The nation . ,unanimously passed a resolution,recommended by the Senate FinanceCommittee, which did no more thanauthorize the President to set theCuban sugar quota for the rest of1960. The resolution grew out of anger,concern and pressure. The Senatedid not like the idea that the House,which must originate revenue legis-lation, waited until the last momentbefore sending the sugar bill to theSenate, allowing almost no time tostudy it. The Senate felt its ownresolution would give Eisenhowerpower to slap Castro around a bitand Congress time to consider thor-ough sugar legislation. In addition,the
The nation . ,unanimously passed a resolution,recommended by the Senate FinanceCommittee, which did no more thanauthorize the President to set theCuban sugar quota for the rest of1960. The resolution grew out of anger,concern and pressure. The Senatedid not like the idea that the House,which must originate revenue legis-lation, waited until the last momentbefore sending the sugar bill to theSenate, allowing almost no time tostudy it. The Senate felt its ownresolution would give Eisenhowerpower to slap Castro around a bitand Congress time to consider thor-ough sugar legislation. In addition,the resolution appealed to the Sen-ates foreign-relations experts be-cause it assured some restraint onEisenhower; he could not cut all ofCubas quota because the resolu-tion gave him no power to find sugarelsewhere. And the sugar-beet peo-ple liked the resolution because iteliminated the House preference forforeign sugar-cane growers and gavedomestic sugar-beet producers timeto launch another fight for favorable. legislation at the next session ofCongress. The House returned the Senateresolution immediately, calling it anew bill. Sugar legislation involvestaxing of refined sugar and, underthe Constitution, cannot originatein the Senate, the House said. Inany case, its leaders confided, theHouse would not accept the Senateresolution even if it were legal. At 11:10 , the Senate tookup the original House bill. SenatorWayne Morse (D., Ore.), proposedthat the Senate simply amend thebill by substituting the wording ofthe resolution for the whole this way, the Senate would meetthe constitutional objection of theHouse. As chairman of the SenateSubcommittee on Latin America,Morse commands attention on LatinAmerican matters, and he arguedthat once nations received ne*quotas because of a temporary rin the Cuban quota, they wouldpect to keep the new allotment., per-manently. Republican sugar-beetSenators, who rarely agree with himon foreign policy or much else, im-mediately rallie
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