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Emerging at 11:15 p. m. under the twinkling lamp of the north portico, Senator Robinson furnished a summary for public consumption: "It is expected a conference agreement will be reached on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill and also on the TVAmendments. It is also expected conference agreements will be reached on the Alcohol Control Bill, the Gold Suits Bill and, of course, the Tax Bill. I think there is a fair chance of reaching an agreement on the Utility Bill. If the Guffey Coal Bill passes the House it will be taken up in the Senate...
...When Congressional committees sit in executive session, no outsiders are supposed to be present. Twice last fortnight Senator Wheeler and Representative Rayburn, nominal authors of the Public Utility Bill and enthusiastic champions of its "death sentence" clause for certain holding companies, took to conference with them PWA Counsel Benjamin Victor Cohen, young Roosevelt legalite and actual co-author of the bill. Twice that fiery little "death sentence" hater, Representative George Huddleston of Alabama, balked at the presence of a Presidential spokesman, broke up the conference by stomping out in the company of two Republican colleagues...
...hands of the Administration, generally regarded as stalling for time in the expectation that dirt on the Power lobby turned up by the Senate investigating committee would persuade Representatives to change their minds about the "death sentence." Last week the Administration put its theory to a test when Representative Rayburn moved that the House instruct its conferees to accept the "death sentence." Thereupon the House showed itself totally unimpressed by Senator Black's dirt, gave Administration hopes and prestige a mighty clout. Having originally rejected the "death sentence" on a teller vote by 216-10-146, Representatives now went...
...producing a fresh letter from Charles E. Small to Representative Haines. Wrote Mr. Small, father-in-law of an A. G. & E. plant superintendent: "I wish you to know that I am the man that is supposed to be dead, who wrote you and wired you opposing the Rayburn-Wheeler utility legislation. I am very much alive. . . ." Early in the week the Federal Communications Commission stepped in, ordered U. S. telegraph companies to produce by Aug. 15 detailed, sworn data concerning faked telegrams against the "death sentence," destruction of files containing protest messages. Thereupon Senator Black devoted the rest...
...Boss Ursel E. Beach, head of Associated Gas & Electric Co.'s securities department. Typical excerpts from their testimony: Herron (admitting he had taken names from the city directory): "I was pretty well acquainted and knew pretty much who was for and who was against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill." Senator Schwellenbach: "How did it happen your acquaintances were limited to the first letters of the alphabet?" Herron (admitting he had mentioned using a "barrel of kerosene"): "I was just joking, of course. Just like you might say you were going to burn your house to keep from paying taxes...