...reason to believe that the United States Senate killed him. Perhaps Hay forgot that, as Adams says: "Since the first day the Senate existed, it has always intrigued against the Secretary of State whenever the Secretary has been obliged to extend his functions beyond the appointment of Consuls in...

...realistic assessments in the White House, in Congress, and in the public forum. Henry Adams once said that "the Secretary of State exists only to recognize the existence of a world that Congress would rather ignore." Congress is far more involved today than in Adams's time, and many...

...unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile ever since Congress first sat. The Secretary of State exists only to recognize the...has always intrigued against the Secretary of State whenever the Secretary has been obliged to extend his functions beyond the appointment of Consuls in...

...unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile ever since Congress first sat. ress discussion. But, sir, it is not alone Members...intimidate. The mandate seems to have gone forth to the whenever the Secretary has been obliged to extend his functions beyond the appointment of Consuls in...

...or less hostile ever since Congress first sat. The Secretary of State exists only to recognize die existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore;...has always intrigued against the Secretary of State whenever the Secretary has been obliged to extend his functions beyond the appointment of Consuls in...

...politics in it." McKinley had finer judgment of men and he made him Secretary of State, an office which " exists only to recognize the existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore." Hay set to work to struggle against the German Holleben and the Russian Cassini, who could always stop...