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Last week the Borah bill came up on the regular Senate calendar. Conservative Senator Reed of Pennsylvania promptly suggested it be passed over. Senator Borah resolutely moved that in spite of the objection the bill be considered and he demanded a roll call. The clerks called the 96 names, and after the vote some half-dozen Senators rose to alter their ballots or transfer their pairs, leaving the result in doubt...
When the clerks footed up the totals, Vice President Garner quietly announced: ''On this question the yeas are 31. The nays are 31." Several conservative Senators started to walk from the chamber, sure that they had sidetracked the Borah bill. But Mr. Garner, seizing one of his rare opportunities to be useful, halted them in their tracks by shouting: "The Chair votes 'Yea! and lays the bill before the Senate...
...Senator Borah: I have received no fee as an attorney since I entered upon my duties as a Senator.* I closed up and finished the professional engagements pending at the time of my election. I have taken no new business...
...Senator Borah: I am aware of the fact that we passed a bill declaring in effect that every man engaged in the raising of cotton was engaged in interstate commerce, but every man in the Senate who knows anything about the Constitution of the United States knows that is not true, notwithstanding the fact that we passed the bill...
...Borah bill was not passed that day nor was it likely to pass any other day soon, principally because lawyer-Congressmen control a majority of House and Senate...