Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote, the Harrison motion to retain the present sugar rates was, to the 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...
...Simple Graft." The Senate's sugar vote was the culmination of a year's efforts by high and low sugar lobbies. Last week Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee reported on their activities. They had, he said, spent jointly some $400,000 to influence tariff legislation. Declared he: "The whole scheme is nothing but simple graft. . . . People might just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer as to give their money to lobbyists...
...Senate, Senator John James Blaine of Wisconsin celebrated by offering a resolution for the outright repeal of the 18th Amendment, admitted that it had no chance of passage. Senate Borah urged that the resolution be brought to a vote "to make it clear that this amendment is here to stay." The author of the amendment, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, read a carefully prepared rhetorical speech in praise of its "triumphant tread" to an almost empty Senate chamber. South Carolina's Senator Blease predicted full Dry enforcement "if we had a first class deputy sheriff, about three constables...
...knew, however, that if the committee fight went to the Senate floor, the Regular Republicans would lose against the same coalition of Progressives and Democrats which had already routed them on the tariff. So next day in the name of party peace he changed his mind, cast the deciding vote in the Committee on Committees which put Senator La Follette on his own committee...
...Progressive Republicans wilted badly under the pressure of sectional interests. The wool rates went up, but not before Joseph R. Grundy, longtime tariff lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested in the industry sheltered under this paragraph. Therefore I withhold my vote." Skeptical observers wondered what he would have done had the vote been closer...