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...have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, as go-betweens (TIME, Dec. 19). Indignation flared last week when the names of the four Senators were published-Borah of Idaho (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee), LaFollette of Wisconsin (youngest Senator, upright Progressive), Norris of Nebraska (chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and Heflin of Alabama (who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope). Indignation flamed when Publisher Hearst admitted that he had given none of these Senators a chance...
Until now, we have had considerable respect for Senator Borah...
Taking Senator Borah's attitude of mind towards the deaf and dumb as an index of official Washington, we can well understand why Gallaudet College government supported institution of the higher education of the deaf and dumb, is repeatedly denied the financial support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse...
...discussing public questions, the deaf and dumb not only do this intelligently, ,but they are capable even of discussing Senator Borah and his very evident deficiencies...
While Mr. Vare sat truculent and Mr. Smith looked strained, Senator Norris of Nebraska recited their histories with icy precision.* Then Senator Borah affirmed the Senate power to judge them. Senator Borah argued, however, that before judgement was passed, the Senate must recognize the culprits' credentials from their states; must seat them, hear them and then cast them...