anaheim-bulletin 1959-04-01

Lawmakers Use 'Counterpart' for Foreign Travel By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)—The annual Easter recess of Congress, or spring junketing season, is under way. As far as could be determined none of our lawmakers was planning a trip to the moon. It's not so much that the rockets aren't ready. There are no lunar counterpart funds. Counterpart, sometimes known as wallpaper money, is foreign currency that is made available for official U.S. spending in return for our foreign aid, which is in dollars. There the stuff is, stacked up and molding all over the world, and waste is one thing our congressmen can't stand. So they manage every year to put about a half million dollars of it to use. The fact it has to be spent in the country that puts it up deters them hardly at all. They are found ever ready and willing to set aside personal desires and fly off to Paris, Rome, or Madrid to help whittle down the counterpart pile. No Strict Accounting The francs, marks, slotys or yen with which the junketing lawmaker is equipped by a State Department bagman upon arrival at each foreign airport need be accounted for only in the most general terms. Some members, like Rep. H.R. Gross (R-Iowa), want this corrected. Gross thinks this relaxed procedure subjects the traveling congressman to unfair suspicion as No Strict Accounting The francs, marks, slotys or yen with which the junketing lawmaker is equipped by a State Department bagman upon arrival at each foreign airport need be accounted for only in the most general terms. Some members, like Rep. H.R. Gross (R-Iowa), want this corrected. Gross thinks this relaxed procedure subjects the traveling congressman to unfair suspicion as to what he may do with the money. But the travelers seem willing to shoulder this burden. Anyway, they have consistently voted not to require of themselves any detailed accounting. It is hard to say how many House and Senate members have given up their Eastern vacations to make these urgent world tours, as they usually are modest about announcing travel plans. But ticket offices at the Capitol have been swamped for two weeks, and not all these travelers were reserving space to go home. One 10-man group from the House Armed Services Committee said it would go to Berlin during the recess to see what shape we are in. This is important, as are many congressional tours, and no doubt worth what it costs. Gross and a few others do take the view though that we would be better able to judge this if we knew what it costs, which we never will. What members spend in dollars must be accounted for to House and Senate housekeeping committees, though the figures are never made public. Counterpart spending, under a law passed last year, is publicly reported but only in totals for each traveling committee. The first such reports revealed recently, for instance, that an undisclosed number of House lawyers, traveling through Europe last fall, spent $24,165 in counterpart funds including $2,093 on tips. Set No Limits Any member wanting a foreign tour can arrange one. All it takes is a letter from a committee chairman to the State Department, which then supplies counterpart in any of more than 50 countries upon the member's request. It asks no accounting and sets no limits. The stuff can be and has been spent on whisky, perfume, nightclubs, and the races. It is claimed though that as a result of publicity on such divertissements in the past most members now lean over backwards and won't spend a public nickel for gum. Under existing secrecy rules this can't be proved one way or ment, which then supplies counterpart in any of more than 50 countries upon the member's request. It asks no accounting and sets no limits. The stuff can be and has been spent on whisky, perfume, nightclubs, and the races. It is claimed though that as a result of publicity on such divertissements in the past most members now lean over backwards and won't spend a public nickel for gum. Under existing secrecy rules this can't be proved one way or the other. Travel in this country takes dollars and dollars can't be spent except on authority of the Congress. Most committees have got this authority thought and they dispense it freely for investigations by subcommittees or individual members. A favorite subject for inquiry Easter week is the Panama Canal. Any member of Congress can ride free to and from the Canal Zone on our own Panama Line, whose 15-day luxury cruise from New York costs other passengers as much as $597. One member spent his honeymoon on the Panama Line. 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