Word: 71st
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heedful of President Hoover's call, the 71st Congress prepared to gather at the Capitol April 15 for its first or extraordinary session. Countless Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system...
...unwelcome possibility of an extraordinary session of the 71st Congress after March...
...House has 77 lame-ducks this year, the Senate 11. Yet the absurdity of running the nation's business by a time-table drawn up before there were railroads and highways passable in winter, is not so apparent in the House as in the Senate. When the 71st Congress sits next year, the Republican House majority will be much larger but no more decisive than the margin of twoscore seats on which the Republican 70th Congress operated last session and will resume operating next week. The impropriety of voters being "represented" from December to March by individuals whom they...
...People elected last week the 71st Congress of the United States, but the first meeting of this Congress does not occur until December, 1929, unless President Hoover should call a special session, which, he indicated might conceivably be necessary to deal with the farm problem. In order to elect this Congress it was necessary for the People to choose 435 members (all) of the House of Representatives, and 36 out of the 96 members of the Senate. This the People apparently accomplished, as the Election did not bring forth any controversy such as surrounded the election of Pennsylvania...
Thus, the 71st Senate may contain (barring death) 56 Republicans, 38 Democrats, as well as the lone Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, who was reelected. Also, one vacancy (Vare...