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...SENATE, which organized itself on Dec. 3, with Senator Cummins of Iowa assuming the chair as President pro tem (TIME, Dec. 10), proceeded to adjourn from day to day, waiting for the House to organize...
...Legislators went to the door of the House chamber where two guards blocked their way. The Speaker pro tem, started to call them to order. A National Guard officer stepped up, read them an order of the Governor forbidding them to meet. " Move along!"; The Legislators left peaceably...
...this state." The Governor explains that he acts " for the protection and safety of that institution," for the security of the schools of the state and to place the Farmer-Labor movement " in the hands of those who are selected directly by the rank and file." President pro tem. George Wilson declines to comment...
...Republican George H. Moses (N. H.), is being "groomed and boomed " by his friends for President pro tem, of the next Senate. (President pro tem, presides when President Coolidge is absent.) It is thought that Senator Cummins, incumbent, will not be a candidate. At various times during the last session Mr. Moses was called to the chair. According to his backers, he "made some of the elder Senators dizzy by the despatch with which he kept the Senate machinery going...
Torn by schisms, the strong Republican Congress that convened two years ago presented a state of disorganization at the end of its career. The Senate was peevish and forgot the traditional courtesy of thanking the Vice President and the President pro tem. The House was boisterous, with the assistance of the Marine Band and much backslapping. Nobody turned the legislative clock back to prolong the last...