Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the Senate were two reports. One was a majority report of the Public Lands Committee headed by Senator Walsh, reviewing the evidence taken last year, denouncing Secretary Fall, condemning Secretary Denby for negligence criticising both the manner and the general policy of leasing the Government's reserves to private operators. The other was a minority report signed by five Republicans (Senators .Spencer, Smoot, Stanfield, Cameron, Bursum), which upheld the Harding Administration's policy in regard to the oil reserves vindicated Denby, condemned Fall...
...minority report was voted on first. Senator Spencer undertook to defend it while the Democrats laid down a 'barrage of sarcasm. The vote was 42 for rejection and 28 for acceptance. The Democrats without exception voted for rejection. So also Farmer-Laborite Shipstead. The Republicans voted for acceptance with these exceptions: Insurgents Brookhart and Frazier (LaFollette and (Ladd being absent) ; semi-insurgents Norris and Norbeck who, as members of the committee, signed the majority report; Obstructionist Hiram Johnson; the Independents Couzens and Borah...
...vote was then taken on the more drastic majority report, which was adopted 40 to 30. Notable was the attitude of Senator Couzens who, for some reason, voted against both...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People furnished these figures. Accompanying them was a paragraph from the report of the House Committee on the Judiciary (68th Congress-i. e., the present...
Last week, the U. S. Director General of Railroads, James C. Davis,* rendered a report to President Coolidge. Although the books are not yet closed, he was able to make an estimate of the final cost to the Government of operating the railways during the War. The tabulation...