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...Washington for weeks, and reasserting his political strength, the master of the White House persuaded the Senate to walk once more with him. His 4.88-billion-dollar Relief Bill was brought back from the purgatory of Committee, whither it had been sent last month after the addition of the McCarran "prevailing wage" amendment had made the measure wholly unacceptable to the President...
Idaho's Borah growled that he had got just two letters, both commending his vote for the "prevailing wage" amendment. Father of the fracas, Nevada's portly Pat McCarran, told reporters that of the 200 communications he had received, all save one were favorable...
Working on a variety of motives, the opposition everrede resistance by a vote of 44 to 43. McCarran and other disciples of Mr. Green, of the American Federation of Labor, fathered the measure, blinded by a dogmatic adherence to the one high-wage scale for all workers. The buffoon from Louisiana, too tolerantly dismissed as a fool, whipped wavering Senators into line, from a much-heralded desire to "do anything" to thwart the administration. Republicans, acting with usual partisan tactics, voted almost as a block for the amendment. The appalling fact is that none of the opposition cliques knows...
...latest silver bill. "We are now," he cried, "going back to normal. . . . There is nothing which inspires such confidence as silver money." Only a handful of Senators thought they deserved more than the President had sent them. One was Senator Pittman's Nevada colleague, independent Patrick Aloysius McCarran. Others were Idaho's Borah, Montana's Wheeler, Oklahoma's Thomas, Louisiana's Long. It was a foregone conclusion, however, that Congress would accept the President's offering and pretend to like it. Meantime interested persons made an inventory of the President's second casket...
...effort was not wholly successful. Senator McCarran remarked afterwards: "We got very little consolation out of the meeting." The silverites went off to put their heads together, to decide whether they should try to buck the White House or bow to its will. Two days later 15 members of the silver bloc met again. Of the nine who remained at the end of a two-hour conference, seven were reported to have plumped for passage of the Dies bill with no modification...