ALLIED SHIPS GOING TO RED VIETNAM CALL IN U.S. PORTS

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Approved For Release 2003/10110 CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 House of Representatives WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1965 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, D.D., used the following verse from Luke 24: 48: Ye are witnesses of these things, and then offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Almighty God, we humbly acknowl- edge that we are witnessing a time of world crisis and. revolution, of confusion and doubt, of upheavals and overturn- ings of history. There are many dark problems ahead of us, demanding to be solved. We seem to be walking a twilight path, reasoning and holding counsel together, but often discouraged and sad and lonely. We sincerely feel that we need more faith for our comfort and courage. May we never be timid about our faith or shrink from trying to share it with oth- ers. Make us more forthright in talk- ing of those spiritual truths which bear witness that we are concerned about life's highest interests. Let us not be reticent about what we know we ought to believe and what Thou dust expect us to believe. Help us to keep aglow the light of faith during these times and may we do our utmost to stem the tides of crime and delinquency among youth and adults. Grant that we may not, on any ac- count, compromise with-the, forces of evil but may, we join hands and hearts in a new covenant of love and fidelity to Thee in whom humanity alone can find healing and hope. Hear us in Christ's name. Amen. THE JOURNAL The Journal of the proceedings of yes- MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT A message in writing from the Presi- dent of the United States was communi- cated to the House by Mr. Rdtchford, one of his secretaries. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE A message from the Senate by Mr. Ar- rington, one of its clerks, announced that the Senate had passed a concurrent resolution of the following title, in which the concurrence of the House is re- quested: S. Con. Res. 2. Concurrent resolution to establish, a Joint Committee on the Organi- zation of the Congress. MEET AGGRESSION AGAINST VOT- ING RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITI- ZENS (Mr. JACOBS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his re- marks.) Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, America and the world learned in Manchuria and Ethiopia that aggression cannot be wished away but, if ignored, will grow and spread like cancer. Unchallenged aggression grows simply because would-be aggressors begin to be- lieve they can get away with it, too. Who can deny that the scourge upon American citizens in,Selma is aggression as rank and brutal as any practiced in Korea or Vietnam? Legislation is being introduced in this Congress effectively to meet aggression against the voting rights of American citizens. To paraphrase the words of Wilson: I can predict with absolute certainty that within another 90 days, there will be other Selmas if this American Gov- ernment does not concert this means by which to prevent them. The eyes of racist demons, as well as the eyes of heaven are upon this Gov- ernment as it determines whether it will protect God's children everywhere in this Nation. CORRECTION OF THE RECORD Mr. DYAL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- mous consent that the RECORD of yester- day be corrected at page 4344 wherein it is stated, "I am not one of the 15 Meal bers of the House who recently made a trip to Selma," to read "I am one of the 15 Members of the House who recent- ly made the trip to Selma." The SPEAKER. I there objection to the request of the ge stleman from Cali- ALLIED SHIPS GOING TO RED VIET- NAM CALL IN U.S. PORTS (Mr. ROGERS of Florida asked and was given permission to address . the House for 1 minute. and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, in the last half of. 1964 over 200 ships flying the allied flag hauled Red cargoes into North Vietnam. Ironically these same ships are being permitted to pick up the profits from U.S. trade in our own ports. This situation exists at a time when the U.S. merchant marine has slipped to the point where it now carries less than 10 percent of America's sea trade. At this very moment a Panamanian ship called the Severn River is loading in the port of New York. The Severn River went into North Vietnam last year. It also visited the U.S. ports of Richmond and Norfolk. The Severn River arrived in New York last Thursday, March 4, from Communist Poland, and will sail for Italy shortly. This ship is typical of others which serve the Reds in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean while enjoying the conveniences of a free world flag. Os- tensibly, the Severn River is owned by the International Commercial Corp., of Monrovia, Liberia. The president of that corporation is Mr. Henry Edward Hooper, of Chislehurst, Kent, England. The cor- poration's vice president and its secre- tary-treasurer are both British, and I have their names and addresses. While over 40 percent of the free-world ships going into North Vietnam fly the British flag, the allied nations of Japan, Greece, Norway, Lebanon, Italy, West Germany, and Panama also engage in this Red trade. Other free world vessels going into Vietcong ports are using U.S. ports as well. I have urged the State Department to stiffen diplomatic pressures on those countries shipping for the Reds. The President is doing his utmost to control the sitaution in Vietnam. The least our friends can do is stop helping our ene- mies. ONE MAN, ONE VOTE IN STATE LEGISLATURES (Mr. WELTNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his re-. marks.) Mr. WELTNER. Mr. Speaker, I have read with much interest the daily pro- tests of those who seek to destroy the constitutional guarantee that one man should have one vote in State legisla- tures. Advocates of this change vest para- mount importance in geography, history, economic interests and, as they say, "fac- tors.other than population." Is not "population" another word for "people"? I had always believed that the purpose of government is to serve people; that representative government is charged to represent people; and that democracy is government by people. Now we are told that people must be subordinated to geography-or history- or economic interests. Mr. Speaker, this is a strange doctrine. Is geography important-except to lo- cate people? Is history important-except to guide people? Is economic interest important-ex- cept to sustain people? Mr. Speaker, governments are insti- tuted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. 4569 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 10, 1965 if this be true then democracy has but one foundation, and that is people. REORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS (Mr. HECHLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) Mr. HECHLER. Mr. Speaker, tomor- row the House will consider Concur- rent Resolution 4 to establish a Joint Committee on the Organization of Con- gress. This is long overdue. It has been 20 years since the organization of the Congress was examined and recom- mendations were made through the La Follette-Monroney committee. I support this resolution. I am sure it will pass. However, there is one very unfortunate limiting provision to which I would like to call the attention of the membership. The resolution states that- Nothing in this resolution shall be con- strued to authorize the committee to make any recommendations with respect to rules, parliamentary procedures, practices, and precedents of either House, or the considera- tion of any matter on the floor of either House. I believe there are some Members who wish to amend this concurrent resolution to strike out this limiting provision. If we are going to have an effective com- mittee which will thoroughly study the reorganization of Congress, it should not be limited or hogtied. It should be given the freedom to make a long and careful examination of all aspects of Congress. To be effective, the inquiry should go into all of the rules, procedures, and precedents of the House. Under the Constitution, "each House may determine the rules of its proceedings," and this will be the case here, also. But we should not inhibit the basic inquiry. I would like to alert the membership that this amendment will be brought up when the resolution is considered tomor- row. I trust that the amendment will be adopted in order to produce a more meaningful inquiry. Then Congress it- self will have a full opportunity to pass on any recommendations which are made. Why limit the joint committee? We ought to be able to trust ourselves to proceed with a full and free inquiry, and then vote on the results of the joint committee's deliberations. THE SELMA, ALA., SITUATION (Mr. TUNNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his re- marks.) Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to address the House on the very explosive situation in Selma, Ala. Negro citizens in Selma in the past days have been subjected to cruel and unusual treatment at the hands of lo- cal and State officials. It is a national disgrace to have American citizens beat- en, tear gassed, and abused in this man- ner. Most of us look to our local and State police as dedicated public servants who strive to maintain the public order. In Selma we are treated to a spectacle in which Negroes not only cannot look to the police for protection, but must fear the police as a prime source of harass- ment. I believe that certain white and Negro citizens of Alabama have been deprived of their constitutional right of peaceful assembly. I believe that there are suf- ficient grounds to assume certain local and State officials are responsible for depriving these citizens of this right. Under title 18, sections 241 and 242, of the United States Code, it is a crime for, any person acting under color of law to deprive another inhabitant of the United States of any constitutional right, privi- lege, or immunity. It is also a crime for two or more persons to conspire to in- jure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise of any con- stitutional right or privilege. It is my understanding and hope that the Attorney General of the United States is presently investigating recent developments in the city of Selma to see if any violations of Federal law have oc- curred. If there have been violations, I think that every fairminded citizen of our country will join me today in urging the Attorney General to prosecute those men responsible to the full extent of the law. DRUG ABUSE CONTROL BILL (Mr. ROSENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, be- fore we conclude our action on the drug abuse bill, H.R. 2, I would like to pay tribute to my good friend and colleague from Queens County, N.Y.-the Honor- able JAMES J. DELANEY-Who deserves a great deal of the credit for bringing this legislation to the attention of the Con- gress, and to this point where there is a very good likelihood that it will be en- acted into law. In 1950, 15 years ago, JIM DELANEY was working to improve the protection of the American public through strengthening of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. In the early 1950's, long before some of us were even Members of this House, he and his investigating committee worked dili- gently to gain the necessary and appro- priate information whereby corrective legislation could be developed. In the 88th Congress, JIM DELANEY in- troduced legislation which was the fore- runner of the bill we are now consider- ing. He had long ago recognized the tremendous growth in the traffic of dan- gerous drugs, and had recommended that penalties on the abuse of barbitu- rates and amphetamines be placed where they rightfully belong-on the pushers rather than on the enslaved users. I believe that every American parent whose children will be protected from the ravages of drug abuse owes him a great debt of thanks. I believe, too, that every person who drives and carries his family on the Nation's highways can be thankful to JIM DELANEY for clearing those roads of drug abusers armed with lethal automobiles. His handiwork will be clearly demonstrated by passage of this bill which will help improve safe- guards against drug abuse, work to re- duce our highway accident toll, and at the same time decrease juvenile delin- quency and crimes of violence. HEALTH HAZARD OF CIGARETTES (Mr. VANIK asked and was given per- mission to address the House for 1 min- ute and to revise and extend his re- marks.) Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, the Public Health Service through the Surgeon Gen- eral yesterday asked Congress for $1,- 950,000 to help keep the public informed on the health hazards of cigarettes. I am today, requesting the National Asso- ciation of Broadcasters to cooperate in this effort by considering voluntary curbs on cigarette advertising to help the Pub- lic Health Service in this effort. DEMOCRACY MEANS A PARTNER- SHIP OF THE PEOPLE IN GOVERN- MENT (Mr. MATHIAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his re- marks.) Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, one of the finest tributes ever paid to Winston Churchill was at a time that is now rec- ognized as having been the pinnacle of his career. At that time however the ultimate outcome of the war was still unknown and the Churchillian power to mobilize the courage and moral force of the free world was not yet the legend that it has now become. Writing in early 1942 Walter Lippmann noted Churchill's dedication to the prac- tice of democracy, and in particular to Churchill's concept that a free people are entitled to full partnership in govern- ment and that such partnership includes a frank appraisal of all the information that is necessary to create and sustain national policy. Sometimes this may mean conveying good and hopeful news. Sometimes it may mean conveying discouraging and bad news. But this full partnership in government by the people is necessary to the practice of democracy. It is in this spirit, Mr. Speaker, that I am today join- ing in the cosponsorship of the resolu- tion to change the rules of the House of Representatives so as to allow the Secre-- tary of State to be recognized on the floor of the House for the purpose of answer- ing questions propounded by Members of the House. DRUG ABUSE CONTROL AMEND- MENTS OF 1965 (Mrs. BOLTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her re- marks.) Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the Committee on Inter- state and Foreign Commerce for bring- ing out the bill H.R. 2, to establish great- er control over the manufacture and dis- tribution of depressant and similar drugs including barbiturates and ampheta- Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 March 10, 11)65 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SENATE be only the beginning. "The present pro- gram is going to cost more than 61 billion a year before long, and the_ U.S. taxpayer won't stand for that very long," declares Marion Rhodes, president of the New York Cotton Exchange, who also raises cotton in Missouri. JOHNSON SEEKS NEW APPROACH The industry's nervousness over the extent tQ which it relies on Federal furnds has in- creased in .recent weeks, While President Johnson has' indicated he favors continuing present price-support programs at least an- other'year, he has directed Agriculture Sec- retary Freeman to "lead a major effort to find new approaches to reduce the heavy cost of our farm programs and to direct more of our efforts to the small farmer who needs help the most." This was closely followed by an Agriculture Department report showing that 56 percent of the Nation's farm families got just 9 per- cent oftl the Government's price support pay- ments in the 1063-64 crop year. Then there was a magazine article by Budget Director Kermit.Gordon critical of the cost of farm price-support programs. Furthermore, con- tinuing reapportionment of congressional seats is trimming the farmer's already dwin- dling political power. i "There's no doubt the present cotton pro- grain is costing too much for what we're get- ting out of it," asserts C. H. Devaney, presi- dent of the Texas Farm Bureau in Waco. Significantly, his State led the Nation in the 1963-64 crop year with receipt of $492 million in price supports on all farm products. Like other members of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation, Mr. Devaney would like to see cotton price supports steadily reduced and eventually replaced by a support equal to 90 percent of the average market price in the preceding 3 years. SUPPORT PRISE RECLINE There's some Indication, the Agriculture Department is already tending in the direc- tion the Farm Bureau seeks to go. Price supports on the 1965-66 cotton crop will drop to 29 cents a pound, from 30 cents this year and 32.5 a year ago. The bureau would like to see them further reduced to 27 cents a pound in the 1967-68 crop year. Then start- ing with the 1968-69 crop year, the 90 percent of the preceding 3-year average would take over-or about 25 cents in 1968-69. Pre- sumably, the support level would drop fur- ther in., succeeding years, as market prices set by supply and demand would become the basis for supports. But perhaps the major reason for worry in the cotton industry is the fact that the Federal Government's n aesive new. program is failing to solve the industry's longstanding Ills, and it's adding some new problems as well. "The present program is hopeless," states C. Layton Merritt, Jr., a New Orleans cotton broker. In varying degrees, his sentiment is echoed by.scores of cotton farmers, ginners, and shippers from the Carolinas to Cali- fornia. They're joined by the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senator ELLENDER, of Louisiana, who contends the new program has failed to accomplish a single thing it set out to do. To be sure, the new textile mill subsidy ended the inequality of U.S. mills paying 8.5 cents a pound more for U.$, cotton than their foreign competitors paid for our cotton. That,_in turn, perked up textile profits, and prompted some price cuts on U.S,-made clothing. But even these successes have been limi- ted. Synthetic fibers made up a record 38.6 percent of the raw material fed to U,8. textile lpoms. in.,1964, while cotton's share plunged to an alitime low of 54,; percent. Imports of foreign-made clothing continued to take a growing share of U.S.__markets. And price cuts on U.S.-manufactured cloth- Ing have fallen short of the $500 million Congress had anticipated. To many in the cotton industry, there- fore, the new program amounts to, little short of a disaster. Instead of rising, ex- port sales of U.S. cotton are falling at a sharper rate than domestic sales, are climb- ing. For the year ending July 31, exports are expected to be 1.4 million bales under the previous year, double the anticipated 700 million bale rise in domestic use. "The fixed export price on U.S. cotton makes it practically impossible to sell on the world market when other countries have cotton for sale-they simply undercut our price," complains Jack J. Stoneham, Dallas cotton merchant and chairman of the for- eign trade committee of the National Cot- ton Council. "We're reduced to selling what can be sold under foreign aid programs and outright giveaways to other countries." ADDING TO THE SURPLUS Because this decline in exports is cutting total consumption after a record crop, the addition to Government surplus stocks of cotton on July 31 is expected to total 2 mil- lion bales, double the rise a year earlier. That would put stocks at 14.4 million bales, the second highest carryover ever. This amounts to a full year's supply and repre- sents a taxpayers' investment of about $2 billion. "This rapid buildup up Government stocks is a millstone around the farmer's neck," declares Walter I,,. Randolph, Mont- gomery, Ala., a national vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "Everytime the surplus climbs, it brings more pressure for a cut in acreage allot- ments." And despite a record 15.3-million-bale har- vest in the current crop year, farmers are getting less money for their cotton than the previous year, due to a combination of lower support prices and a decline in total demand for cotton. "I sold my cotton for 2 cents a pound above the 32.5-cent support price a year ago, but this time I've only been able to get the new 30-cent support price-'that 4.5-cent cut has cost me $22.50 a bale," says Newton S. Cooper, a Casa Grande, Ariz., cottongrower. Russell Kennedy, an official of a large Cali- fornia cooperative, reports, "about 40 per- cent of the farmers on the eastern side of the San Joaquin Valley didn't make any profit on their crops this year under the new program." Perhaps the severest critics of the program are the merchants and shippers. "The red- tape connected with the new program is driving me crazy," comments Charles W. Shepard, Jr., a Gadsden, Ala., merchant. Merchants and shippers also complain the current cotton program is reducing the role of middleman. "The program so heavily favors cooperatives that they're steadily tak- ing over the industry," declares Ed Martin, vice president of Sternberg-Martin Co., a Dallas cotton firm. "With their vast tax ad- vantages, they're diverting profits produced at Government expense into purchase of hundreds of cotton gins, cottonseed oil mills, cotton compresses and other facilities." Merchants feel much of the trouble comes 44,79 YIELDS GET A BOOST The program also has been foiled by the farmer's ingenuity in steadly boosting yields per acre-they now average about 1 bale per acre, compared with one-quarter bale when Government cotton programs started in 1933. For example, farmers agreeing to out their 1965-66 acreage by one-third from their normal allotment can qualify for a loan price 4.35-cents-a-pound higher than those using the full allotment. But, notes J. D. Hayes, president of the Alabama Farm Bureau, "a large number of Alabama farmers are going to take this so-called domestic al- lotment this year, then skip-row plant and grow just about as much cotton as before." Skip-row planting is the technique of plant- ing two rows, then leaving one fallow. This counts as a one-third acreage reduction, but the extra space stimulates cotton production in the remaining rows by 30 to 60 percent. Many in the industry are also critical of the emphasis the program places on "pre- serving the small farmer." Over half of the 707,989 farms receiving cotton allotments in 1964 received 15 acres or less, notes a Mem- phis banker. "About half of these farmers would just as soon quit raising cotton if the Government would give them a way to do so," he asserts. Shippers and merchants generally agree the obvious way to regain cotton's lost mar- kets would be to return to a free market in which supply and demand would set the price of cotton. To ease the transition of farmers to this free market, they suggest the Government simply make direct payments to the farmer based on the difference between the market price of his cotton and the sup- port level calculated to give him a profit. "This would be vastly cheaper than the present system, and would start cotton mov- ing in normal trade channels again," con- tends Mr. Rhodes, of the New York Cotton Exchange. Most producers, however, oppose this pro- posal. "Any system of direct payments to farmers would probably mean limitations on the amount a farmer could receive," says Harold F. Oldendorf, an Osceola, Ark., cot- ton farmer. "That would penalize those who are the most efficient." Adds C. R. Harvin, a Summerton, S.C., cottongrower: "Once we start following the world price down, there's no telling how low it would go. That would surely mean similar cuts in support prices." But all segments of the industry agree that some new approach must be tried soon. Warns Mr. Helmbrecht, of Dallas: "We are no longer at the pr verbial crossroad. U.S. cotton has reachede end of the line. We have to start growl cotton for consumption or stop-growing it." D2 SHODIYir ARMS AND EQUIPMENT IN VIETNAM Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, I have been shocked, as I know other Sen- ators have, by press dispatches over the weekend indicating that American serv=icemen in Vietnam still-after all these months-feel they are getting shoddy arms and equipment inadequate to the under a Government loan, set well above May I-say that letters I have received the market price, and receive immediate payment for it. Then if the cotton can't be from Vietnam express the same view. sold by July 31, the Government simply takes I do not desire to belabor the point. It title to it. is too obvious to need my elaboration. "The cotton loan program has been a total May I only ask that there be printed in failure," asserts William C. Helmbrecht, Jr., the RECORD a copy of an Associated Press past president of the Dallas Cotton Exchange. story from the Washington Star of "Not only does it build surpluses and cost March 7 and the text of Senate Resolu- money, it has encouraged farmers scattered around in almost every State to produce cot- tion 25 presented to this Senate by my- ton just for the Government to store because self and Senators ALLOTT, BENNETT, CUR- its quality is not spinnable at the price TIS, FANNIN, JORDAN Of Idaho, MURPHY, Washington sets for it,' RANDOLPH, and SIMPSON. Approved For Release 2003/10/10 CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 4480 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 10, 1965 In addition, Mr. President, I sincerely hope that the President will find It pos- sible to declare the southeast Asian thea- ter a combat zone. Obviously it is that with 27,000 Americans there and Marines engaging in landing operations. This simple Presidential designation would bring increased efforts at home to see that our troops are properly supplied; it would increase morale; and it would immediately grant income tax benefits to our men there and to their dependents- and-in those tragic cases that continue to arise--to their survivors. There being no objection, the article and resolution (S. Res. 25) were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: WEAPONS IN VIETNAM SHODDY, SOLDIERS SAY- NEW AMERICAN COMPLAINTS ALSO INCLUDE SHORTAGE OF- AMMUNITION (By Peter Arnett) SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM.-A flurry of new compalints came yesterday from U.S. service- men in South Vietnam that they are fight- ing with shoddy weapons, shortages of am- mution, and a lack of equipment-al- though, they said, some items are for We on Saigon's black market. One U.S. Army adviser said Soviet-made ammunition clips taken from the Vietcong are better quality than those sent from the United States. The American ones jam the U.S.-made weapon, he said. NEW COUP RUMORED In the field, fighting continued around the joint United States-Vietnamese airbase at Da Nang. The field there is the jumping-off point for airstrikes against Communist North Vietnam and Laos. Here in Saigon rumors of new coup were afloat and there was a possibility of anti- American demonstrations. Coup talk got started after Vietnamese air force planes flew a mock bombing raid on the city. Their flights apparently were touched off by the presence of troop reinforcements in the city to guard against possible anti- U.S. demonstrations. Complaints from U.S. servicemen about their weapons and equipment are nothing new in this war but the latest batch comes at a time when U.S. Involvement here has been deepened. UNITED STATES TO INVESTIGATE In Washington, the Defense Department said the new complaints would be looked into. "It is and has been the policy of the U.S. Government to give U.S. forces in South Vietnam a blank check for obtaining any and all material and logistical support needed in connection with their activities. Equipping our forces in South Vietnam has had and will continue to have the highest Priority," a spokesman said. One U.S. Army adviser stationed in central Vietnam claimed that although the war was getting more serious, the most up-to-date weapons have not come to all units. "The armalite automatic rifle would fill the bill nicely with its proven effectiveness," he said. "But only the Special Forces and some privileged units get these. The best we get is the automatic carbine. As things get worse here, we need the best weapon for EQUIPMENT CRITICIZED Another adviser said the ammunition clips for the carbines are too lightly constructed and jam easily under the hard usage. "The clips for the Russian weapons we pick up from the Vietcong are much stronger and more heavily constructed," he said. "I was better equipped in World War II," said a U.S. Army engineer, holding up a World War I pistol belt and some rusty cartridge magazines. "I read somewhere that the Defense De- partment says the Americans in Vietnam are the best-equipped fighting men ever to go overseas," he added. "They still have to show that." The most recent complaint to come to light before this was that of U.S. Army Capt. John King, of Sebring, Fla. In November he wrote to his family that U.S. rifles, car- bines, and machineguns had not been prop- erly maintained by the Vietnamese. A month later King was killed in action. SENATE HEARING HELD A secret Senate hearing in Washington 4 weeks ago upheld King's critical report. Previous to that have been complaints from U.S. airmen who said World War II-type B-28 bombers fell apart in the air. The old B-28's have been phased out. Last November the Defense Department acknowledged that first-aid kits issued to American troops in the Mekong River Delta area were unserviceable and had been re- placed. The new round of complaints came from Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force advisers. They were interviewed separately. They all asked not to be quoted by name lest they get into trouble. One item in short supply is camouflaged nylon poncho liners used as lightweight blankets. AVAILABLE ON BLACK MARKET "Saigon says they don't have any left, but I know they are available on the black mar- ket in Saigon," one lieutenant said. "I know that if I went to U.S. military headquarters in Saigon and made a scene I would be is- sued a poncho liner and the other items I am lacking. But then I would remain a first lieutenant all my life." An American pilot said he has not been issued a flying jacket. "Supply says it hasn't got any, but there are hundreds being sold on the streets of Saigon," he said. "I won't buy one there on principle." The pilot of an Army spotter plane claimed: "We can't get chamois leather to strain gasoline at the tiny airstrips we refuel from. But this chamois can be bought on the Sai- gon black market without any trouble." BAD AMMUNITION CHARGED From U.S. Navy advisers came these com- plaints: "Some of the ammunition for our cannons is in pretty bad shape when it gets here. The guns on one ship jammed every 20 or 30 rounds." "The skin hull of one of the Navy ships sent over here from the States was so rusted you could punch a hole through its armor with a pencil." Men in the central highlands claim that the ammunition supply there is low. Others reported shortages of artillery shells. One Army man said ammunition issued for personal weapons is often rusted. "It was packed as far back as 1952 for Korea," he said. "When we complain about it we are told: 'Clean it'." S. RES. 25 Whereas American military servicemen are fighting and dying in the Republic of Viet- nam and in Laos; and Whereas these Americans and their Com- rades-in-arms from the Republic of Vietnam and from Laos are fighting to preserve free- dom and liberty from the treachery and bru- tality of Communist aggressors; and Whereas the United Staten does not regard its soldier sons as mere mercenaries fighting only for pay, but as dedicated and Courageous protectors of liberty who are committed to battle to preserve and defend principles which Americans hold to be of the utmost importance; and Whereas American servicemen go into bat- tle knowing that they will not be betrayed in trust or in support by their Government or their fellow citizens for whom they offer their lives if need be: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That American servicemen fight- ing in the Republic of Vietnam, or at any other place, be provided promptly and in adequate numbers with the most effective weapons, equipment, and aircraft available in American military inventories. DENUNCIATION BY AFL-CIO OF TRADE WITH COMMUNISTS Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, the March 2 issue of the Washington Post carried a story datelined Miami Beach in which it was related that the AFL- CIO's executive council had some rather strong language for those busi- nessmen in our midst who seek to trade with Communist nations. Mr. President, these labor leaders are showing far more cognizance of the world situation today than many of our leading businessmen and largest cor- porations. I commend their actions, and I commend their statement to my colleagues in the Senate. I ask unani- mous consent that the newsstory be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD as it was carried on that date. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: AFL-CIO DENOUNCES BUSINESSMEN'S PLAN To SEEK RED TRADE MIAMI BEAcII.--The AFL-CIO's executive council denounced American businessmen yesterday for seeking trade with Com- munist nations and called for a ban on trade or credit concessions until Communist leaders agree to make concessions. AFL-CIO President George Meany char- acterized thebusiness community's interest in trade with the Communist bloc as "greed for profit" The 29-member council's state- ment added that trade concessions should be predicated on such factors as the Com- munists agreeing to stop subversion in South Vietnam and the Congo and taking down the Berlin Wall. The strongly worded statement appeared to be in conflict with President Johnson's policy of exploring ways to use expanded trade as a bridge toward world peace. But Meany, when questioned on this point, said he believed the President would agree with the AFL-CIO's call for political concessions as a precondition for greater trade. POSITION OF DALLAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON CERTAIN PRO- POSED LEGISLATION Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that there be printed in the RECORD resolutions recently passed by the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. These resolutions indicate support of that chamber for retention of section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law, for the eldercare bill which I have introduced in the Senate as S. 820, and for military preparedness and elimination of waste spending in our Federal Government. I commend to the attention of the Senate these thoughtful and powerful resolutions. Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 pproved For Release 2003/10/10 CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 llrcl 10, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -.HOUSE Dr. Muschenheim said the 380,000 Indians and Alaskan natives who benefit from the Federal Indian health program, need annual additions of at least $5 million to the Indian health budget to improve health services. The proposed budget carried a $2.4 million increase for health. STATISTICAL PROFILE 'He gave this statistical profile of the In- dian today: "unemployment, 45 to 50 per- cent; median family income, $1,500; housing, 90 percent below acceptable standards; aver- age educational level, 5 years; average at death, 43 for Indians and 35 for Alaska natives." Infant death and death from Influenza, pneumonia, gastroenteritis and tuberculosis occur a,t far higher rates among Indians than in the general population, he said. More than 70 percent of the Indians and Alaskan natives haul their drinking water a mile or more, from unsafe sources and in unsanitized containers, he continued. "Poor health, meager education, low In- come and wretched living, conditions are the cardinaf points on the vicious circle of In- dian poverty," Dr. Muschenheim said. TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES IN THE POSTAL SERVICE (Mr. DULSKI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I am in- troducing a bill today entitled "A bill to limit the use of temporary employees in the postal service." Because of various restrictions, the.Post office Department has been using an excessive, number, of temporary substitutes. This is most un- fair to the men who are serving as tem- poraries, because they are not placed under civil. service; they do not come under the Civil Service Retirement Act; they receive no credit for seniority pur- poses, although they may serve as tem- poraries from 3 to 7 or 8 years. It is, also unfair to the Government, because it does not provide for stabiii2ed regular service, but it has a group of men work- ing in an uncertain status for a long period of time. Routes are not filled on a permanent basis; assignment of clerks is not made on a permanentbasis-and it is my opin- ion that the use of temporary substitutes is a very expensive operation to tl;e Post Office Department. To illustrate the vast number of sub- stitutes, that are used in the Post Office Department, there were 104,878 regular routes and 34,539 part-time routes. There are generally more substitutes used in.the clerical service than in the letter carrier service, and the actual ratio of substitutes to regular employees is 1 for every 2.5 regular employees. There is a quota law that permits 1 substitute for every 5 regular employees, so the use of temporary substitutes has pretty well nullified the quota law, which was passed for good and sufficient reasons by the Congress. There is no business in America which operates in such a makeshift manner and, for that reason, I am introducing legislation that will limit the use of tem- poraries to a 90-day period and, follow- ing.the conclusipn of that 90-day period, temporary, substitutes cannot be rehired until a 90-day interval has elapsed. This will still permit the use of many regular career substitutes who have civil service status, have retirement rights and sen- iority credit, and can look forward with confidence to appointment to a regular position. In my opinion, the legislation is neces- sary for both the stability and morale of the postal service, and I hope that it will be passed in this session of Congress. NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN THE POSTAL SERVICE Mr. Speaker, I am today also introduc- ing a bill titled "A bill to make the provi- sions of Public Law 82-253, as amended, inapplicable to the Post Office Depart- ment." The bill has for its purpose amending the so-called "Whitten rider." The Whitten rider, which was carried on an appropriation bill passed in 1952, pro- vided that the total number of employees in the Federal Government could not in- crease more than 10 percent above the number on the rolls on' June 30, 1950. There was one amendment to the rider that permitted a little latitude in the case of the Post Office Department, but with the growth of population and the growth of Government functions, we have now reached a point where we can no longer continue to operate under the restric- tions of the Whitten rider. This is par- ticularly true in the Post Office Depart- ment, where there is an annual increase of 2 billion pieces of mail and where the number of houses requiring service is in- creasing by 1.5 million a year, and the population during the past year has in- creased by 4 million people. Obviously, more employees are needed to serve the spreading suburbs throughout America. The elimination of the restrictions of the Whitten rider, as far as the Postal Field ADMIT'T'ING THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO THE HOUSE FLOOR FOR QUESTIONING BY MEMBERS 4591 abroad. Presently, the public's knowl- edge of the reasoning behind our con- duct of foreign affairs is largely limited to occasional press conferences and con- gressional hearings. Neither is wholly satisfactory. Second, direct questioning of the Sec- retary of State would enable Members of Congress to secure prompt and au- thoritative information on our relations with other countries. This information is essential to our role as elected public officials. Third, a free and spontaneous ques- tion and answer period, responsibly con- ducted, would increase public confidence in the wide-ranging commitments of the United States in defense of liberty and justice. An informed electorate is an enlightened one. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the resolution, our joint statement, and an article of mine which appeared in last Sunday's New York Herald Tribune elaborating this pro- posal further be included in the RECORD at this point. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from New York? There was no objection. The matter referred to follows: H. REs. 262 Resolution amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit the Secretary of state to answer questions on the floor of the House Resolved, That rule XIV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end thereof the following. "9. The Speaker may recognize the Sec- retary of State, and he may be admitted to the floor of the House at any time, for the purpose of answering any question by a Member of the House of Representatives." JOINT STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES . As Members of the Congress we are deeply concerned over events in southeast Asia. With all Americans we share an abiding hope for the restoration of peace in Vietnam-a permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his re- marks.) Mr. LINDSAY. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to announce that 12 colleagues are joining me today in introducing a resolution to amend the rules of the House to permit the Secretary of State to come onto the floor to answer ques- tions by Members. As I said in recommending this pro- cedure over a month ago, I believe we have an obligation to find out what the administration's policies are, where they are taking us, and what they are in- tended to achieve. I believe this resolu- tion would be very helpful to the Con- gress. in assessing the course of this coun- try's foreign policies. The sponsors of the resolution are holding a press conference to discuss- this resolution, at_ 12:3Q p.m. today in room H-219 of this building. Adoption of this resolution would serve the administration, the Congress, and the people: First, it would provide the administra- tion with an excellent forum for the ex- planation and defense of its policies. V lel,na 1L aim eaen 01 line sovereign slimes or the area. Tension is mounting in the Middle East. Other crises of less immediate drama are also testing the capacity and willingness of the United States to lead. There is serious dis- cord within the Atlantic Alliance. In the Cohgo, the turmoil continues. On each foreign policy issue Members of the Congress have the obligation to seek and the right to receive detailed information from the admin- istration regarding U.S. policy. The main- tenance of effective communications between the executive and legislative branches has been a persistent problem. We believe that it would be helpful for the Secretary of State to appear on the floor of the House of Representatives to answer questions on U.S. policy in Vietnam and other crisis area. We have today introduced a resolution to amend the Rules of the House of Representa- tives in order to permit the Secretary to participate in such a question period. The questions of Members could be submitted to the Secretary in writing together with the invitation to appear before the House. Oral questions during the Secretary's appearance could be limited to those germane to ques- tions which he has already answered. The degree of detail of the Secretary's answers, and even the decision to answer at all, are matters properly left to his own discretion. Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025%a5 4592 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE March 10,'.t 965 Adoption of this resolution would serve administration time and again as the au- The effect of the question hour is to compel the administration, the Department of State, thority behind U.S. Policy decisions. Last both those in power and those out of power the Congress, and the people: August, during debate on that resolution, the to think carefully and coherently about ma- A question period would enable the ad- Congress and the executive branch took seri- jor issues of public policy. Questions-and ministration to expound its foreign policy to ously the congressional responsibility to criticisms in the form of questions-are put the public. Congressional committee hear- participate in the careful consideration of to the Government primarily by the mem- ings, while valuable and necessary for fn- U.S. policy. They should continue to take bers of the "shadow cabinet"-the leaders of depth inquiries on a variety of subjects, do that responsibility seriously by permitting the opposition, that is, who would constitute not afford the administration a broad public the Secretary of State to answer questions the Cabinet were their party in office. The audience. on Vietnam and other crisis areas on the floor result of this practice is a continuing inter- A question period would enable the State of the House. change of questions, suggestions and criti- Department to benefit from a sense of li- cisms between the leaders of the Government ability of prompt and public explanation. [From the New York Herald Tribune, Mar. 7, and their counterparts in the opposition. A question period would enable Members 19651 The entire system depends, of course, on of the Congress, as popularly elected guard- THE NEED FOR SHADOW GOVERNMENT the existence of the "shadow cabinet." It ians of the public trust, to secure and con- complements the actual responsibility of the sider prompt and authoritative information (By JOHN V. LINDSAY) Government with the potential responsibility on America's foreign relations. Politics, according to the old aphorism, is of the opposition, showing the people exact- A question period would enable the people the art of the possible. And so it is, but ly, or almost exactly, where responsibility to have the utmost confidence in their as important as it is for reasonable men would be if the minority party were put in Government by facilitating the flow of in- to make reasonable compromises, it is equally power. The "shadow cabinet" system does formation between the administration and important to maintain a continuing ques- not of course guarantee responsible and the public. To the extent that the Presi- tioning of established policies and a con- creative opposition, but it provides a foun- dentfa.l press conference does not fully fill tinuing inquiry into future requirements. dation for it, for which there is no counter- this need, a question period in the Congress These functions of criticism and creativity part in the United States. Recently in the may be an important complement to it. are the proper responsibility of the party out Congress, e s, Representatives I ropose that the rules me Our resolution is simple and limited. It is of power. A political opposition which fails be changed in no sense an effort at comprehensive re- of them, contenting itself with negative carp- mediately to permit the Secretary of State form of basic congressional procedures and ing or simply bland acquiescence to the on the floors of the House and Senate on a therefore It has neither the broad scope nor policies of the majority party, is failing of regular basis to answer questions. The im- the elaborate detail of previous efforts to its foremost responsibility to itself, to its portance rtcear policy is highlighted by h absence and provide for a public interchange between the supporters and to the American people as other clear poly in m e spots. One Congress and the Cabinet. a whole. The function of the opposition other ion changing cons and Vietnam, d sensitive t na sos opposition One of a Eves the broad proposals of the past, how- is to oppose selectively, responsibly, and force the government c iv state its ition ever, have had substantial bipartisan back- creatively. Each time a member of the mi- An American "shadow cabinet" could not, ing. The long list of leaders who have 'given nority party criticizes the policies of the of course, consist of those individuals who support to the principle of the resolution we current administration, his criticism should would hold Cabinet posts if the minority have introduced today includes many whose express not only his view of what is being party were to come to power, because under influence on U.S. foreign policy has been done badly but also his view of how it can our system members of the Cabinet are not immense: Presidents Woodrow Wilson and be done better or of what should be done Members of the Legislature, as they are in the William Howard Taft; Secretaries of State that is not being done. A creative opposi- United Kingdom, but are appointed by and Henry L. Stimson, Charles Evans Hughes, and tion, in short, appeals to the public mind responsible to the President. Their Identity James F. Byrnes; Senators Henry Cabot and imagination by raising compelling policy cannot therefore be known until a President Lodge, Jr., Estes Kefauver, and J. WILLIAM alternatives. has been elected and has chosen them. FVLBRIOHT. Even both sides of the current The Republican Party has not always been There is no reason, however, why the func- Senate debate in Vietnam are represented on able to meet this responsibility to the extent tions of a "shadow cabinet" could not be the list In the persons of Senators GROENING, that it can and should. To a great extent, performed by appropriate members of the of Alaska, and McGEE, of Wyoming. the lack of inspiration in much of the Re- minority party in Congress. The party could The great Republican Secretary of State, publican performance in Congress is not the designate one of its acknowledged congres- Elihu Root, writing in 1935, best expressed fault of the minority party itself. In the sional experts in foreign affairs, for example, the values which could be served by adoption House of Representatives the Republicans to serve as its "shadow cabinet" spokesman of our resolution: have been handicapped by the refusal of the on foreign policy, its leading student of mili- "It has long seemed clear to me that we Democratic majority to allow them sufficient tary problems to serve as its "shadow" sec- ought to have some arrangement under staff assistance-which is absolutely essential retary of defense, and so on. which Congress would have the benefit of for the analysis of highly complex legisla- For such an arrangement to work, it would more prompt and authoritative information tion. The procedures of acquiring infor- be essential that members of the Cabinet as to the action of the executive department. mation through committee hearings are and other executive officials appear before "On the other hand, I think that a sense haphazard, disorganized and, in many in- the Senate and the House for frequent and of liability of prompt explanation has a very stances, subject to the whims and eccen- regularly scheduled question hours. This good effect upon the head and the leading tricities of a few members who hold positions would make it possible, as appearances be- members of an executive department." of special power. fore congressional committees do not, for Our limited proposal would enable both As a result of these and other shortcom- the entire membership of the two Houses the majority and minority Members of the ings in the exploration of vital policy mat- to explore important policy Issues directly House to consider foreign policy issues in the ters, the Congress has largely abdicated to with the executive branch of the Govern- most constructive manner possible. We Re- the press a predominant role in the shaping ment, and, in so doing, would provide a whol- publicans, with the reduced state of the of Issues. The Congress in recent years has ly new form for public education and par- minority in Congress, have a higher oblige- seemed willing to denigrate its own role in ticipatlon in the shaping of policy. Such tion than ever before to be a proper opposi- the formulation, discussion, and criticism of an arrangement, in my opinion, wanld nei- tion in the sense that we insist that the public policy. And within the Congress the ther negate nor fundamentally alter ? the Government make clear to the people vital distinction between Government and separation of powers, but would simply serve through their elected representatives what opposition, proponent and critics, has become to open a new channel of communication U.S. foreign policy is. hopelessly blurred in the fragmentation of and understanding between the executive The Republican Party has a long tradition issues and alinements. and legislative branches of the Government. of bipartisan support of foreign policy- I do not believe that the kind of- ighly Another felicitous possibility in the cre- established beyond question by men of the disciplined, ideological parties which exist in ation of a "shadow cabinet" and a regu- stature of Henry Stimson and Elihu Root. certain parliamentary systems could func- larly scheduled question hour is that their But bipartisanship in foreign policy absolves tion in so heterogeneous a society as the effective use might well recover for Congress no Member of Congress of his obligation to United States. But I do think that certain the power to raise and define issues and to seek out the content and purpose of that practices of parliamentary systems can be float new ideas, a power now largely passed policy, usefully studied with a view of their pos- to the press. The proper center for .a con- The Intense consideration of foreign affairs sible adaptation to the American legislative tinuing serious dialog on public policy is by the Congress and the House of Repre- system. the Congress; to the extent that the press sentatives is not new. In recent years con- I think it possible, for example, that a has taken over this function, it is because the gressional resolutions have, in fact, helped great deal might be gained by the adoption- Congress has abdicated it. to define American foreign policy. The res- or at least the experimental adoption-by The major purpose of a "shadow cabinet" olution on Formosa in 1955, the resolution on our Congress of the British practice of hold- arrangement adapted to the American con- the Middle East in 1957, and the resolution ing regular question and answer sessions in gressional system would be the encourage- on Berlin in 1962, all became vitally Impor- the House of Commons, during which mem- ment of a more vigorous and creative politi- tant statements of the U.S. position. bers of the government, including the Prime cal opposition. It would be essential, there- The congressional resolution on Vietnam, Minister, submit to intense and systematic fore, that the innovation be accompanied passed last August 10, has been cited by the questioning by members of the opposition. by provisions for greatly expanded expert Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 reh. lo, 1965 CONGRESSJQNAL. RIECQ.k ;Q HOUSE 4593 staff assistance for the minority-which, in "shadow cabinets" at the National and State ceive detailed information from the ad- 9 t, is urgently, needed under any circum- and local levels. of government, and certainly ministration regarding U.S. policy. The stances. For the past 3 years I have served in New York City. It should at the same time as a member of a small, congressional com- call for the institutional innovations, no maintenance of effective communica- mittee, headed by Representative Fred Sph- tably the introduction of regular legislative tions between the executive and legisla- wengel, of Iowa, which has been studying the question and answer periods, necessary for tive branches has been a persistent prob- staff needs ,of the minority party in Con- the effective operation of a system of "sha- lem. gress. It is clear from the inquiries we have dow cabinets." In so donig, the Republican A more direct link between the repre- made that the need for greatly expanded mi- Party should be acting in full consonance sentatives of the American nority staff assistance can hardly be over- with its own best tr ditions: wisdom and people and stated the rx ti h ecu ve as been lacking in the . effectiveness in power and responsibility and Just as a "shadow cabinet" system might creativity in oppositi n. American political system-a link which serve a valuable purpose in the Federal. Gov- could provide responsible and elevated ernment, it might also be a healthy innova- debate on great foreign policy questions tion in New York City. There are enormous PERMITTIAL~ THE SECRETARY OF in a bipartisan spirit. resources, of unused human,,talent in. New STATE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS Aregular exchange of this character York. The city has a great many men and in the well of the House would at the women who, are well qualified in various ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE aspects of municipal affairs and whose talents (Mr. illuminate policy is ie lpoli the heading. truth It t could where test- could readily be made available to a munici-. REID of New York asked and was foreign . pal "shadow cabinet," It is unfortunate and given permission to address the House in a way not now possible-the principles discouraging that the Republican organiza- for 1 minute, to revise and extend his and the soundness of foreign policy, and tion in the., city has never been willing to remarks, and to include extraneous policies in turn could receive a public mount a yigorous and creative opposition, as matter.) sanction which could help undergird the well it could by drawing on the many quasi Mr. REID of New York. Mr. Speaker, national will. fled inO vicju s vail ble and willing to serve along with the gentleman from New While under our Constitution the Pres- o muhey re a"shadow cabinet" might be York [Mr. LINDSAY], I urged the House ident is responsible for foreign policy, expected to study, criticize, and offer pro- on January 27 to make it possible for the clear congressional debate on the broad- posals on every aspect of city affairs: hous- Secretary of State to answer forthright- est stage could have a complementar ing, scliools, police, parks and playgrounds, ly on the floor of the House pertinent and larger place. y air and water pollution, traffic, sanitation, questions in the national interest. Adoption of this resolution would serve trade and commerce, cultural affairs amuse- Today, in concert with a. number of the administration, the Department of ments, taxes, and real estate. Municipal gov- my colleagues, I am introducing a resole- ernment, like National Government, func- tion to amend rule XIV of the House of State, the Congress, and the people- tions well only when it is held to account by Representatives by adding at the end A question period would enable the a vigorous, responsible, and creative opposi- administration to expound its foreign tion, one whits} does not hesitate to criticize thereof the following: policy to the public. Congressional com- but does not do so without suggesting alter- The Speaker may recognize the Secretary mittee hearings, while valuable and nec- native lines of action, and one which extends of State, and he may be admitted to the floor essary for in-depth inquiries on a variet its proposals to future opportunities as well of the House at any time, for the purpose of y as present necessities. answering any question by a Member of the of subJects, do not afford the adminis- A shadow opposition should consist mainly House of Representatives. tration a broad public audience; of independent citizens not generally con- A question period would enable the netted with the regular organization of the The questions of Members could be State Department to benefit from a sense opposition party. It should be structured in submitted to the Secretary in writing to- of liability of prompt and public ex- an organized fashion, manned sufficiently to gether with the invitation to appear be- planation; have a staff and be a catalyst for the politi- fore the House. Oral questions during A question period would enable Mem- cal machinery, which is too often content to the Secretary's appearance could be lim- bers of the Congress, as popularly elected do nothing in New York persons highly City. knowledgeable ited to those germane to questions which made up of guardians of the public trust, to secure and strongly identified with each area of mu- he has already answered. The degree of detail of the Secretary's answers, and and consider prompt and authoritative nicipal activity. Above all, it should have information on America's foreign rela- those professionally expert planners who al- even the decision to answer at all, are tions; and ready exist and who are concerned with New matters properly left to his own discre- A question period would enable the York. tion. People to have the utmost confidence in A New York City shadow government My colleagues-the gentleman from their Government by facilitating the flow should be financed the same ay the and California [Mr. BELL], the gentleman of information between the administra- publican Party is financed, by from Massachusetts [Mr. CONTE], the public appeals. It should not be financed tion and the public. To the extent that out of public funds, because then it would gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. the Presidential Press Conference does have the appearance, if not the substance, of FULTON], the gentleman from New York not fully fill this need, a question period paid silence. [Mr. HORTON], the gentleman from New in the Congress may be an important The regular party machine, sadly enough, York [Mr. LINDSAY], the gentleman from complement to it. does not have the caliber or energy in it at Pennsylvania [Mr. McDADE], the gentle- the present moment to take on the job in man from Maryland [Mr. MATHIAS], the The great Republican Secretary of proper fashion. In theory it should, but as a gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. State, Elihu Root, writing in 1935, best practical matter the machinery is not healthy MORSE], the gentleman from New York expressed the values which could be enough to produce such an effort. Hope- [Mr. RoRlsoN], the gentleman from Ver- served by adoption of our resolution: fully this will change. It has long seemed clear to me that we A democratic society needs vigorous de- moat [Mr. STAFFORD], and the gentleman bate on public policy at every level. No gov- from Maine [Mr. TIIPPER]-and I are ought to have some arrangement under ernment, of either party, at any level, of deeply concerned over events in south- more whreh Congress tess would have the benefit of whatever composition, can safely, be left to prompt and authoritative information r east Asia. With all Americans we share as to the action of the executive utive department. govern without counsel and criticism from an abiding hope for the restoration of On the other hand, I think that a sense a vigorous opposition. I believe that the in Vietnam-a creation.of, or at least experimentation with, peace peace which pre- of liability of prompt explanation has a very a "shadow cabinet" system could contribute serves the integrity of South Vietnam good effect upon the head and the leading to the encouragement of creative opposition and each of the sovereign states of the members of an executive department. at every level of American government. area. Mr. Speaker, the intense consideration There are, of course, many other methods Tension is mounting in the Middle of foreign affairs by the Congress and by which this objective can be pursued, and East. Other crises of less immediate the House of Representatives is not new. and whengall is entssa, ino madt re, no stitutio al drama are also testing the capacity and In recent years congressional resolutions arrmt how contrived, will substitute for competent, re- willingness of the United States to lead. have, in fact, helped to define American sponsible officeholders and vigorous, enlight- There is serious discord within the At- foreign policy. The resolution on For- ened public, opinion. lantic Alliance. In the Congo, the ter- mass in 1955, the resolution on the Mid- At 'this time, however, I believe that the moil continues. On each foreign policy dle East in 1957, and the resolution on Republican Party could, with great benefit issue Members of the Congress have the Berlin in 1962 all became vitally impor- both to itself and to the country, organize, obligation to seem, zjid the right to re- tant statements, of the U.S. position. Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved 4594 For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE March 16f,"1965 The congressional resolution on Viet- KLuczYNSKi, Democrat, of Illinois-the nam, passed last August 10, has been Subcommittee on Small Business Prob- cited by the administration time and lems in Urban Areas-Will seek to find again as the authority behind U.S. policy methods whereby small businesses in ur- decisions. Last August, during debate on ban areas can bestrengthened so as to that resolution, the Congress and the encourage the improvements and devel- executive branch took seriously the con- opments contemplated by President gressional responsibility to participate in the careful consideration of U.S. Policy. They should continue to take that re- sponsibility seriously by permitting the Secretary of State to answer questions on Vietnam and other crisis areas on the floor of the House. SUBCOMMITTEES AND AGENDA, HOUSE SMALL BUSINESS COM- MITTEE (Mr. EVINS of Tennessee asked and was. given permission to extend his re- marks at this point in the RECORD and to include a subcommittee list and agenda.) Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speak- er-the House Small Business Committee in a recent organizational meeting adopted an agenda for the 89th Congress and appointed seven subcommittees to assist the full committee in'conducting the various hearings and investigations which the committee plans to undertake during the next 2 years. In this connection, Mr. Speaker, I in- clude a summary of this agenda and a listing of the subcommittees, together with their jurisdiction. The full committee will conduct hear- ings on the decentralization plan of the Small Business Administration, on the temporary curtailment of SBA loan pro- grams, and on various new proposed SBA programs. The full committee will also study methods by which the small busi- ness investment program regulated by SBA can be used to supplement, promote, and encourage economic growth. Johnson in his recent message on cities and metropolitan areas of our country. Subcommittee No. 6 on regulatory and enforcement agencies, under the chair- manship of Representative JOHN D. DIN- CELL, Democrat, of Michigan, will look into the activities of monopolies and cor- porate giants in competition with small business. This subcommittee also will give attention to television advertising pricing as it relates to small business, and make a study of franchising, both as an avenue for small business development and as an instrument for small business domination. In addition to the committee's six reg- ular subcommittees and in response to the urgent requests of numerous Mem- bers of the House and hundreds of local independent dairies located throughout the United States, a special subcommit- tee, under the chairmanship of Repre- sentative NEAL SMITH, Democrat, of Iowa, has been established to deal exclusively with small business problems in the dairy industry. This subcommittee will con- duct investigations and, if necessary, hold hearings to determine whether large dairies are taking unfair competitive ad- vantage of smaller operators. The subcommittee memberships are as follows: Representative ABRAHAM J. MULTER, Democrat, of New York; Representative CHARLES L. WELTNER, Democrat, of Geor- gia; Representative Ralph HARVEY, Re- publican, of Indiana; Representative FRANK J. HORTON, Republican, of New York. Activities of Regulatory and Enforce- ment Agencies Relating to Small Busi- ness: Representative JOHN D. DINGELL, Democrat, of Michigan, chairman; Representative NEAL SMITH, Democrat, of Iowa; Representative CHARLES L. WELTNER, Democrat, of Georgia; Repre- sentative SILVIO O. CONTE, Republican, of Massachusetts; Representative JAMES T. BROYHILL, Republican, of North Caro- lina. Small Business Problems in the Dairy Industry; Representative NEAL SMITH, Democrat, of Iowa, chairman; Repre- sentative Tom STEED, Democrat, of Okla- homa; Representative JOHN DINGELL, Democrat, of Michigan; Representative FRANK J. HORTON, Republican, of New York; Representative JAMES T. BRoY- HILL, Republican, of North Carolina. Representative JOB L. EVINS, Demo- crat, of Tennessee, chairman of the full committee, and Representative ARCH A. MOORE, JR., Republican, of West Virginia, ranking minority member, are ex officio members of all subcommittees. HORTON MILK PROMOTION BILL (Mr. HORTON asked and was given permission to extend his remarks at this point in the RECORD and to include extraneous matter.) Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, today I have introduced a bill which seeks to provide authority for milk producers to support promotion, advertising, and nu- tritional and economic research of milk and dairy products through a Federal marketing order. My bill would amend the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to per- mit dairy farmers operating under Fed- eral milk marketing orders to raise funds by uniform deductions from their milk checks. In other words, dairy farmers would be using their own money to sell their own products. Similar programs are available to farmers in other segments of the agri- cultural industry. For example, there exists a program to develop and conduct advertising and sales promotion pro- grams for wool, mohair, sheep and goats under the National Wool Act of 1954. As would be the case under my bill, deductions from amounts due producers are made to finance advertising and pro- motion programs. Although there are advertising and sales promotion programs presently in effect in the dairy industry, dairy farm- ers feel that the full potentiality of these programs has, not been realized due to the fact that only a fractional part of the producers are involved in the program. This measure would establish permissive authority through which milk producers under any Federal milk marketing order could make research promotion and ad- vertising programs marketwide if ap- proved by two-thirds of the producers voting in referendum called to consider Foundations: Their Impact on Small Business: Representative WRIGHT PAT- MAN, Democrat, of Texas, chairman; Representative JAMES ROOSEVELT, Demo- crat, of California; Representative CHARLES L. WELTNER, Democrat, of Geor- gia; Representative RALPH HARVEY, Re- publican, of Indiana ; Representative H. manship of Representative WRIGHT ALLEN SMITH, Republican, of California. PATMAN, Democrat, of Texas, will con- Small Business and Government Pro- tinue its study of "Foundations: Their curement: Representative ABRAHAM J. Impact on Small Business." MULTER, Democrat, of New York, chair- Subcommittee No. 2, under the chair- man; Representative Tom STEED, Dem- manship of Representative ABRAHAM J. ocrat, of Oklahoma; Representative MULTER, Democrat, of New York, will JAMES ROOSEVELT, Democrat, of Califor= inquire into procurement practices ap- nia; Representative H. ALLEN SMITH, plied by the various agencies, and in ad- Republican, of California; Representa- dition, develop information regarding the the SILVIO O. CONTE, Republican, of Mas- amount of subcontracts and purchases sachusetts. placed with small business by the coun- Taxation: Representative Tom STEED, try's largest manufacturing organiza- Democrat, of Oklahoma, chairman; tions. Representative ABRAHAM J. MULTER, Subcommittee No. 3, under the chair- Democrat, of New York; Representative manship of Representative Tom STEED, NEAL SMITH, Democrat, of Iowa; Repre- Democrat, of Oklahoma, will seek to sentative JAMES T. BROYHILL, Republi- bring about a clarification and sim- can, of North Carolina; Representative plification of the Internal Revenue Code SILVIO O. CONTE, Republican, of Massa- relating to taxation of small business chusetts. corporations and partnerships. This Distribution Problems Affecting Small taxation subcommittee also may inquire Business: Representative JAMES RoosE- into the reasons why small business has VELT, Democrat, of California, chairman; not made greater use of the new depre- Representative JOHN C. KLUCZYNSKI, ciation guidelines. Democrat, of Illinois; Representative Subcommittee No. 4, under the chair- JOHN D. DINGELL, Democrat, of Michi- manship of Representative JAMES gan; Representative ARCH A. MOORE, JR., ROOSEVELT, Democrat, of Califorina, will Republican, of West Virginia; Represent- investigate problems associated with dual ative FRANK J. HORTON, Republican, of distribution, a practice which appears to New York. permeate more industries each day. Small Business Problems in Urban Subcommittee No. 5, under the chair- Areas: Representative JOHN C. KLU- manship of Representative JOHN C. CZYNSKI, Democrat, of Illinois, chairman; Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 March 10, 1965. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE Mr. HOLLAND. Mr. President, first let me express my very sincere thanks to the Senator from West Virginia for his kind references to me. It just so hap- pens that the problem first hit my State, because we were in heavy production in some of our most perishable agricultural industries on January 1, when this cru- sade of the Secretary of Labor, Mr. Wirtz, was begun. Let me say to the Senator from West Virginia that I well know the situation confronting the able producers of his State. As the Senator from West Vir- ginia knows, I am familiar with that area of his State. It so happens that my mother went to Florida from the State of West Virginia, and I have been visiting in the apple-producing area of his State for a good many years. I believe that one of the last experiences I had -there was in his good company when we went over to Moorefield in West Virginia. The fact is, ladder men are hard to find. These are men who operate lad- ders in the picking of fruit such as avo- cados and citrus fruits in Florida, and such as the Senator from West Virginia spoke of in his good State, and also in the State of Virginia and other States in the Appalachian region, in apple or- chards as far north as our country goes, because the State of Vermont-which is so ably represented by the distinguished senior Senator from Vermont [Mr. AIKEN], whom I see in the Chamber- also has the problem of finding good lad- der men. Over a ,period of years, we have dis- covered that although we produce a good many ladder men of our own, there are a great many whom we have brought in from the Caribbean area, and the fact remains that we have never found enough to handle our own citrus crops. That same fact applies when we take into consideration the combined needs of the various apple orchards which ma- ture their fruit at about the same time, from north Georgia up into Pennsylvania in the upper part of the belt, from there on up to the Canadian border. I know that the Senator is correct in his state- ment that periodically, from year to year, the producers have had to rely upon the supplemental ladder men, pick- ers of fruit, whom we have brought in, in the first instance, and who have re- mained in this country to pick other fruit crops as the seasons move up the seaboard. Let me say once more to the Senator from West Virginia that I appreciate very much what he said, which points up the fact what we have repeatedly brought out on the floor of the Senate, that here is a national problem- which must be solved. I agree with the Senator from West Virginia that,we should use every do- mestic workman who is willing and able to perform this kind of work: We have been required to recruit labor this year as far north as Pennsylvania, and as far. West as Missouri. We have recruited workers from both States. But when we have recruited them all, we still find a shortage in our labor force of'ap- proximately 200,000 which has to be met in the skilled fields of ladder men and canecutters and avocado and fruitpick- ers. They have to use ladders approxi- mately 60 feet in length, and we have had to go to the offshore islands to get these ladder men. I hope that the Senator from West Virginia will be successful in his efforts. I welcome his addition to our group, which is trying to get reason to prevail. It is completely false for anyone to assume that we would not prefer do- mestic labor, because of course we would; but the idea that unemployed workers, just because they are unemployed in some other part of the Nation, are them- selves skilled in the specialized tasks which are needed in areas where perish- able crops are produced, and which have to be harvested when they are ripe, is a fallacious idea on the face of it. I certainly hope that the Senator from West Virginia will continue his good efforts. I know that they will add greatly to the effectiveness of the com- bined efforts of all of us working in this field. I thank the Senator from West Vir- ginia very much for bringing his points out so well. Let me say that I have talked repeated- ly with the Senator from Virginia [Mr. BYRD] who was mentioned by the Sena- tor from West Virginia. The Senator from Virginia [Mr. BYRD] has the largest single planting of apples in West Vir- ginia. He also has a larger planting of apples, as I understand it, in his own State of Virginia. Mr. RANDOLPH. The better apples, however, come from West Virginia. Mr. HOLLAND. That is a matter which the Senator from West Virginia can debate with the Senator from Vir- ginia [Mr. BYRD]. He can argue with the Senator from Virginia about that. That is a point I would not wish to decide. I have eaten delicious apples from both States. However, he prefers not to take part in this argument, not because he is not directly and fundamentally interested, but because he is so much interested, and he has asked me that he be excused from appearing, for the very reason that he uses some hundreds of offshore pickers in the picking of his own fruit. I am glad the distinguished Senator from West Virginia has brought him in- to this picture, because he is vitally con- cerned. I do not know how he would be able to pick his fruit unless he had the use of this force. I thank the Sena- tor from West Virginia, and I encourage him in the further use of his good right arm. Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, this is another indication of the persuasive- ness of the Senator from Florida, and we are grateful for his presentation of this problem. AMENDMENT OF ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT ACT The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill (H.R. 2998) to amend the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, as amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 4563 question is, Shall it pass? The yeas and nays have been ordered, and the clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. MANSFIELD (when his name was called). On this vote I have a pair with the distinguished Senator from Louisi- ana [Mr. ELLENDER]. If he were present and voting, he would bote "nay"; if I were permitted to vote, I would vote "yea." I therefore withhold my vote. The rollcall was concluded. Mr. LONG of Louisiana. I announce that the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. BURDICK], the Senator from Louisi- ana [Mr. ELLENDER], the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. KENNEDY], the Sen- ator from Ohio [Mr. LAUSCHE], the Sena- tor from Florida [Mr. SMATHERS], and the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. WIL- LIAMS] are absent on official business. I also announce that the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. JOHNSTON], the Senator from Washington [Mr. MAGNU- SON], the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. MCINTYRE], the Senator from Min- nesota [Mr. MONDALE], and the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. RIBICOFF] are necessarily absent. I further announce that the Senator from Georgia [Mr. RUSSELL] is absent because of illness. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota [Mr. BURDICK], the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. JOHNSTON], the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. KENNEDY], the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. MONDALE], the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. RIBI- corF], the Senator from Florida [Mr. SMATHERS], and the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. WILLIAMS] would each vote "yea." Mr. KUCHEL. I announce that the Senator from Vermont [Mr. PROUTY] is necessarily absent. The Senator from Colorado [Mr. DoM- INICK] is detained on official business. On this vote, the Senator from Ver- mont [Mr. PROUTY] is paired with the Senator from Colorado [Mr. DOMINICK]. If present and voting, the Senator from Vermont would vote "yea" and the Sena- tor from Colorado would vote "nay." The result was announced-yeas 74, nays 11, as follows: [No. 36 Leg.] YEAS-74 Aiken Gore Montoya Allott Gruening Morse Anderson Harris Morton Bartlett Hart Moss Bass Hartke Mundt Bayh Hayden Muskie Bennett Hickenlooper Nelson Bible Hill Neuberger Boggs Holland Pastore Brewster Inouye Pearson Byrd, W. Va. Jackson Pell Cannon Javlts Proxmire Carlson Jordan, N.C. Randolph Case Jordan, Idaho Saltonstall Church Kennedy, N.Y. Scott Clark Kuchel Smith Cooper Long, Mo. Sparkman Cotton Long, La. Stennis Dirksen McCarthy Symington Dodd McGee Tydings Douglas McGovern Williams, Del. Ervin McNamara Yarborough Fannin Metcalf Young, N. Dak. Fong Miller Young, Ohio Fulbright Monroney Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67500446R000300160025-5 Approved For Relea 4564- CONG ,6 NAYS--11 Byrd, Va. McClellan Talmadge Curtis Murphy Thurmond Eastland Robertson '.rower Hruska Simpson NOT VOTING-15 Burdick Lausche Prouty Dominick Magnuson Ribicoff Ellender Mansfield Russell Johnston McIntyre Smathers Kennedy, Mass. Mondale Williams, N.J. So the bill (H.R. 2998) was passed. Mr. FTJLBRIGHT. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I move to lay that motion,on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. The title was amended so as to read: "An Act to amend the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, as amended, in order to continue the authorization for appro- priations." Mr. FULBRIGHT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be printed with the Senate amendment. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob- jection, it is so ordered. Mr. FULBRIGHT. I move that the Senate insist upon its amendment and request a conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and that the Chair appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate. The motion was agreed to; and the Vice President appointed Mr. FULERIGHT, Mr. SPARKMAN, Mr. MANSFIELD, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, and Mr. AIKEN conferees on the part of the Senate. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, I should like to query the majority leader about the program for tomorrow. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, in response to the question raised by the distinguished minority leader, it is an- ticipated that Senate bill 510, the Com- munity Health Services Extension bill, which has been reported from the com- mittee, and on which a report will be filed and ready, will be the business to- morrow. There may be some nomina- tions. There will be some speeches. Then it is anticipated that there will be an adjournment from tomorrow until Monday at noon. ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT UNTIL TOMORROW Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate adjourns tonight that it stand in adjournment until 12 o'clock noon tomorrow. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob- jection, it is so ordered. APPOINTMENTS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair announces that pursuant to Public Law 86, the Chair appoints Senators ERVIN, MUSKIE, and MUNDT as members of the Commission on Intergovernmental Re- lations. e 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 SIONAL RECORD -SENATE March 10, 1965 WS OF PROFESSORS ON VIETNAM ernment have the overwhelming support of the Vietnamese people. How can this be so? On the same day that Mr. McNamara said sneak attacks upon our soldiers cani}ot be prevented, an American officer on the scene in Vietnam declared that 'any of the people in the hamlet over there could have warned us that the Vietcong were around, but they did not warn us.' The weapons used against us are most often American weapons, cap- tured from or surrendered by the South Vietnamese army. Mr. President, we submit that weak field intelligence in South Viet- nam and a steady loss of workable weapons to the enemy, are deep symptoms of an un- popular cause. "Why are we fighting in Vietnam? Mr. President, we think we understand why we went into Vietnam after the French with- drew. It was because this Nation hoped to encourage the development of a popular, stable, and demorcatic government which would help to lead all southeast Asia toward lasting peace. Historical, political, social, re- ligious, and sectional factors have prevented this development. The original assumptions are no longer valid. We have become in- creasingly unwelcome everywhere in south- east Asia. Our presence seems to deepen, rather than to relieve, the bitterness and hostility of the people. It was only 10 years ago that the Vietnamese defeated a French Army of nearly half a million men. Will the same battles occur again? "Can we win in Vietnam? Mr. President, we know that our Nation has sufficient fire- power to destroy the, entire world. We also know that you do not wish- to call upon this awesome power. How can we possibly win and yet prevent a widening of this conflict? How can we win in Vietnam with less than 30,000 'advisers' when the French could not win with an army of nearly half a million fighting both north and south of the present dividing frontier? "Is it worth the cost? The French defeat in Indochina cost them 172,000 casualties. Yet, before their final bloody defeat in Dien- bienphu, the French generals and diplomats spoke with the same toughness and opti- mism, the same assurances we now hear from our leaders. "The French had overwhelming numbers and firepower but they lost in Vietnam be- cause they lacked the support of the popula- tion. Do we face the same prospect, or are there facts which the public does not know which show our situation to be clearly dif- ferent? "Mr. President, we are aware that you have secret information which cannot be shared with us. But could such information com- pletely refute the picture of events and the political insights provided to us by serious newspapermen who have been in the area for years? "All we can see is a seemingly endless series of demonstrations and riots in Saigon and Hue, of military coups, of threats and chal- lenges to the dignity of our Ambassador and our other representatives by the very men we seek to sustain in power. "We have lost the initiative in Vietnam. A few guerrillas can trigger American reactions that widen the war. The events of the past week are leading step by step along the path to war with China. "Would it not be both prudent and just to takethe initiative toward peace in Vietnam? If we are not to widen the war beyond all conscience, as reasonable men we must initi-` ate negotiations while there is still time." SUNY, Brockport: Stephen B. Bird, Eng- lish; Lucille H. Bush, administration; Ed- ward R. Cain, political science; John It. Crowley, English; Kaarlo Filppu, economics; Leslie G. Gale, sociology; James A. Rhody, English; David S. Tillson, anthropology; Dor- othy V. Waterman, administration; Ernst A. Wiener, sociology. Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I re- ceived a letter from Prof. Myron J. Gor- don, chairman of the Rochester Area Professors' Ad Hoc Committee on Viet- nam. The letter reads as follows: DEAR SENATOR MORSE: I am sure you will be Interested in the expression of opinion on the Vietnamese situation contained in the enclosed open letter to President Johnson, which appeared as an advertisement in the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle of March 7, 1965, and which was signed by 118 Rochester area professors. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your great efforts to secure a peaceful solution to the war in Vietnam. Sincerely, MYRON J. GORDON, Chairman, Rochester Area Professors' Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- sent that the open letter, which is signed by 118 professors, written to President Johnson, on the subject of Vietnam, en- titled "Peace Through Negotiations" be printed at this point in the RECORD. There being no objection, the letter was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: AN OPEN LEITTER TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON ON VIETNAM-PEACE THROUGH NEGOTIATIONS We are cheered by the news that England, France, Russia, U.N. Secretary General U Thant, and the Vatican are all pressing for an international conference to negotiate a settlement of the conflict in Vietnam, and we strongly urge you to cooperate with these efforts to achieve peace. In negotiating the terms under which we would withdraw from Vietnam we ask you to bear in mind that the people of South Vietnam have been suffering the agonies of war and civil war for over 20 years and that recent events make it clear that the only alternative to a negotiated peace is the risking of a nuclear holocaust through escalation of the war. We find considerable merit in and urge your serious consideration of the following remarks on our Vietnam policy which ap- peared in the February 16, 1965, issue of the New York Times as an advertisement signed by over 400 professors. "Each day we hear fresh news from Viet- nam, news both strange and grim. We strike by air in reprisal against North Vietnam be- cause our soldiers, sent as armed technicians and advisers to an army which cannot yet guard them well, have been attacked in their barracks in the very heart of South Viet- nam. We have widened the war-how wide will it become? "Fear of escalation of this undeclared war against North Vietnam mounts with each sudden report of renewed violence. Unless the situation is very different from what it appears to be, we have lost the political initiative in Vietnam and are attempting to substitute military actions for political ones. We face grave risks in Vietnam. Americans have faced even graver risks for good and high cause, Mr. President, but we must first understand why we must take such risks. What are our goals in Vietnam? Are they just? Can they be accomplished? Are they truly worth what they are bound to cost in dollars and human lives? "With whom are we allied in Vietnam? Are our soldiers fighting side by side with troops of a representative and legitimate national Government, or are we embroiled in defense of an unpopular minority in a fierce and costly civil war? Our representa- tives assure us that we and the Saigon Gov- Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/1Q.: CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5' March 10, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE ? - ochester Divinity School: James Co- B. Ashbrook, theology; V. E. Devadutt, the- ology; Robert Bads, religion and education; William I. Elliott, theology; George Hall, ethics, ,'William Hamilton, theology; Harmon R. Holcomb, philosophy of religion; R. Lewis Johnson, Christian education; Prentiss Pem- berton, social ethics; J. A. Sanders, Old Testament; John Charles Wynn, church education. SUNY, Geneseo: Jay Arnold, art; William R, Berry, speech; Randall Brune, English; Gilbert R. Davis, English; Henry M. Holland, Jr? political science; Barbara Hull, English; Donald O. Innis, geography; William Melvin Kelley, English; Dwight D. Khoury, foreign languages; Emanuel Mussman, English; Jer- ome J. Nadelhaft, history; Ruth Nadelhaft, English; Gifford J. Orwen, languages; Leo Rockas, English; William H. Slavick, English; Gerald, Smith, English; Marian Wozencraft, education. Monroe Community College: Thomas A. Fabian, history; Lewis Lanky, history; George McDade, English; Robert B. Nenno, mathematics and physics; Charles H. Speirs, library; Carl A. Talbot, library; Judith J. Toler, English; Barbara A. Welch, English. Rochester Institute of Technology: Ralph E. Adams, English; Leonard Barkin, art and design; Janet Bickal, English; Robert Bickal, English; Jean H. Cardinali, sociology; Sam G. Collins, geology; Robert A. Conge, art; Nor- man Coombs, history; Dane R. Gordon, phi- losophy; Frances Hamblin, philosophy; Wil- liam J. Hayles, chemistry; Ronald J. Hilton, English: John H. Humphries, social science; Robert G. Koch, English; Paul E. Le Van, psy- chology; Richard D. Lunt, history; Frederick R. Meyer, art and design; Pellegrino Nazzaro, history; Thomas J. O'Brien, English; Joseph Schafer, history; Norris M. Shea, language; Larry Wright, philosophy. St. John Fisher College: Peter E. Sheehan, theology. better to do, I wonder What the country University of Rochester: Loren Baritz, his- would be like if Barry M. Goldwater had been tory; Ralph Barocas, psychology; George elected President of the United States. Berg, radiation biology; Daniel C. Broida, Based on his campaign and his speeches, psychology; Michael Cherniavsky, history; it is a frightening thing to imagine. John B. Christopher, history; Julius J. The mind boggles when you think of it. Cohen, physiology; Emory L. Cowen, psycho- For one thing, we would probably be bomb- logy; John C. Donovan, obstetrics and gyne- ing North Vietnam now if Gold ater were in cology; John Ernest, mathematics; Joseph office. Frank, English; Alfred Geier, foreign and As I see it, this is what would have comparative literature; Albert Gold, optics; happened.. Richard }V I. Gollin, English; Myron J. Gordon, The Vietcong would have blown up an business administration; Harry E. Gove, American barracks. Using this as an excuse, physics, and astronomy; Grace Harris, re- Goldwater would immediately call for a ligion; Richard M. Harris, language and lin- strike on military bases In North Vietnam guistics; Norman I. Harway, psychiatry; and announced a new tit-for-tat policy. Michio Hatanaka, economics; Robert B. Democrats would be horrified and they would Hinman, English, Harold C. Hodge, phar- make speeches that Goldwater was "trigger macology; Robert L. Holmes, philosophy; happy" and was trying to get us into a war Frances Horler, education; Howard C. Hors- with Red China. ford, English; John B. 'Hursh, radiobiology; But Goldwater would ignore the criticism, Gilbert Kilpack, humanities; William D. and to show he meant business, he would Lotspeich, physiology; Abraham A. Lurie, continue the raids, using not only Air Force anesthesiology; Melvin R. Marks, business bombers, but also jets from the U.S. fleet. administration; Dean A. Miller, history; As time went on, the country would be Sidney Monas, history; William B. Much- shaken at the recklessness of Goldwater's more, biology; E. S. Nasset, physiology; plan, but he would explain through his Helen H. Nowlis, psychology; Vincent Now- Secretary of State that, instead of a tit-for- lis, psychology; Bernard J. Panner, pathology; tat policy, we now intended to bomb North J. C: Peskin, optics; Lawrence G. Raisz, Vietnam in order to let Hanoi know that they pharmacology; Arnold. W. Ravin, biology; could not support the Vietcong without A. William Salomone, history; Leonard S. expecting retaliation. Simon, .business administration; Dorothy Senators would get up in Congress and ,Stone, mathematics; Francis Tursi, music; can for some sort of negotiations. But Gold- Kwt Weinberg, foreign and comparative water, with his lack of restraint, would retort literature,,' Donald F. White, music; Hayden that there is nothing to negotiate and we V,. White, history; Henry Wood, foreign Ian- would only be selling out southeast Asia if guage and literature; Melvin Zax, phychology. o. we sat down at a table with the North Viet- (Institutional affilation for purposes of namese and Red China. - identification only.) This open letter is being published as an ' The Soviet Union and France would call advertisement paid for by the signers. If for a Geneva conference, but Goldwater you approve of this statement, write or wire would reject it. President Lyndon B. Johnson, White House, Instead, he would recklessly announce that Washington, D.C. he was sending in a battalion of Marines 4565 Rochester Area Professors' Ad Hoc Com- with Hawk missiles to protect our airfields. mittee on Vietnam, Post Office Box 3884, His critics would claim. he was escalating Brighton Post Office, Rochester, N.Y., Myron the war, but Goldwater would deny it. In- - 4 r o and Cambodia. To explain these desperate actions, Gold- water would have the Defense and State Departments produce a white paper justify- ing the attacks and proving that Hanoi was responsible for the revolution in South Viet- nam. He would insist we had to support the Saigon generals, no matter how shaky they were. The paper would be followed by more air strikes using South Vietnamese planes as well as American B-57's. The people who voted for Johnson would scream at their Republican friends. "I told you if Goldwater became President he'd get us into a war." But the Republicans would claim that Goldwater had no choice, that he, in fact, inherited the Vietnam problem from the Democrats and, if he didn't take a strong stand now, America would be con- sidered a paper tiger. It all seems farfetched when you read it and I may have let my imagination run away with itself, because even Barry Gold- water, had he become President, wouldn't have gone so far. But fortunately, with President Johnson at the helm, we don't even have to think about it. ADDRESS BY ASSOCIATE JUSTICE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS BEFORE AMERICAN FOREIGN LAW ASSO- CIATION Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, on Feb- ruary 1, 1965, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court William O. Douglas made a brilliant speech, as he`.always does when he speaks, before the American Foreign Law Association, of New York City. It was a speech in which he dis- cussed the role of law in foreign rela- tions as a substitute for the course of action that is being followed by the United States and many other nations in the field of foreign policy. I ask unan- imous consent that the speech be printed at this point in my remarks, to be fol- lowed by certain comments that I wish to make on it. There being no objection, the speech was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: ADDRESS BY WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, U.S. SUPREME COURT, TO THE AMERI- CAN FOREIGN LAW ASSOCIATION, INC., NEW YORK, N.Y., FEBRUARY 1, 1965 ART BUCHWALD ON "PRESIDENT GOLDWATER" Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, yester- day a very interesting but satirical article by Art Buchwald on the general subject of what would have happened if Gold- water had been elected President was published in the Washington Post. In his article Art Buchwald discusses what the Goldwater program would have been had Goldwater been elected President. It is a knowledgeable article. I always like satire. The only conclusion one could reach is that Goldwater would not have gone as far as Johnson in making war in southeast Asia. I believe more and more people in the country are be- ginning to realize that there is a marked difference between the President's speech in New Hampshire in September on the Vietnam issue and what the President has been doing since the election in mak- ing war. I ask unanimous consent that the Buchwald article be printed in the REC- ORD at this point. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: CAPITOL PUNISHMENT: PRESIDENT GOLDWATER (By Art Buchwald) I While there has been much talk over the years about peace, I suspect that some in this country are talking about a Pax Amer- icana. Certain it is that many in Russia and Peiping who speak about it are talking about a Russian or a Chinese peace, as the case may be. It is to the credit of the legal pro- fession that men of wider vision have emerged who think of the rule of law in world affairs in terms of a consensus that crosses ideologi- cal lines and provides means of settlement of disputes, big and small, between the great powers as well as those with lesser stature, The Americans we should honor include Grenville Clark of the New York Bar and Louis B. Sohn of Harvard; Robert M. Hut- chins; Arthur Larsen of Duke University; Charles S. Rhyne who gathered the great support of the American Bar Association to this project; Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the United States; Henry R. Luce of Time Approved For Release 2003/10/10 CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 4566 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 10, 1965 and Life magazines; the late Senator Estes Kefauver; Senator WAYNE MossE, of Oregon; and many others, including distinguished lawyers and jurists from those parts of Amer- lea that lie both north and south of us. There are, of course, lawyers, jurists, and public leaders in all lands on all the con- tinents who have the same basic approach. One has only to thumb through the "World Peace Through Law" (1964), the publication containing the work of the Athens World Conference, to realize what a wide basis of support the rule of law has. And the Com- munist lands must not be left out of the ac- counting, though, putting Yugoslavia to one side, lawyers and jurists from those nations are less conspicuous and less articulate. The Western World, I believe, is closer to a con- sensus in this regard than is the Communist world. The reasons for this are numerous and varied. Some of them have to do with national history; some, perhaps, with ideol- ogy. But one does not.have to look long to find significant proposals from the Commu- nist side. One instance is the proposal made January 1, 1964, by Khrushchev that an in- ternational agreement be worked out re- nouncing the use of force for the solution of territorial disputes or questions of fron- tiers, that is to say, "an undertaking to set- tle all territorial disputes exclusively by peaceful means, such as negotiation, media- tion, conciliatory procedure, and also other peaceful means at the choice of the par- ties concerned in accordance with the Char- ter of the nUited Nations." New York Times, January 4, 1964, page 2, column 8. This proposal was heralded in the Western World as a piece of propaganda, though none,, can be sure that it was. It was such a significant proposal that instead of reject- ing it out of hand, all those who really be- lieve in the rule of law should eagerly pro- pose its adoption. It might indeed be the beginning of an important bridge between East and West--a bridge leading to alterna- tives other than an awful confrontation in this nuclear age. We Americans have enjoyed a history of security and success that has made us con- scious of our strength and has given us perhaps a sense of superiority. On the other hand, Russia has repeatedly suffered massacre and destruction by invaders; and those ex- periences have made its people difficult to deal with by our standards. Yet by their standards "the illusion of American omni- potenee"-to use Denis Brogan's phrase- has made us also difficult. ri But times and attitudes change. The United Nations, which in 1945 was a Western- oriented institution of 51 nations, is now 115 strong, half of its seats being held by the nations of Africa and Asia. It has had notable achievements. Its legislative functions have been marked by the outlawing of aggressive war and a rather steadfast adherence to that prin- cipled policy. Its executive functions have been dis- tinguished by an outstanding record of achievements of the Office of Secretary Gen- eral. Its administrative functions have been heroic, as only those who have traveled the wastelands of the earth know. There--and only there--can one see the critical con- tributions that the United Nations is making to solutions of the problems of the under- developed nations. Its judicial functions have been badly crippled by our own Connally amendment (61 Stat. 1218) which other countries copied. The crippling effect is in that part of the proviso which excludes from the Court's ju- risdiction "disputes with regard to matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States of America as determined by the United States of America." As Senator MORSE said in the debate on the Connally amendment, "the rule of law cannot be established if the various States reserve to themselves the right to decide what the law Is." (92 CONGRESSIONAL REC- ORD, pt. 8, p. 10684.) And he added, "It is in effect, a political veto on questions of a judicial character * * *. It therefore in- volves the question of our moral leadership in the world." And see Sohn, "International Tribunals: Past, Present, and Future," 46 A.B.A.J. 23, 25. Under the principle of reciprocity which the Court enforces, the "political veto" works both ways: a nation that does not accept compulsory jurisdiction can, when sued, re- fuse to submit; a state which that nation wants to sue can claim reciprocal protection by invoking the plaintiff nation's reservation, even though It has made no such reservation itself. See Case of Certain Norwegian Loans, 1957 ICJ; page 9. The International Court of Justice, which should be one of the busiest tribunals in the world In light of the mounting problems among nations, is only nominally active, as the following statistics show: Judgments Advisory Cases on rendered opinions docket 19M-------- 2 1 4 1961------- 1 -------------- 4 1062-------- 1 1 3 1963----- 2 We should be willing to lead the way in making acceptance of the Court uncondi- tional. That would mark the beginning of a new cooperative society at the world level. The Court is an honored institution. The statute of the Court (15 UNIO does., 1945, pp. 355-364) has safeguards designed to in- sure the Independence of the judges. They are not mere nominees of the governments of their countries. They are nominated by national groups of jurists (art. 4). No national group may nominate more than four persons, and of these four not more than two shall be of its nationality (art. 5). From this list the General Assembly and the Se- curity Council proceed independently to elect the judges (art. 8). Those who obtain an absolute majority of votes both in the Gen- eral Assembly and in the Security Council are elected (art. 10). No member of the Court may exercise any political or administrative function or en- gage in any other occupation of a profes- sional nature (art. 16). Nor may be act as agent, counsel, or advocate in any case, nor take part in any decision in which he has previously participated as agent or ad- vocate or as member of any other court or commission (art. 17). The fact that a judge is of the same na- tionality as one of the parties does not result in his disqualification (art. 31). Indeed, If the membership of the Court includes no judge of the nationality of one or more of the parties, the party who wants national rep- resentation has a right to select an ad hoc judge (art. 31). - These latter provisions have often been criticized. But in this stage of development of the world community, it probably would be impossible to get a consensus that would disqualify a judge of the nationality of One or more of the parties. "* * * The notion of `national arbitrators' is deeply rooted In the practice of international arbitration, and indeed the facility to appoint them Is prob- ably a sine qua non for the success of the whole Idea. The important thing for Insur- in= third-party judgment is not that national arbitrators or judges should disappear, but that the balance In the tribunal should be held by neutral judges. This is the concep- tion which has been incorporated In the statute, for in practice the decision is not likely to be influenced by the views of the judges having the nationality bT-tile parties who, in the nature of things, tend to cancel each other out." Rosenne, ("The World Court" (1962),p.64.) One guarantee of impartiality exists in the principle that, while Ordinarily the President of the Court can by article 55 of the statute break a tie, he is denied that right when his state is a party, since the rules of the Court provide that he must "abstain from exercising his functions as President In re- spect of that case" (art. 13, Yearbook 1950- 51, p. 238). He then hands over his duties to the Vice President or to the next senior qualified judge. (Rosenne, op. cit. supra, p. 63.) Instances can be produced where mem- bers of the Court took a favorable attitude toward the contentions and interests of their own states or of alined states. Yet even judges from nations in the Communist bloc do not produce votes that have a correspond- ing solidarity. Some regular judges have decided against their countries in important cases, although the ad hoc judges "display a clear tendency to find in favor of their countries." Rosenne, op. cit. supra, pp. 65- 66. The Court is a human Institution, and no human institution is perfect. Overall, the regular judges of the Court have evinced a high degree of responsibility to the world community which appointed them, and have a - good record of objectivity. Surely the Court has shown itself worthy of the con- fidence of those nations which have accepted Its jurisdiction without reservation. nr If we did not have the United Nations, we would have to create it. For it is indis- pensable as a meeting place and as a clear- inghouse for critical international business. No Western club, no Communist-bloc club, no Afro-Asian club could take its place, as anyspecial interest group has too parochial a view for world problems. At the same time we should be careful not to overwork the United Nations or put it undertoo great a strain. It represents contradictory forces and when the Peiping regime is admitted, as it must be, those stresses will Increase. Ac- commodation between these contradictory forces Is necessary if we are to avoid the nuclear holocaust. Yet the United Nations cannot be- counted as the cure-all. Other ways and means of accommodation between those contradictory forces must also be found. We must seek a wide range of solutions for our clashes and conflicts. The years ; 1963 and- 1964 produced four landmarks In the effort to substitute a modi- cum of law for the arms race and the risk of war. The treaty power was used to produce the nuclear test ban agreement. 119631 2 U.S.T. & OT A. 1313. The executive agreement was used to establish the so-called hot line between the Kremlin and the White House. 11963] 1 U.S T. & O.I.A. 895. The United States and Soviet Russia in- dicated they would prevent the spread of the armaments race to outer space, pro- nouncements followed by a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations call- ing upon all nations not to station in outer space "any object carrying nuclear weapons or other kinds of weapons of mass destruc- tion." UN. Resolution No. 1884 (XVIII), October 17, 1963. The President on April 20, 1964, an- nounced, simultaneously with the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Soviet Russia, a cutback in the production of weapons- grade - fissionable material. (See Fisher, Arms Control & Disarmament in Interna- tional Law, 50 Va. L. Rev. 1200, 1205 (1964).) A critic could show how feeble by domestic standards these international safeguards are. Yet fragile as they may be, they mark Im- portant beginnings; they are precedents; and Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 March 10, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE without regard to the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, temporary and intermittent services to the same extent as is authorized for the departments by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946, but at rates not exceeding $75 per diem for individuals. ,._ FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 5. It shall be the function of the Com- mission to formulate and carry out programs for purposes of exploration and development of the marine resources of the Continental Shelf and waters above the Continental Shelf. Such programs shall include but shall not be limited to the following: (1) Marine exploration, expeditions, and surveys necessary to describe the topography and to identify, locate, and economically de- velop physical, chemical, geological, and bio- .logical resources of the Continental Shelf; (2) Cooperative expeditions for these pur- poses with other Federal agencies having missions on the Continental Shelf; (3) Development of an engineering capa- bility that will permit exploration and de- velopment of the Continental Shelf and su- perjacent waters; (4) Fostering participation in marine ex- ploration and economic development by sci- entific institutions and industry, through grants, loans, and cost-sharing arrange- ments; and (5) Providing for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of informa- tion concerning marine discoveries, develop- ment of instrumentation, equipment and fa- cilities, and other information as the Com- mission may deem appropriate. POWERS OF COMMISSION SEC. 6. In carrying out its functions under section 6, the Commission is authorized- (1) to enter into agreements with other Government agencies for the carrying out by such agencies of any activities authorized by this Act, and for the reimbursement from appropriations made pursuant to section 8 (a) of expenses incurred by such agencies in parrying out such activities; (2) to enter into agreements with public or private scientific institutions, or with pri- vate enterprises or individuals, for the carry- ing out of any activities authorized by this Act, and for the payment from appropriations made pursuant to section 8(a) of all or any portion of the expenses' incurred by such institutions, enterprises, or individuals in carrying out such activities; and (3) to make loans, grants, or cost sharing arrangements from the fund established under section 7 to public or private scientific institutions, or to business enterprises or individuals for the purpose of enabling them to carry out activities to further the pro- grams of the Commission. MARINE EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT FUND SEC. 7. There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury a Marine Exploration and Development Fund which shall be avail- able to the, Commission for making loans, grants or cost sharing arrangement author- ized by section 6(3). The fund shall consist of amounts. appropriated thereto pursuant to section 8 together with amounts received as repayments of principal and payments of interest on such loans. In establishing terms for loans, grants or cost sharing arrange- ments made from such fund, the Commission shall give due weight to the benefits inur- ingto the Government from the activities carried out with the proceeds of such loans. SEC. 8.(a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $50,000,000 for any fiscal year, as may be necessary to enable the Commission to carry out its functions under this Act. (b) In addition to appropriations author- ized by subsection (a), there is hereby au- thorized to be appropriated to the fund es- tablished by section 7 the sum Of $100,000,000 to remain available until expended. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION SEC. 9. The Commission shall make avail- able to other interested Government agencies and, to the extent consistent with national security, to public and private institutions, business enterprises, and individuals any in- formation obtained by the Commission in carrying out its functions under this Act. REPORTS TO CONGRESS SEC. 10. The Commission shall transmit to the Congress, at the beginning of each regu- lar session of the Congress, an annual report of its actvities under this Act, together with such legislative recommendations as it may deem desirable. CLEVELAND URGES END TO RESID- UAL OIL IMPORT CONTROLS (Mr. CLEVELAND (at the request of Mr. SKu5ITZ) was granted permission to extend his remarks at this point In the RECORD and to include extraneous matter.) Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Speaker, once again I rise to renew my plea that quotas on residual oil be withdrawn and that the plan be canceled. This program is harmful to the national defense; it Is damaging to our Latin American trade program and to the Alliance for Prog- ress; it places a heavy financial burden on the consumers of fuel in New Eng- land; and it has no relation to the eco- nomic problems of our coal-producing areas. The coal industry today is vigorous and healthy, as a matter of fact, with even brighter prospects ahead. The resi- ual oil quotas could be discarded com- pletely without affecting the coal areas. Yet, it is these areas, representing power- ful economic and political blocs, that are responsible for the continued main- tenance of the quotas. APPALACHIA BONANZA These same areas are about to win a huge Federal subsidy in the form of the Appalachian bill. Let me say, that we in New England are most sympathetic with the economic problems of Appala- chia. We, too, are part of the Appala- chian chain and we know what it is like to lose whole industries on which the eco- nomic life of our communities depends. We are fighting back and making a good fight. We do not ask the rest of the country for special favors. But we do ask for terms of fair competition. While our taxes will be taken to help finance this tremendous Appalachian program for 11 States, we are also paying additional tribute to the coal States in the form of high fuel costs, unnecessarily imposed through the residual oil quota system. New Englanders are being asked to support the Appalachia program, yet at the same time, we are being forced to endure hardship through the discrimina- tory fuel policy imposed largely by the power of the Appalachian coal States. FAI$PLAY We seek only fairness and what we seek is also in the national interest. The maintenance of residual oil controls cannot be justified in terms of the na- tional security. Two years ago, the Of- fice of Emergency Planning declared in a report to the President that- A careful and meaningful relaxation of controls on imports of residual fuel oil Is 4613 consistent with the national security and the attainment of Western Hemispheric objec- tives, which contribute to the national secur- ity. From a foreign policy standpoint, this restrictive program is hurting us in Latin America, where exporters, restricted in their ability to sell us residual fuel oil and other materials, are buying more and more from other countries when they could be buying from us. This adds to the great problems of administering the Alliance for Progress and further complicates our balance-of-payments problems. - - RESENT EXACTION OF TRIBUTE We in New England are more than ready, as we have been always, to pay our share of costs for the national wel- fare but we deeply resent and deplore this silent exaction of tribute to special interests. We must remember that the residual oil quota system was put into effect in 1959 for the main purpose of protecting the domestic oil industry. If that is still a major reason for continuing the pro- gram, it is a wholly defenseless one. It is granted that 15 or 20 years ago, when 20 percent of all domestic refined crude oil reached the market as residual oil, imports represented an Important problem for the oil industry. But this is no longer so. Today, less than 4 per- cent of our refineries' output is residual. Eventually this will diminish even fur- ther. Many refineries today in fact turn out no residual oil at all. WOULD HELP OIL INDUSTRY It seems to me that the domestic oil industry, which has problems of over- supply for other kinds of fuel, and which depends heavily on the densely populated Eastern Seaboard areas where imported residual fuel is a necessity, would help itself by dropping its opposition to end- ing the quota system. The domestic oil industry can be as- sured that New England's plea for relief from quotas is founded solely on her need for fuel oil. We in New England would not sanction any modification of the import program which would allow imports of residual oil for any other pur- pose than as fuel. I strongly urge that the quota- system on residual oil be ended forthwith and, as a sampling of editorial opinion being expressed throughout New England, I offer the following editorials at this point in the RECORD: [From the Providence (R.I.), Bulletin, Dec. 26, 1964] THE CONTROLS ON RESIDUAL OIL HURT NEW ENGLAND President Johnson has it in his power to give New England the happiest of happy New Year's greetings by ordering the immediate lifting of controls on the importing of re- sidual fuel oil, a major cost factor in our industrial economy. The existing controls are controls without real purpose. The controls exist, of course, because of the pressures of competing fuel interests. But domestic residual production is declin- ing, and East Coast consumers now depend on imports for more than 75 percent of their requirements. The coal industry is vigorous and is competing hard in the East Coast boiler fuels market. What is the purpose of continuing con- trols that have become meaningless? Why must New England economy pay a penalty Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67BO,0446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 10, 1965 in order to help a business over which it has no control? What special interest group has enough influence to keep this ridiculous N.ew England is not asking Mr. Johnson for a northeast Appalachia program. New England is not asking Washington to set up loans and grants to help our industries. Our industries can take care of themselves if they are given wider freedom to com- pete-and fuel costs are a big element of competition. All New England wants is assurance of a continuing and expanding supply of residual fuel oil at competitive prices. In short, all New England wants is a fair chance to oper- ate in a genuinely competitive market-and removing the residual oil import controls will help us to realize that goal. New England's stake in Mr. Johnson's de- cision amounts to well over $25 million annually through higher electric costs, apartment rents, school costs and taxes. There is no way to estimate how many jobs don't exist because industries have avoided New England because of high fuel costs. The current fuel year ends March 31, and it would be a tremendous holiday present to New England If Mr. Johnson acted to kill the controls well before then. If the con- trols persist, relief will be just as far away as ever-and perhaps it may be a hopeless business for all practical purposes. It would be ironic if the continuance of controls helped to produce a situation in which Mr. Johnson would have to be asked for help in the Appalachia style. We don't begrudge Appalachia any real help it can get, but we would rather help ourselves- if we get that chance to act. New England businessmen dependent on competitive fuel costs and taxpayers who will, be asked to help Appalachia ought to get busy In the next few weeks and let the White House know that New England would like a decision on residual fuel imports based on demands of the economy and not on pressures of special interests. [From the Taunton (Mass.) Gazette, Dec. 28, 1964] THROW Us A "HOME RUN HALL," MR. PRESI- DENT President Johnson's one-day campaign tour of New England paidoff handsomely for him with New England's solid "We Want John- son" vote. On more than one occasion he was heard to say, "now it's New England's turn at bat." Mr. President, New England is indeed at bat now and you are the pitcher. You could easily throw us the "home run ball" by delivering us from the economic strangulation of residual fuel oil import quotas. The choice is yours and it you lay aside the political considerations of compet- ing interests, the choice is obvious. Domes- tic residual production is declining and east coast consumers now depend on Imports for over 75 percent of their requirements. The coal industry is vigorous and rebound- ing. Since 1962 it has captured 54 percent of the market growth of the vast east coast boiler fuel market. It's prospects' for the future are bright. These two facts alone have made residual restrictions "controls without a purpose." Show the people of New England, Mr. President, that you are a mart whose decisions are based on facts and what's good for the country and not on poli- tical expediency or the consideration of spe- cial interest groups. Direct that residual controls be lifted immediately and return to east coast consumers with growing fuel needs the assurance of a continuing and expanding supply at competitive price. [From the Wakefield (Mass.) Item, Feb. 3, 1965] COSTLY TO NEW ENGLAND The matter of residual fuel oil imports and the restrictions against them Is being heard of again, and before long the President n?ust make a decision about retaining or dropping the controls. Continuing them Will be continuing a strong injustice to New England. Residual oil Is what is left after the re- fining process. This type of oil will not burn in home burners, but it can be used in the kinds of burners that heat public buildings and other places. The present restrictions against importing this kind of fuel affect an estimated 50 million consumers On the east coast. In New England, where obtaining heating fuel is expensive, the burden caused by inability to get the residual oils is consid- erable. The coal industry has fought to keep the controls on, with the unsubstantiated plea that consumption of coal would be cut by increased use of residual oil. The fact is that New England is being made to pay a high price for heating fuels because it is denied the residual oil. There is little evi- dence that the coal industry benefits from this reality. There is no proper reason why New Eng- land must be made to suffer this inequity. There is no proper reason why the control should be continued. New England's rep- resentatives are working hard toward the, re- moval of the restrictions. An open, compe- titive policy of imports would be a needed aid to the area. The President's removal of the costly re- strictions is in the interests of New England's welfare and if he makes any pretense of con- cern for this section of the country, he will remove them. From the Banger (Maine) News, Feb. 8, 1965] A MOST PECULIAR SITUATION Many strange things happen in Washing- ton but none stranger than an advertise- ment recently placed in the Washington Post. It was in the form of an open letter, sponsored by the New England Governors' Conference, pleading with President Johnson to lift the quotas on residual all imports- which are costing the region an extra $80 million annually for f7-,el. We give the Governors credit for trying, along with the New England Council and others who supported the plea. But why should it be necessary to spend money on an advertisement In a Washington newspaper to reach the President in hope of correcting an. obvious and longstanding injustice? Surely the Democrats, if not the Repub- licans, of the New England delegation in Congress have access to the White House. Maine's Senator EDMVIUND S. MussuE sup- sposedly enjoys high favor with the admin- istration. He was among those mentioned as, President Johnson's possible choice as a running mate. The President himself came to this region during the election campaign and assured listeners that it was now New England's "turn at bat." Well, lifting the burdensome oil import quotas wouldn't be much of a turn at bat. But it would help-some $80 million worth, and at no cost to U.S. taxpayers. All that's required is a swift scrawl of the President's pen. We hope ,'the advertisement brings results, bat it sho4ldn't be necesary to go to such extremes catch the President's attention. What has append to communications be- tween the hate House and New England's Der o/rl v SENATOR COTTON'S CONCISE STATEMENT OF OUR DILEMMA IN VIETNAM (Mr. CLEVELAND (at the request of Mr. SKUBI'z) was granted permission to extend his remarks at this point in the RECORD and to include extraneous mat- ter.) Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Speaker, the distinguished senior Senator from New Hampshire, the Honorable NORRIS COT- TON, devotes his most recent regular re- port to his constituents to a discussion of the dilemma in Vietnam. As the Sen- ator also points out, public officials labor under great difficulties in attempting to discuss the Vietnamese situation partly because of limited information and partly because the situation changes so fast that commentary is apt to be out of date by the time it is published. Under unanimous consent, I offer Senator COTTON'S analysis for the REC- ORD. It is as concise, clear-cut, and per- ceptive a presentation I have yet seen on the troublesome problems besetting us in Vietnam : STATEMENT BY SENATOR COTTON I had hoped I would not have to write about Vietnam-partly because a week must elapse between my writing and your reading my report, and Vietnam can change over- night. My main reason, however, sterns from Ed Murrow's famous advice, "When you are unsure of your facts, admit it. When you have no solution to offer, don't pre- tend you have." That may go for commen- tators, but people expect their Senator to have his facts and an opinion-and in as ex- plosive a situation as Vietnam, you can't blame them. I shall give you my present judgment based on what I have been able to glean from testimony before committees and briefings by the President and the Defense and State Departments. At best, it's a choice between evils. First, why are we in Vietnam? The Geneva Accords of 1954 ended French control, leaving Vietnam free but prostrate and virtually bankrupt. President Eisen- hower offered financial assistance, and with our economic aid, South Vietnam made amazing progress. The Communists, find- ing it was not going to collapse and fall into their hands, started guerrilla warfare. Un- able to stem the tide, President Diem ap- pealed to us for military help, and President Kennedy gave it. President Johnson con- tinued it, and Congress. by appropriations and later by resolution, approved. Should we now get out of Vietnam or stay in? Those who contend we should get out ad- vance the following reasons: (1) hazards of fighting a war in the jungles of Asia 8,000 miles from home; (2) failure, thus far, of our allies, even those in the direct path of the Communists, to join us with anything more than token assistance; (3) lack of stable government in South Vietnam. But we must consider what will happen if we withdraw: (1) South Vietnam would be overrun by the Communists. Its valiant fighters and a million refugees that have fled there for protection would be ruthlessly liquidated. (2) Our failure to live up to commitments made by three Presidents and the Congress would shatter worldwide con- fidence in us and topple anti-Communist parties everywhere. (3) Nations of south- east Asia would go down like a row of dom- inoes before the onward rush of communism. Japan and the Philippines might be forced to reach an accord with Red China. All this adds up to the conclusion that knuckling to the invaders in Vietnam is the surest path to ultimate war. In the words of Eisenhower: "Weakness invites aggres- sion-strength stops It." Admittedly, the glaring weakness is the lack of stable government in South Vietnam. All experts agree that the Vietnamese are the toughest fighters in southeast Asia, eager to defend their freedom. That's why Viet- Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 March 10, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 4615 nam was selected as the place to make a ogy-Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. v. to an arbitration agreement of a kind stand. But no army can fight without a USW, 363 U.S. 574; USW v. American they had never intended to make. head, and it take,g a strong hand to stamp Mfg Co., 363 U.S. 564; and USW v. En- The sensitive balancing of rights and out Communist infiltration. Nor can our terprise Wheel & Car Car allies be wholly blamed for not responding, p., 363 U.S. duties included in those collective agree- There has been no continuing government 593-from the lead case it the group, ments was summarily unbalanced by the to ask them-to receive; assign, and quarter the decisions upset and reverse the Court's action. No one will ever know them. This has delayed for weeks 2,000 standard rule of arbitrability. This the degree of damage to union-manage- t rained South Koreans who. have- finally ar- standard rule, recognizing that arbitra- ment relations which will flow from this tra rived. ake ren e inntr overth rows D em, juour st as yeuies ars tion is a deliberately chosen alternative upset. I believe that it is highly desir- ago we forced the fall of Chiang Kai-shek to judicial litigation, permits judicial en- able for Congress to undo that damage and lost, 400 million Chinese., it's an error forcemeat of a demand to arbitrate only now. hard to rectify. If we take a hand in re- where the duty to arbitrate the particu- Second, I believe that the Warrior and storing a strong government, we invite the lax demand is clear. Gulf rule represents a basic misconstrue- charge of imperialism, but that is what we In the trilogy decisions, the Court held tion and distortion of congressional in- may have to do or pay a terrible price in that arbitration demands, under collec- tent and constitutes a prime example of A Ict s are noblyed schoo a en r learn that fsat- tive bargaining agreements, must be en- judicial legislation. ways mocracy and respond only to absolute power forced by the courts unless the demands The keystone of the questionable arch at. the top. The suggestion that we can are specifically excluded from arbitra- of logic by which the Court imputes con- take time out in this emergency to educate tion by language in the agreement. gressional intent to create an "auto- them in the elect}ve process is absurd. It Despite the strong protests against the matic" rule of arbitrability in labor dis- would take a generation. Warrior and Gulf doctrine which im- putes is the Court's prior PrO the Johnson. h, howe veris I back the policyof mediately arose from lawyers, labor re- Lincoln Mills trilogy, 353 U.S.i448 (1in t 957). to negotiate aggressioght co In ref si g lations experts, and even arbitrators- In that earlier trilogy, the Court held would be takers as a sign of weakness. He Levitt, "The Supreme Court and Ar- that section 301 (a) of the Taft-Hartley is right in refraining from any overt act to bitrati-on," NYU 14th Annual Conference Act authorizes as follows: widen the war-6f that we must not be gull- On Labor, 1961, page 217 and the fol- Federal courts to fashion a body of Fed- ty. He is right in making retaliation swift lowing; Hays, "The Supreme Court and eral law for the enforcement of * * * Gol- and sure each time we are. attaclied-there Labor Law," 60 Columbia Law Review, lective-bargaining agreements and includes must not be another Korea with Americans 901, November 1960, note 46, Cornell within that Federal law specific performance st subjected e at t the sbbom Bing and not allowed to Law Quarterly Review, page 336 and the of promises to arbitrate grievances under col- following, winter, 1961; Wallen, "Re- lective-bargaining agreements. This report offers no inspired solutions. It will not cent Supreme Court Decisions on Arbi- pleasing g"all out" either demand, that t we go * * * * * or to those those that who tration-An Arbitrator's View," 63 West We conclude that the substantive law to demand we"get out." To be sure, our pres- Virginia Law Review, 295, 1961; Kagel, apply In suits under section 301(a) is Fed- ent course is a "staying" process, repugnant "Recent Supreme Court Decisions and eral law which the courts must fashion from to American temperament and tradition. the Arbitration Process," Proceedings of the policy of our national labor laws. (Jus- But it's the best of bad alternatives. the 14th Annual Meeting, National demonstrating Frankfurter's dissent aft cogently demonstrating that Congress had ad not the Academy of Arbitrators, 1961, page 1. slightest intent to assign this legislative AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS See also, the report at pages A2 to A4 of function to the Court, sharply questions the BNA's Daily Labor Report, reporting the constitutional right of the Court to assume The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. February 8, 1963, meeting of the Nation- such a function. The questionable right Rousri). Under previous order of the al Academy of Arbitrators-the Supreme of the Court to create a "labor-contract House the.gentleman from New York Court has continued to apply, and even code" underscores the importance of con -conress [Mr, GOODELL] is recognized for 30 min- expand, this radical new rule. For in- d ve opment.j tonal overseeing of the code's ute stance, in March of this year, the Court Mr. GOQ?DELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in, Wiley & Sons v. Livingston, 376 U.S. Justice Frankfurter sharply chided his today to discuss a matter of great ur- 543, ruled that even the procedural pre- colleagues for this decision, which, he gency. My comments will be somewhat conditions to arbitration, such as con- said, attributed to Congress "an occult technical but I hope you will bear with tractual time limits, must be decided by intent." And Law School Professor and me, becaiuse I believe that the importance the arbitrator, and not the court. Labor Law Expert Charles Gregory said of_ this matter will become obvious as I The labor law section of the American of the decision: proceed. Bar Association has labeled this strange it is enough to make the legal profession The world of , American Industrial re- new doctrine "turnstile arbitration," and hold onto their hats. lations Is obviously an important one. has, formally recommended that Con- In the Warrior cases, the Court But it is also a delicate and sensitive gress reverse it by enactment of a modi- fashioned its arbitrability rule by deter- one.. 'Every week, across the country, fication to section 301 of the Labor-Man- mining that: employers, and unions are working out agement Relations Act of 1947. their codesof relationship-a code which I fully agree with the concern of the du ge prl nsta Federal thro is to promote in each case is represented by a collet- American Bar Association that these rev- tine bargaining afire m through the c actor tive bargaining agreement. vement. A major factor olutionary decisions must be reversed. in n achieving industrial peace is the inclusion And the negotiations which produce Accordingly, I am today introducing a of a provision for arbitration of grievances those agreements rest upon a complex of bill to accomplish that purpose. This in the collective bargaining agreement. understandings and assumptions which, legislation will serve the public interest Complete effectuation of the Federal policy although they do not enter into the for the following reasons: is achieved when the agreement contains agreements, ,very considerably affect the First, the Court's decisions represent both an arbitration provision for all naObviou re-of the agreements nterevend, an unfair reversal of one of the basic oflstr k g and an absolute p es, the arbitration agreementrohibition being Y s principles upon which existing and fu- the "quid pro quo" for the agreement not with these basic, underlying guideposts ture collective agreements are reached- to strike. will necessarily shake, and maybe even the rule that the arbitration clause in a shatter, the sensitive framework of rela- contract will be subject to normal, care- rrior c in Lies th Cous nob my tionships built into the collective. agree- ful, judicial construction. Warrior cases does the Court submit any ment. Hundreds, if not thousands, of collec- proof of the intent of Congress to "favor" A 1,96Q trig of decisions of the U.S. tive agreements across the land-with grievance arbitration other than (a) this Supreme Court relating to labor arbitra- arbitration clauses negotiated under the To b vague To be sure, is In Lincoln Mills: a tion represents just that kind of dan- umbrella of that rule-were substantial- reflected in , there the er hearings, reports, medley an ideas e- d . unjustified-interference ly modified by the Warrior and Gulf de- bates Yet, to, r the entire ator on the act. Yet, to repeat, the with the collective bargaining process. titian. The parties to those agreements tenor of the history indicates that the agree- Known as the Warrior & Gulf tril- awoke one day to find themselves party ment to arbitrate grievance disputes was Approved For Release 2003/1A/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 -? 4616 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 10, 1965 considered as quid pro quo of a no-strike praise of arbitration one might hear in the peered entirely when it tasted an arbitration agreement? speeches at a dinner in honor of some pop- clause. It protested it was too unschooled And (b) the following statement in the ular arbitrator, or at a public function of an to interpret an agreement, and too shy to ask arbitration group. It suggests only a vague the arbitrator for an explanation, of his majority opinion in the American Manu- resemblance to the hard, practical, day-to- decision. facturing Co.: day processes of hearing and determining This year the Court in March was wise Section 203(d) of the Labor Management grievances (60 Columbia Law Review at and strong enough to write into an agree- Relations Act, 1947, 61 Stat. 154, 29 U.S.C 930). ment a no-strike clause, but in June was 173(d) states: "Final adjustments by a Third, the decisions contain within helpless to require that ones written by the method agreed upon by the parties is hereby parties be obeyed. declared to be the desirable method for set- themselves the seeds of labor-manage- The ability to change sides can, as Alice tlement of grievance disputes arising over meat conflict. As contracts terminate, discovered, be quite useful if the Court knows the application or interpretation of an exist- or otherwise become open for bargaining, why and when it needs to perform different ing collective-bargaining agreement * * *." management will inevitably seek to re- functions and has path or purpose. But in That policy can be effectuated only If the Move the arbitration clauses whose na- the cases this year, the Court seemed to - means chosen by the parties for settlement ture has been so abruptly changed by the wander through random doors to new adven tuxes. of their differences under a collective-bar- courts. Unions, attempting to hold onto gaining agreement is given full play. their newly found turnstile arbitration, In the light of all the above, I think legislative history of the Taft-Hartley Act-an exhaustive legislative history of section 301 relating to this subject is devastatingly appended to Justice Frank- furter's dissent in Lincoln Mills. In any event, statements (a) and (b) even if valid, do not in any way lend support to the Court's creation of this startling new doctrine of "automatic arbitra- bility" upon the alleged ground that it reflects congressional intent. Indeed, the language of section 203(d), quoted above, could more logically be construed as reflecting congressional intent that the courts should carefully scrutinize "the method of final adjustment agreed upon by the parties," in order not to misapply their agreement. Such an in- terpretation would appear to be con- firmed by the following quotation from a House conference report which is im- portantly highlighted by Justice Douglas in Lincoln Mills: Once parties have made a collective-bar- gaining contract, the enforcement of that contract should be left to the usual processes of the law. will resist. TIIe reauiL: t4 ?uuou totally unnecessary cause of strikes, wonderland through which the Court picketing, and all the animosity and ill has been wandering and to seek now to will thereby engendered. restore sanity and order. My conclusion that these decisions will Early enactment of the bill which I am lead to industrial strife is supported by introducing today represents a highly ap- many commentators. For example: propriate first step in this endeavor. The Court's opinion is motivated by the professed intention to promote industrial GOLD KEY AWARDED TO MISS peace. The instant decision, however, com- pels management, when existing contracts MARY E. SWITZER, COMMIS- come up for renegotiation, to specifically ex- SIONER OF VOCATIONAL REHA- elude from arbitration those practices con- sidered sidered to be legitimate managerial rights. Should this meet with bitter union opposi- (Mr. FOGARTY (at the request of Mr. tion, the result may be just the open indus- trial STEPHENS) was granted permission to CX-avoid. (ol. 48, Cornell w6, oe eLaw court Quais seeking rterly rly at at p. to 346..) ) tend his remarks at this point in the (V What are the practical implications of the RECORD and to include extraneous Supreme Court's decisions for collective bar- matter.) gaining? Those in management who panic Mr. FOGARTY. Mr. Speaker, there is may rush in to insist on tightening the so- always much satisfaction in seeing out- called standard arbitration clauses to sharply standing and devoted Career public ser- delimit arbitration. They are unionnmeet vants recognized for what they are doing w tth sharp resistance from union nee e .to advance the welfare of the American th a supremely sensitive areas such as sub- contracting and the like. (Wallen 63, W. Va. Law Review at p. 299.) The newly announced Douglas doctrine shatters precedent. Arbitration has received Perhaps in recognition of the meager the alchemist's transmutation. Except for and "clairvoyant" nature of this estimate matters expressly excluded, all arbitration is of congressional Intent, the Court's opin- now open end regardless of union-manage- ion sought to justify this "entirely new ment intent; and the right of judicial re- and strange doctrine" by a discursive, view, for all practical purposes, is a thing of the past. These decisions are so weighted internally inconsistent discussion of the in labor's favor that two results appear in- nature of labor arbitration, leading to evitable: (1) Attempts to modify long-exist- the highly debatable conclusion that that tag contract language to avoid the dangers nature warrants ahands-ofP approach on posed n trife, cause (2) a spate of judicial op labor-manage- ment e c the part Of the Courts. distinguishing the instant cases will follow Professor, now Court of Appeals Judge, in an effort to restore a semblance of reality been given previously to only a small Paul Hays cogently noted the lack of to the arbitral process. (Cornell L. Rev., vol. number of outstanding nonphysicians. logic , and correctness in the trilogy, 46 at p. 349.) Including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bernard saying: I think no one has better expressed the M. Baruch, Sister Elizabeth Kenny, It is with the reasoning of the opinions recent strange convolutions of the Su- Henry F. Kettering, Basil O'Connor, and and with their aura that one takes issue. Eugene J. Taylor. Perhaps it would be fair to say that the preme Court in this area of the collective In making the award, this professional Court's view of labor arbitration, as expressed agreement than Prof. Clyde Summers, group quite properly noted the results in these opinions, is romantic rather than of Yale Law School. In his report to leadership in terms of realistic and rational. The picture given of the American Bar Association Labor o of the Miss substantial Switfer's growth in services m of the arbitration process sounds more like the Law Section in 1962, Professor Summers disabled through the Federal-State pro- The "quid pro quo" concept attributed by the majority opinion to Congress is actually the Court's own invention. Most Congress- men are sufficiently familiar with collective bargaining to know that the only considera- tion flowing to an employer in the usual collective bargaining agreement is the no- strike clause. It is simply a distortion of fact to narrow the employer's quid, from the entire basket of promises he makes, to the meager confines of the arbitration clause a clause which many labor contracts do not contain. The distortion thus accomplished is tantamount to a holding that the monthly cash rental for a nine-ropm house is the quid pro quo for the use of the dining room. The Court's main concern this term nas progress in research into better metnoas been with exploring the wonderland of sec- of rehabilitating the disabled, and the iila Intent, 301. Fent, , th the white rabbit of expanded national training program for through the doorway of Justices State have court peeked eked producing more professional workers in diction, nearly drowned in their own tears this field. over Norris-La Guardia; and like an Alice, the Because the sort of recognition given Court, in this wonderland, has first closed by such a Gold Key Award gives visible up and then opened up, like a telescope, evidence of the exceptional performance sze, or knowing how to size become should the pecorrect by career Government leaders such as size, o what the correct susho shot be. Miss Switzer, I should like to insert at -Mills In Lincolapabl of the fashioning a up body like of a this point in the RECORD the text of the giant, Federal now law for the enforcement of collec- citation from the December 1964 issue of Federal bargaining agreements. But in the the Archives of Physical Medicine and Steelworkers' cases the Court nearly disap- Rehabilitation: people. Recently a leading medical journal, the Archives of Physical Medi- cine and Rehabilitation, announced the conferring of the Gold Key Award on Miss Mary E. Switzer, Commissioner of Vocational Rehabilitation, in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, for her long and distinguished service in developing and expanding bet- ter rehabilitation services for disabled men, women, and children in this country and abroad. The award. Is the highest conferred by the American Congress of Physical ine and Rehabilitation. It has di M Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 March 10, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -APPENDIX For, .1965, the. company will . exert every effort to meet the President's goal of an in- crease of about 20 percent In its net con- tribution-the excess of exports, dividends, and license fees over such Qversea invest- ment as maybe required to preserve and ex- pand a fully competitive position. Mr. Speaker, as Congressman from the First District of Iowa, I want to person- ally applaud this generous action on the part of Caterpillar Tractor. These ac- tions illustrate the type of enlightened and generous attitude that has contrib- uted so, much to the strength and well- being of this great Nation, It. is another vindication of the firm faith which all of us, as devoted Americans, have in our great competitive free enterprise econ- omy. Farm Income Too Low HON. WALTER F. MONDALE OF. MINNESOTA IN THE SENATE, OF THE UNITED STATES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. MONDALE. Mr. President, last week the very reliable Minnesota poll of the Minneapolis Star and.Tribune indi- cated that more than 6 out of every 10 Minnesotans feel that the farmers in the United -States do not get a fair return on their products. This poll echoes, I think, the senti- ments of all citizens in the Midwest and farm States, and I think it deserves much wider attention. Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that an article describing the results of the poll be printed In the Appendix of the RECORD. There , being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: MINNESOTA POLL: 62 PERCENT CALL FARM INCOME Too Low U.S. farmers generally do not get a fair return on their products, in the opinion of more than 6 out of every 10 Minnesotans (62 percent) questioned in a statewide survey by the Minneapolis Tribune's Minnesota poll. Among farm residents themselves the feel- ing is almost unanimous; more than 9 out of every 10 persons living on farms think farmers fail to get properly reimbursed for their work. In the words of a Bloomington housewife, 28, who once lived on -a farm: "You can not possibly make any money considering the work that goes into farming. Ifthey got paid by the hour, farmers would be rich com- pared with the workingman in town." Out of the, wide variety of explanations offered as to hy farmers do not get their fair share, the middleman most often is singled out as a cause, There are just too many middlemen in our marketing system, at St. Paul man said. The question put to a balanced sampling of Minnesota, men and women living in all parts of the State: As things stand today, would you say that farmers in the United States generally do or do not get a fair return on their products? All adults return------------------- 28 Do not=--------------------- 62 Other answers______________ 2 No opinion----------------- 8 Total---------------- 100 A1089, the Catholic publication, The Commen- Farresidentsm tator. 8 92 The article is as follows: MEDICARE PLAN OF AMA (By Father John Doran) --- plan proposed by the American Medical As- sociation is really closer to the thought of 100 the Papal Encyclicals than the social security A farmer's wife from Clay County said: Plans of the administration. Let me tell you "The prices we get for our crops aren't high why. enough. We should have 100 percent parity." At the beginning of his famous encyclical Another farm homemaker (Otter Tail "Mater et Magistra," Pope John restated the County) who feels farmers should be left usual papal thought on the principle of sub- alone and allowed to handle their own prob- sidiarity. He said, quoting Pius XI in lems puts the blame on bigness. "We used "Quadregsismo Anno," "It is a fundamental to raise turkeys and made out OK until the principle of social philosophy, fixed and un- big companies sold feed," she said. "Too changeable, that one should not withdraw many big businessmen invest in farming as from individuals and commit to the Com- a sideline and that hurts us, like the chicken munity what they can accomplish by their farms that are run by the big food chains." own enterprise and industry. So, too, it is A Stillwater man who teaches typing and an injustice and at the same time a grave stenography thinks "It's just the way our evil and a disturbance of right order, to economy operates. Nobody wishes it on transfer to the larger and higher collectivity them, but as a whole our farmers don't have functions which can be performed and pro- much of a chance to raise their standard of vided for by lesser and subordinate bodies. we ve tampered with supply and demand through subsidies and it hasn't worked," a Coon Rapids woman declared, After sorting the answers into broad cate- gories, the explanations are found in these numbers Per- Middleman takes too much, too many cent middlemen-------------- 43 Lack of organization, no bargaining power, can't control prices ----------- 17 Cost of farm operation too high in rela- tion to return on products ----------- 12 Overproduction, products wasted ------- 7 Government regulations, too much Gov- ernment control5 Too many imports--------------------- 2 Other reasons------------------- 19 Don't know - - 8 Total - - 113 The above column adds to more than 100 percent because some respondents who thought farmers did not get a fair return supplied more than one reason, _ "The farm problem" has been d source of vexation to White House administrations be- fore and after the great depression of the 1930's. "It's going to take some smart cookie to figure it out," one farmer mused. Medicare Plan of AMA EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JAMES H. MORRISON OF LOUISIANA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. MORRISON. Mr. Speaker, medi- care is a most controversial subject and I think that all views should certainly be expressed in the CONGRESSIONAL REC- ORD and various news media. The Honorable Chester A. Williams, Jr., coroner of the East Baton Rouge Parish, who is an outstanding and dis- tinguished doctor of Baton Rouge, La., requested that I include in the RECORD the following article, which appeared in its very nature, prove a help to members of the body social, it should never destroy or absorb them" (pt. 11, No. 53). Basically, the social security approach to medicare is this: the Government will en- force by taxation. a withdrawal from the pay of the individual and his employer a sum of money each month in order to provide for this employee hospital care in his later years. In this part of the program one finds an insurance plan forced upon the employee by the Government. But, when one con- siders all those already over 65, or soon to pass that age, one sees the Government plan as an outright grant of hospital costs (with certain limitations, of course) to every one who is of the required age, whether that person needs the assistance or not. There is, let me say at once, a real need for some sort of medical care for those who cannot provide it for themselves. This coun- try of ours is too rich in material wealth to allow the poor within it to be deprived of medical care. It can and should be pro- vided. There is no argument here. What is argued, and of vital concern, is whether this assistance shall be provided broadcast, or as needed. You see, the elderly as such are not neces- sarily indigent, not necessarily in need. A visit to retirement communities can show one that. The aged of this country repre- sent 9 percent of the population, and control 8 percent of the country's income. Ninety- six percent of these oldsters owe, according to the University of Michigan survey, no bills for doctor, dentist, or hospital. As a class our elderly people are not a poor people. However, and this is a big however, an indi- vidual in need is not going to be much helped, by the simple fact that he is of a class not in need. There are, and there will be, elderly people who do need assistance in order to meet medical bills, hospital, doc- tor, and drug. For them provision must be made. The AMA plan recognizes this need, but proposes that the need shall be met where the need exists, not on an overall basis of establishing medicare for all, whether they need it or not. The AMA plan envisions the use of private insurance, and would function through the Kerr-Mills Act, already im- plemented in some 40 States. "Under the new program, an over-65 citizen would pur- chase through the private insurance firms a wide spectrum of medical, surgical, and hos- pital benefits, and, would pay all, part, or none Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 A1090 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD APPENDIX March 10, 1965 of the costs of the policy, depending on his "National defense expenditures in Penn- income. sylvania constitute only one-third of the For individuals with Income under the amount spent in New York and only one- specified minimums, the State agency, using eighth of that spent in California. The Federal-State funds, would pay the entire phasing out of the Olmsted Base will lower costs. * * * Aid would consist of comprehen- the share of the Commonwealth to less than save health-care benefits, rather than being 31/2 cents of each national defense dollar. limited to $ospital and nursing home care, "Olmsted Air ForceBase is the only base which are the only benefits under the operated by the Air Force in Pennsylvania. presently proposed Government plan. Eli- Its closing may result in inadequate protec- gibility for assistance would be determined tion for Pennsylvania and northeastern on the basis of a "simple income statement." United States: Therefore be it The reason why I think the AMA plan fits "Resolved, That Secretary of Defense into the principle of subsidiarity better than Robert S. McNamara be urged to rescind the does the Government plan is this: the AMA order directing the phasing out of the Olm- plan leaves to the individual the provision sted Air Force Base at Middletown; and be it for himself and family, if he is able. further If the individual cannot provide personally, "Resolved, That a copy of this resolution he can turn to the next upward grouping, be transmitted to each Senator and Repre- the insurance plan; if he is unable to use sentative from Pennsylvania in the Congress this next step, than he turns to the State- of the United States." Federal plan. The social security plan takes I certify that the foregoing is a true and away from the individual his freedom for, correct copy of senate resolution, serial No. and obligation to, provide for himself, and 11, introduced by Senators William B. Lentz, enforces an immediate Federal plan provided Richard A. Snyder, George N. Wade, and by taxation. The Government thereby does Robert O. Beers, and adopted by the Senate for people what most of them can do for of Pennsylvania the second day of March ciple of subsidiarity. You might express my thinking on the sub- ject of medicare this way: let those who can provide for themselves by their own funds and insurance do so; let the State step in to ,help those who cannot provide for them- selves. Our own individual dignity demands that we take care of ourselves if we can; human dignity demands that society care for those who cannot provide for themselves. Closing of Olmsted Air Force Base EXTENSION OF REMARKS or HON. HUGH SCOTT OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, the clos- ing of Olmsted Air Force Base, at Mid- dletown, Pa., is creating grave problems for central Pennsylvania. Twelve thou- sand families will be seriously affected, and great damage will be done to central Pennsylvania's overall economy. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Appendix of the RECORD a resolution, adopted by the Senate of Pennsylvania, urging Secretary of Defense McNamara to rescind the order directing the phasing out of Olmsted Air Force Base. There being no objection, the resolu- tion was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: "SENATE OF PENNSYLVANIA RESOLUTION, FEB- RUARY 26, 1965 "The closing of the Olmsted Air Force Base at Middletown, Pa., will acid to the unem- p . jo ployed of central Pennsylvania about one- on poverty program and it is one of the first to any idea that another Geneva Conference mployed foby the urth recent order ecent total to be made uofDefense urban training centers where classroom work with the Communists could produce a settle-f Robert S. McNamara c cl si Secretary o certain of inDefense will be combined with vocational training. ment in southeast Asia. R tions throughout the United States. About ut The University of Oregon is running it. "Communist countries signed Geneva 1.2,000 families will be seriously affected by Philco Corp. has the contract for job train- agreements in 1954 and 1962, guaranteeing the order. ing. And Douglas Olds, a veteran Oregon respect for the unity, neutrality, independ- "In addition to the economic suffering of school administrator is directing a reading, ence, and freedom of Laos and Vietnam. the unemployed the Commonwealth and the writing, and arithmetic program along with North Vietnam and China signed those political subdivisions of the area will be ad- job training. agreements. But they are the countries versely affected by the resultant additions of Most of the youngsters have had a job or causing all the trouble now. poverty stricken families to relief rolls, etc., two, briefly, after dropping out of school. "Outsiders tell us, 'Go back to Geneva and and the economy of central Pennsylvania Louis Mendoza, 17, of Denver, Colo., says t aid. But isn't twice to a lifetime will grind to a low point in the years to come all he could get in 2 years were dishwash- try ag in because of the loss of the annual $73 million ing or busboy jobs. Now he is studying enough? How many times do we have to payroll of the base. electronics. try? Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 MARK GRUELL, Jr., Secretary, Senate of Pennsylvania. Dropout Likes Job Training EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF - HON. JOHN R. HANSEN "I'll work on color TV and things like that," he says. "The classes are fun. They don't treat you like a 2-year-old." Olds says that in both the academic and vocational classes, instructors aim at pro- viding individual attention. They are getting it and although the school has been open less than 2 weeks, the enthusiasm is evident. "I'm oing to graduate," says Carl Nick- els, 17, Redding, Calif. "I'm going to get a high s hool diploma. And then I'm going to go to oliege-maybe UCLA, I hope-and study ele tronics." EXTENSION OF REMARKS or HON. STROM THURMOND OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I have been very much impressed with an article, in the March 15, 1965, issue of U.S. News & World Report, containing an interview with the Foreign Minister of Thailand on the question of our stand in South Vietnam. The article is en- titled "To the United States From an Ally: Stand Firm." I commend this article to the atten- tion of all Senators; and, therefore, I ask unanimous consent to have it printed in the Appendix of the RECORD. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the REC- ORD, as follows: To THE UNITED STATES FROM AN ALLY: STAND FIRM BANGKOK, THAILAND.-Talk with Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, of Thailand--a country directly menaced by the war in southeast Asia-and you get some strong answers. Question: Is a negotiated peace possible in South Vietnam? Mr. Thanat's answer: "Who is asking for negotiations? South Vietnam has not asked for talks. Red China and North Vietnam are not interested. Their position is per- fectly clear. They want control of South Vietnam and complete and unconditional withdrawal by the United States. "What do you negotiate? Complete sur- render of South Vietnam to the Communists'? If that is your intention, then do not waste money and time negotiating. "When one is willing to surrender, then surrender. It is very easy. "The United States must continue to sup- port South Vietnam or withdraw. Talk of a negotiated peace is irrelevant." OF IOWA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. HANSEN of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, the efforts of the Johnson administra- tion to get the Job Corps into full opera- tion is to be commended. Already re- ports of the value of this move to assist our untrained young people are coming to us. An article that appeared in the Shen- andoah, Iowa, Evening Sentinel on Feb- ruary 15 points up the enthusiasm that has greeted this program. I commend it to my colleagues attention: DROPOUT LIKES JOB TRAINING ASTORIA, OREG.-George Howard, 18, got through the 10th grade at Butler, Ill., then quit school because "me and the teachers didn't get along." He gets along fine, though, with teachers at the Job Corps training cen- ter at the old Tongue Point Naval Station here. _ James Miles, 18, of Oakland, Calif., says this is because the teachers "really want to help. They could make a lot more money other places, but they came here because they want to help us." What they are helping George and James to do-and ultimately an enrollment of 1,250 as well-is to learn a skill and hold down a art of President Johnson's war This is b Approved For Release 2003/10/10: CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 ,March 10, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX "We do not have the right to treat Lao- tians and South Vietnamese as cattle and dispose of them as at an auction. "If you (Americans) want to try to dispose of people in Europe-in Berlin-that is OK. But do, not experiment with the freedom of people in Asia. We will not accept it. We ,are not Interested in experiments." The Foreign Minister, once considered a potential neutralist, now has nothing but scorn for the, idea of neutralism as a safe haven for those who want to avoid domina- tion by the Communists: "We might consider neutralism as a refuge if we could be convinced that the Com- munists would let us remain free and inde- pendent. But we saw what happened to Laos and India. They were both neutralists. "The Chinese have no intention of letting us be neutral. "They want to take over Thailand. "Red "China's Foreign Minister, Chen Yi, made it clear the Chinese would send cadres and material to help 'liberate' Thailand, just as the Chinese and North Vietnam helped the Pathet Lao to `liberate' Laos. We do not take the Chinese as a joke." IF UNITED STATES WITHDRAWS What happens to Thailand if the United States withdraws from Vietnam? "I cannot envisage withdrawal from Viet- nam. But, if it happens, we will have to strengthen' our defenses." In 1962, after the Geneva conference which was supposed to have neutralized Laos, Mr. Thanat charged that the United States "which claimed to be our great friend likes its toes better than its friends." Later, he signed an agreement with Secretary of State Dean Rusin , which the United States agreed to defend Thailand against aggression, even if the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization powers did not act together. Mr. Thanat was asked if he considers this agreement as binding as a mutual-defense treaty. His reply: "We believes in that agreement. "We are certain the United States will honor its obligations, even though there are dissenting noises from some Americans, such .as we have heard In the last few weeks over the U.S. position in South Vietnam. But the agreement was signed by Secretary Rusk with the concurrence of President Kennedy. We have no doubt about its validity." " AN ANTI-WEST CAMPAIGN? The Foreign Minister was asked if he be- lieved Indonesia and Communist China were working together In a campaign to drive the West out of Asia. His reply: "The Chinese have made it clear they want all Western bases removed from southeast Asia. Indonesia's intentions are much less clear. They may want the British bases dis- mantled so as to strengthen Indonesia's po- sition. But the Indonesians are not as clear as the Chinese on this point." Would the dismantling of British bases at Singapore and in Malaysia affect Thailand's security? "As long as Britain intends to fulfill its role as a partner in SEATO, it must have bases in Malaysia. If those bases were re- moved, it would weaken SEATO. And when SEATO is weakened, we are weakened. "But this is not just the problem of one country, Thailand. It is a problem that af- fects the entire region." The way things are going, is there any hope for peace between Indonesia and the new country of Malaysia? "We"are trying to facilitate contact be- tween the countries. We hope to keep the conflict in bounds. Both sides seem to be trying to settle the problem. But we are not mediating-only encouraging them to explore the situation, Our capability of helping is limited." Selma, Ala., and the Man Who Knows HON. LUCIEN N. NEDZI OF MICHIGAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. NEDZI. Mr. Speaker, satire and wit can be most effective in fighting in- justice and evil. In this regard, Dick Schaap of the New York Herald Tribune, with a wit that brightens, has illumi- nated the grim situation in Selma, Ala., with his column of March 9, 1965. He stings with the truth. I commend this article to the attention of my colleagues. Under leave to extend my remarks, the article follows: THE MAN-WHO KNOWS (By Dick Schaap) The trouble with Gov. George C. Wallace is that he is too soft. He could have used mustard gas. Or machineguns. But he grew up with Negroes and he knows those people and he understands them, so he figured tear gas and clubs would do the job. He is nothing If not a humanitarian. His work for human rights has already been recognized. Just last year, he won the Nobel Prize for Martin Luther King, He had help from people like Bull Connor and Al Lingo and Jim Clark, but if you had to stop and pick out the one man who did the Most for King, it would be George Wallace. He stood up when he was inaugurated in 1963 and he said, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Ever since then, he has been presiding over the integra- tion of his State. Wallace said he would stand in the door- ways of the schools, and he guaranteed that the University of Alabama would be in- tegrated. He said that Alabama would never tolerate the mixing of the races in public places, and he guaranteed that the civil rights law would be passed. He swore that Negroes would not march from Selma to Montgomery, and he practically guaranteed that the Federal Government will move Into Alabama. Give Wallace half a chance, and he will have Martin Luther King elected President of the United States. It is very subtle the way Wallace works, but if the voter registration drive succeeds, and a substantial number of Negroes do register In Alabama, he will undoubtedly bid for their votes by pointing out how much he has done for them. He is a man of great principle. DESERVES A PLAQUE Today Rev. Martin Luther King will try to lead a new march from Selma to Mont- gomery. The smartest thing King can do is announce that the purpose of the march Is to present a plaque to George Wallace in appreciation for all he has done for the civil rights movement. This is the most power- ful weapon that could be used against Wal- lace. In 1958, he ran for Governor of Ala- bama and he lost to John Patterson because the people of Alabama suspected that Wal- lace hated Negroes less than Patterson did. It was a terrible thing to say about Wallace. But ever since then students at Harvard and Yale and Dartmouth have been waving plac- ards saying that Wallace is a racist, and this has reassured. the citizens of Alabama. They respect the opinions of Ivy Leaguers. Wallace would be very upset if the Negroes came out openly for him. He is a political man, and it would kill him politically. His term of office expires next year, and he is already thinking about changing the State law that says a Governor and may not succeed A1091 himself. It is too good a job to give up after only one term. The Governor of Alabama is responsible each year for the purchase of $200 million worth of liquor for the State liquor stores. It is the kind of responsibility that makes all the headaches of freedom marches and sit-ins worth while. It is very important to Wallace that the Negroes continue hating him-almost as im- portant as it is to the Negroes that Wallace continue hating them. Wallace's storm troopers strengthen the civil rights move- ment, and King's marches strengthen Wal- lace in office. It is all crazy, which makes it perfectly logical for the whole situation. A CHAMPION The truth is that Wallace has no real hatred for Negroes. He likes them. He simply thinks they should be kept separate, and it is easy to see, from his background, how Wallace developed this thinking. In the 1930's, he was a Golden Gloves boxing cham- pion in Alabama. There were not too many good fighters In Alabama then, but there was a young man who had left Alabama named Joseph Louis Barrow. He was fighting out of Detroit, but Joe Louis would have been happy to come back to Alabama to fight George Wallace. The law in Alabama said firmly that white fighters could not fight Negro fighters, and this law probably saved George Wallace's life. Wallace grew up in the Black Belt of Ala- bama, in a county where roughly half the population was Negro. It hurts him just as much as anybody else to see Negroes beaten with whips and clubbed over the head and sprayed with tear gas. It probably hurts him more because he really knows Negroes. In Alabama, they say you're not a man un- less you really know Negroes. /The Right To Vote EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 1, 1965 Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, it is necessary that the Congress take an- other look at the voting rights provision in civil rights laws so that the right to vote not be denied any qualified citizen. I certainly hope when the Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate look into this very necessary area, they will take steps to guarantee the vote to Ne- groes in the South and give necessary attention to the abuse of voting rights in eastern and midwestern cities con- trolled by corrupt political machines. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I insert into the RECORD a most timely letter that ap- peared in the Harvey Tribune, an inde- pendent publication serving the suburbs of Cook County, Ill.: THE RIGHT To VOTE The right of every qualified citizen to vote is one which should not be denied and there is no argument to the contrary. It can be said that citizens must be qualified as the Constitution of the United States states and the qualifications should be applied equally to all and should be reasonable. There are few places in the Nation where voting rights are. intentionally denied but, of course, there are some-not only in the South, because elsewhere powerful political machines steal votes and hoodlums in metro- Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP61B00446R000300160025-5 Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX March 10, 1965 politan areas do the same by intimidation, all of which equals denying the citizen his fundamental right. The right to vote is a part of the Ameri- can heritage and what was fought for in the Revolution. There may be differences of opinion about various human rights by conscientious peo- ple of good-faith on both sides of various issues, but on the question of the right to vote there is only one side-and that is that every American, if qualified, should have the right to make his choices in the voting booth. How To Write Letters to Your Members of Congress EXTENSION OF REMARKS of HON. JOHN R. HANSEN OF IOWA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. HANSEN of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, each Member of Congress is called upon to answer literally thousands of cards and letters from the residents of his State or district. Most of us feel at one time or another that this mountain of correspon- dence could be much more profitably used, if someone would give assistance to the writers in giving guidelines on how to write about legitimate concerns. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil in its March 1 lead editorial has performed this singular service for its readers. Not only do I personally appreciate this, but I feel it may be of assistance to other Congress- men who may want to use it in giving help to those in their districts who would benefit from it. How To WRITE LETTERS TO YOUR MENDERS OF CONGRESS Have you ever written a letter to your Member of the House of Representatives, or either of the U.S. Senators from Iowa? As you are probably aware your Senators are BOUBXE HICKENLOOPER, of Cedar Rapids, and JACK MILLER, of Sioux City. They are Republicans. Our new Representative from the Seventh District is a Democrat, JOHN R. HANSEN, of Manning. We frequently receive letters asking how to address them in Washington. The simplest way is to address the Senators. "U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C." and Representatives, "House of Representatives, Washington, D.C." Their Ihail will be delivered directly to their offices. Many voters fail to communicate their views on governmental affairs and pending legislation because they think their Congress- men are too busy to pay any attention to a lone voter. Just the opposite is true. Your Representative and your Senators want to get mail from home. They want to hear from you. Because you may belong to a different po- litical party, don't think your Representative or your Senators will ignore your opinions. They want to vote as they believe a ma- jority of their constituents would like to have them vote. They know their continu- ance in office depends upon the support of the voters back home. It is not unusual for a Representative or a Senator to saythat he would have voted differently on some measure if he had real- ized how the people in his State or district felt. Write on your personal or business letter. head, or use plain stationary and envelope. Sign your name legibly or type it at the bot- tom of your letter. Congressmen seldom take the time to read unsigned letters. Know your subject, and name the House or Senate bill you are writing about. Ex- press your thoughts and conclusions in your own words. State your reason for writing. Tell him how you think the proposed legislation or action of the Government would affect you, your family, business or profession-or its effect on your State or community. Do not use phrases and sentences from form letters. They will have little or no effect. Be reasonable. Don't ask for impossible things. Don't threaten, or say you will never vote for him again if he doesn't do certain things or vote a certain way. After you have told him where you stand, ask him to state his position in a reply. If his vote or action on any issue pleases you, write and tell him so. Much of the mail received by Congressmen Is from people who are displeased with their actions. When your Senator or Representative receives a letter of commendation he will remember tt. Timing of your letter is important. Try to write when the legislation is pending in com- mittee. The place to get approval or disap- proval of a bill, or get it amended Is in com- mittee. Congress seldom passes a measure without the prior approval of a majority of the committees to which it is referred. As we said in the beginning your Senators and Representatives will give more attention to your suggestions if they know you are keeping in touch with legislative issues, and write them occasionally. Crime Detection Society Supports L.B.J. EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. SAMUEL L. DEVINE OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. DEVINE. Mr. Speaker, the So- ciety for Scientific Detection of Crime of Columbus, Ohio, recognizing the seri- ousness of the increase in crime across this Nation, directed a letter to President Johnson on March 5, as follows: MARCH 5. 1965. The PRESIDENT, The White House, Washington, D.C. MR. PRESIDENT: Our organization, the So- ciety for Scientific Detection of Crime, Co- lumbus, Ohio, has noted with great interest the concern you have shown over the in- creasing rate of crime throughout the coun- try. We would appreciate being able to add our support in this concern. Our society, in this location, has been In existence for 21 years and is composed of many of our leading criminal investigators in the legal, medical, scientific, and police investigational fields and many ancillary areas. One member, now honorary, Hon. SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Member of Congress, was most active in our society during his years as prosecuting attorney of our county. Mr. President, we would urge you to pro- ceed, with all reasonable haste, to establish a type of National Crime Commission to con- cern Itself wtih all phases of evaluation of prevention, detection, and elimination of crime. Our hope would be that through knowledge, improvement in communication, understanding, and recommendations, such a commission would assist every community in controlling, if not eliminating, much of the crime in their midst. If our organization can be of any service, please feel free to call upon us, and we shall try to serve in any manner we can. Respectfully yours, JOHN W. MONTAG, President. This nonpartisan organization has de- voted years, in objective study of prob- lems-of crime, and meets each month to exchange valuable information on help- ful analysis and possible solutions. They can be of help to the President. Drifting and to Where? EXTENSION OF REMARKS HON. MASTON O'NEAL OF GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 10, 1965 Mr. O'NEAL of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, under unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in the RECORD, I in- clude an address by former Congress- man B. T. Castellow, of Cuthbert, Ga. This speech was delivered in this very Chamber on February 6, 1936. The Honorable B. T. Castellow repre- sented the Third Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives at a time when Cuthbert, Ga., was a part of the Third Congressional District. How- ever, since his tenure of office, Cuthbert has been placed within the bounds of the Second Congressional District, which district it is my privilege and pleasure to now represent in the House of Rep- resentatives. I would like to mention that the Hon- orable B. T. Castellow served as solicitor general of the Pataula Judicial Circuit for many years, and in a most efficient and honorable manner. I served as so- licitor general, for 231/2 years, of the ad- joining Alabany Judicial Circuit of Georgia, and I quite naturally feel a very close bond to the memory of one who has had years of the same kind of service as solicitor general. Mrs. B. T. Castellow, the- widow of the late Congressman Castellow, has kindly and most graciously furnished me with a copy of the above mentioned speech. I, therefore, with permission, include the speech as it was reproduced in the Cuth- bert Times on November 5, 1964. The title of the speech is "Drifting and to Where"? SPEECH OF THE LATE B. T. CASTELLOW IN 1936 Mr. CASTELLOw. Mr. Chairman, there has been much discussion during general de- bate this session of a purely political na- ture. I am taking little part in these dis- cussions, as I do not claim to be or hope to become distinguished as a politician. In fact, I do not and have never liked politics, though I fully realize that it is becoming more and more interwoven with our every activity and legislative uncertainty supple- ments the normal uncertainties of every business venture. As I see it, the welfare of the masses is far more important than the political prefer- ment of any man or the promotion of the Approved For Release 2003/10/10 : CIA-RDP67B00446R000300160025-5