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...Senator Caraway (Democrat): "He disclosed that he was almost as lacking in a knowledge of the rules of the Senate and Constitution of the United States as he was lacking in good taste?almost but not quite...
...course Washington chuckled. One of the Senatorial wits-from the press reports, one could gauge rather accurately that he was Senator Caraway-suggested that this jiggling steed should be called Foreign Policy, because it had neither head nor tail. Another Democrat declared on the floor of the House: "I shall not be surprised if soon it will be heralded to the people that the President is riding this wooden horse for the purpose of cutting down the oat bill at the White House stable...
...Senators measured their stature on the floor of the Senate, comparing the extent to which they were sons of the soil. Quoth Senator Caraway, drawling Democrat from Arkansas...
...Caraway stuck his hands into his customary pockets and, eyeing the tailored vestments of his opponent, drawled: "Well, the farmers I knew didn't wear long-tailed coats and white vests...
Then fire sprang from the Democratic ranks. Senator Caraway began it; Senator Neely continued it; then Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, exclaimed: "It is a manly thing, when one gives offense, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to make a frank and manly apology . . . If the Senator desires to apologize and to withdraw what appears to have been a deliberate affront and befouling of his own nest, a discrediting of his constituency, he will have to withdraw the vital parts of his address, in which he charged himself and his colleagues with deliberately committing crimes against the Government and violating moral...