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Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho plodded into the Department of Justice last week to demand of Attorney General Mitchell that the whole system of prison spying cease. Col. Mitchell weighed the question thoughtfully, and Senator Borah withheld comment until a decision should be announced. Meantime, Mrs. Willebrandt hinted that the prison-snooping system had originated with Attorney General Sargent. At the same time, with feminine inconsistency, she hinted that if she could not continue to snoop on her prison wardens she would resign...
Said Senator Borah (great Hoover-Prohibition orator who was said to have been offered the Attorney-Generalship before Mr. Mitchell): "It [the snoop system] cannot be justified upon any theory of law or justice or expediency. ... I predict that the system will be discontinued. ... It involves fake or fraudulent commitments. . . . These commitments must involve the courts. I would not hesitate to vote to impeach a judge who had signed or issued such papers. . . . It is about 300 years behind the times in prison management...
Meanwhile, back and forth through the white front door in S Street, passed many people-friends bearing advice, advisers looking for friendship-Indiana's Watson, long of leg and small of eye; Mellon the benign; square-jawed Borah and mouse-grey Good, North Dakota's boyish Nye, Iowa's heavy-footed Brookhart. They talked of many things to the Next President and went away holding their tongues...
...Debated the Cruiser Bill. Senator Hale, sponsor, accepted an amendment by Senator Borah favoring a restatement of the laws governing the conduct of belligerents and neutrals in war at sea, such restatement to be completed, if possible, prior to the Limitation of Armament Conference...
...vote also revealed ? which was no great secret ? that the squad of anti-power-trust Republicans is eleven: Elaine, Borah, Brookhart, Couzens, Frazier, Johnson, MacMaster, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Pine. From one of these it was thought that Paul Mallon had secured his scoop. Such a one as the boyish Nye who is regular at election time and irregular in between would be glad to have the country know that he, in contradistinction to the majority, is nobly bottling "the interests." But any of the Progressives might have done it and Pressman Mallon is specially good-friends with Progressives...