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...against consideration. A moment later another roll call was held and the resolution was passed 59 to 13. In both cases only regular Republicans voted in the negative. Of the 34 regular Republicans who first voted "no", 14?Butler, Cameron, Cummins, Curtis, Dale, Gooding, Harreld, Jones (Washington), McMaster, Pine, Stanfield, Weller, Williams and Willis?changed to "yes" on the second vote. And seven others simply left the Chamber and did not vote the second time?Watson, Robinson (Ind.), Deneen, Keyes, Norbeck, Capper and Reed...
Before the shouting over the Pennsylvania primaries had died away, the fate of another Republican Senator was sealed by ballot in Oregon. There Robert N. Stanfield was up for renomination. The nomination race turned into a free-for-all for the Republicans. There were eight candidates, including one Senator, one woman and one Wet (Oregon is prevailingly Dry). The Senator had against him an incident in a café in Baker, Ore., last fall (TIME, Sept. 28), when he was arrested for drunkenness and never appeared in court to face the charge...
Frederick Steiwer, a state Senator, ran first with something over 40,000 votes, and Mr. Stanfield came second, more than 10,000 votes behind; the six others trailed...
...gentlemen from Oregon walked into the White House office. They needed no introduction. One was Senator Charles L. McNary, the other Senator Robert N. Stanfield. They brought the President news which he was not glad to receive. They told him that the Judiciary Committee of the Senate could not be induced to recommend the confirmation of Judge Wallace McCamant of Oregon as Federal Circuit Judge-McCamant who nominated Coolidge in 1920, and who allowed himself to be forced into saying that Roosevelt "was not a good American" (TIME, Feb. 8, POLITICAL NOTES...
...annual Congressional Reception was held at the White House, drawing a great concourse of legislators, among them Speaker Longworth, Senator (onetime Speaker) Gillett, Senator Butler, Senator Deneen, Senator Pepper, Senator Stanfield, Senator McKinley, Senator Gerry, Senator Phipps and many more, with their ladies. After the President and first lady retired to the second floor, there was dancing in the East Room...