The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-07-30
WAR May UPSET
MANY new LAWS
Some Of Them viii Be Found
TO Be Impractical.
OTHERS ARE NOT ADEQUATE
Neither House Nor Senate Draft of tire
Food Bill Is Satisfactory, and More
Compromises Will Be Made Before
II Affects Situation-President Finds
Time For Recreation.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

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Time For Recreation.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, July 3o.-TSpeclal 1T
would not be surprising to find that
many provisions of the laws passed
by the present congress are unwork
able when they come to be put In prac
teal operation. In fact, 1t has been
found that many of the laws that were
carefully drawn several years ago for
the management of the government
are not adequate to present needs.
War upsets everything and calls for
new methods, particularly this Eu-
ropean war, which is different from
anything else the world has ever
known.
Neither the house bin nor that pass
ed by the senate for food control is all
that Its friends wants, MOI is 1t salts
factory to the men who supported it.
"All legislation Is a compromise" is an
oft repeated saying, and there must be
a great deal of compromising between
the two houses on this food control
law before 1t gets into satisfactory
shape. At present 1t seems quite a
long way from what IL was originally
intended to be.
Councillors at Work.
IL IL generally supposed that Presi-
lem Wilson and all members Of his
cabinet are working hard these days.
or course the president turns out a
tremendous amount OF work while he
IL engaged at Ii, but he finds time for
considerable recreation, and he does
not keep I'm harness all the time.
do | look as though | was over
worked?" asked a member of the cab
met of one of his friends.
mo. | cannot say that you do" was
the reply.
well, / am not" continued the cab
met officer. Il have made up my
mind TO have the men around me do
most " the work. There are a lot Of
men who can and must do the hard
work connected with the war;"
And his is true. There are coun-
cilors and committees, both voluntary
and paid, who are doing a lot OF work
for the administration at this time.
Champ as q Parliamentarian.
Speaker Clark is rather proud Of his
record as a parliamentarian. He has
made n number of important decisions
since he came to the chair, some
of which viii establish presidents for
all time. Champ was not regarded
as much of a parliamentary sharp
when 1t became known he was to be
speaker. But be took up a book of
rules and mastered the many points
OF parliamentary law and has been a
successful presiding officer.
The first thing / did" he told me
recently, was to get firmly fixed In
my mind the seventy-fve or eighty i'm
portant parliamentary points that had
to be decided quickly. The big ques.
lions are never decided until after
there have been long arguments on one
side or the other, and that gives the
speaker an opportunity to study up the
question and decide IT,"
Inc - atner AuNieor.
John Sharp Williams has assumed
the attitude of father adviser OF the
senate. Whenever there Is any trou
BILE afoot, disagreements between sen.
ators or anything else happens which
seems TO call for a reprimand, admon.
ishment or something In the way of a
mild lecture the Mississippi man is al
xpaxS ready RI taxa thn floor aud In
his drawing manner he tells the sen
& or the belligerent senators what
they ought to DO. When 1t comes to
delivering real severe, seathing lee
lures, however, Senator Stone OF Mis-
souri, generally takes the role.
The President Prevailed.
In the course OF one of his speeches
In the senate James Hamilton Lewis
said:
Il have not always agreed with the
president of the United States. We
have been at variance I'm matters of
detail of government. These express
sions of differences have come from
me IN conversation with the distin-
guished chief magistrate from time to
time. 1t is only fair to say that where
we have differed he PREVAILED
Al that point he was interrupted by
a laugh, for the senate realizes that
when a senator differs with the presi-
dent the president prevails"
They Don't Expungs.
III say this for the United States
senate: They don't "expunge' and ire
wise" the record of their proceedings.
When a senator calls another a liar Ii
stays in the Congressional Record. OF
course the senator may say that the
statement of another senator is "un-
qualifedly false" and a few minutes
later say he did not call his fellow
senator q liar, but that is a bubble no!
worth considering.
But | want to hand it to the senate