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President Hoover, back in Washington, summoned Leader Watson and Senator Borah, pleaded with them to hurry, named July 24 as the day he wished the Senate to vote...
...Adopted Senator Borah's resolution directing the Tariff Commission to investigate certain rates in the Hawley-Smoot Bill, with a view to demonstrating the flexible provisions of the Bill...
...Washington, Senator William Edgar Borah, immediately challenging the Administration's much-vaunted flexibility clause in the new bill (TIME, June 23), obtained passage by the Senate of a resolution calling upon the Tariff Commission to investigate at once the rates on shoes, furniture, cement and farm implements. In effect this resolution said: "If the new tariff is flexible, let's see you flex it." The old Commission, which must be reorganized within 90 days by order of the new law, was thus confronted with a big eleventh-hour...
...Foreign Relations Committee adopted (10-to-7) a resolution asserting "its right to have full and free access" to all Treaty data. When Secretary Stimson was served with a copy of this resolution, he hurried to the White House, conferred long with President Hoover. "Impeachment." At the Capitol Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explaining the resolution to newsmen, admitted that the President could not be forced to give up the papers, declared with a smile: "There would be no remedy except through impeachment - and that's too slow." Broadcast Blast. Secretary Stimson went to a radio...
...will. It would not only tend to drag the Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which our Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator Borah in which he compared the Treaty to any legal contract and added: "I did not attempt to define the duties of the Senate or the scope of its powers in passing upon treaties." "I'm Delighted." Though Secretary Stimson made no move to give up the secret papers, Senator Johnson triumphantly...