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...Lands; Frazier on Mines, Post Offices, Agriculture, Banking & Currency and the chairmanship of Indian Affairs; Blaine on Military Affairs, Civil Service, Judiciary and the District of Columbia. Senator Shipstead had been welcomed to six committees, including Agriculture, Public Buildings and Foreign Relations. Moreover, there was Iowa's tousled Brookhart, one of the archest oldtime "radicals." He was now in good standing on Banking & Currency, Interoceanic Canals, Post Offices and Military Affairs...
Senator McMaster, South Dakota Republican, unexpectedly chimed in to demand just what assurance of action on farm relief the "progressives" had obtained. He discomfited his Republican brethren with a resolution to bring up revision of the industrial tariff, that being the vulnerable spot of farm-relief antagonists. Senator Brookhart tousled himself afresh in a harangue to the effect that he was proud of having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator...
...immunity by granting a pardon in advance.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. The Senate passed both Walsh bills promptly, without comment. To investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. To prevent distributors leasing cinema films in blocks of which exhibitors must take all or none.-Republican Brookhart of Iowa...
Republican leaders were concerned, disturbed, even vexed by the Borah statements. He is a Republican of much influence. Lately intimate with the strategically potent insurgent Senators (Nye, Norris, McMaster, Brookhart, et al.), Senator Borah even looms, not as a candidate, but as a possible disputant of the G. O. P.'s presidential choice. G. O. P. leaders muttered that Prohibition will not be in the party platform. They wished Senator Borah would stop talking...
...Heard that the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee had voted unfavorably, 8 to 6, on the appointment of Cyrus E. Woods (TiME, Jan. 3) ; had exonerated Senator-elect Brookhart of charges of being the paid lobbyist of Mr. Woods...