Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite different from an electoral campaign-there were no patriotic speeches, no florid enthusiasms for the working man and farmer. It was simply a case of two politicians each wanting the same job and appealing to their friends to rally to them. On the eve of a special Republican caucus of members of the 69th Congress, both contestants claimed the victory. Indeed, if their claims were good, both were practically elected; for the choice of the caucus, although technically only a nomination, is equivalent to election, since the next House is predominantly Republican. Such was the situation when the caucus...
This early meeting is simplified by the fact that many of the newly-elected Republicans will come to Washington to see President Coolidge inaugurated on Mar. 4. They were circularized to find out whether most of them would be willing to attend a caucus in Washington about that date. The majority replied in the affirmative...
...object of thus organizing the 69th Congress several days before it comes into existence (and probably several months before it assembles) has to do with tax reduction. The caucus will choose the Republican majority members of the next Ways and Means Committee. There is a prospect now that Mr. Coolidge will call Congress in session some time during the fall for tax revision. If the members of the Ways and Means Committee are chosen in advance, they can assemble in Washington several weeks before Congress as a whole assembles, and have a tax revision bill ready to report...
...issuing invitations to the caucus, the names of 13 Republican Insurgents were omitted, indicating that in the House as in the Senate, the Republicans intend to outlaw the wayward...
...effect of excluding Insurgents from the Republican caucus in the House will be presumably to exclude them from good places which they have held on Committees by virtue of their membership in the Republican Party. In the House, Representative James A. Frear, of Wisconsin (one of the uninvited Insurgents) declared: "it is proposed without hearing to try to read out of the Republican Party all duly elected Republican Representatives of a great state in which the Republican Party had its birth...