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...Senator Ashurst came up to the front of the chamber and called loudly for the result: "Let the result be announced...
...Senator Ashurst (Democrat): "It was the most acrobatic, gymnastic speech I have ever heard in the Senate...
...Lean and Edge, Foreign Relations; Phipps, Chairman of Education and Labor; Hiram Johnson, Chairman of Immigration; Willis, Chairman of Territories; Cummins, Chairman of Judiciary; Butler, Judiciary, Naval Affairs, Patents; Means, Claims, Immigration, Judiciary, Mines; Metcalf. Education and Labor, Library, Naval Affairs, Patents. For the Democrats: George, Banking and Currency; Ashurst, Irrigation and Reclamation. ¶ Discussed the administration bill for spending $10,000,000 a year for five years on adequate Housing for Government offices in the Capital; given up when Senator Fletcher offered an omnibus building bill as an amendment...
...Alabama came and went, playing an unobtrusive part in the front row. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the great denunciator, remained for the most part silent, save when he rose to deliver one of his thunderbolts across the House. Two rows further back, pince-nez on nose, sat the sententious Ashurst of Arizona, intent on periodically expressing himself with great deliberation, learning and politeness. King of Utah, very 'businesslike, examined every bill, the least important, with meticulous eye and, "reserving the right to object," would demand an explanation of it. Following this, he generally declined to object, while Mr. Cummins from...
...voluntary witness, A. L. Fink, of Rochester, N. Y., declared: "I am the man to whom Frank Vanderlip tried to give $1,000 for perjured testimony against President Coolidge." Senator Brookhart replied: "We 'don't want your lies!" And Senator Ashurst told Fink he was a "crook...