The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-24
The True Inwardness of Con sressional
Record Contents Told.
CONGRESS LIKE VARIETY SHOW
He Wants Speeches Printed as!Deiivered-
Promotions IN the Hallway Mail
servioe-What the senate
Did In Secret Session.
GENERAL WASHINGTON REPORTS
XLVIII Congress.


WASHINGTON, Dee. 23.--Mr. JONAS
presented memorial OF the joint COM
meroial associations Of New Orleans,
protesting against the ratification of the
Spanish treaty.
Mr.. VEST submitted concurrent res
olution, providing that congressional
speeches shall be printed as
delivered, with the exception
of verbal amendments, and that
when speeches arc Withheld TOR rayis-
ion for more than one week tho spe ca
shall be printed as dc iverei. R4ferred.
Mr.. VEST said; A record OF what il
said and done in congress should be
what IL is pur! nreu Ia be, instead Ot
being the CarlCaluie that 10 was to-day.
The effect OF the uuuuthful Representa-
tiOns now made could nuJ nut nave the
most Injurious elect, esp cialiy upon
the young men of the country when
they learned mat instead Of IA speech be-
ing delivered 10 tge iull house aud IN
the presence Of crowded gAl cries, aud
with loud applause, and Immense
bouquets 10 re ward the orator, that the
orator did not deliver the speech
AZ all, but a. the time of the
supposed delivery was taking
leasurely his luIieheOn in tue congress
ional restaurant or placidly smoking
in the cloak room. This WAS becoming
so well understood that II was tough
ening tho seise OF public honor
and The opialon OF tho coun-
try was getting to bn that con-
gress was nothing but variety show,
whore there was nothing real except
the ray. He cilel as abuses OF The
printing privilege the case OF member
of congress- whu delivered ten lines Oi
remarks and then pri ted rs part of his
speech q complete copy OF the conslitu
ton OF the United States, aud another
VINO printed ~ part u his
remarks poem of nj ely
pages, entitled "rhe Immortnls,>
and dedicated u congress. But even q
more scandalous abuse was shown last
session, when tp,rmher, after denver.
ing n iow sentences of - speech, supple
meuted them win all the chapters OF
the tariff contained IN Dhine's book
, and had them thus printed at the OK
! pense of the public. Copies IT thai
, sp'e n MIR. Vest said were sold by
campaign committee at wO cents pc
thousand aud distributed under Frank
through he mails. Another instance
"
the same speech appeared printed a
having been delivered by two members
Some member OF literary hobby ha,
sold copy of tie speech TO two differ
ent men.
Mr.. HAWLEY remarked that an,
copies o speeches sent out hy the cam
paign committees were naid for.
Mr.. VEST asked whether 1t was nc
true that they were franked throug
tn, mats?
Mr.. HAWLEY replied that he bC
litveu IL the custom of both politicl
parties, in distributing copies Of COZ
gressiOnal speeches, to frank them.
MIR. HALE called mp the naval alprC
priation hill, as repOrted yesterday b
him from the committee on nppropIii
tious, aud IL " ~ passed.
81 Mr.. MORGAN, front the committC
on GuhiG lands, reported iavorahly
substitute for the hill to. forfeit land
N granted tO the New Orleans. Bate
Rouge Il Vickshurg railway. Placed Z
the calendar,
In secret session the amended hou
b Resolution providing i,r q holiday r
. cess, subSiitu lug the 2ith TOR the 20
+. as the dato when the recess shall begi
I NJ. VAN WICK moved to make Il
J special order for January
next, the bil heretOio
reported from the judiciary commit
declaring subject "a state taxation lai
i granted to aid "a the construction Oi
I failroad and telegraph line from 1
I Missouri river T., the Pacific ocean al
l to which lands the companies were
| become entitled upln the payment
] the COS OF surveying. Agreed to.
After executive session The senate a
journed.