Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pedro Guevera, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, appeared on the House floor to score the Bacon bill, to protest that "Moro" was only a sort of nickname for Mohammedan Filipinos; that "Moros" and Filipinos were homogeneous; of one racial stock, of like temperaments and character...
Last week Mr. Bacon read into the Congressional Record what sounded more like the real motive underlying his bill. He called attention to a Department of Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands...
...Senate finally got farm relief out of the way (see FARMERS), only to see rivers-and-harbors swell to proportions more formidable than ever. The bill provided approximately a $50,000,000 mass of miscellaneous moneys for dredging creeks, bayous, inlets in many states; building bridges; buying canals; and most important of all, for deepening the Illinois River near Chicago to let lake steamers pass down to the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. The language of the bill had the effect of legalizing previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan...
...House having logrolled the rivers-and-harbors bill through, Senatorial enemies of this Illinois River put their backs up with redoubled determination. The lobbies were as full of gentlemen from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota declaring that the bill must await a Supreme Court decision on Great Lakes levels, as they were of gentlemen from Illinois and other states with fingers in the pie, led by Representative Martin Madden, who swore they would hold the House until the Senate acted...
Mildly appalled, the Senators refrained from insisting upon a reading, but they watched and inquired curiously as Senator Pepper trundled his burden hither and thither among the desks. Ripples of levity passed over the drowsy gathering as the bill was variously referred to as "that thing," "this huge document," "that 1,700 pages." After an hour's toying, "that thing" was passed...