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...York Republicans have been losing campaigns on the power issue. Fortnight ago Congressman Bertrand Hollis Snell, House Rules Committee Chairman and most potent New Yorker in Congress, urged G. O. P. state leaders to modify their position on power, to compromise with the Democrats sufficiently to get the issue out of politics. William H. Hill, Hoover-appointed leader, echoed the Snell entreaty: "If Roosevelt will not accept the Republican offer of a compromise, give him what he wants but by all means get the question out of next year's campaign...
...House, Speaker Longworth was thoroughly cognizant of the Senate's recent fumblings and gropings with the tariff. Even he had spoken critically of what parliamentary practice required him to refer to as "another body." With his two trusted Lieutenants (Floorleader John Quillan Tilson, Rules Chairman Bertrand H. Snell) he was prepared to shame the Senate with exhibition of legislative despatch...
Married. John Whitten Davis Jr.,* of Brooklyn, onetime Princeton football & water polo captain (1927); and a Miss Gladys Snell; in Manhattan...
...House as to the proper method of receiving the Senate's Farm Bill. Many a Republican leader felt that the Debenture Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell therefore prepared a rule to receive the Farm...
...socially elect in the House are likewise few, including Representatives Aldrich, Bacon, Beck, Fish, (Mrs.) McCormick, (Mrs.) Pratt, Snell, Tilson, Wainwright, Wigglesworth...