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...harass a Cabinet officer by nipping and snapping at his ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew William Mellon's eligibility to serve President Hoover as Secretary of the Treasury. Always antagonistic to Secretary Mellon, Senator McKellar, by resolution, asked...
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee set aside the McKellar complaint against President Hoover's failure to submit Mr. Mellon's nomination to the Senate, as mere legal piffling. Some 200 precedents were available to show that appointments did not require reconfirmation...
Secretary Mellon's statement so impressed the Judiciary Committee that without formal action it agreed not to question him further. Senator McKellar, however, 'thought he saw a last opportunity for nipper-snapping in the fact that Gulf Oil operates 29 "sea vessels," that as a stockholder in Gulf Oil Mr. Mellon is an "owner ... in part" of these vessels...
What Mr. Mellon's purpose was in this (for him) extraordinary remark, remained a mystery. Perhaps he wanted to let Senators McKellar, Couzens et al. know, in a delicate way, that the Secretary of the Treasury was still quite sure of himself. Or, perhaps again, he wanted to bolster the Federal Reserve Board's campaign against stock speculation loans. Or, perhaps a third time, there was a connection between the statement and the condition of U. S. Government bonds. The Treasury's quarterly financing of March 15 had been barely oversubscribed despite an interest rate...
Congress nevertheless passed the bill containing, in modified form, a refund publicity clause drafted by Tennessee's loquacious Senator McKellar. So soon as Herbert Hoover became President, Senator McKellar attacked the reappointment of Secretary Mellon with a resolution directing the Senate's Judiciary Committee to enquire into Mr. Mellon's fitness-for-office...