Great Falls daily tribune

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right now in the fact that, after electing

a new administration, we must wait four

months or so before it can go into ac

tion against the many difficult problems

that confront it. The old administration

is naturally going to mark time, as out

going administrations always do. Little

matters like taxation, Haiti, and Mexico,

it will leave to embarrass its successors

of the other party.

But that is only one of a number of

ways in which congress, as a machine,

works poorly because of the way it is

designed. It seems to have be on intend

ed to work much as the British parlia

mentary system does, but to have failed.

At least, that is the opinion of Wood

row Wilson, whose book on constitutional

government in the United States was a

standard long before he was president,

and still remains so.

"The president, of the United States

was intended... .to be a reformed and

standardized king," he says, "and

congress was meant to be a reformed

and properly regulated parliament."

But the framers of the constitution did

their work none too well in the first

place, and time has changed it a good

deal. Today the congress of the United

States is remarkable chiefly for its un

wieldiness and irresponsibility.

How They Pass the Buck.

The chief fault of it. the critics seem

to agree, lies in the fact that the men

who design the laws have little to do

with enforcing them, and those who nave

to enforce them have little to say in

framing them. In other words, the thin*;

works out as an elaborate system for

the passing of the buck.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Great Falls daily tribune. (1920). Great Falls, Mont., 1920-12-29. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024808/1920-12-29/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Great Falls daily tribune, 1920-12-29.