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A. B. Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate, was the loser of the Chairmanship. Mr. Cummins, who came to Congress in 1908 as a radical and foe of the railways, who fought side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated...
¶ Senator Couzens of Michigan, in two letters to Secretary Mellon attacked the latter's arguments for lower income surtaxes and challenged him to a public debate on the question, which was hardly fair since Mr. Mellon is notoriously platform-shy. Mr. Couzens contended:
3) That the amount of tax exempt securities outstanding is not great enough to have much effect on revenues, being only about 8% of total securities. [This figure of Mr. Couzens' must be revised in the light of the above figures of tax exempt securities. Mr. Couzens calculated in...
¶ Took two votes on the election of a Chairman for the Interstate Commerce Committee, bringing the total number of ballots up to 27 (TIME, Dec. 24, Dec. 31). No break was achieved in the deadlock between Senator Cummins, sponsored by the regular Republicans, Senator Couzens, sponsored by the Republican...
Senator Bruce of Maryland was the sole Democrat to vote for Senator Cummins. Borah, Gooding, Norbeck and Jones joined the insurgents in voting for Couzens. Senators Hiram Johnson of California and Capper of Kansas also joined the Couzens forces, who at their highest point polled 14 votes, compared with about...