Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination was bitterly fought because, once a Wisconsin Liberal, he had turned Conservative, had hindered the Senate's Oil Scandals investigation, had lobbied for power interests. His confirmation by the Senate was first-class news. Like all Senate votes on presidential nominations, the vote was taken in "executive session," behind closed doors, secretly...
When the secret session is over each correspondent hurries to find that particular Senator with whom he is on the most intimate and confidential terms. Senate rules prohibit, under penalty of expulsion, any Senator from revealing executive session happenings. It usually requires between ten minutes and a half-hour for all the essential facts of these meetings to be gathered up by the Capitol correspondents, assembled and put in full and free circulation in the Senate Press Gallery. Not all Senators will divulge what their rules forbid but enough will do so to make a fiction of the Senate secrecy...
Vastly vexed was the Associated Press, chief rival of the U. P. Its Washington chief protested to the Senate, claiming the right to publish executive session proceedings, implying that the United Press report of the Lenroot poll was not accurate. The only inaccuracy formally complained of had to do with two absent Senators. Nevertheless the A. P., in self defense, kept belittling its rival's scoop. This not-very-sporting A. P. letter brought mumbles of derision from Senators...
...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...
...State Senators. Twenty-six would be required for an impeachment conviction, 14 for acquittal. Just after the Long trial started last week in the Louisiana Senate, 15 Senators agreed that the proceedings were technically illegal and unconstitutional because the House had impeached Gov. Long at a special session unduly extended. Six of these Long Senators, despite their oath to serve as fair and impartial judges of his case, had sat on platforms from which Gov. Long was haranguing crowds in his own defense. With the opportunity of a full trial on the evidence thus excluded, the remaining 24 Senators flayed...