The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-03-16
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMER
ICAN AND FVE6IGN CUSTOMS
Strange Accidents to Speeches Ex-
planned - Unspoken Words
Printed and Other Queer
ERRORS.
London Mail.

policy of the newspapers they represent
uttered by representatives on the moor
below The o lily incident Of the kind that
ever occurred in the press gallery of the
House of Commons was when an excit-
able reporter on the staff of The Dublin
Freeman's journal enthusiastically waved
loudly cheered on the conclusion of Glad
stones great speech Introducing the home
rule bill of 1886.
Speaking to the Reporters.
In the gallery the reporters are most
orderly. They never display their reel
behind, where the reporters. after nao
quarter of an hour in the box. wrestie
with the hioeroglyphics on their note
Mr.. Brodrick for dropping his voice, and
Radicals saying uncomplimentary things
| of Mr.. Asquith for tearing along at
| rate no shorthand writer could overtake.
Nor are the reporters proud; Members
make show of addressing their remarks
to the chair. Mr.. Speaker. Sir, each
| begins. They also pretend in their elabo-
rate show of argument to be anxious 10
| bring honorable gentlemen on the oppo-
site side of the House round to their
own views and opinions. Instances OF
votes having been diverted by speech
ly rare in the history of Parliament. No.
| the volume of talk, talk talk WHOM
| flows increasingly during the session Is
intended exclusively for the journalists.
over the Speakers chair.
A Small Audience.
During the time Of dining-between 7
and 9 o'clock-when as rule the dis
tirguished members of the House have
the only opportunity at their disposal
of stating their views. an honorab BILE gem
tleman may be seen addressing an audi
ence consisting soiely-so far as the floor
of the House Is concerned-of the Speak
err and the clerks at the table He. chow
ic fho
the meagerness of his audience He has
sent the manuscript Of his speech to the
| local organ of his constituency or ne Is
| aware that the representative: OF that
newspaper is in the reporters gallery
| takkng down almost every wordtthat falls
from his lips. Why. then, should he both
er because his colleagues prefer the de-
| lights of the smoking room, the dining
| room, or the Terrace to listening to him?
| A few years ago there happened to be
| two members named Power in the lrisn
| Party. John wrote out most eloquent
| speech, which he proposed to deliver IN
an approaching Irish debate. and sent II,
beforehand, to Dublin daily newspaper.
Reported, But Delivered.
On the night of the debate the other
| Power (RichardD succeeded in first catch
the Dublin daily newspaper. assuming II
| was John that had spoken, came out
with the report, five columns long, OF a
g,ald. speech, which. though It was
|
laughter hear, hear" and cries OF
mo no. had never been delivered.
That night. when copies of the Dublin
| daily newspaper were delivered at the
| House of Commons. John nad TO endure
| an unmerciful amount of banter. Yet he
boldly got up in the House later on, amid
| roars of derisive cheers and laughter, ana
| proceeded to deiiver--an entirely ,dinere emf
| but quite eloquent, speech. =
| Such incidents contribute to the run
of reporting Parliament.
Looking out for the unconscious witt
| cisms of the telegraph or the compositor
| in the reports of Parliamentary proceed
ings also helps to contribute the comic
relief to the work Of the reporters.
| DIR. Magee, The late Archbishop of York,
was made to declare in the House of
| Lords that drunkenness Is jolly. His
! Grace subsequently explained that his ex-
perience was too limited to enable him to
I express an opinion as to whether or not
it was great fun to he under the infu-
mitted himself to was that drunkenness
is folly" -
I'VE must put stop to the practice of
shaving factory boys to DEATH. exclalm-
| ed a labor representative-accord to a
| report in a provincial journal-in the de-
bate on bill to limit the house of work
! in factories. But 1t was the practice Of
Shaving factory boys to death. ana not.
putting an end to them by soap and wa
ter and a razor which he had condemned.
Mr.. Swift MacNeill. the Irish member,
once told the House the story of how he
had been molested at an eviction by the
| constabulary. Next time" said he. "a
| policeman laid a hand upon me chalked
him. and by that means was able to iden-
| tify him subsequently, In several pa
pers he was described as having SAD Una.
| he "choked" the constables. No doubt
| many an innocent reader or the report
| wondered the honorable gentleman was
at Westminster instead of being In Port
| land doing a term of penal servitude.
| The crowded House watches with Inter
est. even in the course of an exciting
speech by Mr.. Chamberlain or Mr.. Bal
| four, the relief OF the reporters who are
| ON for a turn" In the little boxes
When the turn" Is at an end-be 1t a
| quarter of an hour. ten minutes. or five
| minutes-at the signal from the reliefs'
| a touch on the shoulder. a dozen or TWEEN
| ty reporters jump simultaneously out of
the boxes. giving place to their waiting
| colleagues ready with notebooks ana pen
ellis to take up the speaker at the exact
| point at which they leave on, ana then
| disappear from the gallery.
Rain Extraordinary.
The reporters, in their comfortable quar-
tiers behind the gallery-dining rooms.
smoking roms. reading rooms, and even
| a bar-which have been Hospitality allot-
ted to them by Parliament. look back
with feelings of something like increduli-
| ty to the days, not so very long ago.
| when their predecessors had to sit among
the strangers" in a crowded and StuHy
gallery to take their notes, and when
| relieved rush off to their offices in Fleet
Street or 10 a neighboring tavern known
as The Pig and Whistle to write out their
| reports.
Daniel O'Connell the Irish agitator.
once complained in the House OF report
of a speech In London newspaper
which. he said, put into his mouth opin-
ions he had never expressed. He vowed
that if the editor did not apologize he
| would move that he be brought to the
| bar for a breach of privilege,
| Next day the reporter of the speech
| waited upon O'Conuell and gave a most
remarkable explanation, He stated that
during his walk from the House to his
office In Fleet Street the rain streamed
into his pockets and obliterated the notes
of the speech
81 accept the explanation" said O'Con-
nell, good humoredly. but let me say
| that 1t must have been a very extraord-
nary shower of rain. for it not only
| washed out OF your notebook the speech
| delivered. but washed in another of an
| entirely different character"
C. n. Markham Elected.
Houston. Tex. March 15.-At a meeting