Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election-farm relief and limited tariff revision...
...hours were required for the 71st Congress formally to get seated in the capitol last week and prepare itself for work. Called by President Hoover because Idaho's Senator Borah induced him during the presidential campaign to promise quick legislative action on farm relief and tariff revision, the session, an "extraordinary" one, was to prove a testing ground of the President's potency as a political leader...
...Speaker then told the members that he would be ready for the session to end in a month. Thereupon the House adjourned, to hear the President's message on the morrow...
Tariff. Still in committee, this legislation promised to furnish prime excitement for the session. That rates on agricultural products should go higher no one denied. Whether rates on raw materials and manufactured goods would be likewise increased, contrary to the wishes of President Hoover, remained the major uncertainty...
...promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon found that more revenue must be forthcoming to keep up the splurge. In March he called a special session of the Legislature to prepare new tax measures. Instead it prepared for his impeachment. Louisiana is, among other things, an oil state, with many a refinery for its own production and for shipments from Mexico and South America. Governor Long proposed a 5 cent tax upon every barrel of refined...