Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-02
THE HOUSE LAUGHS.
But the Senate Smiles are Not
Reported.
vii and Humor In Our National LesisIa-
tive Halls.

live Halls.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-lSpecial. In
the official report of debates in the house
Of representatives the word Laughter" is
often found. 1t is the duty of the official
reporter to put in this word as we'll as the
word applause" whenever occasion justi
fies. In this there is striking difference
between the two houses of congress- Such
descriptive words are never used in reports
of senate debates. They are considered be-
meath the dignity of that body. If by any
accident the word laughter" should DO
inserted in the senate reports, probably
some official reporter would lose his job
There are exceptions to this rule, as to
most rules. Whenever there is applause
in the galleries it is the duty of the presid-
ing officer to call the attention of the &C.
cupants of tho galleries to tho rule ''for-
bidding manifestations of approval or dis
approval and when this is done the OFF,
rial reporter has license TO bracket the
words, Applause in the galleries. 7"
why They Laugh.
What do they laugh at in the house?
Usually at remarks which are anything
but funny when reported in cold type.
The bumor of sentence often depends
more upon the manner of the speaker or
upon some incident understood on the
floor and not TO readers, rather than upon
1 the words themselves. To crafty pass
ing curiosity have looked over the official
reports and counted the number of times
the word daughter has been inserted by
the stenographers during the three weeks
The house was in session in December.
The number is 90, and on but few of
these occasions do the printed words sug-
gest any great amount of humor
A pretty good joke was that told by Mr..
Terry of Arkansas. In the currency de-
bate he told of an argument he had read
with a farmer down in his state on the
financial question, and to support his side
of the argument found Unnecessary to re-
fer to the Law discovered great many
wears ago BY Thomas Gresham that a de-
based currency will drive better cur
rcncy out of circulation. This puzzled
the old farmer, and he scratched his mead
a moment and then retoftcd, why don't
you repeal the Gresham law?" OF course
s the word daughter was brackcted here
in the official report
Mr. Hall of Missouri spoke of the diff
ferent views held on the currency CUES
ton, saying, '"And then those few silver
orators who have hung themselves by a
silken cord of 16 to l over the abyss OF po-
litical extinction" Laughter.
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