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...statement will go in the Record as sufficient proof that he is recorded against it. . . . All Senators can extend their remarks in the Record on the subject." A moment later the Senate recessed for the week end, and at 2:26 p.m., just 59 minutes after Senator McCarran had taken the floor, the job the Senate has been trying to do some how since last February was finally, force fully and completely done...
...give merchant seamen whose certificates are suspended the right to appeal to the Secretary of Commerce, which had already been enacted. An even better indication was that, after the non-controversial bills were passed, only about 20 members were on the floor when Nevada's Patrick A. McCarran stood up to introduce the modest Court Bill that was the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's high-flown plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Senator McCarran was followed on the floor by Vermont's Austin and then by Illinois' Lewis who attacked the Bill. While Lewis spoke, Vice...
...shot back Senator McCarran, stopping his speech to pick up some papers from his desk and send them to the reading clerk...
...Court Bill has four main provisions. It enables the Attorney General to intervene in lower-court constitutional cases, provides for speeding such cases to the Supreme Court, permits the temporary reassignment of Federal district judges, limits lower-court injunctive power by requiring decisions from a three-judge tribunal. Senator McCarran had not one amendment to propose but four, each brief and each designed to make the intervention of the Attorney General mandatory. As the four were read the Vice President pounded his ivory gavel on his desk as though it had been on a tom-tom, shouting: "Without objection...
...favorite thesis it is that railroads would have less trouble bearing the financial brunt of improved labor conditions if they had not piled up such huge funded debts while paying juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote. The Senate sent it to the House, where a parallel bill was marking time in committee. Observers were uncertain just how favorably the House would view the bill, but were agreed that the 70-car measure...