The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-11
WHAT BECOMES OF
FLOOD OF BILLS.
Committee Work Safety
Valve of Legislative
Procedure
EVERYB0DY'S PASTIME


one Of the most popular Scr,a-
tions IN the house of 0. frra"ntotyos
is introducing bills ,ungrcssmon
indulge in this harmless amusement
all day lonE Sometimes tho con-
Frcssmon write their own bills. but
moyc often their secretaries or their
s,cnoEaphors or thoir friends writo
them. when the bills are written the
congressman take them over to the
floor of tho house and drop thom
IN a basket. Later thcy ace printed.
so that they look far more impor-
tant aud official than they really
are.
only fow years agO there were
moro than $4,000 bills introduced I'm
the house OF representatives during
n single congress. Such bills include
almost everything except recipes for
making rum. They remove the
charge OF dcsortion from q military
record of O2ro Flittcrmousc, Grant
n pension 10 cl0ryuyn -. EctoplaHn,
authorize the secretary of war to
grant two condemned brass cannon
to The city of ouionNiiic. provide for
the survey OF Goober river and
Lizard creek and their tributaries in
Georgia, prevent prizo fighting on
vessels using wharfage facilities I'm
the District OF Columbia, enable the
secretary OF agriculture 10 conduct
experiments and determine tho
practiCabiliiy OF making paper out Of
'cornstalkg. grant nm Increase of pen
sion TO all persons who have lost the
use OF one eye IN aampling bootleg
liquor In the interests Of prohibition
enforcement. provide for tho hroa J.
casting OF speeches I'm congress by
radio. pay Jonas McNutt Tor the
loss OF horse, declare tho selling.
exchanging or giving away OF any
pistol. bowie knife, dirk or dirk
knife, blackjack. dagger, sword
cane, slung shot. brass or other
metal knucklc in tho District OF
Columbia a misdcmeanor. authorize
an act cNtei' ling an act entitled an
act amending an act entitled an act
to establish a navy yard somewhere
In North Dakota, ana what rot
Must Get Attention.
Though the average bill is mean
inrless. worthless and practically
dead before 1t starts. II must be
acted on by the house in some way.
AS can readily bo understood. even
by those who view politics as some
great detestable disease, the house
as whole couldn't pass judgment
on $4,000 bills. II Il devoted only
10 minutes to each bill II would have
TO sit continuously FOR almost four
years in order to dispose of them
Consequently all bills are dealt
out TO different committees, which
either throw them I'm the waste.
basket and forget them or doctor
them up and bring them out on the
floor of the house. where they are
disposed of with neatncss and
Celerity
The or 81 or 35 member
OF "A committee know "A good deal
about the bills which they bring out
on the floor of the house, and the
400 other members don't know much
of anything about them. So the A0C
ignorant ones usually and of necos.
slty accept the recommendation oi
the few informed ones. which
would be a fine thing II the informed
ones were always right.
Unfortunately they are frequontl,
wrong, owing TO the fact that the,
are sometimes made up OF or headed
by small bore politicians with uncr
ring instincts for doing the wronl
thing, That is one of the unfortu
Hdlt lthNhiFN VI lllt tNlllilllAtt tNH
tenn. But the house makes Just a
much speed when It Is wrong n
when 1t is right
Save Oratory for Senate
The house prides itself on II
celebrity, II has so much business I
transact and so little tlme In whic
TO transact It that IL cannot aftor
20 listen To animated windbaRs c
the sort that are permitted I
wheeIe and blow without restrain
on the floor of the senate. Their
are plenty OF animated windhegs o
the floor uf thu house; but who
they wish to become windy the
must HE them to tho cloakroon
or to the pages of the Congrcssiont
Record or to their homes--or s
cure an election to the senate.
one of the most flannel mouthe
of orators In the senate was once
representative, lie may rant an
rave for hours nowadays withol
let or hindrancc' but whel' he use
to try IL In the house he was give
the coarse and uumistakable cor
gressional razz TO such an exteI
that he was seldom able to strugg
TO the surface.-Saturday EVenir
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