Word: adjourning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frazier of North Dakota, Greene of Vermont, Pepper of Pennsylvania, Stanfield of Oregon, McLean of Connecticut and Metcalf of Rhode Island, sat around the snowy napery of the President's breakfast table. They lifted their eyebrows significantly and discussed whether or not the heat might force Congress to adjourn about the middle of June...
...York's Democratic Senator, called on the President to explain his bill for preventing strikes in the anthracite industry. A committee of the National Training Camps Association called to discuss the costs of summer military training. Speaker Longworth called to tell the President that he hoped Congress could adjourn by the middle of June...
...Congressmen of both Houses want to adjourn comparatively soon. All of the Representatives and more than one-third of the Senators are face to face with a Sphinxlike ballot box. There is a public buildings bill, a bill for increasing the pay of Federal judges, a bill for disposing of Muscle Shoals, bills for future handling of railroad and coal strikes, the French debt settlement, and above all farm relief?all clamoring for consideration. A first-rate legislative jam seems in the making, with the probability that many of these measures will not pass. And although Congressmen are eager...
...Prospect. If the House impeaches Judge English, Congress will probably be detained from three to six weeks after its other business is completed. Perhaps Congress may adjourn as expected in May and the President may call a special session of the Senate to try the case. In any event it would keep numbers of Senators in Washington when they would ardently wish to go home to mend their fences before elections next fall. Incidentally it would afford columnists endless material for jokes about "Vienna bred" and "English as he is impeached...
...Significance. If the resolution is passed with the Senate amendments, the most important of these is likely to be the one for a report by April 26. Congress is eager to get home and plans to adjourn in May. The debate over a definite lease seems bound to be long and bitter. So it seems likely that a definite lease of Muscle Shoals will be killed so far as this session of Congress is concerned by lack of time, unless Congress stays in Washington much later than it wishes to stay. The effect of the other Senate amendments, by possibly...