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...side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith, 39; Cummins, 29; Couzens, 6 (38 necessary to elect). There were 22 members absent, nearly all of whom were paired...
Bayard, Dela. Bruce, Md. Dial, S. C. Edwards, N. J. Glass, Va. King, Utah Owen, Okla. Shields, Tenn. Swanson, Va. Underwood, Ala. George,* Ga. Stanley...
...most important of the new gifts is a group of 83 early Chinese landscape paintings collected by Mr. Edward B. Bruce of New York City and known as the Bruce collection, which was presented to the Museum by Mr. Galen L. Stone of Boston...
...Senator Bruce of Maryland was the sole Democrat to vote for Senator Cummins. Borah, Gooding, Norbeck and Jones joined the insurgents in voting for Couzens. Senators Hiram Johnson of California and Capper of Kansas also joined the Couzens forces, who at their highest point polled 14 votes, compared with about 34 for Cummins and 36 for Smith on the later ballots...
...part of the Democrats. The defection of the insurgents will leave the regular Republicans without power to pass this part of the proposal in either house. A certain number of the conservative Democrats from the Eastern states will, however, join with the regular Republicans. In this number are Senators Bruce (Md.), Glass (Va.), Edwards (N. J.), Walsh (Mass.). But there must be from four to six more of their kind in the Senate, if the surtaxes are to be reduced. In the House the situation is equally dubious...