Word: montana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the Senate was enjoying much discourse on the subject of passing the resolution authorizing the investigation. The resolution had been offered by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat from Montana who in his resolution attempted to name the investigating committee. This was objected to as a breach of the tradition by which the President of the Senate usually names such bodies. Charges flew back and forth -that Senator Wheeler was trying to pack the committee with opponents of the Attorney General, that the regular Republicans were preparing a whitewashing committee to be named by the President of the Senate...
...McLean was the man who ex-Secretary Fall had said lent him $100,000. McLean, through his attorney, A. Mitchell Palmer (first Alien Property Custodian and later Attorney General under Mr. Wilson), had confirmed this statement. Later, Senator Walsh of Montana had taken testimony from Mr. McLean at Palm Beach, in which the latter admitted that, although he had given Mr. Fall checks for $100,000, they had been returned uncashed. So Mr. McLean was indubitably connected with the oil scandals...
...Senator Wheeler of Montana made a speech in the Senate advocating a resolution that Attorney General Daugherty should resign. He said that "everybody knows" that Daugherty was a friend of Sinclair and Doheny. Thereupon Mr. Doheny wired the Senator: "The fact is that Mr. Daugherty and myself are not friends and that I never saw him but once in my life and that was on a formal official occasion. ... I have never had any relationship of a business or friendly nature with Mr. Daugherty, nor have I ever directly or indirectly addressed to or received from him any communications whatever...
...Senator La Follette or some radical friend of his-such as Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, or Senator Wheeler, insurgent Republican of Montana-should decide to run on a third party ticket, he might very well carry Wisconsin and some of the Northwestern "radical" states. If election was then close, it would follow that no candidate would have a majority vote in the Electoral College. In such a case, according to the Constitution, the election would then be decided by the House of Representatives,* the delegation of each state casting one vote, i.e., if there were 16 Republican Representatives...
...happens that, according to the present representation in the House, 21 states would vote Republican, 20 would vote Democratic. The 'delegations of five states-Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey-are evenly tied, and it cannot be said how they would vote. Two other states, Minnesota and Wisconsin, are doubtful because their delegations include Farmer-Labor and radical members. The outcome would be most uncertain...