15076 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE SEPTEMBER -19 2376. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Mr. CALL OF THE ROLL of the General Assembly of the United Walter C. Peterson, clerk, Los Angeles, Calif., Mr. McFARLAND. I suggest the ab­ Nations . petitioning consideration of his resolution The VICE PRESIDENT. A quorum is with reference to urging the Senators and sence of a quorum. Representatives from California, wholly or The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secre­ preseµt. partially representing districts in the city of tary will call the roll. TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE BUSINESS Los Angeles, to support the recommendations The roll was called, and the following Mr. McFARLAND. Mr. President, I of the President and comply with his request Senators answered to their names: for an immediate additional appropriation ask unanimous consent that Senators Anderson Hill Malone be permitted to submit petitions and for the work of the FBI in detecting plots of Benton Hoey Martin sabotage, spying, and infiltration; to the Butler Holland Millikin memorials, introduce bills and joint res­ Committee on Appropriations. Byrd Humphrey Morse olutions, and present routine matters Cain Hunt Mundt for the RECORD without debate. Chapman Ives Murray Chavez Jenner Neely The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ Connally Johnson, Colo. O'Conor jection, it is so ordered. Cordon Johnson, Tex. O'Mahoney Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President, I SENATE Darby Johnston, S. C. Robertson Donnell Kefauver Russell ask unanimous consent to make a brief TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1950 Douglas Kem S'.:tltonstall statement concerning a bill sponsored by Dworshak Kerr Schoeppel the Senators from North Carolina [Mr. <Legislative day of Thursday, July 20, Ecton Kilgore Smith, Maine Ellender Langer Stennis HOEY and Mr. GRAHAM], with respect to 1950) ~erguson Leahy Thomas, Okla. a new plan for acre.age allotment on pea­ Frear Lehman Thye nuts. The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, Fulbright Long Tobey Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. President, I desire on the expiration of the recess. George McCarran Tydings Gillette McClellan Watkins to hear the Senator speak, but I thought The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown Graham McFarland Wherry we were to have a period for insertions Harris, D. D., offered the following Green McKellar Wiley in the RECORD and other routine matters. Gurney McMahon W1111ams prayer: Hendrickson Magnuson Young The VICE PRESIDENT . .The Senator Eternal and blessed God, in the midst from Georgia is correct. The Senator . Mr. McFARLAND. I announce that from Virginia can be recognized on the of the toiling days when the fever and the Senator from California [Mr. Dow­ fret of perilous t~mes take their toll of pending bill to make the address. NEY] is necessarily absent. : Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President, I bodies and spirits, we are grateful for · The · Senator from Mississippi [Mr. quiet arbors of peace where, at an altar appreciate the situation, and I reserve EASTLAND] is absent because of illness. my comments. ·of contrition, we may bow for Thy for­ · The Senator from Arizona [Mr. HAY­ giveness and·cleansing. DEN], the Senator from Illinois [Mr. UNITED STATES CIVIL DEFENSE-REFER­ In an hour when such vast issues are LucAsJ, and the Senator from Pennsyl­ . ENCE OF MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT, at stake may those who here serve, con­ vania [Mr. MYERS] are absent on public REPORT, AND BILL scious of the great tradition in which business. The message from the President of the visio~ they stand, rise to greatness of ~ The Senator from South Carolina [Mr. United States, dated September 18, 1950, and soul as the anxious eyes of all the MAYBANK], the Senator from · Florida transmitting to the Congress the report nations are upon this Chamber. We [Mr. PEPPER], and the Senator from entitled "United States Civil Defense,": would join our petitions with unnum­ Ptah [Mr. THOMAS] are s,bsent by leave yesterday ordered to lie on the table, ·was .. bered hosts today, under all skies, at the of the Senate. with the accompanying report and the­ opening of the General Assembly of the , The Senator from Alabama [Mr. bill (S. 4162) to authorize a Federal civil United Nations, that in spite of all at­ SPARKMAN] is absent by leave of the Sen­ defense program, and for other pur­ tempts to sabotage its mandates this ate on official business, as a representa­ poses, referred to the Committee on world agency may be the instrument in tive of the United States to the fifth Armed Services. Thy hand of averting war, of increasing session of the General Assembly of the PETITIONS AND MEMORIAL understanding and of enlarging the field United Nations. of peaceful cooperation among the na­ The Senator from Idaho [Mr. TAYLOR] Petitions, etc., were laid before the tions. We ask it in the name of the is absent because of illness in his family, Senate, and referred as indicated: Prince of Peace. Amen. The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. By the VICE PRESIDENT: THE JOURNAL WITHERS] is absent on official business. A resolution adopted by the Pension Clubs and the senior citizens of Duval County, at On request of Mr. McFARLAND, and by Mr. SALTONSTALL. I announce that the Senator from Vermont [Mr. AIKEN], Jacksonville, Fla., favoring the enactment unanimous consent, the reading of the pf the so-called Tow.nsend plan, providing Journal of Monday, September 18, 1950, the Senator from Iowa [Mr. HICKEN­ old-age assistance; to the C'ommittee on was dispensed with. LOOPER], and the .Senator from Michi­ Finance. gan [Mr. VANDENBERG) are absent by The memorial of David H. Heydenburk, of LEAVES OF ABSENCE leave of the Senate. Houghton, N. Y., remonstrating against the Mr. DONNELL. Mr. President, I ask · The Senator from Vermont {Mr. appointment and confirmation of a special unanimous consent to be excused from FLANDERS] is absent by leave of the Sen­ r·epresentative to the Vatican; to the Com­ the session of the Senate until 3 o'clock ate on official business as a temporary mittee · on Foreign Relations. alternate Governor of the World Bank. A telegram in the nature of a petition, this afternoon so that I may attend a signed by E. E. Ferrari, secretary-treasurer, luncheon which is being given to the The Senator from Maine [Mr. BREW­ embodying a resolution adopted by the Pa­ Senate Committee on the Judiciary by STER] and the Senator from New Jersey cific Coast Associatiop. of Port Authorities, the American Bar Association commit­ [Mr. SMITHJ are absent by leave of the relating to Panama Canal tolls; to the Com­ tee on the Federal judiciary. Senate as representatives of the Amer­ mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ ican group to the Interparliamentary A resolution adopted by the Department of jection, leave is granted. Union. California, the American Legion, in conven­ The Senator · from New Hampshire tion assembled at Sacramento, Calif., favor­ On his own request, and by unanimous ing the enactment of House bill 87, relating consent, Mr. KEM was excused from at­ [Mr. BRIDGES] is absent because of ill­ to the promotion of veterans of World War tendance on the sessions of the Senate ness. II in the field service of the Post Office De­ for the remainder of this week. The junior Senator from Ohio [Mr. partment; ordered to lie on the table. BRICKER], the Senator from Indiana [Mr. COMMITTEE MEETING DURING SENATE CAPEHART], the Senator from California BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION SESSION [Mr. KNoWLANDJ, the Senator from Wis­ INTRODUCED On request of Mr. RussELL, and by consin [Mr. McCARTHY], a.nd the senior Bills and a joint resolution were intro­ unanimous consent,· the Committee on Senator from Ohio [Mr. TAFT] are nec- duced, read the first time, and, by unani­ Armed Services was authorized to meet essarily absent. · mous consent, the second time, and re­ during the session of the Senate today The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. f erred as follows: to consider the nomination of Gen. LODGE] is absent by leave ·of the Senate By Mr. NEELY: George C. Marshall to be Secretary of on official business as a representative s. 4165. A bill to authorize · the secretary Defense. of the United States to the fifth session· of Agriculture to bring to Washington, D. 0., 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 15077 theater productions of land-grant colleges on advances made by the Treasury to the (S. 3295) to amend the Railway Labor and universities; to the Committee on Agri­ Reconstruction Finance Corporation for this culture and Forestry. purpose. The Reconstruction Finance Cor­ Act and to authorize agreements pro­ S. 4166. A bill to amend the District of Co­ poration shall be repaid without interest for viding for union membership and agree­ lumbia Emergency Rent Act, as amended, advances made by it hereunder, from funds ments for deductions from the wages qf with respect to housing accommodations in hereafter appropriated for the purposes of carriers' employees for certain purposes hotels and housing accommodations result• such title. and under certain conditions,· which ing from conversion; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. The statement presented by Mr. WILEY were ord.ered to lie on the table and to be By Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado ( tiy re­ is as follows: printed. quest): STATEMENT BY SENATOR WILEY ON INTER• JUSTICE FOR POLAND-STATEMENT BY S. 4167. A bill to authorize the waiver of NATIONAL CHILDREN'S WELFARE WORK SENATOR SMITH OF NEW JERSEY the navigation and vessel-inspection laws; A most unfortunate and unhappy acci­ [Mr. HENDRICKSON asked and obtained S. 4168. A bill to authorize the construc­ dent has occurred. The United Nations tion and equipment of a geomagnetic sta­ leave to have printed in the RECORD a state­ Children's Fund which has had one of the ment on the subject, Justice for Poland, by tion for the Department of Commerce; and most outstanding records 6f achievement of S.