January 6, 1932
The Senate proceeded to consider- the joint resolution <S. J. Res. 14) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States fixing the commencement of the terms of President and Vice President and Members of Congress and fixing the time of th~ assembling of Congress.
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The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the third voted against it. reading and passage of the joint resolution.
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Mr. NORRIS. Mr. President, I notice that the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. BINGHAM] is not in the Chamber.
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Mr. · McNARY. Mr. President, will the Senator from Nebraska yield?
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Mr. NORRIS. Certainly.
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Mr. McNARY. A request was made that the absence of a quorum be suggested, but I am sure the Senator from Connecticut will be here in a moment, unless the Senator from Nebraska wants to suggest the absence of a quorum.
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Mr. NORRIS. I do not myself ask for a quorum. I am ready to vote, but I think in order to carry out the implied promise at least , I will suggest the absence of a quorum.
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The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll.
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The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names: Ashurst Bulkley Dale Gore Austin Bulow Davis Hale Bailey Byrnes Dickinson Harris Barbour Capper Dill Harrison Barkley Caraway Fess Hastings Bingham Conna ll y Fletcher Ha t field Black Coolidge Frazier Hawes Blaine Copeland George Hayden Borah Costigan · Glass Hebert Bratton Couzens Glenn Howell Brookhart Cutting Goldsborough Hull
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McNary Sheppard Vandenberg
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Kean Metcal! Morrison Shipstead Shortridge Wagner Walcott Kendrick Moses Smith Walsh, Mass.
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Neely Smoot Walsh , Mont.
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King Norbeck Ste t wer Waterman
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Norris Thomas, Idaho Watson
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Lewis Nye Thomas, Okla . . Whee l er Logan Patterson Robinson, :Ark. Townsend Trammell White McKellar Robinson, Ind. Tydings
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The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-six Senators have answered to their names. A quorum is present. Mr. President, may I ask under what · order we are proceeding?
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The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will state that the unfinished business was temporarily laid aside and that Senate Joint _ Resolution N?. 14 is now before the ~enate.
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