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...Adopted the conference report on the $2,100,000,000 Relief bill; sent it to the President for a veto (see below). ¶ Debated a bill to establish a system of home loan banks, before digressing to adopt (53-to-18) an amendment proposed by Idaho's Borah to inflate currency by $1,000,000,000 by issuance of National Bank notes on Federal bonds. ¶ Passed a House bill appropriating $100,000 to send the Bonus Expeditionary Force home (see p. 11). ¶ Adopted the Couzens resolution authorizing a committee of five Senators to investigate...
Because Senator William Edgar Borah had publicly refused to support President Hoover on the Republican liquor plank, the Prohibition Party turned enthusiastically toward the Idaho Republican as its Presidential nominee. Miss Ethel Hubler of California formally nominated Senator Borah as "a radical Dry at all times . . . a man who is personally something of an agnostic, who does not smoke, nor drink, nor chew, nor play cards, a man whose election would sound the death-knell of the liquor traffic." Delegate Richard Cannon of California, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., seconded the Borah nomination. The organ played "Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...Senator Borah was not flattered. He told Dr. Colvin over the telephone: "While I appreciate the compliment, I don't believe the convention should make such a nomination. Such a call, if at all, should result from a great uprising of the people in another convention to be called by the united moral forces of the nation...
...Bald Naked." Senator Barkley, a Dry speaking for a Wet candidate, recommended the submission of a resolution repealing the 18th Amendment. Like Senator Borah, he denounced the theory that constitutional Prohibition could be kept in some States and not in others. The Republican plank on this question he called "a promiscuous agglomeration of scrap-lumber," adding...
...election behavior in the past to be altogether convinced. Possibly Nominee Hoover would say something ambiguous about Prohibition in the campaign which would open the way for Senator Borah to tip-toe back to the President's support not on the platform. Indiana's sage old Senator Watson summed up: "Senator Borah in the campaign will be where he always has been-supporting the Republican ticket...