Show W republicans vie for south HILL IS TALKING C CAPITOL about a in move ove to adopt the re beulious bell bel loua lious southern democrats in tin thi republican party the plan is is t it offer the G 0 P vice pres presidential identical Ident ial nomination to a southerner pc possible s ibl virginias sen harry byrd the idea already has picked u up P some me support among southern democrats and has been div given on a strong p push ush b by y western republicans the republicans are eager to carve up lip the solid south while the time Is 1 ripe ripe one westerner who has been spurring the idea in the cloakrooms coins Is congressman william dawson he proposes a vanden berg byrd ticket pointing out that the tha big michigan republican already althe altha has a reputation for bip bipartisan arti cooperation while the con conservative serve byrd usually votes republican anyhow this ticket has the private en ea dor of 0 an overwhelming number of southern democrats who have hava asked that their names name s b ba a kept secret until the tha merger pa plan an gets olf off thin ice congressmen from florida and N north orth carolina predict that and byrd together could sweep their states three to one biggest southern fear la Is that the republicans would 5 shunt un t them aside after elections just as ai happened after they helped e elect herbert hoover in the row over al smith the mechanics of 0 shifting from the democratic to the republican party also Is an obstacle in the way of southern congressmen dawson has suggested that the republican party could tn endorse certain democratic atio candidates in the south this year and that a system of 0 cross filing as used in california might be ba worked out ont in the future Flo congressman dwight rogers one of the most active southerners behind the plan acknowledged now ledged the difficulties but warned if we dont get together on our own initiative we are I 1 wing going to be pushed into it dawson also is he harping aping on the tha theme of a southern western alliance the south and the west th think ink alike on most issues he ha told a group of southerners there is no reason why we should be divided divide d up the way we are a a 4 lobbyists hobbyists knife veterans THE POWERFUL REA REAL ESTATE LOBBY has mis missed sed no bets beta in its campaign to blo block c ic low cost public housing for war vets and others however the lobbes latest move engineered by senate allies Is the shabbiest shab biest to date an effort to trade off senate approval 0 of f a bill to aid 2200 2 paralyzed veterans for another bill supported by the lobby the latter bill would provide lush government loan insurance for private home builders the real estate senators are not anxious to have their operations known but here are the facts at a recent closed door meeting ot of the senate banking and currency committee sen charles tobey of new hampshire sought approval of a section of the tift taft E ellender alender wag ner bill providing housing aid for paraplegic veterans tile these se are the tragic cases of veterans wholly paralyzed below the waist however no sooner had the committee voted approval than the real estate lobby senators went into action G ci 0 P sen harry cain of 0 washington Vas hington proposed that bat a lot of construction people needed help he also wanted to know it if the housing bill was to be dismembered and passed in separate sections D democratic cm sen willis robertson of virginia kept the ball rolling now that we have agreed to the adoption of this section tor for veterans erans aid we ought to do the same with title I 1 of the bill observed robertson title I 1 Is a sop to vate ate builders to offset low cost public housing provisions of the hous ing bill it authorizes government guarantees up to 99 90 per cent on bank loans to pr private avate home builders the section we just apar approved oved and the section you gentlemen would like to have approved are not on a par objected tobey however robertson continued continue d to press tor for a vote at which point able young sen john sparkman of alabama stepped into the tray fray 1 I introduced a bill for the paraplegic vets last year and have tried to help them in every way possible declared sparkman however I 1 have told my veteran constituents that I 1 would not support action on independent sections of the TEW T EW bill if it jeopardized approval ot of the entire bill including the p public alic housing and slum clearance features therefore he be moved that the entire housing bill be left intact the sparkman motion carried by one vote thus upsetting the plan to use aid to crippled vets as aa a bargaining point to win concessions ces tor for private building build lne interests te rests |