The Senate, having become stranded on the Muscle Shoals Bill, has stuck there for many weeks unable to get off but not without diversions from its enduring struggles. One of these brightened the Senate atmosphere last week. Two men produced the diversion.
One was Senator William Cabell Bruce, Maryland Democrat, iron-gray soldier of the old school, the man who stood out against his party's alignment with the Republican insurgents in the last session of Congress, the man who voted for the Mellon tax plan and other important measures with the regular Republicans.
The second...
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