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Such last week was the scene of the convivial dinner tendered to Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, boosted last month into the Senate Leadership at an hour when his Democratic colleagues were divided with the greatest bitterness over the Supreme Court issue. Moreover, the celebration was timed to mark the burial of that very bitterness, the hoped-for hour when with his original handicap removed he could lead a reunited majority through a triumphal finale in a closing Congress...
These jubilant words were spoken last week by Vice President John Nance Garner to the Senate's Democratic Leader Alben Barkley. What the Vice President had just done was to end, in one minute less than an hour, the bitter Senate wrangle that had tied up U. S. legislation for the last six months. Using the steamroller tactics that he learned as Speaker of the House, Vice President Garner had with an historic gesture put the modified Court Bill through the U. S. Senate without a dissenting vote...
...Court Bill that was the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's high-flown plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Senator McCarran was followed on the floor by Vermont's Austin and then by Illinois' Lewis who attacked the Bill. While Lewis spoke, Vice President Garner and Leader Barkley were conducting a, tour of the Chamber, stopping to chat with colleagues who wanted to amend the Bill or make long comments on it. Senator Lewis ended his speech with a challenge to the Bill's sponsor. When McCarran rose to reply, the Vice President, by this time back...
That Leader Alben Barkley, to whose desk John Nance Garner walked directly from his chair after the recess, had told the Vice President to get the Court Bill through the Senate, his confreres did not doubt last week. Even less did they doubt that the sensational maneuver by which it had been accomplished was a single-handed display of the Garner political acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner...
...spite of such wrangling Majority Leader Barkley predicted passage of the bill by the middle of the second day of debate. At the end of the fifth day Senators wearily voted, 64-to-16, for a Housing Bill gutted by conservative amendments. Anti-Administrationist Harry Byrd called attention to Resettlement Administration's Greenbelt in Maryland, which cost $16,000 per family unit, and Hightstown Project in New Jersey ($20,000 per unit). Then he demanded a construction limit of $4,000 per family unit and $1,000 per room. "A spokesman for the Administration," he cried, "said . . . that this...