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...Adopted a resolution to amend its own parliamentary rules, abolishing the Committee of the Whole and permitting Senators who have not voted on a bill to move its reconsideration...
...glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...
...science are you qualified to teach?" The arrangement leads to a ridiculous anomaly. The CRIMSON has suggested the remedy of "letting the field of concentration of undergraduates determine the kind of degree they are to receive." If this is not satisfactory, there are certainly other reforms that will amend the situation. J. H. Selvidge...
...House first showed a Dry majority (197 to 189) on a resolution to amend the Constitution prohibiting intoxicating beverages. Offered by Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama the resolution failed to win the necessary two-thirds majority...
Ingeniously the Commission proposed (that Congress amend the Jones Law to define "casual or slight violations," removing them from the category of "infamous crimes." Petty violators would then not be indicted, tried by jury, but would be brought before U. S. Commissioners for a judicial hearing. The commissioner in turn would report the details of each case, with recommendations, to the U. S. District Judge who, probably never seeing the offender, would render a decision, pass sentence. If found guilty by this speedy process, the petty defendant would still have the right to appeal for a jury trial...