The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-03
C0NGRESSMEN
GET SUSPICIOUS
Anxiety About THAT Little
Bill" ROuSes Them to
AIertness.
S0ME OF THE FAVORED
WHO MAY GET PASSES
Many Senators and Representa-
tiyeS Come i'm as Old
Soldiers.
By Arthur w. Dunn.

special TO The Tribune
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Thesc arc the
days when the average member OF Con-
Gress with some important measure that
ne wants TO pass begins TO get suspicious
lie is becoming well acquainted with
the Congressional buffer" lie finds that
between his favorIte bill and consdera-
uon there are a number OF measures
winch seem 10 have been placed there
Tor the sole purpose OF preventing action
on his pet measure, They are generally
measures OF no great consequence. bills
that might well be forgotten and lost,
which may never become laws and which
would work little harm &c they arc not
passed For instance, there is the penal
COCO Dill; If II Is never enacted no one
out the lawyers would care The people
would get along just the same II this bill
shouid never be mentioned again Other
Duner measures are the naturalization
pm and the pure food bill 1t is not be-
ileFed that either can pass and become
Jaws at this session. There is demand
lor thcm, but no such crying demand aS
10 make their passage imperative. But
there is n deal OF talk In these measures.
Men have Ideas and amendments and
lney can spend a lot of time discussing
them. lt is an unusual thing for tho
House TO use buffers" When every
thing Is In the power and control OF the
Speaker and tho Committee on Rules II Is
tlon bills and conference reports are at
hand. Buffers are always provided in
the Senate They have been used with
great effect Two buffers" that have
been used for six or eight years. the pure
food bin and tho statehood bill, were
unloaded early this year. The Senate for
several years took the responsibility of
deteating the pure food bill, but this year
II passed that responsibility over to the
House. BY the easy stages Of talking a
measure 10 death. pure food went down
nd In l.Nl. dow - h 10
year tho Senate got ahead of the House
and passed the bill and with II passed
TO the House the responsibility for strang-
ling the measure Meanwhile there are a
number of members waiting to get
through their fayorlte bills.
May Get Passes.
It is interesting to note that the anti
pass amendment to the rate bill, which
eNempts eX-Union and eX-Confederate to
soldiers, will relieve number OF Senators
and members of the House from Its pro-
visions. They can obtain passes accord
ing TO the language Of the amendment.
Those In the Senate exempt are SEN
| ators Morgan and Pettus Alabama; Ber-
ry, Arkansas: Bulkley, Connecticut. NAL
| lory and Taliafcrro, Florida, Bacon.
| Georgia; Blackburn and McCreary, Ken
| lucky. McEnery, Louisiana. Burrows and
! Alger. Michigan; Nelson, Minnesota;
| Money and McLaurln. Mississippi War
ner Missouri; Foraker, Ohio; Proctor,
| Vermont; Daniel. Virginia; Elkins and
sin. and Warren. Wyoming. Tho House
| also has quite long list of exemptions,
| among them being Keller Grosyenor and
| Scroggy, Ohio: Hepburn, Hull, Hedge and
| Lacey, Iowa; Ketcham and Wadsworth.
| New York, Bingham, Palmer, Deemer
and Mahon, Pennsylvania. Taylor. Bank
head and Richardson, Alabama; Lester
and Livingston, Georgia; Calderhead.
! Kansas; Meyer. Louisiana; Talbot,
| Maryland. Gardner and Bishop, Mlchi-
gan: Spight Mississippi; Wiley. New
| Jersey; Capron. Rhode Island; Hale. Ten
| necssee. and Dovcner. West Virginia.
The exemption is plain and these men as
well as all the others who served in the
| Union and Confederate armies can ride
on passes. A great many men in Con-
| gress think that there should be no such
! exemptions Another feature of the anti
| pass amendment to which there Is a
| great deal OF objection is that which al
| lows the agents OF the Young Men s
| Christian association passes but makes
| no provision for religious organizations
| of tho Catholics and Jews. There are a
| great many wonderful things In the anti
| pass amendment and tho way it was load
| ed down showed that the Senator's were
| not in a very serious mood whom they
| adopted Il. It is doubtful whether an
! amendment which makes exemptions and
| which discriminatcs between people OF
| diferent professions and different re-
/ Ngious and different classes will bo held
| constitutional If test case is mnde.
Few men retire voluntary from the