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... entitled " An act extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska , and for other purposes " ; and A bill ( S. 22 ) to establish a commission form of government in the administration ...
... entitled " An act extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska , and for other purposes " ; and A bill ( S. 22 ) to establish a commission form of government in the administration ...
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... entitled " An act to codify , revise , and amend the laws relating to the judiciary " ; A bill ( S. 69 ) to repeal an act entitled " An act to amend sec- tion 3 of the act of Congress of May 1 , 1888 , and extend the provisions of ...
... entitled " An act to codify , revise , and amend the laws relating to the judiciary " ; A bill ( S. 69 ) to repeal an act entitled " An act to amend sec- tion 3 of the act of Congress of May 1 , 1888 , and extend the provisions of ...
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... entitled " An act for the removal of restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency , Okla . , and the sale of all tribal lands , school , agency , or other lands on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction ...
... entitled " An act for the removal of restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency , Okla . , and the sale of all tribal lands , school , agency , or other lands on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction ...
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... entitled " An act to prevent the extermination of fur - bearing animals in Alaska , " etc .; to the Committee on Fisheries . A bill ( S. 411 ) for the relief of the Crow Indians in Mon- tana ; A bill ( S. 412 ) for the relief of the ...
... entitled " An act to prevent the extermination of fur - bearing animals in Alaska , " etc .; to the Committee on Fisheries . A bill ( S. 411 ) for the relief of the Crow Indians in Mon- tana ; A bill ( S. 412 ) for the relief of the ...
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... entitled to speak once and for not exceeding five minutes on the question of order until the presiding officer announces that he is ready to rule on the point of order . When an appeal is taken , and subsequent question of order which ...
... entitled to speak once and for not exceeding five minutes on the question of order until the presiding officer announces that he is ready to rule on the point of order . When an appeal is taken , and subsequent question of order which ...
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accompanying papers amendment as follows Amendment numbered authorize bill granting bill H. R. Brandegee centum Chamberlain Commerce Committee on Military Committee on Pensions desired by one-fifth directed the roll entitled An act Frelinghuysen further amended granting a pension granting an increase Gronna hereby House of Representatives House recede Husting increase of pension joint resolution S. J. Jones of Washington La Follette lieu McKellar ment Messrs Military Affairs motion nays being desired nineteen hundred o'clock Ordered Overman passage of legislation Pending debate Petitions of citizens Phelan Pomerene praying the passage President pro tempore purposes quorum quorum being present raised a question read twice referred as follows relief reported amendment request the concurrence resolution S. J. Res Saulsbury Senate agree Senate numbered Senate proceeded Senators answered Senators present Shafroth Sheppard Smith of Georgia Smoot South Dakota total net income twice and referred twice and referred__ unanimous consent United Vardaman Vice President
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Page 31 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation ; this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 122 - Senate to the bill (HR 2!)1) to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 4 - On the third of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean.
Page 6 - The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their naive majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a League of Honor.
Page 5 - The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war. against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind.
Page 5 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed...
Page 5 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making; we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.
Page 118 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 5 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Page 158 - An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education ; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects ; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,