Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Peay of Tennessee can doubtless be awarded honorable mention, if not a prize, for his recent action, a not worthy bit of gubernatorial casuistry. Explaining in a statement to the Tennessee Legislature yesterday why he signed a bill to prohibit the teaching of evolution in the schools of the state, he linked an appeal for return to the old fashioned in the Bible with a citation of "one's right to worship according to the dictates of his conscience...
...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...
...Texas Legislature passed a bill to remove all disqualifications (principally the inability to hold office) of James E. Ferguson, impeached ex-Governor and spouse of the present Governess. The law will go into effect about the middle of June. Before its passage, the state Attorney General pronounced it contrary to the Texas Constitution. Mr. Ferguson will probably run for office in order to have a Court determine the bill's legality...
Evidences of public disapproval of the so-called "third degree" multiply. In Vermont, Governor Billings has just signed a bill which provides that the "third degree" shall not be "administered" to a person suspected of having committed a crime until he has had an opportunity to consult counsel. It is further provided that a copy of this statute shall be placed in each cell of all penal institutions so that prisoners may be aware of their rights...
...mines of this country have found the going hard, with production costs close to market quotations for the red metal. Discouraged producers, especially in Michigan, are now turning to tariff legislation as the only visible means of running their properties at a profit. The movement has resulted in a bill introduced by Representative W. Frank James of Michigan, to place a tariff on imported copper of 6? a pound...