POLITICAL NOTES: Indemnity

Senator Lodge proposed, and rather graciously, that the U. S. Government pay the medical expenses incurred by Senator Greene of Vermont in his recent illness. The amount in question is $7,500. The appropriation is fitting since Senator Greene, while walking home from his work in the U. S. Capitol, was accidentally shot by a U. S. officer, chasing a bootlegger who had infringed upon a U. S. law.

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