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...supports ranging from 80%-90% of parity. Later he made a careful nose count of the Senate, learned that the vote would be too close for comfort. Deciding that the 82½%-90% scale which the House of Representatives had previously voted could carry, Aiken asked Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel to propose it. This shored up Schoeppel's wavering support and clothed the plan with the mantle of a wheat-state Senator. For the prestige of sponsoring the winning compromise, and for the promise of presidential backing in this fall's election, Republican Schoeppel was willing...
When, on a 49-44 vote, the Schoeppel amendment was adopted, the nation had a policy of flexibility, and President Eisenhower had harvested a bumper legislative crop. With the farm-bloc diehards thus shaken, George Aiken moved in to score a clean sweep on other provisions of the bill. In fast succession, the Senate beat away the chaff of demands for 1) increasing price supports on soybeans and feed grains (oats, rye, barley, grain sorghums), 2) imposing cattle supports at a rigid 80% of parity, and 3) pegging dairy supports at 80% instead of the 75% set by Agriculture Secretary...
...Democrats: Nevada's Pat McCarran and Colorado's Ed Johnson. Eleven Republicans: Bridges, McCarthy. Dirksen, Ohio's Bricker, Idaho's Dworshak and Welker, Arizona's Goldwater, Iowa's Hickenlooper, Nevada's Malone, South Dakota's Mundt, Kansas' Schoeppel...
...colleagues in Congress failed to provide any choral background for his solo. Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken, who will rank next to Chairman Taft on the Labor Committee, thought it was "wise to recognize organized labor in the Cabinet." Several Taft-minded Senators, e.g., Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, swung behind New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rather than Taft, for Majority Leader...
KANSAS-22. Of Kansas Republicans, only U.S. Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel makes Taft noises. Kansas-reared Eisenhower will probably get all or nearly all of the Kansas delegation...