17742 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE May 17, 1972 much to help the U.S. farmer in many The legislative clerk proceeded to call The motion was agreed to; and at 5:05 ways, and to assist in showing a hefty the roll. p.m., the Senate adjourned until tomor­ surplus to our balance of payments. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, row, Thursday, May 18, 1972, at 12 noon. There being no objection, the letter I ask unanimous consent that the order was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, for the quorum call be rescinded. as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without NOMINATIONS OREGON DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, objection, it is so ordered. Salem, Oreg., May 12, 1972. Executive nominations received by the Hon. MARK 0 . HATFIELD, Senate May 17, 1972: PROGRAM U .S. Senator, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Washington, D.C. DEAR SENATOR HATFIELD: It has been called Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, George P. Shultz, of Illinois, to be Secre­ to our attention that Senate Bill 3526 deal­ the program for tomorrow is as follows: tary of the Treasury. ing with 10 % reduction in overseas person­ The Senate will convene at 12 o'clock IN THE NAVY nel of the U.S. Government, except State noon. After the two leaders or their as­ Rear Adm. Robert E. Adamson, Jr., U.S. Department, is out of committee. sistants have been recognized under the Navy, having been designated for commands We seek your concern as to the effect this standing order the distinguished Senator and other duties determined by the Presi­ has on agriculture, particularly at a time from Tennessee

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Wednesday, May 17, 1972

The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Judge not that you be not judged; tor freshness of spirit to renew our faith and Rev. Merrill W. Drennan, Metropolitan with the judgment you pronounce, you to brighten our hopes. Amen. Memorial United Methodist Church, will be judged, and the measure you give Washington, D.C., offered the following will be the measure you get. THE JOURNAL prayer: You, our Father, will know whether The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam­ 0 God, our Father, come nearer to us at the end of tl}is day we will have been ined the Journal of the last day's pro­ than we have ever known and stay with merely echoes, whether we will have done ceedings and announces to the House his us through the deliberations of this day. Your will or our own, or, worse still, have approval thereof. In these days when men freely judge Without objection, the Journal stands and condemn ,each other, remind us of done nothipg. approved. the words: Hear us, our Father, as we pray for a There was no objection. May 17, 1972 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 17743 THE LATE HONORABLE JOSEPH M. Treasury, Henry H. Fowler, and was ap­ ute and to revise and extend his re­ BOWMAN, JR. pointed by the President and confirmed marks.) by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, yesterday trigger. permission to address the House for 1 ROTC at Emory University. During and The answer to the problem quite ob­ minute.) after the Korean conflict, he served with viously is law enforcement. Mr. WHALEN. Mr. Speaker, much of distinction in the U.S. Air Force, leaving A man pulled the trigger. It was the the discussion in the political arena, both active duty and returning to the prac­ befuddled logic of a human being which among the participants and the pundits, tice of law in 1956. He was a partner in brought on this tragedy. Stricter legisla­ centers around the disillusionment of our the law firm of Kennedy, Kennedy, Seay, tion would not have prevented that man people. Certainly, it is clear to all of us and Bowman in Barnesville, Ga. from getting a gun. In fact, he once had who have been back in our districts that In 1957 he became my legislative as­ been arrested on a weapons charge and there is some, if not a great deal, of truth sistant and served in this capacity until yet, 'iesrite existing law, he managed to in this allegation. Many of our people are he returned to Georgia to reenter the get another gun, transport it across State extremely disenchanted with their Gov­ practice of law. During the time that he lines, and gun down a candidate for ernment at all levels, particularly be­ served as a member of my staff he proved President. Again, it is law enforcement cause they feel a deep lack of responsive­ himself to be an outstanding and valu­ that is needed. ness to their needs. able congressional staff member as well Congress has enacted far-reaching A case in point recently occurred in my as a warm and close personal friend of crime curbs and has appropriated mil­ district. More than 8,000 employees of mine. lions upon millions of dollars to imple­ the National Cash Register Co. in Dayton In 1961 he returned to Washington to ment crime control. Before we go over­ had a collective bargaining agreement become Assistant to the Secretary of La­ board in the clamor for new legislation pending before the Pay Board. The con­ bor in the Office of Legislative Affairs. which would deprive law-abidin~ Ameri­ tract was submitted to the Board on Jan­ Almost immediately thereafter he was cans of the right to own weapons to uary 31, 1972. Only after much prodding appointed assistant to the then Secre­ protect themselves, their homes, and by me did the Board render a decision tary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon, their families, let us calmly consider the late in April. Then, compounding the and was assigned to the Office of Legis­ facts. Passing laws does not get to the tardiness of its action, the Board mis­ lative Affairs in the Treasury Depart­ heart of the problem. Federal and State represented its own decision. First, I wa-s ment. gun control laws already in being should advised that the entire package had been In this capacity as well as when he have prevented the attack on Governor approved. Over a week later, the deter­ later served as Assistant Secretary of the Wallace, but criminals will get guns mination was made that only a portion of Treasury he served as a White House despite laws, whether they be existing the fringe benefits was being permitted. liaison officer and frequently partici­ laws or new laws. Thus, not only was the manner in which pated in prelegislative conferences on tax the Pay Board handled the case inept, legislation and other major adminstra­ but it was totally irresponsible in inter­ tion measures. GOV. GEORGE C. WALLACE preting its own action. Without a doubt, During this time he became a close as­

SUMMARY ACTION OF CONFERENCE ACTION ON THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 1972 (H.R. 14582)

Conference action compared to- Chapter Budget Recommended Recommended Conference------­ No. estimate in House bill in Senate bill action Budget House Senate

TITLE I-GENERAL SUPPLEMENTALS

1______Agriculture- Environmental and Consumer Protection: New budget (obligational authority)______$4, 604, 000 $4, 604, 000 $14, 704, 000 $4, 604, 000 ------$10, 100,000 By transfer------061, 000) (1, 061, 000) ~1 , 061, 000) 1~1 ·. ~~ ·. ~~~> -:_: $10 ,- iiiiii ,- iiiio --=$- iii ,-iiii ii .-ii iiii -======IL ______Defense------1P· 4, 312, 000 154,312,000 1 4, 312, 000 IlL ______District of Col um bia: Federal funds: New budget (obligational) authority ______7, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 3, 000,000 - 4, 000, 000 ------District of Colum bia fu nds: New budget (obligational) authority______~91 , 246, 000) (76, 928, 000) (74, 604, 000) (74, 439, 000) (- 16, 807, 000) (-2, 489, 000) (-165, 000) IV ______Foreign Operations______20, 320, 000 320, 000 320, 320, 000 320, 000 - 320, 000, 000 ------320, 000,000 V______Housing and Ur ba n Development , Space, Science, and Veterans : New budget (obligational) authority______40, 645, 000 40, 645, 000 42, 569, 000 40, 645, 000 ------1,924, 000 By transfer------(1, 924, 000) (1, 924, 000) ------(1, 924, 000) ______<+ 1. 924, 000) VL ______Interior and related agencies: New bu dget (obligational) authority______174, 626, 000 130, 816, 000 176, 619, 000 176, 619, 000 + 1, 993. 000 + 45, 803,000 ------By transfer ____ ------(1, 340, 000) __ ------(- 1, 340, 000) _____ ------Appropriation to liquidate contract authori ty______(13, 000, 000) (13, 000, 000) (13, 000, 000) (13, 000, 000) ------VII______Labor, and Health , Education, and Welfare : New budget (obligational) authoritY------1, 061 , 601,000 978, 901 , 000 1, 510, 413, 000 1, 203, 451,000 + 141 , 850, 000 + 224, 550, 000 -306,962,000 By transfer------(573, 000) (573, 000) (573, 000) (573, 000) __ ------Limitations on administrative and nonadministrative expenses _ (20, 420, 000) (20, 420, 000) (20, 420, 000) _------VIII______Legislative branch ______2, 371,000 2, 051,000 2, 831 , 000 2, 831 , 000 + 460,000 + 780, 000 ------IX ______Public Works: New budget (obligatio nal) authoritY------320, 000 ------320, 000 ------320, 000 ------320,000 By transfer __ ___ ------______(180, 000) ___ ------(180, 000) (180, 000) __------( + 180, 000)_------X ______State, Justice, Commerce, and Judiciary: New budget (obligational) authoritY------95, 377,529 90,336, 110 94, 244, 279 90, 336, 110 -5, 041 , 419 ------3,908,1 69 By transfer------(582, 000) (582, 000) (582, 000) (582, 000) ------XL ______Tran~~rt~~~~ ~ t (ob ligational) authoritY------173, 500, Ol'O 1, 140, 000 273, 540, 000 173, 540, 000 + 40, 000 + 172, 400, 000 -100,000, 000 Appropriatio n to liquidate contract authority ______------(20, 000, 000) (20, 000, 000) (20, 000, 000) (20, 000, 000) ____ -- __ ___ ------____ ------XII______Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government______189,101, 400 162, 337,400 123,593,400 162, 337, 400 -26, 764, 000 ------+ 38, 744,000 XIII______Claims and judgm ents ______5,508, 032 ------5,508,032 5, 508,032 ------+5, 508, 032 ------Total , title !- General supplementals : New budget (obligational) authoritY------2, 229,285,961 1, 568, 462, 510 2, 711,973, 711 2, 007, 503,542 -221, 782,419 + 439, 041 ,032 -704, 470, 169 Erm'~=~~f~r on- -administraiive--and - no-na'dffiinistrative- (5, 66o, ooo> (4, 14o, ooo> <4, 32o. ooo> <-1, 34o, ooo> <+ t8o. coo > <+ t . 924, ooo > expenses ______------_____ (20, 420, 000) (20, 420, 000) (20, 420, 000) (20, 420, COO) ______------______Appropriations to liquidate contract authority ______(33, (00, 000) (33, OCO, OOG) (33, 000, 000) (33, 000, 000) ______

TITLE II- INCREASED PAY COSTS New budget (obligational) authoritY------2, 636,657, 428 2, 385,990,848 2, 351 , 543, 728 2, 340, 194, 728 -296, 462, 700 - 45, 796, 120 -11, 349,000 By transfer ______------____ ( 47, 496, 959) (94, 505, 959) (94, 505, 959) (94, 505, 959) ( + 47, 009, 000) ______Limitations on administrative and nonadministrative expenses __ __ (24, 277, 000) (24, 277, 000) (24, 277, 000) (24, 277, 000) ______GRAND TOTAL- TITLES I AND II: New budget (obligational) authority ______4, 865, 943, 389 3, 954,453, 358 5, 063, 517,439 4, 347, 698,270 -518,245, 119 + 393, 244, 912 -715, 81 9, 169 By transfer ______------______(53, 156, 959) (98, 645, 959) (96, 901, 959) (98, 825, 959) ( + 45, 669, 000) ( +180, 000) ( + 1, 924, OCO ) Limitations on administrative and nonadministrative expenses ______------______(44, 697, 000) (44, 697, OOG) (44, 697, 000) (44, 697 , 000) __ __------______App ropriations to liquidate contract authority ------_ (33, OGO, COO) (33, 000, 000) (33, 000, 000) (33, 000, 000) ______------______

Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ program has not been enacted into law, the include even the $170 million. I simply tleman again yield briefly? conferees are in agreement that action on the cannot go along with an authorization on Mr. MAHON. I am delighted to yield to additional $100,000,000 included by the Sen­ the part of the House of $170 million for ate has been deferred without prejudice to my friend from Iowa. future consideration. Amtrak, dim view or bright view. Mr. GROSS. What we did not previ­ Mr. McFALL. That would be also an­ Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve ously discuss in connection with Amtrak other reason, but the main reasons are the remainder of my time. was the fact that, apparently, it was only the ones I have stated. Mr. JONAS. Mr. Speaker, I yield my­ because an authorization bill had not Mr. MAHON. I would point out to the self 5 minutes. been passed that the House conferees did gentleman from Iowa that there are some Mr. Speaker, the distinguished chair ­ not agree to $100 million more for Am­ of us who take a rather dim view of Am­ man of the committee, Mr. MAHON, has, trak. Can this be so? trak. We would all like to see the rail­ I believe, made an adequate explanation Mr. MAHON. I yield, for response, to roads revived. We believe there is a place of the results of the conference. It would the chairman of the subcommittee han­ for rail transportation that will be uti­ merely encumber the record for me to dling the Department of Transportation lized by the public in certain areas of the add much to what he said, although I appropriations, the gentleman from Cali­ should like to add that we spent 2 days fornia

Wilson, Wylie Zablocltl MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON the Census to have had twenty-five or more Charles H. Wyman Zion Native residents living within such village Winn Yates Zwach Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a according to the 1970 census." Wolff Yatron motion. Wyatt Young, Fla. The Clerk read as follows: MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON Wydler Young, Tex. Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a NAYS-33 from its disagreement to the amendment of motion. Archer Gross Reuss the Senate numbered 5 and concur therein The Clerk read as follows: Ashbrook Grover Riegle with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede Baker Haley Rousselot the sum proposed by said amendment, in­ Clancy Hall Satterfield from its disagreement to the amendment of Collins, Tex. Hutchinson Schmitz sert "$67,835,000". the Senate numbered 12 and concur therein Crane King Schneebell with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of Dennis Landgrebe Sebelius The motion was agreed to. the matter proposed by said amendment, in­ Devine Landrum Steiger, Ariz. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report sert the following: ": Provided, That there Dickinson Latta Terry the next amendment in disagreement. shall be advanced in fiscal year 1972, upon re­ Flynt Montgomery Thompson, Ga. Goodling Rarick Vanlk The Clerk read as follows: que&t of the board of directors of any re­ Senate amendment No. 6: Page 5, line 4, gional corporation established pursuant to NOT VOTING-59 strike out "$6,500,000" and insert "$4,454,- section 7 of said Act, $500,000 for any one Anderson, Gall.fianakis Miller, Cali!. 000". regional corporation, which the Secretary of Tenn. Gallagher Mink the Interior shall determine to be necessary MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON Blackburn Goldwater Mitchell for the organization of such regional cor­ Bow Gray Mollohan Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a Burke, Fla. Hagan Pepper poration and the village corporations within Camp Hebert Peyser motion. such region, and to identify land for such Chisholm Holl.field Price, Tex. The Clerk read as follows: corporations previously incurred for such Collier Hungate Pryor, Ark. Mr. MAHoN moves that the House recede purposes: Provided further, That such ad­ Colmer Karth Pucinski vances shall not be subject to the provisions Conyers Kazen Reid from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 6 and concur therein of section 7 (j) of said Act, but shall be Daniels, N.J. Lennon Rodino charged to and accounted for by such re­ de la Garza Link Sarbanes with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of Dellums Long, La. Scheuer the sum proposed by said amendment, in­ gional and village corporations in computing the distributions pursuant to section 7 (j) Denholm Lujan Springer sert "$4,380,000". Diggs McCormack Stubblefield required after the first regular receipt of Dowdy McDonald, Thone The motion was agreed to. monies from the Alaska Native Fund under Esch Mich. Wiggins The SPEAKER. The Clerk will 1·eport section 6 of said Act: Provided further, That Eshleman McEwen Wright no part of the money so advanced shall be Evins, Tenn. McKay the next amendment in disagreement. Fish Macdonald, The Clerk read as follows: used for the organization of a village corpora­ Fisher Mass. tion that had less than twenty-five Native Frelinghuysen Metcalfe Senate amendment No. 8: residents living within such village accord­ Page 7, line 1, strike out "and shall remain ing to the 1970 census. So the conference report was agreed available until June 30, 1973,". The motion was agreed to. to. MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON The Clerk announced the following The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report pairs: Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a the next amendment in disagreement. motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Miller of California with Mr. Gold­ The Clerk read as follows: water. Senate amendment No. 14: Page 11, line 1, Mr. de la Garza with Mr. Lujan. Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede insert the following: Mr. Daniels of New Jersey with Mr. Esh­ from its disagreement to the amendment of leman. the Senate numbered 8 and concur therein. CONSTRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISITION Mr. Holifield with Mr. McEwen. For an additional amount for "Construc­ Mr. Hebert with Mr. McDonald of Mich- The motion was agreed to. tion and land acquisition", $170,000, to re­ igan. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report main available until expended. Mr. Stubblefield with Mr. Blackburn. the next amendment in disagreement. MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON The Clerk read as follows: Mr. McCormack with Mr. Collier. Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a Mr. Macdonald of Massachusetts with Mr. Senate amendment No. 10: Page 7, line 18, Bow. motion. insert: The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Mollohan with Mr. Peyser. CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE Mr. Pepper with Mr. Burke of Florida. Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede Mr. Rodino with Mr. Frelinghuysen. For an additional amount for "Construc­ from its disagreement to the amendment of Mr. Gray with Mr. Esch. tion and maintenance", $200,000, to remain the Senate numbered 14 and concur therein. Mr. Evins of Tennessee with Mr. Wiggins. available until expended. Mr. Denholm with Mr. Springer. MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON The motion was agreed to. Mr. Karth with Mr. Camp. Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report Mr. Kazen with Mr. Price of Texas. motion. the next amendment in disagreement. Mr. Wright with Mr. Thone. The Clerk read as follows: The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Pucinski with Mrs. Chisholm. Senate amendment No. 17: Page 12, line Mr. Reid with Mr. Fish. Mr. MAHoN moves that the House recede 6, insert the followings: ", to remain avail­ Mr. Hagan with Mr. Pryor of Arkansas. from its disagreement to the amendment of able until September 30, 1972: Provided,". Mr. Fisher with Mr. McKay. the Senate numbered 10 and concur therein. Mr. Colmer with Mr. Lennon. MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON Mr. Link with Mr. Hungate. . The motion was agreed to. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a Mr. Anderson of Tennessee with Mrs. Mink. motion. Mr. Gallagher with Mr. Mitchell. the next amendment in disagreement. Mr. Diggs with Mr. Sarbanes. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede Mr. Galifianakis with Mr. Dellums. from its disagreement to the amendment of Senate amendment No. 12: Page 8, line 21, the Senate numbered 17 and concur therein. Mr. Metcalfe with Mr. Scheuer. insert: ": Provided, That there shall be ad­ Mr. Long of Louisiana with Mr. Conyers. vanced to each regional association the sum The motion was agreed to. of $1,000,000 in fiscal year 1972 which shall The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report Mr. ARENDS changed his vote from be used solely for organization of the re­ "yea" to "nay." gional corporations and village corporations the next amendment in disagreement. The result of the vote was announced within each region and to identify land for The Clerk read as follows: as above recorded. such corporations pursuant to the Act of Senate amendment No. 19: Page 13, line A motion to reconsider was laid on December 18, 1971; that such advance shall 16, insert the foilowing: the table. be credited against the first moneys due to NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH AMENDMENTS IN DISAGREEMENT such corporations under this Act and shall NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE first be used to repay any loans advanced to The SPEAKER. The Clerk will rePOrt such corporations by any .financial organiza­ For an additional amount for the "Na­ the first amendment in disagreement. tion after December 14, 1971; and that no tional Cancer Institute," $40,000,000, to re­ main available through June 30, 1973. The Clerk read as follows: funds may be advanced by any regional as­ Senate amendment No. 5: Page 5, line 3: sociation to any village corporation unless MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON Strike out "$69,955,000" and insert "$68,- the village for which such corporation was Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a 000,000". organized is determined by the Bureau of motion. 17750 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE May 17, 1972 Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede Mr. MAHON. I yield to the gentleman MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON from its disagreement to the amendment of from Pennsylvania (Mr. FLoon), the Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a the Senate numbered 19 and concur therein. chairman of the subcommittee. motion. The motion was agreed to. Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, I thank the The Clerk read as follows: The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report gentleman for yielding. Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede the next amendment in dis~o-reement. The gentleman from Iowa, I am sure, from its disagreement to the amendment of The Clerk read as follows: recalls that I raised this question orig­ the Senate numbered 25 and concur therein. Senate amendment No. 22: Page 14, line 6, inally when we first had the bill before The motion was agreed to. insert the following: the House, and the gentleman and I dis­ The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report cussed this. Since then it has developed­ HIGHER EDUCATION the next amendment in disagreement. and the gentleman will recall that I The Clerk read as follows: For an additional amount for "Higher raised the question and used the term Education," $300,400,000, including $130,200,- Senate amendment No. 26: Page 16, line 000 for educational opportunity grants, $75,- "bankruptcy"-but since that time I have 17, insert: 400,000 for college work-study programs, and discovered that these loans without any Capitol Grounds $89,000,000 for student loans under the Na­ doubt are the most successful and the For an additional amount for "Capitol tional Defense Education Act: Provided, best kind of Federal loans that we have, Grounds" to enable the Architect of the That the funds appropriated herein shall re­ and my use of that term as a scare head­ Capitol to convert square 721 North and main available until June 30, 1973. line was only with respect to less than square 721 South and the roadway between MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON 4 percent. such squares, now a part of the United States Capitol Grounds, for use for temporary park­ Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a I can assure the gentleman, after my ing facilities for the United States Senate, motion. investigation, that there is no scandal, $130,000, to remain available until June 30, The Clerk read as follows: there is nothing to fear as to the poten­ 1973. Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede tial liquidation of these loans; they are MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON from its disagreement to the amendment of among the best loans of any Federal Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a the Senate numbered 22 and concur therein loans that we have, and as I say, there motion. with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of was only a fraction under 4 percent in The Clerk read as follows: the matter inserted by said amendment, in­ that category. Mr. MAHoN moves that the House recede sert the following: Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I hope the from its disagreement to the amendment of HIGHER EDUCATION gentleman is right. the Senate numbered 26 and concur therein. For an additional amount for "Higher Mr. FLOOD. You can be sure I am. Education," $100,000,000, including $45,000,- Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I move the The motion was agreed to. 000 for educational opportunity grants, $25,- previous question on the motion. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report 600,000 for college work-study programs, and The previous question was ordered. the next amendment in disagreement. $23,600,000 for student loans under the Na­ The Clerk read as follows: tional Defense Education Act: Provided, The motion was agreed to. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report Senate amendment No. 27: On page 17, That the funds appropriated herein shall line 4, insert: remain available until June 30, 1973. the next amendment in disagreement. CHAPTER IX Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I desire to The Clerk read as follows: PUBLIC WORKS Senate amendment No. 23: Page 15, line 1, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR speak on this motion. insert: The SPEAKER. The gentleman from SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY Texas is recognized. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, the other ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM For an additional amount for "Operation body considered a supplemental budget For an additional amount for the "Eco­ and Maintenance", $500,000, of which $180,- estimate for these educational programs nomic Opportunity Program", $30,000,000, to 000 shall be derived by transfer from the in the sum of $42.7 million, but the other carry out a program of emergency food and appropriation for "Construction," Southwest­ body inserted in the bill the sum of $300 medical services, as authorized by section ern Power Administration. 222(a) (5) of the Economic Opportunity Act million, or about $257.7 million over the MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON budget. of 1964, as amended: Provided, That funds appropriated herein shall remain available motion. The House felt that these additional The Clerk read as follows: funds were not justified under all of the until September 30, 1972. MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede circumstances, as you cannot meet all from its disagreement to the amendment of of the needs, especially when we are Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a the Senate numbered 27 and concur therein faced with a current year Federal funds motion. with an amendment, as follows: budget deficit of about $40 billion or so. The Clerk read as follows: In lieu of the matter proposed by said So, the House conferees were able to Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede amendment insert the following: come to an agreement with the other from its disagreement to the amendment of CHAPTER IX body by agreeing to the sum of $100 mil­ the Senate numbered 23 and concur therein PUBLIC WORKS lion. with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mr. Speaker, the bill provides more in the sum named in said amendment insert SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION all of these categories than were pro­ "$20,000,000". vided in the previous year. This is the OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE best possible agreement that we were able The motion was agreed to. For an additional amount for "Operation to work out. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report and Maintenance", $180,000, to be derived Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the gen- the next amendment in disagreement. by transfer from the appropriation for "Con­ tleman yield? The Clerk read as follows: struction," Southwestern Power Administra­ Mr. MAHON. I yield to the gentleman Senate amendment No. 25: Page 16, line 4, tion. from Iowa. insert: The motion was agreed to. JOINT ITEMS Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I would ask The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the gentleman from Texas whether the CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE the next amendment in disagreement. committee did take into consideration JOINT COMMITTEE ON INAUGURAL CEREMONIES The Clerk read as follows: in making this particular appropriation OF 1973 the highly accelerating rate of defaults Senate amendment No. 33: On page 22, line For construction of platform and seating 1, insert: on student loans, and the scandal that stands and for salaries and expenses of con­ seems to be developing with respect to ducting the inaugural ceremonies of the FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION those defaults? President and Vice President of the United GRANTS TO NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER Mr. MAHON. These appropriations States, January 20, 1973, in accordance with CORPORATION proposed here do not involve the de­ such program as may be adopted by the To enable the Secretary of Transportation faults to which the gentleman from Iowa Joint committee authorized by concurrent to make grants to the National Railroad Pas­ makes reference. resolution of the Senate and House of Rep­ senger Corporation, as authorized by section Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ resentatives, $650,000, to remain available 601 of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, 815 amended, $270,000,000 to remain available tleman yield? through June 30, 1973. May 17, 1972 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 17751 until expended: Provided, That this appro­ McKinney Podell Steiger, Wis. Mr. Daniels of New Jersey with Mr. Fre· priation shall be available only upon the en­ McMillan Powell Stephens linghuysen. actment into law of authorizing legislation Madden Preyer, N.C. Stokes Mr. de la Garza with Mr. Kuykendall. Mahon Price, ill. Stratton Mr. Blatnik with Mr. Bow. by the Ninety-second Congress. Stuckey Mailliard Purcell Mt. Stubblefield with Mr. Shoup. MOTION OFFERED BY M .. MAHON Mallary Quie Sullivan Mann Railsback Talcott Mr. Miller of California with Mr. Gold- Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I offer a Martin Randall Teague, Calif. water. motion. Mathias, Calif. Rangel Teague, Tex. Mr. Rodino with Mrs. Dwyer. The Clerk read as follows: Mathis, Ga. Rees Thompson, Ga. Mr. Gray with Mr. McEwen. Matsunaga. Reuss Thompson, N.J. Mr. Hagan with Mr. Blackburn. Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede Mayne Rhodes Thomson, Wis. from its disagreement to the amendment of Meeds Riegle Tiernan Mrs. Chisholm with Mr. Sarbanes. the Senate numbered 33 and concur therein Melcher Robison, N.Y. Udall Mr. Diggs with Mr. Scheuer. with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of Michel Roe Ullman Mr. Mollohan with Mr. Camp. sum named in said amendment, insert Mikva Rogers Van Deerlin Mr. Evins of Tennessee with Mr. Eshleman. Mills, Md. Rooney, N.Y. VanderJagt "$170,000,000". Mr. Pucinski with Mr. Mitchell. Minish Rooney, Pa. Veysey Mr. Reid with Mr. Peyser. Mink Rosenthal Vigorito The SPEAKER. The question is on the Minshall Rostenkowski Waggonner Mr. William D. Ford with Mr. Collier. motion offered by the gentleman from Mizell Roush Waldie Mr. Fisher with Mr. Nelsen. Texas. Monagan Roy Ware Mr. McCormack with Mr. McClory. Moorhead Roybal Whalen Mr. Denholm with Mr. Dennis. The question was taken; and the Morgan Ruppe Whalley Mr. Galifiana.kis with Mr. Metcalfe. Speaker announced the ayes appeared to Mosher Ruth White Mr. Pryor of Arkansas with Mr. LuJan. have it. Murphy, Dl. Ryan Whitehurst Murphy, N.Y. StGermain Whitten Mr. Leggett with Mr. Springer. Mr. V ANIK. Mr. Speaker, I am opposed Myers Sandman Widnall Mr. Link with Mr. McClure. to this amendment and to the motion; Natcher Saylor Williams Mr. Wright with Mr. Thone. and I object to the vote on the ground Nedzi Schneebell Wilson, Bob Mr. Kazen with Mr. Long of Louisiana. Nichols Schwengel Winn Mr. Lennon with Mr. Burke of Florida.. that a quorum is not present and make Wolff the point of order that a quorum is not Nix Sebelius Mr. McKay with Mr. Pepper. Obey Shipley Wyatt Mr. Anderson of Tennessee with Mr. present. O'Konski Shriver Wydler -The SPEAKER. Evidently a quorum is O'Neill Sisk Wylie Symington. Passman Skubitz Wyman Mr. Hungate with Mr. Gallagher. not present. Patman Slack Yates The Sergeant at Arms will notify ab­ Patten Smith, Calif. Yatron Mrs. GRIFFITHS and Mr. TERRY changed Pelly Smith, Iowa Young, Fla. their votes from "yea" to "nay." sent Members, and the Clerk will call the Perkins Smith, N.Y. Young, Tex. roll. Pettis Spence Zablocki Messrs. NIX, HOWARD, HORTON, and The question was taken; and there Pickle Staggers Zion CoLLINS of nlinois changed their votes were-yeas 301, nays 69, not voting 61, Pike Steed Zwach from "nay" to "yea." Pirnie Steele The result of the vote was announced as follows: · . Poage Steiger, Ariz . [Roll No. 156] as above recorded. NAYs-69 The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report YEA&--301 Abbitt Hall Quillen Abourezk Chappell Gonzalez Abernethy Hammer- Rarick the next amendment in disagreement. Abzug Clark Grasso Alexander schmidt Roberts The Clerk read as follows: Adams Clausen, Green, Oreg. Anderson, Hansen, Idaho Robinson, Va. Senate amendment No. 38: Page 24, line Calif. Harsha Roncalio Addabbo Don H. Green, Pa. 13, insert: ": Provided further, That the ap­ Anderson, Dl. Clay Griffin Archer Hastings Rousselot Andrews, Ala. Cleveland Grover Ashbrook Hays Runnels propriation for the Federal office building Andrews, Collins, Til. Gubser Baker Hechler, W.Va. Satterfield (superstructure) , Chicago, Dlinois, shall be N.Dak. Conable Gude Burleson, Tex. Henderson Scherle available only upon the approval of the re­ Annunzio Conte Halpern Carney Hutchinson Schmitz vised prospectus by the Committees on Pub­ Arends Corman Hamilton Clancy Jacobs Scott lic Works of the Congress:" Ashley Cotter Hanley Clawson, Del Jones, N.C. Seiberling Aspin Coughlin Hanna Collins, Tex. Landgrebe Sikes MOTION OFFERED BY MR. MAHON Aspinall Culver Hansen, Wash. Colmer Landrum Snyder I Badillo Curlin Harrington Conyers Latta Stanton, Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, offer a Baring Danielson Harvey Crane Long, Md. J. William motion. Barrett Davis, Ga. Hathaway Daniel, Va. McCloskey Stanton, The Clerk read as follows: Begich Davis, S.C. Hawkins Duncan Mazzol1 James V. Belcher Davis, Wis. Hebert Edwards, Calif. Miller, Ohio Taylor Mr. MAHON moves that the House recede Bell Delaney Heckler, Mass. Flynt Mills, Ark. Terry from its disagreement to the amendment of Bennett Dellenback Heinz Fuqua Montgomery Vanik the Senate numbered 38 and concur therein Bergland Dellums Helstoski Goodling Moss Wampler with an amendment, as follows: In lieu of Betts Dent Hicks, Mass. Griffiths O'Hara Wilson, Bevill Derwinski Hicks, Wash. Gross Poff Charles H. the matter proposed by said amendment in­ Biaggi Devine Hillis Haley Price, Tex. sert the following: ": Provided further, That Biester Dickinson Hogan NOT VOTING-61 the appropriations for the Federal office Bingham Dingell Horton building (superstructure), Chicago, Illinois; Blanton Donohue Hosmer Anderson, Frelinghuysen Metcalfe the Courthouse and the Federal office build­ Boggs Dorn Howard Tenn. Gali:fianakis Miller, Calif. Blackburn Gallagher Mitchell ing (superstructure) , Philadelphia, Pennsyl­ Boland Dow Hull vania; and the Federal Bureau of Investiga­ Bolling Downing Hunt Blatnik Goldwater Mollohan Bradem as Drinan Ichord Bow Gray Nelsen tion building (superstructure), Washington, Brasco Dulski Jarman Burke, Fla. Hagan Pepper D.C., shall be available only upon the ap­ Bray du Pont Johnson, Calif. Camp Holifield Peyser proval of the revised prospectuses by the Brinkley Eckhardt Johnson, Pa. Chisholm Hungate Pryor, Ark. Committee on Public Works of the Con­ Collier Kazen Pucinski Brooks Edmondson Jon as gress". Broomfield Edwards, Ala . Jones, Ala. Daniels, N.J. Kuykendall Reid Brotzman Eilberg Jones, Tenn. de la. Garza Leggett Rodino The motion was agreed to. Brown, Mich. Erlenborn Karth Denholm Lennon Sarbanes Brown, Ohio Esch Kastenmeier Dennis Link Scheuer The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report Broyhill, N.C. Evans, Colo. Keating Diggs Long, La. Shoup the next amendment in disagreement. Broyhill, Va. Fascell Kee Dowdy Lujan Springer The Clerk read as follows: Buchanan Findley Keith Dwyer McClory Stubblefield Burke, Mass. Flood Kemp Eshleman McClure Symington Senate amendment No. 40: Page 25, after Burlison, Mo. Flowers King Evins, Tenn. McCormack Thone line 4, insert the following: Burton Foley Kluczynski Fish McEwen Wiggins Byrne, Pa. Ford, Gerald R. Koch Fisher McKay Wright CHAPTER XIII Byrnes, Wis. Forsythe Kyl Ford, Macdonald, CLAIMS AND JUDGMENTS Fountain Kyros Byron William D. Mass. For payment of claims settled and deter­ Cabell Fraser Lent Caffery Frenzel Lloyd So the motion was agreed to. mined by departments and agencies in ac­ Carey, N.Y. E'rey McCollister The Clerk announced the following cord with law and judgments rendered Carlson Fulton McCulloch against the United States by the Unite~ Carter Garmatz McDade pairs: States Court of Claiins and United States Casey, Tex. Gaydos McDonald, Mr. Holifield with Mr. Wiggins. district courts, as set forth in Senate Docu­ Cederberg Gettys Mich. Celler Giaimo McFall Mr. Macdonald of Massachusetts with Mr. ment Numbered 71, Ninety-second Congress, Chamberlain Gibbons McKevitt Fish. $5,508,032, together with such amounts as 17752 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE May 17, 1972 may be necessary to pay interest (as and The SPEAKER. The gentleman from be recognized for 30 minutes, and the when specified in such judgments or pro­ Missouri is recognized. gentleman from Wisconsin

1971 1972 1973 1971 1972 1973 actual estimate estimate actual estimate estimate

INSPECTION FOR ADMISSION INTO THE BORDER PATROL UNITED STATES Deportable aliens ______300,424 361 , 000 366, 000 Aliens admitted with documents ______4, 774,239 5, 000,000 5, 250,000 Smugglers of aliens ______3, 814 4, 200 4, 600 Stowaways found on arrivaL ______282 320 350 Other law violators ______1,664 2,000 2, 400 Citizens arrived __ ------_------7,636, 925 8, 600,000 10, 000,000 Alien crewmen examined on arrivaL ______2, 359,551 2, 390,000 2, 400,000 Persons apprehended ______305,902 367,200 373,000 Entries over land boundaries ______220, 364, 917 222, 200, 000 223, 400, 000 Aliens denied entry on primary inspection ______297,425 308, 000 325, 000 INVESTIGATING ALIENS' STATUS Aliens admitted as immigrants ______370,478 380,000 385,000 Pending, start of year ______28,862 35, 641 39, 641 Received ______------______DETENTION AND DEPORTATION 173,775 189, 000 200, 000 Terminated ______166,996 185, 000 206,000 Orders to show cause ______33,643 35,000 37,000 Pending, end of year ______35,641 39,641 33,641 Hearings ____ _------30, 805 33,000 36,000 Al iens expelled ______387,713 430,000 435,000 IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION Average number of aliens held in detention per RECORDS day __ __ ------2,853 3,000 3, 200 New files prepared ______871,909 900, 000 920, 000 NATURALIZATION Index searches ______------__ ___ 4, 249,731 4, 500, 000 5, 000,000 Alien address reports ______4, 227,219 4, 400,000 4, 600,000 Applications, petitions for naturalization ______, 147,320 155, 000 160,000 Applications, derivative citizenship ______37,851 42, 000 44,000 Applications for new papers ______11,271 12,000 13, 000 Recommendations to courts ______lll, 590 115,000 120, 000

Mr. CEDERBERG. We are not un­ be extremely important at some time to some instances and congressional limita­ mindful of the problem. This is one of the defense of Japan itself. In fact we tions in others, many friendly foreign the difficulties the Appropriations Com­ provide Japan's defense while they turn nations are unable to buy U.S. weapons. mittee has. We have budgets to live with their efforts to supplanting us in world Regardless of the reason advanced for and to try to be fiscally responsible. trade and even to capturing the U.S. the limitation on sales, the foreign gov­ Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as market in some commodities. Their ernments are going to buy weapons if he may consume to the gentleman from drive for trade has been made pos­ they feel they are needed for their coun­ Florida (Mr. SIKES) . sible by U.S. know-how and U.S. eco­ tries' military forces. When they cannot Mr. SIKES. Mr. Chairman, I think it nomic assistance, both of which were buy from us they turn to other countries. is not in the best interests of the United given to Japan in full measure. France is a chief beneficiary. As a result States that our Government, through its ThiS is not the only example in our of this short-sighted American policy, the , State Department, often fails to take a dealings with other nations where we French have been able to boost their de­ firm position in its dealings with other have allowed America's own best interest fense industry to third place in the world, nations. To put it mildly, we let ourselves to be shunted aside in order to placate most of it from foreign sales. be pushed around. Whether this is out other people or to obtain doubtful friend­ I continue to receive reports from of the goodness of our hearts or because ships. The economic aspects of this policy American businessmen and others that we seek to avoid confrontation is beside are due more concern than they have re­ in contrast with the policies of foreign the point. ceived in the past. We simply do not have governments our own State Department A prime example has been our rela­ the money to pay the bills which right­ shows very little interest in helping U.S. tions with the Japanese, particularly in fully should be paid by other people as business to gain a foothold or strengthen recent months on the question of rever­ their share in the partnership for the its transactions in foreign markets. Cer­ sion of Okinawa and the positioning of preservation of the free world. tainly all of this is contrary to the best U.S. weapons on Japanese territory. No As part of the concern for the Amer­ interests of the U.S. economy and the other nation in the world would have ican economy, there is also the matter U.S. workingmen, who are dependent been as charitable as the United States of world markets for American products. upon increasing markets, both at home in its dealings with the Japanese. We Other nations engage in vigorous pro­ and abroad if we are to retain economic won Okinawa at great cost in lives and grams to stimulate foreign sales and, in stabilit:r. treasure in 1945. The struggle for control part, this is demonstrated in the balance There is also mounting evidence that extended over many weeks and repre­ of payments figures of the United States, U.S. prestige and diplomatic influence is sented some of the bitterest fighting in which show we are being outstripped by dwindling in too many parts of the world. the war. Okinawa has greatest strategic foreign competition. This is especially true in the Asian sub­ importance for the defense of the Pacific. This fact is dramatically demonstrated continent, the perimeter of the Indian Now we have returned it carte blanche when one considers the sales of Ameri­ Ocean, and in Afrfca, where Soviet in­ to the Japanese. There have been no can-made defense products abroad. Many fluence is mounting, where Russian base thoughts of reparations such as all other nations that have cash on hand seek to rights are being obtained. In too many nations extract and which the Japanese buy American weapons. When we sell areas we are becoming persona non grata, would have claimed in fearful amounts American weapons to foreign nations, while Soviet diplomatic and military had they won. We have even allowed the American industry and American work­ power is becoming more and more evi­ Japanese to tell us what weapons to use men benefit. Equally important is the dent. We have even joined forces to seek· in Japan and on Okinawa. At their de­ fact that American technicians go abroad the reopening of the Suez Canal, the mand we have withdrawn nuclear and with those weapons as ambassadors of principal beneficiary of which will be chemical weapons, even though they may good will. Yet, because of U.S. policy in Russia which will gain access to the east- 17766 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE May 17, 1972 ern Mediterranean and the approaches they should have and far more than has I want to speak briefty about the rec­ to the Indian Ocean, and through its in­ been required even under the extremely ommended appropriation of funds for fiuence on Egypt will control shipping generous standards which our country the Law Enforcement Assistance, Ad­ which :flows through the Suez. This in­ agreed to accept. The only relief the ministration. As the gentleman from cludes oil which is increasingly impor­ American taxpayer is going to get from New York said, the full amount re­ tant in world trade. excessive payments is from this body, the quested, $850.5 million, which represents One has only to look at a map to see U.S. House of Representatives. an increase over last year of $151,678,- that Russian infiuence now extends from Our representatives in the U.N. do not 000, has been granted by the committee. the mainland of Asia, down through Viet­ want cuts. They enjoy their status as In view of some of the recently com­ nam, into India, through the Indian generous patrons in a free-spending in­ pleted studies which the Legal and Mone­ Ocean, and up into the Mediterranean stitution. It is disappointing that they tary Affairs Subcommittee of the House Sea. If ever Russia is successful in break­ have not shown concern about the ex­ Committee on Government Operations, ing Greece and Spain from the friendly travagant standards at which we support which I head has made of this agency, ties those nations now maintain with the the United Nations. Certainly the U.N. I want to say that I have very strong United States-and propaganda directed will not work for cuts. The U.N. delegates doubts about the need for this increase from our own shores against these enjoy the high and extravagant living and the desirability of spending more friendly governments is not helping our which the U.S. payments provide. · money on this program in this period of own cause-then Russia will be in posi­ Certainly 25 percent must be con­ fiscal stringency. tion to exercise virtual control of most sidered a payment which is more than I do not oppose the bill, and I am not of the shipping lanes of the world. The fair. It is far more than anyone else going to offer an amendment to cut this United States will be in danger of being pays. I do not know by what logic we can appropriation back to last year's figure. shut out from much of the world, both as be asked to pay more. We do not gain In fact, I am pleased that the commit­ a military defender of freedom and as a that much from being a member of the tee has taken two areas as the basis for factor in world trade. United Nations. Only a few of its agen­ its increase, even though I feel the total We cannot allow these things to hap­ cies can point to creditable accomplish­ increase to be unnecessary. pen. Surely those nations and govern­ ments. The United Nations itself is The first is in the part E corrections ments which now are openly doing busi­ of a very doubtful value in world program. Our committee found in the ness with Russia are not doing so out of councils. It does nothing about the war State of Arkansas that 37 percent of the consuming admiration for and trust in in Indochina. In the one decision it has grant funds had been used for two-way the Communists. There must be more to made which materially affected the radio communications and only 7 per­ it than that and I suspect it is because United States and world history in re­ cent for corrections even though the they are failing to receive satisfactory cent years, the United Nations roundly penal system in that particular State indications of a strong and positive U.S. scored the United States, ousted our had been found to be so archaic as to be policy in world trade and world affairs. friend the Republic of China, embraced_ unconstitutional. There has to be a better way to accom­ Red China, then staged a wild celebra­ The second relates to the granting of plish America's objectives and it is not tion, in part at our expense. 94 additional auditors and grant ad­ something that can be accomplished by The cut in funds recommended by the ministrators. Only three out of 55 State increased expenditures. Appropriations Committee is very rea­ programs over the period of 3 years since Now let me comment on U.S. contribu­ sonable. It does show that we expect the beginning of this program have been tions to the U.N. results from the United Nations that we audited by LEAA. and judging by the Mr. Chairman, when the amend­ are not satisfied with its current policies results of the audits, this function is ab­ ment stage is reached it is anticipated an and its lack of accomplishment. solutely vital. The complaint was made amendment will be offered which pro­ Finally, present policies would have us by the agency that there were not suf­ poses a continuation of the sad old re­ violate a specific legal limitation passed ficient personnel to do this. I am sure frain that only the United States must by both the House and Senate and signed all of us who are familiar with this prob­ insure the continued operations, however by the President. Those who want us to lem are pleased that the attention of expensive, of the United Nations. We continue supporting the United Nations this committee has been turned to this have always paid a disproportionate out of all reasonable proportion never situation and that it has taken the ac­ share of the cost even when those costs mention the fact that there is now on the tion which OMB has refused to do. included glorified junkets to Africa and law books a strict limitation as to how Mr. ROONEY of New York. Mr. Chair­ exorbitantly high pensions and salaries. much the United States shall contribute man, will the distinguished gentleman The U.N. can operate for less. Now let's in support of international organizations. from Connecticut yield? face the fact that the cut which is pro­ I refer to 22 U.S.C. 262b which states that Mr. MONAGAN. I certainly yield to posed by your committee is a very modest it shall be illegal for the United States to the gentleman from New York. cut. It is proposed in this bill that we pay a share of more than one-third of Mr. ROONEY of New York. I believe continue to pay 25 percent of the cost. the budget of any international body. the distinguished gentleman from Con­ Even that is far too much. No one else Yet, Mr. Chairman, the United States has necticut rboth. to developers simply to pay the taxes. It is difficult to prescribe a remedy As a result, the IRS is being termed partly inasmuch as the cause remains so elu­ responsible for destroying a. segment of WHEN? sive. Is the problem connected with a American agriculture and, at the same time, breakdown in our legal system and more accelerating the spread of the suburbs. handgun they think he used. be argued perhaps with equal sincerity The IRS insists on assessing all agricul­ Unfortunately, they cannot do anything and rationale that the cause is more in­ tural land at the "price at which property about the spectre of violence that the man tangible and lies in our refusal to give would change hands between a. willing buyer and the weapon represent. The Secret necessary attention to the sociological and a. willing seller." Service has increased their protection The result has been that .farmers holding of presidential candidates and potential components of our society. property whose value for development is five Mr. Speaker, it is not my purpose here, candidates, but even if there were 100 to 10 times its agricultural worth, have been agents for each candidate, they would nor is there time, to explore the reason forced to sell to the waiting speculators for our sickness. Suffice it to say that it simply to pay their inheritance taxes, which not be able to prevent the kind of tragedy is absolutely essential that we recognize run as high as 25 per cent. that occurred Monday in Laurel, Md. It that the sickness, indeed, does exist. Let That the situation became most acute very is simply too easy to get close to a can­ us not pause nor rest until we have found recently is largely attributable to the devel­ didate, and it is too easy to get hold of oping pattern of change in suburban a handgun. the cause or causes and then call upon America.. all the scientific, social, and political in­ While we condemn the attempt at as­ 1970 CENSUS sassination, while we increase the pro­ genuity at our disposal to apply the rem­ The 1970 census disclosed that the fast­ edies. If each of us will accept such a tection for candidates, while we deplore est growing segment o! the United States is the atmosphere of violence in this coun­ commitment, I can then see a bright and the suburbs and the fastest shrinking is the shining national future emerging from rural areas. But of even greater significance is try, we might also consider doing some­ the dawn. But if we refuse the com­ the evidence that the fastest growing seg­ thing besides wringing our hands. What mitment, it is my fear that our Nation ment of the suburban population is in the happened to Governor Wallace happens may be in its twilight, slowly submerging so-call~ "exurban a.reas"-those counties be­ with unbelievable frequency on the into darkness that signals the end. tween suburbs and countryside. streets of every big city in this country It is here that the real estate speculators every night and day. Many of the vic­ are most busily at work. tims are not as fortunate as the Gov­ A spokesman for the IRS said, "We've been ernor. Last year, more than 10,000 Amer­ THOUSANDS OF FARMERS AND aware of the problem really for several years SMALL BUSINESSES ARE BEING and, of course, what it boils down to is that icans were killed with handguns-by LIQUIDATED BECAUSE OF HIGH under the la.\1 we have no alternative but to murderers and robbers and just plain FEDERAL ESTATE TAXES set the tax on the value the land sells for people who happened to have a handgun rather than on the value the property would nearby when they got into an argument (Mr. DENNIS asked and was given be used for. It would take legislation to with a friend. permission to address the House for 1 change the practice." We cannot eliminate the threat of minute and to revise and extend his re­ There have been numerous attempts at re­ political assassination. We cannot elimi­ marks and to include extraneous form. Rep. Graham Purcell, D-Texas, on the nate the kind of handgun crime that House Agriculture Committee, has intro­ matter.) duced each year for the last four a. bill pro­ threatens to tear our big cities apart, but Mr. DENNIS. Mr. Speaker, thousands viding for a. change of the valuation cri­ we can stop encouraging it with indiffer­ of farmers are being forced off their terion. ence. We can stop listening to the peo­ lands and small businesses are being At last count, there were six bills before ple who loudly complain that stopping liquidated because of high Federal estate the House Ways and Means Committee and the national traffic in handguns will "in- taxes, which require valuation of such one in the Senate, all waiting !or action. convience" them because they won't properties, on the death of the owner, at The extent of the problem and the con­ be able to buy guns to shoot at tar­ cern it has aroused in agricultural America current market value rather than with are indicateC:. by the search for methods to gets. It might be time to listen to the reference to the income-producing value circumvent the regulations. complaints of the victims-who have of the property as farmland or as a going In the Dade County area surrounding Mi­ been cut down with a weapon that has business operation. This type of liquida­ ami, almost all farms have by now been in­ only one useful function-killing other tion is a blow at the very basis of our corporated. The corporate farmer is able each human beings. Most of the people in this American free enterprise system. year to transfer a. small amount of stock to country want tough handgun control. With other Members I am cosponsor his children as gifts, easing the final impact They think that there are too many with the gentleman from Kansas revolvers made." He added: "A trace the handgun used in the attempted down of most o! them, and the use of the gun this length can't be used for any pur­ assassination of Governor Wallace. A remainder only !or special purposes and by pose but shooting people." Treasury spokesman said: special permit. After the Secret Service agent had re­ We believe that this is politically attain­ covered the weapon at the Laurel Plaza Shop­ The trace was possible, because of the 1968 able, despite the pessimism of skeptics. ping Center, its serial number was telephoned federal gun control law. Therefore, we urge that such stern control to the headquarters of the Alcohol, Tobacco The handgun by the way is known as measures be pushed. Even dift'erences in and Firearms Division in Washington. ethnic makeup cannot account for the dis­ Agents of the division immediately con­ the "Undercover 2," a .38-caliber model crepancy between American gun-crime tacted the manufacturer, which under the manufactured by the Charter Arms Corp. levels and those of other nations. Britain, 1968 gun control law is required to keep rec­ of Bridgeport, Conn. The steel pistol has for instance, a year ago had only 1/300th ords of all firearms it distributes to whole­ a barrel of 1% inches, weighs 16 ounces as many gun-murders as the U.S., with one sale and retail outlets. and measures 6 Y4 inches in length. The fourth the U.S. population. A return From Charter Arms, Treasury agents handgun is good for shooting people at to saner levels of social conduct can only learned that the pistol recovered in Laurel close range, and Monday it performed come about when the number of arms in had been part of a shipment sold to a Mil­ beautifully for the person who shot Gov­ private hands is drastically reduced. If waukee gun shop, which the department re­ citizens would only match the pressures fused to identify "for legal reasons." ernor Wallace. brought on Congress by firearms pro­ However, spokesmen confirmed that agents That•Gun Control Act of 1968 which ponents, by writing letters to their legis­ were told by the retailer that the pistol had was responsible for the quick trace is the lators, this lamentably tardy gun control been purchased . on Jan. 13 by a man who same law that has been denounced and could be won. identified himself as Arthur Herman Bremer. ridiculed so often by the people opposed The second constructive step the people Under the 1968 federal law, retail firearms to handgun control legislation. No doubt can take following the Wallace shooting is dealers must be licensed and must require their criticism will be muted for several to consider the full range of violence­ gun purchasers to fill out a form listing weeks now. No one argues that the Gun inciting aspects of modern life. Movies ~hich name, address, height, and weight. glorify cruelty, television violence, maga­ The law also requires the purchaser to Control Act is a model law. It has been zines whose editorial lenses distort all sign the form and answer such questions diluted and undermined by Congress al­ events into strife--these daily poison the as whether he is a convicted felon, a fugi­ most from the day it was enacted, but the social climate. More basically, Americans tive, a narcotics user or m~ntal patient. law does work. It is better than nothing. should expose old myths about the legacy "It was an effective search," a Treasury The Gun Control Act of 1968 enabled law o! frontier life and every-man-for-himself spokesman said yesterday, "because of that enforcement officials to trace that .38 lawlessness. The opposite of violence is law. Without it we might have been able to caliber revolver. Now, Congress has are­ humane, honest, and democratic dealing. If make the trace but it would have been very sponsibility to enact legislation that one looks to a higher power for guidance difficult." in private and national affairs, having obeyed Under three new gun control bills now would prevent the sale and manufacture all moral and legal responsibilities, he is act­ being considered by the Congress, the sale of handguns. ing to replace violence by peace and decency. of the weapon used in the Wallace assas­ I have proposed legislation t of itself disarm criminals sion of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Di­ memories of Friday, November 22, 1963, nor thwart the would-be political assassin. vision confirmed yesterday, was a .38-caliber Thursday, April 4. 1968 and Wednesday, It is true tha.t it is people's though!t, not a model manufactured by the Charter Arms June 5, 1968, etched indelibly in our minds piece of metal, that harbors or releases mur­ Corp., of Bridgeport, Conn. and upon our collective spirits. And still, derous intent. Known as the Charter Arms "Undercover- through all the days of all those years of 17772 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE May 17, 1972 grief for. our honored public men, for peace such as the revolver used in the attack on PROOF OF AGE NEEDED officers by the score and for unnamed and Governor Wallace. The sale may then be legally completed 1! little noted private citizens, murdered, Treasury Department law enforcement the purchaser can offer proof that he is over maimed and accidentally killed by private aides said that the pistol used by Arthur 21 years of age and is a resident of the state weapons in unlicensed hands, we have not Herman Bremer, the 21-year-old suspect who in which the gun is bought, the two other been able to pass the sort of gun control is accused of shooting four persons yesterday, chief criteria in the 1968 act. legislation that would make these grievous was a .38-caliber snubnosed revolver manu­ Martin Polner, the Treasury Department's public and private events much less likely to factured by the Charter Arms Corporation of Director of Law Enforcement, said today that occur. Bridgeport, Conn. detailed sales records, including weapons' Today, May 17, 1972, the Juvenile Delin­ Wounded along with Governor Wallace serial numbers, required to be maintained quency Subcommittee of the Senate Judici­ were one of his Alabama State Police body­ under the act, had enabled Treasury agents ary Committee can and should seize the occa­ guards, a Secret Service agent and a woman to trace the revolver "within 10 to 15 minutes sion to bring us out of our national delin­ bystander. .after we got the information on the gun." quency. The committee meets this morning It was learned today that this was the sec­ Charter Arms was asked by telephone to to consider various proposals for regulating ond Charter Arms so-called Undercover 2 whom it had wholesaled the weapon and the the use and circulation of guns in our so­ owned by Mr. Bremer. point of sale was traced by phone to Casa­ ciety. This newspaper has long advocated Federal law enforcement officials said that nova Guns in Milwaukee. strong gun control legislation and we see no the same model revolver caused Mr. Bremer's Mr. Polner would not say whether Mr. earthly reason to urge any less today. We be­ one known previous brush with the law, an Bremer or the Milwaukee gun dealer were lieve that handguns should be available only arrest in the Milwaukee suburb of Fox Point, under investigation for possible violations of to authorized military and law enforcement last November for carrying a concealed weap­ the 1968 act. personnel and to others only upon the most on. But critics of the act, including Sena-tor carefully circumscribed showing of need or The charge was later reduced to disorderly Birch Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, have in­ in gun clubs where their use is strictly lim­ conduct, a misdemeanor, and he was con­ tended that the mere recognition of such ited to sporting purposes. All long guns victed. Under normal police routine that gun sales does nothing to control the -distribu­ should be registered and their owners li­ was formally confiscated on Dec. 8, 1971. tion of "these vicious weapons which have no censed to use them. Such legislation has long Five weeks later he bought another. legitimate use" in civilian hands. Most sport­ seemed reasonable, necessary and even urgent COULD NOT BE IMPORTED ing and target pistols, for ballistic reasons to us. Nothing underscores the urgency of have longer barrels of 5 to 6 inches in length. such legislation more than the lifelong paral­ In an interview today, DouglasS. McClana­ ysis now predicted !or Governor Wallace. · han, the 39-year-old founder and board TEST VO'l'E SCHEDULED chatrman of Charter Arms, acknowledged Mr. Bayh is chairman of the subcommittee we do not argue that the passage of such that under the Federal Gun Control Act of legislation will make every presidential can­ on Juvenile delinquency of the Senate Judi­ 1968 his company's five-shot revolver with a ciary Committee--a panel that has strug­ didate safe from attack or that it will elimi­ "two-inch barrel''-it is actually one and nate gunplay from our national life. We gled to strengthen the Federal gun laws for seven-eighths inches long, he said--could years bec.ause no other committee would recognize that there are mlllions of guns in not be legally imported. · private hands all over the nation and that tackle the problem-end it is before this He noted that the same revolver with a 3- subcommittee that the test vote will come even after the passage of strong regulatory inch barrel, also manufactured by Charter legislation, there will be a virulent black tomorrow. Arms, would be a legal import under the Senator Bayh hoped that the eight-m.em­ market in illegal weapons. Nevertheless, it Federal law. cannot be denied that strong regulatory leg­ ber panel would improve his proposed islation strictly enforced might have made it The 1968 act was su~posed to end the im­ amendment to the 1968 act, which would harder for a man picked up on a weapons portation each year of 20,000 to 39,000 cheaply ban the sale or transfer of a handgun to charge last October to acquire a snub-nosed made "Saturday night special" handguns, anyone but a l.aw enforcement officer unless 38 in January-as the suspect in the Wallace and thus reduce the rapid rise in crimes of the Secretary of the Treasury determined, violence committed with "junk guns" selling shooting is said to have done. And it might after tests, that the weapon was suitable for make it harder for a lot of other people to for $15 to $30. "lawful sporting purposes." acquire weapons too, thereby saving the lives But it imposed no standards of conceal­ The effect of the Bayh Amendment would and health of a number of politicians, wives, abiUty on American-made handguns, and a apparently be to forbid the general sale of mothers, policemen, lovers, strangers. The loophole in the law has permitted the con­ aJ.most all pocket sidearms-those with 2- passage of such legislation would do· much to tinued importation of unassembled foreign inch and 3-inch barrels, or with an overall change the atmosphere in this country at a parts that are put together by 23 companies length of 7 or 7 and one-half in<:hes. The time when our doubts about violence in our in this country for legal sale. 1968 law already effectively prohibits the national life trouble us deeply. Both Government and private firearms spe­ transportation of most such weapons. Finally, it seems to us that our leaders­ cialists said in interviews today that Charter all of those presidential candidates, includ­ Arms's $80 revolver could not be classified as [From the Chicago Sun-Times, May 17, 1972] ing the President himself-who were so ful­ a Saturday night special. The .38-calibre snub-nosed revolver is a standard law en­ THE WEASEL'S TWIST some in their denunciation of violence two There was a recent time when one might days ago might strike a more positive note by forcement officer's sidearm. The Charter Arms version sells for $12 to $16 less than the simi­ have thought that the terrible toll of leaders setting forth clear positions favoring strong and those who sought to be leaders in the gun control legislation. Governor Wallace, lar but more widely known Smith & Wesson and Colt Revolvers. decade of 1960s was an aberration, that some­ himself, could do the nation a great service how now the American nation was restored by reconsidering his strong position in oppo­ SALES TO CIVILIANS to sanity. The attempted assassination of sition to gun laws. For in the end, it is useless But Mr. McClanahan said that on the ad­ Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama has dis­ to deplore "senseless violence," no matter vice of his lawyer he would not disclose what pelled that error, and it has been replaced how passionately and eloquently, while doing proportion of Charter Arms sales of the with the sad relearning that running for pub- nothing about it, just as it is senseless to ig­ snub-nose gun were to policemen. 11<: office--high or low-is stlll so risky that nore a practical opportunity right at hand to ''Our competitors would really like. that the office seeker must be more stringently begin to curb that violence. informa ·~ion," he said. There seemed little protected against the people he seeks to lead. Strong and sensible gun control legislation doubt, however, that many sales were to To Wallace and his fainily, as well as to the should be passed by the Congress now. civilians. other victims of Monday's shooting, we ex­ The revolver that shot Mr. Wallace was tend sympathy and all wishes for an early [From the New York Times, May 17,1972] purchased by the suspect last Jan. 13 at recovery. The specter of disability hangs over SHOOTING OF WALLACE SPURS A NEW EFFORT To Casanova Guns in Milwaukee, according to the governor; we would remind him that TIGHTEN GUN CONTROL Treasury spokesmen. Under the Gun Con­ Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not deterred (By Ben A. Franklin) trol Act of 1968, a revolver purchaser and by physical disability from running for office, the gun dealer must fill out a Form 4473- WASHINGTON, May 16.-The attempted and Wallace has the same right to be heard. Firearms Transactions Record, listing the What a terrible blow is this latest maniJ assassination of Gov. George C. Wallace of buyer's name, height, weight, race, address fesba.tion of political violence to our tightly Alabama with an American-made, $80 bar­ and date and place of birth. held beliefs in how the process of election gain revolver of a type that has been barred The form, kept on file by the dealer re­ should be conducted! Are candidates and as an i!llport since 1968 spurred anew here ouires the buyer to swear that he is not un­ officeholders alike to be as Nero was in the today the periodic and usually unsuccessful der indictment for or convicted o! a felony, last years of his reign, fearful to go anywhere efforts of gun law reformers to tighten Fed­ that he is not a fugitive from Justice, that but the most secure areas? Must "public ap­ eral firearms legislation. he is not a drug addict or "adj'\flicated" as a pearances" be limited to television studios A test vote was scheduled tomorrow in a mental incompetent, that he has not been which are themselves the centers of armed Senate subcommittee on a proposal to pro­ dishonora.bly discharged from the armed camps? These things, we used to believe, hap­ hibit the sale to anyone but law enforce­ forces and that he is not an lllega.l alien or a pened only in faraway places, or to gangsters ment officers of snub-nosed, readily conceal­ United States citizen who has renounced his in our own land. able weapons with little or no sporting value, citizenship. The roster of the last decade is horrendous. May 17, 1972 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 17773 There is the official violence of Orangeburg, I know all their tired and useless, but this country, however, is the case with which Kent State, Jackson State and Attica. There unfortunately o-rerwhelming arguments. almost anybody can locate and acquire a gun. is the individual violence which has brought I've been smothered with them before. I The nation's gunowners (often referred to down John and Robert Kennedy, Dr. Martin even know the threats of some of them. as "the gun lobby") make a cogent argument Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and now Wal­ THE USUAL BOGEYMEN in opposition to controls. The second amend­ lace. Even George Lincoln Rockwell had the ment to the federal Constitution states: "A Take away our guns, they wail, and when well regulated milita being necessary to the right to a reasonable expectation that he the Russians come, or the Red Chinese, or would die in bed. security of a free state, the right of the peo­ the North VIetnamese, or the Martians in­ ple to keep and bear arms shall not be in­ We live in a climate of violence. A century vade us we will be able to fight them only away from the frontier, we rejoice in vio­ fringed." Thus, they claim, gun control is un­ with pitchforks. constitutional. lence. An "action-packed" television drama Oh, for God's sake, I can just picture the is followed by the real life picture of a pres­ The majority of gun owners are law-abid­ local gun club down at the seashore dri~ idential candidate surrounded by police and ing farmers, sportsmen, and private citizens off tanks with No. 6 birdshot. who do not commit crimes. After all, it is Secret Service agents, their eyes sweeping Yeah, I know the one, the argument that like lighthouse beams to spot the threat be­ criminals, not guns, who kill people. guns don't kill. That it's the man, not the There are more than 20,000 gun control fore it strikes. A century away from the weapon. The hell guns don't kill. They damn frontier, we still have men riding shotgun. laws on the books in this country (includ­ sure do, because that's their primary ing Chicago and Illinois statutes), but they What William Butlet" Yeats said of his native function. Ireland in 1919 is applicable today: have failed to work because criminals do not Now, we get to the one about a pistol in obey them. Gun control laws are effective only We who seven years ago the house keeps the burglars away. That after the fact, their opponents say, and there Talked of honor and of truth, one is beautiful. I want to cry when I hear are so many illegal guns already in circula­ Shriek with pleasure when we show that one ring across the land. tion that a ban on them would be next to The weasel's twist, the weasel's tooth. A loaded pistol around the house is an useless in terms of reducing crime. Political open invitation for a 4-year-old kid to blow assassins, they add, are mentally unbalanced As government becomes more authoritari­ his head off when his mother isn't looking. an, and parties more inclined towards self­ fanatics who are impossible to stop with or The NRA itself in previous literature preaches without gun control laws. justification than seeking honor and truth, that a gun and its ammunition should be the rest of the nation becomes polarized, in­ All this is largely true, but the Constitution kept apart when children are in the house. was written at a time when police were all :flamed. If the examples of the past were not That being the case, you're going to have enough, the incidents of Monday afternoon but nonexistent and men carried swords and to have one helluva obliging burglar in the saddle pistols as a matter of course. Times 1n Maryland should teach us that anyone-­ house. You're going to have to ask the burglar anyone--who attempts for his own vainglory have considerably changed. Does the Con­ to wait downstairs while you find the bullets stitution require that everyone have free ac­ or political purposes to divide and segment to load your gun. America must share the responsibility for cess to handguns as well as rifles? Do farmers And, of course, I know that people die and sportsmen really need handguns? As a the public climate in which madmen feel every day from a knife or an auto, or a bar of they can act. hunting weapon, a handgun is next to useless. soap in the bathtub. And these are not out­ It is designed for the killing of men at close Moreover, the list on which Wallace's name lawed. But I'll tell you something, I'd a now appears is swelled a thousandfold by range, and for little else. damn sight rather face a man with a sling­ True, gun control laws have been relatively victims whose names are not as famous. This shot than a .38 caliber pistol. latest act of mindlessness should carry one ineffective. But if they were combined with message: If we as a nation aot like vicious TO KNOW IS TO FEAR sterner stop and frisk measures and harsher children, our lives must be strictured as are Look, baby, I know about guns. Maybe penalties for the commission of crimes with those of vicious children. Strict controls over more than a lot of nuts who think I should a gun, would they not then work? Would not the manufacture and sales of handguns­ be deported. I grew up on guns, hunted with control on the manufacture and importation the6e children's toy~e more vital t.han them when I was a kid and !ought two wars of hand guns eventually dry up the supply? ever. As Tom Wicker put it in Tuesday's New with them. And maybe that's why they scare Pistols are involved in some 92 per cent of York Times: "The blatant availability of the hell out of me now, and I don't want any the homicides committed in this country guns 1n America simply cannot be set aside part of them. every year. They are used in 96 per cent of or discounted as a major source of violent Nobody has ever seriously suggested that the robberies. Must it be so easy for criminals crime." all the guns be confiscated in this country, to obtain them? There is good draft legislation before the that the hunter be denied his sport. Just a Many citizens in high-crime areas say they Congress on handguns (we have long since uniform federal law that will make it difficult need guns for self defense. But for every in­ lost faith 1n lllinois legislators to acquit to buy a piece of machinery designed to kill cident in which a grocer or homeowner shoots themselves like responsible human beings in another person. a robber in self-defense, there are several in this regard). It must be passed before our Sure, I know that criminals and idiots and which a grocer or homeowner is shot reaching national preoccupation with violence thruSts :flaming nitwits are able to get a gun illegal­ for his gun, and countless more in which in­ more weapons into the hands of those who ly, but that's largely because there are sa nocent persons are shot either by accident would seek the bubble reputation by shoot­ damn many guns available. or in a trivial quarrel. Of more than 20,000 ing down those with whom they disagree. Local, statewiUntz"ies, or that political assassina­ This newspaper has fought for e:fiective others who find in the gun a sense of tions are more characteristic of this country gun controls over a good many years. It has superiority. than of most others. What does distinguish seemed to us that the series of assassina- / 17774 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE May 17, 1972 tions of public leaders begun with the mur­ gress, private landowners within areas Inservice training for parents and der of President Kennedy has provided the given wilderness designations are fully teachers playing a direct role in the lives strongest possible argument for such con­ protected in their access to their prop­ of the severely and profoundly retarded. trols. And it seems to us now that the erty and, in addition, may have the right The bill acknowledges that most chil­ brutal and crippling attack on Gov. George dren who are severely or profoundly re­ c. Wallace provides one more powerful to exchange their lands for other public thrust to the argument. lands outside the wilderness area. tarded have other disabilities, and pro­ For the man who witnesses say shot As is the case with any proposal of this vides that no child shall be precluded Wallace could not have owned his :as cali­ nature that comes within the jurisdic­ from participating in a program funded ber pistol, for example, under nunols Rep. tion of the House Committee on Interior under this bill because of additional dis­ Abner Mikva's b111 prohibiting handgun and Insular Affairs, public hearings will abling conditions. ownership by any except members of the have to be held in the looal area to insure In recent months the public's atten­ pollee, and mllltary, and recognized pistol that the views of those most directly con­ tion has been directed to the conditions clubs. Mikva's is one of the more stringent of cerned can be taken into consideration that exist in the institutions for the re­ many federal gun control proposals. The before any final decisions are made. tarded. Most brutal have been the tele­ reason there is no effective federal control I, personally, shall be soliciting con­ vision reports of the conditions in Wil­ is that the opposition is well-organized and tinued local input on this question in lowbrook, a State institution for the re­ politically powerful. The Nixon administra­ order to refine fully the details of this tarded in New York City. The conditions tion itself has been acutely mindful of this proposal to make certain it meets the of Willowbrook are the product of ne­ power, opposing "tough" controls and needs and wishes of the people who live glect-today's neglect and that of the hedging even on tame measures. Wallace past. In many of its wards, the smother­ himself has opposed gun controls. and work in the area. so we hope the President, his Justice De­ ing smell of filth and death hangs in the partment, and Congress will now take an­ air and children are left to lie naked in other reading of the issue. EDUCATION FOR THE SEVERELY their own excrement. These children are For the persistence of the wave of as­ AND PROFOUNDLY RETARDED immobile, often grotesquely distorted sassinations and attempted assassinations

17790 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 17, 1972 from denying ·the right to vote in Federal the United States; to the Committee on the mittee on Public Works; to the Committee elections to former criminal offenders who Judiciary. on Rules. have not been convicted of any offense re­ By Mr. STAGGERS (for himself and By Mr. GERALD R. FORD (for himself lated tt> voting or elections and who are not Mr. SPRINGER): and Mr. SAYLOR): confined in a correctional institution; to the H.R. 15054. A bill to amend the Transporta­ H. Res. 986. Resolution authorizing the Committee on the Judiciary. tion Act of 1940, as amended, to facilitate Speaker to administer the oath of otfice to By Mr. NELSEN (for himself and Mr. the payment of transportation charges; to William S. Conover II, and referring the McMILLAN): the Committee on Interstate and Foreign question of his final right to a. seat in the H.R. 15050. A bill to eliminate the tax on Commerce. · 92d Congress to the Committee on House Ad­ premiums paid on annuities in the District By Mr. ZWACH: minlstra.tion; to the Committee on House of Columiba; to the Committee on the Dis­ H.R. 15055. A bill to amend the Internal Administration. trict of Columbia. Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a credit By Mr. LENT: By Mr. PRYOR of Arkansas (for him­ against the individual income tax for tuition H. Res. 987. Resolution urging supple­ self, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. HALPERN, Mr. paid for the elementary or secondary educa­ mental a.ppropl"iations to implement the COLLINS of llllnois, Mr. ANDERSON tion of dependents; to the Committee on President's message of March 17, 1972, calling of Tennessee, Mr. EILBERG, Mr. Ways and Means. for equal educational opportunities; to the STRATTON, Mr. LINK, Mr. ROSENTHAL, By Mr. DANIELSON: Committee on Education and Labor. Mr. HEcHLER of West Virginia, Mr. H.J. Res. 1202. Joint resolution to author­ FORSYTHE, Mr. RYAN, Mr. SARBANES, ize the President to proclaim the last Friday Mrs. ABZUG, Mr. DAVIS of South of April of each year as "National Arbor Day"; Carolina, Mr. NIX, and Mr. McCoR­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS MACK): By Mr. PEPPER: H.R. 15051. A bill to provide new and im­ H.J. Res. 1203. Joint resolution authorizing Under clause 1 of rule xxn, private proved transportation programs for older the President to issue a. proclamation des­ bills and resolutions were introduced and persons; to the Committee on Banking and ignating the 7-da.y period beginning August severally referred to as follows: Currency. 28, 1972, as "All-American Family Week"; By Mr. BURTON: By Mr. PRYOR of Arkansas (for him­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 15056. A blll for the relief of Leona. B. self, Mr. KEMP, Mr. STOKES, Mr. BUR­ By Mr. THOMPSON of Georgia: La.ba.l'tinos; to the Committee on the Ju­ TON, Mrs. HICKS of Massachusetts, H.J. Res. 1204. Joint resolution proposing diciary. Mr. GunE, Mr. BuRKE of Massachu­ an amendment to the Constitution of the By Mr. DONOHUE: setts, Mr. PEYSER, Mr. BYRNE Of United States to modify the appointment and H.R. 15057. A blll for the relief of Domingos Pennsylvania, Mr. CHARLES H. WIL­ tenure of Federal judges; to the Committee Afonso; to the Committee on the Judiciary. SON, Mr. PODELL, Mr. CORMAN, Mr. on the Judiciary. By Mrs. MINK: BINGHAM, Mr. GIAIMO, Mr. RANGEL, By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: H.R. 15058. A blll for the relief of Takehlto Mr. STEELE, and Mr. MOLLOHAN): H. Con. Res. 617. Concurrent resolution ex­ Kobayashi; to the Committee on the Ju­ H.R. 15052. A bill to provide new and im­ pressing the sense of the Congress with re­ diciary. proved transportation programs for older spect to the withdrawal of all American forces By Mr. PEPPER: persons; to the Committee on Banking and from Vietnam; to the Committee on Foreign H.R. 15059. A bill for the relief of Ed­ Curreucy. Affairs. ward M. Fleming Construction Co. Inc., a By Mr. SCHMITZ: By Mr. BOGGS: corporation in the process of liquidation rep­ H.R. 15053. A bill to prohibit manufac­ H. Res. 985. Resolution authorizing addi­ resented by its surviving board of directors; tUring or publishing altered flag designs of tional investigative authority to the Com- to the Committee on the Judiciary.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS­ plemental funds which New York City, fact that over 90 percent of the youth EXPANSION AND CHANGES for instance, stands to receive under the reached during the summer months, lim­ present budget provisions will not even ited as their numbers are, do not have HON. HERMAN BADILLO begin to make a dent in the city's desper· accesn to part-time employment during ate needs. the school years. OF NEW YORK Last year the city had jurisdiction over Thus, the program cannot incorporate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 48,000 summer job slots. At the same into its design, an effective career ladder Wednesday, May 17, 1972 time it had 143,000 youngsters from fam­ for the youth served. To meet minimum Mr. BADILLO. Mr. Speaker, although ilies receiving public assistance for whom needs, the summer program should be the House and Senate Conferees have a summer job was considered an abso­ substantially increased-probably tripled, agreed on appropriations that increase lute necessity. This year there are over with appropriate additions provided in the number of available slots for the 350,000 youth in New York City who are the year-round out-of-school and in­ Neighborhood Youth Corps by some 140,­ eligible for the program. Their eligibility school portions of the program. Such a '100 slots, we are still falling dismally avails them little, however, since New setup would allow communities to develop short of what we must do if we are to York will be unable to reach even 2 year-round Neighborhood Youth Corps make meaningful commitments in this out of every 10 of those who should and experiences for youth served who need area and extend to our youth genuine need to participate in the program. them. Special emphasis could be placed opportunities for training and develop­ Recreation support funds have also not on school dropouts and high school jun­ ing their potential. The yearly replay of been substantially increased over last iors and seniors who, because of academic dashed hopes and barebones offerings, year's level. This means that large num· or educational reasons are considering which in the final analysis are viewed by bers of 6- to 12-year-olds will once again dropping out of school. the disappointed youth and communities roam the hot city streets with nothing With the allocation of additional slots, as establishment's efforts to cool the to do and nowhere to go. a series of demonstration programs summers, must cease. It is essential that Dismal as these statistics are, they do aimed at restructuring the basic mandate instead we proceed with legislative rem­ not begin to refiect the true picture. My of the present Neighborhood Youth edies that will genuinely improve the consultation with city officials and other Corps could be undertaken. New York employment chances of our youth-an experts indicates that our problem is not City is particularly concerned with the approach, incidentally, which would in limited to a lack of adequate funding­ fact that present legislation does not the long run do much more to deplete the catastrophic as that is-but involves also allow officials to utilize resources of the welfare rolls than any so-called work in­ an underutilization of the potentials of private sector, and that there is a lack centive provisions presently advocated in the program. of experimentation involving both public conjunction with welfare reform. The Neighborhood Youth Corps, as it and private institutions that could result In February of this year I submitted is presently funded, is primarily a sum­ in the development of strategies utiliz­ testimony urging substantial supple­ mer program. Because of its existing ing the basic Neighborhood Youth Corps mental appropriations to ease the plight built-in restrictions it is often viewed by concept. Consequently, the city is pres­ of our cities. As we all know, the effort to the community as a riot prevention pro­ ently working on experimental ap­ meaningfully increase appropriation lev­ gram, designed to keep youth under con­ proaches that would go a long way to els failed in effect. The amount of sup- trol. This impression is fortified by the rectify the situation. I find these ap-·