Word: bills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the Cooper-Hawes bill, providing that only States which permit convict-made goods to be sold in competition with commercial goods, can receive and sell convict-made goods from other states...
...this dictum concerned the above-named Bureau of Internal Revenue. Hot Greek fire has been aimed at it, all during the present session of Congress, be cause of the millions of dollars it was re funding to income-tax payers, private and corporate. Senator McKellar had finally introduced a bill which would automatically put all refunds under the immediate control of the Board of Tax Appeals, which is a quasi-judicial and not an executive arm of government. This was as much as to say that Mr. Mellon's Bureau of Internal Revenue could not be trusted. Nothing could...
...Debated and passed the first Deficiency Bill carrying $75,000,000 for tax refunding. Attached was the revamped Harris amendment (see Prohibition), and the McKellar amendment providing for public hearings by a Treasury Department Committee in all tax refund cases involving more than $10,000. The Bill was returned to the House...
...Debated the Cruiser Bill. Senator Hale, sponsor, accepted an amendment by Senator Borah favoring a restatement of the laws governing the conduct of belligerents and neutrals in war at sea, such restatement to be completed, if possible, prior to the Limitation of Armament Conference...
...Passed a bill approving the Chicago World's Fair...