Show IN ashington L 0 0 0 0 while the center of 0 te o stage was taken up in consideration of the north atlantic act in congress this week important considerations lare vare ere in the immediate offering one of these was likely early consideration by the senate of controversial trover sial oleo bill which has been bottled up in sene committee since it was passed passel early in the session by the hoc hog proponents of the measure which eliminates the federal tax on oleomargarine declare that if the measure ever gets to the senate floor it will pass in a hurry another important development clev elop was a bitter behind the scenes fight over a senate ap com committee mittet action which effectually blocks one of the presidents campaign promises to develop public power this committee action was the slashing of approximately from the tion for construction rl transmission lines a and n d contract authorization for such urles uries from government construct constructed eq power dams included in this slash was half the appropriation dorthis for sor this enis item for the southwestern dower power administration and about two thirds of the fund appropriated for this purpose for the central valley in california another appropriation which was entirely eliminated was the appropriation pria tion for transmission lines Kria known as the kerr anaconda development in montana according to observers here the private power lobbyists hobbyists were able to get in some fairly satisfying work with this senate appropriation committee which led speaker sam rayburn of texas to remark that he was tremendously disappointed an cuts for the southwestern power administration according to the report of the committee w which h i c h observers here take with a grain of salt its action in slicing the funds for power transmission lines is predicated on negotiations between federal power agencies and private power companies for the transmission from federal power dams of power to consumers on terms agreeable to the government the private power lobbies say observers base their entire opposition to federal power predicated on the theory that its okay for the government to build the huge dams and manufacture the current but it is the prerogative of the private companies to buy the current at the bus bar and deliver it to the consumers at their own prices if government is now agreeing to this procedure it is new in the private public power fight right that the proponents of the public power field here in washington have not heard of lA nother another important dev development macli 0 was the hurried meeting arg called by the president of members of the atomic energy com corn mission top military officials the members of the cabinet and state department for the purpose of considering the tho claims of britain and canada co develop ers of the atomic bomb with th this country with reference t 0 atomic bomb secrets for several hours objective of the meeting was a dead secret in th the e meantime the senate committee commit tee considers the charges of senator bourke of iowa of incredible mismanagement leveled against david lilienthal committee chairman as ended mr lilienthal has been given a national medal award ac as an outstanding american no charges made by mr have been sustain ed and an impartial investigator has given tle the entire atomic energy commission a clean bill of health insofar as any miss missing uranium of fissionable material is concerned on the atlantic pact major farm organizations are split the american Amt rican farm bureau federation favors american participation the national farmers union is against the pact and the national grange is taking no stand are we having accession the president thinks not lie he is bullish lie he says although he admits there is some unemployment said senator scott lucas of illinois the majority senate leader when youve got over people employed in industry and rind farmers with money to pay for whatever they need ill be damned if I 1 uee sec how you can call it a depression then senator lucas added if it is its the most prosperous one we have ever experienced |