Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05

! of New York newspaper VINO NJ d
written a piece for his paper descYp-
i've of how Sawyer had lunched I pc
hind the Speakers chair on craYhers
| on his bald head. picked hiS teeth
with his jacknife and returney TO his
seat to abuse the wings ~iW dfbate-
He was ever afterward kno,~n as
scribe was William Z. Rsbibson. as
sistant editor of the New fork Tri-
bune in 1S43 and its only Washington
/ correspondent. who wrot over the
signature of "Richelieuf He was
afterward three times el fcted in Con-
greSS
Many amusing storits have been
handed down by worn of mouth" in
the Gri En Club fd the National
h hass Epn Of h9 eorrdsponaen hts
writing speeches hnd handling the
correspondence Of members. One is to
the effect that . Iews writer sold two
copies of sUaI|ch setting forth the
advantages ofpfotection TO two mem
bers. each p.ading it at different
time and TIE duplication was not de-
tected untU the same speech appeared
in differgnf columns of the Daily
Globe ami carrying the names of the
two meynIers. Then there was a row
TheCohgressional Directory for Jan
nary, E59. does not contain the names
of ,arE accredited newspaper cor
reSpo hdents, where today there are
sYye /al hundred listed. Isut two years
latef the list included the names of
i'yIse who made names Tor them
I/,elves in the professional. G.. Hal
pine miles O'Reilley) of the New
York Times. Ben Perley Poore of
the Boston Journal j. l.. Crosby Of
\ the New. York Tribune. Joseph Medill
) Of the Chicago Press and Tribune
and f. "A. Pollard of the Charleston
= 7! Mercury. Then quickly followed an.
other notable galaxy of regular
correspondents-Hora White. Eras-
tus Brooks. j. Russell Young. who
was later managing editor of the
New York Tribune and published his
"reminiscences: Henry Willard, A. X.
Spofrord and Whitriaw Reid.
John Browns raid at Harpers Ferry
and the war days of the rebellion
again revolutionied the reporting of
| news from the nations capital. Those
= We're times of much activity Tor the
]: !: correspondents trying to scoop
/ each other. The way in which the
news was told in short space was
amazing. even to those who. have
; passed through the recent print paper
- famine On October IS, 1859. the New
= York Tribune. then two-cent daily
!, printed a Geographic dispatch from
D Washington about the John Brown
:. raid one-third of column in length
9 and what the. special correspondent
e only a fifth of ii column.
d *.;s !; X
-, NEARLY three-score years ago the
d ~ press censor was decidedly un-
= popular, and it is recorded that he
was decidedly partial. Secretary Sew
n ard ordered the transmission on Apri
IS 10. 1861, Of the names of the Massa:
i chusetts troops who had been wound,
D. ed at Baltimore. The censorship was
e handled in the most arbitrary man
n ner. During that entire war periot
~ the Washington correspondents Were
l. barrassed and hampered and frantic
= some Of the most loyal were mo-
d ionIy denied privileges. while some o.
=; the less scrupulous could sent
g through such matter as they pleased
t An appeal was made to Congress
and after a careful investigation
,s committee of the House denounced
n the way in which the censorship hat
,e been conducted and exposed the in
{, irstjces that had been done Durlns
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