Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to create 14 new Federal District Judges to relieve congestion in the courts. (Bill went to the Senate...
Detailed debate on the bill began at 11:00 one morning and continued without recess until 1:05 a. m. the following morning. The supporters of all three of the contested measures held to their stand, defeated amendments to strike out the contested provisions, overrode a determined filibuster. The opponents of the measure had only one success. They succeeded in adding a provision for a six-foot channel in the Missouri River from Kansas City to Sioux City, 400 miles. As the bill was taken up, it carried appropriations of $36,000,000. With the added project it may cost...
...House was concerned, they did not succeed. The bill was passed 219 to 127. In the Senate the bill will have very rough going because of the three contested provisions and its increased size. Its fate in this Congress is dubious indeed...
...demanding a 20% increase in wages were refused flatly by the eastern group of railroads. It was agreed by both parties, however, to take their dispute to the new Board of Mediation as soon as President Coolidge appoints it. Thus will the strike-preventing machinery of the railway-labor bill recently passed (TIME, May 24) be promptly put to use and test...
...Appointed Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, March 3, 1923), Masanao Hanihara, moonfaced, perpetually smiling, became irksome to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, by championing with great persistence the rights of Nippon. While the Immigration Bill was pending before the Senate (TIME, April 28, 1924, CONGRESS), Ambassador Hanihara, an experienced diplomat, but goaded to extremities by the Senate's anti-Japanese predilections, staked all upon a "diplomatic threat" to the Secretary of State that "grave consequences" might follow the enactment of the Japanese exclusion clause of the bill. The Senate, reacting violently and negatively to the Hanihara note...