Word: bill
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Reclamation. Homestead entrymen in reclamation projects on arid and semi-arid lands of the West have suffered from extravagant inefficiencies and mistakes of the Federal Government. The Reclamation Act of 1924, attached as a rider to the second deficiency bill, was eliminated by the Republican conferees in reporting the bill an hour before adjournment...
...third reading of the Legitimacy Bill was passed, 137 to 13 votes. The provisions of this Bill make legitimate a natural-born child whose parents subsequently marry. It will become law if passed by the House of Lords...
...amendment to the London Traffic Bill was carried by the Opposition, to the discomfiture of the Laborites. As defeat was incurred on a minor issue, the Government did not resign although a few irresponsibles called loudly "Resign...
...Government of Czecho-Slovakia sent to the Chamber of Deputies a bill providing for a reduction of the standing army from 150,000 men to 90,000. The provisions of this bill, received with satisfaction by the people and considered certain of being passed by Parliament, are to be in force for three years...
Notwithstanding the growls, yells and snarls of foreign Governments, the Rumanian Senate placidly passed a bill giving exclusive control of foreign oil properties in Rumania* to Rumanians. Thereupon the Governments of the U. S., Britain, Belgium, France and the Netherlands made another vigorous protest against the law, which amounts to confiscation of foreign property. The Rumanian Government later denied this in a note to the U. S., stating that confiscation and interference with the legitimate rights of American capital were not contemplated in the bill. The U. S. was not satisfied, however, and the Legation at Bukarest politely informed...