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...Borah continued...
...without exception voted for rejection. So also Farmer-Laborite Shipstead. The Republicans voted for acceptance with these exceptions: Insurgents Brookhart and Frazier (LaFollette and (Ladd being absent) ; semi-insurgents Norris and Norbeck who, as members of the committee, signed the majority report; Obstructionist Hiram Johnson; the Independents Couzens and Borah...
...January afternoon, William E. Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, rose in the U. S. Senate and began an address with these words...
...There have been some strange arguments advanced from time to time in regard to this French debt," Mr. Borah pursued. "We are not only advised by the French people, but we are advised by a certain class of our own people to a limited extent, that we ought to forgive the French debt because the French practically forgave the debt which we incurred during the American Revolution. As a matter of fact, the United States paid every dollar of the debt incurred at that time. I have the statement of the facts and figures furnished me by the Treasury Department...
...this Mr. Borah replied...