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...able but infrequent Senate orator is muscular young Otis Ferguson Glenn of Illinois. Lately President Hoover has complained because no Republican has been rising to defend him in the Senate. And Tennessee's red-faced Senator McKellar was attacking the President with charges so hackneyed that even good Democrats were embarrassed. So Senator Glenn got to his feet and made a speech. Excerpt...
Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee on a speaking tour in behalf of Oklahoma Democracy, received facial abrasions, cancelled further engagements when his automobile collided with another near Lawton, Okla...
After two weeks of weary debate the Senate last week ratified (58 to 9) the London Naval Treaty. The nine dissenters were: Republicans Bingham, Hale, Johnson, Moses, Oddie, Pine, Robinson of Indiana; Democrats McKellar, Walsh of Massachusetts. Even they were glad to adjourn and go home. All relevant and many irrelevant arguments had been exhausted. The opposition had blown itself out in a futile filibuster; a quorum and more had stood fast, literally under the guns of miniature cruiser batteries set up in a corner of the Senate chamber by Senator Hale of Maine to illustrate his objections...
Chief reservationists were Senators Johnson, Hale, McKellar. Among other things they proposed that: 1) Britain give up her naval bases at Halifax and Bermuda; 2) U. S. entry into the World Court or League of Nations would void the Treaty; 3) All parties to the Treaty guarantee "Freedom of the Seas" to belligerents as well as neutrals in time of war; 4) The division of cruisers into gun categories is only a "temporary expedient" which would not bind the U. S. at future conferences; 5) The 10-6 naval ratio between the U. S. and Japan should be restored...
Vote; Veto. After four days debate on the Senate's right to see the papers, the Robinson amendment was attached to the McKellar resolution (38-17) which was then adopted (53-4). President Hoover promptly refused to submit the papers to the Senate, reiterating the rights of other nations as his reason...