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...delegates were headed by Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, included Senators Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee...
When the 74 had taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...Barkley," shouted Judge Russell, as he drew out the first slip. "Harrison," barked Judge McKellar on the second. "Harrison."' "Harrison." "Harrison." "Harrison." "Barkley." "Barkley." "Harrison." "Barkley." Seesaw. Seesaw. When the vote reached 37-37 there was a pause and a dead silence. The final ballot looked "big as a quilt" to Candidate Barkley, who bit off his pipestem...
...Chairman McKellar admonished Mr. Girdler that Mr. Guffey as a Senator was entitled to respect. Mr. Girdler: "I don't call it disrespectful to say that a Senator does not know what he's talking about...
John P.Lee; George F. Lowman; Wiley E. Mayne; Donald McC. McKellar, Jr.; John S. Mechem; George von L. Meyer, III; Charles L. Moore; Arthur Oakes, III; George F. Roberts; John A. Roosevelt; Renouf Russell; David W. Shean, Jr.; Carl Shirley; Donald C. Sleeper; John B. Stevens; Hobert C. Stuart; Robert Sullivan; John N. Thorne, Jr.; George F. Tyler, Jr.; Caspar W. Weinberger; Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; Robert T. Whitman; Edward F. Whitney; and Crocker Wight...