POLITICAL NOTES: The Centurion Returns

The Centurion Returns

Coming from a sick bed that had kept him from the field of battle for an entire month, Robert M. La Follette appeared in the Senate for the first time this session. There was welcome.

Senator Cummins, President pro tem of the Senate, administered the oath of office.

Senators Lodge, Curtis, Harrison and others of all political groups surrounded his desk to shake him by the hand.

He received an engraved card of felicitations on his return to health, encased in leather and signed by nine Senators and 22 Representatives who constitute his insurgent following.

In his office were three baskets of roses. One of them was from the two Farmer-Labor Senators, Hendrik Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (whose elections in Minnesota were brought about with his support) and with this basket was a card: “LA FOLLETTE, WE ARE HERE.”