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manufacturers in this country would be at liberty to manufacture and place insulin on the market in disregard of that uniform standard of quality and strength that are so essential for the protection of users of insulin.

Over 1,000,000 people in the United States are now under insulin treatment. It is estimated they are spending about $15,000,000 a year for this remedy. Ordinarily, the doctor gives the patient a prescription, who after that buys from any drug store available. So far, the amicted person has had the protection that is given by a uniform standard and strength under the restrictions imposed by the owners of the patent.

The effect of insulin is such that injury and death may result from taking too much, or too little. The peril to the public that would ensue from the lack of a uniform standard would be primarily due to the variation and uncertain quality as to strength and purity unless its standardization is assured by the Federal Government acting through the Food and Drug Administration.

Under the amendment here proposed to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, every batch of insulin would be submitted to tests to assure its freedom from infection, its purity, and strength. Each batch would be subject to approval of the Food and Drug Administration, and rejected if not of a properly standardized quality. By means all users of insulin, suffering from diabetes, can be assured of the quality, the standard, strength, and purity of their purchases.

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The procedure required in making tests, the adoption of regulations to control such tests, and the certification thereof by the Food and Drug Administration, will conform to the practice that already prevails in requiring such tests, and issuing such certificates as to certain coal-tar products.

Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. This means that the Food and Drug Administration will have control and jurisdiction over insulin.

Mr. LEA. Yes; the Food and Drug Administration will have the power to require all necessary tests to establish its proper qualities, and assure protection to the users of insulin throughout the country.

Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill? There was no objection.

The Clerk read the bill, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That section 301 (1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of June 25, 1938, as amended, is amended by inserting "506," before the phrase "or 604." at the end thereof.

SEC. 2. Section 502 of such act, as amended, is amended by inserting a new paragraph at the end thereof, as follows:

"(k) If it is, or purports to be, or is represented as a drug composed wholly or partly of insulin, unless (1) it is from a batch with respect to which a certificate or release has been issued pursuant to section 506, and (2) such certificate or release is in effect with respect to such drug."

Src. 3. Chapter V of such act, as amended, is amended by adding a new section at the end thereof, as follows:

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"CERTIFICATION OF DRUGS CONTAINING INSULIN "SEC. 506. (a) The Federal Security Administrator, pursuant to regulations promulgated by him, shall provide for the certification of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of insulin. A batch of any such drug shall be certified if such drug has such characteristics of identity and such batch has such characteristics of strength, quality, and purity, as the Administrator prescribes in such regulations as necessary to adequately insure safety and emcacy of use, but shall not otherwise be certified. Prior to the effective date of such regulations the Administrator, in lieu of certification, shall issue a release for any batch which, in his judgment, may be released without risk as to the safety and efficacy of its use. Such release shall prescribe the date of its expiration and other conditions under which it shall cease to be effective as to such batch and as to portions thereof.

"(b) Regulations providing for such certification shall contain such provisions as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, including provisions prescribing (1) standards of identity and of strength, quality, and purity; (2) tests and methods of assay to determine compliance with such standards; (3) effective periods for certificates, and other conditions under which they shall cease to be effective as to certified batches and as to portions thereof; (4) administration and procedure; and (5) such fees, specified in such regulations, as are necessary to provide, equip, and maintain an adequate certification

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"(c) Such regulations, insofar as they prescribe tests or methods of assay to determine strength, quality, or purity of any drug, đưfferent from the tests or methods of assay set forth for such drug in an oficial compendium, shall be prescribed, after notice and opportunity for revision of such compendium, in the manner provided in the second ɛentence of section 501 (b). The provisions of subsections (e), (f), and (g) of section 701 shall be applicable to such portion of any regulation as prescribes any such different test or method, but shall not be applicable to any other portion of any such regulation."

SEC. 4. Regulations initially prescribed under section 506 of such act, as amended, shall be promulgated and made effective within 45 days after the date of enactment of this act.

With the following committee amendment:

Page 3, line 6, after the word "service", add the following: "Such regulations shall prescribe no standard of identity or of strength, quality, or purity for any drug different from the standard of identity, strength, quality, or purity set forth for such drug in an officia' compendium."

The amendment was agreed to. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

BLACK-OUTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. RANDOLPH).

Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of Senate Concurrent Resolution 21.

The Clerk read as follows:

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the action of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and of the President pro tempore of the Senate in signing the enrolled bill (H. R. 6208) entitled "An act to authorize blackouts in the District of Columbia, and for

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other purposes", be, and the same is hereby, rescinded; and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to reenroll the said bill with the following change, namely: In the engrossed Senate amendments, at the end of amendment No. 6, strike out the word "section" and the period, and insert the following: "section, and there is hereby appropriated for this purpose $1,000,000 out of any money in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States not otherwise appropriated."

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from West Virginia?

There was no objection.

The concurrent resolution was agreed to, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

EXTENDING TIME FOR EXAMINATION OP MONTHLY ACCOUNTS OF DISBURSING OFFICERS, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. CockRAN).

Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of the bill (S. 2087) to extend the time for examination of monthly accounts covering expenditures by disbursing officers of the United States Marine Corps.

The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill? Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, as I understand, this simply extends the time for the filing of reports of audits of accounts of Marine Corps disbursing officers.

Mr. COCHRAN. In connection with disbursing officers of the Marine Corps, it is approved by the Marine Corps, Comptroller General, and Bureau of the Budget. The Paymaster General of the Marine Corps advises me it will save money. It is impossible to comply with the present law due to the emergency.

Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. It has passed the Senate, and has been approved by the gentleman's committee?

Mr. COCHRAN. It was unanimously reported yesterday by the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. COCHRAN]?

There being no objection, the Clerk read the bill, as follows:

Be it enacted, etc., That the time for examination of monthly accounts covering expenditures by disbursing officers of the United States Marine Corps after the date of actual receipt at headquarters, United States Marine Corps, and before transmitting the same to the General Accounting Office, as limited by section 12 of the act of July 31, 1894 (28 Stat. 209), as amended, is he.eby extended from 20 to 60 days. In time of war or naticnal emergency and for a period of 18 months after such war or emergency shall have ceased to exist, the time for examination of such monthly accounts is hereby extended from 60 to 90 days.

The bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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Grant this, O Lord, for the love of Him who for our sakes became poor and died that He might bring life and immortality to light, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

THE JOURNAL

On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of the calendar day, Thursday, December 18, 1941, was dispensed with, and the Journal was approved.

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MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT-
APPROVAL OF A BILL

Messages in writing from the President of the United States were communicated to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his secretaries, who aiso announced that on December 18, 1941, the President had approved and signed the act (S. 501) for the relief of Lt. Col. Gordon Smith.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Swanson, one of its clerks, announced that the House had passed the following bills, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate:

H. R. 6220. An act to amend section 3 of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended; and

H.R. 6251. An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of insulin, and for other purposes.

JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS-NOTICE OF HEARINGS

Mr. MCFARLAND. Mr. President, the Senate Judiciary Committee has received the following nominations:

A. Cecil Snyder, of Maryland, to be associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico;

Hon. George Bell Timmerman, of South Carolina, to be judge, eastern and western districts of South Carolina; and

Hon. J. Watles Waring, of South Carolina, to be judge, eastern district of South Carolina.

As chairman of the subcommittee appointed to consider these nominations, I announce, as required by rule 1 of the committee procedure, that Saturday, December 27, at 10 a. m., has been set as the time for a hearing in the committee room on these three nominations.

Mr. HILL. I announce that the Senator from Washington [Mr. BONE] is absent from the Senate because of illness.

The Senator from Florida [Mr. ANDREWS], the Senator from Alabama [Mr. BANKHEAD], the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. BILBO), the Senator from Virginia [Mr. GLASS), the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. GUFFEY], the Senator from Delaware (Mr. HUGHES], the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. SMATHERS), and the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. SMITH) are necessarily absent.

Mr. AUSTIN. The Senator from NEW Jersey [Mr. BARBOUR] and the Senator from Ohio [Mr. TAFT) are necessarily absent.

The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-four Senators have answered to their names. A quorum is present.

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PROVISION PERTAINING 10 APPROPRIA-
TION FOR THE FEDERAL
AGENCY (S. DOC. NO. 150)

The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a communication from the President of the United States, transmitting draft of a proposed provision pertaining to an existing appropriation for the Public Buildings Administration of the Federal Works Agency, which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. RESOLUTIONS PLEDGING SUPPORT IN THE WAR

The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate resolutions adopted by Frack Allen Wilcox Post, No. 126, the American Legion, of Fall River, Mass., and Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, of Cleveland, Ohio. pledging full support to the Nation in the prosecution of the war, which were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

MILITARY PROTECTION FOR PITTS-
BURGH, PA., AREA

Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, on May 23, 1940, page 6686 of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, I introduced the expert testimony of one of Pittsburgh's most eminent engineers, Mr. Samuel Diescher, now serving as consultant for the National Inventors' Council. At that time very little attention was being given to the necessities of national defense. I called for protection for Pittsburgh because it is the very heart of industrial America. I any point in the United States requires the utmost in the way of defense and national care, Pittsburgh is the place.

Pittsburgh is the center of the steel industry. Pittsburgh is the leader in machine-tool production. Pittsburgh is the forge of the Nation.

Now the citizens of Pittsburgh have come to realize the importance of our defense efforts and I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD as a

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part of my remarks a telegram just received from Mr. John J. Kane, chairman of the Board of Allegheny County Commissioners, asking that Allegheny County airport receive the military protection it needs.

Mr. President, this is the time for this long-delayed action. I ask that this telegram be printed in the RECORD and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Remember Pearl Ha.bor!

There being no objection, the telegram was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

PITTSBURGH, PA., December 18, 1941. Hon. JAMES J. DAVIS,

United States Senate,

Washington, D. C.: Allegheny County airport, as well as the defense industries of this county, need additional protection. Would urge all Congressmen and Senators of this county to petition the War Department to furnish adequate military protection. Understand military protection is now being given to other airports throughout the country. JOHN J. KANE, Chairman, Board of Allegheny County Commissioners. RESOLUTIONS FROM THE STATE OF WISCONSIN

Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, I present several resolutions and a letter from the State of Wisconsin, which I ask to have printed in the RECORD and appropriately referred.

There being no objection, the resolutions and letter were received, ordered to be printed in the RECORD, and referred, as follows:

To the Committee on Finance:

Whereas it appears from statements in the press, attributed to the President of the United States and to the Federal Security Administrator, that Congress will soon be asked to liquidate local control of the employment-security program and to centralize this vast power and responsibility in Federal bureaus; and

Whereas this would mean the end of this State's unemployment-compensation system. of which labor, management, and the public are justly proud; and

Whereas we are unalterably opposed to any plan that would deprive the citizens of this State of the advantages inherent in our type of unemployment compensation law; and

Whereas the present joint Federal-State employment-security administration will operate satisfactorily and efficiently, providing both State and Federal authorities cooperate in a democratic manner and in good faith; and

Whereas the federalization of the program would deprive the employers, employees, and the citizens of the State of an instruinental voice in the operation of the program; and

Whereas a sound employment-security program, by reason of its relation to the lives of all affected, should be administered by officials close to and acceptable to the people; and Whereas a sound employment-security program must necessarily reflect varying economic and sccial conditions in the different communities of the Nation and therefore cannot be subject to hard and rigid Federal control designed to regiment and make uniform; and

Whereas such proposed centralization of power over the lives and activities of the citizens of this Nation is undemocratic and symptomatic of the political decay and dictatorship which our defense efforts seek to combat; and

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"(b) Such revision, in the case of each domestic sugar-producing arca, shall be made on the basis of the marketings of sugar or liquid sugar in such area during said emergency; but in no event shall such revision result in increasing or decreasing the quota for any such area by more than 2 percent of the total consumption requirements.

"(c) Such revision, in the case of a farm, shall be made in an equitable manner on the basis of the production of sugar beets or sugarcane marketed (or processed) for the extraction of sugar or liquid sugar on the farm during said emergency."

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the Senator from Florida. Mr. PEPPER. I suggest the absence of a quorum.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.

The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names:

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Eightyfour Senators have answered to their names. A quorum is present. DISTRICT MOTOR-VEHICLE-FUEL TAX

CONFERENCE REPORT

Mr. BURTON. Mr. President, will the Senator from Florida yield to me? Mr. PEPPER. I yield.

Mr. BURTON. I present the conference report on House bill 5558, the bill increasing the gasoline tax in the District of Columbia, and ask unanimous consent for its present consideration.

The

PRESIDING OFFICER. The conference report will be read.

The conference report was read, as follows:

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 5558) increasing motor-vehicle-fuel taxes in the District of Columbia for the period January 1, 1942, to June 30, 1949, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 1, 2, and 3, and to the amendment of the Senate to the title of the bill; and agree to the same.

PAT MCCARRAN,
JOHN H. OVERTON,
HAROLD H. BURTON,
Managers on the part of the Senate.
JENNINGS RANDOLPH,
EVERETT M. DIRKSEN,
Managers on the part of the House.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the conference report?

There being no objection, the conference report was considered and agreed to. CERTIFICATION OF DRUGS COMPOSED OF INSULIN

Mrs. CARAWAY. Mr. President, will the Senator from Florida yield? Mr. PEPPER. I yield.

Mrs. CARAWAY. From the Committee on Commerce I report back favorably, without amendment, House bill 6251, and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be read by title for the information of the Senate.

The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. A bill (H. R. 6251) to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of insulin, and for other purposes.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill?

There being no objection, the bill was considered, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Swanson, one of its clerks, announced that the House had passed a joint resolution (H. J. Res. 258) to provide additional appropriations incident to the national defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and June 30, 1943, and for other purposes, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate.

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED

The following bills were each read twice by their titles and referred as indicated:

H. R. 6220. An act to amend section 3 of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended; to the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.

H. R. 6251. An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of insulin, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce.

H. J. Res. 258. Joint resolution to provide additional appropriations incident to the national defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and June 30, 1943, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Appropriations.

LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, will the Senator from Florida yield to me for a moment?

Mr. PEPPER. I am glad to yield to the Senator from Kentucky.

Mr. BARKLEY. I wish to announce to the Members of the Senate that it is desirable, if possible, to wind up a good deal of loose ends of legislation today, in order that the Senate may not have to convene tomorrow, if it can be avoided. The list includes the disposition of the pending sugar bill; it includes two bills from the Judiciary Committee, one dealing with alien registration, and another conferring authority to summon witnesses upon the board appointed by

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the President to investigate the situation in Honolulu; it includes the conference report on the selective draft extension bill; it includes an appropriation for housing legislation, which the Committee on Appropriations is now in session considering. So I hope Senators will remain here and cooperate as much as possible in disposing of this program, so that, if it is disposed of, the Senate may be able to adjourn over until Monday.

Mr. PEPPER. I wish to say to the able leader that I only have two amendments to which I am going to address myself very briefly, and will ask for a vote on them.

Mr. BARKLEY. I was not undertaking, in any way, to shut off the Senator, but I wanted the Senate to be advised of the program.

Mr. PEPPER. I thoroughly share the sentiments expressed by the Senator, because I know all of us want to conclude the consideration of the measures referred to.

SUGAR QUOTAS

The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 5988) to amend the Sugar Act of 1937, as amended, and for other purposes.

Mr. PEPPER. Mr. President, before beginning my remarks, I should like to modify the amendment as I sent it to the desk. In line 3, subsection (b), I desire to strike out the words "in such area."

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be modified as requested.

Mr. PEPPER. Mr. President, if Senators will be good enough to give me their attention for 5 minutes or so, I shall not trouble them further.

I feel that there is a principle involved in this proposed legislation in which other Senators are interested, particularly Senators whose States have small quotas of sugar or whose constituents propose to go into the production of sugar whenever opportunity allows. It is to these that I primarily address myself in what I have to say.

The committee amendment proposes to continue for 3 years the existing sugar law. It does not disturb the quotas which are prescribed in the existing law. It is admitted by the able Senators who are handling the bill on the floor today that it will not be applicable until the emergency is over. In other words, it is not legislation that is to operate today, next week, next month, next year, the ycar after that, or probably the year after that. It is legislation which is intended to become effective when the peace comes an uncertain date in the future.

Therefore, Mr. President, since we are legislating for a future day and a future time, I have a right to ask that consideration be given to conditions as they exist at that time; and that is all my amendment proposes.

As the law now is, quotas are set up for the offshore areas, for the mainland beet area, and the mainland cane area. Although the Secretary does have discretion, as the able Senator from Wyoming pointed out, to vary proportionate shares inside an area, he has no authority to go outside the area in any alloca

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"(b) Such revision, In the case of each domestic sugar-producing area, shall be made on the basis of the marketings of sugar or liquid sugar in such area during said emergency; but in no event shall such revision result in increasing or decreasing the quota for any such area by more than 2 percent of the total consumption requirements.

"(c) Such revision, in the case of a farm, shall be made in an equitable manner on the basis of the production of sugar beets or sugarcane marketed (or processed) for the extraction of sugar or liquid sugar on the farm during said emergency."

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the Senator from Florida. Mr. PEPPER. I suggest the absence of a quorum.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.

The Chief Clerk called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names:

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Eightyfour Senators have answered to their names. A quorum is present. DISTRICT MOTOR-VEHICLE-FUEL TAX

CONFERENCE REPORT

Mr. BURTON. Mr. President, will the Senator from Florida yield to me? Mr. PEPPER. I yield.

Mr. BURTON. I present the conference report on House bill 5558, the bill increasing the gasoline tax in the District of Columbia, and ask unanimous consent for its present consideration.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The conference report will be read.

The conference report was read, as follows:

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 5558) increasing motor-vehicle-fuel taxes in the District of Columbia for the period January 1, 1942, to June 30, 1949, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 1, 2, and 3, and to the amendment of the Senate to the title of the bill; and agree to the same.

PAT MCCARRAN JOHN H. OVERTON,

HAROLD H. BURTON, Managers on the part of the Senate. JENNINGS RANDOLPH, EVERETT M. DIRKSEN, Managers on the part of the House.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the conference report?

There being no objection, the conference report was considered and agreed to. CERTIFICATION OF DRUGS COMPOSED OF INSULIN

Mrs. CARAWAY. Mr. President, will the Senator from Florida yield? Mr. PEPPER. I yield.

Mrs. CARAWAY. From the Committee on Commerce I report back favorably, without amendment, House bill 6251, and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be read by title for the information of the Senate.

The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. A bill (H. R. 6251) to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of insulin, and for other purposes.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill?

There being no objection, the bill was considered, ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Swanson, one of its clerks, announced that the House had passed a joint resolution (H. J. Res. 258) to provide additional appropriations incident to the national defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and June 30, 1943, and for other purposes, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate.

HOUSE BILLS REFERRED

The following bills were each read twice by their titles and referred as indicated:

H. R. 6220. An act to amend section 3 of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended; to the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.

H. R. 6251. An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of insulin, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce.

H. J. Res. 258. Joint resolution to provide additional appropriations incident to the national defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and June 30, 1943, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Appropriations.

LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, will the Senator from Florida yield to me for a moment?

Mr. PEPPER. I am glad to yield to the Senator from Kentucky.

Mr. BARKLEY. I wish to announce to the Members of the Senate that it is desirable, if possible, to wind up a good deal of loose ends of legislation today, in order that the Senate may not have to convene tomorrow, if it can be avoided. The list includes the disposttion of the pending sugar bill; it includes two bills from the Judiciary Committee, one dealing with alien registration, and another conferring authority to summon witnesses upon the board appointed by

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the President to investigate the situation in Honolulu; it includes the conference report on the selective draft extension bill; it includes an appropriation for housing legislation, which the Committee on Appropriations is now in session considering. So I hope Senators will remain here and cooperate as much as possible in disposing of this program, so that, if it is disposed of, the Senate may be able to adjourn over until Monday.

Mr. PEPPER. I wish to say to the able leader that I only have two amendments to which I am going to address myself very briefly, and will ask for a vote on them.

Mr. BARKLEY. I was not undertaking, in any way, to shut off the Senator, but I wanted the Senate to be advised of the program.

Mr. PEPPER. I thoroughly share the sentiments expressed by the Senator, because I know all of us want to conclude the consideration of the measures referred to.

SUGAR QUOTAS

The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. 5988) to amend the Sugar Act of 1937, as amended, and for other purposes.

Mr. PEPPER. Mr. President, before beginning my remarks, I should like to modify the amendment as I sent it to the desk. In line 3, subsection (b), I desire to strike out the words "in such area."

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be modified as requested.

Mr. PEPPER. Mr. President, if Senators will be good enough to give me their attention for 5 minutes or so, I shall not trouble them further.

I feel that there is a principle involved in this proposed legislation in which other Senators are interested, particularly Senators whose States have small quotas of sugar or whose constituents propose to go into the production of sugar whenever opportunity allows. It is to these that I primarily address myself in what I have to say.

The committee amendment proposes to continue for 3 years the existing sugar law. It does not disturb the quotas which are prescribed in the existing law. It is admitted by the able Senators who are handling the bill on the floor today that it will not be applicable until the emergency is over. In other words, it is not legislation that is to operate today, next week, next month, next year, the ycar after that, or probably the year after that. It is legislation which is intended to become effective when the peace comes-an uncertain date in the future.

Therefore, Mr. President, since we are legislating for a future day and a future time, I have a right to ask that consideration be given to conditions as they exist at that time; and that is all my amendment proposes.

As the law now is, quotas are set up for the offshore areas, for the mainland beet area, and the mainland cane area. Although the Secretary does have discretion, as the able Senator from Wyoming pointed out, to vary proportionate shares inside an area, he has no authority to go outside the area in any alloca