Word: billing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...agreement of the House and Senate committees on the war tax bill practically assures the passage of that measure, which will bring into government coffers $2,700,000,000 when its various provisions come into effect. Just as the undergraduate has subscribed to the Liberty Loan and contributed to the Red Cross Fund, so now will be perform his share of raising this enormous sum with which at least a good start is going to be made against Germany. But whereas in the two former cases he contributed willingly and openly, this time he is to do his part from...
Under the exemption which will be made to the draft bill, members of those religious sects which forbid participation in war, as well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which...
...Government will pay members of these units a minimum of $24 a month in addition to necessary expenses, and at present a bill is before Congress authorizing a substantial increase in pay for the men in the Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps. It is expected that this bill will be passed...
...present the Civil Service is lacking in funds and the increasing appropriations to pay salaries to any new men the first few weeks of their apprenticeship, but the bill pending in Congress, when passed, will remedy this deficiency, and all members of the service will thereafter be paid regularly...
...mere perusal of the title of the War Department bill now in conference would show the fallacy of any such conclusion, for it plainly states that it is 'A bill to authorize the President to temporarily increase the military establishment of the United States...