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...Republican. Senator Jones's death put the technical balance of the Senate's power into Governor Dillon's hands. With Senators-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois off the floor, the Republicans mustered only 46 votes, requiring the vote of Farmer-Laborite Shipstead (Minnesota) to bring them even with the 47 Democrats; and the vote of Vice President Dawes to break a partisan deadlock. Now the Democrats were reduced to 46, and the Republicans stood to gain a seat in Governor Dillon's appointee...
...have gained command of the Senate. But the Democrats preferred to let the G. O. P. stand responsible for the Senate's deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin's LaFollette and Elaine, North Dakota's Frazier and Nye, and Minnesota's unique Farmer-Laborite Shipstead" had, prior to the Senate's "organizing," asked the orthodox Republicans for assurance that this session would see a "final vote" on farm relief, anti-Labor injunctions and U. S. policies in Latin-America. Senator Curtis, chief Republican, had replied with affable caution. The "progressives" had later agreed...
...placed on the committee" -LaFollette on Commerce, Post Offices, Mines; Nye on Immigration, Territories, Commerce, Appropriations and the chairmanship of Public Lands; Frazier on Mines, Post Offices, Agriculture, Banking & Currency and the chairmanship of Indian Affairs; Blaine on Military Affairs, Civil Service, Judiciary and the District of Columbia. Senator Shipstead had been welcomed to six committees, including Agriculture, Public Buildings and Foreign Relations. Moreover, there was Iowa's tousled Brookhart, one of the archest oldtime "radicals." He was now in good standing on Banking & Currency, Interoceanic Canals, Post Offices and Military Affairs...
Glass of Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
Bears. The U. S. Senate nearly lost its entire farmer-labor bloc lately. So the country learned when Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, lone farmer-laborite showed his friends some cinema films last week, taken by him on his vacation in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta. Upon the screen came three dark, fuzzy objects, moving about in undergrowth many rods away. The largest object struck an attitude of attention and started to approach the camera. Rushing rapidly, it soon proved to be a mother grizzly, charging to defend her whimpering cubs. She charged far enough for Senator Shipstead...