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...Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill was passed by huge majorities in both Houses of the Imperial Japanese Diet. The Bill will be sent to the Prince Regent for the Royal Assent and promulgated by Imperial rescript which makes it the law of the land. Plans were being laid to declare Apr. 28 a national holiday in commemoration of the passage of the measure...
...then opened the doors, had the motion to confirm put and answered in unison with a rumbling "Aye." There is reason to believe that the Senate did not know much about Mr. Sargent when, glad to have beaten the President and eager to go home, it gave its perfunctory assent to the choice of Mr. Sargent...
...requisition papers, adding, with arrogant explicitness, that they wished "to give notice that the withdrawal of this application for extradition does not in any way mean that there is the remotest possibility of Borglum ever resuming work on this Memorial . . . and we desire further to state unequivocally that our assent to the withdrawal of the requisition does not effect the final disposition of the criminal cases against Borglum, which disposition will be left absolutely with the State authorities." To refute the impression that no man in the U. S. would now have dealings with him, Sculptor Borglum announced...
...demanded to be let in. Inside, the "faithful Commons" went through the usual pantomime of wondering what on earth the noise was about. The Speaker asks if the pleasure of the House is that the doors be opened. The House, enveloped in pseudo-mystery, jokingly gives its assent. A burly sergeant-at-arms is despatched to admit the patient Black Rod and, as he goes, he walks with an almost insolently leisurely gait. The doors are opened and in sweeps Black Rod, proceeds to the Speaker's Chair, executing en route three magnificent bows which wring continuous mirth from...
...Speaker of the House of Commons was thereupon summoned to the House of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given to the bill, the full title of which is the Irish Free State (Confirmation of Agreement) Bill. The measure became a law of the land, a law by which the Government at London is empowered to appoint a commissioner for Northern Ireland on the Boundary Commission...