The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-17

kingfish Cavorts While 35
Bills, Contents Unknown,
Are Submitted.
ByUnifed Press

By United Press
BATON ROUGE. La. Dec. IL
Senator Huey P. Long undertook TO
explain" IS legislative bills he
wished made into laws to the House
Ways and Means Committee today.
The Legislature was in special ses-
sion for the third time since August,
and it was cavorting as usual to the
crack Of the Kingfish's whip.
Long. Gov. o. K. Allen, and one
or two other ranking leaders Of the
Long political machine alone knew
the contents of the bills. To all
others. including a great majority
Of both houses. they we're mysteries.
Il was assumed, however, that the
bills were designed, like laws enact
ed at the special sessions in July
ana November TO strengthen the
dictatorship g Long furnish the
Long machir with r-.Ore inbs, and
punish taos, silo have haG the i'm
punity to tempt cdrtsilLl1nt or
protest against the Long rule.
Apparently reliable informatic:.
said that the city of Baton Rouge
was to be made into a governmental
district. similar 10 the District of
Columbia, under complete control
OF the Long machine. Other bills
viii authorize the establishment Of
daily morning newspaper by Lou
isiana State University, which Long
already controls, ostensibly for
training of journalism students, and
a 50.000-watt rSdio station, also un-
de- university control.
Vast Propaganda Machine
Longs political enemies, of which
there are a few in the Legislature,
saw in these bills vast propaganda
machine controlled by the Kingf1sh
and operated for his benefit. He
now operates a weekly paper in
New Orleans and controls a radio
station there.
Prominent among those to be
punished, reports from this same
source said, is the Louisiana Bar
Association.
The association forced Longs
Attorney General. CASTOR L. Por-
terie, to resign under fire of the
ethics committee last year. The
association now will be forced to
elect Porterie chairman of its ex-
ecutive committee, it was under
stood.
The House had its first session
last night. where the IS bills we're
introduced by the simple procedure
of the clerk reading the first three
words of the titles of each Tin no
case did the three words make
sense. This took only IS minutes.
The bills were referred to the Ways
and Means Committee, which will
report them out today.
Long sat on the clerks rostrum.
He was in good humor and made
faces, wiggled his fingers, and
otherwise INDUCED in ludicrous
poses for the benefit of photog-
raphers. Allen also was in =
chamber.
Job for Every Man
when will we know what these
bills are all about?" Demanded one
Of the few Long enemies remaining
in the House.
Tuesday" replied Allen casually,
''when they are passed"
The House reared its appreciation.
Long added TO the gayety of the
occasion by various asideS. From
his remarks, it was presumed that
a number of the bills we're designed
to transfer control of patronage
from parish sheriffs and municipal
governments that still control lit
tie patronage despite previous legis-
lative amputations, to the Long ma
chine.
Every man who votes for my
bills will get a job" Long told his
LEGISLATORS. "Just put the name on