| Show Round Merry-Go-Round Truman Advisers Agree to Build Canadian Seaway nr By Drew Pearson V WASHINGTON President WASHINGTON President Truman and top advisers decided last week that the Sl St Lawrence waterway a a. raging issue in congress congress con con- gress g for two decades must no longer be ba delayed If iC the United States is to maintain a strong defense in m the future Most surprising indorsement of the seaway seaway seaway sea sea- way came from mobilization boss Charles Wilson Vilson who once opposed it However even such implacable foes as Senator Tom Connally Connally Con Con- nally of Texas chairman of the foreign n re relations relations re- re lations committee and Representative Charles Buckley of New York have now promised not to impede the proposed canal joining joining- Detroit and Chicago with the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic ocean Citing the need for quick action two two- fisted Representative John Blatnik of or Minnesota leading house crusader for th the St. St Lawrence waterway told the WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House meeting There is no need for long Ion hearings s on this We Ve know the whole story from previous pre hearings hearing We Ve also know that we face a serious erious deficit of iron ore for defense defense de defense de- de steel in the next few years unless we draw on the vast deposits in Labrador the proposed waterway can bring us Waiting 41 Y Years Tears Theres Theres still another another an an- another other reason suggested President Truman Canada has been wailin waiting 41 11 years for u uto us to help her construct the waterway and betting is b getting etting- impatient If we dont don't move now Canada may go ahead with the construction construction tion lion of the canal and power electric-power development development devel devel- without our partnership If that happens there will be no joint control of or orthe the waterway Instead Canada will have complete control and ownership it a lot better continued the president to accept the joint partnership control Canada has offered us and make maka sure that our interests in this vital link to Canadian ore deposits are safeguarded in the future I think so so agreed greed Wilson Vilson former head of General Electric When electric power was the main factor of the proposed seaway I was against it because there were other ways to get power But navigation navigation navigation tion and the need for Canadian or ore are now paramount considerations TI Texas Torn Toni Yields Yield Interior Secretary O Oscar car Chapman also supported Truman as did two other potent figures j ures at the closed- closed door conference Maj Gen Lewis Pick chief of army engineers and G GOP 0 P Sen Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander Wiley Viley of Wisconsin Wiley Viley remarked that if Truman held helda a few more meetings like this one Ill I'll bet you could convince the railroad owners who have been blocking the seaway Turn Turn- Turning Turning ing to Senator Connally the Wisconsinite jibed Tom youve you've done a little blocking yourself When the big Texan growled g a a. denial Wiley Viley continued Well then youve you've stacked subcommittees against ag the bill What you mean to say is that I have refused to go along wi with th you when you tried to get et me to stack subcommittees with proponents proponents pro pro- of the St. St Lawrence waterway way shot back Connally However Texas Tom made it clear that he wouldn't stand in the way if jf the majority of both houses favored the waterway H HI He even managed a smile when sitting close to Wiley rUey for a news picture the Wisconsin senator wisecracked I r see youve you've shifted to my side Truman's Old Crony Crony It It is now pretty well agreed that one of the best things Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia ever did was to stop the appointment of the presidents president's crony Mon Ion to be chairman of the national security rc resources board Thanks in part to Senator Byrd the ex- ex senator from Washington was shunted from the vitally important war board to what was considered a safe saCe roosting place the chairmanship chairmanship chair chair- chair chair- manship of the federal power commission Here however has been such sucha a flop that even en his old friend in the WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House is reported disappointed in him latest Dilettantism is a move moe to transfer the federal power commission to Colorado Springs Springs because because the climate is better Also Mon Ion would be nearer his home state of Washington where he wants to run for the senate again main Finally Mon Ion has real estate in southern California and he wants to be closer to it than Washington D. 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C On top of this seems to have forgotten one of the most courageous battles bat bal ties ever staged by his friend in the White WhiteHouse House namely House namely Truman's Trunian's veto of the Kerr natural gas bill Vigorous wire pullers for this thi bill were wera Senator Kerr Oklahoma and his silent oil partner Phillips Petroleum Phillips is now up for or investigation by the F P PC C for Unnecessarily unnecessarily unnecessarily un un- necessarily hiking rates to the state of Wisconsin Wis Wis- cons cousin in and the city of Detroit Fear of these high rates was one reason why Truman ve vetoed vetoed vetoed ve- ve toed the Kerr bill But despite this Wall ValI gren voted against his old friend in the tho White House to sidetrack the probe Pipeline Politics Politics host Most rost recent move by ren which is against Truman policy is isto to okeh a natural gas pipeline to Lo New England for Cor Texas Eastern which Eastern which cooperates with and helps to protect Koppers Koppers Koppers Kop- Kop pers Coke Cole a part of the Andrew Mellon in industrial in- in industrial empire This line was opposed byboth by byboth y j j both Democrat and Republican leaders in New England including Governor Sherman t. t Adams and Senator Tobey robey of New Hampshire Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire both Republicans and Senators McMahon of Connecticut and Green of ot i Rhode Island both Democrats ts They fa favor or the cheaper northeastern pipe pipeline pipeline line to New Nea England claim New England cannot afford to be saddled with two lines Jines and such heavy expense Note Note Note-A A lot of politics both Democratic and Republican is mixed up in this power commission maneuvering On the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic side it was Phillips Petroleum which conveniently put its private plane at the disposal disposal disposal dis dis- dis- dis of Democratic bigwigs bigwig's to fly to Kansas Kansa City for the Bill Bo Boyle le dinner On the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican side it is Phillips Petroleum which hires Neil Tolman as its Washington lon lobby lobby- Tolman former fonner campaign mana manager er for forG forGO G GO GOP 0 P Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire Hampshire Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire is a potent means menns of reaching the federal federal federal fed fed- J eral power commission For Bridges packs pa powerful influence with Nelson Lee Smith also from New Hampshire and G GO GOP 0 P member member mem mem- ber bel of oC the commission Copyright 1951 Bell Syndicate Inc r |
