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Their committee having finally made the recommendation a year and one half after the disputed election the Senate has voted to replace Mr. Brookhart with Mr. Steck. And although the committee voted ten to one in advising this choice, the Senate ratified it by a margin of only four ballots. The matter had been left suspended so long that it involved not only the politics of the last election and of the Senate generally, but also of the coming mid-term campaign. Despite the unanimity of the committee, there was no certitude of the actualities of the lowa election sufficient...
...even though the narrow vote cannot be said to reflect the complacency that evidently pervaded the committee action, neither does it reflect partisan bias. Sixteen Republicans voted for the Democrat, Steck, while nine Democrats sought to keep Brookhart in the Senate. If political preference did play a part, it was not along party lines...
...Noted well a vote of 10 to 1 (with two Senators abstaining) by which the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections decided to recommend to the Senate the unseating of Senator Smith Brookhart of Iowa and the seating of his opponent, Captain Daniel W. Steck...
...Democrats, Blease and Reed (not counting Mr. Dill), voted against the Court. The entire Farmer-Labor party, Mr. Shipstead, was also against the Court. So were 14 Republicans?Borah (Idaho), Brookhart (Iowa), Fernald (Maine), Frazier (North Dakota), Harreld (Oklahoma), Johnson (California), LaFollette (Wisconsin), Moses (New Hampshire), Nye (North Dakota), Pine (Oklahoma), Robinson (Indiana), Schall (Minnesota), Watson (Indiana), Williams (Missouri...
...extreme left wing of U. S. politics there were few leaders remaining-possibly only three Senators- Brookhart, Frazier and Norris. Although Senator Brookhart was apparently reelected last fall, his title to a senatorship is not yet clear (a recount will be undertaken July 20), and his prestige suffered severely from his close escape. Senator Frazier does not appear as a possible leader of his group. Senator Norris, therefore, was Mr. LaFollette's logical successor-by elimination if for no other reason. (Senator Wheeler, Mr. LaFollette's running mate last year was not generally considered a likely possibility...