The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-02
Observations
Senate Opposes
House Action on
Peace Proposals
BY Helen Essary

the peace treaty approved by
majority vote of both houses OF
Congress, instead of the Senate's
tvo-thirds vote, as required by the
Constitution.
Representative Sol Bloom Cd OF
New York. archproponent OF the
plan, said that some senators are
opposed TO the House muscllng IN
on a traditional Senate preroga-
tive-the ratification of treaties.
Bloom, who heads the major
o House Foreign Affairs Committee,
good-naturedly chided his Upper
House colleagues and said that too
many senators who move up from
the Lower House forget their days
OF legislative rough-Gnd-tumble IN
the crowded House
Informed OF Blooms blast,
Texas tall, dapper Tom Connally,
chairman OF the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. said. "Aw.
that's just the House cutting up
But Bloom. dissatisfied, replied:
When these fellows move over
from the House to the Senate, and
get that special underground rail
way and their private elevators,
why you just can't touch en-
Bloom referred TO Connally's
many years OF service in the House
and 10 the special subway mono
rail which shuttles from the Capt.
tol TO the Senate Office Building.
House members must walk to their
two office buildings
Despite Connally's ayowed OPP
position. however. Bloom is will
ing 20 wager he will have his way
about the peace agreement, what
ever the price.
SECRETARY OF THE INTER
IOR HAROLD l.. lCkES is due
for one OF the most relentless grill
ines of his stormy career when he
appears about ay / before the
new Senate committee investigat-
ing petroleum reserves.
The committee was constituted
under a resolution sponsored by
two foes OF lckes' 1.250-mile oil
pipeline from Saudi Arabia TO the
Mediterranean. These are Senator
owen Brewster tR) OF Maine and
T. II. Moore (Rl OF Oklahoma.
Moore. a wealthy Oklahoma oil
man. succeeded in pushing through
the resolution after going on rec
ord with he statement that the
United States has sufficient oil
reserves al home.
A major fight is also expected to
develop over the relationships OF
the government and private oil
industries in the Near East.
Oil men have generally opposed
the project on the grounds that II
would promote government own
erships. and they are expected 10
use the hearings to air their views.
The committee. with an admins
tration ma jority. however. has de-
cIared itself completely disinterest-
ed on the entire situation.
SENATOR JOE BALL of Wis
consin. whom some people think
looks and acts like young Abra-
ham Lincoln eats luncheon with
his own wife every day in the Sen
ate dining room. The clever Mrs.
Ball manages her husband office.
discusses his spe eches with him
and is always present. at his -
quest. when Joe talks over the ra-
do.
Mrs. Ball was a reporter on the
Minneapolis paper on which her
husband began his national career
as political writer
TAKE 1T FROW no LESS AN
AUTHORITY than Paul G. Hoff-
man. president OF the Studebaker
Corporation Ralph Waldo Elmer
son was wrong when he said that
III you build better mouse trap
than your neighbor. the world will
beat path 70 your door
You can't sell the best mouse
trap without advertising, Hoffman
told a house postwar committee.
ANTHONY J. DlMOND, Alaska's
delegate to Congress. has voteo
only once in 10 years. And not be-
cause he didn't want to.
Alaska's absentee voting law re-
quires that voters must have been
within the precinct 40 lays before
election This has disfranchised
Dimond for 10 years. Under the
proposed soldier voting legislation
in Alaska. he may get his chance
TO vote this year, II the legislature
abrogates the 40-day rule