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...farm program off its back. Also in Congress last week: ¶ The Senate, by a surprising 84-0 roll-call vote, passed up an election-year tax cut, rejected the proposal of the powerful Senate Finance Committee (made over Chairman Harry Byrd's objections) for repeal of 10% excise tax on travels, telegrams and local telephone service. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson called vacationing Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson before the debate, heard from his fellow Texan what repeal would mean to the Treasury: loss of $750 million in tax revenue, a slimmer surplus in fiscal...
...vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week postponed "to a later time" (translation: to a later session of Congress) any hopeful attempt to repeal the so-called Connally Reservation of 1946, a roadblock to effective U.S. use of the World Court for settling international disputes. Both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon had sought the abolition as a step toward world rule of law. Secretary of State Christian Herter and Attorney General William P. Rogers took strong stands in testimony before the committee. The move to repeal was sponsored by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, had the support...
...difficult." But he does not foresee an effort to pass any further laws barring birth control, though "here is an area where there will be a good deal of conflict in the future." Historian Schlesinger agrees that future birth control legislation is unlikely, but castigates Catholic resistance to repeal of existing laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut (passed by Yankee Protestants in the 18703) as "mistaken and offensive...
...considered petty, was necessary for the preservation of law and order. Cried Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of England, speaking in the House of Lords in 1810 against a bill to abolish the death penalty for shoplifting: "I am certain depredations to an unlimited extent would immediately be committed . . . Repeal this law and see the contrast-no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions that, on his return, every vestige of his property will be swept off by the hardened robber." But the tides of history were running against Lord Ellenborough...
Thus bolstered, the drive for repeal focused once again on Congress, where a resolution for repeal, sponsored by Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, is before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Christian Herter, Attorney General William Rogers and Vice President Nixon, all have gone on record favoring the repeal of the Connally Reservation. Arkansas' William Fulbright, committee chairman, is in favor too. But Democrat Fulbright hesitates to send the repealer to the Senate until he sees signs that he can muster the two-thirds vote necessary for repeal. His biggest problem, says...