Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Campbell McLaughlin. The Ways & Means Committee had recommended reducing from 3% to 1½% the tax on factory sales of Michigan's chief product, automobiles. The Michiganders asked for entire repeal. Farmers'-Friends joined the Michiganders. Democrats swelled this opposition to a 245-to-151 final vote. These changes having been made, Chairman Green of the Ways & Means Committee conferred anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back to the Ways & Means Committee for conference. The House refused, 300 to 94. Last-minute news from...
...deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin's LaFollette and Elaine, North Dakota's Frazier and Nye, and Minnesota's unique Farmer-Laborite Shipstead" had, prior to the Senate's "organizing," asked the orthodox Republicans for assurance that this session would see a "final vote" on farm relief, anti-Labor injunctions and U. S. policies in Latin-America. Senator Curtis, chief Republican, had replied with affable caution. The "progressives" had later agreed to support the Republicans' committee choices and their ticket for the more-or-less honorary Senate offices-President pro tem., Secretary, Sergeant...
Senators-Suspect. Its continued existence affirmed by a specific vote, the Senate campaign funds committee under the Missouri Reed invited Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois to come and add to his testimony on his 1926 campaign. Mr. Smith had asked for a postponement. The committee set his hearing for Jan. 7. Further action in the case of Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania was less definitely postponed. Mr. Vare, at home in Philadelphia, was abed with influenza...
After three days of spirited but chiefly decorative debate, the House of Lords voted 241 to 88 its sweeping approval of the Alternative Prayer Book. Triumphant, the Primate of All England and other Lords Spiritual moved over to the gallery of the House of Commons. Although they could not address its members, their three-to-one victory in the Lords was surely a straw vote of promising import...
...Hugh Cecil* coldly interjected: "The Church of England is not, after all, a mere society for the better contradiction of the Pope." In vain, for the House had risen to "No Popery!" as a nation rises blindly to the trump of war. At 11:30 p. m. a division (vote) was taken. Into the "nays" lobby rushed Conservative Viscounts Astor, Liberal David Lloyd George, Laborite James Henry Thomas (famed "balance wheel of British Labor") and other members of wildly assorted parties to a total of 238. Into the "ayes" lobby filed 205 members, equally assorted. From the gallery looked down...