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...Voted 306 to 57, to adjourn at 5 p. m., May 27; sent the resolution to the Senate. (Republican Leader Tilson had carried the resolution for days in his pocket, awaiting a propitious moment to introduce...
...House had its back up, too. The Coolidge compromise proposals, carried by Republican Leader Tilson to the House Flood Control Committee, insisted upon local contributions of sites for levees and floodways. With equal insistence, the Committee-led by Reid of Illinois, Whittington of Mississippi, Driver of Arkansas, Wilson of Louisiana-would hear of no local contributions except, perhaps, sites for the bases of levees on the main stream of the Mississippi...
...compromise. He himself says little, letting the White House atmosphere and a few wry questions stimulate the mental activity of the lieutenants. Then, as the lieutenants plan and discuss, President Coolidge draws negative lines here and there. After last week's Flood Control conference, Speaker Longworth, Floorleader Tilson and Representatives Snell (New York), Madden (Illinois) and Kopp (Iowa) emerged from the White House talking about compromises which President Coolidge would be able to approve. The effect of the compromises would be, it was said, to keep the $325,000,000 expenditure "estimated" in the Senate bill actually down...
Observers could not remember when Leader Tilson had paid Candidate Hoover such a forthright compliment. They concluded that the Hoover backing was coming to include industrial Connecticut; also that Leader Tilson was not far from midstream in the Vice Presidential undercurrent...
Last week, Secretary MacDonald wrote another letter, this time to Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, rebuking him for declaring in favor of John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut for Vice President. Secretary MacDonald gave the impression that Governor Fuller wanted to be Vice President...