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Texas' Patman, veteran-The country is in good financial condition. . . . The Morgans, Millses and Mitchells will benefit by such legislation...
...Democratic majority, party politics aside, massed in defense of the Republican President. The impeachment resolution was "laid on the table" (i. e. defeated) by the overwhelming vote of 361-to-8. Seven Democrats voted for it: New York's Black and Griffin, Texas' Blanton and Patman (bonuseer who tried to impeach Mr. Mellon), North Carolina's Hancock, Ohio's Sweeney, Missouri's Romjue. Rarely before had a U. S. President received such a thumping big non-partisan vote of confidence from the House. Impeacher McFadden, denounced and condemned by all Republicans for his "contemptible gesture...
Thus last week did the Congressional Record tersely note the death of Representative Edward Everett Eslick, 60-year-old Democrat of Pulaski, Tenn. Representative Eslick was addressing the House in favor of the Patman bill to pay the Soldier Bonus in full with new currency. Not a hale man, he had worked hard preparing his speech. During its delivery he grew excited when pestered by questions from the members. Suddenly he uttered a short, sharp gasp and slumped to the floor. One hand caught wildly at the flimsy reading stand before him. The official stenographer reporting his speech tried...
Next day the House passed the Patman Bonus bill (209-10-176). The B. E. F. turned its attention to the less friendly Senate. From their Anacostia camp tattered jobless veterans marched by thousands to the Capitol. They packed into the Senate galleries. They flopped down in corridors to nap. They swarmed over the wide Capitol steps. They sprawled on the grass. They packed the plaza. They sang and joked. By dusk there were close to 10,000 of them in & around the Capitol. Shortly after 8 p. m. their comrades in the Senate Chamber flashed out the news?...
Last week the House of Representatives surrendered to the siege of the Bonus Expeditionary Force encamped near the Capitol. It voted (226-to-175) to take up the bill by Texas' Patman for immediate cashing of Adjusted Service Compensation certificates at a cost of $2,400,000,000 in printing-press money. This first test of the Bonus boosters' strength indicated that the House would probably pass the Patman bill and send it to the Senate. In that body 56 Senators-a majority-were said to be lined up against the Bonus. But even should the measure somehow...