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When the Senate convenes in December, this appointment must be resubmitted. That there will be a dramatic fight is improbable. First, Mr. Woodlock, a Democrat, cannot be rejected unless all Democratic Senators, both North and South, leagued with all Insurgents, vote against him. Second, there is likely to be another vacancy in the nine-chaired table, to which Mr. Coolidge will appoint a Southerner, thus removing the sting from their objections...
...Major Significance. The Constitution is a politically sacred law and the Constitution says that the President shall have the power to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the executive officers of the Government.? So what the Senate did was entirely legal and done by authority long vested in it. But the proceeding was unique, almost as unique as the following hypothetical proceeding (equally legal, and by authority of equally long standing) would have been had it taken place...
...startling because the Senate has long insisted on most of its constitutional prerogatives. But the Senate's action may have far-reaching consequences. It upset the precedent of three generations. If the Senate is to insist on its full power, it has the right to reject a Cabinet appointment not only on the ground of fitness (as in Mr. Warren's case), but on any ground whatever. A Democratic Senate might insist that a Republican President appoint only Democrats to his Cabinet and vice versa. That is an extreme supposition, but entirely within the scope of possibilities as laid down...
...Reports indicated that it was the President's intention 1) to appoint a commission to study the problem of disposing of Muscle Shoals- as suggested by a resolution passed by the House shortly before its adjournment; 2) to have Secretary of State Kellogg sound out naval powers on the question of holding a new limitation of armaments conference for light cruisers and submarines, as soon as it became apparent that the attempt for limitation of armaments under the League of Nations (see Page 6) had definitely failed...
...appoint Charles Beecher Warren to enforce the trust laws against himself and his associates is as wicked as to appoint Albert Fall special prosecutor of Harry Sinclair. Fall could be bought. Warren is owned in advance...