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Republican members of the 72nd House of Representatives met last week in what began as a caucus and ended as a conference.* Their purpose was to arrange for party organization of the next House in which, at most, they have a paper-thin majority of two votes. From the meeting 18 Republicans, including five regulars from Kansas, deliberately absented themselves. Despite these defects which left it a House minority, the G. 0. P. renominated Nicholas Longworth of Ohio to be Speaker and John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut to be Majority Leader...
...champion them. They were shoved aside into the depths of the Foreign Relations Committee whence they would emerge, according to Chairman Borah, a Court foe, some time after the Christmas recess. Even the Court's best Democratic friend, Virginia's Swanson, frankly urged postponement until the 72nd Congress, while its foes-estimated at 20 and led by California's "irreconcilable" Johnson-threatened protracted warfare to prevent its consideration...
When the 71st Congress sat down Dec. 1 for its final session, it had 70 working days ahead of it in which to do its essential work and avert a special session of the 72nd Congress after March 4. Parliamentary experts, familiar with the Administration's program, listed 13 essential bills Congress must pass in its 70 days. Of these, eleven were appropriation bills to pay Federal running costs through fiscal 1932. The other two were Unemployment Relief and Drought Relief...
Last week Congressman William Radford Coyle of Pennsylvania cracked a joke of which the theme promises to be stale indeed before the 72nd House is organized. Mr. Coyle was traveling from San Francisco to San Diego. At first he planned to go by airplane. Then, cautiously, he took a train instead. His reason: "I couldn't run any risks, as I am one of the two Republicans who hold the balance of power in the House...
...everyone knows, Mr. Coyle's statement was not quite accurate. When he spoke, there were 218 Republicans, 216 Democrats, but also one Farmer-Laborite in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 1). Republican power was temporarily strengthened during the week when Democrat John Francis Quayle of New York suddenly died. A Democrat was certain to be elected to the vacancy. Nevertheless, this death reminded both parties that many an accident may happen before the 72nd Congress meets, to alter its political complexion, its significance. Between Dec. 1, 1929 to Dec. 1, 1930, Death's delegation in the House...