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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, July 13. 19S7 Chasm Between Morse a nd Neuberger on Politic al Issues Continues To Widen By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribun Correspondent Washington A chasm has been slowly but surely widening between the respective positions of O r e g o n s two Democrat ic Senators on the most im portant legisla tion that has confronted the Senate. As often as not. Senators W a yne Morse a. aobt smitu and Richard L Neuberger have differed on the major bills of this session of congress. They have differed in the past on big and controversial O issues, but never before on such a wide range or great number of pieces of substantive legisla tion. While acknowledging that they frequently do not see eye- to-eye. both deny that this is in dicative of any political rift be tween them and their closest followers in the ranks of Ore gon's Democratic party. "I think it would be proper to describe our relationship as one of very deep, intimate friend ship," remarked Morse of his colleague. Baiic Agreement Reached Neuberger said much the same thing, saying that he and Morse have what amounts to "a basic political agreement" a kind of rapport or meeting of ' minds on things political which hasn't been disturbed by their coming to different conclusions on how to vote on key bills. "It is part of maturity, I think, to be able to separate political issues from personal friend ship," added Neuberger. The major area of disagree ment between the two senators is over foreign policy. They have been more strongly united on domestic issues. As a generalization, this has been true of all three sessions of Congress since Neuberger came to Washington in 1955 and Morse became a Democrat that same year. It has been far more pronounced of late, however. Echo Park Vote Split The first evidence that Ore gon's two Democrats would ride separate horses, which might dash off in different directions instead of always pulling the same wagon, came not too long after their senatorial relation ship began and Neuberger came out against the Echo Park dam project. This was a controversial part of the vast Upper Colorado stor age project. Echo Park dam would have flooded out part of Dinosaur national monument and was vigorously opposed by the organized conservationists. Morse supported Echo Park, and the Senate approved it, although later it was deleted from the bill when the House passed it. This was probably the first and last significant issue on which Morse opposed the posi tion taken by the conservation groups. Neuberger is always in their corner, and, ever since, EXTRA CASH FOR VACATION EXPENSES Buy WHAT YOU NEED 4 Clean-up YOUR BILLS W will sunnlv thft rash . on your own signature and security. No one need sign with you. 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Ever since then, early in Neu- bergcr's term, he has generally backed Eisenhower's foreign policy requests; and Morse has more and more opposed the pol icics of Eisenhower and Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles Morse has lambasted the admin istration on virtually all of the points of international crisis, Asia, the Middle East, Europe. Ik-. V IT -U WAYNE MORSE Intimate Friendship Morse Percentage Drops But not until this year has Morse's criticism been reflected in "nay" votes down the line on the key foreign policy issues Last year, for example, Morse backed Eisenhower 77 per cent of the time on 22 foreign policy votes and the year before it was 73 per cent (Neuberger's back ing was 95 and 80 per cent for those same years). This year Morse's percentage s bound to show a big drop, for he has in recent months done the following: 1. Voted against the passage of the mutual security (foreign aid) bill. 2. Voted for a series of amend ments, two of which he person ally sponsored, to cut down the amount of foreign military and loan funds. 3. Voted against the presi dent's Middle East doctrine, which was a blank check for the president to use U.S. military might and- funds to avert a war in Suez. M. 1 a Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Cairo Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lal quoted in an Egyptian newspaper on the prospects of a long cold war with America: "China won't be harmed if United States officials do not recog nize her for one or two or three hundred years." Washington Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R.-S.D.) on the possibility thai southern Negroes may get civil rights by political pressure through a guaranteed vote: . "Discrimination in the South will disappear like fog before the sunshine." New York Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson on the fickleness of sports fans: "When a king dies, the people of the country yell, The king is dead long live the king meaning the new king . . . but when a new champion comes along they say, 'Who's this guy. Who'd he ever lick.' " Washington U.S. Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney, in re sponse to a query as to whether the government's recent reports on cigarettes and cancer amounted to a warning: "It amounts to a warning to stop smoking cigarettes, but we would like to have more positive proof before issuing a warning as such." Jerusalem Premier David Ben-Gurion, on the outlook for peace in the Middle East: "Peace possibilities will come closer once the Arab leaders are convinced that Israel is here to stay." Washington Ralph J. Cordiner, chairman of a committee to study the armed services, on the economic effectiveness of the committee's plan if it were implemented wholeheartedly: "You could take about one-tenth, about 10 per cent, of the people off the payroll that are now in the military establishments." 4. Voted for a move to chop out authority to use military and economic aid in Middle East un der this doctrine. 5. Voted for an amendment which he sponsored to require the president to get permission from Congress before commit ting U.S. troops in Middle East. 6. Voted for a reduction in funds for the U.S. Information agency, which includes the Voice of America. 7. Voted for efforts to cut the defense budget, RICHARD NEUBERGER No Political Rift Neuberger Stands Alone In all, these issues brought forth about a dozen significan) roll call votes on foreign policy. On all of them Morse opposed the stand taken by the adminis tration, and Neuberger support ed the administration. On one occasion, Neuberger was the only Democrat to support the president on the successful move to trim funds for USIA. In past years, Morse has de fended foreign aid bills against most efforts to reduce or cripple their effect. This year marked the first time he joined that sizable minority which usually opposes foreign aid. Why? Foreign aid in its present form is a fantastic formula for futility," explained Morse. "It is costing us our dollars, our pres tige in many piaces, and unless we make the changes that must be made in this legislation, I fear it is going to cost us Amer ican lives." Morse said America should ovehaul its military program be cause "we have entered the nu clear age" and "we are wasting manpower. He said we are sending too many American troops abroad. He pointed out that a task for eign relations committee, of which Morse is a member, was critical of the aid we are giving to the totalitarian governments which helps entrench them in power and impedes the cause of freedom and democracy. Anoth er .task force, he said, pointed out that too often foreign aid Just Inside North Entrance i fefw --.S ; - W funds are being used to enrich the ruling class and "the integ rity of democratic government is being shaken by the spectacle of the undeserved enrichment of a favored group. Morse said he isn't opposed to foreign aid as such, but has come out against the program as it has been administered by the Eisenhower administration. Soil Bank Survives , Although Morse and Neuber ger are closer in their thinking on domestic political affairs and both of them about equi distant from the administration in this area they have differed here, too. Neuberger joined the move to kill the soil bank. Morse was among the heavy majority which kept it alive. And Neu berger stayed with the northern liberal Democrats and most Re publicans on the procedural questions of what to do with trie House-passed civil rights bill. Their votes put it on the calen dar, from which it could be called for debate. Morse voted to send the bill to the Senate judiciary committee according to customary practice. The Senators were united on such issues as Hells Canyon, the housing bill and amendments to it to increase public housing and federal mortgage authority; the corn bill to establish a base acreage for that crop; corpora tion taxes extension, and to re duce the tax on small businesses earning less than $225,000; in fa vor of ratifying the interna tional atomic energy treaty an.i the pink salmon protocol; against confirmation of Ambas sador Scott McLeod to Ireland. Both Oppose Dam They also were in agreement on opposing Bruces Eddy dam in the omnibus rivers and har bors authorization bill; in sup porting increased public assist ance grants; in supporting ratifi cation of the Austrian bond trea ty; in opposing the Knowland move to ban barter of surplus agricultural commodities with Communist satellite countries: favoring a $30,000,000 strategic minerals purchase program; and in trying to increase school funds and federal aid for the District of Columbia. Last year Morse supported the administration's domestic poli cies only 23 per cent of the time, on 43 roll call votes. Neuber ger's percentage of support was 30 per cent. The year before SALES FIGURES CONTINUE TO PROVE Ma DODGE 3195 they stood respectively at 32 and 36 per cent. An analysis of the way the Oregon Senators voted also shows that they both have had fairly high records of support of the stand their party has tak en in the Senate Morse dis playing party unity 83 per cent of the time on 69 votes, Neu berger 87 per cent of the time last year. Finally, this overall analysis Holmes Appoints Three to State Board Salem (IP) Gov. Robert D. Holmes has appointed Rob ert C. Birkes, electrical engin eer with the Pacific Power and Light company of Portland,' to the State Board of Engineering Examiners. Reappointment of Professor Glenn W. Holcomb and Profes sor Arthur fD. Hughes, both of the Oregon State college engin eering school faculty, to new four-year terms on the board was announced at the same time by the Governor. Birkes, 15 years with the pow er firm, is now head of its sys tem planning and communica tions planning section. He is a graduate of Washington State college with additional study at the University of Pittsburgh and Oregon State college. All three appointees had the endorsement of the Oregon Tech nical council. Artist to Paint Festival Scenes , Ashland Artist Robert Ban nister is expected to be in Ash land the middle of August. to do a series of paintings on the Shakespearean Festival for Ford Motor publications, it was an nounced today. The paintings and an article on the summer theater and scenic attractions of . southern Oregon are to be published in the Ford Times and in other national publications. Bannister has' been art direc tor on the special services staff of the Fifth U.S. Army head quarters in Chicago. However, he resigned recently to work in the art education department of the Salt Lake City public schools. 9 MERCURY LEADS AGAIN IN LATEST SALES FIGURES MERCURY 3838 OLDSMOBILE("-)3170 PONTIAC 3664 BUICK M 2786 Official R. May, 1957 MEDFORD MOTORS, Inc. 6th and Ivy Phone SP 2-6157 shows that Morse has been less of a lonely dissenter than many suppose. Last year, on 61 roll calls, he stood with the biparti san majority which prevailed 61 Nixon Speaks at Jamboree Opening Valley Forge, Pa. HP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon told 50,000 Boy Scouts here that they stood for ""the things that make America great." Nixon spoke at ceremonies making the opening of the fourth National Boy Scout Jam boree on the historic ground where Gen. George Washington and his poorly-clothed colonial army suffered during the winter of 1777-78. The vice president said the Scouts would remember the jam boree "as one of the finest ex periences of your life." "The things that make Amer ica great are the things that the Boy Scouts of America stand for." Earlier, Dr. Arthur A. Shuck, chief scout executive, read a telegram from President Eisen hower who said the Scouts would return home "better citi zens" as a result of camping at Valley Forge. The huge jamboree began when an aerial bomb burst over the 2,000-acre campsite. The Scouts, representing each state and virtually every nation of the free world, snapped to at tention and delivered their famed three-finger salute as the Stars and Stripes was unfurled while a 160-piece band played the National Anthem. Then the official jamboree flag, showing Washington kneeling in prayer at Valley Forge was raised. The ceremonies opened a full week of activities and contests designed to keep the Scouts go ing until the jamboree ends next Thursday. BAD OMEN Troyes, France (IB Albert Marchal. 42. and his fiance start ed married life somewhat delir iously but not necessarilv at the propect of matrimony. Marchal was hit on the head and knocked unconscious bv a 75-oound paint ing while waiting in the tovn h" to be married and his bride promptly fainted from shock. : I. Polk Registrations, mm WW ner cent of the time. Neuberger was on the winning side 72 per cent of the time. The year be fore Morse was with the major ity 70 per cent, Neuberger uu per cent. Four years ago when Oregon had two Republican Senators, they had the highest record of vntinff Hiffprpnre of all states. That was understandable be cause Guy Cordon, an orthodox conservative ReDublican. and Wayne Morse, then a maverick liberal Republican, held thor nnphpoine differences of rjoliti- cal and social philosophy. It was, indeed, a remarkable and rare occasion when they could agree for long on any issue of political controversy. At that time, the administra tion was Democratic and yet Mnrsp was personally friendly and often a supporter of Presi dent Truman. Cordon had little use for this regime. Mnrsp and Neuberger hold much closer political philoso phies, both being memoers oi ho nnrthom liheral bloc. What has impelled many of the voting differences between tnem nas Memo from R b 'iiiiikjti. 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Drive home in your new '57 Mercury, the West's top car in its field. been a fierce opposition on the part of Morse for the Eisenhow er administration's foreign poli cies, whereas in this area Neu berger has not ventured to be come a critic and more often than not has resolved any doubts in favor of the president. Not Anxious To Be Expert As a freshman Senator, Neu berger has demonstrated no anxiety to become a foreign af fairs expert. Possibly in time that may change. But to date he has concentrated almost exclu sively on resource, conservation and social issues the areas of concern which have engaged his attention as a writer for years. But both Senators have shown themselves to be independently unpredictable not voting as the "Morseberger" team some tup posed would be the case and therefore, as members of the Senate, they have been dis dained by those who wish they would "stay put" and courted by those who recognize them to be free wheeling operators who may wind up on opposite sides of any issue by the time the last word has been said. Eeddy... 1 1 1
