Evening star., 1941-06-22
Capital SideIiehts
By Will p. Kennedy.

When paid extraordinary tribute by
his colleagues on his s3d birthday ami
versary, Representative Edward T. Taylor
of Colorado, the Grand Old Man" Of the
House. whom House Leader Mccormack
called IAN active living institution in
this body" countered by contributing an
important chapter to the history Of
Congress, which is to be printed as q
public document and distributed to
schools and libraries throughout the
country. He has had prepared his
tory of the Appropriations Committee of
which he is chairman, its genesis and
functions with sketches of the 81 dis
tinguished chairmen who have guided
its deliberations. and Of the three clerks
who have served the committee through
out its rs years Tribute in the House
to Mr.. Taylor by Representative Clarence
Cannon of Missouri, runnerup on the
committee, emphasizes that only four
othermemhers in the entire history Of the
House were elected II successive terms,
and points out that Mr.. Taylor is the
only one thus honored by his con-
stituency after he was so years of age,
and that he has unique record of "56
years OF unbroken service TO his coun-
try-in the Nation at large one of the
outstanding men Of his day and gen.
D,,r HI fiv,a iy, rnnnraes
about 1900 men and 80 women have
served in the House. Out of the 20 who
proceeded him as chairman OF Appro-
priations he served In the House with
10 and on the committee with six. Mr..
Taylor called the attention Of the coun-
try to the three clerks whose consecu-
tive service covers the entire life Of the
committee-Robert j. Stevens who served
19 years; James c. Courts, who served
the House A years, and the present
clerk, Marcellus C. Shield, with a
total service of 80 years, the latter "a
years as clerk. Mr.. Taylor also called
attention to five-link chain Of service
in Congress covering the entire history
of this Government from the Cont
mental Congress, in which Abraham
Baldwin Of Georgia sat. While Mr..
Baldwin was a member of the United
States Senate, Henry Clay Of Kentucky
entered the Senate in 1906. Then
entered Alexander H. Stephens of
Georgia, who served until 1882, overlap
ping the service Of Uncle Joe" Can
non. who was sworn in in 1873. Mr..
Taylor was sent to Congress in 1909,
and served with Mr.. Cannon IA years
thus has the torch of free government,
lighted In those early Colonial days
passed from hand to hand of five men
whose overlapping services form an un-
broken span from the prenatal period
Of the Republic down to the present
moment"
Representative Clare Hoffman, Re-
publican, of Michigan made an effort
the other day to correct an abuse that
has been growing in the House He
moved to correct the Record saying "at
the end of the talk made yesterday ap-
pears the word applause. There was
no applause and I ask that the word
be stricken out" Speaker Rayburn said:
The chair takes this opportunity to
say that the word applause or the
words loud applause are not a part of
the proceedings of the House and should
not be put in the Record
Sixteen States, third Of the entire
number, now are using airplanes for
oficial business, cloak room gossip at
the Capitol discloses. Also. this informal
exchange Of information among mem
bers shows that upward Of 400 cities
have become boom towns" as q result
of the national defense program. with
telephone business up 800 per cent, water
consumption increased 10000 900 gallons
and trailer camps to house defense work
ers . common phenomenon.