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...military, which was already getting a pre-Korea $13.5 billion in the omnibus appropriations bill, had to have another $11.6 billion immediately for more planes, ships and men, said Congressman Mahon. The House Appropriations Committee, for which he spoke, had already approved the outlay. In addition, the committee had approved another $4 billion for the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to Europe, plus other million-dollar odds & ends for such things as the Voice of America ($77 million). The whole bill in prospect totaled another $16.7 billion...
...Consciences' Sake. The great omnibus appropriation bill, with its burden of pork, meanwhile had consumed the full time of a sweating, shirt-sleeved joint committee which was trying to reconcile the House's version of the bill with the Senate's. The committee finally voted it out. Embracing most of the funds (with the exception of fixed charges) which Congressmen had originally thought the Government would need next year, the bill ran to 500 pages, defied exact analysis even by experts. They guessed it amounted to "about $34 billion...
...House-Senate conference over the $34.5 billion omnibus appropriation bill, Senate Appropriations Chairman Kenneth McKellar, ancient (81) Tennessee feudist, tangled with an old enemy-House Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon, 71. McKellar yelled that Missouri's Cannon was "blind . . . stupid . . . pigheaded" and altogether "goddamned." Cannon, who several years ago traded blows with New York's brass-lunged John Taber, started after McKellar. The tottering McKellar grabbed his long-handled gavel and got ready to swing. Colleagues managed to keep the two old cocks apart...
...brood over his grouches and, later in the day, to take his turn presiding over the Senate. There, Tennessee's irascible spoilsman encountered another enemy-Paul Douglas of Illinois, who had tried his best, without success, to pry some of the pork out of the same $32.5 billion omnibus appropriation bill. Now Douglas was attacking the pork in a $1.2 billion roads and highways bill...
Nagging Conscience. In similar fashion the Senate kept interrupting its urgent business all last week to make bows to the folks back home. Illinois' big, white-shocked Paul Douglas, singularly unbowed after threescore attempts to chop the omnibus appropriations bill, was back like a nagging conscience at the Senate's fat, pampered $700 million program for pet home-town works. The bill, said Douglas, has many features dubious in peacetime, "and even more dubious in wartime." Six eastern Republicans agreed with him, and proposed a flat...