The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-12-25
VERIFY, VERBATIM VEST.
The Missouri Senator Jumps with Both
Feet, 10 TO Speak,
ONTO OUR OBNOXIOUS oRAToRr
The True Inwardness Of Con yressional
Record Contents Told.
CONGRESS LIKE A VARIETY SHOW
He Wants Speeches Printed ~. Delivered
Promotions In the HALLWAY Mall
Service What the senate
Did In secret Session.
CONGRESS LIKE A VARIETY SHOW
GENERAL WASHINGTON REPORTS
XLvIII Congress


WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Mr. JONAS
pre- senled memorial of tho joint COM
mercial associations Of New Orleans,
protesting against the ratification OF the
Spanish treaty.
Mr.. VEST submitted a concurrent res
oluliun, providing that congrt ssional
speeches shall be printed as
delivered, with the exception
of verbal amendments, and that
when speeches are withheld for rows
ion for more than ono week the spe ch
shall he printed AS de ivered. Rufrrred.
Mr.. VEST said: A record OF what Is
said and duuu in congress should be
wnat IL Is purpor ed III be, instead oi
IL. i'm no varicature that it was to-day
The feet of the untruthful representa-
LiUi now made could not nut have the
most luxurious effect, esp. claiiy upon
| the young men Of the country when
they learned That instead Of II speech be-
lug delivered TO the full house and IN
the presence of crowded galleries, and
with loud applause, and immense
hpuquets 10 re ward the orator, that the
orator Gid not deliver the speech
AZ ali, but &c tho time OF the
supposed delivery was taking
| leasureiy his luncheon in the congress
i.nai restaurant or placiJly smoking
| IN The cloak room. This was becoming Z
so well understood that IL was tough
ening the sense OF public honor
and he opinion OF the coun-
| Try was getting to be that con-
gross was nothing but variety show,
| where there was nothing real except
the pay. He cited as abuses OF The
printing privilege the case oi a member
of congress whu delivered lea lines of
remarks and then printed rs part of his
speech complete copy OF the consntu
who printed rs part u his
remarks Il poem of nicely
pages, entitled "The Immortals,"
and dedicated to congress. But even a
muie scaudalOus abuse VAS shown last
| session, when n m 'inbor, after deliver
! ing a few sentences OF speech, supple
meut, q them with all the chapters on
the tariff contained il Blaine'a book,
and had them thus printed At the OK
pense of the public. C"pies IT that
speech Mr.. VesG SAID were sold by IA
| campaign committee at 'wo cents per
thousand aud distributed under Frank,
| thr ,uuh ,he mails. Another inslaDc,
cted by Mr.. Vest was whore identically y
The same speech appeared printed H.
| having been delivered by two members.
| Some memlber of u literary hobby had
s,ld a copy of the spe5ch to two differ
| ent men.
Mr.. HAWLEY remarked that any
copies o. speeches sent out by the cam
paign committees were paid for.
MIR. VEST asked whether it was not
true that they were franked through
| Tn. mails?
Mr.. HAWLEY replied that he he.
li,veu il the custom of both political
pariiesyin distributing copies of coll
gressiOnal spec cbes, to frank them.
Mr.. HALE called up the naval appro
priatiOn bill, as reported yesterday by
him from the committee OH appropIia
tiOns, and it was passed.
Mr.. MORGAN, from tho committee
on public lands, reported favorahly II
substitute for the hill 10 for cit lands
granted to the New Orleans. Baton
Rouge " Vicksburg railway. Placed on
tue calendar,
| In secret session the amended house
resolution providing f. r II holiday IT =
cess, substituting the oath for the 2Dtn
AS the date when the recess shall begin
was passed.
Mr. VAN WICK moved to make the
special order for January 8,
uext, the bill heretofore
reported from the judiciary committee
declaring subjecttU state taxation land
granted to aid in the construction OF u
railroad and telegraph line from the
Missouri river tu the Pacific ocean aud
to which lands the companies were T.,
| become entitled upon the payment oi
the cos, of surveying. Agreed to.
| Alter executive session the senate adj
journed.