Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choose the Republican personnel which will serve on Committees of the next Congress...
...object of thus organizing the 69th Congress several days before it comes into existence (and probably several months before it assembles) has to do with tax reduction. The caucus will choose the Republican majority members of the next Ways and Means Committee. There is a prospect now that Mr. Coolidge will call Congress in session some time during the fall for tax revision. If the members of the Ways and Means Committee are chosen in advance, they can assemble in Washington several weeks before Congress as a whole assembles, and have a tax revision bill ready to report...
...issuing invitations to the caucus, the names of 13 Republican Insurgents were omitted, indicating that in the House as in the Senate, the Republicans intend to outlaw the wayward...
...effect of excluding Insurgents from the Republican caucus in the House will be presumably to exclude them from good places which they have held on Committees by virtue of their membership in the Republican Party. In the House, Representative James A. Frear, of Wisconsin (one of the uninvited Insurgents) declared: "it is proposed without hearing to try to read out of the Republican Party all duly elected Republican Representatives of a great state in which the Republican Party had its birth...
William M. Butler, ex-Republican Campaign manager, new Senator from Massachusetts, made his first important public speech since taking office at a dinner in Boston, declaring that the election of 1924 was the greatest "thinking election" since 1896. Through cold and winter weather, Chauncey M. Depew, nearly 91, went to the Pilgrim's banquet in Manhattan, spoke, saying: "What's the matter with Congress? Well, you have to be in Congress to understandd," was reflected President of the society with Elihu Root, John W. Davis, in his corps of officers...