Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate last week turned itself to the consideration of the Aluminum Co. of America and the Secretary of the Treasury. Led by Senator Walsh of Montana, the Democrats were making an onslaught on Secretary Mellon. There was a report of the Judiciary Committee before the House condemning the Attorney General for lax investigation of the company. There was also a resolution proposed by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, to authorize the President to appoint special counsel to present evidence before a grand jury with a view to obtaining indictments against the company...
...Passed a bill offered by Senator Walsh to punish for contempt of court persons who leave the country and refuse to return to testify in court by confiscating their property to a value not greater than $100,000,* without debate or record vote. (Bill went to the House...
...Senate, Mr. Walsh of Montana presented a resolution authorizing the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the Aluminum Co. and report to the Senate whether legal action against it was warranted. He contended in a four-hour speech that the company was an arrant monopoly and that the Department of Justice had not properly investigated it. The minority of the Judiciary Committee supported the Department of Justice and opposed the proposed investigation on the ground that it was unconstitutional, saying...
...measures, which the majority can call up as they wish. He names four: the appropriation bill, the confirmation of certain appointments, the Italian debt settlement, and the aluminum investigation. Of these, he finds only the last two controversial. But he relies on quiescent public opinion to make Senator Walsh drop the aluminum inquiry and on the fear among northern Democrats of losing Italian votes, to silence opposition to the administration's Italian debt settlement. Thus the stage is set for a true Republican triumph and an adjournment by the first of June...
...Republican glee overlooks two things. The first and most obvious is that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...