The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-16
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| in the house of representatives over
the Norris bill to amend the consti
tuition so as to eliminate what are
known as lame duck sessions of con-
gress. This is a joint resolution, but
| it is the Norris bill, fathered by that
grand old fighter who has STAYED the
interests off from many tid-bit and
many big bit.
Of course, however, when it comes
to eliminating lame duck sessions,
grave matters have to be considered.
Lame duck sessions, as is well known,
are those sessions held after elections,
in which defeated members of con-
gress participate and at times put
over things they wouldn't dare put
over if they were still facing the
electorate.
Thus, as it will be seen, lame duck
sessions have their uses. Even adver-
sity has its uses for somebody. Many
a lame duck member of congress has
gone in. for the higher and loftier
things in his last gasping days as a
legislator; that is, for things higher
in the economic scale. He has, in
other words, got better price. He
isn't looking forward to reelection!
If the Norris bill is eventually sue
cessful there will be no congresses in
which the lame duck gentry hold
forth. When a man is down he will
also be out. He will cease to be a
Legislative asset and generally he will
likewise cease to be a political asset.
Of course, lame ducks will continue
to have the privilege of the floor, as
i ex-members now have it. He can be-
come a lobbyist, as many defeated
members have done in the past, and as
they are doing at present.
But the good old game by which q
lame duck delivers his last Legislative
! commodity and takes a reward there.
| for on some board or commission, OF
, in the so-called diplomatic service
will be ended.
Those who are observant will notice
that the abolishment of lame duck!
is going to be a serious matter. Those
( of the old school in politics will wan
n to think deeply about how they vot,
lon the issue. They know not whel
they may achieve fine case of lame
mess for themselves, or have it thrus
upon them.
n Many a lame duck has been mad
e into an ambassador in payment fo
r la debt which may be either a part
debt or debt to some person O
force strong in the party. And nei
ther party has had monopoly upo
n the uses to which it's lame ducks hav
n been put. 1t has been more matte
lresting with the individual conscienc
than with political affiliation or pc
litical faith.
In view of the great plentitude @
Ipersons, corporations and shado'
:, boxers who are willing to make tn
time of a lame duck or an ex-cor
lgressman valuable and interesting
. the Norris proposal is filled with il
e terest. Those among the lobbyist
lately exposed to the scorn of th
J. battling senator will watch the pre-
4 ceedings with great interest and nc
a little trepidation.
An electrical wizard has just dt
monstrated a tube with which egg
o. can be boiled with cold heat trans
6 United by radio The Norris bill, fo
l. lame ducks, is in about the same ger
Ieral category. 1t will cook in abor
the same manner, and with equal e1
fectiveness.
: To be sure, there must first be
: constitutional amendment and
e takes time to bring about sue
a things. Experience with the eigf
; teenth amendment has made a grea
many persons shy of amendment.
They will expect trick somewhere.
But we have to learn to take ou
n amendments or let them alone and
: is, after all, true that people in tn
d mass are learning more and more no,