Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair is the widow of a Washington attorney, who left her no money. She secured a clerkship in the Department of Labor. President Harding made her position permanent. President Coolidge allowed...
...have been considering so long. At 6:30 a. m. next morning the Deputies out, after having literally hashed all the measures presented to them into such a jumble that the greatest fiscal experts in France disagreed by hundreds of thousands of francs as to what revenue the resulting bill would produce. None the less, the Deputies passed it and gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 258 to 145?i.e., with over 100 abstentions, enough to have overthrown the Premier if even half the abstentees had voted against him. Finally, the Chamber voted itself a much needed recess...
Lottery. The complete chaos into which this session degenerated was well shown two days later, when a clause in the tax bill empowering the state to hold lotteries was discovered to have been passed, although scarcely 1% of the deputies knew it had ever been considered...
Aftermath. Premier Briand sourly watched his Finance Minister, M. Doumer, take this rattlebrained bill to the Senate. Admittedly it was almost worthless. M. Doumer's experts opined that it might produce 2½ billion francs of added revenue, whereas at least 5 billions are necessary. The Senate Finance Committee's first act was to prune away some of its notorious "spoof" clauses (TIME, Feb. 15), mere legislative "nifties"?? not worthy of the Senators' laughter. The general impression was that the bill could scarcely be worse. But it was at least a bill! It was, in fact, a great triumph...
...Briand and Doumer got last week?without being able to get the Chamber to indorse any program whatever for recouping the finances of France. Therefore, M. Briand's triumph was great. The Senators, eager to help him, prepared to "amend" the crazy-quilt bill into something workable. It was considered certain that they will stretch the constitutional limits of their amending power to the uttermost. Presumably when the bill goes back to the Chamber it will embody most of the measures for "indirect taxation" desired by Finance Minister Doumer (TIME...