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public ls enabled to enjoy anything from a washing machine to a computer with enor­mous saving in time and energy.

The Supreme Court has repeatedly made it clear that the public is the real beneficiary from the U.S. Patent System, yet there are many in the Congress who have been led to believe that it is the inventor who is the beneficiary (if not the sole beneficiary) of patents.

Thus, instead of encouraging the inde­pendent inventor, the imaginative fellow with the ideas that could result in more jobs for more people, the Congress in Washington is right now in the process of planning to hike Patent Office fees which will shut out most of the independent inventors from even applying for patents. This is being done under the guise of "economy" because the Patent Office is operating on a deficit of about $20 million a year, which is nominal compared to the billions of dollars pumped into relief for the unemployed.

HOW THE GOOSE WALKS

Today, if a man has an idea that he thinks is patentable and his income is that of an average wage earner, this is what he has to do to have his idea patented:

( 1) He finds a patent lawyer to whom he shows his invention.

(2) The patent lawyer orders a patent search from another patent lawyer or search­er in Washington, D.C. This also costs money.

(3) If no one else anywhere in the world had that idea or a very similar one in all recorded history, then the patent lawyer ad­vises him that he has a fair chance if he applies for a patent, barring unforeseen ob­stacles in our Patent Office.

(4) The patent application ls then pre­pared by the lawyer but if there are draw­ings, these have to be ordered from a patent draftsman, which costs the inventor that much more.

(6) The patent lawyer then files this ap­plication in the U.S. Patent Office in Wash­ington and the inventor has to attach his check for $30 as the filing fee.

(6) Then comes the bill from the lawyer, for all this. The cost? Several hundred dol­lars or more, depending on how simple or complicated the invention may be. When his patent application issues as a patent, he

has to pay the Patent Office another $30. And he may have to pawn his wife's en­gagement ring or sell his car to build his first working model.

Now begins the real struggle, for usually after his patent issues he has to interest people 1n either financing him to start man­ufacturing his patented product or process; or try to sell or license it to others. That's how so many new businesses are born, giv­ing work to so many. The average length of time it takes an inventor to put his patent to work is 7 years. This means that of his original 17-year Patent Office grant, he has only 10 years left in which to reap any reward. For the independent inventor, it's no bed of roses; and any benefits he derives he pays for in sweat, work, frustration, and persistence.

Yet at this very moment the Congress in Washington is planning to hike the filing fee to the inventor from $30 to $50 and the issuance fee to $75. In addition, they pro­pose to hit him with a brand new class of fees so that 5 years after his patent issues, he will be obliged to pay $50 more and on the 9th year $100 more and on the 13th year $150 more, all of these payments referred to as maintenance fees. These new fees add up to $300. In sum, this means that the Patent Office will make the inventor pay $50 filing fee instead of $30 and $75 issuance fee in place of the present $30, plus the $300 in brand new fees, so that he will either have to have enough money to pay his patent law­yers, plus Patent Office fees of $425 or be forced to forget about his invention.

WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS LOSS

What a way to kill initiative. What a way to kill a great national asset. What a way to to discriminate against the creative little fellow, the independent inventor. Obvi­ously, the rich corporations can afford these fees thus enabling them with their hired inventors to garner new inventions and har­vest their patents, while the independent inventor and the small company will be forced to give up because they will be un­able to jump the high-fee-fence of the Pat­ent Office which Washington is planning to erect against them.

If we permit this to happen our patent system and its dedicated handmaiden, the Patent Office, will exist for the benefit of

those who can afford it: only well-to-do in­ventors and rich corporations. Thus, what our Constitution wisely gave to all the peo­ple, the fee hikers will destroy for the inde­pendent inventor and for those who want jobs.

Remember that Japan racked up 214,253 patent applications in 1962 compared to our 90,373. What a revealing story.

Does this comparison worry you? It wor­ries us, too. We are endangering our coun­try's future, we are failing to provide for our growing need for jobs when we permit che pinching off of new ideas, new inventions that flow from the fertile minds of inde­pendent inventors by erecting cost walls that deny them the chance for the reward that patents may bring them.

Frankly, the implications alarm us.

ENROLLED BILL PRESENTED The Secretary of the Senate reported

that on today, June 17, 1964, he pre­sented to the President of the United States the enrolled bill <S. 718) for the relief of W. H. Pickel.

RECESS UNTIL 11 AM. TOMORROW Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr. President, if

there is no further business to come be­fore the Senate, I move, pursuant to the order previously entered, that the Senate stand in recess until 11 o'clock a.m. to­morrow.

The motion was agreed to; and (at 9 o'clock and 34 minutes p.m.) the Senate took a recess, under the order previously entered, until tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, 1964, at 11 o'clock a.m.

NOMINATIONS Executive nominations received by the

Senate June 17 (legislative day of March 30), 1964:

Comptroller of Customs

Stanley E. Rutkowski, of New Jersey, to be comptroller of customs at Philadelphia, Pa.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ARA's OEDP Program Was a Farce

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF

HON. BURT L. TALCOTT OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, June 17, 1964

Mr. TALCOTT. Mr. Speaker, commu­nities scrambling for ARA benefits lost no time in filing their overall economic development plans. By May 1, 1963, 81 percent of the designated areas--850 areas--had filed OEDP's. Most of them involved only limited thoughtful analysis of community resources and contained little that would provide a blueprint for future community economic develop­ment. Many were poorly conceived and failed to contain essential economic data. Most were choked with information hav­ing no bearing upon the purpose of the OEDP. Since many of the filing orga­nizations were direct successors of the established local economic development

groups--by 1961 there were more than 3,000 in existence according to SBA esti­mates-it was not surprising to find that the OEDP's followed the long-established tradition of such groups by basing the "plans" for future development on en­ticing new manufacturing plants from some far-off place. In short, most of the OEDP's were "pie in the sky" docu­ments. Actually, manufacturing em­ployment is declining. ARA could scarcely base sound economic planning for its customers upon expanding manu­facturing plants.

The community OEDP's also empha­sized the need for more public works and facilities. A good many of the "needed" public works projects had little relation­ship to the future economic development of the community. Few promoters paid any attention to the potential cost of the proposed projects even when they had relevance to economic de·velopment. Few bothered to compute a cost-benefit ratio to justify the proposed public works. The planning process was not taken seri­ously; it was just looked upon as a pre-

liminary hurdle to obtaining Federal largess.

Local communities of State economic development agencies often ignored the congressional and ARA desire for "grass­roots" preparation. For one example~ most, if not all, of the OEDP's for Ken­tucky were prepared by the State area program office in Frankfort. They were in such general terms that without basic changes they could have described almost any area.

Incredibly, the ARA went along with this cavalier attitude. It faced the choice of either approving inadequate plans or disqualifying areas for receiving ARA cash until better plans were pro­duced. The ARA was no less anxious to help than the communities were to re­ceive help. So it accepted the plans. The ARA had developed neither the ex­pertise nor the staff to appraise the valid­ity of the local programs and to off er­sound suggestions for the development of more comprehensive plans.

ARA and its staff are inexperienced in the crucial business of economic develop-

1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 14245 ment and planning. Their main objec­tive is to stimulate and process applica­tions for Federal cash. ARA does not let essentials interfere with spending.

ARA also dissipated funds on foolish engineering studies. For example, ARA financed one study of the feasibility and design of a multipurpose reservoir in the Willapa River Basin, Wash., the kind of job that Congress has the Corps of Engi­neers to do. It did the same thing in southern Illinois, where the Corps of Engineers has for several years been con­sidering the building of a mul·timillion­dollar reservoir to supply industrial water and create a tourist attraction.

East Berlin Revolt in June 1953

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF

HON. FRANK J. HORTON OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, June 17, 1964

Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, peo­ples in East European countries have shown their bra very and courage on numerous occasions since the end of the last war, since their subjection to Soviet­imposed Communist tyranny. Such an occasion was the revolt of workers in East Berlin in June 1953, which began as a protest demonstration, but soon be­came a mass revolt in many industrial centers of East Germany.

On June 15 it was announced that the production quotas of all industrial work­ers would be raised. But the people were already tired from overwork and lack of food. As the result of the an­nounced raise in production quotas, in­dustrial workers reacted swiftly. The first move was made on the next day by a group of workers on the building sites of the Stalinallee. The strike began by one group, and was rapidly followed by other groups. Then a banner was displayed, on which appeared the de­mands of the workers for better pay, bet­ter food, and better working conditions. The group began its march to the gov­ernment building, where some 5,000 of them intended to deliver their demands to the heads of government. When the government leaders, Ulbricht and Grote­wohl, refused <or did not dare) to be seen and disappeared through a cellar door, then the workers decided on a general strike for the next day and dispersed.

On the 17th about 100,000 strikers marched through the streets and cou­rageously faced not only the firing by People's Police, but also the Russian tanks when they began appearing in all parts of the city. The clashes lasted all afternoon in the course of which more than 100 were killed and the government requested Soviet aid. Then the Soviet commandant proclaimed a state of emer­gency. The tanks began to move. By ·9 o'clock the streets were cleared of strikers and a curfew was imposed, so that by nightfall the Soviet Army was :in complete control. In these circum­stances there appeared little prospect

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that the strike and demonstrations would spread to other towns: but on the 18th and 19th work stoppages took place in all the towns and cities in East Ger­many. Subsequently these were brought under c.ontrol, but only by fierce methods with Soviet help. Thus came to an end the most outward show of courage and of love of freedom on the part of the German workers and German people en­slaved by the Kremlin-sustained regime of East Germany.

Today, 11 years after that heroic show of courage by these daring and dauntless Germans, we observe the anniversary of that June 17, affirming our whole­hearted and genuine admiration for their firm determination to carry on their fight for freedom against forbid­ding odds.

Maple, Beech, and Birch Hardwood Flooring

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF

HON. JOHN W. BYRNES OF WISCONSIN

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, June 17, 1964

Mr. BYRNES of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, today I introduced a bill, H.R. 11645, which would equalize the tariff duty on maple, beech, and birch hard­wood flooring as between the United States and the principal importer, Canada.

Presently, Canada has a rate of duty of 12 ½ percent on all imports of such hardwood flooring coming into that country. On the other hand,· we have a rate of duty of only 4 percent on im­ports of Canadian hardwood flooring.

The bill would increase our duty from 4 to 12 ½ percent until such time as Canada lowers its duty. Upon a reduc­tion in the Canadian duty, without the imposition of other import restrictions or export subsidies, the President is di­rected to reduce our duty by a compara­ble amount.

Available data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census shows that since 1948 do­mestic shipments of maple, beech, and birch hardwood flooring from our north­ern U.S. industry have been declining. At the same time, however, imports of such flooring from Canada to the United States have been maintained at about 4 million board feet per year. The re­sulting decline in the use of hardwood flooring has been shouldered entirely by our domestic industry.

The American request that the Cana­dians reduce their tariff of 12 ½ percent has been rejected. Our Wisconsin-Mich­igan flooring producers have requested the U.S. trade negotiators to ask Canada to reduce its tariff to that of the United States. For the second time in the past decade this request has been denied. In 1962 the Director of the Forest Products Division, U.S. Department of Commerce, expressed his disappointment to the do­mestic hardwood industry:

We regret that a concession on maple flooring was not obtained from Canada. We

assure you, however, that this matter was pressed most vigorously both here in Wash­ington and by our negotiators in Geneva.

In the meantime, Canadian flooring has been continued to be imported into our country and sold at prices lower than our domestic product. This has led to :financial losses and limited employment opportunities. in the domestic industry. Due to the higher Canadian tariff, our Wisconsin-Michigan producers have been unable to develop Canadian markets. However, the industry is of the opinion that given a lower Canadian tariff such markets could be developed in that some Canadian hardwood flooring users are nearer to U.S. produc·ers than to Cana­dian producers.

Our domestic producers should not be made to sacrifice their investment-built up over the years-in plants, equipment, and technical know-how, or should our workers lose their livelihood simply be­cause the Canadian producers are under the protection of a higher tariff.

I feel that the equalization of the tar­iff between the United States and Can­ad·a will induce Canada to take the nec­essary steps toward reduction and per­haps even the ultimate removal of their tariff. Since all attempts to bargain down the Canadian tariff have failed, this bill is the only course of action that remains.

Opinion Poll Indicates Voters' Beliefs on Current Issues

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF

HON. WILLIAM G. BRAY OF INDIANA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, June 17, 1964 Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, I recently

conducted an opinion poll among my constituents of the Seventh District of Indiana. I believe the results of this sampling are of significance and of in­terest to my colleagues.

SUMMARY OF POLL RESULTS

Public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of budget reductions to offset the revenue loss caused by the Federal tax cut. The replies indicated 85 percent "yes"; 11 percent "no"; and 4 percent failed to express an opinion.

On a topic of current controversy, Sev­enth District voters strongly favor a con­stitutional amendment to permit op­tional and nonsectarian prayer in the public schools. The response was 81 per­cent "yes"; 16 percent "no''; and 3 per­cent undecided.

Despite claims that the administration has trimmed foreign aid requests to the bone, the respondents to my poll favor extensive reductions in such spending by better than a 4-to-1 margin. "Yes" answers totaled 81 percent; 15 percent said "no"; and 4 percent did not respond.

Seventh District voters display some of the same doubts and misgivings on the subject of civil rights legislation that polls in other parts of the Nation have indicated. Opinion for and against the new Federal civil rights proposals is

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sharply divided, and 1 in 5 persons is undecided.

Asked if they favored civil rights legis­lation similar to that passed by the House in February, 45 percent said "no"; 35 percent said "yes"; and 20 percent de­clined to express an opinion.

In supplemental comments, it was clear that there is confusion and doubt in this area. Several people asked for copies of the actual bill, having read various in­terpretations of the measure.

Others expressed support of full legal rights for all persons, but were cautious about new legislative attempts to guar­antee such rights.

Compulsory medical care for the aged under social security, as is proposed in

. the King-Anderson legislation, is op­posed better than 2 to 1. "Yes" replies totaled only 29 percent; "no," 62 per­cent; "no opinion," 9 percent.

Increased trade with the Soviet bloc, such as the wheat sale to Russia, is op­posed in 69 percent of the replies. It is favored in 25 percent.

Hoosier voters are willing to support strong action in Vietnam to prevent a Communist takeover there, but they want to know just what is required and what can be expected. Asked if they would commit additional U.S. troops if necessary to protect South Vietnam from a Communist takeover, 62 percent of those responding said, "Yes." Only 26 percent replied in the negative; and 12 percent expressed no opinion.

Opinion is sharply divided as to whether we should withdraw from the United Nations if Red China is admitted. Forty-two percent said "Yes"; 50 per­cent said "No"; and 8 percent are un­decided. Previous polls have shown overwhelming opposition to the admis­sion of Communist China to the U.N. But voters are not sure that we should withdraw if China is admitted over our opposition.

A strong response supports our stand­ing firm on our right to keep possession of the Panama Canal; 93 percent said "Yes."

Maintaining the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, regardless of Cas­tro's threats and actions is supported by 94 percent of those responding.

POLL PROVIDES VALUABLE INSIGHT

We all recognize our duty to know the thoughts and beliefs of our constituents and to be the spokesmen of these views in the House of Representatives. It is not an easy task to keep well-acquainted with voter sentiments in districts that cover large areas and contain popula­tions of 300,000 or more. In addition to the thousands of letters, telegrams, and telephone calls I receive, I greatly ap­preciate the many personal contacts I have with Seventh District people, in­cluding my customary tour of all the post offices in each of the 11 counties. I believe this poll is another worthwhile tool for keeping closely in touch with the legislative wishes of the people, and con­sequently being better able to represent them. Each of those who replied helped to form this cross-section of public opin­ion, and demonstrated the willing par­ticipation and interest in public affairs which has been the hallmark of Ameri­can citizenship.

I commend this insight into the think­ing of my constituents to all of my col­leagues for I know these people to be

truly representative of the finest traits and characteristics of this Nation.

Final summary of opinion poll conducted by Congressman WILLIAM G. BRAY, 7th District, Indiana

Percent

No Yes No opin-

ion

Do you favor-1. A reduction in Federal spending to match the loss in revenue caused by the Federal tax cut? __________________________ __ ______ __________ ___ _____ _____________________________ _ 85 11 4 2. A constitutional amendment to permit prayer, optional and nonsectarian, in the public schools? _____________________ __ __________ ____ __ __ ____ ____ _______ _____ __ _____ ________ _ _ 81 16 3 3. Extensive reductions in our foreign aid? _____________ ___________ _______________________ _ 4. Civil rights legislation similar to that approved by the House in February? ____ _______ _

81 15 4 35 45 20

5. Compulsory medical care for the aged under social security as proposed by the King-Anderson bill? ______________________________________________ ------------------------- 29 62 9

6. Increased trade relations with the Soviet bloc, such as the wheat sale to Russia? __ __ ___ _ 25 69 6 7. Commitment of additional U.S. troops, if necessary, to protect South Vietnam from a

Communist takeover? ____ ____ _______ ______ __ ___ ___ --_ -- _ -- ----- - --- -- --- -- -- -- -- -- --- 62 26 12 8. Withdrawal from the United Nations if Ro:d China is admitted?_----- ----- ---- ----- --- 42 50 8 9. Standing firm on our right to keep possession of the Panama Canal? ___ ________________ _

10. Maintaining the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, regardless of Castro's threats 93 4 3

and actions? _____ ______ __________ ______ ______ _________ __ ________________________ _____ _ 94 2 4

Lithuanian Victims of Soviet Deportations in 1940-41

EXTENSION OF' REMARKS OF

HON. WILLIAM A. BARRETT OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, June 17, 1964

Mr. BARRETT. Mr. Speaker, the 3 million Lithuanians constitute the larg­est ethnic element among the three Bal­tic peoples, and Lithuania is the largest of the three small Baltic countries. These sturdy and stouthearted, daunt­less, and daring people have had a long and turbulent history, extending back to the Middle Ages. They had their glo­rious days in the distant past, but during most of modem times they have been subjected to alien rule in their homeland, and there! ore have suffered under op­pressive foreign regimes. After enduring the autocratic rule of czarist Russia for more than a full century, toward the end of the First World War they regained their freedom, proclaimed their inde­pendence and founded the Lithuanian Republic.

Thence! orth for more than two dec­ades they worked hard in rebuilding their homes and in strengthening their newly established democratic institutions. In that relatively short time democracy took firm roots in the country, and the people were enjoying their freedom. During all that time, however, Lithuanians were fearful of the rise of nazism in Germany as they were seriously · apprehensive of the Soviet regime's evil intentions toward them. Unfortunately, their worst fears proved to be well founded, for by mid-1940 they were robbed of their freedom and independence.

By early 1940 the Soviet Union had already stationed Red army units in all strategic regions of the country, and in mid-June Lithuania was overrun and oc­cupied by the Red army. From that time on Lithuania became, for all practical purposes, part of the Soviet Union, for independent Lithuania ceased to exist. From then on for a year terror reigned

over the whole country. No one felt safe from arrest and imprisonment. The Soviet Government saw to it that there was no opposition to its treachery. The arrests and imprisonments of innocent and helpless persons, totaling perhaps over 100,000, went on. And in June of 1941 arrests were carried on on a whole­sale scale, and all those arrested were de­ported to distant Soviet concentration camps, there to slave and suffer for want­ing and wishing freedom.

On the observance of the anniversary of this cruelty by Soviet authorities, we all hope and pray that helpless Lithu­anians in their homeland regain their freedom.

Some Good Can Be Done by ARA

EXTENSION OF' REMARKS OF

HON. BURT L. TALCOTT OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, June 17. 1964

Mr. TALCOTT. Mr. Speaker, it is im­portant to a strong economy to get ARA back on the track. The Federal Gov­ernment has a legitimate role to play in aiding blighted regions by providing technical help, research and limited financial aid to the worst-hit commuru­ties. That is the role intended by Sena­tor DOUGLAS and his colleagues when they set out in 1955 to pilot through Congress a program designed for the truly depressed areas of Appalachia, the declining New England textile towns, sinking farm counties of the Southeast and lumber regions of the Northwest. Their original plan would have qualified only 40 of the most distressed areas for aid.

But along the way the sponsors were forced to trade votes by adding more of what Senator DOUGLAS called "pass-the­biscuits-pappy amendments,'' including more and more congressional districts. As a result, their noble project has gone malignantly, tragically awry. Handed an impossible law to administer to be­gin with; the bureaucrats have done an

1964 CONGRESSIONAL · RECORD - SENATE 14247 appalling job of magnifying the horrible mess. They have gone trippingly through the Nation scattering bouquets of greenbacks to those comparatively healthy communities blessed with the leadership and organization necessary to put together sham development plans and to maneuver applications through the Potomac papermill. Meanwhile, the truly underdeveloped communities con­tinue to wither in the shadows, blighted with unemployment and a lack of lead­ership and entrepreneurial talent. The result: less than $2 out of every $5 which ARA has broadcast has gone to those areas whose unemployment doubles the national average.

"The ARA has behaved like a not too virtuous girl who can not say no,'' one economist who helped· the agency get started said, "But it niust learn. It must establish priorities, pinpoint the causes of trouble and help communities organize to break the bottlenecks hold­ing them back."

More money is not the answer. As an essential first step, Congress must dras­tically tighten the eligibility criteria, re­stricting ARA aid to the truly depressed areas and placing an absolute limit at any one time to the 150 counties--5 per­cent of the total-in the worst economic straits as determined on the basis of low-

SENATE THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964

(Legislative day of Monday, March 30, 1964)

The Senate met at 11 o'clock a.m., on the expiration of the recess, and was called to order by the Acting President pro tempo re (Mr. METCALF) .

The Chaplain,. Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, .D.D., offered the following prayer:

Eternal God, clouds and darkness are around Thee; yet righteousness and judgment are the habitation of Thy throne, which is established forever upon the moral pillars of the universe.

In times heavy with crisis, Thou hast called us, as servants of the people, to play our part in one of the creative hours in human history. In the midst of the startling changes of our day, may we be delivered from the paralysis of pessimism and cynicism.

Strengthen our hearts and minds, that we may worthily measure up to the role we are called to play in these solemn days, as in the name of a free people ours is the high privilege of signing anew, with our own dedication and sacrifice, the immortal declaration crimsoned with the devotion of the Founding Fathers, as for the perpetuity of this Union we mutally pledge to each other our lives, our for­tunes, and our sacred honor. Amen.

THE JOURNAL On request by Mr. MANSFIELD, and by

unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of Wednes­day, June 17, 1964, was dispensed with.

est median family income and highest unemployment. By passing such a loosely drawn law in the first place, Con­gress has succeeded only in dissipating millions of dollars and inspiring false hopes of cure-alls without really helping those in need. ARA can point to a few bright spots, but these are rare indeed for all the millions spent. If Congress does not decide to have a truly "depressed area program" instead of gigantic pork barrel "reelection agency," then the voters should insist that the entire mess be allowed to expire as scheduled.

Once the eligibility is limited, other steps should be taken to add to ·the ARA's kit of development tools:

First, Congress could remove the re­striction limiting ARA loans to businesses that cannot get credit from conventional sources. This provision limits ARA to helping only new or marginal firms and forces it to deal with a horde of fast buck operators that can't get credit elsewhere.

Second. Congress could provide tax incentives for new business expansion in the depressed areas to draw the corpo­rate giants of America into the fight and away from the overcrowded megalop­olises which are crying for more Federal subsidies for mass transit and urban services. At present, nothing in the ARA act offers any real incentive to

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE A message from the House of Repre­

sentatives, by Mr. Hackney, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House had passed a bill (H.R. 11376) to pro­vide a 1-year extension of certain excise tax rates, in which it requested the con­currence of the Senate.

HOUSE BILL REFERRED The bill (H.R. 11376) to provide a 1-

year extension of certain excise tax rates, was read twice by its title and referred to the Committee on Finance.

ORDER FOR TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE BUSINESS

Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that there be a morning hour for not to exceed 30 min­utes, with statements therein limited to 3 minutes.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­pore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

ORDER FOR RECESS TO 11 A.M., FRIDAY

Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand in recess until 11 o'clock, Friday morning.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­pore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

REQUEST FOR COMMITTEE MEET­ING DURING SENATE SESSION Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I

ask unanimous consent that the Sub­committee on Poverty, of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, be per­mitted to meet during the session of the Senate today.

channel blue chip or established indus­try to the depressed areas. Four per0ent interest on venture capital is not an ef­fective carrot to dangle before successful corporations. ARA officials after 3 years of experience should understand this.

Third. ARA could be given the funds and instructed to assemble a team of ex­pert economists and technicians who could help loc,al communities to do a meaningful job of appraising their assets, pinpointing the development bottlenecks, and marshaling resources for an effective attack on their problems. So far the re­search, technical aid, and local planning programs all have been largely a sham.

Finally, the ARA must find ways to tap the greatest underdeveloped resource in most of these troubled regions: the enor­mous potential entrepreneurial talent of the small businessmen and existing in­dustries-already in the community.

One of their greatest problems is lack of modern financial prowess and man­agerial know-how. To solve this, ARA could emulate the Red Cross and com­munity chest. Skilled business man­agers would volunteer not only from the ranks of retired but from active duty by "leaves of absence" to contribute to the public service thrill of helping troubled enterprises in depressed areas break through to prosperity.

Mr. KUCHEL. Mr. President, speak­ing for the minority, I have been re­quested to object. Therefore, I object.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern-. pore. Objection is heard.

TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE BUSINF.SS

The ACTING PRF.SIDENT pro tem­pore. Under the order previously en­tered, morning business is in order.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tern­pore laid before the Senate the following communication and letter, which were referred as indicated: PROPOSED .AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET, 1965,

FOR VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION (S. Doc. No. 81) A communication from the President of

the United States, transmitting a.n amend­ment to the budget for the fiscal year 1965, in the amount of $5 million, for the Vet­erans' Administration (with an accompany­ing paper); to the Committee on Appropria­tions, and ordered to be printed. AMENDMENT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TEACH-

ERS' SALARY ACT OF 1955 A letter from the President, Board of Com­

missioners, District of Columbia, transmit­ting a draft of proposed legislation to amend the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955, and for other purposes (with ac­companying papers); 1io the Committee on the District of Columbia.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­pore laid before the Senate the follow­ing concurrent resolution of the Legis­lature of the State of New Jersey, which