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Acting Prime Minister Fenton and Acting Treasurer Lyons had called a party caucus in Canberra to approve the Government's program of cutting expenditures, raising taxes and paying off by conversion $135,000,000 in loans which fall due next month. The first two items of this program passed, but then the "wild men" gained control, stampeded through the caucus a resolution respecting the $135,000,000 loans which Acting Treasurer Lyons vainly denounced as "simply repudiation...
Bachelor Richard Bedford Bennett, the Conservative leader, is a "new" man, 60 years old. He has never been Prime Minister. He won his leadership at the Conservative Party caucus of 1927, after Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen had been forced out of office a total failure...
Obedient to the Trade Union Congress the Labor party, according to announcements last week, will debate the baby dole" at their October caucus...
After an inconclusive caucus of Republican Senators, Senate Leader Watson telephoned President Hoover that Congressional sentiment was against treaty action at this time, asked him if he would really call a special Senate session for that purpose. President Hoover assured him that he would. Whereupon Senator Watson solemnly announced: "A special session now seems necessary and has been decided on." Senator Watson "hoped" Congress would "clean up" its pending legislative program?tariff, rivers & harbors development, veterans' aid, motor bus regulation?by the end of June and adjourn...
...Congressional Caucus", Professor Holcombe, Harvard...