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Warning Fist. Even New York's Republican William E. Miller, who had sponsored the bill, tried to recommit it; he feared that Hitler had come to power by "decrees just like this legislation. In its present form it will destroy more civil liberties and civil rights than it protects." The Southerners greeted this with a standing ovation. Then Minority Leader Joe Martin, trembling, rushed down to the Speaker's well and shook a warning fist at his colleagues. "If you follow the Southern democracy in defeat of this bill," he intoned grimly, "you will regret it every...
...blatant congressional pork-barrel operations in years. Lamented Republican Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, in a futile motion to send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends brayed his motion down in a rafter-ringing voice vote, and then shouted the bill to passage...
...uttered a last-gasp snarl: "I don't see how the President can really be very much concerned about it. The ticker just carried the word that he is going out to Burning Tree to play golf." Finally, the House voted on Dan Reed's motion to recommit. When the roll had been called, it seemed that the protectionists had won, 201 to 200. But Joe Martin, Indiana's Charles Halleck, and Les Arends had too many outstanding political lOUs to let themselves be beaten in a vote that close. New York's Republican Representative Katharine...
This week Cain announced spryly that he was ready to resume his filibuster at a moment's notice, but the Senate resoundingly (44-25) defeated Wherry's motion to recommit the bill. Harry Cain gave...
...million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise to do some howling down himself. Joe Martin banged his gavel, barked out: "All in favor of passage of the bill say aye, the opposed no; the ayes...