Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Naval appropriation bill carrying some $316,000,000, of which $26,000,000 is for aircraft and naval aviation. (Bill went to joint conference...
...unprecedented smoothness of a Senate session that has seen the passage of two controversial measures important as the World Court adherence and the tax reduction bill, leaves the Republican majority with a sense of serenity and power. It seems somewhat to have affected Republican correspondents also. Theodore G. Joslin of the Boston Transcript writes in cheerful style that "years have passed since the Democrats have experienced so much difficulty in finding an issue...
...writes also that there are before the Senate, ten measures, which the majority can call up as they wish. He names four: the appropriation bill, the confirmation of certain appointments, the Italian debt settlement, and the aluminum investigation. Of these, he finds only the last two controversial. But he relies on quiescent public opinion to make Senator Walsh drop the aluminum inquiry and on the fear among northern Democrats of losing Italian votes, to silence opposition to the administration's Italian debt settlement. Thus the stage is set for a true Republican triumph and an adjournment by the first...
...that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...
...Curtis bill now before Congress, which is intended to create a national Department of Education, shines by light reflected from the halo of universal learning that crowns a democracy. The purely negative argument, that a nation spending about three quarters of its income on past, present, and future wars is able to afford $1,500,000 for education can be strongly urged in favor of the proposal...