The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12
OFFICIAL RECORD IS SUBSIDIZED
Speeches Of Congressman are Rarely
Printed as They are Delivered.
from The chicago Herald.


Washington, Nov. 3.-The Congress
ional Record, document issued at very
great expense to the taxpayers for the
purpose Of furnishing verbatim report
OF congressional debates, is fast becoming
a false record,8 Il has long been known
by thosehavlng opportunity to see and
hear what goes on in congress that the
practice OF withholding remarks for re-
vision has of late years been so seriously
| abused that the Record gives an untrue
| account OF proceedings in congress. The
abuse has often been publicly referred to
by senator's and represl ntatives, but it
still goes on unchecked
Inc latest instance of classifying the Of
nclaI report is to be found in this morn
lng's copy of the Record. What purports
TO be the speech delivered in the Senate
on Monday last by Senator Cary, of WyO-
| ming, with the replies of Senators VOL
colt and Teller, of Colorado, is published
now for the first time, but all three Of the
! speeches. have been so garbled in "reyis-
Ion That II would have been a much more
| Ialtn1ul report to have omitted them al
together. The speeches were of highly
entertaining and strictly parliamentary
character when delivered, but they are so
decorous and dull, as reported in the
record, that the readers of that valuable
~ - -te%A VIII ITO uOQUb NOuuCE
why they are published at all. If
the Congressional Record of this
morning is to be looked To for report of
what took place in the Senate on Monday,
posterlty will never know that Senator
Cary rebuked Senator Wolcott for criti-
clslpg Mr.. Cary's attitude on the repeal
Dill by accusing the young Colorado SEN
ator Of committing his speeches to mem
DRY before delivering them, and changing
his cIOth1nn hafOan cY.Aoob nd ole
that ne lnsinuated what must have been
a powerful stretch of imagination-tha
Mr.. Woleott has been in the habis of
sending word to all the doorkeepers not
to send in cards while he has the
floor. The historian, moreover, will
never know from anything he
may find in the Congressional Record
that the brilliant Colorado senator
came back at Mr.. Cary like a piston-rod
OF Corllss engine, and, after expressing
ms pity Tor man who gets offended at
the sight of clean shirt, drew an old
and apt Spanish proverb from the cob
webs OF his memory and, metaphorically
speaking threw it in the face of the Wyo-
ming senator. Spanish proverbs are
wasted IN the United States Senate. how
ever, and only the newspapers will pre-
serve the fact that after Mr. Wolcott had
boxed Mr.. Cary's ears for a moment he
suddenly desisted with the cOncemptuous
remark: lit is a waste of lather to shave
an ASST
The Senate records viii never show,
either, that when Mr. Cary had the
temerity to return to the attack by read
ing from a magazine article the old ex-
ploded charge that the silver republicans
in the Senate sold their votes to the dem
ocrats on the force bill in return for ex-
pected votes in opposition to the silver
repeal bill, Mr.. WollcOtt's colleague, Mr..
Teller, sitting two feet away from Mr.
Cary, arose in his wrath, and in his we'll
known nasal, sing-song Methodist ex-
horter sort of voice said to Mr.. Cary that
the magazine article was false, and he be-
ieved Mr.. Cary knew it to be false when
he read 1t. All of these flashes of sena-
torial etiquette and debate, that so enter
tanned the vast crowd that was in the
galleries on Monday to witness the pass
age of the repeal bill, are lost to history,
having been totally eliminated from the
speeches Of the senator's during the pro-
cess of revision"