National Affairs: Rest, But No Thanks

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While the President and his wife were in Florida, Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge quietly departed for their home in Northampton, Mass. Mrs. Coolidge plans to go to Burlington, Vt., to visit her father, who is ill.

As was generally noted, the Senate did not pass the customary resolution of thanks to the Vice President at the close of its session. The reason has just become known. Senator Heflin of Alabama threatened to block the resolution because he was annoyed with Mr. Coolidge for having allowed Senator Lodge to interrupt a speech of his on the British debt bill. Spoke Alabama: " Lodge's point of order took me off the floor and Coolidge sustained the point of order, or, to be more exact, he participated in a rape of the rules of the United States Senate." And Massachusetts departed without its meed of thanks.