S. 1409. An act for the relief of Donald B. Thurston and other employees of the Fish and Wildlife Service;

S. 1454. An act for the relief of Keitha L. Baker;

S. 1502. An act to provide for adjustments in the annuities under the Foreign Service retirement and disability system;

S. 1509. An act to amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, to provide "grandfather" rights for certain motor carriers and freight forwarders operating in interstate or foreign commerce within Alaska and between Alaska and the other States of the United States, and for certain water carriers operating within Alaska, to provide "grandfather" rights for certain freight forwarders operating between Hawaii and the other States of the United States, and for other purposes;

S. 1600. An act for the relief of Grace L. Patton;

S. 1795. An act relating to the promotion and separation of certain officers of the Regular components of the Armed Forces;

S. 1965. An act to make uniform provisions of law with respect to the terms of office of the members of certain regulatory agencies;

S. 2113. An act for the relief of George K. Caldwell;

S. 2197. An act to protect the public health by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act so as to authorize the use of suitable color additives in or on foods, drugs, and cosmetics, in accordance with regulations prescribing the conditions (including maximum tolerances) under which such additives may be safely used;

S. 2277. An act for the relief of the Geo. D. Emery Co.;

S. 2548. An act for the relief of Henry C. Larson;

S. 2689. An act for the relief of Hwachii Lien;

S. 2740. An act for the relief of Julia Sukkar;

S. 2744. An act to extend the term of design patent No. 21,053, dated September 22, 1891, for a badge, granted to George Brown Goode, and assigned to the National Daughters of the American Revolution;

S. 2817. An act for the relief of Joseph R. Paquette;

S. 2855. An act for the relief of Brenda Nicholson Miller;

S. 2857. An act to amend the Civil Service Retirement Act so as to provide for disposition of contributions in the case of annuitants whose length of service exceeds the amount necessary to provide the maximum annuity allowable under such act, and for other purposes;

S. 3105. An act for the relief of William Y. Allen, Jr., Donald Baldwin Quintero, Johann Friedrich Stapelfeld, and Kenneth Gordon Woods;

S. 3125. An act for the relief of Robert William Neal, Robert J. Naumann, Charles LeRoy Van Slyke, and Franklin Jordan;

S. 3179. An act to increase the authorization for appropriations for construc

tion of facilities for the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory;

S. 3545. An act to amend section 4 of the act of January 21, 1929 (48 U.S.C. 354a (c)), and for other purposes;

H.R. 1157. An act to provide for promotion of economic and social development in the Ryukyu Islands;

H.R. 2671. An act for the relief of Antonia Martinez;

H.R. 4049. An act to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 in order to authorize free or reduced-rate transportation for certain additional persons;

H.R. 4346. An act to amend the Bankruptcy Act to limit the use of false financial statements as a bar to discharge;

H.R. 4386. An act to amend title 18 of the United States Code to make it unlawful to destroy, deface, or remove certain boundary markers on Indian reservations, and to trespass on Indian reservations to hunt, fish, or trap;

H.R. 5040. An act to amend and clarify the reemployment provisions of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, and for other purposes;

H.R. 5098. An act to provide for the application and disposition of net revenues from the power development on the Grand Valley Federal reclamation project, Colorado;

H.R. 6179. An act to grant the. right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain lands to the city of Crawford, Nebr.;

H.R. 7726. An act to amend section 678 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C. 1078) relating to the transmission of petitions, notices, orders, and other papers to the Secretary of the Treasury in chapter XIII proceedings;

H.R. 7965. An act to amend section 612 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize outpatient treatment incident to authorized hospital care for certain veterans;

H.R. 8295. An act to authorize the transfer to the Navajo Tribe of irrigation project works on the Navajo Reservation, and for other purposes;

H.R. 9702. An act to amend section 2771 of title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain payments of deceased members' final accounts without the necessity of settlement by General Accounting Office;

H.R. 9711. An act for the relief of Robert L. Stoermer;

H.R. 9751. An act for the relief of Mrs. Icile Helen Hinman;

H.R. 10068. An act to amend section 303 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, to authorize travel and transportation allowances, and transportation of dependents and of baggage and household effects to the homes of their selection for certain members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes;

H.R. 10500. An act to amend the Career Compensation Act of 1949 with respect to incentive pay for certain submarine service;

H.R. 10596. An act to change the method of payment of Federal aid to State or territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines of the United States;

H.R. 11389. An act making appropriations for the Executive Office of the President and sundry general Government agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes;

H.R. 11602. An act to amend certain laws of the United States in light of the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union, and for other purposes;

H.R. 11776. An act making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes;

H.R. 12200. An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize reduction in enlisted grade upon approval of certain court-martial sentences;

H.R. 12231. An act making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes;

H.R. 12232. An act making appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes;

H.R. 12570. An act to amend section 303 (c) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 by imposing certain limitations on the transportation of household effects;

S.J. Res. 41. Joint resolution to establish a National Institute for International Health and Medical Research, to provide for international cooperation in health research, research training, and research planning, and for other purposes; and

H.J. Res. 627. Joint resolution to authorize appropriations incident to U.S. participation in the International Bureau for the Protection of Industrial Property.

On July 14, 1960:

S. 1315. An act for the incorporation of the Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc.;

S. 2585. An act for the relief of Joseph Lue Fan and Aura Joan Lue Fan;

S. 2674. An act to authorize the acquisition of certain lands for addition to Harpers Ferry National Monument, and for other purposes;

S. 2765. An act for the relief of Sofia Skolopoulos;

S. 2969. An act to authorize the award posthumously of appropriate medals to Chaplain George L. Fox, Chaplain Alexander D. Goode, Chaplain Clark V. Poling, and Chaplain John P. Washington;

S. 3076. An act for the relief of Daisy Pong Hi Tong Li;

S. 3247. An act to amend the act of September 9, 1959 (73 Stat. 473), to provide that payment for the lands covered by such act may be made on a deferred basis;

S. 3319. An act to authorize the Administrator of General Services to release the recapture provisions contained in the conveyance of certain real property to the city of Little Rock, Ark., and for other purposes;

S. 3450. An act to amend section 22 (relating to the endowment and support of colleges of agriculture and the me

chanic arts) of the act of June 29, 1935, to increase the authorized appropriation for resident teaching grants to landgrant institutions;

S. 3616. An act to deny to the District of Columbia, in suits on claims arising out of the negligent operation of vehicles owned or controlled by it and operated by its employees in the performance of their official duties, the defense of governmental immunity, to relieve such employees of liability in such cases to third persons, and for other purposes;

H.R. 808. An act to authorize the Secretary of State to evaluate in dollars certain financial assistance loans expressed in foreign currencies arising as a result of World War II, and for other purposes; H.R. 1422. An act for the relief of Alassandro Maraessa;

H.R. 1493. An act for the relief of Antonio Mendez Garcia and Palmira Lavin Garcia;

H.R. 1588. An act for the relief of Julius F. Steinhoff;

H.R. 1643. An act for the relief of Francesco Carozza;

H.R. 2117. An act for the relief of Ireneo D. Brodit and Antonio D. Brodit;

H.R. 2124. An act for the relief of Mrs. Teruko Teri Miyamoto (nee Ikeda);

H.R. 2705. An act for the relief of Bernardo Paternostro;

HR. 2716. An act for the relief of Miss Elizabeth Hollander;

H.R. 2944. An act for the relief of Luciano Di Franco;

H.R. 3524. An act for the relief of certain aliens;

H.R. 3804. An act for the relief of Rosolina Ciuferri;

H.R. 3900. An act to permit the admission to registry and the use in the coastwise trade of certain foreign-built hydrofoil vessels;

H.R. 4555. An act for the relief of Anatolijs Janitis;

H.R. 4595. An act to clarify and make uniform certain provisions of law relating to special postage rates for educational, cultural, and library materials, and for other purposes;

HR. 4970. An act for the relief of Haralambos Groutas;

H.R. 5055. An act to amend the restriction on the use of certain real property heretofore conveyed to the city of St. Augustine, Fla., by the United States;

HR. 5436. An act to provide for a register in the Department of Commerce in which shall be listed the names of certain persons who have had their motor vehicle operator's licenses revoked;

H.R. 5647. An act for the relief of Wong Gee Sing;

H.R. 6556. An act to amend subdivision c of section 39 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.SC. 67c) so as to clarify time for review of orders of referees;

HR. 6804. An act for the relief of Mary Elizabeth Tighe Crespo;

H.R. 7004. An act to facilitate the administration of the public lands, and for other purposes;

H.R. 7033. An act for the relief of Jack Darwin, Adolphe Herstein, and Nicholas Anthony Marcantonakis;

H.R. 7211. An act to provide additional disability compensation for certain seriously disabled veterans;

H.R. 7367. An act for the relief of Chieko Sakano and her child. Masao Sakano:

H.R. 7379. An act to amend the act of July 27, 1956, with respect to the detention of mail for temporary periods in the public interest, and for other purposes; H.R. 7425. An act for the relief of Mrs. Humiko Ross;

H.R. 7551. An act for the relief of Hubert O. Beckles;

H.R. 7593. An act to provide that the Civil Aeronautics Board may temporarily authorize certain air carriers to engage in supplemental air transportation, and for other purposes;

H.R. 7634. An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes;

H.R. 7895. An act for the relief of Gloria Anne Loveday;

H.R. 7903. An act to amend chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, to extend the veterans' guaranteed and direct loan program for 2 years;

H.R. 8229. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide an exemption from income tax for supplemental unemployment benefit trusts;

H.R. 8384. An act for the relief of Otto Small;

H.R. 9042. An act for the relief of Anna Semechole Marcolina;

H.R. 9610. An act for the relief of Sister Frances Cabrini (Virginia Bilbao);

H.R. 9786. An act to amend section 511 and 512 of title 38, United States Code, to permit Indian war and SpanishAmerican War veterans to elect to receive pension at the rates applicable to veterans of World War I;

H.R. 9960. An act for the relief of Dr. Tze I. Chiang;

H.R. 10002. An act for the relief of Ida Exle (nee Ida Sterio);

H.R. 10495. An act to authorize appropriations for the fiscal years 1962 and 1963 for the construction of certain highways in accordance with title 23 of the United States Code, and for other purposes;

H.R. 10511. An act to grant an additional benefit to persons receiving cash relief under the Panama Canal Cash Relief Act of July 8, 1937;

H.R. 10793. An act for the relief of Ray C. Thompson;

H.R. 10952. An act to authorize the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists to use certain real property in the District of Columbia as the national headquarters of that society;

H.R. 10997. An act to grant to the government of Guam certain filled lands, submerged lands, and tidelands;

H.R. 11135. An act to aid in the development of a coordinated system of transportation for the National Capital region; to create a temporary National Capital Transportation Agency; to authorize negotiation to create an interstate agency; and for other purposes;

H.R. 11516. An act to create a judicial officer for the Post Office Department;

H.R. 11854. An act to clarify the ownership of certain church properties located in the Virgin Islands;

H.R. 11931. An act to amend the act of March 3, 1901, with respect to the time within which a caveat to a will must be filed in the District of Columbia;

H.R. 12465. An act to provide for a simpler method of determining assessments under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and for other purposes;

H.R. 12584. An act to amend the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act for the District of Columbia;

H.R. 12740. An act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes.

H.J. Res. 397. Joint resolution to enable the United States to participate in the resettlement of certain refugees, and for other purposes;

H.J. Res. 605. Joint resolution providing for the preparation and completion of plans for a comprehensive observance of the 175th anniversary of the formation of the Constitution of the United States;

H.J. Res. 672. Joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President to issue a proclamation with respect to the 1960 Pacific Festival, and for other purposes; and

H.J. Res. 722. Joint resolution relating to the entry of certain aliens.

PRESIDENTIAL DISAPPROVALS

The President of the United States, subsequent to the adjournment of the Senate to a date certain, transmitted to the Secretary of the Senate lists of bills and joint resolutions disapproved by him, with his reasons for such action, as follows:

On July 6, 1960:

ECONOMIC REGULATION

OF ALASKA RAILROAD UNDER INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT

I am withholding my approval fron S. 1508, a bill to provide for economic regulation of the Alaska Railroad under the Interstate Commerce Act, and for other purposes.

I cannot approve the bill because it would (1) subordinate certain of the President's statutory powers to those of a regulatory commission, (2) allow a State to regulate a Federal agency, and (3) apply to the Alaska Railroad laws, rules, and procedures which are intended solely for application to privately owned and operated railroads and which are completely inappropriate for a Government agency established to carry out a public purpose.

The power to construct and operate the Alaska Railroad and to set the rates charged by it are vested in the President. To subject the President's exercise of these powers to the review and perhaps disapproval of the Interstate Commerce Commission would be repugnant to our constitutional system.

By allowing the State of Alaska to regulate the Railroad, which is a Federal agency, the bill violates the principle

that the Federal Government's authority shall be supreme. Under S. 1508, the State could thwart public purposes declared by the President and the Congress, but it would have no responsibility for the success or for the financing of the Railroad.

The laws, rules, standards, and procedures concerning tariffs, rates, accounts, services, and employees of private railroads are not suited to a Government Accounting standards estabagency. lished by the Interstate Commerce Commission for private railroads cannot, for example, assure the President and the Congress of adequate control over the use of Federal funds by a Federal agency. In requiring the Commission to consider the needs of Government financial agencies, and in other exceptions it makes, the bill itself recognizes that standards applied to private industry cannot be applied to the Alaska Railroad.

By extending the Employers' Liability Act to cover the Alaska Railroad's liability to its employees, who are already covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, the bill may give this group of Federal employees either dual compensation from the Federal Government for a single injury or the right to choose between two methods of obtaining compensation. Either result would be inconsistent with the Federal workmen's compensation policy that all employees be treated equally.

The President and the Congress have ample authority to insure that the Railroad operates in the public interest. In due course, it will be determined that the Railroad's Federal purposes have been achieved. At that time the Congres should authorize disposition of the Railroad to a non-Federal agency, and it would then automatically become subject to Interstate Commerce Commission regulation.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. THE WHITE HOUSE, July 6, 1960.

JUAN D. QUINTOS ET AL.

I am withholding my approval from H.R. 1516, for the relief of Juan D. Quintos, Jaime Hernandez, Delfin Buencamino, Soledad Gomez, Nieves G. Argonza, Felididad G. Sarayba, Carmen Vda de Gomez, Perfecta B. Quintos, and Bienvenida San Agustin.

The bill would waive the applicable statute of limitations and confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear the claims of these individuals for losses of jewelry, coins, relics, and currency which were somehow included in one of four large wooden boxes delivered to the United States High Commissioner to the Philippines by the Philippine National Bank in response to the Commissioner's direction, in December 1941, that the bank deliver to him "all cash reserves, bullion, negotiable securities, and other negotiable papers held by your bank, or held by you in trust for others." The purpose of the directive was to prevent such items from falling into the hands of the enemy who, at that moment, was

invading the islands. When the property of these claimants was discovered, it was turned over to a representative of the Philippine government, who rejected suggestions of United States Army officers that it be sent out on an American submarine. Instead, he voluntarily placed the property in a safe at Corregidor where it was confiscated by the Japanese. From these facts it is apparent that the possibility of a valid claim against the United States is very remote.

More importantly, these claimants had ample opportunity to present their claims in a timely manner. Under the applicable statute of limitations, they had until December 1947—2 years after the end of the war-to file suit in the Court of Claims. They had 5 months after the Treasury Department, on July 25, 1947, advised that there was no statute or appropriation permitting the administrative settlement of such claims. They waited, however, for 4 years, until 1951, before petitioning the Court of Claims.

Nothing in the record justifies special treatment for these claimants, particularly when it is remembered that many others filed suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for damages arising out of incidents in the Philippines during the war years and had their cases dismissed because of the expiration of the statute of limitations. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. THE WHITE HOUSE, July 6, 1960.

On July 7, 1960:

SAM J. BUZZANCA

I am withholding my approval from H.R. 6712, a bill "For the relief of Sam J. Buzzanca."

Mr. Buzzanca, at a Federal tax sale in 1954, purchased certain real estate which had an estimated market value of $21,000, but which was subject to a mortgage prior in time to the Federal tax lien. It was announced at the tax sale that principal and interest in the amount of $8,320 was due under this prior mortgage. The real estate was sold to Mr. Buzzanca for $8,100-far less than the amount of the Federal tax lien which exceeded the market value of the property.

Two months later the holder of the first mortgage, who also had acquired whatever rights the heirs of the delinquent taxpayer and former owner had in the property, successfully sued Mr. Buzzanca to obtain possession of the property. Although the United States was not a party to this action, the District Director for the area did render informal assistance to Mr. Buzzanca. On appeal, the Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed.

Mr. Buzzanca's claim for relief appears to rest on the contention that the first mortgagee obtained a judgment for possession of the property because the tax sale to Mr. Buzzanca was defective and did not convey to Mr. Buzzanca the former owner's interest.

Internal Revenue Service records reveal no defect in the seizure and sale. this being so, Mr. Buzzanca has no ground for complaint against the United States. Because the existence of the first mortgage was made known at the time, the tax sale did not purport to convey rights superior to a valid first mortgage.

The United States cannot and does not attempt to warrant or defend title to property seized and sold under the internal revenue laws. No warranty is available to a purchaser at a tax sale and a deed is not a warranty of the title conveyed. The right, title, and interest conveyed is derivative, and the purchaser acquires only the interest of the delinquent taxpayer. To compel the United States to warrant and defend the title to all property sold by it for taxes would be costly and inadvisable.

For these reasons I cannot, on the facts at hand, aprove this bill for it would create a precedent that would encourage dissatisfied purchasers at Federal tax sales to ask Congress to underwrite their losses and guarantee their titles.

Were Mr. Buzzanca, however, to adduce direct evidence establishing incontrovertibly that the tax deed in question was defective, I would of course be willing to sign a similar bill subsequently enacted.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.
THE WHITE HOUSE, July 7, 1960.
On July 12, 1960:

METHOD FOR REGULATING AND FIXING WAGE
RATES FOR EMPLOYEES OF PORTSMOUTH, N.H.,
NAVAL SHIPYARD

I am withholding my approval from S. 19, to provide a method for regulating and fixing wage rates for employees of Portsmouth, N.H., Naval Shipyard. My reasons for disapproving an identical enactment of the 85th Congress still apply. This bill, like its predecessor, strikes at the heart of the statutory principle that rates of pay for 673,000 Federal wage board employees shall conform, as nearly as is consistent with the public interest, with private rates of pay in the immediate vicinity of the particular Federal activity.

This principle is sound. It insures Federal employees a fair wage. It insures against the payment of unwarranted hourly rates by the Government. And it insures that Federal rates of pay will not upset the economy of the community in which the Federal establishment is located.

S. 19 would disregard this principle by providing that hourly rates for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard employees should be based on those which obtain, not in Portsmouth, but rather in the Boston industrial complex, 60 miles distant. Private industrial rates are substantially higher in Boston than in Portsmouth— and therein lies the explanation of the bill.

But why should the Government pay a much higher hourly wage rate than do fair-minded private employers in the Portsmouth area? If the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard were a private estab

lishment, there would be no question of a differential. The going rate for the area would be paid. But because the Government is the employer, and just because it is, there is apparently an expectation that the Government should pay more than these hourly employees in fairness and equity have a right to expect. Further, it is seemingly of little or no concern that in so doing the Government would be departing from sound principle and business practice and would be unsettling the economy of the Portsmouth community.

This kind of legislation-this expectation of something-for-nothing from the Government just because it is the Government--weakens our national fabric and with each occurrence leaves it more seriously impaired. The spread of this expectation, and its reflection in an increase of such legislation, are profoundly disturbing for the future of America.

In this one instance, for example, S. 19 as a law would provide a ready precedent for the eventual dissolution of the wage board principle and system. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in no way presents an unusual situation. Several Federal establishments, less distant from Boston than Portsmouth, have lower pay scales than those of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

By no rationale can this bill be justified. Wage disparities exist throughout the United States but under the wage board principle the Government pays the fair and equitable hourly rates of the particular area in which it finds itself— and so it should.

For these reasons I am unable to approve the bill.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. THE WHITE HOUSE, July 12, 1960.

On July 14, 1960:

MARGARET P. COPIN

I am withholding my approval from H.R. 4546, for the relief of Margaret P. Copin.

This bill would direct that its beneficiary be credited with a 20-year service period for purposes of civil service retirement annuity, payable commencing October 1, 1959.

This claimant, during three periods beginning in August 1920 and ending in June 1949, was on the employment rolls of the Treasury Department for a total time of 20 years and 29 days. This included, however, 7 months and 21 days of leave without pay in calendar year 1922. Her actual service therefore totals only 19 years, 5 months and 8 days. Nevertheless, in computing Mrs. Copin's length of service for retirement annuity purposes, the normal rules of the law were applied; namely, free credit of 6 months of leave without pay taken in 1932 and exclusion of the excess amount.

Despite the credit of 6 months, the claimant still lacks 22 days of the 20 years of creditable service which would have given her the right to an immediate reduced annuity beginning October 1, 1958, when disability annuity payments theretofore received were terminated pursuant to a finding that she was re

employable. Instead, her status is that of a deferred annuitant, and retirement annuity will not be payable until March 1, 1964, after she has attained 62 years of age. The difference in the total value of the two annuities, based on life expectancy, is $4,200, which would be, in effect, a gratuity from the Federal Government.

The record on H.R. 4546 discloses no valid justification for the favored position the bill would accord this claimant. To confer such a preferential advantage on one individual participant in the retirement program would be highly discriminatory and contrary to the principles of fair play and equality of treatment which are basic to sound personnel administration.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. THE WHITE HOUSE, July 14, 1960.

BERNALILLO COUNTY, N. MEX.

I am withholding my approval from H.R. 11545, to amend the act of October 31, 1949, with respect to payments to Bernalillo County, N. Mex., for furnishing hospital care for certain Indians.

A 1949 law authorized the Government to contribute $1,500,000 toward construction of a hospital in Bernalillo County upon Government donated land. In return, the county must make available, when required, at least 100 beds for the care of eligible Indians. Further, the cost of caring for Indians admitted to the hospital was to be paid by the United States and, as an experiment, the Government undertook to guarantee the county a payment at least equal to the cost of operating 80 percent of the beds reserved for Indians irrespective of the number actually hospitalized.

The minimum guaranty provision, previously twice extended and now expired as of June 30, 1960, would be extended for still another year under H.R. 11545.

Ordinarily in such cases the United States pays for Indian care on the basis of actual hospitalization. Accordingly, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in reporting to the Congress in 1957 pursuant to the original law, recommended that the experimental 80 percent minimum guaranty be permitted to expire. The Congress nevertheless extended the guaranty provision for another 3 years.

Funds for contract hospital care should be available for expenditure wherever the health needs of Indian patients so require, and no portion of them should be mandatorily tied to a single contract facility without regard to actual need or use. Moreover, because other Government service contracts for Indian care do not include a minimum payment guaranty, it would be highly inequitable to continue this provision solely for the Bernalillo County Hospital.

Finally, the completion of other facilities now under construction willl in all likelihood reduce the number of Indian patients at Bernalillo Hospital and the bill would thus mean unnecessary expense to the Government and without any corresponding advantage, either to the Government or to this program.

For these reasons, I am unable to approve this bill.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. THE WHITE HOUSE, July 14, 1960. INDIVIDUAL VIEWS OF MR. CARROLL ON H.R. 10548 REPORT

Under the authority of the order of July 1, 1960, Mr. CARROLL Submitted on July 7, 1960, his individual views as a member of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on the bill (H.R. 10548) to amend the Helium Act of September 1, 1937, as amended, for the defense, security, and the general welfare of the United States; which were printed as part of Report No. 1814.

MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1960

The VICE PRESIDENT called the Senate to order and the Chaplain offered prayer.

THE JOURNAL

On motion by Mr. JOHNSON of Texas, and by unanimous consent, The reading of the Journal of the proceedings of Saturday, July 2, 1960, was dispensed with.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

A message from the House of Representatives by Mr. Maurer, one of its clerks:

Mr. President: The House of Representatives has passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

H.R. 2178. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Army to make certain changes in the road at Whites Branch, Grapevine Reservoir, Tex.;

H.R. 2467. An act to authorize the reimbursement of owners and tenants of land acquired by the Federal Aviation Agency for their moving expenses;

H.R. 10841. An act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to place bamboo pipestems on the free list;

H.R. 12595. An act to clarify the law with respect to transportation of airmail, and for other purposes;

H.R. 12659. An act to suspend for a temporary period the import duty on heptanoic acid;

H.R. 12699. An act to cancel a deed of trust to the United States from the predecessor in name of Gallaudet College and any evidences of indebtedness related to the same transaction, to quiet the college's title to property belonging to it, and for other purposes; and

H.R. 12747. An act to increase the salaries of assistant U.S. attorneys and certain other attorneys appointed by the Attorney General.

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED

The bills this day received from the House of Representatives for concurrence, were severally read the first and second times by unanimous consent.

Ordered, That the bill H.R. 2178 be referred to the Committee on Public Works;

That the bill H.R. 2467 be referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce;

That the bills H.R. 10841 and H.R. 12659 be referred to the Committee on Finance;

That the bill H.R. 12595 be referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service;

That the bill H.R. 12699 be referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare; and

That the bill H.R. 12747 be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

SENATOR-ELECT FROM THE STATE OF
NORTH DAKOTA

Mr. YOUNG of North Dakota presented the credentials of QUENTIN BurDICK, duly chosen a Senator by the qualified electors of the State of North Dakota on June 28, 1960, to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1965, caused by the death of William Langer; which were read and ordered to be placed on file.

Mr. BURDICK appeared and, the oath of office prescribed by law having been administered to him by the Vice President and subscribed by him, he took his seat in the Senate.

QUESTION OF QUORUM

Mr. JOHNSON of Texas raised a question as to the presence of a quorum; Whereupon

The VICE PRESIDENT directed the roll to be called;

LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS

The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the following message from the President of the United States, which was read:

To the Congress of the United States:

I welcome the return of the Congress. There is much important legislative work still pending that cannot await the selection and assembly of a new Congress and a new administration. The executive and legislative branches must act together on these pressing needs these next few weeks. I shall do my part. I am sure that the Congress will be similarly disposed.

First, the world situation, with its great significance to us.

Fundamentally, it is as it was. The free world still faces a Communist imperialism fixed upon conquest of all the world.

Vigilance, therefore, must still be our watchword. Continuing strength-military, economic, spiritual-must remain our reliance. Our basic objective-to secure a permanent peace-is yet to be won. Our programs have long been keyed to this situation. They must continue.

During the congressional recess events have dramatized tensions that still plague the world.

We have seen an intensification of Communist truculence.

Indeed, the Soviet dictator has talked loosely and irresponsibly about a possible missile attack on the United States.

An American aircraft has been attacked over international waters. Our resolution requesting an investigation of this matter has been vetoed by the Soviets in the United Nations Security Council. Surviving crew members are still being held prisoner.

The Soviet delegation has walked out of the Geneva disarmament negotiations. The Communists continue to exploit situations of unrest, flagrantly striving to turn to their ends the struggles and hopes of peoples for a better world. These Communist efforts have recently reached new extremes in central Africa. All of us know about Cuba.

As a result of continuous appraisal of changing Communist tactics and attitudes, I have ordered the military services to take certain practical measures affecting the readiness and posture of our military commands. These include the deployment of additional aircraft carriers to the 6th and 7th Fleets. A number of B-47 medium bombers and their accompanying tankers, which had been scheduled to be phased out of our forces, will be retained in service for the time being; and the tempo of operation of the Strategic Air Command will be increased and its deployment further dispersed.

The readiness of our ground forces will be further improved by expanding the number and scope of strategic field and airborne exercises.

I have also directed expansion of certain long-range programs. The Strategic Air Command capability to conduct a continuous airborne alert will be further strengthened. More funds will be applied to the modernization of the Army combat equipment and to military airlift. Additional effort will be devoted to the development of the B-70 and the reconnaissance satellite Samos.

During the congressional recess we have made extraordinary progress in testing one of America's most important weapons systems-the Polaris ballistic missile submarine. It is with great satisfaction that I report to the Congress that the first test firings of the Polaris missile from the submerged nuclear submarine George Washington had rifle shot accuracy at great ranges. Never in my long military career has a weapon system of such complexity been brought from its original conception to the op

erational stage with such sureness and speed-an achievement that in its entirety has taken less than 5 years.

The time is now right to increase the scope of the Polaris program and five instead of three more submarines have been started this fiscal year. Furthermore, I have directed the development of a much longer range version of the Polaris missile, which will give America a weapon of even greater versatility, power, and invulnerability.

The Defense Department will carry out these defense measures with its available resources insofar as possible. Measures pertaining to weapons systems programs will be carried out by utilizing appropriations already made in this session. Total resources are adequate, although a modest increase in military personnel and in operation and maintenance funds may prove to be necessary to carry out the readiness measures. If such an increase should be required, I shall promptly request the necessary funds.

Incidentally, provision will have to be made after the first of the year to fund the civilian pay increases imposed by Congress a few weeks ago. These will add permanently to our defense costs some $200 million a year.

Once again I assure the Congress that this Nation's military power is second to none and will be kept that way. Our long-range strategic bombers and air-toground missiles, our intermediate and long-range ballistic missiles, our Polaris submarines, our attack carriers, the tactical air units overseas, the air defense forces, and the atomic and conventional firepower of our ground forces worldwide are indeed a retaliatory and defensive force unmatched anywhere.

So much for administrative actions which I have recently taken. Congressional actions, too, are required.

Our national security needs encompass more than excellence and strength in

our own Military Establishment. They include measures to build free world strength everywhere. These require, and I therefore request, appropriations of the full amount authorized by the Congress for the mutual security program. At this point in the legislative process, these appropriations have been cut by well over a half billion dollars. The Nation's security and our inescapable interest in a stable world require that these amounts be restored.

In addition, I request a $100 million increase in the authorization and appropriation for the mutual security contingency fund. This increase is needed to keep America poised for sudden developments such as those in the Congo where a U.S. airlift and other efforts were needed suddenly and critically. Happily, in this instance, we were able to respond in a matter of hours. We must maintain ourselves in a position to give rapid backing to the efforts of the United Nations in this troubled region.

At my direction, two other matters will be presented to Congress, their purpose being to promote free-world stability by stimulating the hopes, morale and