is located. On an average, the standard requires less than $100 a month. Redress is made for the discrepancy between this amount and the amount available to the student from any other source. The committee is satisfied that the standard now applied is the correct one and was assured that this standard will continue to be applied by the Department of State. The period of assistance.-What factors determine the decision, at the time an application for assistance is approved, as to how long such assistance will be tendered? The Department of State follows the policy of allowing the student to finish a unit of academic work on which he is engaged at the time. If he is doing graduate work the Department will see him through his studies to the time he obtains his degree. If he is pursuing a technical course to attain a particular certification, he will generally be allowed sufficient aid to complete his course. Each case is examined on its own merits so as to avoid loss of attainments on work done. It is not contemplated, however, that the United States will underwrite the student through the next stage of his academic work. The committee's view is that the present policy in this regard is adequate and completely justifiable. The tenure of the program.-How long may the program be expected to last? The policy of seeing each student through the work in progress should insure a distinct tapering off of the program within a maximum of 1 year. In special circumstances, of course, help may be given a student over a longer period. Such a decision would be based on the difficulty of the work, its technical or academic value, and like considerations. In any event, this is not a program for relief to be extended into an incalculable future. Return of students to China.-What will be done in the case of a student who has finished his work but for whom, because of circumstances in China, there is no opportunity to go home in safety? Positive reassurance on this score cannot be given at present, since the course of events in China is unpredictable. The policy which has been and will be followed by the Department of State in administering this program, however, requires that a student who has completed his course of studies must either return to China or must become self-supporting. There is no intention of extending aid to any student beyond the limits of the academic course which he has undertaken. In any event, it is no answer to an immediate and pressing difficulty to say that there may be difficulties of another sort 2 or 3 years hence. It is not pretended that the program envisaged will solve the individual problems of every Chinese student. The program is based, nevertheless, on the recognition that something must be done now to meet present exigencies. O CONSIDERATION OF H. R. 5208 JULY 13, 1949.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. SABATH, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. Res. 282] The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House Resolution 282, report the same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution do pass. O AMENDING SECTION 6 OF THE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT ACT OF MAY 29, 1930, AS AMENDED JULY 13, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WILLIAMS, from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 1459] The Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1459) to amend section 6 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend. that the bill do pass. The purpose of this legislation is to authorize the Civil Service Commission to extend from 6 months to 1 year the time within which an officer or an employee subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, may file a claim for a disability annuity; provided such disability is essentially chronic, deteriorative, or progressive in nature, and can reasonably be assumed to have existed at the date of separation from the Federal service. Also, with respect to officers and employees who were separated from the service prior to the effective date of this legislation, claims for disability annuities may be considered by the Civil Service Commission, provided such officers or employees filed such claims within 1 year after their separations from the Federal service. On March 1, 1949, the House approved H. R. 1599, a private bill for the relief of Mary T. Maloney Preece. This bill was reported favorably by the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on February 21, 1949. H. R. 1599 provided that Mrs. Preece should have 60 days after the date of enactment within which to file an application for disability retirement under section 6 of the Civil Service Retirement Act. The committee was convinced that Mrs. Preece was not advised at the time of her separation, nor within 6 months thereafter, of her tubercular condition. This disability was discovered almost a year after her separation, and according to reports by physicians it appears that Mrs. Preece was afflicted with tuberculosis at the time of her separation from the Federal Government, but was deprived of a disability annuity because of the 6-month time limitation under present law. S. 1459 extends the policy approved by the committee in H. R. 1599 to all persons similarly affected, which the committee feels is justified. According to statements by representatives of the Civil Service Commission not many cases would be affected by the legislation, nor does such legislation provide for the allowance of disability annuities, but merely authorizes the filing of claims which shall be adjudicated by the Civil Service Commission on their merits. It was further stated that no additional cost will be involved by the enactment of this legislation. The report of the Civil Service Commission, which has been approved by the Bureau of the Budget raising no objection to this legislation, is as follows: Hon. Toм MURRAY, UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Chairman, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Room 213, Old House Office Building. DEAR MR. MURRAY: The Commission has your letter of June 20, 1949, requesting its comments on S. 1459, a bill to amend section 6 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended. Section 6 of the Retirement Act requires generally that a claim for disability annuity be executed prior to the applicant's separation from service or within 6 months thereafter. Provision is made for waiving the limitation in certain cases where employees are mentally incompetent or receiving hospital treatment at time of separation or within the 6-month period following separation. Before title to annuity may exist in any case, it is, of course, necessary to establish that the employee was at time of separation totally disabled for useful and efficient service in his position. The bill would add a further exception to the time limitation cited. Under the proposal, if an employee's disabling condition is essentially chronic, deteriorative, or progressive in nature and can reasonably be assumed to have existed at date of separation, claim would be accepted if filed by him within 1 year after date of separation. For employees with such disabilities separated in the past, application could be filed within 6 months from date of approval of the bill. It is not envisioned that many cases would be affected by this proposal. It does not provide for the allowance of annuity in any such case, but merely authorizes the filing of claims under the conditions stated, which claims would then be adjudicated by the Commission on their merits. If Congress feels that these cases warrant this consideration, the Commission would offer no objection to favorable action on S. 1459. The Bureau of the Budget advises that there would be no objection to the submission of this report. By direction of the Commission: Very sincerely yours, HARRY B. MITCHELL, President. CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW In compliance with paragraph 2a of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as introduced, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italics, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman): FIRST PARAGRAPH OF SECTION 6 OF THE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT ACT OF MAY 29, 1930, AS AMENDED SEC. 6. * * * Any officer or employee to whom this Act applies who shall have served for a total period of not less than five years computed as provided in |