Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 276, 27 September 1913 — Page 61

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1913

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GENERAL DEBATE IN ' COMGRESSJXPLAINED Members do Not Argue But Talk for Their Own Constituents.

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Congressman May Discuss AnyiSubject Under Sun If He Desires.

WASHINGTON, Sept., 27. If one wanders Into the gallery of the House of Representatives and sees a snowy haired statesman making an Impassioned speech to six of his colleagues, a few pages and a dozen spectators in the galleries and if one didn't know the ways of statesmanship, one might think it funny. One might comment that appeared a bet foolish and might ask why they did it. Well, there's a reason. When such a proceeding is going on there is in progress what Is known as general debate. "General debate" doeB not mean that some folks are debating something. Quite the contraryIt means that certain representatives of the "dear pee-pul" are geting their remarks, partisan or otherwise, in the Congressional Record for distribution In their home districts and for the future enlightenment and wisdom of their constituents. Explains Term. Whenever a measure of importance comes up in the House for consideration the first thing on the program is

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"general debate.' This varies acordlng to the importance of the bill under

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consideration. In the case cf the tariff bill there were fifty hour3 or so of general debate and about tjhe same amout when the currency bill was brought into the House frin the Committee on Banking and Currency. Under the rules of the House, a member who has been "yielded time" in general debate has the right to discuss anything under the sun. He may talk about the crops in Kantas, or the prospect of war with Mexico, or the new trecfly with Slam or some other

equally interestingabout the only timlleen?e in delate. . or nearly a"! other compelled fr rthe subject .ir-' i;li;y VTien the ' ,

were up, members generally confin.d

themselves tc i-'itse two subjects:. However, when nr appropriation bill is before the n.'U and general debate is in pr.-uress. presumably on that part'ru'ar fopr-';priation bill, the debate take; ( r, a vid'.- range. Pretty nearly everything if. d": mussed except the nrovisinrf cf th: 1:1!. Leave Chamber. Genera! dfbate ;.s uninteresting as a rule, as experience has shbwn. to the rank and fib of the House Members who have business to attend to in their offices generally leave the house chamber and others utilize the time by making hurried trips out of town on whatever pressing business of their own happens to confront them at the time. But to the comparatively few members who want to get their speeches in the Record, this general debate business is a most serious proposition. They sit around the chamber restlessly awaintlng the time when the chairman of the committee, or some other member in charge of a bill, rises In his place and nays gracefully: "I now yield 30 minutes to the gentleman from so and so, Mr. So and So." And the essence of the seriousness with which these members take general debate, lies as follows: "Time as when a member of the House didn't need to deliver a speech, in order to

assure his remarks a certain amount desirable publicity he could ask permission of the Hoi:-e to extend his remarks in the Record. N'x only that, but he could insert in the speech such words as these: "App'.inae." "Much applause," Long and continued applause," "Laughter." (This letter would follow of course, some witticism or alleged witticism). Of course, the rrault cf ay this wou'.d be to convey to the rjaoer of the e- rch that it acrualiy was delivered and by a rtretch of She Itnanatior the reaier fiirt ccajt'r? up in his mind a picture of !thuj!st:c -pt- tators. Congress men n.,.- ethers, stra.r.ing to catch the Tr rr.&i':s of the member making he fpoc-ch. Ab?!-sh Rule. But, a'af. th" country "eot on" to the deception, and memVtrs themselves participated in 'he action to Iri'inr a:. .r to this state of afairs. N'r-w, if r member care to extend his rmiarl to the Record, he may do so im!,u: the 'applause," the "long and fir1:' it-"! anp'a ie." and all the other old devices for making the speech set m to have been actually delivered. So acute ha.-, become the situation that members now are desirous of making thee speeches. n matter how few persons are present 1 1 hear them. Now and then a V.'.'.U- aj piaus- is heard from the few members present and the oficial stenographer notes the fact. Not only that, but frequently the speaker, in his de'lre to convince the folks at home tht he a""iilly has made the speech. arran,. . th.u other members shall interrupt hirri for a question or sugceflon r r s rji.h 'it else. The question may e r -V '; -,.t. r it may not be. T'u effect is just h fame. The speech is delivered just, the same, and on it are th- remarks of actually having been Go-; - ! debate is getting unpopular v;it: ma:iy members and predictions are be ? ruace thai, the day will come when it will be done away with.. There, already Is an increasing tendency to shorten the time of these

"general debates." Should the day of abdltim ever arrive the govern:;t w,U fcc spared much useless printer's ink and much useless expenditure for the prinj Pper.

BUSHY TAILED RATS.

They Wilt Steal Anything Bright That They Can Carry Away. In the west and north as far as Fludun bay a iecies of rat Is found that has a tail like the squirrel and is known as the bushy tailed rat. although more familiarly as the p.iik rat because of the curious trait It ha of packing off with everything it can pet hold of and carry. One reads a treat many things regarding the intelligence of rats, but from all account these pack rats seem to be the cleverest of the race. Trappers and campers out tell innumerable stories about them. They will steal knives, forks, spoous. anything. In fact, that Is bright and portable, and will carry the stolen articles to their nests to play with or take them somewhere and ieae them in place of other articles they steal. Dr. Merriam. the naturalist, was told a story by a hunter which Illustrated this odd fancy of the pack rat. The hunter had gone to sleep, leaving n knife sti -king In a log. He was awakened In the night by a noise which he discovered by the light of the eampflrc was made by a couple of put k rats sitting on the log in which the hunter bad left the knife The knife whs gone and the rats were trying to put a stick almut a foot long in its pla-e. They were making an effort t get the stick to stand up in the cr:n t. but not having the skill to insert it properly It fell repeatedly, making the odd sound which had disturbed and awakened the owner of the knife. New York Sun.

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Report That Paris Will Start

Change in Dress.

PARIS. Sept 27. Will they wear it this winter? Will the mea really dare

, wear it ? ' What? The kirt. cf course. We are all anxious to know, but nobody can tell yet. It is the little pleated ballet skirt such as is wara by the Mountaineers aand peasants of Greece which our sartorial directors arc endeavoring to a make our "elegants" adopt as a tribute to the alor of the Ureek soldiers during the war. and behind the tailors is the mighty phalHnx of the .manufactures of I. yens and other cities who are already dreaming of recovering from the men the trade they lost when the skirt of woman became a mere heath. As for ourselves we should just love to see this revolution in male attire and dear little Boni de Castellane has already declared himself ready to ; lance the new node. Little Boni is always ready to do anything that will I make people talk about him and he i would look too sweet for anything in a fluffy white balioet skirt with ! pink tights . But he is not important enough the tailors say. People might laugh at him and nothing is more deadly to a fashion than ridicule. I They are trying to persuade Andre de Pouquieres. who is still vacillating and in case he refuses they are willing to take the rit-k with Alexandere Duval

or Maurice Rostrand. but Bonl is not what he was when the Gould millions were behind hi m. The tailors are trying to Influence our dandies by appealing to their sen

timent, and they had an awful shock when the hero king Constant ine made such a fool of himself to say something nic to hia brothe-rin-law th Kaiser. But our admiration of Greece survived even this and Greece is still the craze everywhere, while poor Bulgaria which provided ua with those quaint lively colors, which delightde the futurists, is quite forgotten. This winter everything is to be a la grecque furctture, embroideries, dress goods, tragedies, candy and aperitifs. Why should then our boulevardiers hesitate to adopt that lovely little .kirt which i really much nicer than ;'.:e Scotch kilt, which nobody finds rldvulons? We are quite sick and t'red of having our men hide their limbs in uitly prosaic trousers, now that we hate been used to admire them "en u ture" all summer at the beaches. The women of Paris are all for the masculine "toutou" and surely Andre de Kouquireres will not have the heart to refuse to give us a chance to adre his divine limbs. "Vive le petit Jupon masculin. A bas los pantalons.

A Queer Servian Belief. To hatch a chicken by holding aa eg for the allotted time In the left armpit is telieved in Servla to be a certain charm against violent death, more epe ially if the bird be swallowed whole forty days after it come to life. A robber who had devastated the district of Kolubsra for many years was. writes a Belgrade correspondent, known to have accomplished both these feats, which accounted foi the apathy of the peasants In pursuing him. persuaded as they were of his Invulnerability. He was finally, however, kil!l by the mounted police, thus discrediting a time honored Servian superstition.

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