Word: billing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bill allowing school and college military organizations to drill and parade with firearms was ordered to its third reading in the House yesterday without debate and passed to be engrossed. Prompt action on this bill was taken after a suspension of the rules. Yesterday it was sponsored before the Committee on Military Affairs by President Lowell, Captain Cordier, and Mr. J. W. Earley...
...Committee on Military Affairs of the Massachusetts, Legislature yesterday reported favorably on the bill granting to the regiment of the University and of other colleges in the Commonwealth the privilege of drilling and parading with firearms. President Lowell, Captain Cordier, Mr. J. W. Farley '99 and other Harvard graduates spoke in favor of the bill before the Committee...
...Department is ready to give the University Regiment guns as soon as it is allowed to have them. Under the provisions of the bill the Government would have no claim on the students...
...Earley '99 presented the bill and introduced the speakers. He declared that further modification of the law by the present bill was a necessity...
Captain Cordier, who is instructing the University Regiment, said he feared a gradual slackening of interest if guns were not provided. Adjutant General Cole also appeared in favor of the bill, pointing out that it gave complete control of the organization to the state authorities