1945 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE · 2889 the Congress; to the Committee on the Judi­ · The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown H. J. Res. 115. Joint resolution relative to ciary. Harris, D. D., offered the following determination and payment of certain claims 297. By Mr. GROSS: Petition of the Town­ against the Government of Mexi9o; and send Clubs of the Twenty-first Congressional prayer: H. J. Res. 141. Joint resolution making sup­ District of Pennsylvania, signed by E. _ W. God our Father, as the quiet splendor plemental appropriations for the fiscal year Laughman, district secretary, and others, of another day illuminates our path, we ending June 30, 1945, in lieu of certain ap­ memorializing t.he Congress of the United wait for the shining glory of the Light propriations contained in H. R. 2374, Sev­ States to enact into law House bills 2229 and enty-ninth Congress, firs session, and for 2230, what is known as the Townsend bill, that never fails nor fades. At noontide other purposes. we would step aside from the crowded which will provide annuities for all senior LEGISLATIVE SESSION citfzens 60 years and over who will refrain highway to seek the garden of the soul from gainful occupation, the permanently where Thou keepest tryst for us at the Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I disabled, the blind, the disabled soldiers, and beginning of the day's council together. understand that when the Senate re­ all widowed mothers with dependent chil­ Some of us have grown weary with the cessed yesterday it did so as in executive ren under 18; to the Committee on Ways and heat and burden of these tragic days. Means. session. 298. By Mr. RICH: Petition of residents of For Thy name's sake and for our souls' The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That Council, Alaska, and environs, protesting sake, lead us where. still waters· flow. is correct. against further reservations in Alaska as If we have closed and barred the door Mr. BARKLEY. Inasmuch as the sponsored by the Department of the In­ of our heart against unwelcome truth, -conference report on the so-called man­ terior; to the Committee on the Public may it steal back by some secret stair, power bill is to be brought up, I there­ Lands. bringing within the sweet peace of peni­ fore move that the Senate now proceed 299. By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: tence and pardon. In the Redeemer's to the consideration of legislative busi­ Memorial of the General Court of Massa­ name. Amen. chusetts, requesting the Federal Conserva­ ness. tion Commission and the Select Committee THE JOURNAL Mr. MILLIKIN. Mr. President, am I on Conservattion of Wildlife Reserves to re­ correct in my understanding that there strain any further action by the United States On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by will be merely a temporary suspension Fish and Wildlife Service in the Parker River unanimous consent, the reading of the of the consideration of the treaty? and Monomoy Point refuges until the com­ Journal of the proceedings of the calen­ Mr. BARKLEY. When the .Senate pletion of an investigation by a joint com­ dar day Tuesday, March 27, 1945, was goes back into executive session auto­ mittee of the general court; to the Commit­ dispensed with, and the Journal was ap­ matically the treaty will be the unfin­ tee on Agriculture. proved. 300. Also, memorial of the General Court ished business. of Massachusetts, urging the Federal Gov­ MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Mr. MILLIKIN. And the only busi­ ness displacing the treaty temporarily ernment to purchase land in Massachusetts A message from the House of Repre-· for the establishment of a national ceme­ will be the conference report on the man- tery; to the Committee on Military Affairs. sentatives, by Mr. Maurer, one of its re-ad­ power bill? · 301. By the . SPEAKER. Petition of the ing clerks, announced that the House had Mr. BARKLEY. So far as I know, yes. Arkansas Basin Flood Control Association, passed the following bills, in which it re­ Mr. WHITE. Mr. President, may I Russellville, Ark., petitioning consideration quested the concurrence of the Senate: inquire, when the Senate goes back into of their resolution with reference to opposi­ H. R. 689. A bill to enable the Department executive session and recurs to the treaty, tion to establishment of an Arkansas Valley of State, pursuant to its responsibilities un­ Authority and requesting that the river basin der the Constitution and statutes of the will the Senator from Colorado [Mr. of Arkansas be developed by the Corps of United States, more effectively to carry out MILLIKIN] be the unfinished speaker? ~gineers, United States Army; to the Com­ its prescribed and traditional responsibilities Mr. BARKLEY. I never think the mittee on Flood Control. in the foreign field; to strengthen the Foreign Senator from Colorado is unfinished. If 302. Also, petition of Clifford Cooperative Service permitting fullest utilization of avail­ the Senator from Maine should refer to Association, of Tripoli, Wis., urging consider­ able personnel and faclllties of other depart­ him as a finished product, I would agree. ation of their resolution with reference to ments and agencies and coordination of ac­ The Senator from Colorado, under any opposition to the views and policies of for­ tivities abroad of the United States under a arrangements which he may see fit to eign affairs as expressed by Congressman Foreign Service for the United States unified O'KoNSKI; to the 'Committee on Foreign under the guidance of the Department of call it, will resume the floor. Affairs. State; and Mr. MILLIKIN. I thank the Senator 303 . Also, petition of the American Legion, H. R. 2775. A bill to permit certain sub­ from Kentucky very much. Horse Creek Valley Post, No. 77, Bath, S. C., sidy and loss operations, in the case of fi"'ur, Mr. TOBEY. Mr. President, will the urging consideration of their resolution with without regard to the provisions of the last majority leader yield? reference to adoption of universal military paragraph of section 2 (e) of the Emergency The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does training for the youth of the country; to the Price Control Act of 1942. the Senator from Kentucky yield to the Committee on Military Affairs. The message also announced that the Senator from New Hampshire? 304. Also, petition of the National Mari­ Mr. BARKLEY. I yield. time Union, New York, N.Y., with 19 signers, House had agreed to r.. concurrent resolu­ urging consideration of their resolution with tion CH. Con. Res. 37) authorizing the Mr. TOBEY. I should like to point reference to the enactment of a merchant printing of a revised edition of House out also-and I think the chairman of seamen's bill of rights along the lines-of the Document No. 394, Seventy-eighth Con­ the Senate Banking and Currency Com­ one passed by a grateful Nation in behalf of gress, second session, entitled "Hand­ mittee will confirm my statement-that our armed forces; to the Committee on the book for Servicemen and Servicewomen the conference report on the Commodity Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Credit Corporation bill is also to be 305. Also; petition of the Lions Interna- · of World War II and Their Dependents, Including Rights and Benefits of Veter­ taken up. tiona!, District 51, Puerto Rico, urging con­ Mr. BARKLEY. Yes; but I do not sideration of their resolution with reference ans of World War I and Their Depend­ to the establishment of ' an independent ents," as a public document, and provid­ think that will take more than a few Federal agency to study, weigh, and probe ing for additional copies thereof, in which minutes. into the problems of Puerto Rico, and for it requested the concurrence of the Mr. MILLIKIN. Did I correctly un­ other purposes; to the Committee on Insular Senate. derstand the distinguished majority Affairs. leader to say that the conference report ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLU­ referred to by the Senator would be TIONS SIGNED taken up? · The mes::;age further announced that Mr. BARKLEY. I said it would take SENATE the Speaker had affixed his signature to but a few minutes, and that while the the following enrolled bills and joint res­ Senate is in legislative session we might WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1945 olutions, and they were signed by the try to dispose of it. It is a privileged (Legislative day of Friday, March 16, President pro tempore: matter, anyway. 1945) s. 681. An act to amend the National The PRESIDENT pro tempore. .The Housing Act, as amended, and for other pur- question is on the motion of the Senator The Senate met in executive session poses; _ from Kentucky that the Senate proceed at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expira­ H. R. 2404. An act to increase the debt limit ~ to the consideration of legislative bv.si­ tion of the recess. of the United States, and for other purposes: ness. I. 2890 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE MARCH 28 The motion was agreed to; and the propositions written into the Constitution. must wield a baton. Such is the tradition Senate proceeded to the consideration of Thus without complete agree1;11ent about of music; but dictation does not fit into the freedom of speech, no one could speak out orchestration of democracy. legislative business. 1n disagreement about anything. 6. Hence we must find equivalents for score POST-WAR FULL EMPLOYM~NT Our economic progress, like our political and director if we are to make the music we freedom, depends in this -same way upon want to hear. We must have a unifying Mr. WAGNER. Mr. President, as our reconciling the privilege of differing about American economic policy directed toward · armed forces gain victory after victory,­ many matters with the capacity to arrive a common American economic goal, (Of we come closer and closet: to the prob­ freely at an accord about some essentials.