SENATE LEADERS RUN INTO "SOLID WALL" IN ATTEMPT TO SPEED UP DELIBERATIONS
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On May 14, 1924, The Evening Star reports that today the leaders of the Senate of the United States failed in an attempt to speed up deliberations "by calling for 11 o'clock meetings."
They ran into a "solid wall" when they could not get a morning quorum* and after forty minutes "decided to adjourn until noon, the regular time."
The Star says that...
"the Senate proved today that it is a deliberate as well as a deliberative body."
*quorum is the minimum number of members necessary to be present to constitute the group at a session of the U.S. Senate--a quorum is required to conduct business.
SOURCE
"Senators Refuse To Start on Job One Hour Earlier," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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