Abstract

"When the Senate's Away-"

The article discusses American politics. It is significant that one of the first acts of the U.S. president Herbert Hoover was to reveal a secret that he had guarded carefully throughout the sixteen months that the U.S. Congress was in session, that he is opposed to government operation of Muscle Shoals and heartily approves the scheme to turn that U.S. $160,000,000 public property over to private power companies. The manner in which he intervened in a Republican primary campaign in Tennessee in behalf of Representative Carroll Reece make it fairly clear that he inspired the action by which Reece blocked a compromise in the last session that would have provided for government operation of the power plant and private operation of the fertilizer plant.