IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, September 8, 1965

Mr. FINO. Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to vigorously express my objections to the proposed reversal of American policy that half the American commercial wheat sales to countries in the Soviet bloc be shipped on Americanflag vessels.

In my opinion, it is bad enough that we trade with the Soviet bloc. I see no reason to give the Soviets our wheat to alleviate their grain shortages. I say this because a grain shortage in the Soviet bloc generally forces a cutback in planned industrial building and development, and such a cutback is to our benefit. As far as I am concerned, those who want to trade in wheat with the Soviets as a quick way to pick up our balance of payments without trading strategic material miss the fact that American wheat, while not itself strategic, frees Communist planners to concern themselves with other cold war economic production. Our policy is clearly short sighted.

Mr. Speaker, let me repeat. I do not support trade in wheat with the Soviet bloc. Still less do I feel that American interests ought to be sacrificed to promote this trade at any cost. That is why I oppose sacrificing American maritime interests so that this wheat can be made more attractive to the Soviets. If the Soviets will not buy this wheat when it includes costs of shipment in American ships, then we should not sell it to them.

I know that the wheat producers, grain merchants, and railroads want these wheat sales to the Soviets, what

ever the boon to the Soviet economy or whatever the detriment to the American merchant marine. This is pure financial opportunism.

Just a few weeks ago, the Johnson administration surrendered to the Communists in the United Nations on the question of loss of voting power because of unpaid dues. Now the administration wants to surrender on the terms of trade in wheat. There seems to be no limit to the administration's willingness to surrender on financial and other questions with respect to which it would be sensible and proper to take a stand against the Soviets. This is in marked

contrast, unfortunately, to the administration's willingness to buy rice paddy acreage with blood in Vietnam, after having seemingly passed up some opportunities to negotiate.

Mr. Speaker, I hope that the administration will not drop the requirement that wheat shipped to the Soviets be shipped 50 percent of the time in American-flag ships. We have seen too many surrenders on easy fields of battle. Let us not compound our mistakes.

Award to Mr. Philip Goldberg

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HON. JOHN D. DINGELL

OF MICHIGAN

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, September 8, 1965

Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I want to call to the attention of this body the fact that the National Council of Senior Citizens at its medicare victory celebration on August 2 singled out, along with distinguished Members of Congress, the labor movement, and other elements in our national life, Mr. Philip Goldberg, president of the Hamilton Life Insurance Co., of New York City, and the inscription on his award read as follows: "To Philip J. Goldberg for outstanding work on behalf of elderly citizens."

Vice President HUBERT HUMPHREY, in commenting on this recognition as he presented the award to Mr. Goldberg, said:

He was an outstanding example of the type of businessman who put public service ahead of private profit-who recognized the need that the business community cooperated to play a constructive role in seeing to it with government and gave leadership and talent to the development of programs beneficial to all Americans.

Mr. Goldberg had declared in a speech in October of 1964 that the very nature of medicare is such that it requires a partnership of Government and private enterprise and that in his opinion the legislation was truly in the spirit of the American tradition and in the realization of President Johnson's Great Society. He further stated that it was his firm conviction that just as social security grew to be a boon to the life insurance industry so would medicare prove beneficial to the health insurance field.

Mr. Goldberg indeed deserves credit as do many other American businessmen of his type for the kind of interest they

take in religious, civic, and political affairs and I am delighted to be able to add my praise to that of Vice President HUMPHREY and John Edelman, president of the National Council of Senior Citizens, in their tribute to him for the willingness to courageously speak out even when it is unpopular with some of his colleagues in order to fight for decent standards of economic and social well-being for all Americans.

Washington Report

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HON. JAMES D. MARTIN

OF ALABAMA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 8, 1965

Mr.

MARTIN of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, under permission to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I wish to include my weekly report to my constituents of April 22, 1965:

WASHINGTON REPORT FROM CONGRESSMAN JIM

MARTIN, SEVENTH DISTRICT, ALABAMA

THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION RESOLUTION

The House passed House Joint Resolution 1, proposing an amendment to the Constitution providing for presidential succession. The vote was 368 to 29 and I was one of the 29 voting against the resolution. This is one of those technical pieces of legislation not easy to explain, but I feel there is grave danger in approving an amendment to the Constitution which would make it possible for an appointed official, never having been approved by the people, to become President of the United States.

Under this proposal, upon the death of the President, the Vice President, having taken the oath as the new President, would appoint a new Vice President. His appointee would have to be approved by the Senate and House, but there are no restrictions as to whom he could appoint. I could not help but think whom the present Vice President, HUBERT HUMPHREY, might appoint if fate decreed that he became President. Certainly, his choice would be approved by the presThis worries me when I remember that on

ent liberal majority in the House and Senate.

Members of the 89th Congress and having taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, 149 Members of this Congress voted not to seat the legally elected Members of Congress

their first vote after having been sworn in as

from the State of Mississippi. What could

happen in the future, and what kind of man later Congress, made up of ultraliberal-radicould be appointed as Vice President if some cals, decided to impose their choice on the people? It is too dangerous a power to confer lightly.

I believe we should follow the present order of succession which makes the Speaker

INVESTIGATION OF UN-AMERICAN GROUPS

The House approved an appropriation of $50,000 to permit the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate the Ku Klux Klan. I voted for the appropriation because I believe we should bring out in the

open all the facts concerning any group where there is suspicion of un-American activities. I did, however, urge the House to include in the investigation such organizations as COPE, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, NAACP, and the Southern Conference Education Fund. If these groups and their leaders have nothing to hide, why should they object to a full and complete investigation of their activities, their motives, and those who plan demonstrations and call for breaking the laws of the land. It was quite interesting to note that the liberals in the House were against the investigation because they were afraid it would lead to a demand for an investigation of all these organizations.

SOCIALISM FAILS AGAIN

While the Johnson administration hails each additional step toward socialism as a

victory, the world witnesses another failure in socialism-France is going broke under its state controlled, socialistic programs. Last year the Government-owned railroads in France lost $20 million. (Yet, the railroad union leaders just a few weeks ago called for the U.S. Government to take over

the railroads here.) The French Government-operated gas company lost $7 million in 1964. The Paris airport lost $6 million last year. Paris subways and bus systems continue to run up big losses. The French Government last fall conceded that its medicare program was bankrupt. One hundred and twenty-two nationalized industries in France are losing money. In contrast, private industry in France is flourishing.

Before we go whole hog for the Great Society, Lyndon Johnson promises through socializing more and more of the private sector in the United States, it makes good

sense to take a look at Socialist failures whenever private incentive is taken away and private initiative curtailed.

The United States built the greatest economy in the history of man, offered greater benefits to more people and created the highest standard of living, all under private enterprise. Let's not lose that spirit now by turning to new economic systems here, systems which have been tried by country after country and have failed in every instance.

Augustine La Corte and Unico National

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HON. CHARLES S. JOELSON

OF NEW JERSEY

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 8, 1965

Mr. JOELSON. Mr. Speaker, it is with pleasure that I report to my colleagues the election of my distinguished con

stituent, Augustine La Corte, as president of Unico National. "Gus," as he is known to his many friends, well deserves the honor. I extend warm congratulations to him and his charming wife, Sarah. The motto of Unico National is "Service Above Self." It has lived up to its motto by fostering a scholarship program which has helped many young men and women to attain a college education, and ultimately go on to positions of leadership and responsibility.

Unico National is a constant reminder to the people of America of the great contributions made by Americans of Italian descent in our Nation.

I am sure that under the leadership of Gus La Corte, this fine organization will continue to grow and to render dedicated public service.

WASHINGTON REPORT THE VOTING RIGHTS BILL

(By Congressman JIM MARTIN, Seventh District, Alabama)

Congress is going to pass a voting rights bill. My personal belief is that no new legislation is necessary. There are enough laws on the books now to protect the right of every qualified American citizen to vote without discrimination because of his color, his race, or his religion. Proper enforcement of present laws would assure that right. However, we are faced with a situation which is unprecedented in American history. The President has demanded that Congress pass a bill on voting rights and, spurred by the emotion which is gripping our country at the present time, Congress will pass such a bill.

So when Members of Congress vote on this bill they will not have the choice of either taking the President's bill or have no bill at all. The only chance we have to defeat the President's bill, with all its discrimination and retaliatory moves against the South, is to adopt a better bill. We can protect the right of qualified citizens to vote and at the same time preserve the constitutional guarantees of the States to determine election laws and voter qualifications.

I have been working unceasingly for such an improved bill and the Republican Members of the House will offer one as a substitute for the President's bill. While the Republican bill still does not meet fully my original conception, it is a much better measure than the President's bill.

1. The Johnson bill applies to only a few States and only to a few counties in other States where there is a literacy test and less than half the adult population was registered or voted in the last election. The Republican bill applies to the Nation at large including every State and every county in every State where discrimination in registration and voting is being practiced.

2. The Johnson bill undertakes by statute rather than constitutional amendment to

outlaw poll taxes in State and local elections. The Republican bill does not deal with poll taxes.

3. The Johnson bill authorized a State to win an exemption from coverage by proving that it had not practiced racial discrimination against a single individual a single time in the last 10 years. This is a reversal of the concept that the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Since the Republican bill applies to all States, there is no need for such a provision.

4. The Johnson bill provided that, after lature could enact an enforceable change in the effective date of the bill, no State legisits voting laws without first bringing a lawsuit for a declaratory judgment against the United States in the Federal court in the District of Columbia seeking prior approval. The Republican bill, recognizing that such a procedure violates the doctrine of separation of powers, States rights, and the very definition of the Federal system itself, has no such provision.

5. The Johnson bill outlaws all literacy tests in States covered by the bill. The Republican bill provides that a sixth-grade education will raise a presumption of literacy and that those with less than a sixthgrade education may still be able to prove that they are literate.

6. The Johnson bill fixes criminal penalties against both officials and private citizens for coercion and intimidation of prospective voters. Since the mandate against racial discrimination in the 14th and 15th amendments runs against officials only and not private citizens, these penalties are subject to constitutional attack. The Republican bill provides penalties against officials only.

the Republican bill will safeguard the con

This brief explanation clearly shows that

stitutional rights of the States and individuals. This is the problem Congress will face to take the President's disastrous bill or the Republican bill.

There will be no other choice.

To reiterate my own position:

1. I believe that every qualified American citizen should have the right to vote.

2. I believe that right is guaranteed under present laws and that no new legislation is necessary.

3. I believe that we must prevent the President's bill from becoming law if we are to save our present form of Government, a representative Republic.

National Lotteries of Australia and the Far East

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HON. PAUL A. FINO

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 8, 1965

Mr. FINO. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to bring to the attention of the Members of this House some figures showing the social and financial benefits of the national lotteries of Australia and the Far East. The lotteries of the Far East brought in gross receipts of $124.4 million in 1964, earning a profit of $50.3 million. The lotteries of Australia and New Zealand took in gross receipts of $111 million that year, with net income amounting to $32.7 million.

India and Pakistan, between which nations a border war now rages, both used the lottery device during 1964, by giving

prizes in lieu of a percentage of what would otherwise be normal interest on government bonds. Himalayan Nepal, in the mountains north of India, has private lotteries, as does remote Afganistan in the northwest. Ceylon's national lottery took in $1.4 million in 1964, with the $600,000 profit being used for national development.

Burma and Thailand both operate lotteries, which together brought in gross receipts of $43.7 million in 1964. The income to the two Governments totaled $12.5 million; much of the Thai income being used for housing. Further east, Cambodia's lottery took in $27.4 million in 1964, yielding a $20.2 million profit to the general revenues. The national lottery of mountain Laos was a victim of the 1964 coup d'etat.

The two enemies, Indonesia and Malaysia, both have lotteries. Malaysia's took in gross receipts of $16.5 million in 1964, leaving the Government an income of $4 million, which was expended upon social welfare. Indonesia's lottery also aided social welfare, but to a lesser extent. Gross receipts in 1964 appear to have been in the neighborhood of $1 million, with profits half that much, but a lack of a definitive exchange value for the Indonesian currency makes precision impossible.

Nationalist Chinese Formosa has a lottery which grossed $5.9 million in 1964, earning a $2.6 million profit for the treasury. The lottery of the Island Republic of the Philippines grossed $13 million and earned an income of $4 million for charity and local organizations. The Japanese national lottery took in a gross of $14 million in 1964, earning a $5.2 million profit for public works expenditures.

a great crusade that would strike at the roots of the problem facing the Negroes in the South. I explained to Bishop Lord the real in counties of the South where as high as 80 trouble is economic-the lack of opportunity percent of the population is colored and tied to a soil which is no longer productive. With little education and no industry these people are forced to eke out a meager existence. It is beyond the economic capability of the Southern States to solve this problem.

My challenge to Bishop Lord was that he cern for the Negroes of the South by marchas a religious leader who has expressed coning in Selma, urge the Methodist churches across the Nation to join in helping to relocate Negroes from the South who would like to move to another section of the country where they can have equal opportunity for a good job at good wages so they can raise their families in the best American tradition. If each church would take a family or 2 or 10 to the vast areas of this bountiful country where Negroes comprise less than 10 percent of the population, welcome them into their communities in the true spirit of brotherhood which is the basis of our Judeo-Christian beliefs, help to retrain them, get them jobs, within 5 years, or at the most 10, most of the problem would be solved.

Bishop Lord answered me with a form letter explaining his reason for going to Selma, but completely ignoring the contents of my letter to him. This is the sad part of the present situation—too many feel that basic problems can be solved by demonstrations and by working up passions against a particular section of the country and its officials, but are unwilling to face the true facts of the cause of the disease, much less put forth the effort it will take to help all Americans truly realize the American dream.

AID TO EDUCATION

Australia's lotteries are four state lotteries. They grossed $100 million in 1964. earning $30 million for charity, hospitals, and the Sydney Opera in New South Wales. New Zealand's lottery earned $2.7 million for youth, welfare, and cultural activities out of a gross receipt total of $11 million.

dent's bill:

"This bill is a thinly veiled attempt to launch a general Federal aid to education program by means of a spurious appeal to purposes which it would not adequately serve. It manages to incorporate the worst features of general aid with the worst features of specialized aid, while dispersing limited funds to 90 percent of our school districts without regard to need."

The minority views further contain this startling statement:

"This bill contains very dangerous provisions which would permit the U.S. Commis

sioner of Education to establish Federal-local schools and facilities without the approval of a State education agency and financed 100 percent with Federal funds. This is the most direct and far-reaching intrusion of Federal authority into our local schools systems ever proposed in a bill before Congress."

I pointed out the hypocrisy of the bill, and of those who have been encouraging the Selma demonstrations, in a speech to the House in support of an amendment to the bill by Congresswoman EDITH GREEN, of Oregon, to actually make the Federal funds available to the children of the poor. Under Mrs. GREEN's amendment, Alabama would

receive $13,602,000 more than we will under the President's bill. Further necessity for the amendment is indicated in the figures Alabama $140 in aid for each schoolchild which show that the President's bill will give in poverty while in New York the amount will be $353 per schoolchild in poverty. Yet, Alabama's effort amounts to $4.21 per capita income as against $4.69 in New York, almost the same. No Alabamian can justify such inequality. If the bill is to help the children of the poor, why would our children receive less than half the amount that a child receives in New York, one of the richest States

in the Union? Naturally, the administration forces shouted down the Green amendment.

Further, inequities under the President's bill are shown in figures which reveal the 10 most wealthy counties in the United States receiving twice as much in grants as the 10 poorest counties. For instance, Montgomery County, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C., is the wealthiest county in the country with an average annual income of $9,317 per family. This just happens to be more than eight times the average family income in Tunica County, Miss. In Tunica County 54 percent of the school-age children come from families with a yearly income of less than $2,000. In Montgomery County only 2 percent of all school-age children come from families with a yearly income of less than $2,000. Yet in the President's bill Montgomery County will receive $572,000 while Tunica County will receive $350,000, or almost a quarter of a million dollars less than States. The result of the President's bill, the richest county in the entire United which he says is to "help the impoverished,” actually makes the rich richer at the expense of the poor who are paying Federal taxes to help underwrite this program.

Washington Report

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HON. JAMES D. MARTIN

OF ALABAMA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, September 8, 1965

Mr. MARTIN of Alabama. Mr.

Speaker, under permission to extend my remarks in the RECORD I include my report to my constituents of April 8, 1965: WASHINGTON REPORT FROM CONGRESSMAN JIM MARTIN, SEVENTH DISTRICT, ALA. BOYCOTT IS UN-AMERICAN Martin Luther King's arrogance in calling for a boycott of Alabama has exposed his irresponsibility and caused many who have been misled by him to have second thoughts as to his real motives. His pious statements about wanting to improve life for the Negroes sounds hollow when he advocates wrecking Alabama business and industry which provide jobs for thousands of Negroes.

It will be my continued purpose to expose the false motives of the selfseekers in America as well as those who would destroy our traditions of freedom and who would scrap the Constitution.

In a news story last week in the Washington papers a business firm, the Childs Securities Corp., announced it was going along with the demands of the self-appointed savior of American Negroes and boycotting Alabama. In answer I stated in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: "I am amazed and shocked that a reputable business firm would be so unethical and so lacking in American principles as to participate in such an action.

The support of an economic boycott against a whole State and its people is a well organized Communist technique which has been used to topple every government which the Communists have taken over."

I shall continue to call to the attention of Congress and the American people any business firm, union or other organization which joins in the un-American action of taking part in a boycott of Alabama.

CALL FOR COMPLETE INVESTIGATION In a speech to the House of Representatives I called upon the House Committee on Un-American Activities to conduct a thorough and complete investigation of all groups "responsible for lawlessness and violence." I included CORE, the Student Non

violent Coordinating Committee, the Ku Klux Klan, the Southern Christian Leadership, NAACP, and the Southern Conference Education Fund. Calling for this investigation, I said, in part:

"Nearly 2 months ago I asked the President and the Members of this body to use their great influence to bring an end to the defiance of law and order in Alabama. I deplored then, and I deplore now, acts of violence and the tearing down of law and order. No decent, self-respecting, law-abiding American condones murder or those who incite to murder. We are against lynching and mob rule and killing whether inspired by cowardly riders in the night or pious hypocrites agitating in the public streets.

"On numerous occasions I have pointed. out the Communist influence in some of the organizations responsible for the demonstra

HOUSE ACTIONS

The House approved unanimously the Water Resources Planning Act. In this area too there is a proper function for the Federal Government. This bill establishes a Water Resources Council and provides for the setting up of river basin planning commissions with plans for Federal, State, interstate, local and private development of our water re

sources.

The House approved also, with only one dissenting vote, a bill to help our older citizens by authorizing assistance to the States in developing improved programs at the community level to help solve the problems created by aging.

By a unanimous vote the House approved H.R. 4257, to amend the Manpower Training Act of 1962. The history of this legislation has been good, and progress has been made toward retraining American workers unemployed because of technological advances. The amendments strengthen the program and assure better cooperation between Federal and State governments.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

As far as time and the demand of legisla

tive business permits, I will continue to tell the story of the South in other sections of the Nation and report to southerners the attitudes existing elsewhere. This past weekend I spoke in Atlanta, Ga., Raleigh, N.C., and Birmingham. In addition I made several TV appearances and radio broadcasts.

charges should be investigated, not shrugged off by these leaders as the leaders of violence did so casually on several TV interviews last Sunday.

"I call upon the American people to stop following false leaders who trade upon our national trait for compassion for our fellow man to engage in un-American pursuits."

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL BILL

The Republican policy committee, of which I am a member, unanimously endorsed the water pollution control bill, S. 4, after it had been improved through Republican efforts in my Committee on Public Works. The bill, as amended, meets with the approval of the State governments, industry, and all organizations concerned with cleaning up our rivers and streams. We cannot deny that the steadily increasing pollution

of the once clear waters of the United States

has become a problem of concern to all Americans. Here again, our task was to put into proper perspective the role of the Federal Government, the States, local commu

nities, industry, and private individuals. The Senate version gave undue powers to the Federal Government. The House version has removed the dangers of Federal control and domination.

Dimes Big City Meeting

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HON. FRANK HORTON

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 8, 1965

Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, on October 4 and 5, 1965, in Washington, the National Foundation-March of Dimes will convene its most important meeting of the year. At that time, more than 500 top-level volunteer leaders, representing all 50 States and every major city, will plan the 1966 March of Dimes campaign against birth defects, one of the Nation's leading causes of premature death and

disability.

The importance of their task cannot be overstated. Each year in the United States, an estimated 250,000 babies are born with significant birth defects. Sixty thousand children and adults and an estimated half million unborn babies die

as a result of these defects. With the exception of heart disease, no other condition claims so many lives.

Some of the causes of these tragedies are known. The news media recently focused attention on the thousands of defective children being born to mothers infected with German measles during last year's epidemic. In most cases, however, neither causes nor means of prevention nor specific methods of treatment are known.

The National Foundation-March of Dimes has made a strong beginning in the fight against these problems through its national network of treatment centers and an international program of scientific research. It is to map a program of expansion in this urgent campaign that these volunteers from across the country are meeting here in Washing

ton.

The National Foundation-March of Dimes, since its establishment in 1938, has always believed that the way to solve a problem in America is to bring its importance home to the public. When the people are convinced that the job is important enough, they will do something about it. That is what happened in the fight against polio when the public, through the March of Dimes, achieved one of the most important medical victories of our time: the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines.

The men and women attending this national conference will be truly representative of the people of their States and communities, where they are laboring to bring about an awareness of the birth defects problem. They are the chairmen of each State March of Dimes organization, the State chairmen of women's activities, and the chairmen of the largest of the foundation's 3,100 county chapters. Last year, they and their counterparts coordinated the work of an army of some 3 million volunteers, including a corps of nearly a million Marching Mothers who visited an estimated 10 million homes distributing educational materials and seeking financial support for the March of Dimes.

Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that a great part of America is involved in this massive struggle. I know that all the Members of this House join with me in welcoming these dedicated people to our Capital City and in wishing them every success as they plan the important work of attacking the scourge of birth defects.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1965 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Rev. John B. Brady, archdiocesan scout chaplain, Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., D.C., offered the following prayer:

Father above, we thank Thee for our great land with its snowcapped mountains and alpine tundra, trout-filled streams, wooded forests, grasslands, forests, grasslands, deserts, and plains.

We thank Thee for the culture of the red man, the bravery of the pioneer and missionaries, and the legislation of our Founding Fathers that has become the heritage of our generation.

Help us to treasure these priceless God-given gifts and to use them to help the underprivileged, the minorities, the needy, the poor, the youth, the aged, the sick and infirmed, the widows and orphans, all the citizens of our land and all the peoples of the world.

Help us to undergird the structure of our Nation by fortifying all our departments of public service.

Grant that our deliberations and decisions may bring prosperity and peace to all nations and add to the greater glory of God and the benefit of all mankind. Amen.

THE JOURNAL The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and approved.

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE A message from the Senate by Mr. Arrington, one of its clerks, announced

H.R. 8027. An act to provide assistance in training State and local law enforcement officers and other personnel, and in improving capabilities, techniques, and practices in State and local law enforcement and prevention and control of crime, and for other purposes; and

my purpose is to present it to him on his birthday tomorrow.

Those of you who knew Clare Hoffman so well and who worked with him, argued and debated with him, agreed and disagreed with him during all or a part of those 28 years, will agree with me in his outstanding ability in advocacy. The sharpness of his wit, the quickness of his mind, had few equals.

In his own district in southwestern Michigan, Clare Hoffman became a legend in his time. His people greatly admired him for his indomitable courage and his forthrightness, and for the ableness of his representation of their views here. He campaigned on the slogan that he had never failed them, and he never did. Clare Hoffman would still be a Member of this House if the infirmities

The message also announced that the Senate had passed, with amendments in which the concurrence of the House is requested, a bill of the House of the following title:

H.R. 8469. An act to provide certain increases in annuities payable from the civil service retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes.

The message also announced that the Senate agrees to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 10586) entitled "An act 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.

The message also announced that the Senate had passed bills of the following titles, in which the concurrence of the House is requested:

S. 897. An act to provide for the establishment of the Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway in the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and for other purposes;

S. 1349. An act to amend the inland, Great Lakes, and western rivers rules concerning sailing vessels and vessels under 65 feet in length;

S. 2118. An act to amend sections 9 and 37 of the Shipping Act, 1916, and subsection O of the Shipping Mortgage Act, 1920; and S. 2142. An act to simplify the admeasure

ment of small vessels.

THE 90TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF THE HONORABLE CLARE HOFF. MAN

The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. HUTCHINSON].

Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. Mr. Speaker, there is a grand old man up in Allegan, Mich., who served in this House for 28 years and who is observing his 90th birthday tomorrow, September 10. I speak of my distinguished predecessor, Clare Hoffman.

There is a big birthday card out in the Speaker's lobby, and it will please him greatly if the 291 present Members of the House who served with him and the newer Members too will sign that card this afternoon. I am going home tonight and

of 1961. Great fighter that he was, and is, he struggled mightily to overcome illness in his 87th year, and did not want to quit this House, even when all reason dictated that he must.

Clare Hoffman was first elected to the House in 1934, after his 59th birthday. Before he was sent here, he had already enjoyed a distinguished career as one of the most able trial lawyers in western Michigan. He further distinguished himself in the House and retired at the close of his 14th term in January 1963.

Since the end of his long career, he has been living in retirement at his home in Allegan. His wife of 65 years, herself but 6 months younger than he, still lives, and their two sons, both lawyers, live in the same community.

Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman from Michigan yield to me?

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I am pleased to yield to the distinguished the distinguished minority leader.

Mr.

GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, I subscribe to all of the fine tributes that has been said by the gentletributes that has been said by the gentleman from Michigan about my former colleague and close friend, Clare Hoffman. Our districts adjoined one another. When I came to Congress he was extremely helpful to me and continued that help and assistance during the time we served together. His career was an outstanding one. He has left an inHe has left an indelible impression on the legislative body which we all serve today. I join the gentleman from Michigan and others in wishing Clare Hoffman many, many more years of the good life and wish him well on his 90th birthday.

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I thank the distinguished minority leader.

The Speaker has asked me to advise the House that he joins in this tribute to our former colleague.

Between the Speaker and Mr. Hoffman there was deep affection. The House was on many occasions highly entertained by their repartee, trading humorous jibes as only they could.

I have missed Clare Hoffman since he left. I was very fond of him and I am happy to join his friends from Michigan in extending my best wishes on this day.

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I thank the distinguished majority leader.

Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana.

Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I think the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. ALBERT], expressed the feelings of all of us when he said in the course of his remarks a moment ago that he missed Clare Hoffman. All of us have missed him. He was a tremendous asset to this House of Representatives. House of Representatives. He was a great debater and also a man of great good humor. All of us were indeed proud to call him "friend," and I am confident that he and his wife will receive many congratulations on this birthday anniversary.

Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I yield to the gentleman from Iowa.

Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I rise simply to say to my old and devoted friend in Michigan that "our party" has not been the same and never will be the same again.

Mr. LAIRD. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I yield to the gentleman from Wisconsin.

Mr. LAIRD. I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding to me and I would like to join in congratulating Clare on his 90th birthday. He was an outstanding legislator, a great American, and a true friend in every sense of the word. We miss him here in the Congress.

Mr. Speaker, all of us join in wishing him and his wife the very best on this occasion.

Mr. Speaker, I hope the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. HUTCHINSON], when he goes out to see Clare today, will convey the best wishes of all of us on both sides of the aisle. He is a very fine gentleman.

Mr. FULTON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the Speaker, will the gentleman yield? gentleman yield?

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I yield to the

Mr. HUTCHINSON. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania. distinguished Majority Leader.

Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. I I join him in extending birthday greetings to a great former Member of the House. The gentleman has said that Clare Hoffman is a legend in his district. I can say to the gentleman that he is I can say to the gentleman that he is also a legend in this House. He was one of the most articulate Members of the House, a man of great courage and the House, a man of great courage and ready wit. He was a master in debate.

Mr. FULTON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I would like to join in paying my high compliments to Congressman Clare Hoffman as well. This compliment with friendly best wishes is from the "progressive" side of the Republican Party. We Members on the Republican side always liked the fact that Clare would call the roll and let us show where we stood on issues, I must say that some of the rollcalls were not popular but they certainly made everyone go on record