Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker's Wit. The House was treated to a characteristic bit of its Speaker's wit just after the Revenue Act was passed. Seeing that the Republican tax program had been defeated in the voting, Democrat Garner made "a parliamentary inquiry." Why, he asked, should a majority of the Representatives appointed to confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being...
...Trade in the Air." The Senate is government by committee. Who controls the committees, controls the Senate. Forming the committees was critical this session because the nominal line-up of the parties is: Republicans 48, Democrats 47, Farmer-Labor 1. With two Republican seats vacant pending investigation of their occupants-elect, and with the Farmer-Laborite and at least four Republicans calling themselves "progressives," the Democrats might, had they wished, have gained command of the Senate. But the Democrats preferred to let the G. O. P. stand responsible for the Senate's deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin...
Senator McMaster, South Dakota Republican, unexpectedly chimed in to demand just what assurance of action on farm relief the "progressives" had obtained. He discomfited his Republican brethren with a resolution to bring up revision of the industrial tariff, that being the vulnerable spot of farm-relief antagonists. Senator Brookhart tousled himself afresh in a harangue to the effect that he was proud of having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator...
Senator LaFollette got the floor to have read into the record the guileless correspondence between the "progressives" and Republican Curtis. Then, after many another had digressed, retorted, and exclaimed upon a variety of matters, the incident was closed. Two days later the Senate committees were organized the way everyone had planned they should be. The following officers were perfunctorily reelected: Senator Moses of New Hampshire, President pro tem; Edwin P. Thayer, Secretary; David S. Barry, Sergeant-at-Arms...
...establish a U. S. Department of Education with a Secretary in the Cabinet.-Republican Leader Curtis of Kansas. To recognize Soviet Russia.-Republican Borah, chairman of Foreign Relations. To reduce the limit within which conspiracies must be prosecuted, from six years to three;* and to empower the President to give a court witness immunity by granting a pardon in advance.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. The Senate passed both Walsh bills promptly, without comment. To investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. To prevent distributors leasing cinema films in blocks of which exhibitors must take...