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Thousands and thousands of ballots cast by lowans in November, 1924, were on trial. Nearly half were for extremely radical Republican Brookhart for Senator, nearly half for Democrat Steck. Iowa had counted Brookhart elected, but Steck protested, and the Senate Judiciary Committee began months ago investigation of the pieces of "opaque paper" which collectively were designed to express the sovereign will of the people of Iowa...
...while Senators tried conscientiously to consider the question on its merits, the legal details were so complex that most of them abandoned the attempt and consulted their political interests. Even then, Republicans found it hard to make decisions. Some Republicans said half a Republican (Brookhart) was better than a Democrat (Steck); other Republicans thought otherwise. Some argued that if Brookhart was unseated he would compete with Regular Republican Cummins, who is up for reelection this fall, and might, by splitting the vote, cause Iowa to have a second Democratic* Senator. It was all most confusing...
...even though the narrow vote cannot be said to reflect the complacency that evidently pervaded the committee action, neither does it reflect partisan bias. Sixteen Republicans voted for the Democrat, Steck, while nine Democrats sought to keep Brookhart in the Senate. If political preference did play a part, it was not along party lines...
Promptly Pat Harrison of Mississippi rose in the Senate to criticize. The President's move was so unexpected that Democrat Harrison was forced to extemporize a trifle uncertainly. First he heavily satirized the appointment as being cheap politics; it was designed, said he, solely to remove Mr. Thompson from Ohio politics where there are several Republican candidates for Governor. Satire having failed to produce heat, the Senator intimated that Mr. Thompson might be inclined to interest himself in the exploitation of the island (rubber, etc.) rather than in the welfare of the islanders. Here Senator Moses of New Hampshire quietly...
...Italian attache's pen raced on. It wrote that Senator McKellar of Tennessee (Democrat) called Mussolini "a bandit." It wrote that Senator Reed stigmatized Fascismo as "the Italian Ku Klux Klan." It wrote that Senator Howell of Nebraska (Republican) considers this settlement (totaling $2,407,000,000) "in effect a cancellation of the Italian debt...