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Meanwhile Nebraska's Senator Norris and North Dakota's Senator Nye demanded the dismissal of Secretary Bonner, charged him with being a "power man trying to cripple the commission so that it cannot inquire into these steals...
...original functions and has constituted itself a court in economics." He recalled the fact that as an Associate Justice Mr. Hughes in 1914 had written the famed Shreveport decision which Senator Glass claimed destroyed the last vestige of State control of freight rates.* North Dakota's Senator Nye chimed in: "The sooner citizens get rid of this idea that a judge is more honorable than a legislator, the clearer will become our perception of the evils of judicial usurpation...
...surprise of many, adopted 48-to-38, rejecting the Finance Committee's proposed increase. Nine Old Guardsmen, with only sugar consumers in their States and up for re-election this year, went over to the Coalition. Three Progressive Republicans from beet-sugar-growing States (Howell of Nebraska, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota) supported a higher rate. Four Democrats (King of Utah, Kendrick of Wyoming, Ransdell and Broussard of Louisiana) joined the protectionist Old Guard...
...handle committee vacancies the Sen ate majority maintains an unofficial group known as the Committee on Committees. This committee stalled in a deadlock when four of its members (Reed, Moses, Bingham, Deneen) voted for Senator Goff for the Finance Committee while four others (Capper, Nye, Oddie, McNary) voted for Senator La Follette. Declared Senator Reed Smoot : "I haven't said I'd resign as Chairman [of the Finance Committee] if Senator La Follette is named but I feel I should if the Committee falls into hostile hands...
...face belonged to one Albert Nye Roughton, 54, U. S. citizen. Worn, wrinkled, penniless, he had tramped from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Washington to tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned...