Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caucus, the Republicans of the Senate made an important decision. They voted that hereafter a resolution for an investigation be referred to an appropriate committee to determine whether the investigation is likely to produce any desirable or utilitarian results before the investigation is voted on by the Senate...
...move of the Republican caucus to limit senatorial investigation comes at an inauspicious time. Before a congressional election, the majority party's concealment of its record, even on the plea of economy, has a suspicious appearance which is scarcely a political asset...
They noted that earlier in the week the Liberty Party caucus re-elected him Chairman of the party by 17 votes to 7 with Mr. George and 5 others abstaining from voting and 12 Liberals not even present. Thus Mr. George returns to the Commons none too enthusiastically supported by his little "corporal's guard" of Liberals. In the opening debates several Labor M. P.'s made flattering implied overtures to him. Observers opined that Mr. George is listening hard, with his ear to the ground...
...rival proposal was that of le Cartel des Gauches, the coalition of the left, headed by M. Herriot. It featured the tightening up of existing tax machineryThe "Socialist wing of the Cartel held a party caucus, and the delegates who attended voted, 1,766 to 1,331, against the party's supporting any Ministry whatever unless a majority of the Ministers should be Socialists. This was taken to mean that M. Herriot could not depend on the Socialists to support a Cartel Ministry with himself as Premier. The Cartel was declared split and probably impotent to oust M. Briand...
...coercive power of his wire-pulling were seen to have had their effects. The Cartellists began to doubt their ability to oppose a solid front to M. Briand. Suppose the Socialist wing of the Cartel should get out of hand once more? They reflected that a Socialist party caucus was shortly to be convoked. After that it might or might not be evident that the Socialists would line up solidly with the Cartel. Why risk a showdown with Briand before them? In a word, all these Cartellist doubts served to persuade Cartellist Ministers Chautemps, Deladier, Durafour and Renoult that they...