Evening star., 1947-01-25
Senate Votes $4,000
Fund for Committee
On Small Business
By J. A. OLeory'

By }. A. o'Leory
The Senate has new special
Small Business Committee today
with $50 900 to spend in the next
eight months.
| Creation of the committee late
Yesterday by a vote of 46 to AZ
marked the second victory this week
for Republican leaders over small
group Of COP dissenters. led by
Senator Tobey Of New Hampshire
| On Wednesday the Republicans
won a closer battle to keep the Sen
ate War Investigating Committee
alive to pry into war contracts fol
another year.
! Senator Tobey charged yesterday
! that the leaders of his party were
retaining these special committees
in order to toss "lollipops" to SUBJ
leaders In the form of additional
chairmanships Senator Brewster
of Maine is chairman of the War
Investigating Committee, and the
Republican whip Senator Wherry
of Nebraska, is expected to head the
new small business group.
Calls Leaders by Name.
Calling the leaders by name-Sen-
ators Taft OF Ohio, Vandenberg Of
Michigan and White of Maine
Senator Tobey said they are ruin
ming the train of the tracks" by
supporting the continuation of spe-
cial committees. Senator Taft pre-
sides over the Republican Policy
Committee, Senator Vandenberg is
president pro tenn of the Senate and
Senator White is majority floor
leader.
Senator Taft was away yester-
day, and the other two leaders took
no notice of the Tobey speech.
When the final roll was called only
four other Republicans followed
/ Senator Tobey. They were Senators
Cooper of Kentucky, Aiken of Ver-
mont, LANCER of North Dakota and
Morse of Oregon.
These COP defectiOns were offset
almost entirely by the casting of
three Democratic votes for the
Small Business Committee-Sena.,
tors Murray Of Montana, ODaniel
OF Texas and Stewart of Tennessee.
On a preliminary vote, Senator
Tobey failed, Al to Al, to have the
function of studying small business
problems confined to the Banking
Committee, of which he Is chairman.
Senator Cooper of Kentucky voted
against this motion. also, account
ing for the difference in the two roll
calls. D.
| After the voting was over, Sem
ator Brewster took the floor to de-
plore debate in which, he said, the
motives Of Senators were questioned.
Without directing his remarks at
any particular Senator, Senator
Brewster declared "the descent to a
discussion of the motives of Sem
ators Immediately reduces the Sen
ate to the scale Of other bodies
with which, in my judgment, we
do not care to associate ourselves.
His only reply was to quote Abra-
ham Lincoln as having once indi-
Gated he did not have time to read,
much less answer, all the attacks
made on him.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico, engaged Senator Brewster
in a discussion as to whether po-
litical motives had crept into the
release of some War Investigating
Committee date during last falls
election campaign.
Senator Brewster replied that he
had no reference to anything Sena-
tor Hatch had said The Maine
Senator, however, defended the pub
lication of report which Senator
Hatch contended had never been
accepted by the War Investigating
Group.
Here's how the Senate voted on
the issue:
For the motion-46.
Republicans-Baldwin, Ball, Brew
ster, Bricker, Bridges, Brooks Buck,
Bushfield, Butler, Cain, NCapehart,
Capper, Gordon, Donnell, Dworshak
Ecton, Ferguson, Flanders, Gurney
Hawkes., Hickenlooper, Ives, Jenner
KEN, Knowland, Lodge. Malone
Martin, Mccarthy, Millikin, Moore
Revercomb, Robertson (Wyoming)
Saltonstall, Smith, Thye, Vanden-
berg, Watkins, Wherry. White
Wiley, Williams. Young-(43.
Democrats for-Murray, O'Daniel
| Stewart 49,.
Against the motion-42.
Republicans against-Aiken, Coop.
er, LANCER, Morse, Tobey (5).
Democrats against-Barkley, Cha.
vez, Connally, Downey, Eastland, Ell.
lender, Fulbright, George, Green
Hatch, Hayden, Hill, Hoey, Holland
johnson Colorado, Johnston
(South Carolina), Lucas, Magnuson
Maybank. McCarran, McClelland
Mcfarland, McGrath, Mcclellan
McMahon. Myers, O'Conor, O'Ma-
honey, Pepper, Robertson (Vir-
ginia), Russell, Sparkman, Taylor
Thomas (Oklahoma), Thomas
(Utah), Tydings, Umstead (3D.
The following pairs were an
nounced:
Taft, Republican, for, and Kilgore
Democrat, against. Reed, Republi-
can, for, and wagner, Democrat
against.