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tremendous campaign, with the help of some of his sup-

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porters, but still a tremendous performance for a man of

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his age; and when the election day came and the votes were

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in, George Norris had won.

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Now, what did he want? The main thing was that

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he was steamed up about this conference committee business

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which seemed to him just an abomination in the sight of

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the Lord. Now, there could have been conference committee

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abuses, of course, many times and in many jurisdictions,

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but this seemed to me to be a pretty small item to seize

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upon to make such a business out of. Well, anyhow, when

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the vote was over in Nebraska, we had a tremendous surge

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of interest throughout the country. There were a lot of

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interesting things told about what happened at that time.

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Senator Toll, Henry Toll, a friend of mine,

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was out there and, of course, at that time he was director

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of the council for state government. He went to Lincoln

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when the new legislature was inaugurated and he was walk-

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ing along the streets there in the capitol with Senator

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Norris -- and this illustrates a point that I tried to

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make, that so much of our reaction to this business has