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Between the bill which Representative Doughton and his Ways & Means colleagues spent all last autumn working over and the bill which the Senate, under Pat Harrison's guidance, carved out in three weeks of debate there was a difference of $220,000,000-in revenue for the Treasury, in taxes for taxpayers. The House and Senate bills simply bracketed the field within which the ten conferees were to agree upon a final compromise law acceptable to both chambers...
...gained control of the House, Garner was promoted to the Speakership. Mississippi was redistricted and Collier lost a seat. Crisp dreamed of becoming a Senator and was beaten. Only Rainey remained. Last spring when the House was choosing a Speaker, John McDuffie of Alabama was a leading candidate until Doughton got busy...
When Rainey stepped into the Speakership and Doughton into the Ways & Means chairmanship, Republicans groaned. They said Doughton had no social graces or imagination, that he neither drank nor smoked, that he rose at 6 in the morning and went to bed every night at 9, that he was absolutely impervious to influence...
...Ways & Means chairman Doughton proved not brilliant but thorough and quite impervious to influence. He reported out the new liquor tax law, the bill for renewing the life of RFC, the reciprocal tariff bill, the tax bill and got them all passed by the House in the form in which the Administration wanted them...
Representative Doughton's able second in command who sat beside him last week in conference was Sam Hill of Washington. Representative Hill has the appearance and manners not of a farmer from North Carolina but of a spruce businessman. If, as rumored, Mr. Doughton retires from Congress to take a seat on the Tariff Commission, Representative Hill will succeed to his important job. The rumor, however, is probably to be credited to Mr. Hill, who is well aware how committee chairmen may be puffed up and out of their jobs...