Show THE OGDEN ft m STANDARD-EXAMINE- R m VvaTch f he Whppk bncjress hiHihdl--- - from the n-- f m 33310 artlale of the Uncle FT thisseries Hardie Meakin special correspondent of this Ttells the - exclusivelv newsDaner n i insiae story oi tne I how Congressmen wfcrk what they are paid and the astonish j ingly intricate system by which j some bills become laws and others die painless deaths in ' i pigeon-hole- s Mr Meakin's long experience Jas-- a Washington correspondent gives him a special i knowledge of the subject and j access to files not open to the public M rs law-maKe- 1 ')J f f--— £" Congressional Eg Bins i ilf On© Session - - - s yV sr?V$ r fr-xcv- 1 ! ) - 'i' ' i ' T " 1 m r V 1 - Sxr' — -- "Trv y S -- — By HARDIE MEAKIN CONGRESS is a funda--I J f li mental creation of the Constitution It is a I free people's institution It is the people in' the composite It is no better nor worse than the choose- - to make it j people It represents the sovereignty of the American people It's deeds the people's deeds the peojare make anL unmake it" ple i— William Tyler rage Clerk of the House of- Representatives is Mr Page who is quoted above nas oeen cierK oi tne House for 46 years he knows Congressmen ! f2rl ' J Will £ 111 t Ta::-i I t I til I ' i ' I W l Fl I Trj 1 -- -- jft 4 P kf ' v v-- i i ft s 3 k i brilliant Diagram Showing 1How or jooiul me Dills Introduced During On Session of Congress Would Rim Above th CapitoL icans pa&u were P law-make- rs 111 tney Eaia xie unnKS TT it when the first Continental Congress met qnd they are still saying it Congress has to take! a good many digs thruit3 jabs slaps and wallops irom uie mujions or Amerwho are responsible for jit but it must be a sturdy organisation for it continues to function gust the same The House of Representative Is often referred to as the "popujar branch of Congress" In the Constitution this organization is outlined before any mention 13 m4de of the Senate and Judiciary It i3 undoubtedly closest to the people At the first Congress there were 65 members of the ' House nbw there are 4S5 members At ihe beginning the representatives received $6 a day and that was considered good pay Now they drkvr down $10000 a! year and the Speaker of the House receives rf- iV-- J it ' v m f t " " 1 i i y - - - l j V j $15000 They are among the few government representatives who hve the power to raise their own sala- I r4W tA'mHAtar nrl &:tt- r "uwin ongres U - -- ± vi lm from their r or jitns 4 l - FROM TUP A TO Aerial V!w nf ttt 1 n i t A r : i Washington wah the Senato OfSce BuiJdinr wuw — oa lae nous wthce Building at the Other a a kV£ il proper by Din is lucky however It With th! brfpf nvtr f 7L places where the Congressmen sit Soi?Thei!ait is Placed ?t S talk Usten and work w will t ° CIendar on to consider the 'way in which ZfnLt nf busIn5ss J!11? calendar hag they transform bills Into laws As both public and private bills sched hlffh as 33310 hill hnvt r uled on it the first dealing with troduced during one term but questions affecting the country as naturally only a small number of a whole the Second having to do these became laws with the mostly increasing or the America has been criticized as granting of pensions a nation ridder by laws Maybe When the bill is finally put beso but a bill has to possess a good fore the House the' chairman of share of vitality to endure the the committee that considered it scrutiny and red tape that it is usually opens the debate is subjected to before it becomes a passed that fact is certified If itthe by law clerk of the House ' Suppose a Congressman has a But the little bill's troubles bill dear to his heart and his conover yet Next a certified aren't stituents that he wishes to introis carried to the Senate where copy duce He first drops it into a basket near the Sneaker's TnRf-riiThis is known as the "hop- - 30-00- When a newly elected House assembles its first important work is to organize the choice of a speaker clerk sergeant - at arms and other UK 9 fit t f " V I - - " wen-ventilataiub- hn inhabitants representativ e s $44075 Ih Job Lnlx CdM- -U - dl nomes rrom Lett to Kizhtt 000 on transportation The representatives come higher as you see but only because there are more of them There are 96 senators two from each State but the number of representatives depends on the popu-latio- a The number is largely de-termined every ten years by the total number of inhabitants' as revealed by the preceding Federal census After each census Congress takes note of the Increase and authorizes one more reprer eentative for each additional 0 law-make- rs t - : FA W I I ¥ ' 0 0 was spent on salaries and $175- - TZ -- r ' J ! mey Are 1 pay from $6 a dav to $8 and in 1866 they voted themselves $5000 a year and the Speaker $8000 In 1907 this was jumped to $7000 forthe members and $12000 for the Speaker tn 1910 they pushed their pay up to its present figure Certainly that Is a good record In restraint irj view of the consistent advances In the cost of living : 6ince the American Colonies became a free nation Of the money spent to run the Government Uncle Sam 6ays that only one fortyvseventh of one per cent is appropriated for his And of this amount only one forty-thirof one per cent is used Also the bill for this money covers the expenses not only of the Senate and the House but also those of the Library of Congress the Botanical Gardens the massive Dower Dlant that rud- plies heat and light' anj the Government printing office' iA For the 69th Congress $960000 was appropriated to cover the salaries of senators and $51000 was spent to transport tnera to and mr' i " — '"kf M"f j t ' Nttu h Edilh il the wav Detroitera know automobiles — in the mass So perhaps his summin&lup of Congress as a body is! as effective as any that could be made j Page will tell you tiat when he was a boy people used to complain abjut Congress and say that the IIIIKBVriFIBI t i Hir i iv 1 ii oik Wj 1 " V V Co 1 f ' ji 1 - ' I nside :f I - a " - t I 4 ' fs' f ' t r v J V K v Rex S- -- - p 'i — ill ifai i 'ft4f1 A b n 3- t- - V if i r-- ANNUAL FESTIVITY The Page Boys of the Senate Photographed Just Before the Annual Dinner That Is Tendered Them ' According to Custom by the The Page Boy Give inree Cheers vonag Kousing officers Candidates for these per" The Speaker's clerk goes u ? 3 BU°J?cted Pxmilar formal!- offices are chosen at party cauthrough the daily collection of I- cuses and the party with the mabills one to a assigns passes this barner it la jority controls the selection special committee u "ie v Members now sit where they ana Next the little bill Is taken to please with th center ftfs! nf the Jovernment Printing Office oeiore ino resident fiAiu XT the House dividing the nartipft Tha whom It U nrhfo I tie OXllV thin? npftderl tVion n :i v i seats are uspd msrelv Hnrintr rld make it a law is tha Prosont' mnminir inni A bates and the Deno-lof vntino' Than if mam signature on proposed legislation 'The ac- - tee assigned to pass on it It is easy enough for a Con-- 1 Hearings tual work of considering bills and are held where those who pressman to draft a bill that he favor thinks should become a law but to shaping some of them into laws or oppose the bill heard is done in the committee rooms After Aha hill Ufh maybe or tn the offices of the representa- - attacked and Draised the ish that is commit something else again In - the House Office building may come out with a report on' enough has died ignominouslv in which la connected with the Capitol it If not It is pigeon-hole- d a pigeon-hol- e lift A Vice-Preside- nt 0 V tZitft VTi - ice-rresme- nt v1 ' 1 s j 5 ' I: ! " I — j Hera You See Sergeant-at-Arm- a J C Rogers and Doorkeeper Bert Kennedy Closing the Big Bronie Doors -etta'"S o n nouie ot Kepresentative et That Part of Congress Adjoumt for the Year li A Photograph Made at the Opening of the New Seventieth Congress in Washington rrayer me members are Sworn In Vl Then New Members Are Given a Brief Intensive tn the Technique of Law-Maki- Training - as Described in This Article ng iy That "Little Imp Who Deviledl the Gpulds Suddenly Turned Angel LONDON D DE COl lany years — -i' uiojiuu nir "ii turee concinpnts with — dTjjTmnoo wvw J Gould as her d scnmfit faro-p- t — T o"" h started evervone talkinc thu oiw time the story differs inconsistency lends it zest and poignancy - At the Savoy Hotel in London where vver cocniaiis and lunch every ining is aiscussea and every wiujjf is uuuersiooa cyi-wvu- in (" Up if' t v v TT Knows everyining ui( oavuy ana tuunuuii j t cai£iixi j in wv n vuwu s nu ' "J imAT i w u uo -- ' ry 'rrvr J 'Jl CJ- k- HILT LTlB — :— rlUB' :— " W8S ripvil iOUlQS But that's irptfre nViAnrl nf tlia etnw Best to take it up in the "bright old days' when Edith who had Just received her decree of divorce from "Frank Jay" was making things hot for him in Paris A theatrical starvof c'onsiderable brightness she had refused to relinquish the sacred Gould name and was givirg it prominence along the banks of the Seine where it was further explained on the theatrical posters that the limbs of ah were twinkling in a revue at the famous Alhambra Casino Such publicity was distasteful to the exclusive Frank J who rushed in a fury to his attorney in an attempt to stop the "defamer and degrader of the Gould name" The news spread rapidly over Paris and served only to heighten Edith's popularity As a result her two weeks' imited engagement was extended all Paris flocked to the Alhambra And now comes the other side of the wI -c Several years later Albert de story e accessful European ?ne-timMiss Shirley Kellogg SLJT? dangerously ill Favorite and First Wife of Alberf l she beard the Courville A Cartoon bv news new to his side to nurse him Broken and lonely he beset-che-d ner to gained health and the loving Care andat- — -— uo cu JlA uet iu ienuon oi one an least ot ms erstwhile :r i - j T wuvu uUwwujr J r - J n r— ail cMtc KaA vj uuuauaB aiLer irifinflS— DSP If wiTtt hr- tn tha wwv fam tor Whir K S4 (h -l —' wne she the 1 IeP°Tts Mot:'' M X'TJZ e?"t t hayelt f lnfuritjW FniTJ ucver uis oeusiae ana neeaiesa Duuerfly the wUful V Mar5W fter an?°s wes of loving care took her former husband is defraying ChMnjrfSL Him to Nag 3 bankrupt In all but partially re-- expenses and making life UvVble Tfigaia ld -- VALf-W- I 19 Wvl V- - hiB ' K!Iy 1G°uId de Courville XVho Hubby ro But Was n Angel of Mercy to Kubby No 2 Was i a Sf Cowrian 1S2S laUrmOooU rwuara Sorrtot —1 : - Orwt Britain - - I i ' K Elrtu RttrrtA Albert !e CourvilU Famous Producer Who - j Lj I If Married Edith Kelly Gould - ard Collapsed 1 j j j lodu - Nern a- r ' J J - —— whpn Rha ex-Gou- 4 if- ''1 - - 1 - " ' 4 i |