Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argument. The sole question at issue was the legal one: "Is a U.S. Senator a state officer?" The Committee on Elections, headed by Senator Goff of West Virginia, decided "No." A minority report was made by a Democrat, Senator Stephens of Mississippi, saying "Yes." A Senator is paid by the Federal government but chosen by the state. Whose officer is he? Some Senators declared it would be unfair to deprive a state of its full representation because of a legal technicality...
...Arguments Pro. The forces for the settlement were led by Representative Crisp of Georgia (Democrat), Representative Burton of Ohio (Republican), who are both members of the Ways and Means Committee and of the Debt Funding Commission, and by Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, one of the financial experts on the Committee. The argument they presented for the agreement was simple: Italy is bankrupt; these are the best terms we can get; this is all that Italy can pay. Representative Mills turned to the opposition with the declaration that the average income of the Italians is less than...
Edward I. Edwards, Senator and Democrat from New Jersey, appeared upon the floor of the Senate with a newspaper clipping. In the clipping Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Budget, was quoted as saying, "I don't care what the people think of me or the budget." In fine forensic style Senator Edwards vented his feelings...
Representative Crisp made the majority report favoring ratification because he is one of the members of the Debt Funding Commission. Representative Cordell Hull, also a Democrat, made the minority report objecting vigorously to the Italian agreement, which is the most lenient that has been made...
...while ways and means of defeating rubber prices were discussed in the Committee, a Democrat, Loring M. Black of Brooklyn, presented on the floor of the House an entirely different attitude...