Mr. Speaker, I have said publicly and privately on many occasions that my opponent in the fall election of 1964 is a gifted American with a keen understanding of the issues of our day. He is a gentleman of the highest degree and I am more than favorably impressed by his very timely comments on the subject of this company's ill-advised probing in the area of conflict of interests. I have but one regret, Mr. Speaker, as it concerns our former colleague, Oliver P. Bolton. I wish he were a member of the Democratic Party. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, DEAR MR. BOLTON: We are examining the whole question of congressional conflicts. For this study, it is necessary to know more about the Congressmen whose private interests conflict with their public duty. Obviously, it would be awkward to seek this information from the Congressmen themselves. Therefore, we are approaching in confidence their political rivals, whose duty it was in the last campaign to search out any improper conflicts or conduct. We would appreciate any help you can give us in identifying your opponent's outside business interests and law clients. Has he used his position in Congress, in your opinion, to advance these personal interests? Has he performed any special favors for big campaign contributors? We are aware these conflicts may not be illegal, but we want to explore whether they are improper. Any information that you are able to send us will be held in complete confidence. It will help us, of course, to have documentation, but we intend to verify independently all the material we receive. We expect to complete our research in time to publish a book on the subject before the 1966 congressional campaign. Thank you in advance for your confidential cooperation. Sincerely yours, Mr. JAMES B. ADLER, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, N.Y. JAMES B. ADLER. AUGUST 31, 1965. DEAR MR. ADLER: With reference to your inquiry of August 24, I have no information regarding any conflict of interest which my opponent in the last election had or has and, therefore, regret that I can be of no assistance to you in your inquiry. For the record, however, having worked on this subject in some depth over a 10-year period, of which 6 were spent in the Congress, I would suggest to you that the whole question of any possible conflict of interest is of sufficient import and, at the same time, of sufficient demagogic and distorted potential as to be one which cannot properly be approached by inquiries directed to those who have a partisan or emotional ax themselves to grind. I frankly find myself amazed that a publisher of your reputation would approach as delicate and difficult a question as this from this angle. VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES FOR GREATER BOSTON, MASS., SEPTEMBER 8, 1965 It is an honor to address an organization which has been a pioneer in American philanthropy. For 70 years, your federation has epitomized the conscience, the compassion, the concern which are the hallmarks of the American character. In 1895, your founders opened a new chapter in the history of charity. They established a team to meet community needs on a united basis-through joint planning, budgeting, and fundraising. Your Federated Philanthropies inspired citizens of Jewish faith all over America to similar joint efforts. And you encouraged Americans of every faith to unite successfully in community chests and united funds. Your aid has reached to the end of the earth in the service of your kinsmen. The funds you have made available have rescued, have rehabilitated countless numbers of refugees. You have enabled them to open new lives in our sister democracy of Israel. How fitting it is that here in Boston and elsewhere, so many sons and daughters of immigrants should hape kept faith so well with strangers-wanderers from so many lands. They had never ceased to dream-for 2,000 years of return to the Promised Land. Your generosity made their return possible. We Americans have owed a debt to man kind. And you have helped discharge that debt. Here in Greater Boston, you are Americans of many origins, living in harmony and productivity. Common to all of us is the Judeo-Christian heritage. This is the bedrock on which your federation's philanthropy is built. It is the legacy that "the Lord our God, the Lord is one❞— the one God of love and mercy. It is the concept that we serve God by serving man, created in His image, by loving our neighbor as ourself, by "doing justly and loving mercy and walking humbly" before our Maker. From Sinai, the basis of this message first came to mankind. Later, that message was elaborated and trumpeted by the prophets. Other great faiths expressed the messageeach in its own way. And, here, now, as in the past, your federation has exemplified this creed by daily deed. The spirit which has guided you today guides our Nation. It is a spirit expressed in classic form 800 years ago by the sage, Moses Maimonides. You will recall how he described the eight rungs on the "golden ladder of charity." The first the lowest-of these rungs he stated, is an act of charity which is reluctant-a gift of the hand, but not of the heart. The second-he noted-is a cheerful gift, but one which is not proportionate to the distress of the sufferer. And the third rung is a cheerful and proportionate gift, but one which is not given until the donor is solicited. And so on up the line to higher levels of giving. In the seventh step, charity is made available in such a way that the self-respect of the recipient is fully protected. The eighth and most meritorious rung was described as preventive-to anticipate need by assisting one's brother in advance-either by a gift, or by a loan or by teaching him a trade or by putting him into an enterprise, so that he might earn his own livelihood. This, wrote Maimonides, is the summit of And this is the charity's golden ladder. summit to which this Nation has now climbed. but to prevent poverty by striking at its We are acting not just to relieve poverty, roots. We are enabling the one-fifth of our American families who are poor to break out of a prison-economic, psychological, cultural-which has condemned generation after generation to misery and despair. Men long to stand erect, with honor, with respect and self-respect. They cannot stand erect without livelihood, or hope. So America wages war on poverty. Today, too, we are enabling the persecuted, the oppressed-the one-tenth of our citizens who are Negroes-to achieve their birthright. With the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights of 1965, we have provided legal framework on which to build the equality of opportunity promised to the Negro 175 years ago-but never achieved. We are moving forward toward a more just America. We are also working for a healthier America. Greater Boston has always been a center of medical achievement. Two great medical institutions are supported by your federation's funds. These institutions are famed throughout America for their high standards of medical research, education, and patient care. Today we seek to encourage similar high medical standards throughout the Nation. Now pending before the House of Representatives is a landmark bill to establish regional medical complexes for cancer, heart disease and stroke the three most widespread killing and crippling diseases. This same bill will enable your community to achieve even greater medical leadership. The goal of the legislation is, I can assure you, not to preempt private action. Far from it. America needs more-not lessprofessional self-responsibility, more, not less-private philanthropy. It was private action which first awakened the Nation to a vast blight which darkens 512 million lives-mental retardation. Then, in 1963, two historic Federal laws took up the private counterattack against this condition and expanded the national program. John F. Kennedy, conceived and proposed these magnificent laws. He signed those laws in the last weeks of his life. Today, too, we are working for the education of our children-for the revival of our cities for the full development of this Nation's material and human resources. We seek to build a strong and free American society able to carry, for years ahead, growing burdens and responsibilities at home and in the world. This is the society, in the words of our President, "not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor." Our American Congress is today providing the vital ingredients with which we can seek that destiny. It is passing the broadest and most important, long-lasting legislation ever passed in any American Congress. For this accomplishment, we owe much to many. But no one deserves more honor than the devout and humbled man for whom you and I have such deep affection: Speaker JOHN W. MCCORMACK. He has been a great Speaker leading a great Congress to victories long needed, long sought. And we owe honor, too, to our American people a people who, today, increasingly cast aside the old prejudices, the old hates, the old slogans-a people who have broken through the old barriers. We owe a debt to American men and women who say: I am white and you are black, but we are equal before God. We owe a debt to those who say: I am rich and you are poor, but we together will find hope and opportunity. We owe a debt to those who say: I have one faith, you have another-my last name is not trade practices. The result, if this bill becomes law, will be that the money appropriated by the Congress to insure these fair trade practices will not be spent in jurisdictional litigation. Rather, it will allow the Packers and Stockyards Division to devote their full time and efforts to promoting free and open competition as they are charged by the Packers and Stockyards Act to do. BATAAN-CORREGIDOR DAY Mr. HATHAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from Hawaii [Mr. MATSUNAGA] may extend his remarks at this point in the RECORD and include extraneous matter. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there gentleman from Ohio [Mr. FEIGHAN] is recognized for 5 minutes. public school educators of Cleveland were Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, the privileged to have Vice President HUMPHREY as their speaker at the Public School Preschool Conference held yesterday at Cleveland's public auditorium. Our Vice President commended the efforts being made in Cleveland to provide quality education for our children. He pointed out that Cleveland is on the move, with the largest school library system in the Nation, a doubling of vocational education programs, an increase of 300 percent in summer school enrollment and an adult education program geared to eliminating illiteracy. The Vice President stressed the short and your last name, but we are brothers in man- objection to the request of the gentleman long run dangers to American society as kind. STRENGTHENING THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT Mr. HATHAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from New York [Mr. Dow] may extend his remarks at this point in the RECORD and include extraneous matter. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Maine? There was no objection. Mr. DOW. Mr. Speaker, nationally we are undergoing a state of revolution in the production of livestock, poultry, and eggs. The Packers and Stockyards Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is charged with promoting and maintaining free and open competition in livestock marketing and meat packing, including poultry. In an action brought under the Packers and Stockyards Act in 1922, in the case of Stafford against Wallace, the Supreme Court stated: The unnecessary expense in the marketing of livestock necessarily reduces the price received by the shipper and increases the price to be paid by the consumer. This is just as true today as in 1922 and the revolution in our production and marketing system needs constant surveillance to insure that no party is injured by unfair trade practices. The Packers and Stockyards Act is a good act. The division is rendering a good, worthwhile service to consumers, tradespeople, and producers. It was the congressional intent that this would be so. Unfortunately, there are some jurisdictional disputes, especially in the poultry and chainstore area that have resulted in expensive, time-consuming litigation. The legislation I propose and which I introduced yesterday as H.R. 10880 would make it crystal clear that it is the intent and purpose of Congress to have everyone in these industries abide by fair from Maine? There was no objection. Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, today I have introduced a joint resolution which would authorize the President to proclaim April 9, 1967, as Bataan-Corregidor Day. The day will mark the 25th anniversary of the historic and heroic resistance by American and Filipino soldiers to Japan's invasion of the Philippines. a consequence of school dropouts and outlined our Government's efforts to meet the major causes of the tragedy. His examination of this problem and the values of education to the future of our Nation was a challenge accepted enthusiastically by the educators of Cleveland. President's address: The address of Vice HUMPHREY was tuned to the opening of President schools and its message brings enThe Japanese landed in Luzon on De-couragement to teachers, pupils, parents, cember 10, 1941, and according to their and members of school boards throughtimetable the Philippines was to be out our Nation. brought under control in 10 days. They were not anticipating a prolonged and determined resistance on the part of the island's defenders. The small AmericanFilipino force under General MacArthur, however, did not surrender but withdrew to the rugged peninsula of Bataan and to the island of Corregidor. There they prepared to make a last desperate stand against the enemy. In that early stage of the war, there was little or no hope of reinforcements and the defenders knew that they were on their own. To face the oncoming Japanese army required the greatest courage. Day after day the Americans and their Filipino comrades fought off repeated attacks by the Japanese. How ever, disease and battle casualties took a terrible toll and after 120 days of desperate fighting our men were forced to surrender to the inevitable. Bataan fell to the Japanese invaders on April 9, 1942, and Corregidor fell to the enemy soon afterwards. The battle for Bataan and Corregidor was a military defeat, but it was also a victory of the spirit-the spirit that inspires men to fight for freedom whatever the odds may be. April 9, 1967, will not be an occasion for joy and merry celebration, rather a time to express our ficed their lives for man's freedom. deepest gratitude to the men who sacriurge that the House give favorable consideration to the joint resolution which will authorize the President to proclaim April 9, 1967, as Bataan-Corregidor Day. I REMARKS BY VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY AT THE CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOL PRESCHOOL CONFERENCE The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the history that all of Cleveland's public school teachers and principals have been in the same place at the same time. (Although there must be one or two truants today.) I understand that this is the first time in This is the former educator's dream: An audience of 6,000 teachers—and the members of the Board of Education, as well-to be told about education. dressing, in Washington, an historic White A few weeks ago I had the honor of ad ference was an inspiration to all who participated in it. For that conference was not just the usual meeting of genial people, a few formula speeches, and a closing banquet. It was a conference marked by questioning, by debate, by challenge to old ways of thinking. And that is good. For our country todevelopment of the potential of each of its day can afford nothing less than the fullest citizens. And that can only be done through education-education in tune with the times, House Conference on Education. That con education of and for excellence. In our world today there is no time for catching up, no room for errors to be tolerated and later corrected. The world we live in is one of change and uncertainty. It is a world which makes demands upon all of us. We must face the fact that there are modern weapons which can destroy the civilized world in a half-hour's time. We must fact the fact that two-thirds of the world is poor, hungry, and sick and that the gap between rich and poor nations widens each year. We must face the fact that the globe is exploding with people. We must face the fact that we are engulfed in great waves of scientific and technological change which we do not fully understand, and which can overcome us or save us. We must face the fact, too, that there are people in this world who would make it a totalitarian world-a world in which man would live to serve the state, and not the state the man. Thomas Jefferson said, and it is true, that no nation can be both ignorant and free. He also said, in equal truth: "What service can we ever render to our country equal to promoting education? *** The exertions and mortifications are temporary; the benefit eternal."· Cleveland has learned this lesson well. There was a time, and I speak frankly, when education in this city was less than it should have been. But the public officials, the educators, the parents, the citizens of this city came to recognize that it was time for a change. Today great things are happening here in education. You have the largest library program in the United States. You will have some 100 new school libraries in the next 12 months. You have doubled your vocational education programs-and vocational education for jobs of today and tomorrow, not jobs of yesterday. You increased, this year, your summer school enrollment by 300 percent. You are teaching 5,000 adult men and women, for the first time, to read and write. You are providing to this city education of quantity and quality. And this city, and our country, are the better for it. The 153,000 students in your city schools will certainly be the better for it. Tomorrow is the first day of the fall school term for most of America. But for many young Americans, who should be returning to school, this will not be true. If our national problem of school dropouts continues at its present pace, we will have in 10 years some 32 million adults in the labor force without a high school diploma. These will be 32 million Americans, without adequate skill and education, in a society demanding more skill and education than ever before. During this coming school year we face the prospect of 750 thousand dropouts. Some of them will not be at school tomorrow. Can our Nation afford this terrible waste of its human resources? Can it in 10 years afford to sustain 32 million Americans, and the members of their families, without adequate traning and education? Can we afford the cost of public welfare to support those not able to support themselves? Can we afford the loss of their potential productivity? The answer is quite obviously "No." We cannot tolerate such loss, such tragic waste of human potential on either economic or moral basis. To meet the dropout problem of tomorrow-the problem of those faced with deciding whether or not to go to school at the beginning of the fall term-we in Washington have taken active and direct steps this sum Since that time our Government task force, formed to take on this job, has been at work. First, we set out to create summer jobs for young men and women who needed those jobs to be able to remain in school. We contacted private businessmen, we contacted State employment services, we worked through the neighborhood Youth Corps, we increased where possible Federal hiring. I have not yet given my final report on this program to the President. But I will take the risk today of predicting it will show that this youth opportunity campaign resulted in employment of more than 1 million young Americans who would otherwise have been unemployed this summer. Two weeks ago we undertook yet another campaign at the President's direction: a back-to-school campaign. In these past 2 weeks we have worked with radio and television stations, with recording companies, with newspapers and magazines, with public officials, with church I personally have written letters and sent Our message has been this: Help get young the learning process. We cannot afford to waste educational research and development because we are timid or lack the imagination to use what is new. Visual aids, educational TV, and teaching machines, for instance, have not yet been used to their full potential. We must, of course, balance and integrate these approaches with the experience that only a skillful teacher can provide. But ample evidence exists to suggest that such balances can be achieved in almost every subject area. We must also accelerate our attempts to improve the training and preparation of teachers, to explore more efficient patterns of local school organization, and to develop additional sources of money available to our States and localities to pay for better educa The test of our efforts will come, in most tion. parts of America, tomorrow morning. If we have been successful we will have helped thousands of young people say "Yes" to their futures. But our campaigns this summer, and in the last 2 weeks, have been measures only to meet emergencies at hand. To meet the long-term, undeniable educational necessities of this Nation, we Americans are now engaged in constructing solid blocks to build upon. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, the vocational education amendments, the Manpower Training and Development Act, the higher education bill, the teaching professions bill-this is legislation passed or soon to be passed by this U.S. Congress-a Congress which has done more for education than any previous American Congress. This is a Congress responding to the leadership of an American President who was both a school dropout and a teacher, a President who says that we must give each American child all the education he can take. This is a Congress whose Members have overwhelmingly recognized that education is the keystone of our free society, of our democratic system. This is a Congress responding to the needs and the wishes of the American people. This year, for the first time, public opinion polls show that Americans consider opportunity for education to be their most important domestic concern. Yes, the American people are ready for bold and creative efforts in education. The Congress is making those efforts. But what about those with direct responsibility in education? Let us be honest with ourselves and recognize this: Despite the dedication and hard work of American educators, there are deficiencies in American education. We must correct them. We must, for example, continue eliminatand curriculums-methods and curriculums ing obsolete and outmoded teaching methods which stunt the development of creative thinking and understanding. We have begun to emphasize the importance of understanding the basic structures of mathematics, languages, and the physical and biological sciences. As you know far better than I, new approaches in these subjects show that our young people have astounding capacity for learning when they are truly challenged and excited by the learning process. Let us make the learning process exciting, too, in teaching of the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts. For these are the disciplines at the heart of creative expression and, indeed, of free political institutions. These are the disciplines which perpetuate the priceless value of our civilization and guarantee that men will remain the masters of science. We must have the courage and foresight to use new mechanisms and devices to help Yes, we have an obligation to adapt our educational system to meet the challenges and demands of a changing world. In the past few years we have come a long way toward meeting these challenges and demands. But we still have great ground to cover. If we need as we do-new techniques, new instruments, and new methods to assist in the process of education, we also need something old-something spirit of personal commitment. eternal-the Personal commitment will be needed, too, for tasks in education which go beyond those in our own country and which serve more than our own purposes. We Americans face, and must defeat, igthe midst of our own rich society. But we norance, illiteracy and hunger existing in must equally face-and, equally, must help defeat these same enemies where they exist in other, less fortunate places. We are today most concerned with education here at home, in the United States. This is the immediate task before us. But we must recognize the truth in the words of H. G. Wells: "Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe." As our American wealth and American energy are turned to the important work of education in this Nation, they must also be turned to the work of education where it is even more needed-in the two-thirds of the world waiting on the outside for a chance, too, for something better. The American educator and American citizen must think in larger terms-more ambitious terms than we have even yet begun to contemplate. The lessons we learn at home must be applied in other places. We of this American generation have the chance to be remembered, as Toynbee says, not for crimes or even for astonishing inventions, but as the first generation to dare to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race. And the surest way to that goal is the way of education. Through investment in education we can begin to close the gap between rich and poor. Yes, we can be remembered for our generosity, for our humanity, for our sense of commitment to our fellowman. Our weapons can be schoolhouses and books. Our soldiers can be teaching volunteers. Our victory can be the victory of the human spirit over hopelessness and despair. Our monument can be a society of free and creative peoples, living at peace and with the knowledge that each new day can be a better day. Let us proceed, then, to let quality in education enhance the quality of life. Let opportunity in education lend opportunity to all mankind. We shall be known as teachers: not warriors; as educators: not conquerors. Our legacy will not be the wealth of our treasury; but the richness of man's culture. Each child entering life is an adventure into tomorrow-a chance to break the old pattern and make it new. We can, with faith and labor, make tomorrow a day of freedom, life, and peace. Mr. Speaker, the warm welcome accorded Vice President HUMPHREY by the people of Cleveland is expressed in an editorial "Vice President Visits" carried by the Cleveland Press on September 4, and an editorial "HUMPHREY a Welcome Guest" carried by the Cleveland Plain Dealer on September 7, which follow: [From the Cleveland Press, Sept. 4, 1965] VICE PRESIDENT VISITS American education still has plenty of remedial work to do, but it should be pointed out how far we have come in the past decade to improve the Nation's sorely neglected schools. Who, for instance, would ever have expected a Vice President of the United States to address a grand assembly of Cleveland teachers, principals and administrators the day before school begins? This is precisely what is scheduled to happen Tuesday when Vice President HUBERT HUMPHREY comes to town. A former professor, Vice President HUMPHREY dramatizes the new relationship between the Federal Government and the little red schoolhouse by coming here for the preschool rally. It is a most welcome visit and it is hoped it might even be observed by young dropouts, both present and po tential. [From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept. 7, 1965] HUMPHREY A WELCOME GUEST The city today extends a warm and especially grateful welcome to Vice President HUBERT H. HUMPHREY who is coming here to address 10,000 Cleveland public school employees in what has been described as "the keynote for the national school year." Mr. HUMPHREY is a congenial and entertaining guest and a visit with him, no matter how brief, is always a delightful and useful experience. The Vice President is doubly welcome in his role as head of the intensive campaign initiated by President Johnson to reclaim school dropouts and to discourage the spread of the damaging dropout practice. The prestige of his office combined with his engaging personality will draw maximum attention to the drive and provide the spark for its ultimate success. In directing to Cleveland the spotlight on national school opening activities, Mr. HUMPHREY is, in a sense, paying his respects to Schools Superintendent Paul W. Briggs. Briggs has made an impressive impact on Washington political life in his several appearances there as an adviser on needed legislation in the field of education. Briggs' capacity for implementing projects with influential leverage brings HUMPHREY to Cleveland today. We hope it is an enjoyable and rewarding day for both of them. LEAVE OF ABSENCE tive program and any special orders here- to revise and extend his remarks. Mr. FEIGHAN (at the request of Mr. Mr. MCCARTHY (at the request of Mr. HATHAWAY) for 30 minutes, September 9, and to revise and extend his remarks and to include extraneous matter. EXTENSION OF REMARKS By unanimous consent, permission to extend remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, was granted to: Mr. THOMSON of Wisconsin (at the request of Mr. CLEVELAND) to include tables during remarks in Committee of the Whole on H.R. 10871. (The following Members (at the request of Mr. CLEVELAND) and to include extraneous matter:) Mr. FINO in two instances. Marquette in North America, and for other purposes; S.J. Res. 89. Joint resolution extending for 2 years the existing authority for the erection in the District of Columbia of a memorial to Mary McLeod Bethune; and S.J. Res. 102. Joint resolution to authorize funds for the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice and the District of Columbia Commission on Crime and Law Enforcement. ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED Mr. BURLESON, from the Committee on House Administration, reported that that committee had examined and found truly enrolled bills of the House of the following titles, which were thereupon signed by the Speaker: H.R. 1443. An act for the relief of Mrs. Olga Bernice Bramson Gilfillan; H.R. 1627. An act for the relief of Esterina Ricupero; H.R. 1820. An act for the relief of Winsome Elaine Gordon; H.R. 2678. An act for the relief of Joo Yul Kim; H.R. 2871. An act for the relief of Dorota Mr. MARTIN of Alabama in four in- Zytka; stances. Mr. HORTON. (The following Members (at the request of Mr. HATHAWAY) and to include extraneous matter:) Mr. DINGELL. SENATE BILLS REFERRED Bills of the Senate of the following titles were taken from the Speaker's table and, under the rule, referred as follows: S. 1674. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make disposition of geothermal steam and associated geothermal thermal steam and associated geothermal resources, and for other purposes, to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. S. 1935. An act to amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, to provide for the timely determination of certain claims of American nationals settled by the United States-Polish Claims Agreement of July 16, 1960, and for other purposes, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. S. 2064. An act to amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, relative to the return of certain alien property interests, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. SENATE ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS SIGNED The SPEAKER announced his signature to enrolled bills and joint resolutions of the Senate of the following titles: H.R. 3292. An act for the relief of Consuelo Alvarado de Corpus; H.R. 4465. An act to enact part III of the District of Columbia Code, entitled "Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations," codifying the general and permanent laws relating to decedents' estates and fiduciary relations in the District of Columbia; H.R. 5024. An act to amend titles 10 and 14, United States Code, and the Military Personnel and Civilian Employees' Claims Act of 1964, with respect to the settlement of claims against the United States by members of the uniformed services and civilian officers and employees of the United States for damage to, or loss of, personal property incident to their service, and for other purposes; H.R. 6719. An act for the relief of Mrs. Kazuyo Watanabe Ridgely; and H.R. 9570. An act to amend the Federal Firearms Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to relieve applicants from certain provisions of the act if he determines that the granting of relief would not be contrary to the public interest, and that the applicant would not be likely to conduct his operations in an unlawful manner. ADJOURNMENT Mr. HATHAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 7 o'clock and 10 minutes p.m.) the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, September 9, 1965, at 12 o'clock noon. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive S. 795. An act to provide for the assessing of Indian trust and restricted lands within the Lummi Indian diking project on the Lummi Indian Reservation in the State of district formed under the laws of the State; S. 949. An act to promote commerce and encourage economic growth by supporting State and interstate programs to place the To Mr. PEPPER (at the request of Mr. findings of science usefully in the hands of By unanimous consent, leave of ab- Washington, through a drainage and diking communications were taken from the sence was granted as follows: To Mr. BONNER (at the request of Mr. ALBERT), for the rest of the week, on account of illness. ALBERT) for today, an account of official business. SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED By unanimous consent, permission to address the House following the legisla American enterprise; S. 2420. An act to provide continuing authority for the protection of former Presidents and their wives or widows, and for other purposes; S.J. Res. 53. Joint resolution to establish a tercentenary commission to commemorate the advent and history of Father Jacques Speaker's table and referred as follows: 1563. A communication from the President of the United States, transmitting proposed appropriations to finance the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, during fiscal year 1966 (H. Doc. No. 290); to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. 1564. A communication from the President of the United States, transmitting proposed supplemental appropriations for the executive branch and the District of Columbia, for fiscal year 1966 (H. Doc. No. 291); to the Committee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. 1565. A letter from the Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, transmitting a report on the use of funds to provide additional research laboratory space at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., pursuant to section 1(d) (2), 78 Stat. 310, 311; to the Committee on Science and Astronautics. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of committees were delivered to the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper calendar, as follows: Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey: Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers. House Report No. 960. Report on the disposition of certain papers of sundry executive departments. Ordered to be printed. Mr. MILLER: Committee on Science and Astronautics. House Joint Resolution 597. Joint resolution providing for the erection of a memorial to the late Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the father of rocketry; with amendment (Rept. No. 961). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina: Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 266. A bill to amend sections 404 and 406 of title 37, United States Code, relating to travel and transportation allowances of certain members of the uniformed services who are retired, discharged, or released from active duty; with amendment (Rept. No. 962). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. HARRIS: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H.R. 3140. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to assist in combating heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other major diseases; with amendment (Rept. No. 963). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. PHILBIN: Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 6852. A bill to authorize the disposal, without regard to the prescribed 6month waiting period, of approximately 47 million pounds of abaca from the national stockpile; with amendment (Rept. No. 964). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. PHILBIN: Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 9047. A bill to authorize the release of certain quantities of zinc from either the national stockpile or the supplemental stockpile, or both; with amendment (Rept. No. 965). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. PHILBIN: Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 10748. A bill to authorize the transfer of copper from the national stockpile to the Bureau of the Mint; without amendment (Rept. No. 966). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. PHILBIN: Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 10715. A bill to authorize the disposal of chemical grade chromite from the supplemental stockpile; without amendment (Rept. No. 967). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. PHILBIN: Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 10516. A bill authorizing the disposal of vegetable tannin extracts from the national stockpile; without amendment (Rept. No. 968). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. PHILBIN: Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 10714. A bill to authorize the disposal of colemanite from the supplemental stockpile; without amendment (Rept. No. 969). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. FOGARTY: Committee of conference. H.R. 10586. A bill making supplemental appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for other purposes (Rept. No. 970). Ordered to be printed. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public bills and resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows: By Mr. BROWN of California: H.R. 10896. A bill to provide for the compensation of persons injured by certain criminal acts; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. GILBERT: H.R. 10897. A bill to control the use of the design of the great seal of the United States and the seal of the President of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MULTER: H.R. 10898. A bill to provide for the establishment of the Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway in the State of New York, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. By Mr. PATMAN: H.R. 10899. A bill to amend the Small Business Act, as amended; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. REUSS: H.R. 10900. A bill to provide for the establishment of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in the State of Wisconsin, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. By Mr. CUNNINGHAM: H.R. 10901. A bill to amend section 5(1) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 to provide benefits for children of deceased rail road employees who are over the age of 18 and below the age of 22 and are attending an educational institution as fulltime students; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. O'KONSKI: H.R. 10902. A bill to provide for the establishment of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in the State of Wisconsin, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. By Mr. RACE: H.R. 10903. A bill relating to certain claims for credit or refund of Federal income taxes; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. ROOSEVELT: H.R. 10904. A bill to provide for the establishment of the Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway in the State of New York, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. By Mr. FULTON of Tennessee: H.R. 10905. A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to permit the private carriage of letters by independent contractors between offices of business organizations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. By Mr. MOORE: H.R. 10906. A bill to amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to prohibit transportation of articles to or from the United States aboard certain foreign vessels, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. By Mr. ERLENBORN: H.J. Res. 657. Joint resolution to authorize the President to proclaim the last week in October of each year as National Water Awareness Week; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. MATSUNAGA: H.J. Res. 658. Joint resolution to authorize the President to proclaim April 9, 1967, as Bataan-Corregidor Day; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. WIDNALL: H.J. Res. 659. Joint resolution directing the National Capital Planning Commission to make a study of the site selected for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and any other sites proposed for such center; to the Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. OLSEN of Montana: H. Con. Res. 498. Concurrent resolution to recognize the World Law Day; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. SCHMIDHAUSER: H. Con. Res. 499. Concurrent resolution to recognize the World Law Day; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. |