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...were against it, and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia brought most of the southern Democrats into line against it. The advocates of the bill were led by Senator McNary of Oregon and Senator Gooding of Idaho. They included one Southerner, Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and such others as Steck of Iowa, McMaster of South Dakota, Watson of Indiana and, strangely enough, the Vice President...
...Republican state of Iowa will have no regular Republican in the Senate after next March, but instead will have Senator Steck (Democrat) and Senators Brookhart or Claude Porter (who carried off the Democratic nomination in the primary); the veteran Senator Cummins will retire after 18 years in the Senate...
...only pure-bred farmer bull snorting in political pastures. He snorted so loud in 1924 for LaFollette against Coolidge that he was beaten by a narrow margin for reelection. Only recently (TIME, April 19, CONGRESS) he was ousted from the Senate in favor of his opponent, Democrat Dan Steck, after a recanvass of the votes two autumns ago. Being ousted, he promptly announced himself a candidate against Mr. Cummins this year...
...Senators tried conscientiously to consider the question on its merits, the legal details were so complex that most of them abandoned the attempt and consulted their political interests. Even then, Republicans found it hard to make decisions. Some Republicans said half a Republican (Brookhart) was better than a Democrat (Steck); other Republicans thought otherwise. Some argued that if Brookhart was unseated he would compete with Regular Republican Cummins, who is up for reelection this fall, and might, by splitting the vote, cause Iowa to have a second Democratic* Senator. It was all most confusing...
...Finally the vote came: 45 for, and 41 against, Steck. Whereupon Senator Albert B. Cummins left the Senate Chamber, returned escorting his new colleague, led him up to Vice President Dawes, had him sworn...