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...fares -sailed on the great liner. Among the more prominent were Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake" bid of $1,000,000, 000 for the entire Government fleet...
...Some politicians, (for example, Senators Fletcher, Edwards, Oddie; Representatives Britten, Madden, both of Illinois; Representatives Gallivan, Burton, McFadden, Sol Bloom...
Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is a keen financier and wary junketeer. Since the adjournment of Congress he has traveled some 12,000 miles, visiting the Canal Zone, and in general "sticking his nose" into Government finances. In Panama he is said to have discovered a $7,000,000 surplus of the canal railroad, Government property, the books of which had never been audited by a Government auditor...
American naval experts assert that we should not violate even the spirit of the document in increasing the angle of our guns. Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is sure that to do so would be a grievous violation of our good faith. The President himself must make the final decision. Three factors will probably be involved: 1) Whether the change is a violation of the treaty in spirit or letter; 2) Whether it would have undesirable consequences in the attitude of foreign nations to us; 3) Whether it would have any military value if Great Britain...
...change can be made under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty is a question which Secretary Hughes is said to be discussing with the British Foreign Office. Although American Naval officers declare that we are fully within our rights under the Treaty in increasing the range of our guns, Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that he would protest the right of the Navy Department to make the change. Secretary Hughes and President Harding will be consulted before action is taken...