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...occasionally attempted but rarely successful parliamentary device (it has not worked in the House since 1960), by which the signatures of a majority of House members automatically remove a bill from committee jurisdiction and put it before the whole House. Last week home-rule advocates got the necessary 218th signature from Illinois Democrat George Shipley, who came back to Washington just to sign the petition. No action on the bill can take place until Sept. 27. Meanwhile, opponents of the measure threaten some artful dodges of their own. But the District of Columbia is closer to running its own affairs...
...Shenandoah (see Page 22) : "I congratulate you most heartily upon the fine exhibition of skill displayed by you"; to a Farmer-Manufacturer "Convention in Chicago: "The plight of the farmers in recent years has been ... a menace to the prosperity of every other element of the community"; on the 218th birthday of Benjamin Franklin: "He was one of that marvelous group of Revolutionary leaders each of whom seemed if his particular department a supreme genius" ; to the B'ne Israel Congregation of Cincinnati on its 100th anniversary: "To these long established agencies of American sentiment and patriotism our country...