Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week opened with stirring appeals to the Deputies by Premier Briand and the leaders of almost every party. One and all they stressed the desperate necessity for calm, dispassionate, concerted action in considering the Cartel finance bill (TIME, Feb. 8), which was before the house. The bill was presented in 101 articles with over 250 amendments already attached.* After an entire week of furious debate, often degenerating into fist fights and hair pulling, a part of one article had been passed amended out of all semblance to its original state, thrown back into the chamber again as utterly impracticable...
Conclusion. M. Lamoureux, reporter of the original Cartel bill, stormed: "If the Chamber goes on at this rate, the budget deficit will never be met by our scheme and we shall have to accept after all the Government scheme of a sales tax or tax on payments" (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante). Since the Chamber gave every sign of continuing to "go on" indefinitely, M. Lamoureux and the Socialist fiscal expert, M. Auriol finally walked out of the Chamber hurling shrill rebukes right and left...
...Cartel des Gauches (coalition of the Left Parties) headed by former Premier Herriot. Opposed to the Cartel's bill (increasing indirect taxation) is the Government's bill (increasing direct taxation). The latter was not debated last week...
Royal Suits Deferred. Pending the enactment of legislation regulating the financial claims upon the States of the German Republic by their former titled rulers, the Reichstag passed a bill last week by the terms of which all suits now pending in the German courts with respect to such claims will be held in abeyance until June...
Died. James B. Newsome, 76,* oldest Pullman porter; in Chicago. He had traveled over 6,000,000 miles in Pullman cars, since 1870, without ever having been complained against. His motto was, "Never argue with a fool, humor him." Buffalo Bill once gave...