Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defeated in his attempt to prohibit all forms of "long and short haul," Senator Gooding promptly introduced another bill to prevent "the evil" in some particular cases. His new bill is designed to prohibit railroads from making special rates .to compete with waterways other than the Panama Canal. This will be opposed as bitterly as ever by-the Great Lakes representatives, but since it does not greatly affect rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, Senator Gooding hopes to get some support from seaboard Senators. But it is unlikely that this bill will agitate the present session...
...economic grounds. But last week two reports from higher experts in the War Department were favorable. Representative Dempsey (N. Y.), Chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee, had expected these reports to be favorable when he made ready, last week, to present to Congress the rivers and harbors appropriation bill. Tacked to this 40-million-dollar bill as a somewhat disproportionate rider was a provision, involving an ultimate expenditure of 600 millions, authorizing the New York project. House Leader Tilson gave Mr. Dempsey to understand that the bill would not be heard in that form. Mr. Dempsey retorted that...
...many of them have thus conveyed germs into their little mouths? How many have contracted adenoids through straining at the sucette? I do not know, my friends! . . . [But] after two years' silence I place before this Chamber a bill forbidding the manufacture of the sucette...
Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard. An unidentified Deputy shouted: "Don't you know that if you take their sucettes away, they'll suck their dirty fingers?" Incensed, the sponsor of the bill replied: "At least, Monsieur, the little ones cannot swallow their fingers and choke to death, as often happens when a sucette becomes lodged in the throat...
Measures Defeated: 1) A much bruited bill forbidding Occidental dancing in Japan. 2) The Government bill reducing land taxes. 3) Several Opposition bills to impeach Premier Wakatsuki, who thankfully retired from the session to rest and pursue yet another of his hobbies: the writing of poetry. Once he wrote: I take a leaf from Yuan Hsien* Who even in poverty enjoyed sports; A lingering thought to Chen-pin,* Who, with high ideals and thoughts. Always refrained from self-laudation. As a statesman of fiery zeal I admire Clemenceau ; As a gentle-souled Premier, I respect Gladstone...