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Show A STACKED COMMITTEE 163 with the reasoning that if the bill could be passed, the road would be smoother next year. It was 11:28 p. m. when a motion to adjourn until 9:30 the next morning was carried. Japan, taxation, pay raises for government employees and a score of other subjects held the attention of the Senate the next morning, August 20, 1954, and it was again late in the day before the pending business, S. 1555, was resumed. Majority Leader Knowland made an effort to limit debate, and failed.181 Summer dusk was falling when Senator Malone of Nevada managed to secure the floor. It was not known then that he had just come from two bitter arguments in the cloakroom. He had asked Knowland for permission to bring up two minor bills of particular interest to Nevada. Know- land had turned him down, explaining that the Senate had before it all it could possibly consider, that the goal for adjournment had been set for that night, that the House already had adjourned. If he permitted Malone to bring up pet bills, he would have to extend the same courtesy to other senators who had made similar requests which he had refused. One of the bills Malone wanted to bring up had to do with whiskey bonding, and Millikin had told him he would not permit it to be discussed while the crsp was being shoved aside. Mai one's reply to both Knowland and Millikin had been a threat that he would obstruct by any parlia- mentary means possible further consideration of S. 1555. The crsp was a dead issue, he declared, and he resented being denied the privilege of bringing up legislation important to his own state. Then he stamped out to make good his threat. |
