Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to declare forfeited to the U. S. Government claims to land grants asserted by the Northern Pacific...
...Passed a bill adding $878,000 annually to the compensation of officers and employes of Congress...
With Congress away, the Senate Committee on Finance last week settled down broodingly upon the Tariff Bill whence, some six weeks hence, will be hatched out a major legislative controversy for Senate consumption...
...situation confronted the Republican committee members who, general revisionists all, were spoiling to get their hands on the bill, to tear apart the House's handiwork, to frame a measure all their own. Farm-state Senators, Republicans and Democrats, had formed a Borah Bloc on the tariff, were definitely on the offensive and plotting trouble...
...anti-lynching bill proposed by Socialist Victor Berger never became U. S. law. As for the Southern States, their laws are mainly equivocal on the subject. Lynchers do not feel they are breaking...