March 12, 1947 (5)
The Senate resumed the consideration of the joint resolution <H. J. Res. 27), proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the terms of office of the President.
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The questionis on the passage of House Joint Resolution 27.
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Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Mr. President, I move that the Senate proceed to the consiceration of executive business.
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa has the right to make the motion. The question is on the motion of the Senator from Iowa that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business. [Putting the question.]
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The motion was not agreed to.
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Mr. TAFT. Mr. President, on the pending question I ask for the yeas and nays.
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The yeas and nays were ordered.
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Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, before we cast our votes on this important question I desire to make one or two comments upon what has happened here during the last hour. On two different occasions during the day I made request of the leadership on the other side of the aisle respecting what the program would be in order that I might inform Senators on this side. On both occasions I was given to understand from the floor that the Senate would complete action on House Joint Resolution 27, and thereafter would proceed to consider the portal-to-portal pay bill, following which the nominations of those appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission would be considered.
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Mr. WHITE. Mr. President, will the Senator yield?
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Mr. LUCAS. I yield.
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Mr. - WHITE. I want to say, and I think the Senator from Illinois will respect my statement in this regard, that what I have stated was precisely what I believed the situation to be respecting the agreement which had been entered into. ·
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Mr. LUCAS. I do not doubt that a ' · all. What the Senator said from hi: place this afternoon and what the able Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. WILEY] said when I asked him that question I am satisfied was the arrangement. Under that theory we on this side were to notify Senators who were not on the floor to be present in order that they might cast their votes sometime this evening on House Joint Resolution 27. I want to say that I am very grateful to the leadership on the other side for finally getting around to the point where they followed the original program that had been agreed upon in the Senate. Otherwise, I would have felt that it would have been necessary for me to apologize to all the Democratic Members for keeping them here this late at night in order to vote on House Joint Resolution 27, because it was definitely understood that once House Joint Resolution 27 was passed, the Senator from Missouri [Mr. DoNNELL] would take - the floor and probably speak for a couple of hours, and some Senators, a little older perhaps than myself, might have been able to go home and get" a little more rest than they would have gotten otherwise.
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Mr. President, I bring up this matter in order to advise Members on the other side of the . aisle that we hope that from now on, when they make an agreement and tell the Senate what the program is, and keep Senators · here as · late as they have done in order to vote on House Joint Resolution 27, they will not then leave us in the lurch on the spur of the moment for some other matter. I am grateful for the change in program, and I think all other Senators on this side are grateful.
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Mr. TAFT. Mr. President, the pro- · gram contemplated a vote early in the day on House Joint Resolution 27. It was not expected that it would be debated at length all afternoon and all evening. Everything that was to be said on it had been said. Nevertheless the · CHAVEZ], debate continued. It disrupted all the plans, which involved taking up the portal-to-portal pay measure this afternoon and seeing how far we could get with it before turning to the Lilienthal nomination. It was repeatedly stated that the Lilienthal nomination was to be taken up this evening.
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Unfortunately the plans were disrupted. I regret very much that that was the fact. But I do not see how Senators can foresee the length of debate. Perhaps we were mistaken in assuming that the debate would be shorter than it proved to be.
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Now the question is on the passage of the joint resolution, which I think is in such form that anyone who is in favor . of the principle of limiting the number · of terms a President may serve can properly support it.
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The joint resolution having been read three times, the question is, Shall it pass? On this question the yeas and nays have been ordered, and the clerk will call the roll.
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The legislative clerk l ' roceeded to call the roll.
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Mr. ELLENDER (when Mr. OVERTON's name was called). As I announced earlier today, my distinguished colleague the senior Senator from Louisiana [Mr. OVERTON] was compelled to leave the Chamber because of illness. His pair and his position on this question will be announced by the Senator from Illinois [Mr. LUCAS].
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The roll call was concluded.
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Mr. WHERRY. I announce that the Senator from Washington [Mr. CAIN] and the Senator from New Mexico [Mr. HATCH] are paired with the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BARKLEY]. The Senator from Washington is absent by leave of the Senate. If present and voting, he would vote "yea."
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The Senator from Wyoming EMr. RoBERTSON] and the Senator from Nevada [Mr. MALONE] are paired with the Senator from New York [Mr. WAG- . NER]. The Senator from Wyoming is absent because of illness. If present and voting, he would vote “yea.” The Senator from Nevada is necessarily absent on State business. If present and voting, he would vote "yea."
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The Senator from Nebraska EMr. BuTLER] and the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. OVERTON] are paired with the Senator from Wyoming EMr. O'MAHONEYL The Senator from Nebraska is absent because of illness. If present and voting, he would vote "yea."
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The Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. ToBEY] is absent by leave of the Senate on official business.
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Mr. LUCAS. The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BARKLEY] and the Senator from New York [Mr. WAGNER] are necessarily absent.
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The Senator from New Mexico [Mr . HATCH] and the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. O'MAHONEY] are detained on public business.
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The Senator from Nevada [Mr. McCARRAN] and the Senator from Georgia [Mr. RussELL], who are necessarily absent, would vote "yea" if present.
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The Senator from New Mexico [Mr. who is necessarily absent, would vote "nay" if present.
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The Senator from New Mexico EMr. HATCH] and the Senator from Washington [Mr. CAIN], who would vote "yea" if present, are paired with the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. BARKLEY], who would vote "nay" if present.
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The · Senator from Louisiana [Mr. OvERTON] and the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. BuTLER], who would vote “yea” if present, are paired with the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. O'MAHONEY], who would vote "nay" if present.
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The Senator from Wyoming [Mr. RoBERTSON] and the Senator from Nevada [Mr. MALONE], who would vote "yea" if present, are paired · with the Senator from New York [Mr. WAGNER], who would vote "nay" if present.
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The result was announced-yeas 59, nays 23 , as follows: -
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YEA&-59
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A i ken Geo r ge O ' O'Conor Baldwin Gur n ey O'Daniel Ball H a wkes Reed Brews t er H i ck e nlooper Revercomb Brick e r Hoey Robertson , Va. Bridges Ives S a lton stall Brooks Jenner Smit.h Buck Johnson, • n , Colo. Taft Bushfield Kern Thomas , Okla. Byrd Know land Thye Capehart Langer Tydings Capper Lodge Vandenberg Cooper McCarthy Watkins Cordon McClellan Wherry bonn ell McKellar Wh i te Dworsh a k Martin Wiley Eastland May bank Williams Ecton Millikin Wilson Ferguson Moore Young Fl a nders Morse
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NAY&-23
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Connally Johnston, S. C. Myers Downey Kilgore Pepper Ellender Lucas Sparkman Fulbright McFarland Stewart - Green McGrath Taylor Hayden McMahon Thomas, Utah Hill - Magnuson Umstead Holland Murray
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NOT VOTING-13
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Barkley _ McCarran Russell Butler Malone Tobey Cain O'Mahoney Wagner Chavez Overton Hat<;h Robertson, Wyo.
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So the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 27), as amended, was passed, two-thirds of the · senators present having voted in the affirmative.
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Mr. TAFT. Mr. President, I move that the Senate insist upon its amendments, request a conference with the House of Representatives thereon, and that the Chair appoint the conferees on the part of the Senate.
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The motion was agreed to; and the President pro tempore appointed Mr. WILEY, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. REVERCOMB, Mr. McCARRAN, and Mr. EASTLAND con- ferees on the part of the Senate.
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