PROGRAM
National Reclamation
Association
RECLAMATION-A Partner in American Agriculture
MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
CONVENTION DIRECTORY
CONVENTION SESSIONS _____ .1lall of Mirrors, Municipal Aud.
REGISTRATIOR ___________________ Main Lobby, Municipal Aud. INFORMATIOR _____________________ M ain Lobby, M unici pal Aud.
Lobby, Skirvin Hotel
Lobby, Biltmore Hotel EXHIBITS ________________ _______ Zebra Room, Municipal Aud. DIRECTORS' MEETING ROOM ___ Room 210, Municipal Aud. RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE ROOM ____ Room 208, Muni. Aud. SPECIAL CONFERENCE ROOM.-___ Room 209, Municipal Aud.
STENOGRAPHIC ROOM ______ Room M-N-J (207) Muni. Aud.
STATE CAUCUSES
Mezzanine and First Balcony of Municipal Aud.
PREss HEADQUARTERS ___________ Room 218, Municipal Aud.
TRAVEL RESERVATIONS _________ Main Lobby, Municipal Aud.
LADIES COURTESY DESK ________ Main Lobby, Municipal Aud. SECRETARY -MANAGER'S HEADQUARTERS ______ S kirvin Hotel BUREAU OF RECLAMATION HEADQUARTERS ____ Skirvin Hotel
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE HEADQUARTERS ______ Skirvin Hotel CORPS OF ENGINEERS HEADQUARTERS _______ ~--Skirvin Hotel FUN NIGHL ______________________ Convention Hall, Skirvin Tower THURSDAY LUNCHEON, Nov. 18 ____ Zebra Room, Muni. Aud.
LADIES' LUNCHEOR _____________________ Jade Room, Skirvin Hotel
ANNUAL BANQUET ________ Silver Glade Room, Skirvin Tower FRIDAY LUNCHEON, Nov. 19
Silver Glade Room, Skirvin Tower HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP __________ Zebra Room, Municipal Aud. CAUCUS ROOMS _______________________________ M unicipal Auditorium
Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming,
New Mexico ____________ Fir3t Balcony, Auditorium (Main)
Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, and
GENERAL INFORMATION
REGISTRATION
A registration fee of $3.00 will be required of all dele~ gates. Ladies are requested to register but no fee is required. Registration fees do not include membership in the Asso~ ciation.
Please register promptly at the desk in the Main Lobby, Municipal Auditorium. giving your complete mailing address. It would be helpful if you would also give your temporary Oklahoma City address. in order that letters. telegrams and messages can be delivered to you readily while in Oklahoma City.
By getting your I uncheon. banquet and Fun Night tickets at the time you register. you will save time and trouble for yourself and will greatly expedite the work of the local committee.
The registration desk will open on November 15th. for the convenience of those who wish to register early and will remain open until November 19th.
MEMBERSHIP
All members of the National Reclamation Association will receive a copy of the Proceedings of this Convention and BULLETIN service. Individual Contributing Memberships are $2.00; Individual Sustaining Memberships are $5.00. If you have not already paid your membership dues for 1949, you may do so when you register.
LUNCHEON, BANQUET AND FUN NIGHT TICKETS
Tickets for the two luncheons, which are to be held in the Zebra Room. Municipal Auditorium and the Silver Glade Room. Skirvin Tower. Thursday and Friday noons respec~ tively; Annual Banquet. which is to be held in the Silver Glade Room. Skirvin Tower; and Fun Night, which is spon~ sored by the Local Convention Committee. and is to be held in the Convention Hall. Skirvin Tower, should be purchased at the time you register.
Luncheon tickets are $2.00 each for Thursday noon; $1.30 each for Friday noon. Banquet tickets are $3.50 each; and Fun Night tickets are $1. 5 0 each.
GENERAL INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION (Cont'd)
WEDNESDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 17 THURSDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 18
FRIDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 19 CONVENTION NOTES
GENERAL INFORMATION (Continued)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors will meet November 15th and 16th in Room 210 of the Municipal Auditorium. and there~
after during the Convention at the call of the President.
EXHIBITS
State. Federal and commercial exhibits will be placed on display from November 17th to November 19th. inclusive. in the Zebra Room of the Municipal Auditorium.
CONFERENCES WITH BUREAU OF RECLAMATION OFFICIALS
To arrange for conferences with Commissioner Straus or other Bureau officials. call Commissioner Straus' secretary. Mrs. Fedalma Hagood. in the Skirvin Hotel.
CONFERENCES WITH DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFICIALS
Department of Agriculture officials will be available for conferences in the Skirvin Hotel.
CONFERENCES WITH OFFICIALS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS
A room in the Skirvin Hotel is assigned as the conference room for the Corps of Engineers. in order that project inter~
ests might confer with District or Division Engineers present at the Convention.
CONFERENCES WITH DON McBRIDE
To arrange for conferences with Secretary-Manager Don McBride. call his secretary. Mrs. Hazel C. English. in the Skirvin Hotel.
RESOLUTIONS AND THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
The Resolutions Committee will meet for instructions in Room 208 of the Municipal Auditorium immediately upon adjournment at 4 :45 p.m .• Wednesday. November 17, and thereafter at the call of the Chairman.
Copies of proposed resolutions must be in the hands of the Resolutions Committee before 9 :00 a.m .• Thursday. Novem-ber 18th. Copies of resolutions will be available in the main lobby of the Municipal Auditorium. Friday morning, No-vember 19th, for study of convention delegates.
AUDITING COMMITTEE
The Auditing Committee will meet with President Harry
E. Polk in the Hall of Mirrors, Municipal Auditorium, fol-lowing adjournment at 4 :45 p.m., Wednesday. November
17th.
STATE CAUCUSES
Delegates from each state will caucus at 10:00 a.m .• Wed-nesday, November 17, to select representatives to serve on the Board of Directors and the Resolutions Committee and to discuss other matters. They may caucus at other times during the Convention upon call of the Director. They will meet in rooms designated. Each cacus shall select a secretary to serve until the next Annual Meeting.
LADIES' PROGRAM
Mrs. Roy J. Turner is in charge of the program for enter-tainment of visiting ladies. The program will include Fun Night, November 17th at 7 :00 p.m. Thursday noon, No-vember 18th, the ladies will attend a luncheon and style show in the Jade Room of the Skirvin Hotel. Friday afternoon. November 19th. the ladies are invited on a tour of Oklahoma City and a reception at the Governor's mansion. During the convention. personal shoppers will be available on call at the ladies courtesy desk in the lobby of the Municipal Auditorium.
THE OKLAHOMA CITY CONVENTION COMMITTEE RE-QUESTS THAT ALL LADIES REGISTER
(No Registration Fee) •
TEMPORARY OFFICE
The President and Secretary-Manager will maintain a tem-porary office during the Convention in the Skirvin Hotel.
PRESS ROOM
Facilities will be available for use of the press throughout the Convention in Room 218 of the Municipal Auditorium. Mr. Carl Stuart. Managing Editor of the Daily Oklahoman and Times, is serving as Chairman of Publicity and Press Facilities.
ALL CONVENTION SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE HALL OF MIRRORS, MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM
GENERAL INFORMATION (Cont'd) WEDNESDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 17
THURSDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 18 FRIDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 19
CONVENTION NOTES COMMIITEE
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17th ANNUAL CONVENTION of the
NATIONAL RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
November 17, 18, 19, 1948
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. REGISTRATION Main Lobby, Municipal Auditorium
8 :00 A.M. to 5 :00 P.M. STATE, FEDERAL, AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITS
Open to the public. Zebra Room, Munici-pal Auditorium. (These exhibits on display each day of the Convention)
8:00 A.M. to 5 :00 P.M. HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP. Zebra Room, Municipal Auditorium.
(Operated' through courtesy of Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce)
10:00A.M. to 12:00 Noon STATE CAUCUSES Delegates will caucus by states. at rooms as-signed in the Municipal Auditorium to con-sider the following order of business:
Montana Nevada Arizona California Colorado
Elect Caucus Secretary Elect Director
Elect member of Resolutions Committee Discuss reclamation problems and policies
of the state, including budget, state quota, and any resolutions which the state desires to foster.
STATE CAUCUS ROOMS Municipal Auditorium First Balcony, Auditorium (Main) North Dakota Texas Wyoming South Dakota Utah New Mexico
Mezzanine Floor, Auditorium (Main) Idaho Oklahoma Kansas Oregon Nebraska Washington
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Hall of Mirrors, Municipal Auditorium
1 : 15 P.M. OPENING SESSION
PRESIDENT HARRY E. POLK, Presiding
1 :20 P.M. INVOCATION
DR. I. L. YEARBY, Pastor. Trinity Baptist Church, Oklahoma City
1 :25 P.M. \VELCOME TO OKLAHOMA
HON. Roy J. TURNER, Governor of Okla-homa
1 :35 P.M. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
HARRY E. POLK, Williston. North Dakota 2:00 P.M. TREASURER'S REPORT
H. MAURICE AHLQUIST. Washington Di~ rector and Associate Treasurer. Touchet, Washington
2:10 P.M. SECRETARY~MANAGER'S REPORT DON McBRIDE, Secretary-Manager, Nation~ al Reclamation Association. Washington, D. C.
2:20 P.M. FIELD REPRESENTATIVE'S REPORT WILLIAM E. WELSH, Secretary, Idaho State Reclamation, Field Representative for the Association, Boise, Idaho
2:30 P.M. RECLAMATION'S NEW LOOK
JOHN HAW. Director. Agricultural Develop~ ment Department. Northern Pacific Railway, St. Paul, Minnesota
3:00 P.M. REPORT OF STATE CAUCUSES
By caucus secretaries of each state (2 min~ utes each)
3 :45 P.M. REPORT OF COMMITTEES Revenue Application Committee
VICTOR I. CORBELL. Tempe. Arizona 4 :00 P.M. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND
ADJOURN-MENT
WEDNESDAY EVENING
7 :00 P.M. FUN NIGHT
Sponsored by the Local Convention Com-mittee (Convention Hall. Skirvin Tower) 8: 00 P.M. THE COLORADO RIVER
An illustrated lecture by HON. WILLIAM E. W ARNE. Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Washington. D. C.
(Crystal Room - Skirvin Hotel) MOTION PICTURES
"Thirsty Acres" -color and sound film of
western irrigation. shown through courtesy of the Union Pacific Railroad. (Place to be designated by Convention Committee)
WEDNESDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 17 THURSDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 18
FRIDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 19 CONVENTION NOTES
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
WATER USERS' DAY
Hall of Mirrors, Municipal Auditorium HARRy E. POLK, President. Presiding 9:30 A.M. PURPOSE OF WATER USERS' DAY
WILLIAM E. WELSH, Field Representative. National Reclamation Association, Boise. Idaho
9:35 A.M. REPORT OF WATER USERS' COMMIT~
TEE
MAURICE H. GREENE, Chairman, Boise. Idaho
10:00 A.M. FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION
EXPERIENCE WITH SETTLERS ON NEW LAND
WALTER A. DUFFY. State Director. Port~
land. Oregon
10:30 A.M. SOIL CONSERVATION AND IRRIGA~
TION
DRUW \V. DUNN. County Agricultural Agent in Charge of Irrigation. W. C. Austin Project, Altus. Oklahoma
11 : 00 A.M. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS R. D. SEARLES. President. Salt River Valley Water Users Association. Phoenix. Ari~
zona
GEORGE EBNER. Superintendent, Operation and Maintenance. Valier Project. Valier, Montana
ARCH HURLEY. Tucumcari Irrigation Dis~
trict. Tucumcari, New Mexico
R. W. MAIERHOFER. General Manager and Chief Engineer. Hidalgo and Cameron Counties Water Control and Improve~ ment District No.9. Mercedes, Texas
THURSDAY NOON
Zebra Room, Municipal Auditorium
J. H. MOEUR, Arizona Director, Presiding
12:15 P.M. LUNCHEON
12 :45 P.M. FINANCING FEDERAL RECLAMATION HON. BEN F. JENSEN. U. S. Congressman from Iowa (7 th Dist.). and Chairman of the Interior Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives
Entertainment - Gypsy Ensemble
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Hall of Mirrors, Municipal Auditorium
PAUL ApPLEGATE. Kansas Director. Presiding 2 :00 P.M. "GRASS ROOTS" DISCUSSION
MIL TON KIDD. Dairy Farmer. and President of the California Irrigation Districts Asso~ ciation. Modesto. California. Presiding R. H. McELHANEY. Irrigation Farmer,
Wellton, Arizona
BERT SMITH, Farmer. and Secretary, Water Economics Committee of the Irrigation Districts Association of California, Oro~ ville, California
BAS VERHAGE, Irrigation Farmer, Downs. Kansas
ARNOLD LEPIK. Farmer, Holdrege. Neb~
raska
A. V . TALLMAN, Chairman. Humboldt River Water Board. Winnemucoa. Nevada W. LESLIE MARKIN, Artesia Farmer, and Chairman. Pecos Valley Artesian Con~ servation District, Artesia, New Mexico JOE C. PAULSON. Irrigation Farmer, and
Pormer Project Manager, Williston, North Dakota
E. E. LAGE, Fruit Farmer, Hood River. Oregon
OLIVER ROSE, President. Belle Fourche Ir~ rigation District, Belle Fourche, South Dakota
THURSDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 18 FRIDAY PROGRAM, NOV. 19
CONVENTION NOTES COMMITTEE
T. W. JENSEN. Farmer. and Field
Repre-sentative. Utah Water and Power Board,
Mount Pleasant. Utah
JOE L. BUDD. Irrigation Farmer, and Presi-dent. Wyoming Reclamation Association, Big Piney, Wyoming
4:00 P.M. SPRINKLER IRRIGATION DISCUSSION A. H. SMALL, Irrigation Farmer, Creston, Montana
4:30 P.M. DEMONSTRATION - SPRINKLER IRRI-GATION
To be held at Civic Center Plaza
There will be sprinkler irrigation equip-ment on demonstration at the Oklahoma A ~ M Demonstration Farm at 1 Oth ~ Portland - Time to be announced.
THURSDAY EVENING
7:30 P.M. 17TH ANNUAL BANQUET Silver Glade Room-Skirvin Tower
Auspices of the Oklahoma Water Development Association (Informal)
Toastmaster-REv. "BILL" ALEXANDER, First Christian Church. Oklahoma City. Oklahoma
Entertainment - Oklahoma City University Chorus and Orchestra. James Neilson. Director ADDRESS
HON. ROBERT S. KERR. Former Governor of Oklahoma
and United States Senator Elect. Oklahoma City
Okla-homa-"Water Resources and the Future" , MESSAGES FROM FRIENDS OF RECLAMATION
PRESIDENT HARRY E. POLK
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Hall of Mirrors, Municipal Auditorium
J. E. STURROCK. Second Vice-President and Texas Director, Presiding
9:30 A.M. STATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SMALL
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FRED E. BUCK. Chief Engineer and Mem-ber of the Montana State Water
Conserva-tion Board, Helena. Montana
10:00 A.M. GROUNDWATER PROBLEMS OF THE 17 WESTERN STATES
o C. WILLIAMS. President, Association of
Western State Engineers. Phoenix Arizona
10:30 A.M. RECLAMATION -ITS EFFECT UPON
NA TIONAL PROSPERITY
CARL H. WILKEN. Economic Analyst, Raw Materials National CounciL Washington, D.C.
11 :00 A.M. COORDINATING LAND AND WATER
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
E. W. RISING. Vice-President, National Water Conservation Conference. Washing-ton, D. C.
11 :30 A.M. A BALANCE BETWEEN AGRICUL TU-RAL AND INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOP-MENT
DR. HENRY G. BENNETT. President, Okla-homa A. ~ M. College. Stillwater, Okla.
FRIDAY NOON
Silver Glade Room, Skirvin Tower
FRED E. WILSON, New Mexico Director, Presiding 12:15 P.M.
12:45 P.M.
LUNCHEON
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S PRO-GRAM FOR THE WEST AND ITS EFFECT UPON NATIONAL ECON-OMY
HON. ELMER THOMAS,
United States Senator from Oklahoma Entertainment
FRI DAY PROGRAM, NOV. 19
CONVENTION NOTES
FRI DAY AFTERNOON
Hall of Mirrors, Municipal Auditorium
HARRY E. POLK, PRESIDENT, Presiding
2:00 P.M. ORGANIZED SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS IN THE IRRIGATED WEST
HaN. J. C. DYKES, Assistant Chief. Soil Conservation Service, United States Depart-ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 2 :30 P.M. PROGRESS REPORT OF THE CIVIL
FUNCTIONS PROGRAM OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS
LT. GEN. R. A. WHEELER, Chief of En-gineers, War Department, Washington, D. C. 3 :00 P.M. REVELATIONS -1949
HaN. MICHAEL W. STRAUS, Commissioner. Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
3 :25 P.M. REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMIT-TEE
CLIFFORD H. STONE, Director and Secre-tary. Colorado Water Conservation Board, Denver. Colorado
3 :45 P.M. BUSINESS SESSION
Report of Auditing Committee
Report of Budget and Finance Committee Report of Resolutions Committee Selection of 1949 Convention City 4:30 P.M. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND
ADJOURN-MENT
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
The W. C. Austin Irrigation Project, Altus, Okla-homa, invites you to be their guest at a luncheon to be held at the Altus-Lugert Dam, followed by a tour of the project. (See Special Bulletin of the Altus Chamber of Commerce and W. C. Austin Irrigation District.)
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CONVENTION NOTES
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OKLAHOMA CITY CONVENTION COMMITTEE
Governor Roy J. Turner, Honorary Chm. R. L. Hoover, Chairman, Oklahoma City Frank Raab, Vice-Chairman, Canton
Tommy Ashinhurst, Secretary, Oklahoma City C. R. Anthony, Oklahoma City
Judge F. Hiner Dale, Guymon William T. Payne, Oklahoma City T. Elmer Harbour, Muskogee J. D. Morse, Oklahoma City John Badger, Altus
Clarence Burch, Oklahoma City Col. F. J. Wilson, Ardmore R. E. Jaquier, Oklahoma City Harris R. L unn, Oklahoma City Carl Stuart, Oklahoma City George T. O'Neal, Hugo
Clayton Anderson, Oklahoma City Jeff Griffin, Oklahoma City C. Wayne Barbour, Oklahoma City George Hutto, Pauls Valley Dutch Lindsay, Oklahoma City E. C. Joullian. Oklahoma City Mrs. Roy J. Turner, Oklahoma City Evans A. Nash, Oklahoma City Dr. Lloyd C.hurch, Clinton J. S. Hargett, Oklahoma City James Neilson, Oklahoma City M. G. Barclay, Oklahoma City Forrest Nelson, Oklahoma City W. R. Wolfe, Oklahoma City
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NATIONAL RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION
1119 National Press Building Washington 4, D. C.
OFFICERS HARRY E. POLK. President CLIFFORD H. STONE. First Vice-President
J. E. STURROCK. Second Vice-President H. MAURICE AHLQUIST. Treasurer WILLIAM E. WELSH. Field Representative
DON McBRIDE. Secretary-Manager
DIRECTORS
J. H. MOEUR. Pho~mix. Arizona CHARLES L. KAUPKE. Fresno. California
CLIFFORD H. STONE, Denver Colorado N. V. SHARP. Filer. Idaho PAUL W. ApPLEGATE. Wakeeney. Kansas
R. C. BRICKER. Great Falls. Montana N. F. SCHROEDER. Hoskins. Nebraska ALFRED MERRITT SMITH. Carson City. Nevada
FRED E. WILSON. Albuquerque. New Mexico HARRY E. POLK. Williston. North Dakota CLARENCE BURCH. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
ROBERT W. SAWYER. Bend. Oregon MILLARD G. SCOTT. Huron. South Dakota
J. E. STURROCK. Austin. Texas WILLIAM R. WALLACE. Salt Lake City, Utah H. MAURICE AHLQUIST. Touchet. Washington
U. S. SENATE -- 81st CONGRESS
Democrats· S4 Republicans· 42
Senate will have:
18 new Members -- 14 new Democrats, 4 new Republicans. 3 former Senators came back.
5 Members of House elected to Senate.
Except for political labels and points of view, the composition of the Senate in the 81st Congress will be remarkably like its present makeup. In the 80th Con-gress, exactly two-thirds of the Senate -- 54 members--were lawyers. There has been a turnover of 18 Sena-tors, but in the 81st Congress there will be exactly the same number of lawyers. There will also be one woman -- Margaret Chase Smith (R Maine).
The average age also remains exactly the same --56. ·The new Senators are young enough to keep the average the same despite the fact that the Senators
re-maining in office have all aged two years since the averages for the 80th Congress were computed.
The oldest Senator in the 80th Congress -- 83-year .. old Arthur Capper (RKan.) -- retired. That title now
goes to 81-year-old Theodore FranciS Green (D R.I.). Youngest Senator is 30-year-old Russell Long (D
La.) who, under the Constitution, couldn't be any younger and be a Senator. Youngest Senator in the 80th Congress was Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.) who was 37 when he was elected in 1946,
Mostly Lawyers
Here's a breakdown showing professions and occu-pations of Senators in the 81st Congress:
Law ...•...•...•.• 54
Business, real. estate, insurance ... 11
Agri culture... ... ... 6
Politics, civil service ... 6
Journalism, publishing ... 4
Teaching ... 3
Banking ... 2
Dentistry .. ... ... 1
Actihg ... 1
These figures add to 98 -- two more than the total number of Senators -- because two Senators have sucn diverse interests that they are classified twice. Harry F. Byrd (D Va.) is down under both agriculture and publishing. And Robert S. Kerr (D Okla.) is down under both law and business.
Veterans
Forty- seven Senators are war veterans -- 11 of World War II, 36 of World War I, 5 of the Spanish-American War, and one -- Guy M. Gillette (D Iowa) -- of the Boer War. These figures include four Senators who are veterans of more than one war. Edward Martin (R Pa.) fought in the Spanish-American, First, and Second World Wars. BeSides the Boer War, Gillette was in the Spanish-American and First World Wars. Tom Connally (D Tex.) was also in the Spanish-American and First World Wars, and Robert C. Hendrickson (R N.J.) was in World Wars I and II.
Ages
Here is how Senators break down by age groups: AGE NUMBER 30 - 34 1 35 - 39 2 40 - 44 9 45 - 49 12 50 - 54 21 55 - 59 18 60 - 64 13 65 - 69 7 70 - 74 10 75 - 79 2 80 - 84 1 96
The age of prospective committee chairmen, chosen on the basis of seniority, is 66 -- a good ten years older than the average for the Senate as a whole.
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Despite the fact that five Republican incumbent Senators did not run and eight were defeated, the re-maining Republicans in the Senate are going to have to
give up some of their committee assignments. The exact number they will lose depends on how strictly the Democrats follow the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.
This law provides: "Each Senator shall serve on two standing committees and no more; except that Senators of the majority p~rty who are members of the Committee on the District of Columbia or of the Com-mittee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments may serve on three standing committees and no more."
There are 15 standing Senate committees. Al1 of them have 13 members except Appropriations which has twenty-one.
GOp. Losses
There will be 42 Republican Senators in the 81st Congress. With two committees apiece, they would be entitled to 84 committee assignments. But holdover Republicans and Republicans who were re-elected al-ready hold 86 committee assignments. And there are four new Republican Senators who are entitled to 8 committee assignments.
Seven Republican Senators who are in the 80th Congress and will also be in the 81st must give up one committee assignment apiece to comply with the two-committee limit. In the 80th Congress these Senators, members of the majority party, served on two commit-tees plus either District of Columbia or Expenditures. These Senators are:
George D. Aiken (R Vt.), now chairman of Expen-ditures and a member of Agriculture and of Labor.
John W. Bricker (R Ohio), now a member of Ex-penditures, Banking and Currency, Rules and Adminis-tration.
Harry P. Cain (R Wash.), now a member of. District of Columbia, Banking and Currency, and Public Works.
Homer Ferguson (R Mich.), now a member of Ex-penditures, Appropriations, and Judiciary.
Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R Iowa), now a member of Expenditures, Foreign Relations, Rules and Adminis-tration.
Irving M. Ives (R N.Y.), now a member of Expen-ditures, Labor, and Rules and Administration.
Edward J. Thye (R Minn.), now a member of Ex-penditures, Agriculture, and Post Offic3 and Civil Service. Democratic Gains
There will be 54 Democratic Senators in the 81st Congress, and under the Reorganization Act they will get 108 assignments on 13 committees plus their assign-ments on District of Columbia and Expenditures. Demo-crats in the Senate in the 80th Congress who will be back in the 81st now llave 71 assignments on these 13 committees. There will be 14 new Democrats in the Senate next year and these will be entitled to 28 com-mittee assignments. The nine Democrats now serving on either District of Columbia or Expenditures'will be entitled to one extra committee.
These Democrats and their present committees are: James O. Eastland (Miss.), Expenditures and Judiciary. .
Clyde R. Hoey (N.C.), Expenditures and Agriculture. Spessard Holland (Fla.), District of Columbia and Public Works.
Olin D. Johnston (S.C.), District of Columbia and Post Office and Civil Service.
John L. McClellan (Ark.), Expenditures and Public Works.
J. Howard McGrath (R.I.), District of Columbia and Judiciary.
Herbert R. O'Conor (Md.), Expenditures and Post Office and Civil Service.
A. Willis Robertson (Va.), Expenditures and Banking and Currency.
John J. Sparkman (Ala.), District of Columbia and Banking and Currency.
John C. Stennis (Miss.), District of Columbia and Rules and Administration.
Glen H. Taylor (Idaho), Expenditures and Banking and Currency.
Because Senators are not divisible into fractions, it is mathematically impossible to comply with the letter of the Reorganization Act's provisions for ~()m-: mittee assignments.
In the 81st Congress, each of the 54 Democratic . Senators could be aSSigned to two committees (besides District of Columbia or Expenditures) by putting eight on every committee but Appropriations and by putting 12 on that committee. That would leave room for 9 Republicans on Appropriations and 5 on each of the other committees -- a total of 69 committee assign-ments, or 15 short of the Republicans' Reorganization Act total of 84. These 15 can not be made up on District of Columbia and Expenditures without giving the Repub-licans at least 8 members - - a majority -- on one of these other committees. But if the Republicans get their full.quota then some Democrats have to be left out.
The membership ratio in the 81st Congress will be slightly more favorable to the Democrats than it was to the Republicans in the 80th Congress. When it organized the Senate in 1947, the GOP gave itself seven members on every committee except Labor (8), Rules (8), Interior and Insular Affairs (8), and Appropriations (12).
Demo-crats will probably leave some committees at 7 to 6, but more of them will be 8 to 5 and Appropriations might be 13 to 8.
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R Mich.), President pro tempore and chairman of the Foreign Relations Commit-tee in the 80th Congress, gave up other commitCommit-tee .
assignments to devote himself to that work. He may want.,to take on another cOInmittee in the 81st Congress. Seniority Rights
On page 822 there is a list of Senate committee assignments, as they were in the 80th Congress with the names of Senators not coming back to the 81st Con-gress deleted. There will be additions to the Demo-cratic members in every case. In some cases retire-ments and defeats have reduced the Republican member-ship sufficiently so tl>.at no sitting member will have to be removed from the committee. In some cases, notably District of Columbia which has only two Republicans left, there will be room for additions. In other cases, such as Labor where there are still 7 Republicans, somebody will have to go.
These matters are all handled on a strict seniority basis. The co~mittee lists are printed in order of seniority on the committee, which is not always the same as seniority in the Senate.
On page 825, there is a list of seniority within the Senate as it will stand Jan. 3, 1949. The most impor-tant factor in determining seniority is length of service. Where length of service is the same, former Governors are given preference. Where length of service is the same between two former GOvernors, former Members of the House are given preference. Other things being equal, former members of the Senate are also given preferenoe.
Where pOSSible, former members are given their old committee assignments. Former Senators returning next year are:
Guy M. Gillette (D Iowa), who served on Agriculture, Naval Affairs (now Armed Services), Foreign Relations, and Rules.
Matthew M. Neely (D W. Va.), who served on Inter-state and Foreign Commerce, JudiCiary, Post Office and Civil Service, and Rules.
Both Gillette and Neely served before the Reorgani-zation Act cut down committee assignments.
SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES In the committee membership lists, names of mem-bers from each party are given in order of rank on the committet Membership is as of the 80th Congress. Names of present members not returning to the 81st Congress have been qeleted.
Agriculture and Forestry 13 MEMBERS
Elmer Thomas (0 Okla.) gets back the job he held in the 79th Congress. Arthur Capper (R Kan.), who was chairman in the 80th Congress, did not run for re-election. Thomas was a member of the subcommittee, which wrote the Senate version of the Hope-Aiken long-range farm bill, and he gave that measure strong support on th'e Senate floor Committee membership:
DEMOCRATS Elmer Thomas (Okla.) Allen J. Ellender (La.) Scott w. Lucas (Ill.)
Clyde R. Hoey (N. C.) Claude Pepper (Fla.)
REPUBLICANS George D. ,Aiken (Vt.) Milton R. Young (N.D.) Edward J. Thye (Minn.) James P. Kem (Mo.)
Approp rlations
21 MEMBERS
Kenneth McKellar (D Tenn.) and Styles Bridges (R N.H.) again switch jobs. Both men on occasion have whacked down budget estimates, McKellar somewhat less so than Bridges. McKellar frequently votes against his party. In the 80th Congress, he voted with the ma-jority of Democrats against the mama-jority of Republicans only 59 per cent of the time. In the 79th Congress his record was 64 per cent. Next in line to McKellar, is Carl Hayden (Ariz.). Committee membership:
DEMOCRATS
Kenneth McKellar (Tenn.) Carl Hayden (Ariz.) Elmer Thomas (Okla.) Millard E. Tydings (Md.) Richard B. Russell (Ga.) Pat McCarran (Nev.) Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Wyo.) Theodore Francis Green (R.I.) Dennis Chavez (N .M.)
REPUBLICANS Styles Bridges (N.H.) Chan Gurney (S.D.) Clyde M. Reed (Kan.) Homer Ferguson (Mich.) Kenneth S. Wherry (Neb.) Guy Cordon (Ore.)
Leverett Saltonstall (Mass.) Milton R. Young (N.D.) William F. Knowland (Calif.)
Armed Ser'ylces 13 MEMBERS
Millard E. Tydings (D Md.) takes over from Chan Gurney (R S.D.). Before Congressional reorganization, Tydings 'had served on the old Naval Affairs Committee, while Gurney came up through the Military Affairs Committee. There may pOSSibly, therefore, be a change of emphasis. But on broad issues, there is little disagreement between Tydings and Gurney. Both sup-ported the peacetime draft and opposed most of the amendments proposed to it in the Senate. Committee membership:
DEMOCRATS Millard E. Tydings (Md.) Richard B. Russell (Ga.) Harry Flood Byrd (Va.) Lister Hill (Ala.)
Harley M. Kilgore(W. Va.) BurnetR. Maybank (S.C.)
REPUBLICANS Chan Gurney (S.D.) Styles Bridges (N.H.) LeverettSaltonstall (Mass.) Wayne Morse (Ore.) Raymond E. Baldwin (Conn.)
Banking and Currency
13 MEMBERS
Robert F. Wagner (D N.Y.) replaces Charles W. Tobey (R N.H.) Wagner is a strong Administration sup-porter. He favors price controls and is a co-sponsor of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft long-range housing l:1ill (known for a two-year interim as the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill). Tobey has also supported the W-E-T bill and has gone further than most otlier Republicans in favoring other Administration measures.
Wagner has heen in bad health for some tiine and has rarely attended Senate sessions in the last two years, but there is ample precedent for his service as a committee chairman in absentia. The late Sen. Carter Glass (D Va.) remained as chairman of the Appropriations
Committee for several years while confined to bis room in Washington's Mayflower Hotel.
With Wagner frequently absent, the acting head of the Banking and Currency Committee would be Burnet R. Maybank (D S.C .), who has usually gone along with the Administration on Banking and Currency matters, but not quite so enthusiastically as Wagner ~ Committee membership:
DEMOCRATS Robert F. Wagner (N.Y.) Burnet R. Maybank (S.C.) Glen H. Taylor (Idaho) J. William Fulbright (Ark.) A. Willis Robertson (Va.) John J. Sparkman (Ala.)
REPUBLICANS Charles W. Tobey (N.H.) Homer E. Capehart (Ind.) Ralph E. Flanders (Vt.) Harry P. Cain (Wash.) John W. Bricker (Ohio) Joseph R. McCarthy (Wis.)
District of Col'u mb,a
13 MEMBERS
Olin D .Johnston (D S.C.) is in line to succeed C. Douglass Buck (R Del.) as the head of this committee whose chief chore is to act as a city council for Washington. Johnston is a vehement opponent of a D.C. sales tax. But Johnston may have a chance for the some-what more important Post Office and Civil Service chairmanship. If he takes it, the District job would go
to Spessard L. Holland (D Fla.). Committee membership:
DEMOCRA TS REPUBLICANS
Olin D. Johnston (S.C.) Spessar9 L. Holland (Fla.)
J. Howard McGrath (R.I.)
Harry P. Cain (Wash.) James P. Kem (Mo.)
Expenditures In the Executive Departments
13 MEMBERS
John L. McClellan (D Ark.) takes over from George D. Aiken (R Vt.). The Reorganization Act gives this committee jurisdiction over government reorganization, and it will handle the report of the Hoover Commission. Both Aiken and McClellan are members of the Commis-sion. Both also frequently cross party lines on Senate roll calls, Aiken more frequently than McClellan. McClellan's party unity record in the 80th Congress was 74 per cent; in the' 79th Congress it was 69 per cent. Committee membership:
DEMOCRATS John L. McClellan (Ark.) James O. Eastland (Miss.) Clyde R. Roey (N.C.) Glen H. Taylor (Idaho) A. Willis Robertson (Va.) Herbert R. O'Conor (Md.)
REPUBLICANS George D. Aiken (Vt.) Homer Ferguson (Mich.) Bourke B. Hickenlooper(Ia.) John W. Bricker (Ohio)
Edward J. Toye (Minn.)
Joseph R. McCarthy (Wis.)
Irving M. Ives (N.Y.)
Finance
13 MEMBERS
Walter F. George (D Ga.) replaces Eugene D. Milli-in (R Colo.). George headed the committee when the Democrats last controlled the Senate. His party unity record was 64 per cent in the 80th Congress (61 per cent in the 7lfth Congress) and he is usually in general agreement with Millikin on most fiscal matters. He voted to override the vetoes ofthe tax reduction bill both
DEMOCRATS Walter F. George (G~.)
Alb.en W. Barkley (Ky.)
Tom Connally (Tex.~
Harry Flood Byrd (Va.) EdwtnC • Johnson (Colo.)
. Scott W. Lucas (nl.)
REPUBLICAN~ ,
Eugene D. lrUllikin (Colo.) Robert A. Taft (O.hio) Hugh Butler (Neb.) OWen Brewster (Maine) Edward Martin (Pa.)
Foreign 'Relatlo'n's
13 MEMBERS
Tom Connally (D Tex.) takes over from .Arthur H. Vandenberg (R Mich.). This is the Senate's famous bi-partisan team on .foreign policy and no change is indicated in the committee's general attitude. Committee mem-bership:
DE MOCRA TS REPUBLICANS
Tom Connally (TeX'.) Walter F. George (Ga.) Robert F. Wagner (N.Y.) Elbert D. Thomas (Utah) Alben V?'" Barkley (Ky.)
Arthur Vandenberg·(Mich.) Alexander Wiley (Wis.) H.Alexander Smith (N.J.) Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Ia.) Henry C. Lodge, Jr. (Mass.)
Interior and Insular Affairs
13 MEMBERS
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo.) °is in line to succeed Hugh ~utler (R Neb.). O'Mahoney and Butler differ on almost everything. Each almost always follows the majority of his party. O'Mahoney' 5 party unity record in the 80th Congress was 91 per cent. Committee membershlp:
DEMOCRATS
JosephC. O'Mahoney (Wyo.) James E. Murray (Mont.) Sheridan Downey (Calif.) ErnestW. McFarland (Ariz.)
REPUBLICANS Hugh Butler (Neb.) Eugene D. Millikin (Colo.) Guy Cordon (Ore.) Zales N. Ecton (Mont.) George W. Malone (Nev •. ) Arthur V. Watkins (Utah)
. ,Interstate and For~lgn. Commerce
13 MEMBERS
Edwin. C. Johnson (D Colo.) takes over from Wallace H. White, Jr. (R Maine) who did not seek re-election. Johnson has an independent voting record, including a vote to override President Truman's veto of the Reed-Bulwinkle bill exempting railroads from antitrust prose-cution for certain rate-making practices. Committee membership:.
DEMOcf4\TS
Edw.fn C. Johnson (Colo.) . Ernest.W.McFarland(Ariz.) , WarrenG. Magnuson (Wash.)
Francis J. Myers (Pa.) Brien McMahon (Conn.)
REPUBLICANS Charles W. Tobey·.(NJI.) 'Clyde M. Reed (Kan.) OWen Brewster (Maine) Homer E. Capehart (Ind.)
Judiciary
13 MEMBERS
,Pat 14cCarran (DNe . ...,.), chairman of th~ committ~e before 'the. 1946 election,' gets his old job back from Alexander Wi1~y (R Wis.). McCarran, a former chief
justi~e o( the Nevada Supreme Court, is an authority on
Wester~ water 'law. Hi~ P3:rty unity record in the 80th Congress was, 78 pe.r cent. Committee membership:
DE MOC.RATS Pat McCarran (Nev.) Harley M. Kilgore (W. Va.) James O. Eastland (Miss.) Warren G. Magnuson(Wash.) J. W. Fulbright (Ark.) J. Howard McGrath (R.I.)'
REPUBLICANS Alexander Wiley (Wis.),
Will~am Langer (N.D.) Homer Ferguson (Mich.) Forrest C. Donnell (Mo.)
Labor and Public Welfare
13 MEMBERS
Elbert D. Thomas (D Utah) is in line for this im-portant chairmanship. James E. Murray (D Mont.) held it in the 79th Congress, when Thomas was chairman of the old Military Affairs Committee; but Thomas out-ranks Murray both in the Senate and on the Labor Com-mittee. Robert A. Taft (R Ohio) is the present chair-man •. Thomas opposes the Taft-Hartley Act, and usually supports his party on other issues as well. His party unity record in the 80th Congress was 86 per cent. Besides labor legislation, the committee handles such controversial matters as education and health. Committee membership:
DEMOCRATS Elbert D. Thomas (Utah) James E. Murray (Mont.) Claude Pepper (Fla.) Allen J. Ellender (La.) Lister Hill (Ala.)
REPUBLICANS Robert A. Taft (Ohio) George D. Aiken (Vt.) H. Alexander Smith (N.J.) Wayne Morse (Ore.) Forrest C. Donnell (Mo.) . William E. Jenner (Ind.)
Irving M. Ives (N.Y.)
'Post Office and CIvil Ser,ylce
13 MEMBERS
Kenneth McKellar (D Tenn.) can have this chairman ship if he wants it, but he is line for the much more im-portant Appropriations Committee top job. Next to Mc-Kellar on the Democratic side is Olin D. Johnston (S.C.). But Johnston will have his choice between this one and District of Columbia. If he should take the District Committee job, Public Works would go down to Herbert R. O'Conor (D Md.). The present Republican chairman is William Langer (R N.D.).
There is normally little partisanship in the consid-eration of Post Office and Civil Service .legislation ex-cept where patronage is involved. In the 80th Congress, Langer aroused Democratic ire by holding up confirma-tions of postmaster appointments. Committee , mem-bership:
DEMOCRATS
Kenneth McKellar (Tenn.) Olin D. Johnston (S.C.) Herbert R. O'Conor (Md.) John. C. Stennis (Miss.)
REPUBLICANS William Langer (N.D.) Ralph E. Flanders (Vt.) Raymond Baldwin (Conn.) Edward J. Thye (Minn.) John J. Williams (Del.)
Zales N. Ecton (Mont.)
Public Works
13 MEMBERS
Dennis Chave~ (D N .M.) can have this one from Chapman Revercomb (R W. Va.) if he wants' it.
The committee handles such important local matters as flood control, navigation, and river and harbor
pro-jects. It has jurisdiction over the TeIUlessee Valley
Authority and would probably also get any new proposals
for a Missouri Val~y Authority. Committee membership:
DEMOCRATS DeIUlis Chavez (N .M.) Sheridan Downey (Calif.) John L. McClellan (Ark.) Spessard L. Holland (Fla.) John Sparkman (Ala.)
REPUBLICANS Harry P. Cain (Wash.)
Edward Martin (P~.)
Arthur V. Watkins (Utah) John J. Williams (Del.) George W. Malone (Nev.)
Rules and Administration
13 MEMBERS
Carl Hayden (D Ariz.), a party-line Democrat, takes over from C. Wayland Brooks (R IlL), a party-line Re-publican. This committee has control over funds for special senatorial investigations, and also over the im-portant question of Senate rules. Proposals to change
the Senate cloture procedure would go -first to this
com-mittee. It also handles anti-poll tax bills and other
matters pertaining to elections of Senators. Committee
membership: DEMOCRATS Carl Hayden (Ariz.) Theodore F. Green (R.I.) Brien McMahon (Conn.) Francis J. Myers (Pa.) John C. Stennis (Miss.)
Democratic Seniority
REPUBLICANS Kenneth S. Wherry (Neb.) Bourke Hickenlooper (Ia.) William F .Knowland (Calif.) Henry C. Lodge, Jr. (Mass.) William E. Jenner (Ind.) John W. Bricker (Ohio) Irving M. Ives (N.Y.)
Seniority in the Senate, 81st Congress (dates refer to beginning of present service; Governors and ex-Representatives are indicated where dates are the same):
1. Kenneth McKellar (Tenn.) - March 4, 1917.
2. Walter F. George (Ga.) - Nov. 8, 1922.
3. Alben W. Barkley (Ky.) - March 4, 1927. Ex-Rep. (1913-27).
(Note: Barkley's term as a Senator does not expire until 1951, but he will have to reSign sometime before his inauguration as Vice-President Jan. 20. Gov. Earle C. Clements (D) of Kentucky can appoint his successor.
If Barkley resigns and his successor is appointed before
the end of this year, the successor would have seniority over other Senators whose service does not begin until
the 81st Congress.)
3. Elmer Thomas (Okla.) - March4, 1927. Ex-Rep.
(1923-27.)
Millard E. Tydings (Md.) - March 4, 1927. Ex-Rep.
(1923-27)
4. Carl Hayden (Ariz.) - March 4, 1927. Robert F. Wagner (N.Y.) - March 4, 1927. 5. Tom Connally (Tex.) - March 4, 1929. 6. Richard B. Russell (Ga.) - Jan. 12, 1933. 7. Harry F. Byrd (Va.) - March 4, 1933. Ex-Gov.
8. Pat McCarran (Nev.) - March 4, 1933.
Elbert D. Thomas (Utah) - March 4, 1933. 9. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Wyo.) - Jan. 1, 1934. 10. James E. Murray (Mont.) - Nov. 7, 1934. 11. Dennis Chavez (N.M.) - May 11, 1935.
12. Claude Pepper (Fla.) ~ Nov. 4, 1936.
13. Theodore Francis Green (R.I.) - Jan. 3, 1937. Ex-Gov. Edwin C. Johnson (Colo.) - Jan. 3, 1937. Ex-Gov.
14. Allen J. Ellender (La.) - Jan. 3, 1937.
15. Lister Hill (Ala.) - J~n. 11, 1938.
16. Scott W .. Lucas (Ul.) - Jan. 3, 1939. Ex-Rep.
17. Sheridan Downey (Calif.) - Jan. 3, 1939.
18. Harley M. Kilgore (W. Va.) - Jan. 3; 1941. .
Ernest W. McFarland (Ariz.) - Jan. 3, 1941. 19. Burnet R. Maybank (S.C.) - Nov. 5, 1941.
20. James O. Eastland (Miss.) - Jan. 3, 1943. (Previous service from June 30, 1941 to Sept. 28, 1941.)
John ! ... McClellan (Ark.) - Jan. 3, 1943. Ex-Rep.
21. Warren G. Magnuson (Wash.) - Dec. 14, 1944. 22. Clyde R. Hoey (N.C.) - Jan. 3, 1945. Ex-Rep. Ex-Gov. 23. Olin D. Johnston (S.C.) - Jan. 3, 1945. Ex-Gov. 24. Francis J. Myers (Pa.) - Jan. 3, 1945. Ex-Rep.
(1939-45)
25. J. William Fulbright (Ark.) - Jan. 3, 1945. Ex-Rep. (1943-45)
26. Brien McMahon (Conn.) - Jan. 3, 1945. Glen H. Taylor (Idaho) - Jan. 3, 1945. 27. Spessard L. Holland (Fla.) - Sept. 25, 1946. 28. A. Willis Robertson (Va.) - Nov. 6, 1946. Ex-Rep.
(1933-46)
29. John J. Sparkman (Ala.) - Nov. 6, 1946. Ex-Rep. (1937-47).
30. J. Howard McGrath (R.!.) - Jan. 3, 1947. Ex-Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor (Md.) --Jan. 3, 1947. Ex-Gov. 31. John C. Stennis (Miss.) - Nov. 5, 1947.
32. J. Melville Broughton (N.C.) - Dec. 31, 1948. Ex-Gov. 33. Russell B. Long (La.) - Dec. 31, 1948.
34. Matthew M. Neely (W. Va.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Gov. Previous Senate service, 1923-29, 1931-41. Ex-Rep. 35. Guy M. Gillette (Iowa) - Jan. 3, 1949. Previous
Senate service, 1936-45. Ex-Rep.
36. Lester C. Hunt (Wyo.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Gov; Robert 5. Kerr (Okla.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Gov. 37. Virgil Chapman (Ky.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Rep.
(1925-29, 1931-49).
38. Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Rep. (1937-49).
39. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Rep. (1939-49).
40. Clinton P. Anderson (N.M.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Rep. (1943-45).
41. Paul H. Douglas (IlL) - Jan. 3, 1949. J. Allen Frear (Del.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Bert H. Miller (Idalx» - Jan. 3, 1949.
Republican Seniority
1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (Mich.) - March 31, 1928. 2. Styles Bridges (N.H.) - Jan. 3, 1937.
3. Charles W. Tobey (N.H.) - Jan. 3, 1939. Ex-GoV;. Ex-Rep.
4. Clyde M. Reed (lean.) - Jan. 3, 1939. EX-Gdv.
5. Chan Gurney (S.D.) - Jan. 3, 1939.
Robert A. Taft (Ohio) - Jan. 3, 1939. Alexander Wiley (Wis.) - Jan. 3, 1939.
6. Owen Brewster (Maine) - Jan. 3, 1941. Ex-Gov. Ex-Rep.
7. William Langer (N.D.) - Jan. 3, 1941. Ex-Gov. 8. Hugh Butler (Neb.) - Jan. 3, 1941.
9. George D. Aiken (Vt.) - Jan. 10, 1941. Ex-Gov. 10. Eugene D. Millikin (Colo.) - Dec. 20, 1941. 11. Homer Ferguson (Mich.) - Jan. 3, 1943.
Kenneth S. Wherry (Neb.) - Jan. 3, 1943. 12. Guy Cordon (Ore.) - March 4, 1944. 13. H. Alexander Smith (N.J.) - Dec. 7, 1944.
14. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Iowa) - Jan. 3, 1945. Ex-Gov. 15. Homer E. Capehart (Ind.) - Jan. 3, 1945.
16. Leverett Saltonstall (Mass.) - Jan. 4, 1945. 17. Forrest C. Donnell (Mo.) - Jan. 10, 1945. 18. Milton R. Young (N.D.) - March 12, 1945. 19. William F. Knowland (Calif.) - Aug. 26~ 1945. 20. Ralph E. Flanders (Vt.) - Nov. 1, 194.6. 21. Harry P. Cain (Wash.) - Dec. 26, 1946. 22. Raymond E. Baldwin (Conn.) - Dec. 27, 1946. 23. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Mass.) - Jan. 3, 1947.
(Previous service from Jan. 3, 1937 to Feb. 5, 1944.) 24. William E. Jenner (Ind.) - Jan. 3, 1947. (Previous
service from Nov. 8, 1944 to Jan. 3, 1945.) 25. John W. Bricker (Ohio) - Jan. 3, 1947. Ex-Gov.
Edward Martin (Pa.) - Jan. 3, 1947. Ex-Gov. Edward J. Thye (Minn.) - Jan. 3, 1947. Ex-Gov. 26. Zales N. Ecton (Mont.) - Jan. 3, 1947.
Irving M. Ives (N.Y.) - Jan. 3, 1947. James P. Kem (Mo.)' - Jan. 3, 1947. Joseph R. McCarthy (Wis.) - Jan. 3, 1947. George W. Malone (Nev.) - Jan. 3, 1947. Arthur V. Watkins (Utah) - Jan. 3, 1947. John J. Williams (Del.) - Jan. 3, 194 7.
27. Karl E. Mundt (S.D.) - Dec. 31, 1948. (Mrs. Vera Bushfield, appointed for unexpired term, expected to reSign so Mundt can be appointed before new term begins.)
28. Andrew F. Schoeppel (Kan.) - Jan. 3, 1949. Ex-Gov. 29. Margaret Chase Smith (Maine) - Jan. 3, 1949.
Ex-Rep. (1940-1949)
30. Robert C. Hendrickson (N.J.) - Jan. 3, 1949.
.emb .• rshlp Chan •••
There is little prospect that party strength will change substantially in the Senate during the two years before the next election due to deaths or resignations. The Constitution provides that Governors, when so authorized by state legislatures, can make interim appointments to the Senate in case of a vacancy.
In 29 states, both Senators and the Governor are
now of the same political party -- or they will be after January. Of the 19 states where the Gover!lor and one or both Senators are of the opposite political party, the Democrats hold the governorship in 10 and the Repub-licans in 9.
These states -- the only ones which might contribute to a change in party strength in the Senate in the next two years -- are:
Democratic Governors Colorado Connecticut Delaware Indiana Massachusetts Michigan Missouri Montana Nevada Ohio Republican Governors California Idaho Iowa Minnesota New York Pennsylvania Utah Washington Wyoming
Senate Roster, Slst Congress
DEMOCRATS - 54 REPUBLICANS - 42
Alabama - Lister Hill (D) and John J. Sparkman (D). Arizona - Carl Hayden (D) and Ernest W. McFarland (D).
Arkansas - J. William Fulbright (D) and John L. McClellan (D).
California - Sheridan.Downey (D) and William F. Know land (R).
Colorado - Edwin C. Johnson (D) and Eugene D. Millikin (R).
Connecticut - Brien McMahon (D) and Raymond E. Baldwin (R).
Delaware - John J. Williams (R) and J. Allen Frear (D).
Florida -. Claude Pepper (D) and Spessard L. Holland (D).
Georgia - Walter F. George (D) and Richard B. Russell (D).
Idaho - Glen H. Taylor (D) and Bert H. Miller (D).
nllnois - Scott W. Lucas (D) and Paul H. Douglas (D). Indiana - Homer E. Capehart (R) and William E. Jenner (R). Iowa - Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R) and Guy M. Gillette (D).
Kansas - Clyde M. Reed (R) and Andrew F. Schoeppel (R). Kentucky - Alben W. Barkley (D) and Virgil Chapman (D).
(Note: Barkley's term as a· Senator does not expire until 1951, but he is expected to reSign some time before his inauguration as Vice-President Jan. 20. Gov. Earle C. Clements (D) of Kentucky can appoint his successor.
If Barkley reSigns and his successor is appointed be-fore the end of this year, the successor would have seniority over other Senators, including Chapman, whose service does not begin until the 81st Congress.) Louisiana - Allen J. Ellender (D) and Russell B. Long (D).
Maine - Owen Brewster (R) and Margaret Chase Smith (R). Maryland - Millard E.Tydings (D) and Herbert R.
C>'Conor (D).
Massachusetts - Leverett, Saltonstall (R) and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R).
Michigan - Arthur H. Vandenberg (R) and Homer Ferguson (R).
Minnesota - Edward J. Thye (R) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D).
Mississippi - James O. Eastland (D) and John C. Stennis (0). Missouri - Forrest C. Donnell (R) and James P. Kem (R).
Montana - James E. Murray (D) and Zales N. Ecton (R). Nebraska - Hugh Butler (R) and Kenneth S. Wherry (R). Nevada - Pat McCarran (D) and George W. Malone (R). New Hampshire - Styles Bridges (R) and Charles W.
Tobey (R).
New Jersey - H. Alexander Smith (R) and Robert C. Hendrickson (R).
New Mexico - Dennis Chavez (D) and Clinton P. Anderson (D).
New York - Robert F. Wagner (D) and Irving M. Ives (R). North Carolina - Clyde R. Hoey (D) and J. Melville
Broughton (D).
North Dakota - William Langer (R) and Milton R. Young (R). Ohio - Robert A. Taft (R) and John W. Bricker (R).
Oklahoma - Elmer Thomas (D) and Robert S. Kerr (D). Oregon - Guy Cordori (R) and Wayne Morse (R).
Pennsylvania - Francis J. Myers (D) and Edward Martin (R). Rhode Island,.. Theodore Francis Green (D) and J.
Howard McGrath (D).
South Carolina - Burnet R. Maybank (D) and Olin D. Johnston (D).
South Dakota - Chan Gurney (R) and Karl E. Mundt (R). Tennessess - Kenneth B. McKellar (D) and Estes
Ke-fauver (D).
Texas - Tom ~onnally (D) and Lyndon B. Johnson (D). Utah - Elbert D. Thomas (D) and Arthur V. Watkins (R). Vermont - George D. Aiken (R) and Ralph E. Flanders (R). Virginia - Harry Flood Byrd (D) and A. Willis
Robert-son (D).
Washington. - Warren G. Magnuson (D) and Harry P. Cain (R).
West Virginia - Harley M. Kilgore (D) and Matthew M. Neely (D).
Wisconsin - Alexander'Wiley (R), Joseph R. McCarthy (R). Wyoming - Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D), Lester C. Hunt (D).
RESOLUTIONS RECO}o/ENDED BY THE
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
17TH ANNUAL CONVENTION, NATIONAL RECLA}IfATION ASSOCIATION
OKLAHO}ITA CITY, OKLAHmr:A, NOI[B1JfBER 17, 18, 19, 1948
Washington J. K. Cheadle, Chairman, Spokane
Arizona Chas. A. Sarson, Phoenix
California Arvin Shaw, ~:r., Los Angeles
Colorado Gene Breitenstein, Denver
Idaho Charles H. ~e1teroth, Jerome
Kansas John E. Kissell, Portis
Iv;ontana Geo. H. Ebner, Valier
Nebraska H. G. Greenamyre, Lincoln
Nevada Hugh A. Shamberger, Carson City
New Mexico John Gregg, Albuquerque
North Dakota Roy O. Young, Mandan
Oklahoma N. R. Graham, Tulsa
Oregon George Cochran, La Grande
South Dakota Raymond Lund, Rauid City
Texas John D. }licCall, Dallas
Utah t,rlie S. Campbell, Ogden
RESOLUTION
NO.1
BE IT RESOLVED by the National Recl~BtionAssociation that in
accordance with the principles for \-'hich the Association stands, it recommends legislation \-lhich should include the fol1Qi.r1ing general objectives:
1. That the integrity of the water laws of the Western
states should be preserved; that the basic provisions of
Section 8 of the Reclamation Act of 1902 should be
reaffirmedy and that a return should be ~~de to the
traditional concept of repayment contracts whereby con-tinuing rights to the use of water may be acquired under the state lavls.
2. That formulae for repayment and also allocations
of costs as non-reimbursable should be liberalized,
wit~out abandonin8 economic principles upon which a sound reclamation program must rest.
3. That the respective obligations of the water and
power users and of the United States for construction costs and the division of those costs should be openly and clearly expressed.
4.
That the law should be clarified so that the practiceof making long-term contracts under which the United States would sell water perpetually, as a public utility, shall be terminated.
5. That provision should be made to facilitate the
projects, the formulation of solutions and the authorization of reports and recommendations to the Congress, and that the Congress be kept currently informed of difficulties
encountered and solutions recon~ended.
6. That Federal control over irrigation projects and
facilities should be confined to factors and procedures determined by the Congress to be necessary for the pro-tection of Federal interests and investment.
7. That the principles of Section 1 of the Flood Control
Act of
1944
should be so maintained and broadened as tomake generally applicable to Federal water projects the procedure respecting Secretarial reports prescribed by that Act and to subordinate to domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining a.nd industrial uses all other uses of waters arising in states lying wholly or partly west of the 98th Meridian.
RESOLUTION NO.2.
BE IT RESOLVED that the President of the Association shall appoint a committee of not less than five members to formulate, and
recowmend to the Board of Directors, legislation relatin~ to the
objectives of this Association, and, when directed by the Board of
Directors, to t~ke specific action in re~ard to legislation;
FURTHER RESOLVED that the officers of the Association shall, and the Bureau of Reclamation is requested to, cooperate with the committee by keeping it advised as to the develo_ment of legislative measures affecting reclamation and the committee shall make appropriate recomwendations to the Board of Directors relative thereto.
RESOLUTION NO • 3
WHEREAS, legislation has been introduced in the Congress for the distribution between the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior of the functions authorized to be performed by the Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation Law; and
~mEREAS, this Association considers that such division would impair the services rendered to reclamation projects by the Federal Government;
NOW, TH~REFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Reclamation Associa-tion opposes any division between different departments of the funcAssocia-tions authorized under the ileclamation Law and now performed by the Bureau of Reclamation.
RESOLUTION NO.4
WH~REAS, by rtesolution No. 13 adopted at Phoenix, Arizona, October 31, 1947, this Association urged that the Bureau of Reclamation establish a small projects division with simplified procedure in order that small projects may have equal opportunity with large ones to participate in the Federal reclama-tion program; and
WHEREAS, this Association observes with much satisfaction that the
Bureau of Reclamation has now in preparation plans and procedures to facilitate the investigation and construction of sITall projects;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Natjon~l Reclamatiort Association
heartily commends such steps being taken by the Bureau and urges that they be brought into effective operation as soon as possible; provided, however, that each state be urged to lend its help and support to and actively uarticipate
in the investi~ation, planning and construction of srrall projects within such
RESOLUTIO NO.5
~mEREAS, the Federal laws relating to reclamation in the arid and semi-arid West now consist of a large number of independent statutes which have never been correlated, consolidated nor revised, and such statutes contain many over-lapping and conflicting urovisions, with the result that it is difficult to interpret them or to ascertain what constitutes the law; and
WH~R~AS, it is manifestly desirable that the law on this important subject be made plain, simple and certain;
NOW, THER~FORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Recla~mation Association recorrmends to the Congress and to its appropriate committees that provision be made for the revision and codification of the Federal laws relating to
reclamation, and said Association offers to said Goronittees and to the Congress its full assistance and cooperation to that end.
RESOLUTION NO.
6
\f.H~REAS, there are many settlers on reclamation projects who
need credit for real estate impro7'err~ents such as buildi.ngs, land leveling
or development of farmstead water; and
HHEREAS, cr3dit is not available for those improvements because liens cannot be taken on homestead entrys;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the National Reclawation Association recommends that Public Law 399 (75th Congress) and Public Law 731 (79th Congress) be amended to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to Homestead entrymen by taking security on the Homestead entry which shall be binding on any patent subsequently issued.
~LUTION NO.7
WHEREAS, the Farmers Home Administration has the authority to make loans to settlers on reclamation projects who cannot obtain such
credit from any other source; and
HHEREAS, funds available for distribution by the Farmers Home Administration are entirely inadequate to meet the pressing needs of families selected for settlement on these projects, the majority of which families are veterans selected from throughout the United States;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the National Reclamation Association that sufficient funds be appropriated and specifically allotted to provide loan funds for this purpose.
RESOLUTION ~TO. 8
RESOLVED by the National Heclarration Association, that 'Ale reaffirm
the position taken by the Association in
1947
as reflected in ResolutionNo. 14, urging the Congress to surrender to the res~ective states the title
or interest necessary to vest in them all rights in and under navigable waters within their boundaries including the marginal shelf, subject always
RESOLUTION t\TO. 8
RESOLVED by the National Reclawation Association, that we reaffirm
the position taken by the Association in
1947
as reflected in ResolutionNo.
14,
urging the Congress to surrender to the respective states the titleor interest necessary to vest in them all rights in and under navigable waters within their boundaries including the ma.rginal shelf, subject always to such regulatory powers in the Federal Government as may be necessary in exercising its constitutional powers.
REOLUTIOT NO.9
RESOLVZD that the President and the Congress be requested to take
such measures as may be necessary to assure that the Federal departments
and agencies in charge of locating and expanding national projects for
national defense and security will give due consideration to present develop-ments and planned future developdevelop-ments for other purposes of areas considered
for said national defense and security projects, to the end that location and development of such projects will have the least possible adverse effect on the general present and future development of the Nation as a whole.
RESOLUTIO TNO. 10
vmER~AS, because of changes in economic conditions, largely a result of the Second Horld vvar, repayment contracts on some existing federal reclamation projects contain inequities whi.ch need immediate adjustment; and
~~EREAS, existing laws providing for rene~otiationsof repayment contracts are inadequate to meet the need for contract revision and default in the payment of annual repayment installments in some projects is imminent unless new legislation is enacted for that pur?ose;
NOvv, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Recla~ation
Association urges the Con!2;ress of the United States to undertake immediately a study of the need for legislation for revision of repayrrent contracts on projects in financial difficulties and, for that purnose, recommends that the appropriate committees of both houses of Congress forthwith re-quest the Secretary of the Interior to subrrit a full and complete report, with his recommendations, on all existi.ng Drojects where such revisions of repayment contracts are desirable; that UDon the submission of such
repGrt a special committee composed of members of both houses be established to consider such report and the recommendations of interested water users;
and that, upon the report of the special comw.ittee, the Con~ress enact
legislation authorizing repayment contract revisions where such revisions are deemed necessary.
RESOLUTION NO. 11
WHEREAS, the great increase of population i.n the West has led to both great increase in demand for water for crop i.rrigation, domestic and industrial use and also increase in demand for water for nreservation and
propagation of fish and wildlife for recreational pur~oses;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the National Reclamation
Associa-tion that although conservaAssocia-tion of fish and wil.d life for recreational
purposes is highly desirable when it can be accomplished without
un-reasonably burdening or impairing the supply of water necessary for domestic and industrial use and for production of food and fibre by irrigation; nevertheless in case of conflict, demand for water for crop irrigation, domestic and industrial use is, and must be maintained, para-mount to demands for preservation and Dro"C'agation of fish and wild life
RESOLUTION NO. 1&
WHEREAS, it is the general policy of the Department of the
Interior at this time to require that there be incol~orated in
con-tracts with irrigation districts for furnishing water, a clause making owners of lands under any irrigation project jointly liable for the repayment of construction costs, and the costs of furnishing water; and
WHEREAS, Such policy has proved detrimental to the proper development of irrigation projects, and it appears that the use of joint liability provisions should be optional;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the inclusion in future contracts of a joint liability clause shall be optional, and if this should require an amendment of existing Federal law that Congress
RESOLUTION NO. 13
WHEREAS, this Association has repeatedly expressed its
opposition to legislation creating Federal Regional Authorities and has supported the programs of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army; and Department of Agriculture for the development of land and water resources of the West;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Reclamation again registers and reaffirnls its opposition to creation of Federal Regional Authorities either by legislative act or executive order; and
FURTHER RESOLVED that this Association urges the extension of comprehensive basin-wide research and planning similar to the
Pick-Sloan Plan now operating in the 1-lissouri Basin to other major basins of the West which present similar problems and opportunities, respecting at all times the rights and desires of each state located in such a basin as they may appear.
RESOLUTION NO.
14
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BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Reclamation Association urge the speeding up of the development of soil and water conservation practices
within our ~atersheds, but without impairment of the runoff available to
R!.SOLUTION O. 15
BE IT R~SOLVED that the National Reclawation Association cow~end
the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of Agriculture for instituting a policy of mutual cooperation in solving land problems which arise in connection with Irrigation Projects and urge extension of this policy by further utilizing the facilities of the splendid agriculture colleges of the West, to the end that overlapping and duplication will be eliminated
and efficiency increased. This cooperative program is so important that
state Legislatures and the Congress are urged to take it into account when considering appropriations.
RESOLUTION NO.
16
~mEREAS, serious power shortages exist in the lest; and
WHEREAS, Federal multiple-purpose projects with generation of hydro-electric power and non-duplicating main transmission lines., where necessary to market such power, will nrovide both financial assistance to reclaJnation developments and a sub st ant ial measure of national security;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Federal Government be
urged to provide sufficient authorizations and apnronriations for ranid construction of such projects so that a.deauate power reserves will be provided as quickly as possible, and reclamation develonment be expedited.
RESOLUTION NO. 17
t~~R~AS, adequate info~ationon the quantity, quality, movement and availability of ground and surface waters is prerequisite to the
successful planning, construction and operation of works bv which waters may be fully and economically developed and utilized;
NOlf, THEREFOR"S, B2 IT R~~SOLVED, that the Na.tional Recla":'lation Association urges the Eighty-First Congress to provide the Geological Survey with adequate funds to pursue its investigations of both surface
and underground waters at an accelerated rate co~mensuratewith the
nation-wide economic pressure for ~~~or water developments, and to publish
promptly the facts ascertained;
FURTHER R!:SOLVED that, in view of the mutual and com-olementary
responsibilities of the states and the Federal C'.ravernment in the
conserva-tion, development and wi.se use of the Nation's water resources, the
principle of 50-50 cooperation, long established between the Geolo~ical
Survey and the various states in collecti.ng basic water info~ationof
