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COM'lERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 13, No. 7 



Food Price Investigation : H, Hes. 298 ( .Vol- 

 Terton) - Resolution to provide for an investiga- 

 tion to determine the factors causing increases 

 in living costs, with particular reference to in- 

 creases in consumer food prices at a time when 

 wholesale food prices have dropped; to the Com- 

 mittee on Rules. 



Tidelands : H. R. 4484 (Walter) - A bill to 

 confirm and establish the titles of the States 

 to lands beneath navigable waters within State 

 boundaries and to the natural resources within 

 such lands and waters, to provide for the use 

 and control of said lands and resources, and to 

 provide for the use, control, exploration, de- 

 velopment, and conservation of certain resources 

 of the continental shelf lying outside of State 

 boundaries; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 



Vessels — Opportunity to Reacquire when Pur- 

 chased by U.S.: H. R. 4480 (Hart) - A bill to 

 give owners of certain special-purpose vessels 

 purchased or requisitioned by the United States 

 an opport'jnity to reacquire such vessels wdien 

 they are no longer needed by the United States; 

 to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



CHAMBER ACTIOMS : 



Defense Production Act Temporary Ertension : 

 By a voice vote, the House adopted H. J^. Res . 278, 

 to continue through July 31, 1951, the Defense 

 Production Act of 1950; the Housing and Rent Act 

 of 1947, as amended; and certain import control 

 authority. Adopted an amendment to prevent roll- 

 backs or the lowering of price ceilings below 

 those on enactment date of this resolution and 

 prohibiting any new price ceilings on materials 

 or services during the period of this tempr^ary 

 extension. 



Defense Production Act of 1950 Amendment : 

 By 71 yeas to 10 nays, Senate passed, with amend- 

 ments, S^, 1717 , to amend and ertend the Defense 

 Production A.ct of 1950, and to eztend the Housing 

 and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, after taking the 

 following further actions on amendments: 



Adopted: modified Millikin amendment allow- 

 ing adjustments in price ceilings on any material 

 other than agricultural oomraodities (and as fur- 

 ther modified by acceptance of Humphrey amendment 

 allowing actual factory and labor costs) ; by 49 

 yeas to 33 nays. Wherry amendment, barring ceil- 

 ing price which is below either price just before 

 establishment of such ceiling, or price prevailing 

 January 25-February 24, 1951; Magnuson amendment, 

 barrifig until June 30, 1953, import of fats and 

 oils, dairy products, peanuts, and rice products. 



House reported H. R. 3871 . amending the De- 

 fense Production Act of 1950, including price 

 controls (filed on June 23), H. Rept . 659 . 



Rockfish : Senate reported without amendment 

 and cleared for House S^. 41 prohibiting the sale 

 of rockfish weighing more than 15 pounds. 



Sea Lampreys Inve st igat 1 ons : K. R. 2995 , to 

 increase the appropriation for investigation and 

 studies on eradication of sea lampreys in the 

 Great Lakes (H. Rept . 558 ) was reported to the 

 House on June 13; returned to the Senate as amended 

 on June 18. 



Trade Agreements : The House adopted by voice 

 vote the conference report on H. R. 1612 , to ex- 

 tend for 2 years the authority of the President 

 to enter into trade agreements under section 350 

 of the Tariff Act of 1930. This action clears 

 the bill for the Vftiite House. 



COMHTTiS MfflTIlNiGS - HOUSa : 



Tidelands : Committee on the Judiciary: Or- 

 dered reported favorably to the House H. R. 4484 , 

 a bill to confirm and establish the titles of the 

 States to lands beneath navigable waters within 

 State boundaries and to the natural resources 

 within such lauds and waters, etc. 



CONGEESSIOHAL REPORTS ! 



Comnittee reports on bills reported in this 

 section of interest to the fishery and allied in- 

 dustries (available only from the committee sub- 

 mitting the report) : 



Further Research and Control of Sea Lampreys 

 of the Great Lakes Area , House Rept . Ho . 558 , 

 fjune 13, 1951, 82nd Congress, 1st Session) , 3 p. , 

 printed, pursuant to H. R. 2995 (82nd Congress, 

 1st Session) , to amend the joint resolution of 

 August 8, 1946, as amended, viith respect to ap- 

 propriations authorized for the conduct of inves- 

 tigations and studies thereiinder. Comiittee reo- 

 omnended passage of the bill as amended, (Expen- 

 ditures of 5500,000 recommended for sea lamprey 

 studies for fiscal year 1952 instead of $216 ,-000.) 



BILLS 3IGIED BY THK PRESLDENT : 



Defense Production Act of 1950 Temporary Ex- 

 tension : P. L. 69_ (H. J_. Res , 278 ) , passed by 

 Congress and signed by the President on June 30, 

 1951, provides for the temporary extension of the 

 Defense Production Act of 1950, with the modifi- 

 cations that, 



a. The authority conferred under the Defense 

 Production Act of 1950, shall not be exercised 

 from June 20, 1951, to JulySl, 1951, inclusive, 

 to place Into effect, or permit to become ef- 

 fective, a price celling for any material or 

 service lower than the ceiling in effect for 

 such material or service on the date of the 

 enactment of this resolution (which was July 1, 

 1951) . 



b. The authority conferred under the Defense 

 Prcduotiou Act of 1950 shall not be exercised 

 to put into effect a ceiling for any material 

 or service for which a celling is not in effect 

 on the date of the enaotrjent of tl;is resolution. 



