| Show MUCH TOO ELASTIC when lawmakers overcome the fallacious idea that bat it la is their privilege to be lawbreakers upon certain occa aiona without having to render an account we may be rid of the absurd practice of extending the legislative day which to ia the common resort both of congress and of various state legislatures it is true that the last not prolong the session beyond the statutory time and de corves aermes credit for conforming coo forming to law jaw in that regard but it followed a procedure Jure quite as aa ridiculous as ae the fhe other if not so BO unmindful of legal enactment it held a session on sunday yet under the procedure adopted adopt eds the congressional record bedord has it that sundays session of congress was a part ot of Satur saturday dayI session with reference to tois tiia ludicrous feature of the case cage the story etory goes boea that thai late sunday night in toe house houa broderick Broder lok of knaake troll istrol leu eil over to the seat ot of bailey but ley of texas and asked aked do you suppose the congress Congre aa by calling this saturday will be able to fool the lord 1 I dont know 11 replied bailey doubtfully perhaps it will it ham ban tooled every everybody telee bise 11 I 1 but albere is asui u ia any fooling after all except to lo thep the parties artles who loll 1011 wed the deceitful fornia formality lity of appearing on the record not to work on sunday while they had bad everything in full blast when congress does business oo on sunday there should be no hypocritical concealment or mockery by seizing the cloak of a saturday session lot let a sunday mouton be known as ai aoh such As to extending extend og the time of congress beyond the be designated hour boar for or its ito close very tory many nes sessions have wit dewed abe farce of the me long wand of the sergeant at arms being used to turn back the clock in the legislative nail ball as a it if that stayed the progress program of time for the convenience of the law makers state legislatures have bave followed the same game method the late idaho session was thus prolonged two days and one utah legislature went still arther artber than that all of 0 which Js ie as ae unlawful as it is foolish and unnecessary when the statute provides provide that a leg isla tive body shall cease to exist at a given hour on a day named the law la Is intended loton ded for just what it says flay the foe turning book back of a couple of clock locks or of all the clocks and watches I 1 in a the country will not defer the designated time one moment and when it arrives the legislature ceases it Is ie dead legally and its members are no longer legislators so BO far as their authorization for that bat term to la concerned by the suffer anoe ance of the people irregularities abi which ah were violations of the law strictly 00 oo n have been permitted to go unchallenged the growing sentiment of the people however is for applying the law as an strictly to legislators and other public officials as to the humblest person to in the he land prom from this cause alone if from no other the prompt adjournment of the late congress at the legal hour received the commenda tion ion of the public it is to be hoped that future congresses and state and territorial legislatures will have the good abuse to follow that ex example m I 1 e IT then there will be less leas of the d dally I 1 Y dallying in the early part of sessions ces which causes an excessive rush of tu business alness during the closing hours boon |
