Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then should not a reapportionment bill have been passed? It is a constitutional mandate?obligatory and binding?and it is our duty, as I see it, to obey this mandate." (Applause...
...whole situation is based on hypothesis. If a bill of the Haugen type is passed, the President will have the alternative of vetoing it. If farm depression continues, Mr. Lowden (staunch Republican with eyes to the West) and whatever Democrats and Republicans stood for the Haugen bill, will have a first-rate issue in 1928. By contrary, if the President should approve such a bill, the Government would probably get into financial hot water before...
Congress is forever taking the law into its own hands-hands which are especially devised for that purpose. Last week it overruled the desires of the American Battle Monuments Commission (of which John J. Pershing, General U.S.A., retired, is chairman) and after three heated hours of argument passed a bill honoring the Negro...
...went on to describe the history of census taking, to expound the fact that the Constitution directs that a census shall be taken every ten years so that representation in the House may be in proportion to population, and then she insisted it should pass a reapportionment bill, which it recently refused to do (TIME, April 19), although there has been no reapportionment since 1911. She concluded...
...last week a bill appeared in the House to authorize a $30,000 memorial to the 93rd Division (Colored) in France. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York (onetime officer of the 93rd Division) was its sponsor. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland a member of the Battle Monuments Commission urged that it was unwise for the House to begin designating specific monuments. The Democrats in general joined him (a Republican) in opposition, protesting that they were not raising a race question, but supporting a principle. But the House, in acting mood, could not be deterred, passed the bill...