Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 35

FUND FCR BRANCH LIBRARY SOUGH Commissioners Hope to Maintain Mount Pleasant Building Until Next July. The District Commissioners have prepared an urgent deficiency esti- mate for funds with which to main- tain the new Mount Pleasant Branch of the Free Public Library from the time of its completion in February until the beginning of the new fiscal year on July 1. The District appropriation act for the current fiscal year made no pro- vision for the operation of the new branch library, which leaves the pros- pect of the new building standing idle for several months after its comple- tion unless a deficiency fund Is ob- tained Covered In New Budget. In the new budget recently laid befors Congress the Budget Bureau has made increases in the library esti- mates over current apropriations to tako care of the Mount Pleasant Branch for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The total amount recommended by the Budget Bureau for the library system for next year is §$251.940, against a current appropriation of arge part of this in- - to the addition of the sant bullding to the li- servic brary e i BUSINESS WAITING FOR BALANCE SHEET Second Edition of School Paper Out This Week—Alumni to Get Together. Christmas fetes and frolics have @ome to the fore at the Business High School to hasten the passing of the interval between now and the vaca- | tion period { The outstanding event of the week will be the arrival of the second edi- | tion of the Balance Sheet, the school paper. The alumni have announced their entertainment and reunion for | early in January and have invited the | faculty and their friends to an eve- | ning filled with pleasurable events The Balance Sheet also contains soveral literary contributions from | members of the association. From the | student body there will be a cross- word puzzle centered around the let- | ters B. H. 8. This noteworthy bit is | the offering of Miss Betty Wilson of | the seventh semester. From the mili- tary contingent there will be articles by Capt. Fred English, Capt. Car- roll Highfield and Capt. Adam Of- fenbacher. Poems have been con tributed by Miss Amy Norton, Miss Fairfax Plaskett, Cyril Collett. Ber- nard Gates and Mi ry Sherman Soclal, personal and local items have been contributed from many sources, each room and semester receiving its own share. The school gymnasium will take on a most festive air Fri when the Gombined business and literary staffs | of the Balance Sheet will entertain the room pu whose enroliment ranks 100 per cent. Sixteen sections will participate in this event, and the program will consist of @n-original stunt from each group in the party. This feature will be followed by a tea and dancing. Fine arts will have their the coming two weeks in butions from the Drama the School Glee Clubs. Interested in | the singing of the Christmas carol program now in preparation are Pey- | ton Fletcher, Fred English, Austin De Wilde, John Hall, Grace Wooden, Alda Pacini, Anita Schaffer and Elea- nor Patlen. share in the contri Club and | CHRISTMAS THEFTS HEAVY EKeep New York M;;i‘strate Work- ing Overtime. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 13.—Christ- mas spirit is responsible for a wave of business that has kept Magistrate | impson on the Jefferson Market urt bench from 9 am. until after 5 p.m. every day this week, in the opinion of the magistrate himself, expressed last night as he adjourned the last case shortly before 6 o'clock. “Men want to give their girls i mas presents, and if (] them they steal them they may buy th Simpson said. ° In the first five days this week 161 cases have come up before the magis- trate. MOVING, PACKING & STORAGE OLEAN. DRY. STOFAGE FOR FURNITORE apd piatos. Estimates cheerfully given. Con wenlent location. 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Although “we the people” have delegates to Congress under the Con- stitution all power to make the laws under which we live, few of us know the mechanics of law-making and the processes by which Congress works. In fact, many people, as shown in their letters to their Representatives in Congress, think that all he has to do s to declare what shall be law, and that he will do this whenever and as they say, and that immediately he introduces a bill it becomes law. As a matter of fact the ordeal through which a bill or resolution has to go, before it is approved by both houses of Congress and signed by the President, is so grueling that rela- tively few survive. Three-score years ago Congress had before it only about 800 legislative proposals, but the increasing demands of the people for new laws and new governmental activities—generally fostered by pro- pagandists—have become so numer- ous that the time of Congress, even with four sessions, as the Sixty- seventh Congress had, would be lack- ing to give each measure even a few moments’ consideration. We are now having laws proposed at the rate of more than 30,000 per session, and the big majority of these pigeon-holed in committees. Each measure as introduced is referred to one of more than 60 permanent stand- ing committees d to handle certain classes of legislation, such as Commerce, shipping, appropriations tmmigration, put lands, patents, banking and currency, agriculture, military or naval affairs. 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All measures relating to raisiag revenune must, by strict provision of the Constitution, originate in the House. Every other kind of legisla- tive proposal may originate in either Senate or House, and generally iden- tical measures are introduced at about the same time in each branch of Congress. A measure may be introduced by an individual member, although fre- quently the views of a committee are embodied in a measure and pre- sented in the name of the chairman of that committee, as are the tariff and revenue measures. These meas- ures are placed in a basket on the Speaker's table, where they are re- ferred to the proper committee hav- ing jurisdiction, and then sent to the bill room, where they are numbered and a record made before they are printed Each bill awaits action in a com- mittee until some member of the committee moves to take it up. If after it is read the committee thinks it is not desirable legislation or that other measures of relatively greater importance ought to be acted on RE-CHARGE YOUR BATTERY BY TELEPHONE we will call for and deliver your battery, fully charged, the same evening for $LS0. SMITH’S Battery and Electric Service North 9928 2119 Eighteenth St. N.W. In addition to being able to supply any type of automobile or radio battery we can remedy any automobile ignition or radio Distributors of Exide Automobile and Radio Batteries Open Week Days 8 to 9 P.M., Holidays 9 to 12 P.M. STAR. WASHINGTON, first, the bill is laid aside—and thou- sands of legislative proposals are thus killed. If it seems a meritorious measure, hearings are generally held, so that the committee may be thoroughly in- formed before making a report to the House or Senate, s the case may be, and able to defend the measure if 1t 1s attacked on the floor of Con- gress. Most committees are divided into sub-committees, sometimes as many as 20, for Intensive study of particular subjects, and usually it is a subcommittee that Investigates a bill and then reports on it to the full committee. A committee may decide to report a measure to the House or Senate, or it may amend it by making change: that seem desirable, or it may order a new bill written to conform with their best judgment after having heard all sides of the question, or it may decide not to support any legis- lation along the lines proposed. When reports are made to the House or Senate they are printed and available for study by all members of Congress. Hearings are also print- ed and also avallable for study. A bill which receives the favorable rec- ommendation of the committee best qualified to pass on that particular subject is usually passed. If a bill is acted upon first in the House, it is then sent to the Senate, where it goes through the same proc- ess of committee consideration. Each bill or resolution has to be read at least three times In both House and Senate. Usually the Sen- ate makes some changes in a House measure, through amendments, or the House makes-some chunges in a meas- ure that the Senate passed first. Since no bill may become u law until it has been approved in exactly the same form by each house of Con- gress, conferences are held between the two houses, through joint com- mittees, to reach an agreement or adjustment of these differences. Then the House members on a joint com- mittee have to report back to the House and the Senate members on the joint committee have to report back to the Senate. Then when both houses have voted to accept the bill as adjusted, it is ELECTRIC sent to the President. It is his right to either sign it, showing his. ap- Rroval of the measure, in which event it becomes law; or he may let it lie for a certain time without his signa- ture, in which event it is law with- out his having signed it; or he may veto it, and send work to that effect to Congress. Even after the President has vatoed a measure it may still become ths law of the land. without his approvai if passed over his veto by a two- thirds vote in each house of Congress. And after all this procedure in Con- gress and submittal to the President a United States law may still be prevented from becoming operative. To the Federal courts, and in the final analysls to the Supreme Court, has been intrusted the duty of Interpret- ing the Constitution. If the Federal courts declare any law an infringe- ment on the Constitution the law ceases to be in foroe. So that, when all is said and done, and the truth known, you see the laws under which we govern our- selves are pretty well digested and thrashed out. (Copyright, 1924, by Will P. Kennedy.) (The twentieth article in this series will be “Something About the Su- preme Court.” It will be printed this paper next Wednesday.) ACTS FOR SOVIET. Paris Trade Body Head Sequesters Czarist Firms. PARIS, December 13.—The presi- dent of the Paris’ Tribunal of Com- merce yesterday Issued instructions placing under sequestration all Rus- sian companies and commercial bank- ing institutions which were organ- ized in France under the legislation of the defunct empire of the czars. The order applies the sequestration law of 1914, which has to do with enemy property. Legal circles stated that the action was taken at the request of the So- viet government, which desires 1o investigate the activities of Sold on long time partiai payments without extra cost, highest grade uni- versal make—$1.50 cash, month. 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F. Hemelt's debat- ing class for a pubic debate before the Christmas holidays. The Agora's team will be composed of Charles Miner, Benjamin Bretzfelder and Le- roy Stockman, The S, O. S. Society of the school is making plans to furnish relief tor poor families in the District Christmas. The: organization ready has raised a sizeable sum its charitable work. at al- for Naval Attache Relieved. Capt. Arthur St. C. Smith has been relleved from duty as naval attache at the United States legation, Peking. China, and assigned to the twelfth United States naval district Drought and locusts destroyed one- third of the maize crop of the Trans- vaal this season. Do Your Xmas Shopping Now And Take Advantage of These Wonderful Offers We List a w of the Values Sure Diamonds Before you purchase see our beautiful line of rings at $25, 350, $75, $100, up to $500. Beautiful stone, % beautiful; set $175. karal A T-stone cluster ring, set in platinum, $50. 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