Word: adjournments
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...late in another afternoon. The McAdoo men wanted an evening session to get the nominating business out of the way in hope that a few ballots might be taken before the platform, and hence the Ku Klux Klan issue, came before the delegates. The Anti-McAdooites wanted to adjourn for the day. Senator Walsh called twice for "Ayes" and "Noes" but could not decide. A roll call was taken and adjournment was made until the next morning by vote of 559 to 513. This was the first defeat of the McAdoo leaders; but conspiring against them were a prize fight...
...Passed a bill providing for the construction of eight scout cruisers, six river gunboats, and installation of oil-burning boilers in six battleships. ¶Debated at length the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill. ¶By a vote of 221 to 157, supported a concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die on Saturday, June 7. (The resolution had not yet come up in the Senate...
Congress would like to adjourn on June 7, before the political conventions?so the press was given to understand. But there are obstacles. Very little has been done. The Senate, especially, feels that there may be much for it to do in the meantime. If the session continues through the political conventions there is no telling when it may end?perhaps not until it is time for the members to go home and mend their fences before election...
...Lecture Hall on two successive nights, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The preliminaries, the platform, and maybe one or two ballots will be the order of business Tuesday evening, but it is thought that two short sessions will be preferable to one long one. The convention will adjourn early and leave most of the voting for candidates for the second night...
...nonpayment of rent, provided he could show that he was unable to pay because of unemployment. The Liberals joined the conservatives in denouncing this clause as "Socialism" and "confiscation." The Government would have met defeat at that point, but John R. Clynes filibustered until the House was obliged to adjourn...