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It will call for a substantial reduction in Federal employment, a feat accomplished only once before in the last 10 years. While maintaining 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

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 faith— faith 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 differences.

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 în 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
TELEPHONE CO.

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'
ADMINISTRATION

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 OF 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 TEN-
NESSEE 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
boundaries of Yellowstone National
Park; and be it further
Resolved, That such hearings be held
at the earliest possible time.

ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR INVESTIGATION
OF MIGRATORY LABOR

Mr. WILLIAMS of New Jersey sub-
mitted the following resolution (S. Res.
249); which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Labor and Public Welfare:

Resolved, That section 4 of S. Res. 22,
Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, au-
thorizing 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 Repre-
sentatives, by Mr. Hackeny, one of its
clerks:

Mr. President: The House of Repre-
sentatives has passed without amend-
ment the following bills of the Senate:

S. 585. An act for the relief of Agaram
K. Sreekanth;

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. EAST-
LAND, from the State of Mississippi, and
Mr. A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, from the

S. 1196. An act for the relief of Mrs.
Maria Nowakowski Chandler; and
S. 1524. An act for the relief of Hal State of Oklahoma, attended.
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 ger-
maneness of debate under certain cir-
cumstances,

On motion by Mr. HUMPHREY, and by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That when the Senate ad-
journs 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 Sen-
ate the resolution this day received from
the House of Representatives, announc-
ing 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.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

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

sentatives has passed the joint resoluMr. President: The House of Repretion (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.;

Teresa Elliopoulos and Anastasia EllioH.R. 7347. An act for the relief of poulos;

H.R. 7821. An act for the relief of Wladyslawa Pytlak Jarosz; and

H.R. 8322. An act for the relief of John George Kostantoyannis.

The Speaker of the House having signed three enrolled bills, viz, S. 585, S. 1196, S. 1524, I am directed to bring the same to the Senate for the signature of its President.

ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED

The Secretary reported that he had examined and found truly enrolled the following bills:

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.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore thereupon signed the same.

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED

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

VISIT OF PRESIDENT ANTONIO SEGNI OF ITALY Mr. PASTORE announced that on Wednesday, January 15, 1964, at 12:30 p.m., a joint meeting of the two Houses would be held in the Hall of the House of Representatives to hear an address by the Honorable Antonio Segni, President of Italy.

OFFICERS OF THE AIR FORCE ASSIGNED TO PERMANENT DUTY AT THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Air Force, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the number of officers assigned or detailed to permanent duty in the executive element of the Air Force at the seat of government for the quarter ended December 31, 1963; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services. VALUATION OF CERTAIN PIPELINE CARRIERS IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, copies of final valuations of the properties of certain pipeline carriers in interstate commerce; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Commerce. CORRECTION OF REPORT ON PERMITS AND LICENSES FOR HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS SUBMITTED BY FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, transmitting a correction in a report heretofore submitted relating to permits and licenses for hydroelectric projects issued by the Federal Power Commission; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce,

REPORT ON REVIEW OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

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 review of certain activities of the government of the Virgin Islands of the United States, fiscal year 1962; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

REPORT ON INADEQUACIES IN ADMINISTRATION OF FEDERAL GRANTS UNDER TITLE III OF NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT OF 1958

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 inadequacies in administration of Federal grants under title III of National Defense Education Act of 1958, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

REPORT OF NAVAL SEA CADET CORPS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the first annual report of the Naval Sea Cadet Corps since its incorporation in September 1962; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. TEMPORARY ADMISSION OF CERTAIN ALIENS

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of certain aliens granted temporary admission into the United States under the authority of section 212(d) (3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

REPORT ON PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the professional and scientific positions established in the Commission for the calendar year 1963; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Administrative Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the professional and scientific positions established in the Department of the Interior for the calendar year 1963; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. USELESS PAPERS IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from

the Archivist of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on lists of papers in various departments and agencies of the Government, recommended for disposition, which appear to have no permanent value or historical interest; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to a Joint Select Committee on the Disposition of Papers in the Executive Departments; and

The PRESIDENT pro tempore appointed Mr. JOHNSTON and Mr. CARLSON as members of the committee on the part of the Senate.

Ordered, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives thereof.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

Mr. HAYDEN, from the Committee on Rules and Administration, to whom was referred the resolution (S. Res. 237) to print as a document, with additional copies, a report entitled "Personnel Administration and Operations of Agency for International Development," reported it without amendment and submitted a report (No. 816) thereon.

Mr. WILLIAMS of New Jersey, from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, to whom was referred the resolution (S. Res. 249) providing additional funds-for the investigation of migratory labor, reported it without amendment.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND A JOINT RESOLUTION

Bills and a joint resolution were introduced, severally read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as follows:

By Mr. KEATING:

S. 2418. A bill for the relief of Miss Ippolita Davi; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. HOLLAND (for himself and Mr. SMATHERS):

S. 2419. A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to condemn certain property in the city of St. Augustine, Fla., within the boundary of the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

By Mr. CLARK:

S. 2420. A bill to amend section 218 of the Social Security Act so as to enable States, through Federal-State agreement, to provide further opportunity for certain State employees to elect coverage under the insurance system established by title II of the Social Security Act; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. KEATING:

S.J. Res. 143. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to create the offices of Executive Vice President and Legislative Vice President; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

TO PRINT AS A SENATE DOCUMENT A REPORT BY SENATOR HAYDEN ON FALLACIES AND DANGERS IN PROPOSED “LIBERTY" AMENDMENT

Mr. HAYDEN, from the Committee on Rules and Administration, reported the following resolution (S. Res. 251) and

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