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...veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill???although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President and who is the righteous champion of the farmers; Mississippi's ranting Rankin?more...
...effective. . . . But there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill???Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...
...became clear that a farm relief bill???one which he dislikes and Secretary Mellon abhors?was soon to be passed by Congress. If he vetoes it, he will promptly be told that Frank Orren Lowden or Charles Gates Dawes is as likely to be the next President of the U. S. as is Calvin Coolidge. If he signs it, he will be called upon to apologize to New England and "sound businessmen" throughout the land, and will be accused of having lost his character as a strong, silent man. Incidentally, he may find that his signature has been attached...
...went on to declare for the principle of the defeated Haugen bill???to this extent aligning himself against the Administration. He said that the proposed board to buy up farm surpluses in this country and sell them abroad to prevent domestic low prices was no larger interference in the business of agriculture than the functions of the Federal Reserve Board are in commerce and industry or of the Interstate Commerce Commission in transportation. He declared that in the long run the scheme would not cost the Treasury a dollar. That stand should be of material aid to him in Iowa...
...quiet to carry on their forms of worship. They demand protection against people who have no regard for decency or the laws of God or man. . . . And as to the Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill???well, I've spoken before all of 'em and I wouldn't consider their opinion on a matter of morals. ... Go from the pineries of Michigan to the cedar keys of Florida and from rocky Maine to San Francisco, and you'll find that wherever the Sabbath is loosest and freest the prisons...