Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer a Senator with a vote, but always a Grand Old Partisan, he said in an interview: "I am a tariff protectionist. I am sure the needs of the South will be given careful consideration in the drafting of the bill...
When Calvin Coolidge, then U. S. President, pushed aside Senate bill No. 3185 of the 69th Congress on June 24, 1926, and let it lie untouched before him until July 3, when the Congress adjourned, he little thought that he was laying the groundwork for a test case on a Presidential procedure more than a century old-the old procedure of Pocket Veto...
Last week the same bill arose from the dead before the U. S. Supreme Court and so important seemed the issue at stake that Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, reverting to his old role of Solicitor-General, hurried to the Capitol to appear before the court as the President's advocate...
...bill itself was trifling: the Okonogan Indians of Washington sought legislative permission to sue the U. S. in the Court of Claims on a land dispute. Congress granted the permission, but President Coolidge withheld consent. The Indians were last week asking the Supreme Court to validate their permission by denying the President the power to kill a bill by pocketing it, except after a final adjournment of the Congress-that is, an adjournment on a March 4, after a second session...
Whatever doubt there existed as to the power of Prohibition officials to arrest without a warrant prior to the Jones Bill, it is now clear that not only may officers arrest without a warrant one who violates the Prohibition Law but also a private person is privileged to effect such an arrest. Such is the magic of the term "felony". This situation offers excellent opportunities to fanatical "drys" to further the cause...