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...encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska's Norris were opposed. The Anti-Saloon League weaseled, said it would consult its attorney. The press agent of the Methodists announced: "The amendment is particularly needful because of the blatant boastings of certain wealthy men who have told of their transactions with bootleggers...
...legislators.* The Judiciary Committee was instructed to investigate any and all lobbyists, the sources of their revenues, the purposes of their spendings. Hollow-eyed Senator Morris, the committee chairman, the Senate's most non-partisan member, weighed the names of famed inquisitors, finally chose Senators Caraway (chairman. Borah, Walsh (Montana) Elaine. Robinson (Arkansas...
Official Washington sizzled at the disclosures in the Shearer case. In connection with the Geneva affair came revelations of flagrant Shearer lobbying in Congress. The generalizing minds of Congressmen expanded easily from one lobby to all lobbying. Senators Borah, Shortridge, Robinson, Black, La Follette cried out for more investigations. Senator Caraway of Arkansas and Representative Gibson of Vermont introduced resolutions calling for a "thorough investigation." Soon lobbyists may have to lobby for the very existence of lobbying...
Insurgent as Zeus's own thunder, up at once arose Senator Borah, freebooting generalissimo, to challenge the Voice to continue. Though this was a war he talked of a plowshare, to which the Voice, he said, had put its hand and whence it could not now turn away. ''I ask from the floor of the Senate that the President advise this body . . . whether he approves of the industrial schedules in this bill...
...Voice did not answer, and on the Democratic side, foxy little Field Marshal Simmons began massing his troops behind the Borah irregulars to capture perhaps not only Flexible Tariff Ridge but some of the industrial salients-Chateau de Steel, Fort Cement, Brickopolis, Woolensville, perhaps even Manufacturing City...