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The Treason of the Senate was a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine by David Graham Phillips, published in 1906.The articles were each published a month apart, beginning with the forward in February and the last article, in July.
Phillips wrote an article in Cosmopolitan in March 1906, called "The Treason of the Senate," exposing campaign contributors being rewarded by certain members of the U. S. Senate. The story launched a scathing attack on Rhode Island senator Nelson W. Aldrich , and brought Phillips a great deal of national exposure.
The United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...
George Santos set to become only third Member of Congress to be expelled since 1861, Gustaf Kilander writes Bribes, treason and hay bales: The scattered history of expulsions from Congress Skip to ...
The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate (2009) pp 17–31; Kert, Bernice. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family. New York: Random House, 1993. Phillips, David Graham, "The Treason of the Senate: Aldrich, The Head of It All," Cosmopolitan, March 1906. online, by a muckraker
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. The Constitution defines treason as specific acts, namely "levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and ...
From Aaron Burr's arrest for treason to Donald Trump's big lie and his ... The senators “insisted they had done nothing improper,” and the Senate Ethics Committee “concluded in 1991 that ...
On May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner was savagely beaten down to the floor of the Senate chamber with a gold-knobbed cane by Representative Preston Brooks after Sumner delivered a fiery oration against slavery. [21] In 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House chamber, wounding five Members of Congress. [22]