Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill appropriating $1,600,000 to pay an award made by the National War Labor Board to the employes of the Bethlehem Steel Co. (Went to Senate...
...Passed an emergency deficiency bill carrying appropriations of $157,000,000, of which $150,000,000 was for refunds of illegally collected taxes. (Went to Senate...
...Passed the War Department appropriation bill, carrying $331,000,000, of which $40,000,000 is for river and harbor improvements. (Went to Senate...
Last spring, Congress passed a bill to increase the pay of postal employes. It was to have cost in the neighborhood of $68,000,000 a year. Last June, just before Congress adjourned, President Coolidge vetoed the bill on the grounds that no provision was made therein for raising the revenue to pay the increased cost. All summer the veto lay on the desks of the President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House...
Last week the bill was taken up again by the Senate. In order to pass it over the veto, a two-thirds vote was necessary. The original vote last spring was 73 to 3 for the bill. But meanwhile Calvin Coolidge, the vetoer, had received an endorsement from 15,000,000 U. S. voters; meanwhile another bill designed to meet Mr. Coolidge's approval by providing increased revenue to offset increased pay had been proposed. The vote was a great deal different from last Spring's. The vote by parties, including those paired...