Evening star., 1947-08-17
Congressional Record
Full Of Arguments
For 1948 Campaign
By Gould Lincoln

The final issue Of the Congres.
sional Record for the first session
Of the 80th Congress, circulated
yesterday. is . campaign document
for 194s.
Under leave to print. Republican
and Democratic leaders in both
houses went to town with state
ments lauding or condemning the
record made by the first Republican
Congress In 16 years.
On the Republican side, Senators
Taft Of Ohio, Bridges Of New Hamp-
shire. and House Majority Leader
Halleck, and Representative Taft
OF New York, went exhaustively into
the Accomplishments" Of the Con-
gress. Senate Minority Leader, and
Democratic Senators Lucas of Illi-
nois, Fulbright OF Arkansas, and
Representatives Cannon of Mis-
souri, and Eberharter of Pennsyl-
vania, set forth the things Congress
failed to do, and denounced the
things it did. Most of these state
ments were released to the press
before they saw the light of day
In the Congressional Record.
Easy To Mail to Voters.
Their publication in the Congress
sional Record, however, makes them
particularly available Tor reproduc-
ton and Transmission through the
mails at nominal cost. The
chances are the voters will be flood
ed, therefore, with copies of these
statements.
Senator Barkley, in his statement
entitled THE Legislative Record o!
the First Session of the 80th Con.
gress" comes up with the remark
that:
The real yardstick of the achieve
ments Of this Congress is not en-
tirely that Of the things done but
OF what things 1t has left undone u
And ne added, THE S0th Con-
gress. under Republication leader
ship has been one fraught with in
terparty strife, yet at the same
time with overriding tones of in
ternational crisis, of world shatter-
ing events and decisions"
Senator Barkley listed President
Truman's important messages to
Congress dealing with international
relations, including those asking
Congress for $3.50, ,000, 900 for relief
70 wartorn nations, and $4OO, 900 900
especially for Greece and Turkey to
resist communist incursion.
Barkley Raps Delays.
The Kentucky Senator finds that
the Republicans did come through
with legislation and appropriations
to implement these requests of the
President, but complained of the
delay in making the money avail
able. He said "some members of
Congress"-meaning Republican,
strenuously opposed the relief bill
on the ground that "the United
States was giving too much in
to an exhausted Europe"
The Greek-Turkish aid bill, he
commented, drew fire from isola-
tionists backed by Communist
dominated propaganda groups. !"
Some of the liberals, he added,
Joined in the opposition because
they felt the problem belonged to
the United Nations.
While Congress put through the
bill extending the Export Import
Bank to June 80, 1858, approved
United States membership in the
international Refugee Organiza-
tion., Senator Barkley complained
because bills to permit the admis-
sion into this country of 100000
displaced persons were pigeon holed
in Senate and House committees.
Guerillas Spurred Action.
Despite the bipartisan passage
in both houses of the Greek Turkish
aid BILL" he said, appropriations
for the bill were held up in the
House Appropriations Committee
until late In the session when the
flare-up of guerilla warfare in
Greece prompted action"
The Democratic leader listed many
bills to carry out President Tru-
mans program for domestic i'm
provement. which he said the Re-
publican Congress failed to do any
thing about. Included were the
recommendation for