Archive Report
Archive Report
The Speakership and the Rules of the House
Impending Contest Over Organization of the House
Republicans who will be members of the House of Representatives in the Seventy-second Congress have been called to meet in caucus on February 26, 1931, “to decide upon the organization of the next House.” At this meeting Rep. Nicholas Longworth of Ohio will be chosen as the candidate of the Republican majority to succeed himself as Speaker, and all who attend the caucus will be regarded as bound to vote in his support.1 In the invitation to the caucus members were asked to notify the Republican Floor Leader whether or not they would attend. To date no replies have been received from members of the group in the House classified as ...