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...House, Speaker Longworth and his fellow Republicans planned the personnel of committees which will have to function until April 15. The Committee on Agriculture (to prepare a farm relief bill) was made up. Because of their increased majority in the next Congress, the Republicans took for themselves 15 instead of 14 seats of the 22 on the Agriculture Committee. The Ways & Means Committee (to prepare the tariff bill) was also set in motion. Incidentally Congressman James A. Frear of Wisconsin, a former member of the Committee ejected four years ago for having supported the late, great Senator La Follette...
...Agriculture Committee will meet on March 27 and is expected to have a farm relief measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill...
Final figures of the appropriations made by Congress in the short session closed last fortnight, reach the sum of $4,633,000,000. Never since the Budget Bureau was set up were its recommendations so far exceeded by appropriations-an excess of some six and a half million dollars. In the previous session of the 70th Congress $4,628,000,000 was appropriated. Total appropriations by the last three Congresses are as follows: 68th Congress (1923-25)-$7,935,000,000 69th Congress (1925-27)-$8,620,000,000 70th Congress...
...discovery of Secretary of Commerce Lament's connection with the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, it was disclosed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde was an honorary member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ¶ An appropriation of $50,000 made by the last Congress for "prohibition educational" purposes is to be spent on posters, leaflets and cartoons to persuade the public in favor of law enforcement. Dry organizations were invited to help choose the poster designs. ¶ The first few days of operation of the Jones Act ($10,000-fine-and-five-years-in-jail...
...close of its first session the 69th Congress passed a bill conferring upon the Court of Claims jurisdiction to hear the suit of the Okanogan Indians. On July 3, 1926--less than ten days thereafter--the first session adjourned sine die. The President did not sign the bill, nor did he return it to Congress with his objections. Did the bill become a law? No, held the Court of Claims. Yes, contended counsel for the Indians, who appeal to the Supreme Court...