Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House in selecting its committees because the organization of the House is based on the two-party system and there were actually three parties in the field. A Republican committee and a Democratic committee each named a slate for committee places. Then each slate was submitted to a party caucus and approved...
...approval there was more than met the eye. The Republican insurgents -a minority in the Republican caucus, but possessors of the balance of power in the House-dissented from the committee selections. They especially wanted an extra place on the Rules Committee, which will report on suggested changes in the rules for which they have been fighting (TIME...
More conferring, more bargaining, and finally another Republican caucus. The regulars had the choice of securing the support of the Democrats by offering them another seat, or by offering Mr. Nelson a place. They chose the latter course. Representative Tilson was dropped from the slate and Representative Nelson substituted. The result was the reproduction in the Rules Committee of the situation which pertains on the floor of the House-the regular Republicans short of majority, the insurgent Republicans able to give a majority to either party, the Democrats a substantial minority...
House Republicans. The House caucus was not as perfunctory an affair as the Senate caucus. The progressive or insurgent group had held a conference previously under its leader, John M. Nelson of Wisconsin. Three men were nominated to be Republican candidate for Speaker: Frederic Gillett of Massachusetts, the candidate of the regulars; Henry A. Cooper of Wisconsin, the insurgent candidate; and Martin B. Madden of Illinois, the candidate of his admirers and a few insurgents. With eleven absentees, the vote...
Senate Democrats. Receiving their caucus for Monday morning before the Senate assembled, were faced only with the reelection of their leader, Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, and the none too easy solution of rivalries in their own ranks for places later to be awarded on committees...