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...armies moved to the House, where the first obstacle was stubborn old "Muley" Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Aware of the explosive political possibilities, Muley Doughton was combing the books for every variety of delaying action...
Shaken to the soles of his solid brogues, Leader Barkley quickly checked a dozen other Democratic Senators, found ever)' one livid with rage. The House postponed debate on the message, but off the floor 80-year-old Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee was already spluttering his indignation at the message which "questioned our integrity or intelligence, or both." Alben Barkley kept a tight grip on himself and held his peace. After adjournment at 2:15 p.m., he went to his office and began to think. At his modest apartment on Connecticut Avenue...
Economy Wave. The inflation battle saw skirmishes on other fronts last week. "Old Muley" Doughton's Ways & Means Committee finally reported a tax bill calling for no more than a $2.1 billion tax increase. The hell with the Treasury's $10.5 billion demand, said the hard-worked committee, our raise is enough. To help the committee along, Pennsylvania's Representative J. Buell Snyder reported that the Army & Navy are ready to cut current expenditures by a whopping $18 billion. That enormous whack took a great deal of sting out of many a patriot's desire...
Chairman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton immediately drew for his House Ways & Means Committee a heartrending picture of the Administration straining every nerve to make every penny count. Unimpressed, the Committee came up at week's end with several minor amendments which would add a minuscule $1 to $1.5 billion to Federal revenue...
Almost before the Secretary had finished reading his prepared statement, the U.S. Treasury's design for extracting another $10,500,000,000.00 from the U.S. pocketbook was mackerel-dead. Cried Democrat Robert L. ("OF Muley") Doughton, head of the Ways & Means Committee: "Utterly indefensible." Cried Republican Harold Knutson: "How much of it is for revenue and how much is for politics...