tives for employee efficiency. Overhaul of the Department's fiscal operations has eliminated nearly 5,000 needless positions, speeded up information required for good management, and reduced backlogs of all types, including a 2-year backlog in overdue railroad and airline claims. We have begun to acquire, through long-term leases and the recently enacted lease-purchase authority, modern postal buildings and other facilities long needed to speed up and reduce the cost of handling the ever-increasing volume of mail.

Despite these achievements, the Post Office Department cannot be self-sustaining if it pays salaries, transportation rates, and other costs based upon 1956 conditions, but must continue to charge rates which were largely determined before Pearl Harbor. The postal deficit of 467 million dollars estimated for the fiscal year 1957 represents a subsidy averaging more than 15 cents per dollar of postal service. Legislation is again being proposed that would initially increase postal revenues by 350 million dollars a year. Legislation is also being proposed to pay the Department for services to certain groups which it is now required to perform either free or at greatly reduced rates.

I urge prompt congressional action on this legislation, which will drastically reduce the 1957 postal deficit and will make it possible for the postal service to become self-supporting in subsequent years.

Community development and facilities: The great population growth in the past 15 years and the accompanying shifts from farms to cities, from rural communities to metropolitan areas, and from central cities to suburbs-have accelerated the decay of large sections of our major cities, and caused many metropolitan areas and small towns to outgrow their basic facilities.

With the help of Federal grants and loans for slum clearance and urban renewal, major progress in removing urban blight is in sight for the first time. By the end of the fiscal year 1957, an estimated 233 communities will have workable plans providing for a wide range of local actions needed to prevent or eliminate slums. Such plans are now required as a condition of Federal assistance for urban renewal. In these and other cities 49 specific projects will have been completed by the end of 1957: 237 other redevelopment projects will be actively underway; and 112 projects will be in the planning stage. Net expenditures, chiefly for grants and loans, will increase to 74 million dollars; these include the additional grants for community planning by metropolitan areas and smaller cities under legislation that will be proposed to increase the present limited program.

Substantial increases are also expected in the fiscal year 1957 in loans to small communities for building public facilities and in advances to local governments for planning public works. Additional appropriations for planning advances are recommended for 1957.

As part of the new program to assist in the industrial redevelopment of

chronic labor surplus areas, I am proposing revisions in the present urban renewal and other community facilities legislation. The main emphasis in these programs, however, should continue to be improvement of the homes and living environment of our families.

Public housing: Continued Federal assistance for low-rent public housing will be necessary in 1957 to meet the most critical needs of low-income families. An increasing number of such families will be displaced by the clearance of slums and by the enforcement of housing codes under the growing urban renewal program. I am, consequently, recommending that the Public Housing Administration be authorized to enter into annual contributions contracts with local housing authorities for an additional 35,000 dwelling units a year for 2 years. In addition, I urge that the Congress restore the provisions of the Housing Act of 1954, repealed in 1955, which limited new public housing to communities with workable programs for the prevention and elimination of slums, or with slum clearance projects underway.

As the number of older people in our population has increased, action to meet their special housing needs has become highly important. Several administrative steps have already been taken in the public housing program. In addition, legal restrictions on admission to public housing projects should be amended to provide a limited preference to elderly low-income families, as well as to permit admission of elderly single persons.

Gross expenditures for public housing programs, chiefly for construction loans and payment of annual contributions to local housing authorities, are estimated at 598 million dollars in 1957. Receipts, mostly from private refinancing of Federal loans, are estimated at 515 million dollars, leaving net expenditures of 83 million dollars.

Other aids to housing: Applications for insurance of mortgages and home improvement loans by the Federal Housing Administration under its regular programs are expected to continue in the fiscal years 1956 and 1957 close to the 1955 levels. In addition, applications for the special urban renewal mortgage insurance authorized by the Housing Act of 1954 are expected to rise from less than 2.000 units in 1955 to 75,000 units in 1957.

To make this full program possible. legislation will be required to increase the present mortgage insurance authority. The authority to insure home improvement loans, now scheduled to expire on September 30, 1956, should be made permanent and broadened to assure effective Federal assistance in the national campaign to rehabilitate and modernize existing housing. Amendments are also needed to encourage construction of private units for rental or sale to elderly persons.

The Department of Defense expects to arrange for financing and construction of 100,000 military housing units during 1956 and 1957 under new mortgage insurance authorized by the Housing Amendments of 1955. This insurance authority should be extended beyond the present expiration date of September 30, 1956.

The Federal National Mortgage Association will make commitments for immediate or deferred purchases of 423 million dollars in mortgages insured under the urban renewal, armed services, cooperative, and other especially urgent housing programs which I have specifically designated. Sales of mortgages together with repayments and other receipts, however, are expected to be 255 million dollars greater than expenditures.

In addition, purchases of mortgages by the Association under its secondary market program are expected to increase in 1957 to 290 million dollars. Except for temporary Treasury loans, the funds required will be obtained from sale of debentures and stock to private investors, and the purchases are shown as trust expenditures, rather than budget expenditures. By the end of the fiscal year 1957, private purchases of stock will have made an excellent start toward the goal of replacing a Government activity with a private company.

One of the most successful measures authorized by the Housing Act of 1954 is the Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Program. Under this program, applications to the Veterans' Administration for direct loans and to the Federal National Mortgage Association for mortgage purchases are referred to private lenders. This program has already made conspicuous achievements in encouraging private financing of housing for members of minority groups and other borrowers in credit-short areas. Moreover, the rapidly increasing volume of veterans housing mortgages placed privately has made it unnecessary to use a large part of the additional authority provided for direct housing loans. Net expenditures for the veterans loan program, consequently, are expected to show only a minor increase to 71 million dollars in the fiscal year 1957.

College housing: The Housing Amendments of 1955, which broadened and increased the authority for college housing loans, also reduced the maximum interest rate to 2 percent and required use of private financing only if it were available at the same low interest rate. As

a result, the Government is required to make long-term loans at a lower interest rate than the rate at which it can borrow for comparable maturities.

These amendments have eliminated all possibility of private financing, which cannot compete with these interest rates, save for the earliest maturities of taxexempt issues. Many larger institutions, which previously obtained private funds at reasonable rates, have now filled applications for Government loans. Net reservations of funds are estimated to increase from 21 million dollars in 1955 to 211 million dollars in 1956 and 120 million dollars in 1957, exhausting the available lending authority. Most of the impact on expenditures will not be felt until 1958.

The Federal Government should help colleges and universities meet the urgent housing problems which rapid growth in enrollment will produce over the next decade. The program, as revised in 1955, however, does not serve the best

interests of either the colleges or the taxpayers. For the sake of a modest saving in interest costs, it would destroy the promising private market for these obligations. This private market will be sorely needed, for the Government cannot be expected to supply the full or even the greater part of the estimated 2 to 4 billion dollars needed for dormitories over the next decade. The administration is accordingly recommending legislation which will increase the total authorization by 100 million dollars for 1957, but allow interest rates adequate to cover costs to the Government. I hope that this will encourage private lenders to reenter this expanding market.

Other aids to business-present programs: In addition to other appropriations required to finance the broad range of existing aids to business, I am recommending increased appropriations for the Patent Office in the Department of Commerce to begin a systematic 8-year program that would reduce the backlog of patent applications to a more reasonable level. I believe that the Congress should also enact legislation increasing patent fees so that the Patent Office can be more nearly self-supporting.

Through the Small Business Administration, we shall continue to help small business concerns obtain access to adequate financing, to a fair share of Government procurement, and to competent counsel on management, production, and marketing problems.

I also recommend improvements in construction statistics so that more accurate data can be supplied to business, labor, and government on major changes in this vital industry.

Area redevelopment: All of us are greatly concerned certain because chronic labor surplus areas are not sharing in our general prosperity. The primary responsibility for promoting the economic redevelopment of these areas rests with the local community and the States. However, I believe that the Federal Government should give much broader assistance than is possible under present law. Accordingly, the administration is recommending new legislation authorizing Federal loans and grants, in cooperation with the States, to assist communities suffering from substantial and persistent unemployment. Under this program the Secretary of Commerce would take the lead for the Federal Government, utilizing also the facilities of the Department of Labor, the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and other interested agencies.

Regulation of commerce and finance: As our economy grows and becomes more complex, the responsibilities of Federal agencies regulating business also increase. While the amount of money required to finance these agencies is relatively small, their influence on economic growth is very significant. In this budget I am recommending increased appropriations to strengthen every ma

jor regulatory program, including specific increases to (1) triple the staff of the Federal Trade Commission charged with enforcing controls over corporate mergers; (2) assure effective review by the Department of Justice of possible antitrust aspects of the newly authorized interstate compacts for the conservation of oil and gas; (3) provide for more adequate review by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the vast new capital offerings and the increased trading in securities; and (4) improve enforcement by the Interstate Commerce Commission of motor carrier regulations and assure better compliance with safety regulations.

To continue the export controls necessary for our national security, the existing legislation should be extended.

Disaster insurance, loans, and relief: The flood disasters during the past year in the Northeastern States, the Far West, and other areas have shown the urgent need for increased assistance to the victims of floods. Since private insurance is not generally available, legislation should be enacted authorizing, on an experimental basis, an indemnity and reinsurance program, under which the financial burden resulting from flood damage would be carried jointly by the individuals protected, the States, and the Federal Government. The budget includes an estimate of 100 million dollars of new authority to incur obligations to initiate such a program.

I am requesting a supplemental appropriation of 25 million dollars in the current fiscal year to replenish the disaster relief fund which was depleted as a result of the recent flood disasters. It will also be necessary to amend the Small Business Act to increase the authority for disaster loans.

Civil defense: Expenditures for civil defense are grouped with those for peacetime disasters for budget classification purposes, but the program is discussed in connection with continental defense in the major national security section of this message.

GENERAL GOVERNMENT

General Government programs include many of the traditional domestic, civil activities of government, as well as certain governmentwide activities, such as personnel and property management, which cannot readily be allocated to any single category. Our primary objective is to perform these central activities efficiently and thus reduce the cost of all the services provided to our citizens for their tax dollars.

Net expenditures for general government programs are expected to increase by 146 million dollars to 1.8 billion dollars, largely because of (1) increased outlays to replace or improve inadequate Government buildings and (2) a larger payment to the retirement fund for civilian employees,

1 After deducting applicable receipts of 3 million dollars each year, mainly for Virgin Islands Corporation. 2 Compares with new obligational authority of 1,138 million dollars in 1955 and 1,525 million dollars in 1956.

Legislative functions: During the fiscal year 1957 construction of the new Senate Office Building will be almost completed and a substantial start will be made on both the New House Office Building and the extension of the Capitol authorized by the Congress at its last session. These new facilities account for the increase in estimated expenditures for legislative activities from 87 million dollars in 1956 to 111 million dollars in 1957.

Federal financial management: The reorganization of the Internal Revenue Service and the adoption of improved methods and procedures have led to a more equitable and effective enforcement of the revenue laws. The audit of tax returns has been improved and more delinquent taxes have been collected. It is expected that in the fiscal year 1957

the efficiency of tax collection will be improved even further, without a significant increase in expenditures for this purpose.

I urge that the Congress enact pending legislation to reduce the frequency of information returns submitted by employers withholding income and social security taxes. This legislation will simplify tax procedures for both the Government and the employers, and will also provide a basis for stronger enforcement of the tax laws.

General property and records management: In the fiscal year 1957, major increases are planed in expenditures for construction and improvement of Government buildings to increase the effciency of Government operations. To this end I am recommending appropriations to enlarge and remodel certain buildings and to begin the long-needed air conditioning of buildings in areas where temperature and humidity conditions are most adverse to economic operation. Additional appropriations are also recommended for the new building previously authorized for the Central Intelligence Agency, and, as noted in other sections of this message, for extension of the Department of State building and for new buildings for the National Bureau of Standards.

While these recommendations involve substantial appropriations of Federal funds, most of the Federal building improvement program will be financed with private funds under the lease-purchase authority of the General Services Administration and the Post Office Department. Already 53 projects involving private financing of construction costing 105 million dollars have been aproved, and additional projects involving about 250 million dollars are under consideration. Additional appropriations of 5 million dolars are requested to purchase sites and prepare plans for future projects.

This program as a whole will make a substantial start toward nationwide improvement in working conditions of Federal employees. In the Washington area alone, buildings already approved or under consideration for approval will permit relocation of about one-third of the 60,000 employees now working in temporary and other substandard buildings

Central personnel management and employment costs: The Government's payments to the retirement funds for civilian employees are estimated at 297 million dollars in 1957, of which 295 million dollars will be for the civil service retirement trust fund and 2 million dollars for special annuitants. The proposed contribution to the retirement fund will be equivalent to the Government's share of benefit payments to be made from the fund during the fiscal year 1957. This contribution constitutes 35 percent of the sum estimated to be required to fund (1) the Government's part of the normal cost for current service of Federal employees, and (2) anual interest on the existing accrued liability of the Government to the fund.

Unemployment compensation payments to individuals who become eligible through Federal employment are estimated at 33 million dollars, about the same amount as in the fiscal year 1956. As the current 1956 appropriation provides only 20 million dollars, a supplemental appropriation will be requested.

Accident compensation payments to Federal employees and the related administrative expenses of the Department of Labor are estimated to continue at 50 million dollars in both 1956 and 1957. To encourage precautionary safety measures, the administration will propose legislation which will provide, in conformity with the best business practices, that employing agencies shall bear the cost of benefits paid for their employees.

Civilian weather services: I am recommending for the fiscal year 1957 additional appropriations for the Weather Bureau to strengthen further its hurricane and tornado research program and to provide more storm-detection radar. The budget also provides for additional equipment to measure visibility on airport runways and for needed improvements in housing at remote weather stations.

Protective services and alien control: Increased appropriations are recommended to strengthen the border patrol operations of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, primarily on our southern border.. The Federal Bureau of Investigation will continue at its present employment level.

I shall recommend a supplemental appropriation for the Commission on Government Security which has recently been established to study the entire Government security program.

Territories and possessions and District of Columbia: I am recommending legislation to authorize an increase of 2 million dollars in the Federal payment to the District of Columbia. This represents a reasonable Federal share of the increased cost of operating the government of our Capital City.

Legislation will also be proposed to carry out a treaty and agreement recently negotiated with the Republic of Panama. Following its enactment, the Canal Zone Government will make expenditures to replace schools and other civic improvements being transferred to Panama under the legislation.

Other general government: Again I recommend legislation by which wider appreciation of the arts and encouragement of creative artistic endeavors may be promoted and national recognition for distinguished civilian contributions to the advancement of the arts and the welfare of mankind may be given.

INTEREST

Interest payments now account for about 11 percent of net budget expenditures. They are determined by the size of the public debt and by interest rates on that debt. They are included in budget expenditures as they accrue.

Interest on the public debt: Interest payments on the public debt in the fiscal year 1957 are estimated at 7 billion dollars. This is an increase of 200 million dollars over estimated expenditures for the current fiscal year and 630 million dollars above actual expenditures in 1955.

The high level of prosperity has created a heavy demand for credit by private enterprises. As a result the average rate payable on the interestbearing public debt has risen during the last 12 months from 2.29 percent to 2.49 percent at present, and maturing obligations are being refinanced at the higher rates prevailing in the money market.

The administration is recommending legislation so that the interest paid to the Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund will reflect more closely the long-term character of investments by that fund.

CONCLUSION

This is the third budget I have transmitted to the Congress.

As a result of the substantial reductions in Government expenditures made by the administration subsequent to assuming office, I noted in the first of these three budgets-for the fiscal year 1955— that a budget surplus was actually in sight. However, so that part of our savings through economies during that transitional period could be passed along to the taxpayers of the Nation as a whole, with beneficial effects for the growth of our economy. I stated that I believed it best "to adopt a course leading toward the twin goals of a balanced budget and tax reductions."

Tax reduction was thus achieved with the administration's first budget, which made possible a 7.4-billion-dollar tax reduction program, enabling us to make progress of historic dimensions in reducing tax burdens and improving the tax structure.

A balanced budget is now being achieved in the administration's second and third budgets, both of which we now estimate will be brought into balance.

This course of Government policy has helped to lay a sound basis for the greatest volume of business, the highest employment, and the highest national income in the history of this country. As

an essential element in this prosperity, private spending has more than replaced reductions in Federal spending. Federal expenditures have declined from 20.6 percent of total national production in the fiscal year 1953 to 17.3 percent in 1955. This budget is designed to continue that trend.

We have freed the economy from needless controls and from inflationary deficits, and have reduced the tax burdens which threatened to destroy the incêntives to work and save and invest. State and local governments are now in an excellent position to obtain revenues and meet their responsibilities.

This budget carries forward the policies this administration has been following in the interest of all our 167 million Americans. The success of our country depends not upon centralized Government control, but upon the efforts of all our people to do more for themselves, to better themselves, their families, and communities. The role of Government is to encourage these efforts.

Some parts of our society, however, have not shared fully in the present prosperity of America. This budget provides for new steps to help create the conditions under which all Americans may share in the abundance we as a nation are enjoying.

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There has also been developed an armed strength more efficient and better organized than ever before, and we shall continue building our defenses. We have started a worldwide, cooperative effort for peaceful uses of atomic energy which is already beginning to show results. have worked with other free countries on a mutual basis to increase their economic and military strength and will continue to work with them. Our future prosperity, perhaps our very survival, will be linked with the strength of our allies and in the development of good will rather than fear and distrust among the nations.

This Nation has reached a new high of material prosperity. The rest of the free world has come to expect our leadership in cooperative efforts for peace and in defense of our common liberties. We should be very thankful for the resources of this country, for the efforts and accomplishments of our forebears. We should also be very humble. America must continue to be the land of faith, of promise, and of unbounded opportunity. There is much yet to do. With God's help, we will all go forward. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

JANUARY 16, 1956.

RECESS

On motion by Mr. JOHNSON of Texas, at 6 o'clock and 4 minutes p. m.,

The Senate, under its order of today, took a recess until 12 o'clock m. tomorrow.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1956 (Legislative day of Monday, January 16, 1956)

The PRESIDENT pro tempore called the Senate to order at 12 o'clock m., and the Chaplain offered prayer.

THE JOURNAL

On motion by Mr. JOHNSON of Texas, and by unanimous consent, The Journal of the proceedings of Monday, January 16, 1956, was approved.

COMMITTEES AUTHORIZED TO SIT The Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations and the Committee on Foreign Relations were authorized to sit today, on the request of Mr. JOHNSON of Texas. MEMBERSHIP OF MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVAVATION COMMISSION

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. McNAMARA in the chair) announced that the Vice President had appointed Mr. HENNINGS a member of the Migratory Bird Commission, vice Mr. ROBERTSON, resigned.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

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

Mr. President: The House of Representatives has passed the bill (S. 1689) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a repayment contract with the Yuma Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, and for other purposes, with an amendment; in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate.

The House has passed the following bills and joint resolution, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

H. R. 604. An act to provide port of entry and related facilities on the Alaska Highway at the Alaska-Canadian border in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes;

H. R. 1614. An act to amend the Veterans Regulations to provide an increased statutory rate of compensation for veterans suffering the loss or loss of use of an eye in combination with the loss or loss of use of a limb;

H. R. 1821. An act to provide that checks for benefits provided by laws administered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may be forwarded to the addressee in certain cases;

H. R. 3084. An act to amend certain provisions of the laws relating to the prevention of political activities to make them inapplicable to State officers and employees;

H. R. 5205. An act to extend to members of the Armed Forces the same protection against bodily attack as is now granted to personnel of the Coast Guard;

H. R. 5556. An act authorizing a preliminary examination and survey of McGirts Creek, Fla., for flood control;

H. R. 6256. An act granting the consent of Congress to the States of Kansas and Oklahoma to negotiate and enter into a compact relating to their interest in, and the apportionment of, the waters of the Arkansas River, and its tributaries as they affect such States;

H. R. 6769. An act to amend the act entitled "An act to provide better facilities for the enforcement of the customs and immigration laws," to increase the amounts authorized to be expended;

H. R. 7596. An act to provide for the disposal of federally owned property at

obsolescent canalized waterways and for other purposes; and

H. J. Res. 194. Joint resolution to designate the General Grant tree (known as the Nation's Christmas Tree) in Kings Canyon National Park, Calif., as a national shrine.

HOUSE BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION
REFERRED

The bills and joint resolution, except H. R. 6256, this day received from the House of Representatives for concurrence, were severally read the first and second times by unanimous consent.

Ordered, That the bill H. R. 604 and the joint resolution H. J. Res. 194, be referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs;

That the bills H. R. 1614 and H. R. 1821 be referred to the Committee on Finance;

That the bill H. R. 3084 be referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration:

That the bill H. R. 5205 be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; and

That the bills H. R. 5556, H. R. 6769, and H. R. 7596 be referred to the Committee on Public Works.

Texas,

EXECUTIVE SESSION

On motion by Mr. JOHNSON of

The Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business; and after the consideration of executive business. LEGISLATIVE SESSION

The Senate resumed its legislative session.

REPORT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES POLICY

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following communication from the President of the United States; which was read and, with the accompanying report, referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs:

JANUARY 17, 1956.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.

SIRS: I herewith transmit for the consideration of the Congress the report of the Advisory Committee on Water Resources Policy, consisting of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of the Interior. The report is the result of a detailed study of our water problems and of the present powers and activities of the various Federal establishments engaged in water resource development. The Department of Commerce, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Bureau of the Budget, and other agencies, including the Department of Justice participated in its preparation.

The policies set out in the report embody a framework within which the Federal Government, with State and local governments and other non-Federal interests, may cooperate to develop our water resources. These policies will reconcile many practices among Federal agencies that are now in conflict.

A planning organization along the lines proposed in the report will provide

a continuing mechanism for settling unresolved problems that are not specifically covered in it or that may arise in the future. The report recognizes fully the responsibilities of the Federal Government for leadership, guidance, and action in this field. At the same time, it recognizes that there are a multitude of water developments which are more appropriate for regional, State, or local activity.

The report points out that the principles which recognize water rights as property rights should be accepted, and that determinations as to disposition of water should recognize such rights. It recommends that a study be made under the leadership of the Federal Government in collaboration with the States and local entities with reference to property rights to water and the social and economic development of the Nation and the area.

Set forth in the report is a pattern for the widest possible public participation in water resources projects. Organizational changes are recommended to coordinate more closely Federal and non-Federal activity and to make possible more effective Executive guidance. The intent of these proposed changes is to provide the States and local water resources agencies a more adequate voice in the planning and development of projects and facilitate joint participation by all of the affected Federal interests. By this type of cooperative effort we should be assured that all possible uses of water are adequately considered.

The policies we adopt for the development of our water resources will have a profound effect in the years to come upon our domestic, agricultural, and industrial economy. I commend the fundamental purposes and objectives of this report, and I earnestly recommend that the Congress give prompt attention to its proposals.

Sincerely,

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

ANNUAL REPORT OF FEDERAL EXTENSION SERVICE

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the annual report of the Federal Extension Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1955; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

REFUND OF REENLISTMENT BONUSES

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Under Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to amend the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, in relation to the refund of reenlistment bonuses; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH FACILITIES The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the executive secretary of the National

Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to promote the national defense by authorizing the construction of aeronautical research facilities by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics necessary to the effective prosecution of aeronautical research; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY COAST GUARD VESSELS

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury. transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of settlement of claims for damages caused by Coast Guard vessels; which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

SUSPENSION OF DEPORTATION OF ALIENS The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate three communications from the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, transmitting, pursuant to law, reports stating all the facts and pertinent provisions of law in the cases of certain aliens whose deportation has been suspended, together with a statement of the reason for such suspension: which with the accompanying papers, were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

GRANT OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE TO CERTAIN ALIENS UNDER SECTION 6 OF REFUGEE RELIEF ACT OF 1953

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 granting the applications for permanent residence of certain aliens, pursuant to section 6 of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, together with a reason for such grant; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

REPORT ON PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS IN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of Defense, transmitting. pursuant to law, the annual report of professional and scientific positions established in the Department of Defense for the calendar year 1955; which, with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

PETITIONS

Mr. HUMPHREY presented resolutions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D. C., as follows:

A resolution favoring amendment of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act to remove provisions that limit the travel of recognized foreign scholars and scientists to this country; and

A resolution favoring the use of funds of the United States through the National Science Foundation to supplement

the travel costs of United States citizens to attend scientific meetings and congresses in foreign countries; which were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, to whom was referred the resolution (S. Res. 164) authorizing the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service to employ a temporary additional clerical assistant, reported it without amendment and submitted a report (No. 1398) thereon.

Mr. JOHNSTON of South Carolina, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, to whom were referred the following resolutions, reported them each with an amendment and submitted reports thereon, as follows:

S. Res. 153. Resolution extending the time for an investigation of the administration of the civil-service system and the postal service Rept. No. 1400 and

S. Res. 154. Resolution extending the time for a study of the Government employees security program (Rept. No. 1399).

Mr. HUMPHREY, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted a report (No. 1397) by the Committee on Disarmament, pursuant to Senate Resolution 93 (84th Cong., 1st sess.); which was ordered to be printed.

S. 2603 RECOMMITTED

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

Ordered, That the bill (S. 2603) to authorize the providing of family housing for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, be recommitted to the Committee on Armed Services.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT
RESOLUTIONS

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

By Mr. CLEMENTS:

S. 2945. A bill for the relief of Gertrud Kreen; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

S. 2946. A bill to amend section 5 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, with respect to credit for service in post offices which are reclassified from third to fourth class;

S. 2947. A bill relating to the computation of hourly rates of compensation in the case of employees converted from positions under the Classification Act of 1949 to positions under prevailing rate systems in accordance with section 202 (7) of such act, as amended; and

S. 2948. A bill to provide preference in Government employment for persons who incur permanent disabilities while serving as civilian employees of the Government; to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.