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By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON—It is easier to
get by with murder than it is to
get a bill through Congress.
According to the International
Association of Police Chiefs, if
you commit a murder and the
murder is discovered, you have
from one chance in ten, to one
in four (depending on what city
you’re in) of getting away with
it.
If you are in Washington and
in Congress, you have about one
chance in 25 of getting a bill
written into the statute books as
an honest-to-gospel law.
At a recent session of Congress
there were nearly 18,000 bills in
troduced. Of these, a few more
than 700 got the President’s John
Hancock and went into the stat
utes to help or hinder you and
me and Joe Doaks.
Considering that there have
been 76 Congresses each sitting
for a couple of years, that may
seem like an infernal number of
laws. It is. But consider that a
vast number of these were pri
vate bills—measures which gave
some worthy widow a life-time
pension—or provided Federal aid
to a small district’s river system
or did this and that for some in
dividual or little group.
These bills are numberless and
to cope with them, the House has
an Objector’s committee, compos
ed of three Democrats and three
Republicans. One objection from
the Objectors generally is enough
to make a measure worth less
than the paper it was written on.
In the Senate bills can be in
troduced only in the last two
hours of any legislative day, The
catch is that if business is rush
ing, a< legislative day may last
for months of calendar days.
Bills introduced in the Senate
are referred to one of the 37
standing committte by the Vice
President. The committee may
refer it to a sub-committee.
There are hearings, redrafts, re
commendations, majority and
minority reports, the committee
’ of the whole and the intermin
able wait for it to show up on the
calendar (unless the steering com
mittee prescribes that it should
have preference over everything
else).
A lot of bills go to committees
and never come to light again.
In the Senate, bills are intro
duced by being read. In the j
House, they merely are dropped
into a hopper by the Speaker’s
desk, to be gathered up by the
house parliamentarian and assign
ed to committee. Many disappear
into that hopper as into a grave.
Once a bill get up on the floor,
it has got to stand a Joe Louis
barrage. In the House debate on
a bill is limited to one hour and
amendments must be germaine.
In the Senate, there’s no limit on
debate (hence the filibuster- and
■any subject under the sun. The
anti-lynching amendment is a
favorable method of making the
tail of a kite so heavy the kite
won’t rise.
If the bill is lucky enough to j
get by one House, it has to go to
'the o(her. Differences of opin- j
ion in the Houses generally areJ
settled in a joint committee, the
reports of which are undebated.
Then, if the bill passes its’s ready
for the President’s signature—or
veto.
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REV. ANDREW KASHEVAROFF
DIES AT JUNEAU APRIL 3
JUNEAU, April 3 — Rev. An
drew Kashevaroff, 76, died at 6
o’clock this morning in the hos
pital, unconscious from a stroke.
The famed Alaska curator was
born at Kodiak and was one of 10
children educated at San Francis
co for priesthood in the Greek
Orthodox Catholic Church.
He returned to Alaska when 17
and entered the church; later he
became superintendent of church
es in Alaska and became curator
of the Alaska Museum and Histor
ical Library 20 years ago.
Five daughters and a son sur
vive him.
Byrd Expedition Discovers
New, Uncharted Lands
PUNTA ARENA, Chile, April
1— Rear Admiral Richard Byrd
said, upon arriving at this ex
treme southern Chilean port, that
his expedition had discovered
lands not charted on existing
maps.
Bare earth mountains, without
snow, were sighted on five flights
he said and some of the regions
Sir Hubert Wilkins discovered
i and which he believed to be is
! lands, actually are a part of the
I antarctic mainland.
Byrd is returning to the United
States for a visit.
FDR LEADS IN
STATES PRIMARIES
WASHINGTON. April 4 —
President Roosevelt and the 3rd
term issue held commanding
leads over the opposition of Vice
President Garner as votes were
tabulated in presidential primar
ies in Wisconsin and four New
York districts.
Wisconsin Republicans simul
taneously gave Thomas E. Dewey
an encouraging but inconclusive
lead over Sen. Arthur H. Van
denberg in the Republican con
test for the state’s 24 convention
delegates.
Roosevelt’s lead in Wisconsin
was more than two and one-half
to one, with one-quarter of the
votes counted.
In the sixteenth New York dis
trict, where Garnerites campaign
ed most vigorously, Roosevelt led
two to one, and in other dis
tricts as high as five to one.
The President’s name was en
tered in the primaries without
his stated permission, but his vie
tories were interpreted to mean
he can have most of Wisconsin’s
and New York's delegates if he
chooses to run.
Meanwhile Fusion reports oust
ed the last vestages of the Pen
dergast machine in Kansas City,
electing John R, Gage mayor. He
NAZI BOMBER BITES ENGLISH DUST
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toval Air Rorce planes recently during attacks on shipping oft t he northeast coast of England.
Vith tail in air the ship is shown as crowds gathered to view it.
carried the entire ticket with
him.
In Milwaukee, incomplete re
turns showed C3rl F. Zeigler, 3
to 2 favorite was leading Daniel
W. Hoan, famed Socialist Mayor
since 1916.
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