AMENDMENT OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961

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• Publication Date: September 14, 1964
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? SENATE
And why is the prospect of more inflation
pleasing to some big business men?
Most of them are hired managers, not prin-
cipal owners. Their reputations are en-
hanced when the dollar profit of their com-
panies go up year 13y year. Their personal
fortunes are enhanced when the value of
their stocks rises. Inflation is helpful to-
ward both those ends.
Thus there is a community of interest be-
tween the welfare politicians of big govern-
ment and the latter-day managers of indus-
try who, have taken the places of such giants
as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and
Henry Ford.
We are not here trying to explain American
politics entirely in terms of economic deter-
minism. Some people have convictions and
stand by them at any cost?and damn the
torpedoes.
But we think it is true that people who
are in the same boat; or on the same roller
coaster, are likely to have a common interest
in the conveyance they are riding. That is
why we say it is not particularly surprising
that certain spokesmen for big business have
declared themselves in favor of the Political
ticket which emphatically supports big
spending.
We hope the time will come ,when those
who are harmed by inflation?primarily men
and women who work on salaries or on farms
and those who live on fixed incomes?will
become equally interested in maintaining an
honest dollar.
FEDERAL FARM SPENDING FIGURES
Mr. CURTIS. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent to have printed at
this point in the RECORD an editorial en-
titled "Those Federal Farm Spending
Figures," published in the Stockman's
Journal, of Omaha, Nebr., for August 26,
1964.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
THOSE FEDERAL FARM SPENDING FIGURES
The New York Times tells us that nearly
all the defense savings achieved by Robert
S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, were off-
set in the fiscal year just ended "by another
large -and unexpected spending, increase in
the program that has been the despair of
successive administrations for 15 years?the
farm program." ?
Warming to its subject, the Times says that
"detailed figures for the fiscal year reveal
that farm spending hit a record of $7 billion.
This was $1 billion more than had been esti-
mated in January of this year and $1.3 bil-
lion more than had been estimated when the
.?budget for the fiscal year was first presented
more than 18 months ago.
"If the record of the past is any guide, it
is highly unlikely that this spending will
drop to $4.9 billion as estimated in the budget
for the current fiscal year. If the President's
target of holding total spending below $98
billion is to be met, there will have to be
savings elsewhere. Despite the changes in
the farm program proposed by the present
administration, most of which Congress has
accepted, farm spending has risen steadily.
The administration has regularly claimed
that the changes would reduce costs.
"In all but 1 year of the decade of the
1950's farm outlays were less than $5 billion.
But in fiscal 1961, they rose to $5.2 billion,
then to $5.9 billion in 1962, $6.9 billion in
1963, and $7 billion in 1964. And in nearly
every year they have turned out higher than
the budget estimates."
This record may be difficult to run on in
the campaign ahead, though members of the
Democratic Party have demonstrated an
adeptness at turning a record of spending
and budget deficits into votes in national
elections. Perhaps they will succeed in do-
ing so again, but we lean to the- view that,
if they are successful at the polls in Novem-
ber, it will be more in spite of their Federal
farm programs than because of them. It
will be interesting to see what is singled out
to brag about in this administration's han-
dling of the farm question.
Just exactly how the farmer's cause has
been advanced during the past 4 years of
steadily increasing farm spending, we aren't
sure. But perhaps the campaigners will en-
lighten us. Despite what the general public
may erroneously think, the condition of the
farmer's pocketbook would seem to indicate
that those billions of dollars appropriated
and spent in the farm name must have been
sidetracked and diverted from their intended
destination.
It would help a great deal, of course, if
farm budget figures were broken down and
analyzed for the public in their true light.
For instance, the cost of administering farm
programs takes a healthy sum. How much?
The public should be told. And, too, how
about the welfare and relief programs?
school lunches, food for the needy, etc., both
at home and abroad?that are being financed
out of the agriculture budget?
Surely all these and other such ventures
should not be lumped together in Federal
farm spending totals. No wonder the public
is confused and tired of hearing about the
farm problem.
There is more than a touch of irony, inci-
dentally, in the fact that just about the time
that record farm spending figures were being
publicized and worried over in high places,
it was also revealed that the farm parity price
ratio had skidded to its lowest level in around
20 years. It will also be interestin see
what there is in this situation to br
on the campaign trail.
September 14
quate, amendment authored by the
minority and majority leaders would be
passed subsequent to the rejection of the
proposal by my friend and colleague
from New York.
The Mansfleld-Dirksen amendment is
brief., It embodies substantially more
than supplication. Simply stated, it pro-
vides for the halting of reapportionment
actions until January 1966, to permit
States to hold elections under existing
laws. It would also allow State legisla-
tures reasonable opportunity to reap-
portion in regular session or to amend
the U.S. Constitution.
For nearly 200 years, Mr. President,
the many States of the Republic man-
aged to transact their constitutionally
lawful affairs, protect the welfare of
their citizens, and enjoy general pros-
perity with State governments organ-
ized as the Federal Constitution pro-
vides?by the States themselves within
.the framework of a republican form of
.government.
As the Senator from Illinois has so elo-
quently stated, and as the title of his bill
substantiates, a stay of proceedings is all
that is being sought in this proposal.
We are not asking nor can we ask that
the Congress override the ruling of the
Court. We ask only that the system
which has endured, which has prospered,
and which has given us a chain of union
forged of 50 strong and viable links not
e summarily destroyed. We ask only
that a reflective pause be granted long
enough to allow voluntary reapportion-
ment or the consideration of a constitu-
tional amendment to lawfully and prop-
erly overrule the High Tribunal's edict
and allow bicameral legislatures their
historic prerogative of constituting one
house on other than a population basis.
The Mansfleld-Dirksen measure is not
an anti-Court amendment, it is not an
antimetropolitan amendment, it is not
an antistiburban amendment. It is a
proposal to the Senate that we agree to
a reapportionment breather; that we
grant the governments of the 50 States
time in which to rethink the question of
their own composition without the spec-
ter of the Federal courts hovering above
their capitols ready to snip the horse hair
and send.a juridical sword of Damocles
cleaving through their governments,
their philosophies, and their institu-
tions.
Senators supporting this bill seek not
to use it as a vehicle for changing the
Constitution. We seek not to deny any
groups or any areas or any classes or seg-
ments of our society their constitutional
representation in the governments of the
States.
We seek in this legislation to protect
those individual and States rights by pro-
viding time for serious consideration by
the States of the whole question of legis-
lative apportionment.
My sentiments on this bill are as those
of the Judiciary Committee on an earlier
proposal. I feel this bill "would provide
the Congress with sufficient time to con-
sider proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution dealing with this subject. It
would relieve the States from hurried
acts of reapportionment made pursuant
AMENDMENT OF FOREIGN ASSIST-
ANCE ACT OF 1961
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the, bill (HR. 11380) to amend fur-
ther the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
as amended, and for other purposes.
Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, the
Constitution of the United States says
without equivocation in article 4, section
4, that "the United States shall guar-
antee to every State in this Union a re-
publican form of government."
The Constitution does ?not say that
after 1% centuries as a republic, the
Federal courts will summarily reor-
ganize the governments of the many
States. But that is exactly what the
Supreme Court is requiring in its June 15
edict on reapportionment.
The importance and impact of this
edict are the reasons why we have spent
the last month debating proposals by the
distinguished majority and minority
leaders and why we will tomorrow vote on
a, compromise offered by the Senator
from New York. Let me point out at this
juncture of my remarks that I cannot
lend my support to a compromise which
is, in the words of the Senator, from
Georgia [Mr.-RUSSELL] and the Senator
from Illinois [Mr. DIRKSEN], supplica-
tion to the High Court. As the distin-
guished minority leader pointed out in
debate on last Thursday:
There is not a binding word in (the
Javits' proposa.)1
I would hope that not only would the
proposal by the Senator from New York
be rejected by the Senate, but that the
stronger, although not completely ade-
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to Court order issued before the matter
is fully resolved."
The committee further noted:
Many proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution dealing with the right of the citi-
zens of a State to determine the apportion-
ment of the membership of the State legis-
lature are pending in committee both in the
House of Representatives and in the Senate.
There may not be sufficient time remaining
in this session of the Congress to give \ade-
quate study to these proposals. A breath-
ing spell is needed both for the harassed
States and for the Congress.
Mr. President, the one sentence, the
one rationale absolute, which in itself
cries out to the Senate to pass legislation
of this kind is the committee's assertion
that it "does not believe that reasonable
reapportionment laws or amendments
to State constitutions, when required,
an be contrived in haste."
Mr. President, contriving apportion-
ment in haste is precisely what the Fed-
eral courts seek to do behind the impetus
of the High Tribunal's June 15 decision.
Contriving in haste is precisely the
purpose of the special interest groups
who have filed reapportionment suits in
States whose legislative compositions
are clouded by the High Court's decision.
,"Contriving in haste is the purpose of
metropolitan power cliques who seek to
prostitute the Court's edict and derive
from it a greater measure of Tammany-
type control over State' governments.
One of the principal champions of the
city-dominated State legislature system,
the Washington Post; published an arti-
cle datelined August 9, announcing:
Fifteen prominent law school deans and
professors Wired Senate leaders that this
proposal to delay reapportionment "danger-
ously threatens the integrity of our judicial
process."
The dispatch further stated that these
"legal scholars" denied-their protest had
anything to do with the correctness of
the Court's June 15 decision on reappor-
tionment?which is a stroke in their
' favor. Instead, their fears are based on
the contention that the bill would be "a
drastic interference" with the powers of
the courts to enforce the Constitution.
Even though their bete noire?the
original Dirksen amendment?has been
abandoned, it gladdens my heart and
elevates my spirits to think that any
group of men whose credentials are those
of bona fide legal scholars would sud-
denly be so concerned about drastic in-
terference.
If they seek to occupy themselves with
issues of drastic interference, let these
gentlemen consider the instances?and
they are legion?in which the Supreme
Court has interfered drastically in the
affairs of Congress.
In the Sanders case, the Court inter-
jected itself into the question of congres-
sional districts, and in the issue before
the Senate today, we must remember
that the Supreme Court has invaded the
domain not only of the Congress but also
of the States themselves in asserting?
in Reynolds against Sims?the specious
"one man, one vote" thesis:
Furthermore, the Chief Justice/of the
Supreme Court has been quoted as say-
No. 175-4
ing that he is more than willing to inter-
ject the Court into any social, moral, re-
ligious, or political question.
Where, then, is the concern of the
legal scholars for the drastic interference
of the Court into the affairs of the other
two-thirds of government?
America, in her greatness, is anchored
firmly to her constitutional framework
of laws respecting the rights of individ-
uals and the rights of States. Surely, no
national issue has ever affected or
threatened these rights more than the
wiping out of nearly two generations of
law and precedent with Justice Warren's
summary announcement:
The fundamental principle of representa-
tive government in this country is one of
equal representation for equal numbers of
people.
Reapportionment is an issue which re-
quires not sophomoric presumption in
haste and indignation,but intellectual
deliberation in research and thought. It
is an issue in which the States must be
given an opportunity to act either
through voluntary reapportionment or
in the drafting and ratification of a
remedial amendment to the Constitu-
tion.
I importune and I implore my col-
leagues to pass this bill. Let it become
a part of the foreign aid bill, and let it
be signed into law, so that the legisla-
tures of the States may continue to be
constituted on the historically tenable
dual basis of area and population?
rather than on capricious edicts "con-
trived in haste."
Mr. President, I suggest the absence of
a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call
the roll.
Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that the order for
the quorum call may be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
tobction, it is so ordered.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRO-
GRAMS FOR THE APPALACHIAN
REGION
Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, unfor-
tunately, I was not present in the Cham-
ber on Tuesday, September 8, during the
colloquy between the senior Senator from
West Virginia [Mr. RANDOLPH] and the
junior Senator from Iowa [Mr. MILLER]
on S. 2782, but I should like to associate
myself with the position and the remarks
of the Iowa Senator. I have every sym-
pathy for the plight of the people in the
? Appalachian area, and particularly for
the people of West Virginia. Indeed, the
senior Senator from West Virginia has
made an eloquent plea for this proposed
legislation. One might say that he has
plucked a mournful melody upon our
heartstrings.
However, Mr. President, I am con-
cerned at this time with the pasture-
improvement feature of this bill. I hold
in my hand a copy of a news story which
was published on the front page of the
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield,
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W. Va., on Friday, September 4, 1964.
This-story, datelined Lewisburg, W. Va.,
carries the byline of John Hall, Asso-
ciated Press writer, and announces that
one of the finest cattle heits east of the
Mississippi will be put on the auction
block. We wonder why a top Hereford
cattle herd, in a State which is requesting
Federal assistance to encourage the cat-
tle industry, must end on the auctioneer's
block. The reason given in this news-
paper article is:
Source s close to the family said the sale
was undertaken to avoid both corporation
and personal income taxes.
Has the State of West Virginia im-
plemented such tax laws as to make the
cattle industry, and maybe others, in that
State prohibitive? This news story cer-
tainly gives that impression.
This is no ordinary cattle herd. The
Morlunda herd, situated in the rolling
hills of southern West Virginia, is com-
posed of 115 bulls, 627 cows, and 350
calves, and has won 253 blue ribbons over
the last 2 years. On the first day of the
auction, 131 head sold for a total of
$133,950. This included $29,500 paid for
the 1,900-pound merit bull "Morlunda
Coxwain the 23d," and $10,000 for "Mor-
lunda Matador the 77th."
Mr. President, in order that Senators
may have the full details of this inci-
dent, I ask unanimous consent to have
this news story, entitled "Bull Brings
$29,500 as Morlunda Sells Herefords"
printed at the conclusion of my remarks.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
(See exhibit 1.)
Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, this
article indicates that there are problems
within the boundaries of West Virginia,
and they would appear to be problems
which must be resolved within that State.
It is the responsibility of every State to
provide a climate to make it possible for
business to grow, to progress, to flourish.
When businesses are forced to the auc-
tion block because of the tax structure
of that State, such a climate has not-
been provided. This situation, unfor-
tunate as it is, substantiates my convic-
tion that this proposed legislation is not
an aid but a handout. The people in
the Appalachian area are ?too fine to
receive this kind of treatment. Neither
the pasture-improvement feature, nor
any other portion of this bill will be a
kindness to these people.
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BULL BRINGS $29,500 AS MORLUNDA SELLS
HEREFORDS
(By John Hall)
LEWISBURG, W. Va.--Cattlebuyers from 30
States and Canada were lured to the rolling
acres of Morlunda Farms Thursday as one
of the top Hereford cattle herds in the Na-
tion went on the auction block.
The Nelson family, owners of the Morlunda
and blue-ribbon Hereford breeding stock
with such names as "J. H. Beau Promino
826th," planned to sell its entire herd during
a 3-day auction.
Sources close to the family said the sale
was undertaken to avoid both corporation
,and personal income taxes.
Auctioneers had sold 131 head by late
Thursday for a total of $133,950.
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