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Working days left: 56. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be averted: 13. Essential bills enacted last week...
...believe our country has a right to enact such tariff laws as Congress thinks to be for the best interest of our people without regard to the self-interested wishes of other countries...
...increasing readiness of would be reformers to rely on authority rather than on public sentiment for securing their ends." Multitudes of well-meaning people have a feverish desire to reform everything and everybody by law. They seem to place some divine reliance in a statute. Once it is enacted, it is often forgotten or neglected in the zeal to enact another. As a nation we are suffering from over-legislation. Every two years the various State legislatures pass approximately 18,000 new laws, and Congress adds yearly to our already groaning statute books. The result it that most people...
...machine guns." "It is impossible," says Brand Whitlock, "by the use of force, however strong or violent, to impose upon the moral sense of the people a feeling that a given act is wrong just because those whose prejudices it offends have been able to induce a legislature to enact it into what is called...
While Berliners were free to make merry all night long in the city's pleasure spots last week because the police had neglected to re-enact the curfew law, Germany's political aspect became even more complex. Observers pondered the following puzzling developments...