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...Listened to a brief discussion concerning the U. S. occupation of Samoa. Senator Lenroot introduced a bill for the purpose "of doing some measure of justice to those people...
...Senators Lenroot, Fess, Bruce urged that, if the transcontinental business were practically taken from the railroads and given to the ships, the railroads would be forced to raise their rates on all traffic, and even the interior Rocky Mountain states would lose in the end. Up spake keen Mr. Walsh of Montana; prodded the three Senators lustily for daring to imply that the business men of the Rocky Mountain states did not know what was good for them. At last, with 26 minutes left, Senator Gooding of Idaho rose for the final speech. Said...
...lunch and to ask the President to attend the next conference of Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship to Eugene V. Debs (see POLITICAL NOTES); Senators Lenroot and Willis, to ask the President to oppose an ocean ship canal through New York to the Great Lakes (see THE CONGRESS...
...With Lenroot chaperoning the victors and Johnson thundering for the opposition, the World Court rode through the Senate, 76-17. Wilson is dead; Harding is dead; Lodge and LaFollette are dead. What does this tardy victory of the proponents of international cooperation mean? Is it, as Johnson solemnly warned, "the way towards the League?" Is it a sop, alike to the leadership of Coolidge and the idealism of the nation...
...luncheon. His beard looked familiar. Elihu Root came for luncheon the day after. His statesmanlike features were just as familiar there a few years ago. Secretary Kellogg lunched there the same day. Next day Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Moses and Senator Lenroot came to call. Newspaper men came and went in small flocks. It was plain that something was brewing, and that it was not beef...