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vas not dilstory to move 10 reconsider
upoh the passage ~ thu bill and that N was
dilatosy immediately aitsFwari to move
10 seconsider thu vo,s whereby Tho title
was amended.
The Speaker announced HE readiness 10
rule without discussion. lie reeltSd the
events u yesterdays scasion. the vote Of
to-day on reconsideration. and added 'It
does seem TO the Chair. all things considered,
thai In ruling Upon the point Of ordsF that
tho motion 10 dilatory the Chair must sus-
tain the point
Mr.. wilams--would the Chair be willing
70 attempt TO draw any distinction In the
matter of dilatorinoes between this motion
and the one that just proceeded ~
The speaker-Yes. The Chair would be
willing 70 do that. And upon the whole
the Chair would be willing, a. he was yes
tcrday. 10 put the question TO the eentle-
man from Mississippi himself 10 he does not
think IL IL dilatory.
Mr.. wnliams-what I am asking 10 thisi
wheth.s the Chair would be willing to un-
dertake TO show wherein this motion was
any more dilatory than the one which Just
preceded It; and after the Chair has an
swered that the gentleman from Missis-
sippi will stand all sorts Of interrogatories.
The Speaker-The vote by which the bill
WI pabhcd was Nhc NOtOt Nto VA
stantil vote, and a motion to reconsider
that vote was made and laid on the table.
The question Of amending the title Ia the
leather and prunella" that surrounds many
questions, and the Chair must adhere to
lis decision sustaining the point Of order.
Mr.. Williams-Do ! understand that the
decision is based on the leather and pru-
nella" theory?
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killeth, but the spirit maketh alive. The
House considered this bill on its merits
and substantially on the motion 20 recon
slider the vote by which il ives passed.
fApplause.l
the Committee on the Judiciary, called up
the conference report on the Burleson
bill, intended to prevent the premature
publication Of crop statistics gathered by
the Government. 1t grew out Of the cotton
ment and went through both branches
votes. IN the Senate an amendment was
inserted specifically including members Of
Congress among the persons subject to
Several members vigorously opposed the
adoption Of the conference report, as well
for the reason that 1t was far broader in
it's terms as because Of the inclusion Of
Congressman. Mesers. Mccall Of Massa- ,
ChurStIos NibihlhthOA Va ~ oAie |
Grosvenor OF Ohio were particularly promi-
nent in the attack. Mr.. Mccall deprecated
the proposed legislation. because it pre-
sented the national legislators in the at
them within the limits Of proper conduct.
Gen. Grosvenor said that never before
had a bureau officer been clothed with
power to determine what shall constitute
. crime.
In his efforts to remedy the evil with
raapaCf IN onttnn Nr0n QfafiQfiNa AMID Mr. |
Mccall. the gentleman from Texas Burle-
son) was endeavoring to reform the uni
verse. 1t was suggested to Mr.. Burleson
that his object would be better reached
complaint. Gen. Grosvenor said that TO
him IL was not strange that when the bill
was submitted to the Commission to Codify
the Laws, with a request that 1t be reported
In the Penal Code, it was at once rejected.
Messrs. Bur'eson INC Jenkins warmly
advocated the adoption Of the conference
report. Mr.. Burleson explained that mem-
bers Of Congress were included In the bill
at his personal request. made to the con-
ferees. The law would have no terrors for
honest members, but he did want to reach
corrupt and venal ones, He referred to the
punishment Of Broker Chapman by h
Senate as illustrating the sort Of offence he
desired to denounce.
Mr. Mccall directed his attention to the
fact that the offence Of which Chapman was
guilty was not covered by the pending bill
and that the only result Of the proeeedings
was a showing that the punishment for q
oontumacious witness ought to be increased.
Mr.. Cochran Of New York interjected that
ChapmRn's offence was not that OF impart-
ing information but Of suppressing 1t, and
that the conduct Of the Senator involved
was not based on information possessed
by him but upon what he would do, whether
he would vote for or against a certain
schedule
By IN overwhelming vote, without Q
division and refusing to call the yeas and
nays, the House refused to agree to the
conference report.
On motion Of Mr.. Mccall the bill was laid
on the table, 107 to 90.
The objection to the bill was that it is
entirely too broad in it's terms, and in trying
TO prevent a repetition Of the cotton crop
scandals every Government official from
the President down, as well as members Of
Congress, were made liable to imprisonment
Tor commission of a crime determined by a
bureau chief.