People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-11-05
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sional Record are then printed the
type stands four days for further cor
gccti9n.
st the end of this time it is stereo-
typed for the bound volumes. This
accounts for the hot debates and hard
sayings made 90 the floors Of congress
never appearing in the bound vol
umrS. The quotation referred TO was
made from the current copies pub
iiShed and sent out to subscribers and
as free copies. 10 the bound volumes
Mr.. Logan had revised it out for rea-
sons best known to himself. Any Of
the first copies will show the reading
given in the Compendium.
Yours truly,
CHAS. H. BLISS.
BY reference to the Congressional
Record we find the following among
the rules for its publication, which
proves that Mr.. Bliss statement rel
alive thereto IS correct:
Fourth. Corrections in speeches for
the bound edition Of the Record
should be sent to the Public Printer
within four days after the delivery of
the speech to be corrected, as it is
then StereOtyped.
We then wrote to him TO secure a
copy Of the original record if 1t were
possible, enclosing the clippings Of
the controversy. In due course Of
time the following reply was received:
Pensacola, Fla, Aug. 81, 1896.
Lyman Nauge, ESQ, Wellington, Kan.
DEAR SIR: Your letter aud news
paper clippings received and noted.
The Record giving the original read
ing Of Senator LOgan's speech will be
hard thing to get, as the first copies
appear in unbound form and are soon
destroyed, except where they are kept
for some special purpose. l think
that | nave a copy amOno my effects
! in Indiana, which | have stored away
until | regain my health. | am not
certain that it is still in my puSseS-
sion, but | am quite sure that the
Compendium gives the original read
ing, and the citation in the COmpen.
dium states that it had been changed
in the bOnnd volume.
The author of the clipping is cor.
rect in the date Of the speech, as you
will see by reference to the COmpen
dium. January 10Th Instead Of Jan-
uary l6th-a typographical error. He
is also correct in saying that Senator
Logan was not discussing the silver
question THE VOICE never claimed
otherwise. The was discussing the
contraction Of the currency, as the
extract and its context shows. The
author is also correct in saying that
the extract began in the middle of a
lcOmpOund) sentence, but as the
meaning was not changed in the least
| fail to see where it makes any differ
ence. The preparatory sentence, il
such it may be called, was eliminated
for the same reason that the rest Of
the speech was not published.
quoted the part of the speech that
was evidence against the contraction
Of the currency, and if youI critic
thinks that Senator Logan did not
make his points against that, then ir
my opinion it is folly for you to waste
valuable time and space in replying tC
him.
Your critic exposes his gross ignO'
rance Of congressional proceedings
when he says that there never was
and never could be any revision Of, Of
change in, the Congressional Record
l do not know who he Is, but he must
be the Kansas editor who disputed
the authenticity of Lincoln's warn
Ing, as published in my compendium,
because, he said, it was impossible fol
Lincoln's message to get into the
Congressional Record. l trust that
your state is not afflicted with very
many editors Of that class.
The revision OF the congressional
speeches is a matter common to con-
gressmen. When they get angry
quarrel, throw inkstands and books
shake their fists 10 each Others faces
and say things that do not look vel
| in print, it is very seldom that those
things find their way into the
Congressional Record. Congressman
Waugh, Of Indiana, had an ugly quar-
rel and came near lighting with q
southern member, but the quarre
does not appear in the Record.
think that Congressman Sibley's ref
erence to Mr.. Cleveland's abdomen
cannot be found in the Record. LATE
, Pence referred to some one as having
more whisky than brains, but it was
slightly modified to read "whiskers. )
Elk. Congressman Mcclellan, OF Indi
ana, told me that the truest copies Of
the speeches actually delivered In
congress we're those published In the
daily papers, for it was usual to revise
out everything that they did not want
to remain as part Of the record.
fail to see where your critic makes
any point unless he is trying to shield
the mortgage fends' and the money
sharks Of Wall street, New York, aDG
Threadneedle street, London" He
denies that Logan referred to then
but he proves that they did by the
Congressional Record. The two read
ings are practically the same except
that one tells little more Of the
truth than the other and that is why
| used it. Your critic may think thai
it is something awful for Senator
Logan to say something against The
mortgage flendS and money shark,
but that was the kind Of a man thai
Logan was and he evidently does mo-
know it.
You may make any use of this lette
that you see fit.
Yours Truly,
CHAS. II. BLISS.
With a slight hone that we nigh