The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-26
When a Congressman Wants to Exalt the Folks at Home All He Has to Do Is Get Per- mission to Extend Re- marks He N ev CT Made and It's Done.

commitment Ot the Bonus b1lI to Wha some of the more ardent supporter! of the measure have asserted was It: death. Whether this be true or no only time can tell, but one thing k certain, and that is that what happen ed on the floor of the Senate alter the bill was sent back to the commit tee room of Boies Penrose will not go down in history in it's entirety 1T the Congressional Record.
 A battle of words was fought that day by the fiery Jim" Reed of Mis- souri and the eXact-spoken, blond haired McCumber of North Dakota It was a fracas those who witnessed it will not soon forget, and the only apparent reason why ii ended as { battle of words was because Johr Sharp Williams, master peacemak- er intervened and brought hostilities to an end before any more damage could be done.
 McCumber, who had directed the fight to pass the Bonus bill, had beer explaining just why 1t had been re committed, and Reed and Robinson of Arkansas had been twitting him for his failure to keep the $5,ooo,o proposition before the Senate. Nc Cumber stood 1t as long as he could dIlu lHti lie began lO lldl up.
 The Missouri Senator likewise gave indications of an increase in tempera- ture, and Tom Watson the "stormy petreP of Georgia, stepped to the side of his friend Reed, ready to do 3 "Picket's charge" in the event Reed was hard pressed.
 McCumber said something that Reed interpreted as charge that he had spoken what was not the truth Figuratively speaking, the bell rang and the first, and then the second round was on. McCumber advanced in the direction of the Democratic side, where Reed, straight as an In dian, stood Watson joined Reed McCumber said something about settling the matter ''outside," and Reed, looking him straight in the face in cold, measured tones uttered these words:
 "I never saw a blackguard yet who did not want to go outside to settle something."
 A Shocked Senate
 On the floor Senators gasped Memories of the Tillman-Mc Laurir row came back to the older members while the younger members just sat still and wondered what was going to happen.
 Then it was that John Sharp Will Hams stepped into the ring. The statesman from the Valley of the Yazoo said something nice to his friend Reed and he smiled a pleasant message in the direction of the thor oughly angered gentleman iron Dakota" Very slowly the tension relaxed. McCumber sent for the stenographic record and read what he had said, and Reed, after listening said he had misunderstood the Nortf Dakota Senator. John Sharp Will Hams continued to pour oil on the waters. When the Senate adjourned the chamber was as peaceful as { Quaker camp-meeting.
 The story of the Reed Nc Cumbe1 fracas was published from ocean to ocean and from the lakes to the gulf But no paper printed the story in ful There was just one publication left il the affair in all it's details and tha was The Congressional Record. Blu not one word to indicate that any un pleasantness had marked the after math of the bonus recommitmen was to be found in the Record.
 Something had happened. The mos complete censorship in America hat accomplished its work History b, the Congressional Record shows no one word of what happened in tn Senate in the few minutes that pre- ceeded and followed the uttering o the word "blackguard" by the senio Senator from Missouri. As in othe instances of similar nature that hay occurred in other years, those respon sible for the trouble had 'censored Al. ID Congress contain no word of wha occurred, and future generations Wh read the record of the closing day o the bonus debate will have every req son to think that July I5, 1921, wa just an ordinary pleasant afternoo in the Senate.
 What is the censorship that prevail in the Senate and in the House.? is a privilege as old as the houses c Congress that gives to each Senate and Congressman the right to correC to revise and to delete, and, in tn case of the House, also to pad tn Congressional Record in so far a that official publication concerns members own spoken utterances.
 When a Senator makes a speech, b 1t short or long, pleasant or i'll ten pered, he receives within a few min uteS alter he takes ms seat copy C the stenographic record. It is a cop that is triple spaced, leaving plenty C room for any corrections, revisiOns O oblitcrations that the author of tn speech may see fit to make.
 For instance, Senator X has mad a speech It may have had to d with the trials and tribulations of tn farmers of the land. Senator X i painting the picture may have state that Oo-odd per cent. of all the farm CTS are facing bankruptcy and ths unless Congress legislates a remed there will not be any farmers left i the country.
 The stenographic report is sent { Senator K He looks it over.
 "Ninety per cent. bankrupt h may murmur to himself, "seems b high Perhaps I'd better make it 7 or even 50 per cent, and so it that when The Record is printe Senator X can cite it as the ofici; authority for his assertion that tn situation was not quite as bad as tn correspondents who heard him spea quoted him as saying it was. AnC The Record being official, the dis claimer stands for all time.