WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1964 The PRESIDENT pro tempore called the Senate to order, and Rev. Silas G. Kessler, D.D., of Hastings, Nebr., offered prayer. THE JOURNAL On motion by Mr. MANSFIELD, and by unanimous consent, The reading of the Journal of the proceedings of Tuesday, January 7, 1964, was dispensed with. ATTENDANCE OF SENATORS Mr. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, from the State of New Mexico, Mr. J. CALEB BOGGS, from the State of Delaware, Mr. DANIEL B. BREWSTER, from the State of Mary'land, Mr. HARRY FLOOD BYRD, from the State of Virginia, Mr. CARL T. CURTIS, from the State of Nebraska, Mr. J. HowARD EDMONDSON, from the State of Oklahoma, Mr. SAM J. ERVIN, Jr., from the State of North Carolina, Mr. PHILIP A. HART, from the State of Michigan, Mr. LISTER HILL, from the State of Alabama, Mr. EDWARD V. LONG, from the State of Missouri, Mr. RUSSELL B. LONG, from the State of Louisiana, Mr. EUGENE J. McCARTHY, from the State of Minnesota, Mr. EDMUND S. MUSKIE, from the State of Maine, Mr. JOHN O. PASTORE, from the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Mr. ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF, from the State of Connecticut, Mr. RICHARD B. RUSSELL, from the State of Georgia, Mr. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, from the State of Massachusetts, Mr. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, from the State of Florida, and Mr. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, Jr., from the State of New Jersey, attended. CANADA-UNITED STATES INTERPARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C. The PRRESIDENT pro tempore appointed Mr. KENNEDY as a member on the part of the Senate to the CanadaUnited States Interparliamentary Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., from January 14 to 18, 1964, vice Mr. DODD, resigned. REPORT OF NOTIFICATION OF COMMITTEE Mr. MANSFIELD, from the committee appointed to join a similar committee of the House of Representatives to wait upon the President of the United States and inform him that a quorum of each House had assembled and was ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make, reported that they had performed that duty, and that the PresiIdent had advised that he would be pleased to address the two Houses in joint session today. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Bartlett, one of its clerks: Mr. President: I am directed to inform the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representatives has assembled, and that the House is ready for business. I am directed to inform the Senate that the House has passed the following resolution: Resolved, That a committee of three Members be appointed by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to join with a committee on the part of the Senate to notify the President of the United States that a quorum of each House has assembled and Congress is ready to receive any communication that he may be pleased to make. The House has agreed to the following concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 250); in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the two Houses of Congress assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 8, 1964, at 12:30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving such communications as the President of the United States shall be pleased to make to them. The House has passed the following resolution, which I am directed to communicate to the Senate: Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of the Honorable HOWARD H. BAKER, a Representative from the State of Tennessee. Resolved, That a committee of 17 Members of the House with such Members of the Senate as may be joined be appointed to attend the funeral. Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of these resolutions and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. JOINT SESSION OF TWO HOUSES TO RECEIVE MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 250) establishing that the two Houses of Congress assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 8, 1964, at 12:30 o'clock in the afternoon, this day received from the House of Representatives for concurrence, which was read. The Senate proceeded to consider the said concurrent resolution; and to. On motion by Mr. MANSFIELD, Resolved, That the Senate agree there Ordered, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives thereof. ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE STATE OF THE UNION On motion by Mr. MANSFIELD, The Senate, at 12 o'clock and 11 minutes p.m., proceeded to the Hall of the House of Representatives, pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 250, to hear an address by the President of the United States, Hon. Lyndon B. Johnson; and The two Houses being assembled, The President of the United States addressed them, as follows: Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House and Senate, my fellow Americans, I will be brief, for our time is necessarily short and our agenda is already long. Last year's congressional session was the longest in peacetime history. With that foundation, let us work together to make this year's session the best in the Nation's history. Let this session of Congress be known as the session which did more for civil rights than the last hundred sessions combined; as the session which enacted the most far-reaching tax cut of our time; as the session which declared allout war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States; as the session which finally recognized the health needs of all of our older citizens; as the session which reformed our tangled transportation and transit policies; as the session which achieved the most effective, efficient foreign aid program ever; and as the session which helped to build more homes, and more schools, and more libraries, and more hospitals than any single session of Congress in the history of our Republic. All this and more can and must be done. It can be done by this summer. And it can be done without any increase in spending. In fact, under the budget that I shall shortly submit, it can be done with an actual reduction in Federal expenditures and Federal employment. We have in 1964 a unique opportunity and obligation to prove the success of our system; to disprove those cynics and critics at home and abroad who question our purpose and our competence. If we fail, if we fritter and fumble away our opportunity in needless, senseless quarrels between Democrats and Republicans, or between the House and the Senate, or between the South and the North, or between the Congress and the administration, then history will rightfully judge us harshly. But if we succeed, if we can achieve these goals by forging in this country a greater sense of union, then, and only then, can we take full satisfaction in the state of the Union. Here in the Congress, you can demonstrate effective legislative leadership by discharging the public business with clarity and dispatch-voting each important proposal up or voting it down but at least bringing it to a fair and a final vote. Let us carry forward the plans and programs of John Fitzgerald Kennedynot because of our sorrow or sympathy, but because they are right. In his memory today, I especially ask all members of my own political faith, in this election year, to put your country ahead of your party, and to always debate principles-never debate personalities. For my part, I pledge a progressive administration which is efficient, and honest, and frugal. The budget to be submitted to the Congress shortly is in full accord with this pledge. It will cut our deficit in half, from $10 billion to $4.9 billion. It will be in proportion to our national output, the smallest budget since 1951. It will call for a substantial reduction in Federal employment, a feat accomplished only once before in the last 10 years. While maintaining the full strength of our combat defenses, it will call for the lowest number of civilian personnel in the Department of Defense since 1950. It will call for total expenditures of $97.9 billion-compared to $98.4 for the current year, a reduction of more than $500 million. It will call for new obligational authority of $103.8 billion-a reduction of more than $4 billion below last year's request of $107.9 billion. But it is not a standstill budget-for America cannot afford to stand still. Our population is growing. Our economy is more complex. Our people's needs are expanding. But by closing down obsolete installations, by curtailing less urgent programs, by cutting back where cutting back seems to be wise, by insisting on a dollar's worth for a dollar spent, I am able to recommend in this reduced budget the most Federal support in history for education, for health, for retraining the unemployed, and for helping the economically and the physically handicapped. This budget, and this year's legislative program, are designed to help each and every American citizen fulfill his basic hopes: His hopes for a fair chance to make good, his hopes for fairplay from the law, his hopes for a full-time job on full-time pay, his hopes for a decent home for his family in a decent community, his hopes for a good school for his children with good teachers, and his hopes for security when faced with sickness or unemployment or old age. Unfortunately many Americans live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort. It will not be a short or easy struggleno single weapon or strategy will sufficebut we shall not rest until that war is won. The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it; $1,000 invested in salvaging an unemployable youth today can return $40,000 or more in his lifetime. Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved national organization and support. But this attack, to be effective, must also be organized at the State and local level and must be supported and directed by State and local efforts. For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington. It must be won in the field-in every private home, in every public office, from the courthouse to the White House. The program I shall propose will emphasize this cooperative approach to help that one-fifth of all American families with incomes too small to even meet their basic needs. Our chief weapons in a more pinpointed attack will be better schools, and better health, and better homes, and better training, and better job opportunities to help more Americans-especially young Americans escape from squalor and misery and unemployment rolls where other citizens help to carry them. Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty but the symptom. The cause may lie deeper-in our failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacitiesin a lack of education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a lock of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children. But whatever the cause, our joint Federal-local effort must pursue poverty, pursue it wherever it exists, in city slums and small towns, in sharecropper shacks or in migrant worker camps, on Indian reservations, among whites as well as Negroes, among the young as well as the aged, in the boomtowns and in the depressed areas. Our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty but to cure it; and, above all, to prevent it. No single piece of legislation, however, is going to suffice. We will launch a special effort in the chronically distressed areas of Appalachia. We must expand our small but our successful area redevelopment program. We must enact youth employment legislation to put jobless, aimless, hopeless youngsters to work on useful projects. We must distribute more food to the needy through a broader food stamp program. We must create a National Service Corps to help the economically handicapped of our own country as the Peace Corps now helps those abroad. We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level Commission on Automation. If we have the brainpower to invent these machines, we have the brainpower to make certain that they are a boom and not a bane to humanity. We must extend the coverage of our minimum wage laws to more than 2 million workers now lacking this basic protection of purchasing power. We must, by including special school aid funds as part of our education program, improve the quality of teaching and training and counseling in our hardest hit areas. We must build more libraries in every area, and more hospitals and nursing homes under the Hill-Burton Act, and train more nurses to staff them. We must provide hospital insurance for our older citizens, financed by every worker and his employer under social security contributing no more than $1 a month during the employee's working career to protect him in his old age in a dignified manner, without cost to the Treasury, against the devastating hardship of prolonged or repeated illness. We must, as a part of a revised housing and urban renewal program, give more help to those displaced by slum clearance, provide more housing for our poor and our elderly, and seek as our ultimate goal in our free enterprise system a decent home for every American family. We must help obtain more mod ern mass transit within our communities as well as low-cost transportation between them. Above all, we must release $11 billion of tax reduction into the private spending stream to create new jobs and new markets in every area of this land. These programs are obviously not for the poor or the underprivileged alone. Every American will benefit by the extension of social security to cover the hospital costs of their aged parents. Every American community will benefit from the construction or modernization of schools, libraries, hospitals, and nursing homes; from the training of more nurses; and from the improvement of urban renewal and public transit. And every individual American taxpayer and every corporate taxpayer will benefit from the earliest possible passage of the pending tax bill-from both the new investment it will bring and the new jobs that it will create. That tax bill has been thoroughly discussed for a year. Now we need action. The new budget clearly allows it. Our taxpayers surely deserve it. Our economy strongly demands it. And every month of delay dilutes its benefits in 1964 for consumption, for investment, and for employment. For until the bill is signed, its investment incentives cannot be deemed certain, and the withholding rate cannot be reduced-and the most damaging and devastating thing you can do to any businessman in America is to keep him in doubt and to keep him guessing on what our tax policy is. And I say that we should now reduce to 14 percent instead of 15 percent our withholding rate. I, therefore, urge the Congress to take final action on this bill by the 1st of February if at all possible. For however proud we may be of the unprecedented progress of our free enterprise economy over the last 3 years, we should not and we cannot permit it to pause. In 1963, for the first time in history, we crossed the 70 million job mark-but we will soon need more than 75 million jobs. In 1963, our gross national product reached the $600 billion level-$100 billion higher than when we took office. But it easily could and it should be still $30 billion higher today than it is. Wages and profits and family income are also at their highest levels in historybut I would remind you that 4 million workers and 13 percent of our industrial capacity are still idle today. We need a tax cut now to keep this country moving. For our goal is not merely to spread the work. Our goal is to create more jobs. I believe the enactment of a 35-hour week would sharply increase costs, would invite inflation, would impair our ability to compete, and merely share instead of creating employment. But I am equally opposed to the 45- or 50-hour week in those industries where consistently excessive use of overtime causes increased unemployment. So, therefore, I recommend legislation authorizing the creation of tripartite industry committees to determine, on an industry-by-industry basis, as to where a higher penalty rate for overtime would increase job openings without unduly increasing costs-and authorizing the establishment of such higher rates. Let me make one principle of this administration abundantly clear: All of these increased opportunities-in employment, in education, in housing, and in every field-must be open to Americans of every color. As far as the writ of Federal law will run, we must abolish not some but all racial discrimination. For this is not merely an economic issue or a social, political, or international issue. It is a moral issue; and it must be met by the passage this session of the bill now pending in the House. All All members of the public should have equal access to facilities open to the public. All members of the public should be equally eligible for Federal benefits that are financed by the public. members of the public should have an equal chance to vote for public officials, and to send their children to good public schools, and to contribute their talents to the public good. Today Americans of all races stand side by side in Berlin and in Vietnam. They died side by side in Korea. Surely they can work and eat and travel side by side in their own country. We must also lift by legislation the bars of discrimination against those who seek entry into our country, particularly those with much-needed skills and those joining their families. In establishing preferences, a nation that was built by the immigrants of all lands can ask those who now seek admission: "What can you do for our country?" But we should not be asking: "In what country were you born?" For our ultimate goal is a world without war, a world made safe for diversity, in which all men, goods, and ideas can freely move across every border and every boundary. We must advance toward this goal in 1964 in at least 10 different ways, not as partisans but as patriots. First, we must maintain-and our reduced defense budget will maintain-that margin of military safety and superiority obtained through 3 years of steadily increasing both the quality and the quantity of our strategic, our conventional, and our antiguerrilla forces. In 1964 we will be better prepared than ever before to defend the cause of freedom-whether it is threatened by outright aggression or by the infiltration practiced by those in Hanoi and Havana who ship arms and men across international borders to foment insurrection. And we must continue to use that strength, as John Kennedy used it in the Cuban crisis and for the test ban treaty, to demonstrate both the futility of nuclear war and the possibilities of lasting peace. Second, we must take new steps-and we shall make new proposals at Genevatoward the control and the eventual abolition of arms. Even in the absence of agreement we must not stockpile arms beyond our needs or seek an excess of military power that could be provocative as well as wasteful. And it is in this spirit that in this fiscal year we are cutting back our production of enriched uranium by 25 percent. We are shutting down four plutonium piles. We are closing many nonessential military installations. And it is in this spirit that we today call on our adversaries to do the same. Third, we must make increased use of our food as an instrument of peace, making it available-by sale, or trade, or loan, or donation-to hungry people in all nations which tell us of their needs and accept proper conditions of distribution. Fourth, we must assure our preeminence in the peaceful exploration of outer space, focusing on an expedition to the moon in this decade-in cooperation with other powers if possible, alone if necessary. Fifth, we must expand world trade. Having recognized in the act of 1962 that we must buy as well as sell, we now expect our trading partners to recognize that we must sell as well as buy. We are willing to give them competitive access to our market-asking only that they do the same for us. Sixth, we must continue, through such measures as the interest equalization tax as well as the cooperation of other nations, our recent progress toward balancing our international accounts. This administration must and will preserve the present gold value of the dollar. Seventh, we must become better neighbors with the free states of the Americas-working with the councils of the OAS, with a stronger Alliance for Progress, and with all the men and women of this hemisphere who really believe in liberty and justice for all. Eighth, we must strengthen the ability of free nations everywhere to develop their independence and raise their standard of living-and thereby frustrate those who prey on poverty and chaos. To do this, the rich must help the poor-and we must do our part. We must achieve a more rigorous administration of our development assistance, with larger roles for private investors, for other industrialized nations, for international agencies, and for the recipient nations themselves. Ninth, we must strengthen our Atlantic and Pacific partnerships, maintain our alliances, and make the United Nations a more effective instrument for national independence and international order. Tenth, and finally, we must develop with our allies new means of bridging the gap between the East and West, facing danger boldly wherever danger exists, but being equally bold in our search for new agreements which can enlarge the hopes of all while violating the interests of none. In short, I would say to the Congress that we must be constantly prepared for the worst and constantly acting for the best. We must be strong enough to win any war, and we must be wise enough to prevent one. We shall neither act as aggressors nor tolerate acts of aggression. We intend to bury no one-and we do not intend to be buried. We can fight, if we must, as we have fought before-but we pray that we will never have to fight again. My good friends and my fellow Americans, in these last 7 sorrowful weeks we have learned anew that nothing is so enduring as faith and nothing is so degrading as hate. John Kennedy was a victim of hate, but he was also a great builder of faithfaith in our fellow Americans, whatever their creed or their color or their station in life; and faith in the future of man, whatever his divisions and differ ences. This faith was echoed in all parts of the world. On every continent and in every land to which Mrs. Johnson and I traveled, we found faith and hope and love toward this land of America and toward our people. So I ask you now, in the Congress and in the country, to join with me in expressing and fulfilling that faith, in working for a nation-a nation that is free from want and a world that is free from hate a world of peace and justice, and freedom and abundance, for our time and for all time to come. Upon the conclusion of the address, the joint session was dissolved; and The Senate returned to its Chamber. AT 1 O'CLOCK AND 30 MINUTES P.M. The PRESIDENT pro tempore called the Senate to order. REPORTS OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET ON THE REAPPORTIONMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate three communications from the Director and Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget, respectively, transmitting, pursuant to law, reports on the reapportionment of appropriations which indicate a necessity for supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1964; which, with the accompanying papers, were referred to the Committee on Appropriations, as follows: Department of Agriculture, "Forest protection and utilization, Forest Service"; Department of the Interior, "Management and protection"; and Department of Labor, "Unemployment compensation for Federal employees and ex-servicemen." OVEROBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS IN EXCESS OF APPROVED APPORTIONMENTS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Director of the National Science Foundation, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of violation of regulations by incurring an obligation in excess of the allotment assigned by the National Science Foundation to its Office of Science Resources Planning for the first 2 months of fiscal year 1964; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. REPORT ON JUDGMENTS RENDERED BY COURT OF CLAIMS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of all judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, the amount thereof, the parties in whose favor rendered, and a brief synopsis of the nature of the claims, for the year ended September 30, 1963; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. FLIGHT PAY OF CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Army, transmitting, pursuant to law, a semiannual report of the period ended December 31, 1963, giving information as to the rank and age of officers above the rank of major with the Department of the Army on duty involving flying, with the average monthly flight pay paid to such officers; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Armed Services. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION PUBLICATIONS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of Federal Power Commission, transmitting copies of the following publications issued by the Cornmission: "Statistics of Electric Utilities of the United States, 1961, Publicly Owned" (publication); "Major Natural Gas Pipelines, June 30, 1963" (map); and "Principal Electric Facilities, 1963" (maps). Ordered, That the communication, with the accompanying document and maps, be referred to the Committee on Commerce. REPORT ON CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the vice president of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., transmitting, pursuant to law, the annual report of the company for the calendar year 1963, the operations for December being estimated; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. REPORT ON WHITESTONE COULEE UNIT, OKANOGAN-SIMILKAMEEN DIVISION, CHIEF JOSEPH DAM PROJECT, WASHINGTON The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law a report on the Whitestone Coulee unit, Okanogan-Similkameen division, Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. REPORT ON MERLIN DIVISION, ROGUE RIVER BASIN PROJECT, OREGON The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law a report on the Merlin division, Rogue River Ba sin project, Oregon; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. REPORT OF PROPOSED CONCESSION CONTRACT IN A NATIONAL MONUMENT The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, a proposed award of an amendment to a concession contract in a national monument under the National Park Service; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. SUSPENSION OF DEPORTATION OF AN ALIENWITHDRAWAL OF A NAME The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, withdrawing a name from a report of aliens whose deportation has been suspended, heretofore transmitted by him to the Senate; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. REPORT OF RENEGOTIATION BOARD The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the Renegotiation Board, transmitting, pursuant to law, the eighth annual report of the Board for the fiscal year 1963; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Finance. REPORT OF SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid befor the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the receipts, expenditures, and balances of the U.S. Government for the fiscal year 1963; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Finance. REPORT OF ACTIVITIES OF VETERANS' The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Administrator of Veterans' Administration, transmitting, pursuant to law, the annual report of the activities of the Veterans' Administration for the fiscal year 1963; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Finance. REPORT ON ERRONEOUS PURCHASE OF A TECHNICAL DATA PACKAGE FROM WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Comptroller General of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the erroneous purchase of a technical data package from Westinghouse Electric Corp. for $1,010,000, Department of the Navy; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Government Operations. REPORT ON CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS PLANNING, HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Comptroller General of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the inadequate collection procedures and other weaknesses in the administration of the programs for making advances for public works planning, Community Facilities Administration, Housing and Home Finance Agency; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Government Operations. REPORT ON CERTAIN COSTS UNDER FIXEDPRICE CONTRACTS WITH SPACE CORP., DALLAS, TEX. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Comptroller General of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on overestimated costs included in prices negotiated for modification of aircraft engine test stands under fixedprice contracts with Space Corp., Dallas, Tex., Department of the Air Force; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Government Operations. REPORT ON SOIL SURVEY AND LAND CLASSIFICATION OF LYMAN PROJECT, WYOMING The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of an adequate soil survey and land classification of the lands in the Lyman project, Wyoming; which was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. REPORT ON 1963 EVALUATION CONFERENCE OF THE PROFESSIONAL NURSE TRAINEESHIP PROGRAM The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Surgeon General, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the 1963 evaluation conference of the professional nurse traineeship program; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY OF POSTMASTER GENERAL RELATING TO CERTAIN LEASES OF REAL PROPERTY The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Postmaster General, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to extend the authority of the Postmaster General to enter into leases of real property for periods not exceeding 30 years; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Public Works. REPORT ON PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT CF AGRICULTURE The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Administrative Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting pursuant to law, a report of a professional and scientific position established in the Department of Agriculture for the calendar year 1963; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 30th Annual Report of the Tennessee Valley Authority for the fiscal year 1963; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Public Works. ANNUAL REPORT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Public Printer, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Annual Report of the Government Printing Office for the fiscal year 1963; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Senate, transmitting, pursuant to law, a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States Senate for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1963; which, with the accompanying report, was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. PETITIONS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following petitions, etc., which were referred as indicated: A concurrent resolution of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin, favoring the enactment of legislation providing for nursing home care for veterans; to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. A resolution of the City Council of Bayonne, N.J., favoring the enactment of civil rights legislation; to the Committee on the Judiciary. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a resolution of the Board of Alderman of St. Louis, Mo., expressing regret at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; which was ordered to lie on the table. INTRODUCTION OF BILL Mr. MANSFIELD (for himself and Mr. METCALF) introduced the bill (S. 2417) to authorize the appropriation of funds for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of the Alaska Highway; which was read the first and second times by unanimous consent and referred to the Committee on Public Works. HEARINGS ON KEEPING OPEN THE YEARROUND HIGHWAY NO. 20 IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Mr. MANSFIELD (for Mr. McGEE) submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 248); which was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Resolved, That the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs is hereby directed to conduct open hearings relating to the desirability of keeping open for public highway purposes on a year-round basis that portion of U.S. Highway Num bered 20 which is situated within the ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR INVESTIGATION Mr. WILLIAMS of New Jersey submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 249); which was referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare: Resolved, That section 4 of S. Res. 22, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, authorizing an investigation of migratory labor, agreed to March 14, 1963, is amended by striking out "$68,750” and inserting in lieu thereof "$73,750". MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Hackeny, one of its clerks: Mr. President: The House of Representatives has passed without amendment the following bills of the Senate: S. 585. An act for the relief of Agaram K. Sreekanth; S. 1196. An act for the relief of Mrs. Maria Nowakowski Chandler; and S. 1524. An act for the relief of Hai Yung Jung and Johnny Jung. GERMANENESS OF DEBATE, UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES On motion by Mr. HUMPHREY, The Senate proceeded to consider the resolution (S. Res. 89) providing for germaneness of debate under certain circumstances. On motion by Mr. HUMPHREY, and by unanimous consent, Ordered, That when the Senate adjourns today it be to meet on Friday next. Pending debate, DEATH OF LATE REPRESENTATIVE HOWARD H. BAKER, OF TENNESSEE The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HRUSKA in the chair) laid before the Senate the resolution this day received from the House of Representatives, announcing the death of the late Representative from the State of Tennessee, Hon. HOWARD H. BAKER, which was read. Mr. GORE thereupon submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 250); which was considered and unanimously agreed to: Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of Honorable HowARD H. BAKER, late a Representative from the State of Tennessee. Resolved, That a committee of four Senators be appointed by the Presiding Officer to join the committee appointed on the part of the House of Representatives to attend the funeral of the deceased Representative. Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the deceased. The PRESIDING OFFICER, in accordance with the second resolution appointed Mr. GORE, Mr. WALTERS, Mr. DIRKSEN, and Mr. COOPER as the members of the funeral committee on the part of the Senate. ADJOURNMENT On motion by Mr. GORE, The Senate, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the late Repre sentative from the State of Tennessee, adjourned, under its order of today, until Friday next. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1964 The PRESIDENT pro tempore called the Senate to order, and the Chaplain offered prayer. THE JOURNAL On motion by Mr. HUMPHREY, and by unanimous consent, The reading of the Journal of the proceedings of Wednesday, January 8, 1964, was dispensed with. ATTENDANCE OF SENATORS Mr. FRANK CARLSON, from the State of Kansas, Mr. JAMES O. EASTLAND, from the State of Mississippi, and Mr. A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, from the State of Oklahoma, attended. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Hackney, one of its clerks: Mr. President: The House of Representatives has passed the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 136) providing for renaming the National Cultural Center as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, authorizing an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes, with amendments, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate. The House has passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 1295. An act for the relief of Edith and Joseph Sharon; H.R. 1450. An act for the relief of Maria Mangano; H.R. 1455. An act for the relief of Ewald Johan Consen; H.R. 1723. An act for the relief of Agnese Brienza; H.R. 1725. An act for the relief of Elisabeth Werner; H.R. 2190. An act for the relief of Anna Del Baglivo; H.R. 2948. An act for the relief of Mrs. Leung Chi King; H.R. 4361. An act for the relief of the estate of Paul F. Ridge; H.R. 4972. An act for the relief of Robert E. McKee General Contractor, Inc., and Kaufman & Broad Building Co., a joint venture; H.R. 5617. An act for the relief of Elizabeth Renee Louise Gabrielle Huffer; H.R. 6092. An act for the relief of Alexander Haytko; H.R. 6748. An act for the relief of the J. D. Wallace & Co., Inc.; H.R. 7347. An act for the relief of Teresa Elliopoulos and Anastasia Elliopoulos; 1 1 |