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...Senate was performing its rarest and highest constitutional duty before half-empty galleries. Even Senators had to be rounded up each morning and herded into the chamber to make up an impeachment court quorum. Directly before the dais was a table at which witnesses stood to give their testimony. Because Senators could not hear the witnesses' awed whispers, a gilded loudspeaker system was installed in the chamber for the first time in history. At one side of the dais was set a second oblong table behind which clustered the House managers, headed by Judiciary Chairman Sumners. who were prosecuting...
...that was left of Reconstruction Finance Corp. filed into its board room one day last week and sat down in four of the seven chairs around the directors' table. Secretary Woodin, ex-officio a board member, had hurried over from the Treasury to make up a quorum with Texas' Jesse Holman Jones, Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch, Utah's Wilson McCarthy...
...peers glib Lord Marley said last week, "We have 700 peers and three make a quorum of the House of Lords. It is 200 years out of date and I don't know why it is kept going. I am in favor of complete abolition of the House of Lords and its maintenance as a museum...
...Passed, with less than 75 members present instead of the constitutional quorum of 214, a $110.862,000 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. In the first three supply bills passed this session the House claimed a saving (on paper) of $160,000,000 over last year...
...Passed a bill to pay Mexico a $30.000 indemnity for the fatal shooting of two Mexican youths by Oklahoma deputy sheriffs last year; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Recessed for three days over Christmas after Speaker Garner failed to muster a quorum. Members failing to return after the recess were threatened with arrest by the House Sergeant-at-Arms...