 | United States. President - Presidents - 1917 - 566 pages
...great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. The remedy? There is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act. The country can be relied upon to draw the moral. I believe the Senate can be relied on to supply the... | |
 | History - 1917 - 664 pages
...great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. The remedy? There Is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act. The country can be relied upon to draw the moral. I believe that the Senate can be relied on to supply... | |
 | World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 664 pages
...great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. The remedy? There is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act. The country can be relied upon to draw the moral. I believe that the Senate can be relied on to supply... | |
 | World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 474 pages
...difficulty" to call an extra session, because "the paralysis of the senate would remain," and he urged that "the rules of the senate shall be so altered that it can act." On March 8 the senate — only three members dissenting — adopted a rule curtailing the power of... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Almanacs, American - 1918 - 850 pages
...ready for action. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless...of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act." National Defense Appropriations. — The appropriations authorized by Congress Híígregated $1.202,646,071.... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 508 pages
...rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. There is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act. The country can be relied upon to draw the moral. I believe that the Senate can be relied on to supply... | |
 | Bertram Benedict - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 490 pages
...great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. The remedy? There is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act. The country can be relied upon to draw the moral. I believe the Senate can be relied on to supply the... | |
 | Randolph Wellford Smith - Alcoholism - 1919 - 328 pages
...great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. " The remedy? There is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act. The country can be relied upon to draw the moral. I believe that the Senate can be relied on to supply... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 414 pages
...own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. . . . The bnly remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act." At the special session that followed the senate changed its rules so that closure can be applied by a... | |
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... United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. 
