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...Secret Documents." President Hoover's message on the Treaty had hardly been read before Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, Democrat, was on his feet with a resolution requesting the President to submit to the Senate "all letters, cablegrams, minutes, memoranda, instructions, despatches, records, files and other information" relative to the Treaty. This question of "Secret Documents" had already been thrashed out between the anti-Treaty members of the Foreign Relations Committee and the President, who had explained the papers desired and withheld were not solely U. S. property but belonged also to the other countries negotiating (TIME, June...
Senator Johnson and his cohorts spread the suspicion that the secret papers contained some sinister bargain which the Administration was afraid to reveal. Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, of Arkansas, Senate minority leader and Democratic delegate to the London Conference, proposed to qualify the McKellar resolution by requesting the confidential papers only "if not incompatible with the public interest." Familiar with their contents, he declared: "The whole discussion is a tempest in a teapot. . . . They [the papers] are absolutely trivial and insignificant so far as they reflect any light on the Treaty. ... If they were ever published they would make...
...President Hoover is absolutely responsible . . . for the muddled condition of the Tariff Bill. . . . The President has stood by in silence, without the vision, leadership or courage to direct the Republicans in Congress to do what he advised them to do." So declared Tennessee's blatantly partisan Senator McKellar on the eve of the Senate's tariff vote...
...Washington last week. President Hoover commented cautiously: "We are giving careful study to the possibility. . . . We all hope that the situation may work out. . . ." Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: "There may be reasons against it." Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee: "Nothing doing!" Tennessee's Senator McKellar: "Such a surplus would not have been possible but for the amendment introduced by me" (publicity for tax refunds...
Tribute to Senator Warren's years was paid by Tennessee's Democratic Senator McKellar who wished him many happy returns of the day, recited his venerable record and said: "I take off my hat to him . . . make my bow in admiration of him . . . congratulate him on his clean and splendid life...