Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Curtis ruled that the Mallon vote report could go into the Record. Senator Reed, indignant, appealed from this ruling but could muster only nine Republicans to his support, seven of whom the Mallon report had showed voting for Lenroot,
Next day the Rules Committee met, prepared to censure the undiscovered "leaky" Senator, subpoenaed Pressman Mallon. By ancient custom and courtesy, though not by rule, one representative at a time of the four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses...
(3 of 3) with indignation, on the floor Senators La Follette and Johnson took up cudgels for Mallon. Senator La Follette's chief point was that the Rules Committee should question Senators about infractions of the secrecy rules, not newsmen who have taken no oath to obey those rules.
He recalled that one year ago Newsman Theodore Huntley had printed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette information about the executive session of the Senate which rejected the nomination of John Jacob Esch as Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Mr. Huntley is now Senator Reed's secretary.
Declared Senator La Follette, after citing other news accounts of executive sessions: "If Mr. Mallon is to be put on the rack and grilled, all newspaper men guilty of publishing executive session news should be broken on the wheel."