Diario las Américas., 1958-08-17

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can a Senator campaign for reelec-
ton and still tend to business in
Washington? Here is the way Sc
nator Holland is managing. When
the campaign started, he was chin
deep in bills and appropriations
and committee work here. There
was nothing he could do except
stay in Washington and fight his
way through mountains of work.
That's when Claude seemed to get
the jump on him, both in public
appearances and newspaper publ
city.
Now that the session is nearing
an end, the important work is
behind the senators. Most of their
days r filled with voting on the
bills they have been working on
for the past seven months. And we
find Senator Holland in Florida
campaigning and once more
in the lead. But, how can he vote
in Congress while he is hunting
votes in Florida?
Here he falls back on an old ar.
rangement, worked out years ago
by some unremembered senatorial
campaigners. This is the pair.
While Senator Holland is in Flo
rida trying to get reelected, there
is a republican senator somewhere
else in the country doing the same
thing. They pair their votes. Hol.
land would vote for a given bill;
this other senator would vote
against it. So, they both stay away.
They record how they would have
voted if they had been present.
Their two votes, that really weren't
cast, cancel each other so moth
ing is lost. Big job is to find a
pair" for every vote that comes
up. This is usually a job for the
senator's Washington office staff
- and at times is no mean trick.
As far as committee work goes,
the senator may leave his proxy
with someone who agrees to vote
as the senator would. This was
done by Senator Holland last week
in the ease of the Mutual Security
Appropriations bill. Holland had
helped work out the bill that final
ly was brought to the floor. In
agreement with majority leader
Lyndon Johnson, he left his proxy
with Senator Carl Hayden, COM
mittee chairman. Hollands position
was midway between wild spend.
ing and a dangerous cutback; and
that's the way his proxy was voted.
But even with these arrange
ments, there is always a chance
that Holland will be forced to can
eel an important speech to fly to
Washington just to say one word
in the Senate. "Yea or Nay.
IN THE HABIT - Some folks
always expect special treatment.
A try in that direction caused the
biggest laugh in Washington last
week. Wen Bernard Goldfine
wrote a letter to the members of
Congress, asking them not to cite
him for contempt, he also sent
a duplicated letter to each of the
administrative assistants. He asked
them to place his letter near the
top of the pile of mail on the
congressman's d SIX. Somebody
should whisper two things to Mr.
Goldfine. First, the administrative
assistants to congressman are among
the ablest and best informed men
in town - nobody's fools. Second,
his mimeographed letter just about
guaranteed that his letter would
not get special treatment. Only
thing it really accomplished was to
furnish an item for much humor
Gus conversation in the cafeteria.
NO PREACHER - Congressman
Billy MATHEWS isn't a preacher, but
last Sunday he sounded like one
"Mr. Billy" was the %principa,
speaker before 5000 at the Sunday
Afternoon session of the Winons
Lake Bible Conference, famous in
ter-denominational religious ga
thering in n d i a a. His title
Ethics in Government. One o
the founders of the Conference
was Billy Sundays song leader
Homer Rodeheaver. On Angus
oath, evangelist Billy Graham will
speak to the same group.