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Having voted 3-to-1 for an earlier version, the House had already rejected the argument that the bill would not only "control" but stultify essential Federal functions. When Texas' lemony, relentless Hatton Sumners called the Senate bill up for final passage by the House, hostile but hopeless Administration leaders had already given up. This week they let it pass (176-to-51), expected a veto by Franklin Roosevelt...
...Hatch Bill never had the support of the Administration. It was strenuously opposed by the Democratic leaders in the House. Its most formidable opponent was Texas' old, respected Hatton Sumners, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where the bill reposed. The Committee, horrified by the bill's proposed reforms, held a secret ballot, announced a vote of 14-to-10 to table the measure. Congressman Dempsey thereupon raised Congress' roof by announcing that 13 members told him afterwards they had voted for the bill. He started a petition to extricate the bill from the Committee. Embarrassed Congressmen...
...House. To Rules Committee members he said: "I'm a member of this committee and I want you men to give me this rule just because it's me." They gave him enough votes, and at last the bill was sent to the House. There Hatton Sumners made a final, vitriolic attack on it. With unfading zeal Mr. Dempsey stuck to his guns. The bill passed, 243-to-122. At week's end the Senate concurred, without debate. The final bill as approved by both Houses limited expenditure by a political party...
WASHINGTON--Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, D., Tex., of the House Judiciary Committee, today denounced amendments to the Hatch "Clean Politics" Act as a step toward dictatorship, after his group had voted to reconsider the legislation which it previously had shelved by secret ballot...
Said sane, judicious Hatton Sumners of Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "Gentlemen get up here and talk about how many judges we must have [to administer the act]. We should have thought about that before we brought these powers and duties up here from the States. . . . We have only this choice: either to turn the American people loose, subject to the governmental power of an appointed personnel ... or we have got to make it possible for the citizen to resort to the only place under the Anglo-Saxon system of government that an aggrieved person...