Word: caucusing
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Ordinarily, caucuses are not held until, at most, a day or two before a Congress comes in session, when its members have already assembled in Washington. The coming caucus will consist of the Republican members of the present Congress who were re-elected last fall and of the 50-odd Republicans newly elected to serve in that body. The caucus will have three major functions...
...choose a Republican candidate for Speaker of the House (to succeed Speaker Gillett who goes to the Senate). Since the Republicans will have a majority in the next Congress, the choice of the caucus should be practically equivalent to election. The two leading candidates are Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, Republican floor leader and Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois...
This early meeting is simplified by the fact that many of the newly-elected Republicans will come to Washington to see President Coolidge inaugurated on Mar. 4. They were circularized to find out whether most of them would be willing to attend a caucus in Washington about that date. The majority replied in the affirmative...
...object of thus organizing the 69th Congress several days before it comes into existence (and probably several months before it assembles) has to do with tax reduction. The caucus will choose the Republican majority members of the next Ways and Means Committee. There is a prospect now that Mr. Coolidge will call Congress in session some time during the fall for tax revision. If the members of the Ways and Means Committee are chosen in advance, they can assemble in Washington several weeks before Congress as a whole assembles, and have a tax revision bill ready to report...
...issuing invitations to the caucus, the names of 13 Republican Insurgents were omitted, indicating that in the House as in the Senate, the Republicans intend to outlaw the wayward...