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More & More. On the first vote, the Young-Russell amendment went down by the hairline margin of 38 to 37. But the fight had just begun. Just before dark, the Senate voted to reconsider its decision, and deadlocked at 37 to 37. At that point Vice President Alben Barkley spoke up. "The position of the chair," he said, "has been in favor of support at 90%. In every speech he made last year he declared the same position. He cannot now repudiate it, and therefore votes...
...Harry Truman was asked whether such heat-turning-on was "a new departure in policy." It was not new at all, replied the President. He recalled that when he was a Senator, National Chairman Jim Farley had put the heat on him, tried to get him to vote for Alben Barkley instead of the late Pat Harrison for Senate majority leader. Senator Truman, President Truman confessed, had voted for Pat Harrison anyway...
...speeches began, a wonderful, if temporary, surge of good feeling united the thousands in the hall. Bill Boyle almost wept as he stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...Administration's pay bills left to pick on, the Senate began worrying about economy all over again. For two days it haggled over the Administration's proposal for boosting the salaries of some 250 key U.S. officials. Harry Truman sent an urgent letter to Vice President Alben Barkley to prod the Senate. The reason the proposed increases seemed so large, he argued, was that they had been so long in coming. Wrote the President...
Seven other amendments were voted down. One offered by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy to put quotas on Russian furs was defeated only after a tie vote was broken by Alben Barkley, exercising the Vice President's prerogative for the first time. Then the Senate approved the bill itself, extending the reciprocal trade program for two years by a thumping 62 votes...