Word: gavelling
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...McFadden branch banking bill. Senator Burton K. Wheeler demanded that he be allowed to speak for one hour in opposition to the bill, said that Senators Pepper and Glass had promised him the opportunity the night before. Senator Glass immediately denied any such promise. Vice President Dawes rapped his gavel, ruled the discussion out of order, proceeded with a roll call. In the rear of the Senate chamber Carter Glass, 69, thorough Virginia gentleman, ripe scholar, co-author of the Federal Reserve banking law, and Burton K. Wheeler, thorough Montana gentleman, political radical, 1924 candidate for Vice President...
...Vice President rapped with his gavel...
...Hall-Mills murder trial; Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada forgot for the moment that he was being sued for a personal note of $6,232.50; many another lawmaker laid down the cares of domestic life and strode up the steps of the Capitol. In the Senate chamber the gavel of Vice President Dawes smote his desk; in the House the gavel of Speaker Nicholas Longworth did likewise. The 69th Congress had begun its last and its "lame duck" session...
...already long past the age which interests life insurance companies, when his left hand brandisHed the Speaker's gavel before the House of Representatives on March 19, 1910. On that day he fought for the power which echoed from his gavel. For seven years he had told the House what to do, by means of a few terse epigrams and a set of rock-ribbed rules.* Now the House was in revolt against its Tsar. The epigrams were impotent without the rules; so Democrats and insurgent Republicans, led by Representative (now Senator) George W. Norris of Nebraska, made...
...determining the question did not ap- pear. He is the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Amid all the hubbub he has remained silent, venturing no opinions, making no speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume the gavel in the absence of the Vice President, and to introduce a resolution "authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point two Siamese subjects, to be designated hereafter by the Government; of Siam...