Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matutinal board. His object, as at his other breakfasts lately, was to impress Congress through its leaders with the necessity of cutting down appropriations, however worthy. Among those present: Senator Norbeck, chairman of the Committee on Pensions (there was a $19,000,000 Spanish War Veterans' Pension Bill pending); Mr. Snell, Chairman of the House Committee on Rules (which has power to block much legislation); several members of the House Committee on Agriculture (which is dealing with expensive farm relief measures...
...spite of his warnings against further appropriations, the President after consideration finally signed the bill increasing pensions of disabled Spanish War veterans from $20 to $50, graduated according to age. He said the Spanish veterans were certainly entitled to that, considering what other veterans are getting, but that it would increase the expected deficit for 1926-27 from $21,000,000 to $40,000,000. He issued an ominous message announcing his approval of the bill...
...This bill calls for continuing appropriations once it becomes law, and each budget must be made with a recommendation for sufficient funds to pay these additional pensions...
...strongly opposed to the "equalization fee" idea, describing it as an excise tax on necessities. It likewise does not like the idea of having a government board deal in farm produce. But on the face of first expressions of opinion it seems the dirt farmers prefer the Haugen bill, because it would not put the burden of dealing with the entire surplus on a few cooperatives, which might not be equal to the occasion...
...want anything from me . . . you can say that the canned goods market is depressed. ... I am sick to God of hearing people ask me about my plays. I never wrote anything more than a bill, and I never will. I'm in the canned goods exporting game in Frisco .... I'm a two-fisted...