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...Nebraska courts -defeated by a vote of 10 to 6 a motion to report the measure. To all intents and purposes the bill was supposed to have been disposed of this session of Congress. But the Muscle Shoals fracas was not past. Only a few days later Senator Heflin, a sup porter of the Ford offer, summoned a witness. Senator Norris, an advocate of Government operation, sat listening in critical silence. The witness was Mrs. E. A. Edmundson of Decatur, Ala., one of the towns in the Muscle Shoals region. Ingenuously, she began her testimony. She smiled genially and recalled...
...Among the Swedes we find scoundrels and hypocrites, and I was surprised that the able Senator from Alabama, Mr. Heflin, devoted an hour and 15 minutes to speaking about an immigrant boy who came over here and who had been here only a few months, who happened?perhaps he was insane?to stab a boy who had been born in this country...
Senator Magnus Johnson paid a unique compliment to Senator Heflin...
Being conservative Congress is of course sentimental. Its love for the old order of things--a handshaking. Executive--found expression in Senator Heflin's "Oh, Mr. President!" But being old-fashioned and sentimental it is some what unscientific...
SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE LAND FRAUDS IN RIO GRANDE COUNTRY-Senators Moses (Chairman), Edge, Oddie, Heflin...