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Show DREW PEARSON |3 stan yard Ja Wp é/ o 4 ro. —~ we Dd ~~ Ike Really Doesn't Need — - $20, 543 Army Pension | ‘WASHINGTON. — A move is un- Oo der way on Capitol Hill to restore d President Eisenhower’s rank as a five-star general, which carries with it a $20,543 pension. _ Speaker Sam Rayburn has Byes fate y x a= st about decided to throw in the sponge in his battle with the Dixiecrat-Republican coalition to change the rules of the House of Repre- . sentatives. Several congressional leaders plan— In the face of vi gorous opposition, © ’ to vote this. on top of the $25,000 some of it snarling, some of it pension he would automatically re- sweet talk, Mr. Sam has inched ceive aS an ex-president, plus the $50,000. he will also receive tax-free a total for expenses, making $95,543 annually. of steadily backward. He is now will- ing to let Dixiecrat Congressman Bill Colmer of Mississippi, who has bucked the Democratic ticket three The rank and salary of five-star times running, stay on the key rules general were renounced by Gen. committee which has the power to Eisenhower in 1952 when nounced that he would president as a civilian. he an- run for ttle up any piece it may so desire and a vote on the floor of representatives by all of legislation keep it from the House of congressmen. Every other president of the It was Chairman Howard Smith United States has been on his own financially when he stepped out of ai Virginia, who works hand-in- — ‘the White. House, and Ejisenhower glove with both Colmer and GOP will be the first in history to receive Charles. Halleck of Indiana, who the $75,000 pension and expenses. backed the Speaker away from his only. two years original rigid stand that Colmer ' voted by Congress must exit from the rules committee. ago. Sam is now standing on a comThese are days when it’s customwhereby one additional ‘ary to report nothing but praise promise about the outgoing president. How-. Democrat would be added to the ever, in summarizing his record, it rules committee, ‘should be noted that Mr. Eisenhower is the first president to. break the long-standing rule that the thus putting nine Democrats to four. Republicans on the committee, rather than the pres- ent eight-to-four ratio. = Under the present ratio, two Dixnot receive big gifts; and that he iecrats—namely Colmer and Smith voted with the Republi' received a series of gifts, farm im- always ' provements, and services totaling cans, which permitted them to bottle up legislation with a 6-6 tie vote. more than half a million poe president of the United States does il a |
