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...provision, as drawn by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and a group of TVA advocates, was a Democratic fiasco. President Eisenhower had asked for $6,500,000 to tie in TVA's transmission lines with a Dixon-Yates line at the middle of the Mississippi River, so that the privately owned company could furnish the Tennessee Valley and the Atomic Energy Commission with needed reserves of electrical energy. Cannon & Co. sluiced off the $6,500,000 from Dixon-Yates and authorized it as a down payment on the Fulton TVA plant...
...motion to cut off Dixon-Yates would probably have failed even as an isolated issue. But Cannon, who has a massive reputation as an astute parliamentary tactician, stupidly built in certain defeat when he diverted money to the Fulton public power plant. Many Northern Democrats were willing enough to knife Dixon-Yates, but few would vote for more Government-subsidized power for the South-power that would inevitably attract more migratory industry from the North...
G.O.P. Leaders Joe Martin and Charlie Halleck were quick to recognize Cannon's blunder and to line up the Republican votes in disciplined ranks. Top Democrats were flabbergasted when they realized what Clarence Cannon had done. After three hours of debate with nearly 50 heated speeches, the House defeated the Cannon plan, 198 to 169. Having botched matters thoroughly, the Democrats let the bill-including the funds for the TVA-Dixon-Yates link-slide through on a voice vote, and glumly sent it on to the Senate...
Opponents of Dixon-Yates were gleeful. Said Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, Appropriations chairman: "This kills the Dixon-Yates deal because it doesn't give them an outlet for their power...
...Named because its original property at 14th and G Streets was given by one Henry Foxall in gratitude to God for the preservation of his cannon foundry from the British when they invaded Washington...