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January 25,1979 1216 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 25,1979 statements for the RECORD and to intro- under the order, until 12 o'clock noon on Massachusetts, vice a new position created bills and resolutions, petitions, and Monday. by Publìc Law 95-486, approved October 20, duce 1978. memorials. The motion was agreed to; and at 3: 19 David Sutherland Nelson, of Massac The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without p.m., the Senate recessed until Monday, hu- objection, it is so ordered. setts, to be U.S. district judge for the dis- January 29, 1979, at 12 o'clock meridian. trict of Massachusetts, vice a new position - created by Public Law 95-486, approved Oc- tober 20, 1978. SPECIAL ORDER FOR MONDAY Rya W. Zobel, of Massachusetts, to be Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, NOMINATIONS U.S. district judge for the district of Massa- I ask unanimous consent that Mr. PRox- chusetts, vice a new position created by MIRE be recognized for not to exceed 15 Executive nominations received by the Public Law 95-486, approved October 20, minutes, after the prayer, on the next Senate January 25, 1979: 1978. day that the Senate is in session but that DEPARTMENT OF STATE COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION I be recognized before Mr. PROXMIRE, Jonathan Dean, of New York, a Foreign James H. Williams, of Florida, to be a simply to protect my rights under reso- Service officer of class 1, for the rank of Am- member of the board of directors of the Commo lution No. 9 and the motion pending, and bassador during the tenure of his service as dity Credit Corporation, vice John C. White, resig it will not be my purpose to keep the floor Representative of the United States of Amer- ned. except to make a unanimous-consent re- ica for Mutual and Balanced Force Reduc- IN THE AIR FORCE quest that will do that and such unani- tions Negotiations. The following-named officer under the provisions of title 10, United mous-consent request that appears to be DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE States Code, section 8066, to be assigned to a position of the Michael Blumenfeld, of the advisable at that time to establish District of Co- importance and responsibility designated by lumbia, format for morning business, et cetera, to be an Assistant Secretary of the the President under subsection ( a) of sec- for that day. Army, vice Victor V. Veysey, resigned. tion 8066, in grade as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without THE JUDICIARY To be Zieutenant general objection, it is so ordered. Robert E. Keeton, of Massachusetts, to be Maj. Gen. Evan William Rosencrans, xxx... - Ú.S. district judge for the district of Massa- xxx-xx-x... FR, U.S. Air Force. chusetts, vice a new position created by UNTIL MONDAY, JANU- Lt. Gen. Andrew B. Anderson, Jr., U.S. Air RECESS Public Law 95-486, approved October 20, ARY 29, 1979 Force (age 52).for appointment to the grade 1978. of lieutenant general on the retired list Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, John Joseph McNaught, of Massachusetts, pursuant to the provisions of title 10, United I move that the Senate stand in recess, to be U.S. district judge for the district of States Code, section 8962. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS TRIBUTE TO JOE HATCHER [The Nashvtlle Tennessean, Dec. 17, 19781 merely seeking the votes in primaries to en- IT's TIME To CUT POLI'TICAL SPENDING title them to run in general elections. (By Joe Hatcher) In the Republican primaries last summer, HON. ALBERT GORE, JR. Lama Alexander spent some $3.47 per vote "The time has come, the walrus said, to for the 230,922 votes he got-more expensive OF TENNESSEE talk of many things." And our Alice in Won- than the 661,959 votes he got in November. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES derland subject is the recent race for gov- Butcher polled 320,329 in the Democratic Thltrsdatt, January 25,1979 ernor of Tennessee. primary at a cost of some $7.50 per vote. Did you know that if Jake Butcher had State Senator Anna Belle CIement has I Mr. GORE. Mr. Speaker, Joe Hatcher, been elected governor he would have had to recently filed proposed legislation that would the dean of Tennessee's political report- serve 92 years at the $50,000 a year salary Eet spending limits on all races in public ers, died last week at the age of 80. Joe just to make back what he spent to be oíñces in the State. Perhaps the limits pro- worked for the Nashville Tennessean for elected? posed are too restrictive after the wild spend- more than half a century, and his politi- Did you know that Governor-elect Lamar ing on the elections just past, but the whole cal reporting and columns will stand as a Alexander would have to spend 36 years in problem needs study and strong action. The lasting memorial to the skill and dedi- the office at $50,000 a year just to make back spendíng can be limited without bankrupt- what he spent to be elected? ing any TV station, radio station, or news- he brought to his profession. cation That is not to say, of course, that these paper in the state, and still give them a I had the privilege of knowing Joe men were spending their own money-the fair share of the campaign dollar. Hatcher as a friend and a colleague dur- greater part of it was contributed by various Recent years have brought about the pas- ing the years I spent at the Tennessean individuals for reasons of their own. sage of much legislation toward exposing the as a reporter and editorial writer. I If this state of affairs doesn't serve as a sources of campaign funds and reports on valued his friendship, and I learned from warning to us to take restrictive measures, where it goes, all to the good. Now comes his work. Even though Joe had retired we may as well put up a sign over the Gov- the time that limits should be put on ex- 1970, he con- ernor's office at the State Capitol and offer Lenditures, lest the cost of winning public from daily reporting in office become.: ridiculous. write a weekly column recalling it to the highest bidder. The auction would tinued to save a lot of energy For example, just think how ridiculous it rich and perhaps attract more for younger persons like myself the outside money into the state for sounds that an official should serve 92 years y. spreading heritage of Tennessee's Political histor around among the voters on Election Day. at $50,000 yearly salary to earn back what a columnist, Joe As a reporter and Lamar Alexander and Jake Butcher at- he spent to win a four-year term in the Hatcher always stood for honest, pro- tracted a total of some 1,185,454 votes last ofñc-and then did not win. gressive government. He was always for November 7 at a cost overall of $6,400,000 It was probably Butcher's reluctance to reform: even in his last political column, between the two in primaries and general make full disclosure that in the final anal- which I will reprint, he was fighting for elections. That's an expenditure of some $5.40 ysis cost him dearly at the polls. public campaign ñnancing în order to re- a vote for the two major candidates, with EDITOR'S NoTE : This column was written interests on some $2 million additional "chicken feed" before Joe Hatcher became seriously ill on duce the infiuence of special spent by other can politics. didates. Friday. Lamar got 661959 votes to win the election, was better because TENNESSEAN'S JOE HATCHER DIES IN Tennessee politics and if my birthday present pocket calculator of Joe Hatcher. All Tennesseans share in is correct, they cost him $2.72 for each and HosprrAL the loss which Joe's friends, colleagues, every vote. And keep ìn mind that Alexander (By Charles L. Fontenay) won over Butc and family feel with his death. her, who spent an incredible Joe Hatcher, political columnist for the $8.78 for Charles L. Fontenay, Joe's colleague each of the 523,495 votes he polled. Tennessean for half a century and one of the for many years, has written a full ac- The costs of running in party primaries state's most colorful old-time newspaper- count of his career, which I will reprint compare closely with the general election men, died last night in Baptist Hospital, at this point: campaign, except that the candidates are where he had been conñned since Dec. 15. O This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. January 25, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1217 Hatcher, of 1139 Tyne Blvd., was 80 years tuned that Hatcher's column was generally disagree today, but we may get together to­ old Christmas Day, 10 days after he was ad­ looked on as the "political voice" of the morrow and need each other." mitted to the hospital sufl'ering subdural paper for many years. In 1928, T. H. Alexander, a nationally­ hemotoma, a form of brain hemorrhage. He And both the Tennessean and Hatcher known columnist, began the newspaper's underwent surgery for removal of a blood were strongly reformist over most of those Politics column. Hatcher substituted for clot on his brain. years, especially the early ones when the Alexander as writer of the column from time Funeral arrangements were incomplete Tennessean was fighting against the long­ to time, then took over the column some la.st night.
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