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Unable to yield with dignity, the Senate once again rejected Mr. Warren, 46-39. In this debate Senator Gillett made his maiden speech, defending Mr. Warren; Senator Borah, learned, eloquent, before packed galleries, espoused the Senatorial right to reject Mr. Warren...
...There is only one Senator Walsh in the Senate now- Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts has retired in favor of Senator Gillett, who defeated him last fall. *A recess appointment is a temporary appointment which the President has power to make when the Senate is not in session (Constitution of the United States, Art. II, Sect. 2, clause...
...gallery, Mrs. Gillett, wife of the Speaker, soon to be wife of a Senator, appeared. There were no seats left, and a place was squeezed for her on the stairs. Senators (they were allotted only two guest seats) rushed about asking doorkeepers to find seats for their friends. Representatives (they were allotted .one guest seat) implored the doorkeepers to find a place for so and so. The gallery doors were crammed with heads of those who could not get in. Chairs were snatched up in the corridors, and some stood on them to look over the heads nearer the doors...
...Speaker Gillett and smiling Representative Longworth, his successor-to-be entered, followed by other Representatives, among them Mrs. Mae Nolan of California, retiring. Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma, who retired from the House two years ago was with the group. The Representatives took some time in crowding in, finding seats, and arranging themselves, or standing around the rear of the Chamber. During this interval, the Supreme Court stood in the corridor without, waiting. Ambassadors and Ministers, the Cabinet, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Supreme Court were...
...illustrious roster, that of the Speakers of the House of Representatives, although only one of them ever attained to the Presidency.* There were Henry Clay, James G. Blaine, Samuel J. Randall, Thomas B. Reed, Joseph G. Cannon, Champ Clark. The latest speaker, now Senator Gillett, an able and fair man, had not the reputation that adheres to the fire-eaters of an earlier day. For that matter, the Speakership itself does not now enjoy the reputation that it once had. But it is still a high place in the eyes of the country and it still can invoke a bitter...