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Their committee having finally made the recommendation a year and one half after the disputed election the Senate has voted to replace Mr. Brookhart with Mr. Steck. And although the committee voted ten to one in advising this choice, the Senate ratified it by a margin of only four ballots. The matter had been left suspended so long that it involved not only the politics of the last election and of the Senate generally, but also of the coming mid-term campaign. Despite the unanimity of the committee, there was no certitude of the actualities of the lowa election sufficient...
...Noted well a vote of 10 to 1 (with two Senators abstaining) by which the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections decided to recommend to the Senate the unseating of Senator Smith Brookhart of Iowa and the seating of his opponent, Captain Daniel W. Steck...
...official count of the ballots in Iowa disclosed that in about 900,000 votes cast, Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart won reëlection over his Democratic opponent Dan. Steck by about 750 votes. Democrats prepared to contest the election...
Next morning, things were more favorable for him. He took a sight. The official count was put off for a week. In the unofficial count, Brookhart had 447,523 votes to Steck's 446,407-a lead of a bare 1,100 votes. The Presidential vote, however, was Coolidge 515,759, LaFollette 259,742, Davis...
Even if Mr. Brookhart retains his seat, Mr. Steck will probably carry "the contest for it to the Senate...