The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-26
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ONLY PAPER IN WORLD
 MAKES NOTHING OFFICIAL
Improving a Senate Speech.

sary additional sentence or paragraph
 and the home papers, that are on his | mailing list, receive the Record and print what he said, as we'll as what
 he did not say. Of course, what the
 blue pencil accomplished remains a mystery so far as the ordinary reader
 of the Record is concerned That
 feature of the censorship is forgot
 ten with the end of the day. | As for putting into the Record | speeches that are never spoken, that is a privilege exercised principally by I members of the lower house. In the | Senate a member ordinarily may | speak just as long as he. can hold out, 1 be it measured in hours or days. Once | he gets the floor, a Senator can hold l it as long as his voice continues to | function.
 But it is different in the House. It | that chamber, where the rules arc more strict and where debate can be controlled by the majority leaders, a member can talk just so long and not one minute longer. But he has way of getting around that, for he can pad the Record by the "eNtension of re l marks" method, which permits a l member to write a speech and have l it printed "Mr Speaker and all' in the Record The debate on the par l ticular measure on which he wishes to express his views may take place to- day and a week or 10 days later the Congressional Record will print the speech that was never spoken, and 1t will be in the record as an extension of the remarks of the Hon. So-and- So"
 It costs the taxpayers of the coun- | try thousands upon thousands of dol | lars to print the orations that are never delivered The Congressional Record is chock full of them. They cover the whole field of legislation from tariff to prohibition. Some are long and some are short. Some are solemn and some are humorous. Pause for a moment and listen to the Hon. John Elliott Rankin of To- peka, Miss It all happened in the Record of July although the debate of which it was printed part occur red in the House on the previous June 2o. The subject was the Borah disarmament resolution. And when the Congressional Record in the course of it's travels reached ltaWam- ba, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, 11shomingo l and other counties in the old First | district of Mississippi many of the voters must have read what MT. Ran | kin had to say about conditions in this sad old world,
 MT. Speaker" the Record tells us he said, ''I believe in the ineNorable l law of retribution. Whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap" is a divine admonition that is no respect CT of persons, and it applies no less l to individuals than to nations.' And then MT. Rankin paid his re- spects to the one-time kaiser, who "in the silence of his present exile, wrap ped in the solitude of his own and his God" broods over the weight | of destruction due to the great World War
 'I wonder" he continued, so the Record states, If before his miser- | able vision there sometimes pass in panoramic review the recent belliger- ent countries of Europe i'll their pres ent deplorable states-homes burned
 property destroyed, cities laid waste
 and towns and villages obliterated
 from the earth.'
 l And as for the people of these countries the Mississipian wondered il l the kaiser realizes that their hearts
 ''are rank with hatred and their Very l souls are burning with revenge" and | if whether the kaiser can vision them
 ''in the fruitless years to come toiling l and struggling up the hill of the fu-
 ture and stumbling and fainting and | falling under the very cross of taxa
 ton upon which they and their chil- dren and their children's children are to be crucified."
 On June 20, 1921, the question ot | the admission of aliens under the re- 1 gently enacted restrictive immigration l law was brought up on the floor O1 | the House. Eight days later in the | Congressional Record the Hon. Rob | crt $. Maloney of Lawrence, Mass. who states that a large percentage or
 the voters "who have honored me by
 selection as their representative" are persons who first saw the light o
 day in other lands. A considerable
 number of aliens had arrived here and their numbers were sufficient tC 1 bring them within the limitations O
 the new law, and under strict inter
 pretation of the law the landing O. these persons would have been de
 nied.
 "Should these strangers" MT. Ma
 the House on Page 3,335 of the Rec
 ord, be made to suffer one minut,
 when they are in no sense responsi
 ble for the present unfortunate con
 dition?
 q say no," Mr. Maloney exclaim
 ed, in the Record
 "Leaving ones native land, ever
 with fond hopes,' he proceeds o1
 Page 3,335, and most brilliant expec
 tations of going to another lanC
 where will be found more of liberty
 justice and greater opportunities, is
 indeed, with any one at any time al
 occasion of sorrow even under thu
 most pleasant conditions"
 But this was not all, and the Law
 renee statesman proceeded to pictur
 the situation that confronted thes
 immigrants when they arrived at "th
 goal of their ambition" which wa Ellis Island. It was mental plCtur
 of what these aliens may have lief
 behind or the sacrifices they may hay
 made when their ships pointed to
 ward New York.
 "The disposal of homes and cL<t
 tels," the Record says he said, "th heirlooms, perhaps, of centuries o
 ancestors, the parting of loved one and friends, will leave many sac
 memories when it is considered tn great distance which separates them perhaps forever. All of these acts o preparation and parting were made
 and 1 do not believe we should adt to their embarrassment by a refuSa