Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressional session was discussed during his meetings with President Coolidge. with Senator Borah and with other Congressional leaders. At any rate it was after a conference with Mr. Hoover that Senator McNary of Oregon, Farm Relief leader, announced that he would not fight for consideration of a Farm Relief bill at the present short session. The much discussed extra session therefore, became virtually assured, will probably be called by Mr. Hoover shortly after his inauguration...
However, last week the House passed the Fenn Bill which makes it reasonably certain that after 1930 the membership of the House will be reapportioned every decade among the various States according to population and therefore according to the Constitution...
...three Republican leaders? Longworth, Tilson, Snell?had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...
...finally the talk (mostly attempts to smokescreen) ended and the Fenn Bill passed...
...Bill provides that after the census of 1930, Congress shall instruct the Department of Commerce to proceed with reapportionment in accordance with the population figures shown by that census. (Bill opponents did most of their talking against the Department of Commerce, arguing that Congress was abrogating a right, a privilege, a duty, in favor of a government department.) Based on a somewhat arithmetical system of "major fractions,"* the Fenn plans provide essentially that the 1930 population will be divided by the number of representatives (435) and the resultant figures taken as the average population of a district. Then the population...