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...save their faces, everybody supposed the Aventines would vote at their caucus to end their political abstention in view of the reopening of Parliament. Not so. The Deputies voted continuance of the boycott. Many of them demurred. Deputy Dice Sarò, one of the leaders, resigned. Others were expected to return to the Chamber in defiance of the majority...
...search for a Cabinet that would be acceptable to Parliament ended, last week, when Count Poullet, on his second attempt, formed a Catholic-Liberal-Socialist Cabinet which was approved by caucus of the various parties and was therefore sure to be supported by a majority in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies (TIME...
...quite different from an electoral campaign-there were no patriotic speeches, no florid enthusiasms for the working man and farmer. It was simply a case of two politicians each wanting the same job and appealing to their friends to rally to them. On the eve of a special Republican caucus of members of the 69th Congress, both contestants claimed the victory. Indeed, if their claims were good, both were practically elected; for the choice of the caucus, although technically only a nomination, is equivalent to election, since the next House is predominantly Republican. Such was the situation when the caucus...
...Floor Leader to succeed Mr. Longworth (as Mr. Longworth had promised if he won), a little more business was transacted and in less than an hour and a half the caucus was over. Mr. Longworth-"Nick," wearer of spats, genial, just a bit aristocratic -had advanced his career another step. To be sure, the probability is that, as Speaker, he will have less power than in his former post. The days of Thomas B. Reed, when the Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois...
...effect of excluding Insurgents from the Republican caucus in the House will be presumably to exclude them from good places which they have held on Committees by virtue of their membership in the Republican Party. In the House, Representative James A. Frear, of Wisconsin (one of the uninvited Insurgents) declared: "it is proposed without hearing to try to read out of the Republican Party all duly elected Republican Representatives of a great state in which the Republican Party had its birth...