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Speakership. In line of seniority for the speakership?if Republicans organize the House?is Connecticut's tall, lean John Quillin Tilson, now the majority floor leader. But he lacks the Longworth popularity among the rank & file of House Republicans. Behind his smile lies a dogmatic manner, a tart tongue. As floor leader he has often failed to command a following. But because of Mr. Tilson's intense loyalty to White House policies, President Hoover would like to see his elevation. Already last week he had rivals for the Speakership?Rules Chairman Bert Snell, ultra-conservative and hardboiled, supported...
...clerk concluded, Floor Leader Tilson led a splattering of Republican applause. Cries of "Vote! Vote!'' tilled the air. Speaker Longworth repeated the ancient ritual: "The question is. will the House on reconsideration agree to pass the bill, the objections of the President to the contrary not with-standing...
...which, at most, they have a paper-thin majority of two votes. From the meeting 18 Republicans, including five regulars from Kansas, deliberately absented themselves. Despite these defects which left it a House minority, the G. 0. P. renominated Nicholas Longworth of Ohio to be Speaker and John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut to be Majority Leader...
Republican Reaction. Bonus developments followed thick & fast in the wake of Mr. Young's trip to Washington. Ways & Means Republicans under the able leadership of New Jersey's Bacharach went to work on a bill for upping the certificates' loan value. The House Republican leadership (Speaker Longworth, Floorleader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell) was frankly receptive to any compromise to stave off cash payments though it was denied that the G. O. P. had been inspired by "the Young Plan," that any Bonus Bill would be passed which distinguished between veterans who were needy and veterans who were...
...deny this, though the Administration was emphatically on record against the "dole" principle which is what it said feeding U. S. citizens would amount to. Declared Senator Watson: "You can't rehabilitate farms with dead farmers." Speaker Longworth held the money could be used "for anything." House Leader Tilson kept obstinately repeating: "It's not a dole. Remember, it's not a dole...