AMENDMENT OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961

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?21308 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? SENATE September 10
and greater income for producers of goods
and services who in turn pay a higher stand-,
ard of living and we will benefit from the
increase in skilled and professionally trained
manpower.
The N.A.S.A.A. with its 17 years of experi-
ence, and its members, many with 20 years
of experience, being fully aware of this need,
respectfully request that favorable considera-
tion be given to education and training leg-
islation for our cold wax veterans.
Sincerely,
MARVIN P. BUSBEE,
President.
RESOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
STATE APPROVAL AGENCIES
Whereas education and training programs
of readjustment for veterans of World War
II and the Korean conflict have proven to be
educationally and economically sound and a
tremendous investment in our human re-
sources for the continued benefit of these
veterans, their families, and the Nation as
a whole; and
Whereas our national policy requiring
compulsory military service for certain se-
lected persons is continued; and
Whereas the ranks of the unemployed and
underemployed are increasing daily by the
release from service of cold war veterans; and
Whereas no legislation old or new has met
the special needs of veterans with the satis-
faction and success of the GI bills; and
Whereas there is an obvious need for a pro-
gram of readjustment benefits for cold war
veterans: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the National Association of
State Approval Agencies in annual confer-
ence assembled in Miami Beach, Fla., June
19-24, 1964, urgently request the Congress of
the United States to enact at an early date
appropriate legislation to provide education
and training as well as other readjustment
benefits for veterans who first entered the
military service after SAnuary 31, 1955, and
for as long as the national interests demand
that we maintain a policy of compulsory
military service; be it further
Resolved, That copies of this resolution be
sent to the President of the United States,
chairmen of the appropriate congressional
committees, a copy to each member of said
committees, and a copy to other interested
groups and individuals.
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I urge
all citizens interested in obtaining this
needed educational assistance to join me
in attempting to persuade the adminis-
tration of the importance of the early
enactment of the bill into statute.
AMENDMENT OF FOREIG
ANCE ACT OF 1961
The Senate resumed the considera ion
of the bill (HR. 11380) to amend further
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as
amended, and for other purposes.
Mr. DIRKSEN and several other Sen-
ators addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from Illinois.
Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, first
let me direct a parliamentary inquiry to
the Chair?
The PRESIDING OFFIGhtt. The
Senator will state it.
Mr. DIRKSEN. The pending businegs,
as I understand, is the Javits-McCarthy
amendment to the Dirksen-Mansfield
amendment. Is that correct?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. That
is correct.
Mr. DIRKSEN. I understand it would
be agreeable on both sides if a vote on
that amendment were deferred until
Tuesday next at 2:30 p.m. There are
some compelling reasons for that under-
taking, but I think mainly it is agreeable
to both sides. I would, therefore, pre-
sent a unanimous-consent request that,
on the Javits-McCarthy -proposal a vote
come at 2:30 on Tuesday next.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
Mr. DIRKSEN. I yield.
Mr. JAVITS. In the first place, it is
the amendment of the Senator from
Minnesota [Mr. MCCARTHY], myself, and
the senior Senator from Minnesota [Mr.
HUMPHREY]. Aside from that, I think
there should be 2 hours' debate im-
mediately preceding the vote, to be
equally divided and to be controlled on
the part of the proponents by me or the
Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Mc-
CARTHY], and on the part of the oppo-
nents by the majority or minority leader.
Which would the minority leader prefer?
Mr. DIRKSEN. After the convening
of the Senate on Tuesday next, I would
assume there would be the usual morning
hour, and after 2 hours of debate?to
be equally divided by the proponents and
opponents, without specifying who would
be in control, but I think it might be me
so far as the opposition is concerned, and
either the Senator from New York or the
Senator from Minnesota?the Senate
would vote, and that vote would be held
at 2:30 p.m.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, the
unanimous consent would include the
provision that the morning hour would
end at 12:30.
Mr. DOUGLAS and Mr. THURMOND
addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator from Illinois [Mr. DIRKSEN]
has the floor.
Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President, re-
serving the right to object?and it is not
my present intention to object?I am
sure those of us who were active in op-
posing cloture and who have been
charged with filibustering will be happy
to vote on Monday, so any delay until
Tuesday is not at our request. But if
the proponents of the amendment and
the majority and minority leaders be-
lieve we should vote on Tuesday, we will
reluctantly put it over. But we are ready
to have a vote on Monday.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Chair wishes to direct a question to the
Senator from Illinois. Is the under-
standing of the Chair correct, that the
Senator from Illinois is proposing that
the morning hour conclude at 12:30?
Mr. DIRKSEN. Yes; but it offers one
difficulty. There may be one more
amendment offered, either before or
after the Javits amendment is pending.
We shall have to make provision for
that, also, because the Tuck bill may be
offered as an amendment to the Dirk-
sen-Mansfield amendment.
Mr. PASTORE. Mr. President, re-
serving the right to object, in view of
the last development, why would it not
be proper to have this unanimous con-
sent cover any amendment that might be
offered and in the meantime have the
vote on this amendment immediately fol-
low? In other words, the Senator from
South Carolina [Mr. THURMOND] has an
amendment to offer. We would take a
vote on it at 2:30, with this amendment
to follow immediately.
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, a parlia-
mentary inquiry.
The? PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator will state it.
Mr. JAVITS. Is it a fact that the
amendment I have proposed is an
amendment in the second degree and
that it cannot be amended?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator is correct.
Mr. JAVITS. Therefore, we had bet-
ter vote on this amendment. It cannot
be amended. If it is turned down, any
Senator can offer an amendment to the
Dirksen-Mansfield amendment.
Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, may I
interpose this thought? There will be a
religious holiday next week, and I think
we should be respectful of what that
faith requires as to when the holiday
begins. The hour of 2:30 was therefore
set so as to accommodate all persons
who might be involved. After action on
the Javits amendment, an amendment
can then be offered. I am sure there is
no objection to that.
Mr. JAVITS. Of course not. Any
amendment will then be in order.
Mr. PASTORE. Mr. President, if, the
Senator will yield, is it proposed to have
a vote on the McCarthy-Javits-Hum-
phrey amendment at 2:30 p.m.?
Mr. JAVITS. Yes.
Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President, re-
serving the right to object?and it is not
my present intention to object?I would
like a parliamentary clarification as to
what will be in order between now and
Tuesday noon? Will any amendment to
the Javits-McCarthy-Humphrey amend-
ment be in order, or will this unanimous
consent supersede that, so no further
amendment can be offered?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. First
the Chair will state to the Senator from
Illinois that the Javits-McCarthy-Hum-
phrey amendment is not open to amend-
ment.
Mr. DOUGLAS. Then, it will be the
pending business?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Debate
would not be possible on the amend-
ment until 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and
the work of the Senate would be what-
ever the Senate wished to have before it.
Mr. DOUGLAS. In the interim, how-
ever, no amendment to the Javits-Mc-
Carthy-Humphrey amendment could be
offered; nor could the Javits-McCarthy-
Humphrey amendment be set aside. Is
that correct?
The PRESIDING ,OFFICER. That is
correct.
Mr. DOUGLAS. Except by unanimous
consent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator is correct.
Mr. DOUGLAS. I serve notice that
some of us will not give unanimous con-
sent to any motion connected with or
variant of the Javits-McCarthy-
Humphrey amendment.
Mr. DIRKSEN. Obviously, the Javits-
McCarthy-Humphrey amendment is in
the second degree; therefore, there can
be no amendment of it until it is disposed
of. The only way the Senate could
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proceed to other business would be by
unanimous consent or motion to lay the
pending business aside to take up bills
on the calendar.7 To that I would have
to object. So, Mr. President, this is go-
ing to be the business until the foreign
aid bill, with the Dirksen-Mansfield
amendment, or amendments thereto,
have been disposed of.
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
Mr. DIRKSEN. I yield.
Mr. MORSE. I thank the Senator for
his clear explanation. I am now able to
reinstate an invitation which I have to
be in Miami to address the Machinists,
which invitation I had to cancel because
I thought my duties would keep me here.
Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, the
distinguished Senator from Oregon can
go as far as Stanleyville in the Congo to
make his speech and still be back in time.
Mr. PASTORE. He can begin to
spend his honorarium.
Mr. DIRKSEN. Yes; or he can go to a
cattle show.
Mr. MORSE. My friend from Rhode
Island is usually right, but in this case I
am making a gratuitous speech.
Mr. J-AVITS. I wish one other point
to be clearly understood. I ask unani-
mous consent that I shall have the right
to modify my amendment until the yeas
and nays are ordered.
The PRESIDING 01.TICER. The
Senator has that right.
Mr. DIRKSEN. That is guaranteed
under the rule.
Mr. JAVITS. - Not after the yeas and
nays have been ordered. We had that
problem the other day.
Mr. DIRKSEN. As long as the yeas
and nays have not been ordered.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Senator is correct.
Is there objection to the unanimous-
consent request? The Chair hears none,
and it is so ordered.
The unanimous-consent agreement, as
subsequently reduced to writing, is as
follows:
UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT
Ordered, That the Senate, on Tuesday, Sep-
tember 15, at 2:30 p.m. proceed to vote on the
pending Javits amendment No. 1234, as a sub-
stitute for the Dirksen amendment No. 1215,
with the time between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30
p.m. on that day to be equally divided and
controlled by the proponents and the op-
ponents, respectively, and that the Senator
from New York [Mr. JAvrrs] have the right
to modify his amendment until the yeas and
nays are ordered thereon.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRO-
GRAMS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
THE APPALACHIAN REGION
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr.
President, by legislating to authorize a
program of public works and human and
economic developments for the Appala-
chian region, we will be doing for our
own country what we have been gen-
erously doing for other countries through
foreign aid for the past 17 years, and we
will be helping people who want to be
useful partners in the expanding eco-
nomic progress of our great country. In
short, the program represents a sound
investment in an area which?though
rich in human and natural resources?
is going to waste.
The program embodied in the Appala-
chian Regional Development Act of 1964
should not be looked upon as welfare for
the people in the nine States .who will
participate in the projects. - We shall
all benefit from this effort by making an-
other area of our Nation more self-suf-
ficient.
I must admit to having a personal in-
terest in the legislation because of its
importance to West Virginia and her
bordering States. We look with hope
to the development of better health and
treatment centers, vocational education
facilities, long-needed highway expan-
sion, a better utilization of our rich tim-
ber resources, and to a revitalization of
the coal industry which, we all know, is
the economic backbone of the region.
In each case, the proposed,legislation
would answer specific needs and, in the
long run, would increase the standards
of living of all Americans.
For the moment, I would ask the Sen-
ate to consider the plight of the men and
women in this section of our country?
men and women .who are the sons and
daughters of pioneers who, themselves,
gave to the United States and the world,
in peace and in war, their best years and
efforts.
Through the years, children have been
taught in schools about the value of coal
in the industrial revolution that pro-
pelled America into the forefront of
world developments. In years to come,
history will record the role of Appalachia
in rebuilding Europe from the rubble of
World War II.
The achievements of coal-miners, their
daring and bravery in their daily work,
and the advancement made by the indus-
try have helped to instill a deep love for
America in the hearts of our schoolchil-
dren.
When the coal industry was going full
force, Appalachia was also progressing.
However, the advancement of science and
automation was also moving ahead. In
recent years, increased use of residual oil
has added to the problems of the coal in-
dustry, and unemployment has resulted.
By 1960, the ranks of the unemployed
had swelled to 380,000, or 7.1 percent of
the Appalachian labor force, compared
to 5.0 percent throughout the United
States.
With the slowdown in employment,
there was an understandable lack of in-
vestment in the area by business enter-
prises looking for expansion. This with-
drawal of investment had its effect, too,
on job opportunities in the region.
While each pitfall spelled a new hard-
ship for families who were born and
reared in these States, these problems,
when combined, were even more deva-
stating. They forced a massive outmi-
gration of this native population from its
homeland to other States.
Many of the people who remained
now find themselves casualties of the era
of ,automation.
The report of the President's Appala-
chian Regional Commission contains an
endless number of important facts about
this area. These are a few of the most
vital: -
In Appalachia, almost one in three
families lives on an annual income of
$3,000 or less. Elsewhere in the United
States, that figure drops to one family in
every five.
The average per capita income for the
balance of the United States?$1,900?is
35 percent greater than the Appalachian
figure of $1,400.
For every 100 persons over 25 years of
age elsewhere in the United States, 8
have 'failed to finish 5 years of school.
In Appalachia, that figure rises to more
than 11, or 45 percent higher than the
balance of the United States.
Thirty-two out of every 100 Appala-
chian citizens over 25 have finished high
school, contrasted to almost 42 persons
out of every 100 in the balance of the
United States.
Retail sales in Appalachia in 1962 were
equal to 6.4 percent of national totals,
a figure well below Appalachia's 8.5 per-
cent share of U.S. population.
In this area, 26.6 percent of the homes
need major repairs and 7.5 percent are
in such a dilapidated condition that they
endanger the health and safety of the
families. The comparable percentages
for the rest of the United States are
18.1 and 4.7, respectively.
If it were not for the faith of these
people in their land, these figures would
certainly have discouraged the most
hearty among them.
Let us now look at this program of self-
help to rebuild the land of Appalachia?
that ribbon of neglect which stretches
from Pennsylvania to Alabama.
The milestones are, of course, the proj-
ects that will improve health, educa-
tion, and economics. We will be ever
grateful for those efforts to educate both
the children and young adults in the
grants to construct vocational education
centers.
Grants to build vitally needed hos-
pitals and regional health diagnostic and
treatment centers will be similarly wel-
comed.
We have heard much talk about the
highway program about which the re-
port from the President's Commission
says:
Instead of upgrading or expanding the
most heavily traveled routes, a development
system seeks to stimulate the flow of people
and goods to and through remote areas
which have a developmental potential; it,
seeks, in short, to create traffic and to open
up areas where commerce and communica-
tion of people with people have been sorely
inhibited by lack of ready access.
Those of us who have long believed
that highways are the key to economic(
growth in West Virginia welcome this
recognition by our Federal Government.
Important, too, is the $5 million fund
that would be set up to spur the devel-
opment of the timber industry.
A revitalized timber industry can be
a key element to the economic growth
of Appalachia. The present growth of
timber is underutilized within the region,
and its possible contribution to employ-
ment and local wealth is far from re-
alized. Measures to expand and diver-
sify the region's forest industries must
and will be undertaken by this legisla-
tion.
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