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...Ways & Means Committee (part of it) holding a hearing in Room 15 on the Capitol's main floor. All revenue legislation must originate in the House, in this committee. Chairman Doughton (spectacles up, biting nails) is a North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating...
...Horrors 6 Hellishness." Hitting at Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell, onetime Columbia University professor and Roosevelt "brain trust" member, Massachusetts' hulking Treadway roared: "The earmarks of an impractical college professor are plainly apparent in the language of the processing tax. I call upon him and his associates to explain...
...Debated the President's State of the Union message. ¶ Heard Massachusetts' Treadway and New York's Fish orate on War Debts. ¶ Listened to Nebraska's Howard read a petition from 250 delegates to the Farmers' National Relief Conference. ¶ Heard Pennsylvania's Beck deliver a scholarly lecture on methods of amending the Constitution. ¶ Received from New York's O'Connor an amendment to the 1929 Reapportionment Act requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present...
...talk War Debts with the President. At his elbow during the two-hour conference were Secretary of State Stimson and Secretary Mills. Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Ways & Means Chairman Collier and Senators Harrison and George represented the Democracy in Congress. Eminent Republicans included Minority Leader Snell, Representatives Hawley. Treadway and Bacharach of Ways & Means and Senators Watson and Reed...
...Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House floor leader, was asked to the White House for the night. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed was asked to report for breakfast next morning. Virginia's Senator Glass hustled up from his Lynchburg home to answer a Hoover summons. Massachusetts' Representative Treadway had to leave an Amherst alumni banquet because his President wanted him quickly in Washington. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Mills kept popping in and out of the President's office every few minutes. President Hoover talked over long-distance telephone with Senator Borah in Idaho, Senator Robinson...