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First steps toward operating the Experts' Plan were made when Tem porary Agent General of Reparations Owen D. Young burst into Berlin, hung up his coat and rolled up his sleeves. Said...
...Appropriation Bill. The Lieutenant Governor presiding over the Senate, being an elective officer, was a Democrat. He aided the Democrats, by refusing to recognize Republican Senators. One morning last week, as the Senate was about to open, and the Lieutenant Governor was walking up the aisle, the President pro tem of the Senate, a Republican, mounted the rostrum and attempted to call the meeting to order and proceed with the Appropriation Bill. As the reading clerk began to read, a Democratic Senator snatched the Bill from his hands. A general battle of fisticuffs ensued which the Sheriff was obliged...
Labor Policy. The following information is given as indicative of the Labor Party's policy: "Capital Levy is dropped pro tem. To be brought up later but not to be introduced until after the permanent staff of the Treasury have been consulted. In foreign policy the Premier intends to use the League of Nations as his main instrument to establish and maintain world peace and thereby to set an example to other nations. He will also vigorously ostracize secret diplomacy. In general his policy will be to promote the welfare of the workers "by fair and constitutional means...
...Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate, was the loser of the Chairmanship. Mr. Cummins, who came to Congress in 1908 as a radical and foe of the railways, who fought side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith...
Senator Cummins, President pro tem of the Senate, administered the oath of office...