Messages to Congress

Before he flew off for a weekend in Augusta. President Eisenhower last week sent to Congress messages asking for two Administration measures that the U.S. will be hearing about for a long time:

1) A school-construction bill asking $1.3 billion in federal grants for school buildings over the next four years, $750 million for federal purchase of state school bonds and $20 million in matching grants for future school planning. He hopes, the President said, that this request will not get bogged down in the desegregation issue and thus be killed off as last year's bill was.

2) An immigration bill calling for the entry under parole of an estimated 67,000 refugees a year, a change in the quota-basing system to 1950 census figures that will raise quota immigrations from 155,000 to 220,000 a year, and a change in quota procedures that would allow southern European and Mediterranean nationals to utilize unused quotas for northern Europeans.

Prognosis: the school bill should have easy sailing through Congress if the leadership can fend off civil-rights amendments; the immigration law faces rough going, may be defeated.

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