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Senator Elaine of Wisconsin forced the secrecy issue by offering for publication in the Congressional Record the Lenroot roll-call as compiled by Pressman Mallon. Up rose Pennsylvania's haggard, young Senator Reed to demand enforcement of the Senate's secrecy rule. Complained he bitterly: "There is some hypocrite here who prattles out loud about law enforcement and in secrecy does what he dare not do publicly and gives out information." He called for the expulsion of any Senators who had given Pressman Mallon his in formation, announced a meeting of the Rules Committee to deal with this matter...
Vice President Curtis ruled that the Mallon vote report could go into the Record. Senator Reed, indignant, appealed from this ruling but could muster only nine Republicans to his support, seven of whom the Mallon report had showed voting for Lenroot...
Next day the Rules Committee met, prepared to censure the undiscovered "leaky" Senator, subpoenaed Pressman Mallon. By ancient custom and courtesy, though not by rule, one representative at a time of the four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses of the Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette...
...Hero Mallon were not without their strong defenders. While the Press Gallery seethed
...with indignation, on the floor Senators La Follette and Johnson took up cudgels for Mallon. Senator La Follette's chief point was that the Rules Committee should question Senators about infractions of the secrecy rules, not newsmen who have taken no oath to obey those rules...