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...violence by the county whose officials are responsible, is already in the statue books, of twelve States. But filibustered rarely have to talk about bills. As Tom Connally's loyal little band?Georgia's Russell, North Carolina's Bailey, South Carolina's James Byrnes, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, Louisiana's Ellender, and Pat Harrison?began their operations they had one stroke of luck. Illinois' porky, cautious William Dieterich had persuaded the Judiciary Committee to tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This gave Kenneth McKellar an opportunity...
When nine of the thirteen men on the Post Office Committee sent the McKellar patronage bill to the United States Senate with their blessing, the issue of competent government service was placed squarely before that august body. There is no escape; within the next few weeks every one of the ninety-six senators must place himself on record for or against spoils in the public service. A public solidly behind governmental efficiency is sure to watch the developments with no little interest...
Left peacefully slumbering in another committee is the Ramspeck bill, a valuable and constructive reform. Its proposals are diametrically opposed to those of the McKellar bill. Whereas the latter would place the appointment of fourteen thousand higher-class postmasters permanently under Senate control, the latter would take such appointments entirely out of the Senate's hands. Although providing no magic formula through which efficient government service can be realized, it is infinitely preferable to the perpetuation of a system which has undermined government administration for over three quarters of a century...
...House Speakership. Republican majorities defeated him each time and by 1928 Representative Garrett was convinced that the best he could ever hope for in the House was the minority leadership he had held for five years. In 1928, he ran against bumbling Kenneth McKellar in the primary for the U. S. Senate. Opposed by Memphis' potent Boss Edward Crump (TIME, Nov. 1), he was roundly defeated. If Finis Garrett had stayed in the House in 1928, he would almost certainly have been elected Speaker by the Democratic majority of 1931. If Finis Garrett had been Speaker, John Nance Garner...
...back from the Paris Inter-parliamentary Union conference, the State's Senior Senator, square-headed Kenneth D. McKellar, strong Shelby County Democrat, heard about the plan by radio. Arrived in the U. S., he took the first train to Nashville, and in the smoky old Capitol addressed the Legislature with a stirring denunciation of the plan-which incidentally may enable Governor Browning to replace him in the U. S. Senate in 1940. Said he: "I've made mistakes but I do not think I deserve this stab in the back...