Nearly a month after the election, the Republicans and Democrats alike were still shaking off the dust of the campaign, picking up new bearings and keeping an eye on the ballot boxes. Items:
¶Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who bolted the Republican Party during the presidential campaign, announced that he would vote with Republicans in the organization of the new Senate, thus assuring the G.O.P. of a bare majority, 49-47. To vote with the Democrats, he said, would give the Eisenhower Administration "a narrowly drawn excuse for legislative irresponsibility." But Maverick Morse, who made it clear that he would be voting against...
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