Show AS TO DRAFTING BILLS Not long ago the Tribune of this city amused itself by bj declaring that Senator Smoot had been proved unable unable una una- ble to draft a bill and that tho the result of his effort is clumsy A friend frien in Washington a man who has watched legislation for years and who is big enough to be fair even even een to toan toan toan an cn enemy mj writes The Tho Republican at some length relative to t that at incident Here are some extracts from his letter let let- f ter it fer ra a letter Jetter which will not he be printed 4 v I Y y In full because replying at nt length to the Tribune does dos not G seem em necessary The hill bill Introduced by your jour Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Smoot i Is word for Cor word a copy cop or of the bill hill as drawn and recommended by the commissioner gloner of patents patent Th The ThA patent office desired the tho bill pa passed parsed gd as recommended and still insists ts It It I would be he bettor better so far as 19 the patent office is concerned If IC the bill had passed In the original form rather than thanin in form as amended by br the senate Senator Smoot however seems seem to he that sort of or orman man who does dos not nol put bla blame me on anyone else There was criticism of or tho the form In itt which tho bill has hns been drawn and he simply accepted accepted ac accepted ac- ac responsibility for it it ft The Tho action action ac ac- ac tion raised him in my estimation estimation- j small as tho the whole incident is i It may also be said that the bill has hns passed tho the house in precisely the tho form of that presented in the senate by br Mr rr Smoot tho Smoot-tho the form most acceptable to the department concerned But after all the significant thing in the whole incident incident aside aside from Senator Smoots Smoot's rather chivalrous acceptance acceptance ac no- of or responsibility is is the fact that THE TUB LEGISLATION WIl S SE SE- CURED Tho The bill biU was passed The form o of It was changed a a. little but the bill received ed approval of the tho sen ate There is the point that counts He gets results That is one thing some of or his Ids critics at times overlook I Congressman Burleson of Texas Is determined to make cotton gambling a felon felony It certainly is nothing loss And the same Bame might b be said ald of that Incubator of panics the New York Stock Exchange |