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On Capitol Hill-
Next Congress Fight Due on Postage Bill
Washington—(U.P.)-A House Democratic leader today branded the Republican-sponsored 1-cent hike in first class postage rates on out-of-town letters as "just another tax on the people."
Rep. John R. McCormack (R-Mass.), minority whip, predicted a "great majority" of Democrats would oppose the measure when it comes up for a House vote. Republican leaders conceded the plan faces "considerable opposition."
The 4-cent stamp proposal -was approved by the House post office committee yesterday by a vote of 13 to 9. It is a key provision of President Eisenhower's request for a $250 million boost in postal rates.
The proposal calls for no change in the $-cent rate for "local mail."
The committee met behind closed doors to thrasher out other features of the administration bill. These include 1-cent bike in air mail stamps and increases in the second and third class mail rates.
Other congressional developments: Brickert; Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said there would be no showdown votes on Sen. John W. Bricker's treaty-limiting amendment until Republicans return from a round of Lincoln Day speeches week after next. He said there may be some votes today on minor amendments to the proposal.
Taxes: Rep. Herman P. Eberharter (D.-Pa.) said the Republican tax revision bill would ease the burden of the rich and put more of the tax load on the poor.
Unemployment; Three Democratic members of the House-Senate economic committee challenged the administration's unemployment figures and suggested that the total may be too low.
Statehood: Sen Clinton P. Anderson (D.-N.H.) predicted the Senate would combine the separate Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood measures into a single bill and approve both it the same time.
Defense: Senate Democrats appeared ready to accept the administration's "new look" military program without a fight. A series of White House conferences and armed service committee military briefings appear to have spiked opposition to the atomic-age strategy.
Destroyers: House investigators demanded to know why, the Navy awarded a contract for three destroyers to a Quincy, Mass., company at a price $6,546,000 higher than the low bid.
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Tidelands Oil Stirs Disputes
Washington — (U.R.)—The Justice department has asked the Supreme Court to refuse to consider suits filed by Alabama and Rhode Island challenging the constitutionality of the so-called tidelands act.
Oscar H. Davis, special assistant to Attorney General Herbert Brownell jr., told the court yesterday the two states' attacks on the law were "frivolous." He said there is no doubt the law is constitutional and that Congress acted within its power in giving ownership of the long-disputed offshore oil lands to coastal states.
Texas, California, Louisiana, and Florida joined the Justice department in opposing the proposed suits before the high court.
Alabama and Rhode Island claim the law was an illegal abdication of federal power. They said all states—not just a few—have a right to share in the $62 million royalty fund collected in oil fees during the last few years.
Washington—(U.P.)—The Democrats sought today to take the edge off Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's transcontinental speaking tour by sending advance "truth kits" to cities where he will speak.
Democrats Blunt McCarthy Talks
The Democratic National committee said it distributed the kits because the Wisconsin Republican "has been considerably more careless with the truth" in speeches away from Washington. It said they were mailed to local party leaders and newspapers in the nine cities Sen. McCarthy will hit.
The committee said the "truth kits" contain a "fact sheet" on the Democratic record against Communism, an article on how D em o r a t s "wrecked" the Communist threat in the U.S. and another accusing McCarthy of "smearing innocent persons, including Gen. George C. Marshall and President Eisenhower himself."
McCarthy started his eight-day schedule of Lincoln Day addresses in Charleston, W.Va., last night. He speaks to another rally at Canton, Ohio, today.
He charged in Charleston that the Democratic label was "stitched with the idiocy of a Truman, rotted by the deceit of an Acheson. Corrupted by the Red slime of a White."
It was at a Lincoln Day rally in Wheeling, W.Va., four years ago that McCarthy made his original charges that Reds had infiltrated the State department under the Truman administration. The national committee took note of this in a letter accompanying the kits.
Friday, Feb. 5, 1954
"Sen. McCarthy began his rise from Senate obscurity on a Lincoln Day dinner speaking tour in which he made a series of spectacular charges of communist penetration of the federal government," it said. "During his tour he altered, revised, and watered down his charges, which were never proved."
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Washington —(U.P.)—Three Democrats challenged the administration's unemployment figures today, hinting they think the total may be too low.
Jobless Total Challenged
Top officials of three agencies which keep tab on the employment situation were called before the House-Senate economic committee to explain their methods in computing labor statistics. The Census bureau put the number of jobless persons at 2,359,000 in its latest estimate.
Sen. John J. Sparkman (D.-Ala.)
said in an interview, he questioned whether the administration is correct in counting as unemployed only 1,119,000 of the 3,630,000 persons who stopped working during the past five months. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-III) raised the same point.
"I'm not questioning the good faith of the Census bureau," he said, "but I wonder if as many people have left the labor force as they assume."
Rep. Richard M. Bolling (D-Mo.) called for details on cutbacks in work hours and take-home pay.
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