The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 10, 1925, Image 17
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VOLUME XXV
SESSION OF CONGRESS GETS
OFF IN COLOR AND CALM
S. A. ADOPTS 5
DRASTIC RULES
House Stages Turbulent Scenes While Senate Is
Sedate. Longworth Is Named Speaker -
In Three-Cornered Race.
Action Would Doom Basketball in
Small College; Athletics Limited.
Washington, Dec. 7.—Amid color- no semblance of debate and the s«m
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ful and turbulent scenes in the house
and utter calm in the senate, the Six
ty-ninth congress put under way today
its first, and long, session.
A small group of insurgents start
ed the fireworks in the house, but de
spite their opposition and that of the
Democrats, the Republican majority,
rolled up witlTTihe Coolidge landslide
-of 1924, moved on to victory in every
test of strength.
Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, former
Republican floor leader, was elected
speaker in a three-cornered race in
which the Democrats supported Finis
J. Garrett of Tennessee, their floor
chief, and the insurgents cast their
ballots for Henry Allen Cooper of
Wisconsin. The vote was:
Longworth, 229; Garrett, 173; Coop
er, 18. Five voted present^
• Formal announcement of the elec
tion of Mr. Longworth was greeted
with applause and when the new
speaker was escorted into the cham
ber on the arm of Representative Gar
rett,.he was given tin ovation in which
both the house membership and the
crowded galleries joined.
With the organization prelimina
ries over, the next .test of strength
was on a proposal or the Republican
leaders to amend the rules so as to
make more difficult the discharge of
a committee from the consideration
of legislation referred to it. Here
again the Republicans won, but by a
narrow margin of two, the vote being
298 to 296. Several of the regulars
joined with the insurgents and Demo
crats in opposing the amendment.
The siege in the senate was in sharp
contrast to that in the house. The
program mapped out by the Republi
can leaders was carried through with
sion lasted only 25 minutes. Three
new senators—La Follette of Wiscon
sin, Robinson of Indiana and Williams
of Missouri—were sworn In and or*
ganization was completed with the
election pf Edwin P. Thayer of Indian
apolis, as secretary of the senate.
Only one question had threatened
to disturb the calm of the opening
session and that was smoothed out
just before the gavel felfc This was
whether there should be immediate
discussion of the right of Gerald P.
Nye of North D4kota to a senate seat
as the appointee of Governor Sorlie.
Friends of Mr. Nye had the subject
referred to committee, f .
As the proceedings moved forward,
two figures on the senate floor held
the attention of the crowded galleries.
They were Vice President Dawes, who
only recently returned from his cam
paign over the country for a change
of senate rules, and Robert Marion La
Follette, who, as the .successor of his
father hs a senator from Wisconsin,
gams the distinction of being the
youngest man to sit in this body in
more than half a century.
' Although many of the senator^wore
longtailed coats, Mr. Dawes appeared
in a doublebreasted suit of blue serge.
He rapped sharply for order and after
the brief announcement that the sen
ate met in regular session under the
constitutional requirement, sat back
in his chair except for the time it
took to administer the oath to new
senators. *
Appearing in formal dress a few
minutes before the session began, Mr.
La Follette was greeted by a number
of senators of both parties who came
to know him in the years he acted as
secretary to his father. When the
Five radical regulatiohs fo^he gov
ernment of intercollegiate athletic*,
were adopted at the opening sessioft
of the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools at Char- of their work in football.
leston, S. C., last Thursday morning,
December 3. It is a popular opinion
that these regulations, if enforced,
will sound the death knell of basket
ball in the small colleges.
The rules adopted are as follows:
1. No member of the association
shall permit football practice to con
sume more than two hours a day of
the students’ time.
2. A student shall not be permitted
to take part in branches of athletics
occurring successively during the
year: if for instance, basketball follow
football, a student must choose be
tween the two sports,
3. A student shall be allowed only
five days absence during each session
on account of athletics.
4. Freshman teams shall be allowed
to play not more than one jfame away
from home during a season.
5. No institution shall be granted
membership in the Southern Associ)-
session opened, the young senator
took a seat in the rear of the chamber
until the time came for his colleague
and political enemy, Senator Lenroot,
to escort him to the dais to take the
oath.
After the oath had been adminis
tered and he had signed the senate
register, he was congratulated by a
number of Republicans, first, among
them being Senator. Butler of Massa
chusetts, chairman of the Republican
national committee.
tion unless it belongs to an accredited
athletic association.
These suggestions originated with
the executive committee of the South
ern conference. Dr. S. V. Sanford, of
Georgia University, president of the
Southern confreence, challenged the
association to adopt them.
It can readily be seen that practi
cally the entire squad of net men at
Presbyterian will be eliminated from
competition for team berths because
Of the men
going out for the five this year who
are fairly certain of chances to play,
Captain Walker, Hunter, Wilson, Du
gan, Stamps, Witherspoon, Stevens,
and Timmons will be out because of
their participation in football. If
Robinson, Jones, and Moffatt elect to
go out for basketball, they must give
up baseball and track.
' Another result of these rules will be
the reduction of freshman athletics to
a negligible quantity. Tt will be im
possible for a rat team to engage in
more than two, or at the most, three
contests during the season.
The limitation of athletic absences
to five days during the season will
cut down the number of long trips,
as some of them require from one to
three days.
These regulations will be up before
the Southern Conference, meeting at
Athens, Ga., yesterday, and today, for
further consideration.
Good Service Aids State’s Progress
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BOY SCOUT NEWS
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Troop Two of Clinton held their
regular weekly meeting Friday night
at Scoutmatser McHugh’s room. We
were planning to go on a hike but
it rained so we had an indoor meet
ing. Every boy turned in a good turn
and then we followed -the regular
schedule of a Scout meeting. We
were sorry we could not go on the
hike, but we made up for it by going
to the college gym and playing bas
ketball for about two hours.
JOHN W. DILLARD, Scribe.
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