AUTHORIZATIONS FOR ALIEN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS TO OPERATE AMATEUR RADIO STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

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more than 20 years old and shrimp boats of
1949 vintage in the gulf are trying with
primitive equipment to compete with Jap-
anese and Russian fleets using the most
modern. methods and equipped with floating
factories that- enable them to process the
catch and stay out at sea 6 months. Even
Peru and Poland have outstripped us among
the fishing, nations and Ghana's fishing fleet
is more modern than ours.
Since' considerations of national defense
require these vessels to be built in U.S. ship-
yards, at costs the highest in the world, sub-
sidy is a matter of simple justice. Congress
is far behind in extending that justice, and
revival of the 1960 act should be only a be-
ginning of an effort on its part to promote a
fishing fleet in which the country can take
pride.
Shirtwise, the Paul Bunyanesque air-
man 'had expanded to size 17-38, with
the largest standard stock size being 17-
37, while his trousers have stretched out
to 42-37. Shoe and sox sizes have re-
mained constant, but were already in the
custom bracket.
' This means that Air Force uniform
suppliers will have to fabricate a whole
new king-sized wardrobe for the giant
airman.. This will take approximately
30 days. Shoes are an even greater spe-
cial problem as only one. supplier in the
United States makes them in his bracket
and it takes about 60 days: from order,
through manufacture to delivery.
As the only re?naining clothing items
which Airman Barton had left to wear
were a set of fatigues and a pair of tennis
shoes, and military regulations require
that military personnel traveling in offi-
cial status must be in uniform, special
permission had to be obtained from the
Military Air Transport Service for him to
travel aboard their aircraft in civilian
clothes.
He departed last week for leave at his
home in Gardena where he will await
the delivery of his special new military
wardrobe at March Air Force Base, be-
fore reporting to his new duty assign-
ment at Richmond, Ky.
Asked, prior to his departure whether
they all came that big in his family, the
good-natured airman replied:
Well, dad (Herman O. Barton-a postman
In Gardena) comes pretty close at 6-3 and
mom is fairly tall, but my two kid brothers
and sisters are what you would call normal
in height. I guess I'm biggest for some rea-
son.
FISHING VESSEL CONSTRUCTION
Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. President, 2
weeks ago today the Senate passed S.
1006, a bill to provide subsidies for new
construction and to update the American
fishing fleet for competition in today's
highly, technical fishing industry. I
have here an editorial which appeared
In the St. Louis Post Dispatch for Octo-
ber.8 of this year, which clearly and con-
cisely states the need for this legislation
and calls for early favorable action by
the other body of Congress, and shows
the need for this revision of law is ap-
preciated in the interior of the United
'States as well as the coastal States. I
ask unanimous consent that the edi-
torial be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
IN JUSTICE TO FISHERIES
The Senate's vote to revive the Fishing
Vessel Construction Act of 1960 will, we hope,
be promptly followed by favorable action in
the House. Its purpose is to provide sub-
sidies for new construction to modernize
the American fishing fleet, which is anti-
quated and falling behind in competition
with the fleets of other countries. The con-
sequences have been unemployment in a
$350-million-a-year business affecting 500,000
jobs, and rising costs of living with a grow-
ing demand for fish being increasingly sup-
plied by imports.
Our fishing fleet is in a disgraceful, state.
Chesapeake bay dredgers built before , the
First 'World War, New England trawlers
No. 166-12
HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA
Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President, as
all Members of Congress know, we are
celebrating the 100th anniversary of a
dual banking system. One of the com-
plaints of the Colonies was that the
Mother Country would not let them have
their own currency. However, prior to
the Revolutionary War, several State
banks were established that issued script
that was used for currency.
The first, and in the opinion of many,
the greatest Secretary of the Treasury,
Alexander Hamilton, of New York, ad-
vocatedthe establishment of a national
bank and the act creating it was passed
by the Congress of the new United States
of America. in 1792. The charter of that
bank was permitted to expire and Con-
gress authorized a new national bank in
which the Federal Government had a
larger interest. One of the issues in the
presidential campaign of 1828 was the
abolishment of that bank. In further-
ance of that action, President Andrew
Jackson, who was elected in 1828, with-
drew all Federal funds from the bank
and then Congress did not vote to extend
its charter. The banking business of the
Nation was then taken over by State
banks belt they issued banknotes which
passed for money and many of which
later became worthless because of nu-
merous bank failures. In 1863, Congress
passed the law establishing national
banks, under which we still operate.
In making a brief reference to this
banking history in an address before the
annual meeting of the American Bankers
Association, at Constitution Hall, on Oc-
tober 9, I mentioned the rumor that I had
heard that Alexander Hamilton had
made a deal with Thomas Jefferson that
a District of Columbia, comprising an
area of 10 square miles could be located,
partly in Virginia and partly in Mary-
land, if Jefferson, Secretary of State in
Washington's first Cabinet, would not
oppose Hamilton's proposal to establish
a national. bank.
Being none too certain about the real
facts, I made an inquiry over the tele-
phone of a distinguished descendant of
Alexander Hamilton, Hon. Laurens M.
Hamilton, of Washington, and Fau-
quier County, Va. He- has written me a
very interesting letter in which he refers
to the fact that the agreement I had in
,mind, between ' Hai 1ilton and' Jefferson
was evidently .concerning the Hamilton
proposal for the National Government to
assume the debts incurred during the
Revolutionary War by the States and not
with reference to the establishment of a
national bank.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent that the letter be printed in the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the letter
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
October 15,1963.
Hon A. WILLIS ROBERTSON,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
MY DEAR SENATOR: I have spent several
instructive and enjoyable hours since your
phone call last week trying to trace down
the details of just exactly what was in-
volved in the agreement between Thomas
Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in 1790
to which you referred In your recent ad-
dress before the American Bankers Associa-
tion.
Your remarks on that occasion as re-
ported in the copy of the CONGRESSIONAL
RECORD, of Thursday, October 10, which you
were kind enough to send me, do not include,
at least as far as I can find such reference
as you made to this subject in your address,
but as I recall your conversation of last
week you were of the impression that it had
been Hamilton's consent to the location of
the National Capital on the Potomac which
had won from Jefferson consent as to the
establishment of a central bank.
I find that the two factors involved in the
"deal" between Hamilton and Jefferson were
on the one.hand the location of the National
Capital and on the other the assumption by
the Federal Government of debts incurred
by the several States during the Revolution.
This proposal was an important part of
Hamilton's "Report on the Public Credit"
and it had met with strong opposition from
some quarters in Congress, notably from
Mr. Madison of Virginia, and although it
at one time passed the House it was recalled
and became the subject of considerable sub-
sequent debate.
On the other hand the question of estab-
lishing a permanent seat of government
was also much debated during the first ses-
sion of the first Congress. The Continental
Congress had on more than one occasion
found Philadelphia very little to its liking.
What is described in one book as "the mu-
tinous behavior" of certain Pennsylvania
troops in 1783 led to the adoption of a res-
olution, introduced by Hamilton, trans-
ferring the Congress to Princeton, N.J., and
subsequently the seat of government had
been transferred to New York City where
the first session of the Congress under the
Constitution of 1787 assembled in 1789 and
where George Washington was inaugurated
on April 30 of that year.
The provision written into section 8 of
article 1 of the Constitution giving power to
the Congress to set up a Federal District
not to exceed 10 miles square, apparently
reflected the unanimous opinion of the dele-
gates to the Constitutional Convention in
1787, for I find no record of it having been
seriously debated at any time.
Apparently at some time during its first
or second session the Congress adopted an
act "for establishing the temporary and
permanent seat of government of the United
States" and delegated to the President the
power to set up a commission to survey a
territory of 10 miles square on both sides
of the Potomac. I find a note that this act
was approved by the Congress on July 16,
1790, shortly after the meeting between Jef-
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ceived from such agencies necessitates
denial of the request."; on page 3, at the
beginning of line 11, to strike out
"clauses- and Insert " iarag-raphs"; * nd
In 'line 20{ to gtri'ke oiit, "radio oper-
ators." and insert "radio operatcrs:
Provided, That when an application for
an authorization is received by the Com-
mission, it shall notify the appropriate
agencies of the Government of such fact,
afld such agencies shall forthwith fur-
nish to the Commission such informa-
ttons in -their possession as bears upon
the compatibility orthe request with the
national security: And provided further,
That the requested authorization may
than he granted unless the C,..r...r,....i....
October, 16
(2) by adding at the end of such subsec-
tion the following: "(2) Notwithstanding
section 301 of this Act and paragraph (1) of
this subsection, the Commission may issue
authorizations, under such conditions and
terms as it may prescribe, to permit an alien
licensed by his government as an amateur
radio operator to operate his amateur raidio
station 'licensed by his government in the
Uhrted "State`s. M possessions, and the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico provided there is
in effect a bilateral agreement between the
United States and the alien's government for
such operation on it reciprocal basis byY
United States amateur radio operators: Pro-
vfded. That when an application for an au-
thorization Is received by the Commission, it
shall notify the appropriate agencies of the
Government of such fact, and such agencies
shall forthwith furnish to the Commission
such information in their possession as bears
upon the compatibility of the request with
the national security: And provided further,
That the requested authorization may then
be granted unless the Commission shall de-
termine that information received from ouch
agencies necessitates denial of the request,
Other provisions of this Act and of the Ad-
ministrative Procedure Act shall not be ap-
plicable to any request or application for or
modification, Suspension, or cancellation of
any such authorization."
Sac. 2. Subsection (a.) of section 310 of the
Communications Act of 1934 is amended by
adding at the end thereof the following:
"Notwithstanding section 301 of this Act and
paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection,
the Commission may issue authorizations,
under such conditions and terms as It may-
prescribe, to permit an alien licensed by his
government as an amateur radio operator to
operate his amateur radio station licensed by
his government in the United States, Its pos-
sessions, and the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico provided there Is in effect a bilateral
agreement between the United States and
the alien's government for such operation on
a reciprocal basis by United States amateur
radio operators: Provided, That when an ap-
plication for an authorization is received by
the Commission. It shall notify the appropri-
ate agencies of the Government of such fact.
and such agencies shall forthwith furnish to
the Commission such information in their
possession as bears upon the compatibility of
the request with the national security: And
provided further, That the requested author-
ization may then be granted unless the Com-
mission shall determine that information re-
ceived from such agencies necessitates de-
nial of the request. Other provisions of this
Act and of the Administrative Procedure Act
shall not be applicable to any request or
application for or modification, suspension,
orcancellation of any such authorization."
Mr. PASTORE. Mr. President, this is
a noncontroversial bill. It relates to the
permission given to the Government to
enter into reciprocal agreements with
other governments to license our amateur
radio operators abroad. An explanation
of the bill appears in the report, begin-
ning on page I and ending on page 5, I
ask unanimous consent that the explana-
tion be printed at this point in the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the explana-
tion was ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
GENERAL STATEMENT
This bill would amend section 303 (dealing
with operators) and section 310 (dealing
with station licenses) of the Communica-
tions Aet of 1934 to permit the Federal Com-
munications Commission to authorize alien
amateur' radio operators to operate their
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SENATE 18721
is possessions, and the Commonwealth of
aerto Rico, provided there is in effect a bi-
feral agreement between the United States
ad the alien" s government for such opera-
un by U.S. amateurs on a reciprocal basis.
ri September 3, 1963, a hearing was held.
be principal sponsor of the bill, Senator
-OLDWATER, and a number of officials of the
merican Radio Relay League, which in-
ludes nearly 100,000 United States and
snadian amateurs In Its membership, testi-
ed in support of the bill. In addition, the
ecord contains a number of letters relating
in the legislation. No person testified in
.pposition.
HISTORY AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
A bill (S. 2361) was introduced in the
E7th Congress to amend the Communica-
tions Act to provide for licensing of alien
mmateur operators by the Federal Communi-.
-atlons Commission if it found the national
security would not be endangered. No
hearings were held on that bill. However,
agency reports indicated problems with a
ifull-scale licensing procedure in the case of
aliens and disclosed a number of technical
problems with the bill's language. The
present bill was drafted to take into account
the Issues raised In certain agency reports
on S. 2361.
S. 920 would permit the United States to
enter into reciprocal agreements whereby
our amateurs would receive authority to op-
erate in selected foreign countries in return
for the United States granting their ama-
teurs a similar privilege here. Such an ac
tion is now prohibited by the Communica-
tions Act which, with respect to amateurs,
allows only U.S. citizens to operate within
our boundaries. The sole exception to this
Is Canadian citizens given such privileges in
a 1962 treaty between the United States and
Canada. Testimony was received that the
1952 treaty with Canada on this subject has
Worked well. A, simple registration proce-
dure is followed, with the amateur using his
own call signs, together with appropriate des-
ignation of the area In which he is operat-
ing.
While 31 countries presently extend to our
amateurs the privilege of operating in their
countries despite the absence of reciprocal
privileges for their citizens, many other
countries refuse to extend such privileges
'except on the basis of reciprocity. More-
over, the lack of reciprocity has given rise to
some ill will and misunderstanding. At pres-
ent there are bilateral agreements with some
17 nations, including Mexico and many Latin
American nations, permitting our radio
amateurs to exchange noncommercial third-
party messages with amateurs licensed in
those countries. The committee received
testimony that improved international good
will and understanding would result from
increased person-to-person contact aided by
passage of the bill. The view was also ex-
pressed that proposals advanced in current
discussions with the Peace Corps concerning
possible use of surplus and donated equip-
ment to introduce such communications to
some parts of the world would be aided by
adoption of this bill.
Testimony was received that the fact such
legislation promotes international good will
was manifested at the Ninth Plenary As-
sembly of the International Radio Consulta-
tive Committee (CCIR), held in Los Angeles
in 1959. The 86th Congress that year ap-
proved Senate Joint Resolution 47 which
permitted amateurs of foreign nations to
operate a special events amateur radio sta-
tion established for the conference, on proof
that each held a current amateur license
issued by his government. It was indicated
that the participants were most appreciative
Of the U.S. courtesy in extending such
privileges.
A main purpose of the bill is to help
also those who reside overseas, such as mili-
tary personnel, diplomatic personnel, mis-
sionaries, Peace Corps workers, and others
who may wish to pursue their amateur radio
hobby while away from home. In this re-
gard, it is noted that the United States has
258,347 amateurs while all other countries
have a combined total of only 112,238. This,
coupled with the extensive travel of our citi-
zens abroad, indicates the potentially greater
extent to which our own citizens may bene-
fit by this bill.
AGENCY VIEWS
A number of Interested agencies, including
the Federal Communications Commission,
and the Departments of State, Justice, and
Defense filed comments on the bill. The
Department of Defense supported the bill
and the other named agencies were sub-
stantially of the view that they did not abject
to the bill in principle If considerations of
national security are properly provided for.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Several witnesses testified that whatever
security problems inhere in the use of radio
presently exist and that the type of pro-
cedure contemplated by this bill would not
create any new ones. It was emphasized
that anyone bent on use of radio for sub-
versive activities would not be impaired by
absence of a proper authorization for use
of radio. Moreover, it was stated that ama-
teur radio would be among the least desir-
able for clandestine use. The view was
expressed that with rapid jet air service car-
rying diplomatic pouches, with high speed
and coded teletype services available by
cable, as well as by radio incapable of being
monitored, it is hard to believe a foreign
government would seek- to use the privilege
proposed by S. 920 as a means of transmit-
ting high priority information from this
country.
With regard to a similar problem, your
committee held hearings In the 87th Con-
gress on S. 3252 and H.R. 11732, which be-
came Public Law 87-795, that amended the
Communications Act of 1934 to permit the
President to authorize foreign governments
to operate low-powered radio stations at
their embassies in the District of Columbia.
Under S. 920, any potential security prob-
lems would be minimized initially by the
prerequisite of a bilateral agreement, and by
the normal precautions taken in the issuance
of visas to permit entry into the country.
However, because some agencies had unre-
solved problems with possible security aspects
of the bill, a meeting was held with the
interested agencies to discuss and work out
the problems involved In the security ques-
tion. A procedure agreeable to those agen-
cies was devised and appropriate amendatory
language prepared, which amendment the
committee adopted in order to clarify the
matter. In the appendix to this report is a
letter dated September 30, 1963, from the
Federal Communications Commission, con-
curred in. by the Departments of State,
Justice, and Defense, and the Central Intelli-
gence Agency, on this subject.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS
To meet the agency reservations noted with
respect to security, your committee feels that
the bill should be made more specific in this
regard and adopted the following amend-
ment: After the word "operators" at page
2, line 18 and page 3, line 9 add:
"Provided, That when an application for
an authorization is received by the Com-
mission, it shall notify the appropriate
agencies of the Government of such fact,
and such agencies shall forthwith furnish to
the Commission such information in their
possession as bears upon the compatibility
of the request with the national security:
And provided further, That the requested
authorization may then be granted unless
the Commission shall determine that infor-
mation received from such agencies neces-
sitates denial of the request."
The Department of Defense suggested as a
technical amendment that the words "if it
finds that the public interest, convenience,
or necessity may be served" be deleted from
the title of the bill because this requirement
does not appear In the text of the bill. The
committee believes this language is unnec-
essary and, therefore, deleted it.
A number of technical amendments have
been made to conform with present wording
of the Communications Act:
Page 2, line 3, delete "clause" and substi-
tute "subsection".
Page 2, line 7, delete "clause" and substi-
tute "subsection".
Page 2, line 9, delete "part (1) of this
clause" and substitute "paragraph (1) of
this subsection".
Page 3, line 1, delete "clause" and substi-
tute "paragraphs".
PROCEDVRES TO BE FOLLOWED
Upon enactment of S. 920, as amended
herein, the way would be clear for the execu-
tive branch to enter into bilateral agree-
ments with such nations as it deems' desir-
able. There was testimony that a bilateral
agreement could be effected through the
simple and effective procedure of an ex-
change of notes by our Departllnent of State
and the appropriate department of the
other government, in the same or a similar
manner as that now folowed in reaching
third-party- traffic agreements under which
amateurs of the two countries may exchange
messages for third parties. The Department
of State has indicated that in negotiating
such agreements it would coordinate its ac-
tivities with other interested Government
agencies. It is expected, of course, that
the Federal Communications Commission
will render technical asistance in this regard.
This bill gives very wide latitude to the
Federal Communications Commission in im-
posing such terms and conditions as may
be necessary in the public interest. it
specifically provides that other provisions of
the Communcations Act and of the Admin-
istrative Procedure Act shall not be applic-
able to any request or application for, or
modification, suspension, or cancellation of,
any such authorization. Thus, the author-
ization is of a somewhat unique variety and
is not entitled to the protections ordinarily
associated with a, licensing procedure. As
testified, hearings would not be required and
termination, whch could be for any reason,
may be in any manner and without prior
notice. As an example of the Commission's
latitude, one witness stated It could restrict
operation by a noncitizen amateur to a
specific location or area, to a specific fre-
quency or frequencies, to specific modes of
operation such as continuous wave Morse
code, amplitude modulation voice, or single
sideband voice, and/or to specific hours of
the day. It could require all transmissions
to be In English, have call letters or signs
transmitted at more frequent intervals than
required for citizen amateurs, or require that
logs of all transmissions and operations be
submitted at regular intervals, etc.
In short, such procedures as are deemed
desirable may be incorporated into the bi-
lateral agreements or into rules, adopted
without the necessity of public rulemaking
procedures under the Administrative Pro-
cedure Act, promulgated by the Commission.
Using such forms as the Commission may
adopt, an alien amateur, whose country has
the required reciprocal agreement with the
United States, may request authority from
the Federal Communications Commission to
operate his amateur radio station in the
United States, It is not the intent of the
committee to establish the procedure to be
followed. Some testimony indicated the re-
quest could be forwarded through our consul
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