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...assured of enough votes to recommit," declared Missouri's Clark...
First question put to the Chamber was whether to recommit the bill-i.e., kill it. As the roll call proceeded, every Senator except three (Florida's Pepper, Indiana's Van Nuys, Nevada's McCarran) was present on the floor. Then, while the gallery- so crowded that young Mrs. James Roosevelt had to sit on the stairs-held its breath, the votes were counted. Result was 48-10-43, against recommittal. Five minutes later, there followed the formality of voting on the bill itself. This time the count was 49-0-42 for passage, and the Senate...
...evening last week, as the clerk of the House of Representatives thus started to call the roll of members, a deathlike silence spread through the chambers, enveloped the normally chattering galleries. The House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt...
...Roosevelt was still anxious to save face by keeping the nature of the settlement dark, and avoiding a roll call. Neither was possible that afternoon when the issue was settled on the floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
...cloakrooms they had previously settled the matter. To aid their popular colleague, Mississippi's senior Senator Pat Harrison, who was backing the nomination, to show "The Man" Bilbo that neophyte Senators should not make nuisances of themselves on the floor, they swamped (59-to-4) his motion to recommit the nomination to committee, confirmed Judge Holmes's upping...