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Senate Orders Inquiry Into Rumor That Brookhart Lobbied for an ICC Nominee

The Interstate Commerce Committee, already hearing Cyrus E. Woods’s nomination, will examine the talk about the Iowa senator-elect.

By the Monochrome Chronicles desk, from reports by Evening Star and New Britain Herald
Edited by Daniel Varrone · Archive edition, written , about events of

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The Senate on Monday ordered an investigation of rumors that Senator-elect Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa is a paid lobbyist for Cyrus E. Woods, who has been nominated for the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Associated Press reported.

The inquiry is to be run by the Interstate Commerce Committee, which is holding hearings on Woods’s fitness. Efforts to give the investigation to the judiciary committee were defeated. Senator Steck, an Iowa Democrat, told the Senate of the rumors by reading a telegram he had sent to Brookhart at his home in Washington, Iowa.

The Evening Star added that, before the matter was raised in the Senate, Brookhart had made a statement that he opposed Woods’s nomination.

Sources

  1. Evening Star (Washington), Jan. 10, 1927: the Senate’s order, the committee and Steck’s telegram <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1927-01-10/ed-1/?sp=1>
  2. New Britain Herald, Jan. 10, 1927: the inquiry and Brookhart’s statement <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014519/1927-01-10/ed-1/?sp=1>

This article was drafted with automated tools from the sources listed, checked by a review pass, and published by Daniel Varrone. Corrections: editor@monochromechronicles.com

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