The Washington times., 1924-11-12
LAME DUCK
MEMBERS
MI. MACE
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ancks'' among them. must attempt
- IsslGlate IL accordance with the
recommendations given to them by
the President In his annual Decem-
ber message, or In hostility to those
Recommendation as the case may
be, while also, in this case without
fail, they must pass al the apprc-
priAtion bills FOR all the Govern.
fnant d6partf1Gntn ana bureaus and
commissions FOR the fiscal year be-
ginning on the succeeding July /.
The appropriated bills must be
passed, and they must be passed by
midnight Of March 3, In order to
avoid the euTnIIioning Of an extra
ordinary session Of the new Con-
gress. with all the political strug-
gIines and all the additional ex-
peM9es which such q session would
Imply ana involve.
Jam Almost Certain.
therefore, each short session"
tends to become an ice-jan1 OF ar-
preparation bills and of new legisla-
tive proposals inching slowly and
coffusedly downstream without time
enough ever to disentangle them
and to give the new legislative pros
they deserve.
The President presumably In his
coming December annual tfieBsage
win recommend, for ifbtaIdsi an
entrance by the United States into
the League world Court.
He also presumably VIII have
some Kind words to say about taxa
ton reduction and reform.
He Is expected at some time or
other to mention the condition Of
the farmer and to point with hope
to the legislative ideas which Il is
SUPPOSED will be brought forth by
the new Federal commission on
agriculture.
These ana many other ideas Win
be- begging for legislative attention
and iii many cases will perhaps
be worthy Of IL from the Standpoint
Of the Immediate general walfare.
Likely 70 BE- i'Shhk."
Most ct them nevertheless, II pre-
cedent Ii followed; viii be sunk
without trace In the Ice jam or else
viii be pushed w nitnb1e legislative
lumberjaekg into some blind bay
of the legislative stream and there
filibustefed to death.
If the W6fld Court proposition,
for instance, should escape from the
Inurderous hands Of the Foreign
Relations Committee Of the Senate
afld Should appear alive ana well
) on the floor Of the Senate, the
hours, that could be allotted to
Messing II ana sanetiohing it and
sending 1t on In triumph to the
President would be small
ANY one Of our belligerently cir.
fScofciiabie" Senator'S could then
O6iiaufae the wh6le IT that small
NUMBER Of lletifs reading documents
about the courts which existed In
che Egypt Of the PharOal1s; and this
writer can state With confidence
that tlSre are 1T least d duseii
Senators who viii be perfectly viii:
fde to do exactly that sort 0f
thing II necessary III order to pre-.
vent the world court proposition
from getting adopted in this "short
session"
"eh5tt sessions" are the sessions
which sive. US the filjbHster huis
eafIee at its really uh3usttfiabls
worst:
Ab0EshfAent Urged.
81 d, therefore, beginning to Be
th6uSht BY many members of the
Senate and the House Of Repre-
Ssntativess that the first instant
ereAt duty 81 this appr6achink
A6Aoft session" IL to abolish hshOft
ossetons'' and to Bring IL ab6at
that the Congress elected In any
November shall meet In the ensuing
December or JaiitiAfy, with no de-
teAtsd lame duelEs'' III 1t, ana shall
continue to pass appropriation bills
and to consider new Legislative pre-.
posals really attsntively considered
without Interruption By any Afbis
tEafy date like March 4.
This reform, at amy rate, through
come such resolution as Senator
Noftis', will be the one fiinda.
mental g6vsfhnlefitAi idea which
WIN AppeAt On the legislative scene
during. the three months beginning
NEXT December /.
Certain other proposals, h6wsvef.
viii give the legislative scene b i6t
q supplementary Hvelifisss.
0ym0rTowi Back Comes tits
G1nbittered Farmer.
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