NOTICE This is the new Daily Digest, published as a part of the daily Congressional Daily Digest Monday, March 17, 1947 HIGHLIGHTS Senate debated portal-to-portal pay bill; House passed rubber and Consent Calendar bills. Appropriation group met on Government fiscal matters. Rubber subcommittee appointed. Government officials testified on housing and rent control. Four bills were reported, as follows: S. 918, to establish Office of Selective Service Records and to preserve Selective Service records (S. Rept. 53), by Committee on Armed Services; H. R. 731, to establish Theodore Roosevelt National Park, etc., with amendments (S. Rept. 54), by Committee on Public Lands; S. J. Res. 45, to rename Boulder Dam as Hoover Dam, with amendments (S. Rept. 55), by Committee on Public Lands; S. 214, to change name of irrigation project in Oklahoma (S. Rept. 56), by Committee on Public Lands; minority views were filed on H. R. 2157, portal-to-portal-pay bill as a part of S. Rept. 48. BILLS SENT TO PRESIDENT Page 2108 EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION Letter from Comptroller General transmitting audit report of Tennessee Valley Authority for fiscal year ending June 30, 1945. PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY SUITS Page 2103 The Senate debated H. R. 2157, to relieve employers from liability for portal-to-portal-pay suits. Most of the afternoon session was consumed by Senator Donnell, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee which conducted the hearings, giving the position and views of the subcommittee. One amendment by Senator Wherry and two by Senator Holland were submitted, intended to be proposed as amendments to H. R. 2157, at a later date; they were ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. PROFIT SHARING Page 2109 NOMINATIONS Senate confirmed the following nominations, and ordered the President notified: Carroll Miller as Interstate Commerce Commissioner, Harry A. McDonald as Securities and Exchange Commissioner, Henry Earl Cook as member of Board of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and James R. Wade as Collector of Customs, St. Louis, Mo. (District 45). President submitted the nominations of Lieutenant General Lucius DuBignon Clay, to be General, and Major General Clarence R. Huebner, to be Lieutenant General. Nominations in the Foreign Service and Public Health Service were also submitted. Pages 2135, 2136 Reports on Committee Meetings FISCAL MATTERS-PROPERTY INVENTORIES Committee on Appropriations: Meeting in executive session, the committee named a subcommittee to consider S. J. Res. 61, to amend the Constitution to control Government expenditures and enforce a balanced budget in peacetime. Members of the subcommittee are: Senators Ball, Ferguson, Saltonstall, Cordon, Tydings, and Bridges, ex officio as full committee chairman. The committee also discussed reports that various departments are piling up large inventories of supplies and using up unexpended funds prior to end of the fiscal year, and appointed Senators Knowland, chairman, Reed, and McKellar as members of a subcommittee to recommend a control program to the full committee. RUBBER Committee on Banking and Currency: The rubber subcommittee, consisting of Senators Bricker, Cain, and Robertson of Virginia, met in executive session, but made no announcement. GOVERNMENT CAFETERIAS Committee on Civil Service: Subcommittee on S. Res. 42, providing for an investigation of cafeterias on Govern ment Reservations, continued hearings. Members of the subcommittee are: Senators Baldwin, Flanders, and Johnston. HEALTH DEPARTMENT Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments: Watson Miller, Administrator of Federal Security Administration, and Elizabeth and Elizabeth Wickenden, representing American Public Welfare Association, appeared on S. 140 and S. 712, to create a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. DEPORTATION Committee on the Judiciary: This committee in executive session considered the deportations of Indonesians and heard David Munro, Workers' Defense League, in that connection. It also received reports from subcommittees on S. 560, to prohibit operation of gambling boats, and on nomination of Borinquen Marrero Rios, to be an Associate Justice of Puerto Rico Supreme Court. The committee will meet next on March 24, in executive session. NATIONAL PARK Committee on Public Lands: The committee ordered reported H. R. 731, to establish Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and S. 214, to change the name of an Oklahoma irrigation project. RECORDS Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program: An executive session was held by the committee relative to certain records which are desired from the War Department. The committee plans to meet with the Secretary of War in the near future on this subject. NEWSPRINT Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business: Testimony was given the committee by three newsprint dealers from New York City. RUBBER ment of supplies and services by the War and Navy Departments (Rept. No. 153); H. R. 797, William C. Austin project (Rept. No. 156); H. R. 1344, Crosline ferry (Rept. No. 157); H. R. 2293, amending navigation regulations on Great Lakes and tributaries by act of February 8, 1895 (Rept. No. 158); H. R. 1556, providing basic authority for certain activities of Bureau of Reclamation (Rept. No. 159); H. R. 2086, furnishing steam for DAR property (Rept. No. 160); H. R. 2369, providing for suspension of annual assessment work on location claims in Alaska (Rept. No. 161). CONSENT CALENDAR BILLS Page 2164 The House today considered and passed the following 12 bills on its Consent Calendar Military personnel: S. 276, providing payment and settlement of mileage and other travel allowance accounts of military personnel. Immigration and naturalization: H. R. 1975, amending subsec. (c) of sec. 19 of the Immigration Act of 1917 and subsec. (a) of sec. 338 of Nationality Act of 1940. Commissioned officers: H. R. 1359, amending act of Aug. 29, 1916, as amended, increasing total authorized number of commissioned officers on the active list of Corps of Civil Engineers of the Navy. Chaplains: H. R. 1365, establishing a Chief of Chaplains in the U. S. Navy, and for other purposes. 90 Mines and mining: H. R. 193, amending sec. 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended. Site transfer: H. R. 197, transferring part of block and school building thereon of Petersburg town site, Alaska, used for school purposes, to the town of Petersburg, Alaska. Park commissioner: H. R. 490, providing for appointment of a U. S. commissioner for Big Bend National Park, Tex., and for other purposes. Park commissioner: H. R. 729, providing that U. S. Court for the Western District of Virginia shall alone appoint the U. S. commissioner for the Shenandoah National Park. Interest reduction: H. R. 804, authorizing reduction of certain accrued interest charges payable by the Farmers' Irrigation District, North Platte project. Naturalization proceedings: H. R. 236, amending Na- Locomotive Inspection Act: H. R. 2123, amending the Pages 2143-2146 The Committee on Rules called up and passed H. Res. 144, which provided consideration for H. J. Res. 118, maintenance of domestic rubber industry. After consideration this joint resolution was passed and sent to the Senate. Pages 2146-2158 Reports on Committee Meetings CROP LOANS Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee No. 3 met Committee on Appropriations: Deficiency, Agriculture, AVIATION AND BOY SCOUTS Committee on the Armed Services: Subcommittee No. 12 met and reported favorably to full committee H. R. 2247, which authorizes appointment of Major General Lawrence S. Kuter as International Civil Aviation. Representative, without affecting his military status and perquisites, and H. R. 1621, to furnish aid to Boy Scouts of America in holding World Wide Jamboree in France. Subcommittee No. 8 considered H. R. 1341, but took no action. HOUSING AND RENT CONTROL Committee on Banking and Currency: Met in open hearing on H. R. 2549, Housing and Rent Control, and heard Government officials. The Committee will continue its hearings Tuesday at 10 a. m. in Room 1301, New House Office Building. WAR RELIEF Committee on Foreign Affairs: Discussed H. J. Res. POWERS Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee No. 3 heard Hon. Orie L. Phillips, Sr., Circuit Judge of the 10th Cir., Hon. Clyde B. Aitchison, Chairman of ICC, also Charles E. Cotterill, attorney, on H. R. 1468 and 1470, providing for review of certain orders of Government departments and giving U. S. Court of Appeals jurisdiction on review to enjoin, set aside, or suspend such orders. Subcommittee No. 4 continued (and concluded) hearings on the extension of the Second War Powers Act. |