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That the Senate had confirmed Mr. Lenroot by a vote of 42 to 27 was quickly known to every member of the Press Gallery. More enterprising than his colleagues, Newsman Paul Raymond Mallon of the United Press Association set himself to learn the exact line-up of these 69 secret votes. Many a good Senate friend has this (all, quick-stepping, dark-haired news-gatherer of 28. Through him early this year the public learned the secret vote whereby the Senate confirmed Roy Owen West as a Coolidge Secretary of the Interior (TIME, Feb. 4), the publication of which...
...same Senate friends helped Mr. Mallon with a few names here, a few names there, until, in two days, he had compiled a version, at least, of the Lenroot vote, which was promptly published in U. P.-served newspapers. Again a Senate secret was out. Again Pressman Mallon's nose-for-news shocked and scandalized Senators...
...Mallon news this time was that nine Democrats had combined with 35 conservative Republicans to put Mr. Lenroot on the bench. The significance of the news, quite overshadowing the individual secret votes of Senators, was its manifestation of a growing Press policy, led by the United Press, to break down the fiction of secret Senate sessions by showing their futility...
With the Lenroot roll-call in print, angry Senators felt betrayed, behaved as if they were ashamed of their votes. First they began vengefully to pursue Pressman Mallon, then went off on a will-o'-the-wisp hunt for some Senator who could have given him this information...
...vote also revealed ? which was no great secret ? that the squad of anti-power-trust Republicans is eleven: Elaine, Borah, Brookhart, Couzens, Frazier, Johnson, MacMaster, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Pine. From one of these it was thought that Paul Mallon had secured his scoop. Such a one as the boyish Nye who is regular at election time and irregular in between would be glad to have the country know that he, in contradistinction to the majority, is nobly bottling "the interests." But any of the Progressives might have done it and Pressman Mallon is specially good-friends with Progressives...