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When the session did cease, neither Vice President Curtis nor Speaker Longworth was present to close it ceremoniously in their respective chambers. Both had left town ahead of time to keep Fourth of July speaking engagements...
Taxpayers v. Soldiers. With a veto certain. Speaker Longworth began to scurry about the House corridors lining up Republican votes to sustain it. Said he to one and all: "There are more taxpayers than soldiers.'' Representative Johnson, chairman of the House Veterans' Committee, hastily whipped together a substitute pension bill which Speaker Longworth said would be passed "within an hour." Declared the House Republican leaders jointly: "There will be no adjournment of the Congress until final enactment of veterans' legislation...
House Vote. In the House the voting was less tense. Speaker Longworth had predicted the measure would be passed at 4 p. m. with a majority of about 70. The vote came at 4 p. m. and the majority was 69 (222 to 153). As the engrossed copy of the bill was handed up to him, Speaker Longworth declared: "The Chair takes great pleasure in signing this bill." Almost in a body, Republican Congressmen rose and cheered...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth won $20 from Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas in a bet that Senator David Aiken Reed, of Pennsylvania, wavering, would vote for the new tariff bill...