Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-22
CANNED SPEECHES
FILL LAST ISSUE Of
CONGRESS RECORD
BY THEODORE TILLER

WASHINGTON, March 20.-The
last issue of the Congressional Rec.
ord for the 9th congress, a volume
of 204 pages, filled mainly with
canned speeches." or extension OF
remarks, has now come from the
public printer at an estimated cost
Of $4,000.
The speeches published in the
final issue of the Record range all
the way from Senator Tom Heflin' s
attack-fifty pages of ton the al
legged defation policy of the Federal
reserve board under the administra-
tiCn of Governor w. P. G. Harding,
to another outburst from Rcpresen-
tative Upshaw, of Georgia, in de-
Tense of prohibition and Volstead
The Record also carries the Swan
soTg" Of several lame ducks.
The estimated cost of printing and
circulating the Record is $50 a page
AT that rate, Senator Heffin's de.
nunciation of the reserve board
made during a senate filibuster in
the closing hours of the session,
cost approximately $4,000.
Different Conclusions
chairman OF the senate appropria.
lions committee, and Representative
Madden and Byrns, respectively
chairman and ranking Democrat OF
the house appropriations commit
tee, used nineteen pages in analyz-
ing the appropriations of the past
congress. Taking the same figures
the Republicans and Democrats
came to different conclusions, as
usual.
Senator William II. King, of Utah
uses ten pages under the tit e,
''Mustapha T<emal Conditions in
the Near East" and Representative
Fess, of Ohio, follows with an lex.
tension of remarks" occupying SIX
pages IN review of the accomplish
ments to date of the Harding ad
ministrat iOn.
1t is customary after the adjourn.
ment of congress to allow members
ten to twenty days to revise their
remarks or make extensions in The
Record, provided permission for. OK
tensions are given before adjourn.
ment. Consequently belated editions
of the Record appear every few
days following an adjoumnren and
are devoted largely to canned
speeches. The house is particularly
given to extension of remarks. >
Senators do not use this form, but
senators are given permission to in
sert data in their speeches and &C
over and revise them.
Senator Het1in. for instance, in.
serts a number of laudatory tele.
grams and letters, and also news.
paper articles, regarding his long
fight on the policies of the reserve
board. Over in the house Represen.
tative Blanton prints much CORE
spondence laudatory to himself in
connection with a dispute with or.
ganized labor.
Others drawing literally upon con.
gressional Record space in the final
issue, and the subjects upon which
they talked or extended remarks, ~
include:
Upshaw's "Remarks"
Representative Kelly, Pennsyl-
Vania, denying that prohibition is a
failure; Representative Upshaw,
ditto, his text being "Not 'Volstead,
ism but Constitutional American
ism"
Representative John Philip Hill,
OF Maryland. extension of remarks
on The Rehabilitation of Bureau
crazy" wherein he lambasts prohi-
bltion and Commissioner Haynes.
Representative Hammer, of North
Carolina, "A jackson Day Address
Of the Hon. Ewin +. Davis"
Representative Otis Wingo, of
Arkansas, three speeches on rural
credits. Representative James, of
Michigan, an extension in defense of
Henry Ford's offer for Muscle
Shoals. Representative Reddick, of
Montana, an extension eulogizing
Abraham Lincoln. Representative
Rossdale, of New York, an extension
praising his colleague. Representa-
tive Seigel, who was leaving con-
gress.