, 1923-02-08
LEGISLATIVE NOTES

Woodruff, II but active. is the
distinctive personality o fthe House
He is known as the youngest old
man in the legislature. He could
IL he would. spill many a thrilling
tale OF life in the west That was.
But he prefers to sit back, take It
easy. and let the other fellows do
most OF the talking.
He has one hobby. Every morning
he appears in the House chambers
with a fresh carnation in his button
hole. He says: III you are lone
some, go to the flowers for your
comfort. II you are in trouble, let
the flowers point to you the way"
A. w. Mccullough of Laramie,
Chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee. is not inclined to COM
plain, but he has n grievous fault
TO find with the way things are be-
ing run.
ing clerk stumbles owe an unpro-
nounceable word in the title Of q
new bin Speaker Nobitt dismisses
that bill with a wave of the hand and
the words: Referred to the Judic-
larry Committee"
Without speaking d~isparagingly
of any one else, it might be said
that little Katherine Coble, House
page, has more friends and more
admirers than any mere stateman
or other species of man ever can
hope to have.
The first shall be last and the
last shall be first.
If you have ever been in a college
fraternity and have watched the
transformation from a verdant fresh
man to a presumably learned and
sophisticated senior, or II you have
eve lived in one town long enough
to note how some newcomers blow
in like a lion and crawl out like a
lamb, and wise versa you will know
what is meant by that expression
oftentimes. 1t appears, the fresh
man who makes the biggest impress
sion, or tries to, is never heard of
after his first year, while the quiet.
u~nassuming chap who keeps his
eyes and ears open and bides his
time carries off most of the honors
abou the time he is ready to be
graduated. Also, the stranger who
makes a big hit and cuts a wide
swath when he first comes to town
sometimes drops out of the lime
light shortly thereafter, while the
other type begins to be heard of
several years later and from then
on is in the swim.
And so 1t usually work out in
the legislature. The man who sets
out to reform the world. to say
nothing of Wyoming alone. and to
make all the brilliant speeches comes
to be regarded as afflicted with the
mouth disease. and erv only one
term. The man whose influence is
generally felt until toward the
end of his first session is back In
the same seat two years afterwards.
and some day he may be addressed
as Mr.. Speaker or Mr.. President.
The bill to create districts for the
eradication OF injurious rodents. and
to see What could be done with the
maybe nuisance, had been under
dreary discussion in the Senate for
day and a half. Some one. said to
have been Daley Of dded
another to the long list of proposed
northumberland attached to 1t the
name Of Horton Of Johnson.
The proposal was to include law
yers. ~grasshoppers and female steno-
8raphers in the list OF public puisan-
ces. The gentleman from johnson
wos taken completely by surprise.
But he rallied to the occasion. Then
Daley got off this one:
Since the Senate killed the meas
ure to make the lawyers swear to the
obey the law and fear God. we have
had no control over them. I would
not exterminate them, but I would
declare them to be a nuisance"
Four taxation bills-two each on
two subjects have caused some con-
fusion.
The House passed Ewart's bill to
defer the penalty on 1929 delinquent
taxes until June 1. 1923. The Sem
ate did the same to Sibley's plan OF
h same purport. Then II gave way
to the other branch and allowed with
out protest. the latter to kill s. F No.
!. Ewart's measure has been signed
by the governor and is now a law.
Lees S. F. 10. providing for tho
~semi-annual payment OF taxes, has
been passed by the Senate and Is
now In the House. Ewart's bill hav-
Ing the same end in view has been
approved by the House Committee OF
the Whole.
The Cheyenne Elkt had extended
an invitation to the LEGISLATORS IN