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...Senate. ¶ Passed the Senate's bill to raise the retirement pay of 3,390 War officers who were disabled 30% or more, to the scale paid regular retired officers, entailing $2,294,000 per annum (average, $56.40 per month per officer); Representatives Johnson (South Dakota), McClintic (Oklahoma) Luce (Massachusetts), Rankin (Mississippi), Vincent (Michigan), Huddleston (Alabama) opposed this bill but it was passed without a roll call. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $1,770,000 in the next five years to breed game-fish. ¶ Voted 169 to 159 for an adjournment blocking a vote on the Senate...
...Wilbur gave the appearance of a very embarrassed Secretary. But he did not retreat. Representative McClintic, vociferous Oklahoman, respectfully informed him that "a Cabinet member ought to have sufficient judgment to know better." Mr. Wilbur blinked and stayed. Republican Leader Tilson got up to meet the storming Democrats with the ambiguous remark that it was a great pity that Cabinet officials did not come to Congress more often, and the Messrs. Hudson and Britten assured him that Secretaries Taft and Josephus Daniels used frequently to mingle with Congressmen on the floor of the House. Mr. Wilbur stayed to the bitter...
Navy Program. "It was a slap in the face for President Coolidge," said Representative McClintic of Oklahoma, Democrat. It was also another thwack for Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, when the House Naval Affairs Committee voted last week, 15 to 1, to rewrite the Administration's Navy building program. The Committee did not wish to change the volume of the program. It only meant to make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee...
...Joke." Stocky, ruddy James V. McClintic, Oklahoma Democrat, arose vexatiously soon after the reading-of-the-journal one day. "Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House," said he, "some one has introduced a bill, and has signed my name to it, which, if enacted into law, would allow the Secretary of the Navy to buy for every officer of the Navy, a Cadillac, a Packard, or a Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy...
...resolution which Representative McClintic did introduce last week asked investigation of a $34,000,000 discrepancy between the 1919 estimate and the actual 1927 cost of the new U. S. airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington...