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[MILITARY, NAVAL, AND AIR FORCE INSTALLATIONS]
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CREST
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General CIA Records
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CIA-RDP63T00245R000100120003-4
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22
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December 15, 2016
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August 23, 2004
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Publication Date:
June 27, 1955
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%1Ag -'1i IgC5 1955 STATEMENT The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the House to the bill (S. 727) to adjust the salaries of the judges of the Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia Tax Court, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the conferees and recom- mended in the accompanying conference report: The first section of the Senate bill in- Section 5 provides that if/'the Com- missioners obtain a bond f fr a notary public whose notarial duties are confined solely to District of Col bia business, then the bond obtained b the Commis- sioners shall be in lieu of that required The bill was ordered be read a third time, was read the third me, and passed, and a motion to recon4der was laid on COLUM until 12 o'clock tonigh ference report on the j the request of the gentl Carolina? DISTRICT OF . Speaker, I ask to file the con- dges' salary bill. There was no objection. The conference repor and statement are as follows: CONFERENCE REPORT (H. EPT. No. 920) The committee of confe ce on the dis- agreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the House to he bill (S.727) to adjust the salaries of th judges of the Municipal Court of Appeals. r the District of Columbia, the Municipal ourt for the District of Columbia, the Juv nile Court of the District of Columbia,. an the District of Columbia Tax Court, havi g met, after full and free conference, have reed to rec- ommend and do recommend to. heir respec- That the Senate recede from i s disagree- ment to the amendment of th House to the text of the bill and agree tck the same In lieu of the matter proposed 'o be in- serted by the House amendment sert the following: "That the fourth senten a of the sixth paragraph of section 6 of the ct en- titled 'An Act to consolidate the Poli Court of the District of Columbia and the unici- pal Court of the District of Columbia to be known as "The Municipal Court for th Dis- trict of Columbia", to create "The Municipal Court of Appeals for. the District of Co um- bia", and for other purposes', approved 4pril 1, 1942, as amended (D. C. Code, see. 11-7 1), Is amended by striking out '$14,500' and as- serting in lieu thereof '$19,000', and by str - ing out '$14,000' and inserting in lieu ther f '$18,500'. "SEc.2. The fourth sentence of section striking out '$13,500' and inserting in lieu thereof '$18,000', and by striking out '$13,- "SEc.3. The first sentence of the se d paragraph of section 2 of title IX the District of Columbia Revenue Act f 1937, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. -2402), is amended by striking out $13, 00' and in- serting in lieu thereof '$17,500'. "SEC.4. The last sentence of section 19 of the Juvenile Court Act of the District of Co- lumbia (D. C. Code, sec. 11-920) is amended to read as follows: 'The salary of the judge shall be $17,500 per annum.' " And the House agree to the same. That the Senate recede from its disagree- ment to the amendment of the House to the title of the bill and agree to the same. JOHN L. MCMII.LAN, OREN HARRIS, Sm SIMPSON, Jos. P. O'HARA, Managers on the Part of the House. WAYNE MORSE, ALAN BIBLE, ROMAN L. HRVss[A, Managers on the Part of the Senate. Approved lease 200 NGRESSI creased the salary of the chief judge of the Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from $14,500 to $20,000 per an- num, and the salaries of the judges of such court from $14,000 per annum to $19,500 per annum. The corresponding section of the House amendment provided an increase to $17,500 for the chief judge and to $17,000 for the judges of such court. The confer- ence agreement fixes the salary of the chief judge to be $19,000 and the salaries of the judges to be $18,500. Section 2 of the Senate bill Increased the salary of the chief judge of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia from $13,500 per annum to $19,000 per annum, and the salaries of the judges of the Municipal Court from $13,000 per annum to $18,500 per annum. The corresponding section of the House amendment provided an increase to $16,500 for the chief judge and to $16,000 for the judges of such court. The conference agreement fixes the salary of the chief judge of such court to be $18,000 per annum and the salaries of the judges to be $17,500. Section 3 of the Senate bill (which corre- sponds to section 4 of the House amendment and the conference substitute) established the salary of the judge of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia at $18,500 per annum. Under existing law the salary of such judge is fixed under the Classification Act of 1949, and is at present . $11,800 per annum. The House amendment provided that the salary of the judge of the Juvenile Court should be $14,800. The conference agreement fixes the salary of such judge to be $17,500. Section 4 of the Senate bill (which corre- sponds to section 3 of the House amendment and the conference substitute) increased the salary of the judge of the District of Colum- bia Tax Court from $13,000 per annum to $18,500 per annum. The House amendment increased the sal f such judge to $16,000. The conferenc greement fixes the salary of JOHN L. MCMrLLAN, OREN HARRIS, SID SIMPSON, Jos. P. O'HARA, MILITARY, NAVAL, AND AIR FORCE INSTALLATIONS Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, by direc- tion of the Committee on Rules, I call up the resolution (H. Res. 286) providing for the consideration of H. R. 6829, a bill to authorize certain construction at mili- tary, naval, and Air Force installations, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- lows: - Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill (H. R. 6829) to authorize certain construction at military, naval, and Air Force installations, and for other purposes. After general debate, which shall be confined to the bill, and shall continue not to exceed 3 hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services, the bill shall be read for amendment under the 5-minute rule. At the conclusion of the consideration of the bill for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted; and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit. Mr. COLMER. I yield 30 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. ALLEN] and pending that I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this is an open rule as the reading would indicate providing for 3 hours of general debate and then the reading. of the bill in Committee of the Whole under the 5-minute rule for amendment. Mr. Speaker, this Is a very Important piece of legislation. It is very extensive in its scope. I wonder at times whether we really appreciate the full significance of these tremendous authorizations and appropriations. This one bill authorizes the expenditure of more money than pos- sibly the cost of running this entire Gov- ernment during the first 25 years of its existence. The bill is divided into five titles and It proposes to provide construction and other related authority for the military departments within and outside the United States and for the Central Intel- li ,ence A en y. r peaker, the total authorization in this bill is for the sum of $2,368,998,900. Breaking this figure down, Mr. Speaker, the Army would be given a to- tal authorization of $551,105,000. This would be further broken down so that $238,778,000 would be allotted for use inside continental United States. The sum of $78,334,000 would be authorized for outside the United States, while $223,993,000 would be authorized for classified use by the Army and $10 mil- lion would be authorized for emergencies. The authorization for the Navy in this bill would be $596,140,900, of which $331,607,200 is proposed to be spent in continental United States while $107,- 191,300 is to be spent outside the coun- try. The classified allocation for the Navy is $151,342,400 while the sum of $6 million is proposed to be authorized for emergency use by the Navy. The Air Force has received the largest authorization, for its total in H. R. 6829 is $1,165,453,000. Out of this sum it is proposed that $709,480,000 be allocated for expenditure within continental United States while $450,973,000 would be spent outside of continental United States, and finally $5 million would be set aside for emergency use. Title IV of the bill would provide the sum of $300,000 to be allocated, if au- thorized, for the use of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, while title V proposes to authorize the sum of $56 million for the Central Intelligence Agency. This all makes the grand total of $2,368,998,900. I think it is interesting to note, Mr. Speaker, that the report indicates that the Army authorization this year, if Approved For Release 2004/08/31 : CIA-RDP63T00245R000100120003-4 ()NAL RECORD - HOUSE Approved For Release 2004/08/31 : CIA-RDP63T00245R000100120003-4 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE June 27 passed, would be more than twice the authorization of $236,060,000 which was granted for fiscal year 1955. There are several interesting points which the membership of the House may wish to be especially cognizant of in title II; that is, the section dealing with the Navy authorization. First of all the bill proposes to authorize the development of two new installations, which, according to the report, are needed in order to pro- vide advanced training for Naval and Marine Corps aircraft pilots. One of the new installations would be in southern Louisiana and the other would be in southern Texas. H. R. 6829 proposes to authorize the relocation of the aviation training facili- ties at the Naval Academy to another site near Annapolis since the present site is considered inadequate. Mr. Speaker, the report indicates that a program of aviation flight clearance is proposed in this bill, which is necessi- tated by the development of heavier and faster jet planes. These planes need an extremely wide turning area In order to simulate the conditions under which they must land on carriers at sea. The Air Force authorization would in- clude moneys to be spent on the con- structon of facilities of 255 important bases, of which 151 would be in the area of continental United States and 104 outside of continental United States. According to the report on the bill. Mr. Speaker, the authorization for the Air Force is in line with the effort of the Air Force to build a 137-wing Air Force. The bill includes the authorization for two new Air Defense Command bases, one of which would be at Fort Myers, Fla., and the other to be some place near Milwaukee, Wis. The bill also proposes facilities for five new locations in the United States Air Force in Europe. Mr. Speaker, H. R. 6829 proposes the addition of a new installation for the Army at the West Coast Ammunition Terminal in California; the addition of 3 new installations for the Navy and 2 new installations for the Air-Force. The two new installations for the Air Force I have mentioned above, but the new Navy installations would be at Port Isabel, Tex., New Iberia, Ia., and at Annapolis. Md. The Committee on Armed Services added three new authorizations which were not included in the original pro- posal from the Department of Defense and these are first, $8 million for an Army hospital at Camp Jackson, S. C.; $16,900,000 for the Naval Air Facility near Annapolis; and $7,500,000 for an addition to Bancroft Hall at the Naval Academy and for fill to provide land area an authorization of $3,785,000 is given. Title IV, Mr. Speaker, specifically would authorize the construction or re- habilitation of five units of housing, a communication facility, and some other items for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and certain commissioned officers and enlisted personnel attached to his staff. The report points out that each of the Chiefs of Staff is provided with appro- priate quarters but that this has never been done for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Speaker, authority is granted In this bill for the acquisition of large areas of lands which I think should be called to the attention of the House member- ship. Under the authorization contained in this bill, if passed the Army could ac- quire some 55,814 acres of land within the United States at a cost of $7,773,000, while In Okinawa some 52,088 acres may be acquired at a cost of $30,500,000. The Navy would be authorized to ac- quire some 54,000 acres-fee-and some 138,000 acres-easement-at a total cost of $33,444,000. The Air Force under the provisions of the bill, as reported from the Commit- tee on Armed Services, would authorize the acquisition of some 16.800 acres- fee- and 23,000 acres-easement-at a cost of $9,900,000 while mineral rights would be acquired on 72,000 acres at an estimated cost of $332,000, and finally mineral rights will be extinguished on about 23!z million acres in Alaska at a cost of $50,000. Mr. Speaker, the rescissions In this bill amount to $1,300 million and if the bill Is enacted into law some $2,368,998,- 900 of Federal money will be spent. Mr. Speaker, this is a most Important bill; we are talking here today about vast sums of money, which, if authorized and appropriated, must be raised some- how, I am not in a position to say, Mr. Speaker, that we do not need these expenditures, and neither am I In a position to say we do need to make these expenditures. Therein Iles the whole trouble, that we, the Members of the Congress, the representatives of the tax- payers, the people who must put up the money In the final analysis, are de- pendent upon our military authorities, upon our Armed Services, and Appro- priations Committees of the House and Senate, and we are Incapable of going Into these matters in detail, and deter- mining whether they are justifiable or not. Frankly. I think this is one of the weaknesses of our system of operating in the Congress. I wish there were some way we could have a breakdown of these things and a justification for them with- out relying entirely upon the people who propose them and who say they are necessary. In that connection-and I want to say this is no reflection upon the distin- guished gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Vansox] the very able chairman of this committee, or upon the individual mem- bers of that committee. As a matter of fact, I think they have done a splendid job in housekeeping, in spelling out, so that those who are sufficiently interested can look at their hearings, their reports and the bill and see just what is author- ized. There should be some other ma- chinery, not only in this type of legisla- tion but In all legislation that is brought to this floor whereby some agency of the Congress, set up by the Congress and responsible to the Congress alone, could give us the justification for these tre- mendous expenditures: could give us both sides of the picture. Such a bill has passed the Senate. Such a bill Is pending in committee in this House, a bill that would authorize a joint committee on the budget, made up of members of the Committee on Ap- propriations of the House and the Sen- ate, with provision for an adequate staff, a staff that is responsible to that joint committee and to the separate Commit- tees on Appropriation in the two Houses, and responsible to them alone. The Senate has passed such a bill in the last three Congresses, the McClellan bill. We have tried to pass a similar bill in the House, H. R. 34, a bill which I have the honor of sponsoring. We failed to consider that bill in a previous Congress by 16 votes, because of the opposition that was urged upon the floor of this House. The chief opposition that was made to that bill in the House was that there was some apprehension that if we passed that bill, then the other body would control the appropriations. Un- der the provisions of the House bill which I am sponsoring, the House is given ad- ditional proportionaterepresentation on that committee. In fact, it is given 9 Members from the House compared with 7 from the other body. Under the provisions of the House bill the chairmanship of that joint commit- tee rests solely and permanently in the House and does not even alternate. Therefore, as one Member of the House, just a humble Member of the House, I am not willing to concede such infe- riority complex; with 7 Members of the other body and 9 Members of this body and the chairmanship in this body that the other body would run away with the committee. Some people say they have such an apprehension. I cannot see it. Frankly, Mr. Speaker, I do not know whether this is the answer, but I do know that we need some independent agency that is responsible to the Congress and the Congress alone. What happens in these matters? And again I disclaim any idea of reflecting upon any agency, group, or any Member of Congress, but here is what happens. The so-called big brass-and I merely refer to them that way as a designation that is generally accepted-figure these things out; they send them to the President, and the President's Budget Bureau goes over them; then the President following the recommendation of his Budget Bureau sends them down to the Congress. Bear you in mind that the Pentagon, the so- called big brass, has millions and mil- lions and millions of dollars, and hun- dreds and hundreds of experts, with their point of view, to justify their recom- mendations. Their requests come up here to the appropriate committee of the Congress, and that committee is largely at the mercy of the so-called big brass in the final analysis; and then when the matter gets on the floor we are all at the mercy of these experts that have been selected by the people who are inter- ested-just as I am today. I am going to vote for this bill, because in the dark I know not what else to do. But if this Congress were armed with a groups of experts-and you can get them-who-came in here and said to the Congress as employees of the Congress: "This Item should be approved;" or "This Approved For Release 2004/08/31 : CIA-RDP63T00245R000100120003-4 1955 Approved For 6pg J fy?ffliNAI C1P B3T0Pb 00100120003-4 7923 item should go out," I would feel a lot better about it. I come back to my oft repeated theory: The Kremlin wants neither war nor peace; it wants to call all the signals. When Mr. Molotov smiles, the free world smiles; when Mr. Molotov frowns, we get scared. They call the signals; we run the defensive plays. They want neither war nor peace; but they want to require us to spend ourselves into bankruptcy, and we are doing a pretty good job. I again call your attention to Lenin's for- mula, "The way to defeat the United States is to make it/ spend itself into bankruptcy." We just got through a mo- ment ago