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Show A STACKED COMMITTEE 159 guised as part of the omnibus flood control measures.176 Senator Millikin pleaded with Thye not to make the telegrams a part of the record, because the flood control bill had nothing to do with the crsp bill. The matter before the Senate at the moment, said Millikin, had to do with a flood control project on the Arkansas River, which was on the opposite side of the Continental Divide from the Colorado River. Thye said the people of Minnesota were not acquainted with all the Rocky Mountain area. In that case, said Millikin, they ought to spend a summer out there, because Colorado was a mile nearer heaven than the rest of the country, and some sinners would need that mile. Thye replied that he was sorry he had brought the matter up, because it produced a chamber of commerce speech by the distin- guished senator from Colorado. Millikin told him he hadn't heard anything yet. The intimation by Rep. Aspinall, that California opponents of the crsp were "prostituting" themselves brought Rep. Sheppard charging from his tent to de- mand: 177 "Since when has it been prostitution to keep burglars out of one's house?" So it went in the dog days of August 1954, to the accompaniment of "Ho hums" from more than one weary member of Congress. Watkins and Company were becoming desperate and mean. On August 11, 1954, they had S. 1555 brought up on the Senate consent calendar. It was passed over, on the objection of Senator George A. Smathers of Florida. |
