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...possible in doing so, seemed treason to the most politically precious of metals. "I thought," said Senator Thomas, "that we had a silver policy. But we haven't any ? other than to buy silver at the lowest possible price." Next day Senator Thomas and his silver friend, Senator McCarran of Nevada, took their revenge. As the price of passing the tax bill (see p. 17) they got the Senate to insert a provision repealing: 1) the Treasury's authority to nationalize silver; 2) the tax of 50% on the profits of silver speculators; 3) the requirement that Government licenses...
...appease the silver bloc, Finance Chairman Harrison had accepted Senator McCarran's amendment turning silver back to the speculators (see p. 13). To save time he had promised to "take along to conference" a swarm of other, minor amendments. By 40 to 39 the Senate had approved Senator Borah's amendment lifting tax exemption from future issues of Federal securities. Otherwise the Finance Committee's bill had been passed intact. Bob La Follette's politically preposterous notion that the bill should be turned into a respectable revenue raiser by taxing the "little fellow" had been shrugged...
...work. Nevada's McCarran, the only Senator who appeared to wish the filibuster to go on, obliged by demanding another quorum, but this time Huey Long did not dare leave the floor for fear of losing his speech-making prerogative. Besides, the galleries were filling up with a new crowd-Washingtonians who preferred listening to the Kingfish to watching the Shriners parade in the rain. Going to the clerk's desk Long snatched up the official list of Senators...
...drops a hint of how a bill may be passed. That work relief was finally enacted as the President wanted it was largely due to Vice President Garner's advice to the bill's managers to withdraw it from the floor when it was blocked by the McCarran prevailing wage amendment, reform their lines in committee for a second and successful drive...
Voting down (50-to-38) a second introduction of the McCarran proposal to pay the wages of the private building industry to workers on public projects, the Senate substituted an amendment giving the President "discretionary control" of relief pay except on Federal building projects. The horse trade which effected this compromise was reported to have been made between the President and New York's Senator Wagner, who exacted in exchange the Administration's support for his Labor Relations Bill. Within a week observers expected that the Relief Bill would be on the President's desk and that...