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...Elected to committees in accordance with the desires of the party caucuses: for the Republicans, Borah, Chairman of Foreign Relations; Mc-Lean and Edge, Foreign Relations; Phipps, Chairman of Education and Labor; Hiram Johnson, Chairman of Immigration; Willis, Chairman of Territories; Cummins, Chairman of Judiciary; Butler, Judiciary, Naval Affairs, Patents; Means, Claims, Immigration, Judiciary, Mines; Metcalf. Education and Labor, Library, Naval Affairs, Patents. For the Democrats: George, Banking and Currency; Ashurst, Irrigation and Reclamation. ¶ Discussed the administration bill for spending $10,000,000 a year for five years on adequate Housing for Government offices in the Capital; given...
...SENATOR BORAH: "I do not agree with the caucus action, but I shall wait to say what I have to say when the matter reaches the floor of the Senate...
Some students of government maintain the superiority of the English system of responsible ministries over the American system of complete separation between executive and legislative departments. In Senator Borah's opposition to the President's World Court plan, these students have a beautiful example, seemingly made to order, to support their contention...
...overwhelming vote President Coolidge received in November was rightly interpreted by him as a mandate that the United States adhere to the World Court protocol with reservations, this being an important foreign plank in his platform. Accordingly, he strongly urged that action in his message to Congress. Senator Borah, however, thinks otherwise...
...present system works, Senator Borah, as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, holds the keystone position in the matter. To defy the President and disregard the evident expression of popular will is neither inconsistent nor unusual. It seems to be the normal order that President and Congress should work at cross purposes. The deadlock has become an established and sacred principle of American government...