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...bars convicts from high union jobs, respects rank-and-file rights, but makes no real move to clean up abuses of boycott and picketing power. Last fortnight the House Labor and Education Committee reported the milder-than-that Elliott bill (TIME. Aug. 3), which was favored by Speaker Sam Rayburn, opposed by a powerful coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...some 15 to 20 Republican swing voters who might be pulled by homeside railroad and building-trades union lobbyists to vote for mild legislation. It was also on an equal number of Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that did not meet the proposition, as the President put it, "that American workers and the public...
...that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved the TVA bill was a rare if not unique deal between the President and congressional leaders. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson went to the White House, gave Ike their assurances that if he would sign the bill, they would see to it that Congress passed another bill canceling out the provision he disliked. "We are in full agreement that the independence of the executive...
...leadership in Congress (TIME, July 20) has left the unhappy taste of ashes on many a Democratic regular's tongue. Last week Hoosier Butler's noisy rampage against what he feels is a too-moderate course by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn took a new turn. Paul Butler phoned Sam Rayburn for an appointment, then jogged up to the Capitol and spent an hour in earnest conversation with Rayburn and Johnson. There was little doubt that his action was in the nature of a peace pilgrimage that included a single serving of crow...
Presumably, Paul Butler munched these specifics along with his crow during his meeting with Rayburn and Johnson, but when newsmen poured into Mr. Sam's office to look at the bones, everything was tidy and all was sweet harmony. "We agreed," said Rayburn, "that none of the three of us is trying to be divisive. There was no loud talk, no violent disagreement, no fightin' and scratchin'." Rayburn added that he takes no stock in demands for Butler's resignation, and that he and Johnson assured Butler that they are true to the Democratic Party...