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...Vandenberg of Michigan, "Young Guardsmen" supporting the Treaty, along with him to discuss the Senate situation. They urged him to prod the Senate forward by making a public appeal. They complained that Republican Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent Senators as a means of maintaining a quorum...
About this time a smell of frying bacon from the Parliamentary kitchen permeated the House, and so many members rushed out to breakfast that only desperate efforts by the whips maintained a quorum (40). With all but inhuman perseverance Mr. Snowden sat on, ignoring breakfast time, snarling through the long, hot morning, still relentless as noon approached and passed. Suddenly Mr. Churchill challenged on a minor issue, demanded a division (vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced...
...Senate had been in continuous session for 16 months and was exhausted. He warned that at a special session the Senate was likely to walk out on the President and leave his Treaty dangling midair, either by voting to adjourn sine die or by deliberate failure to produce a quorum. To these arguments the President was adamant. He flatly refused to consider any program of postponement...
Later Senator Walsh declared the Bishop to have been "in plain contempt of the Senate," but the Bishop replied that as the Committee lacked a quorum to subpoena him then and there, it was no committee, could not hold him officially in contempt...
Protested Aaron Finger, attorney for United: "There was no quorum. Legally the meeting did not take place. We will fight it in the courts...