DEMOCRATS IN POWER.
VETO TAFT APPOINTMENTS.
LUDICROUS POSITION. ißeceived 11.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON. February 25. The Senate has refused to confirm any appointment, to the Diplomatic Service that are recommended by President Taft Irwin Laughlin has been recommended for the post of Secretary to the United States Embassy to Great Britain, and if he is not appointed the control of the affair? at the Embassy will devolve on Hallet Johnston, atred 24. wiio only recently left college to enter the service." This peculiar position in the Senate has arisen from the fact that the Republican and Democratic parties are evenly balanced. From the above vote it is apparent that the Democrats have now the upper hand.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 49, 26 February 1913, Page 5
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