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...Passed 51-27 the Lenroot-Taber bill prohibiting importation of milk or cream into the U. S. without a permit from the Secretary of Agriculture. U. S. dairy interests are pleased. Urban consumers may.be vexed. Typical argument for the bill: "Is it fair to place United States dairy farmers, who have to comply with strict sanitary rules, in competition with Canadian dairies where conditions are sometimes shocking?"-Senator Lenroot. (Bill went to the President.) The House- ([ Passed a bill for the improvement of Alaska. (Bill went to the Senate.) C Passed a bill making appropriations for District of Columbia...
...Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin, Gillett of Massachusetts, Moses of New Hampshire were the chief defenders of the Administration...
Last week more primaries were held. In Wisconsin two important Republican senatorial candidates were Governor John J. Elaine (Wet) supported by Senator Robert M. ("Sonny") LaFollette, and Senator Irvine L. Lenroot (Dry), enthusiastic Coolidge man, although he was elected six years ago on an "insurgent" platform. The extremely bitter fight was won by Governor Elaine, with some 15,000 plurality...
...find that their constituents were not pleased with the votes they had cast for the World Court. In April, Senator William B. McKinley was defeated for renomination in the Illinois primaries ostensibly because he had voted for the World Court. Now, in California and Wisconsin, Senators Shortridge and Lenroot are having trouble in the primary campaigns for the same reason. Out in Idaho, where Senator William Edgar Borah is master, few men can back the World Court and remain politically potent. Frank R. Gooding, 59, junior Senator from Idaho, had the precocity to vote for U. S. entrance. Last week...
...Senatorship, the incumbent Irvine L. Lenroot battles Governor John Elaine, on whom has fallen the mantle of LaFollettism. Senator Lenroot is one of the many regular Republicans who was swept into office in the Harding landslide of 1920, even though he ran 270,000 votes behind the party ticket. His chief war cry in the present campaign is-"Divorce Wisconsin from the LaFollettes." Senator Lenroot is also a World Courter. In fact, he challenged Governor Elaine to a debate on the subject. The Governor could not be bothered; one of his henchmen offered to substitute. Whereupon, the Senator said sweetly...