Work Done

The House:

P: Passed and sent to the Senate (where quick approval is expected) the joint resolution to raise Oveta Gulp Hobby's Federal Security Agency to Cabinet rank.

P: Talked, but did nothing else about the Democratic resolution to oust Illinois' H. H. Velde as chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee. California's Donald L. (for Lester) Jackson touched off the talk with a 70-minute defense of Velde's statement that some churchmen and church organizations might be investigated. After all, said Jackson, there are some clergymen like Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, a critic of the Velde committee, who "has been to the Communist front what Man o' War was to thoroughbred racing .. . Having served God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week over such a long period of time, it is no wonder that the bishop sees an investigating committee in every vestry." (Retorted Bishop Oxnam: "Congressman Jackson should know that there is no congressional immunity from the Biblical injunction: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.'") Jackson and Velde wanted the House to call up the ouster resolution and shout it down, but G.O.P. leaders still hoped to let it die a quiet death on the Rules Committee's shelf.

The Senate:

P: Postponed action on Hawaiian statehood after the Interior Committee decided that its members should go to Hawaii for hearings. Some committee members were troubled by the far-flung boundaries (from Palmyra to the Kure Islands) set in the House bill, others were enticed by thoughts of Hawaii in the spring.

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