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...72nd House is most likely to rule over the 73rd. Candidates- Exclusive of ambitious upstarts, three eminent Representatives are in the race-Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, cadaverous chairman of the Appropriations Committee; Alabama's John McDuffie, Democratic "whip" of the House; and Illinois' Henry Thomas Rainey, big (275 lb.), broad, white-maned Majority Leader. Their intraparty contest was the essence of politics and each is a consummate politician. By tradition the leader of a House majority succeeds to the Speakership. That is how John Nance Garner, now Vice President-elect, reached the rostrum and. before...
...teller vote of 245-40-121 the House ordered a second to the Rainey motion...
...resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment, with ratification by State conventions. As both parties had declared Wet, he favored quick disposal of the question. About the Capitol for a week there was much scurrying and nose-counting. Would the resolution muster the necessary two-thirds vote? Majority Leader Rainey thought so. Others were less certain. Die-hard Drys fumed at the State convention method of ratification, succeeded in inducing the Judiciary Committee to reject (13-to-6) the Garner resolution...
...Leader Rainey: Mr. Speaker, I move that the House suspend the rules for the present consideration of House Joint Resolution 408 to repeal the 18th Amendment...
...Witness Rainey went off for luncheon with the judge while Republican editors chuckled over how a longtime member of the House Ways & Means Committee, a candidate for Speaker and a ranking financial expert of the Democratic party could be so easily gulled...