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Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Wizard Pro Tern of the Ku Klux Klan, appeared to testify in regard to the contested election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. He testified that he had agreed with Dr. Hiram W. Evans, also of the K. K. K., that the Klan would do everything in its power to elect Mayfield and that Evans had said money must be no consideration...
...Senate pages lost their Santa Claus and didn't know what to do. Every year on Christmas day the Vice President invites them to dinner. This year there is no Vice President. Senator Cummins, President pro tern of the Senate, took train for Iowa without knowing of the matter. The pages sent word to the White House, asking what was to be done. The President sent back word that he was sorry but didn't know either...
Like the House, the Senate had a triangular squabble. Each side proposed members for committees and all were accepted without question except the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee-Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa, President pro tern. The fact that Mr. Cummins held both posts was made the reason for objections by the insurgent Republicans, who dearly wanted one of their own members as Chairman, notably Senator La Follette, who is next in seniority to Mr. Cummins. Senator Wheeler of Montana, a Democrat but a member...
Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa assumed his seat as President protern, for the Senate?unlike the House ?is a continuing body, two-thirds of its membership retaining their seats from one session to the next. According to a rule adopted in 1890, the President pro tern is elected to "hold office during the pleasure of the Senate and until another is elected...
...Senate. The chief fight in the Senate's organization will be over the post of President pro tern. Because there is now no Vice President, the President pro tern of the Senate will be its permanent presiding officer. In addition he will have the Vice President's salary ($12,000, instead of $7,500), the Vice President's motor car, the Vice President's offices, and other perquisites. In short, the job of President pro tern has an entirely new and shining attractiveness...