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Show Catting Dowti of Pork Barrel Roils Reed WASHINGTON, Jan 20 Denunciation Denuncia-tion of the action of the house in cutting cut-ting down tho rivers and harbors appropriation ap-propriation bill marked the beginning j of senate committee hearings today on tho measure, which usually is referred re-ferred to as "pork barrel" legislation. Describing tho bill as a product of "peanut politics," Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, warned that the senate would have to adopt cloture to pass the measure. "This bill results from cheap politics poli-tics over in the house of representatives," representa-tives," said the senator. "We do the country a thousand dollars Avorth of damage for every dollar saved by cuts of this kind." Senator Reed cited wealth increases due lo western reclamation projects built out of governmcntrfunds. Chair- I man Jones interrupted to say that the j money so spent was returned lo the ! government. oo |