Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Garner, senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, ejaculated: "I have never questioned a Treasury estimate before, but in view of the $1,000,000,000 mistake*, while the previous bonus was under consideration, in addition to the errors which have crept into recent estimates, I can place no further confidence in Treasury information. This is a form of immorality which, unfortunately, cannot be punished unless the man happens to be under oath...
Last year there was an investigation of the Attorney General by the House of Representatives. He was acquitted. Last week a new investigation of the Attorney General was opened by a Senate Committee, with Senator Wheeler, radical Democrat from Montana, as its "prosecutor." The first witnesses called by the Committee gave sensational testimony. These witnesses were the divorced wife of Jesse Smith, and Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice "investigator...
Home-made publicity is a thing which many a Senator would relish. A few of them, such as Senator La Follette actually own their own press. To this number, Peter G. Gerry, Democrat from Rhode Island, recently added himself. He bought The Providence News, for a consideration not made public...
...desired, I do not think this session has been entirely fruitless. We have successfully investigated the Government oil leases and uncovered evidence of corruption on the part of Government officials. When we get through the investigation, we will turn to and pass relief measures for the farmers." Senator Robinson, Democrat of Arkansas: "Only one general appropriation bill has been passed, and no other substantial legislation has ever .been considered. This is due to the fact that the Republican majority has no program and has refrained from bringing forward important legislative proposals. The tax reduction bill will pass...
Edward I. Edwards, Democrat, from New Jersey, rose in the Senate and declared...