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Most Washington hands agree that if the Corrupt Practices Act were strictly enforced, many of the nation's Senators and Representatives would be in jail. They might even be enough for a quorum. This year, however, the incoming Republican Administration faces an unusual problem. Under pressure from Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the clerk of the House of Representatives, former Congressman Pat Jennings, a Democrat, has taken the unprecedented and even-by sedate congressional standards -slightly ungentlemanly step of turning over to the FBI a list of organizations that had been delinquent in filing their accounts. The offenders include...
...CRIMSON'S most recent "Coop opposition slate" piece was on several accounts erroneous. (1) It quoted me as asserting that the Coop "inflated membership figures" in determining its quorum. When I spoke with the CRIMSON reporter, I indicated only that there were apparent substantial errors in the Coop's membership calculation, without attributing any purposiveness, any notion of deliberate inflation, to that calculation. (2) It had me declaring that "we know that many students eligible to vote were turned away." It would have been irresponsible of me to pretend to knowledge of many disenfranchised students, when by definition those...
...challengers will first compare official enrollment and membership figures and then will re-compare the required quorum attendance (five per cent of voting members...
Brown said that an error of at least 10,000 would be necessary to raise a question about the absence of a quorum. The income from membership is large enough to indicate that such an error has probably not been made, he added...
...proxy fight doesn't insure democracy," Miller said last night, and added that in proxy elections, stockholders who do not vote are counted as supporting the regular slate. He said that he might instead draft amendments reducing the required percentage attendance for a quorum or requiring a proxy vote if there is not a quorum at the annual membership meeting...