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...Huddle. Republican House leaders?Speaker Longworth, Floor Leader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell???banded together to praise the bill, to consolidate their voting strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
...three Republican leaders? Longworth, Tilson, Snell???had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...
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