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...Passed the Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill???last of eleven supply measures ; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill???with a unanimous rising vote of tribute to its author, Wisconsin's Cooper, 80, House Dean?to rename B Street (from the Capitol to the Arlington Memorial Bridge) Constitution Avenue...
...Mitchell's potent objection to this bill???without which, it was conceded, machinery for juryless liquor trials can hardly be set up?served to squash the chances of any immediate legislation carrying out this prime recommendation of the Wickersham Commission. The Attorney General had strongly supported the Wickersham proposal when, as a theory, it was first presented. Now. when it was being shaped up into a legislative reality, he apparently saw its larger implications...
Thus racing away, his lips uncomfortably sealed, Senator James Eli Watson, Republican Leader, was overtaken in the corridor by a newsgatherer who panted his question: "Say. Senator?is everything? in the bill???going up?" Leader Watson, unable to resist temptation longer, shot back as he hurried on: "No, not everything. Some things are coming down? but not many...
...Agriculture Committee will meet on March 27 and is expected to have a farm relief measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill??? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill...