TEN MTDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thurday, February 27, 1958
Morse,
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribun Correspondent
Washington (Special)
Sens. Wayne Morse and Rich
ard L. Neuberger have thrown
down the gauntlet to one an
other in a fresh rupture of
their personal relationship as
Oregon's two Democratic sen
ators.
Morse claims Neuberger has
violated the established prac
tice by which Oregon sena
tors heretofore have avoided
open clashes. He indicates
that Neuberger is asking for
trouble if he doesn't conform
Neuberger claims the price
of getting along with Morse
is too high for him to pay
He says he won't remain sil
ent about his convictions
A Democratic party peace
maker from Portland, C.
Girard Davidson, Oregon's
national committeeman
meanwhile is seeking to heal
the personal breach that has
divided the senators for
months, dating back to the
Civil Rights debate of last
August, and which was inten
sified by events of this past
week.
The senators are sharply di
vided over whether postal
rates should be increased
across the boards, but the
heart of their new dispute is
the manner in which each
senator has expressed his dif
ferences with the other.
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It all began last week when
Senator Neuberger announced
in the Senate on Wednesday
that he had decided to vote
for the request of the Eisen
hower administration for a
postage increase bill that
would boost first class out-of-town
rates from 3 to 5 cents.
Neuberger, who previously
opposed higher postal rates,
said after listening to much
testimony he concluded the
increase was in the "public
interest." The first-class rate
hasn't been increased since
1932.
He noted that he is spon
soring a postal workers' pay
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increase bill and he favors a
postal building program, and
that there are constant de
mands from the Pacific
Northwest for river develop
ment appropriations and re
moval of the transportation
tax.
Neuberger's Vote Decisive
"Legitimate as these needs
are, we cannot always advo
vate only the spending of pub
lic funds and the lifting of
burdensome taxes. We can
not always evade the respon
sibility of facing up to the
need to collect revenue,"
averred Neuberger.
Thursday morning, as a
member of the Senate Post
Office - Committee, Neuber-
ger's vote gave the postal rate
bill a favorable majority of
7-to-6. Six Republicans and
Neuberger were for it, six
Democrats against it.
Thursday afternoon, Sena
tor Morse took the Senate
floor and roundly denounced
the proposed increase in first
class rates as "brazen" and
'unholy."
Neuberger went immediate-
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ly to the Senate chamber,
where Morse was saying that
the proposed 5-cent stamp "is
a brazen attempt on the part
of newspaper editors and
magazine publishers of this
country to make a grab bag
out of our nation's mail bags.
I am one senator who does
not propose to let the news
paper editors and magazine
publishers get by with this
avarice, when they seek to
impose upon the taxpayers of
this country this unconscion
able burden that we are al
ready paying by way of the
Post Office deficit."
Later he called the pro
posal "an unholy tax upon
the heads of the American
taxpayers which seeks to
deny them free access to this
channel of enlightenment and
dissemination of educational
information which is neces
sary to keep this democracy
strong.
'Vital' to Education
"I do not take the position,
either, that second and third
class mail users should pay a
higher rate. I take the posi
tion that they could pay more
than they do now. But I still
say that second- and third-
class mail is also vital to the
educational processes of the
nation."
At length, Neuberger rose
and interrupted Morse in an
effort to determine just what
he was for. As he explained
in an interview later, Morse
had criticized newspapers and
magazines, chief users of second-
and third-class mail, but
later said he didn't take the
position that these users
"should pay a higher rate"
but that "they should pay
more."
Neuberger: Does not the
senator think he has been
very outspoken in his criti
cism, in view oi the iact mat
he has not yet heard the evi
dence?
Morse: I have not been liv
ing in a vacuum. I have been
reading avidly on the subject.
I think I know what the sena-
tor has in mind as evidence
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Neuberger: Then, if the sen
ator is familiar with the evi
dence
Loyal Fondness Endures
Morse: I am waiting to hear
my colleague tell me what he
thinks the evidence is. The
burden of proof is his. Let us
hear the evidence.
Neuberger: The senator'
junior colleague has not come
to the floor to indulge in criti
cism of anyone.
Morse: The senator's senior
colleage has, let me assure
him.
Subsequently, Morse said:
want my colleague to know.
first, that my difference with
him on this issue and it is
abysmal; I can imagine no
bridge that can span it in any
way indicates no lack of
loyal fondness for my col
league. On the contrary it
demonstrates that the people
of Oregon sent us here to ex
ercise our honest judgment
on issues.
Having said that, I say
most good naturedly and re
spectfully to my colleague
that I have listened to many
non sequiturs in my 13 years
in the Senate, but I have nev
er listened to one that is more
absurd than the one my col
league has just made when he
pointed out that the senators
from the Northwest are sent
to congress from time to time
for the purpose of securing
large public works and that
therefore a 5-cent postage
stamp ought , to be imposed
upon the people of the United
States in order to reduce the
Post Office deficit."
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Neuberger subseq u e n 1 1 y
agreed that "there is nothing
at all personal in this matter,"
for senators can express dif
ferences "in the best of
spirits."
The debate then raged on.
Neuberger said the hearings
he attended showed that "by
far the majority of the users
of the mail, in terms of vol
ume, including first-class
mail, are . various businesses
throughout the country.
Friday, Morse took the floor
again and said that "when we
refer to the fact that busi
nesses use first-class mail to
send out their bills whether
they are private utilities or
department .stores or what
not I wonder whether any
one really thinks that the
businesses pay for that post
age." Burden on Consumer
Morse argued that a busi
ness simply tacks the postage
charge onto the cost of its
product or service to the con
sumer so that "by increasing
the rate on first-class mail we
would be increasing the bur
den on the so-called little fel
low, the general consumer in
the United States."
Morse said he had cam
paigned "all over the state of
Oregon in opposition to an in
crease in the first-class postal
rate. I do not intend to walk
out on my commitments in
that campaign, unless some
one can bring forth a prepon
derance of evidence which
will show that in 1956 I was
mistaken. However, I am sat
isfied that the people of my
state did not think I was mis
taken." Sunday night, at a dinner
meeting held at Morse's
apartment, attended by the
five Democrats of the state's
delegation, their wives and
some staff assistants. C. Gir
ard Davidson, Oregon's Dem
ocratic National- Committee
man, sought to turn the dis
cussion to talk of the value of
party unity, after a long dis
cussion of the Snake river de
velopment problem.
Morse reportedly claimed
he never would have taken
off on Neuberger's position in
the way he did had not Neu
berger interrupted his pre
pared manuscript by asking
pointed questions.
Neuberger reportedly re
torted that Morse misjudged
him if he thought Neuberger
would sit silently in the cham
while . Morse denounced
a position of his as brazen
and unholy.
Morse reportedly contended
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that Neuberger was challeng
ing him on a major issue of
his recent reelction campaign.
Neuberger subsequently had
his . Portland office check
newspaper files of the 1956
campaign. He said they found
no stories which would sup
port Morse's contention he
made postal rates a major
issue. He said Morse also
failed to mention postal rates
among the issues in his state
ment printed in the 1956
Voters' Pamphlet.
In separate interviews, the
senators frankly disclosed
their feelings about the whole
affair and threw down the
gauntlet to one another.
"I didn't start this hassle,"
declared Morse. 'The record
will show that I have never
taken the initiative to chal
lenge my colleague. But when
a senator challenges me, I'm
going to def-nd myself, I
don't care who he is."
He said Neuberger had
started the hassle by inter
rupting his speech with ques
tions. He said his attack on
Neuberger's position was
"definitely not" premeditated
that he had a prepared text
which contained none of the
language Neuberger objected
'to. .The Congressional Record
shows that Morse departed
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from his text with the terms
"brazen" and "unholy" well
before Neuberger entered the
fray.
Morse contended that Neu
berger had no business inter
fering with his speech, that it
is not in the interest of the
state when its two senators
clash openly in debate on the
Senate floor.
Too High a Price
"If he , disagreed with my
position, why didn't he state
his position on his own time?"
exclaimed Morse. He said that
is the practice he always fol
lowed during the long period
when his colleague from Ore
gon was Republican Guy Cor
don, a conservative with
whom Morse disagreed almost
across the boards.
Neubergerj in an interview,
declared:
' "If in order to go along with
Senator Morse I have to sup
press my honest convictions
regarding postal rate policies,
that is too high a price to pay.
And if in order to get along
with Senator Morse I have to
sit silently and in acquiesence
while he describes an action
that I have just taken as
brazen and unholy, then that
is also a price that is top high
to pay."
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dicted the Oregon senators
would stick together on 90
per cent of the issues but par
ried questions about how
they would get along per
sonally. . V
Davidson has been acting
in the role of peacemaker for
the past few days in an at
tempt to heal wounds inflicted
by the two senators upon one
another.
The national committeeman
said the debate "shows that
Oregon has two independent
minded senators.. That's what
the people of Oregon ex
pected. They take a position
and are able to defend it. I'm
proud of it. I don't expect
that either one will call the
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