Show fj 7 NJ j I 1 1 a 0 6 0 a 6 at 4 16 a go 09 sees 00 outstanding during the past weeks in congressional circles was the vote by which dean acheson was confirmed coito by ls the senate as secretary of state 83 to 6 facts are that every senator was anxious to disassociate himself with the public hearing on the acheson nomination which broke a precedent of more than years in the government those six senators who voted against him homer capehart and william E jenner of indiana had bad not as yet apparently weigh ed the indiana Ind vote on last nov ember 2 for that vote swept in a democratic governor and an alu aiu entire democratic state ticket and came within something ilka mood votes of sweeping the state for truman n state which 1 had been doped as for the th republican ticket so Cape capehart dehar SS hart bart and aid jenner tenner 0 wa lust just ta inina taira c n annot ira ina read the th figures on nn the th 0 score s go re e bod board according to observe ers here in washington lahger of north dakota of course is against any american foreign policy and his vote was not un anti antl hiotes ci the hv two votes otes which could not be tabulated to any degree of certainty were those of sen willima F knowland of california and styles bridges of new hampshire knowland followed the line of several influential news papers in h his Is state i influential insofar as Know knowland Ilind is concern ed but not otherwise and of course bridges has always been unpredictable un dle die beerd sen kenneth wherry has consistently wrong on foreign policy ever since he has been in the senate his vote against shan acheson when hie came up for BP as undersecretary under secretary of state in the 83 at least f wherry ey Is lisps consistent ant in a reshuffling shuffling re of comal committee atee assignments as radical as ble bie within the seniority system democrats in house and senate senate have picked committees which will put through the truman pro gram where the rub may come insofar a as the administration a is concerned Is in the senate and house appropriations and finance committees which must furnish the money to carrr out the pro gram enacted by the congress con gresa for fon fo r instance on the senate finance committee there arb two new esyet members eS clyde yeo R hoey of north carolina and 1 howard mcgrath the democratic national suds committee chairman besides these two the committee 1 bludes l lucas of illinois the democratic floor leader then there are arc walter george of gongia gorgia tom connally of texas and harry byrd of V virginia irginia plus edwin C johnson of colorado this trio george byrd and johnson consistently voted against the administration in the last congress the party ratio on the agrical ture lure committee has bas gone gon from efrom 7 to 6 up to 8 to 5 in other words there are eight democrats and five republicans 0 on n the new committee the geographic presentation has been bein somewhat broadened by the addition 1 I 0 freshman sen clinton anderso anderson n of new At mexico exico former sercie tary of agriculture culture iowa con on the committee with witha guy M gillette democrat tak over the post of george A wilson whom gillette defeated in november challman Charl man elmer thomas of oklahoma says he favors a rigid 90 per cent of parity program instead of the present sliding scale as rosed posed by the hope akin long range farm act others may change their minds as did thomas who during the last session voted for the flexible parity price program sen margaret chase smith of maine a republican of course has a refreshing and probably new concept of democrats and republicans says senator smith sn basically akcay as cay there mere gere Is is no difference aule auie rence between the rank and file flie of bf thie the democrats and ana the me rank rank and ana file of the republicans republic ans of this coun try equally there is no clif feren ce between the consciences and morals of the big labor and those of big business control of a political party by either cither big labor labon or big business is equally wrong and should be opposed by the people the pol poi political lUcal parties be long to all the people not just to tc the more 1 0 articulate pressure groppi 11 the ocona bol iol lal ial la I expires marchi march Mar chi cli ja h sen frahels france 1 J myers of pennsylvania the tho i democratic senate whip has trod a bill which would put pul new construction under rent con cort troi establish control over con averted housing units unit f and per manent hotel accommodations including apartment holtes hibit new leases providing high gh er ef rent give the government the right to regulate evictions and land restore to the housing expedit expediter ex the right to use violators for triple damages and on criminal grounds |