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The Senator from Vermont [Mr. FLANDERS] is absent on cfficial business.

The Senator from Minnesota [Mr. THYE] is absent by leave of the Senate.

Mr. CLEMENTS. I announce that the Senator from Virginia [Mr. BYRD], the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. EASTLAND), the Senator from Delaware [Mr. FREAR], the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. GORE], the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. JOHNSTON], the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. KILGORE], and the Senator from Montana [Mr. MURRAY] are absent on official business.

The Senators from Rhode Island [Mr. GREEN and Mr. PASTORE] are absent by leave of the Senate, attending the funeral of the late former Senator from Rhode Island, Edward L. Leahy.

The Senator from North Carolina [Mr. LENNON] and the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. MAYBANK] are absent by leave of the Senate.

service for my late distinguished colleague, CHARLES W. TOBEY, so the many Senators who will wish to pay him tribute may have an opportunity to do so.

Mr. KNOWLAND. In reply to the distinguished Senator from New Hampshire I may say that, pursuant to earlier discussions, the Senate will set aside a time, beginning at 2 o'clock on next Thursday afternoon, for addresses on the life and character and public services of the late Senator from New Hampshire. In the event that time is in anyway not satisfactory to the family or to the friends, who might prefer a different date, we will be glad to make arrangements accordingly.

Mr. MORSE. Of course, with the understanding that any of us who may not be able to be present next Thursday, or who are moved at the present time to pay their homage and respect to the memory of Senator TOBEY, may do so at

The VICE PRESIDENT. A quorum is this time. present.

AUTHORIZATION FOR SUBMISSION

OF COMMITTEE REPORTS

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, the Senate will not transact any business today. I ask unanimous consent that the various committees of the Senate may have permission to submit reports up to midnight tonight.

The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, it is so ordered.

DEATH OF SENATOR CHARLES W.

TOBEY, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Mr. BRIDGES. Mr. President, I am shocked, as I know every other Member of the Senate is, to hear of the passing of my distinguished colleague, CHARLES W.

TOBEY. He came to the Senate following the election of 1938. In January 1939 he

joined a very small band of Republican Senators who held the fort through the lean years of my party in Washington. The only two of his class who are now Members of the Senate are the distinguished senior Senator from Ohio [Mr. TAFT] and the distinguished senior Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. WILEY].

CHARLES TOBEY has had a long and continuous public service as a State legislator, Governor of New Hampshire, a Member of Congress, and United States Senator. He was a colorful figure, a crusader for what he believed, and a hard fighter. He was a very human person, whom his colleagues grew to know and to understand as the result of their close associations with him. New Hampshire has suffered the loss of an outstanding public servant and the Senate has suffered the loss of one of its most distinguished and outstanding Members. extend to Mrs. Tobey and members of his family my deepest sympathy in their great loss.

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Before I offer a resolution calling for the adjournment of the Senate as a mark of respect to the memory of my late colleague I ask the distinguished majority leader if it is his plan to set aside a period of time on Thursday next when the Senate may hold a memorial

Mr. BRIDGES. Yes.

Mr. President, I send to the desk a resolution and ask for its immediate consideration.

The clerk

The VICE PRESIDENT. will read the resolution. The resolution (S. Res. 151) was read as follows:

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death of Hon. CHARLES W. TOBEY, late a Senator from the State of New Hampshire.

Resolved, That the President of the Senate shall appoint a committee, of which he shall be a member, to attend the funeral of the deceased Senator.

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.

is on agreeing to the resolution submitted by the Senator from New Hampshire. was unanimously

The VICE PRESIDENT. The question

The resolution agreed to.

The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will later appoint the committee authorized under the second resolving clause of

the resolution.

Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I wish to make only a very few remarks in expressing my profound respect for the life of a great Christian. I believe the most fitting tribute I could pay to my friend CHARLES TOBEY would be to say that he was a Christian who believed in living the principles of Christianity to the best of his ability, in accordance with his realization that we all possess human frailties.

It was only yesterday that I had my last conversation with him, when he asked me to either read for him or insert in the RECORD, depending upon the parliamentary situation in the Senate at the time, a speech which he had prepared for delivery yesterday in connection with the traffic problem I had previously discussed on the floor of the Senate.

I shall always be deeply moved by that conversation, my last with CHARLES TOBEY, because in it he again expressed his dedication to human values. His reason for preparing the speech was that

he was fearful the Senate was about to take a course of action which might endanger human lives. I told him I would either read the speech or insert it in the RECORD.

It is interesting to note the reason he asked me to announce on the floor of the Senate for his not delivering the speech. All he said was, "Wayne, just announce that I will be necessarily absent." One can read whatever implications he may wish into that statement of CHARLES TOBEY, but one would have to have had the conversation with him to be as deeply moved as I am now when I reflect on what I am sure his subconscious was saying to him at the time.

I had talked to CHARLES TOBEY on various occasions in regard to religious principles and faiths. We talked on one occasion about two matters, one a hymn and one a Psalm, which apparently were very dear to him. I shall read a part of the Psalm, as an appropriate tribute to him.

As Senators know, he was a great lover of the old hymns. Apparently, if I may judge from my conversations with him, one of his favorite hymns was Rock of Ages, particularly the phrase in its, "Let me hide myself in Thee." I am satisfied that that is where CHARLES TOBEY is at this moment.

The Psalm he loved so well was the 119th Psalm, particularly the first half of it, a part of which is a commandment of faith, and the last part of which is a code of righteous living.

As my tribute to him I read the words he loved so much, and by which he lived. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways.

Thou hast commanded us to keep Thy precepts diligently.

Mr. President, I say those great words are a commandment of faith. And now for the code of living:

O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes!

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all Thy commandments.

I will praise Thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned Thy righteous judgments.

I will keep Thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

Mr. President, I am satisfied that CHARLES TOBEY is not forsaken at this hour.

On behalf of Mrs. Morse and myself, I extend to his widow and to his family our very deep sympathy.

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, I speak for all Senators on this side of the aisle, and, I am sure, for all on the other side as well, when I say we shall miss our colleague, CHARLES TOBEY, who has suddenly passed away. Although he was a native of Massachusetts, Senator TOBEY served his adopted State of New Hampshire ably and well as a member of the legislature, as governor, as a Member of the United States House of Representatives, and as a Senator of the United States.

His colleague, the distinguished senior Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. BRIDGES], has pointed out that CHARLES TOBEY devoted his life and his public service to carrying out the principles in which he deeply believed.

Those of us who had the opportunity to know him, know that he was a conscientious public servant, seeking always to advance what he felt were the best interests and the welfare of the people of the United States.

Mr. President, I wish to announce that on Thursday next we shall have a session which will be devoted to eulogies of our late colleague.

Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. President, I should like to take this opportunity to say a few words in tribute to the life, career, and work of a very great American and a very distinguished Member of the Senate.

I feel that Senator TOBEY was most unique in American public life. He was always on the side of the right, and against sin and corruption wherever they might be found.

I came to know Senator TOBEY quite well during the year and a half we served together on the Senate Crime Investigating Committee. Senator TOBEY'S contribution in inspiring the people to clean up corruption and racketeering in the Nation was outstanding, and will have a long-lasting effect.

All of us remember Senator TOBEY'S lectures and very pointed questions, which often brought tears to the eyes of his listeners, and I am sure had a very definite effect for good throughout the Nation.

Senator TOBEY deserved a great deal of credit, also, for his service as chairman of the subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce which turned the spotlight of public

opinion upon conditions existing along the waterfront in the New York City and northern New Jersey area. Unquestionably, his outstanding service in conducting that investigation has had much to do with bringing about the action on the part of the States of New York and New Jersey in proceeding to clean out the cancerous condition which for so many years has plagued the commerce of this Nation.

He always kept the interest of the average man uppermost in his mind. His committee, I have noted during this session of Congress, has been a place to which the small-business man has turned for help on matters involved in interstate commerce. And he has found there a friendly and helpful attitude.

In my opinion, one thing from which Senator TOBEY got greater satisfaction than anything else I know of was that he had something to do with causing Sheriff Frank Clancy, of Jefferson Parish, La., to have a change of heart with reference to law enforcement. Sheriff Clancy, who has many good qualities, and is a kindly man, had been-to put it mildly-rather lax in respect to the enforcement of law in his parish, which is near New Orleans. Because of his failure to answer certain questions before XCIX-619

our committee, he had been cited preliminarily by the committee for contempt. He came to Washington to answer certain interrogatories in order to clear himself.

Typical of the colloquy which occurred between Senator TOBEY and many witnesses was the one between him and Sheriff Clancy. Sheriff Clancy. After being questioned

by Senator TOBEY, Sheriff Clancy said he had had a change of heart, and he notified us that he was going to "lower the boom" in Jefferson Parish that very afternoon. That particular hearing was held here in Washington. Immediately after the hearing, Sheriff Clancy telephoned his deputies and "lowered the boom," and Jefferson Parish was cleaned up; and to his great credit, it has remained that way ever since. The sheriff has been reelected and is making a fine record.

I should like to read a part of the colloquy between Senator TOBEY and Sheriff Clancy on the occasion of the committee hearing, which I think is a typical illustration of the good work Senator TOBEY did throughout the Nation.

Earlier in the colloquy there was discussion as to whether Sheriff Clancy would be reelected if he did clean up the parish, and the sheriff replied that there were so many good people in the parish that he had no fear about not being

reelected.

I now read from the colloquy:

Senator TOBEY. You have testified, sir, that you have had a change of heart and that you now propose to close up these places down in your jurisdiction; is that right?

Mr. CLANCY. That is correct, Senator. Senator TOBEY. What is going to be the modus operandi; how are you going to close them up, are you going to serve notice on them by a sheriff's writ, are you going to walk in and padlock the places, are you going to bring them in and arrest them under the law and enforce the law? Mr. CLANCY. That is right.

Senator TOBEY. What are you going to do? Mr. CLANCY. I am going to notify them, just as we did when we closed up the parish, give them until 6 o'clock to get closed up, otherwise go to jail. As soon as I get back home they will be notified to close up in the towns or else go to jail.

Senator TOBEY. If they move into Gretna?
Mr. CLANCY. They will go to jail.
Senator TOBEY. In either case?

Mr. CLANCY. They go to jail if they are operating in Jefferson.

Senator TOBEY. You are going to put them out of business, no subterfuge or anything else?

Mr. CLANCY. What else?

Senator TOBEY. Come hell or high water you will put them out of business?

Mr. CLANCY. Definitely. You have my word for that.

Senator TOBEY. Barren as the Sahara?
Mr. CLANCY. Yes.

Senator TOBEY. Will you send us a post card when you have got it done?

Mr. CLANCY. Senator, you will see from the papers that it has been done. Senator TOBEY. We will be looking for it.. Mr. CLANCY. You can rest assured, Senator, that it will be done.

Senator TOBEY. What will happen to you at the next election?

Mr. CLANCY. I believe I can win without them.

Senator TOBEY. I think you can, too.

Mr. CLANCY. In fact, I know I can win without them. I believe that I have done enough for Jefferson Parish in getting the laws through, you know, that would make the place a better place for you people.

Senator TOBEY. And if you come through clean on this thing and do an honest-to-God job and put them out of business

Mr. CLANCY. I will do that.

Senator TOBEY. There will come into your soul, will there not, something of satisfaction that you have done your duty; is that right? Mr. CLANCY. I think so.

Senator TOBEY. You have made a compact with this committee, have you not? Mr. CLANCY. Sir?

Senator TOBEY. You have made a compact with this committee?

Mr. CLANCY. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. If there is nothing else, Sheriff, insofar as the committee is concerned, you have given answers to our questions, you have given us considerable information, and I have talked with Senator TOBEY and we are going to recommend to the other members of the committee that. contempt proceedings be dropped. I do not want you or anybody else to consider that as being proof of what you had down in Jefferson Parish. What you have done by way of conduct of your office, we certainly think has been very lax and that there has been very little law enforcement, particularly insofar as gambling and bookmaking and slot machines are concerned, the latter two being matters that we are especially interested in because of their interstate character.

That has been a very bad and terrible situation down there. You have sanctioned it over a period of many, many years. It is encouraging to see your apparent determination to really close the place up. I mean these operations.

I join Senator TOBEY in having the feeling that probably it will be some matter of satisfaction to you, and also in the long run if you stick by that determination the people are going to be very happy that it has been done because these things create nothing and take money away from the people who, many times, can least afford to pay.

As to the matter of what will happen to you as the result of the improper way you have allowed these things to go on over the period of years, with now your expressed determination to do something about it, is a matter with the people and the officials of Louisiana and Jefferson Parish.

Insofar as the contempt proceedings before this committee and the Senate, our recommendation, on the basis of the answers you have given, is that the citation not be presented to the Senate.

I want to say again that the picture that you have allowed to go on would have been a very sordid one and it will take very strong determination really to do something

about it.

Mr. CLANCY. It can be done, Senator. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other comments?

Mr. CLANCY. I want to thank Senator TOBEY for his remarks, because I think it will help me to make Jefferson a better place.

Senator TOBEY. Yes; you and I are getting older. Life is a very uncertain thing when that time comes when the bell rings and we have to move on.

Mr. CLANCY. That is right.

Senator TOBEY. It will be kind of a satisfaction in your life if you come through clean on this and cut these Gordian knots and say that "I did my duty under the law." We commend you for it.

Mr. CLANCY. Thank you.

Mr. President, about 2 weeks ago, in connection with the waterfront investigation, Senator TOBEY went to New Orleans. When he returned he telephoned

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