The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1955-07-01
4 MoNTANAN's
WASHINGTON
NOTEBOOK
BY VIC REINEMER

S~SA "a SoSeohio a.
Great Falls.
Montana Republicans, through
Rep. Orvin Flare, had nominal
ed Edgar Price, Butte, for the
job. But William J. Nixon, the
choice of Idaho Republican SEN
ators, was nominated by the
President. Montana's Senators
and Representatives vigorously
protested the nomination of an
Idaho man for what is almost
exclusively a Montana job, and
the Senate Finance Committee,
which considers customs nomi-
nations, agreed to Senator Jim
Murray's request to delay con-
sideration of the nomination un-
til his return from the Interna-
tional Labor Conference in &C.
neva, Switzerland, which he at
tended as part of the us. dele
cation.
Time is running out in Con-
gress. There's much talk of ad-
journment late in July. And I'M
der usual Senate rules nominal
tons which are neither confirm
ed nor rejected during the ses-
sion to which they were submit
ted are not considered at the
next session unless the President
reSubmits them.
The sentiment of the members
of the Senate Finance Commit
tee, as expressed after learning
of objections of Senators Muir
ray and Mike Mansfield, indi-
Gates that it would be pointless
for the President to resubmit
the Idahoan's nomination, and
that the new nominee must be
acceptable to Montanans.
Vacations for Newsmen?
Senator Mike Mansfield's bill
to permit weekly newspapers to
suspend publication for not more
than two issues in any one calen-
dar year, without loss of second
class mail privileges, received
unanimous approval last week
by the Post Office and Civil Ser
vice Committee. 1t made but one
change in the bill, which now
reads weekly publications" in
stead of weekly newspapers"
Support for YeIIewtsii Dam
Montana's three Democrats
continue to press for funds to
start construction of long-delay-
ed YellowtaIl Dam near Hardin.
In a speech on the Senate floor
Senator Mike Mansfield called
attention to the recent recon-
mendation of the Senate Inter
ior Subcommittee on Irrigation
and Reclamation that an appro-
priation Ito initiate immediate
construction" be included in the
fiscal 1856 budget.
Representative Lee Metcalf
appeared before a Senate appro-
priationS committee on behalf of
Yellowtail and other Montana
projects. Regarding Yellowtail,
he expressed his concern lin get
ting kilowatts for all of Mon
tana" and said the Indian pro-
blem has just about been work
ed out AS far as l can see
it is solved insofar as the tribal
objection has been concerned.
Individual objections are the
same as individual objections of
anyone whose land is inundat-
ed by the construction of a
dam"
Senator Murray requested the
subcommittee to include an ap-
preparation of not less than S3.5
million to start construction of
Yellowtail Dam" and to assure
the Crow Tribe that it would
get fair compensation for some
1000 acres which would be in
uIludteu. Ills dSSul dilSC, Su6
gested the senator, should be "in
the form of statement that If
a satisfactory settlement cannot
be reached by the Secretary of
the Interior, then the Crow tribe
should be enabled to maintain
an appropriate action against the
United States for just compen-
Sation."
Classy Band
Vice President Richard Nixon,
Speaker of the House Sam Ray
burn and Minority Leader Joe
Martin spoke to the Great Falls
high school band between num-
bers it played on the Capitol
steps last week That afternoon
when Sen. Mike Mansfield proud
ly complimented the snappy
Montana band on the senate
floor, Sen. A. Willis Robertson
of Virginia. remarked that it
sounded like the Army band"