The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-18

WASHINGTON, Dee. ls-one eg tAe mosl uaefnl anvoallNallana planned in the senate hAs been eh up-tn- ne-aE eecanse et that ume.hono.sd quesaon, esenAoglly"-pa@ N certain amount of ele husinesa pressure
 ne senate anan Business Committee. headed hy molAsses.movme senator Jim Murray d Mcn- tAna, has carefully prepared some amazing data on the squeeee being put on small newspapers The ed~ vance probe ranged from the newsprint monopoly eo teaaher~heddmR hy labor unions some of which charge newspaper twice for setting type
 The probe also showed the terrific mortality of smaller MewSpapefS and scheme hy about 20 of the nations biggest papers to corner most of the chain- grocery store advertisines
 Alter the Senate sman Buslness Committee spent weeks on this study, however, the November cleo new chairman, whereupon millionaire Senator Mur- ray of Montana got letharelc, slow mover anyway he was further handicapped by Q seniority quarrel within Republican ranks
 Ordinarily the chalExnanship of the small BAsl. ness Committee would have gone to ex-undertaker senator Kenneth wherry of Nebraska, who replaced the late great George Norris and has been trying to make up In noise for what Norris had in statesman snp aoweSsr Senator oeOrse Wilson ot . Iows , an, of the committee Q few minutes before WheTry and, therefore, outranks him as member of the Small Business Committee, Actually, both men were elected bo the Senate simultaneously, but wherry took the oath of office ahead of wilson though Wilson became a member of the Small Business Committee ahead Of Wherry,
 Thus, 1t is nip and tuck as to which should get the ohairmanship
 However, there is another complication, wherry has secret ambition to be vce-Presidentia candi- date the Republican ticket in l9lS He also fig ures that the Small Business chairnanship would be big publlcity-builder-up for that ambition
 Meanwhile Senator Taft of Ohio, who also has well-known ideas about the Presidency in l948, is none too enthusiastic about Wherry as Q running mate. And Taft may have something to say about who will chairman what committee.
 Those are some of the how-many -angels-can- Stand-on- the point -a-neede problems which worry the august Senators while the plight of small business and small newspapers remains on the sidelines. Although the Democrats have tried to live down the widespread belief that they are dominated by bigcty machine bosses here is one story that can't be laughed off,
 The Democratic National Committee sent cheeks to number of congressional candidates throughout the country to help them in last months election campaign. One was a check for $l000 to Repre- sentative Alexander Resa, liberal Chicagoan. Dem- ocratc National Treasurer George Killion made the check out to Resa, but sent it directly to Mayor Ed Kelly, boss of the Chicago Democrats
 When Kelly received it, he phoned Resa and told him to come down to his office. Kelly then showed him the check and said:
 "You know, the County Committee here is badly in need of money. Don't you think you could turn that over to us?"
 Resa replied that he had personally contributed $O0 two years ago and s2O0O this year to the county