The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-15
CURRENT NEWS NOTES
FROM WASHINGTON
Sad Dissertations Of the Star Of the Hon
cradle John DalzeII Of Pennsyl
vania Noted BY Core
spondent.

HF0NHtMks
Anybody who walks through the cor
ridors Of the House Office building these
days doesn't need any further reminder
q the fact that this is campaign year
Piles OF mail bags clutter the halls
Of the building and extra clerks are
pressed into service to assist IN the mail
ing 81 literature to the folks back home
al Of which literature is designed to
draw attention to The fact that their
representative IA Congress + on the job.
II has been more than usually 4tallv"
n the House this session. Members feel
inclined to voice their views oh pretty
nearly everything under the sun. Leave
to print" has been granted oftener than
usual And an this adds 70 tne weight
Of literature being prepared for home
consumption.
10 the desire Of members 70 get into
print on all topics is attributable 10 part,
at least TIE length Of the present ses-
sion Of Congress Il IS campaign year
and no representative intends to let en-
opportunity 20 BY 70 deliver his views
These same speeches Of course, are
printed IN the Congressional Record But
The Record gives them only limited
circulation When the representative ds'
sire- that folks back home snail know Of
tlot BIT Of oratory, he has the govern
ment printing Office print the speech in
leaaet form. and sends tha tracts broad
cast through his district under his
frank L only costs bis clerk hire to
address envelopes.
There nave been other evidences Of the
love which members bear the dear folk
al home during the present session. An
attempt was made to print q million cor.
les 81 q very interesting publication e
Gently issued Nv tho department 81 ~
riculture i Was popularity called *Cnele
Sans cook book tie million to b for
use of senators and representatives An
other ooterie q members tried to secure
an increased appropriation for farmers
bulletins During the winter, the ari-
ultuml department was kept busy send
ing ont seeds in response to members
requests
The most convincing evidence Of al
that this Is campaign year. however.
comes 10 the anxiety with which mem
bers regard che votes. as chronicled il
The Record The member knows that
the newspapers and The Record ten bis
constituents just how Re votes Ga such
and such a proposition ffe knows that
Els folk will want @ know how &c
votes. and # lis name isn't recorded 4
either as an aye Or no, Just why he
wasn't on hand to vote It, therefore
has become not at all unusual q have
a member arise and ask that The Record
be corrected in the vote to show That
he was unable to be present on account
of illness Congressman are dnicky +
about pairs" too,
These are individual efforts OF course
the congressional campaign committees
eull through The Record and take *
tracts from various speeches which they 4
think make good compaign reading and
incorporate them into handbook far
the information Of The voter. Usually
good fat bin providing for nice public
buildings in various cities where things
don't look promising is also pulled
through If a member is Republican.
and a regular, he eau usually count on
the powers that be giving him q little
boost Of this sort a new post office for
sqeedunk which really doesn't need
building, but whose townspeopIe are
ticbled to think how much pull" their
honorable representative must have
When The campaign is actually on in
fun force file congressional campaign
committees apportion speakers This
campaign win probably be particularly
hard On the committees both Democratic
and Republican, since contributions are
not coming IN as fast as they might It
costs money to run Che campaigns, and
The assessment on each member has
grown into pretty sum.
But the visitors to the House these
days can hear more soothing talk about
che "toilers9 and the common people
and the rights Of man~ and all that
than at any other season.
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Volumes could be written on the sad