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...trust." Administration Senators said little. They let round-faced Lame Duck Senator Goff of West Virginia lead the Hoover defense. When the question finally came to a vote, the Thomas Walsh resolution was adopted (44-10-37) by an alliance of Democrats with the Insurgent crew including Idaho's Borah, California's Johnson, New Mexico's Cutting...
Added Senator Borah: "I am of the opinion as I always have been, that we ought not to be in there...
...matter of profound regret that the confidence I hoped the country would have in the new Commission should be so early and so rudely disturbed." At once an insurgent Senate movement was on foot to reconsider the confirmation of the three Power Commissioners when Congress reassembles next week.* Senators Borah, Norris, Brookhart, Dill and Wheeler, promising support to Senator Walsh, clamored to have the question reopened. A report spread that Chairman Smith and his two Commissioners, to avert a Senate explosion which might blow them out of their new jobs, were considering rehiring Messrs. Russell & King. Commissioner McNinch...
...Simpson's answer: "I feel I could win over you in any name-calling contest. I've driven mules and called hogs. . . ." Senator Borah warned against "the day of reckoning" when the Farm Board comes to sell its wheat at a loss. Chairmen Legge replied: "Don't ask me to discuss cyclones. You know how scientists have defined a cyclone as superheated hot air that always runs amuck...
...before, the two old parties have published their platforms and nominated their men for a Presidential election. And while the Regulars are kept in a state of anxious uncertainty, much fruitful threatening, much boring-from-within may be accomplished; so much, indeed, ,that to Insurgent leaders like Norris and Borah, who could be sure in any showdown of retaining their satisfying Senate committee chairmanships, the formation of a new party may seem unnecessary after...