1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 51 rescinded; to the Committee on Ways and January 6, 1941, was dispensed with, and read, and, with the accompanying papers, Means. the Journal was approved. referred to the Committee on Commerce: 4. By Mr. FITZPATRICK: Petition of the Common Council of the city of Yonkers, MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT To the Congress of the United States: Westchester County, N. Y:; registering its In compliance with the provisions of opposition to the enactment of any law by the Messages in writing from the Presi Congress of the United States which would dent of the United States were com section 22 (a) of the act approved June permit Federal taxation of municipal bonds municated to the Senate by Mr. Latta, 18, 1929, providing for the fifteenth and or other obligations of cities or the income one of his secretaries. subsequent decennial censuses and for received thereon · by the holders of such the apportionment of Representatives in bonds; to the Committee on Ways and Means. CALL OF THE ROLL Congress, as amended by the act of April 5. By Mr. MERRITT: Resolution of the Mr. HILL. I suggest the absence of a 25, 1940, I transmit herewith a state Queens County Board of the Ancient Order ment prepared by the Director of the of Hibernians in America, Inc., resolving that quorum. The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk Census, Department of Commerce, giv this organization, consisting of faithful ing the whole number of persons in each American citizens of Irish birth or extraction, will call the roll. endorse the wise decision of President de The Chief Clerk called the roll, and State as ascertained under the Sixteenth Valera to preserve peace for men of good will the follo'wing Senators answered to their Decennial Census of Population, and the in Eire, and that this organization insists names: number of Representatives to which present and future aid to any warring power each State would be entitled under an in Europe be conditioned by the prohibition · Adams Gillette O'Mahoney Andrews Glass Overton apportionment of the existing number that no aid shall be giv.en to any: government . Austin · Green Radcliffe · of Representatives by the method known which may attempt in any way to violate the Ball Guffey Reed as the method of major fractions, which sovereignty so dearly won by Eire after 7 Bankhead Gurney Rzynolds was the method used in the last pre centuries of degraded oppression and heroic Barbour Harrison Russell sacrifices; to the Committee on Foreign Barkley Hatch Schwartz ceding apportionment, and also by the Affairs. · · Bilbo Hayden Sheppard · method known as the meth0d of equal Bone Herring Shipstead pr.oportions. 6. Also, resolution of the Medical Society Brewster Hill Smathers of the County of Queens, N.Y., resolving that Bridges Holman Smith The Director of the Census has in this society petitions those Government au-. Brooks Hughes Stewart cluded all Indians in the :tabulation of thorities under whose jurisdiction such mat Brown Johnson, Calif. Taft total population ·since the Supreme Court ters are . considered to rule that physicians Bulow Johnson, Colo. Thomas, Idaho - Bunker Kilgore · Thomas, Utah · · has held that. all Indians are now sub who are drafted tie assigned only to posi Burton La Follette Tobey . ject.to Federal taxation (Superintendent tions involving medical activities; ·to the Byrd Langer Truman v. Commissioner, 295 U. S. 418). The Committee· on Military Affairs. Byrnes Lee Tunnell · effect of this upon apportionment of 7. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the port of Capper Lodge Tydings · Beaumont, .traffic department, · Beaumont; Caraway Lucas Vandenberg ~epresentatives, 'however, appears to be . Tex., petitioning consideration of their reso Chandler McCarran Van Nuys for determination by the Congress, as Chavez McFarland Wagner concluded in the , Attorney General's lution with reference . to . the St. Lawrence Clark, Mo . McKellar Wallgren Waterway; to the Committee on Foreign Connally Maloney Wheeler opinion of November 28, 1940, to the Affairs. Danaher Mead White Secretary of Commerce, a copy of which Davis Miller Wiley is annexed hereto. Downey Murdock Willis George Murray -FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. SENATE Gerry Neely THE WHITE HOUSE, January 8, 1941~ Mr. HILL. I announce that the Sen AWARDS OF QUANTITY CONTRACTS FOR THE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941 ator from North Carolina [Mr. BAILEY]; ARMY the Senator from Idaho [Mr. CLARK], the The .Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phil Senator from Louisiana [Mr. ELLENDER], The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the lips, D. D., offered the following prayer: the Senator from Florida [Mr. PEPPER], Senate two letters from the Secretary of 0 Thou from whom all streams of the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. .War, reporting; pursuant to law, relative blessedness proceed, who art the fount of THOMAS], and the Senator from Massa · to divisions of awards of certain quan life and all-abounding grace: Help us to chusetts [Mr. WALSH] are necessarily ab tity contracts for aircraft, aircraft parts, live our lives with high endeavor, serene sent from the Senate. and accessories therefor entered into of spirit, with strength and courage for Mr. AUSTIN. I announce that Ghe with more than one bidder under au the daily tasks, surrounded as we are with Senator from Oregon [Mr. McNARY] is thority of ·law, which were referred to beauty lavishly outpoured by Thee; re absent because of illness. the Committee on Military Affairs. joicing in the laughter of our unclouded The Senator from Nebraska [Mr. BuT . ORDINANCES OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION years, and calmed by every sad and LER] is absent due to the serious illness OF PUERTO RICO lovely thing brought forth from the of h is wife. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the sacred treasure house of half-remembered The Senator from North Dakota [Mr. Senate a letter from the Acting Secretary days. Do Thou take a way from us the NYE] is necessarily absent. of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant sins of malice and disdain, scorn of the The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-five to law, several ordinances enacted by the lowly, envy of the great, and discontent Senators have answered to their names. Public Service Commission of Puerto that casts its shadow on the brightness A quorum is present. Rico, which, with the accompanying pa of our day. THE BUDGET (H. DOC. NO. 28) pers, was referred to the Committee on Lead us, 0 Father, in our world of Territories and Insular Affairs. wasted good, y the godward mind and The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the heart and will, that we may weave again Senate a message from the President of REPORT OF UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMIS and redesign, according to Thy plan, this the United States, transmitting the SION torn and tangled web of human destiny. Budget of the United States Government The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the When day is done, grant unto us the for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, Senate a letter from the Chairman of evening's b2nison. We ask it in the which was read, referred to the Commit the United States Tariff Commission, name of Jesu;:, Christ, our Lord and tee on Appropriations, and ordered to be transmitting, pursuant to law, the twen Saviour. Amen. printed. ty-fourth annual report of the Commis ATTENDANCE OF A SENATOR Mississippi River bordering the States the seventh annual report of the Ten of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, which would prevent the sale of intoxi nessee Valley Authority for the fiscal which resulted in the unprecedented loss of cating liquor in Army reservations and year ended June 30, 1940, which, with the more than a score of human lives from training cam11s. accompanying papers, was referred to the drowning and exposure to freezing tempera There being no objection, the resolu Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. tures in the Mississippi bottom lands; and tion was referred to the Committee on "Whereas before the cutting down and DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS OF FEDERAL OFFICERS Military Affairs and ordered to be printed clearing of timber areas In the bottom lands in the RECORD, as follows: The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the in said Mississippi River Valley by the United States Government for its 9-foot channel At the Shawnee County Woman's Christian Senate a letter from the Comptroller project at no time was there ever such devas Temperance Union, in session at Topeka, General of the United States, transmit tating storms with resulting loss of life; and Kans., on November 21, 1940, the following ting, pursuant to law, a report showing "Whereas t he protection of the public, in resolution was adopted : officers and administrative offices of the cluding fishermen. hunters, and others would "Whereas defense laws now being enacted Government delinquent in rendering or be greatly enhanced by the erection of shel by Congress are calling for nearly 1,000,000 transmitting their accounts to the proper ters furnished with stoves, firewood, and kin young men to go to trainiil.g camps in a few dling supplies to be used in emergencies at months, and realizing the danger of alcohol offices in Washington during the fiscal and that these boys will need clear brains year ended June 30, 1940, and whether convenient places on islands and other spots in the various poo1 area5 of the upper Missis not befuddled by alcohol; that they need the delinquency was waived, together sippi River Valley; and to be able to keep inviolate military infor with a list of officers who, upon firial set mation and defense tactics. ·The mothers of tlement of their accounts, were found to "Whereas the protection of the general pub the Nation have a right to demand a national lic would be enhanced by the construction law that will protect our defense forces. We be indebted to the Government and failed and erection of storm sirens and other warn to pay the same into the Treasury, which, appeal to Congress for a law which will pre ing devices located on Government dams, vent the sale of liquor in Army reservations with the accompanying report, was re boats, airplanes, and other modern rescue de and training camps and also to all who ferred to the Committee on Claims. vices, and by providing small boat landings wear the military uniform." and harbors, and by providing dams with REPORT OF THE CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC protective booms or cables; and EXECUTIVE REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TELEPHONE CO. "Whereas various agencies of the United FOREIGN RELATIONS States Government operating in the upper The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the As in executive session, Senate a letter from the president of the Mississippi River Valley are and have been en trusted by law with the police administration Mr. GEORGE, from the Committee on Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., of the lands and waters in the pool areas of Foreign Relations, reported favorably transmitting, pursuant to law, the re said upper Mississippi River Valley: Now be it the nomination of James G. Carter, of port of that company for the calendar "Resolved, That any and all such agencies Georgia, now a Foreign Service officer of year 1940, the amounts for December be of the United States Government, · including class 4 and a secretary in the Diplomatic ing estimated only, which, with the ac United States engineers, United States Fish Service, to be also a consul general. companying report, was referred to the and Wildlife s·ervice, provide and maintain Committee on the District of Columbia. adequate safety measures and devices for the BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED protection of the general public in and. sur- · PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS rounding the pool areas of the upper Missis Bills and joint resolutions were intro sippi River Valley by the construction and duced, read the first time, and, by unani The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the erection of shelters to be located at conven Senate a letter from Mrs. M. E. Owens, mous consent, the second time, and re ient places and spots in the various pool areas ferred as follows: of Bismarck, N. Dak., commending the of said upper Mississippi River Valley, and qualifications of WILLIAM LANGER, a Sen that said shelters be equipped and furnished By Mr. WILEY: ator from the State of North Dakota, with stoves, firewood, and kindling devices to S. 199. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Percy which was referred to the Committee on be used in emergencies; and be it further Fisher; to the Committee on Claims. Privileges and Elections. "Resolved, That said Government agencies Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, I provide and maintain modern storm-warning Mr. VANDENBERG presented a peti devices, including sirens, boats, airplanes, again introduce a bill to create a National tion of sundry citizens of Oxford and small boat landings, protective booms, or Economic Defense Board for the correla vicinity in the State of Michigan, pray cables at dams, and any other devices or meth tion and protection of our economic de ing for the enactment of the so-called ods which said agencies shall deem necessary fense in the prospect of economic war. I Downey bill granting old-age assistance, for the protection of human life in said upper ~k that it be referred to the Committee which was referred to the Committee on Mississippi River Valley in the event of storms on Finance. Finance. and other emergencies; and be it further The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will He also presented a memorial of sun "Resolved, That said Government agencies be. received and referred as requested by enlist the services of the Coast Guard or the Senator from Michigan. dry citizens of Bay City, Mich. (members United States Naval Reserve Corps if it ·is of the police and fire departments), deemed necessary to organize Government as By Mr. VANDENBERG: remonstrating against the enactment of well as private airplanes, boats, men, radio, S. 200. A bill to provide for the economic the so-called Wagner bill to extend the and other equipment for the purpose of per defense of the United States, and for the pro coverage of the Social Security Act inso forming rescue work on land and water in tection of American price and wage levels and far as it might affect existing pension case of emergency; and be it further American standards of living against destruc systems, which was referred to the Com "Resolved,·That a copy of this resolution be tive foreign competition, and for the protec sent to all Members of Congress from the tion and promotion of American foreign mittee on Finance. States of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Wis trade, and for other purposes; to the Com Mr. WILEY presented a resolution of consin, to all Government officials, sportsmen, mittee on Finance. the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Associa civic organizations, and other groups and in S. 201. A bill for the relief of Henry Kotila tion protesting against the inclusion of dividuals interested, and to the press for the (with accompanying papers); to the Commit police officers under the operation of the purpose of securing adequate protection for tee on Claims. Social Security Act, which was referred hunters, fishermen, and other members of the S. 202. A bill .granting an increase of pen to the Committee on Finance. general public against storm and emergencies sion to Inez Clair Bandholtz; to the Commit arising on the land and waters of the upper tee on Pensions. RESOLUTION OF THE BADGER STATE SPORTS- Mississippi River Valley." By Mr. DAVIS: MEN'S CLUB BADGER STATE S. 203. A bill to exempt from Federal in SPORTSMEN'S CLUB, INC., come-tax income received by retired officers Mr. WILEY presented a resolution of GEORGE A. STUESSER, Secretary, and employees of the United States and the Badger State Sportsmen's Club, Inc. La Crosse, Wis. States and political subdivisions thereof as (Wisconsin), which was referred to the pensions or retirement annuities; to the Com Committee orr Public Lands and Surveys RESOLUTION OF WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEM mittee on Finance. and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, PERANCE UNION AT TOPEKA, KANS. S. 204 (by request). A bill to amend the as follows: Mr. CAPPER. Mr. President, I ask Federal Crop Insurance Act so as to make it applicable with respect to all farm crops; to The following resolution was passed at a unanimous consent to have printed in the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. meeting of the Badger State Sportsmen's the RECORD, and appropriately referred, By Mr. GILLE':fl'E: Club, Inc., at La Crosse, Wis., on November a resolution adopted by the Woman's S. 205. A bill authorizing the city of Keo 14, 1940: Christian Temperance Union of Kansas kuk, Iowa, to purchase, construct, maintain, 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 53 and operate a toll bridge across the Missis By Mr. McKELLAR: ing appropriations to supply deficiencies in sippi River at or near Keokuk, Iowa; to the S. 223. A bill to authorize mailing of small certain appropriations for the fiscal year end Committee on Commerce. firearms to officers-and employees of enforce ing June 30, 1930, and prior fiscal years, to S. 206. A bill to authorize the course of in ment agencies of the United States; to the provide supplemental appropriations for the struction at the United States Military Acad Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. fiscal years ending June 30, 1930, and June 30, emy to be given to one person from each By Mr. CAPP]i:R: 1931, and for other purposes"; and American Republic; to the Committee on S. 224. A bill for the relief of Elmer Il!. S. 243 (by request). A bill to amend theSe Military Affairs. Miller; to the Committee on Claims. lective Training and Service Act of 1940; to S. 207. A bill to authorize the course of in S. 225. A bill to amend Public Law No. 190, the Committee on Military Affairs. struction at the United States Naval Academy June 23, 1932, to provide for the incorporation By Mr. HAYDEN: to be given to one person from each American of credit unions within the District of Co S. 244. A bill for the relief of the San Fran Republic; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. lumbia; to the Committee on the District of cisco Mountain Scenic Boulevard Co.; Columbia. S. 245. A bill for the relief of Mrs. J. E. Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, I in S. 226. A bill to amend the Tariff Act of Purtymun and Mrs. B. H. Russell; troduce a bill on behalf of my colleague 1930, as amended, and the act of June 12, S. 246. A bill for the relief of the heirs of and myself for the rearrangement of the 1934, relating to reciprocal trade agreements; Jesus Leyvas; meetings of the Federal courts in the to the Committee on Finance. S. 247. A bill for the relief of Hilda C. All eastern and western districts of Ken S. 227. A bill for the relief of Karl Hirsch strom; land; and S. 248. A bill for the relief of John G. tucky, and I ask for its appropriate ref S. 228. A bill for the relief of Marcel Stark; Hunter; erence. to the Committee on Immigration. S. 249. A bill for the relief of C. Y. Webb; The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will By Mr. TYDINGS: S. 250. A bill for the relief of Ward S. be referred to the Committee on the S. 229. A bill to confer jurisdiction on the Powers; Judiciary. Court of Claims of the United States to hear, S. 251. A bill for the relief of John Mul determine, and render judgment upon the hern; By Mr. CHANDLER (for himself and claim of John L. Alcock; S. 252. A bill for the relief of the Phoenix Mr. BARKLEY) ; Tempe Stone Co.; and S. 208. A bill relat ing to the terms of the S. 230. A bill for the relief of the Boston Iron & Metal Co., a Maryland corporation, S. 253. A bill for the relief of the legal rep district courts of the United States for the resentatives of John T. Brickwood (deceased), eastern and western districts of Kentucky; to conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claim of said Edward Gaynor, Theodore Gebler, Lee W. Mix, the Committee on the Judiciary. company; and Arthur L. Peck, Thomas D. Casanega, Joseph By Mr. BARBOUR: S. 231. A bill for the relief of persons suffer de Lusignan, and Joseph H. Berger; to the S. 209 . A bill for the relief of the Jersey ing injuries due to the establishment, main Committee on Claims. Central Power & Light Co.; to the Committee tenance, and operation by the United States S. 254. A bill authorizing payment to the on Claims. of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland San Carlos Apache Indians for the lands ceded By Mr. REED (for himself and Mr. for the test of explosive and other dangerous by them in the agreement of February 25, WHEELER); instruments of war; to the Committee on 1896, ratified by the act of June 10, 1896, and . S. 210. A bill to amend the Interstate Com Claims. reopening such lands to mineral entry; to merce Act, as amended, to provide for the S. 232. A bill reenacting sectien 821, chap the Committee on Indian .Affairs. regulation of freight forwarders; to the Com ter 4, part 7, title 20, of the Code of the Dis S. 255. A bill for the relief of August R. mittee on Interstate Commerce. trict of Columbia and making the words "all Lundstrom; and By Mr. t.:tEORGE: taxes," therein contained, include special as S. 256. A bill authorizing the Secretary of S. 211. A bill for the relief of the Collier sessments; to the Committee on the District War to accept a gift of lands from the city of Manufacturing Co., of Barnesville, Ga.; to the of Columbia. · Tucson, Ariz.; to the Committee on -Military Committee on Claims. S:-233. A bill to provide for the erection of Affairs. · By Mr. LODGE: a suitable memorial to the Twenty-ninth S. 257. A bill to authorize the participation - S. 212. A bill for the relief of Arvy A. Loth Division; American Expeditionary Forces; to of States in certain revenues from national man; to the Committee on Claims. the Committee on the Library. parks, national monuments, and other _areas S. 213. A bill granting an increase of pen S. 234. A bill to authorize the Chief of Engi under the administrative ' jurisdiction of the. sion to Porter 0. Robinson; to the Committee neers of the Army to enter into agreements National Park Service, and for other pur on Pensions. with local governments adjacent to the Dis poses; By Mr. ADAMS: trict of Columbia for the use of water for 0 . 258. A bill to provide for the establish S . 214. A bill to repeal the act entitled "An purposes of fire fighting only; to the Com ment of the Coronado International Memo-· act relating to Philippine currency reserves on mittee on Military Affairs. rial, in the State of Arizona; tieposit in the United States"; to the Com S. 235. A bill for the relief of the leader of S. 259. A bill to revise the boundaries of the mittee on Banking and Currency. the Naval ·Academy Band; to· the Committee Saguaro National . Monument; and S. 215. A bill to amend the act entitled "An on Naval Affairs. S. 260. A bill to permit mining within the act conferring jurisdiction upon the ·United By Mr. TYDINGS (for himGelf and Mr. Organ Pipe Cactus N~tional Monument in States Court of Claims to hear, examine, ad Arizona; to the Committee on Public I:.ands RADCLIFFE) ; and Surveys. - . judicate, and render judgment on any and all S. 236. A bill to exempt from taxation cer claims which the Ute Indians or any tribe or tain property of the National eociety of the By Mr. HOLMAN: band thereof may have against the United Colonial Dames of America in the District of S. J . Res. 9. Joint resolution for the relief of States, and for other purposes,'' approved Columbia; to the Committee on the District North Pacific Grain · Growers, Inc.; to the June 28, 1938; to the Committee on Indian of Columbia. Committee on Claims. By Mr. SHEPPARD: Affairs. By Mr. SHEPPARD: By Mr. ANDREWS: S. J . Res. 10. Joint resolution to remove dis S. 237. A bill to readjust the allowances of criminations against retired Army enlisted S. 216. A bill for the relief of A. B. Codring retired enlisted men of the Army; ton; to the Committee on ·Claims. personnel and to equalize hospitalization and S. 238. A bill to provide retire ment pay and domiciliary benefits of retired enlisted men S. 217. A bill to authorize the town of hospital benefits to certain Reserve officers, of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Jupiter, Fla., to lease certain land patented Army of the United States, disabled while on Guard; to the Committee on Military Affairs. to such town pursuant to the provisions of active duty; By Mr. VANDENBERG: section 3 of the act of July 3, 1926; to the S. 239. A bill to provide for the discharge or S. J. Res. 11. Joint resolution proposing an Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. retirement of enlisted men of the Regular amendment to the Constitution of the United (Mr. ANDREWS also introduced Senate bill Army and of the Philippine Scouts in certain States prohibiting child labor; and 218, which was referred to the Committee on cases; S. J. Res. 12. Joint resolution proposing an the Judiciary and appears under a separltte S. 240. A bill to amend the World War Ad amendment to the Constitution of the United heading.) justed Compensation Act to provide adjusted States relative to disapproval of items in gen By Mr. MEAD: compensation for provisional, probationary, eral appropriation bills; to the Committee on S. 219. A bill to create a United States Civil and temporary officers; the Judiciary. Service Board of Appeals; to the Committee S. 241. A bill making provision for payment By Mr. WILEY: on Civil Service. of employees of the United States Govern S. J. Res. 13. Joint resolution proposing an S. 220. A bill to establish a system of lon ment, its Territories or possessions, or the amendment to the Constitution of the United gevity pay for postal employees; to the Com District of Columbia, when ordered to active States relating to the terms of office of the mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads. duty with the military or naval forces of the President and the Vice President; and By Mr. GREEN: United States; S. J. Res. 14. Joint resolution authorizing S. 221. A bill for the relief of the Beacon S. 242. A bill to repeal certain provisions of the Pref;ident to proclaim October 11, 1941, Oyster Co.; to the Committee on Claims. the act of February 25, 1929, entitled "An act General Pulaski's Memorial. Day for the ob S. 222. A bill for the relief of Marcel Mantel to authorize appropriations for construction servance and commemoration of the death of an ~ wife, Amalia Berger Mantel; to the Com at military posts, and for other purposes," and Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski; to the Committee mittee on Immigration. the act of July 3, 1930, entitled "An act mak- on the Judiciary. 54 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 8
VETO OF ITEMS IN GENERAL APPROPRIATION the attitude or policy which the people or nection with any subject which may be be fore said committee, the expenses thereof to BILLS the Government ·or the United States should adopt toward the wars now being fought or be paid out of the contingent fund of the Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, I the belligerents engaged in such wars. The Senate; and that the committee, or any have just introduced Senate Joint Reso committee shall conduct such study and in subcommittee thereof, may sit during szs• lution 12, proposing an amendment to vestigation with a view to obtaining full and sions or recesses of the Senate. the Constitution permitting the item complete information concerning such com mittees and organizations with respect · to HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE veto. In connection with its presenta their (1) organizers and origin, (2) sources tion and reference to the Judiciary Com Mr. HARRISON submitted the follow of funds, (3) foreign connections, (4) mo ing resolution (S. Res. 24), which was mittee, I suggest that that committee tives, purposes, and objectives, and (5) ac should explore the question of whether tivities. The committee shall report to the referred to the Committee to Audit and the item veto requires a constitutional Senate, as soon as practicable, the results o:f Control the Contingent Expenses of the amendment, or whether it can be its study and investigation, together with its Senate: achieved by statute. recommendations, if any, for legislation Resolved, That the Committee on Finance, deemed by it to be necessary. or any subcommittee thereof, hereby is au PUNISHMENT FOR DESECRATION OF THE thorized to sit during the sessions or receEses UNITED STATES FLAG SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FISCAL AFFAIRS OF of the Seventy-seventh Congress at such THE GOVERNMENT Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. President, I am times and places at it may deem advisable; Mr. TYDINGS submitted the following to make investigatlons into internal revenue, introducing, for appropriate reference, customs, and other matters within its juris a bill to prevent desecration of the flag resolution (S. Res. 22), which was re ferred to the Committee on Appropria diction, and to compile and prepare statistics of the United States of America. and document s relating thereto as directed It is not generally known that a Fed tions: from time to time by the Senate and as may eral law on this subject does not exist · Resolved, That there is hereby established be necessary, and to report from time to time as to offenses committed outside the a special committee, to consist of three Mem to the Senate the result thereof; to send bers of the Senate to be appointed by the for persons, books. and papers; to adminis District of Columbia. VV.hile section 5 President of the Senate, which shall make a ter oaths; and to employ such expert, steno of the act of February 20, 1905, prohibits full and complete investigation with respect graphic, clerical, and other assistance as may . the registration of any trade-mark which to (1) the amount, source, and type of reve be necessary; and all the expenses of such comprises the flag or coat of arms or nue raised annually by the Federal Govern committee shall be paid from the contingent other insignia of the United States or ment during the past 10 years; (2) the rela fund of the Senate. any simulation thereof, the desecration tionship between the appropriations made for or improper use of the flag is not now the variou::; branches of the Government and HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN the revenues raised to support such appro RELATIONS a crime under any law of the United priations; (3) the amounts of Federal bor States, with the exception of the Dis rowings and the sources from which they Mr. GEORGE submitted the following trict of Columbia Act of February 8, have been obtained during the past 10 years; resolution (S. Res. 25), which was re 1917. (4) the amount and character of the annual ferred to the Committee to Audit and A majority of the States, however, deficits of the Federal Government during the ·Control the Contingent Expenses of the past 10 years; (5) what additional sources of Senate: have passed acts designed to punish revenue are available without serious injury those who cast contempt, scorn, or dis to the economic life of the Nation; (6) such Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign repute upon the flag, and the constitu other matters relating to the fiscal affairs of Relations or any subcommittee thereof be, tionality of such State legislation has the Government as are necessary to a con and hereby is, authorized during the Sev been upheld by the Supreme Court. sideration of the problem of balancing in enty-seventh Congress to send for persons, come and expenditures; and {7) the formu books, and papers, to administer oaths, and There have been a number of arrests, to employ a stenographer, at a cost not ex trials, and convictions under such State lation of a plan or plans for an automatically balanced Budget in times of peace. The ceeding 25 cents per hundred words, to re laws, the most recent being that of Helga committee shall report to the Senate as soon port such hearings as may be had in con Schleuter, of Southard, N. J., who was as practicable the results of its investigation, nection with any subject which may be charged with the "mutilation and defile together with its recommendations, if any, for before said committee, the expenses thereof ment of the American flag" during the necessary legislation. to be paid out of the contingent fund of the New Jersey State Volunteer Firemen's For the purposes of this resolution the Senate; and that the c;:ommittee, or any sub committee, or any duly authorized subcom committee thereof, may sit during the ses parade in Lakewood, N. J ., on June 29, sions or recesses of the Senate. last. She was held for action of the mittees thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such times and grand jury, indicted, tried, convicted, places during the sessions, recesses, and ad HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY and sentenced to a term of 1 to 2 years. journed periods of the Senate in the Seventy AFFAIRS The woman procured a certificate of seventh Congress, to employ such experts and Mr. SHEPPARD submitted the follow reasonable doubt, and her case is now such clerical, stenographic, and other assist ing resolution (S. Res. 26), which was re pending on appeal. ants, to require by subpoena or otherwise the ferred to the Committee to Audit and Mrs. Thomas Claire Maguire, State attendance of such witnesses and the produc tion of such correspondence, books, papers, Control the Contingent Expenses of the regent of the Florida Daughters of the and documents, to administer such oaths, to Senate: American Revolution, has also brought take such testimony, and to make such ex Resolved, That the Committee on Military to my attention the fact that there is penditures, as it deems advisable. The cost Affairs, or any subcommittee thereof, is au no Federal legislation of this character, of stenographic services to report such hear thorized, during the Seventy-seventh Con and this bill was drafted in line with ings shall not be in excess o:f 25 cents per gress, to send for persons, books, and papers, the research which Mrs. Maguire and hundred words. The expenses of the com to administer oaths, and to employ a ste other officials of this patriotic organiza mittee, which shall not exceed $15,000, shall nographer at a cost not exceeding 25 cents tion formulated. be paid from the contingent fund of the a hundred words to report such hearings as Senate upcn vouchers approved by the chair may be had on any subject before said com The bill PROPAGANDA HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON PRIVI was referred to the Committee to .Audit LEGES AND ELECTIONS Mr. LEE submitted the following reso and Control the Contingent Expenses of lution and papers, to administer oaths, and to em EMILY R. LIEUALLEN The address is ·as follows: ploy a stenographer, at a cost not exceed i~g 25 cents per 100 words, to report such Mr. THOMAS of Idaho submitted the AM:cRICA WILL SUPPORT BRITAIN, GREECE, AND hearings as may be had on any subject be following resolution (S. Res. 32), which CHINA AND EXERT UTMOST EFFORT TO BECOME fore said committee, the expense thereof to was referred to the Committee to Audit INVULNERABLE be paid out of the contingent fund of the and Control the Contingent. Expenses of Freedom .is under attack. Senate; and that the committee, or any the Senate: Throughout the ages, since man was or subcommittee thereof, may sit during any dered to eat his bread in the sweat of his session or recess of the Senate. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate brow, freedom has been under attack. hereby is authorized and directed to pay But freedom has always, throughout man's TEMPORARY ASSISTANT CLERK, COMMITTEE ON from the contingent fund of the Senate to struggle upward, been regarded as worth PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS Emily R. Lieuallen, widow of W. Grant fighting for. Wherever we find freedom, man Lieuallen, late first assistant librarian of the has fought to attain it and to maintain it. Mr. CONNALLY submitted the follow Senate, a sum equal to 1 year's compensation Today the British, the Greeks, the Chinese ing resolution lie to Hitler's charge of "de Hitler envisages America as "degenerate pledge, but they do not shirk cooperation with generate Yankeedom"; they asserted their Yankeedom," saying: other nations whenever there is a sound basts ability to carry on the age-old struggl.e for a "I guarantee, gentlemen, that at the right for it and a consciousness of community of better way of life. moment a new America will exist as our interest and aim. Cooperation is not dicta On one side barbarism, on the other side strongest supporter when we are ready to torship and it is not partisanship. On our civilization. They chose civilization. No de take the stride into overseas space. We have part it must be the cooperation of a free peo lusions of safety, no attempts to create class the means of awakening this nation in good ple drawing their strength from many racial prejudice confused their decision. The cause time." stocks, and a cooperation that is made possi that Britain was fighting was their cause, the Notwithstanding the obstruction to legis ble by a preponderant sentiment permitting peril that Britain was experiencing was their lation encountered, the representatives of the governmental action under a system which peril. people of the United States acted against the denies all exercise of autocratic power. It will Americans will not be forced into the mold peril of both the war and the revolution. be the cooperation of a people of liberal ideals, cast for them by Hitler-an armed and cul They were not deluded by statements that deeply concerned with the maintenance of tured master class at the top and illiterate, we are safe beyond the oceans; they were not peace and interested in all measures which obedient slaves below. terrified by the innuendos of "ulterior mo find support in the common sense of the Then followed the unprecedented legisla tives" and the mouthings of Hitler's epi country as being practical and well designed tion designed to make the United States of thets--"warmongers," "international bank to foster common interests." America invincible: ers," "Tories." They perceived that this war Time and again President Roosevelt has Provision for a two-ocean Navy; is being fought with spiritual forces, with exprer:sed himself in terms similar to the Development of another interoceanic canal; economic weapons, with "fifth columns," and following: Adoption of a construction. program for air with troops. "Our course is clear; our decision is made. and naval bases strategically located so as to A great majority of the American people We will continue to pile up our defense and protect every part of this country, and so as to promptly stepped into the ranks of freedom, our armaments. We will continue to help aid in the protection of the Western Hemi touching elbows with the British, and at that those who resist aggression and who now sphere; time the French and the Belgians. The grave hold the aggressors far from our shores." Authority to order out the National Guard issue of two ways of life permitted no doubt With reference to the Pacific, a regiment in time of peace to serve in a Federal to delay their enlistment. Such aid as might of marines was sent to Shanghai in 1937. capacity; be required to determine the issue with vic Our fleet has been maintained in the Pacific Adoption of a Selective Training and Serv tory for freedom and defeat for slavery would station. Embargoes on materials useful to ice Act, providing for · the rapid mobilization be given. Let no dictator get the impression Japan in her aggression on China have been of well-qualified military, naval, and aero that Americans will nfilt fight. Of course, set up. Financial aid to China has been nautic:;.! militia; and they will not fight unless and until they have given on several occasions. A trade of ships for naval and air bases on to. But they know the cost of freedom and Let no man pretend that America was in British soil was made. they are preparing to pay that cost if they doubt. Let no man hope to delude the pub These acts have great significance beyond have to. lic today with the representation that there their probative force in closing the argument The swift march of preparation for any remains a decision to be made. about where we stand as a country and as a eventuality is told in the folloV'ling events: With respect to the Atlantic and Europe, great people. They serve to notify the brutal Japan's Eeizure of Manchuria in 1931, Mus the year 1938 was fateful. Hitler annexed aggressors that the day of reckoning is ulti soHni's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, Ger Austria; the democracies attempted appease mately coming for them. many's scrapping of the Treaty of Locarno in ment by permitting the dismemberment of If we assume that the Axis Powers could 1936, Japan's invasion of China proper in the Czechoslovakia. The democracies of Europe defeat Britain, the preparation now being summer of 1937 caused this Government, permitted themselves to be lulled into a made by the United States of America in through Secretary Hull, to reiterate: false sense of security by the deceitful assur "The cornerstone of the foreign policy of forms the autocrats that they will not be ances made by the autocrats that their aims able to dictate to the people of the Western the United States is the preservation of the geographically and otherwise were limited. peace and security of our Nation, the strength Hemisphere the religion, political philosophy, These rulers and their supporters already and the economic system of the totalitarians, ening of international law, and the revitali were using class prejudice as a weapon, play and certainly that the slavery which they zation of international good faith. • • • ing up the proletariat and labor against capi "We avoid entering into alliances or en have already imposed upon the conquered tal. Already they had begun to brand us republics of Europe can never be imposed tangling commitments, but we believe in co who warned against the impending dangers upon the ·republics of the Western Hemi operative effort by peaceful and practicable as "warmongers," "imperialists," "interna sphere. means in support of the principles herein tional bankers." In that year 1938 the rulers before stated." of the totalitarian governments violated in The swift preparation already started in President Roosevelt, reacting to these symp every essential respect the long-accepted the United States assures England, Greece, toms of world disease, declared at Chicago his principles of peaceful and orderly interna and Chiha, who are the victims of aggression, purpose to quarantine against it. The follow tional relations. that the requirements for their support ing day this Government signified its concur morally and materially will be fully met so As Secretary Hull pointed out: far as this country is able to meet them. rence in the opinion of the Assembly of the "Merciless armed attack; unrestrained ter League of Nations and expressed concern for rorization through slaughter of noncom Did the people believe that their Govern the peace of the world and the safety of every batant men, women, and children; deceit, ment faithfully represented them? They nation, large and small. fraud, and guile; forced labor; confiscation did. They reversed the precedents of 150 A totalitarian axis was formed by Germany, of property; imposed starvation and depriva years by electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt Italy, and Japan. The conflict of force with tions of every sort-all these are weapons President for a third term. freedom took form, although no correspond constantly used by the conquerors for the In my opinion, such reversal of funda ing cooperation of the democracies was given invasion and -subjugation of other nations." mental practice was caused by their deter shape. The integrity of the spoken word was mination that thP. present. attitude of their The foreign policy enunciated by Secretary gone; force supplanted law; crime destroyed Government in the world revolution should Hull represented the well-informed public order; civilizations slipped back centuries; be maintained. sentiment of America. It expressed the vig the dove of peace put on a gas mask; the Wendell Willkie f;tdvocated the same atti orous concurrence of the sentiments and deluded democracies began to arm. tude. His supporters endorsed his stand. views of the many racial stocks which con The following summer this Government Thus public opinion was unified. tribute to the strength of American national denounced its commercial treaty uf 1911 with But probably no good intentions could ity. It is a fallacy to think of this policy as Japan and President Roosevelt called upon have prevailed over the known performance. belonging to any one administration, any one Congress to repeal the embargo on arms. I feel that the debate ought to be regarded President, or Secretary of State, or any one Thereupon was given to the distracted as closed so far as the subject of our attitude political party. It is the fundamental, early world emphatic evidence that this country as a nation in this world revolution is con established, and vital policy of the American was in truth not neutral; America was defi cerned. people. nitely enlisted in the cause of freedom as Now the real question is, What are we • A Republican Secretary of State, Mr. represented by the Allies. The decision to going to do with respect to carrying out our Hughes, expressed it before a meeting of the repeal the embargo on arms was of definite purpose in this conflict of economies, of bar association within a few years. after the aid to the Allies then, whereas the former civilizations, of religions, and of peoples? World War: retention of it was a definite aid .to Germany. First. I would like to have this Govern · "Our people are st11l intent upon abstaining The people of this country then supported ment do all that is practicable and wise and from participation in the political strife of this Government because they knew of the righteous to aid employer and employee to Europe. They are not disposed to commit colossal forces of evil threatening a way of find the true basis of cooperation. this Government in advance to the use of its life which had cost mankind great sacrifice Hitler's· weapon of class prejudice would power in unknown contingencies, preferring and effort to establish. The people of this thereby be blunted; perhaps it would be to reserve freedom of action in the confidence country unequivocally alined themselves on ruined. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 57
As we envisage the natiomi.l workshop and mediate surroundings to be willing and able INVOLVEMENT OF UNITED STATES IN WAR endeavor to convert the boundless resources to help save this country from this great EDITORIAL FROM COLORADO SPRINGS GA of this country into an ever-increasing menace. ZETTE stream of military supplies with which to I caution you against any Influence which overcome the aggressors, we need to remove would tend to weaken morale in the stead [Mr. WHEELER asked and obtained leave all obstacles to production. Speed is essen fast purpose to help Britain to the utmost, to have printed in the RECORD an editorial tial; extraordinary· effort of our nationals is and strengthen our own defense. from .the Colorado Springs Gazette of Decem absolutely necessary. Finally, the program already begun for ber 31, 1940, entitled "To Arms! To Arms!" It is oversimpliC.ed to say that we must training a substantial class each year for Which appears in the Appendix.] set up a 6-day week. The problem involves military service requires the cooperation of devoted interest, patriotic fervor, the spirit States, municipalities, and inhabitants. ATTITUDE OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF of sacrifice, and endless work. There is much for all of us to do. Outside MANUFACTURERS TOWARD DEFENSE POLI All citizens should willingly curtail the use of the technical education involved, we have CI.ES of · luxuries and semiluxuries. the great problems of dislocation of industry [Mr. HILL asked and obtained leave to have All t axpayers should be willing to dis and employment, of our general educational printed in the RECORD an editorial from the charge the extra burden of providing the system, and of the moral habits of citizens Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser of December means with which to pay labor such wages and trainees where great numbers of men are 27, 1940, entitled "Jubilant Stupidity," which that the high standard of diet, clothing, and suddenly brought together to live in a re appears in the Appendix.] housing may be maintained. Government's stricted area. participation requires modification of exist The generosity of the people of this coun TRIBUTE TO SERVICE IN THE MERCHANT ing clogs in the operation of private industry try is challenged by the need which the young MARINE . and amendment of existing contracts, so that men will have for wholesome•social relations [Mr. LODGE asked and obtained leave to both labor and capital may have the reason and beneficial activities for their spare have printed in the RECORD a tribute by for able compensation which is absolutely neces moments. mer Secretary of War Newton D. Baker to sary to a vigorous and effective economy. We are determined to make our defense those serving in the merchant marine, which In the great effort which is before us Amer invulnerable. Perfection alone is invulner appears in the Appendix.] ica may-and I believe will-rise to such a able. This is a high objective. Nevertheless, level of civilization as has not been attain we must strive for it. This calls for united, PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF UTILITIES · able without the stimulus of such a cause· unselfish, and vigorous effort of the govern as that in which we are united. ment and its nations. It means disregard of Mr. BRIDGES. Mr. President, during Second. Our great regard for civil liberties causes. of petty dissensions, and the subordi the past few months, in the Senate and exposes our country to the inroads of the nation of perSQnal ambition, comfort, and .over the radio, and in the recent cam so-called "fifth . column.' ~ Undoubtedly the pr,oft.t; it means the exercise of the best that paign a good many statements were -FederaLBureau of InveJ>tigation and the Dies _is in each one of us to qualify our Govern . ment, our great national workshop, our finan ·made about public ownership of utilities committee are doing effective service gain and the activities of the Public Owner ing information calculated to be of. use in cial system, an~ above all, our spiritual for preparing our defense against this. well tress, to resist the great peril to everything_ ship League. I made various comments known weapon of the totalitarians. that we cherish. We sh_all triumph. _upon this subject, and from time to time_ We have repeatedly seen statements pur Thus, will our aid to Britain, Greece, and they have been questioned, and from porting to come from Hitler that the United China, be effectual without a single American · time to time I have been asked for fur States was on the brink of a revolution; that soldier engaging in combat. Thus, will we ther explanation of them. In order to be able to lay the foundation for a world not he was organizing his storm troops here to expedite the explanation and not take go into action at the proper moment. ruled by force. Thus, there will survive that world of the time of the Senate, I ask that an Congress has started upon the delicate task spiritual values which transcends any totali- exhibit which I have prepared be in of preserving civil liberties and at the same tarian world; - · cluded in the RECORD as a part of my time providing against the willful destruc remarks. tion of war material, the sabotaging of our AID TO DEMOCRACIES-ADDRESS BY WILLIAM factories, and the conversion of our na C. BULLITT The VICE PRESIDENT. . Is there ob tionals to revolutionary theories. jection? [Mr. BARKLEY asked and obtained leave Approximately a month ago the Sumners There being no objection, the exhibit bill, putting into effect in peacetime the to have printed in the RECORD an address de livered by Hon. William C. Bullitt on January was ordered to be printed in the RECORD1 Willful Destruction of war Materials Act of 7, 1940, at Chapel Hill, N. C., urging aid to as follows: 1918, became a law. democracies, which appears in the Appendix.] We have an espionage act, !~tended to pro EXHIIiiT I tect power plants and lines, dams and res STATEMENT BY MEMBERS OF OFFICE OF PRO- THE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP RACKET--8ECRET ervoirs, gas works and pipes, and communica DUCTION MANAGEMENT SALES AGENT FOR ENGINEERING FIRMS AND tion facilities serving the armed forces or [Mr. HERRING asked and obtained leave EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS-AN EXPLANA defense plants. We have recentlY' COI;llpleted TORY COMPILATION OF DATA the registration of aliens, which has to have printed in the RECORD a statement by the members of the Office of Production Man The public-ownership movement has long strengthened the country's defenses against been sustained by its moral appeal. Its the Trojan horse. Sedition and the preach agement, published in the New York Times of today, which appears in the Appendix.] advocates have dressed themselves in the ing of the overthrow of the Government by cloak of righteousness, painting their pur force are punishable. AGREEMENTS BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EM- pose as that which will fulfill one of the The Department of Justice has asked for PLOYEEs-oPINION OF SUPREME COURT ideals of our ethical code-elimination of legislat ion to aid it in the discovery of evi [Mr. WAGNER asked and obtained leave to greed from an important segment of our dence an d the forestalling of sabotage. Such economic life. legislation would include the right by the have printed in the RECORD the opinion of the F. B. I., under direction of the Attorney Gen United States Supreme Court in Heinz against This has been accomplished in part by the eral, to tap wires in order to prevent and National Labor Relations Board, and a letter association of greed with the so-called profit ascertain attempts or plans to interfere with by Senator WAGNER to the New York Times on motive. This conne~tion of the two ideas has confused and misled many earnest and the n ational defense by sabot ~ e, treason, the subject of written agreements under the seditious conspiracy, espionage, and other National Labor Relations Act, which appear sincere leaders of public opinion. violations of law affecting our security. in the Appendix.] The Russian experiment has demonstrated, of course, that elimination of the profit Such legislat ion will be necessary in view of RESIGNATION OF WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE AS the Communications Act of 1934. motive from a nation's economy only accen CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE TO DEFEND tuates greed in other fields of human en There is anot her bill, aiming at registra AMERICA BY AIDING THE ALLIES tion of firearms which died in a commit tee of deavor, particularly manifest in cruel and the Senate with the end of the Seventy-sixth [Mr. CLARK of Missouri asked and ob bloody greed for personal political power. Congress. tained leave to have printed in the RECORD In America the sanctimonious atmosphere An act was recently passed permitting the an article from the Chicago Daily Tribune which has surrounded the public ownership several States to establish, by legislative ac quoting a letter from William Allen White to (or Marxian) movement has served the fur tion, home guards. The organizations created John Temple Graves 2d, which appears in ther purpose of shielding it from ordinary under this act should be able to give a large the Appendix.] rough-and-tumble political attack. By iden amount of organized protection to our in tifying their opponents with the forces of stitutions. EDITORIAL TRIBUTES TO THE LATE PRESIDENT greed and/ or evil, public-ownership advo I am confident that the Seventy-seventh OF FINLAND cates have cleverly soug:ht to cloak them Congress will give "fifth-column" preven [Mr. BROWN asked and obtained leave to selves in the robes of righteousness as a tion careful consideration and action. have printed in the RECORD several editorials sanctuary against attack. But this is not enough. We must have a paying tribute to the memory of the late In actual fact, the public-ownership move vigilant public. Every citizen is interested Kyosti Kallio, President of Finland, which ment would have died aborning but for th'e enough, and knows enough about his im- appears in the Appendix.] very profit motive it is proposed to eliminate. 58 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 8 It is not an accident that public-ownership objectives began to appear-municipal owner sale of services and equipment to munici agitation has been confined chiefly to electric shiP. of public utilities. pally owned plants, the Public Ownership and water distribution. In those fields there The Public Ownership League came to hand League has been a mere racket. It has been exist powerful interests which can and have as an ideal sales front for those professional, the covert sales organization and propaganda been richly rewarded for their financial sup financial, and industrial interests which machine for interests financially profiting by port of the movement. found considerable profit in the selling of its activities. The imposing list of public Nor is it by accident that the titular lead generating and distributing equipment, fi· figures listed as officers of the organization ership of the movement rests with a saintly nancing and engineering for municipal elec were unwittingly lending their names to this looking, white-haired former minister of the trical plants. scheme. gospel. His evangelical fervor, his attacks Improvement of the Diesel engine to an How wholly dominated by these interests on sin-in the form of private enterprise efficiency point which sometimes made it a was Carl Thompson and his sales and service endow him with just the proper atmospheric fair competitor in generating economy of promotion organization, the Public Owner_ coloration to lead what is supposed to be, some central station systems came in the mid ship League, will be found in a pair of inci among other things, a moral cause. twenties. A new and profitable market for dents that are a matter of public record. This man, Cad Dean Thompson, according such engines and -collateral equipment was First example: Fairbanks, Morse had en to Who's Who, terminated his first pastorate to be had in muntcipal plants. Private com countered sales resistance in Oklahoma be after 3 years to enter politics as a Socialist panies were not interested in Diesels because, cause of a constitutional provision prohibit in Wisconsin in 1901. His active connection with few exceptions, system-wide distribution ing issuance of municipal bonds without a With that party continued through the 1916 of steam-generated power was far cheaper and referendum by the voters of the community campaign, when he . was Socialist national more dependable than small, isolated Diesel involved. This provision did not close the campaign manager. At the time he founded engines. doors to municipal ownership but only re the Public Ownership League of America in Advertisements for Diesel engines and like quired that the- question be put to public 1914 Thompson was director of publicity of equipment, from municipal bond hous~. en vote. In another instance where such a pro the Socialist Party. He continues to be a gineering firms specializing in municipal vision did not apply, at Two Rivers, Wis .• professing Socialist, but apparently has long electrical distributions, began to flood the it has been shown in a city council investiga since ceased active participation in party pages of the Public Ownership magazine. tion made public and unanimously accepted affairs. The financial influence of this new source of by the council on March 26, 1935, a rep By the time of -the organization of the revenue soon showed in the policies of the resentative of Fairbanks, Morse had offered Public Ownership League in 1914 socialism, Public Ownership League. $1,000 per head for councilmanic votes in as an economic theory and as a basis for Without at first openly abandoning the favor of a Diesel. plant for that city. In political action, had become generally dis broad objectives of public ownership of all spite of prayerful urgings by Dr. Thompson credited in the public mind. Despite a few natural resources and other Marxian steps, and offers of bribes by the company, the local exceptions, the party's efforts in the the Public Ownership magazine and the company failed to put over its deal. national campaigns had become the butt of league gradually became the champion of Still the company apparently preferred political jokers. municipal electric utilities almost to the ex dealing directly with a city council than to The strategy then adopted ty many Social clusion of other Marxian propaganda. The put the question to a referendum test as ist leaders was .to continue advocacy of magazine soon became practically an under required in Oklahoma. So it secretly en Marxian objectives under color of organiza cover house organ for the Diesel-engine gaged an Oklahoma City attorney and po tion names more acceptable to the public. manufacturers and engineers specializing in litical figure, the late W. C. Bryant, to Thus the "transmission 'belt" technique later municipal ownership. The league in reality agitate for a constitutional amendment and adapted by the Communists, as recently was the active sales organization preparing to obtain sufficient signatures for a State exposed by the Dies committee, was first the field for these interests. In scores of referendum known as State Quest ion No. devised and used by less violent advocates American cities the league "fronted" for the 205. Bryant also was called upon to defend of communism-the Socialists. engineers and manufacturers. the legality of his petitions and retained The first such Socialist "transmission belt" Typical is a recent article appearing in one Herschel V. Lewis to appear on his be organization was Thompson's Public Owner the Public Ownership magazine, by Carl half. The financial backing of the Fair ship League. Others followed. For ex Thompson, on How to Start, Conduct, and banks, Morse firm was not then disclosed ample, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society Win Municipal Ownership Campaigns. Em this was in the spring of 1935. But Bryant took on . the more palatable title of League bedded in the text is this advertisement for died leaving Lewis' fee unpaid. So Lewis for Industrial Democracy in 1921-but re Burns & McDonnell: sued, not Bryant's estate but the Fairbanks, tained identical personnel. "Have engineers make a preliminary sur Morse Co. To prove that Fairbanks, Morse The Public Ownership League was founded vey of your city to determine, roughly at was the real &ponsor of the petition and that for the purpose of bringing about public least, how much the private company's prop Bryant had only acted for it, Lewis produced national or local-ownership and production erty is worth if purchased by the city; what three letters from responsible officers of of all natural resources including minerals, it would cost to build new and what savings Fairbanks, Morse to Bryant which not only forests, lands, and water power; and in ad and advantages could be realized. enclosed checks for Bryant's services but dition the public ownership and operation of "These are vita.I matters. It is especially whicl). also gave campaign directions and in railroads, electric, water, telephone, and other important that you get engineers that are structions. These letters, produced in Octo utilities. In short, the objectives of the not only experienced and capable but loyal ber 1938, proved a political bombshell and Public Ownership League were identical with to the cause of public ownership and, above destroyed whatever chance the referendum those of the Socialist Party. In fact it dif all, men who are not in the pay or under may have had. The company maintained a fered with the Communist Party only as to the influence of private power companies. majestic silence about it all. the methods to be used in achieving these The .league has such engineers affiliated with The letters also disclosed the closeness of ends, the latter advocating violent over its organization and upon inquiry can put the alliance between the machinery company throw of the existing regime as was done in you in touch with them." and Carl Thompson as well as suggesting the Russia. The function of the league was, and R. E. McDonnell, senior partner of the firm alliance between the firm and the engineering is, educational, i. e., the expert use of propa of Burns & McDonnell, the leading tlrm of company of Burns & McDonnell. ganda to injJuence public opinion. municipal ownership engineers for many One of the letters to Bryant signed by F. C. But even organizations dedicated to what years wa&-and. still is-not only chairman Dierks, secretary of the company, dated April its supporters assert. to be the cause of of the finance committee of the league but is 26, 1935, contains the following paragraph: idealism cannot live on love alone. In its also an associate editor of the magazine- "I might mention that while at Washington early days the league eked out a modest as is also his wife. For many years the firm 1n connection with other business I had an existence through the support of a few has been a regular advertising supporter of opportunity of discussing this matter with wealthy "parlor pink.. supporters supple the league. . Mr. Carl D. Thompson, and he has made a mented by Thompson's paid lectures-usu Chief Diesel manufacturing company giv special note to invoke all possible assistance ally under the auspices of the Intercollegiate ing financial support to the league by means in support of the constitutional amendment Socialist Society or its titular successor, the of advertising has been the firm of Fair in Oklahoma. I also spoke to him regar~ing L. I. D. ' The former source largely dried up banks, Morse. For many years this firm car the probability of asking for his services to shortly after the World War when the shock ried a.n annual contract for a full-page cover several public talks over the radio when ing results of the ruthless Russian experi advertisement on the back cover. It is in the matter has actually been submitted to ment in Marxism cooled the ardor of many teresting that thi& form of public support an election. Dr. Thompson was perfectly earnest early-day believers in socialism. was discontinued late last spring after there agreeable to this suggestion, and personally That democracy cannot exist under the had been threateneq a congressional 1nvesti the writer feels that this would be a splendid planned totalitarian type state, which Karl g_ation of the league and the financing of idea, with the understanding, however, that Marx blue-printed, dawned on many who had Carl D. Thompson Whether the league re both of us would review in advance his pro formerly felt that socialism was the hope ceives direct contributions from this source posed address." of humanity. 1s not known. Note that before the estimable Thompson But, as enthusiasm waned for the broad For years, &ince the league came under the is permitted to go on the air in a political objectives of the Public Ownership League, a financial dominance of commercial and pro address in favor of a secretly financed refer new source of support for one of its several tessional groups financially interested in the endum election, he must submit his speech to 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 59 an officer of a company which is. the hidden ances of the public-ownership advocates by Ohio. There is no question but that his elec "sugar daddy" of the referendum movement reading a bill of particulars written by R. H. tion will be of considerable benefit to us. and his State political agent, "for review in McDonnell, of the Burns & McDonnell firm. I had hoped to discuss this matter with you advance of his proposed address." That the Senator, however, was quite inno personally and It might be well for you to Could any Power Trust charge against cent that he was pulling the chestnuts of a get Bartl~tt's opinion before making a defi Thompson be as revealing of the smug hypoc fee-foiled engineer out of the fire is demon nite decision. Please write me your reac risy of this ancient agitator than this matter strated by what followed. When the m.atter tion to this and what amount you believe of-fact discussion of how and where to make came up in the Senate, Senator King objected we would be justified in distributing. use of his services by an officer of a Diesel to the investigation because it was one-sided. BURNS & McDoNNELL, firm? The Senator from Utah agreed to passage Engineers. In the same series of letters L. H. Carr, provided the resolution be amended so as to H. J. RossoN. manager of this firm's Kansas City office tells authorize a double-barreled investigation, in The letter is self-explanatory. Its authen Mr. Bryant under date of July 9, 1935, that: cluding such organizations as the Public ticity was never denied. The plain inference "Our Mr. Guernsey called Burns & McDon Ownership League and its financial backing, · to be had from it is that the taxpayers of nell today. Mr. R. M. McDonnell, Sr. (sic.), or such firms as Fairbanks, Morse and Burns the city of Akron were overcharged in order is still out of the city and his son will not & McDonnell. Senator NoRRIS, not realizing to take care of the politicians whose influ take the initiative in making a contribution." that this was the last thing Thompson or ence made the $15,500 engineering fee pos At least they were not strangers. Of that McDonnell wanted, readily agreed to the King sible. tie-up there is more to be said in its proper amendments and the resolution was passed by Had this fact been aired in the national place. the Senate. Thereupon Thompson and Mc publicity of a Federal investigation, wherever . Second example: If Dr. Thompson was a Donnell promptly lost interest in the measure, the firm were employed in the future, the part-time tool of the machinery crowd, he was, and it died in committee in the House. question would arise in the minds of the and to this day•is, the-full-time stooge of the . Thompson's bland boast .of lobbying for citizens as to who had been bought and how engineering firm of ·Burns & McDonnell, of McDonnell, his finance chairman, in Wash much they had gotten and to what extent Kansas City. McDonnell, in his capacity as. ington leaves unnecessary further proof of the fee had been padded. Even the most chairman of the finance committee of the his fidelity to his hidden meal ticket. sanguine believers in municipal ownership Public Ownership League, has stated that 92 might question the estimates of an engi- . p-ercent of the business of his firm originated In fact, these two instances cited above neering firm whose ethics are k-nown to be through the activity of that organization. A clearly demonstrate that Thompson is not the no higher than that of an ambulance-chas- · letter of inquiry t_o the Public Ownership idealistic evangel against greed in the form ing lawyer and on whose own estimates of League of America· by a city councilman as to · of the profit motive, but, to use the parlance feasibility depend future fees and business. the possibilities of .a municipal. plant -in his of "confidence" men, .merely the "shill" for 2. The Ainsworth, Nebr., case: This is a · city results not only in an encouraging letter apparently respectable engineering and rna-. case where the city of · Ainsworth was en- · from the Public Ownership _League but also chinery firr.:s, which certainly operate for the joined .from purchasing a Diesel engine after a persuasive sales letter from BuJ,"ns & Mc profit motive. a preliminary survey by Burns & McDonnell, . Donnell soliciting business. Thousands of But why did the pressure suddenly slacken engineers, whose contract called for a $5,000 pamphlets advertising the firm of Burns & for passage of the resolution to investigate · fee conditioned upon the purchase of an McDonnell, written by-McDonnell or members · municipal-ownership elections after the . engine. of his staff, have been distributed by and · measure had been broadened to include the Here the court held "for some reason the under· the imprimatur of the Public Owner Public Ownership League? What had it and engineer approved not only a bid on the ship League of America. its backers to fear? original specifications that the city council Thompson, by his own naive admission, has A little research discloses that such an in refused to accept, because it did not con lobbied in the Halls of Congress for Mc vestigation, unless carefully conducted as a form to the specifications." The court stated, Donnell. whitewash similar to Biddle's T.V. A. investi in part: McDonnell almost built a plant at a fat fee gation, would have been dangerous to the "That the law, under certain conditions, in a Missouri town about 5 years ago, but reputations of certain persons financially in permits the city to employ and pay a special when the matter was put to a vote the ques terested in the Public Ownership League's engineer, there can be no doubt. When em-· tion was lost. McDonnell was furious· at the activities. played, he pecomes a representative of the interference with h is plans by the campaign For example: city, and his contract should be such as would against the proposal conducted by a Mil- . 1. The Akron case: During a municipal leave him ~ntirely free to act at all times fair waukee advertising agency openly employed election campaign in Akron a photostatic ly and for the best interests of the city. bY the local private electric company. He copy of the following letter was reproduced "The engineer·~ contract provides for the sent Thompson to Washingt on to lobby for in the Akron Beacon-Journal of October 23, ~ayment only if the city contracts. No con an investigation of the concern. The story is 1935: tract no pay. A conC.:itional contract, and told in the March 1937 issue of the Public JuNE 28, 1934. one that requires a bidder to advance to the Ownership League m agazine, as follows : R. E. McDoNNELL, city to enable the city to pay a $5,000 fee to "At the urgent request of many different Kansas City, Mo.: . an engineer, might be, undc::.r some condi public-ownership leaders in different parts of As you know, Dr. Hayes is a candidate for tions, an inducement to approve or advise the the country, and especially of R. E. McDon Congress from the Fourteenth District. In approval of a bid or contract, where to reject nell, of Kansas City, Mo., Secretary Thompson my early negotiations with the city of Akron it might be to receive nothing for work done. took this matt er up with Senator LA FoLLETTE, I found it would be necessary to get the For some reason the engineer approved, not Congressman RANKIN, and others, and m ade active support of Hayes and his campaign only a bid that failed materially to comply a careful investigation to see if some existing manager, R. C. Witwer. with the amended specifications, but also commission or committee of Congress could Had it not been for these two parties I do approved a bid on the original specifications undertake an investigation of this and simi not think we would have been able to secure that the city council refused to accept, be lar organizations. It was finally agreed that the engagement. At that time I told Hayes cause it did not conform to the specifications. under the acts governing this matter no ex we would contribute to his campaign fund "To say that certain specific requirements isting committee or commission could under in the event he made the race for Congress. in the specifications were omitted in the bid present provisions undertake the investiga No amount was mentioned and we are not because they WE:'re unnecessary or not essen tion. And that, therefore, a new act of Con definitely committed to any figure. However, tial, the engineer and the city council having gress should be introduced instructing the in presenting our proposal I had this in mind said they were, will not answer and leaves the Federal Trade Commission to proceed with . when I made the total amount $15,500 instead thinking mind in doubt as to what brought it the investigation and making the necessary of $15,000. · all <.bout. provision for the requisite funds. Both Hayes and Witwer brought this matter "The original specifications, and the bid of "United States Senator NoRRIS readily up on my last trip to Akron, and it appears Fairbanks, Morse & Co ., and that of Boulig agreed to introduce the bill in the Senate and that they expect more than we could possibly ney, a duplicate of Fairbanks, Morse & Co.; the Congressman RANKIN in the House. The afford to contribute. amended specifications that reduced the cost measures were immediately introduced, and, The main plank in the platform will be several thousand dollars, and the same bid in it is hoped, will quickly be passed by both municipal ownership, and speeches will be amount by Fairbanks, Morse & Co. on the Houses. If so, we are sure the President will made in Akron, Lorain, Elyria, and all the amended specifications as on the original add his approval and the investig,ation be other cities and towns in Summit, Portage, specifications; and other things that I need m ade. We will then be in a position to reveal and Lorain Counties. I have agreed to pre not mention might justify the allegations of these most recent and most pernicious activi pare some of these speeches and have also the plaintiff that there was collusion between ties of the private power companies in their arranged a meeting between Hayes and my the engineer and Fairbanks, Morse & Co. effort to block and fi nally to destroy the mu friend William Smith, councilman from "Who was interested in having the bid of nicipal and public-ownership movement of Elyria, who is running for State legislature. Fairbanks, Morse & Co . accepted? Fairbanks, the country." They are probably going to campaign Morse & Co. · to get the cont ract and the The sequel to this story was never told by jointly in Lorain County. If Hayes is elected, engineer to get his $5,000. While the evi the Public Ownersh ip magazine. we will have a strong friend in .Washington, dence is silent on the question, I venture the When Senator NoRRIS introduced the also he plans on delivering M. 0. speeches assertion that the engineer never conferred Thompson-lo6bied bill, he recited the griev- on the slightest provocation throughout with the city council on these omissions. 60 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 8 Did the city council then know what a master Certainly no Federal investigation of mu influence for the purpose of interfering with clock was, cr that it had been omitted from nicipal ownership agitation could overlook an election or affecting the result thereof. the bid? Did the engineer inform the city the long trail of this alliance between a sup No officer or employee in the executive council, or did it know, that the specifica-· posedly pure white Public Ownership organ branch of the Federal Government, or any tions called for a closed cooling system, and ization and its benignant appearing director, agency or department thereof, shall take any that an open one was to be furnished? Can D. Thompson, on the one hand, and the firms active part in political management or in not the same be said of the day tanks, and of Burns & McDonnell and the Diesel manu political campaigns." the plumbing fixtures?" facturers on the other. Dr. Thompson, with his years of expe And the court added: "As to the alleged • • rience in public-ownership agitation, has be charge of collusion, I do not want it under With the coming of the New Deal the scope come an ace electioneer for the Bonneville stood that what I have said expresses an of these groups was vastly expanded. De1: pite administration. The story of his activities opinion. Merely a suggestion to be consid their clever operation, the stark fact · t hat in Washingt on and Oregon is amply related ered if the city takes further action • • * ." private effi ciency had overbalanced the tax in the House hearings for the 1941 appro There are other cases that indicate a flag and capital cost, public ownership advantages priation for the Interior Department, pages rant disregard for engineering ethics and in the operation of electric systems had made 264 to 284, inclusive. civic decency involving these two firms in public ownership in this field increasingly There seems little doubt that Thompson, their scramble for municipal ownership unpopular. To overcome this handicap, pub by the very nature of his activities in the contracts. lic ownership advocates were able to induce Northwest, shoulc be discharged as a Hatch 3. The contractual tie-in between Burns & Public Works Administrator !ekes-himself Act violator. But there is small chance of McDonnell and Diesel manufacturers: Two a member of the Public Ownership League such an eventuality, inasmuch as be con organizations have been operating on a you and for many years a personal friend of tinues on despite the protests of Congress scratch-my- back-and -1'11-scratch-yours basis Thompson-to establish a public power divi man Dudley White to Dr. Raver, Bonneville for many years. In the Two Rivers, Wis., case sion in the P. W. A. Cities were induced to Administrator, during last year's hearings. where it was shown by a city investigation go into municipal ownership by the free gift The chief beneficiary of this public-owner that the Diesel manufacturers had offered to of 30 percent-and later, 45 percent-of the ship racket appears to be the engineering buy council votes for $1 ,000 per head, the cost. This was excellent both for Burns & firm of Burns & McDonnell, not Carl Thomp Burns & McDonnell report of August 29, ·McDonnell and for the Diesel manufacturers son, who is only a "come-on" man for the 1933, to E. J. Donnelly, city manager, read since, being an unemployment-relief agency, game. as follows: the P. W. A. could not grant funds for pur The Diesel manufacturers find municipal "It is evident, therefore, that even with chase of existing systems, but was bound to plants only a fractional outlet for their the reduced rate charged by the city it will insist on construction of new and usually product and seem to be losing interest in be to the city's advantage to build a plant duplicating systems. That meant a gravy this market with the increase of Federal at this time and we recommend that the city train for both organizations. Burns & Mc waterpower development. make application to the Government for a Donnell were retained in scores of towns for It is pertinent, therefore, to appraise this loan under the new Federal Emergency Act. engineering surveys and other services. firm both as to its ethical and professional The 2,000-kilowatt Diesel plant still shows to P. w: A. showed a strong preference for Diesel standing. · the best advantage and we recommend its power. So strong was this preference that The technique of this firm usually is to installation." in one instance the P. W. A. refused the plea obtain a contract by hook or crook for a. One guess who the principal speaker in of the city of Carbondale, Ill., for a steam "preliminary survey" as to feasibility of a. the agitation for the Diesel was. Dr. Carl generating plant and insisted on Diesels even municipal system. Whether a. clause for D. Thompson, of course. Addressing an though the town is virtually built on a coal consulting services is conditioned on the fa audience at Two Rivers, on March 25, 1934, m. :1e and is situated in the heart of the rich vorable report or not there is no record of a Thompson said: "The cost of the plant would southern Illinois coal fields. report by this firm against the feasibility be $246,134. These figures are based upon an Perhaps it is only a coincidence that during of such a plant. Once the "preliminary sur engineer's report made by one of the best these early days of the P. W. A. Dr. Thomp vey" job is completed they make every effort firms of engineers in the United States." son served as an examiner of applications for to stir up by local agitation, through their Then he went on to attack greed-the profit municipal power grants in the power division "shill," Thompson, and by direct personal system. of the P. W. A.-and boasted of his activities agitation to put the proposition over. As early as 12 years ago the Burns & in the Public Ownership magazine. · The record of tbe firm as to accurate esti McDonnell tie-up with Fairbanks, Morse Co. By 1937 the economic fallacy of using work mates of savings and profits from proposed had been reduced to a contractual relation relief funds to construct public systems in systems is scandalous. It is understandable ship in at least one instance. Copy of a con duplication of private systems had become so that it would not be otherwise in face of tract approved June 22, 1928 between Burns apparent that Congress took cognizance of the fact that only by such underestimates it & McDonnell and Fairbanks, Morse Water the situation and even before the end of can obtain the fat fees that go with further Supply Co., a subsidiary manufacturing P. W. A. the latter agency had become con services as consulant should their estimates municipal water supply equipment, gives the siderably hampered in this field. be accepted. broad basis of the relationship between the But new fields opened up for Thompson. Some years ago the firm was retained by. two organizations at that time. For a fee of the city of Knoxville, Tenn., to make a pre 10 percent of the ultimate sale price, Burns While still retaining his directorship of tbe league and editorship of its magazine, liminary survey of the possible revenues 9f & McDonnell agreed to make preliminary a competing system. The Knoxville Journal surveys to determine the soundness and Thompson went on the pay roll of the Bon nev1lle administration early in November looked up the record as to Burns & Mc feasibility of possible projects, render all Donnell original estimates and actual re necessary engineering services, supervise the 1938. His salary is $5,600 per annum and his letting of subcontracts, and so forth. Per title is "power consultant," whatever that sults, which showed that the firm has been haps the unusually high fee of 10 percent as means. Under the laws of the States of off as much as 50 percent. . against the normal 5 percent is explained by Washington and of Oregon, districts, county Significant excerpts from this article pub the following clause in that contract, cer wide and larger, may be organized for the lished by the Journal, November 24, 1933- tainly calling for services seldom required of generation or purchase of power for distribu never denied by Burns & McDonnell-follow: bona fide engineers: tion within their areas. These laws were "An amazing record, to say the least, has "The engineers agree when and during the specifically enacted for the purpose of pur been made by the Burns & McDonnell Engi progress of their preliminary surveys, esti chasing power from the great Federal Colum neering Co., of Kansas City, Los Angeles, and mates and report to assist the owner in clearly bia River dams. The Pacific Northwest has Cincinnati, in connection with its activities presenting all the facts, advantages and bene been a ferment of political activ~ty in con to put over municipal ownership in different fits to be derived from the proposed water nection with numerous public utility dis parts of the country. supply project; and to make talks before trict elections for several years. Und·er the "A study of the firm's history reveals the councils, boards, or civic organizations, ex Bonnev1lle Act one-half of the power from fact that Knoxville was particularly unfortu plaining all the engineering facts and fea that project must be reserved for public nate in its selection of an engineering firm tures that would be helpful in closing a agencies until Jan ary 1, 1942. to make the city's report on municipal contract for the water-supply project as pro The same act limits the promotional ac ownership of electric facilit ies. posed by the owner." tivity of the Administration to supplying all "TREMENDOUS ERROR 4. Thompson's abuse of the congressional pertinent information and data to inter "For instance, in Crown Point, Ind., on June franking privilege: For years Thompson has ested parties. The Administrator, however, 7, 1932, the people voted $28,000 for the con openly boasted of his ability to have pro has construed that limitation so broadly as struction of an electric plant. Burns & public ownership propaganda inserted in the to provide. speakers for political rall1es in McDonnell's estimate of the cost was $38,167. CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD and then distributed local P. U. D. elections. In the opinion of The actual cost of the plant to date is $62,423 under congressional frank. The league has most lawyers this activity is clearly in vio and construction has not yet been completed. actually advertised for sale literll.ture bearing lation of section 9 (a) of the Hatch Act, "A report made for St. Paul, Minn., is inter the congressional frank. which readc; as follows: esting by comparison with the report for These are but a few examples of many that "It shall be unlawful for any person em Knoxvme in that the firm required from can be cited going back· over a dozen years of ployed in the executive branch of the Fed November 1932 to July 1933 to prepare the profitable political sales activities by all three eral Government, or any agency or depart first report and then submitted. a revised parties. ment thereof, to use his official authority or report 3 months later. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 61 . "A charge of $45,000 was made for the re mate the cost of construction of the Knox McDonnell estimate of receipts was $70,000 port, whereas a report was given KnoxviLle ville municipal-distribution system at $3,- too high and their estimates of expenditures in the space of a few days for $2,370. 225,000, but 6· months' time was required to was $30,000 too low. This showed that in "Upon the demand of the mayor of St. make the survey for Fort Thomas, Ky., a town stead of a yearly profit of $28,500, the plant Paul, the engineering firm was willing to re only one-eleventh the size of Knoxville. would show a yearly loss of $72,100. vise its report to eliminate the item of going " FIFTY PERCENT OFF "Paducah decided not to embark on the concern value and to reduce working capital "Burns & McDonnell, upon whose advice project.'' allowance, thus reducing its estimate of the the Canal CommisEion of Augusta, Ga., gave Nor are these old and isolated cases of value of the company's property by $2,227,164. its approval to an oil-engine plan, made a slack appraisal work by this firm. The case This amounted to a reduction of about 10 provable error of approximately $57,000 in es of Yonkers, N. Y., is another example. In percent from the original report. timating the profits they said might be made an appraisal of the properties of the Yonkers "In the past year or two, Burns & McDon from the oil-engine plant. Since they esti Electric Light & Power Co. for the city in a. nell have gone into 21 cities and re:::ommended !Dated net profits of only about $125,000, the pending rate case, the est imate of Burns & 'the construction of electric plants and dis McDonnell amounted to $8,500,000, while the ~rror reduced their claim of profits by nearly tribution systems which, if they had been 50 perce-nt. company estimate was $18,000,000 . In de- built, would have coot $28,626,700, according "In June 1932 Mayor Ralph Mackey, of Bel fending the discrepancy, one M. P. Hatcher, & to the estimates. videre, Ill., signed a contract with Burns & of the Burns McDonnell firm, stated that . "For making the reports, Burns & McDon McDonnell for the construction of a munici he had spent 3 or 4 weeks solidly in con nell were paid various fees. In addition, pally owned electric plant in competition with sultation as to costs of the underground many of their contracts called for percentages the Illinois Northern Utilities before the bond wiring with the firm of G. M. Gest, New of the cost of construction ranging from 3 Y2 issue had been voted. York contractors, specializing in such work. percent to 10 percent. "Before the election the contract came to This testimony brought forth a sworn state "The firm recommends the building of ment from Mr. Gest and his assistant, J. H. light, and the people discovered that it gave Lopez, with whom Hatcher had worked, that municipal systems almost invariably. Burns & McDonnell '5 percent of the cost of "LOW FEE FffiST said construction improvements, exclusive of instead of 3 or 4 weeks Hatcher had actu ally spent but 32 hours with Lopez. Per "Engineering firms catering to business any purchase price of the distribution system.' tinent excerpts from the sworn statement, from city councils make it a practice to offer More to their perturbation, they found that appearing in the Yonkers Herald Statesman to make a preliminary report for a low fee, this 5 percent was over and above 'service for of March 29, 1935: - · as was the case in Knoxville. But the fees expert testimony before any court, commis sion, or arbitration, or other boards or organ "I desire here and now to disclaim this exacted for serving as consulting engineers responsibility and desire to point out a few are on a much higher basis and sizeable sum. izations by a member of the firm of Burns & McDonnell, engineering company.' examples of misstatements and misin For inst ance, 5 percent of $3 ,225,000 would terpretations. be $161 ,250 . Quite naturally, the paramount "OVERWHELMING DEFEAT "Mr. Hatcher, on and about page 7115 of interest of the engineering firm in busfness "Such experts u~der the contract were to the April 3 transcript, refers to the time spent getting is not emphasized by the company be paid for at the rate of $75 per day 'plus with us and states he talked with us 'solidly and that point is not often appreciated by ·an traveling and hotel expenses of the engi for 3 or 4 weeks' in our office and. talked to ·the public. neers' representative or representatives while us 'almost continuously,' getting there 'as "Why did R. E. McDonnell come to Knox, absent from the office:' The bond .-issue was early as I could get ·there in the morning,' ville to speak at the mass meet!ng last night . defeated in every ward of the city, the total and spent 'most of the day on it.'- These unless he did so to further his firm's chances being 2,334 against and 1,204 for it. statements are more than inaccuracies. They of getting the consultants' fee if the city "In the Judicial Bulletin of the Oklahoma are m isstatements. votes bonds? Utilities Association, issued September 21, . "Mr Lopez put in a total of 48 hours, of "Mr. McDonnell appeared aggressively in a appears the following letter written to that ' ·which but about 32 were with ·Mr. Hatcher. campaign to vote bonds for-municipal Nathan Bedford Forrest, Air Corps. hopes. As we wait in Thy presence, 0 Capt. Clinton William Davies, Air Corps. Capt. Robert Frederick Tate, Air Corps. God, allow not our the ughts to be warped, Capt. Reuben Kyle, Jr.,· Air Corps. Capt. Samuel Robert Brentnall, Air Corps. scarred, or seared, but remind us that Capt. Harvey Flynn Dyer, Air Corps. Capt. Charles Franklin Born, Air Corps. our immortal souls shall be judged by Capt. Earl Clinton Robbins, Air Corps. Capt. Frank Fort Everest, Jr., Air Corps. their fruits and the things done. Grant Capt. Andrew Joseph Kerwin Malone, Air Capt. John Jordan Morrow, Air Corps. unto us Thy patience and help us to Corps. Capt. Frank Jerdone Coleman, Air Corps. stand between those two mountain peaks Capt. Russell Keillor, Air Corps. Capt. Robert Lolay Easton, Air Corps. Capt. Ernest Harold Lawson, Air Corps. Capt. Norris Brown Harbold, Air Corps. of righteousness and justice whose ad Capt. John Edward Bodle, Air Corps. Capt. George Raymond Bienfang, Air Corps. vancing light shall reveal the divine mind Capt. Russell Scott, Air Corps. Capt. Russell Alger Wilson, Air Corps. of time and man. We beseech Thee that Capt. Burton Murdock Hovey, Jr., Air Corps. Capt. David Raymond Gibbs, Air Corps. the Christ may come to the matter Capt. Richard Eastman Cobb, Air Corps. Capt. Charles Grant Goodrich, Air Corps. clogged spirit of this world, calling to its 1941 ·CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 67 worn-footed humanity: "Come unto Me, stamina, conscious of the democratic This defense program is summarized all ye that are weary and heavy laden rights and responsibilities. It means an below: and I will give you rest." In the holy economic and social system functioning Appropriations, authorizations, and recom name of Jesus, our Lord and Master. smoothly and geared to high -speed per mendations (June 1940, 1941, 1942) Amen. formance. The defense budget, there [In millions of· dollars] The Journal of the proceedings of fore, must go beyond the needs of the Army and Navy. AxrnY------13,704 Monday, January 6, 1941, was read and NaVY------11,587 approved. It is not enough to defend our national Expansion of industrial plant______1, 902 existence. Democracy as a way of life Other defense activities______1, 287 MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT is equally at stake. The ability of the Sundry messages in writing from the democracies to employ their full resources Totai------28,480 President of the United States were com of manpower and skill and plant has The Army funds provide for the train municated to the House by Mr. Latta, one been challenged. We meet this chal ing and maintenance of a force of men of his secretaries. lenge by maximum· utilization of plant increasing from 250,000 in June 1940 to and manpower and by maintaining gov 1,400,000 in 1942, equipped with the most SWEARING IN OF MEMBERS ernmental services, social security, and modern devices of motorized and me The SPEAKER. If there are Members aid to those suffering through no fault chanical warfare. The Navy estimates present who have not yet taken the oath of their own. Only by maintaining all continue the construction of our over-all of office, if they will "present themselves of these activities can we claim the ef Navy and contemplate the doubling of at the bar of the House the Chair will fective use of resources which our demo naval personnel. There is provision for administer the oath. cratic system is expected to yield, and a great increase in the number of Army Mr. GORE and Mr. PATRICK ap thus justify the expenditures required for and Navy planes and for training pilots, peared at the bar of the House and took its defense. technicians, and ground crews. the oath of office. THE NATIONAL PROGRAM Behind the lines a whole new defense In this Budget I am presenting a pro industry is being built with the financial ELECTION TO COMMITTEE gram for 1942, carefully worked out to support of the Federal Government. One Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. combine these objectives. This program, hundred and twenty-five new plants are Speaker, I offer a resolution and ask for including defense and nondefense activi under contract; more are planned. its immediate adoption. ties, will cost about 17.5 billions of dollars. In submitting these recommendations, The Clerk read as follows: For the same period, we expect the largest I have not covered the full requirements House Resolution 44 national income for the Nation as a whole of the civilian training program. At and also the largest tax receipts. Resolved, That the following Members be, present, surveys are under way which will and they are hereby, elected to the Com In addition to, but essentially and provide a basis for transmitting an esti mitt ee on Rules of the House of Representa rightly as a complement to tnis program, mate of funds needed for the extension tives, to wit: HAMILTON FISH, of New York; the time has come for immediate con of this essential defense activity. In the LEo E. ALLEN, of Illinois; EARL C. MICHENER, sideration of assuring the continuation current fiscal year, over a million men Of Michigan, and CHARLES A. HALLECK, of of the fiow of vitally necessary munitions and women are included in the various Indiana. to those nations which are defending programs of apprentice training, voca The resolution was agreed to. themselves against attack and against tional training in trade schools and engi the imposition of new forms of govern neering colleges, work-experience shops, MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ment upon them. and pilot training. UNITED STATES-THE BUDGET OF THE Such a complementary program would Expenditures under the defense pro UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1942 call for appropriations and contract au gram during the last six months amount thorizations over and above this Budget. to 1, 750 million dollars. This is two and T'ne SPEAKER laid before the House The sum of all these defense efforts one-half times the amount spent for na the following message from the President should be geared to the productive capac tional defense in the same period of the of the United States, which was read and, ity of this Nation expanded to literally fiscal year 1940. However, these expendi with the accompanying papers, referred its utmost efforts. tures understate the progress already to the Committee on Appropriations and THE DEFENSE PROGRAM AND DEFENSE EXPENDI• made. In six months, contracts and or ordered to be printed: TURES ders for 10 billion dollars have been Sixty-two percent of the expenditures placed. This means that in addition to To the Congress of the United States: proposed in this Budget are for national present defense production, all over the The Budget of the United States Gov defense. No one can predict the ultimate country more factories, large and small. ernment for the fiscal year ending June cost of a program that is still in develop are getting ready rapidly to increase pro 30, 1942, which I transmit herewith, is a ment, for no one can define the future. duction. Once these preparations have reflection of a world at war. Carrying When we recall the staggering changes in been completed actual deliveries and ex out the mandate of the people, the Gov the world situation in the last six months, penditures will be greatly accelerated. ernment has embarked on a program for we realize how tentative all present esti I expect actual expenditures to be the total defense of our·democracy. This mates must be. stepped up to four and three-quarters means warships, freighters, tanks, planes, These expenditures must be seen as a billion dollars in the six months ending and guns to protect us against aggres part of a defense program stretching over June 1941 and to almost 11 billion in the sion; and jobs, health, and security to several years. On the basis of the appro fiscal year 1942. We shall actually ex strengthen the bulwarks of democracy. priations and authorizations enacted for pend more than 25 billion dollars for de Our problem in the coming year is to national defense from June 1940 up to fense within a 3-year period. This can combine these two objectives so as to the present time, plus the recommenda be accomplished, but only if management, protect our democracy against external tions for supplementary appropriations labor, and consumers cooperate to the pressure and internal slackness. and authorizations for 1941 and the rec utmost. The threatening world situation forces ommendations contained in this Budget NONDEFENSE EXPENDITURES us to build up land, sea, and air forces for 1942, we have a program of 28 billion The increased military expenditures able to meet and master any contingency. dollars. permit a sub>stantial reduction in non It is dangerous to prepare for a little This is a vast sum, difficult to visualize defense expenditures, particularly for defense. It is safe only to prepare for in terms of work actually to be done. If those activities which are made less total defense. we can prove that we are able to organize necessary by improved economic condi Total defense means more than weap and execute such a gigantic program in a tions. Obligations such as interest, pen ons. It means an industrial capacity democratic way, we shall have made a sions, and insurance benefits are fixed. stepped up to produce all the materiel positive contribution in· a world in which Almost as fixed are the appropriations for defense with the greatest possible the workability of democracy is chal for which the Congress has already made speed. It means people of health and lenged. legislative commitments-security grants 68 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 8 to the States, Federal aid for highways, suiting from defense expenditure, will the present fiscal year. It will not be the 30 percent of tariff revenue set aside improve th income position of many necessary to use this full amount if the for reducing agricultural surpluses, and farmers. At the same time the curtail defense program should result in a more similar items. Together, these fixed ment of foreign markets, particularly in genera:! reemployment than is presently items make up nearly half of the non cotton, wheat, and tobacco, would leave indicated. The expenditure can also be defense expenditures I. am proposing for large numbers of these farmers in a reduced if employers will contribute by the fiscal year 1942. For the items sub serious plight without the continuance of hiring unskilled or semiskilled or older ject to administrative rather than legis the farm programs. After weighing both workers for those jobs where special lative action, I have been able to reduce of these factors, I estimate a reduction skills are not required. expenditures by 600 million dQllars or 15 of 45 million dollars in the agricultural We must face the fact that even with percent. This reduction and its relation programs. We are definitely maintain what we call "full employment" there to total expenditures are shown below: Ing the principles of parity and soil con will remain a large number of persons servation. who cannot be adjusted to our industrial Estimated in mil- Public works: During this period of na life. For this group, the Government lions of dollars tional emergency it seems appropriate to must provide work opportunities. Expenditures Percent change defer construction projects that interfere FINANCING THE NATIONAL PROGRAM 1942 1941 with the defense program by diverting Estimates of expenditures and revenue ---- manpower and materials. Further, it is compared: The defense program domi Defense program __ ------$10,811 $6,464 +67 very wise for us to establish a reservoir nates not only tlie expenditure side of Fixed commitments ______3,196 2, 984 +7 of post-defense projects to help absorb Other activities ______3, 478 4, 094 -15 the Budget, but influences also the ex ------labor that later will be released by de pected revenue. Economic activities and Total (excluding re- fense industry. national income are rising to record turns from Govern- I ment corporations) __ 17,485 13,542 +29 With this in mind, am recommending heights. From a higher national income reductions for rivers and harbors a greater revenue will flow, although in and flood-control work. Where possible, the case of most taxes there is, of course, Certain reductions are possible in without placing the projects or the water carrying out the established policies re a time lag. The revenue for the fiscaJ users thereof in jeopardy, reductions are year 1941 will reflect some of the increase lating to public works and relief, but proposed in the expenditures for recla little change can be made in the regular in defense activities; the revenue for the mation projects. I have requested that fiscal year 1942 will be affected to a operating costs of government. As I further contracts for the construction of indicated in my Budget Message last larger extent; but the full impact will public buildings outside the District of not be felt before the fiscal year 1943. year, the operating costs of the regular Columbia be held in abeyance for the departments are already down to the The revenue for the fiscal year 1942 is present. On the other hand, I have rec . expected to be 9 billion dollars. It wiil bedrock of the activities and functions ommended" funds for power and other ordered by the Congress. In spite of . exceed the revenue collected in the fiscal projects considered essential to national year 1940-the last year before the start the defense pressure on many of these defense. regular programs, expenditures will be of the present defense program-by 3 Projects under construction, or on billion dollars. One-half of this increase kept below the level of the current year. which bids have been solicited, will go SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROGRAMS will come from the defense taxes· already forward to completion. Throughout the enacted by the Congress, the other half It is our policy to retain the ideals Federal service other· projects are being from the increase in national income. and objectives of our social and eco deferred·until a more appropriate time. nomic programs in the face of war However, surveys and the planning of The revenue expected for 1942 will be changes. The costs of those programs new projects will go forward so that con 1.6 billions larger than the total of all affected by economic activity are flexible. struction can be resumed without delay. nondefense expenditures. This 1.6 bil Because of the defense effort some of This will produce a long list of public lions is greater than the annual expend these programs can be carried on at a work projects, apart from defense con iture on defense before the present lower cost. In other cases, no curtail struction, arranged according to priori program started, but less than will be ment is possible without sacrificing our ties. Such a list could be submitted to ·a necessary for maintaining the Army and objectives. future Congress for the appropriation of Navy at the new level. We should realize, however, that even funds to put it into operation. Estimates of receipts for 1942 and 1941 with a fully functioning defense effort Work Projects Administration: The are set forth below: there will remain special areas of need defense program has already resulted in and that social security, agricultural a substantial increase in production, em Estimated in benefits, and work relief contribute to ployment, and nationaJ income. Al millions of Receipts dollars Percent total defense in terms of the health and though industrial production is now run change morale of our people. ning 20 percent above the average level of 1942 Social-security programs: I recom 1929, there are still many persons either 1941 mend the continuance in full measure of ---- unempolyed, or employed as emergency Progressive taxes on individ- the social-security pro&'rams. This in workers, or incapable of steady employ uals and estates. ______$1,979 $1, 571 +26 cludes not only the payment of old-age ment. Profit and capital taxes on corporations ______2,839 1, 745 +63 benefits as required by law but also aid The defense program will lead to fur Customs, excise, stamp, and to youth and continued payments toward ther reemployment, and also to a further miscellaneous taxe~ ------2, 756 2, 657 +4 Employment taxes for Fed- the State aid of old persons not covered increase in the labor force and to a shift era! old-age and survivors by the insurance benefits; aids to children from part-time to full-time or over-time insurance ______725 668 +9 and to the physically handicapped. In employment. But even under the full Other emp!oyment taxes ___ __ 243 230 +6 Miscellaneous receipts (in- total, these services will require approxi defense program we cannot expect full eluding back income taxes)_ 429 422 +2 mately the same expenditure as in the absorption of the labor force because ---- Total receipts (exclud- -- current fiscal year, except for some in some people just cannot be fitted into the ingreturnsfrom Gov· crease in grants to the States as required picture. There will be some localities with ernment corpora- tions) ______8, 971 7, 293 +23 . by law. a labor shortage at the same time that Deduct net appropriation for Furthermore, I deem it vital that the others have a labor surplus. There will Federal olcl.-age and sur- be shortages of particular skills and apti vivors inmrance trust fund_ 696 640 +9 Congress give consideration to the inclu------. sian in the old-age and survivors insur tudes at the same time that others are Net receipts (excluding ance system and the unemployment com in surplus. returns from Govern- pensation system of workers not now I recommend an appropriation of 995 ment corporations) ___ 8,275 6, 653 +24 covered. million dollars for work relief for the Agricultural programs: The increased full fiscal year. This is 400 million dol Under present tax laws deficits of 6.2 domestic market for farm products, re- lars less than the amount required for billion dollars in 1941 and 9.2 billion 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 69 dollars in 1942 may be ·expected. The' I am as much concerned abqut our It should be borne in mind that our calculations follow: long-run need for an improved tax sys national debt results from wars and the tem as I am about the immediate neces economic upheavals following war. Estimated in mil sity of financing the defense program. These conditions are not of our own mak lions of dollars I have often expressed my belief that ing. They have been forced upon us. Summary no really satisfactory tax reform can be The national debt of almost all nations 1942 1941 achieved without readjusting the Fed would be far lower today if competitive eral-State-local fiscal relationship. I armaments had not existed during the Expenditures .•• ------~ $17, 485 $13, 542 urge a thorough investigation of the pos past quarter of a century. If this war Receipts._------8, 275 6, 653 sibilities of a comprehensive tax reform; should be followed, as I hope it will, by Excess of expenditures over I propose that meanwhile we make all peace in a world of good neighbors, then receipts._------9, 210 · 6, 889 possible progress in improving the Fed the complete elimination of competitive Less return of surplus funds from Government corporations ______------700 eral tax system. armaments will become possible. Only Borrowing: A substantial part of the in such a world can economic stability be Deficit.-·············------9, 210 6, 189 defense program must, -of course, be fi restored. nanced through borrowing. Individual If a high level of economic activity can In presenting the above calculations, I investors will be given increased oppor be maintained during the defense period am assuming that the Congress will ac tunities to contribute their share toward and-what will be a more difficult task cept the recommendation of the Secre defense through the purchase of Govern maintained in the post-defense period, tary of the Treasury that the earmarking ment securities. Such borrowing is not tpen the fiscal needs can be readily met. of taxes for retirement of defense obli hazardous as long as it is accompanied The Budget of the United States pre gations be repealed; and the proposal of by tax measures which assure a sufficient sents our national program. It is a pre the Postmaster General that the 3-cent tax yield in the future. This raises the view of our work plan, a forecast of rate on first-class postage be continued. question of the debt limit. The Congress, things to come. It charts the course of Tax policy: There is no agreement on by making appropriations and levying the Nation. how much of such an extraordinary de taxes, in fact, controls the size of the The necessity for loading the present fense program should be financed on a debt regardless of the existence of a Budget with armament expenditures is pay-as-you-go basis and how much by statutory debt limit. If the Congress, regretted by every American. A wry turn borrowing. Only very drastic and re subsequent to the establishment of a of fate places this burden of defense on strictive taxation which curtails con statutory debt limit, makes appropria the backs of a peace-loving people. sumption would finance defense wholly tions and authorizations which require We can meet the demands of arma on a pay-as-you-go basis. I fear that borrowing in excess of that limit, it has, ment because we are a people with the such taxation would interfere with the in effect, rendered that prior limit null will to defend and the means to defend. full use of our productive capacities. We and void. In the first 130 years of our The boundaries of our productive capac have a choice between restrictive tax national life, the Congress controlled the ity have never been set. - measures applied to the present national debt successfully without requiring such The whole program set forth in this income and a higher tax yield from in a limit. In view of these facts, I ques Budget has been prepared at a time when creased national income under less re tion the significance of a statutory debt no man could see all the signposts ahead. strictive tax measures. I suggest, there limit, except as it serves as a fiscal moni- One marker alone stands out all down fore, a financial policy aimed at collect tor. · the road. That marker carries not so ing progressive taxes out of a higher level The fiscal policy outlined here would much an admonition as a command to of national income. I am opposed to a be in accord with our objective of finan defend our democratic way of life. tax policy which restricts general con cing the defense program in an equitable FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, sumption as long as unused capacity is manner, facilitating full use of our na JANUARY 3, 1941. available and as long as idle labor can be tional resources, and avoiding inflation employed. ary policies which would aggravate the PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE We cannot yet conceive the complete problems of post-defense adjustment. measure of extraordinary taxes which The debt problem: For more than 25 Mr. TABER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan are necessary to pay off the cost of emer years the world has been in a state of imous consent that at the conclusion of gency defense and ·to aid in avoiding political turmoil and its economies have the business of the day and after any inflationary price rises which may occur been out of balance. This world condi other special orders that have been when full capacity is approached. tion is reflected in unbalanced budgets granted I may be permitted to address However, a start should be made this in all countries. Here, the first World the House for 10 minutes. year to meet a larger percentage of de War, the war against the depression, the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to fense payments from current tax receipts. present defense program, all resulted in the request of the gentleman from New The additional tax measures should be large additions to the Federal debt. York? based on the principle of ability to pay. I understand the concern of those who There was no objection. Because it is the fixed policy of the are disturbed by the growth of the Fed Mr. TREADWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask Government that no citizen should make eral debt. Yet the main fiscal problem unanimous consent that following any any abnormal net profit out of national is not the rise of the debt, but the rise special orders that may have been pre defen,se, I am not satisfied that existing of debt charges in relation to the de viously entered I may be permitted to laws are in this respect adequate. velopment of our resources. address the House today for 12 minutes. I hope that action toward these ends The fight for recovery raised national The SPEAKER. Is there objection to will be taken at this session of the Con income by more than 30 billion dollars the request of the gentleman from Massa .. gress. above the depression depth. In the same chusetts? I see many ways in which our tax period tl~e total annual Federal interest There was no objection. system can be improved without resort to charges increased by 400 million dollars. Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan restrictive tax levies. By adjustments Even if these interest charges increase, imous consent that at the conclusion of in the existing tax laws the present rates they can scarcely present a serious fiscal the other special orders today I may ad of progressive taxation could be made problem so long as a high level of national dress the House for 15 minutes, and also fully effective, as I believe the Congress income can be maintained. that on Friday next, after the disposi intended. Investors are fully aware of this fact. tion of the business on the Speaker's We must face the fact that the con The bonds of the United States Govern table and following any special orders tinued maintenance of an expanded ment are the safest securities in the world heretofore entered, I may be permitted Army and Navy and the interest on our because they are backed by the best asset to address the House for 15 minutes. defense debt will call for large Federal in the world-the productive capacity of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to expenditures in the years ahead. Our the American people. Our tax burden is the request of the gentleman from Michi .. tax system must be made ready to meet still moderate compared to that of most gan? these requirements, other countries. )'here was no objection. 70 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 8 EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I 18, 1929, providing for the fifteenth and Mr. LUTHER A. JOHNSON. Mr. offer a resolution and ask for its imme subsequent decennial censuses and for Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex.. diate consideration. the apportionment of Representatives in tend my own remarks in the RECORD and · The Clerk read as follows r Congress, as amended by the act of House Resolution 43 April 25, 1940, I_ transmit herewith a include therein a brief editorial from the statement prepared by the Director of Dallas News. Whereas COMPTON I. WHITE, a Representa The SPEAKER. Is there objection to tive-elect from the State of Idaho, has been the Census, Department of Commerce, the request of the gentleman from Texas? · unable from sickness to appear in person to giving the whole number of persons in be sworn as a Member of this House, but each State as ascertained under the Six There was no objection. has sworn to anq subscribed the oath of office Mr. O'CONNOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask teenth Decennial Census of Population, before the Speaker of the House of Repre and the number of Represe~tatives to unanimous consent to extend my own re sentatives, authorized by resolution of this which each State would be entitled under marks in the RECORD and include therein House to administer the oath, and the said an apportionment of the existing num an editorial from the Great Falls Tribune. oath of otQ.ce has been presented in his be The SPEAKER. Is there objection to half to the House, and there being no con ber of Representatives by the method the request of the gentleman from Mon test or question as to his election: Therefore known as the method of major frac Resolved, That the said oath be accepted tions, which was the method used in the tana? and received by the House as the oath of last preceding apportionment, and also There was no objection. office of the said CoMPTON I. WHITE, as a by the method known as the method of Mr. EDWIN ARTHUR HALL. Mr. Member of this House. equal proportions. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to The resolution was agreed to. The Director of the Census has in extend my own remarks in the RECORD cluded all Indians in the tabulation of and include therein editorials by Mr. EMANUEL CELLER total population since the Supreme Court Vernon Spencer, editor of the Oxford The SPEAKER. The Chair lays be has held that all Indians are now sub Review-Times. fore the House the following communica ject to Federal taxation enabling the Members of Con The SPEAKER. The Chair had al it the purpose of the gentleman to have gress to express their views and the views ready recognized the gentleman from any legislative business on Friday? of the American people, so that they may Pennsylvania. · Mr. McCORMACK. No. be found and referred to whenever it is Mr. RANKIN. Then I withdraw my The SPEAKER. Is there objection? deemed necessary. reservation of objection. There was no objection. But, Mr. Speaker, I rose to ask unani Mr. RICH. I am glad the gentleman THE RECORD mous consent to extend my remarks in from Mississippi is here, because I like the Appendix of the RECORD, and to insert him personally. He and I are good Mr. RICH. Mr. Speaker, I desire to therein a bill which I have introduced friends. At least, I consider him a good submit an inquiry, which is not a parlia for the reapportionment of Congress in friend of mine, and I do not want to do mentary inquiry. I propound this in accordance with the President's message anything against him. I did not want to quiry to the Chair. After listening to the and in accordance with the opinion of object to that statement a while ago, but great number of requests to put into the the Attorney General. I do want to get this across to the mem RECORD extraneous matter of speeches of [Here the gavel fell.] bership of the House and to the people of 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 73 the country. If you will take the 14 pages much to say that my support of those more than a camouflage to cover up the that the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. appropriations had a very considerable defici~ncies of the defense production. RANKIN] inserted in the RECORD on Mon effect upon the manner in which they We cannot extend aid to Britain and we day, January 6, pages A1 to A15, the went through. We appropriated eight cannot defend America unless we have a tables which he says he made out himself and a half billion dollars, to be spent in real patriotic organization of defense show that the comparison of electric the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941. procurement in the hands of someone in rates that he brings out are rates that are The most optimistic friend of the admin authority, unless we clean up the rack based on the electric rates providing they istration would not say that over six eteering in connection with camp con would be the same as those charged by billion could possibly be spent. struction and give our boys a place to T. V. A. or Tacoma, Wash. You cannot For 8 months Mr. Roosevelt has had be trained in. have those rates anywhere in the United William Knudsen, Edward Stettinius, Real patriotic Americans are disturbed States unless you let the public taxpayer and other gentlemen of high standing in at the President's attitude. [Applause.] pay the bill for him to get that cheap rate the business world as members of the Ad The SPEAKER pro tempore lies our chief difficulty. The the proposed joint committee would act tential revenues was largely unused. need for a coordinating group is so ob in a purely advisory capacity, but it Today, our situation is vastly different. vious that I hardly feel the need of dis would provide the revenue-raising and Our national debt--even before our de cussing the point. The Government of appropriation committees with an over fense program gets under way-stands at the United States is just like a large busi all picture which they do not have under the appalling total of $50,000,000,000. ness concern, and no successful business the present practice: The committee Our tax structure has already been enterprise could be carried on for long would be authorized to hold _hearings, to tapped to an extent which leaves few under such haphazard financing. invite or require the presence of wit substantial sources of revenue remain It appears to the minority members of nesses, and to make necessary expentli- ing, yet it has proved inadequate to meet the Ways and Means Committee that one tures. · the present every-day cost of govern of the first acts of the present Congress The proposal which we offer is con ment, leaving out of consideration the should be the setting up of a nonpartisan crete evidence of our desire to protect extraordinary defense expenditures. joint committee such as we have pro the Nation not only from military forces posed, representing both the revenue from without, but from economic condi We have been led to believe that mili raising and spending committees of the tions within which may have an even tary security is our first consideration at two Houses, to examine into the whole more serious effect upon our national this time. But we must not overlook the financial picture with a view to recom security than any foreign aggressor. We fact that financial security is necessary mending broad general policies regarding of the minority believe that it is vital · before we can provide real military se income and outgo which will tend to that something along the line of our curity. Thus it is imperative that if we bring revenues and expenditures to proposal should be undertaken immedi are to be able properly and adequately to gether, at least in the near future. We ately, and we shall be happy to cooperate defend our country from the threat of must, of course, continue to spend billions in the task "without regard to partisan foreign aggression we must take imme for defense, but every cent should be ship." diate steps to put our financial house in spent wisely and without waste. There While proposals similar to ours have order. must of necessity be some curtailment been offered by others, they do not ap It is, of course, questionable whether of nonmilitary functions and expendi proach the problem from the nonparti we can or should raise enough revenue tures. From the reading of the Budget, san standpoint which our resolution by taxation to put our Government on which has just occurred, it does not ap contemplates. We feel that our pro a pay-as-we-go basis under the present pear that any substantial reductions are posal is unique in this respect. When it and contemplated future level of ex proposed in such expenditures, inasmuch comes to preserving national security, penditures. It seems certain that it will as a total of approximately seven billions whether from forces without or within, be necessary to increase the existing is being asked for the ensuing fiscal year. we should stand together, not as Repub public-debt limit as circumst~nces re In this connection it may be interesting licans and Democrats, but as Americans. quire, in order to finance a large part to note that in the fiscal year 1938 total [Applause.] of the cost of national defense, but we expenditures, Jncludmg expenditures for The resolution I have referred to is as must keep ever in mind that we are the Army ana Navy, were only $200,000,- follows: treading a dangerous path in so doing, 000 greater than the amount it is now Resolved by the House of Representatives which, as the President once said, leads proposed to spend for nonmilitary func (the Senate concurting), That there is inevitably to national bankruptcy. The tions alone. hereby established a Joint Congressional only alternative to further borrowing After expenditures have been cur Committee on Federal Finances, to be com and further taxation is the reduction of tailed as sharply as pessible, sound posed of 16 members, as follows: expenditures for nonmilitary purposes. methods of financing the Government (1) Four members who are members of the Just as deficit-financing has its evils, so should be proposed and adopted. Con Committee on Finance of the Senate, two . also are there evils which result from from the majority and two from the minor sideration should be given to the question ity party, to be designated by the Vice excessive taxation. Careful considera as to how much of the defense program President; tion should be given to the whole problem should be paid for as we go and how (2) Four members who are members of so that the national credit will be pre much should be financed by additional the Committee on Appropriations of the served, so that taxes will be as produc borrowing. Senate, two from the majority and two from tive as possible without burdening the The matter of preserving the financial the minority party, to be designated by the defense program or going beyond the security of the Nation is one which Vice President; . point of diminishing returns, and so that should be undertaken "without regard to (3) Four members who are members of our Federal expenditures may be held the Committee on Ways and Means of the partisanship"-to borrow an expression House of Representatives, two from the ma within reasonable limits consistent with used by the President in his recent jority and two from the minority party, to needs. annual message. Accordingly, we have be designated by the Speaker; and Under the Constitution, revenue-rais provided in our resolution proposing the (4) Fo,ur . members who are members of ing measures must originate in the House creation of a Joint Committee on Federal the Committee on Appropriations of the of Representatives, and the House has Finances that the majority and minority House of Representatives, two from the ma charged the Ways and Means Committee jority and two from the minority party, to parties be equally represented. We pro be designated by the Speaker. with the task of initiating such legisla pose that the joint committee be com With a view to coordinating revenues and tion. As minority members of that com posed of 16 members, of whom 4 would expenditures, the committee is authorized mittee, we have a joint responsibility be selected from the membership of the and directed to make a full and complete with our Democratic colleagues to pro Senate Finance Committee, 4 from the study of the Budget of the United States for vide the revenue with which to carry on Senate Appropriations Committee, 4 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and it the functions of government. It is with from the House Ways and Means Com shall be the duty of the committee to report . this thought in mind that we have sug to the Congress the results of its investiga mittee, and 4 from the House Appropria tion, including proposals for a sound fiscal gested the creation of a nonpartisan tions Committee; the selection to be program covering expenditures, revenues, Joint Congressional Committee on Fed made by the Vice President and the and the possible extension of the public eral Finances. Speaker, respectively, in the manner to debt. While we have long advocated such a which I have referred. For the purposes of this concurrent reso measure as we now propose, it seems to It is not contemplated that the pro lution, the committee, or any dUly author us that the time has come when the Con posed joint committee should have any ized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at sucb times and places during gress can no longer postpone dealing legislative powers. It would simply be the sessions or recesses of the first session with the problem raised by the present authorized and directed to examine into of the Seventy-seventh Congress, to hold condition of our national finances. The the whole financial situation and make a . such hearings, to invite or require by sub security of our Nation depends upon the report to both branches within 90 days pena the attendance of such witnesses and . ·prompt solution of that problem. of its creation. Any legi~lation would the· production of such books, papers, and 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 75 documents, to administer such oaths, to take have photostatic copies of the wage scale job here in the Capitol got $380 for 120 such testimony, to have such printing and fixed by the Secretary of Labor at Fort hours' work or for three 40-hour weeks. binding done, to employ such expert and clerical services, and to make such other ex Belvoir, which is a short distance outside It would take one of these relief workers penditures as it deems advisable. Subpenas of Washington, and at the Capitol here, nearly 32 weeks to earn this amount of for witnesses shall be issued under the sig covering both the ironwork and the work money at $12 a week. A common iron nature of the chairman or vice chairman. of constructing the stands in front of the worker received $324 for 120 hours' work There is hereby authorized to be expended Capitol. or three 40-hour weeks. A relief worker, such amounts as may be necessary to carry On the project in front of the Capitol, paid out of the same Treasury by the this resolution into effect, one-half of which the ironwork in the Senate and House same Government, would have to work shall be paid from the contingent fund of 27 weeks at $12 to earn this amount of the Senate and one-half from the contingent Chambers, and the one at Fort Belvoir, fund of the House of Representatives, upon Madam Perkins fixed the minimum mon~y. I am not contending that the vouchers approved by the chairman or vice wages of unskilled or common labor at iron worker should work for the same chairman. 80 cents an hour. Apparently, from the pay as the relief worker. That conten The committee shall report to the two article in the papers, she fixed the same tion, of course, would be absurd. I am Houses of Congress not later than the nineti scale of 80 cents an hour for common merely calling attention to the fact that eth day after its establishment the results of labor on the contract covering the air this same iron worker worked for $1.50 its investigation, together with its recom port. an hour 40 hours a week in the Boston mendations. Such reports shall be referred area and am pointing out the fact that to the appropriate standing committees of Mr. Speaker, I supported the amend the Senate and House of Representatives. ments to the W. P. A. and relief bills we have at the airport a situation where which would have provided for the pay two classes of people are working, both The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under ment of the wages prevailing in the com at common labor, under similar condi the previous order of the House, the munity in which W. P. A. projects are tions. .The only difference is that they gentleman from Michigan [Mr. ENGEL] being carried on. are working for a different branch of the is recognized for 15 minutes. This article to which I referred reads, Government. The one is permitted to in part, as follows: earn $12 a week while the other group LABOR COSTS ON REINFORCING CAPITOL ROOFS gets $32 a week and upward. Relief workers at the new national airport Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, on Decem are paid one-half as much as laborers em Mr. Speaker, I have before me a speech ber 15 and again on December 19 I spoke ployed by private contractors on the project, delivered sometime ago in which I com upon the cost of erecting the iron sup Federal officials admittea yesterday, but con mented on the testimony of one Walter ports of the roofs of the House and Sen tended that the system employs nearly twice White who testified before the W. P. A. ate Chambers. Let me review briefly the as many jobless men. · committee having charge of the relief facts submitted at that time. The fore Officials of the United States engineer bill. This man White testified that a man of the crew that ran the job got $625 office, the Public Roads Administration, and year before one Herbert Benjamin, the for 189 hours of work. The pushers, or other Federal agencies responsible for con former secretary of the Workers Alli struction of the airport explained that all straw bosses, of which there was one to contracts provided for the use of certain ance, took White and 100 others over to every six .iron workers, got $380 for 120 amounts of relief labor paid "security wages" the Soviet college in Russia at a cost of hours of work. The ironworkers them of 40 cents an hour from W. P. A. funds and $5,000 per man to teach them the art selves got $324 for 120 hours of work. under W. P. A. regulations. of street fighting, how to build barri You will recall that it cost $54 a ton to Relief workers, of which 3,000 are employed cades, and to do everything that a man raise the steel supporting the House and at the airport, are all common laborers. does in a revolution. The condition at Senate Chamber roofs. And again: the airport project across the river is fer Since that time I have had the oppor tile soil in which Communists can plant tunity of examining Government pay Employment of W. P. A. workers at the air It port side by side with workers for private the seeds of communism. is my firm rolls elsewhere. I find that in the Boston contractors but at half the latter's pay was conviction, Mr. Speaker, that 80 cents an area the ironworker receives a base pay attacked yesterday by the American Security hour is not the prevailing wage in this of $1.50 an hour as against $2 an hour in Union, W. P. A. employees' organization, community for such labor. Mr. Lynn, the Capital. He works 40 hours a week headed by David Lasser. Architect of the Capitol, informed me with double time over the 40 hours, that he was employing common labor at against double time over 30 hours a week And again: 50 cents an hour, with a 40-hour week. here in the Capital. In addition to that Common laborers hired by contractors are The fact that the union wage scale pro sum, we had to pay the workmen 6 hours' permitted to work a 40-hour week for total vides 50 cents an hour for truck drivers pay for 5 ¥2 hours' actual work where two weekly wages of $32, plus pay for overtime, the seems to be somewhat of a gage as to shifts were being used. union states. The average relief worker is permitted a 30-hour week for a wage of $12, what the prevailing wage for this type of The wage scale here was fixed by the the union said. labor is. On the other hand, it seems Secretary of Labor under the Bacon to me outrageous to hold these men down Davis Act. This act provides that the In other words, here we have two Gov to 40 cents an hour, 30 hours a week, or Secretary of Labor shall fix the prevailing ernment agencies fixing wages on the only $12 a week. wage scale on public contracts. She fixed same job for men doing the same type Mr. KNUTSON. Will the gentleman the prevailing wage scale on the contract of work and working side by side. The yield? for the House and Senate iron work, for Secretary of Labor fixed the pay of the Mr. ENGEL. I yield to the gentleman the inaugural stand in front of the Capi common laborers under the contractor at from Minnesota. tol, and for the Fort Belvoir project across 80 cents an hour, and those laborers Mr. KNUTSON. My attention has the river in Virginia. It is a significant earned $32 a week for 40 hours plus over been called to a situation in which con fact that she fixed the minimum wage time-! presume they were paid time and struction foremen on some large muni scale for drivers of ton-and-a-half trucks a half for overtime. By the side of these tions plants are earning up to $400 a at 50 cents an hour, but for common un men are working 3,000 W. P. A. workers, week. Will the gentleman inform the ·skilled labor at 80 cents an hour. with the same type of families to support House how long a relief worker would In yesterday morning's Washington and with the same moral obligations, have to work in order to earn $400? Post there appeared an article regarding whose wages are fixed by W. P. A. officials Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I may say the conditions of labor and the· wages at 40 cents an hour, or just one-half the that I have the wage scales on some 35 paid at the Washington Airport. other wage scale. These men are per national-defense projects. I expect to We have there two classes of labor. mitted to work only 30 hours a week and have within the next 10 days some One is the labor performed under the are trying to support their families on definite information on construction costs construction contract. In that case t!le $12 a week. of Army posts. You will recall that when wage scale was fixed by the Secretary of Mr. Speaker, each of these W. P. A. the $367,000,000 Army housing bill came Labor under the Bacon-Davis Act. I did workers getting $12 a week would earn before the House it had never been before not examine the pa~r scale fixed by the without lost time $624 for 52 weeks or the full Appropriations Committee. Ire Secretary of Labor on the airport job, 1 year of work. This is $1less than this fused to 0. K. that bill without a meeting and all the information I have is what foreman got for putting up this iron and of the full committee. I made the.state appeared in the Washington Post. I do who worked 189 hours. A pusher on this ment on the floor of the House at that 76 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 8 time that I expected to have the Army will not be repeated and that what has I know-a man who is honest, consci account for every dollar of the money occurred will be settled in an honorable entious, loyal, and patriotic. I ask you to manner for our Republic. As for me, I have think about it. He writes: they are spending. I have been working decided to stress the good relations which for the past 6 weeks on this work, and I exist between the two countries in such a I am 51 years of age. Have wife and two expect to address the House on that sub way as to develop in the future, as it should boys (ages 7 and 16), I am carpenter by ject within the next 2 or 3 weeks. I be be done, a basis of m'Itual agreement and trade. Have worked on all kinds of construc lieve I shall have some very interesting equality. I hope that public opinion in the tion work, as well as all kinds of fine finishing. information for the House along that line. United States of America will understand I can read prints and ·have had charge of how just is this aspiration of Pan~ma. gang of men. I tried to get work at Fort [Applause.] Custer- [Here the gavel fell.] When our legislative assembly rat1fied the treaty which I have previously mentioned a He lives within 40 miles of Fort Custer; . The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under pronouncement was made by means of a previous order of the House, the gentl~ resolution which I now adopt as my own he lives in the Fourth Congressional Dis man from Michigan [Mr. BRADLEY] IS and in behalf of the Panamanian people trict- recognized for 5 minutes. and which is worth more and should be but did not have the $50 to join union. I worth more to the people of the United could have gotten work at Rockford, Ill., bl:lt PANAMA States than the best treaties they could they wanted $100 to join their union. I d1d Mr. BRADLEY of Michigan. Mr. obtain from the Panamanian people. The not have such money. United States knows without a doubt that I am a property owner and American-born Speaker, on December 23, on my retur? on a basis of good will and clear under citizen. I do not want to buy a job in order from a trip to Panama, I reported to this standing they can obtain from Panama the to help my Government in this particular House certain observations I made in best possible cooperation for the protection hour. I am willing to do anything in my the Canal Zone with respect to its de of their vital interests on the Canal Zone, line of work (or any other) that I can do. fenses and with respect to the condi and in the same way they know that upon If necessary, would go most anywhere to help tions in the construction camps, and so a basis of ill will the Republic of Panama, out. Is there any place for me? forth. I did not at that time touch upon which, although it might be small, weak, Loyally yours, and lacking in material . resources for the THOMAS W. THOMPSON. the internal or international political defense of its rights, but on the other hand situation in Panama. it could in the nature of reprisal affect the "Equality of opportunity," says the The President in his message on Mon important intereEts of the United States by President. Thomas W. Thompson, the day referred to the fact that there are granting concessions in its territory to other head of a family, is confronted by a situ many foreign agents running loose in the powerful countries who would have the ma ation, not a theory. The President says Latin-American countries. Without a terial power to defend her. words. Thompson needs action, but the question of doubt, that is very true. In Mr. Speaker, I believe that every Mem administration will not act to protect the addition, there is today in the Canal Zone ber of this House should reread this American worker for whom it claims to a great deal of foreign propaganda, much statement carefully tomorrow when it have done so much. When it comes to an of it coming from Nazi Germany from appears in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD issue between those who claim to control powerful radio stations, the beams from and give heed to the question of our a large number of votes and the protec which are unquestionably directed at the good-neighbor policy in Panama and in tion of an individual American worker Latin-American countries. I believe that the other Latin-American countries. equal opportunity means nothing to the our Government should give this matter [Applause.] Chief Executive. It is just a catch phrase serious consideration, and should weigh which he uses, the principle underlying [Here the gavel fell.J it he will not put into operation. This carefully the advisability of constructing . The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under in the Canal Zone a powerful radio sta letter is typical of hundreds of letters I previous order of the House, the gentl~ tion and directing its beams up and down have in my files. man from Michigan [Mr. HoFFMAN l 1s Why should the President come here Latin-America, so that we can get our recognized for 5 minutes. own messages across to the Latin-Ameri before us and pretend that he wants can republics. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE equality of opportunity when we know, I am convinced, Mr. Speaker, that by Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, through when every Member of the House knows, and large the Panamanian people are that for months and right now equality the pres the First Lady criticized us of opportunity is being denied American friendly to the United States Government because we did not on Monday applaud and to the people in the Canal Zone. citizens. Should we not have a little the remarks of the President. The Presi more action as well ·as expressions of However, we must realize that if we are to dent for several years has criticized all maintain our defense system adequately what this country needs? those who disagreed with him. The First Mr. KNUTSON. Mr. Speaker, will the in the Canal Zone we must have more air Lady goes one step further. Not only bases in that vicinity, and they should not gentleman yield? are we denied the right to disagree with Mr. HOFFMAN. Yes. be located immediately adjacent to the her husband's views, but in her opinion Canal. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Mr. KNUTSON. Has it occurred to we must get up and applaud even though the gentleman that they may merely be LEWIS] on January 2, in addressing the we do not believe in the statements House suggested that we ought to have trying to collect back the $500,000 they made. contributed to Mr. Roosevelt's campaign a def~nse zone at the Canal approxi I could go along with the President fund in 1936? mately 300 miles wide. If we are go sometimes if I could only have faith in ing to establish such a zone or if we Mr. HOFFMAN. You know they were him, but when his words are so out of repaid tenfold over the past 2 years and are to establish any .other bases outside line with his acts, I just cannot follow prior to this election. of the Canal Zone, it seems to me that him. What I mean is this: He says one this House should be familiar with the The point I want to make today is why thing, he does another, and his message should any Member of the House place official attitude of the present Panama illustrates the statement I make. For nian Government. By way of stating one bit of faith in the statement of the example, Monday he said: ·President that he believes in equal op that attitude to the House, I quote from a There is nothing mysterious about the speech of Dr. Arnulfo Arias, now Presi portunity when here in Washington and foundations of a healthy, strong democracy. throughout this country, on national-de dent of Panama, as it appeared in the The basic things expected by our people of Spanish edition of the Panama American, their political and economic systems are fense projects, under his administration, simple. They are- ('qual opportunity is denied workers and October 3, 1940. I quote him directly: he does nothing about it, in fact con I must assert, however, my deep grief be And he listed five points. Today I will dones a·nd profits politically by denying cause of the fact that the American au give you the first one: "Equality of op equal opportunity. thorities have occupied on different occa portunity for youth and for others." [Here the gavel fell.J [Applause.] sions among other Panamanian localities Rio The gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Hato and part of the islands of Taboga and LEAVE OF ABSENCE Taboguilla without having made of the Gov ENGEL], who preceded me, pointed out to ernment of Panama the request which was you that there was no equality for em By unanimous consent, leave of ab required. This act has deeply affected our ployees over here at the airport. I give sence was granted to Mr. SAUTHOFF, in citizens, who are anxious that such acts you now a letter that came in from a man definitely, on account of illness. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 77
PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE vide for the extension of enlistments in the for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1940 (H. Navy to suspend the provisions of section Doc. No. 11); to the Committee on World War Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. 1422 of the Revised Statutes (18 Stat. 484; Veterans' Legislation and ordered to be Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 34 U. S. C. 201) in time of war or national printed. on Monday, at the conclusion of legisla emergency, and for other purposes; to the 5a. A letter . from the Secretary of War, tive business and any other special or Committee on Naval Affairs. transmitting the reports of inspections of ders, I may address the House for 25 37. A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, records and accounts of disbursing officers of transmitting a dra~t of a proposed bill to re the Army made during the fiscal year ended minutes. move certain limitations on appropriations June 30, 1940; to the Committee on Expendi The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. BUL for the pay of midshipmen, and for other pur tures in the Executive Departments. WJ;NKLE) • Is there objection to the re poses; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. 54. A letter from the Secretary of War, quest of the gentleman from California? 38. A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the Annual Report of the Activ There was no objection. transmitting a draft of a proposed bill to au ities of the National Board for the Promotion thorize major alterations to certain naval of Rifle Practice for the fiscal year 1940; to ADJOURNMENT vessels; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. HARTER. Mr. Speaker, I move 39. A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, 55. A letter from the Secretary of War, that the House do now adjourn. transmitting a draft of a proposed bill to au transmitting a draft of a bill to provide for thorize the Secretary of the Navy to establish the discharge or retirement of disabled en The motion was agreed to; accord certain naval hospitals; to the Committee on listed men of the Regular Army and the ingly United States Army, Commission; to the Committee on Rules. Vrabec; to the Committee on Immigration to show that the judgment of court martial and Naturalization. in his case is unlawful and invalid; to the By Mr. ENGLEBRIGHT: Committee on Military Affairs. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H. R.1670. A bill to correct the military By Mr. KING: record of Granville B. Bryant; to the Com H. R. 1697. A bill to make Dr. You Chan Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private mittee on Military Affairs. Yang eligible for naturalization; to the Com bills and resolutions were introduced and H. R.1671. A bill granting a pension to mittee on Immigration and Naturalization, severally referred as follows: Herman Acty; to the Committee on Invalid By Mr. MANSFIELD: By Mr. ALLEN of Louisiana: Pensions. H. R. 1698. A bill to confer the Medal of H. R. 1644. A bill to direct the deportation H. R. 1672. A bill for the relief of Emma A. Honor for service in the Philippine Insur of Harry Renton Bridges; to the Committee Haessig Harte, to the Committee on Military rection on William 0. Trafton, deceased; to on Immigration and Naturalization, Affairs. the Committee on Military Affairs, 80 CONG~ESSIONA~ RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 8 H. R. 1699. A bill granting a. pension to L. Jones, and Howard L. Perkins; to the Com H.R.1753. A bill for the relief of Maggie Sidonia B. Rice; to the Committee on Invalid mittee on Patents. · Lou Morse, administratrix of t he estate of Pensions. By Mr. SHEPPARD: Exie Morse; to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. MOTT: H. R. 1728. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1754. A bill for the relief of Daisy H. R. 1700. A bill for the relief of Anna and Mary Elizabeth Gutting; to the Committee Mims, administratrix of the est ate of Arthur Fred Aebi; to the Committee on Claims. on Pensions. Mims; to the Committ ee on Claims. By Mr. NICHOLS: H. R. 1729. A bill for the relief of Walter J. H. R . 1755. A bill for the relief of C. M. H. R. 1701. A bill for the relief of Joe L. Bittman; to the Committee on Immigration Sherrod; to the Committee on Claims. McKinney and Jenita E. McKinney; to the and Naturalization. T'L R. 1756. A bill granting a pe~sion to Committee on Claims. H. R. 1730. A bill for the relief of Harry J. Roscoe Johnson; to the Committee on Invalid H. R. 1702. A bill for the relief of Mary Theissen; to the Committee on Military Af Pensions. McCutcheon; to the Committee on Claims. fairs. By Mr. VOORHIS of California: By Mr. REED of Illinois: H. R. 1731. A bill for the relief of Beulah H. R.1757. A bill for the relief of James H. R. 1703. A bill for the relief of Paul Bell Nolte and George C. Nolte; to the Com D. G . Alexander; to the Committee on Claims. Smith, alias John O'Brien; to the Committee mittee on Claims. H. R. 1758. A bill for the relief of Albert D. on Naval Affairs. H. R. 1732. A bill for the relief of Fl.oyd Garrabrant; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 1704. A bill for the relief of William Wilday and Vera Wilday; to the Committee H. R. 1759. A bill granting an increase of J. Bartush; to the Committee on Military on Claims. pension to James J. Scanlon; to the Commit Affairs. By Mr. SMITH of West Virginia: tee on Invalid Pellsions. H. R. 1705. A bill for the ·relief of Oscar H. R. 1733. A bill granting a pension to Avery Bates; to the Committee on Naval By Mr. WIGGLESWORTH: Penira Williams Massey; to the Committee on H. R. 1760. A bill for the relief of Agatha Affairs. Invalid Pensions. H. R. 1706. A bill for the relief of Albert M. Milauskas Yakatronis (nee Agatha Milaus H. R. 1734. A bill to pay the adjusted-com kas); to the Committee on Immigration and Howard; .to the Committee on Claims. pensation benefits due to Nola McKnight; to Naturalization. H. R. 1707. A bill granting a pension to Jo the Committe'e on War Claims. sephine (Jessie) Campbell; to the Committee H. R. 1761. A bill · granting a pension to By Mr. SOMERS of New York: Sarah M. H. Nickerson; to the Committee on on Invalid Pensions. H. R. 1735. A bill for the relief of Benjamin H. R. 1708. A bill granting a pension to Invalid Pensions. Lindenbaum, his wife Ryfka Lindenbaum, H. R. 1762. A bill granting a pension to Dora Olive M. Hunt; to the Committee on Invalid and their son Heinrich Lindenbaum; to the Pensions. B. Mann; to the Committee on Invalid Pen- Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza sions. · · By Mr. RICH: tion. H. R. l763. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1709. A bill granting an increase. of H. R. 1736. A bill for the relief of Lillian pension to Sarah E. Sturm; to the Committee Bertha L. Wade; to the Committee on Invalid Last; to the Committee on Claims. Pensions. · on Invalid Pensions. H. R.1737. A bill for the relief of Nathan H. R . 1710. A bill for the relief of Okie May Lindenbaum, his wife Debora Gita Arnie! Lin H. R. 1764. A . bill granting a pension to Fegley; to the Committee on Claims. denbaum, and their four children, Marcus Mary Spear; to the Committee on Invalid H. R. 1711. A bill granting a pension to Lindenbaum, son, Fanny Lindenbaum, Pensions. · John J. Cook; to the Committee on Invalid daughter, Henri Lindenbaum, son, and Ar By Mr. E!'iGLEBRIGHT: Pensions. mand Lindenbaum, son;. to the Committee H. Res. 52. Resolution to provide additional H. R. 1712. A bill granting a pension to on Immigration and Naturalization. compensation for certain minority employees; Maud Phillips; to the Committee on Invalid By Mr. SPRINGER: . to the Committee on Accounts. Pensions. H. R. 1738. A bill granting an increase of H. R . 1713. A bill granting a pension to· pension to Roy Smith; to the Committee on PETITIONS, ETC. Lulu Maude Williams; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Invalid Pensions. H. &.1739. A bill granting a pension to . Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions H. R. 1714. A bill granting an increase of Zack Pool; to the Committee on Invalid Pen · and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk pension to Mary E. Catlin; to. the Committee sions. and referred as follows: on Invalid Pensions. H. R. 1740. A bill for the relief of Luther H. R. 1715. A bill granting a pens.ion to 8. By Mr. CULKIN: Resolution adopted by Chitty and Susie Chitty; to the Committee the International Association of Chiefs of Orvey Raymond Fry; to the Committee on on Claims. Invalid Pensions. Police, recommending Federal assistance for H. R. 1741. A bill granting a pensio~ ·to purchase of police equipment' essential for H. R 1716. A bill granting a pension to Sarah J . Wilder; to the Committee on Invalid Chester Wheeler; to the Committee on In · defense purposes; to the Committee on Ap Pensions. · propriations. valid Pensions. H. R . 1742. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1717. A bill granting a pension to Ella Peter Henry Eikenberry; to the Committee on 9. Also, resolution adopted by the council V. Bellinger; to the Committee on Invalid Invalid Pensions. men of the city of Watertown, N. Y., resolving that legislation to remove the immunity from Pensions. By Mr. SUTPHIN: H. R. 1718. A bill for the relief of the West Federal taxation of income from municipal H. R. 1743. A bill for the relief of the estate bonds would be harmful to municipal Branch Bank & Trust Co., of Williamsport, of William Sandlass; to the Committee on Pa., executors of the estate of James Walton Claims. finances and would increase tax burden of Bowman; to the Committee .on Claims. municipal taxpayers; to the Committee on H. R . 1744. A bill for the relief of Lizzie the Judiciary. H. R. 1719. A bill to refund to Lewis H. Berry; to the Committee on War Claims. Frantz income taxes erroneously and illegally 10. Also, resolution adopted by the super collected; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 1745. A bill for the relief of certain visors of the county of Jefferson, N.Y., favor H. R. 1720. A bill granting an increase of purchasers of lands in the city of New Bruns ing any treaty or necessary appropriation of pension to Sarah Harer; to the Committee on wick, N.J.; to the Committee or Claims. money for the development of the power of Invalid Pensions. By Mr. TERRY: the St. Lawrence River; to the Committee on H. R. 1721. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1746. A bill for the relief of Charles J. Rivers and Harbors. Thomas W. Cook; to the Committee on In Schay; to the Committee on Claims. 11. By Mr. THOMAS F. FORD: Resolution valid Pensions. By Mr. TIBBOTT: of the Theodore Roosevelt Camp, No.9, of Los H. R. 1722. A bill for the relfef of James T. H. R.1747. A bill granting a pension to Angeles, requesting that hospital facilities be Crowley; to the Committee on the Civil Margaret R. Goss; to the Committee on In provided for veterans who reside in a large Service. valid Pensions. district which has no veteran hospital within H. R. 1723. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1748. A bill authorizing the President reasonable distance; to the Committee on Anna L. Harman; to the Committee on In of the United States to present the Distin World. War Veterans' Legislation. valid Pensions. guished Service Cross to Samson Goldstein; 12. By Mr. JENKINS of Ohio: Petition H. R. 1724. A bill granting a pension to to the Committee on Military Affairs. signed by 24 citizens of Athens County, Ohio, Luru Maude Williams; to the Committee on H. R. 1749. A bill for the relief of Alexander urging Congress to pass Senate bill 517, which Invalid Pensions. H. Shema; to the Committee on Military provides in part for abolition of advertising H. R . 1725. A bill granting a pension to Affairs. intoxicants by the press and radio; to the Adda Mae Belford; to the Committee on In H. R. 1750. A bill for the relief of Ivan Committee on the Judiciary. valid Pensions. Rightnour; to the Committee on Military 13. By Mr. LUTHER A. JOHNSON: Petition By Mr. SACKS: Affairs. of James M. Terrill, secretary; P. L. Johnson, H. R . 1726. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1751. A bill for the relie.f of Joseph chairman; J . T. Drumwright, vice chairman; · Maurice Yudis; to the Committee on World Kochinich; to the Committee on Military and T. E. Bottoms, member, Freestone County War Veterans' Legislation. Affairs. A. C. A., of Fairfield, Tex., and 166 farmers of By Mr. SCRUGHAM: By Mr. VINCENT of Kentucky: Freestone County, Tex., endorsing the na · H. R. 1727. A bill for the relief of Fay Per H. R. 1752. A bill for the relief of the estate tional-defense program and urging that a. kins, Jimmie M. Perkins, Harry Howell, of Henry H. Denhardt, deceased; to the Com parity payment be secured on cotton for Florence Howell, J.P. King, Eva King; A~bert mittee on Claims. 1941; to the Committee on Agriculture. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 81 14. By Mr. MARTIN J. KENNEDY: Petition inter-American agreement was commu cally OJ1. the basis of so-called major of the International Association of Chiefs of nicated to the Senate by Mr. Latta, one Police concerning allocation of Federal funds fractions, because that is the basis upon for the purchase of essential equipment for of his secretaries. which the last previous apportionment police departments; to the Committee on REJiPPORTIONMENT UNDER THE 1940 CEN was made. Appropriations. SUS--TABLE OF POPULATION I rise simply to point out that in this 15. By Mr. KRAMER: Petition of the board Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, morning's CONGRESSIONAL RECORD only of directors of the San Pedro Chamber of on yesterday the President sent in his the President's ~:!overing letter was Commerce, San Pedro, Calif., er.dorsing a plan printed. The important thing in con for compulsory arbitration in all labor dis message as required by the Reapportion putes, such arbitration to be supervised by ment Act. Accompanying the message nection with the President's message is e}=perts appointed for life by the President was a table showing the apportionment the table which will control the appor of the United States, with the advice and of the new Congress on the basis of so tionment. Therefore I am asking this consent of the Senate, and the findings and called major fractions, and, on the basis morning that the table which accom awards of such arbitrators shall be enforced, of so-called equal proportions, these be panied the President's message may be snbject to the right of appeal, in~ the same printed in connection with my remarks manner and effect as a judgment of a Federal ing the two available methods for mak district court; to the Committee on Labor. ing apportionment. in the body of the REpORD. 16. By Mr. MARTIN of Iowa : Petition of Under the statute, unless Congress The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob Rev. R. V. Samuelson, the Lutheran Church; otherwise orders within 90 days, the re jection? The Chair hears none. Rev. 0. B. Rogers, the M~thodist Church; Rev. apportionment will proceed automati- The table referred to is as follows: J . A. Kearney, the Baptist Church; Rev, H. J. Findlay, the First Presbyterian Church; and a TABLE !.-Populations of the States, 1940,· and apportionment of Representatives in Congress. number of members of their respective 1940 and 1930 churches of Mediapolis, Iowa, urging proper . protection of the young men in the various Apportionment of 435 ·Representatives, 1940 training camps throughout the Nation; to the Committee on Military Affairs. ·17. By Mr: THOMAS of New ·Jersey: Petition Present Method of major fractions Method of equal propor· of the Bergen County Committee of the Amer Population number tions ican Legion of _Bergen County, N. J., express Apr. 1, of Repre-1----.------·1----.----- ing its approval of the accomplishments of State 1940 senta- Change from Change from the Dies committee and calling upon the tives ' Number 1930 Number 1930 Congress to support the continuance of the s~~~g~~;l----.---ls~~~aeg~~;l----,---- Dies committee and the proper financing of Gain Los: Gain Loss its work; resolution of the Ridgefield Park Post, No. 40, the American Legion, Ridgefield (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Park, N. J., expressing its approval of the ac ------1-----1------complishments of the · Dies committee and United States.•••••••••••••••. 131,669, 275 435 435 10 10 435 - 9 calling upon the Congress to support the con 1----·1------Alabama .• __ •• __ •• ______~ ___ •••• -- 2, 832, 961 9 tinuance of. the committee and its proper Arizona .•••••••. ______•• ______-- 2 ------i- :::::::: 9 ------499, 261 2 1 ------· financing; and letter from Orville C. Acker .Arkansas ______------1, 949, 387 6 ------1 7 man, post adjutant, Blue Ridge Post, No. 164, . Calirornia. __ ------6, P07, 387 ~0 23 3 ------:13 the American Legion, Hackettstown, N. J ., Colorado._------.:------1, 123, 296 4 4 4 Connecticut.------__ ------______1, i 09, 242 6 6 6 transmitting petitions signed by 528 residents Delaware ______------__ 266, 505 1 1 1 of Hackettstown, N. J., and,vicinity requesting District of Columbia ______663, 091 the continuance of the Dies Committee and Florida .••••. ______• ______.•• -- 1, 897, 414 ------5------6------i- =====::: ------6------i- ==::::-:: 3, 123, 723 10 10 ------10 ------that sufficient funds be _made available for IdahoGeorgia ___ .• ------__ ------. ______proper continuance of its functioning; to the 524, 873 2~ 2~ ------i- 2~ ------Illinois._------·"·---- 7, 897, 241 Committee on .Rules. Indiana.•• ------ 3, 427, 796 12 11 1 11 18. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Forest Iowa._------2, 538, 268 9 8 1 8 Kansas ___ ••• __ •. ______•••. 7 6 ] 6 City Branch, No. 40, National Association of 1, 801, 028 2, 845, 627 9 9 ------9 ------· Letter Carriers, Cleveland, Ohio, petitioning E;~~~~~:: :::::::::::::::::: ::::=::= 2, 31l3, 880 8 8 ------8 ------· consideration of their resolution with refer Maine ____ _----- ______.------___ _ 847, ~26 3 3 ------3 ------· 1, 821, 244 ence to conscription. pay; to the Committee Maryland.------~------Massachusetts ______- 1~ l~ =:======---.---i- 1~ ------i on Military Affairs. 4, 316, 721 Michigan _____ ••••• ___ ••• ______•••• __ 5, 256, 106 17 18 1 ------17 ------· Minnesota .• ------2, 792, 300 9 9 ------9 ------· 2, 183, 796 7 7 ------7 ------~~~~s~.f~!:::::::::::::::::::::::::: 3, 784,664 13 13 ------1:l ------Montana.• ·------559, 456 ~ ; ------~ ------i SENATE N ebraska••••••• ___ •••••• ____ ------__ 1, 315, 834 .Nevada. ______------110, 247 1 1 ------1 ------· New Hampshire ______491,524 2 2 ------2 ------THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941 4, 160, 165 New JerseY------Mexico ______14 14 ------14 ------· . New York ______531, 818 1 2 1 ------2 1 ------· Rev. Duncan Fraser, assistant rector, 13,479, 142 45 45 ------45 ------· North Carolina ______3, 571,623 11 12 1 ------12 1 ------· Church of the Epiphany, Washington, North Dakota ______·--- 641, 935 2 2 ------~ ------D. C., offered the following prayer: Ohio ___ _------6, 907, 612 ~4 :13 1 23 1 Oklahoma ______2, 336,434 9 8 ------1 8 ------1 Almighty and Everlasting God, who, Oregon ____ ------__ 1, 089, 684 3 4 1 ------4 1 ------Pennsylvania. ------9, 900, 180 34 23 1 33 1 in the face of Jesus Christ, hath mani Rhode Island ______713, 346 2 2 ------2 ------fested Thy glory, and brought us out of South Carolina ______1, 899,804 6 6 ------6 ------·------South Dakota.------642, £61 2 2 ------2 ------darkness into Thine own glorious light: Tennessee. ______-- __ ---_------2, 915,841 9 10 1 ------10 1 ------Grant us grace, we humbly beseech Thee, Texas. __ ------6, 414,824 21 21 ------21 ------so to know Thee that we may truly love Utah. ______.-----____ _ 550, 310 2 2 ------2 ------359, 231 1 1 ------1 ------Thee, so to love Thee that we may fully ~r:~~i~~~====::::::::::::::::::::::: 2, 6i7, 773 9 9 ------9 ------· serve Thee, whom to serve is perfect Washington.-----·------1, 736, 191 6 6 ------6 ------1, 901, 9i4 6 6 ------6 ------freedom. Through the same Thy Son, 3, 137, 587 10 10 ------10 ------Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 250, 742 1 1 -·------1 ------THE JOURNAL ~Yi~~~~~~~~======~======1 The present apportionment of Representatives is based on the 1930 census. The J?ethod followed in 1930 w~s the On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by method of major fractions. In that instance the use of the method of equal proportiOns would have resulted m the unanimous consent, the reading of the same apportionment. Journal of the proceedings of Wednes TRIBUTES TO THE LATE HONORABLE JOHN Kentucky. Governor Beckham, as he day, January 8, 1941, was dispensed with, C. W. BECKHAM was affectionately called by thousands of and the Journal was approved. Kentuckians, was born in Bardstown, Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, to Ky., August 5, 1869. He was educated MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT day marks the first anniversary of the in the public schools and at old Centre A message in writing from the Pres passing of the Honorable John Crepps College, Danville. He was admitted to ident of the United States submitting an Wickliffe Beckham, late a Senator from the bar in 1889. He served as a member LXXXVII--6