Montana labor news., 1935-01-31
Happenings in Congress
By Hon. Joseph P. Monaghan
january rs, 1895
GAG RULE AND FOUR BILLIONS

January rs, 1895
GAG RULE AND FOUR BILLIONS
With the pressmen in the Gallery
straining their ears to learn the rates,
the House Wednesday twice repudiat-
ed representative and Democratic Gov
eminent by voting a rule that limited
to two sections the amendments what
could be offered to the $f,880,0O0,000
Appropriation Bill. Other sections
packed with danger cannot be touched.
For example, no amendment could be
made to Section 8 to compel payment
of living wages to men on the public
works program to be carried into ef-
feet upon passage of this Bill. Anoth-
er section designating what the projects
shall be, "but not limited to-" could
not be touched. Reclamation projects
were not listed in the projects appear
ing, although assurance was given the
list would be stricken, thereby Great
ing opportunity to press reclamation.
The theory of gag rule is bad in that
it denies that privilege upon which Ii
Government was founded - direct rep
r~esentation. 1t was denial of this right
that led to the American Revolution.
Taxation without representation" again
may become the cry if we continue in
this Cox of Georgia, q Dem
ocrat, said: 81 am wondering if the
proud and beautiful lips of liberty are
becoming sealed in the silent tomb OF
death7"
SNOW BOUND
"This is what we call a blizzard -
said a distressed young boy to whom
l gave a ride when I found him mar
ooned on a corner, desperately signale-
ing for assistance. The snow falls fast
and piles high, but it is far from what
Montana knows as a blizzard. What
people grow accustomed to is import
ant. Here in Washington, snow which
would cause no concern in Montana
demoralizes street car service and ties
up traffic for hours. 1t is ~laughable
to see men brushing snow from their
coats with pocket whiskbrooms and
strutting about the streets with UNI
brellas.
BONUS
A caucus on the Soldiers Bonus was
held last Wednesday, Wright Patmanl
champion of this cause in three pre-
vious Congresses, presiding. One hun
bred and one members, an unusual at
tendance for what is called a trump
caucus" laid plans for furthering the
measure. Administration leaders are
%endeavoring to defeat the Bonus Bill
by a clever piece of strategy. They
prevailed upon Representatives FREQ
Vinson of Kentucky to introduce a bill
differing from the Patman measure Oh
R. y mainly in the method Of pay.
ment. Advocates of the Vinson Bill
regard Patman's measure as unortho'
dox and inflationary. The caucus
however, is backing Patman's Bill tC
the utmost. Gag rules are the order
and the staunchest friends of the Bonu!
fear for its success if Wilson's Bill il
reported out by the Ways and Mean.
&OlliAlllkACC ullQNl ouAA d AAANs W
hope, however, that the Bonus Bill vii
not meet defeat through parliamentary
trickery.
"MIRABILE DICTU"
"Wonderful to say" or Believe i
or notl" as we would say in the NOR,
popular idiom of the day, the time i
not far distant when one will be ablt
to sit in his home and see the singers o
grand opera in New York opera house
appear on the radio television set. Tn,
thing is not so perfect as the public o
today, accustomed to the best, de
mands," Mr.. Young, Chief TelevisioI
Engineer of the R. c. A., said to u
when members of the Interstate ant
Foreign Commerce Committee at tn,
Mayflower Hotel viewed a demonstra
ton Of the sending of news-pages b.
the radio photo-electric cell. This de
vice printed newspapers right in the de
monstration room as the news emenat
ed from New York. Mr.. Young admit
that only thin lines of policy and pub
lie demand for the best keep ~televisiol
in the background. He says they hav,
perfect laboratory demonstrations, blu
hesitates to predict because he is, tt
use his own phrase, "only the engineer.
One newspaper printed in New Yorl
could, if equipment were as common
as radio is today, place the printe,
news in everyone's home as fast as re
ported. No local editors, no local staff
no local printers, sans everything pa
perish. What a worry that would b
for those editors, who, after LITERAL,
shouting down the rights of displace'
laborers, were themselves displaced.