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...order. A roll call was taken to determine that a quorum was present. Then the House turned to the disturbing question of electing a Speaker. Mr. Gillett was nominated for the regular Republicans by Sidney Anderson of Minnesota. Mr. Garrett was nominated for the Democrats by Henry T. Rainey of Illinois. Then Edward E. Broune of Wisconsin rose and made a speech nominating Mr. Cooper for the insurgents, saying...
...other hand, our opponents have lost none of their fighting force and have a number of additions of great strength. Garrett, and Garner, and Pou, and Crisp, and Rayburn will be joined by Rainey, and Hull, and Cannon [Clarence Cannon of Missouri], whose profound knowledge of parliamentary law is familiar to us all. We, as a party, will have our work cut out for us if we are to emerge from the parliamentary battles of the next session with credit to ourselves and to our party, and it cannot be done without co-operation and teamwork...
...Andrews owes his position as leader of the Asiatic expedition to a unique combination of scientific authority and practical resourcefulness in big game hunting and open-air life. He is as thoroughly at home in these as the late Theodore Roosevelt, the late Paul J. Rainey, Martin Johnson, Carl E. Akeley and other famous sportsmen. He is 39 years old, a graduate of Beloit College (1906) and an M. A. of Columbia (1913). He has been associate curator of mammals in the American Museum of Natural History for over 15 years, has taken part as special naturalist or director...
Died. Paul J. Rainey, 45, big-game hunter, explorer, cinema photographer, on the S. S. Saxon, going from Southampton to Cape Town, of a stroke of paralysis. The first man to hunt lions with dogs, he once killed 27 lions in 35 days...
Died. John W. Rainey, 42, Democrat, Congressman from the 4th Illinois district (Chicago), of pneumonia. He had the shortest biography in the Congressional Directory -just his name-not even his political party...