| Show St n 1 ii- ii A 7 ion I ewar 8 ter n By Dy RLES CH P STEWART NEt XE Sen t Ice Writer riter WASHINGTON July IS Senator Richard lUchard I p Ernst of o Ken Ken- KenI I tucky never has been a a very ora member of or Congress his bl constituents shouldn't get the Im tin- Impression that he ho hasn't worked hard for his wages during during- the six years hes he's been there The fhe fact tact Is he simply has haa ha been too bu buy y to do much talking Ernst got Into the upper house houseas houseas IU as lIe he expresses It on the Harding landslide and Immediately had wished onto him the task lasK of codi- codi codi codifying tying alt the laws law congress had passed up to that time lime And any anybody ody who hasn't tried It it said cold the senator affectionately ruffling the 1700 odd pages of the volume he ho succeeded In boiling all au thIs legislation down Into can pos poi silly have tho the least ld Idea a of ot what cn an awful job It ft was If It one has ha occasion to speak wIth Senator Ernst concerning his hta mono mon mon mon- monumental monumental work one should bo ho mIghty careful not to refer reter to It as ha having origInated In the house of Having Ha devoted nearly his bis en ti L tire term to 1 putting this new code together he wants to be gIven credIt for It and It makes him soi sore not to be The lower house did Indeed take a couple of ot cracks at federal law la codification But they were so detective defective explains Ernst that thin thing the the- senate had to do was WIlS to t to kill them before making a start on this thone one For Instance one onci of or the house codes by failed to pro pro- pr vido for th Ih navy which t have It If that thai cde had hod been n I opted Und r the th other the e un republics would han ha had to agree on a n single dIp dIp- f to Ut-k Ut after atter r Senator Ernst holding the tho boo bool book Into ho codified all nil con congress laws all their heir Interests In Washington jointly Those ars nr nt cb The last lut r vl of o tin lIu statutes was In the tho lOs Since then new ones have been beci a enacted by the bale and scattered through a couple of dozen huge tomes It I IWa Wa was Impossible tor for any lawyer no n a matter how well read to have hay S more than the tho vaguest notion con con- concerning concerning corning most of ot them br or r where to tc ii looks for them Ernst has hu the essence of ot the th a whole collection omitting what hat been repealed and a little that's ob- ob obsolete obsolete ob- ob obsolete i solete packed into Iato his book neatly neati classified according to subject and with I the subjects arranged In aI- aI ai E order To all Intents and purposes the Ernst becomes the federal law ot of the he land However over It doesn't repeal or anything If Ie a dispute e arises arise concerning any passage the original law remains remain to test It by bIt It If the code falls to cover some sIt sIt- sItuation sit law tl-law fully enough theres there's the law a as congress passed It In the fIrst place more light on onIt onit It it Only now Its It's possible to find what o out 1 what any given law Is without wading through 20 1 to 30 books book each pach ft M a big as an unabridged die dl When Ernst Introduced the bill embodying hi his code coda In congress the members gave It the one look and then said they guessed they'd r us It without having It read to 1 em Cm cm Ernst Ern Erns estimates that It would have taken two months So the code was as adopted on his hi so I say so and only he h knows as yet et exactly what's In It It |
