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...Baldwin Locomotive Works. They conferred with Chairman Thomas S. Gates and President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive and presented their credentials, voting stock proxies of the six Fisher Body brothers of Detroit.* They were told that not enough Baldwin Directors were in Philadelphia to make up a quorum. Mr. Bitting and Mr. Shields went to Manhattan to "enjoy the sights." Next day in Philadelphia Baldwin directors met, transacted routine business, noted that their locomotive and car business was not particularly good (railroads seem to have sufficient rolling stock), elected no new fellow directors. Their next meeting was scheduled...
...Manifested such extreme early spring lassitude that one session was delayed last week for almost an hour until a quorum could be obtained...
...section of "The General Laws of the Massachusetts Colony" published in October 1659, provides that capital cases are to be judged by the General Court" (Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, 1887, 1). During the nineteenth century, they were customarily brought at once before the Supreme Judicial Court, and before a quorum of that Court. The General Statues of 1860 provides that four justices constitute a quorum of the court; and that in capital cases. If the prisoner does not plead guilty, the court may assign him counsel. . Preparatory to a trial to be had before the full court...
...more than one-half of all the members of a House constitutes a quorum. The Amendment was passed by two-thirds of a quorum but not by two-thirds of all the members...
...Supreme Court of the U. S. in its first Prohibition decision ruled that the phrase "two-thirds of both Houses" meant two-thirds of a regular quorum in each House;† the Prohibition Amendment was legally passed under this ruling. But to Senator Uriah Tracy, Gouverneur Morris wrote in 1804: "The idea that two-thirds of the whole number of Senators and of the whole number of Representatives are required by the Constitution to propose an amendment is certainly correct." Under this interpretation, the Amendment would not have passed Congress in 1917; the present Prohibition law is clearly unconstitutional...