Q:ongrcssional Record st United States PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 8I CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION of America

The Chief Clerk called the names of ALBEN W. BARKLEY SENATE Mr. CORDON, Mr. DOUGLAS, Mr. EASTLAND, Mr. BARKLEY rose. MoNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1949 and Mr. ELLENDER. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The These Senators, escorted by Mr. Chair notes that the senior Senator from The 3d day of January being the day MO:aSE, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. STENNIS, and Mr. . Kentucky [Mr. BARKLEY] rises and asks prescribed by the Constitution of the LoNG, respectively, advanced to the desk, for recognition. Before the Chair rec· United States for the annual meeting and the oath of office prescribed by law ognizes the Senator from Kentucky he of Congress, the first session of the was administered to them by the Presi­ would like to assume that he has unan· Eighty-first Congress commenced this dent pro tempore. imous consent to say a word to him upon day. The Chief Clerk called the names of this first occasion when he has appeared The Senate assembled in its Chamber Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. FREAR, Mr. GILLETTE, in this Chamber since his recent election. at the Capitol. and Mr. GREEN. [Applause, Senators rising.] ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Presi­ These Senators, escorted by Mr. Assuming the unanimous consent of dent pro tempore, called the Senate to KNOWLAND, Mr. WILLIAMS, Mr. HICKEN· the Senate, the Chair would like to offer order at 12 o'clock meridian. LOOPER, and Mr. MCGRATH, respectively, two or three observations. The Chaplain, Rev. Peter Marshall, advanced to the desk, and the oath of As a result of the recent accident D. D., of Washington, D. C., offered the office prescribed by law was administered [laughter], the distinguished senior Sen· following to them by the President pro tempore. ator from Kentucky will soon lose his PRAYER The Chief Clerk called the names of right to stand upon this floor and be rec· ognized. He will soon lose his right of 0 Lord our God, look with favor upon Mr. HENDRICKSON, Mr. HUMPHREY, Mr. HUNT, and Mr. JoHNSON of Colorado. free speech within these walls. He will the Members of the Senate, and bless soon lose his vote. In fact, his civil lib­ each one of them according to his needs. These Senators, escorted by Mr. SMITH, Mr. THYE, Mr. O'MAHONEY, and Mr. erties are disintegrating faster than in May they be aware of a mandate higher any other instance the Chair recalls. than that of the ballot box, a mandate BARKLEY, respectively, advanced to the [Laughter.] But as a result of the same from Thee, tp legislate wisely and well. desk, and the oath of office prescribed by accident the senior Senator from Mich· We believe that Thou wilt accept these law was administered to them by the igan is about to recognize the Senator men as representatives of the people, President pro tempore. from Kentucky, or any other Senator, and art willing to work in them and The Chief Clerk called the names of for the last time. [Laughter.] through them that they may become in­ Mr. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. KEFAUVER, Mr. It seems to the Chair that this makes struments of Thy will. Grant that they KERR, and Mr. MAYBANK. the occasion something of an event for be willing to have it so, through Jesus These Senators, escorted by Mr. CON· both the senior Senator from Kentucky Christ our Lord, who taught us to pray NALLY, Mr. McKELLAR, Mr. THOMAS of and the senior Senator from Michigan. together: Oklahoma, and Mr. JoHNSTON of South Therefore, the President pro tempore, Our Father which art in heaven, hal­ Carolina, respectively, advanced to the with great emphasis on the Latin part lowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom desk, and the oath of office prescribed by of that title, would like to say to the come. Thy will be done in earth as it law was administered to them by the Senator from Kentucky-and he knows is in heaven. Give us this day our daily President pro tempore. he speaks for the entire body-that bread. And forgive us our debts as we The Chief Clerk called the names of though he may lack the right of recog­ forgive our debtors. And lead us not Mr. McCLELLAN, Mr. MILLER, Mr. MUNDT, nition on the :floor, many other recogni­ into temptation, but deliver us from evil: and Mr. MURRAY. tions can never be taken from him. for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, These Senators, escorted by Mr. FUL· There will always be the recognition of and the glory, tor ever. BRIGHT, Mr. THOMAS of Utah, Mr. GURNEY, the fact that he is one of the great Sen­ Amen. and Mr. EcTON, respectively, advanced to ators of his time and generation. [Ap· plause.] • ADMINISTRATION OF OATH the desk, and the oath of office was ad· ministered to them by the President pro There will always be recognition of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The tempore. integrity without a blemish through first privileged order of business this The Chief Clerk called the names of more than three decades of public serv· morning is the administration Of the Mr. NEELY, Mr. ROBERTSON, Mr. RUS· ice beneath the dome of the Capitol of oath to the 32 Senators-elect. Under SELL, and Mr. SALTONSTALL. the Republic. the practice of the Senate they will pro­ These Senators, escorted by Mr. KIL· There will always be recognition of ceed to the desk by fours, alphabetically, difficult achievements in successful lead· to take the · oath of office. The clerk GORE, Mr. BYRD, Mr. GEORGE, and Mr. LODGE, respectively, advanced to the deslr, ership during critical times when his will call the names of the first four fidelity as a partisan was always matched Senators-elect. and the oath of office was administered to them by the President pro tempore. by his faithfulness as a patriot and by The Chief Clerk Iowa.-Bourke B. Hickenlooper and greatly appreciate the good will which would preside over the Senate than any Guy M. Gillette. the Chair has shown, and the cordialitY other man. [Applause.] Kansas.-Clyde M. Reed and Andrew and respect with which we have dealt Mr. President, I now submit the reso­ F. Schoeppel. · with one another here in the legislative lution, which I send to the desk. Kentucky.-Alben W. Barkley and process during the years of my member- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Virgil Chapman. Ship in the Senate. • Chair suggests to the Senator from Ken­ Louisiana.-Allen J. Ellender and The Senate of the United States comes tucky that it might be advisable to have Russell B. Long. in for its share of criticism and denun-:­ a quorum call first. Maine.-Owen Brewster and Margaret Chase Smith. ciation, and it comes in now and then CALL OF THE ROLL for what I think is an overplay of con­ Maryland.-Millard E. Tydings and temptuous asseverations with respect to Mr. BARKLEY. I beg the Chair's par­ Herbert R. O'Conor. its processes; but after all, with all its don. I intended to suggest the absence M assachusetts.-Leverett Saltonstall failings and shortcomings-and they are of a quorum, but the eloquence of the and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. outstanding in some respects-it yet re­ Chair frustrated me. Michigan.-Arthur H. Vandenberg and mains the one great forum for the de­ I now suggest the absence of a quorum. Homer Ferguson. bate of legislation and for the working The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Minnesota.-Edward J. Thye and out of the democratic process among the clerl{ will call the roll. Hubert H. Humphrey. nations of the world. It will be a sad The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the Mississippi.-James 0. Eastland and day in the history of this country if the following Senators answered to their John C. Stennis. United States Senate-or, for that mat­ names: Missouri.-Forrest C. Donnell and ter, the House of Representatives­ Aiken Byrd Eastland James P. Kern. Anderson Cain Ecton Montana.-James E. Murray and Zales ceases to be the forum where men ex­ Baldwin Capehart Ellender press their opinions and advocate what­ Barkley Chapman Ferguson N. Ecton. ever appeals to their judgment and their Brewster Connally Flanders Nebraska.-Hugh Eutler and Kenneth Bricker Cordon Frear S. Wherry. · conscience in the process of making our Bridges Donnell Fulbright Nation a greater example of democracy Broughton Douglas George Nevada.-Pat McCarran and George and self-government. Butler Downey Gillette W. Malone. 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 5

New Hampshire.-Styles Bridges and ELECTION OF PRESID~T PRQ TEMPORE yeas and nays have been ordered, and Charles W. Tobey. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The the clerk will call the roll. New Jersey.-H. Alexander Smith and Senate will now proceed to the election The Chief Clerk proceeded to call the Robert C. Hendrickson. of its officers. roll. New Mexico.-Dennis . Chavez and Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I offer Mr. McKELLAR (when his name was Clinton P. Anderson. the resolution which I sent to the desk, called). Mr. President, as I am advised, New York.-Robert F. Wagner and and I ask for its immediate considc:::-a­ I have a pecuniary interest in the result Irving M. Ives. tion. of this vote; I am so advised by the pres­ North Carolina.-Clyde R. Hoey and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With ent President pro tempore of the Senate. J. Melville Broughton. full anticipation of its sinister purpose, Having a pecuniary interest, in the shape North Dakota.-Vlilliam Langer and the Chair orders the clerk to read the of a car that is assigned while I hold the Milton R. Young. · resolution. office, I ask unanimous consent to be Ohio.-Robert A. Taft and John W. The Chief Clerk read the resolution excused from voting. Bricker.

OKLAHOMA Clerk by JOHN C. DAVIES, the Clerk has Blatnik Grant O'Toole Bloom Green Pace Gilmer Steed Wickersham therefore placed his nam~ on the roll. Boggs, La.. Gregory Passman Stigler Monroney Wilson The Clerl{ will state that credentials, Bolling Hardy Patman Albert Morris regular in form, have been filed, showing Bolton, Md. Hare Patten OREGON Bonner Harris Perkins the election of the Honorable E. L. BART­ Bosone Harrison Peterson Stockman Angell Ellsworth LETT as Delegate from the Territory of Boykin Hart Pfeifer, PENNSYLVANIA Alaska and the Honorable JosEPH R. Breen Havenner .loseph L. Brooks Hays, Ark. Philbin Barrett Fenton Morgan FARRINGTON as Delegate from the Terri­ Brown, Ga. Hays, Ohio Pickett Granahan Rhodes Graham tory of Hewaii. Bryson Hebert Poage Scott, Hardie Gillette Coffey The Clerk has ·also received a certifica­ Buchanan Hedrick Polk Chudoff Rich Kelley Buckley, lll. Heffernan Powell Green McConnell Kearns tion of election signed by the Governor of Buckley, N.Y. Herlong Preston Scott, Simpson Davenport Puerto Rico, showing the election of the Burleson Hobbs Price Hugh D., Jr. Kunkel Corbett Honorable A. FERN6s-1SERN, as Resident Burnside Holifield Priest James Gavin Fulton Commissioner for a term of 4 years be­ Burton Howell Quinn Lichtenwalter Walter Eberharter Byrne, N. Y. Huber Rabaut Dague Lind Buchanan ginning January 3, 1949. Camp Irving Rains O'Neill VanZandt Since the regular election of Repre­ Cannon Jackson, Wash. Ramsay Flood cavalcante sentat.ives to the Eighty-first Congress Carlyle Jacobs Rankin RHODE ISLAND Carnahan Jones, Ala. Redden one change has occurred as a result of Carroll Jones, Mo. Regan Forand Fogarty which one vacancy now exists in the Cavalcante Jones, N. C. Rhodes Seventh Congressional District of the Celler Karst Ribicoff SOUTH CAROLINA Chatham Karsten Richards Rivers Hare Richards State of New York, occasioned by the Chelf Kee Rivers Sims Bryson McMillan death of the late Honorable John J. Chesney Kelley Rodino Delaney. Christopher Kennedy Rogers, .Fla. SOUTH DAKOTA Chudoff Keogh Rooney Lovre Case ELECTION OF SPEAKER Clemente Kerr Sabath Coffey Kilday Sadowski TENNESSEE The CLERK. The next business in Colmer King Sasscer Frazier Priest Cooper order is the election of a Speaker of the Combs Kirwan Secrest Gore Sutton Davis House. Nominations are now in order. Cooley Klein Sheppard Evins Murray Cooper Kruse Sikes Mr. WALTER. Mr. Clerk. Cox Lane Sims TEXAS The CLERK. The gentleman from Crook Lanham Smathers Patman Thomas Bentsen Pennsylvania is recognized. Crosser Larcade Smith, Va. Combs Thompson Regan Mr. WALTER. As chairman of the Davenport Lesinski Spence Beckworth Thornberry Burleson Davies, N.Y. Lind Staggers Rayburn Poage Worley Democratic caucus, I am directed by the Davis, Ga. Linehan Stanley Wilson Lucas Mahon unanimous vote of the caucus to present Davis, Tenn. Lucas Steed Teague Gossett Kilday for election to the office of Speaker of Dawson Lyle Stigler Lyle Fisher Deane Lynch Sullivan Pickett the House of Representatives for the DeGraffenried Mccarthy Sutton UTAH Eighty-first Congress the name of the Delaney McCormack Tackett Granger Bosone Dent.on McGrath Teague Honorable SAM RAYBU.RN, Representative­ Dingell McGuire Thomas, Tex. VERMONT elect from the State of Texas. Dollinger McKinnon Thompson Mr. EATON. Mr. ' Clerk. . Donohue· McMillan, S. c. Thornberry Plumley The CLERK. The gentleman from New "Daughton McSweeney Trimble Douglas Mack, lll. Underwood VmGINIA Jersey is recognized. Doyle Madden Vinson Bland Abbitt Harrison Mr. EATON. By authority, by direc-. Dl.irham Magee Wagner Hardy Stanley Smith tion, and by unanimous vote of the Re­ Eberharter Mahon Walsh Gary Burton Fugate Elliott Mansfield Walter publican conference representing the mi­ Engle, Cali!. Marsalis Welch, Mo. WASHINGTON nority of this House, I have the honor to Evins · Marshall Wheeler Mitchell Mack Horan nominate for Speaker of the House of Fallon Miles Whitaker Jackson Holmes Feigho.n Miller, calif. White, Calif. Representatives the Honorable JoSEPH W: Fernandez Mills White, Idaho WEST VIRGINIA MARTIN, JR., a Representative-.elect from Fisher Mitcheli Whitten Ramsay Bailey Kee the State of Massachusetts to the Eighty­ Flood Monroney Whittington Staggers Burnside Hedriclt Fogarty Morgan Wickersham first Congress. Forand Morris Wier WISCONSIN The CLERK. The Honorable SAM RAY­ Frazier Morrison Williams Hull BURN, a Representative-elect from the · Fugate Moulder Willis Smith Biemiller Furcolo Multer Wilson, Okla. Davis Keefe O'Konski State of Texas, and the Honorable JosEPH. Murray Garmatz Murdock Wilson, Tex. Withrow W. MARTIN, JR., a Representative-elect Gary Murphy Winstead Zablocki Byrnes from the State of Massachusetts, have Gathings Noland Wood WYOMING Gilmer Norrell Woodhouse been placed in nomination. Are there Gordon Norton Worley Barrett further nominations? [After a pause.] Gore O'Brien, Ill. Yates The CLERK. The roll ·call discloses the There being no further nominations, the Gorski, lll. O'Brien, Mich. Young Clerk will appoint the· gentlewoman from Gossett O'Hara, Ill. Zablocki presence of 420 Members. A quorum is Granahan O'Neill present. New Jersey [Mrs. NORTON], the gentle­ Granger O'Sullivan· . man from Florida [Mr. SIKES], the gen­ STATEMENT REGARDING CERT~N tlewoman from Indiana [Mrs. HARDEN], MARTIN-160 CREDENTIALS and the gentleman from Pennsylvania Allen, Calif. Case, N.J. Gamble Allen, Ill. Case, S. Dak. Gavin The CLERK. A certificate of election [Mr. CoRBETT] to act as tellers. Andersen, Chiperfield Gillette is on file in the Clerk's office, showing the The roll will now be called and those H. Carl Church Golden election of JoHN C. DAVIES as a Repre­ responding will indicate by surname the Anderson, Calif. Clevenger Goodwin Andresen, Cole, Kans. Graham sentative-elect to the Eighty-first Con­ nominee of their choice. August H. Corbett Gross gress from the Thirty-fifth Congres­ The tellers will please take their places Angell Cotton Gwinn sional District of the State of New York. at the desk in front of the Speaker's ros- Arends Coudert Hagen Auchincloss Cunningham Hale Several communications have been re­ trum. • _ Barrett, Wyo. Curtis Hall, ceived from the executive deputy secre­ The tellers having taken their places, Bates, Mass. Dague Edwin Arthur the House procee.ded to vote for Speaker. Beall - Davis, Wis. Hall, tary of state for the State of New York Bennett, Mich. D'Ewart Leonard W. informing the Clerk that a case is pend­ The following is, the r~sult of the vote: Bishop Dolliver Halleck ing before the supreme court, Albany [Roll No.2] Blackney Dondero Hand County, N. Y., and th!l.t the said secre­ Boggs, Del. Eaton Harden RAYBURN:-25~ Bolton, Ohio Ellsworth Harvey tary of state is restrained from cei·tify­ Abbitt Asp!nall Battle Bramblett Elston Herter ing the election of a Representative from Abernethy Bailey Beckworth Brehm Engel, Mich. Heselton this congressional district. However, in· Addonizio' Barden Benne~~. Fla. Brown, Ohio Fellows Hill Albert Baring Bentsen Bw·dtck Fenton Hinshaw view of the fact that a certificate of elec­ Allen, La.. Barrett, Pa. Biemiller Byrnes, Wis. Ford Hoeven ~!Q~ in due form has been filed with the Andrews Bates, ~y. ~land Canfield Fulton Hoffman, Ill. 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE 9. Hoffman, Mieh. Mack, Wash. Scott, highly cherished. It is one -of the com­ On matters of great national interest, Holmes Macy Hugh, D., Jr. pensations of service, the true and loyal national defense, the preservation of our. Hope Martin, Iowa Scrivner Horan , Mason Scudder friends we make here. So it is a pleasant liberty and keeping the leadership of the Hull Merrow Shafer duty that I have today. world that has been thrust upon us in re­ Jackson, Calif. Meyer Short I to cent years, I feel certain there will be James Michener Simpson, Ill. am very happy present to you a Javits Miller, Md. Simpson, Pa. man who is a great Speaker, one who,. little division at the center aisle. On Jenkins Miller, Nebr. Smith, Kans. when he completes this term, will have great questions of international affairs on Jensen Morton Smith, Wis. served longer than any other man as which we are again trying to assert and Johnson Murray, Wis. Stefan to keep, and to be of service by having, Jonas Ne~on Stockman Speaker of the House. To achieve that. Judd Nicholson Taber goal one· must have ability, fairness, in­ this world leadership, it has been gratify­ Kean Nixon Talle tegrity, and character,. and our Speaker ing to me in the past 2 years, and I feel Kearney O'Hara, Minn. Taylor Kearns O'Konski Thomas, N.J. has all these sterling attributes. · It is a certain I will be gratified in the next 2 Keating Patterson Towe privilege and pleasure for me to present years, that on those great, questions of Keefe Pfeiffer, VanZandt your new Speaker of the House, the Hon­ whether we live and remain free, whether Kilburn William L. Ve ~ de Kunkel Phillips, Cali! . .Vorys orable SAM RAYBURN, of Texas. there is a world that is fit to live in1 Latham Plumley Vursell Mr. RAYBURN. Mr. MARTIN, and my we will not divide at the center aisle. I LeCompte Potter Wadsworth colleagues in the House of Representa-. have that faith and confidence in the LeFevre Reed, Til Weichel men and women with whom I shall have Lemke Reed, N. Y. Welch, Calif. tives of the Eighty-first Congress, I Lichtenwalter Rees Werdel would be less than human if I were not the pleasure and honor of working. Lodge Rich Wigglesworth deeply touched by the tribute that my On many domestic issues we will divide. Lovre Riehlman Wilson, Ind. You, individually, were not called by the McConnell Rogers, Mass. Withrow old friend JoE MARTIN has just paid me. McCulloch Sadlak Wolcott One of the beautiful things about service· American people to solve · such issues. McDonough St. George Wolverton in this House is that personal relation­ The Democratic Party has been called McGregor Sanborn upon to solve them, and we will miss our McM1llen, Ill. Scott, Hardie ships and personal friendships are not diVided by any center aisle. Some of mark and fail in our duty if we do not ANSWERED "PRESENT"-! the nearest and dearest friends I have live up to the expectation of the Ameri­ Marcantonio ever had in the House of Representa-· can people. NOT VOTING-16 tives were on the left of the Speaker's With as little division as possible, I trust, we could go far toward the accom­ Buiwinkle Jennings Somers stand. I hope it may always be so. Burke Murray, Tenn. Tauriello Especially to my Democratic col­ plishment of these great purposes, doing Cole, N.Y. Norblad Tollefson leagues, who have again conferred upon great things for our own country, that it Crawford Phillips, Tenn. Woodruff may remain the freest, the most prosper­ Gorski, N. Y. Poulson me this high honor, allow me to say that Jenison Smith, Ohio I and my family shall never cease to ous, and the most powerful government upon the face of the earth. The CLERK. The tellers agree in their hold in grateful memory this gracious thing you have done for me and for them. Again allow me to thank you and to· tally. The total number of votes cast is say that it shall be my unfailing purpose 416, of which the Honorable SAM RAY­ I am happy, of course, not only as a to serve you in this capacity in a fashion BURN has received 255, and the Honor­ party man but personally, that this honor has come to me again, but I might that will not be displeasing to you, and able JOSEPH. W. MARTIN, JR. 1 160; 1 "pres­ that in this position of responsibility I ent.'' ·Therefore the Honorable SAM RAY-. say to you and all of you today that at may accept the challenge to higher and BURN, a Representative-elect from the this time I occupy the place that has better service. Again I thank you. State of' Texas, having received the ma.­ been my supreme and only ambition in The Chair will ask the dean of the jority of all t)le votes cast, is duly elected American politics since I began here House, the gentleman from illinois [M.r.­ Speaker of the House of Representatives many years ago as a very young man. SABATH], to administer the oath of office. of the Eighty-first Congress. I am charged with a great responsibility. Mr. SABATH then administered the The gentleman from Massachusetts The thrill of being elected to this office oath of office to Mr. RAYBURN. the second time does not quite compare [Mr. MARTIN], the gentleman from Mas­ SWEARING IN OF MEl\fBERS sachusetts [Mr. McCoRMACK], the gen­ with what it was the first time, but I tleman from Illinois [Mr .. SABATH], the have already expressed to you my grati­ The SPEAKER. When I first came gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. tude f_or calling me to this place again. here, it was the policy in administering DouGHTONJ, the gentleman from Indiana As I said to my colleagues in the Demo­ the oath of office to Representatives-, [Mr. HALLECK], and the gentleman from cratic caucus on last Saturday, I feel elect to call the States, and for the Rep­ Tilinois [Mr. ALLEN J will please escort more that it is a call to duty, to hard resentatives-elect to take the oath of the Speaker-elect to the chair. · work, and I am sure my friend who is office when their State was called. u · Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. retiring from this place will say that was, I believe, during the time when Ladies and gentlemen of the House, 2. some of it approaches drudgery. Nicholas Longworth was Speaker that years ago the gentleman from Texas I want to work with you. I will be he inaugurated the policy of swearing in [Mr. RAYBURN) and I both were on this fair. I will try to be helpful to each and all of the Members at one time. There­ platform at the beginning of the session. every Member of this House with his fore, if the Members will rise, the Chair At that time he paid a most glowing personal problems, and to all the Demo­ will administer the oath of office. tribute to me. You know, at that time, crats with their political problerr~s. · The Members and Delegates-elect rose Sam, I really thought you meant it. I did A call has come to us as Members of and the Speaker administered to them not think you were giving an "Indian this House and as the Democratic Party, the oath of office. gift" to be recalled within 2 years. Seri­ from the Chief Executive down, a call MAJORITY LEADER ously, it is a pleasant duty that I have to to duty · and a tremendous and crush­ The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes perform this morning, if we had to have ing responsibility. the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. a Democratic Congress. Any regrets that We have the most prosperous country WALTER]. I might have concerning the Speaker­ upon the face of the earth, more pros­ Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, I have ship decision are mitigated by your perous than this or any other nation been directed to report to the House that splendid choice. You have elected a ever was, from an economic standpoint the Democratic caucus has unanimously Member of the House as Speaker who as well as from a potential military. selected as majority leader the gentle­ has served for nearly a thir.d of a cen­ standpoint. God forbid that our mili­ man from Massachusetts, Hon. JoHN W. tury in this great debating Chamber. He tary might should ever be called into McCoRMACK. is a -man of great ability, of rare parlia­ action again, but potentially, from a mentary acumen, and skillful in debate. military standpoint, we are the most MINORITY LEADER He is devoted to his country and to up­ powerful nation that ever existed in the The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes holding all the fine traditions of Con­ world. Not even the Caesars in the age the gentleman from New Jersey, Dr. gress. We are very fortu.nate that we in which they lived, when they thought EATON. have selected that type of man as Speaker they bestrode the world like colossi, were Mr. EATON. Mr. Speaker, as chair­ of the House. He has been my friend for a:} powerful as the United States of man of the Republican conference, I am 25 years and that friendship has been America is capable of being now. directed .by that conference to o:fij.cially 10 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 notify the House that the gentleman of the House of Re.presentatives has as­ recognize ~ny member of the Rules Commit­ from Massachusetts, Hon. JoSEPH W. sembled; that SAM RAYBURN, a Represent­ tee seeking recognition for that purpose. If MARTIN, JR., has been selected minority ative from the State of Texas, has been the Committee on Rules shall adversely re­ leader. elected Speaker; and Ralph R. Roberts, a port, or· fail to report within 21 calendar citizen of the State of Indiana, Clerk of the days after reference, any resolution pending ELECTION OF CLERK OF THE HOUSE, House ·or Representatives of the Eighty­ before the committee providing for an order SERGEANT AT ARMS, DOORKEEPER, first Congress. of business for the consideration by tlie POSTMASTER, AND CHAPLAIN House of any public bill or joint resolu­ The resolution was agreed to. tion favorably reported by a committee of The SPEAKER. The Chair recog­ COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE PRESIDENT the House, on days when it shall be in order nizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE AS­ to call up motions to discharge committees [Mr. WALTERJ. SEMBLY OF THE CONGRESS it shall be in order for the chairman of the Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, I send to committee which reported such bill or joint the desk a resolution (H. Res. 1), and Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I resolution to call up for consideration by the ask for its immediate consideration. offer the following resolution

The SPEAKER. Is there objectio_P.. tQ ~pproprlations; to the committee on House 13. A letter from the clerk, Court of Claims the request of the gentleman from Administration. . Qf the United States, transmitting a state~ 2. A letter from the Clerk of the House of ment of all judgments rendered by the Court ;New York? Representatives, transmitting, ln compliance <;>f Claims for the year ended Dec.ember 3, There was no objection. \Jlith the requirements of rule III, clause 2, 1948; to the Committee on the Judiciary. EXTENSION OF REMARKS of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 14. A letter from the Secretary of Defense, a list of reports which it is the duty of any \ransm1tting a draft of a proposed blll to Mr. DAVIS of Georgia asked and was officer or department to make to Congress e:nhance further the security of the United · given permission to extend his remarks (H. Doc. No. 32); to the Committee on House ~tates by preventing disclosures of lnforma- · in the RECORD and include a resolution. Administration and ordered to be printed. ~ion concerning the cryptographic systems Mr. WHITE of Idaho asked and was 3. A letter from the Secretary of Defense, a.nd the communication 1ntell1gence activities given permission to extend his remarks transmitting, pursuant to Public Law 313, of the United States; to the Committee on in the RECORD in two instances. Eightieth Congress, as amended by Public the Judiciary. 15. A letter from the Chief Justice of the Mr. GORE asked and was ·given per~ Law 758, Eightieth Congress, a report setting :torth the number of positions established t;Tnited States, transmitting a report of the mission to extend his remarks in the pursuant to this act in the National Military proceedings of the regular annual meeting REcoRD and include an editorial from Establishment during that calendar year, and Of the Judicial Conference of the United the New York Times. the name, rate of compensation, and descrip~ States held in Washington, D. C., September Mr. KLEIN asked and was given per~ tion of qualifications of each incumbent to~ 27, 29, 1948 (pursuant to the provisions of mission to extend his remarks in the gether with a statement of the functions per~ title 28, U. S. Code, sec. 331) (H. Doc. No. RECORD in two instances and to include formed by each, this report to be made to 31); to the Committee on the Judiciary and extraneous matter. Congress as of December 31 of each year; ordered to be printed. Mr. GATHINGS asked and was given to the Committee on Armed Services. 16. A letter from the Attorney General, 4. A letter from the Secretary of Defense, transmitting the amendments to the Rules permission to extend his remarks in the transmitting the First Report of the Secre­ of Criminal Procedure for the United States RECORD and include an article by Eva tary of Defense, pursuant to the National District Courts (H. Doc. No. 30); to the Cotn~ Conley. Security Act of 1947; to the Committee on mittee on the Judiciary and ordered to be Mr. BLATNIK asked and was given Armed Services. printed. permission to extend his remarks in the 5. A letter from the Acting Secretary of 17. A letter from the Secretary of the In~ RECORD. Agriculture, transmitting a report on the terior, transmittjng a draft of a bill to amend operation of the agricultural conservation the second paragraph of section 7 of the Mr. KEOGH (at the request of Mr. Columbia Basin Project Act, an act approved PRICE) was given permission to extend program for the program year 1947, with a financial report for the fiscal year ended June March 10, 1943 (57 Stat. 14); to the Com­ his remarks in the RECORD in two in~ 30, 1948; to the Committee on Agriculture. mittee on Public Lands. stances and include an article in each 6. A letter from the Acting Secretary of 18. A letter from the Secretary of the In­ instance. Agriculture, transmitting the report of the terior, transmitting a draft of a bill entitled Mr. GORDON asked and was given Federal crop Insurance Corporation's opera­ "A bill to amend section 10 of the Reclama~ in tion Project Act of 1939"; to the Committee permission to extend his remarks the tions for 1948; to the Committee on Agri~ on Public Lands. RECORD and include a timely article which culture. 19. A letter from the Chairman, National appeared in the Washington Sunday 7. A letter from the Acting Secretary of Ar.chives, transmitting the report of the Na~ Star. Agriculture, transmitting a report for the tiona! Archives Trust Fund Board for the Mr. LARCADE asked and was given fiscal year ended June 30, 1948, covering the fiscal year ended June 30, 1948; to the Com­ permission to extend his remarks in the receipts, expenditures, and work of the agri­ mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. RECORD in three instances and to include cultural experiment stations in Hawali and 20. A letter from the Postmaster General, Puerto Rico under the Hatch, Adams, Purnell, Chairman, Board of Trustees, transmitting a telegram, a resolution, and an edi~ and supplementary acts; the Bankhead-Janes the report of operations of the Postal Savings torial. Act of June 29, 1935; and title I, section 9, of System for the fiscal year ended June 30, Mr. FULTON asked and was given per~ the Research and Marketing Act of 1946; to 1948 (H. Doc. No. 11); to the Committee on mission to extend his remarks in the the Committee on Agriculture. Post Office and Civil Service and ordered to RECORD and include an editorial. 8. A letter from the Acting Secretary of be printed. Mr. JUDD asked and was given per~ Agriculture, transmitting a report of the mission to extend his remarks in the activities of, funds used by, and do.nations to the regional research laboratories estab~ P.UBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS REcORD in two instances and to include llshed pursuant to section 202 of the Agri~ extraneous matter in each. Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public cultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as required bills and resolutions were introduced and Mr. JAVITS asked and was given per­ by paragraph (e) of the section; to the Com~ tntssion to extend his remarks in the mittee on Agriculture. severally referred as follows: RECORD. 9. A letter from the Secretary of the Inte~ By Mr. O'TOOLE: rior, transmitting a draft of a bill to extend H. R.l. A bill to provide an annuity of LEAVE OF ABSENCE the benefits of the Vocational Education Act $25,000 per annum for former Presidents of By unanimous consent, leave of ab­ or 1946 to the Virgin Islands; to the Com~ the United States; to the Committee on the sence was granted to Mr. SOMERS (at the mittee on Education and Labor. · Judiciary. 10. A letter from the Secretary of the Treas~ H. R. 2. A blll to provide a residence for the request of Mr. O'TooLE), on account of Vice President of the United States; to the lllness. ury, transmitting reports from the following departments and independent establish~ Committee on Public Works. ADJOURNMENT ments: Department of the Army, Federal By Mr. POAGE: Works Agency, General Accounting Office, H. R. 3. A blll to repeal the tax on oleo­ Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I Office of the Housing Expediter, Department margarine, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, move that the House do now adjourn. of the Interior, the Panama Canal, The Tax and Cosmetic Act so as to complete the re­ The motion was agreed to; accord­ Court of the United States, and the Tennessee quirements for the positive identification o! Ingly (at 2 o'clock and 38 minutes p. m.), Valley Authority (pursuant to sec. 5 of the yellow oleomargarine, and for other pur­ under its previous order, the House ad­ act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 763)); to the poses; to the Committee on Agriculture. journed to Wednesday, January 5, 1949, pommittee on Expenditures in the Executive By Mr. PATMAN: at 12 o'clock noon. Departments. H. R. 4. A bill relating to the tax treatment 11. A letter from the Secretary of the Treas­ of chain stores operated at a loss; to the Com­ ury, transmitting an itemized report cover~ mittee on Ways and Means. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 1ng transactions during the fiscal year 1948 H. R. 5. A blll relating to certain discrimi­ for account of the Pershing Hall memorial natory pricing practices affecting commerce; Under clase 2 of rule XXIV, executive fund (pursuant to the act of Congress ap­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. communications were taken from the proved June 28, 1935 {49 Stat. 426, sec. 3)); H. R. 6. A blll to create a commission to Speaker's table and referred as follows: t.o the Committee on Expenditures in the prepare a plan to enable selected students 1. A letter from the Clerk of the House of Executive Departments. who are training or who desire to train for Representatives, transmitting a report for 12. A letter from the Director, Gorgas Me­ Government service to actually serve an in~ the period from July 1, 1947, to June 30, 194S, morial Laboratory, transmitting the Twenty­ ternship within the Federal Government; to both inclusive, giving names of statutory and first Annual Report of the Work and Opera­ the Committee on Post Office and CivU contingent-fund employees of the House and tion of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory (pur­ Service. their respective compensations, including· suant to Public· Law 350, 70th Cong.) (H. By Mr. MARCANTONIO: clerks to Members; the expenditures from the Doc. No. 10); to the Committee on Foreign H. R. 7. A bill m aking unlawful the re­ contingent fund and from certain specifio Affairs and ordered to be printed. quirement for the payment of a poll tax as a 14 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 prerequisite to voting in a primary or other Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ under the social-security system; to the Com­ election for national officers; to the Commit­ merce. mittee on Ways and Means. tee on House Administration. H. R. 23. A bill to prohibit race segregation H. R. 42. A bill to reimpose the excess­ By Mr. 'JAN ZANDT: tn the armed forces of the United States; to profits tax, and for other purposes; to the H. R. 8. A bill to provide pensions for dis­ the Committee on Armed Services. Committee on Ways and Means. ability and age under Veterans' Regulation H. R. 24. A bill to assure to all persons with­ H. R. 43. A bill to reduce certain excise No. 1 (a), part III, in -the same amounts as in the Diljltriy.t of Columbia full and ,equal tax rates, to equalize Federal income taxes now provided for veterans of the war with privileges l..of" places of public education, upon married persons, and for other pur­ Spain, the Philippine Insurrection, and the accommodation, resort, entertainment, and poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Boxer Rebellion, and for other purposes; to amusement, and for other purposes; to the By Mr. ELSTON: the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Committee on the District of Columbia. H. R. 44. A bill to provide military status By Mr. PATMAN: By Mr. ANGELL: for women who served overseas with the H. R. 9. A bill to extend the time for filing H. R. 25. A bill to provide for the admission Army of the United States during World applications for the payment of World War I of Alaska into the Union as a State; to the War I; to the Committee on Armed Services. adjusted service certificates under the provi­ Committee on Public Lands. · H. R. 45. A bill to extend certain benefits sions of the Adjusted Compensation Payment H. R. 26. A bill to enable the people of under title II of the Social Security Act, as Act, 1936; to the Committee on Ways and Hawaii to form a constitution and State gov­ amended, to husbands and widowers of in­ Means.• ernment and to be admitted into the Union sured wives, and for other purposes; to the By Mr. HOBBS: on an equal footing with the Original States; Committee on Ways and Means. . H. R. 10. A bill to facilitate the deportation to the Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. ELLSWORTH: of aliens from the United States, to provide H. R. 27. A bill providing for taxation by the H. R. 46. A bill to amend section 12 ·(c) of for the supervision and detention pending States and their political subdivisions of cer­ the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, eventual deportation of aliens whose deporta­ tain real property acquired for military pur­ 1930, as amended; to the Committee on Post tion cannot be readily effectuated because of poses; to the Committee on Public Lands. Office and Civil Service. reasons beyond the control of the United By Mr. AUCHINCLOSS: H. R. 47. A bill to exempt persons who States, and for other purposes; to the Com­ H. R. 28. fi bill to provide for home rule served Jn the merchant marine of the United mittee on the Judiciary. ~nd reorganization in the District of Colum­ States during World War II from induction By Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana: bia; to the Committee on the District of under the Selective Service Act of 1948; to H. R. 11. A bill to establish a national· Columbia. the Committee on Armed Services. housing objective and the policy to be fol­ By Mr. COLMER: By Mr. FULTON: lowed in the attainment thereof, to facilitate H. R. 29. A bill to amend the Agricultural H. R. 48. A bill to incorporate United States sustail:\ed progress in the attainment of such Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to pro­ Navy Veterans; to the Committee on the objective, and for other purposes; to the vide parity for tung nuts, and for other pur­ Judiciary. Committee on Banking and Curre~cy. poses; to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. FARRINGTON: By Mr. PRIEST: H. R. 30. A bill to impose a duty on tung H. R. 49. A bil! to enable the people of H. R. 12. A bill to promote the progress of oil; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Hawaii to form a constitution and State gov­ science; to advance the national health, pros­ H. R. 31. A bill to repeal the war-tax rate ernment and to be admitted into the Union perity, and welfare; to secure the national on certain admissions; to the Committee on on an equal footing with the original States; defense; and for other purposes; to the Com­ Ways and Means. to the Committee on Public Lands. mittee on Interstate· and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 32. A bill to provide for the deepen­ By Mr. FULTON: By Mr. POAGE: ing of the channel at Pascagoula Harbor and H. R. 50. A bill to extend section 12 of the H. R. 13. A bill to establish the require­ Horn Island Pass, Miss., and for other pur­ Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 to cover travel ment that political statements concerning poses; to the Committee on Public Works. of dependents in anticipation of orders of certain candidates for public office shall con­ H. R. 33. A bill to authorize Joe Graham permanent change of station; to the Commit­ tain information relating to sponsorship and Post, No. 119, American Legion, upon certain tee on Armed Services. cost of publication or transmission; to the conditions, to lease the lands conveyed to it By Mr. AUCHINCLOSS: Committee on the Judiciary. by the act of June 15, 1933; to the Committee H. R. 51. A bill to amend the act of August H. R. 14. A bill to provide free mailing priv­ on Armed Services. 13, 1946, entitled "An act au~horizing Federal ileges for patients in or at veterans' hos­ H. R. 34. A bill to exempt persons who participation in the cost of protecting the pitals; to the Committee on Post Office and served in the merchant marine of the United shores of publicly owned property"; to the Civil Service. States between September 16, 1940, and June Committee on Public Works. By Mr. O'HARA of Minnesota: 24, 1948, from induction or service under the By Mr. ENGLE of California: H. R. 15. A bill to provide for the incorpo­ Selective Service Act of 1948; to the Com­ H. R. 52. A bill for the relief of Nevada ration, regulation, merger, consolidation,-and mittee on Armed Services. County, Calif.; to the Committee on the dissolution of certain business corporations By Mr. CROSSER: Judiciary. 1n the District of Columbia; to the Commit­ H. R. 35. A bill to amend section 327 of the By Mr. FARRINGTON: tee on the District of Columbia. Communication Act of 1934 so as to permit, H. R. 53. A bill to make the calendar· fixed By Mr. HOBBS: subject to certain conditions, the use of and perpetual; to the Committee on Foreign H. R. 16. A bill to safeguard the admission Coast Guard radio stations for the reception Affairs. of evidence in certain cases; to the Commit­ and transmission of commercial messages; By Mr. FERNANDEZ: tee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign H. R. 54. A bill to retrocede to the State H. R: 17. A bill to provide for trials of and Commerce. of New Mexico exclusive jurisdiction held judgments upon the issue of good behavior in By Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee: by the United States over lands within the the case of certain judges; to the Committee H. R. 36. A bill authorizing the appoint­ boundaries of the Los Alamos project of the on the Judiciary. ment of X-ray technicians as commissioned United States Atomic Energy ·Commission; H. R. 18. A bill to repeal the prohibition officers in the Medical Corps of the Army and to the Committee on Public Lands. against the filling of a vacancy in tl).e office the Medical Corps of the Navy; to the Com­ H. R. 55. A b111 to include certain lands in of district judge in the northern district of mittee on Armed Services. the Carson National Forest, N.Mex.,- and for Georgia; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin: other purposes; to the Committee on Public H. R. 19. A b111 to provide for the acquisi­ H. R. 37. A b111 to provide for the procure­ Lands. tion of sites and the preparation of plans for ment and installation of mechanism for H. R. 56. A bill to authorize a project for FedeTal public buildings outside the District recording · and counting votes in the House the rehabilitation of certain works of the of Columbia, and for other purposes; to the of Representatives; to the Committee on Fort Sumner Irrigation District in New Committee on Public Works. · House Administration. Mexico, and for other purposes; to the Com­ By Mr. LYLE: H. R. 38. A bill to provide that the rate of mittee on Public Lands. H. R. 20. A bill to amend the act of August interest charged veterans of World Wars I By Mr. FULTON:· 1, 1947, as amended, to authorize the creation and II on loans secured by their Government H. R. 57. A bill to amend the act entitled of 10 professional and scientific positions in life insurance shall not exceed 3 percent; to "An act to incorporate the Hungarian Re­ the headquarters and research stations of the the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. formed Federation, of America,'~ approved National Advisory Committee for Aero­ H. R. 39. A bill to grant annual and sick March 2, 1907, so as to permit such federation nautics; to the Committee on Post Office and leave to certain temporary rural carriers; to to extend certain benefits to all its members; Civil Service. the Committee on Post Office and Civil to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. POWELL: Service. H. R. 58. A bill to provide for the conver­ H. R. 21. A bill to prohibit discrimination By Mr. DINGELL: sion of national banking associations into 1n employment because of race, religion, H. R. 40. A bill to make permanent the au­ and their merger or consolidation with State · color, national origin, or ancestry; to the thority of the President under section 350 banks, and for other purposes; to the Com­ Committee on Education and -Labor. of the Ta.rlff Act of 1930, as amended, and mittee on Banking and Currency. H. R. 22. A bill to amend the Interstate for other purposes; to the Committee on H. R. 59. A bill to authorize payment of Commerce Act (U. S. C., title 49, sec. 3 (1)), Ways and Means. certain personal-property claims of military so as to prohibit the segregation of pas­ H. R. 41. A b111 to restore the status quo as personnel and civilian employees of the War sengers on account of race or color; to the of June 13, 1948, in the matter of coverage Department or of the Army, or of the Navy 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 15 Department or of the Navy, in the case of N. Y., in foreign vessels; to the Committee By Mr. MULTER: death, to their survivors; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. H. R. 94. A bill to establish a national on the Judiciary. By Mr. KEATING: housing objective and the policy to be fol­ H. R. CO. A bill to provide that beneficiaries H. R. 76. A bill to amend section 4 of the lowed in the attainment thereof, to facilitate of national service life insurance maturing United States Employees' Compensation Act, sustained progress in the attainment of SU{:h prior to August 1, 1946, may elect to receive approved September 7, 1916; to the Commit­ objective, a.nd for other purposes; to the the proceeds of such insurance in a lump tee on Education and Labor. Committee on Banking and Currency. sum; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. By Mr. LATHAM: By Mr. NIXON: H. R. 61. A bill to broaden the cooperative H. R. 77. A bill to amend the National H. R. 95. A bill to amend the Servicemen's extension system as established in the act of Labor Relations Act, Public Law 101, Eighti­ Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, and May 8, 1914, and acts supplemental thereto, eth Congress; to the Committee on Educa­ for other purposes; to the Committee on by providing for cooperative extension work tion and Labor. Veterans' Affairs. between colleges receiving the benefits of By Mr. LEMKE: By Mr. O'HARA of Minnesota: this act and the acts of July 2, 1862, and Aug­ H. R. 78. A bill to amend chapter 310 of the H. R. 96. A bill to amend the Judicial Code ust 30, 1890, and other qualified colleges, uni­ laws of the Sixty-ninth Congress, Public Law in respect to the original jurisdiction of the versities, and research agencies, and the 713 of March 3, 1927 (44 U. S. Stat. 1356); district courts of the United States in cer­ United States Department of Labor; to the to the Committee on Armed Services. tain cases, and for other purposes; to -the Committee on Education and Labor. By Mr. LYLE: Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 62. A bill to amend the Public Health H. R. 79. A bill to amend the Natural Gas H. R. 97. A bill to protect consumers and Service Act to provide for research and in­ Act approved June 21, 1938, as amended; to others against misbranding, false advertising, vestigation with respect to the cause, pre­ the Committee ·on Interstate and Foreign and false invoicing of fur products and furs; vention, and treatment of multiple sclercsls, Commerce. to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign and for other purposes;; to the Committee By Mr. McDONOUGH: Commerce. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 80. A bill to establish a United States · H. R. 98. A bill to provide for the extension H. R. 63. A bill to provide increases of com­ Air Force Academy; to the Committee on of the term of certain patents in the case of pensation for certain veterans of World War Armed Services. persons who served in the land or naval I and World War II with service-connected H. R. 81. A bill providing for an additional ~ forces of the United States during the pres­ disabilities, who have dependents; to the military academy in the southern district of ent war; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. the State of California, and for other pUl'· H. R. 99. A ·bill to provide for the assign­ H. R. 64. A bill to prohibit discrimination poses; to the Committee on Armed Services. ment after the war of certain patent rights in employment because of race, religion, color, H. R. 82. A bill providing for an additional of the United States to the servicemen who national origin, or ancestry; to the Commit­ naval academy in the southern district of made the inventions and diEcoveries pat­ tee on Education and Labor. the State of California, and for other pur­ ented; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 65. A bill to provide pensions for dis­ poses; to the Cmnmittee on Armed Services. H. R. 100. A bill to amend the Declaratory ability and age under Veterans Regulation By Mr. MERROW: Judgments Act of June 14, 1934, as amended; No. 1 (a), part III, in the same amounts as H. R. 83. A bill to outlaw the Communist to the Committee on the Judiciary. now provided for veterans of the War With Party; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 101. A bill relating to the perform­ Spain, the Philippine Insurrection, and the H. R. 84. A bill making appropriations for ance by Federal judges of services for the Boxer Rebellion, and for other purposes; to and on behalf of the Department of the Air United States not related to their judicial the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Force for the fiscal year ending June 30, duties; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. GRANAHAN: 1950; to the Committee on Appropriations. H. R.102. A bill to amend the Code of Law H. R. 66. A bill to authorize the construc­ H. R. 85. A bill making appropriations_for tion of a research laboratory for the Quar­ for the District of Columbia; to the Com­ the Department of the Navy for the fiscal mittee on the District of Columbia. termaster Corps, United States Army, at or year ending June 30, 1950; to the Committee in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pa.; to the H. R. 103. A bill to establish a Federal Traf­ on Appropriations. fic Bureau, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Armed Services. By Mr. MILLER of California: By Mr. HALE: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ H. R. 86. A bill to amend the Civil Service merce. H. R. 67. A bill to remove certain restric­ Retirement Act so as to make such act ap­ tions on the acquisition and holding, or plicable to the officers and employees of the H. R. 104. A bill to repeal section 5a of the transportation, of gold coin, bullion, cur­ Columbia Institution for the Deaf; to the Interstate Commerce .Act, as amended, re­ rency, certificates, or securitles, and for Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. lating to exemption from the antitrust laws other purposes; to the Committee on Bank­ H. R. 87. A bill relating to the promotion in the case of certain agreements between carriers; to the Committee on Interstate and ing and Currency. of veterans of World War II in the field serv­ H. R. 68. A bill to amend section 201 (b) of ice of the Post Office Department; to the Foreign Commerce. the Merchant Marine Act, 1936; to the Com­ Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. H. R. 105. A bill to amend the act of March mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. H. R. 88. A bill to amend the act of July 6, 19, 1918, so as to provide that standard time · H. R. 69. A bill to amend the Federal Al· 1945, relating to the classification and com­ shall be the measure of time for all purposes, cohol Administration Act, and for other pur­ and for other purposes; to the Committee on pensation of postmasters and for other pur­ Interstate and Foreign Commerce. poses; to the Committee on Interstate and poses; to the Committee on Post Office and Foreign Commerce. · Civil Service. · H. R. 106. A bill to provide retirement pay and other benefits to certain disabled veter­ H. R. 70. A bill relating to the disposition H. R. 89. A bill to amend the Postal Rate of permanent housing acquired or con­ Revision and Federal Employees Salary Act of ans of the Spanish-American War, the Phil­ structed by the United States; to the Com­ ippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion; 1948 so that the pay increase granted by such to the Committ'ee on Veterans' Affairs. mittee on Banking and Currency. act shall apply to officers and employees of H. R. 71. A bill to confirm and establish the the municipal government of the District of H. R. 107. A bill to amend section 24:02 (a) titles of the States to lands and resources in of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and beneath navigable waters within State Columbia; to the Committee on Post Office and to repeal section 2402 (b) of the Internal boundaries and to provide for the use and and Civil Service. Revenue Code, as amended; to the Commit­ control of said lands and resources; to the H. R. 90. A bill to provide the privilege of tee on Ways and Means. Committee on the Judiciary. becoming a naturalized citizen of the United By Mr. O'TOOLE: H. R. 72. A bill to promote the American States to all immigrants having a legal right H. R. 108. A bill to terminate certain war­ merchant marine by facilitating the effectua­ to permanent residence, to make immigration time excise-tax rates; to the Committee on tion of vessel-replacement programs and by quotas available to Asian and Pacific peoples, Ways and Means. eliminating certain discriminations against and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. PHILBIN: unsubsidized American shipowners; to the the Judiciary. H. R.109. A bill to amend the Armed Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 91. A bill to provide for a research Forces Leave Act of 1946 to provide that pay­ By Mr. HINSHAW: and development program in the Post Office ments be made to survivors for unused leave H. R. 73. A bill to provide for the develop­ Department; to the Committee on Post Office accumulated after September 8, 1939, by ment of civil transport aircraft adaptable for and Civil Service. a member of the armed forces who was sep­ auxiliary military service, and for other pur­ H. R. 92. A bill to extend the gratuitous in­ arated from service by death before Septem­ poses; to the Committee on Armed Services. surance benefits granted by subsection 602 ber 1, 1946; · to the Committee on Armed By Mr. HOLIFIELD: (d) of the National Service Life Insurance Services. H. R. 74. A bill to prescribe the procedures Act of 1940, as amended, to parents of cer­ H. R. 110. A bill to provide for the reim­ of committees of the House of Representa­ tain deceased members of the armed forces bursement of the town of Lancaster, Mass., tives and to protect the rights of parties un­ ~ithout any requirement as to the depend­ tor the loss of taxes on certain property in der investigation by such committees; to the ~ncy of such parents, and !or other purposes; such town acquired by the United States for Committee on Rules. to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. ~se for military purposes; to the Commit­ By Mr. KILBURN: H. R. 93. A bill to authorize the American tee on Public Lands. H. R. 75. A bill to amend section 27 of the River Basin development, California, for ir­ H. R.111. A bill to provide for certain tax­ Merchant Marine Act, 1920, so as to permit rigation and reclamation, and other purposes: exempt purchases for hospitalized veterans; the transportation of coal to Ogdensburg, to the Committee on Public Lands. to the Committee on Ways and Means. 16 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 H. R. 112. A bill relating to the eligibility By Mr. ABERNETHY: ci,tizens; to the Committee on Interstate and for pensions of certain widows and children H. R. 128. A bill to provide that acreage Foreign Commerce. of veterans of World War I and II; to the planted to cotton, in 1949, shall not be u sed H. R. 145. A bill to authorize States and Committee on Veterans' Affairs. in computing cotton acreage allotments for their political subdivisions and instrumen­ By Mr. POAGE: . any subsequent year; to the Committee on talities to elect coverage of the old-age and H. R. 113. A bill to amend the Rural Elec­ Agriculture. survivors' insurance benefit provisions of trification Act to provide for rural telephones, H. R. 129. A bill to repeal the tax on oleo­ the Social Security Act for their employees; and for other purposes; to the Committee margarine, and for other purposes; to the to the Committee on Ways and Means. on Agriculture. Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 146. A bill relating to the computa­ H. R. 114. A bill for the retirement of the : By Mr. A~GELL: tion of Federal grants to States for old-age public debt; to the Committee on Appropria­ . H. R. 130. A bill to provide for compensa­ assistance; to the Committee on Ways and tions. tion to blind persons for loss of earning power Means. By Mr. POWELL: due to blindness; to the Committee on Ways H. R. 147. A bill granting pensions to vet­ H. R. 115. A bill for the better assurance of and Means. erans, and the widows and dependent chil­ the protection of citizens of the United H. R. 131. A bill to amend sections 112 and dren of veterans, of the World War equiva­ States and ot her persons within the several 113 of the Internal Revenue Code; to the lent to pensions granted to veterans, and the States from mob violence and lynching, and Committee on Ways and Means. widows .and depende_nt children of veterans, for other purposes; to the Committee on the By Mr. AUCHINCLOSS: of the war with Spain; to the Committee on Judiciary. H. R. 132. A bill to provide for certain pay­ Veterans' Affairs. H. R. 116. A bill relating to the status of ments to States and their political subdivi­ H. R.148. A bill to extend certain benefits certain natives and inhabitants of the sions as compensation for loss of revenues 'of the Serviceme'n•s Readjustment Act of Virgin Islands; to the Committee on the occasioned by the acquisition of real prop­ '1944 to widows of veterans and to wives of Judiciary. erty by the United States for military pur­ certain totally and permanently disabled H. R.ll7. A bill making unlawful the re­ poses; to the Committee on Public Lands. veterans; to the Committee on Veterans' quirement for the payment of a poll tax as a By Mr. BARTLETT: Affairs. prerequisite to voting in a primary or other H. R. 133. A bill to amend section 2 of the By Mr. BENNETT of Florida: . election for national officers; to the Commit­ act approved June 20, 1936, entitled-"An act H. R. 149. A bill to provide for the estab­ tee on House Administration. · to extend the benefits of the Adams Act, the lishment of the Freedom National Historical By Mr. REED of Illinois: Purnell Act, and the Capper-Ketcham Act to Park in Duval County, Fla.; to the Committee H. R. 118. A bill to amend section 58d of an the Territory of Alaska, and .for other pur­ on Public Lands. act entitled "An act to establish a uniform poses"; to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. BLAND: system of bankruptcy throughout the United By. Mr. BATTLE: H : R. 150. A bill to authorize the making States," approved July 1, 1898, and acts H. R. 134. A bill repealing certain provi­ of grants and loans to the States to assist in amendatory thereof and supplementary sions of the Internal Revenue Code, relating _providing adequate public elementary and thereto; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ·to the tax on oleomargarine, and for other secondary school facil~ties; to the Committee H. R. 119. A bill to amend an act entitled purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture. on Education and Labor. "An act to establish a uniform system of H. R. 135. A b1ll to exempt admissions to H. R. 151. A bill to provide for assistance bankruptcy throughout the United States," certain charitable entertainments from the by the Federal Government in the repair of approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory Federal admissions tax; to the Committee on damage caused by erosion by waves and cur­ thereof and supplementary thereto; and to Ways and Means. rents to the shores of the United States and repeal subdivision b of section 64 and sub­ H. R. 136. A bill to authorize the appropri- · in the prevention of futl.rre damage to such division h of section 70 thereof and all acts ation of funds to assist the States and Terri­ shores; to the Committee on Public Works. and parts of acts inconsistent therewith; to tories in financing a minimum foundation : H. R. 152. A bill ' to provide for. a prelimi­ the Committee on the Judiciary. education program of public elementary and, nary examination and survey of Jl!les Creek, H. R. 120. A bill to amend an act entitled secondary schools, and · in reducing the in­ .Westmoreland County, Va .•. and of channel "An act to establish a uniform system of equalities of . educational opportunities connecting said creek with Nomini Creek; to bankruptcy throughout the United States," through public elementary and secondary the Committee on Publtc Works. approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory schools, for the general welfare, and for other By Mr. BYRNE of New York: thereof and supplementary thereto; to the purposes; to the Committee on Education H. R. 153. A bill granting exemption from Committee on the Judiciary. and Labor. income tax in the case of retirement pensions By Mrs. ·ROGERS of Massachusetts (by H. R. 137. A bill to make the educational and annuities received by State, county, and request): benefits of the Servicemen's Readjustment · municipal employees; to the Committee on H. R. 121. A bill to amend title 11 of the Act of 1944 available to the children of per­ Ways and Me~ns. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, to sons who died in active service or who died By Mr. CANFIELD: make clear the authority of the Adminis­ as &. result of wounds received in World War H. R. 154. A bill'to create the office of Sen­ trator to negotiate rates of compensation for II; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. ator at Large in· the Senate of the United training in certain institutions; to the Com­ H. R. 138. A bill to increase the compensa­ States for ex-Presidents of the United States; mittee on Veterans' Affairs. tion of new employees in the field service of . to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 122. A bill to authorize the Admin­ the Post Office Department, and for other By Mr. CASE of New Jersey: istrator of Veterans' Affairs to reconvey to the purposes; to the Committee on Post Office H. R. 155. A bill for the better assurance of Helena Chamber of Commerce certain de­ and Civil Service. the protection of citizens of the United scribed parcels of land situated in the city of By Mr. BECKWORTH: Stat_.es and other persons within the several Helena, Mont.; to the Committee on Veter­ H. R. 139. A bill to extend the coverage of -States from mob 'violence and lynching, and ans' Affairs. Federal old-age and survivors insurance to for other purposes; to the Committee on the H. R•.123. A bill to clarify the provisions of self-employed individuals; to the Committee Judiciary. section 602 (u) of the National Service Life on Ways and Means. H. R. 156. A bill to amend the Legislative Insurance Act of 1940, as amended; to the H. R. 140. A bill relating to the furnishing Reorganization Act of 1946; to the Commit­ Committee on Veterans' Affairs. of transportation and housing facilities for tee on Rules. By Mr. ROONEY: the immediate family of members of the By Mr. CHELF: H. R. 124: A bill to amend the Civil Service armed forces on duty outside the United H. R. 157. A bill authorizing the Attorney Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, States; to the Committee on Armed Services. General of the United States to recognize so as to exempt payments under such act H. R. 141. A b1ll to provide for Federal par­ and to award to outstanding courageous from taxation; to the committee on Ways ticipation in the financing of certain aero­ · young Americans a medal for heroism known and Means. . nautical developments; to the Committee on as the Young American M1edal for Bravery, By Mr. SADLAK: Interstate and Foreign Commerce. and for other purposes; to the Committee on H. R. 125. A bill to authorize the incorpo­ H. R. 142. A bill excepting certain persons the Judiciary. rat ion of the Polish Legion of American Vet­ from the requirement of paying fees for cer­ By Mr. GHELF (by request): erans of the United States of America; to the tain census data; to the Committee on Post H. H. 158. A bill to provide for the estab­ Commit tee on the Judiciary. Office and Civil Service. ' lishment ill· tfril city of Munfordville, Hart By Mr. SCUDDER: H. R.143. A bill to amend section 6 (b) of County, Ky., of a suitable memorial, "Com­ H. R. 126. A bill to authorize Sacramento the War Claims Act of 1948 with respect to munity Center Building," to the late Lt. Gen. Valley Irrigation Canals, Central Valley proj­ compensation payable to individuals who, · Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and others who ect, California; to the Committee on Public while held by the enemy as prisoners of war, gave their lives in service to their country in Lands. · were not furnished food in accordance with World War II, Munfordville being the birth­ By Mr. WALTER: the terms of the Geneva Convention; to the place of General Buckner; to the Committee H. R. 127. A bill to amend Public Law 66;3, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ · on House Administration. Seventy-sixth Congress, so as to protect tlie merce. By Mr. CROSSER: badge, medal, emblem, or other insignia of H. R.144. A blll to amend section 5 of the H. R. 159. A bill to amend section 1 of the auxiliaries to veterans' organizations; to the War Claims Act of 1948, relating to deten­ Federal Power Act , with respect to the terms Committee on the Judiciary. tion benefits payable to civilian American of office of members of the Federal Power 1949 CO'NGRESSIONAL-RECORD-HOUSE 17

Commission; to the Committe~ on Inter­ tionment of funds te Hawaii and-Alaska; to . H. R. 195. A bill to assist States tn collect­ state and Foreign Commerce. the Committee on Education and Labor. ing sales and use taxes on cigarette's; to the H. R. 160. A bill to amend section 801 of H. R.179. A bill to provide for the appoint­ Committee on Ways and Means. the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as ment of the adjutant general· of the Terri­ . H. R. 196. A bill to exempt from the tax amended; to the Committee on Interstate tory of Hawaii; to the Committee on Public admissions and dues admissions to school and Foreign Commerce. Lands. entertainments; to the Committee on Ways · H. R. 161. A bill to provide for the accept­ By Mr. GOSSETT: and Means. ance and use of funds for support of the 'na­ H. R. 180. A bill to confirm and establish H. R. 197. A bill terminating issuance of tional weather service supplementing the the titles of the States to lands beneath navi­ immigration visas to natives of certain coun­ funds appropriated for the operation of the gable waters within State boundaries and tries; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Weather Bureau of the Department of Com­ natural resources within such lands and wa­ By Mr. JUDD: · merce; to the Committee on Interstate and ters and to provide for the use and control H. R, 198. A bill to clarify the definition of Foreign Commerce. of said lands and resources; to the Commit­ controlled housing accommodations in the H. R. 162. A bill to provide basic authority tee on the Judiciary. Housing and Rent Act of 1940; to the Com­ for the performance of certain functions and By Mr. GRANT: mittee on Banking and Currency. activities of the Department of Commerce, H. R. 181. A bill to repeal the tax on oleo­ H. R. 199. A bill to provide the privilege of and for other purposes; to the Committee on margarine; to the Committee on Agriculture. becoming-a naturalized citizen of the United Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. HALE: States to all immigrants having a legal right By Mr. ENGLE of California: H. R. 182. A bill to increase the retiTed pay to permanent residence, to make immigration H. R. 163. A bill to authorize Sacramento of certain members of the former - Light­ quotas available to Asian and Pacific peoples, Valley irrigation canals, Central Valley proj­ house Service; to the Committee on Merchant and for other purposes: to the Committee on ect, California; to the Committee on Public Marine and Fisheries. the Judiciary. Lands. · By Mr. LEONl\RD W. HALL: By Mr. KILDAY: H. R. 164. A bill authorizing the Secretary H. R. 183. A bill to exempt from tax to­ H. R. 200. A bill to establish the United of the Interior to convey certain lands to the bacco sold to veterans' organizations for dis­ States Air Academy at Randolph Field, Tex.; Churntown Elementary School District, Cali­ tribution, as gifts, to hospitalized veterans; to the Committee on Armed Services. fornia; to the Committee on Public Lands. to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. LYLE: H. R. 165. A bill to authorize the American H. R. 201. A bill · to amend the National River Basin development, California, for irri­ By Mr. HARRIS: Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amend· gation and reclamation, and for other pur­ H. R. 184. A bill to create an executive de­ ed; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. poses; to the Committee on Public Lands. partment of the Government to be known By Mr. LYNCH: By Mr. FARRINGTON: as the Department of Health, Education, H. R. 202. A bill to amend the Servicemen's H. R.166. A bill to authorize the Postmas­ and Security; to the Committee on Expendi­ Readjustment Act of 1944 (Public Law 346, ter General to provide air:..mail service to tures in the Executive Departments. 78th Cong.) by extending the benefits of titles Kalaupapa, county of Kalawao, T. H.; to the H. R. 185. A bill to promote the progress II and III; to the Committee on Veterans• Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. of science; to advance the national he-alth, A1fairs. H. R. 167. A bill to provide for the admis­ prosperity, and welfare; to secure the na­ By Mr. McDONOUGH: sion into the United States of persons of the tional defense; and for other purposes; to H. R. 203. A blll to guarantee that the civil Korean race, to make them racially eligible the Committee on Interstate and Foreign liberties of labor shall not be adbridged; to for naturalization, and for other purposes; to Commerce. the Committee on Education and Labor. the Cemmittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. HAYS of Arkansas: H. R. 204. A b111 to repeal the retailers' ex­ . H. n. 168. A bill to provide for the admis­ H. R. 186. A bill to provide special priori­ cise tax on toilet preparations and on luggage, sion into the United States of persons of ties for former owners of surplus agricultural purses, and similar articles; to the Commit­ the Japanese ra.ce, to make thei:n racially real: property and veterans who intend to tee on Ways and Means. eligible for natu:r;al_i:;::!;\_tion, and for other live on farms and to engage- in farming as H. R. 205. A bill to repeal the tax on trans­ purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. their principal occupation, to eliminate the portation of proper.ty; to the Committee on H. R. 169. A biP to increase ·the compensa­ priorities of tenants of former owners with Ways and Means. respect to such property, to reduce from 90 tion of the members of the Legislature of the H. R. 206. A bill to terminate the war ex­ Territory of Hawaii; to the Committee on to 30 days the priority period within which former owners of surplus real property may cise tax rate on theater tickets and other Public Lands. · types of amusement; to the Committee on H. R. 170~ A bill to increase the compensa­ exercise their priorities, and for other pur­ poses; to the Committee on Expenditures Ways and Means. tion of the Governor of the Territory of H. R. 207. A bill to repeal the tax on cer­ Hawaii; to the Committee on Public Lands. in the Executive Department. tain telegraph, telephone, radio, and cable H. R. 171. A bill to amend the act approved H. R. 187. A bill to repeal the tax on oleo­ facilities, to the Committee on Ways and December 28, 1945, entitled "An act to ex­ margarine, and for other purposes; to the Means. pedite the admission to the United States Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 208. A bill to repeal the tax on trans­ alien spouses and alien minor children of By Mr. HOLIFIELD: portation of persons; to the Committee on citizen members of the United States armed · H. R. 188. A blll to protect the United Ways and Means.- , forces"; to the Committee on the Judiciary. States against un-American and subversive H. R. 209. A bill to amend the Labor-Man­ H. R.172. A bill to increase the number of totalitarian activities; to the Committee on agement Relations Act of 1947 to equalize midshipmen at the United States Naval Un-American Activities. legal responsibilities of labor organizations Academy allowed for Delegates in Congress; H. R. 189. A bill to raise the minimum · and employers, and for other purposes; to to the Committee on Armed Services. wage rate; to the Committee on Education the Committee on Education and Labor. H. R. 173. A bill to amend the Hawaiian and Labor. By Mr. McGRATH: Organic Act to prevent the loss of nationality, H. R. 190. A bill to amend the Displaced H. R. 210. A bill to authorize the convey­ by reason of continuous residence for 5 years Persons Act of 1948; to the Committee on ance of a portion of the United States mili­ in a foreign state, of certain persons de­ the Judiciary. tary reservation at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., to clared to be citizens of the United States · H. R. 191. A bill to prescribe the proce­ the State of New York for use as a maritime under such act; to the Committee on Public dures of investigating colllmittees of the school, and for other purposes; to the com­ Lands. Congress and to protect the rights of parties mittee on Armed Services. H. R. 174. A blll to increase the number of under investigation by such committees; to H. R. 211. A bill to repeal the Labor-Man­ cadets at the United States Military Academy the Committee on Rules. agement Relations Act, 1947; to the Com­ allowed for Delegates in Congress; to the By Mr. JAVITS: mittee on Education and Labor. Committee on Armed Services. H. R. 192. A bill to prohibit discrimination By Mr. BARTLETT: H. R. 175. A bill to amend the Hawaiian 1n employment because of race, religion, H. R. 212. A bill to amend section 3 of the Organ ic Act so as to reduce the residence color, national origin, or ancestry; to the act approved June 20, 1936, entitled "An act .qualificat ion in divorce proceedings from 2 Committee on Education and Labor. · to extend the benefits of the Adams Act, the ·years to 1 year; to the Co.mp:littee on Public By Mr. JENKINS: Purnell Act, and the Capper-Ketcham Act to ·Lands. H. R. 193. A bill to change the name of the Territory of Alaska, and for other pur­ H . R. 176. A bill to amend section 83 of the Eastern Avenue in the District of Columbia; poses"; to the Committee on Agriculture. Hawaiian Organic Act to provide that women to the Committee on the District of Co­ H. R. 213. A bill to provide for the abolition ·may serve on juries in the Territory of Ha­ lumbia. of the 80-rod reserved spaces between claims waii; to the Committee on Public Lands. H. R. 194. A bill to provide for the estab­ on shore waters in Alaska; to the Committee H. R. 177. A bill for the erection of a pub­ lishment and operation of an experiment on Public Lands. lic building at Honolulu, T. H., and appro­ station in the Hocking Valley coal region in H. R. 214. A bill to make the workmen's priating money therefor; to the Committee the State of Ohio for research on the pro­ compensation · laws of Alaska applicable to on Public Works. duction, refining. transportation, and use of land and premises of the United States in H. R. 178. A bill to amend the National: petroleum and natural gas from coal and oil such Territory; to the Committee on Educa- School Lunch Act with respect to ·the appor- shale; to the Committee on Public Lands. tion and Labor. · XCV._::-:-2 18 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3· H. R. 21-5. A bill to amend section 5 (a) of By ·Mr. EBERHARTER: H. R. 252. A bill t.o provide for the estab­ the Farm Credit Act of August 19, 1937 (50 H. R. 233. A bill to amend the Internal lishment of a veterans' hospital in south Stat. 703); to the Committee on Agriculture. Revenue Code to permit the use of addi­ Texas; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. R. 216. A bill transferring the jurisdic­ tional means, including stamp machines, for H. R. 253. A bill to amend the act of June tion, supervision, administration, and con­ payment of tax on fermented malt liquors, 25, 1938, relating to the appointment of post­ trol over the salmon and other fisheries of provide for the establishment of brewery bot­ masters under civil service; to the Committee Alaska, except the fur-seal and sea-otter tling house ·on brewery premises, and for on Post Office and Civil Service. fisheries, from the Department of the In­ other purposes; to the Committee on Ways By Mr. LYNCH: terior to the Territory of Alaska, and for and Means. H. R. 254. A bill to amend sect!on 1000 of other purposes; to the Committee on Mer­ By Mr. FARRINGTON: the Internal Revenue Code, relating to im­ chant Marine and Fisheries. H. R. 234. A bill to fix the salar'es of cer­ position of gift tax; to the Committee on H. R. 217. A .bill to provide that judges of tain justices and judges of the Territory of Ways and Means. the. district court for the Territory of Alaska. Hawaii; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 255. A bill to amend title 18, Criminal shall hereafter be appointed to hold their H. R. 235. A bill to provide for the tenure Code, to declare certain papers, pamphlets, offices during good behavior; to the Commit­ of office of the justices of the Supreme Court books, pictures, and writings nonmailable, to tee on the Judiciary. of the Territory of Hawaii, the judges of the provide a penalty for mailing same, and for H. R. 218. A bill to forbid the appointment circuit courts of the Territory of I:;:awaii, and other purposes; to the Committee on Post of any person but a resident of the Territory the judges of the United States District Court Office and Civil Service. of Alaska to the office of Governor of said for the Territory of Hawaii; to the Committee H. R. 256. A bill to limit grounds for ex­ Territory; to the Committee on Public Lands. on the Judiciary. clusion from the United States in the case H. R. 219. A bill to confer jurisdiction up­ By Mr. HINSHAW: of certain classes of honorably discharged on the Court of C1atms to determine the H. R. 236. A bill to authorize the inter­ veterans who are aliens; to the Committee amounts due to and render judgment upon service transfers of officers; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the claims of the employees of the Alaska on Armed Services. H. R. 257. A bill to amend section 2402 (a) Railroad for overtime work performed; to By Mr. KELLEY: of the Internal Revenue Code; to the Com­ the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 237. A bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley mittee on Ways and Means. H. R. 220. A bill to al)'lend section 3 of the Act; . to the Committee on Education and ' By Mr. MACK of Washington: act entitled "An act to revise the Alaska game Labor. H. R. 258. A bill to extend the coverage of law," approved July 1, 1943, as amended (57 By Mr. KILDAY: the Federal old-age and survivors insurance Stat. 301); to the Committee on Public H. R. 238. A bill to amend section 203 (a) system to the self-employed, employees of Lands. of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and nonprofit institutions, and, under voluntary H. R. 221. A bill to amend section 8 of the Retirement Equalization Act of 1948; to the agreements, employees of State and local act of June 17, 1886, as amended (46 U.S. C., Committee on Armed Services. governments, increase the benefits payable sec. 289) , and section 27 of the Merchant Ma· By Mr. KING: under such system, lower the age require­ rine Act, 19~0. as amended ( 46 U. S. C., sec. H. R. 239. A bill to allow for income-tax ments for female beneficiariEs, and liberalize 883); to the Committee on Merchant Marine purposes a deduction for depreciation and the eligibility provisions of the system, and and Flsheries. repairs on the residence of a taxpayer; to the for other purposes; to the Committee on H R. 222. A bill to provide for the estab­ Committee on Ways and Means. Ways and Means. lishment of a national cemetery at Juneau, By Mr. KEOGH: 'By Mr. MARCANTONIO: 'J'erritory of Alaska; to the Committee on H. R. 240. A bill to amend the act entitled "An act to reclassify the salaries of post­ H. R. 259. A bill to repeal the Labor-Man­ Public Lands. agement Relations Act, 1947, and to reenact masters, officers, and employees of th~ postal H. R. 223. A bill to provide that veterans the National Labor Relations Act, 1935, and may obtain copies of public records in the service; to establish uniform procedures for for other purposes; to the Committee on Edu­ Territory of Alaska, without the payment of computing compensation; and for other pur­ cation and Labor. poses," approved July 6, 1945; to the Com­ any fees. for use in presenting claims to the By Mr. PATTERSON: Veterans' Administration; to the Committee mitte~ on Post Office and Civil Service. H. R. 241. A bill to increase the salaries of H. R. 260. A bill to suspend certain import on Public Lands. taxes on copper; to the Committee on Ways H. R. 224. A bill to authorize a program of Federal judges and for other purposes; to the uteful public works for the development of Committee on the Judiciary. and Means. the Territory of Alaska; to the Committee on H. R. 242. A bill to provide for the con­ By Mr. PHILBIN: Public Lands. ferring of the degree of bachelor of science H. R. 261. A bill to authorize the furnish­ H. R. 225. A bill authorizing the Legisla:­ upon graduates of the Urited States Mer­ ing of especially equipped automobiles to ture of Alaska to alter, amend, or repeal cer­ chant Marine Academy; to the Committee on amputees whose injury was incurred while tain laws of Alaska imposing taxes for carry­ Merchant Marine and Fisheries. on active service before World War II and who were not discharged until after Da­ ing on business and trade, and for other pur­ H. R. 243. A bill to amend section 3761 of poses; to the Committee on Public Lands. cember 7, 1941; to the Committee on Vet­ the Internal Revenue Code and section 3469 erans' Affairs. By Mr. BLAND: of the Revised Statutes; to the Committee H. R. 226. A bill to amend the Oil Pollution on Ways and Means. H. R. 262. A bill to permit the naturaliza­ tion of certain persons whose sons and Act, 1924, to increase the penalties specified H: R. 244. A bill to provide for the furnish­ in such act, and for other purposes; to the daughters have served with the land or naval ing of the Congressional Record to members forces or the maritime service of the United Committee on Public Works. of the Federal judiciary; to the Committee H. R. 227. A bill to provide for a prelimi­ States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. on House Administration. By Mr. PHILLIPS of California: nary examination and survey of Cubitt Creek, H. R. 245. A bill for postal employees' lon­ Northumberland County, Va., and the chan­ H. R. 263. A bill to authorize the Secretary gevity; to the Committee on Post Office and of the Navy to grant to the County of Orange, nel connecting with the Chesapeake Bay; to Civil Service. the Committee on Public Works. Calif., a· perpetual easement for the mainte­ H. R. 246. A bill to provide study periods nance and operation of a public highway, and H. R. 228. A bill to authorize the Board of for post-office clerks, terminal and transfer Engineers. for Rivers and Harbors to prepare to grant to the Irvine Co., a corporation, a clerks; to the Committee on Post Office and perpetual easement for the maintenance, op­ estimates and plans for improvement of cer­ Civil Service. tain river and harbor projects, and for other eration, and use of a water-pipe line, in the purposes; to the Committee on Public Works. H. R. 247. A bill to amend section 22, sub­ vicinity of the naval air base, Santa Ana, H. R. 229. A bill to provide for an examina­ division (b), paragraph (2), of subparagraph Orange County, Calif.; to the Committee on tion and survey of Pope Creek, Westmore­ (B) of the Internal Revenue Code; to the Armed Services. land County, Va., and of channel connecting Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 264. A bill to amend Public Law 521, said creek with Potomac River; to the Com­ H. R. 248. A bill granting leave of absence Seventy-eighth Congress, chapter 626, sec­ mittee on Public Works. to postal employees on account of death in ond session; to the Committee on Public H. R. 230. A bill to promote effectual uti­ family; to the Committee on Post Office and Works. lization of the fishery resources of the United Civil Service. H. R. 265. A bill to strengthen national se­ States; to the Committee on Merchant Marine H. R. 249. A bill to amend section 25 (b) curity and the common defense by authoriz­ and Fisheries. (1) of the Internal Revenue Code; to the ing the construction and operation of dem­ By Mr. BLATNIK: Committee on Ways and Means. onstration plants to produce potable water H. R. 231. A bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley By Mr. LYLE: from sea water, or other liquids, elements, Act; to the Committee on Education and H. R. 250. A bill to allow certain periods of or substances in order to promote the gen­ Labor. service to be credited to certain employees eral welfare of the Nation and to conserve By Mr. CORBETT: of the postal service for purposes of promo­ and increase the national water resources, H. R. 232. A bill to repeal the tax on oleo­ tion under the act of July 6, 1945; to the and for other purposes; to the Committee on margarine, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, Committee on Post Office and CivU Service. Armed Services. - and Cosmetic Act so as to complete the re­ H. R. 251. A bill to provide for the appoint· By Mr. PICKE'IT: quirements for the positive identification of ment of an additional Federal district judge H. R:. 266. A bill to authorize appropria­ yellow oleomargarine, and for other pur• for the southern district of Texas; to the tions for carrying out the provisions of sec­ poses; to the Committee on Agriculture. Committee on the Judiciary. tions 1. 2, and 3 of the act of June 7, 1924 1949 CON_GRE~SIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 19 ( 43 Stat. 653), as amended, to the Commit· By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pa.; to the tee on Agriculture. H. R. 285. A bill to amend subparagraph Committee on Armed Services. By Mr. PRIEST: (K) of paragraph IT, part I, of Veterans Reg­ H. R. 302. A bill to provide for the issue of H . R. 267. A bill to assist the States in the ulation No. 1 (a}, as amended, to authorize ~ series of United States annuity bonds; to development and maintenance 'of local increased compensation for blindness of one the Committee on Ways and Means. public-health units, and for other purposes; eye with 5/ 200 visual acuity or less; to the H. R. 303. A bill to provide for capital-gain to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Committee on Veterans' Affairs. treatment with respect to income received Commerce. H. R. 286. A bill to amend subparagraphs on the redemption of certain United States H. R. 268. A bill to amend the Tennessee (a) and (d) of paragraph 1 of part III of savings bonds; to the Committee on Ways Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended; Veterans Regulation 1 (a), as amended; to and Means. to the Committee on Public Works. the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. By Mr. SCRIVNER: By Mr. RANKIN: H. R. 287. A bill to provide 4 years of col­ H. R. 304. A bill making unlawful the re­ H. R. 269. A bill to make the Federal Bu­ lege education, or the equivalent, to the chil­ quirement for the payment of a poll tax as a. reau of Investigation an independent agency dren of persons whose death resulted from prerequisite to voting in a primary or other of the Government; to the Committee on service in the armed forces du ring World election for national officers; to the Commit· the Judiciary. War II; to the Committee on Veterans' tee on House Administration. By Mr. REED of Illinois: . Affairs. By Mr. SPENCE: H. R. 270. A bill to amend chapter 311 of H. R. 288. A bill to encourage employment H. R. 305. A bill to promote maximum em­ title 18, United States Code, relating to the of veterans with pensionable or compensable ployment, business opportunities, and careers parole of United States prisoners; to the service-connect ed disabilities through Fed­ in a. free competitive economy; to the Com­ Committee on the Judiciary. eral reimbursement to any employer, insurer, mittee on Banking and Currency. H. R. 271. A bill to exempt from admissions or fund, of amounts of workmen's compensa­ By Mr. STEFAN: tax admissions to recreation facilities and tion paid on account of disability or death H. R. 306. A bill to establish a Department activities operated or conducted by the Fed­ arising out of such employment; to the Com­ of Transportation, and for other purposes; eral Government, the several State govern­ mittee on Veterans' Affairs. to the Committee on Expenditures in Execu­ ments, or political subdivisions thereof; to H. R. 289. A bill to provide for a statutory tive Departments. the Committee on Ways and Means. award of 10 percent to any war veteran who By Mr. SUTTON: H. R. 272. A bill to amend section 60 of an was wounded, gassed, injured, or disabled by H. R. 307. A bill making an additional ap­ act entitled "An act to establish a uniform an instrumentalit y of war in a zone of hos­ propriat ion to carry out the provisions of system of bankruptcy throughout the United tilities, and for other purposes; to the Com­ the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, States," approved July 1, 1898, as amended; mittee on Veterans' Affairs. as amended, to provide for the construction to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 290. ·A bill to provide increases of of one steam plant at New Johnsonville, H. R. 273. A bill to revise, codify, and enact compensation for certain veterans with serv­ Tenn.; to the Com:q1ittee on Public Works. into law title 14 of the United States Code, ice-connected disabilities who have depend­ By Mr. WALTER: entitled "Coast Guard"; to the Committee on ents; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. R. 308. A bill to provide the privilege of the Judiciary. H. R. 291. A bill to provide veterans' bene­ becoming a naturalized citizen of the United H. R. 274. A bill to revise, codify, and enact fits based upon service as a member of the States to all immigrants having a legal right into law title 38 of the United States Code, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; to the Com­ to permanent residence, to make immigration entitled "Pensions and Veterans' Benefits"; mittee on Veterans' Affairs. quotas available to Asian and Pacific peoples, to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 292. A bill to provide that veterans and for other purposes; to the Committee on H. R. 275. ·A bill to amend the Longshore­ now receiving compensation for certain so­ the Judiciary. men's and Harbor Workers' Compensation called presumptive disabilities equivalent to H. R. 309. A bill to amend the Displaced Act; to the Committee on Education and 75 percent of the amount to which they were Persons Act of 1948; to the Committee on the Labor. previously entitled shall henceforth have Judiciary. H. R. 276. A bill to amend an act entitled such compensation restored to 100 percent By Mr. WELCH of California: "An act to establish a uniform system of thereof, and for other purposes; to the Com­ H. R. 310. A bill to authorize the American bankrupt cy throughout the United States," mittee on Veterans' Affairs. River Basin development, California, for irri­ approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory H. R. 293. A bill to provide compensation or · gation and reclamation, and for other pur­ thereof and supplementary thereto; to the pension for the widows and children of de­ poses; to the Committee on Public Lands. Committee on the Judiciary. ceased veterans of World War I or World War By Mr. WOLVERTON: By Mr. REED of New York: II who had disabilities caused or aggravated H. R. 311. A bill to promote the progress of · H. R. 277. A bill to exempt certain reli­ by examination, hospitalization, or medical science; to advance the national health, pros­ gious, charitable, scientific, literary, and edu­ treatment; to the Committee on Veterans' perity, and welfare; to secure the national cational organizations from the requirement Affairs. defense; and for other purposes; to the Com­ of withholding tax at source on wages; to H. R. 294. A bill to provide for an Adminis­ mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. the Committee on Ways and Means. trator's Advisory Group in the Veterans' Ad­ By Mr. VINSON: H. R. 278. A bill granting additional al­ ministration to insure review by the Admin­ H. R. 312. A bill to authorize the composi­ lowance for military and naval personnel; to istrator of certain decisions of the Board of tion of the United States Air Force, and for the Committee on Ways and Means. Veterans' Appeals; to the Committee on Vet­ other purposes; to the Committee on Armed By Mr. RIVERS: erans' Affairs. Services. H. R. 279. A bill to repeal the t ax on oleo­ H. R. 295. A bill relating to the eligibility H. R. 313. A bill to amend title 26, United margarine; to the Committee on Agricul­ for pensions of cert ain widows and children States Code, so as to m ake the provisions ture. of veterans of World Wars I and II; to the thereof applicable to service personnel; to By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. the Committee on Armed Services. H. R. 280. A bill to provide certain equita­ H. R. 296. A bill to provide for the estab­ H. R. 314. A bill to authorize the Secretary ble adjustments in disability compensation lishment of a veterans' hospital for Negro of the Air Force to establish land-based air and pension to meet the rise in the cost of veterans at the birthplace of Booker T. Wash­ warning and control installations for the living; to the Committee on Veterans' Af.. ington in Franklin County, Va.; to the Com­ national security, and for other purposes; fairs. mittee on Veterans' Affairs. to the Committee on Armed Services. H. R. 281. A bill to amend the income limi­ By Mr. SADOWSKI: H. R. 315. A bill to authorize the composi­ tation governing the granting of pension to H. R. 297. A bill for the admission to citi­ tion of the Army of the United States, and veterans and death-pension benefits to wid­ zenship of aliens who came into this coun­ for other purposes; to the Committee on ows and children of veterans, and for other try prior to July 1, 1924; to the Committee Armed Services. purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' on t he Judiciary. H. R. 316. A bill to require statutory au­ Affairs. H. R. 298. A bill relating to the admission thorization for certain ship construction, and H. R. 282. A bill to amend the Service­ into the United States, as nonquota immi~ for other purposes; to the Committee on men's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, grants, of certain individuals who have Armed Services. to permit the veteran to select h is prosthetic served in the Polish Army, and for other H. R. 317. A bill to amend sections 22 and appliance; to the Committee on Veterans' purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 1621 of the Internal Revenue Code; to the Affairs. H. R. 299. A bill to provide free postage Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 283. A bill to authorize payments by for gift packages of food and clothing mailed H. R. 318. A bill to provide benefits for the Adm inistrator of Veterans' Affairs on the to certain foreign countries; to the Commit­ members of the Reserve components of the purchase of automobiles or other convey­ tee on Post Office and Civil Service. armed forces who suffer disability or death ances by certain disabled veter·ans, and for H. R. 300. A bill granting pensions to vet· from injuries incurred while engaged in other purposes; to the Committee on Vet­ erans of World War I and World War II who active-duty training for periods of less than erans' Affairs. are 60 years of age or over; to the Commit­ 80 days or while engaged in inactive-duty By Mr. SADLAK: tee on Veterans' Affairs. training; to the Committee on Armed H. R. 284. A bill to amend section 3413 of By Mr. HARDIE SCOTT: Services. the Internal Revenue Code, relating to tax H. R. 301. A bill to authorize the construc­ H. R. 319. A bill to amend the act of June on lubricating oils; to the Committee on tion of a research laboratory for the Quar­ 7, 1939, as amended; to the Committee on Ways and Me.ans. t ermaster Corps, Un ited States Army, at or Armed Services. 20 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 By Mr. ANDERSON of California: States for old-age assistance, aid to depend­ H. R. 357. A bill to repeal the special tax H. R. 320. A bill to provide for disregarding ent children, and aid to the blind; to the on retail dealers in oie~margarine, and for small amounts of compensation for labor per­ Committee on Ways and Means. other purposes; to the · Committee on Agri­ formed by persons eligible for old-age assist­ H. R. 336. A bill repealing certain taxee culture. ance in determining need for such assistance With respect to oleomargarine; to the Com­ H. R. 358. A bill to establish a commission until title I of the Social Security Act; to the mittee on Agriculture. on the legal status of women in the United Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. CANFIELD: States, to declare a policy as to distinctions H. R. 321. A bill to promote more economi­ H. R. 337. A bill authorizing the Secretary based on sex, in law, and administration, and cal and efficient use of the Nation's resources of War to furnish headstones to mark honor­ for other purposes; to the Committee on the by providing for a single supply catalog sys­ ary burial p1aces, and for other purposes; to Judiciary. tem for the National Military Establishment; the Committee on Armed Services. H. R. 359. A bill to promote the progress of to the Committee on Armed Services. By Mr. CANNON: science and the useful arts, to secure the By Mr. BARTLETT: H. R. 338. A bill to exempt from admissions national defense, to advance the national H. R. 322. A bill to transfer funds to the tax general admissions to agricultural fairs; health and welfare, and for other purposes; town of Craig, Alaska; to the Committee on to the Committee on Ways and Means. to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign the Judiciary. H. R. 339. A bill authorizing the Secretary Commerce. H. R. 323. A bill to amend section 1 of the of War to furnish headstones to mark hon­ H. R. 360. A bill to repeal the Silver Pur­ act entitled "An act to amend section 624 of orary burial places, and for other purposes; chase Act of 1934; to the Committee on Ways the Public Health Service Act so as to provide to the Committee on Armed Services. and Means. a minimum allotment of $100,000 to each By Mr. CASE of New Jersey: H. R. 361. A bill to repeal the act to extend State for the construction of hospitals" H. R. 340. A bill to amend the Displaced the time within which the powers relating (Public Law 830, 80th Cong.); to the Commit­ Persons Act of 1948; to the Committee on the to the stabilization fund and alteration of tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Judiciary. the weight of the dollar may be exercised; to By Mr. BLAND: By Mr. CELLER: the Committee on Banking and Currency. H. R. 324. A bill to provide for a prelimi­ H. R. 341. A bill relating to the rights of H. R. 362. A bill to amend title II of the nary examination and survey of McKanes the several States in lands beneath inland Social Security Act to provide disability in­ Bay, a branch of Rappahannock River; to navigable waters and to the recognition of surance benefits and to reduce the age re­ the Committee on Public Works. equities in submerged coastal lands adjacent quirements for old-age and survivors insur­ H. R. 325. A bill to amend the act of Sep­ to the shores of the United States, and for ance benefits from 65 to 60 in the case of men, tember 7, l916, by providing for a hearing of other purposes; to the Committee on the and from 65 to 55 in the case of women; to claims of employees of the United States be­ Judiciary. the Committee on Ways and Means. fore the United States Employees' Compensa­ H. R. 342. A bill to authorize the admission H. R. 363. A bill to extend the benefits of tion Commission; to the Committee on the into the United States of persons of races title II of the Social Security Act to em­ Judiciary. indigenous to Indonesia, to make them ra­ ployees of certain nonprofit organizations, H. R. 326. A bill to provide for a prelimi­ cially elegible for naturalization, and for and for other purposes; to the Committee on nary examination and survey of Pecks Creek, other purposes; to the Committee on the Ways and Means. Richmond County, Va.; to the Committee on Judiciary. H. R. 364. A bill making unlawful the re­ Public Works. H. R. 343. A bill to permit the exportation quirement for the payment of a poll tax as a H. R. 327. A bill to amend the act approved of· arms, ammunition, a-nd implements of prerequisite to voting in a primary or other August 24, 1935, as amended May 23, 1938, en­ war; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. election for national officers; to the Com­ titled "An act to authorize the erection of a H. R. 344. A blll to amend section llF of mittee on House Administration: suitable memorial to Maj. Gen. George W. the Immigration Act of 1924; to the Com­ H. R. 365. A bill for the better assurance of Goethals within the Canal Zone"; to the mittee on the Judiciary. the protection of persons within the several Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish-. H. R. 345. A bill to provide a national States from mob violence and lynching, and eries. health-insurance and public-health program; for other purposes; to the Committee on the By Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana: to the Committee on Ways and Means. Judiciary. H. R. 328. A bill to amend the act entitled H. R. 346. A bill to establish a national H. R. 366. A bill to aid in the naturalization .. An act to create the Inland Waterways Cor­ ·housing policy and provide for its execution; of persons with wartime service in the mer­ poration for the purpose of carrying out the to the Committee on Banking and Currency. chant marine, and for other purposes; to the mandate and purpose of Congress as ex­ H. R. 347. A bill to amend the Merchant Committee on the Judiciary. pressed in sections 201 and 500 of the Trans­ Marine Act, 1936, as amended, with respect H. R. 367. A bill to grant naturalization portation Act. and for other purposes," ap­ to air transportation by marine transporta­ rights to all persons regardless of race, color, proved June 3, 1924, as amended; to the tion and shipping companies; to the Com­ or national origin; to the Committee on the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce .. Judiciary. merce. H. R. 348. A bill to provide increased Fed­ H. R. 368. A bill to amend section 52 of title By Mr. ANDERSON of California: eral-aided public housing for families of low 18, United States Code; to the Committee on H. R. 329. A bill to amend section 138 of income; to the Committee on Banking and the Judiciary. the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 so Currency. H. R. 369. A bill to amend section 51, title as to provide for the reduction cf the public H. R. 349. A bill to amend the National 18, United States Code; to the Committee on debt by at least $2,500,000,000 during each Housing Act so as to provide increased limits the Judiciary. fiscal year; to the Committee on Ways and on cost in the case of federally aided low­ H. R. 370. A bill to empower the Supreme Means. rent housing; to the Committee on Banking Court of the United States to promulgate a H. R. 3::0. A bill to authorize the use of and Currency. code of ethics for attorneys at law practicing oleomargarine by the armed forces; to the H. R. 350. A bill to amend chapter 16 of the before the district courts of the United Committee on Armed Services. Judicial Code, as amended; to the Commit­ States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tee on the Judiciary. H. R. 371. A bill to prohibit discrimination By Mr. BARTLETT: in employment becauEe of race, creed, color, H. R. 331. A bill to provide for the admis­ H. R. 351. A bill to provide for the appoint­ national origin, or ancestry; to the commit­ sion of Alaska into the Union; to the Com­ ment of public defenders in the district tee on Education and Labor. mittee on Public Lands. courts of the United States; to the Commit­ H. R. 372. A bill to repeal Public Law No. By Mr. BECKWORTH: tee on the Judiciary. 252, an act to prevent pernicious political H. R. 332. A bill to provide a pension for H. R. 352. A bill to amend the Longshore­ activities; to the Committee on House Ad­ certain physically handicapped veterans of men's and Harbor Workers' Compensation ministration. World War I and World War II; to the Com­ Act; to the Committee on Education and H. R. 373. A bill to amend certain provi­ mittee on Veterans' Affairs. Labor. sions of the immigration laws which discrim­ By Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana: H. R. 353. A bill to amend the Nationality inate against women; to the Committee on H. R. 333. A bill to establish a national Act of 1940; to the Committee on the the Judiciary. housing objective and the policy to be fol­ Judiciary. H. R. 374. A bill to authorize the admission lowed in the attainment thereof, to facilitate H. R. 354. A bill to promote the develop­ into the United States, under a quota for sustained progress in the attainment of such ment and conservation of certain resources Koreans, persons of the Korean race, to make , objective, and for other purposes; to the 1n the submerged coastal lands adjacent to them racially eligible for naturalization, and Committee on Banking and Currency. the shores of the United States; to the Com­ for other purposes; to the Committee on the H. R. 334. A bill to confirm and establish mittee on Public Lands. Judiciary. the titles of the States to lands and resources H. R. 355. A ~ill to increase the guaranty H. R. 375. A bill to provide for the amend­ in and beneath navigable waters within State by the Government of real-estate loans to ment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of boundaries and to provide for the use and veterans; to the Committee on Veterans' 1938, and for other purposes; to the Com­ control of said lands and resources; to the Affairs. mittee on Education and Labor. Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 356. A bill to amend section 211 of H. R. 376. A bill for the relief of 29 Lat­ H. R. 335. A bill to amend the Social Se­ the Criminal Code, as amended (relating to vians who entered the United States on July curity Act, as amended, so as to increase the certain nonmailable matter); to the Com­ 22, 1948, at Provincetown, Mass.; to the Com­ amounts of Federal contributions to the mittee on the Judiciary. mittee on the Judiciary. 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 21 By Mr. CHRISTOPHER: · By Mr. GATHINGS: office at Altadena, Calif.; to the Commit­ H. R. 377. A bill to establish a United States H. R. 395. A bill to require the Adminis­ tee on Public Works. Air Academy; to the Committee on Armed trator of the Farmers Home Administration H. R. 409. A blll to provide for the acquisi~ Services. to execute and deliver to present owners tion of a site and for the construction of a By Mr. CROSSER: of real property quitclaim deeds to the in­ suitable building thereon for the use and H. R. 378. A· bill to amend section 25 of the terest in the minerals in or under such accommodation of the United States post Interstate Commerce Act to require certain property reserved by the. United States pur­ office at Roscoe, Calif.; to the Committee on common carriers by railroad to install and suant to the Bankhead-Janes Farm Tenant Public Works. maintain communication systems and to es­ Act in those cases in which such interest H. R. 410. A bill to provide for the acquisi~ tablish and observe operating rules, regula­ has only a nominal value; to the Committee tion of a site and for the construction of a tions, and practices to promote safety of em­ on Agriculture. suitable building thereon for the use and ployees and travelers on railroads, and for By Mr. GREEN: accommodation of the United States post other purposes; to the Committee on Inter­ H. R. 396. A bill to authorize the con­ office at Pacoima, Calif.; to the Committee on state and Foreign Commerce. stl:uction of a research laboratory for the Public Works. By Mr. DAVIS of Georgia: Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, H. R. 411. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ H. R. 379. A bill to provide increases in at or in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pa.; to tion of a site and for the construction of a compensation for all officers and employees the Committee on Armed Services. suitable building thereon for the use and of the municipal government of the District By Mr. HAGEN: accommodation of the United States post of Columbia; to the Committee on the Dis­ H. R. 397. A bill providing an allowance office at Montrose, Calif.; to the Committee trict of Columbia. for the purchase of uniforms for city and on Public Works. H. R. 380. A bill exempting from tax cig­ village delivery letter carriers; to the Com­ H. R. 412. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ arettes sold to certain organizations for dis­ mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. tion of a site and for the construction of a tribution, as gifts, to hospitalized veterans; H. R. 398. A bill to provide for a cash al­ suitable building thereon for the use and . to the Committee on Ways and Means. lmyance for uniforms for employees of the accommodation of the United States post H. R. 381. A bill to exempt admissions to United States Government; to the Commit­ office at Reseda, Calif.; to the Committee on religious, educational, and charitable enter­ tee on Post Office and Civil Service. Public Works. taimnent and to certain concerts from the By Mr. HARRIS: H. R. 413. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ tax on admissions; to the Committee on Ways H. R. 399. A bill to repeal the tax on oleo­ tion of a site and fbr the construction of a and Means. margarine; to the Committee on Agriculture. suitable building thereon for the use and By Mr. DAWSON: H. R. 400. A bill to authorize the appro­ accommodation of the United States post H. R. 382. A bill to assure to all persons priation of funds to assist the States and Ter­ office at Encino, Calif.; to the Committee on within the District of Columbia full and ritories in financing a minimum foundation Public Works. equal privileges of places of public accom­ education program of public elementary and H. R. 414. A bill to provide for the acqui­ modation, resort, entertainment, and amuse­ secondary schools, and in reducing the in­ sition of a site and for the construction of ment, and for other purposes; to the Com­ equalities of educational opportunities a suitable building thereon for the use and mittee on the District of Columbia. through public elementary and secondary accommodation of ·the United States post H. R. 383. A bill making unlawful the re­ schools, for the general welfare, and for office at Sepulveda, Calif.; to the Committee quirement for the payment of a poll tax as other purposes; to the Committee on Edu­ on Public Works. a prerequisite to voting in a primary or other cation and Labor. H. R. 415. A bill to provide for the acqui­ election for national officers; to the Com­ By Mr. HART: sition of a site and for the construction of a mittee on House Administration. H. R. 401. A bill to provide for the ap­ suitable building thereon for the use and H. R. 384. A bill to prohibit discrimination pointment of an additional judge for the accommodation of the United states post in employment because of race, color, na­ district of New Jersey; to the Committee on office at Verdugo City, Calif.; to the Commit­ tional origin, or ancestry; to the Committee the Judiciary. tee on Public Works. on Education and Labor. By Mr. HAYS of Arkansas: H. R. 416. A bill to provide for the im­ H. R. 385. A bill for the better assurance H. R. 402. A bill to authorize a program provement of post-office facilities at Van of the protection of persons within the sev­ for the construction of county agricultural Nuys, Calif.; to the Committee on Public eral States from mob violence and lynching, buildings, through assistance in planning Works. and for other purposes; to the Committee and financing such projects in counties where H. R. 417. A bill to provide for the altera­ on the Judiciary. agriculture is a predominant industry, there­ tion, extension, and remodeling of the post­ By Mr. DONDERO: by providing centralized housing and facili­ office building in Pasadena, Calif.; to the H. R. 386. A bill to incorporate the Moms ties for Federal, State, and local offices en­ Committee on Public Works. of America; to the Committee on the Judi­ gaged in administering agricultural and re­ H. R. 418. A bill to provide for the acqui~ ciary. lated programs concerned with the welfare sition of a site and for the construction of a By Mr. ENGLE of California: of the farm population; to the Committee suitable building thereon for the use and H. R. 387. A bill to permit the sale of gold on Agriculture. accommodation of the United States post within the United States, its Territories and By Mr. HINSHAW: office at Tujunga, Calif.; to the Committee possessions, including Alaska, and for other H. R. 403. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ on Public Works. purposes; to the Committee on Banking and tion of a site and for the construction of a H. R. 419. A bill to provide for a new post Currency. suitable building thereon for the use and office at North Hollywood, Calif.; to the Com­ H. R. 388. A bill to permit the mining, de­ accommodation of the United States post of­ mittee on Public Works. velopment, and utilization of the mineral fice at La Canada, Calif.; to the Committee on H. R. 420. A bill to amend the Securities resources of all public lands withdrawn or Public Works. Exchange Act of 1934, so as to limit the power reserved for power development, and for H. R. 404. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ of the Securities and Exchange Commission other purposes; to the Committee on Public tion of a site and for the construction of a to regulate transactions in exempted securi­ Lands. suitable building thereon for the use and ties; to the Committee on Interstate and By Mr. FARRINGTON: accommodation of the United States post Foreign Commerce. H. R. 389. A bill for the relief of the Terri­ office at La Crescenta, Calif.; to the Commit­ H. R. 421. A bill to exempt air carriers from tory of Hawaii; to the Committee on the tee on Public Works. statutory provisions requiring payments for Judiciary. H. R. 405. A bill to provide for the acqui­ compensation for customs employees over~ H. R. ago. A bill for the relief of the county sition of a site and for the construction of a time services, and for other purposes; to the of Maui, T. H.; to the Committee on the suitable building thereon for the use and ac­ Committee on Ways and Means. Judiciary. commodation of the United States post office H. R. 422. A bill to repeal an act granting H. R. 391. A bill to confer United States at Tarzana, Calif.; to the Committee on Pub­ certain public lanc;ls situated in Mono County citizenship upon certain inhabitants of the lic Works. in the State of California, to the city of Los island of Guam; to the Committee on the H. R. 406. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ Angeles; to the Committee on Public Lands. Judiciary. tion of a site and for the construction of a H. R. 423. A bill to extend the franking H. R. 392. A bill to confer United States suitable building thereon for the use and ac­ privilege to persons receiving hospital treat­ citizenship upon certain inhab.itants of commodation of the United States post office ment furnished by the Veterans' Adminis­ American Samoa; to the Committee on the at Sunland, Calif.; to the Committee on tration; to the Committee on Post Office and Judiciary. Public Works. Civil Service. H. R. 393. A bill to repeal the tax on trans­ H. R. 407. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ H. R. 424. A bill to exclude service per­ portation of persons; to the Committee on tion of a site and for the construction of a formed by certain real-estate salesmen from ways and Means. suitable building thereon for the use and the definition of "employment" under the H. R. 394. A bill to provide for the retire­ accommodation of the United States post Federal Unemployment Tax Act; to the Com­ ment of the justices of the. Supreme Court office at Sierra Madre, Calif.; to the Commit­ mittee on Ways and Means. of the Territory of Hawaii, the judges of the tee on Public Works. H. R. 425. A bill to amend the Veterans circuit courts of the Territory of Hawaii, and H. ~- 408. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ Regulations to provide increased rates of ·the judges of the United States District tion of a site and for the construction of. a compensation for certain veterans with spe­ Court for the Territory of Hawaii; to the suitable building thereon for the use and cific service-incurred disabilities; to the Committee on the Judiciary. accommodation of the United States post Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 22 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 By Mr. HUBER: H. R. 442. A bill ' to amend section 23 of specifications for a new courthouse building H. R. 426. A bill to provide pensions for the Internal Revenue Code (26 U. S. C., sec. for the eastern district of New York, and disability and age for veterans of World War 23), as amended, to provide for deductions for other purposes; to the Committee on I, in the same amounts as now provided for from gross income of the fair value of relief Public Works. veterans of the war with Spain, the Philip­ parcels sent to persons in foreign countries, H. R. 458. A bill to authorize the Federal pine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion, and for other purposes; to the Committee Works Administrator and the Postmaster and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means. General to finance the construction or acqui­ on Veterans' Affairs. H. R. 4.43. A bill to provide for the applica­ sition of post offices, in certain cases, by bor­ By Mr. JACKSON of Washington: tion and enforcement of provisions of the rowing from local lending institutions; to H. R. 427. A bill to establish a Columbia fourteenth amendment to the Constitution the Committee on Public Works. Valley Authorit y to provide for integrated of the United States and article 55 of the By Mr. LANE: water control and resource development on Charter of the United Nations and to assure H. R. 459. A bill to authorize the payment the Columbia River, its tributaries, and the the protection of citizens of the United of employees of the Bureau of Animal In­ surrounding region in the interest of the con­ States and other persons within the several dustry for overtime duty performed at estab­ trol and prevention of floods, the irrigation States from mob violence and lynching, and lishments which prepare virus, serum, toxin, and reclamation of lands, the promotion of for other purposes; to the Committee on the or analogous products for use in the treat­ navigation, the providing of employment, the Judiciary. ment of domestic animals; to the Committee strengthening of the national defense, and H. R. 444. A bill to amend the Social Se­ on Post Office and Civil Service. for other purposes; to the Committee on curity Act (49 Stat. 620) to extend coverage H. R. 460. A bill to amend the Social Se­ Public Works. therein provided, and for other purposes; curity Act so as to reduce from 65 to 60 the By Mr. JENKINS: to the Committee on Ways and Means. qualifying age for old-age and survivors in­ H. R. 428. A bill for the relief of the State H. R. 445. A bill providing for taxation by surance benefits; to the Committee on Ways · of Ohio; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the States and their political subdivisions of and Means. By Mr. JONES of Alabama: certain real properties owned by the United H. R. 461. A bill to make the Smaller War H. R. 429. A bill to increase the capital States of America or its agencies; to the Com- Plants Corporation a peacetime agency of stock of the Inland Waterways Corporation . mittee on Public Lands. the Government with power to make loans to and to extend the serv~ce of such Corpora­ H. R. 446. A bill to amend the Social Se­ small-business concerns and to insure loans tion to the Tennessee and Cumberland curity Act; to the Committee on Ways and made to such concerns by banks; to the Rivers; to the Committee on Interstate and Means. Committee on Banking and Currency. - Foreign Commerce. By Mr. KEAN: H. R. 462. A bill to amend the Federal old­ By Mr. KEARNEY·: H. R. 447. A bill to increase the benefits age and survivors insurance provisions of H. R. 430. A bill to promote maximum em­ payable under the Federal old-age and sur­ the Social Security Act by liberalizing bene­ ployment, business opportunities, and careers vivors insurance system, to liberalize the fits, by increasing amounts beneficiaries may for veterans in a free competitive economy; eligibility provisions of such system, to ex­ earn without Joss of benefits, and by lowering to the Committee on Banking and Currency. tend the coverage provisions of such system tlie age of eligibility of women beneficiaries, H. R. 431. A b1ll to amend the income limi­ to agricultural labor, the self-employed, and, and for other purposes; to the Committee on tation governing the granting of pension to under a waiver of exemption, to employees Ways and Means. veterans and death-pension benefits to of nonprofit institutions and, under volun­ H. R. 463. A bill to establish a Merrimack widows and children of veterans, and for t ary compacts, to employees of State and local Valley Authority to provide for unified water other purposes; to the Committee on Vet­ governments, and for other purposes; to the control and resource development on the erans' Affairs. Committee on Ways and Means. Merrimack River and surrounding region in H. R. 432. A bill to amend the act entitled By Mr. KENNEDY: the interest of the control and prevention "An act to prohibit the unauthorized wear­ H. R. 448. A bill to promote interstate and of floods, the promotion of n avigation and ing, manufact ure, or sale of medals and foreign commerce and strengthen the na­ reclamation of the public lands, the promo­ badges awarded by the War Department," tional defense by providing for cargo aircraft tion of family-type farming, the develop­ as amended; to the Committee on Armed adaptable for both commercial and military ment of the recreational possibilities, and Services. service, and for other purposes; to the Com­ the promotion of the general welfare of the H. R. 433. A bill to grant a nonquota status mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. area, the strengthening of the national de­ to certain alien veterans and their wives; to By Mr. KEOGH: fense, and for other purposes; to the Com­ the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 449. A bill to authorize the Attorney mittee on Public Works. H. R. 434. A bill to provide for the erection General and his assistants and United States H. R. 464. A bill to amend the act of June of a memorial to the four heroic chaplains attorneys and their assistants to act as nota­ 20, 1936, so as to broaden the aJ:plication who sacrificed their lives in the sinking of ries public; to the Committee on the Ju­ of laws governing the inspection of steam the steamship Dorchester; to the Committee diciary. vessels to vessels propelled by internal-com­ on Hom·e Administration. By Mr. KEARNS: bustion engines; to the Committee on Mer­ By Mr. KEARNS: H. R. 450. A bill to name the Veterans' chant Marine and Fisheries. H. R. 435. A bill to assist local communi­ Administration hospital to be constructed H. R. 465. A bill to incorporate the Italian­ ties in financing thr. construction of low­ at Erie, Pa., the Carl Louis Mango Hospital; American World War Veterans of the United ccst houses; to the Committee on Banking to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and Currency. By Mr. KEOGH: H . R. 46S. A bill to amend the Social Se­ H. R. 436. A bill to provide a plan for H. R. 451. A bill to amend the Civil Service curity Act to provide unemployment bene­ greater opportunities of employment, for dis­ Retirement Act of May :Z9, 1930, as amended, fits for individuals who have been employees tribution to management and to lab:::>r cer­ to provide annuities for United States mar­ of the United States, and for other purposes; tain amounts of corporate income, and for shals and deputy marshals of the courts of to the Committee on Ways and Means. ot:per purposes; to the Committee on Ways the United States; to the Committee on Post H. R. 467. A bill providing for the incor­ and Means. Office and Civil Service. poration of the Franco-American War Vet­ By Mr. KEATING: H. R. 452. A bill to amend section 3466 of erans; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 437. A bill to amend the Displaced the Revised Statutes to subordinate tax H. R. 46a A bill to amend the United Persons Act of 1948; to the Committee on the claims of the United States to wage claims States Employees' Compensation Act of Sep­ Judiciary. in State insolvency proceedings; to the Com­ tember 7, 1916, so as to increase the maxi­ H. R. 438. A bill to provide nonquota im­ mittee on the Judiciary. mum and minimum monthly compensation; migration status for the alien parents of H. R. 453. A bill to provide that a general to the Committee on Education and Labor. American citizens and to expedite admission assignment for benefit of creditors shall not H. R. 469. A bill to incorporate the Jewish of certain adopted chUdren of American constitute an act of bankruptcy unless con­ War Veterans of the United States of Amer­ citizens; to the Committee on the Judiciary. nected with some other act of bankruptcy; ica; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 439. A bill to amend the Labor-Man­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 470. A bill to amend the Internal agement Relations Act of 1947 to equalize H. R. 454. A bill to prohibit the registra­ Revenue Code, act of February 10, 1939; to legal responsibilities of labor organizations tion of trade-marks containing the words the Committee on Ways and Means. and employers, and for other purposes; to "White House"; to the Committee on the H. R. 471. A bill to provide for the estab­ the Committee on Education and Labor. Judiciary. lishment of a United States Foreign Service H. R. 440. A bill to provide for additional H. R. 455. A bill to provide for the admis­ Academy; to the Committee on Foreign tax deductions from the gross income, and sion to the United States of an additional Affairs. for other purposes; to the Committee on number of aliens of Italian nationality; to H. R. 472. A bill to name the Veterans' Ad­ Ways and Means. the Committee on the Judiciary. ministration facility at West Roxbury, Mass., H. R. 441. A bill to amend Public Law 368, H. R. 456. A blll to amend section 22, sub­ the William P. Connery, Jr., Memorial Vet­ Eightieth Congress, first session, approved division (b) paragraph (2), of subpara­ erans' Hospital; to the Committee on Vet­ August 5, 1947, so as to provide for allowances graph (B) of the Internal Revenue Code; erans' Affairs. · for private interment of repatriated war dead to the Committee on Ways and Means. H. R. 473: A bill to incorporate the Catholic of World War II; and for other purposes; H. R. 1.57. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ War Veterans of the United States of Amer­ to the Committee on Armed Services. tion of a site and preparation of plans and ica; to the Co~mittee on the J-udiciary. 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 23 H. R. 474. A bill to provide retirement bene­ H. R. 492. A bill to amend section 421 o! H. R. 510. A bill for the erection of a public fits for certain emergency officers of World the Internal Revenue Code relating to in­ building at Florence, S.C., and appropriating War I; to the Committee on Armed Services. come taxes of members of the armed forces money therefor; to the Committee on Public H. R. 475. A bill to amend the act entitled dying in service; to the Committee on Ways Works. "An act to provide compensation for' em­ and Means. H. R. 511. A bill for the erection of a public ployees of the United States suffering injuries H. R. 493. A bill to make section 112 (b) building at Andrews, S. C., and appropriat­ while in the performance of their duties, and (7) of the Internal Revenue Code applicable ing money therefor; to the Committee on for other purposes,'' as amended; to the Com­ with respect to certain corporate liquidations Public Works. · mittee on Education and Labor. in 1945; to the Committee on Ways and H. R. 512. A bill for the erection: of a public H. R. 476. A bill to amend the act of Sep­ Means. building at Latta, S. C., and appropriating tember 7, 1916, providing compensation for H. R. 494. A bill to amend the Federal Re­ money therefor; to the Committee on Public injuries to employees of the United States; serve Act, as amended, to provide that the Works. to the Committee on the Judiciary. absorption of exchange and collection charges H. R. 513. A bill for the purpose of enlarg­ H. R. 477. A bill to amend the Mustering­ shall not be deemed the payment of interest ing the post office at Hartsville, S. C.; to the Out Payment Act of 1944, as amended, to on deposits; to the Committee on Banking Committee on Public Works. provide mustering-out payments for certain and Currency. By Mr. MANSFIELD: persons discharged or relieved from active H. R. 495. A bill to authorize the acquisi­ H. R. 514. A bill to check inflation and aid service in the armed forces to accept employ­ tion of a site for a national cemetery in in preserving a competitive economic system ment; to the Committee on Armed Services. southwest Louisiana for the burial of mem­ by requiring publicity on the pricing policies H. R. 478. A bill to further amend section bers of the armed forces of the United of certain large corporations; to the Com­ 3 of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as States dying in the service, of former mem­ mittee on Banking and Currency. amended; to the Committee on Expenditures bers whose last discharge therefrom was By Mr. MASON: in the Executive Departments. honorable, and certain other persons as· pro­ H. R. 515. A bill to establish a system of H. R. 479. A bill to provide pensions for dis­ vided for in the United States Code, title 24, longevity pay for postal employees; to the abled veterans of World War I under similar section 281, as amended; to the Committee Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. conditions, and in the same amounts, as now on Public Lands. H. R. 516. A bill to define partnerships and provided for disabled veterans of the Spanish­ H. R. 496. A bill to provide for the erection partners for income-tax purposes; to the American War; to the Committee on Vet­ of a World War II memorial; to the Com­ Committee on Ways and Means. erans' Affairs. mittee on House Administration. H. R. E17. A bill to repeal certain excise-tax H. R. 480. A bill to provide pensions for dis­ H. R. 497. A bill to extend the time for rates on watches and clocks and cases and ability and age under Veterans' Regulation filing certain applications for insurance pay­ movements therefor; to the Committee on No. 1 (a), part III, in the same amounts as ments under the National Service Life In­ Ways and Means. now provided for veterans of the war with surance Act of 1940; to the Committee on H. R. a18. A bill to amend sGCtion 2 of the Spain, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Veterans' Affairs: act of February 18, 1922, so as to transfer Boxer Rebellion,, and for other purposes; to ·H. R. 498. A bill to provide free mailing from the Secretary of Agriculture to the At­ the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. privileges for war-veteran patients in United torney General jurisdiction for determina­ H. R. 481. A bill to · amend the Hatch Act; States veterans' hospitals; to the Committee tion of undue enhancement of prices by co­ to the Committee on House Administration. on Post Office and Civil Service. operative associations monopolizing or re­ H. R. 499. A bill to extend the educational straining trade and proceedings in connec­ H. R. 482. A bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley tion therewith; to the Committee on the Act; to the Committee on Ed\lcation and benefits of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 to persons who served in the mer­ Judiciary. Labor. H. R. 519. A bill to supplement existing H. R. 483. A bill to extend the time limit chant marine of the United States during World War II; to the Committee on Veteran~· laws against unlawful restraints and mo­ within which certain suits in admiralty may nopolies, and for other purposes; to the Com­ be brought against the United States; to the Affairs. R. 500. mittee on the Judiciary. Committee on the Judiciary. H. A bill to provide that veterans H. R. 520. A bill to amend the Nationality H. R. 484. A bill to provide for the acquisi­ pursuing educational and training courses in Act of 1940; to the Committee on the Ju­ tion of a site and preparation of plans and public institutions shall receive the books, diciary. specifications for a new postal building, and supplies, and other equipment they would H. R. 521. A bill to provide for the deduc­ for other purpbses; to the Committee on receive if they pursued similar courses in tion from gross. income for income-tax pur­ Public Works. private institutions; to the Committee on poses of expenses incurred by farmers for H. R. 485. A bill to authorize the purchase Veterans' Affairs. the purpose of soil and water conservation; of a new post-office site at North Andover, H. R. 501. A bill to provide that certain to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mass.; to the Committee on Public Works·. persons who served in the merchant marine By Mr. 1\IDLTER: H. R. 486. A bill to establish a self-sustain­ shall not be liable for induction into the H. R. 522. A bill granting exemption from ing national pension system that will belie­ armed services under the Selective Service income tax in the case of retirement, an­ fit retired citizens 60 years of age and over; Act of 1948; to the Committee on Armed nuities, and pensions; to the Committee on to stabilize the economic structure of the Services. Ways and Means. Nation; and to induce a more equitable dis­ By Mr. LYNCH: H. R. 523. A bill to exempt from income tribution of wealth through monetary circu­ H. R. 502. A bill to amend section 22 (b) tax compensation and pensions paid by the lation; to the Committee on Ways and Means. (2) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code; to United States .to its employees; to the Com­ H. R. 487. A bill to provide for the con­ the Committee on Ways and Means. mittee on Ways and Means. struction of a Veterans' Administration office By Mr. McGREGOR: By Mr. NIXON: building in Boston, Mass.; to the Committee H. R. 503. A bill granting pensions to vet­ H. R. 524. A bill to provide for the release on Public Works. erans of World War I and World War II who of all the right, title, and interest . of the H. R. 488. A bill to . credit to active and are 55 years of age or over; to the Committee United States 1n a certain portion of a tract retired officers of the Medical Department of on Veterans' Affairs. of land conditionally granted by it to the the Army all service performed as interns in H. R. 504. A bill to provide for the reduc­ county of Los Angeles; to the Committee on Army hospitals on a civilian-employee status; tion of the public debt; to the Committee Armed Services. to the Committee on Armed Services. on Ways and Means. By Mr. O'BRIEN of Michigan: 525. H. R. 489. A bill to establish a national By Mr. McMILLAN of South Carolina: H. R. A bill to establish a national housing objective and the policy to be fol­ H. R. 505. A bill for the erection of a public housing policy and provide for its execution; lowed in the attainment thereof, to facilitate building at Lake City, S. C., and appropriat­ to the Committee on Banking and Currency. sustained progress in the attainment of such ing money therefor; to the Committee on By Mr. PACE: Public Works. H. R. 526. A bill to amend the Agricultural objective and to provide for the coordinated Act of 1948, approved July 3, 1948, and for execution of such policy through a National H. R. 506. A bill for the erection of a pub­ other purposes; to the Committee on Agri­ Housing Commission, and for other pur­ lic building at Loris, S. C., and appropriat­ culture. poses; to the Committee on Banking and ing money therefor; to the Committee on By Mr. PRICE: Currency. Public Works. H. R. 527. A bill to exempt from admis­ By Mr. LARCADE: H. R. 507. A bill for the erection of a pub­ sions tax admissions to concerts conducted H. R. 490. A bill to impose a duty of 2 lic building at Timmonsville, S. C., and ap­ by civic and community membership asso­ cents per pound on patna rice cleaned for propriating money therefor; to the Commit­ ciations; to the Committee on Ways and use in the manufacture of canned soups and tee on Public Works. Means. for other purposes, rice meal, and broken H. R. 508. A bill to grant service pensions H. R. 528. A bill to authorize a prelimi­ rice; to the Committee on Ways and Means. to veterans of World War I; to the Commit· nary examination and survey of the East H. R. 491. A bill making an emergency tee on Veterans' Affairs. Side Levee and Sanitary District of Madison authorization and appropriation for the pur­ H. R. 509. A bill for the erection of a publio County and St. Clair County, Dl., for run-off pose of erecting in Lake Charles, La., a post building at Myrtle Beach, S. C., and appro­ and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion office and courthouse building; to the Com­ priating money therefor; to the Committee prevention; to the Committee on Public mittee on Public Works. on Public :Works. :Works. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 H. R. 529. A bill to provide for the amend· By Mr. 'SADLAK: H. R. 563. A bill to amend the Internal ment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of H. R. 547. A bill to amend section 8 of the Revenue Code so as to provide certain exclu­ 1938, and for other purposes; to the Com- Veterans' Preference Act of 1944, as amended, sions from gross income with respect to the mittee on Education and Labor. ' to provide that the name of a veteran eligible pay of military personnel; to the Committee H. R. 530. A bill to promote the safety of is selected from and certification of eligibles on Ways and Means. · employees and travelers upon railroads, and by the Civil Service Commission; to the Com· H. R. 564. A bill to extend disability and to protect the public by Tequiring certain mittee on Post Office and Civil Service. · death benefits to personnel of the· Reserve common c~riers by railroad to install and H. R. 548. A bill td grant free postage to components of the armed ·services while on 'maintain · communication systems, and for members of the- armed forces whO' have been active duty or in training; to the Committee other purposes; to the Committee on Inter­ inducted into the service under the pro­ on Armed Services. state and Foreign Commerce. visions of the Selective Service Act of 1948 H. R. 565. A bill to provide for the settle­ By Mr. PETERSON: . (Public Law No. 759, 80th Cong.); to the ment of claims of military personnel and H. R. 531. A b111 to incorporate the Army Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. civilian employees of the War Department or and Navy Union; to the Committee on the H. R. 54.9. A bill to provide for a research of the Army for damage to or loss, destruc­ Judiciary. and development program in the· Post Offtce tion, capture, or abandonment of personal By Mr. REED of New York: Department; to the Committee on Post Office property occurring incident to their serv: increase certain benefits payable under termaster Corps, United States Army, at or in welfare through the appropriation of funds to such system, and for other purposes; the the vicinity of ~hiladelphia, Pa.; to the Com­ to assist the States and Territories in pro­ Committee on Ways and Means. · · mittee on Armed Services. viding more effective programs of public edu­ H. R. 537. A bill to extend· capital gains By Mr. SCUDDER: cation; to the Committee on Education and treatment to certain distributions under em­ H. R. 554. A bill to provide for the con­ Labor. · ployees trusts; to the Committee on Ways struction, extension, and improvement of By Mr. WINSTEAD: and Means. · school buildings in Hoopa, Calif.; to the H. R. 570. A bill to provide for an Air Force H. R. 53B. A b1ll to provide for the dedUC· Committee on Public Lands. capable of preserving and maintaining peace, tion from gross income for income-tax pur· H. R. 555. A · bill conferring' jurisdiction the security of the United States, and for poses of expenses incurred by farmers for the upon the District Court of the United States other purposes; to the Committee on Armed purpose of soil and water conservation; to for the Northern District of California, Services. the Committee on Ways and Means. Northern Division, to hear, determine, and By Mr. WALTER: H. R. 539. A bill to extend the franking H. Res.l. Resolution electing various of­ privilege to persons receiving hospital treat· render judgment upon the claims of all per­ ficers of the House of Representatives. ment or domiciliary care furnished by the sons for reimbursement for damages and By Mr. DOUGHTON: Veterans' Administration; to the Committee losses sustained as a result of a flood which H. Res. 2. Resolution to inform the Senate on Post Office and Civil SerVice. occurred in December 19~7 in levee district of the election of SAM RAYBURN as Speaker of H. R. 540. A bill to provide terminal leave No. 10, Yuba County, Calif.; to the Commit­ the House and Ralph R. Roberts as Clerk. pay for certain officers of the Navy and Ma­ tee on the Judiciary. By Mr. McCORMACK: rine Dorps, and for other purposes; to the By Mr. SHAFER: H. Res. 3. Resolution appointing a commit· Committee on Armed Services. H. R. 556. A bill to amend the Railroad Re­ tee of three to notify the President the House H. R. 541. A bill to authorize payment of tirement Act of 1937 with respect to the eli­ is ready for business. benefits for injuries or death incurred by gibility for benefits of certain employees _on By Mr. CANNON: veterans as a result of training under part furlough on the date of enactment of such H. Res. 4. Resolution instructing the Clerk VIII of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a); to 'act; to the Committee on Interstate and to notify the President of the election of SAM the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Foreign Commerce. RAYBURN as Speaker and Ralph R. Roberts as By Mr. REES: · H. R. 557. A bill to amend the sporttng Clerk. H. R. 542. A pill to provide for the uniform goods' section of the Internal Revenue Code By Mr. SABATH: administration of efficiency ratings; to the to exempt children's sleds from the man­ H. Res. 5. Resolution adopting the rules of Committee on Post Ofilce and Civil Service. ufacturers' excise tax of 10 percent; to the the Eightieth Congress as the rules of the H. R. 543. A bill to amend the Civil Serv. Committee on Ways and Means. Eighy-first Congress, with an amendment. ice Retirement Act approved May 29, 1930, H. R. 558. A bill to repeal the excise tax By Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts: as amended, so as to exempt annuity pay· on electric, gas, and oil ranges; to the Com­ H. R. 6. Resolution employing a secretary ments under such act from taxation; to the mittee on Ways and Means. for the minority leader of the House. Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. SHEPPARD: By Mr. SABATH: By Mr. ROGERS of Florida: H. R. 559. A bill for the relief of the city H. Res. 7.' Resolution fixing the daily hour H. R. 544. A bill to provide for terms of of Needles, Cal-if.; to the Committee on the of meeting of the House of Representatives. court to be held at West Palm Beach, and at Judiciary. By Mr. CANNON: Fort Myers, in the southern districf of By Mr. TAYLOR: H. Res. 8. Resolution authorizing the Com· Florida; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 560. A bill relating to the extension mittee on Appropriations and its subcommit­ By Mr. ROONEY: to transferors and transferees in nontaxable tees to sit during sessions and recesses of the H. R. 545. A bill to authorize and request reorganization of unused excess-profits credit Eighty-first Congress. the President to undertake to mobilize at carry-overs, and for other purposes; to the By Mr. ANDERSON of California: some convenient plaOrary free impor.tation of zi :~c; to the Com­ By Mr. BECKWORTH: cover means of curing and preventing cancer; inittee on Ways and Means. H. Res. 10. Resolution to authorize the to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. R. 562. A b111 to amend section 801 (d) Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ H. R. 546. A bill to amend the Fair Labor of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, merce, as a whole or by subcommittee, to in­ Standards Act of 1938, so as to proVide a as ame:1ded, in relation to exports; to the vestigate the effect of cartels on commerce minimum wage of $1 an hour; to the Com­ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ with foreign nations and among the several mittee on Education and Labor. merce. States; to the Committee on Rules. 1949 CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-HOUSE 25 By Mr. BIEMILLER: By Mr. ANDERSON of California: By Mr. JAVITS: H. Res. 11. Resolution creating a select H. J. Res. 4. Joint resolution requiring that H. J. Res. 20. Joint resolution to establish committee to conduct an invest igation and notice be sent to the Members when the a Joint Committee on National and Inter­ st udy of the conduct of investigations and President convenes the Congress; to the national Movements; to the Committee on studies by committees of the House; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Rules. Committee on Rules. By Mr. HARRIS: By Mr. JENKINS: By Mr. CARROLL: H. J. Res. 5. Joint resolution proposing an H. J. Res. 21. Joint resolution to provide H. Res.12. Resolution creating a select amendment to the Constitution of the United for the utilization of a part of the unfin­ committee to conduct an investigation and States relative to equal rights for men and ished portion of the historical frieze in the study of the conduct of investigations and women; to the Committee on the Judiciary. rotunda of the Capitol to portray the story studies by committees of the House; to the By Mr. BARTLETT: of aviation; to the Committee on House Ad­ Committee on Rules. H. J. Res. 6. Joint resolution authorizing ministration. By Mr. CELLER: the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United By. Mr. HINSHAW: H. Res.13. Resolution to erect a monu­ States Department of Labor to report periodi­ H. J.-Res. 22. Joint resolution to establish ment to the memory of Mohandas K. Gandhi; cally on labor conditions in the Territory of a joint congressional committee on avia­ to the Committee on House Administration. Alaska; to the Committee on Education and tion policy, and for other purposes; to the By Mrs. DOUGLAS: Labor. . Committee on Rules. H. Res. 14. Resolution creating a select H. J. Res. 7. Joint resolution authorizing an By Mr. KEATING: committee to conduct an investigation and appropriation for construction of build­ H. J. Res. 23. Joint resolution designating study of the conduct of investigations and ings and facilities in or near the University November 19, the anniversary of Lincoln's studies by committees of the House; to the of Alaska for research in Arctic health; to Gettysburg Address, as Dedication Day; to Committee on Rules. the Committee on Interstate and Foreign the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. FULTON: Commerce. By Mr. KELLEY: H. Res. 15. Resolution to create a select By Mr. BATTLE: H. J. Res. 24. Joint resolution to create a committee to conduct a continuing study H. J. Res. 8. Joint resolution to authorize Temporary Labor Relations Commission to with respect to executive agreements made the issuance of a stamp commemorative make a study and recommendations conc·ern­ by the United States with foreign nations; of Dr. William Crawford Gorgas, of Alabama, ing labor relations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Rules. who achieved national distinction in the field to the Committee on Education and Labor. By Mr. HOLIFIELD: of preventive medicine by conquering yellow By Mr. KEOGH: H. Res. 16. Resolution creating a select fever, thus making possible the building of H. J. Res. 25. Joint resolution authorizing committee to conduct an investigation and the Panama Canal; to the Committee on the -creation of a Federal Memorial Commis­ study of the conduct of investigations and Post Office and C'ivil Service. sion to consider and formulate plans for the studies by the committees of the House; to By Mr. BENNETT of Florida: construction in the city of Washington, D. C., the Committee on Rules. H. J. Res. 9. Joint resolution proposing an of a permanent memoril:tl to the memory of By Mr. JAVITS: amendment to the Constitution to redefine Franklin D. Roosevelt; to the Committee on H. Res.17. Resolution to amend rule XI treason; to the Committee on the Judiciary. House Administration. of the Rules of the House of Representatives; By Mr. CANNON: By Mr. REED of New York: to the Committee on Rules. H. J. Res. 10. Joint resolution proposing an H. J. Res. 26. Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. KEATING: amendment to the Constitution of the equal-rights amendment to the Constitution; H. Res. 18. Resolution to amend rule XI United States providing for the election of to the Committee on the Judiciary. (1) (s) 1 of the Rules of the House of Repre­ President and Vice President; to the Com• By Mr. KEOGH: sentatives; to the Committee on Rules. mittee on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 27. Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. KEOGH: By Mr. CELLER: amendment to the Constitution of the H. Res. 19. Resolution to create a Select H. J. Res. 11. Joint resolution proposing an United States, relating to removal of judges; Committee on the Revision of the Laws; to amendment to the Constitution of the United to the Committee on the Judiciary. · the Committee on Rules. States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 28. Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. LANE: By Mr. DONDERO: amendment to the Constitution of the H. Res. 20. Resolution authorizing the H. J. Res. 12. Joint resolution proposing an United States relating to the eligibility of House Committee on the Judiciary to in­ amendment to the Constitution of the United foreign-born citizens of the United States to vestigate the decree of the United States States to fix the number of Justices of the the office of President of the United States; District Court for the District of Maryland Supreme Court; to the Committee on the to the Committee on the Judiciary. in re James B. Dunn; to the Committee on Judiciary. By Mr. KLEIN: Rules. By Mr. EBERHARTER: H. J. Res. 29. Joint resolution designating By Mr. MULTER: H. J. Res. 13. Joint resolution extending to the fourth Sunday in September of each H. Res. 21. Resolution to increase personal January 1, 1950, certain provisions of the year as "Interfaith Day"; to the Committee income-tax exemptions; to the Committee on Internal Revenue Code; to the Committee on on the Judiciary. Ways and Means. H. J. Res. 30. Joint resolution to suspend By Mr. PATMAN: Ways and Means. the operation of section 401 (e) of the Na­ H. Res. 22. Resolution creating a select By Mr. FULTON: tionality Act of 1940 in certain. cases; to the committee to conduct a study and investiga­ H. J. Res. 14. Joint resolution providing for Committee on the Judiciary. tion of the problems of small business; to membership by the United States in the In­ By Mr. LANE: the Committee on Rules. ternational Trade Organization and authoriz­ H. J. Res. 31. Joint resolution to grant free By Mr. PHILBIN: ing an appropriation therefor; to the Com­ postage to members of the armed forces, H. Res. 23. Resolution for the relief of mittee on Foreign Affairs. while confined for treatment in a military Beatrice Kelley; to the Committee on House By Mr. GORDON: or naval hospital, and to veterans while being Administration. H. J. Res.15. Joint resolution authorizing furnished hospital treatment or institutional By Mr. LANE: the President of the United St ates of care in institutions operated by or under H. Res. 24. Resolution providing for the America to proclaim October 11 of each year contract with the Veterans' Administration; expenses incurred by the special committee General Pulaski's Memorial Day for the ob­ to the Committee on Post Office and Civil authorized by House Resolution 20; to the servance and commemoration of the death of Service. Committee on House Administration. Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski; to the Commit­ By Mr. LARCADE: By Mr. KEOGH: tee on the Judiciary. H. J. Re"s. 32. Joint resolution proposing an H. J. Res. 1. Joint resolution to amend the By Mr. HARRIS: amendment to the Constitution of the act to codify and emphasize existing rules H. J. Res. 16. Joint resolution proposing an United States with respect to the term of and cust oms pertaining to the display and amendment to the Constitution of the United office of Members of the House of Representa. use of the fiag of the United St ates of Amer­ States; to t he Committee on the Judiciary. tives; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ica; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. HARRISON: By Mr. LEMKE: By Mr. GOSSET!': H. J. Res. 17. Joint resolution to provide for H. J. Res. 33. Joint resolution providing for H. J. Res. 2. Joint resolution proposing an the maintenance for public use of certain the ratification by Congress of a contract amendment to the Constitution of the United highways in the Shenandoah National Park; for the purchase of certain Indian lands by States providing for the election of President to the Committee on Public Lands. the Unit ed States from t he Three Affiliated and Vice President; to the Committee on the By Mr. HUBER: Tribes of Fort Berthold Reservation, N.Dak., Judiciary. H. J. Res.18. Joint resolution proposing an and for other related purposes; to the Com­ ' By Mr. SHEPPARD: amendment to the Constitution relating mittee on Public Lands. H. J. Res. 3. Joint resolution granting th,e to the abolition of capital punishment in .BY Mr. LESINSKI: consent of Congress to joind~r of the United the United States; to the Committee on the H. J. Res. 34. Joint resolution authorizing States in suit in the United St ates Supreme Judiciary. the President of the United States of Court for adjudication of claims to waters H. J. Res. 19. Joint resolution creating a America to proclaim October 11, 1949, Gen• of the Colorado River system; to the Com­ Joint Committee on Civil Rights; to the eral Pulaski's Memorial Day for the observ­ mittee on the Judiciary. Committee on Rules. ance and commemoration of the death of 26 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 3 Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski; to the Committee dent, Vice President, or Members of Congress H. Con. Res. 5. Concurrent resolution rec­ 0::1 the Judiciary. who become unable to perform their duties; ommending the revision of the United By Mr. MARTIN of Iowa: to the Committee on the Judiciary. Nations Charter; to the Committee on Foreign H. J. Res. 35. Joint resolution to authorize By Mr. ANGELL: Affairs. the issuance of a special series of stamps H. J. Res. 49. Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. MERROW: commemorative of the Grand Army of the amendment the the Constitution of the H. Con. Res. 6. Concurrent resolution to Republic; to the Committee on Post OtHce . United States relating to th~ terms of omce express the sense of Congress that the na­ and Civil Service. of the President and the Vice President; to tlon·al interest demands that immediate and . By Mr. MERROW: the Committee on the Judiciary. effective aid should be given the Republic H. J. Res. 36. Joint resolution proposing By Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee: of China; to the Committee on Foreign an amendment to the Constitution of the H. J. Res. 50. Joint resolution proposing an Affairs. United States relative to treaty ratification; equal-rights amendment to the Consti­ By Mr. PHILBIN: to the Committee on the Judiciary. tution; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. Con. Res. 7. Concurrent re~olution pro­ By Mr. McCORMACK: H. J. Res. 51. Joint resolution proposing an viding for a 70-group Air Force and insuring H. J. Res. 37. Joint resolution authorizing ai;Jl.endment to the Constitution of the air supremacy; to the Committee on Armed the President of the United States of Amer­ United States providing for the election of Services. • ica to proclaim October 11 of each year President and Vice President; to the Com­ By Mr. ROONEY: General Pulaski's Memorial Day for the ob­ mittion on the Judiciary. H. Con. Res. 8. Concurrent resolution to ex­ servance and ·commemoration of the death By Mr. HOLIFIELD: press the sense of the Congress that the of Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski; to the Com­ H. J. Res. 52. Joint resolution granting the issues raised by the action of the Govern­ mittee on the Judiciary. consent of Congress to joinder of the ment of Hungary in arresting and imprison­ By Mr. NIXON: United States in suit in the United States ing Josef Cardinal Mindszenty should be re­ H. J. Res. 38. Joint resolution granting the Supreme Court for adjudication of claims of ferred to the United Nations, and for other consent of Congress to joinder of the United the Colorado River system; to the Committee purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Af­ States in suit in the United States Supreme on the Judiciary. fairs. Ccurt for adjudication of claims to waters By Mr. KILBURN: H. Con. Res. 9. Concurrent resolution to ex­ of the Colorado River system; to the Com­ H. J. Res. 53. Joint resolution approving the press the sense of the Congress that the issues mittee on the Judiciary. agreement between the United States and raised by the action of the Government of By Mr. O'HARA of Minnesota: Canada relating to the Great Lakes-St. Law­ Yugoslavia in imprisoning Archbishop Alo­ H. J. Res. 39. Joint resolution to authorize r ·~nce Basin with the exception of certain ysius Stepinac should be referred to the a sum, not to exceed $80,000,000, to provide provisions thereof; expressing the sense of the United Nations, and for other purposes; to ··adequate protection from flooding of the Congress with respect to the negotiation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Minnesota River in the Minnesota River Val­ certain treaties; providing for making the ley; to the Committee on Public Works. St. Lawrence seaway self-liquidating; and for PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS By Mr. O'TOOLE: other purposes; to the Committee on Public H. J. Res. 40. Joint resolution designating Works. the fourth Sunday in Septem}?er of each year Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private as "Interfaith Day"; to the Committee on By Mr. LEMKE: bills and resolutions were introduced H. J. Res. 54. Joint resolution relating to and severally referred as follows: the Judiciary. emergency crop, seed, and feed loans and to By Mr. PHILLIPS of California: By Mr. ANDERSON of California: H. J. Res. 41. Joint resolution granting the regional agricultural ~redit corporation loans; to the Committee on Agriculture. H. R. 571. A bill for the relief of Bankers consent of Congress to joinder of the United & Shippers Insurance Co.; to the Committee States in suit in the United States Supreme By Mr. McDONOUGH: on the Judiciary. Court for adjudication of claims to waters of H. J. Res. 55. Joint resolution granting the By Mr. ANGELL: consent of Congress to joinder of the United the Colorado River system; to the Committee H. R. 572. A bill for the relief of Sylvia M. on the Judiciary. States in suit in the United States Supreme Misetich; to the Committee on the Judi- By Mr. PLUMLEY: Court for adjudication of claims to waters of ciary. H. J. Res. 42. Joint resolution proposing the Colorado River system; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. AUCHINCLOSS: an amendment to the Constitution of the H. R. 573. A bill for the relief of Harry G. United States relative to a quorum in either By Mr. PHILBIN: Cole; to the Committee on the Judiciary. House of Congress; to the Committee on the H. J. Res. 56. Joint resolution to designate payments to disabled veterans as partial re­ H. R. 574. A bill for the relief of Fred E. Judiciary. Weber; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. POWELL: p~yment of debt owed, and not as gratui­ H. J. Res. 43. Joint resol'.l.tion proposing an ties; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. R. 575. A bill for the relief of the estate amendment to the Constitution of the United By Mr. HINSHAW: of James Patrick Hackett and Charles Stover; States empowering Congress to grant repre­ H. J. ReG. 57. Joint resolution granting the to the Committee on the Judiciary. sentation in the Congress and among the consent 'Jf Congress to joinder of the United H. R. 576. A bill for the relief of Arthur G. electors of President and Vice President to States in suit in the .United States Supreme Robinson; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the people of the District of Columbia; to Court for adjudication of claims to waters of H. R. 577. A bill to correct possible inequity the Committee on the Judiciary. the Colorado River system; to the Committee in the case of a certain application for letters By Mr. REED of New York: on the Judiciary. patent of William R. Blair; to the Committee H. J. Res. 44. Joint resolution granting ad­ By Mr. KEATING: on the Judiciary. ditional allowance for military and naval per­ H. J. Res. 58. Joint resolution requesting By Mr. BARDEN: sonnel; to the Committee on Ways and Mea.ns. the President to designate December 7 for H. R. 578. A bill for the relief of Carlton. C. By Mr. ROONEY: annual observance as Gold Star Mothers' Day; Grant and others; to the Committee on the H. J. Res. 45. Joint resolution to provide to the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. for the issuance of a postage stamp in com­ By Mr. LANE: H. R. 579. A bill to permit the motor vessel memoration of the thirtieth anniversary of H. J. Res. 59. Joint resolution to provide for FLB-5005 to engage in the fisheries; to the the founding of the American Legion in April the American Joint Commission to assist in Committee on the Judiciary. 1949; to the Committee on Post Office and the unification of Ireland; to the Committee By Mr. BARTLE'IT: Civil Service. on Foreign Affairs. H. R. 580. A bill for the relief of the Bank By Mr. SADLAK: By Mr. McCORMACK: of Kodiak, Kodiak, Alaska; to the Committee H. J. Res. 46. Joint resolution authorizing H. Con. Res.l. Concurrent resolution pro­ on the Judiciary. the President of the United States to pro­ viding for a joint session of Congress on Jan­ H. R. 581. A bill to confer jurisdiction upon claim October 11, 1949, General Pulaski's uary 5, 1949. the District Court for the"Territory of Alaska Memorial Day for the observance and com­ to hear, determine, and render judgment memoration of the death of Brig. Gen. Cas­ H. Con. Res. 2. Concurrent resolution pro­ viding for a joint session of Congress on Jan­ upon the claim, or claims, of Hilda Links and imir Pulaski; to the Committee on the E. J. Ohman, partners, and Fred L. Kroesing, Judiciary. uary 6, 1949, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution and laws relating to the all of Anchorage, Alaska; to the Committee By Mr. SADOWSKI: on the Judiciary. H. J. Res. 47. Joint resolution authorizlng election of President and Vice President of the United States. H. R. 582. A bill for the relief of John Picco, the President of the United States of Amer­ of Kimshan Cove, Alaska; to the Committee ica to proclaim October 11, 1949, General H. Con. Res. 3. Concurrent resolution rela­ Pulaski's Memorial Day for the observance tive to reform in procedure before congres­ on the Judiciary. and commemoration of the death of Brig. sional committees; to the Committee on H. R. 583. A bill for the relief of the Alaska oen. Casimir Pulaski; to the Committee on Rules. Juneau Gold Mining Co., of Juneau, Alaska; the Judiciary. By Mr. HOLIFIELD: to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. TRIMBLE: H. Con. Res. 4. Concurrent resolution to H. R. 584. A btll for the relief of Mike Clip­ H. J. Res. 48. Joint resolution proposing an establish fair hearing procedures for con­ per; to the Committee on the Judiciary. amendment to the Constitution relating gressional investigating committees; to the H. R. 585. A bill for the relief of Jacob A. to the selection of the successors of the Prest- Couunittee on RUles. Johnson; to the Committee on the Judiciary, 1949 · CONGRESSIONAL-RECORD-HOUSE· 27 H. R. 586. A bill for the relieZ of Mildred K. the Western District of Kentucky to hear, By Mr. HAYS of Arkansas: Maynard; to the Committee on the Judiciary. determine, and render. judgment upon the H. R. 639. A bill for the relief of certain H. R. 587. A bill for the relief of Dick Claims of certain property. owners adjacent employees of the Post Office Department; Walook and Alfred L. Woods; to the Commit­ to Fort Knox, Ky.; to the Committee on the to the Committee <;>n the Judiciary. · tee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. H. R. 640. A bill for the relief of Bianca By Mr. BEALL: By Mr. COUDERT: Marie Bertolotti; to the Committee on the H. R. 588. A bill for the relief of Col. David H. R. 612. A bill for the relief of Col. W. M: Judiciary. · R. Wolverton, United States Army, retired; Chubb; to the Committee on the· Judiciary. By Mr. HESELTON: to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 613. A bill for the relief of the alien H. R. 641. A bill for the relief of George By Mr. BECKWORTH: Gheorge Ion Dimian; to the Committ ee on Kedzierski; to the Committee on the Judi­ H. R. 589. A bill for the relief of C. M. the Judiciary. . , · ciary. Smart; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 614. A bill for the relief of Nicholas H. R. 642. A bill for the relief of Frank D. By Mr. BLAND: G. Niedermiller, Peter A. Beklemishev, and Taylor; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 590. A bill for the relief of William Nicholas M. Tikmenev; to the Committee By Mr. illNSHAW: A. Hallett; to the Committee on the Judi­ on the Judiciary. H. R. 643. A bill for the relief of the aliens ciary. By Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee: Harry Owen White and his sister-in-law, H. R. 591. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Lu­ H. R. 615. A bill for the relief of the Dixie Cecilia M. B. de Silva; to the Committee on cille Davidson; to the Committee on the Ju­ Margarine Co., a Tennessee coryoration, of the Judiciary. diciary. Memphis, Tenn.; to the Committee on the H. R. 644. A blll for the relief of Marino H. R. 592. A bill for the relief of James W. Judiciary. · Bello; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Keith; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 616. A bill for the relief of W. T. H. R. 645. A bill for the relief of Arundale H. R. 593. A bill for the relief of Hampton Martin Luckett; to the Committee on the Vrabec; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Institute; to the Committee on the Judi­ Judiciary. H. R. 646. A bill to provide for the admis­ ciary. H. R. 617. A bill for the relief of Mid­ sion to citizenship of Arundale Vrabec; to H. R. 594. A bill for the relief of Mamie L. South Airways Corporation; to the Com­ the Committee on the Judiciary. Hurley; to the Committee on the Judiciary. mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. JENKINS: H. R. 595. A bill to confer jurisdiction upon H. R. 618. A bill for the relief of Eugene H. R. 647. A bill for the relief of Mrs. the Court o.f Claims to hear, determine, and J. Bearman; to the Committee on the Renzie Graham; to the Committee on the render judgment upon a certain claim of Judiciary. · Judiciary. Harry W. Sharpley, his heirs, administrators, H. R. 619. A bill for the relief of Alice H. R. 648. A bill for the relief of Bertha or assigns, against the United States; to the Randolph; to the Committee on the Ebersbach; to the Committee on the Judi· Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. ciary. H. R. 596. A bill to confer jurisdiction upon H. R. 620. A bill for the relief of the estate H. R. 649. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Alice the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and of Mary B. Buckley; to the committee on N. Kozma; to the Committee on the Judi­ render judgment upon a certain claim of the Judiciary. ciary. John E. Parker, his heirs, administrators, or H. R. 621. A bill for the relief of A. _T. By Mr. JENSEN: assigns, against the United States; to the Steele and J. C. Corbitt; to the Committee H. R. 650. A bill for the relief of George A. Committee on the Judiciary. on the Judiciary. Kirchberger; to the Committee on the H. R. 597. A bil.l to confer jurisdiction upon By Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin: Judiciary. the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and H. R. 622. A bill for the relief of Mrs. By Mr. KEATING: render judgment upon a certain claim of J. T. Tjitske Bandstra Van Der Velde; to the Com­ H. R. 651. A bill for the relief of Lt. Col. Melson against the United States; to the mittee on the Judiciary. Paul E. Queneau; to the Committee on the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. DAWSON: Judiciary. By Mr. BLOOM: H. R. 623. A blll for the relief of Sadako H. R. 652. A bill for the relief of Laura H. R. 598. A bill to provide for the read­ Takagi; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Spinnichia; · to the Committee on the mission to citizenship of Mrs. Ruth Obre By Mr. DOYLE: Judiciary. Dubonnet; to the Committee on the Ju- H. R. 624. A bill to record the lawful ad­ By Mr. KEOGH: diciary. . mission for permanent residence of alien H. R. 653. A bill for the relief of Antonio By Mrs. BOLTON of Ohio: Man Hee Fong; to the Committee on the Valenti; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 599. A bill for the relief of Victor R. Judiciary. H. R. 654. A blll to confer jurisdiction on Browning & Co., Inc.; to the Committee on By Mr. EBERHARTER: the Court of Claims of the United States t'o . the Judiciary. H. R. 625. A bill for the relief of Edmondo hear, determine, and render judgment upon H. R. 600. A blll for the relief of Dorothy J. Delt; to the Committee on· the Judiciary. the claim of the Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd.; to Souther; to the Committee on the Judiciary, H. H. 626. A bill for the relief of Pasquale the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BROWN of Georgia: Deli; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 655. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Maria H. R. 601. A bill for the relief of Kenelm By M.r. ELSTON: V. Yosco and family; to the Committee on E. Rucker; to the Committee on the Judi­ H. R. 627. A bill for the relief of Southern the Judiciary. ciary. Fireproofing Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio; to the H. R. 656. A bill for the relief of the Peer­ H. R. 602. A bill for the relief of Fritz Committee on the Judiciary. less Oil Co., of Brooklyn, N.Y.; to the Com­ Busche; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 628. A bill for the r·elief of Edward J. mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BYRNE of New York: Emmerling; to the Committee on the Judi· H. R. 657. A bill for the relief of Paul Bern­ 'H. R. 603. A bill for the relief of Jeptha R. ciary. stein; to the Committee on the Judiciary. MacFarlane; to the Committee on the Judi­ H. R. 629. A bill for the relief of O'Connell H. R. 658. A bill for the relief of Paul Rin­ ciary. & Sweeney, Inc.; to the Committee on the trona; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 604. A bill for the relief of Vartan Judiciaxy. H. R. 659. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Eliz­ Chamsarian; to the Committee on the Ju­ By Mr. ENGLE of California: abeth B. Murphy; to the Committee on the diciary. H. R. 630. A bill for the relief of Wright H. Judiciary. H. R. 605. A bill for the relief of the estate Huntley; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. KILBURN: of James B. Stirling, deceased; to the Com­ H. R. 631. A bill for relief of Mrs. Dorothy H. R. 660. A bill for the relief of Julia mittee on the Judiciary. Vicencio; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Busch; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 606. A bill for the relief of Allen Pope, H. R. 632. A bill for the relief of John E. By Mr. KING: his heirs or personal representatives; to the Burns; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 661. A bill for the relief of Thomas By Mr. FULTON: A. Trulove, postmaster, and Nolen J. Salyards, H. R. 607. A bill for the relief of Harvey M. H. R. 633. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Victor Lifset, formerly a major in the Army of the assistant postmaster, at Inglewood, Calif.; V. Greg; to the Committee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States; to the Committee on the H. R. 634. A bill for the relief of George Judiciary. J. Hiner; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. KLEIN: By Mr. BUCKLEY of New York: H. R. 635. A bill for tfie relief of Stephen H. R. 662. A oill for the relief of Ella Spiel­ H . R. 608. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Mar­ l;i. Carmalt; to the Committee on the Ju­ man; to the Committee on the Judiciary. garet Devine; to the Committee on the diciary. H. R. 663. A bill for the relief of George Judiciary. ' By Mr. GATHINGS: Geiger; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. CHELF: H. R. 636. A bill for the relief of B. G. . H. R. 664. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H. R. 609. A bill for the relief of the estate Jones; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Alfonsina M. Corradlni; to the Committee on of Mathew C. Cowley, deceased, and the H. R. 637. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Har­ the Judiciary. estate of Louisa Cowley, deceased; to the riett Patterson Rogers; to the Committee on H. R. 665. A blll for the relief of Marie and Committ ee on the Judiciary. the Judiciary. Max Cassvan; to the Commit tee on the Ju­ · H. R. 610. A bill for the relief of Lorenzo By Mr. HALE: diciary. H. Froman; to the Committee on the Judi­ H. R. 638. A blll for the relief of Lt. Comdr. H. R. 666. A bill for the relief of Antonio ciary. John W. Baker, Medical Corps, United States Sorotas; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 611. A bill to confer jurisdiction upon Navy, retired; to the Committee on the Ju­ H. R. 667. A bill for the relief of Benedict the District Co~rt of the United ~tates tor diciary. Kleits-cb.; to the Committee on ti:e JBdi~~Y· 28 CONGRESSIONAt RECORD.-HOUSE JANUARY 3 H. R. 668. A btll for the relief of Alex Bail; By Mr. McDONOUGH: H. R. 722. A bill for the relief of Nagibe to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 698. A bill for the relief of Peter I. Qhalhoub; to the Committee on the Ju­ H. R. 669. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Shir­ 'flrbak, Ekaterina Tlrbak, and Igor 'firt>ak, diciary, ley Leinwand; to the Committee on the to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 723. A bill for the relief of Clarence' Judiciary. . H. R. 699. A bill for the relief of Zikmund King; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 670. A bill for the relief of Ricardo Teba; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 724. A bill for the relief of Tanios Garcia y Garcra; to the Committee on the H. R. 700. A bill for the relief of Egan New­ Elias Rahme; to the Committee on the Judiciary. man; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. H. R. 671. A bill for the relief of Leonid By Mr. McMILLAN of South Carolina: By Mr. O'TOOLE: Zankowsky; to the Committee on the Judici­ H. R. 701. A bill for the relief of Dolan H. R. 725. A bill for the relief of Mike A. ary. Calcutt; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Tsataronis; to the Committee on the Ju­ H. R. 672. A bill for the relief of Gronislav H. R. 702. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ethel diciary. Vydaevich; to the Committee on the Judici­ N. Plunkett; to the Committee on the Ju­ H. R. 726. A bill for the relief of Simon ary. diciary. Broder; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 673. A bill for the relief of Alberta H. R. 703. A bill conferring jurisdiction H. R. 727. A bill to authorize the President Manna; to the Committee on the Judiciary. upon the United States District Court for of the United States to posthumously award H. R. 674. A bill for the relief of Aron Ros­ the Eastern District of South Carolina to the Congressional Medal of Honor to Marc C. endor, Sara Rosendor, Batia Rosendor, Sammy hear, determine, and render judgment upon Dauber; to the Committee on Armed Services. Rosendor, and Suzanne Rosenctor; to the the claim of Mrs. Oteein Foxworth; to the By Mr. PHILBIN:· Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 728. A bill for the relief of Oliver F. H. R. 675. A bill for the relief of Nandor H. R. 704. A bill for the relief of Mary LaTour and Marie L. LaTour; to the Commit­ Frieder; to the Committee on the Judiciary, Alice Keels; to the Committee on the Ju­ tee on the Judiciary. H. R. 676. A bill for the relief of Beno De­ diciary. H. R. 729. A bill for the relief of John J. menyi and Margit Demenyi, his wife; to the H. R. 705. A bill for the relief of Thomas O'Neil; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on the Judiciary. W. Williamson, Sr.; to the Committee on the H. R. 730. A bill for the relief of Franz H. R. 677. A bill for the relief of Nicoletta Judiciary. Eugene Laub; to the Committee on the Judi­ and Guilia Pontrelli; to the Committee on H. R. 706. A bill to provide for the retire­ ciary. the Judiciary. ment with pay of Lt. Comdr. Harold Kamin­ H. R. 731. A bill for the relief of James H. R. 678. A bill for the relief of Nicolo ski; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Flynn; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Locicero; to the Committee on the Judiciary._ By Mr. MANSFmLD: H. R. 732. A bill for the relief of Joaquin H. R. 679. A bill to authorize the admis­ H. R. 707. A bill for the relief of H. C. Bier­ Faustino Justaniano; to the Committee on sion of Mrs. Julia Balint to the United States; ing; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Judiciary. to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MILLER of California: By Mr. PHILLIPS of California: H. R. 680. A bill to provide for the adjudi- . H. R. 708. A bill for the relief of Rustom H. R. 733. A bill for the relief of Frank cation of certain tort claims of William P. Bana, Adi Russie Bana, Nasli Russi Bana, Haegele; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Novotny, Sr., and others against the United and Narie Russi Bana; to the Committee on By Mr. PICKETT: States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the Judiciary. H. R. 734. A bill for the relief of Curtis R. By Mr. LANE: H. R. 709. A bill for the relief of the Gen­ Enos; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 681. A bill for the relief of . Mario eral Engineering & Dry Dock Corp.; to the By Mr. PLUMLEY: · Generazzo; to the Committee on the Judi­ Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 735. A bill for the relief of Phil H. ciary. By Mr. MILLER of Maryland: Hubbard; to the Committee on the Judlciary, H. R. 682. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H. R. 710. A bill for the relief of C. T. H. R. 736. A bill authorizing the appoint­ Harry E. Hewitt; to the Committee on the Maddrix; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ment and retirement of John Tomlingson as Judiciary. H. R. 711. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Mar­ a second lieutenant, United States Army; to H. R. 683. A bill for the relief of Louise garet Gregg Dilnot; to the Committee on the· the Committee on Armed Services. Peters Lewis; t-o the Committee on the Judi­ Judiciary. By Mr. POAGE: ciary. H. R. 712. A bill for the relief of Calvin D. H. R. 737. A bill for the relief of Sam Pat­ H. R. 684. A bill for the relief of Benjamin Lynch & Son; W. Thomas Lockerman; Sud­ terson; to the Comm1ttee on the'Judiciary. Gordon; to the Committee on the Judiciary. lersvllle Supply Co.; George C. Moore and By Mr. PRICE: ·H. R. 685. A bill for the relief of Vincent H. A. Moore; J. McKenny Willis & Son, Inc.; H. R. 738. A bill for the relief of the estate or Vincenzo Tripoli; to the Committee on the Hobbs & Jarman; Royse R. Spring; and c. S. of Mrs. Minerva C. Davis; to the Committee Judiciary. Thomas; to the Committee on the Judiciary. on the Judiciary, H. R. 686. A bill granting the Distinguished H. R. 713. A bill conferring jurisdiction on By Mr. PRIEST: Service Cross to William A. Sullivan; to the the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and H. R. 739. A bill for the relief of Mary Jane Committee on Armed Services. render judgment on the claims of W. C. Harris; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 687. A bill for the relief of Bartolo Jackson; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. REED of New York: Rando; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MORRISON: H . R. 740. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H. R. 688. A bill for the relief of John P. H. R. 714. A bill for the relief of Pieter Martha W. Johnson; to the Committee on the Reilly; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Cornelis ten Walde and family; to the Com­ Judiciary. H. R. 689. A bill for the relief of Nicholas mittee on the Judiciary. H. R. 741. A bill for the relief of Frank Mortatos; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. NIXON: Healy; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. LARCADE: H. R. 715. A bill for ,the relief of Manuel H. R. 742. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H. R. 690. A bill for the relief of William Uribe; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Eleanor K. Savidge; to the Committee on the W. Maddox; to the Committee on the Ju­ H. R. 716. A bill for the relief of Mark H. Judiciary. diciary. Potter; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 743. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Mar­ H. R. 691. A bill for the relief of Lawrence H. R. 717. A bill for the relief of Groover garet D. Surhan; to the Committee on the Fontenot; to the Committee on the Judiciary. O'Connell; to the Committee on the Ju­ Judiciary. H. R. 692. A bill for the relief of Joseph diciary. H. R. 744. A bill for the relief of William Thompson; to the Committee on the Ju­ H. R. 718. A bill for the relief of Gertrude Park Catchpole; to the Committee on the Judiciary. diciary. 0. Yerxa, Mrs. G. Olive Yerxa, and Dr. Charles H. R. 693. A bill authorizing the President W. Yerxa; to the Committee on the Ju­ H. R. 745. A bill for the relief of B. John Hanson; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of the United States to award a special Con­ diciary. gressional Medal of Honor to Gen. Dwight By Mr. ROONEY: By Mr. NORBLAD: H. R. 746. A bill for the relief of August David Eisenhower, United States ·Army; to H. R. 719. A bill for the relief of Urho Paavo the Committee on Armed Services. Michela, infant; to the Committee on the Patokoski, his wife, and their three children; Judiciary. By Mr. LYLE: to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 694. A bill for the relief of George H. H. R. 747. A bill for the relief of Gaspara Allen; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. O'HARA of Minnesota: Vallone; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 695. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Mary H. R. 720. A b111 for the relief of Dimitrios H. R. 748. A bill for the relief of Lou:s A. Bailey; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ioanou Gallas, also known as James John Esposito; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Golias, also known as Demetrios Joana Golias, 1 H. R. 696. A bill to provide for the exten­ H. R. 749. A bill for the relief of Morris sion of Patent No. 1,808,654, issued June 2, also known as Demetrios John Golias, also Giannace; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ,i931, relating to poison or powder distribut­ known as Demetrios Golias, also known as By Mr. SADLAK: ,1ng machines; to the Committee on the Ju­ Lampros Lampropoulos or Lambros Lampro­ H. R. 750. A bill for the relief of Lee F. diciary. poulos; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bertuccioli; to the Committee on the Judi­ By Mr. McCORMACK: H. R. 721. A bill for the relief of Mihran ciary. ;H. R. 697. A bill for the relief of Samuel Moses Koeroghlian, also known as M. M. H. R . 751. A bill for the relief of Stanley W. Poorvu; to the Committee on the Ju­ Koeroghlian; to the Committee on the John Rybczyk; to the Committee on the diciary. Judiciary. Judiciary. 1949 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 29. By Mr. SADOWSKI: :Hoey McClellan Saltonstall H. R. 752. A bill conferring jurisdiction ~olland McFarland Schoeppel SENATE Humphrey McGrath Smith, Maine upon the United States District Court for the Hunt McKellar :;lmith,N.J. Eastern District of Michigan to hear, deter­ :WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949 Ives McMahon Sparkman mine, and render judgment upon the claim Jenner Malone Stennis of Edward Gray, Sr.; Edward Gray, Jr.; Bertha The Chaplain, Rev. Peter Marshall, Johnson, Colo. Martin Taft Mae Gray; Bertha Patmon; and Lindsay D. D., offered the following prayer: Johnson, Tex. Maybank Taylor Gardner, all of the city of Hamtramck, Wayne Johnston, S.C. Miller Thomas, Okla. Our Father in Heaven, give us the long Kefauver Millikin Thomas, Utah County, Mich.; to the Committee on the Ju­ Kern Morse Thye diciary. view of our work and our world. Kerr Mundt Tobey H. R. 753. A bill for the relief of Alexander Help us to see that it is better to fail in Kilgore Murray Tydings Polychroniu; to the Committee on the Ju­ a cause that will ultimately succeed than Knowland Myers Vandenberg diciary. to succeed in a cause that will ultimately Langer Neely Watkins H. R. 754. A bill for the relief of Michael Lodge O'Mahoney Wherry Pirog; to the Committee on the Judiciary. fail. Long Pepper Wiley Guide us how to work and then teach Lucas Reed Williams H. R. 755. A bill for the relief of George McCarran Robertson Young Elly Vasu; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ·us how to wait. 0 Lord, we pray in the McCarthy Russell H. R. 756. A bill for the relief of Vincenzo name of Jesus, who was never in a hurry. or James Bologna; to the Committee on the Amen. Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, I regret to Judiciary. announce the death of the mother of H. R. 757. A bill for the relief of Orlando THE JOURNAL our colleague, the junior Senator from Portale; to the Committee on the Judiciary. On request of Mr. HAYDEN, and by Maryland [Mr. O'CONOR]. The Senator H. R. 758. A bill for the relief of Georgios unanimous consent, the reading of the Ecaterinis; to the Committee on the Judi- from Maryland is, therefore, ne-cessarily ciary. Journal of the proceedings of Monday, absent. By Mr. HARDIE SCOTT: January 3, 1949, was dispensed with, and The Senator from New Mexico [Mr. H. R. 759. A bill for the relief of Antonio the Journal was approved. CHAVEZ], the Senator from Washington Cardella; to the Committee on the Judiciary. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE [Mr. MAGNUSON], and the Senator from By Mr. SCRIVNER: New York [Mr. WAGNER] are also neces­ H. R. 760. A bill for the relief of A. I. A message from the House of Repre­ sarily absent. Lang; to the Committee on the Judiciary. sentatives, by Mr. Maurer, one of its H. R. 761. A bill for the relief of Catherine reading clerks, informed the Senate that The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Nine­ S. Tremayne; to the Committee on the Judi­ a quorum of the House of Representatives ty-two Senators having answered to their ciary. had assembled, that SAM RAYBURN, a names, a quorum is present. By Mr. SHAFER: NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT H . R. 762. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Fran­ Representative from the State of Texas, sislm V. C. Bugel; to the Committee on the had been elected Speaker; and Ralph R. Mr. BARKLEY and Mr. WHERRY ad­ Judiciary. Roberts, a citizen of the State of Indiana, vanced to the center of the aisle, and Mr. H. R . 763. A bill for the relief of Angela had been elected Clerk of the House of BARKLEY said: Siradakis; to the Committee on the Judi­ Representatives of the Eighty-first Con­ ciary. gress. Mr. President, the committee on the H. R. 764. A bill for the relief of Elderina part of the Senate appointed by the Janna Pols; to the Committee on the Judi­ The message also informed the Senate President pro tempore to act in con­ ciary. that a committee of three Members had junction with a similar committee on the By Mr. SHEPPARD: been appointed by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to H. R. 765. A bill for the relief of the Cali­ part of the House of Representatives to wait upon the President of the United fornia-Pacific Utilities Co.; to the Committee join with a committee on the part of the States and inform him that the Congress on the Judiciary. Senate to notify the President of the By Mr. TAYLOR: has assembled and is ready to receive United States that a quorum of each any communication he might be pleased H. R. 766. A bill .for the relief of John F. House had assembled, and that Congress Galvin; to the Committee on the Judiciary. to make to it, report that they have per­ H. R. 767. A bill for the relief of Eugene was ready to receive any communication formed that duty and the President has Spitzer; to the Committee on the Judiciary. that he may be pleased to make. indicated that he· will address the two By Mr. WALTER: The message announced that the Houses of Congress in person today at H. R. 768. A bill to record the lawful ad­ House had agreed to the following con­ 1 o'clock p. m. mission to the United States for permanent current resolutions, in which it requested residence of Tsan Paing; to the Committee the concurrence of the Senate: JOINT MEETING OF THE TWO HOUSES on the Judiciary. H. R. 769. A bill to record the lawful admis­ H. Con. Res.l. Concurrent resolution pro­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The sion to the United States for permanent resi­ viding that the two Houses of Congress as­ Chair lays before the Senate a concur­ dence of Emanuel Frangescos; to the Com­ semble in the Hall of the House of Repre­ rent resolution coming over from the mittee on the Judiciary. sentatives on Wednesday, the 5th day of House of Representatives, which will be H. R. 770. A bill to record the lawful ad­ January 1949, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the pur­ read. mission to the United States for permanent pose of receiving such communications as the residence of Mon Chang; to the Committee President of the United States shall be The concurrent resolution