Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing that brought farm relief to the fore was the approach of the fall election, which is beginning to give some Congressmen cold feet. The talk has got about in Washington that it was dissatisfaction of the farmers rather than dissatisfaction of the anti-World-Courters which defeated Senator McKinley in the Illinois primary recently. Besides, the Administration nodded to Congress, "Go ahead with farm bills if you don't go too far." So Mr. Haugen and his colleagues (there are 13 Republicans and 9 Democrats on the Committee on Agriculture) set to work in earnest to turn...
...vast majority of the House Democrats and Republicans disfavor reapportionment? Briefly, for as many different local reasons as there were Congressmen against the bill. Two typical reasons...
...Southern Congressmen, some of whose states would lose, said that many Negroes who had gone north in 1920 were returning, and therefore the 1920 census would be unfair to them. (Negroes count as population in the South, not as voters...
...most significant issue is that of "rural" v. "urban" representation. Rural communities dominate Congress, but the shift of population is to urban centres. (In 1910, 54% of the people of the U.S. lived on farms or in little villages; in 1920, only 48%.) Rural Congressmen of both parties want no change, lest in the change the urban powers get control of the parties...
Final Scene. When the three day debate began, most Congressmen from what little they knew, thought Judge English should be impeached. Then as they learned that nothing had been indisputably proved against him, many wavered. Finally, however, the able lawyer-Congressmen who led the fight for impeachment convinced the House: 1) That it must impeach if it had reasonable suspicion; 2) That it was entitled to consider the Judge's general course of conduct (not merely this or that separate offense). On these two grounds, it was clear impeachment would be voted. Congressmen trooped to their seats, the amazing number...