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...Vice President: Yes, the Chair overruled the point of order made by the Senator from Maryland, and then the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. McKellar] appealed from the ruling of the Chair...
Thus the Senate clambered through hours of parliamentary double-talk last week. The problem before it was actually a simple matter of political greed. The Senate's premier spoilsman, choleric old (75) Kenneth McKellar, was making another assault on TVA, which enrages him because its thousands of jobs are not open to patronage appointments. He had hung 16 legislative amendments on an appropriation bill (which is almost never vetoed), mainly in an effort to throw jobs open to politics. After a dingdong battle, he gave up all but one amendment, but that one was plenty. The Senate, flailing away...
...floor. Montana's Burt Wheeler, diehard Roosevelt hater, is a formidable individual fighter. But the real leaders are Kentucky's Barkley, Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These are all veterans who feel that the deference due their long Party service has been withheld by Franklin Roosevelt and his brain-trusters. All are men of the Old South, which has been shaken to its foundation by Franklin Roosevelt's economic...
Butler's figures, said Tennessee's testy Kenneth McKellar, were 95% wrong. In the past three years, the U.S. has spent-aside from purchases of strategic materials -only $324 million. Cut out military and naval appropriations, and Lend-Lease paid back, and the Good Neighbor bill would come to only $178 million, McKellar said -not $6 billion...
...McKellar rose...