THE SENATE FROM 1907 TO 1912
Haines, Lynn
THE SENATE FROM 1907 TO 1912 By LYNN HAINES An Inside History of the Last Six Sessions-The Story of the Stewardship of Those United States Senators Whose Terms Expire March 3, 1913 This volume...
...the subsequent "sham battle" system of tariff tinkering is revealed...
...The Senators whose terms expire next March are named and classified...
...Chapter VI—RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA—This installment also records the other tariff struggles of the Special Session of 1911...
...Chapter II—THE OLIGARCHY IN ALL ITS GLORY—A detailed study of the Old Guard machine, at the summit of its arrogance and power, with illustrations of what it was willing to do in the service of special privilege...
...Chapter III—THE ALDRICH CURRENCY SCHEME—Tells the story of the panic-produced Aldrich-Vreeland Emergency Currency bill...
...There is a table showing the Senate in 1907 and all partisan and factional changes since...
...the purpose and import of the Commerce Court Bill, with many roll calls, are shown here...
...reveals how "Secured by United States Bonds or Other Securities" has been written into all our bank note currency—the key to the money trust scheme to legalize about $20,000,000,000 of watered stock...
...The legislative history, with explanations and vital roll calls, is given on all such issues as the Aldrich Currency Scheme, the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, the Taft Railroad Bill, Canadian Reciprocity, Postal Savings Banks, Ship Subsidies, Stephenson, Lorimer, etc., etc...
...Chapter VII — LORIMER AND OTHER TESTS—There is detailed here the legislative history of a number of measures not included in preceding chapters—certain phases of the postal savings bank system, ship subsidies, direct election of U. S. Senators, expulsion of Stephenson and Lorimer—completing the record of the Thirty Senators from 1907 to 1912...
...it reveals fully the existing Senate situation—the old Oligarchy shorn of its power, but with a new bi-partisan machine in the ascendency...
...all the more important are recorded here...
...Chapter IV —THE PAYNE-ALDRICH TARIFF—There were about 130 roll calls in the tariff fight of 1909...
...Chapter I—THIRTY SENATORS— The theme of the book, the downfall of the Old Aldrich Oligarchy, is established here...
...gives the attitude of Senators on this issue...
...together with the story of that revision upward...
...INDEX—With cross references to Senators, important subjects and roll calls...
...the Progressives' fight against this measure was one of the most momentous and spectacular in the history of the Senate...
...Chapter V—THE SENATE AND THE TRANSPORTATION TRUST— 1910 was "railroad year" in Congress...
...shows its relation to the Monetary Commission's pending measure...
...THE SENATE FROM 1907 TO 1912 By LYNN HAINES An Inside History of the Last Six Sessions-The Story of the Stewardship of Those United States Senators Whose Terms Expire March 3, 1913 This volume records fully the influences and methods that have prevailed during this most important period of the Senate, and gives, in detail, the records of outgoing Senators...
Vol. 4 • July 1912 • No. 29
