Texas Representative talk on his pension bill. Washington, D.C., Feb. 3. Representative Wright Patman, Texas, shown here with Robert L. Doughton, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, today briefly told the committee of his bill, H.R. 105, introduced Jan. 3, to provide $30 a month to eligible people over 65, from federal funds. Patman was followed by Arthur Johnson, President of the General Welfare Federation of America, 2-3-39