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CONGRESSMAN
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WASHINGTON —The patchwork of federal law has, become * so intricate that the effects of a piece of legislation may range far beyond its stated purpose and even nullify. inadvertently another enactment of the Congress., ■' j . ! An example4 of this confronted the House last week when it was called on to consider a resolution entitled: “To improve the adminis’ tration of justice by authorizing , . the establishment of institutes and joint councils on sentencing for the’development of o by€ct i v es standards, procedures, and policies to be followed in the sentencing of persons convicted of offenses ■ against the United States.”
One provision of the measure would have broadened the discretion of federal judges in the granting of probation to person convict^ ed of federal offenses, except whan a death sentence was mandatory.
Although try sponsors of the ’legislation disclaimed any inten• don of doing so, it was discovered, as, the time for debate approached that the resolution could hzve^ overturned the repeated effortsrof Congress to stiffen penalties, for violations of the narcotics laws.
This was a matter of particular concern to me because^as a member of. the Committee on Ways and Means, which has jurisdiction over the narcotics statutes, 1 had participated in the preparation of * two measures to injure sterner treadpent for the illicit drug traffic-—a vicious demoralizer of youBy
Rep. Burr P. Hi
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