Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
NC WHOLESALE GRANT OF LEAVE
TO PRINT THIS YEAR.
WILLIAMS PUT ON CURB
Minority Leader Showed no SYM
pathy for Members Who Sought to
Publish Campaign Literature-one
Chap Gets in Speech Never
Spoken Before.

WdSniu6IOH, may Io.-INOL III man
a presidential year has The Con
gressional Record been so decorou
II is enough to make old congressmel
rub their eyes and pinch themselves.
Generally, in a presidential year
The Record pours forth in a stead.
stream for weeks after adjournment
containing not merely speeches tina
never were delivered, but poems, ed
toTial articles from newspapers, ant
everything imaginable that could b!
any possibility be of any service Il
campaigners. All the restraints tina
govern The Record during the ses
sion are removed
This year John Sharp Williams put
a stop TO this by preventing the pas
sage of the usual wholesale grant to
all members of leave to print. Before
he succeeded in his purpose some
leaves to print had been secured, sc
the campaign extras of The Record are
coming out as usual. but instead OF the
usual steady stream, only three mum
gress adjourned ten days ago.
But this is not the most striking
fact about the fallen state OF the gov
ernment's campaign extra. The char
acter of the documents which are to
be circulated at government expense
is changed. A very large proportion
of what Is printed in the campaign
extras consists of speeches actually
delivered but withheld for tinkering
The first post-session Of The Record
is dated April 30. It starts off with
the usual statement of appropriations
prepared by Senator Allison as chair
man of the appropriations committee
Next come thirteen columns contain
ing what Representative Douglas Of
New York would have said about his
efforts 20 block the New York post
Office II he had made a speech II is
an argument designed to prove to Mr.
Douglass constituents that the news
papers have wronged him in saying
that he tried to sidetrack the postof
fee
Mr.. Burton of Ohio puts in a couple
Of speeches which he actually de
livered, and then comes a document by
Representative Johnson of South Car
olina. designed to prove that he is the
farmers friend.
MIR. Bartlett of Georgia prints sew.
eral columns of extracts from north
ern newspapers about mob violence in
Massachusetts. and concluding with
Thomas Hoods poem. A Black Job. in
which the poet relates the attempt of
a philanthropical society to wash the
black off the colored brothers skin.
An imaginary speech by MIR. Hughes
of New Jersey follows, in which he
defends the latoring man and de-
nounces the republican party for its in
difference to the toiler.
Mr. Gillespie of Texas uses up
twelve columns in what If delivered.
would have been an interesting speech
on the tariff.
Mr. Benny of New Jersey brings up
the rear with what he would have liked
to say regarding the laboring man and
the republican party's n,streatment of
the masses.
The next issue is dated April 80, and
Mr. Morreli of Pennsylvania starts
hravely off with what he wishes he
had said on the shipping commission
BILL Judge Parker. Mr.. Bryan. and the
tariff.
Then comes Mr. Dalzell's speech at.
lacking Bourke Cochran. followed by
Mr.. Williams reply to Mr., 1ittlefield
on the tariff, both of which were actu.
ally delivered. So was the speech of
MIR. Lacking of Michigan on the trans
port bill. which comes next Then
comes Civil Service Commissioner
Foulke's defense of the Presidents
civil service record. with some re-
marks 10y Mr.. Gillett of Massachusetts,.
The third issue is dated May 6. and
begins with Mr.. Cockran's tariff
speech. Mr.. SulZer of New York uses
three columns to predict victory for
the democratic party. He is followed
by Mr. Ryan of Buffalo, who. instead
of wasting time in campaign argu-
ments, adopts the more practical meth
cd of aiding his own reelection by
printing what he would have liked to
say about the Improvement of Black
Rock harbor. Mr.. Ryan modestly adds
applause" TO this work
Nearly all the rest of the issue is
filled with speeches actually delivered
by Mr.. Denny Of Maryland and Mr..
Cooper of Wisconsin. II concludes
with a speech which MIR. Lamb of vir,
ginia delivered. not to the house. but
to the National Tobacco association in
1901. and it shows beyond a doubt
that Mr.. Lamb is the friend of the
Virginia tobacco growers and that
they cannot do better than reflect him.