ORDER OF BUSINESS-RECESS

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, I should like to say to the Senate that I am about to move to take a recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, but I understand the distinguished Senators from Idaho wish to make short speeches relative to a local situation in their State.

If the distinguished Senator from Idaho [Mr. DWORSHAK] wishes me to yield to him—

Mr. DWORSHAK. Mr. President, I have only a very brief statement to make.

Mr. MCCARRAN. Mr. President, I stated just before the quorum call that I wanted to address the Senate and I gave up the floor in order that a quorum might be called.

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, I want to say to the distinguished Senator from Nevada-we may as well be perfectly frank about the situation-that the Committee on the Judiciary has a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight, and I desired to move that the Senate take a recess no later than 7:30 tonight. I have no desire to cut off the distinguished Senator from Nevada or any other Senator, and I am prepared to remain here until 7:30 this evening, so that if the Senate can complete its business we can recess at 7:30 until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. At that time we will consider the pending business. We also have a calendar call scheduled after that time.

Mr. MCCARRAN. Mr. President, I had received recognition from the Presiding Officer, and I yielded only in order that a quorum might be called. I naturally supposed that the Senator from California would not try to take me off the floor. That would be very unusual.

Mr. AIKEN. Mr. President, may I ask the majority leader if it is his intention to continue the debate on the fur bill tomorrow?

Mr. KNOWLAND. Yes. That is the pending business before the Senate.

Mr. MCCARRAN. Mr. President, is it not true that the acting majority leader can yield only for a question?

The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.

Mr. JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. President, will the Senator from California yield for a question?

Mr. KNOWLAND. Iyield.

Mr. JOHNSON of Texas. Is it the intention of the acting majority leader to take up tomorrow the so-called railroad bill? I have had several inquiries about it on this side of the aisle. We understood that the Senate would finish the fur bill tonight, but in view of developments we shall not be able to do that. Some Senators, who have made other engagements for tomorrow, are anxious

to be present when the so-called railroad bill comes up.

Mr. KNOWLAND. I will say to the Senator from Texas that I am familiar with the problem and with the fact that the Senator from Illinois and other Senators had made other arrangements, and I would not propose that on tomorrow we take up the time-lag bill, but I propose that we finish the fur bill before going on with a call of the calendar. Mr. JOHNSON of Texas. But no other bill?

Mr. KNOWLAND. That is correct.

Mr. MCCARRAN. Mr. President, I repeat my statement, that when the Senator called for a quorum, I had the floor, and I yielded it designedly, because of the quorum call and for no other purpose. I had no other reason to yield the floor; I had the recognition of the Presiding Officer, and I wanted to address the Senate.

Mr. President, when did the Senator from California become the czar of this body, that he should stand here and refuse to recognize a Senator who had the floor before he asked for a quorum call and who yielded only for that purpose?

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, I regret to differ with the distinguished Senator from Nevada. I was on my feet and was seeking recognition at that time.

Mr. MCCARRAN. The Senator may have been seeking recognition, but the recognition was given to the Senator from Nevada.

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, I will say to the Senator that the Senator from California was also on his feet seeking recognition. seeking recognition. The Senator from Delaware [Mr. WILLIAMS] had the floor at that time.

Mr. MCCARRAN. He had yielded the floor.

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, as I say, I am prepared, if unanimous consent can be obtained, to continue until 7:30 o'clock this evening and then to move a recess, pursuant to our prior agreement that the Senate meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is the Senator from California making a unanimous-consent request?

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess at 7:30 tonight until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

Mr. MCCARRAN. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.

Mr. KNOWLAND. Mr. President, the acting majority leader is willing, under the usual procedure as to submitting matters for the RECORD and under the 2-minute rule as to statements, to yield to any Senator at this time. Otherwise, I desire to move that the Senate take a recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Mr. President, I move that the Senate stand in recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Mr. MCCARRAN and other Senators requested the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. SALTONSTALL. I announce that the Senator from Ohio [Mr. BRICKER], the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. BRIDGES], and the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. TOBEY] are absent on official business.

The Senator from Connecticut [Mr. BUSH], the Senator from Vermont [Mr. FLANDERS], the Senator from Arizona [Mr. GOLDWATER], the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. GRISWOLD], the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. MARTIN], the Senator from from Wisconsin [Mr. McCARTHY], the Senator from Ohio [Mr. TAFT), and the Senator from Oregon [Mr. MORSE] are necessarily absent.

Mr. JOHNSON of Texas. I announce that the Senator from Virginia [Mr. BYRD], the Senator from New Mexico [Mr. CHAVEZ], the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. CLEMENTS], the Senator from Iowa [Mr. GILLETTE], the Senator from Arizona [Mr. HAYDEN], the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. HUNT], and the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. KENNEDY] are necessarily absent.

The Senator from Texas [Mr. DANIEL], the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. FULBRIGHT], and the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. KILGORE] are absent by leave of the Senate.

The Senator from Mississippi [Mr. EASTLAND], the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. KEFAUVER], the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. NEELY], and the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. PASTORE] are absent on official business.

I announce further that, if present and voting, the Senators from West Virginia [Mr. KILGORE and Mr. NEELY] would vote "yea."

The result was announced-yeas 40. nays 31, as follows:

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from California?

There was no objection.

DEPARTMENT

OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION BILL, 1954

Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H. R. 5227) making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes, with Senate amendments thereto, disagree to the Senate amendments, and agree to the conference asked by the Senate.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Minnesota? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none and appoints the following conferees: Messrs. H. CARL ANDERSEN, HORAN, HUNTER, LAIRD, TABER, WHITTEN, CANNON, and MARSHALL.

APPROPRIATION АСТ, MUTUAL

SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Mr. TABER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Appropriations Committee may have until midnight tomorrow to file the report on the appropriation for the Mutual Security Administration.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from New York?

There was no objection.

SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED

Mr. HELLER (at the request of Mr. ROONEY) was given permission to transfer his special order from Monday, July 20, to Tuesday, July 21, following the legislative business of the day and any special orders heretofore entered.

FOREIGN AID

Mr. SUTTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Tennessee?

There was no objection.

Mr. SUTTON. Mr. Speaker, just before we debate a $5 billion appropriation bill for foreign aid I would like to call to the attention of the House an article

which appeared in my home county paper, the Democrat Union, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., that is rather disturbing to me. It appears that we are just about to give away $5 killion more to Europe, Asia, and China, and prohibiting in this country our boys and girls from going to school because of the lack of clothing. The article to which I refer I would like to read to you:

CLOTHES ARE BADLY NEEDED IF CHILDREN CAN ATTEND SCHOOL

It's hard to believe, but it is an ascertained fact that there are some children in Lawrence County who want to attend school and who are unable to do so because they actually do

not have the necessary clothing to wear, and can't get them.

And so the Lawrence County school officials send an urgent appeal this week to anyone who can possibly do so to send or bring clothing to the Red Cross headquarters in the city hall.

Just anything that would be practical and usable for a boy or girl will be appreciated, and your donation may mean that some children may attend a school this year who would not be otherwise privileged to do so.

To me this is a most pathetic situation. Just picture, if you will, our American youth being so inefficiently and ill clad, to hide their nakedness, so that they may attend our institutions of learning. America, with all of our natural resources, wealth, and riches, permitting ourselves to reach such an economic state that some of our very own cannot possess enough of our worldly possessions to buy sufficient clothes to be modestly clad so they may appear in public.

country.

This situation does not exist alone in my State, but I dare say that similar conditions are prevalent all over our country. I have consistently opposed unnecessary spending and our huge giveaway program to foreign countries. Were it not for the untold billions that we are giving to foreign countries, there is no question but that we could balance our budget and show sufficient savings in taxes to our people that would enable them to buy clothing for the future leaders of our Nation.

It is high time that we take an inventory of our personal obligations. The youth of America is the salvation of our country and they must be provided with the best schooling available. We cannot permit America to be ill fed and ill clothed.

So far as I am concerned, I propose to continue my opposition to a reckless spending and giveaway program and lend every effort at my command to see that our own flesh and blood is not forgotten and that some relief be brought about for our overburdened, loyal, and patriotic taxpaying public.

During the course of the campaign in which the present administration was voted into power, the people and taxpayers of America issued a clear mandate to their representatives in the Congress that it was their wishes that our taxes be materially reduced, the budget balanced, and such changes made in our governmental program that would put America on an even keel and install a system whereby we could eventually pay our national obligations and restore the country to normalcy. I hope tl.at I can be a party to such a program.

Mr. Speaker, to you Members of Congress who would give away this country, I hope that you will heed this appeal from the Lawrence County School Board and look into your own closets, as I personally am doing, and donate any clothing that you do not need to this worthy cause, so that the children of the United States, true Americans I might add, may be able to attend schools and make better Americans of tomorrow.

I appeal to you, as an American, let us take care of Americans before we give this country away.

SIGNING THE EXCESS-PROFITS TAX BILL

Mr. GAVIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania?

There was no objection.

Mr. GAVIN. Mr. Speaker, I note that yesterday when the President signed the bill to extend the excess-profits tax to television or in the papers of the MemDecember 31 there were no pictures on bers crowding around while the President signed the bill. I also noted that there were not any Members on the floor of the House proudly showing off the pens with which he signed the bill.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Illinois?

There was no objection.

Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, on page A4410 of the Appendix to the RECORD I included a letter from the motion-picture industry to me. I want to read just 1 or 2 sentences from that letter:

The closing of many thousands of theaters in the past years and the present rate of closing of eight theaters a day have created

a situation of such distress as to indicate that barring relief from the Federal admissions tax this session, theater men and the motion-picture industry will face almost certain business collapse.

MAX SLEPIN

(Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania?

There was no objection.

Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Speaker, just 1 year ago today a tragic accident removed from this life and from the civic affairs of Philadelphia a man who had contributed generously of his time in matters which affected the good government of the city and his Nation, a man who gave himself unsparingly to help others. He devoted much of his busy life to being of service in all of the many community activities with which he was connected. He was a man we all knew and loved and respected in Philadelphia, whose memory I wish to record here as that of a fine person who gave unstintingly of his services to members of all races, creeds and religions. I refer to the late Max Slepin, past commander of the Jewish War Veterans in Philadelphia.

Max Slepin had been very active in support of the Eisenhower candidacy during the preconvention campaign and it had been expected that Max would

serve as cochairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon, which plans were prevented by this untimely tragedy occurring in the prime of his life. A veteran of three wars, with service in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, the memory of Max Slepin was recently honored by the dedication of an appropriate memorial in the form of a beautiful chapel surmounted by a bronze plaque in his memory at the Haym Salomon Memorial Park on the main line at Frazier, Pa. His memory will be kept in reverence by an innumerable host of friends.

SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts asked and was given permission to address the House for 5 minutes today, following the legislative program and any special orders heretofore entered.

ROSENBERGS NOT MARTYRS

Mr. POAGE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Texas?

There was no objection.

Mr. POAGE. Mr. Speaker, I note that the official organ of the Communist Party in the United States on yesterday apologized for speaking of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as atomic spies, and then referred to them as martyrs.

I ask to what cause were these wretched people martyrs? Must not a martyr suffer in behalf of some worthy cause? Must not the martyr stand for something uplifting? Certainly these spies did not stand for any religious principles. There have been martyrs in the history of all great religions. Certainly they did not die as martyrs to the cause of freedom. Our boys in Korea are today dying as real martyrs, but these spies sought only to destroy the Government which had protected them.

If the Rosenbergs sacrificed their lives it must have been in behalf of the enemies of our country. If the Daily Worker and its backers deem these creatures martyrs, then it must be that they are also dedicated to the destruction of America.

AMENDING TITLE 28, UNITED
STATES CODE

Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's desk the bill (H. R. 1070) to amend title 28, United States Code, with Senate amendment thereto, and concur in the Senate amendment.

The Clerk read the title of the bill. The Clerk read the Senate amendment, as follows:

Page 2, strike out lines 12 to 16, inclusive, and insert:

"SEC. 4. (a) Paragraph (a) of section 792, title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(a) The United States Court of Claims may appoint 15 commissioners who shall be subject to removal by the court.'

"(b) The authority contained in subsection (a) of section 14 of the act of July 1, 1944

(41 U. S. C. 114), respecting the appointment of commissioners of the Court of Claims is hereby terminated."

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Kentucky?

There was no objection.

The Senate amendment was concurred in, and a motion to reconsider was laid in, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

EVA BUSH

Mr. LECOMPTE. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on House Administration, I call up House Resolution 260 and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. VORYS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks at this point in the RECORD.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Ohio?

There was no objection.

Mr. VORYS. Mr. Speaker, I am happy to join in the unanimous action the House has just taken in approving Senate Joint Resolution 82, providing for the reappointment of the Honorable Robert V. Fleming as Citizen Regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

I had introduced an identical resolution, House Joint Resolution 275, but I am glad to defer to the Senate reso

Resolved, That there shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House to Eva Bush, sister of Walter Puckett, late an employee of the House of Representatives, an amount equal to 6 months' salary at the rate he was receiving at the time of his death and an additional amount not to exceed $350 toward defraying the funeral expenses of said Walter Puckett.

The resolution was agreed to, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

AUTHORIZATION TO CLERK OF THE HOUSE

Mr. LECOMPTE. Mr. Speaker, I call up House Resolution 340 approved unanimously by the Committee on House Administration and ask for its immediate consideration.

The Smithsonian Institution is governed by an ancient law which provides for "an establishment by the name of the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The President of the United States is the head of the establishment but the business is conducted by a Board of Regents, who act as directors. The 6 congressional Members are appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House and the other 6 are selected by joint resolutions of the Senate and House of Representatives.

For the past 6 years I have had the honor of serving with Bob Fleming on this Board and during that time my apreciation, respect, and affection has grown for the Smithsonian Institution, its Board of Regents, and particularly for Bob Fleming.

In addition to the usual services of

as follows:

Resolved, That during the period of any adjournment or recess of the House of the first session of the 83d Congress until January 3, 1954, the Clerk of the House is authorized to pay out of the contingent fund of the House an amount equal to 6 months' salary of any deceased employee of the House at the rate such employee was receiving at the time of his or her death and an additional amount not to exceed $350 toward defraying the funeral expenses of any such employee to whomever in the judgment of the Clerk is justly entitled thereto subject to the approval of the Committee on House Administration.

The resolution was agreed to, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

ROBERT V. FLEMING

Mr. LECOMPTE. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on House Administration I call up Senate Joint Resolution 82 and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration.

The Clerk read the joint resolution, as follows:

Resolved, etc., That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, which will occur by the expiration of the term of Robert V. Fleming, of Washington, D. C., on July 26, 1953, be filled by the reappointment of the present incumbent for the statutory term of 6 years.

The Senate joint resolution was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

executive committee and has given unstintingly of his time, his experience, and his energy in the detailed work of the Institution and its personnel, in the selection of a new secretary, and above all, he has given his personal attention to the prudent and profitable management of the endowment portfolio of the Institution, which amounts to about $14 million.

President and chairman of the board of the Riggs National Bank, director of a number of important companies, former president of the American Bankers Association, serving on a number of boards of civic institutions, he is also the beloved perennial treasurer of the Republican congressional committee.

The Smithsonian Institution is fortunate to have his services for another 6 years and the House is to be congratulated upon the action just taken.

SARA LOUISA RITTENHOUSE

MEMORIAL

Mr. LECOMPTE. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on House Administration I call up Senate Joint Resolution 37 and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration.

The Clerk read the joint resolution, as follows:

Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to grant to the Georgetown Garden Club permission to erect in Montrose Park, in the District of Columbia, an appropriate memorial to the memory of Sara Louisa Rittenhouse.