Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While other Senators debated whether or not to oust him and declare vacant the seat he had held for 19 years, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez slumped in his chair like a weary gnome. The Senate had spent some $225,000 to investigate irregularities in the 1952 New Mexico senatorial election, in which Chavez edged out Republican Patrick Hurley. When the vote came, every Democratic Senator was present, and they stood with Chavez to the last man-along with five Republicans and Wayne Morse. By a vote of 53 to 36, the U.S. Senate decided to keep...
When the votes were counted in New Mexico's U.S. Senate election in 1952, the result was close enough for an argument. The official count gave Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez a lead of only 5,071 votes over onetime U.S. Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Republican Hurley cried fraud, contested the election and got the U.S. Senate to investigate. For 15 months a Senate subcommittee-Republicans Frank Barrett of Wyoming and Charles Potter of Michigan and Democrat Thomas Hennings of Missouri-tried to discover...
...failing to side with either man, the report in effect called for the ouster of Chavez. In application, however, it probably will mean final confirmation of his right to the seat. The report this week goes to the Rules Committee and then to the Senate floor. There, barring a miracle, Dennis Chavez should be able to muster enough of his colleagues' votes to keep his seat. This prospect was clear to ex-Cavalryman Hurley. Growled he: "The Grand Old Party apparently now hasn't the guts that God gave a goose...
...under Herbert Hoover), is a man who can lose battles and still keep on trying to win the war. Three times (1946, 1948, 1952) he has tried to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, and each time he has failed. Last year, after Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez defeated him by only 5,375 votes, Republican Hurley cried fraud, contested the election, got the U.S. Senate to order an investigation. Last week, more than 13 months after the balloting, Pat Hurley still had a chance, albeit a slim...
...ballots were thrown out, Hurley would have about 5,000 more votes than Chavez. The subcommittee's vote is by no means a final action. Chairman Barrett said that he plans further investigation, may not file a formal report for another six weeks. Then, the recommendation will go to the Senate Rules Committee, which will report to the Senate. Unless Iraud is clearly shown, a majority of Senators almost certainly will stand by Colleague Chavez. On one other point, however, there was even greater certainty: having won a skirmish, old (70) Cavalryman Hurley is sure...