Oppositionists

Oppositionists, on the left and the right, were arrested, and often exiled to Siberia.

Left Oppositionists in Siberian labour camps were taken out in groups to be shot.

Rank and file oppositionists were increasingly harassed, sometimes expelled from the Party and even arrested.

The Democratic minority nominated William Alexander Richardson of Illinois as Speaker, but because of sectional distrust, the various oppositionists were unable to agree on a single candidate for Speaker.