U.S.A. DEMOCRAT SPEAKER
FIRST SUCH IN TWELVE YEARS. CONGRESS APPOINTS TEXAN By Telegraph—Press Assn. —CopyrightWashington, Dec. 7. Mr. John N. Garner, Democrat representative’in the House from Texas for the past 28 years, was elected Speaker at the opening of Congress on Monday by a victory of the Democrats, who control the House for the first time in 12 years, with 219 seats to 214 Republicans, one Farmer-Labour and one vacancy. The New Hampshire Republican nominee, Mr. Snell, New York, is expected to become the minority leader.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1931, Page 6
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