the boundary line of watershed, for it has been surveyed to the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. Texas and Oklahoma for hundreds of throughout, but I do know that a very NORRELL]. miles, passing through southwest Ar­ destructive flood did great damage to Mr. NORRELL. Mr. Chairman, is kansas and enters northwest Louisiana, Duncan, Ariz., only a few years ago. I there anything in the pending bill that flowing in a southeasterly direction to also know that that growing Arizona city will in any way change or affect existing its confluence with the Atchafalaya and has been several times greatly harmed by law with reference to the base, grade, the Mississippi. From time immemorial floods on the Gila River. Here again is a or height of the levees existing in the it has created great and devastating case where dams and other control work lower Mississippi River, especially be­ floods. which I believe the Army engineers have tween the States of Mississippi on the The greatest of all floods on Red River recommended should be constructed in east and Arkansas and Louisiana on the occurred in the year 1945 when the river the near future. More time may be re­ west? reached a peak discharge of 303,000 cubic quired in this instance because reclama­ Mr. WHITTINGTON. Nothing what-: feet per second at Shreveport, La. tion will be involved here, and reclama­ soever. During that year the river overflowed tion will be involved to a great degree at Mr. NORRELL. I thank the gentle­ approximately 1,000,000 acres between any place on the Gila River where flood man. Boggy Creek and the Mississippi River control work is called for. Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chair­ backwater area. I do know that the Army engineers man, I yield such time as he may desire Under the plan presented in the bill, have investigated and reported favorably to the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. consideration of the flood problem along on flood-control dams and other such LARCADE]. the right bank of the river from Denison structures on the Bill Williams River and Mr. LARCADE. Mr. Chairman, I do Dam in Texas to Boyce, La., is given and on the San Pedro River, as well as the not think there is any further argument also along the left bank of the river from Gila River. I hope to see something done necessary with respect to this bill. Denison Dam to Moncla, La. Below in the immediate future toward the build­ There is no opposition whatsoever to it these points the flood problem falls under ing of dams on these streams, especially and I see no reason for going into a fur­ · the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Com­ a dam on the San Pedro at the .Old ther discussion of the bill itself. I do mission. Charleston site, one on the Gila below the take time to say a few words, however, To get some idea of the problem pre­ San Pedro and more especially a dam on in connection with the service of the sented, it is interesting to note that the the Bill Williams by the Army engineers chairman of this committee. basin has a population of 2,816,000 peo­ at the Alamo Site. Not only is flood con­ Recently we have had a number of ple as of 1940. In the valley are 91,000 trol and also irrigation involved in these very valuable members of this Congress · square miles of land to be protected. Be­ proposed dams, as well as in a dam recom­ who have re&igned because they were not tween 1843 and 1900 six great floods oc­ mended on the Gila River below the able to make ends meet on the salary curred along the Red River, but as I have mouth of the San Pedro. but in all these they received here, and they have ac­ said before, the greatest was in 1945. It cases for the protection of property and cepted the positions which paid them a was during the course of this flood that for some the furnishing of domestic water remuneration sufficient for them to ta.ke I had occasion to fly over a large-part of supply for great and growing cities. To care of themselves and their families it and then traversed the area along the illustrate, I am sure if the people of properly and to provide for their future. edges of the overflow waters by car, go­ Los Angeles fully understood the situa­ In the case of the chairman of the ing out into the overflow itself by boat. tion pertaining to the proposed dam on Committee on Flood Control, the distin­ I saw scenes of property destruction and the Bill Williams River they would join guished gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. distress approach that of the war-devas­ me in urging that something be done WHITTINGTON] , l want to call your at­ tated regions of Europe. about it. tention to the fact that he is serving in The plan presented by this bill con­ '!'he Bill Williams River enters the the Congress at a great sacrifice. We templates taking care of a design flood Colorado River just above Parker Dam all know that he has vast interests in which would overflow 1,700,000 acres, a and at the point where the Los Angeles the State of Mississippi, and yet he is much greater flood than occurred in 1945. aqueduct diverts water for the metro­ serving here as chairman of this com­ Included in this would be 774,000 acres politan water district of southern Cali­ mittee as a patriotic duty, and at great of cropland. fornia, which includes Los Angeles and personal sacrifice. He is giving of his The plan proposes six reservoirs to be about a dozen other surrounding Cali­ talents and of his time in the interest located along the Boggy River, Kiamichi fornia cit-ies. While the Bill Williams is of his State and of his country in one River, Little River, Sulphur River, and an all-Arizona river and, in my judg­ of the greatest works, I think, that any two on Cypress Creek. In periods of ment, California has little rightful claim Member of this Congress can undertake . heavy floods the rebervoirs will fill up . to its waters, it is a fact that those waters He has made a study of this subject of and retard the flow of water on the are emptied into Havasu Lake from flood control, and I consider him and main stem of the Red. As the high which the great water supply for Los Senator OvERTON from Louisiana two of water recedes, the reservoirs will be grad­ Angeles area is drawn. In fact, the Bill the best-informed men in the United ually allowed to retain the water which Williams River empties into the lake di­ States on that subject. will be permitted to flow down the Red rectly opposite the municipal water in­ The gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. River in an orderly manner. take, in a way to jeopardize the Cali­ WHITTINGTON] has just emerged from Bank protection and levee work on fornia city's supply. Every man, woman, hearings which lasted during the entire the main stem will cost about $3 ,500,000. and child in southern California ought month of April and part of May, and he When this great project along the Red to be interested in protective work on the gave of his patience and his knowledge River is completed it would prevent flood /

1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE .7095 damages averaging $2,700,000 annually. in which he has always conducted his I worked hard to bring to the people of It will return benefits exceeding $700,000 committee, the way in which this bill was that great valley the protection theY annually by making certain lands pres­ reported out of committee, and the needed. That has always been t.he ently unsuitable for cultivation usable thorough hearings that were given to guiding principle of the members of that as croplands. In other words, the total everybody concerned with this legislation. committee. We have sought to do that benefits will exceed $3,400,000 in direct Mr. Chairman, I have no further re­ thing which would bring to our Nation benefits. quests for time. as a whole the greatest possible benefit. Mr. Chairman, as I said at the begin­ Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chair­ Now may I say something about the ning, from time immemorial the people man, I yield 13 minutes to the gentleman great Corps of Engineers. That group of the Red River Valley have been living from Louisiana [Mr. ALLEN]. of men in the Corps of Engineers, as has in a constant state of fear of floods. Mr. ALLEN of Louisiana. Mr. Chair­ been pointed out here this evening, is Year by year they have seen the flood­ man, in the closing minutes of this gen­ perhaps the best qualified group of men waters of other States descend upon eral debate on this very worth-while bill, in all the world on problems of flood con­ them in tremendous volume flooding I do not have the time to discuss the trol. They have demonstrated that time their lands and destroying their lives various projects that have been most and time again. They know their busi­ and property. Under the laws of the ably presented by the distinguished ness. They are always fair. They are State of Louisiana, our people have or­ chairman of this committee. But I do always considerate. You cannot unduly ganized leve~ boards along both sides of want to say a few words with reference influence them, but you can always go the river. They have year by year taxed to flood control generally and with ref­ to them and reason with them. If you themselves to build levees, bank protec­ erence to the very fine and able work have a good proposition they will readily tion, and do other defensive types of which the chairman of this ·committee see it and they will do their best to help work. Millions· upon millions of dollars has done, and, if I may be permitted to you. I know of no group of men in all have been spent by the people of this do so as a member of the committee, also the Government service more capable, basin on this type of work and with very say something about the work of the more accommodating and more loyal helpful results, Everyone has come to committee in general. than are the men in the Corps of realize that the problem of flood control Mr. Chairman, much has been said Engineers. on a river more than 1,200 miles long is here today, and justifiably so, about the Mr. Chairman, I think something not a local problem. Ability does not gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. WHIT­ ought to be stated here about the con­ lie in the local people to properly handle TINGTON]. I am serving my tenth year servatism of the engineers. When there or to cope with floodwaters that descend on that committee and I want to join are those who are prone to criticize proj­ periodically upon them from other re­ others in approving everything that has ects written into flood-control bills by gions far removed. As a result of this been said about that very capable gen­ the committee, of which I have the honor fact, the appeal has been made in these tleman. I believe that the gentleman to be a member, I remind you of the fact :flood-control bills to help with interstate from Mississippi [Mr. WHITTINGTON] is that the engineers are always conserva­ streams. This is the only way the prob­ as great a civilian authority on flood tive, thoroughly conservative, sometimes lem can be handled and we who live control in general as we have in the we think ultra-conservative. I am glad under the shadow of a constant fea;r United States. The distinguished senior they are conservative, I am glad that plead with you to give us the protection Senator from Louisiana, the Honorable they screen everything carefully and that which the lower Red River Valley is JoHN H. OVERTON, is an authority on flood they go into every project very carefully, entitled to receive. control and has likewise made a great because it allows us as members of the Mr. Chairman, in 1945 the damages contribution in that dire~tion. I know committee to present to you projects that from :floods in the United States was very that in the committee it is difficult to have been carefully weighed and care­ heavy. The Army engineers estimated say anything about any stream or even fully considered by the engineers and that the damage for all portions totaled a small creek that the gentleman from by the governors of the State where the $103,800,000. This damage may be di­ Mississippi does not have knowledge of projects are situated. vided between agriculture and industry. and in most cases intimate knowledge of. Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, For instance, agriculture suffered $45,- He can tell you almost offhand just what will the gentleman yield? 000,000 in :flood damages last year and has been authorized in every section, in Mr. ALLEN of Louisiana. I will be industrial and other damages totaled nearly every congressional district, and happy to yield to my very distinguished $58,000 ,000. In the Red River Valley he can tell you pretty weli what has been chairman. alone the damages from the devastating spent in every section. When we on the Mr. WHITTINGTON. I stated from floods of 1945 totaled $12,600,000 and committee sit with him day after day and my independent recollection to the gen­ 2,624,000 acres of land in my home State observe his familiarity with the whole tleman from Illinois [Mr. VuRSELL], when of Louisiana were inundated by the rav­ flood-control program of the Nation, we he spoke about the project at Mount ages of the 1945 devastating floods. ourselves are often astonished at his very Carmel, that I was sure it had been pro­ It is therefore vitally important to our intimate knowledge of the broad subject. vided for. I should like the record to people that this bill do pass. This pro­ Mr. Chairman, may I now say just a show that on page 25 of the bill there is gram means the reclaiming for agricul­ word about my colleagues on the com­ provision for an examination and survey tural and industrial use of millions of mittee. This committee is strictly non­ covering, and I quote: acres of land. It means the saving of partisan. You hear that about a good Wabash River at and in the vicinity of lives and the annual savings of million·s many committees, but that is certainly Mount Carmel, Ill. of dollars in property. When the pro­ true of the Committee on Flood Control. gram for flood control on Red River is In the time I have been on that com­ I was sure I was right at the time, but completed, great development in this area mittee I have never known any politics I want the record to show that we have of the world can reasonably be expected. to enter into it. We consider proposi­ not only provided for it in this particu­ New homes, new businesses, new indus­ tions, programs, and plans, and we are lar bill under consideration but also by tries, and new activities will spring up in not concerned about where they are, a resolution of the committee. the reclaimed and protected lands, add­ what State they are in, what district Mr. ALLEN of Louisiana. I thank our ing hundreds of millions of dollars to they are in, or anything like that. We chairman. That bears out just what I the wealth of the Nation and happiness consider the entire picture of the Nation said about the chairman of our com­ to the people protected from a dreadful as a whole. mittee. He knows his flood-control work. scourge which is as old as the country is I remember when I first went on that He knows what has been done and where itself. committee in 1937 we had a disastrous it has been done. Mr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield flood in the Ohio Valley. I recall that Now, Mr. Chairman, a word about this myself 2 minutes. we worked hard for a long time to solve bill. This bill affects almost every con­ Mr. Chairman, I, too, want to pay my the problems in the Ohio Valley. As I gressional district in the Nation directly. respects to the distinguished gentleman recall now, the southern part of the Indirectly it affects every congressional from Mississippi [Mr. WHITTINGTON] who country, from which I hail, did not re­ district in the Nation, even the city dis­ is the chairman of this Committee on ceive any great benefits in that particular tricts a long way perhaps from any flood Flood Control. I especially want to com­ bill, but we were just as concerned be­ on any river. Those districts are di­ pliment him on the fine democratic way cause it helped the country as a whole. rectly concerned becaus~ the city people .7096 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE .18 must get their bread and butter and their. the protective power of every possible By unanimous consent, Mr. ALLEN of fiber from the farms. In many cases acre of that rich land. Any other course Louisiana was granted permission to re- those farms are being overflowed. is shortsighted. vise and extend his remarks. - Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I am glad that Mr. Chairman, as staten a moment ago The CHAIRMAN. All time has ex­ throughout the years I have been on this the ftood damages in the past 3 years pired. The Clerk will read. committee, ftood-control bills have en­ have probably reached $350,000,000. The Clerk read as follows: joyed great support even from gentlemen This vast sum has been lost forever to Be it enacted, etc., That this act may be representing city districts because those the people of the United States. Do not cited as the "Flood Control Act of 1946." gentlemen were wise enough and fair think that that loss was only in the SEc. 2. That section 3 of the act approved enough to realize that the city dwellers valleys where the ftoods occur. That June 22, 1936 (Public, No. 738, 74th Cong.), are vitally concerned about conserving was a loss to all the people. It is true as amended by section 2 of the act approved June 28, 1938 (Public, No. 761, 75th Cong.), the lands and the rich valleys of our that the loss was felt most keenly in shall apply to all works authorized in this country in order that the people of this the valleys, but the result of that loss act except that for any channel improve­ Nation might continue to have food and can be felt, and is being felt, all over ment or channel-rectification project, pro­ fiber. the Nation. . visions (a), (b), and (c) of section 3 of said Mr. Chairman, erosion in this Nation Flood control pays dividends. It pays act of June 22, 1936, shall apply thereto, and has played a tremendous part in our ag­ and pays well. Certainly there is no in­ except as otherwise provided by law: Pro­ ricultural economy. Back yonder a long vestment that means more for the fu­ vided, That the authorization for any flood­ time ago we cleared off our lands. How­ control project herein adopted requiring local ture happiness and prosperity of our cooperation shall expire 5 years from the date ever, we were not careful enough to pro­ people than the conservation of our on which local interests are notified in writ­ vide against erosion in many places and lands and the protection of our vast ing by the War Department of the require­ our-lands to a great extent have been rich river valleys from the constant ments of local cooperation, unless said in­ depleted and worn out. Several years menace of ftoods. We get more back terests shall within said time furnish as­ ago we were told in our committee that each year than we spend on ftood con­ surances satisfactory to the Secretary of War lands of the United States were being trol. It is an investment which we owe that the required cooperation will be fur­ depleted and worn out to the tune of to those who are to come after us. We nished. · The provisions of section 1 of the act of about 300,000 acres a year. We were also have no right to use the blessings which December 22, 1944 (Public, No. 534, 78th told by the best soil-conservation author-: we find to our hands without trying, as Cong., 2d sess.), shall govern with respect to ity in the United States and ·probably best we can, to pass on to and make projects herein authorized; and the pro­ in the world, Dr. Bennett, that in prob­ certain that our children will also be cedures therein set forth with respect to ably 150 years this Nation would reach a able to enjoy comparablt! blessings. . plans, proposals, or reports for works of point where it might not be self-sustain­ Some perhaps will argue that we have improvement for navigation or flood control ing, agriculturally speaking, unless we sufficient authorizations already. The and for irrigation and purposes incidental stopped the trend of erosion and unless thereto shall apply as if herein set forth in answer to that, Mr. Chairman, is that full. we conserved our soil. we need additional authorizations so SEc. 3. That hereafter for authorized flood­ Mr. Chairman, this leads me to say that the Corps of Engineers can spend protection· projects which include alterations that it is most vital, most important-it is the money at its disposal in shaping a of railroad bridges the Chief of Engineers a matter of paramount importance that broad comprehensive ftood-control plan is authorized to include at Federal expense this Congress see to it that our great in each river valley and in the Nation the necessary alterations of railroad bridges river valleys all over the country are con­ as a whole. More and more the engi­ and approaches in connection therewith. served and protected that they might not SEc. 4. That section 4 of the act approved neers are working out programs and December 22, 1944 (Public, No. 534, 78th suffer recurring ftoods year after year. plans to cover each valley as a whole Cong.), is amended to read as follows: I recall in 1945 when regions that had and then to correlate as much as pos­ "The Chief of Engineers, under the super­ not suffered ftoods for a good while were sible the protective works in the various vision of the Secretary of War, is authorized completely devastated and crops were de­ valleys. This is wise. It seems to me that to construct, maintain, and operate public stroyed, livestock was killed, and people this is the way to re&.lize the maximum park and recreational facilities in reservoir lost their lives. There were no crops. amount of good. That is why it is now areas under the control of the War Depart­ We are feeling the pinch of that right of great importance that we have ad­ ment, and to permit the construction, main­ now at this time when America needs to tenance, and operation of such facilities. ditional authorizations so that the en­ The Secretary of War is authorized to grant have all of the food and grain and food gineers can wo.rk cut a program in each leases of lands, including structures or products that we can get. Mr. Chair­ valley that will achieve maximum pro­ facilities thereon, in reservoir areas for such man, in the last 3 years we have had a tection and the greatest good to the periods and upon such terms as he may deem destruction of probably $350,000,000 whole. Moreover, as has been pointed reasonable: Provided, That leases to non­ worth of property in this country because profit organizations may be granted at re7 out here today, additional authorizations duced or nominal rentals in recognition of of ftoods. Of course, we did not have will bring us a backlog of projects, any ftood-control work during the war. the public service to be rendered in utilizing worth-while projects, to be used in the the leased premises: Provided further, That That is understandable. Nobody blames event we are visited with terrible de­ preference shall be given to Federal, State, or the Chief Executive for impounding the local governmental agencies, and licenses money of the country during the war. pressions in the future. In considering these projects in .this bill it is true, as may be granted without monetary considera:­ We had to win the war. But now that tions, to such agencies for the use of all or the war is over, now that peace has come, it has always been true in other bills, any portion of a reservoir area, when the at least we hope, it is high time, Mr. that each project has received the full Secretary of War determines such action to Chairman, that this Congress should go approval of the Corps of Engineers. The be in the public interest, and for such periods back and pick up the ftood-control pro­ committee does not include any project of time and upon such conditions as he may which has not been fully approved by find advisable. The water areas of all such gram, and that we should give to the reservoirs shall be open to public use gen­ river regions, to the valleys of this land, the engineers. erally, without charge, for boating, swim­ and to all regions of this country the pro­ This bill is a good bill. Frankly, I ming, bathing, fishing, and other recrea­ tective ftood-control works which we think that it is probably the best flood­ tional purposes, and ready access to and must have to guarantee to this country control bill which has ever been pre­ exit from such water areas along the shores a perpetual supply of farm products. sented to Congress by the committee of such reservoirs shall be maintained for while I have been a member of the Flood general public use, when such use is deter­ The amount ·of land contained in our mined by the Secretary of War not to be fine river valleys is limited. That land Control Committee. I trust that it will contrary to the public interest, all under is very fertile. That land has had the· meet the approval of the Members of such rules and regulations as the Secretary washings of centuries. The best soil Congress, and that the project may be of War may deem necessary. No use of from the hills of the Nation has ftowed authorized. I think it is timely. I urge, any area to which this section applies. shall into these valleys. That makes it all the therefore, the approval of the bill in its be permitted which is inconsistent with the entirety. laws for the protection of fish and game of more imperative that we now bring to the State in which such area is situated. All those valleys the greatest possible pro­ The CHAIRMAN. The time of the moneys received for leases or privileges shall tection from ftoods so that the people gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. ALLEN] be dep ... sited in the Treasury of the United of the Nation may get the benefit of . has expired. States ·as miscellaneous receipts." · 1946 CONGRESSIONAL ·RECORD-HOUSE 7097 SEc. 5. That section 7 of the act approved work may be prosecuted on any project mendations of the Chief of Engineers in August 18, 1941 (Public, No. 228, 77th Cong.), authorized in this act with funds from ap­ House Document No. 560, Seventy-ninth 1s hereby amended to read as follows: propriations heretofore or hereafter made for Congress, second session, at an estimated cost "That 75 percent of all moneys re­ flood control so as to be ready for rapid of $349,000. ceived and deposited in the Treasury of the inauguration of a construction program: Pro­ LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER United States during any fiscal year on ac­ vided further, That the projects authorized count of the leasing of lands acquired by the herein shall be initiated as expeditiously and The project for flood control and improve­ United States for flood-control purposes prosecuted as vigorously as may be consistent ment of the lower Mississippi River adopted shall be paid at the end of such year by the with budgetary requirements: And provided by the act approved May 15, 1928, as amended Secretary of the Treasury to the State in further, That penstocks and other similar by subsequent acts, is hereby modified and facilities adapted to possible future use in expanded to include the following items and which such property is situated, to be ex­ the authorization for said project is increased the development of hydroelectric power ~hall pended as the State legislature may prescribe accordingly: for the benefit of public schools and public be installed in any dam authorized in this roads of the county, or counties, in which act for construction by the War Department (a) Improvement of the Boeuf and Tensas such property is situated: Provided, That when approved by the Secretary of War on Rivers and Bayou Macon at an estimated cost when such property is situated in more than the recommendation of the Chief of En­ of $5,013,000 authorized in the act approved one State or county, the distributive share gineers and the Federal Power Commission: December 22, 1944. (b) Extension of the authorized improve­ to each from the proceeds of such property DELAWARE RIVER BASIN shall be proportional to its area therein." ment under subparagraph (a) to include the The project for flood protection on the improvement of Bayou LaFourche, La., in­ SEc. 6. That the Secretary of War is hereby Lehigh River, Pa., is hereby authorized authorized and empowered, under such terms cluding cut-offs, as may be found requisite to substantially in accordance with the rec­ effectuate the purposes of the plan, at an and conditions as are deemed advisable by ommendations of the .Chief of Engineers him, to grant easements for rights-of-way estimated cost of $5,913,000 and substantially in House Document No. 587, Seventy-ninth in accordance with the recommendations of over, across,. in, and upon lands under his Congress, second session, at an estimated cost control, to any State, political subdivision the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document thereof, or municipality, or to any individual, of $12,471,000. No. 191, Seventy-ninth Congress, second partnership, or corporation of any State, POTOMAC RIVER BASIN session. Territory, or possession of the United States, The local flood-protection project at Cum­ (c) Extension of the authorized improve­ for (a) railroad tracks; (b) oil pipe lines; berland and West Cumberland, Md., and ment under subparagraph (a) to include the (c) substations for electric power transmis­ Ridgeley, W. Va., authorized in the Flood improvement of the Boeuf and Tensas Rivers sion lines, telephone lines, and telegraph Control Act approved June 22, 1936 (Public, and Bayou Macon north of the Louisiana lines, and pumping stations for gas, water, No. 738, 74th Cong.), is hereby amended to State line, including cut-offs, as may be sewer, and oil pipe lines; (d) canals; (e) provide for completion of the project sub­ found requisite to effectuate the p·urposes of ditches; (f) flumes; (g) tunnels; (h) dams stantially in accordance with plans on file in the plan, at an estimated cost of $4,930,000 and reservoirs in · connection with fish and the Office of the Chief of Engineers at an esti­ substantially in accordance with the report wildlife programs, fish hatcheries, and other mated cost to the United States of $7,420,000 of the Chief of Engineers dated April 8, 1946. fish-cultural improvements; (i) roads and and subject to the conditions of local co­ (d) Improvement of Big Sunflower, Little streets; and (j) for any other purpose or operation prescribed for that project in the Sunflower, Hushpuckena, and Quiver Rivers purposes deemed advisable by the Secretary act approved June 22, 1936, as modified, now and their tributaries, and on Hull Brake-Mill of War: ·Provided, That such rights-of-way estimated at $1,520,000. Creek Canal, Bogue Phalia, Ditchlow Bayou, shall be granted only upon a finding by the The project for flood protection at Waynes­ Deer Creek, and Steele Bayou, Miss., at an Secretary of War that the same will not be boro, Va., on South River is hereby author­ estimated cost of $3,752,000 authorized in incompatible with the public interest: Pro­ ized substantially in accordance with the the act approved December 22, 1944. vided further, That such rights-of-way shall recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in (e) Extension of the authorized improve­ not include any more land than is reasonably House Document No. --, Seventy-ninth ment under subparagraph (d) upstream and necessary for the purpose for which granted: Congress, second session, at an estimated cost downstream, including cut-offs, as may be And provided further, That all or any part of $1,431,000. found requisite to effectuate the purposes of of such rights-of-way may be annulled and The project for protection at Washington, the plan, at an estimated cost of $2,500,000 forfeited by the Secretary of War for failure D. C., on Potomac River, authorized by the for modification of the authorized project. to comply with the terms and conditions of act of June 22, 1936, is hereby modified sub­ (f) Extension of the authorized headwater any grant hereunder or for nonuse for a pe­ stantially in accordance with the recom­ project for the Yazoo River and tributaries to riod of 2 consecutive years or abandonment mendations of the Chief of Engineers in include improvements in the area between of rights granted under authority hereof. House Document No. --, Seventy-ninth the Yazoo-Tallahatchie-Coldwater River sys­ SEc. 7. That the Secretary of War is au­ Congress, second session, at an estimated cost tem and the b1lls to protect against over­ thorized and empowered, in his discretion, of $500,000. flows from the main stem and h111 tributaries to use any property or parts thereof, includ­ Completion of the Savage River Dam on in such cases and by such means as the Chief ing lands and improvements, under his con­ Savage River, Md., is hereby authorized of Engineers may consider warranted, at an trol and jurisdiction for the prosecution of substantially in accordance with the plan estimated cost of $7,500,000 for modification any authorized civil work or function ad­ contained in House Document No. --, of the authorized project. ministered by the War Department without Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, at (g) Extension of the authorized head­ charge, except usual handling charges, a cost to the United States now estimated water project for the Yazoo River and tribu­ against appropriations for such civil works at $1,900,000, subject to the conditions that taries to include the drainage of run-off or functions. local interests make a cash contribution of waters from the watershed of McKinney SEc. 8. Whenever the Chief of Engineers $200,000 toward the cost of the work, and Bayou or the providing of pumping capacity shall find that any highway, railway, or util­ agree to hold and save the United States free additional to that now existing for said ity has been or is being damaged or destroyed from damages due to the construction works, waters in the proportion determined by the by reason of the operation of any dam or and to maintain and operate all the works Chief of Engineers are authorized in the dis­ reservoir project under the cmtrol of the after completion· in accordance with regula­ cretion of the Chief of Engineers at an esti­ War Department, he may utilize any funds tions prescribed by the Secretary of War. mated cost of $300,000 for modification of the available for the construction, maintenance, RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER BASIN authorized project. or operation of the project involved for the The project for the Salem Church Reser­ (h) The Bayou des Glaises diversion chan­ repair, relocation, restoration, or protection nel, Louisiana, authorized by and constructed of such highway, railway, or utility: Pro­ voir on Rappahannock River, Va., is hereby vided, That this section shall not apply to authorized substantially in accordance with under the act approved June 22, 1936. highways, railways, and utilities previously the recommendations of the Chief of Engi­ (i) That portion of the North. Little Rock provided for by the War Department; unless neers in his report dated April 8, 1946, at an to Gillette, Ark., levee on the north bank the Chief of Engineers determines that the estimated cost of $17,755,000. of the Arkansas River along and below Plum actual damage bas or will exceed that for JAMES RIVER BASIN Bayou authorized · by and constructed under the act approved June 22, 1936, work thereon which provision had previously been made. The project for the Gathright Reservoir SEC. 9. That the following works of im­ to be hereafter prosecuted in accordance with and the Falling Spring reregulating dam on the act of May 15, 1928, as amended. provement for the benefit of navigation and Jackson River, Va, is hereby authorized sub­ the control of destructive floodwaters and (j) The projects for local flood protection stantially in accordance with the recom­ on the White River, on the east side between other purposes are hereby adopted and au­ mendations of the Chief of Engineers in his thorized to be prosecuted under the direction Augusta and Clarendon, Ark., and at the town report dated April 18, 1946, at an estimated of De Valls Bluff, Ark., at an estimated cost of the Secretary of War and the supervision cost of $11,000,000. of the Chief of Engineers in accordance with of $2,847,500 authorized by the act approved the plans in the respective reports herein­ ALTAMAHA RIVER BASIN August 18, 1941. after designated and subject to the conditions The project for fiood protection at Macon, (k) The Tiptonville-Obion levee author­ set forth therein: Provided, That the neces­ Ga, on Ocmulgee River, is hereby authorized ized by and constructed under the act ap­ sary plans, specifications, and preliminary substantially in accordance with the recom- proved June 22, 1936. 7098 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 (1) Extension of the levee under . sub­ of Engineers in House Document No. 285, Basin approved in the act of June 28, 1938, as paragraph (k) to include the levee and drain­ Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, at an amended and supplemented by subsequent age improvements, at an estimated cost of estimated cost of $127,000. · acts of Congress including: (1) Such channel $6,000,000 · substantially in accordance with The general plan ·for flood control on Red rectification works or other measures at or the report of the Chief of Engineers dated River, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Loui­ below the Muskingum River Reservoirs as in April 16, 1946. siana, below Denison Dam, Texas and Okla­ the discretion of the Chief of Engineers and (m) The improvement of Saint Johns homa, including the incorporation therein the Secretary of War may be found necessary Bay,ou, Mo., at an estimated cost of $1,300,000, of the several separate existing projects for to provide for the most efficient operation of substantially in accordance with the report flood control arong the Red River below those reservoirs at an estimated cost of of the Chief of Engineers, dated April 16, Denison (above the jurisdiction of the Mis­ $2,200,000, and (2) the following projects in 1946. sissippi River Commission) and providing tributary basins, namely: (n) The improvement of the harbor at for the modification of the existing or au­ The local flood-protection works at Galax, Memphis, Tenn., at an estimated cost of $17,- thorized Federal and non-Federal levees, is Va., on Chestnut Creek, substantially in ac­ 120,000, substantially in accordance with the hereby authorized substantially in accord­ cordance with the recommendations of the report of the Chief of Engineers dated April ance with the recommendations of the Chief Chief of Engineers in House Document No. 12, 1946. of Engineers in House Document No. 602, 506, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session, at ( o) Modification of the main line levee Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, at an an estimated cost of $276,125; system of the authorized project for the estimated cost of $77,500,000. The plan. of improvement for flood control lower Mississippi River to include protec­ ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN in the Wabash River Basin, Illinois and In­ tion of the potential industrial area im­ diana, substantially in accordance with the mediately north of Vicksburg, Miss., known In addition to previous authorizations, recommendations of the Chief of Engineers as the Vicksburg-Yazoo area, together with there is hereby authorized to be appropriated in his report dated April 9, 1946, at an esti­ local dredging and the construction of such the sum of $40,000,000 for the prosecution mated cost of $9,366,000; drainage facilities as in the opinion of the of the comprehensive plan for the Arkansas The local flood-protection works at Olean, Chief of Engineers are requisite and justified, River Basin, approved in thE' act of June 28, N. Y., on Allegheny River, substantially in at an estimated cost of $4,000,000, subject to 1938, as amended and supplemented by sub­ accordance with the recommendations of the the conditions that local interests provide sequent acts of Congress. Chief of Engineers in his report dated April . without cost to the United States all rights­ The project for flood protection at Okla­ 12, 1946, at an estimated cost of $2,282,400; of-way required for levees and drainage, and homa City, Okla., on North Canadian River, The local flood-protection works at Port­ maintain and operate the works after com­ is hereby authorized substantially in accord­ ville, N. ~ .• on Allegheny R :ver, substantially pletion. ance with the recommendations of the Chief in accordance with the recommendations of (p) Modification of the authorized project of Engineers in House Document No. 572, the Chief of Engineers in his report dated for the lower Mississippi River to provide Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, at an April 12, 1946, at an estimated cost of drainage in the discretion of the Chief of estimated cost of $2,037,000. $1,281,500. Engineers where drainag') is impaired by WHITE RIVER BASIN The local flood-protection works at Alle­ levees hitherto or hereafter constructed, at In addition to previous authorizations, gany, N.Y., on the Allegheny River, substan­ an estimated cost of $500,000, subject to the there is hereby authorized tu be appropriated tially in accordance with the recommenda­ conditions that local interests provide with· the sum of $40,000,000 for the prosecution tions of the Chief of Engineers in his report, out cost to the United States all rights-of­ of the comprehensive plan for the White dated April 12, 1946, at an estimated cost of way and maintain and operate the works $388,800. after completion. River Basin approved in the act of June 28, 1938, as amended ami supplemented by sub­ The project for the West Fork Reservoir on (q) Modification of the authorized project sequent acts of Congress. the West Fork of Mill Creek in Ohio, substan­ for the lower Mississippi River to provide tially in accordance with the recommenda­ that the local cooperation to be hereafter UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN tions of the Chief of Engineers in his report furnished for the works authorized in the In addition to previous authorizations, dated April 8, 1946, at an estimated cost of Saint Francis River Basin and the Yazoo there is hereby authorized to be appropriated $1,527,000. River Basin shall consist of the requirement the sum of $10,000,000 for the prosecution GREAT LAKES BASIN that responsible local interests agree to main­ of the comprehensive plan for the upper tain levees in accordance with the provisions Mississippi River Basin approved in the act The project for flood protection at Mount of section 3 of the act of May 15, 1928, where of June 28, 1938, as amended and supple­ Clemens and vicinity, Mich., on Clinton River, maintenance is required under existing law. mented by subsequent acts of Congress. is hereby authorized substantially in accord­ (r) Any former officer of the Corps of The project for flood protection on the ance with the recommendations of the Chief Engineers who, after retirement and recali to of Engineers in his report dated April 8, 1946, Mis3issippi River at Prairie du Rocher and at an estimated cost of $378,000. active duty in the 4rmy, has served over 15 vicinity is hereby &.Uthorized substantially years as a member of the Mississippi River in accordance with the recommendations of BRAZOS RIVER BASIN Commission while on such active duty shall, the Chief of Engineers in his report dated The project for the Belton Reservoir on upon being · relieved of such active duty, April 17, 1946, at an estimated. cost of Leon River, Tex., is hereby authorized sub­ be eligible to and shall retain, during the will $2,575,000. stantially in accordance with the recommen­ of the President, the position and office held The project for local flood protection on dations of the Chief of Engineers in his re­ by him as a member of the Mississippi River McCraney, Hadley, Kiser, Six-Mile, and Bay port dated April 19, 1946, at an estimated Commission. · Creeks in the Sny Basin, Ill., is hereby au­ cost of $15,500,000. In order to provide for the increased costs thorized substantially in accordance with The project for flood protection at East­ of construction of the authorized project for the recommendations of the Chief of Engi­ land, on Leon River, Tex., is hereby author­ the Lower Mississippi River as recommended neers in his report dated April 17, 1946, at ized substantially in accordance with the by the president of the Mississippi River a~ estimated cost of $4,85~,944. recommendations of the Chief of Engineers Commission and the Chief of Engineers, the MISSOURI RIVER BASIN in his report dated April 19, 1946, at an authorization for flood control and improve­ estimated cost of $82,800. ment of the lower Mississippi River is here­ In addition to previous authorizations, by increased by an additional $100,000,000. there is hereby authorized to be appropriated GREAT SALT BASIN The project for flood control along Lake the sum of $150,000,000 for the prosecution The project for local flood protection on Pontchartrain in Jefferson Parish, La., is of the comprehensive plan approved by the Spanish Fork River, Utah, is hereby author­ · hereby authorized substantiaUy in accord­ act of June 28, 1938, as expanded by sec­ ized substantially in accordance with the ance with the recommendations of the Chief tion 9a of the act approved December 22, recommendations of the Chief of Engineers of Engineers in his report dated December 1944 (Public, No. 534, 78th Cong.), for con­ in House Document No. 518, Seventy-ninth 10, 1945, at an estimated cost of $900,000. tinuing the works in the Missouri River Congress, second session, at an estimated cost The project for flood protection at Mem­ Basin to be undertaken under said expanded of $74,500. phis on Wolf River and Nonconnah Creek, plans by the Corps of Engineers. The project for flood protection at Salt Tenn., authorized by the act approved Au­ The project for flood protection at Mandan, Lake City, Utah, on Jordan River, is hereby gust 28, 1937 (Public, No. 406, 75th Cong.), N. Dak., on Heart River, is hereby author­ authorized substantially in accordance with as amended by the act approved June 28, 1939 ized substantially in accordance with the the recommendations of the Chief of Engi­ (Public, No. 154, 76th Cong.), is further recommendations of the Chief of Engineers neers in House Document No. 562, Sevenw­ amended to authorize the completion of the in House Document No. 294, Seventy-ninth ninth Congress, second session, at an esti­ project at an additional estimated cost of Congress, first session, at an estimated cost mated cost of $412,000. $1,500,000. of $246,000. The project for flood protection at Magna, Utah, on Little Valley Wash, is hereby au­ RED-OUACHITA RIVER BASIN OHIO RIVER BASIN thorized. substantially in accordance with the The project for flood protection on Bayou In addition to previous authorizations recommendations of the Chief of Engineers Pierre in the vicinity of Shreveport, La., is there is hereby authorized to be appropriated in House Document No. 562, Seventy-ninth hereby authorized substantially in accord­ the sum of $125,000,000 for the prosecution Congress, second session, at an estimated ance with the recommendations of the Chief of the comprehensive plan for the Ohio River cost of $222,000. 1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7099

LOS ANGELES-SAN GABRIEL BASIN AND BALLONA Lake re~ulting from erosion and from floods Chief of Engineers such work is advisable: CREEK due to hurricane winds and tide). Provided, That not more than $50,000 shall In addition to previous authorizations, The provision of outlets in the interest of be allotted for this purpose at any single there is hereby authorized to be appropriated providing egress of flood waters for Jefferson locality from the appropriations for any one t11e sum of $25,000,000 for the prosecution of County drainage districts, into existing wa­ fiscal year. thP. comprehensive plan for the Los Angeles­ terways in the general vicinity of Port Ar­ SEC. 14. That the sum of $750,000,000 is San Gabriel Basin and Ballona Creek, Calif., thur, Tex. hereby authorized to be appropriated for approved 1n the act of August 18, 1941, as Eight-Mile Creek and Locust Creek and carrying out improvements by the War De­ amended arid supplemented, by subsequent their tributaries, Arkansas. partment, the sum of $10,000,000 additional acts of Congress. St. Francis Bay straight slough and Big is authorized to be appropriated and ex­ The project for flood protection along Bay ditch, Ark., and tributary area. pended in equal amounts by the Departments Salinas River, Calif., is hereby authorized Bear Creek, a tributary of Big Black River, of War and Agriculture for carrying out any substantially in accordance with the recom­ Miss. examination or survey provided for in this mendations of the Chief of Engineers in his Pearl River and tributaries, Mississippi. act and any other acts of Congress to be report dated April 29, 1946, at an estimated Lost Creek, Mo., at and in the vicinity of prosecuted by said departments. cost of $1,905,000. Seneca, Mo. SEc. 15. That the program on the water­ shed of Buffalo Creek and its tributaries au­ WILLAMETTE RIVER BASIN Chunky River, Miss. Opookta Creel~. Attala County, Miss., for thorized in section 13 of the Flood Control In addition to previous authorizations, flood control and drainage. Act of December 22, 1944, is hereby amended t~1ere is hereby authorized to be appropriated Potacocowa Creek, Miss. to authorize the ·Secretary of Agriculture t'o the sum of $35,000,000 for the prosecution of Lower Grand River, Mo., with a view to include and prosecute works for the stabili­ the comprehensive plan for the Willamette providing protection from erosion and banlt zation of stream banks such as described in River Basin approved in the act of June 28, caving. House· Document No. 574, Seventy-eighth 1938, as amended and supplemented by sub­ Congress, second session, at an estimated sequent acts of Congress. St. Francis River and its tributaries, Ar­ kansas, with special reference to Tyronza and additional cost of $1,842,400. The project for flood protection on Ama­ Little Rivers; Big Creek; and Blackfish, Fif­ SEc. 16. That the $5,000,000 authorized to zon Creek at Eugene, Oreg., and vicinity is teen Mile, and Frenchman Bayous; and the be appropriated in section 10 of the Flood hereby authorized substantially in accord­ tributaries of these streams for flood control, Control Act approved August 18, 1941, is ance with the recommendations of the Chief drainage, and allied purposes. reauthorized to be appropriated, and the sum of Engineers in Senate Document No. 138, Mississippi River at and in the vicinity of of $20,000,000 additional is authorized to be Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, at an appropriated, for expenditure, by the De­ estimated cost of $226,000. Chief of Army Engi­ Government in authorizing a project and . I have definite reservations regarding its neers, who has very kindly sent the pro­ then not doing anything about it, and applicability to this bill, I believe he is gram back to the field for a resurvey and then coming along and requesting other rendering a great service in directing at­ a restudy. The Nebraska people have projects many miles below that must tention to a public-works policy. I heard held numerous meetings. They protest take the force of the water coming down his discussion of this amendment in the the rush to do this dam building before the stream that could have been con­ rivers and harbors bill. Many Members they have full opportunity to study a soil­ trolled if the upstream project had been of Congress are vitally interested in the conservation plan. They have sent dele­ completed. work which the gentleman from Cali­ gations to Washington to confer with There is another situation on the Cim­ fornia has done in explor bill re­ I ask you not to adopt language here that opened up, permitting the passage of cently passed. It is not applicable to is confusing and uncertain and that may floodwaters as rapidly as they should be 7104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 carried away. This project can be · Congress, and the protective works speci­ would be delayed because of undue emphasis easily handled by the Army engineers fied are constructed, the engineers as­ on public work. if Congress allows them to proceed. It sure us that it will bring to Red River The first task of the Federal Government, aside from providing its volume of normal will mean savings and protection to hun­ Valley the greatest possible measure of construction and repairs, is to free materials, dreds of homes in the city of Shreveport. protection. I cannot too strongly urge equipment, and manpower. These Will be and I hope there will be no opposition that we approve that plan in this bill. required both for needed maintenance and whatsoever to the Bayou Pierre project. As I said, it vitally concerns four States. repairs and for the reconversion and expan­ RED RIVER VALLEY When the protective works embraced in sion of private industry. Meanwhile, at the earliest possible date public-works projects The CHAIRMAN. For what purpose that plan are constructed, it will revolu­ tionize agriculture in the Red River Val­ should be made ready for release if and when does the gentleman from Louisiana rise? ley. the condition of the industry and the level Mr. ALLEN of Louisiana. Mr. Chair­ of business activity are such as to need the man, I move to strike out the last word. I have worked for years to bring to that stimulation of public construction. The The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is great valley protection from these recur­ Federal Government is thus conceived as a ring floods and I was happy to present recognized for 5 minutes-. rear line of defense. Federal financing should that plan to the Flood Control Committee be invoked to support a large public-works Mr. ALLEN of Louisiana. Mr. Chair­ and I am happy now to present it to this program only as a necessary resort if local man, as I stated in general debate earlier House and I earnestly ask that it may funds and private investment and unemploy­ this evening, this is perhaps the .most have the approval of Congress. ment insurance fall short of sustaining the important flood-control bill which has Mr. MURDOCK. Mr. Chairman, as economy during the conversion and postwar been reported out by the Flood Control period. Committee in many years. While I am may be gathered from the question I · always interested in every flood-control asked the gentleman from California This quotation hints at a correlation bill in its entirety, I am particularly in­ [Mr. VooRHIS] when he spoke a few min­ of public works and private building, with terested in the item in this bill provid­ utes ago on his amendment, I am in sym­ a time to emphasize each to the advan­ ing for flood protective works on Red pathy with his proposal, as I understand tage of both and to the benefit of the River Valley in Louisiana. Red River is it. He and I sat side by side on many national economy. However, there is a over 1,200 'miles. long and directly and long hearings cf the Colmer Committee caution against overreliance upon public seriously affects the States of Oklahoma, on Postwar Economic Policy and Plan­ works to afford employment in good times. Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. Red ning. I recognize that the intent of his Obviously, though, there is no logic in River drains an area of 91,000 square amendment would be to carry out the discouraging public works which are vi­ miles. In 1940 the ·population in the Red philosophy embodied in certain reports tally necessary, and no intent to delay River Valley basin was 2,816,000. of that Special Committee on Postwar flood-control works or any such works Red River Valley is one of the most Public Works. However, as I said to the necessary for the protection of human fertile in the Nation. The vast agricul­ gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. WHIT­ lives. tural lands in that valley produce almost TINGTON], although the Voorhis amend­ Mr. ALMOND. · Mr. Chairman, of the all the standard crops of the Nation. ment was not intended to delay projects projects embraced by this bill, while Cotton, corn, hay, oats, potatoes, and which are intended to save human life, I some are broader in scope and more cost­ many other crops are grown. · did think that the present bill is the ly, it is my humble judgment that none While that great valley has been vis­ least favorable for such an amendment. are more worthy than that designated ited by floods from time to time, in 1945 I say this because almost all flood-con­ as the Gathright and Falling Springs we had perhaps the worst flood in nearly trol projects have as their object the project, to be located on the Jackson 100 years. The damage was estimated by safeguarding of human lives. No other River in Alleghany and Bath Counties, the Corps of Engineers to be $16,000,000. kind of public works seem likely to pro- . Va. In the Red River Valley there are 1,700,- teet human life to the extent that flood­ The Chief of Engineers has made a 000 acres subject to overflow. This Red control constructions are intended to do. careful investigation of flood problems River Valley bisects the' Eighth Congres­ My colleague from California and I and conditions in the James River Basin. sional District of Louisiana which I have on the Co1mer committee recall that in He presented a comprehensive reservoir the honor to represent. I was in my dis­ some of our earlier reports it is recom­ plan designed to serve multiple purposes, trict when the flood was at its worst. I mended by that committee that a pro­ which would embrace the development of rode in a motor boat over land where the gram of public works should take many 14 sites. Economic justification, how­ water was so deep that I had to duck my economic factors into consideration in ever, would depend on the sale of power head several times to go under the tele­ addition to the need for that particular to · be generated thereby. Of these 14 phone wires along the railroad. The public building. We both feel ·that a projects investigated, the engineers find presence of the railroad could only be public-building program ought to be re­ that only the Gathright Dam and Fall­ detected by the telephone and telegraph lated to the general economic condition ing Springs reregulating dam on Jackson wires above. The duration of the flood of the country in such a way that cer­ River warrant construction in the. very was 73 days. I was down there in the tain needed ~ . public works shall be built near future. As the result of exhaustive mud and water trying in every way pos­ when there is the least private employ­ testimony relevant to existing conditions sible to help the people. ment furnished and not be built when the Committee on Flood Control was con­ Mr. Chairman, the Flood Control Com­ private employment is at its highest vinced of the immediate need for flood mittee immediately asked the Corps of peak. By such a time schedule a pub­ control, improvement of low-water flow, Engineers to make a new survey of the lic-works program can be made to serve and pollution ab-atement in the James Red River Valley with the view of work­ a double purpose and bring an equal­ River Basin. ·A study made by the Fed­ ing out a plan to give the maximum izing, stabilizing influence on our na­ eral Power Commission indicates that amount of protection to that great Val­ tional economy. In this way a wise there will be a suitable market by 1953 ley. I met with the engineers and went public-building program can help to for the power which can be developed at over the ground with them. We called counteract the extremes of the business the proposed Gathright Reservoir. This groups of citizens to meet with us. The cycle and level off the crests and fill up is a multiple-purpose project. It is the engineers worked out a comprehensive the hollows in our economic conditions. killing of more than one bird with the flood-control plan, consisting of levees To make this clearer let me quote one of same stone. It will provide for the con­ and reservoirs. They felt that levees the recommendations on public housing servation of water and the regulation of alone would not be sufficient and that submitted by a subcommittee of the the low-water flow. It will provide for reservoirs alone would not hold back Colmer committee: the abatement of pollution. It will so enough water. They feel that the only It will be no service either to the public­ regulate the flow of Jackson River as to feasible plan to solve the problem is a works program or to the general economic bring about flood control. Added to combination of levees and reservoirs. welfare to expect from public work a larget;' these desirable features is the much contribution in the process of reconversion That plan is embodied in House Docu­ than the construction industry can support. needed manufacture of electric power. ment No. 602 of the Seventy-ninth Con­ Moreover, it would be a disservice to the The drainage area of Jackson River gress, second session. That plan is in­ national eccnomy to put public work into a. above the town of Covington is approxi­ corporated in this bill which we are now competitive position with private industry mately 900 square miles. The flow of this considering. If this plan is approved by so that the expansion of needed enterprises river varies from a maximum of 66,000 1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE ,7105 cubic feet per second to a minimum of of the water through the dam would re­ viously authorized by providing for the about 60 cubic feet per second. One fig­ duce this to about 60 to 65 degrees. This finishing of the work in accordance with ure, of course, representing flood condi­ of itself is a factor to be considered. The certain Army Engineer recommendations, tions and the other conditions which ob­ flood control . benefits to be derived which have been the result of many years tain as a result of a severe drought; one through the regulated flow of this river of study. There is an estimated cost for an enormous and shameful waste of wa­ are incalculable. Estimated average an­ the project by the Federal Government ter resources and the other representing nual flood damage to farm lands, crops, of $1,520,000. In this connection I desire a drastic and dangerous water shortage. timber, to pulpwood and other wood to make it very clear that Ridgeley is a The town of Covington and its industries products stored near the river, and relatively small community when COJTI­ get their supply of water from the Jack­ damage to homes, railroads, business and pared with Cumberland. We realize the son River. During the dry seasons in personal properties situated along the necessity far cooperation between these each summer the industrial users con­ river is about $75,000. At times, heavy two municipalities, but I would remind sume almost all of the water in the river. rains, augmented by melting snows, my colleagues that Ridgeley finds itself, These seasons sometime last as long as precipitate tremendous volumes of water as a political subdivision, unable to pro­ 3 months. During these periods the nor­ into this gorge and have caused, and no vide local funds which would be out of mal flow is about 80 cubic feet p~r sec­ doubt will cause again, severe flood proportion to its ability to raise neces­ ond. The population of this town, num­ conditions. sary money. In company with Congress­ bering approximately 12,000 people, are This project will conserve for con­ man BEALL, I have held many confer­ not only seriously inconvenienced but structive utilization vast volumes of ences with officials of both Ridgeley and suffer immeasurably as a result of the water otherwise uselessly dissipated and Cumberland, and many splendid individ­ inadequacy of the water supply. The permit its regulation for constructive and ual citizens, in an effort to better under­ health of the people is, thereby, jeopard­ wholesome purposes. stand our mutual problems. The able ized and they are subjected to the haz­ I have endeavored to call to your at­ chairman of the Flood Control Commit­ ards of fire. tention the desirable, beneficial, and hu­ tee [Mr. WHITTINGTON] was most cour­ Industrial expansion is severely cur­ mane features of this project. These teous to us when we testified. tailed and limited by reason of the fact are, of course, very important, but the Second. The additional project to that needed water supply is not available economic justification of this project re­ which I call your attention is the Savage during the annual low-water periods. If sides in its potential production and dis­ River Dam on the tributary waters of the the waters of Jackson River are stored up semination of electric power. The esti­ Potomac about Westernport, Md., and and conserved as proposed by this proj­ mated annual power potential of this Piedmont, W.Va. This meritorious item, ect it would redound to the wholesome dam is 51,000,000 kilowatt-hours. The as contained in the legislation now before and constructive benefit of this great regulated flow of the river would have an us, would be completed at an estimated area. The average flow of the river when important effect also in increasing the cost to the Federal Government of controlled will vary between 300 and 800 value of downstream power plants. $1,900,000. This sum would become cubic feet per second at Covington. · This There are a number of such plants on available on condition that local inter­ regulated flow would thus be from 5 to 10 the James River, owned by municipal­ ests contribute $200,000 toward the cost times the present low-water flow. This ities, industry, farms, and public utility of the work. We are pleased to advise flow, of course, would vary according to .companies. These plants would be given that this latter sum is available. At this the demands of the situation and would increased productive capacities. This in­ point I wish to commend Owen Hitchins at all times be sufficient to supply the crease is estimated at 6,100 kilowatts. and those individuals of his commission needs of this area and the surrounding The estimated increased production of who have work~=!d diligently and con­ territory for both human and industrial the downstream plants is 26,000,000,000 structive.Jy over a long period of time to uses. The critical problem of water sup­ kilowatts annually. The factors which bring about the completion of the Sav­ ply would be solved as far as can be seen have been considered as a basis of eco­ age ftiver Dam. When finished it will into the future. nomic justification for the construction bring needed flood control to the com­ Just a word relative to pollution of this project are both tangible and in­ munities of Westernport and Luke, Md., abatement. Jackson River,- located as it tangible. These factors are regulation of and Piedmont and Keyser, W.Va. is, is the only available avenue for the stream flow, pollution abatement, flood Mr. Chairman, many Members of both disposal of industrial waste and munici­ control, electric power, and recreation. the House and Senate have worked for pal sewage. This applies for about a According to the engineers' report, years during their service in the Con­ stretch of 5 miles through the town. The these factors give the project an eco­ gress in furtherance of the worth-while same is true with reference to other nomic ratio of 1 to 1.73, which means projects to which I have made reference. towns and communities located on the that for every one dollar spent in a year's I desire to remember their efforts and to river. During periods when the river is time, the estimated return is $1.73. If we publicly at this time again pay tribute to 75 cubic feet or less, conditions become would disregard entirely the intangible their helpfulness. both serious and nauseating. During the benefits, then the report of the engineers · Mr. BEALL. Mr. Chairman, this bill hot summer months the pollution is still estimates that the value of the power carries the authorization for $7,420,000 greatly concentrated. The high tem­ produced at the dam, plus the value of for flood control in and for the city of peratures operating on the concentrated the increased power produced by existing Cumberland. It also carries the author­ pollution in the slow-moving water downstream plants, will more than pay ization for $1,900,000 to complete the create a most objectionable condition. the annual cost of the project, including Savage River Dam. There is no question The relevancy of this condition to health the carrying charges. I feel that this in my opinion but that both projects are and sanitation is most obvious. The con­ project is economically sound, and merits necessary and meritorious. trolled flow of the river which would be the approval of the Congress. The city of Cumberland has periodically made possible by construction of this dam Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Chairman, the been inundated when floods did thousands would abate this pollution in three ways. legislation now before us for considera­ of dollars' worth of damage even to the The first would be by dilution. At all tion contains projects for the Potomac ·point of endangering lives. It has been times the flow of the river would be four River Basin. I have been privileged to recognized for many years that some­ or five times the present normal flow. work closely with Representative BEALL, thing should be done to protect property During the hot summer months the flow of Maryland, and others, in the further­ which has been constantly subjected to would be approximately 500 cubic feet ance of the items calling for- floods. per second, or approximately six times First. A local flood-protection develop­ Just recently the United States Engi­ the normal flow of the river. Thus, the ment at Cumberland and West Cumber­ neers completed and set up a model plan pollution would be diluted from six to land, in the State of Maryland, and for flood prevention in their laboratory eight times during the worst months. Ridgeley-a community which I repre­ at Vicksburg, Miss. This pl~n shows most 'l'hen, too, the increased speed of the flow sent-in West Virginia. This program comprehensively how floods may be pre­ would move the pollution out of the was authorized in the Flood Control Act vented in Cumberland. The Army Engi­ stream. The temperature of the water approved June 22, 1936. Under the pro­ neers, after an exhaustive study of this in hot weather under present conditions visions of House bill 6597, we would entire situation, have recommended the is from 80 to 85 degrees. The regulation amend the project which has been pre- early completion of this project. XCII-448 7106 '"CONGRESSIONA'L RECORD--HOUSE JUNE 18 The Savage River Dam was originated The Clerk read as follows: Mr. MURDOCK. Mr. Chairman, I ask as a WPA project, and work ~progressed Committee amendment offered by Mr. unanimous consent to extend my re­ until 1942, when the war stopped the WHITTINGTON: On page 25, line 9, strike Out marks at that point in the RECORD im­ project after it was 65 percent com­ the words "and Wisconsin." mediately after the vote taken on the pleted. More than $4,000;000 has already The CHAIRMAN. The question is on Voorhis amendment. been spent on this project, and now .if the committee amendment offered by the The CHAIRMAN:. Is there objection the authorization for $1,90D,OOO is ap­ gentleman from Mississippi. to tbe request of the gentleman from pmved, work can be resumed and the The committee amendment was agreed Arizona? orjginal investment preserved. Unless There was no objection. this additional money is authorized and to. Mr. ALLEN of Lousiana. Mr. Chair­ Mr. ALMOND. Mr. Chairman, I ask appropriated, the $4,000,000 already spent unanimous consent to extend my re­ will be thrown away. man, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks immediately following the marks in the RECORD immediately fol­ After' the project is completed it will lowing section 9. control the 1low of the Savage River, reading of section 9. The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection which in turn empties into the North to the request of the gentleman from Branch of the Potomac River. By con­ to the request of the gentleman from Louisiana? · Virginia? trolling these waters the flood hazard for There was no objection. the towns of Luke and Westernport, Md., There was no objection. and Piedmont, and Keyser, W. Va., will Mr. DWORSHAK. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. BEALL. Mr. Chairman, I ask move to strike out the last word.· unanimous consent to extend my re­ be practically eliminated. At this point marks at the same point in the RECORD. I might call your attention to the fact Mr. Chairman, I take this time to ob­ that more than 25,000 people live in these tain information from the chairman of The CHAffiMAN. Is there objection four towns and the total assessed value the committee concerning the proposed to the request of the gentleman from of the property runs into millions of dol­ Lucky Peak Reservoir on the Boise River, Maryland? lars. One· larg·e paper mill is assessed in Idaho. It is my understanding there There was no objection. at some $15,000,000 and is subjected to is nothing included in this bill for that The CHAffiMAN. Are there any fioods which may occur in the North particular proj-ect, although the authori­ amendments to section 10? Branch of the Potomac River. In addi­ zation was approved by the Board of En­ Section li? tion to :filood prevention, the completion gineers. Can the chairman give m-e any Section 12? of this project will also guarantee a How information concerning the status of Section .13? of fresh water in the Potomac River dur­ that project? Section 14? ing the dry season which wHI eliminate Mr. WHITTINGTON. I will give the Section 15? the present stagnation and -stream pollu­ gentleman my general recollection and Section 16? tion. in order to do that I repeat what I pre­ Section 17? It is for these reasons 1 hope the House viously stated to the ·gentleman from Mr. WffiTTING'J10N. .Mr. Chairman, Will approve the authorization of these Idaho IMr. WmTE] that the Idaho proj­ I 'Offer a committee amendment. two projects. ects, according to my information, that The Clerk read as follows: The CHAIRMAN. Are there further have been passed by the Board .of Engi­ Amendment offered by Mr. WHITI'INGTON~ amendments to section 9? neers for Rivers and Harbors under the Page 27, line 22, strike .out the words "of the Are there amendments to section 1.0? act of 1944 have been transmitted to the initial stage." Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, Governor and to the State agencies, but Mr. WffiTTINGTON. Mr. Chairman I ·offer a committee amendment. have not been returned, hence were not by reference to the bill, that language i~ The Clerk read as follows: in position to be transmitted to the Di­ easily understood. Section 17 reads: Committee amendment offered by Mr. rector of the Bureau of the Budget and In addition to previous authoriZations, WH:rr:t'INGTON: Page 23, after line 11, insert are not included in this bill. there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the following: Mr. DWORSHAK. I understand they the sum of $150,000,000 for the prosecution "Schuylkill River and tributaries, Pennsyl­ were approved by the Governor and of the initial stage of the comprehensive vania." other agencies, that the report is now plan- The CHAIRMAN. The question is on pending in the Department of the In­ The language stricken is "of the initial the committee amendment offered by the terior; consequently the Bureau of the stage." That will make the language of gentleman from Mississippi. Budget was not able to transmit any re­ port to the Congress. the authorization for the Department of The committee amendment was agreed the Interior comparable to the language to. Mr. WHITTINGTON. Until and un­ previously used in this bill for the War Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairma~ less the Department of the Interior sub­ I offer another committee amendment. mits its report, the Chief of Engineers is Department, and it is intended that this The Clerk read as foUows: without authority to transmit it to the $150,000,000 be made available only to the Department of the Interior for proj­ Committee amendment offered by Mr. Director of the Budget or the Congress. WHITTINGTON: On page 24, after line 2, insert The thing to do is to get the Department ects previously authorized for that De­ the following: of the Interior to forward that report so partment to be constructed in the upper "Choctawhatchee River, Fla. and Ala." that it might be considered by the Senate stretches of the Missouri, under the Flood Control Act of 1944. The CHAIRMAN. The question is on before the bill is passed. the amendment offered by the gentle­ Mr. DWORSHAK. The other body Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. man from Mississippi. can then consider the project and ii.l­ Chairman, will the gentleman yield? The committee amendment was agreed clude it in the bill? Mr. WHITTINGTON. I yield to the to. Mr. WHITTINGTON. The gentleman gentleman from South Dakota. Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, is correct, and I so stated to the gentle­ Mr. CASE of South Dakota. This is in I offer another committee amendment. man from Idaho [Mr. WHITE]. line with the amendment I discussed with The Clerk read as follows: Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Chairman, I the gentleman on various occasions, Commlttee .amendment offered by Mr. move to strike out the last two words. which has the approval of the Depart­ WHITI'INGTON: Page 24, after line 23, insert Mr. .Chairman, in connection with the ment of the Interior. the following: Potomac River Basin project, the gentle­ Mr. WIDTTINGTON. The gentleman "Little Kanawha River and tributarles, man from Maryland [Mr. BEALL] and is correct. West Virginia." myself, are deeply interested in at least The CHAIRMAN. The question is on The CHAffiMAN. The question is on two of them. I ask unanimous consent the amendment offered by the gentleman the committee amendment offered by the to extend my remarks in the RECORD fol­ from Mississippi [Mr. WHITTINGTON]. gentleman from Mississippi. . lowing the reading of section 9. The amendment was agreed to. The committee amendment was agreed The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. to. to the request of the gentleman from Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to Mr. WHITI'INGTON. Mr. ·Chairman., West Virginia? ex,tend my remarks in the RECORD at this I offer another committee amendment. .There was no objection. point. 1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7107 The CHAffiMAN. Is there objection in the comprehensive plan, projects which These are on,ly two of the projects in to the request of the gentleman from were approved but which were not listed the authorized initial stages and there South Dakota? in the initial stage as set forth by the are other sizable ones such as the There was no objection. review board of the Bureau of Reclama­ Hardin at forty-three million and the IMPORTANCE OF THE AMENDMENT TO SECTION 17 tion. I mentioned, in particular, the im­ Marias at twenty-five million. portance of the Keyhole Reservoir on the Obviously, Mr. Chairman, if the small Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. Belle Fourche River, a branch of the projects on the tributaries with high Chairman, the amendment which has Cheyenne, which is a tributary of the local flood-control urgency and high just been adopted on the motion of the Missouri, and the Bixby and Green Grass irrigation values for ranchers already distinguished gentleman from Missis­ Reservoirs on the Moreau River;which is settled in the valleys were to wait until sippi [Mr. WHITTINGTON] is, to thousands a tributary of the Missouri. References those big projects were all completed, of people in the Missouri River Basin, to this matter appear on pages 362, 374, another generation of farmers would be second in importance only to the passage and 386. on the scene before results ::tre realized. of the Flood Control Act of 1944, itself. Subsequently I discussed the matter Perhaps the most outstanding ex­ That act established a basic approval for with the chairman who suggested that I ample of a project with a small cost and the comprehensive flood control and wa­ see the Commissioner of Reclamation yet high irrigation values is that of the ter use program often referred to as the and determine whether the Secretary of Keyhole Reservoir on the upper Belle combined Pick-Sloan plan, with appro­ the Interior would support the proposal, Fourche River in the Bear Lodge Moun­ priation authorization limited to certain in a new authorization, to drop the limi­ tains of Wyoming. units or projects set forth as "the initial tation to projects on the initial stage list. As I said in a memorandum letter on stages" of the program. This amend­ This I endeavored to do but a confer­ the topics of my conference with the ment, which has just been adopted, drop­ ence could not be arranged until Wed­ Commissioner, which I left with him at ping the phrase "initial stages" from the nesday, June 5, at which time the bill the time: • increased authorizations carried in this had been reported. Present at the con­ Keyhole is a unique site and offers a bill makes possible-and I quote-"the ference in the office of Commissioner of chance to double the storage of the Belle prosecution of the comprehensive plan" Reclamation, were the Commissioner, Fourche project for as little as $750,000. adopted by section 9a of the act approved Mr. Michael W. Strauss, the Assistant The Belle Fourche project was constructed December 22, 1944-Public, No. 534, Commissioner, Mr. William Warne, and to serve 60,000 acres, yet has never served Seventy-eighth Congress. more than 45,000; and normally serves only their chief project engineer. 35,000 and in 1 year had only D inches of Section 9a of that act reads: At this conference I pointed out that water for that. The general comprehensive plans set forth many of the smaller projects encom­ The Belle Fourche has always been a prob­ in House Document No. 475 and Senate Docu­ passed in the comprehensive plan for the lem project because of water shortage. With ment No. 191, Seventy-eighth Congress, sec­ Missouri Basin were of urgent impor­ a capacity of 200,000 acre-feet in the reservoir, ond session, as revised and coordinated by tance and should not be required to wait even in many years of high run-off, it has Senate Document No. 247, Seventy-eighth only had around 100,000 to 130,000 acre­ Congress, second session, are hereby approved until the large projects mentioned in the feet of water because the inlet canal which and the initial stages are hereby authorized initial stage list were completed. I point­ is 9 miles long will not handle the river's and shall be prosecuted by the War Depart­ ed out that it might require 15 or 20 years flow in flood. The Keyhole Reservoir can ment and the Department of the Interior as to complete such projects as the Souris be constructed for $750,000, which is much speedily as may be consistent with budgetary and the Oahe-James, and that in the less than the cost of enlarging the canal requirements. meantime, many small projects with would be, besides having other advantages, local flood-control features of the great­ serving lands above the inlet, etc., provid­ In succeeding paragraphs there fol­ ing 275,000 acre-feet of storage and adding lowed a specific authorization of $200,- est urgt.ncy would be stalled, although at least 10,000 acres to the project. 000,000 for each branch of the program, they could be complet~d, in some in­ The Keyhole is not listed in "the initial Army engineers and Bureau of Recla­ stances, for less than the damages their stages" authorized for appropriations and mation, as has been stated by the gentle­ floods would create. construction, yet is of great importance. man from Mississippi. I pointed out, for example, that floods on the Moreau River in South Dakota in I am happy to say, Mr. Chairman, that In section 9 of the bill now under con­ Commissioner Strauss and Assistant sideration, in the paragraph appearing a single year had created damage to highways and bridges and rich bottom Commissioner Warne agreed with me on page 17 under the head "Missouri that developments warranted a revision River Basin" there is carried an addi­ hay lands equal to from one-fourth to one-,half of the estimated cost of dams of the authorized program in the way I tional authorization for appropriation of had suggested and agreed that they $150,000,000-and I quote: that would not only stop the flood. dam­ age but also create exceedingly valuable would discuss the matter with the Secre­ For the prosecution of the comprehensive water storage, tary of the Interior. plan approved by the act of June 28, 1938, as Subsequently, I had another confer- . expanded by section 9a of the act approved The Moreau is a stream of intermittent December 22. 1944 • • • for continuing flow. Some years it has heavy spring ence with the gentleman from Missis­ the works in the Missouri River Basin to be floods with a great volume of water. Yet, sippi [Mr. WHITTINGTON] and then SUb­ undertaken under said expanded plan by the in late July and August of those same mitted a memorandum letter on the de­ Corps of Engineers. years, the stream may be entirely dry, sirability of the amendment to make the not even having water for livestock for new authorization applicable to the com­ And section 17, just approved as prehensive plan as a whole, and not lim­ amended by striking out the words "of stretches of from 30 to 100 miles. Yet, the engineers estimate that storage of ited to the projects listed for the initial the initial stage," makes a similar au­ stages. Under permission given in the thorization of an additional one hun­ the flood waters in two reservoirs will provide stock water every year and per­ House, I insert the pertinent paragraphs dred and fifty millions for the prosecu­ from that letter at this point: tion of the portion of the comprehensive mit irrigation of approximately 23,000 acres of choice bottom land. This is ex­ 1. Many small projects with high flood­ plan to be undertaken by the Secretary tremely important to the Cheyenne River control values will be postponed for years if of tlie Interior. Indian Reservation and the lands im­ forced to wait until the projects listed in the As indicated by my colloquy with the mediately west of it. initial stage are to be completed first. These gentleman from Mississippi, who is the On the other hand the cost of the proJects are on tributaries and have irriga­ chairman of the Committee on Flood tion values and, under the division of respon­ Souris project in North Dakota, an ini­ sibility agreed upon in 1944, will be con­ Control, the amendment is the outgrowth tial-stage project, is estimated at $133,- structed by the Bureau. But the flood dam­ of previousdiscussic;msof the matter. For 839,000 and in Montana at $35,247,200, a ages are such that the committee will be the purpose of the record, it may be well total of $169,086,200. The cost of the called upon to enact individual flood-control to review them. Oahe-James project in South Dakota is authorizations if their construction is to be During the deliberations of the com­ estimated at $105,008,000. These figures thus delayed. It makes sense to let the Bu­ mittee, when the Missouri River Basin reau proceed with them without waiting are for the reclamation features only. until the big projects are finished. was scheduled for hearing, Aprilll, 1946, They do not include the cost of the dams The Moreau River in South Dakota is an I appeared before the committee and on the main stem of the Missouri River example. called attention to the need for authoriz­ which are to supply the water for the 2. Section 9a of the Flood ·Control Act of ing work on some of the smaller projects projects. 1944 refers to the initial stages for both the 7108 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 Corps of Engineers' projects and those of the funds under thiS act shall be allocated unless not been started. If it has not been 13ureau. But the letter of the Chief of Engi­ actual construction shall have been started started it will not be started . . The engi­ neers did not specify or limit individual proj­ prior to this date." neering cost is covered entirely outside ects for an initial phase of the comprehensive plan as did that of the Commissioner of Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chair­ of the allocation of the construction Reclamation or his Board. This, I think, man, I make the point of order against cost. If you have not started, you will was not intentional in either case. The ex­ the amendment that it is not germane not get started, but if you have started, isting situation is more accidental, then, and to the pending section or to any part of it will not hurt you a particle. should be corrected. the bill. However, I will reserve it if Mr. ELSTON. The engineers would 3. The Bureau has been operating on the the gentleman desires to speak on it. not be able to go ahead and start any of theory that projects started could be prose­ Mr. McGREGOR. I would appreciate these .Ohio River flood-control projects. cuted with annual appropriations without There are many of them that have not measuring the total cost of the completed it if you would withhold your objection project against the authorizations. That is so that I might debate it. been started where they have compre­ at variance with the practice of the Army Mr. Chairman, the only reason that I hensive plans, but unless this money is engineers. It would be in order to require inserted this particular amendment was authorized and is later appropriated, identical policy and practice in this respect, the fact that this enabling legislation those Ohio River projects cannot be if the authorizations were in identical words; went through here in 1939; really in started if the gentleman's amendment that is, for the prosecution of the compre­ 1938. Then the Corps of Engineers de­ should carry. hensive plan. Otherwise it will be difficult Mr. McGREGOR. Certainly they will to maintain effective appropriation controls. cided in 1939 that a little project, as the whole program is concerned, down in my not be started, but you are going to have I call particular attention, Mr. Chair­ district, known as Dillon Dam, costing to decide here in Congress whether you man, to the third paragraph because I approximately $8 ,000,000, should not be are going to build flood-control walls or am sure that if Congress is to keep a built at that time because of the high whether you are going to build houses for check upon its expenditures, it is desir­ cost of construction. Now they decide veterans. That is the subject that is here a-ble that when projects are begun, their it should be constructed in 1946 at the before us. costs shall be measurable against the prices now prevailing. You know, it Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Mr. authorizations the Congress has estab­ seems ridiculous to ·me that we here in Chairman, will the gentleman yield?· lished. Congress allocate a certain amount of Mr. McGREGOR. I yield to the gen­ At a conference which I had with. the money for the Army Engineers for . the tleman from Oklahoma. gentleman from Mississippi, last Satur­ construction of dams on the one hand, Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. I am day afternoon, he advised me that the and tear down homes. and then turn sure all of us are interested in securing Secretary of the Interior and the Com­ around and give Mr. Wyatt, the Expe­ houses for veterans, but for the life of me missioner of Reclamation had notified diter, $4oo·,ooo,ooo for the construction I cannot see how this conflicts with flood him that they were in accord with the of houses. In other words. we give one control. Will the gentleman tell me the amendment proposed and that he would branch of the Federal Government name of a single flood-control project discuss it with the Chief of Engineers. money to build homes and another where any appreciable amount of lumber And so today, I was very happy to have · branch of the Federal Government the has ever been used in flood control that him say to me that he would otier, in be­ right to tear down homes. They are could be used otherwise? half of the committee, the amendment destroying approximately 768 houses in Mr. McGREGOR. I will be very happy which has now been adopted. this particular district. Why in the to, because I am personally interested in I have made this statement, Mr. Chair­ world do we want to allocate a certain one. They are just getting ready to re­ man, in order that the legislative history amount of money for the construction locate 10 miles of the B. & 0. Railroad on the point may be noted and the intent of houses in these United States and down in Licking County. If the gentle­ of the amendment clearly established. then turn around and give them money man will sit down and figure it out he I sincerely hope, therefore, when this for destroying 768 houses in one district? will get this result. I will go through it bill is passed by both bodies of the Con.­ All I am asking is that you do not allow in my head. Ten miles of 7-by-8 cross gress, as I am confident it will be, and any of these funds to be allocated until ties which you have to move will mean approved by the Pre8ident, that the Bu­ after actual construction has started. approximately 2,000 houses for veterans. reau of Reclamation in preparing its con­ There is no actual construction started On this amendment you are either going struction program and estimates for next in our particular dam, known as Dillon to vote for 2,000 houses for veterans or year will include a provision for such Dam.· But does it not seem funny to you are going to vote for 10 miles of re­ meritorious projects as the Keyhole you that we are either going to do one location of the B. & 0. Railroad. I will Reservoir in Wyoming and one of the thing or the other-build houses, repair be very glad to answer the gentleman's reservoirs proposed for the Moreau River homes, or build dams? We are going question further if that does not answer in South Dakota. to build dams or we are going to build it. It is a very simple proposition. You The Angostura Dam now being let for homes for the veterans. You cannot do are going to do one thing or the other, construction, the Shadehill Dam on the both. There just is not enough lumber as stated above. You are going to vote Grand, proposed for initiation in 1947, · and building material to do it. Let us for veterans' housing or you are going the Brennan on Rapid Creek, the Keyhole be honest, and decide what we are going to vote for flood construction which and the Moreau Dams as well as the to do. We cannot, as stated above, do means flood control in certain areas. Rocky Ford Dam on the White and the both. Either we build houses or we take Let us be honest and vote; are we for small 15,000 acre-foot dam on the Bad people's property and build houses-or flood control or for house repair and River could all be completed, Mr. Chair­ build dams. I am for protecting the houses for our veterans? No other is­ man, for between 15 and 20 million dol­ property owner and build homes-not sue is involved. It is up to you. lars, which is only a fraction of the dams. So. all I am asking in this very Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, amount estimated for some of the larger simple amendment. although it has broad I am constrained to insist upon my point projects in the comprehensive plan. features, is that no funds authorized of order. The language of the amend­ And each one of these could be com­ under this act shall be allocated unless ment has to do with allocations and ap­ pleted in a relatively short space of time actual construction has been started propriations. No funds are being allo· and start yielding direct, specific benefits prior to this date. cated or appropriated in this bill. · A mo- · to the generation of farmers who fought Mr. ELSTON. Mr. Chairman, will the ment's reflection will show that this lan­ their way through dry, hard years of the ' gentleman yield? guage is utterly contradictory. This is thirties, and deserve to see their dreams Mr. McGREGOR. I yield to the gen­ an authorization bill authorizing some­ of flood control and irrigation come to tleman from Ohio. thing. Now he undertakes to say that fruition in the great basin of the Mis­ Mr. ELSTON. If the gentleman's that thing shall not be started. In the souri River and its tributaries. amendment should carry, it would not very nature of the case it could not be Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Chairman, I be possible to start some projects. As a started until it is authorized, so that the otier an amendment. matter of fact, they need this money in languar,e is not only not germane-it The Clerk read as follows: order to make ·a start. might be applicable to an appropriation Amendment offered by Mr. McGREGOR: On Mr. McGREGOR. This amendment bill and it was made applicable to appro­ page 28; line 3, after the period insert: "No will not hurt any project unless it has priations in the Deficiency Act last De- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7109 cember because we confined that act to The question was taken; and on a di­ Mr. HOBBS. The distinguished gen­ projects on which work had been begun­ vision (demanded by Mr. BucK) there tleman from Indiana [Mr. SPRINGER] but I respectfully submit that this lan­ were-ayes 68, noes 10. is a member of our committee and knows guage here is not applicable to an au­ Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, I object to that the full committee this morning thorization bill, and that the point of the vote on the ground that a quorum is authorized this bill to be called up in order should be sustained because this not present and make the point of order pursuance of the unanimous report by language is utterly inconsistent and con­ that a quorum is not present. the subcommittee. This bill is the salary tradictory in an authorization bill, and is Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I bill for referees in bankruptcy, which certainly not germane to section 17. It ask unanimous consent that further takes out of our judicial system the last is not offered as a new section. proceedings on the bill be continued un­ vestige of the fee system which has been . The CHAIRMAN (Mr. CLARK). The til next Thursday. so long a thorn in the :flesh . amendment may not be germane to the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to · The amendments by the Senate, ex­ particular section to which it is offered the request of the gentleman from Mis­ cept three that are of some substance; but the Chair does think it would be ger­ sissippi? are merely clarifyi::g and perfecting mane to the bill as a whole in the nature There was no objection. amendments. · There is no objection to of a limitation. The Chair sustains the The SPEAKER. Does the gentleman them. Both the subcommittee and the point of order, but calls attention to the from New York lMr. BrrcKJ withdraw full Committee on the Judiciary have fact that it could be offered as a new his point of order of no quorum? asked that the bill be called up and the section to the bill. The point of order is Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, I am wjlling Senate amendments agreed to. sustained. to have the vote taken on Thursday. I Mr. SPRINGER. The subcommittee Mr. D'EWART. Mr. Chairman, I withdraw the point of order. and the full committee have both passed move to strike out the last word. GENERAL LEAVE TO EXTEND REMARKS upon this bill? · Section 17 authorizes appropriation to Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. HOBBS. Unanimously. be made in the future in the sum of ask unanimous consent that all Mem­ Mr. SPRINGER. And this morning $150,000,000 for the prosecution of the bers may have five legislative days in unanimously requested that the gentle­ comprehensive plan adopted under the which to extend their remarks on this man from Alabama call the matter up Sloan-Pick plan for the development bill and that all Members who spoke on and agree to the Senate amendp-1ents? of the Missouri Basin. It is necessary this bill may have permission to extend Mr. HOBBS. Yes; that is true. that this authorization be made at this · their remarks at the point where they Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. Mr. time so that planning fur the develop­ debated on the bill. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? ment of this basin can be carried on in The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. HOBBS. I am so happy to yield an orderly .manner. The plan for the the request of the gentleman from Mis­ to the distinguished gentleman from development of the water, soil, and sissippi? Kentucky. power resources, and :flood control and There was no objection. Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. Under navigation features of the basin has AMENDING BANKRUPTCY ACT this bill as it is now written and will be been adopted by the Congress and ap­ accepted if adopted by the House, it will proved by the President. If the devel­ Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Speaker, I ask place a ceiling on the salaries of referees opment of this basin is to proceed, it unanimous consent to take from the in bankruptcy at $10,000; is that cor­ is necessary that Congress authorize the Speaker's desk the bill H. R. 4160, an act rect? expenditure of funds from time to time, to amend an act entitled "An act to es­ Mr. HOBBS. Yes~ sir; that is cor­ so that the appropriation may be made tablish a uniform system of bankruptcy as manpower and materials are avail­ rect. throughout the United States," approved Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. At the able for the construction. It is neces­ July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory there­ sary that this authorization be included of and supplementary thereto, with Sen­ present time how much in fees do many in this bill and passed at this time so ate amendments thereto, and concur in of the referees receive in the United that the unified development of the the Senate amendments. States? basin as a whole may proceed, that is The Clerk read the title of the bilL Mr. HOBBS. According to the hear­ the development of the upper basin The Clerk read the Senate amend­ ing!:; and testimony before our subcom­ · should proceed in conjunction with the ments as follows: mittee, there were several referees in :flood-control and navigation projects Page 2, strike out lines 10 to 12, inclusive, bankruptcy who in years past had made of the lower basin. and insert: more than $100,000 a year each. Many The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the " (Sa) 'Council' shall mean the judicial of them make three or four times as Committee rises. council of the circuit provided for by section much as their creators, the district Accordingly the Committee rose; and 306 of the United States Judicial Code." judges. the Speaker having resumed the chair Page 3, line 5, strike out "council", and Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. Will insert "senior judge." Mr. CLARK, Chairman of the Committee Page 3, strike out lines 8 to 13, inclusive. this bill increase or lessen the number of the Whole House on the State of the Page 3, line 14, strike out " 'c." and insert of referees? Union, reported that that Committee hav­ "'b." Mr. HOBBS. This will greatly de­ ing had under consideration the bill PA making of steel drums which were pref­ the established business concerns which compliance, they were not able to buy a erable, and also because of the shortage must have such corn products to con­ single head. of wooden barrels, the company has tinue to employ their people and supply Mr. Speaker, the administration here processed and filled with sirup 35 steel the food products in the confectionery in Washington, acting for the Govern­ tank cars which are on the siding at line which the people need and want for ment, has bought up and cornered the Granite City, Ill. their physical well-being. wheat market and the corn market by The CPA has allocated steel to make Servicemen who helped to defend this paying a premium of 30 cents a bushel 26,000 more steel drums for this com­ country are writing to me asking for above the normal price, wLen the stocks pany of which 5 carloads are expected more sirup and sugar for businesses they of wheat and corn were short. to arrive this week. are operating. Now they have control of . the wheat Mr. F. A. Martoccio, president of the It is the responsibility of this Govern­ and corn, which they purchased to relieve Hollywood Candy Co. wired me urging ment, which has cornered the market, the famine areas in Europe and- Asia. that his former supplier located only to see that the bakers have sufficient Unless they release and allow some of 50 miles away be permitted by the Gov­ corn sugar, corn sirup and such by­ these products to be diverted for . the ernment to divert some of this sirup to products as will permit them even in a use of the American ·people, industry his company so that he may continue to limited form to continue their regular will be seriously crippled throughout the keep his plant going insuring employ­ established business practices. If they Nation and we will have a near famine ment for 550 people. do not, thousands of bakeries will close. if not a real one here in America. Up to Saturday last the Department I note the bakers are to be allowed Most of the flour mills throughout the here in Washington which controls the to make only 60 percent of the cakes, Nation are shut down today and bread situation did net feel they could make pies, cookies, and more highly sweetened lines are appearing, according to news­ such -a diversion. Monday, however, products that they were permitted to paper reports, with a meat shortage as they gave me the good news that the make in 1941. This will save no bread. well. Coal miners in Illinois threaten sirup contained in the tank cars would The loaf of bread has been reduced in to strike unless they get meat. · be diverted to supply the domestic or weight and raised a penny Ll price. An~ Corn is not only necessary for the home-front trade temporarily which will other contribution to famine abroad. feeding of livestGck and poultry, but it give the Hollywood Candy Co. some Carrying the illustration of the Holly­ is necessary in many ways in keeping much needed immediate relief. This di­ wood Candy Co. a little further, let me industry going. The farmers are asked ,version will only be a drop in the bucket point out just what the Administration, to raise less hogs and less poultry. A ·to what the trade generally needs for which has placed on these rigid controls, bad food shortctge can happen in this home consumption. It is, however, is doing to the officials "in management year or in 1947 unless we act with due greatly appreciated- by me and will be and to the 550 men and women who work caution. appreciated by Mr. Martoccio, the pr_esi- in that plant. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .711l THEY TAKE AWAY THEIR_JOBS grain could be paid back later if neces­ Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. The management and the men and sary and our industries could be kept Speaker,. will the gentleman yield? women throughout the war bought bonds going. Mr. VURSELL. I yield to the gentle­ mostly checked off from their salaries Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New man from South Dakota. every month. The money they have Hampshire LMr. MERROW] last Friday, Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Along loaned the Government by buying bonds introduced a resolution to appoint a com­ that same line, I had a telegram from the is now used by the Government paying mittee of the House to immediately start Black Hills Packing Plant, Rapid City, 30 cents a bushel bonus for corn and this such an investigation to learn what com­ S. Dak., calling attention to their situa­ corn is being processed by the Union mitments have been made on famine re­ tion and to a report in the newspaper Starch & Refining Co., at Granite City, lief. It can do no harm but could do a there to the effect that it had been im­ making 21,000,000 pounds of sirup which great deal of good. If we will put this possible for them to be in compliance. is being shipped to Europe to the famine resolution through the Congress imme­ This is a federally inspected plant. They areas. The result is that 550 men and diately and start such an investigation, found it impossible to purchase live ani­ women are having their pay checks maybe this time we can "lock the door be­ mals and to dress them out and have stopped by being thrown out of work be­ fore the horse is stolen." the required percentage of dressed meat. cause the Government has stepped in I want to endorse this resolution and They say that because of the conflicting buying up the corn, taking over the proc­ commend it to the Members of the regulations and the large number of reg­ essing plant and shipping the product to House. Let us get behind it and take ulations it is impossible to stay in busi­ Europe. Many will have to cash their action now, because time is of the essence. ness and do it lawfully today. bonds and go on unemployment relief Let us try to prevent waste, and in­ Mr. PHILLIPS. Mr. Speaker, will the unless this sirup is made continuously vestigate first. There has been an in­ gentleman yield? available. vestigation uncovering a tremendous Mr. VURSELL. I yield. This practice is going on all over the waste in the handling of surplus proper­ Mr. PHILLIPS. The same situation Nation. It is the continuation of the ty. Th.ere is a demand for an investiga­ prevails on the west coast. I am glad policy which has been in force for years tion of the waste of some $5,000,000,000 the gentleman is taking this up, because of taking too great an interest in the alleged to have happened through War it involves loss because of the meat being people of other countries at the expense Shipping Administration. There has diverted from the usual channels and of the American people. It is a con­ been waste and investigation of waste on very important parts of the meat indus­ thuation of the give-away policy which a scale never paralleled before in the his­ try, and it involves the loss of fats and goes far beyond reasonable, sensible tory of this Government. Let us not oils which we need now. charity. The American people are gen­ hysterically waste ourselves into a food Mr. VURSELL. That is quite correct. erous and want to help but there is a famine in the country. · Millions of pounds of food are being lost limit to their generosity. Mr. Speaker, the American people were by the small slaughterers over the Nation The Government has planned to ship willing to be regimented during the war. that the people need because the regula­ out 100,640,000 pounds of sirup which They had hoped that controls would be tions of the OPA have forced them out they say is being bought by the UNRRA lifted as rapidly as possible afterward. of the legitimate channels into the black organization. The cost of laying it down To the amazement of Congress and to market. in Europe is largely borne by the Federal the amazement of the American people I shall not go further with this subject, Government. The American Govern­ controls have been tightened. New con­ but I wanted to make this announce­ ment has donated billions to UNRRA. trols never thought of in this country ment. I should like now to confine my In fact, of the 50 nations pooling their have been clamped down on the Ameri­ remarks to wheat and grain and to other finances from the beginning, the United can people. Regimentation greater than problems of byproducts that are being shipped out of the country. States has put in 72 percent of all the any time during the war i~ beginning to money and probably a great deal more. give tbe people great concern. Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. We furnish UNRRA the money to buy They had hoped for something better. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? our products. That completes the gift. The Congress must continue to do its· Mr. VURSELL. I yield briefly. Mr. Speaker, the time has arrived when best to combat further controls so that Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Speaking . we Members of Congress demand an im­ the people may get back, maybe once of the black market, a packing plant has mediate investigation. We want to know again to their normal American way of come to my attention which has been just what the Government is doing with unable to make any money because it life. wanted to abide by the law. A party ap­ the millions of bushels of wheat bought Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. at a bonus of 30 cents a bushel and what Speaker, will the gentleman yield? proached the owner of that packing plant they are doing and are going to continue and offered to pay the owner of this small to do with the 34,000,000 bushels of corn Mr. VURSELL. I yield. plant $2,500 a week, $10,000 a month, or bought in the same manner. We should Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I be­ $120,000 for 12 months, he to have noth­ find out how much of this wheat and lieve the gentlemen meant to indicate ing to do except turn his little packing corn is in the United States, how much is that they had passed through the Chi­ plant over to this party to operate, osten­ being processed here, and how much is cago livestock yards and not through the sibly to go into the black market for the being processed in Europe. Yes; how yards of Armour & Co. disposal of his meat. much of it is being wasted and allowed to Mr. VURSELL. That is right. They Mr. VURSELL. In other words, instead spoil, and whether the Government will further state that is hardly probable that of regulations set up so that business can divert some of it to our own people and they will be able to buy under OPA com­ operate under them, they have been set our own industries to keep them going. pliance and butcher any cattle during up in such manner as to breed the cir­ There has been colossal waste con­ this entire week. cumvention of the law and make market­ nected with practi~ally every activity of Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, will the ing difficult for people of this country UNRRA, and, doubtless, colossal waste gentleman yield? . who otherwise want to be good, law­ will be practiced in handling of the food Mr. VURSELL. I yield. abiding citizens. we are sending to the famine areas Mr. SPRINGER. At a food hearing Mr. BARRETT of Wyoming. Mr. abroad. meeting at Indianapolis on the 8th day Speaker, will the gentleman yield? I am satisfied if the Members of Con­ of June the representatives of Kingan Mr. VURSELL. I yield to the gentle­ gress had the figures now these figures and Armour were present and testified. man from Wyoming. would show that more of the wheat and They gave evidence that at the Indian­ Mr. BARRETT of Wyoming. I want more of the corn which is now cornered apolis stockyards on one day something to compliment the gentleman on his and hoarded by the Government could over 3,000 head of livestock had passed splendid remarks. I am particularly in­ be loaned to the millers and processors through and they were able to secure but terested in the statement that the gen­ to prevent the shortage of bread, the 256 head for slaughtering purposes; that tleman made with reference to the con­ shortage of sirup, and the shortage of the others were loaded into trucks, taken tribution this country has made to the many things that are happening because into the large centers; and they were stricken people of Europe and Asia. I · more of this grain is hoarded than is ostensibly used for black-market pur­ understand that the United States has necessary at the present time. The poses. made nearly 50 percent of all of the 7112 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 world shipments during the past year. brought to the attention of the House this The last two paragraphs of the resolu­ Of the four countries of the world pro­ afternoon. The food crisis in the United tion are as follows: ducing wheat, this country, Canada, the States is growing worse as the days pass. The committee shall report to the House Argentine, and Australia-by reason of The people of this country expect their (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is these orders the gentleman has just Congress to do something about this all­ not in session) as soon as practicable the re­ mentioned, we have stripped our carry­ important matter-. We are in a state of sults of its investigation and study together over of wheat down to the point where confusion and disorganization insofar as with such recommendations as it deems the handling of the food crisis is con­ necessary, but in no event shall the report we have about two-thirds of a bushel per with recommendations be made later than capita in this country, whereas Canada cerned. I believe if this administration one month from the date of passage of this has 6 bushels per capita, Australia 1.5 had called a conference and set forth as resolution. bushels, and the Argentine 5.6 bushels the object the working out of a plan to For the purposes of carrying out this reso­ per capita. produce the greatest possible confusion lution the committee, or any subcommittee "Will the gentleman explain to me why and disorganization in the handling of thereof, is authorized to sit and act during . it is that the powers that be feel con­ food, they could not have done any bet­ the present Congress at such times and strained to strip the people of this coun­ ter than they have already accomplished. places within the United States, whether It has been handled very badly from be­ the House is in session, has recessed, or has try when other nations are not contrib­ adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require uting their fair share? ginning to end. We have reached a point the attendance of such witnesses and the Mr. VURSELL. I am sorry to say that now where there are great shortages not production of such books, papers, and docu­ I cannot answer the gentleman's ques­ only as far as food for livestock in this ments by subpena or otherwise, and to take tion. I do not see how anyone can country is concerned but also food for · such testimony, as it deems necessary. Sub­ answer the question because I cannot human beings. It is essential that we penas may be issued over the signature of believe that anyone can answer it. · taken action immediately in this particu­ the Chairman of the committee or any mem­ There certainly is no valid reason why larly grave situation. I compliment the ber designated by him and may be served by this great country which has to lend its gentleman from Illinois [Mr. VURSELLJ, any person designated by such chairman or leadership to world peace and ·the reha­ who preceded me, for the remarks on this member. bilitation of the world, and at the same subject. He pointed out some pertinent I have asked that this committee re­ time should be brought down to a level facts in connection with the phases of port within 30 days to the House of of two-thirds of a bushel of wheat in this this problem. He alluded to a resolution Representatives because time is of the country as compared with several bushels which I introduced last week. I am going essence. in the Dominion of Canada. to read this resolution and discuss cer­ I yield to the gentleman from Minne­ Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. tain sections of it: sota. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? House Resolution 665 Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I feel Mr. VURSELL. I yield to the gentle­ Resolved, That there is hereby created a the gentleman has a very good resolu­ man from Minnesota. select committee to be composed of seven tion but it seems to me we already have Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I would Members of the House of Representatives to a special committee to investigate food like to comment on what the gentleman be appointed by the Speaker, one of whom shortages. I happen to be a member of he shall designate as chairman. Any va­ has just said. Unless we produce a large cancy occurring in the membership of the that committee. spring wheat crop this year, considering committee shall be filled in the same man­ The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. the commitments that have been made ner in which the original appointment was PACE] is chairman of the committee. out of the 1946 crop by the administra­ made. The committee is authorized and di­ It is well within the purview of that tion of 250,000,000 bushels, we may be rected to make a study and investigation of committee to make the investigation headed for a decided bread famine with­ the commitments and agJ;"eements of the which the gentleman seeks to have made in 9 months. United States to furnish grains and other by his resolution. I would suggest that Mr. VURSELL. I think that is en­ foodstuffs to foreign countries and to ascer­ tain the amount of such grains and foodstuffs the gentleman confer with the gentle­ tirely possible. furnished foreign countries by the United man from Georgia, chairman of that Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Be­ States between September 1, 1945, and the committee, to see if the committee will cause they are going to ship out the date of the committee report to the House. go ahead and make the investigation. winter wheat first, and our spring wheat The committee shall in particular study and I am strongly in favor of it. will not be made into a crop until about investigate the following: Mr. MERROW. I believe such an in­ 6 weeks from now. I would like to call the attention of the vestigation should be made. I am not Mr. VURSELL. We are taking a tre­ House particularly to the following particular about who shall make it, but mendous gamble with famine in the points: it ought be made in order that the coun­ United States. It is unfair to this great (a) The extent of our commitments and try may know that the House of Repre­ business organization of bakers through­ agreements to furnish grains and other food­ sentatives is doing something. We out the country and it is certainly un­ stuffs to foreign nations. should have a committee and that com­ fair to the ~ople who are standing in (b) The amount of grain and other food­ mittee should be instructed to make the the breadlines and who will stand in the stuffs shipp~d abroad for distribution to for­ investigation even before the Congress eign countries in pursuance of any commit­ breadlines in much greater numbers un­ ment or agreement from September 1, 1945, recesses. less something is done. to the date of the committee report. Mr. RIZLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the Mr. RIZLEY. Mr. Chairman, will the (c) The amount of grain and other food­ gentleman yield? gentleman yield? stuffs currently held ln warehouses and other Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ Mr. VURSELL. I yield to the gentle­ storage places in the United States awaiting man from Oklahoma. man from Oklahoma. shipment abroad to fulfill any existing com­ Mr. RIZLEY. Of course, every Mem­ Mr. RIZLEY. I think it ought to be mitment or agreement for sue~ shipment. ber Qf Congress is sympathetic with the stated at the point where the gentleman (d) The amount of grain and other food­ objectives which the gentleman has in stuffs currently held in warehouses and other mind by his resolution. I may say that pointed out that this Government had storage places abroad awaiting processing or furnished 72 percent of the money used distribution. in addition to the so-called Pace com­ by UNRRA that we have also furnished (e) Whether- the current food shortage in mittee which has for its specific purpose more than 80 percent of all of the grain the various types of grains or other food­ the investigation of the identical things that has been used by UNRRA and dis­ stuffs in the United States can be alleviated which the gentleman seeks to cover in tributed to the foreign countries. by transporting grains and other foodstuffs his resolution, the House Committee on Mr. VURSELL. That is quite right. awaiting shipment abroad to sections or Agriculture for several days, covering at areas in the United States where there is a least a couple of weeks, has been con­ The SPEAKER. Under previous order shortage of grains or other foodstuffs. of the House, the gentleman from New ducting an investigation of the very Hampshire [Mr. MERROW] is recognized I call attention to point (f) which is things covered in the gentleman's reso­ for 45 minutes. · as follows: lution. I think the gentleman would profit by taking the matter up with the THE FOOD CRISIS (f) The advisab111ty of curtail1ng such shipments of grains and other foodstuffs chairman of the Committee on Agricul­ Mr. MERROW. Mr. Speaker, I am abroad as may be necessary to alleviate the ture, Mr. FLANNAGAN. It was the very glad that the subject of food is being food shortage 1n the ~nlted States. things the gentleman has pointed out 194G CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7113 that caused the Committee on Agricul­ ments we m~de on wheat, for instance, United States foreign trade in foodstuffs ture to start this investigation. We seem gave us a carry-over of less than three­ during the past three decades has been small to have commitments to furnish grain eighths of one bushel of wheat per capita relative t-o production- and other foodstuffs all over the world, in this country. Canada was a little And that means production in the but apparently no one knew who was wiser than we. They have about a United States- responsible for those commitments, and 6-bushel carry-over per capita. All of and that except for the two war periods the apparently no correct investigation had that information we are gradually accu­ country has been a net importer of food­ been made of foodstuffs. As a conse­ mulating. stuffs. quence, someone was making commit­ Mr. MERROW. This would indicate The fact that we have been in a food­ ments. We have had some of the gentle­ to me that it might be the opinion of the import position· for so many years makes men from the World Food Committee committee to recommend to the Con­ it necessary to call attention to the prob­ before our committee, trying to ascer­ gress that we curtail shipments abroad lems incident to being a food-export tain the things the gentleman has re­ until deficit areas in this country are Nation. As a matter of fact, more recent ferred to in his resolution. Someone has cared for. records show that even in 1944, so far as made commitments. That is a long Mr. RIZLEY. Let me say to the gen­ food is concerned, we imported more story. We could go into wheat. If we tleman I think it is fair to say that the food than we exported. I hesitate to had followed out what some people term different branches of the executive de­ make that statement because I presume commitments on wheat, we would be two partment of this Government apparently many people do not believe it. Probably or three hundred million bushels in the do not know what each other is doing; many people have been misled because red today instead of having any wheat for instance, the Department of Agricul­ they have heard so much New Deal and at all. ture, from information we have, did not administration propaganda to the con­ Mr. MERROW. I appreciate what the know anything about some commitments trary. That is the backlog, the base, gentleman has said and it leads me to that were made over at Potsdam and from which we have to operate as this ask him this question, since he has been some other places; and the State Depart­ situation is responsible for the food speaking on this matter. Do you have ment is making some commitments for problems that have arisen within the last any idea that the committee will be able the Federal Government. The Depart­ year. Second, during the war the prae­ to tell the House to what extent com­ ment of Agriyulture is supposed to be the tice was to ship concentrated food. '\Ve mitments have been made, before the one department of this Government that imported in 1944 a quarter of a billion Congress adjourns? knows something about the food supplies bushels of feed grain and exported only Mr. RIZLEY. I am very hopeful that of the country. We are going into those a few million bushels of grain, but large we can. I would say we have had at things and going to try to find out what amounts of manufactured foods. least a half a dozen days of hearings be­ can be done to rectify some of the things The people in New England had access fore the committee thus far. We were t-hat need attention. to imported grains from Canada at that trying to get Mr. Bowles and Mr. Porter, Mr. MERROW. I am certainly glad time, but none are available from that in addition to others, before the com­ the committee on which the gentleman source now. mittee, but unfortunately they have been is serving is doing that work but I wish Now the situation is in reverse. Now engaged elsewhere at the times our it were possible for a resolution to pass the demand is to send the crude food chairman tried to get them before the this House insisting that such reports be materials, like wheat, and all the oat­ committee, but we hope to have them made to the House of Representatives meal that can be made. The countries before the committee some time before before we adjourn this summer. It is want the grains and the shipping space long. Among others, we had Dr. Fitz­ all-important that this information be is available now. gerald, who made this inspection trip available to the House and the country We still, then, have the two situations with former President Hoover, who gave before this Congress adjourns. to face. One the historical background, us a great deal of information concern­ Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, in which we did not feed ourselves for ing stock piles of wheat all over the will the gentleman yield? many years. Second, all at once we are country. He told us that the mills in Mr. MERROW. I yield. to become a food-exporting Nation. Great Britain were running 95 percent Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. Is the Beginning on January 1 of this year our capacity at the time they were over there, gentleman's resolution broad enough to ·food exports during the first 3 months while the mills in this country were shut compel a disclosure by the Army and were twice what our food imports were. down. He is also a member of the World Navy as to the foodstuffs held by the If we are going to assume a position of Food Committee. We obtained a great services? being a food export nation, naturally it deal of information, which is in the rec­ Mr. MERROW. I do not think so. I has to come from either increased pro­ ord, from Dr. Fitzgerald, and others from should be very happy to have such a duction, or by taking food away from the Department of Agriculture, and provision in ·it. our stock piles, or by preventing waste others connected with this food situa­ Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. Mr. of foods, or by reducing the United tion. We hope to have Secretary of Speaker, will the gentleman yield for a States consumption of food. New Eng­ Agriculture Anderson himself before the statement? land faces this problem more quickly committee to testify. We are hopeful Mr. MERROW. I yi~ld . . than some of the other sections no doubt. of getting some report made to the Con­ Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. First I Mr. MERROW . . We feel it very keenly, gress before adjournment. want to compliment the gentleman from yes, and I am going to give a picture of Mr. MERROW. I am glad to hear New Hampshire for the interest he has the situation in New England. I appre­ that. I suppose you do not know shown in providing foo"d for his people ciate the gentleman's comment very whether or not there are large stock piles and feed for their livestock. I have been much. I know of no one who is more fa­ in the United States, whether or not listening to him attentively. It seems to miliar with the food situation than my there are stock piles abroad that are me his problem consists of two parts: colleague from Wisconsin who has j-q.st rotting because they cannot be processed. One, the general over·-all picture; and spoken and I am glad that he has made I suppose you are not ready to make a two, the immediate corrective steps to such an excellent contribution to the recommendation as to whether or not discussion of this important question. the shortages in this country shall be be taken. I wish to read from the Jour­ Mr. Speaker, I read a letter I re­ taken care of before we ship foodstuffs nal of Farm Economics, the issue of May ceived from Alfred L. French, secretary all over the world. 1944, this statement by G. L. Nelson: of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Mr. RIZLEY. I may say to the gentle­ We were consistently a net exporting Na­ Federation: tion in these products during the period of man that some of the information was MAY 23, 1946. 1912 to 1924, and a net importer during the Hon. CHESTER MERROW, brought out by the preceding speaker. period 1925 through 1941. Dr. Fitzgerald told us as I remember that M ember of Congress, in Great Britain their mills were running The article is about food. In other House Office Bui lding, words, we were on an importing basis Washingt on, D. C . at 95 percent of capacity, that their DEAR Sm: Our grain situation has become stock pile of wheat alone was higher per every year from 1925 up until 1942. so acute that we are actually desperate. We capita there now than it is in the United Then another sentence: are writing out in this letter the _contents of States of America. Because of someone The above comparisons point to the signifi­ telegrams to Secretary of Agriculture and not understanding the facts the commit .. cance of two widely recognized facts:_ that Chester Bowles. We have also appealed to 7114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 the President, giving him the content of the Mr. MERROW. I yield. wheat or grain to foreign countries. The wires to Anderson and Bowles. We have Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. I think commitments have just made OPA's job certainly got to have something done in ad­ dition to what has t aken place already or we OPA is only one of the contributing harder in this country. I think the gen­ won't be able to keep our poultry and dal· -· causes for our food problems, however. tleman also knows that as long as almost industries. Can you help us to folh ... Mr. MERRow·. it goes in the-black everything else is being laid onto OPA, through on this. market. we should not lay the blame for these "Feed buyers for Eastern mills who have -Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. To be commitments on OPA. been in the grain production areas contin­ fair about it, I will say to my colleague Mr. MERROW. I do not intend to lay uously are unable to make purchases. Our feed supply almost completely exhausted. I think we will have to admit that this the blame for these commitments on The time has come when the Government food and feed problem goes back years OPA, but I think the movement of grain must t ake action that will get grain into before the OPA. This administration into the New England area could have the deficit New England areas. This action adopted a policy or program that has been facilitated if it had not been for must be immediate. We suggest these pos­ not encouraged agriculture to keep pace price ceilings. sibilities: (1) Government seizure and allo- · with the increase in population of our Mr. SAVAGE. The OPA can be cation of oats and corn. It appears there is a good supply of oats and there must be country. The present administration has blamed for plenty of things without some corn; or (2) Further lifting of grain not encouraged agriculture to keep pace blaming them for something they did ceilings in an amount sufficient to cause with the industrial developments of our not do. offerings on the market; or (3) Complete re­ country. The OPA is only one of the Mr. MERROW. I think it was on ac­ moval of ceilings on oats and corn. Cer­ links in the chain. count of the price ceilings they put on tainly oat ceilings can be removed for a Mr. MERROW. I think probably the grain. time and if results are uncontrollable they can be returned; or (4) Any other action gentleman is right, although I will ask Mr. LANDIS. Mr. Speaker, will the which will guarantee movement of feed grain him this question: He would not be sorry gentleman yield? into this area." to see the OPA ended, would lle? Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ Sincerely yours, Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. I would man from Indiana. ALFRED L. FRENCH, like to see its errors corrected by con­ Mr. LANDIS. The OPA put a price Secretary, New Hampshire structive amendments. I . think a for­ Farm Bureau Federation. ceiling on wheat that forced the wheat CONCORD, N. H. mula for decontrol should be put in oper­ to go into livestock, and we have lost ation when a certain point is reached several million bushels of wheat that Here is a telegram I received from in production. The Gossett amendment could have been held for human con­ Robert F. Thurrell, Wolfeboro, N. H.: is an acceptable approach to anyone that sumption, and that was caused by the JUNE 13, 1946. does not want the OPA to be a per­ OPA price ceilings. CHESTER E. MERROW, manent institution. Mr. PHILLIPS. Mr. Speaker, will the Hott.Se Office Building, Mr. MERROW. I would like to know Washington, D. C.: gentleman yield? It is regrettatle that you have not been how you are going to correct it. Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ able to protect the poultry industry of this Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. man from California. section. Pullets on range too small to mar­ Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. PHILLIPS. We lost over 100,000,- ket are being burned by the thousands on Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ 000 bushels of grain that should have account lack of feed; unless OPA is elim­ man from Minnesota. inated this whole country is headed for been used for human consumption, and disaster. · Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I that is solely the OPA's responsibility. ROBERT F. THURRELL, · would like to point this out. The- gen­ Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. 1 would Cotton Mt. Farms. tleman said that the poultry farmers also like to point out that the OPA is WOLFEBORO, N. H. are not able to get grain to feed their primarily responsible for the situation, poultry, so they are burning all their Mr. Speaker, I did my best to elim­ because the scarcity policy of Chester chickens. Bowles as Economic Stabilizer and as inate the OPA. I voted against it and Mr. MERROW. That is right. hope I will have a chance to do so again. Director of OPA was responsible in hold­ I think it would have been a fine thing Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN'. I hap­ ing down production in this country. if we could have kicked it out a few weeks pen to know the poultry producer the Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. Mr. ago. gentleman referred to, a very reliable Speaker, if the gentleman will yield fur­ Mr. VURSELL. Mr. Speaker, will the and respected man. But I would like to ther, I just want to keep the record gentleman yield? point out to the gentleman that we have straight. Last year we had one ef these Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ a philosophy or school of thought down super-duper special committees that the man from Dlinois. in one of the agencies that they want gentleman is asking for, and Mr. Ander­ the people to take the corn and grain Mr. VURSELL. Did I understand the son, the present Secretary of Agriculture, gentleman to say that they are burning _directly into the human system rather was its chairman, and if you will take the chickens because they cannot get feed than take it in as dairy products or as · time to read the report of this special for them? red meat or pou~try. So this philosophy committee you will see that they recom­ Mr. MERROW. That is the informa­ ·or system is going into operation and mended the use of grain to fatten cattle tion contained in this telegram. they are going· to practice on the people even. Mr. VURSELL. I do not doubt that by destroying meat and poultry and This available grain should have been statement, but it is alarming. eventually they are going to feed us kept for yo':r people and for your poultrY. ·Mr. MERROW. I have heard that directly corn and wheat and barley and Mr. MERROW. That is right. chickens have been chloroformed and rye and oats into the human system, be­ I want to speak briefly about a report drowned. Here is another communica­ cause they claim we can get more value made by the Commissioners of Agricul­ tion I received from Owen Johnson, of out of it and save more than we could ture of New England on the subject of Manchester, N. H.: in any other manner. poultry, and then I will move to food MAY 27, 1946. Mr. MERROW. I thank the gentle­ for human beings in New England. The Hon. CHEsTER E. MERROW, man. I think if we do not g"t away from following situation was found to exist House of Representatives, some of this control of the economic sys­ when this report was made on the 7tb Washington, D. C. tem from Washington, perhaps there of June: MY DEAR CONGRESSMAN: The grain situation may not be any America left. is getting serious to the point that we will The Commissioners of Agriculture of New have to shut down our logging crews if grain Mr. SAVAGE. Mr. Speaker, will the England met at the State House, Boston, cannot come ' through. gentleman yield? Mass., Friday, June 7. 1946, in conference with Very truly yours, Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ representatives of the State colleges and dairy OWEN JOHNSON, man from Washington. and poultry industries to consider the food Johnson Lumber Co. Mr. SAVAGE. I have a very high re­ situation in New England. MANCHESTER, N.H. The following situation was found to exist: gard for the ability of the gentleman 1. Laying hens have been cut 50 percent of Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. Mr. from New Hampshire. I am sure the the January 1 number; 3,200,000 hens were Speaker, will the gentleman yield fur­ gentleman knows that the OPA has slaughtered . between January 1 and May 1; ther? nothing to do with our commitments of 2,200,000 hens were slaughtered during the 1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE t7115 month of May. This rate is 250 percent of seen. It was issued on the 6th of June care of the sections in our own country normal, with present rate of slaughter more 1946 by the Department of Agriculture: where we have definite shortages. than 300 percent of normal. The rate of liquidation is increasing daily. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT I would like to know, and I would like 2. Present replacement flocks are down 15- OF AGRICULTURE, to have a committee find out, if we pos­ 25 percent from last year• . Some pullets have PRODUCTION AND MARKETING DIVISION, sibly can find out whether or not it is already been slaughtered due to lack of feed. Washington, D. C., June 6, 1946. advisable to curtail the shipments of Farmers are trying to hold replacement stock. GRAIN EXPORTS IN MAY TOTALED NEARLY 600,000 grain and other foodstuffs abroad as may Ultimate size of replacement flocks depend TONS be necessary to alleviate the present food upon a'Vailable grain. Exports of United States grain and grain shortage in the United States. I am 3. Broiler production is down 60-75 percent products totaled an estimated 363,000 long from last year. going to give some opinions on the pos­ tons during the last 11 days of May. This sible curtailment of shipments of grains 4. Egg receipts at four major egg-market­ raised the total for the full month to 595,000 ing cooperatives (Hartford, Conn.; Springfield tons (22,222,000 bushels). The total for and other foodstuffs as may be necessary and Brockton, Mass.; Derry, N. H.) were 42 May included (in terms of whole-grain to alleviate the food shortage in the percent less during the first week of June equivalents) : Wheat, 311,000 tons; flour, 209,- United States. than in the first week of May this year. 000 tons; corn, 63,000 tons·; corn products, I have received the following tele- 5. Considered estimates of grain supply 12,000 tons. grams: for June will be less than 50 percent of last Department of Agriculture officials said JUNE 13, 1946. year. More than 3,000 carloads of grain are tb,at exports in May were reduced sharply Hon. CHESTER E. MERROW, needed to hold present livestock and poultry below scheduled shipments by rail strikes House of Representatives: number for 30 days. and floods. Heavy concentration of shipping In order to save our poultry flocks from This means a milk shortage greater than schedules during the last 11 days of the further liquidation I approve your suggestion last year, and a shortage of eggs and poultry month, when grain was ready to move in of curtailing shipments abroad of feed grain this fall and winter as well as serious damage volume, brought the projected total to 840,- until supplies are sufficient to meet present to farm businesses. 000 long tons for the month as a whole. demands o! poultry flocks in New Hampshire. Suggested solutions of this grievous prob­ Strike and flood interference affected this ANDREW FELKER, lem to both consumers and producers are: period of heaviest schedules. As a result, ap­ Commissioner of Agriculture. 1. Loan of Government-owned corn (2,000,- proximately 250,000 tons of May shipments CONCORD, N.H. 000 bushels) . had to be carried over into June. 2. Subsidy on corn, oats, barley, and other Exports of more than 1,500,000 tons have JUNE 15, 1946. available grains except milo, either on Gov­ been scheduled for June. Shipment of this Hon. CHESTER E. MERROW, ernment or private basis. volume would raise the total exports of House Office Building: 3. Direct Government purchase of grain for United States grain and grain products for Would recommend curtailment of ship­ shipment to deficit areas. the period January 1 through June 30, 1946, ments of grain abroad until critical situation NEW ENGLAND COMMISSIONERS OF to more than 5,400,000 tons (about 200,000,- in deficit areas in our own country have been AGRICULTURE, 000 bushels). Added to the shipments dur­ relieved. FREDERICK E. COLE, Massachusetts, ing the last 6 months of 1945, this woUld CHARLES M. DALE, A. D. GARDNER, Maine. · bring total exports for the marketing year Governor of New Hampshire. STANLEY JUDD, Vermont. to close to 400,000,000 bushels. While the CONCORD, N. H. FRANK H. PEET, Connecticut. heavy volume of June exports has been defi­ ANDREW L. FELKER, New Hampshire. nitely scheduled, shipment of the full JUNE 15, 1946. RAYMOND G. BRESSLER, Rhode 1sland. amount will require continuous flow of Hon. CHESTER E. MERROW, grain and grain products up to the limit House Office Building: So it goes. There is a great liquida­ of capacity, without further interruptions Recommend curtailment shipments abroad tion of fiocks throughout New England. or delays. as suggested. Hope your plan provides for This is going to cut down the supply of Exports of United States grain and grain replacement out of new crop. Any action livestock and of course it will decrease products during the first 5 months of 1946 should be reasonably cpeedy. the supply of milk, and so on. · totaled 3,885,000 long tons (145,235,000 A. K. GARDNER, bushels). In addition about 188,000 long Commissioner of Agriculture. In all the larger cities of New Hamp­ AUGUSTA, MAINE. shire one can find butter lines any day. tons of Canadian wheat milled in bond in the United States was shipped, making You go out into the various towns and total shipments from the United States dur­ JUNE 17, 1946. you will not find any meat in the show­ ing the 5 months of 4,073,000 tons of grain Hon. CHESTER E. MERROW, cases. I have heard reports only re­ and graia products. House Office B".lilding: cently that some people have not been The total for the first 5 months of 1946 If Government agency cannot otherwise re­ able to purchase meat during the last 3 included: Wheat, 2,692,000 tons; flour, lieve deficit areas in United States recom­ or 4 weeks. They have been 3 or 4 weeks 1,303,000 tons; corn, 65,000 tons; corn prod­ mend curtailment of grain shipments abroad. and sometimes months without meat. ucts, 13,000 tons. Prompt action desirable. The accompanying table shows exports of HORACE HILDRETH, There is a definite shortage. The food wheat and flour equivalent by destinations Governor of Maine. situation at the moment in my section of during the first 5 months of 19<16. The the country is much worse than it has largest shipments were for UNRRA countries, JUNE 17, 1946. been at any other time. with a total of 1,460,000 tons. France and Hon. CHESTER E. -MERROW, We have discussed OPA in reference to French North Africa received 938,000 tons, House Office Building: the food shortage. On May 8 I intro­ United States occupation zones 434,000 tons, Believe Government holds grain in exces!l duced H. R. 6374, to remove the ceiling the British Empire 348,000 tons, Brazil 148,- of available shipping space for foreign ship­ 000 tons, and other countries smaller quan­ ment. Recommend this excess be sent now prices on grain. I hoped that tbat might tities. to deficit areas. Replacement later. If this increase the supply of grain. plan not acceptable favor curtailment. I also introduced H. R. 6322 a short I would like to see the Committee on s. G. JUDD, time ago to remove ceiling prices on Agriculture or a select committee deter­ Commissioner of Agriculture. meat. The Government has so regulated mine the accuracy of the above figures MONTPELIER, VT. and find out just how broad our com­ and so badly handled the meat industry JUNE 17, 1946. that very little meat is available. Much mitments are; how much grain and other Hon. CHESTER E. MERROW, of it is moving in the black market. We foodstuffs is being sent abroad; and de­ House Office Bui lding: are just not getting distribution of meat termine whether or not we have the Favor curtailment seed shipments abroad throughout New England. facilities to export this amount. We for 1 month. Rhode Island poultry situation Because of the critical food situation should know what is currently held in daily getting worse. I introduced House Resolution 665, in the warehouses in this country. We R. G. BRESSLER, should find out if it is true that grain is Director of Agriculture and Conservation. which I have asked for a study and in­ PROVIDENCE, R. I. vestigation of our commitments and the piling up abroad ·and that some of it is amount of grain and other foodstuffs rotting. These may be rumors, but if It would require some study probably shipped abroad during the past few they are true, certainly we are not feed­ to ascertain just how much grain and months. ing the starving people of Europe be­ other foodstuffs are being held and just I have here and will put into the REc­ cause we just are not getting the mate­ how much of it can be shipped to deficit ORD a statement which many of you have rials across. Certainly we ought to take areas in the T,Jnited States. Here is a 7116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 country, the wealthiest in the world, and Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. I just people are not securing the meat, they well able to take care of itself. I thinlt want to keep the record straight again. are not able to buy butter. There are it is time that we became interested in Speaking of the poultry industry, dur­ shortages all over this country. Where­ our own affairs to the extent of helping ing the war we had a 50-percent increase as I am entirely in sympathy with doing the deficit food areas in this country. It in egg production. Everybody subscribed all we possibly can to assist a world is time for action by this House. This is to the expansion of the poultry industry. stricken by famine. nevertheless I am June 18. We may not adjourn until some Millions and millions of pounds of pow­ opposed to seeing shortages of food de­ time late next month. Certainly people dered eggs were shipped, as concentrated velop in this country to such an extent in the United States are entitled to know food. It had the universal approval of that perhaps some time in the near fu­ the facts in this serious food situation. everybody. The poultry business ex­ ture our own peop1e will be suffering. If Knowing the facts, they will be able to panded. Now t.tie war is over. The de­ stock,s of food are piling up they should help decide what ought to be done. If mand now is not for these animal prod­ be used and used immediately. I am any judge of public opinion, I think ucts, this concentrated food. The people throughout the country are the Nation expects action from the Con­ The Agricultural Department appears disturbed and, shall I say, getting angry? gress. I think the Nation believes that now to be following a policy of reducing They expect action and they are not get­ we should care for our own country and poultry too rapidly and too drastically. ting action. I think we. as representa­ our own interests, then if we have a sur­ This liquidation of flocks can create a tives of the people, ought to exercise lead­ plus, we will try to take care of others. serious situation if judgment is not now ership in this critical period. We ought I believe they wish to see the curtail­ exercised. to present the facts and make recommen­ ment of shipments of grain and other Mr. MERROW~ I think this liquida­ dations. If the recommendations are foodstuffs until the shortage· in the tion of flocks that is going on should be made and if they are not followed, at United States is alleviated. prevented, particularly when we need least we will have fulfilled our duty and I yield to the gentleman from Indiana · food in the United Stat€s. will have done what is expected of us. [Mr. LANDIS]. Mr . .PHILLIPS. Mr. Speaker, will the The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ Mr. LANDIS. I compliment the gen­ gentleman yield? tleman from New Hampshire has e~­ tleman on the statement he is making, Mr. MERROW. I yield. pired. which is a very able one. Mr. PHILLIPS. Certainly the gentle­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS I would like for the gentleman to get man from Wisconsin IMr. MURRAY] is Mr. GWYNNE of Iowa asked and was for us how many chickens have been de­ not proposing that there is no increase in stroyed in the last year so that it will given permission to extend his remarks the consumption of these products? The and include an excerpt from a telegram. be valuable information to give the pub­ gentleman is not suggesting that Wis­ lic. Of course, we are tryinr to do every­ consin cheese shall go back to where it FOREIGN INFORMATION SERVICE OF thing we can to save those chickens now, was 5 or 10 years ago? There is a demand STATE DEPAR~NT but when we have a severe meat shortage for food at the present time which the Mr. SABATH, from the Committee on next winter and there is no poultry to gentleman from New Hampshire speaks Rules, submitted the following privileged take its place, the people will know how about. I certainly hope the production resolution (H. Res. 669, Rept. No. 2298), many chickens have been burned or of poultry will not go back to where it which was referred to the House Calen­ chloroformed in the United States. It was before this increase was asked for. dar and ordered to be printed: will be information to give the people. - Mr. MERROW. I will endeavor to se­ Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. Will the Resolved, That upon the adoption of this gentleman yield to allow me to answer resolution it shall be in order to move that cure that information. I receive reports the House resolve itself into the Committee from New England every day. When I the gentleman's question? Mr. MERROW. I yield. of the Whole House on the State of the Union am in the State of New Hampshire I for the consideration of the bill (H. R. 4982) constantly get reports from the farmers Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. I will to enable the Department of State more ef­ in reference to the destruction of flocks. say to the gentleman from California fectively to carry out its respo:qsibilities in Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, will the {Mr. PHILLIPS], you have not heard the the fore.ign fte1d by means of (a) public dis­ gentleman yield? gentleman from Wisconsin ever ask for semination abroad of information about the Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ anything for Wisconsin that he did not United Stat es, its people and its policies, and man from Ohio. want the rest of the United States to have, (b) promotion of the interchange of persons, in the time he has been here-cheese or knowledge, and skills between the people of Mr. JENKINS. I would say to the the United States and the peoples of other gentleman that probably no section of any other commodity. However, milk countries. That after general debate, which the country is so well organized in the production per capita of population has shall be confined to the bill and shall con­ poultry industry as is New England. You not increasec;i to any great extent. tinue not to exceed three hours to be equally have some of the finest authorities on Mr. MERROW. I must say this, I am divided and controlled by the chairman and poultry there that there are in this not asking anything for New England the ranking minority member of the Com­ country. that I would not a.sk for any other section mittee on Foreign .6.1fairs, the bill shall be Mr. MERROW. We have heard state­ of the country. read for amendment under the five-minute ments made by two or three members of rule. At the condusion of the reading of the There are great food shortages in other bill for amendment the Committee shall rise the Committee on Agriculture this after­ sections. In aU fairness we should alle­ and report the same to the House with· such noon. They have indicated that the viate our own shortages out of what we amendmepts as may have been adopted and committee is trying to find the informa­ produce at the earliest possible moment. the previous question shall be conSidered as tion I have asked for in my resolution. This is why I am making this statement ordered on the bill and amendments thereto I hope there wiH be enough interest in today. to .final passage without intervening motion this subject so that we can secure the Mr. LANDIS. Mr. Speaker, will the except one motion to .recommit. information before adjournment. If the gentleman yield? COMMITI'.EE ON RULES-PERMISSION TO Committee on Agriculture will obtain it, Mr. MERROW. I yield. FILE REPORT well and good, but is there not some method by which we can insist that this Mr. LANDIS. 'The poultry producers Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, I ask information be furnished at once? Is of Indiana were asked to decrease their unanimous consent to have until mid­ there not something we can do to get production '25 percent over last year. night tonight to file a privileged report House action on same of these important They have done so. I suppose it is the from the Committee on Rules. problems? I think you. will agree with same in New England. The poultry pro­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is me that the curtailment of shipments ducers in Indiana and New England, of there objection to the request of the gen­ abroad is an important phase of this course, expect to get the food necessary tleman from, illinois? whole question. to maintain the 75 or 80 percent of their There was no objection. Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. Mr. ilocks remaining, because they have al­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Speaker, will the gentleman yield? ready made the reduction. the previous order of the House the gen­ Mr. MERROW. I yield to the gentle­ Mr. MERROW. But in addition to the tleman from Minnesota [Mr. ·AUGUST H. man from Wisconsin. · poultry situation in New England the ANDRESEN] is recognized for 30 minutes. 1946 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7117 FOOD AND FEED CRISIS IN THE UNITED peace, we will go" the limit to show our I can contribute to what they have al­ STATES friendship. ready sa-id. Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. Mr. PHILLIPS. Mr. Sp8aker, will the The failure of administration officials Speaker, I merely wish to make a few ob-· gentleman yield? to make plans immediately after last servations on the food situation for the Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I yield year's abundant harvest to cover food benefit of those who are present. The to the gentleman from California. and feed requirements and commitments facts are that there are bread lines, meat Mr. PHILLIPS. May I ask the gentle- for domestic and foreign consumption, lines, butter lines, and other food lines . man if it is not a fact that these plants coupled with the devastating and uneco­ forming throughout the whole United and industries manufacturing tractors nomic scarcity policy of Economic Sta­ States. Napoleon said that an army and farm equipment have been on strike bilizer Chester Bowles, is now bringing travels on its stomach. That great soul­ since last fall? the country face . to face with the most searching thinker Henry Wallace cor­ Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Yes. serious food crisis in history. It was not rectly said: "Food will win the war and The main plants in this country have until the middle of January that the write the peace." been on strike since last fall, and in those Department of Agriculture recognized the This slogan is true and correct in every plants the employees are not striking for impending shortage of food and grains. respect, but has the administration ade­ higher wages; they are striking for a Drastic action was taken to curtail do­ quately provided for the production of closed shop and other things that have mestic consumption of wheat, corn, and food? nothing to do with wages. Yet the ad­ feed grains, in order to fill commitments The administration paid no particular ministration is not doing anything about made by the President at Potsdam to attention to the production of food but it. provide food for several hundred million trusted to the patriotism of the farmers Mr. PHILLIPS. And at a time when starving people in Europe, the Balkans, of ,America that they would do their job, the production of food is vital? and the Far East. as they did, and provide the necessary Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Yes, The Department of Agriculture is re­ food for our armed forces and for our al­ and unless something is done to provide sponsible for food planning and produc­ lies and to take care of the needs at home. the farmers with farm machinery so that tion. Careful planning last fall, after The war has been won. Now we come they can produce the essential foodstuffs our farmers had produced one of the to the matter of writing the peace and we may have a famine in the United largest crops in the Nation's history, we suddenly find that the slogan of our States within 9 months. could have avoided the serious food and . distinguished former Secretary of Agri­ Mr. LANDIS. Mr. Speak~r. will the feed situation which realistically con­ culture and Vice President that food will gentleman yield? fronts us today. I am convinced that the win the war and write the peace is ac­ Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESE;N. I yield failure to make necessary plans last fall tually true. But what is the administra­ to the gentleman from Indiana: for proper utilization of grain supplies tion· doing to help promote the program Mr. LANDIS. In our neighboring was due to the fact that the President to produce the food that will win the States, Virginia and Maryland, I under­ and the State Department neglected to peace or stop the world from being taken stand there are wheat fields that have apprise the Secretary of Agriculture over by the Communists? Very little, be­ not been cut and hay fields that have not until after January 15, 1946, of the food cause we find that the administration been cut. How are we going to get the commitments which had been made by fails to recognize that it takes expe­ labor to reap the crops that have been them to take care of the needs of starving rienced manpower and adequate ma­ sown? Can the gentleman inform us? people in the world. chinery and proper incentive for the Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I can Prior to January 15, 1946, the British, farmers of the country to produce the give the gentleman one suggestion. We French, Dutch, and every other country food to feed the starving millions; yes, have approximately 3,000,000 people on in the world, purchased millions of tons hundreds of millions, in other countries the Federal pay roll. Let us declare a of wheat, flour, corn, and other food of the world and at the same time take 30-day or 60-day holiday and send those products with dollars borrowed from the care of our own domestic needs. 3,000,000 people out on the farms of United States Export-Import Barik. 'Ve find some of the leading farm ma­ America so that they can help produce Since VJ-day the Export-Import Bank chinery manufacturing companies in this the food to feed the people of the United has made foreign loans in an amount of country with their plants on strike and States and the world. I would like to $3,467,500,000, a good portion of which we also find, as I understood a few days join them, although I do not know that was spent in the United States for the ago, that an order is in the making by the I could take i_t very long and I do not purchase of food. Records of the Bank administration to set aside and require think they could take this kind of hard disclose the following loans were made the shipment of 7¥2 percent of all tractors work very long either, because most of · since VJ-day: France, $1,912,500,000; made in the United States t.o Russia. them have no realization of the hard Great Britain, $650,000,000; Netherlands, That order has been kept a secret, but work and the toil and the long hours $300,000,000; Russia, $280,000,000; Bel­ one of the big manufacturers told me that go into the production of food. gium, $100,000,000; Norway, $50,000,000; that such an order is in the making by Most of them think that they can turn Finland, $50,000,000; Greece, $35,000,000; the Civilian Production Agency, requir­ on a spigot and get milk. Italy, $25,000,000; and many others in ing them to set aside 7¥2 percent of all I will tell you another thing that the varying·amounts. the tractors ;.Jroduced in the United administration can do. At the present I know as a matter of fact that every States for shipment to Russia. time they are taking essential farm work­ flour mill in the country was besieged Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, will the ers from the farms of America and in­ with orders for flour from the British and .gentleman yield? ducting them into the military service other countries, and cash was paid on Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I yield during peacetime. The farmers are not the barrel head. All of the food acquired to the gentleman from Ohio. able to secure replacement labor because . by foreign interests was purchased at the Mr. JENKINS. We all recognize that of unemployment benefits paid which are OPA ceiling price, and we have authentic the gentleman now addressing the House larger than the farmers can pay under information to the effect that the foreign is one of the greatest authorities on ag­ existing price levels. If the people want buyers of our food sold it to their own ricultural matters in the country. I food, then the administration should people or in other countries at prices would like to ask him whether in his adopt a policy to retain essential farm which realized tremendous profits for the studies of this question he has found any workers on the farms. Our farmers sellers in dealing with hungry people, or good reason why we should send tractors who have become worn out after 4 or 5 with those who had money to buy. to Russia at this time? years from hard work are getting dis­ I am satisfied that the American peo­ Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I have couraged and disgusted and confused. ple are not generally aware of the fact yet to find one single reason for sending That is what is happening over here in that a large percentage of the food which anything to Russia at the present time, Maryland and in every other part of the is being sent out of this country is being because Russia has an iron curtain United States. But let me discuss for a resold at fancy black-market prices -to around its area and fails to cooperate moment the general food picture which people in other countries. I have often in international affairs. If Russia sin­ the other two gentlemen have covered wondered if the. hungry people· who. have cerely desires to cooperate for world so well. I think I have something that no money actually secure any material 7118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 amount of this food. We are a charitable traction fiour, and much more was lost If present unsound restrictions and people and stand ready to make great when the Government refused, until a discriminations in price policies are con­ sacrifices to help our destitute neighbors, few days ago, to sell or loan wheat to tinued, shortages in pork, lard, poultry, but we harden when we learn of some of mills for grinding into flour. eggs, turkeys, and dairy products will the things that are taking place. For in­ When the administration ceased its have their telling effect upon the Ameri­ stance, Russia took all of the grain out of black-market purchases of wheat and can diet within the next 9 months. Poland after last year's harvest, and we corn, the OPA increased the ceiling price Wheat for flour and bread will also be­ are called upon to provide food for Po­ on corn by 25 cents per bushel, and also come critical unless a large spring wheat land. We do this gladly, but we wonder materially increased the ceEing price on crop is produced, and no one can predict, how much of our grains and food are left other feeds, without making any com­ at this date, what the wheat or corn har­ for the starving Poles. Britain takes pensatory increase in the ceiling price of vest will be. To correct the discrimina­ credit for American food shipped to beef, hogs, poultry, and dairy products. tion which now threatens livestock and Greece, Italy, and other countries. Un­ Of course dairy products were increased poultry production, I desire to make the doubtedly, the distribution of food to just yesterday, as you know. This pol­ following suggestions: hungry people has now bepome a matter icy throws feeding ratios out of balance First. An immediate adjustment in the of international power politics. and under it farmers will lose money price of hog, cattle, and poultry prod­ During the past 12 months, approxi­ when forced to pay the higher prices for ucts to compensate for the increase in mately 400 ,000,000 bushels of American corn and other feeds. the price of corn and· other feeds. This wheat and corn have been exported to fill At least 7,000,000 little pigs farrowed must be done to encourage production. foreign commitments. Failure in plan­ in the spring of 1946 on American farms Second. The cancellation of the SO­ ning last 'fall to meet export require­ will never reach maturity for human percent extraction order to save wheat ments of grains brought about the consumption because Economic Stabi­ and flour and provide at least 1,400 ,000 initiation of many uneconomic and un­ lizer Chester Bowles and the OPA failed tons of millfeed in the next 12 months sound volicies by the Administration, to adjust hog prices in line with newly for domestic use. This is the plan under which will seriously reduce the Nation's established grain and feed ceilings. This which Canada operates. food supply for many months to come. manipulation of feed prices on the part Third. Permit flour mills in the United Bread lines are already forming in most of the administration was a deliberately States to operate full time, as they do parts of the country. Flour mills are conceived plan to force large liquidation in Canada, in the production of :flour for unable to buy wheat, because the of hogs, cattle, f.. nd poultry in this coun­ domestic and foreign consumption, Government purchased all available try. Beca·J.se , of this unsound and de­ thereby providing work for Americans wheat--1945 crop--from farmers at a structive policy we approach the coming employed in our flour mills. black-market price of 30 cents per bushel winter with greatly reduced supplies of Fourth. Stop Government black-mar­ above the legal OPA ceiling price. The pork, poultry, eggs, turkeys, and dairy ket operations in grain or any other Government would not let our flour mills products. Turkey, poultry, and egg pro­ commodity. Administration officials grind flour for export, and, consequently, duction will be cut by more than 15 should not be permitted to corner the thousands of mill and bakery employees percent because producers cannot buy supplies of grain or any other commod­ have been thrown out of work. On the feed at any price. The production of ity, for which acts private individuals other hand, the Canadian mills are dairy products will be reduced by more are sent to the penitentiary. running full time in the production of than 10 percent for 1946 as compared Fifth. Encourage full production of flour for both domestic and foreign con­ with 1945. grains, food, and civilian goods, includ­ sumption. Canadian mills are produc­ I trust that you will appreciate by this ing farm machinery, under which meth­ ing their customary white flour, while time what I meant when I referred to od price controls can and should be re­ mills in this country were forced to the scarcity policy of Chester Bowles and moved. This is .the -only known system change from 72 percent extraction white his policy-making associates. The Eco­ whereby inflation can be prevented. fiour to 80 percent dark flour, which type nomic Stabilizer is determined to create Sixth. Last, but not least, the future of fiour do-es not keep as well in warm a scarcity of vital food, so that he can solvency of our country demands cut­ weather. remain in power to control the lives and ting Government spending to the bone; Mr. PHILLIPS. Mr. Speaker, will the business of every citizen. Forcing the the reduction of Government personnel gentleman yield? liquidation of livestock and poultry mean to peacetime requirements, which in­ Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I Yield nothing to him, but it does to consumers. cludes- the elimination of the bureauc­ to the gentleman from California. I wonder if the people have forgotten racy that now seeks to restrict or destroy Mr. PHILLIPS. Would it not be a what took place in the early thirties, American freedom. We must keep our good idea to insert immediately following when Henry Wallace was Secretary of country strong in its economy, if we are that statement-and I think the gentle­ Agriculture. He conceived the policy to take the leading role in the council man is doing a service to the whole which brought about the killing of 7,000,- of nations. country to put this in-just how much· 000 little. pigs and nearly a million head Mr. LANDIS. Mr. Speaker, will the loss that meant in human-consumption of cattle. We are about ·to witness a gentleman :yield? food? repetition of such a policy, but instead Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I yield. Mr. AUGUST H. ANDFvESEN. I will of killing little pigs, administration Mr. LANDIS. With regard to the try to cover that, because I think I have . policies provide for slow starvation or wheat situation, last December the De­ that here. I can bring it in as to what premature marketing of the pigs, which partment here asked the farmers to be it meant in loss of millfeed for livestock. means less pork and lard. At the pres­ patriotic and sell their wheat at that When it comes to spoilage of flour, I am ent moment, millions of chickens and time. . Those who sold their wheat last satisfied it will run into thousands of turkeys are being killed on account of December lost about 48 cents a bushel as tons. . the m·an-made feed shortage. All of compared with those who sold their The Government also cornered the which is to the detriment of the Amer­ wheat in May. How much faith would market on corn by making purchases of ican people and skr ving millions in those farmers who sold their wheat last all available corn-35,001..,000. bushels­ other parts of the world, and could have December have in the Department down at a black-market price of 30 cents a been avoided by proper planning. here? bushel above the legal ceiling price es­ Congress is attempting to provide Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I am tablished by the OPA. The cornering of remedies in dealing with the problems I inclined to think that our farmers have the wheat and corn supplies by the Gov­ have discussed. Production and more lost considerable of their faith in the ernment has brought the wildest black­ production of grain and food products present administration. I believe you market operations in all other feed and the elimination of unsound bureau­ will find when this year's crop is har­ grains. Legitimate feed manufacturers, cratic control are the only solution. We vested that a good percentage of the dealers, and farmers are unable to secure must have the courage to do this job, in farmers will retain their wheat in their feed grains for· dairy and beef cattle, order to avoid permanent domination granaries rather than have it seized by hogs, and poultry. We have lost about over our economy by the pennywise dic­ the Government. 700,000 tons of millfeed during the last tators who feel they have been endowed Mr. J..ANDIS. In other words, if they 6 months because the Government re­ to direct the lives and pursuits of every do not take the ceiling offJeed, then there quired mills to produce SO-percent ex- citizen. should be something done to guarantee to _1946 • CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 7119 the farmers that they will get the same tion with the refusal of the ·administra;.. it to get rid of this controlled economy? price later on as they can get now, that tion to do anything about the May rye Is it to have less direction from Wash­ is, that they can get the same price all situation. They had to have something ington? the way through, for their friends to speculate in. So Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I made Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. They they did not put any ceiling on rye. I several suggestions in my remarks ear­ did that last year and up to April 3 they know of several prominent men who lier, but production and more production asked the farmers to surrender their purchased rye at 85 cents a bushel. They is necessary. However, we are past the wheat and sell it at prevailing prices and purchased millions of bushels of rye and planting stage. While some of the men told them that there would not be any sold it at nearly $3 a bushel, speculating down in the Department who make these increase in price. Many patriotic farm­ with the welfare of the American peo­ policies think they can control the laws ers did that. '!'hereafter, the adminis­ ple, under a policy initiated by the ad­ of nature, we recognize that we must fol­ tration came out and paid the black­ ministration itself making such manipu­ low the laws of nature when it comes to market price of 30 cents a bushel plus an lation possible. production, not only of grain but also of additional15 cents a bushel, which made Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. Is that livestock. some farmers who kept their wheat get not what has caused considerable confu­ The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. CAR~ 40 cents more than other farmers who sion in connection with this whole pro­ NAHAN). The time of the gentleman had sold their wheat. gram? from Minnesota has expired. Mr. LANDIS. But in order to see that Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. That is OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE they get the same payments in July, they true. It also forced a great demand for must have some kind of guaranty that other grains. But let me point out one Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. M·r. they will get the same price that anybody further item: When the Government Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to else is going to get in the future. cornered the market on corn and wheat ·proceed for 5 minutes. Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. The it also brought immediate pressure on all The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there gentleman is correct. other grains-a demand for other grains. objection to the request of the gentleman Mr. VURSELL. Mr. Speaker, will the For instance, some of th<:: big companies from Oklahoma? gentlem~n yield? engaged in producing oatmeal and other There was no objection. Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I yield. breakfast foods could not buy a bushel Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Mr. Mr. VURSELL. I compliment the gen­ of grain unless they went to the black Speaker, I rise at this time to express tleman for doing a great service in giv­ market to buy it. So these plants are my interest in the very important bill ing this talk on the floor of the House so closed down today, just as the flour mills to the many needy aged citizens of the that it Will go into the CONGRESSIONAL are closed down today. They are get:. country, a bill that has passed the Sen­ RECORD and perhaps filter out through the ting a little flour now under this so-called ate and will be messaged to the House press to the people of the country so that · lend-lease arrangement which must be from the Senate tomorrow. I refer to they may know that there are really able paid back. H. R. 5626, as amended by that body, men in Congress such as the gentleman Mr. PHILLIPS. Mr. Speaker, will the known as the McFarland amendment. from Minnesota who is telling them the gentleman yield? The original bill passed this House as truth in the hope that by having the truth Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I yield. I recall by unanimous vote, and I am through the Congress perhaps better con­ Mr. PHILLIPS. I think equally seri­ sure that if Members of this House are ditions may be brought about for the ous is the matter already spoken about given the opportunity to vote there will agriculture of the Nation. this afternoon which I would like to have be no real opposition to the amendment Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I thank the gentleman comment on, that is, the in question. The McFarland amend­ the gentleman for his statement. But I throwing of corn and rye and oats out of ment merely provides an increase of do not want to leave the impression here balance, threw hundreds of millions of $5 per month in Federal old-age assist­ today that I am not willing to make every bushels of wheat into the feeding of cat­ ance, without regard to any matching possible sacrifice to help feed the hungry tle, which otherwise would have gone on the part of the States. people of the world. I think it is our into food for people. Mr .. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Mr. Christian duty to do this. But I insist Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. No­ Speaker, will the gentleman yield? that when we are called upon and want body can say how much wheat was pur­ Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. I yield to do it we should initiate a policy in chased before they started with this to the gentleman from Minnesota. this country which would encourage all program, or how much flour. But I Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. Is that types of vital production and help the know that possibly $2,000,000,000 worth the bill that was reported by the Ways farmer of the United States tl secure was purchased. Certain individuals liv­ and ·Means Committee increasing the that production in every possible man­ ing in different countries in the world, amount $5? ner. Then we will be in a position to go like Great Britain, France, Belgium, Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. No; I ahead and make the proper plans and do Holland, Mexico, and other countries refer to an amendment that has been our part. were loaned that much money by the added to a bill by the United States I yield to the gentleman from Wiscon­ Export-Import Bank, and they bought Senate. Sotne of us are getting tired sin [Mr. MURRAY]. wheat and flour and other foods in the waiting for the Ways and Means Com­ Mr. MURRAY of Wisconsin. Does not open market. mittee to liberalize or, rather, recom­ the gentleman think the rye operations · Today we are shipping wheat and mend the liberalizing of the Social Se­ have added to the wheat confusion? other foods to South American countries. curity Act. I speak of the Senate added Rye, which is not worth as much for man That is outside the relief program. The amendment, offered by the junior Sen­ or beast as wheat, has had an open mar­ relief program contemplates shipping out ator from Arizona. As I stated a mo­ ket all during these years and has sold 400,000,000 bushels of wheat and corn ment ago, it proposes to increase by $5 for as high as $2.60 a bushel while the in the 12 months up to July 1 of this per month the benefit payments made farmer was asked to sell his wheat, with year. I would like to see the accurate to the aged people of the Nation as its superior food value, for $1.50 or $1.60 figures, to find out exactly how much the Federal Government's share in as­ a bushel. This has been allowed to hap­ feed and wheat and other grains were sistance to each State. It proposes in­ pen. All these bucket-shop operations shipped out of the United States, rather creased payments for dependent chil­ have been carried on in connection with than blaming all of the disappearance dren $3 per month for .each such child. rye. This was brought out a year ago on of wheat 'on the livestock and poultry in­ This bill would increase payments to the floor of the House by our colleague dustry of this country, because I do not the blind $5 per month each, also with­ from Wisconsin, Hon. FRANK KEEFE. The think they did consume it all. out matching. It contains the proviso rye speculations, however, were allowed Mr. SCHWABE of Missouri. Mr. that only those States that continue to to go on month after month and that has Speaker, will the gentleman yield? pay as much old-age assistance as they just added to the confusion of the whole Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I yield. did during the month of May of this year wheat picture. Is that not correct? Mr. SCHWABE of Missouri. Can the shall benefit by the extra $5 increase. In Mr. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. May I gentleman give us an over-all formula other words, a State could not lower its point out to the gentleman in connec- for a way out of this mess we are in? Is payment by $5 or any amount and at the 7120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 18 same time get the benefit of the Fed­ SENATE BmLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS 1946, and for otner purposes; to-the· Com­ eral increased payment. The extra $5 REFERRED mittee on Naval Affairs. S. 1922. An . act to revive arid reenact the per month to each aged person is, of Bills and joint resolutions of the Sen- act granting the consent of Congress to the course, not much; it is only a mere pit­ ~te ·of the following titles were taken state highway department of South Carolina tance, but it is something, and even such from the Speaker's table and, under the to construct, maintain,· and operate a fr_ee a small increase would be gratefully re­ rule, referred as follows: highway bridge across -the Santee River, at cetved. Furthermore, it is desperately or near Leneudes Ferry, S. C., approved Au­ needed. It has given many an aged per­ S. 76a. An act to provide for the leasing gust 18,.11)41; to the committee on Interstate of allotted lands on the Crow Indian Reser- and Foreign Commerce. son renewed hope since the publication vation; to the Committee on-Indian Affairs. S. 1965. An act for the relief of the estat e of the story that this amended bill passed s. 884. An act conferring jurisdiction upon of c. Benjamin stapleton; to the Committee the Senate by a ~animous vote. These the United States District Court for the on Claims. millions of aged people cannot come Middle District of North Carolina to hear, s. 1979. An act to eliminate the restric­ here, but they are looking to the Con­ determine, and render judgment upon cer- tion on the number of lots which may be ac­ gress to do something about it and I tain claims of the Patuxent Development quired by settlers in the town site of Wads­ . sincerely hope that there will be no Co., Inc.; to the Committee on Claims. worth, Nev.; to the committee on the Public s. 1074. An act designating American In- Lands. opposition and that this bill as amended · dian Day; to· the Committee on the Judiciary. s. 1984. An act authorizing the Indiana will become law and not be permitted to S. 1150. An act for the relief of John State Toll Bridge Commission to construct, die in a conference committee. ' Leberman; to the Committee of Claims. maintain, and operate a tot! bridge or a free Mr. SAVAGE. Mr. Speaker, will the S. 1161. An act authorizing the convey- bridge across the Wabash River near Mount gentleman yield? , ance of all right, title, and interest of the Vernon, Ind.; to the Committee on Inter­ Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. I shall United States in and to certain space in the state and Foreign CommerC'e. be glad to yield to the gentleman from . Jackson (Miss.) City Hall; to the Committee s . 1988. An act to authorize the Secretary Washington. on Public Buildings ancl. Grounds. of the Interior to quitclaim to the heirs of Mr. SAVAGE. Certainly the gentle­ S. 1198. An act to authorize the Secretary Jesus Gonzales all right, title, and interest man is correct when he says it is not of Commerce to sell certain property in the of the United States in a certain described State of Michigan now occupied by the· tract of" land within the Carson National very much; but I would like to state also Weather Bureau and to acquire land in the Forest, N. Mex.; to the C·1r· mittee on Public that it would mean a lot to people who State of Michigan for the erection of a Lands. _ are trying to live on anywhere from $10 Weather Bureau station; to the Committee s. 2018. An act to facilitate the decentrali- to $50 a month. $5 would mean a lot on Agriculture. .- zation of the Veterans' Administration; to to them. S. 1235. An act to authorize the use of tq.e the committee on World War Veterans' Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Yes, I . funds of any tribe of Indians for insurance Legislation. agree wholeheartedly with the gentle­ premiums; to the Committee on Indian s. 2041. An act to amend the act of May man. Let me add that this little bill, Affairs. 28, 1896, as amended, relating to the ap- S. 123(3. An act to amend the Mineral Leas- pointment of assistant United States attor­ if passed, will bring cheer to a lot of ing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, in neys; to the Committee on the Judiciary. worthy and deserving citizens and has order to promote the development of oil and s. 2061. An act to provide for sundry mat­ real merit. In fact, it is much more ~as on the public domain, and for other ters affecting the armed forces, and for other meritorious than the so-called Congres­ purposes; to the Committee on the Public . purposes; to the Committ ee on Military sional streamlining bill which in its pres­ · Lands. Affairs. ent form is a misnomer. It is worse S.1517. An act for the relief of Lofts & s. 2099. An act to autt.orize the Adminis- than that, it is a monstrosity sailing un­ Son; to the Committee on Claims. · trator of Veterans' Affair!i .to accept gifts, der false colors. It is scheduled to be S. 1547. An act to provide for the disposi- devises, and bequest.. in behalf of the gen­ tian of vessels, trophies, relics, and material eral post fund for the use of veterans and brought in here within a few days for of historical interest by the Secretary of the for the sale and conveyance of any such prop­ House approval. It is going to be a real Navy, and for other purposes; to the Com- erty under certain circumstances and the streamliner. It will streamline the mittee on Naval Affairs. covering of the proceeds t hereof into the post pockets of Congressmen and Senators S. 1564. An act authorizing the issuance of fund, and for other purposes; to the Com­ to the tune of 50 percent of our .salaries a patent in fee to Shadrick Ponca; to the mittee on World War Veterans' Legislation. while at the same time most of the Committee on the Public Lands. s . 2100. An act to remove the limitations Government workers got an increase of S. 1566. An act authorizing the issuance on the amount of death compensation or 14 percent, and give us an additional of a patent in fee to Wilma Brandon Irving; pension payable to widows and children or $8,000 assistant Congressman. That is to the Committee on the Public Lands. certain deceased veterans; to the Committee S. 1578. An act to clarify the terms "com- on World War Veterans' Legislation. not all. It will be a camouflage pension­ pensation" and "pension" under laws admin- S. 2Hi7. An act for the reliei of certain for-Congressmen bill, despite the fact istered by the Veterans' Administration; to postal employees; to the Committee on that this House recently defeated such . the Committee on World War Veterans' Legis- Claims. a bill by an overwhelming vote. lation. · S. 2142 . An act to provide for two heads of This bill for the aged, though as I said, s . 1640. An act to provide for the acquis_!- departments of military science and tactics a mere pittance, is one that this Congress tion by the United States of certain real in the public schools of the Dist.rict of Co­ should pass without a dissenting vote. property in the District of Columbia; to the lumbia; to the Committee on the District Committee on Military Affairs. of Columbia. It will tie of some help to all the aged s. 1672. An act to authorize the transfer S. 2204. An act to amend title II of the of the nation, whereas the so-called to the Department of the Interior of surplps Social Security Act, as amended, by giving highly advertised congressional stream­ lands, improvements, equipment, and other insurance benefits under the Federal old- line bill as it passed the Senate turns . property of Federal agencies on reclamation age and survivors insurance provisions of out to be a measure primarily for the projeGts for the settlement and employment that act· to survivors of veterans of World purpose of merely streamlining the of veterans and for other purposes; to the War il, and for other purposes; to the Com­ pockets of Members of Congress. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive mittee on Ways and Means. Mr. SAVAGE. Mr. Speaker, will the Departments. S. 2210. An act to provide for the return gentleman yield further? S. 1695. An act authorizing the issuance of certain securities to the Philippine Com­ of a patent in fee to Louis Runs Above; to monwealth Government; to the Committee Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Yes; I the Committee on the Public Lands. on Insular Affairs. yield again. S. 1893. An act to amend the act incorpo- - S. 2223. An act to establish and effectuate Mr. SAVAGE. I think also that the rating the American Legion so as to redefine a policy with respect to the creation or char­ States will very likely themselves add $5 eligibility for membership therein; to the tering of certain corporations by act of Con­ which will probably mean that $10 will Committee on the Judiciary. gress, and for other purposes; to the Commit- go to the aged instead of $5. Is not that S. 1915. An act ~o provide for designation tee on the Judiciary. . right? of the United States Veterans' Administra- S. 2235. An act to provide a system of re­ Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Some tion hospital at Fargo, N. Dak., as the Clar- lief for veterans, and dependents of veterans, ence Theodore Hoverson Memorjal Hospital; who served durin~ World War II in the organ- States no doubt would do so. l would . to . the Committee on' World War Veterans' lzed military forces of the government of wish for it' to turn out that way. But Legislation. - the Commonwealth of the Philippines while even that is a very small amount consid­ S. 1917. An act to enact certain provisions such forces were in the service of the armed ering the increased cost of living. now included in the Naval Appropriation Act, forces of the United States pursuant to the 1946 -CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE .7121' military order of J'uly 26, 1941, of. the Presi­ H: R. 3391. An act for the relief· of Law­ · H. R . 5091. An act for the relief of Mrs. dent of the United States, and for other pur­ rence Portland Cement Co.; -Mary A. Honnell; poses; td the Committee on World War Vetl. H. R. 3399. An act for the· relief of Phili­ · H. R. 5149. An act to govern the ·effective erans' Legislation. .bert ·L. ·Bergeron, Alfred Quist, and Astrid ·dates of .ratings .and ~war~s under the Vet.­ S. 2246. An act to authorize the Secretary Quist; _erans' Administration revised Schedule tor of the Navy to acquire in fee or otherwise H. R. 3401. An act for the relief of Mrs. Rating Disabilities, 1945, .and for other pur::- certain lands and .rights in land on the Hattie Main Babcock, Chester N. Main, and poses; . Island of Guam, and for other purposes; to .Mr. and Mrs. Earl Norman; H. R. 5187. An act granting the consent of the Committee on Naval Affairs. H. R. 344'1. An act to provide for the nat­ 'Congress to the Norfolk /!L Western Railway S. 2247. An act to permit the Secretary of uralization of Master Sgt. Gerhard Neumann; Co. to construct, maintain, and operate a th Navy to delegate the authority to com­ · H. R. 3494. An act for the relief of the J. B. _bridge across New River near Radford, Mont:.. promise and settle claims against the United McCrary co., Inc., an'd for other purposes; gomery County, Va.; . States caused by vessels of the Navy or in the .' H. R , 527L An act to amend an act entitled · H. R. 3512. An act for the relief of Willie "An. act to allow credit in connection with naval service, or for towage or salvage services Lam and Edgar Lam; to such vessels, and for other purposes; to ·certain homestead entries for military or na­ · H. R. 3611. An act to authorize the con:. .val service rendere<;l during World. War II"; · the Committee on Naval Affairs. demnation of materials which are intended S. 2264. An act to amend the act providing H. R. 5317. An act to amend. the act estab,. for use in process or renovated butter and lishing the Hot Springs National Park; · for the appointment of court reporters; to the which are unfit for human consumption, Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 5357. An act granting the consent .of and for other purposes; · Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsyl­ S. 2291. An act to authorize the Secretary H. R. 3622. An act for the relief of Mrs. of the Navy to transfer a vessel to the Ameri­ vania to ·construct, maintain, and operate a liazel M. Skaggs; free highway bridge across the Monongahela can Antarctic As!'ociation, Inc.; to the Com'­ H. R. 3665. An act- for the relief of the mittee on Naval Affairs. River, at a point between the boroughs of legal guardian of William Needom Rashal, Elizabeth, in Elizabeth Township, and West S. 2292. An act for the relief of the Miami a minor; Herald, the Key West Citizen, and the Miami Elizabeth, in Jeff~rson Township, in the H. R. 3843. An act to provide for the dis~­ Daily News; to the Committee on Claims. 'county of Allegheny, and in the Common~ ·position of tribal funds of the Confederated wealth of Pennsylvania; S. J. Res. 154. Joint resolution to establish 'Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Indians of the the Andrew Johnson Memorial Commission . H. R. 5387. An act gran~ing ' the consent of ·Flathead Reservation in Montana; ·congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsyl­ to formulate· plans for the preservation of H. R. 3959. An act to provide for the burial · the birthplace, at Raleigh, N. C., of Andt;ew vania· to construct, maintain, and operate a -in the Memorial Amphitheater of the Na:­ _free highway bridge across the Monongahela Johnson, seventeenth Presidept of the United tional Cemetery at Arlington, Va., of the re­ States; to the Committee on the Library. 'River between the borough of Belle Vernon, mains of an unknown American who lost his Fayette County. Pa., and t}:le borough of S. J. Res. 160. Joint resolution to amend :life while serving overseas in the armed forces Speers, Washington County, Pa.; the act of March 22, 1946, for the purpose of ·of the United States during the Second World H. R. 5413. An act to accept the renuncia­ correcting the description Qf the small par­ ~ar; · ·uon by Albert W. Johnson of pension under cel of land authorized to be conveyed to the · H. R. 3966. An act authorizing the Se'cretary section ·260 of the Judicial Code; State ot Wyoming by such act; to the Com­ of the Interior to convey certain lands situ­ H. R. 5453. An act to authorize certain ex­ mittee on the Public Land::;. ·ated in Clark County, Nev., to the Boulder penditures by the Alaska Railroad, and for ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLU­ rCity Cemetery Association fo! cemetery pur:. other purposes; TIONS SIGNED. poses;_ H. R . 5674. An act to amend the laws au­ · H. R. 4046 An act authorizing the issuance thorizing the performance of necessary pro­ Mr. ROGERS of New York, from the of a patent in fee to Richard S. Fisher; tection work between the Yuma project and Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported H. R. 4113. An act to authorize and · direct Boulder nam by the Bureau of Reclamation; that that ..:ommittee had examined and the Secretary of the Interior t~ iss.ue a patent H. R: 5676. 'An act to quiet title and pos­ found truly. enrolled bills and joint reso.:. for certain land to Mrs. Estelle M. Wilbourn; session with respect to certain real estate in Iutions of the House of the following H. R. 4118. An act for the relief of Axel H. Converse County, Wyo.; 'Peterson; H. R .5744. An act to incorporate the Civil titles, which were thereupon signed by H. R . 4245. An act for the relief of Jose Air Patrol; the Speaker: . Villafane Munoz; H. R. 5796. An act to amend title II of the H. R. 233. An act for the relief of Hamsah · H. R. 4251. An act for the relief of the 'es­ act entitled "An act to expedite the provision Omu; · tate of the late Francisca Sanchez Figueroa; of pousing in connection with national de:. H. R. 797. An act for the relief of William W. H. R. 4331. An act for the relief of Esequiel _fense, and for other purposes," approved Willett, Jr.; ·(Frank) Padilla, and ethers; October 14, 1940, as amended, to permit the H. R. 1095. An act for the relief of the ,. H. R . 4339. An act for the relief of Fannie ·making of contributions, during the fiscal Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation in C. Fugate; year ending June 30, 1947, for the mainte:. North Dakota; _,,. . H. R. 4353. An act for the relief of Amy nance and operation of certain school facili­ H. R: 1258. An P.ct for the relief of Cecil Mary Richter; ties, and for other purposes; Atk-inson; H. R. 4373 . An act for the relief of Carl and H. R. 5811. An act for the relief of the legal ~- R. 1460. An act for the relief of D. C. Naomi Fitzwater; guaz:.dian of ~vid Owens, Jr.; Todd; · H. R. 4433. An act to provide· for the con':' . H. R. 5896. An act to extend the term of H. R. 1689. An act author~ing the Secretary ,veyance to the State of Alabama for use as ~ ,design patent No. 21,053, -dated September 22, of the Interior to purchase improvements or .public park of the military re~;ervation known J891, for a badge to George Brown Goode, and pay damages for removal of improvements ,as FE>rt Morgan~ . . assigned to the National Society, Daughters located on public lands of the United States , H. R. 4479. An act for the. relief of William ·of the 'American Revolution; in the And.Jrson Ranch Reservoir site, Boise E . Robertson;and Estelle Robertson; ·. H. R. 5907. An act to authorize the Admin­ reclamation project, Idaho; ~ - H.&. 4495. An act for the relief of William lstrator of Veterans' Affairs to grant an ease­ H. R. 2677. An act to authorize the Federal H. Roman; . · · ment for highway purposes to the Common­ Works Administrator to accept and dispose · H. R. 4525. An act for the relief of Oran wea'lth of Pennsylvania, in certain lands in of real estate devised to the United· States Edmund Randall Rumrill; the reservation of the Veterans' Administra­ by the late Maggie Johnson, o(Pol}t Country, H. R. 4600. An act for the relief of the es­ tion hospital, Lebanon County, Pa., and for Ark., and for other purposes; tate of Patsy Ann Maheux, deceased; other purposes; H. R. 2678. An act conferring jurisdiction H. R. 4654. An act to exempt transfers of H. R. 6069. An act to amend section 100-of upon the Court of Claims to hear, examine, property to the American National Red Cross the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; adjudicate, and render judgment in any and from the District of Columbia inheritance H. R. 6070. An act to amend section 4 of all claims which the Confederated Salish and tax; the act of August 25, 1937, so as to provide Kootenai Tribes of Indians on the Flathead H. R . 4693. An act -for the relief of Richard a filing procedure in cases of adoption out­ Reservation in Montana, or any tribe or band c . .ward; side the District of Columbia, and for other thereof, may have against the United States, H. R. 4863. An act to establish the date of purposes; and for other purposes; acceptance of a commission as lieutenant H. R . 6153. An act to remove the existing H. R. 2772. An act . for the ·relief of Juan .(junior grade), United States Naval Reserve, -limitation on the number of associate mem­ Calcafio; bf William Leon· de Carbone!· to. be June 1, bers of the Board of Veterans' Appeals in · H. R. 2785. An ·act for the relief of Will 1941, and the date of reporting for active duty the Veterans' Administration; O'Brien, Mrs. Bessie O'Brien, and the legal to be December 9, 1~41, and for. other pur- H. J . Res. 304. Joint resolution authorizing guardian of Jane O'Brien; the President of the United States of America H. R. 3031. An act for the relief of Walter po;s~- 4888. An act for the relief of Gustav to proclaim October 11 , 1946, General Pu~ A . .Moffatt; F. Doscher; Iaski's Memorial Day for the observance anZ1 ·H. R. 3359. An act ·for the relief of Mrs. H. R. 5000. An act for the relief of Marion commemoration of the death of Brig. G Em~ Mary Belk; Powell, a minor; Casimir Pulaski; and :XCII-449 7122 CONGR·ESSIONAL ~ RECORD""7HOUSE JUNE 18 H. J. Res. 327. Joint resolution to permit 140LA letter from .the Chairman, NatlonaL By Mr. FOGARTY.: articles impo:Fted from foreign countries for Labor RelationS:.Board, transmltt.l.ngjihe ~ten:th - H. ·R. 6812. A bill to amend section 300. and _ the purpose of exhibition at the Inter-Amer­ annual report of the National Labor Rela­ section 301 of the Servicemen's Readjust­ ican Trade Exposition, Fort Worth, Tex., to tions Board for the yea1: ended June 30, ment Act of 1944 by extending the jurisdic­ be admitted without payment of tariff, and . 1945; to the Committee on Labor. tion of boards of review to include discharges for other purposes. 1402. A letter fi.·om the Acting Secretary of or dismissals by reason of the sentences of the Interior, transmitting a draft of a pro­ general courts martial, and for other pur­ The SPEAKER announced his signa­ posed bill for the relief of Edgar F. Russell, poses; to the Committee on World War Vet­ ture to enrolled bills of the Senate of the Lillian V. Russell, his wife, and Bessie R. erans' Legislation. following ti_tles: Ward; to the Comqlittee on Claims. By Mr. PETERSON of Florida: S. 943. An act granting the consent of Con­ 1403. A letter from the Administrator, War H. R. 6813. A bill to amend section 107 of gress to the State of Washington to construct, Assets Administration, transmitting a sec­ title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June maintain, and operate a free highway bridge ond supplementary report with respect to 19, 1934; to the Committee on the Merchant across the Columbia R)ver at Northport, Government-owned synthetic-rubber plants Marine and Fisheries. Wash.; and facilities; to the Committee on Expendi­ H. R. 6814. A bill to amend the third para­ S. 1043. An act to set aside certain lands tures in the Executive Departments. graph of section 92 of title 2 of the Canal in Oklahoma in trust for the Indians of the Zone Code, approved June 29, 1934; to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reser­ Committee on the Merchant Marine and vation; REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC Fisheries. S. 1273. An act to provide for the acquisi­ _) BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS By Mr. PHILLIPS: H. R. 6815. A bill to amend the Criminal tion by exchange of non-Federal property Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of within the Glacier National Park; Code of the United States; to the Committee S. 1288. An act to authorize the course of committees were delivered to the Clerk on the Judiciary. instruction at the United States Military for printing and reference to the proper By Mr. SHEPPARD: Academy to be given to not exceeding ZO calendar, as follows: H. R. 6816. A bill to authorize the Secre­ persons at a time from the American Re­ Mr. ROBINSON of Utah: Committee on In­ tary of the Interior to grant to the State of publics, other than the United States; sular Affairs. H. R. 6801. A bill to provide for California for State highway purposes, a tract S. 1336. An act to transfer certain real and the retention by the United States Govern­ of land situated in San Bernardino County, personal property in Ward County, N. Dak., ment or its agencies or instrumentalities of Calif.; to the Committee on the Public Lands. to the State of North Dakota acting by and real and personal property within the Philip­ By Mr. MAY (by request) : H. R. 6817. A bill to provide for the ap­ through t hP Industrial Commission of North pines now owned or later acquired and for the Dakota; administration of the Trading With the pointment of additional commissioned offi­ S. 1834. An act granting the consent of Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, in cers in the Regular Army, and for other pur­ Congress to the State of Iowa or the Iowa the Philippines, subsequent to independence; poses; to the Committee on Military Affairs. State Highway Commission to construct, with amendment (Rept. No. 2296) . Referred By Mr. JACKSON: maintain, and operate a free highway bridge to the Committee of the Whole House on H. R. 6818. A bill authorizing a per capita across the Des Moines River at or near Farm:. the State of the Union. payment of $100 each to the Colville Indians ington, Iowa; of the State of Washington; to the Committee Mr. POBINSON of Utah: Committee on In­ on Indian Aliairs. S. 1857. An act to authorize the availa­ sular Affairs. H. R. 6802. A bill to amend the bility for certain administrative expenses of Philippine Rehabilitr.tion Act of 1946, for the appropriations for the Department of the purpose of making a clerical correction; with­ PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Interior; and out amendment (Rept. No. 2297). Referred S. 1963. An act to authorize additional to the Committee of the Whole House on the . Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private permanent professors of the United States State of the Union. bills and resolutions were introduced and Military Academy. Mr. SABATH: Committee on Rules. House severally referred as follows: ADJOURNMENT Resolution 669. Resolution providing for the By Mr. CANNON of Florida: consideration of H. R. 4982, a bill to enable H. R. 6819. A bill for the relief of Samuel A. Mr. SAVA,GE. Mr. Speaker, I move the Department of State more effectively to Rosborough; to the Committee on Claims. that the House do now adjourn. carry out Its responsibility in the foreign By Mr. Case of South Dakota: The motion was agreed to; accord­ field by means of (a) public dissemination H. R. 6820. A 'bill for the relief of J. P. ingly (at 5 o'clock and 3 minutes p. m.) abroad of information about the United Siebenel.cher; to the Usiness structing, improving, extending, better­ months by the Commissioner of Immigra­ council, Fort Berthold Indian Corp., petition­ ing, repairing, equipping, or acquiring tion and Naturalization Service under the ing consideration of their resolution with public works of a permanent character, authority vested in the Attorney , General, reference to the building of a dam on the and to provide for the payment thereof, together with a statement of the reasons for Missouri River; to the Committee on Rivers and for other purposes, .in which it such suspension (with an accompanying and Harbors. report); to the Committee on Immigration. requested the co~currence of the Senate. 2008. Also, petition of Bronx Zionist region EDGAR F. RUSSELL ET AL. of the Zionist Organization of America, pe­ ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED titioning consideration of their resolution A letter from the Acting Secretary of the with reference to tne admittance of Jewish The message also announced that the Interior, transmitting a draft of proposed Speaker had affixed his signature to the legislation for the relief of Edgar F. Rus­ refugees to Palestine; to the Committee on sell, Lillian V. Russell, his wife, and Bessie Foreign ~airs. following enrolled bills, and they were 2009. Also, petition of Omaha Zionist R. Ward (with accompanying papers); to signed by-the President pro tempore: the Committee on Claims. Emergency Council, petitioning considera­ S. 1460. An act to tiA the salary of the tion of their resolution with reference to Solicitor of the Department of the Interior; ESTABLISHMENT OF VETERANS' CANTEEN SERVICE admission of 100,000. European Jews to Pal­ and IN VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION estine; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. S. 1523. An act to modify the 'time limita­ A letter from the Administrator of the 2010. Also, petition of the Pennsylvania tions governing the award of certain mili­ Veterans' Administration, transmitting a Federation of Democratic Women, Inc., pe­ tary and naval decorations for acts performed draft of proposed legislatior> to establish and titioning con.sidetation of their · resolution during the present war. provide !or the maintenance and operation with reference to endorsement of Senate bill of a veterans' canteen service in the Vet­ 1717: to the .Oommittee on Military Affairs. OMNIBUS FLOOD-CONTROL BILL OF 1946- erans' Administration, and for other pur­ 2011. Also, petition of the Pennsylvania ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS poses· (with accompanying papers): to the Federation of Democratic Women, Inc., pe­ Committee on Finance. titioning ·consideration of their resolution Mr. O_VERTON. Mr. President, I wish with reference to endorsement of Senate bill to give notice that beginning Monday, . DEVELOPMENT OF PARK AND PLAYGROUND SYS­ 1592; to the Committee qn Banking and June 24, 1946, at 10:30 a. m., hearings TEM OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Currency. will be conducted. by the full Committee A letter !rom the Chairman of the Na­ on Commerce in· the .committee room of tional Capital Park and Planning Commis­ the Committee on Commerce, northwest sion, transmitting a draft of proposed legis­ corner of the Capitol Building, with re­ lation to amend the act approved June 6, 1924, entitled "An act providing for a com­ · SENATE spect to H. R. 6597, being a bill authoriz­ prehensive development of ·the park and ing the construction of certain public playground system of the National Capital," WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19_, 1946 works on rivers and harbors for flood as amended (with an accompanying pa­ control, the omnibus flood-control bill of per); to the Committee on the District of (Legislative day of Tuesday, March 5, 1946. The hearings will continue prob­ 1946) Columbia. ably 2 days. In addition to the projects DISPOSITION OF EXECUTIVE PAPERS The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, contained in the House bill, the follow­ A letter from the Archivist of the United on the expiration of the recess. ing new projects are specifically sched­ States, transmitting, pursuant to law, a list The Chaplain, . Rev. Frederick Brown uled for hearings in the order named: of papers and documents on the .files of sev­ Harris, D. D., offered the following First. Yadkin-Pee Dee, N.C. eral departments and agencies of the Gov­ prayer: Second. Cardens Bottom, Ark. ernment which are not needed in the con­ Third. Polecat Creek, Okla. duct of business and have no permanent Eternal God, who committest to us the Fourth. Boise River, Idaho. value or historical interest, and requesting solemn trust of life, so swiftly pass the Fifth. Queen Creek, Ariz. action looking to their disposition (with ac­ hours of our sojourn in this narrow space Sixth. Tucson, Ariz. companying papers); to the Joint Select of time that our day mounts to noon and Where there is no opposition to any Committee on tlie DU;position of Papers in the signs of evening tinting the western project contained in the House bill, no the Executive Departments. sky warn that the night cometh ere ·testimony will be received by the Senate The PRESIDENT pro tempore ap­ our work is planned. Forgive us for Committee on Commerce. The members pointed Mr. BARKLEY and Mr. BREWSTER squandering on trivial concerns the of the press are requested to give notice members of the committee on the part fabulous riches of golden hours. Be­ of these hearings. of the Senate. cause so much of our' span is gone and so little left., may we redeem the residue LEAVE OF ABSENCE PETITIONS by intensity of living, realizing in this Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, it will Petitions were laid before the Senate new day's toii the presence of eternity. be necessary for me to be absent from and referred as indicated: May the sun of Thy glory break through the Senate until next Monday, and I ask By the PRESIDENT pro tempore: clouds that hide our earth-filled eyes unanimous consent that I may be ex­ The petition of Sirdar J. J. Singh, presi:. from Thee. So "at noonday, in the cused. dent, India League of America, of New York, bustle of man's work time,'' we would The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With­ N. Y., praying for the enactment of legisla­ "greet the unseen with a cheer." In the out objection, the Senator from Oregon tion providing for the naturalization and ad­ Redeemer's name. Amen. is excused. mission into the United States under a quota