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Passed the Naval Appropriation bill calling for an expenditure of $272,000 in the next fiscal year, and added an amendment requesting the President to call an arms conference for limiting light cruisers, submarines and aircraft just as battleships were limited two years ago.
When man's great and good friend, the horse, slips and breaks his leg, he is promptly shot. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sees to that. When a Senator or a Representative slips and loses an election, he continues as a lame duck law maker...
3) Congress shall convene at least once every year, on the first Monday in January, unless a different day is appointed by law. (At present although Congressmen are elected in November, their terms do not begin until the following March - four months later-and they actually do not meet, unless...
7) The above provisions would go into effect on October 15 following the ratification of this amendment.
The effect of the above proposal would be to shorten the terms of whatever Congressmen, President and Vice President were in office when the Amendment was ratified. Certain Congressmen do not like to take the bread out of their own mouths in this way. The Amendment now goes to the...