Evening star., 1953-08-04
Senate Fails 10 Act
On disqualification
For District Addicts
Timing, Printing Errors
And Senator Gore Block
Lust-Minute Approval
By Miriom Ottenberq

The city today found itself
with a widely sponsored compul-
sorry treatment law for dope ad-
diets and no place to hospitalize
them until January, at the earli-
est. The law itself goes into
effect in December.
A combination of timing,
printing errors and a block
thrown by Senator Gore. Dem
ocrat, Of Tennessee. kept from
the Senate floor yesterday the
House-passed bill to send a linn
tied number of the committed
addicts to Federal hospitals.
The fate of the bill in this
session was not sealed until after
| 6 pm. yesterday. This was the
sequence of events earlier in the
day:
AS Acting Minority Leader last
Saturday hight, Senator Gore
was handed the bill by Senator
Case, Republican. of South Da-
kota, who hoped to speed the
measure through the Senate and
needed agreement from the mi
nority. Senator Gore was to no.
tify Senator Case of his decision
yesterday morning.
TranSpOSed in Printing.
Senator Cores staff discovered
that the bill introduced in the
House had the sections of the
measure in the wrong order.
A call to the House Commerce
Committee, which had handled
the bill, brought assurances that
amendments on the House. floor
had Strengthened out the printing
error.
After considerable searching
for the bill as it left the House,
the Senate District Committee
staff, which was working on the
bill for Senator Case, discovered
that the printing errors had been
compounded by changing the
numbers of the sections but not
putting them back in the proper
order.
Meanwhile, Senator Cores
staff had gotten together with
Senate District Committee Clerk
Robert c. Albrook. William G..
Allen, administrative assistant
to Senator Gore, raised number
of questions about the bill. He
said, in effect, that the bill would
give preferential treatment to
the District. He also contended
that the Senate should not act
on the bill without hearings. And
he later told Senator Gore that
Mr.. Albrook agreed with him.
House Cooperative.
From the House side came as
suranceS that, if the bill were
acted on in the Senate with the
sections Strengthened out, the
House could act quickly to ap-
prove the technical changes.
By this time, it was mid-after-
noon and no move had been
made either to get the bill in
the right order or to the floor.
About then, it was pointed
out to Mr.. Albrook that, if
this bill were not passed, the
law piloted through the Senate
District Committee wouldn't
mean anything.
This isn't the first time that
has happened" Mr.. Albrook re-
piled.
Senator Case, coming through
the Senate District Committee
room on his way to a meeting of
the Armed Services Committee,
told Mr.. Albrook to get the bill
in shape and clear it with SEN
ator Gore so it could be brought
to the Senate floor.
The sections of the bill were
then juggled around and the
measure. in proper typographical
form, was presented to Senator
Gore. Late in the afternoon,
Senator Gore issued this state
ment:
III. R. 67o2 was passed by the
House in garbled form. There
is some doubt that sufficient time
remains before adjournment to
correct these technical def1cien-
cies and complete legislative ac-