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chairman of the full committee, and he had the prestige and the ability, the know-how.

Senator Wherry, who 18 months later was dead of cancer, opposed the increases, but Bridges finally stood up and said he would agree to a compromise. And at this moment, he winked at me in the gallery. Thus, 33 million dollars was voted in an amendment to the appropriations bill for the Cancer Institute and the National Heart Institute on this day in April, '49. The Mental Health Institute amendment failed. I remember that Connolly of Texas voted for it, as he came on the floor, but when he was told it was for mental health, he changed his vote to no.

For what reason?

He was just against anything to do with crazy people, I suppose; he was just anti-mental illness, against doing anything about mental illness. He thought it was hopeless. He was too reactionary.

Sort of old-fashioned.

Yes, old-fashioned.

Even though we failed in mental health, I was elaged about this victory until Senator Taft stood up on the floor and moved to recommit the bill. This was a parliamentary maneuver of his to kill the amendment, and it distressed me greatly, as I didn't