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...remarkably cheerful air. The reason: his agents had reported that the Rules Committee recommendation could carry by a 30-vote margin, and he had just used this leverage to good effect on both Democrats and Republicans on Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee. After a long quorum call, Martin gave the floor to Charlie Halleck for a surprising announcement: the G.O.P. leadership had decided not to ask for a vote on the Rules Committee's EPT report. He was convinced, said Halleck gravely, that the bill would be "handled in the normal manner by the Ways & Means Committee...
...soon be short of a working quorum because of a patronage squabble. Philadelphia Lawyer Ralph Demmler is slated to become chairman, but Senate approval of his appointment has been held up by Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, who is irked because Ike's aides neglected to check with him. Meanwhile, Commissioner Richard McEntire and Chairman Donald Cook are ready to step down, leaving only two commissioners-not enough, under law, to run SEC. Eisenhower's choices to fill the gaps: Democrat Andrew Jackson Goodwin, an Alabama banker, and J. Sinclair Armstrong, a Chicago lawyer...
...previous record holder (18 hr. 23 min., in 1908): Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette. who had the benefit of rests during quorum calls. The preMorse record for talking longest without quorum calls (as Morse did) was held by Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender (12 hr. 20 min., in 1949). †Of such legislative shenanigans, the elder Henry Cabot Lodge once observed: "To vote without debating may be ... rash, but to debate and never vote is imbecility...
Nunc de illo Indo scenico quem priorc noctc theatro Agassizo nostrac musca Terentianac feccrunt ct hac nocte iterabunt. Primas partes qui agunt, eis omnibus prisca festivitas ct vis comica. Quorum sunt cum primis nominandi hi duces: illa Magna Mater semper potens semper tranquilla, Thais (Paludis Filum nobile!) et illa cuius nomen perdurum Latine reddere nequeo nympha, Abigail Lewis, comoeda gracilitatis venustac ct aurcac vocis; tunc Sanctus Clarus ct Vadum Fractum et ipse cunuchus nunc tennis nunc fortis, omnes adulescentes maximi animi atque facundissimac libertatis; et deinde noster miles barbatus procellosusque (qui baculum habes) et illc umbraculatus Scotus sive sobrius sive...
...read aloud. Under Senate rules, the rarely made request had to be complied with. For 26 wasted minutes the clerk read while Morse slumped in his specially built chair (it has an extra-long seat to accommodate the Morse slump). Next day, Morse "suggested the absence of a quorum," forced the Senate to adjourn a few moments after it had convened. The day after, he again forced the useless reading of the journal (22 minutes). Then he rose and yammered for two hours on what the New York Times politely called "a variety of subjects...