Show Round Merry Dewey Can Grin j With Talk of lead Pipe Cinch 1 i j j f n By Drew Pearson i WASHINGTON Go Gov Tom Dewey calIe called J in former Secretary of War Var Bob Patterson Patterson- the other day offered him an appointment to New York states state's powerful circuit court Coure of appeals During the discussion ion Dewey congratulated Patterson on having won the thee surrogate court case for the New York county Republican machine It wasn't a very hard case replied Patterson I Z 1 had all the facts on my sta It actually cinch wa was a pipe lead t 1 Bob replied Dewey with a twinkle ini his eye Im the last guy uy in the world you should talk ot of about pipe lead cinches Three Die Hard John Hard John Rankin i of Mississippi Gene Cox of Georgia an and Howard Smith of Virginia were a chastened trio when they crept out of the house Demo i cratic caucus last week after alter their protest protests against modernizing modernizing- the house rules committee corn cone were squelched by a t 48 18 vote Never before in their long careers had they been sat upon quite so 80 hard Even freshmen congressmen at the door closed-door meeting joined In h heckling Rankin who surpassed surpassed sur sur- passed all his previous pre ery by bi charging that the move to revise rules committee committee com procedure was hatched in Moscow The effort to change chang our rules was ini int by the F FE E P C fair employment practices commission gang stormed the pint half Mississippian The F FE E P PC C pro prOt prow as everybody knows was first propounded prO pro pro- pounded by Joe Stalin in 1920 This gem brought ht howls of uncontrolled glee lee Veteran Congressman John Dingell ell of oj Michigan broke in to say it true that the rules committee blocked important housing housing- legislation in addition to the F FE E P PC C b bill Isn't it true that the banking and currency committee e eat at the last session reported a a. a housing bil bill which the rules committee refused to accept accept accept ac ac- Instead the rules committee gave ma m us usa a substitute bill dictated by the real estate estat lobby As everybody knows that was put pul over by the very men now trying to per the blockade of liberal legislation You are trying trying- to blast the rules com corn out of existence loudly objected objects Cox of Georgia You are trying to change the American form of government Helped G GO O 0 P P Oh Oh no were weri not We Ve are trying to preserve it retorted Rep Herman Eberharter of Pennsylvania Harry Truman was elected president am and we have a Democratic congress without any help from the gentleman from Mississippi and these other gentlemen whose tactics in the congress were partly responsible for a Republican victor victory in the SOth Im I'm glad this test has come corne It will show how many Democrats intend by their votes to carry out their campaign pledges to the people Majority Leader John McCormack e explained explained ex- ex that if the resolution to speed u up up rules-committee rules procedure carried by a two two- thirds vote in the caucus all Democrat Democrats would be bound to vote for the resolution as a unit on the house floor 1 Well Vell what's goi going g to happen to us I U it Uwe we violate the decision of the caucus yelled Cox 1 You may get rapped o on n the knuckles shouted New Yorks York's Nanny Manny Celler amid ami laughs I Suppose we walk out of this caucus caucus' right now before the vote is taken will taken will v we westill still be bound to vote for the resolution o on the floor Joor inquired the Georgian Yes ruled Presiding Officer Francis Franci Walter Valter of Pennsylvania unless you ca caprove can prove that abiding by the decision of th the caucus is a violation of the constitution or unless this issue had a bearing on your you joui election in the last campaign a Under the Dome Dome Idaho's Idaho's defeated G GOP GO 0 pJ Senator Henry Dworshak refused to budget j out of his office until the legal deadline deadline- 12 o'clock noon January 3 to 3 to make i for incoming Senator Matt latt Neely of Nest Wes Virginia Beer may be served in is l they th the senate dining room room room-if if senate employee have their way Teetotaler Arthur capper Kansas Republican hitherto has objected objects to serving beer in the senate but since hi his retirement senate are petitioning petitioning petitioning petition petition- ing the rules committee to permit beer u uthe the senate restaurant When r Minne Minne-l Minne sota's sola's defeated Senator Joe Ball cleaned ou his office he sent off 27 cases of franked en envelopes t en-t S to be sold for scrap paper He ha had ordered the envelopes from th the government go 1 printing office office free Must have bee bed been stocking up for another term 1 Inside the White hite House President House President Truman Tru man received a real thrill the other da day when he was asked for his autograph b by f bY none other than President ex-President Herbert 1 Hoover Hoover wanted it for his gran grandson grand grand- son Truman will make another trip trig l to Key West Vest in mid March after congress really gets going |