Editing Charles G. Dawes (section)

=== Speech to Senate ===
When Dawes took the oath on March 4, he would take action and infamously go on a tangent against the Senate's [[filibuster]]. In the speech, Dawes criticized rule XXII, calling it "undemocratic" and noted how it was easily taken advantage of due to its two-thirds voting procedure. Through most of the speech, Dawes pointed at specific senators and repeatedly slammed his fist on a table. [[William Howard Taft|Chief Justice William Howard Taft]] wrote to his son that the vice president had "made a monkey out of himself." Alongside annoying the entire Senate with a speech that left many shocked, Dawes ended up irritating them again that same day, by having the senators be sworn in one by one (usually they would take the oath in groups). Dawes would end up stealing the thunder from Coolidge that day. With many in the press afterwards making a joke out of Dawes, Coolidge was very upset with how the vice president was starting off his term.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dunlap |first=Annette |title=Charles Gates Dawes: A Life |date=September 15, 2016 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=978-0-8101-3419-5 |pages=202–204}}</ref>