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Show : : .tUlJ . ', shots from the Gallery, just above us. I dashed out to the Lobby and found there lying in anguish my good friend. Congressman Ben Jensen Jen-sen of Iowa, Chairman of a House Appropriations Sub-Committee. A letter I had given him urging appropriations ap-propriations for the Weber Basin, project was sticking out of his pocket. Passing into the House Chamber I saw Congressman Bent-Icy Bent-Icy with a bullet wound in his chest, his blood staining the Floor of the Congress. Scattered about were others. on the other side of the aisle three Democrats members mem-bers lay wounded and in great pain. ACT OF PROVIDENCE Later in reliving the appalling experience, experi-ence, it seemed that an act of Providence had spared Congressman Congress-man Stringfellnw and myself, and it brought new meaning to the thought that each of us no matter mat-ter where should keep ourselves in spiritual readiness to answer our Maker's call. GLOOM SPREADERS I am becoming be-coming convinced that the opponents oppon-ents of President Eisenhower's program, are actively hoping that this country goes into a depression. depress-ion. Discounting all evidence showing show-ing that 1953 was a record-high prosperous year, they wait like vultures for the latest unemployment unemploy-ment figures and crow with delight de-light if they show an increase of persons looking for work. FALSE PHOPHETS Of course when the waste of war ends as it has in Korea there is a period of adjustment during which the productive capacity of the nation shifts from the manufacture of weapons to the manufacture of goods to increase our standard of living. The boys with the cloudy crystal ball are trying to convince the people that this readjustment is the beginning of a depression. HISTORICAL, FACTS In 1950 four short years ago unemployment unem-ployment in the United States reached 4,750,000 persons but the alarmists at that time were unconcerned. un-concerned. Can it be for political purposes that the present unemployment unem-ployment total of slightly more than 2,000,000 is labeled by these same people as a "recession?" POLITICAL ENC O U R A G E MFNT In 1917 Congress passed the Organic Act giving Puerto Rico full American citizenship; in 1917 Presid-jnt Truman (after being be-ing their target) signed a bill to permit them to elect their own Chief Executive. 1950 brought an Act by Congress enpbling them to draft their own Constitution, setting set-ting up a government modeled on our own. Their government is a free Commonwealth, affiliated with the United States. They enjoy en-joy many benefits of our relief and welfare programs, and pay no taxes to this Country. It is an ideal set-up they levy and spend their taxes as they see fit, while enjoying the bounties of this Country. Coun-try. They seem to realize which side their bread is buttered on and have three times voted down complete independence for themselves. them-selves. FACTIONS IN THE ISLAND There are three political divisions. divis-ions. The majority party, headed by the first elected governor, Luis Munoz Marin, represents those who favor the present free Commonwealth. Com-monwealth. Another group, the Republican party, stands for statehood. state-hood. SLatehoccl has received little suppoit. A third section, the Nationalist Na-tionalist Party, is a small, radical fringe which demands independence. independ-ence. WHAT'S BEHIND IT Such outbursts don't just happen they are well brewed. I believe I can sec the dastardly, invisible hand of Communistic agitation in this attack. As far back as 1943 the Communist Party in the United States pledged their full support to the Nationalist Party. Since the attack the influenced press would have the world believe that we have the island under a tyrant's last that Puerto Rico is crying for independence and we are keeping keep-ing her in colonial subjection. Former Congressman Markan-tonio, Markan-tonio, of New York, well known radical, is credited with "importing" "import-ing" hundreds of thousands of "surplus" Puerto Ricans into New York, the incubator of this plot. Upon arrival they became voters, relief customers .and political pawns. LET'S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK While the immediate flight to Washington of Governor Marin, bearing the sympathy of the people of the island, is appreciated still there may be no better time to review our relationship with Puerto Puer-to Uico. Twenty-five leaden bullets fired at the Representatives of the taxpayers who are putting up the funds for aid programs, are poor tokens of gratitude. THEIR RECORD Their batting average as predicters of economic econom-ic trends is .000. These are the same forecasters who said President Presi-dent Eisenhower's action in killing kill-ing that army of snoopers the Office of. Price Stabilization would result in skyrocketing in- flation. Ask yourself are automobiles, auto-mobiles, TV sets, appliances, homes, eggs, more expensive now the OPS is gone? The only thing that the abolishment of this agency ag-ency affected was the cost of government. gov-ernment. It too has gone down. SCHOOL LANDS The Department Depart-ment of Interior informed me unofficially un-officially this week that it will give its approval to my bill to provide for the transfer of federal feder-al lease revenue from Utah's school sections to the State for the use of our public schools. As oil and uranium "uiscoveries increase, this legislation if approved could be the answer to our recurring school financial difficulties. Income from these leases could very easily amount to millions of dollars in the. future. Additional funds for surveys is almost certain. A PENNY SAVED Economy in government like at home begins with little things. Here Is one reason rea-son why the Postt Office Department Depart-ment is costing you less. The Post Office discovered concrete posts for mail boxes were being shipped from Baltimore to the West Coast at a cost of $34. each. Now the posts are being made in California at a cost of $3.50 each. TRAGEDY I NTHE NATION'S CAPITOL The walls of the House of Representatives which only a few months ago heard President , Eisenhower tell a joint session of the Congress that Puerto Rico could have independence any time the people so expressed themselves, early this week were spatterd by bullets of Puerto Rico revolutionists revolution-ists in a savage attack upon the Congress of the United States. A SHOOTING GALLERY Congressman Con-gressman Stringfellow and I had been on the Floor listening to the debate on the Mexican Labor Bill. We were sitting near Congressman Congress-man Bentley, of Michigan, when we were called to testify before the Appropriations Committee just across the hall on the restoration of funds for watershed lands in the Cache Valley National Forest. We had just completed our testimony testi-mony when we heard a series of |