National Affairs: Speeches

May days, bright days, talk days and lengthening evenings, were ceremoniously welcomed by many a speech. Some subjects :

Dawes' Senate-Reform. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison led off with a story: "It is said that once a fly lit upon the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Crawling across one of the seamlike connections, he flew away to tell the other flies that he had discovered a terrible defect in this, the greatest work of Sir Christopher Wren. I commend this story to General Dawes."

Republican Senator Fess of Ohio objected to the Dawes plan for Senate...

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