BIT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thuriday. March IB. 1350
tAcme Rndio-Tetcphnt ,
A-BOMB SPY GETS 14 YEARS Crowd '" outside om Bailey
Criminal Court in London, where Dr. Klaua Fuchfl, Britain's third
ranking atomic scientist, pleaded guilty to betraying Anglo-American
A-bomb secrets to Russia and was sentenced to 14 years In prison. The
trial lasted only 90 minutes.
Voter's Legislative Report
(This is Ihe sixth in a series
of articles regarding legisla
tive procedure and organisa
tion taken from The Oregon
Voter.)
RECORDS OF COMMITTEE
MEETINGS
Except as above indicated for
joint ways ana means committee,
no records of committee meet
ings or procedures are available
as public records except the com
mittee reports which are incor
porated in the official journal of
eacn nouse as inea, wun ine sec
retary of state. That official
journal no longer is published in
full text, but the gist of each
action is set forth in the pub
lished volume.
SUGGESTIONS AND RECOM
MENDATIONS For many years the editor of
The Oregon Voter has advocated
(1) complete modernization of
the rules, (2) the use of strike-out
type (this recommendation adopt
ed), and (3) the printing each
night of the daily Journal of pro
ceedings of each house, so it may
be available the following morn
ing on the desk of each member
and also available to the public.
At present, the cumbersome cal
endar is printed each night fur
distribution to members and the
public the following morning. In
the 1949 session, upon recom
mendation by your editor, roll
calls were published in this cal
endar. Also the Senate's chief
clerk, Mrs. Zylpha Burns, on her
own initiative briefed the Senate
Journal for printing during the
night and availability the follow
ing morning.
What is naeded is not a "brief"
of the daily Journal, but its
printing in full text, so each
member may examine the exact
text which will be in the official
journal of the minutes of the
preceding day's action are ap
proved as printed. Pending such
approval as a first order of busi
ness each day there would be
opportunity for corrections, not
only of errors (if any), but of
roll-calls. Despite vigilance of
desk-clerks, there is almost daily
misunderstanding of votes by
members who do not sneak un
clearly, or who merely nod to the
reading clerk, usually to avoid
being heard in time to reveal to
the entire membership of his
house how he is voting.
In recent years there has been
no official publication of the en
tire journal. All that is nublish-
ed by the secretary of state at the
end of each session is a brief
of each action taken, including
significant roll calls in full, and
text of protests which members
may enter as a constitutional
right. Instead of minutes bcini!
approved daily, with knowledge
of their exact content, they are
approved in a perfunctory man
ner, or not approved at all except
by resolution late in the session,
resolution adopted without
knowledge of their exact con
tent. This practice has led to
much misunderstanding of actual
text of motions, resolutions, re
ports and amendments, and much
dispute of roll-ca Is as finally
published months after each ses
sion, (The journal of the 1U4U
session, even in its brief form,
has not been published yet.)
By printing each night the full
text of the official Journal, with
corrections published in the next
loiiowing printed Journal, the
members and the public would
nave the opportunity to be fully
informed as to exactly what had
happened on each particular day.
inose wno kept the dally Journal
for later reference would be
equipped with accurate informa
tion either for publication, dis
cussion or for use in litigation.
It would not be necessary to issue
the Journal after the end of the
session as a volume, except in
its present briefed form, with its
lists and excellent indices, for
convenient reference as a whole.
Also, daily printing of the
cumbersome calendar could be
dispensed with. A small daily
listing such as was printed for
the informal ion of members,
would be adequnte. If deemed
necessary, the big cumbersome
calcndnr could be printed once a
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This practice, daily printing oi
the entire official Journal, and
dispensing with all but a small
daily calendar and a complete
weekly calendar, lias been adopt
ed by more progressive legisla
tures of the Union, and has prov
ed a great time-saver in its ex
pedition of business, me prin
cipal saving of time is in the
avoidance of misunderstanding
such as causes long delays of at
tempts to correct legislation a it
can be caught in time.
Your editor (of the Voter) also
has urged use of the electric
roll call. The new catiilol is
equipped in part for use of this
modern device. Moll cans are
dreary affairs, as now conducted
viva voce (or by norta, loo oiten
failing to reveal in time exactly
now each member voted. They
use up an immense amount of
time. By the electric method,
each roll call would be in full
display before its house until
ample time was given for its cor
rection before its final recording,
also by an electric device there
would set up an unimpeachable
record for the Journal. This one
device could release members for
many hours of committee work,
Ihe use of the electric roll call
and electric recording of itself
could shorten an Oregon legisla
tive session by weeks.
(Tomorrow M 1 n o r sugges
tions for time-saving. Conclusion.)
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Novel Plan To Aid
Red Cross Drive
Brings Skepticism
Portland, Ore., Mar. 16 (U.R
A Portland restaurant proprietor
with a novel nlan for aiding the
Red Cross drive today surveyed!
the result with skepticism toward
certain members of the human
race.
Eric Ellis, manager of the
Mister Jones restaurant at NE
54th and Sandy "boulevard, ad
vertised that he would feed all
comers free of charge. But in
stead of a cash register, Ellis
placed a barrel marked with a
Red Cross at the door. A sign
said that contributions would be
welcome all proceeds going to
the Red Cross.
$571 In Barrel '
At the end of the day, Ellis
emptied the barrel and took the
contents to the Red Cross head
quarters. What he found con
vinced him there were still
plenty of good people in Port
land, but there also were more
than a few fourflushers.
A total of S571 was taken from
the barrel. Also found were:
An assorted collection of but
tons, campaign badges and trash.
Green paper cut in the size
and shape of dollar bills and
placed in semi-transparent en
velopes. Some Passed Container
Ellis said 1186 persons took
advantage of his Red Cross din
ner. "I sav more than one well
dressed man with his wife eat
dinner and then walk out with
out dropping anything in the
barrel," Ellis said. "Some waved
their hands over the barrel as) OTHER SIDE SPEAKS
though they were tiropp.ny
money, but no cash lull out of
their.hands."
Ellis admitted there were
"quite a few youngsters who ate
a free meal."
Clareir.ont, X. i!. (U.PJ -New
est organization here is "Non
Alcoholics Anonymous." Eligible
for membership are the hus
bands or wives of alcoholics.
"We find by group discussion
that we are better able to copej Hoslclare, 111. ftl.R) Members
v;un me prooiems wmcn mine ui me cuy tuuncu were amazed
in an alcoholic's home," an offic
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