Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First he made an appeal to the country, thus: "The vote in the Senate today adds further delay to farm relief and may gravely jeopardize the enactment of legislation. ... I earnestly hope that the Congress will enact the conferees' report...
...conference. In the cool of the evening and for the space of an hour President Hoover told them what they must do to unsnarl the legislative tangle at the Capitol. Leader Watson informed the President the Senate would not back down on its debenture plan until the House had voted openly against it. Speaker Longworth said the House did not want to vote openly on the debenture plan. Then the President spoke: "The House must vote"?and vote...
Much legislative maneuvring was necessary to get the measure through to the White House. First the Senate, full of ill temper, refused by a vote of 46 to 43, to accept the conference report in which the export debenture plan was stricken from the bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen...
...until President Hoover called House and Senate leaders into conference was the way cleared for the bill's enactment. Exerting himself as party chief, the President virtually ordered that the House vote on this question as the Senate's price of recession. So the House voted 250 to 113 against the debenture plan. The next clay, as gracefully as possible, the Senate acquiesced...
...representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them all to the dinner. These he put on, one after another-felts, silks, straws, fibres. The hatmen rose in a vote of thanks...