JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTIETH CONGRESS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF : IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THIRD YEAR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESRARY CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Begun and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, being the Second Session of the SEVENTIETH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of the Government of the United States and in the one hundred and fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States. DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Certificates of election in due form have been filed in this office showing the election to the House of Representatives of the Seventieth Congress to fill vacancies as follows: Hon. LAFAYETTE L. PATTERSON, fifth district of Alabama, elected November 6, 1928, to succeed Hon. William B. Bowling, who resigned August 16, 1928. Hon. EARL W. VINCENT, ninth district of Iowa, elected June 4, 1928, to succeed Hon. William R. Green, who resigned March 31, 1928. Hon. JOHN W. MCCORMACK, twelfth district of Massachusetts, elected November 6, 1928, to succeed Hon. James A. Gallivan, who died April 3, 1928. Hon. RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, fourteenth district of Massachusetts, elected November 6, 1928, to succeed Hon. Louis A. Frothingham, who died August 23, 1928. Hon. FRANCIS D. CULKIN, thirty-second district of New York, elected November 6, 1928, to succeed Hon. Thaddeus C. Sweet, who died May 1, 1928. Hon. ROBERT R. BUTLER, second district of Oregon, elected November 6, 1928, to succeed Hon. Nicholas J. Sinnott, who resigned May 31, 1928. Hon. JAMES WOLFENDEN, eighth district of Pennsylvania, elected November 6, 1928, to succeed Hon. Thomas S. Butler, who died May 26, 1928. Very truly yours, WM. TYLER PAGE, Clerk of the House of Representatives. MEMBERS ELECT SWORN IN Mr. ROBERT R. BUTLER, a Member elect from the second district of the State of Oregon; Mr. FRANCIS D. CULKIN, a Member elect from the thirty-second district of the State of New York; Mr. JOHN W. MCCORMACK, a Member elect from the twelfth district of the State of Massachusetts; Mr. LAFAYETTE L. PATTERSON, a Member elect from the fifth district of the State of Alabama: Mr. EARL W. VINCENT, a Member elect from the ninth district of the State of Iowa; Mr. RICHARD W. WIGGLESWORTH, a Member elect from the fourteenth district of the State of Massachusetts; and Mr. JAMES WOLFENDEN, a Member elect from the eighth district of the State of Pennsylvania, presented themselves at the bar of the House and took the oath of office prescribed by law. COMMUNICATIONS Executive and other communications, pursuant to clause 2, Rule XXIV, were referred as follows: |