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...better by the farmers. They proposed an amendment that would keep price supports on basic crops fixed at the flat 90% of parity which had been set up to increase production in time of war, and which the House had already voted to continue for another year. Said Georgia's Russell, ominously: "Senators will hear from their farmer constituents if this amendment shall be defeated...
...went on about his business during the rest of the week with the air of a man determined to make the best of a difficult world. He reminded reporters gathered for his weekly press conference that it was his 200th formal meeting with them. He liked press conferences, he said, and though he occasionally got annoyed with their bosses, he thought most of the assembled newsmen were eminently fair...
Vermont's able, gentle George Aiken, who had helped write a sliding-scale program for the Republican 80th Congress, took up the defense of the Anderson bill. The whole idea, he said, was to get away from the increasing government controls which rigid supports would surely bring. Besides, by reducing the support level when farm production was high, farmers would not be tempted into overproducing at government expense. Said Aiken: "Let us not look for a check from the government as the first line of attack in the battle for farm prosperity. Let us work first...
...Russell amendment went down by the hairline margin of 38 to 37. But the fight had just begun. Just before dark, the Senate voted to reconsider its decision, and deadlocked at 37 to 37. At that point Vice President Alben Barkley spoke up. "The position of the chair," he said, "has been in favor of support at 90%. In every speech he made last year he declared the same position. He cannot now repudiate it, and therefore votes...
Majority Leader Scott Lucas was boiling mad at Barkley, whom he accused of "telling me what to do all evening." Barkley, equally irritated, rumbled: "I have not done any such thing." Vermont's Aiken cried: "The Senate has now out Brannaned the Brannan plan." He said that the 90% amendment would make the bill as expensive and control-ridden as Secretary of Agriculture Brannan's tricky scheme, which the Senate shies from...