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...House achieved a quorum after last Thursday's failure...
Complete returns for the Council nominations fro two more Houses and the Union left Eliot, which failed to get a quorum Thursday night, the only House without final House nominations...
...Houses, the Union, and Dudley opened the race for the 1949 -1950 Student Council by picking candidates at last night's nomination meetings. Of the Houses, only Eliot failed to gain a quorum, and will try again on Wednesday...
...Wherry resolution drastically changed the rules on filibusters. Formerly they could be shut off during debate on a measure by a simple two-thirds majority (as few as 33 members) of a quorum. Under the Wherry rule, cloture could be applied at any stage of a debate, but only by a two-thirds majority (64) of the whole Senate. Cloture could not be invoked at all on a change in rules, which left the way open for an unstoppable filibuster if anyone tried again to change them. The new rule would be a weak weapon against any but a very...
...confidence, the President said that he thought the proposed cloture rule should be even more drastic than the one Russell Long & Co. were talking down. He said he would favor applying cloture by a simple majority vote. Under such a rule, 25 Senators (a simple majority of a functioning quorum of 49) would be able to end a Senate debate...