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...Deschler, official Parliamentarian of the House-who ever since he came of age ten years ago has been advising the Speakers of the House on the abstruse technicalities of House procedure-had the eyes of the House upon him one afternoon last week as he marched up to Reading Clerk Alney Chaffee. Taking a large leatherbound volume from beneath his arm, the Parliamentarian laid it on the edge of the Clerk's desk and turned away. As he did so the volume began to slip. Alney Chaffee made a lunge for it but it escaped him, with a resounding...
...Clerk Chaffee, doubling his official dignity, retrieved the book and began to read Franklin Roosevelt's budget message. Before the minds of Representatives became completely swamped in a sea of figures they had apprehended some points that the President was making...
...When Clerk Chaffee finished reading no Congressman who remained in the House needed to be told that this was the dullest budget message which Franklin Roosevelt had yet written, and no Congressman without studying the attached pages of exhibits-a volume the size of a small telephone book-could be expected to realize that the dullest message accompanied Franklin Roosevelt's most significant budget to date...
Such last week were the miscellaneous harbingers of a new Congress, but there were others more specific. Representative Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, hulking ex-newshawk who three months ago sent the Clerk of the House the draft of a bill with the request that it be the session's Bill No. -an honor which Wright Patman of Texas won at the last two sessions for his Bonus Bill-got it back all neatly printed. Before a battery of cameramen he marched up and dropped it in the hopper (see cut). It was free publicity for a pet project...
...when he was deprived of all patronage for his revolt against Cannon (he still has none). His martyrdom has gone on year by year, with vituperative newspaper attacks and such follies as the regulars committed in 1930 when they tried to do him dirt by putting up a grocery clerk named George W. Norris to run against him in the primary. Under such circumstances there is seldom any difficulty for George Norris to convince himself and the voters that every election is a crisis in which sinister interests are striving to do him in. For George Norris on the stump...