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...Counting Senatorial noses the President calculated that the opposition to his St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty had dwindled, that all but three votes necessary to pass it were available. C. To correspondents the President remarked: "When we inaugurated our custom of having informal press conferences last March there were some who shook their heads and said it couldn't last. Well, it has worked fine, and I don't see why it shouldn't continue for the next three years." A newshawk: "Three years, did you say, Mr. President?" For an instant the President's famed aplomb...
...Senate chamber was last week embellished with five huge maps hung upon its walls below the galleries by direction of Senator Copeland, who used them to deliver a graphic oration on why the St. Lawrence waterway treaty should not be ratified. But most of last week the maps served as a backdrop while the Senate went through the motions of considering the President's bill to seize the Federal Reserve Banks' gold and create a $2,000,000,000 fund for Treasury exchange operations as preliminaries to devaluation of the domestic dollar...
More than one opposition Senator suspected that President Roosevelt had tossed the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty into the Senate at this time to give that august debating society something innocuous to quarrel over and thus keep itself out of serious mischief while waiting for the House to whip through the President's domestic program. Most of last week, therefore, the Senate was kept busy talking about this pact with Canada. The substance of the debate was inferior to its manner. Most politely vociferous opponent of the treaty was Illinois' aging, asthmatic Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who wore...
...days later Mr. Garner tried more House tactics. When the Senate convened, the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty was unfinished business. Mr. Garner snapped...
...question is on the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty. All in favor...