bill (H.R. 7666) to amend section 17(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands pertaining to the salary of the government comptroller; and no amendment being made,

Ordered, That it pass to a third read

ing.

The said bill was read the third time. Resolved, That it pass.

Ordered, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives thereof. AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO REPORT DURING ADJOURNMENT

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

Ordered, That committees be authorized to submit reports during the adjournment following today's session of the Senate.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

On motion by Mr. MansfiELD, The Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business; and after the consideration of executive business, LEGISLATIVE SESSION

The Senate resumed its legislative session.

ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT UNTIL

THURSDAY NEXT

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

Ordered, That when the Senate adjourns today it be to meet on Thursday next.

AMENDMENT OF ACT ESTABLISHING CODE OF

LAW FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Senate resumed the consideration of its unfinished business, viz, the bill (H.R. 5143) to amend section 801 of the act entitled "An act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia," approved March 3, 1901. Pending debate,

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 without amendment the following bills of the Senate:

S. 201. An act to donate to the Zuni Tribe approximately 610 acres of federally owned land; and

S. 1299. An act to amend the act of June 4, 1953 (67 Stat. 41), entitled “An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, or his authorized representative. to convey certain school properties to local school districts or public agencies."

The House has agreed to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2990) to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to determine the claim against the United States of Amis Construction Co. and San Ore Construction Co.

The President of the United States has informed the House that he has approved and signed the following acts:

On March 2, 1962:

H.R. 258. An act to amend the District of Columbia Sales Tax Act to increase the rate of tax imposed on certain gross receipts, to amend the District of Columbia Motor Vehicle Parking Facility Act

of 1942 to transfer certain parking fees and other moneys to the highway fund, and for other purposes.

On March 3, 1962:

H.R. 74. An act to reimburse the city of New York for expenditure of funds to rehabilitate slip 7 in the city of New York for use by the U.S. Army;

H.R. 1375. An act to provide for the conveyance of certain real property of the United States to the former owner thereof;

H.R. 4934. An act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to modify certain leases entered into for the provision of recreation facilities in reservoir areas; H.R. 8625. An act for the relief of Dennis H. O'Grady; and

H.R. 8842. An act to amend subsection (h) of section 124 of the Agricultural Enabling Amendments Act of 1961. AMENDMENT OF ACT ESTABLISHING CODE OF

LAW FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Senate resumed the consideration of its unfinished business, viz, the bill (HR. 5143) to amend section 801 of the act entitled "An act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia," approved March 3, 1901. Pending debate,

ADJOURNMENT

On motion by Mr. MANSFIELD, at 2 o'clock and 34 minutes p.m.,

The Senate, under its order of today. adjourned until Thursday next.

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1962

Mr. J. J. "JOE" HICKEY, from the State of Wyoming, called the Senate order, and Rev. Elmore Brown, of Staunton, Va., offered prayer.

APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

The Secretary read the following communication from the President pro tempore of the Senate:

U.S. SENATE,

PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, Washington, D.C., March 8, 1962. To the Senate:

Being temporarily absent from the Senate. I appoint Hon. J. J. HICKEY, a Senator from the State of Wyoming, to perform the duties of the Chair during my absence.

CARL HAYDEN, President pro tempore.

Mr. HICKEY thereupon took the chair.

THE JOURNAL

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

The reading of the Journal of the proceedings of Monday, March 5, 1962, was dispensed with.

COMMITTEE AUTHORIZED TO SIT The Committee on Foreign Relations was authorized to sit today during the session of the Senate, on the request of Mr. MANSFIELD.

REPORT ON REDUCTIONS MADE AT 1960–62 TARIFF CONFERENCE

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following

message from the President of the United States; which was referred to the Committee on Finance:

To the Congress of the United States:

This report, supplementing my report on reductions made at the 1960–62 Tariff Conference in excess of peril point findings, is further in compliance with section 4(a) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951.

During the usual peril point investigation of the items included in the public notice issued in connection with the negotiations, the Tariff Commission found that the peril point was higher than the present rate on nine widely varied products. The Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1958 provides that in such instances the Tariff Commission must institute an immediate escape clause investigation with respect to the articles involved. Accordingly, the Commission undertook the required investigations with the following results:

1. On baseball and softball gloves. ceramic mosaic tile, and sheet glass, the Commission recommended to me that existing duties be increased.

2. On tennis rackets and creeping red fescue seed, the Commission terminated the investigations without recommendation.

3. On ultramarine blue, rolled glass, plastic raincoats, and cellulose fillaments. the Commission found that increases in the duties were not necessary.

The law provides that, if the President does not negotiate the increase of duty indicated by the Commission's peril point findings, he shall report his reasons therefore to the Congress.

This is to advise that no such increases in duty were negotiated at the 1960-62 Conference. The recitation of the Tariff Commission's further investigation of these nine cases, as above given, suggests why the negotiation of higher rates was not undertaken. In six of the nine cases the Tariff Commission, upon a fuller study of the facts than had been possible during its peril point investigation, did not recommend an increase in duty. In the other three, I was not satisfied that all of the applicable facts had been fully canvassed in the Commission's subsequent investigations; consideration of the appropriate rate of duty was consequently still pending as of the time our negotiations at the 1960-61 Conference were being completed. I now have supplementary reports of the Tariff Commission before me. My decision on the three cases is pending.

I append a list defining more precisely the nine commodities mentioned above. JOHN P. KENNEDY. THE WHITE HOUSE, March 7, 1962. REPORT OF COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following message from the President of the United States; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry: To the Congress of the United States:

In accordance with the provisions of section 13. Public Law 806, 80th

Congress, I transmit herewith for the information of the Congress the report of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1961.

JOHN F. KENNEDY.

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 8, 1962. TRADE AGREEMENTS WITH EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, UNITED KINGDOM, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following message from the President of the United States; which was referred to the Committee on Finance:

To the Congress of the United States:

I transmit herewith to the Congress copies of trade agreements with the European Economic Community, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden, including schedules which my duly appointed representatives signed on behalf of the United States on March 5 and 7, 1962.

Section 4(a) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 requires that I report to the Congress on those instances in which I have departed from the peril point findings of the Tariff Commission. Annex A, attached to this message, lists and gives the reasons for the instances in which I decided, in the interest of concluding trade agreements advantageous to the United States during the Geneva Tariff Conference, to accord tariff concessions going below the levels found by the Tariff Commission.

At this time, when the Congress is considering a major new trade law, I wish to provide a detailed account of the circumstances in which I instructed our negotiators to make such concessions.

Most of these concessions were negoitated with the European Economic Community. When the so-called Dillon round, or the phase for new reciprocal concessions, of the Geneva Conference opened on May 29, 1961, the EEC offered concessions following along the lines of its decision of a year earlier to reduce industrial tariffs across the board by 20 percent, a decision that was conditional on reciprocal concessions from other nations, and especially the United States. The EEC offers involved concessions affecting American exports to the EEC countries amounting, on the basis of 1958 figures, to $846 million. Of this total, $422 million represented exports on which the United States had asked for concessions, $337 million being offered in the name of the United States as the principal supplier, and the remaining $85 million in the name of third countries from which the United States would also receive substantial benefits.

It was the American negotiating objective to take advantage of the initial EEC offers and also to seek additional concessions. We were being offered tariff reductions having large potential value to our export trade. Furthermore, the emerging European Community was proposing to take a first long step toward making its trade policy an outward looking one. Our interest was to assure that we obtain these new opportunities for our exporters and, in the process, that

we help to mold the EEC's external trade policy along liberal lines.

Our negotiators, however, were grievously short of bargaining power. The instructions under which they were authorized to proceed fell well short of matching even the initial offers of the EEC. The EEC offer to reduce industrial common tariff rates by 20 percent directly affected U.S. trade of $846 million (1958) and was responsive to about 60 percent of our requests to the EEC for tariff concessions. In contrast, our offers consisted of—

(a) $41 million of offers to bind rates of duty at present levels.

(b) $90 million of offers of duty reductions requested by the EEC (about 20 percent of total EEC requests); and

(c) $396 million of offers involving duty reductions not requested by the EEC.

The manner in which the United States came to this negotiating position is important for an understanding of the trade agreements just concluded and for its bearing upon the new trade legislation that I have recommended to the Congress.

Prior to the Geneva Conference, the EEC had filed requests with the United States for concessions accounting for a trade volume in 1958 of $451 million. Our interagency screening process eliminated from the original "Public List" a number of articles, concessions on which would have been responsive to requests from the EEC. The trade volume involved was $128 million. These articles were those on which tariff concessions, in the judgment of the Interagency Committee, might give rise to serious competitive problems for American industries.

Under section 3(a) of the Trade Agreements Act, the Tariff Commission was then required to study further the list of potential concessions approved by the Interagency Committee and to establish peril points for each article included.

The Commission found that of the concessions asked by the EEC, articles having a trade volume of $220 million could not be made the subjects of downward tariff adjustments without causing or threatening to cause serious injury to the domestic industries concerned. Coverage of the EEC request list was thus reduced to $103 million, less than one-fourth of the list. The Commission made the same finding on articles having a trade volume of $113 million among items not on the EEC request list but which the Interagency Committee had selected in order to strengthen the U.S. negotiating position. I believe that we must recognize that under the law the Tariff Commission was required to make hasty predictions as to future market conditions for thousands of individual articles. These predictions were necessarily superficial. Even if there had been available, and there was not, a full range of data for production, trade, and prices on all these articles, the Commission's task was a

highly speculative one. This was particularly true with regard to items exported from the Common Market countries. These countries are going through revolutionary changes in their trade patterns, attendant upon the development of a new internal market of unprecedented proportions. In some cases, products which were previously available for export to other countries will find their future markets within the area. In other cases, products which had not previously been exported will appear as new export specialties.

In this situation, given the tenor of the provisions under which it operated, the Commission understandably resolved any doubts by establishing peril points on the products concerned at the existing tariff level. Peril points were found at the existing rate of duty on a range of articles, for a large number of which the maintenance of existing tariffs clearly was unimportant. In many instances tariff reductions of even a few percentage points were precluded. In others, peril points were found at existing duty levels for specialty commodities not competitive with domestic production. Similarly, peril points at the existing duty level were set for basket categories of many items even though the situation as between items in the category might differ markedly. Tariff reductions were precluded in cases where imports represented only a minor fraction of domestic consumption. The result was to give our delegation at Geneva a very limited bargaining package and minimum room for negotiating

maneuver.

It was with many misgivings, therefore, that I had authorized our delegation in Geneva to make a counter offer to the EEC along the lines of the outstanding instruction. This original instruction scrupulously avoided any offers of reductions below peril point findings of the Tariff Commission.

The response of the EEC was to announce a withdrawal and reconsideration of its offer. The six EEC nations indicated they were not prepared to conclude an agreement on the basis we had proposed and that they would have to withdraw the concessions that had been offered because of the gross disparity between our offers and theirs. It was clear that we were faced with a potentially irretrievable situation. If the EEC had decided to abandon its across-theboard proposal, it would have been necessary to obtain unanimity among the six member nations to maintain on an item-by-item basis some of the elements of the original offer. This was not possible. To adhere to our original position would have been to reject the EEC proposal.

The loss to our export trade from such a sequence of events would have been substantial, for we stood to gain most from the EEC offer. Far more important would have been the long-term consequences of our action. The EEC necessarily looked to the United States, the world's greatest trading nation, for a sufficient measure of reciprocity to en

able it to carry through its provisional decision to reduce the common external tariff of the Community. If that decision had been withdrawn, the road would have been opened wide to the formation of a number of trading blocs in the free world set off from one another by high barriers to trade.

We could not permit this to happen. Accordingly, after months of negotiation and when no other recourse was available to save the situation, I authorized our Geneva delegation to offer new concessions on a number of items at rates below peril point findings. In selecting these articles, two criteria were used: their potential value in obtaining or maintaining concessions from our negotiating partners, principally the EEC, and the extent of the competitive adjustment likely to be placed on American industry by tariff concessions.

In taking this step, we avoided the collapse of the Geneva talks and we held open the way to a future of economic cooperation, not separation, between the two common markets, the one in Western Europe, the other the United States.

Our action salvaged and revived the Geneva Conference. It did not involve serious competitive risks for American industry. We granted concessions to the EEC at rates below peril points on articles having a 1958 trade value of $76 million. Apart from such concessions to the EEC, we also made concessions of this character to the United Kingdom on items having a trade volume of $7 million Co-offers of concessions on four items, contingent upon confirmation of the same concessions to the EEC, were made to Norway and/or Sweden. These were in the amount of $437,000.

The total of our concessions, indeed. would not in itself have been sufficient to recover our position. The EEC, however, was acutely aware of the limitations under which the United States was negotiating. Within the Community, the forces favoring a liberal trading policy were greatly strengthened by the evidence that we were serious about bargaining down trade barriers. Once we had made our move, this phase of the negotiations proceeded expeditiously to a conclusion. That conclusion was highly advantageous to the United States.

The EEC maintained most of its across-the-board offers on industrial products. The only significant exception was in the field of chemicals, an area where, because the offers by the United States represented only $24 million of trade, the EEC cut back its offers to the United States from $172 million to $93 million.

The EEC added to its initial offers concessions involving trade of $100 million in the previously excepted agricultural chapters and another $33 million of formerly reserved automobile parts, and on miscellaneous commodities accounting for another $5 million of trade.

Finally, the successful conclusion of the U.S.-EEC negotiations opened the way for negotiations between third countries and the EEC, which had been

marking time awaiting their outcome. From the resulting negotiations of others with the EEC, U.S. exports stand to receive substantial additional benefits because of our right to such concessions.

The United States thus can take satisfaction from the outcome of the Geneva negotiations. We advanced our trading interests and we maintained progress toward economic cooperation within the Western World. But these accomplishments were made, in large part, in spite of hampering features of the trade agreements law. And we had the sufferance of our major trading partners.

We cannot be expected to bargain effectively in the future under the limitations of the present law. If we are to lead, as we must, we must have the means for the exercise of leadership. The Trade Expansion Act which I have recommended to the Congress will provide these means.

In an accompanying message, I am reporting to the Congress under section 4(a) of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 on the disposition of the cases in which the Tariff Commission in 1960 found peril points higher than the existing rate of duty.

JOHN F. KENNEDY. THE WHITE HOUSE, March 7, 1962.

AMENDMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS ACT The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following communication from the President of the United States; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency:

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, March 5, 1962. DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I am transmitting herewith for appropriate reference a bill to amend section 4(c) of the Small Business Act, as amended. This section deals with the revolving fund of the Small Business Administration, out of which are financed that agency's programs of financial assistance to the small business community.

This bill would place the fund on a more permanent basis and eliminate unnecessary duplication by removing the statutory limitation on authorizations to appropriate to the fund and the separate limitations on the amounts of appropriated funds which may be utilized for each of the Small Business Administration's financial assistance programs. Utilization of funds for these programs would, of course, continue to be controlled by the Congress through the normal appropriation process, and the House and Senate Appropriations. Banking and Currency, and Small Business Committees would continue to exercise the same degree of cognizance as they do now regarding the operations of the Small Business Administration.

By making the Small Business Administration a permanent agency of the Government in 1958, the Congress wisely recognized the important role that this agency has played in assisting the small business sector of our economy, which comprises by far the greatest number

of businesses in the United States and plays a key part in the economic life of our Nation. Under the current administration, that agency has vigorously expanded its assistance to the small business community by increasing significantly the number of small businesses assisted by its programs of business loans, loans to small business investment companies and State and local development companies, procurement and technical assistance, and management assistance.

It is now time to remove the unnecessary statutory limitation on appropriations and on usage of appropriated funds which has resulted in uncertainty regarding the future of these programs and necessitated a double congressional review of funds.

In no respect would the proposed amendment diminish the controls which the Congress presently exercises over the size and character of the programs administered by the Small Business Administration, pursuant to the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. These two statutes and the operations of the agency are under frequent study in Congress. Since 1953, when the agency was established, amendments have been made to either or both of the basic statutes in every year except two. Indeed, each has undergone numerous and substantial revisions. There is no reason to expect that this legislative activity with its attendant scrutiny of the agency's operations by the Banking and Currency Committee will diminish.

Moreover, the progress of the Small Business Administration in discharging its statutory duties is under the continuing observation of the Senate and House Small Business Committees. At least once a year each of these committees holds hearings at which the Administrator of the Small Business Administration testifles in detail concerning the operations of his agency. The resulting reports issued by the committees contain thorough reviews of the agency's programs and evaluations of its success in conducting them.

Finally, in the course of the budgetary process, the agency's activities are reviewed annually by the Appropriations Committees and the Congress to determine the amount of additional capital for the revolving fund which the agency will require to carry out its financial assistance programs.

However, the necessity for obtaining statutory authorization for additional appropriations virtually every year before Congress can appropriate funds in the regular appropriation act creates unnecessary duplication and confusion. During the last session of the Congress four separate statutes provided increased authorizations to appropriate to the SBA revolving fund, in addition to the actual appropriations themselves contained in the regular appropriation act and a supplemental appropriation act. Sound budgetary procedures argue against this type of duplication and repetitive review over an agency which the

Congress has declared to be a permanent one and over programs which serve such an important purpose in assisting our small business community.

The proposed legislation would also simplify the method of computing the interest payable from the revolving fund to the Treasury, and would effect a number of clarifications in the language of the act. A detailed analysis of the bill is attached.

It is my hope that the Congress will consider this proposal promptly and that the bill will be enacted into law.

Sincerely,

JOHN F. KENNEDY.

Hon. LYNDON B. JOHNSON,
President of the Senate,
Washington, D.C.

NOTICE OF DISPOSITION OF NICKEL OXIDE
POWDER IN NATIONAL STOCKPILE

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Acting Administrator of General Services Administration, transmitting, pursuant to law, a notice of a proposed disposition of approximately 10 million pounds of contained nickel plus cobalt in nickel oxide powder now held in the national stockpile; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

AMENDMENT OF UNITED NATIONS
PARTICIPATION ACT

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of State, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to amend the United Nations Participation Act; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

PROPOSED DONATION OF NAVY MATERIAL

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Logistics), transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of a proposed transfer of two surplus boats that have been condemned as no longer suitable for Navy use under section 1 of the act of August 7, 1946; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

REPORT OF EXPORT CONTROL ACT The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 58th quarterly report on export control for the period ended December 31, 1961; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency.

REPORT OF FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Annual Report of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the calendar year 1961; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency.

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SMALL CLAIMS AND CONCILATION BRANCH IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to amend the act relating to establishing a small claims and conciliation branch in the municipal court for the District of Columbia; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Administrator of Veterans' Administration, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to liberalize the provisions of title 38, United States Code, relating to the assignment of national service life insurance; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Finance.

RELIEF OF CERTAIN OIL AND GAS LESSEES

UNDER MINERAL LEASING ACT The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to provide for the relief of certain oil and gas lessees under the Mineral Leasing Act; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

ANNUAL REPORT OF OPERATION OF TRADE AGREEMENTS PROGRAM

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 13th annual report of the Commission on the operation of the trade agreements program for the period July 1959-June 1960; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Finance.

REGULATIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN PROPERTIES WITHIN CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, a notice of proposed regulations relative to suspending the Secretary of the Interior's power to acquire properties within the Cape Cod National Seashore by condemnation; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

FEDERAL PAY INCREASES

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, estimates of the costs of the proposal for Federal salary increases as proposed by the President of the United States on February 20, 1962; which was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

USELESS PAPERS IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

AND DEPARTMENTS

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Acting Administrator of General Services Administration, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the Archivist of the United States 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 Department; and

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

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

ANNUAL REPORT OF US GENERAL
ACCOUNTING OFFICE

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Comptroller General of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Annual Report on the Activities of the U.S. General Accounting Office for the fiscal year 1961; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

PETITIONS

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following petitions, etc., which were referred as indicated:

Concurrent resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, as follows:

A concurrent resolution favoring maintaining the present strength of the Army National Guard and a ceiling of at least 400,000 officers and men and a minimum of 48 armory drills annually; to the Committee on Armed Services; and

A concurrent resolution favoring an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that constitutional amendments rewritten or interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in abrogation of the established law of the judicial precedents may be nullified by more than 25 percent of the once sovereign States; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

A resolution of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts and resolution of the City Council of Buffalo, N.Y., favoring the establishment of a Department of Urban Affairs in the President's Cabinet; to the Committee on Government Operations.

Mr. JOHNSTON (for himself and Mr. THURMOND) presented a resolution of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina favoring the Department of Commerce extending its weather reporting service in the State of South Carolina; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Mr. PASTORE (for himself and Mr. PELL) presented a resolution of the House of Representatives of the State of