Word: bill
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When he lately introduced a bill in Congress for partitioning the Philippines and establishing a second native government under the U. S. control in the islands of Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, Siassi, Tawi Tawi and a few others, Representative Robert Low Bacon of New York dwelt chiefly upon the temperamental and tribal differences of the morose Mohammedan Moros who live in those places and the Christian Filipinos who control the present government at Manila; upon the wisdom and justice of treating these immiscible citizens as the British treated the two strains of Irishmen. (TIME, June...
...likelihood when Congress assembled that a permanent arrangement for settling coal strikes would be made into law, for the anthracite strike was then three or four months old and still going. But the strike was settled (TIME, Feb. 22, COAL), interest waned, Administration leaders did not press for a bill...
Farming. The House has passed a measure creating a division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bureau to assist the farmers with advice and information on how to get rid of their crops profitably. This bill is approved by the Administration. The House defeated (TIME, May 31) the Haugen bill advanced by the farm bloc for raising farm prices by buying up the surpluses of the major crops. In the Senate this second bill was proposed as an amendment to the first, and the whole program of farm relief of any kind was threatened, since neither...
Rivers and Harbors. The House passed a bill for improvement of rivers and harbors but it contains a number of controversial features, purchase of the Cape Cod Canal, deepening of the Illinois and of the Missouri Rivers, which will delay if not prohibit its passage by the Senate at this session...
...founding of "Estes Park" (Col.) in 1875 caused him to be ridiculed in London as the "Yanko-maniac." As a youth he twice served the London Daily Telegraph as war correspondent (Anglo-Abyssinian and Franco-Prussian wars), shot big game with "Buffalo Bill" and many another, soldiered, yachted, steeplechased. Facially he resembled Wilhelm...