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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...
After speaking in Williamsport, Pa. Indiana's haggis-faced Republican Representative Charles A. Halleck, House minority leader, had some time on his hands, hustled off to a nearby trout stream. Casting briefly, he soon hooked and netted a 12-in. specimen, later beamed upon it as if it were at least a 12-ft. marlin...
...Republican membership of the House was in a fury by the time the bill reached the floor. Indiana's Republican Representative Charles Halleck, his face flushed, his voice pitched high, said: "I suppose blackjacking is a strong word, and if it is unparliamentary, I will withdraw it. But coming from Indiana, it well looks to me like this is a sort of blackjacking operation to put the President and a lot of us over the barrel by saying, 'Well, if you do not take this $20, you are jeopardizing the excise extension and the 52% corporation...
...carried the word that he is going out to Burning Tree to play golf." Finally, the House voted on Dan Reed's motion to recommit. When the roll had been called, it seemed that the protectionists had won, 201 to 200. But Joe Martin, Indiana's Charles Halleck, and Les Arends had too many outstanding political lOUs to let themselves be beaten in a vote that close. New York's Republican Representative Katharine St. George switched her vote to nay. So did Illinois' G.O.P. Representative Harold Velde. Others followed, and the Reed move was rejected...
...spot in the offensive. Ike has not learned to deal with Republicans in Congress as a forceful political strategist. His powers of personal persuasion are strong; his congressional liaison men are shrewd in estimating votes; and his House tacticians, notably Massachusetts' Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck, are loyal and effective. But Ike has not developed the feeling for maneuver that made Teddy Roosevelt a master at getting results in Congress...