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...Ernst Thaelmann, Communist...
...Floor. The Senate confusion grew even worse. Senator Ernst, Republican of Kentucky, produced a telegram from Mr. Mellon saying that he had received the memorandum just a day before it had been sent to Mr. Couzens. Mr. Ernst accused Mr. Couzens of animus against the Secretary. Mr. Couzens replied, accusing Mr. Ernst of being in league with the Treasury to defeat the ends of the investigation, even of having connived in the disappearance of important letters. Mr. Ernst said he didn't hear and asked Mr. Couzens to repeat. Mr. Couzens refused. Then Senator Glass, ex-Secretary...
Pandemonium broke out. Half a dozen Senators asked to be recognized at once. Others ran between Mr. Ernst and Mr. Glares to prevent a forcible encounter. A point of order took Mr. Ernst off the floor, but it developed he had not meant Mr. Glass, as Mr. Glass had feared, but Mr. Couzens, a transcript of whose remarks he had just obtained and comprehended...
...Senator Ernst of Kentucky offered a resolution making Senators LaFollette (Wis.), Ladd and Frazier (N. D.), Brookhart (Iowa), ineligible for present committee assignments. Senator Spencer of Missouri offered a resolution for a Committee to consider ways and means of ejecting the insurgents. Senator Harreld of Oklahoma objected to naming any of the insurgents except Mr. LaFollette. Senator Howell of Nebraska objected strongly to the ejection. Senator Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate objected less vigorously, calling attention to the fact that he himself had supported Roosevelt's Progressive Party in 1912. But the ejectors were...
...dispossessing those gentlemen of their Republican committee posts, it of course could not be done without the action of the caucus. Certain of the regular Republicans in both houses have insisted that the insurgents should no longer be classed as Republicans in Committee assignments. In the Senate, Messrs. Smoot, Ernst, Reed (of Pennsylvania) are known to take this attitude. In the House, Representative. Treadway of Massachusetts is one of the leaders of the same movement. It is proposed to give the insurgents committee places in accordance with their strength as a minority. Mr. Treadway explained...