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...ensued among "pork" starved Congressmen, the unique expedient was adopted of allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to decide how the money should be spent (subject, however, to Congressional veto). Incidents. In the first rank of incidentals, aside from legislation were: 1) The ousting (TIME, April 19) of Mr. Brookhart from the Senate in favor of Daniel Steck, his Democratic opponent in Iowa in the election of 1924; 2) The impeachment of a Federal district judge, George W. English of Illinois, the tenth time in history that the House has voted an impeachment; 3) Hearings by a subcommittee...
Since cloture in the Senate is nearly dead as an issue, it is as a farm leader that Mr. Dawes is most likely to be a candidate* in 1928. This has made the Vice President some curious friends. One of them is Mr. Brookhart, who was defeated in 1924 because he denounced Mr. Dawes as part of the Republican ticket. Now Mr. Brookhart is quoting Dawes on farm relief in Iowa. Another is Senator Watson of Indiana. Senator Fess of Ohio, hoary onetime college president, launched a bitter attack on "this Dawes-McNary-Haugen plan...
...report went far and wide through the press. Mr. Smith Wildman Brookhart, newly nominated for the Senate in Iowa (TIME, June 14), had made a speech to the Iowa Federation of Labor at Mason City. He was reported as having advocated...
Next day Mr. Brookhart said "Pooh, pooh!" to reporters...
While the echoes of the incident were still resounding in the press, Mr. Brookhart paid a visit to his old stamping ground, Washington, to which he hopes to return next March. He was there, he said, in the interest of farm relief legislation. Availing himself of the privilege of a former Senator, he went into the Senate Chamber, was cordially greeted. He got to talking in one corner with Senators Walsh, Caraway, and Jones (of New Mexico), all Democrats, while Senator Kendrick of Wyoming was making a speech. Something very amusing must have passed among the four, for Senator Caraway...