Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the bill increasing salaries of Federal judges (TIME...
...Illinois congressmen, chiefly Representative Martin Madden, put the Chicago project into the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of the 69th Congress. It called for only $3,500,000 but if passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from Lake...
Then, after a night conference with the President at the end of the week, the following compromise was reached: 1) Representative Butler will introduce a bill, with President Coolidge's approval, providing for an ultimate expenditure of $140,000,000 for the construction of ten 10,000-ton cruisers. 2) In the event of an international disarmament conference, the President is empowered to suspend such construction. 3) No appropriation for the three cruisers authorized by the act of 1924 will be requested at this session. 4) The President will probably soon approve appropriation...
...ease the hunger of the Navy and avoid an argument with Congress. There was dissent from this plan, even in Republican ranks. Representative Britten of Illinois, ranking Republican of the Naval Affairs Committee, who was not present at the making of the Coolidge-Butler compromise, said: "If the bill does not appropriate for those three cruisers already authorized, the authorization for the ten additional ones would appear to the world as a big bluff...
...Lords, the penalties of this bill,* in so far as they are to be visited upon proprietors, will fall on my unhappy head alone. As the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, I am a proprietary Crusoe stranded in a sea of syndicates. I verily believe that I am the only 'sole proprietor' of a newspaper in the whole Metropolitan area. . . . "Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords. It is only fair that...