The Archive · 1930

Senators Angered by President

Washington, Feb. 21.

An ordinarily reliable authority informed the United Press to-day that Republican Senate leaders have fared up in resentment _against President Hoover's recent frequent failure to consult them regarding Jappointments to public offices.

Although Presidents usually con-for with leaders on such appoint ments, several recent cases, notably the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes to succeed William Howard Taft as U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, President Hoover presented his nomination without advance notice.

Representative Johnson alleged that the New England high tariff men of the House of Representatives have been "Jacking up sugar and hoe rates" so high as to make necessary a long fight in the Senate, United Press.

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