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...assemble a quorum; many a missing Senator would like to hear Senator Ashurst; perhaps we can get some business done," suggested Senator Neely of West Virginia in effect. So an order was adopted, authorizing Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry* to arrest absentees. Mr. Barry and five assistants scurried to telephones, told Senators to hurry to work. An hour later, he made the following report to the Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected...
...promptly deemed physical ly fit enough to succeed frazzled Senator Moses of New Hampshire in the Presiding Officer's chair. Vice President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them...
Seven Democrats and three Republicans can tell their constituents (as well as their children, grandchildren, etc.) that they had perfect attendance records in the House during the first session of the 69th Congress. These Representatives never missed a roll call, whether for a quorum or a vote: Cannon,† Missouri; Green, Florida; Hill, Washington; Huddleston, Alabama; Quin and Rankin, Mississippi; Swank, Oklahoma, Democrats; McLaughlin and Mapes, Michigan; Miller, Washington, Republicans...
After the session, Ogden Mills haughtily avoided southern Democrats. But Speaker Longworth jokingly remarked: "This man Rankin knew how to get a quorum; starting a fight is the best way to fill the House...
...LaGuardia inquired: "You know, don't you, that we would not have a quorum here...