Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-02

All of the federal statutes are be-
ing assembled into one book by Con
s:ress. At present these laws are
! which have to be examined to make
sure of any law, and then 1t may
happen that the law has been slipped
through In an appropriation bill and
does not appear in any compilation
! of the acts This Ia the first time
that such work has been undertaken
in forty-six years.
Representative Edward G. Little of
| Kansas chairman of the House com
nittee on revision of the laws is the
author of this law compendium.
which will be of tnestimable value to
the $4,000 lawyers throughout the
United States, United States district
! attorneys in a the states Of the Union
have approved the plan under which
, Representative Little is working. and
10 lawyers in Congress have ex
amtned the work. which Is two-fifths
done and onethird printed and PACED
and pronounce It the greatest cod
ever assembled In the history Of IT,.
world
The calendar print Of the Little bill
has appeared. but the complete BIZ.
which Representative Little expects
to submit: to Congress before Christ
mas. will be the biggest bill ever
introduced in any congress or parlia
ment in the world. and will contain
some 1000 sections and some loo
pages. He hopes to get 1t consid-
cred In the House during the Deem
Der session. If 1t becomes a law II
will be a new code of laws for the
national government. AS far as the
| work has progressed it has received
the unanimous support of the commit
tee.
| AhYA Mon En~A~~A e.
The members of Representative
Little's committee are able lawyers
with an aggregate experience at the
bar of $50 years, and leaders in Con.
gress credit him with having brought
back to very active existence com.
mittee which has been Inactive fol-
many years. Mr.. Little has working
reyisers to whom he assigns definite
portions Of the work. He does mucf
of the more intricate work himself
and carefully reviews 1t all before /,
goes to the committee or to b.
printed.
The government printing Office
estimated that to print this monster
bill in the usual forms would cos,
$4,000. Then when 1t is passed By
Congress 1t would be necessary Il
discard all this and reprint it in book
| form. Chairman Little decided te
IIldhc AL economical shortcut anC
has had the bill printed in the form
in which the book. it is hoped, will be
published as law. SO that when Il
passes all that will be necessary will
| be to make plates and run it off.
Some question was raised as to the
technical authority for this form, and
the joint committee on printing put
through both houses a concurrent
resolution drawn by Chairman Little
explicitly authorizing this form. Sc
it is being put into type and proof.
are being sent to the various depart.
| ments, courts and lawyers interested
SO that any one who is interested in
any part of the proposed code viii
! have from now until December tt
examine 1T. Chairman Little and the
committee will be glad to hear from
| lawyers anywhere who have sugges.
tions to make. The sole. effort il
simply to reproduce the law al
already made, getting rid of all re.
pealed laws and all entangled appro.
priation bills. This would make i,
possible for any man to find the Law
on any given topic SO codified thai
the various acts will be assembled
and joined together.
Valuable Feature Of Bill.
| An outstanding feature which has
particularly pleased the lawyers II
Congress who have examined the Lit
tie bill is that at the end Of every
section is a citation to the origina
law giving volume and page. so thai