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...President appeared. He shook hands with Speaker Gillett, Senate President Cummins, bowed to the audience. Then he mounted to the Clerk's desk, immediately below the Speaker's, and commenced his address...
Frederick Huntington Gillett, a member of Congress from the Second Massachusetts District since 1893, the longest record of service in Congress possessed by any of its present members,? became Speaker of the third Congress in succession. His record in the chair of the House is generally known as fair and equitable. The only reason that his reelection as Speaker was deferred until the ninth ballot was that Republican insurgents were holding up organization until they could secure concessions on the rules of procedure...
...Gillett Garrett Cooper Madden First .. 198 195 17 Second 195 193 17 Third 195 196 17 Fourth 197 196 17 Fifth 197 197 17 Sixth 195 197 17 Seventh 196 198 17 Eighth 197 198 17 Ninth...
When the results were announced, Congressmen Longworth (Republican Floor Leader), Garrett (Democratic Floor Leader), Madden (Chairman of the Appropriations Committee) and Cooper escorted Mr. Gillett to the Chair...
Everyone expected Mr. Gillett to be elected?ultimately?since the obstructionist tactics of the Cooper and Madden supporters were maintained merely to get concessions on the rules, but the vote revealed how the ten Wisconsin, six Minnesotan arid a few other scattered insurgents will have the power to tie up action all through the session on any question where the regular Republicans and Democrats are divided...