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...cost the Treasury $4,241 when six Senators (North Dakota's Nye, Nevada's Oddie, Illinois' Glenn, Arizona's Ashurst, South Dakota's Norbeck, Montana's Walsh) spent eight Christmas holidays investigating the Everglades as a national park possibility. Double railroad fare was paid for all so they could have individual Pullman drawing rooms or compartments. Two houseboats were hired for five days at a cost of $1,687.50 (auditors first thought the boats had been bought). Observations from a blimp cost $75. A .set of 14 photographs for each Senator added $168 to the bill...
Henry Fountain Ashurst has represented Arizona in the U. S. Senate since that territory became a State in 1912. His tall sleek figure, his shiny black hair, his resounding rhetoric, his theatrical by-play with black-corded glasses have caused many an ignorant observer to mistake him for a onetime Shakespearean actor. His secret hope is to win future fame as a great diarist of the current era. Today he is the senior Senator from the Southwest...
Like many another frontier politician, Senator Ashurst has long fired his imagination with dreams of U. S. territorial expansion. Last week he flustered the State Department, set Mexican officials to guffawing, by reviving his twelve-year-old proposal that the U. S. purchase Lower California from Mexico.- To the 58,338 desolate square miles thus acquired he would add another 10,000 sq. mi. clipped from the Mexican State of Sonora and tacked on to his own Arizona to straighten its southern boundary. By" his resolution the President would be ''respectfully requested to open negotiations" for this international...
...proposal Senator Ashurst had declared: "The peninsula is a vermiform appendix to Mexico. It is the heel, the Achilles heel, to the United States. The Mexican Republic is both unwilling and unable to police the domain and is unable to resist aggressions from or settlements by Oriental powers...
...Absurd," "Silly," "Not for Sale," retorted Mexican officials to the Ashurst proposal. Mexico is forbidden by its present Constitution to cede any of its domain to a foreign power...