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...House, for the first hour after Speaker Rainey banged it to order at high noon, pomp was scarce. The Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms placed the mace on the Speaker's desk in the midst of what looked like a camp meeting. There was much slapping of backs, swapping of stories, speculating about November when all 435 members will have to stand for reelection, sniffing at the lady members' bouquets, sniffling over the six who had died since the special session ended in June...
...going to have a short, harmonious and constructive session." predicted white-crested Speaker of the House Rainey last week as he led 432 Representatives back to the Capitol for work and the one regular session of the 73rd Congress. "It will be a very important session but there will be no dramatic instances to write about. It will be a working session-pass supply bills, tax bills and liquor bills and adjourn early in May. There will be no attempt to overthrow anything the last session of Congress enacted and there will be no attempt to oppose the President...
Democrats as well as Republicans knew precisely what Speaker Rainey meant by "left at home." The Hundred Day special session of Congress which ended last June was a rubber-stamp affair which made a stirring record for President Roosevelt but added little glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat...
Meat packers throughout the land last week bridled angrily at a fresh thrust from their archfoe, Speaker of the House Rainey...
Cattlemen had asked Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 to subsidize beef raisers and dairymen who agreed to curtail production. This made Speaker Rainey snort: "It might prove more effective and far simpler than appropriating these sums for the Government to take over the packing industry and operate it by the Government's paying fixed prices ... if the packers continue to exercise their monopolistic powers to drive down prices. . . . They are interfering with the entire program and stand in open defiance of the entire recovery...