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...four previous appropriation bills were cut) to increase Agriculture Department appropriations for fiscal 1954 to $1.08 billion, which is $8,900,000 more than the Eisenhower Administration requested. The increase came from a hike in soil-conservation funds, voted after North Dakota's crusty Republican Representative Usher L. Burdick told his colleagues: "Now, if you want to legislate yourselves right out of control of this House, you get in here and oppose soil conservation...
...Usher L. Burdick of North Dakota draped his huge 72-year-old frame over the reading stand in the House of Representatives and fixed a jaundiced eye on his colleagues. He was irked by continuing criticisms of U.S. farmers. He was disgusted by the bitter debate on economic controls...
...When I hear some Sears & Roebuck pistol-toting cowboy from Brooklyn insinuate how the Government has tailed up the farmer at the expense of all the rest of the people," said Republican Burdick, it does not set well with me ... You complain against the beef men. I am one of them . . . I am willing to take a loss on my cattle, and it means $8,000 loss to me on the one rollback. I am willing to stand for that if it will help the entire country .; . If I was concerned only with my own interests, I would vote against...
Congressman Burdick's contention was that farmer, factory worker, industrialist, consumer, are all in the same boat; inflation may wreck all of them. Hence, he was going to vote for the Administration's bill. Usher Burdick shouted at his colleagues: "What are you trying to do?" He shook his head, bellowed a parting shot: "Well, I will be damned if I know," and marched back to his seat...
...Work with Handcuffs. The House giggled and guffawed appreciatively for two full minutes. Then, with hundreds of little shears flashing, it went back to pruning away the Government controls in the Defense Production Act. Whatever Usher Burdick thought about it, the House preferred to take a chance on inflation (which few members regard as a real danger) rather than let the Administration attach itself to any more of the U.S. economy. All last week the House worked, leaving the Administration a few snippets, but cutting out the things which Harry Truman said he needed most...