Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury. Meanwhile the Treasury Department after a conference between Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of prohibition enforcement, and Andrew Volstead,* now a minor legal official (in St. Paul) in the prohibition unit, presented its plans for better enforcement to Congress. A bill was sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death...
With the elephant's deliberateness and the donkey's constitutional indisposition to act, the tax bill found steady but exceedingly slow going in the Senate last week. The chief clauses of the bill determined on were...
...when it came to the question of tax publicity, the debate prolonged itself into many weary hours. The bill proposes to do away with tax publicity. Senators Norris and Couzens led the group to restore the tax publicity feature. They and their associates talked and read reports for hours...
Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, was anxious to get it passed speedily. He managed to have the Senate start work at 11:00 a. m. instead of at noon, but that did not hasten matters appreciably. He then said that if action did not rapidly speed up he would bring about 12-hour sessions, from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m., with no recess for supper...
...Suppose, with the country demanding the immediate passage of a bill reducing taxes, that the division of opinion in the Senate as to what items of taxation should be reduced was a narrow one, and the two-thirds vote closing debate could not be obtained; is there any doubt whatever that public sentiment would be solidly behind a majority cloture rule which would enable a majority of the Senate to do its constitutional duty and reduce taxation...