Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois (he may have weighed more, but, as he himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared a quorum present, although the Democrats refused to answer to the roll call. One day, when the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, William McKinley, was supposed to move adjournment at a certain hour, but had not appeared on the floor, Mr. Reed pounded with his gavel and announced: "The gentleman...
Thereupon, the amended measure went back to the House. It was surprising what a large number of members were on the floor-3300. If there had been less than a quorum present, a roll call would have been automatically taken. A few speeches were made, for and against the Senate's amendment. Representative Blanton of Texas tried to force a roll call, but could not muster the required one-fifth of those present to join in the demand. So the Senate's amendment was concurred in without anyone in either House's being embarrassed by having...
Meanwhile the Rhode Island Senate met regularly four times a week and adjourned for lack of a quorum. No bills were passed, although it was the only legislature of Rhode Island which ever was continuously in session for an entire year. Funds failed the state. Many state employes got no salaries...
Last week, the legal life of the old Senate expired. It adjourned in the presence of three members-two Democrats, and the one Republican who had remained behind to make the point of no quorum. Home came the wandering Odyssei, back to their Penelopes. But they formed a club "The Exiles" to recall for later days the joys of their exile...
...Democratic filibuster and a literal gas attack (TIME, June 30) were discovered just over the border at Rutland, Mass. They fled, according to their own account, in fear for their lives. One heroic Republican remained behind, risking sudden death, in order to bring up the question of no quorum, if the Democratic minority tried to do anything without them?tried for example to call a Convention for a new State Constitution in place of the present Constitution which gives the country districts (Republican) disproportionately large representation...