CONGRESS WAS TALKATIVE trig big task imposed on official reporters by lawmakers many meetings by committees new record Is established washington never before in the history of the world has been such a task imposed on shorthand reporters as the one which has just been completed at the capitol there has haa been more talk recorded there in the I 1 last seven months than was ever put into paint anywhere before in the same length of oe time when the first session of 0 the fifty ninth congress con grebs adjourned it was waa found that the congressional record had bad gone beyond the page mark once has it evere ever bleached leached that laguio beffie in one session of congress and that was in the fifty first the aced rules session which sat until october 1 the congress con giess in seven montha did as much talking on the floors of the house and senile as the fifty first did in ten months the house contributed the greater volume of the oratory but the 70 day senate sebato debate on the tha railroad rate bill waa aas quite unprecedented in that body tor for its continuousness quantity rapidity and technical character the official reporters of the house who take an interest in such things have a collection of figures which show chow that the debates in that body average a more rapid rate than anywhere e else se for instance the record often contains 60 columns of reported matter for a six hours session this means an average of about words a minute the whole time some men like mr air tawney mr hepburn mr air mondell and mi ali clayton speak with tuch such delightful deliberation and clearness that they could almost be ba taken by a good longhand writer but the average la Is made by the rapidity ot of oth eis like mr lacey mr hull mr de armond mr air stephens of texas mr Dony bonynge mr gillett of california mr mr air cockran and mr little field whose conversation lu in colloquy often goes about the word mord mark but the debates on the floor door are part ot of the akings never before have there been eo ea many committee hear ings A brand new chairman ot of the house committee on came in this bt ion and under the leadership of mr tawney the depart I 1 ments menia ot of the government hane hae recel N veri ed such an avei hauling as never before this wai wa 9 in session almost all the tha time and th the e printed he hearings aringE on the appropriation bills alone equalled equal led in soluma the entire houff proc edings in some former con I 1 grosses there was scarcely an important house committee that has not had more hearings than usual often six ot seven committees have been in bession at once and theio waa aas one memorable day wuen 11 committees committee 4 of the house bat at the saino time and seven ot of them lan ian nil all day the committee sten og raphers record of the assignments to lo hearings shows that have been during the josslon of th theae ene the regular ommittee force reported and outside reporting firms had bad to be called in to take tahe care of there was very attle general pollyl cal debate strange as aa it aly seem almost all the talk has been of the kind hind that seeks to attain a definite result and whether on appropriation bills or on matters of specific legisla tion the debate was waa of the sort that counts the senate committee hearings while very much less voluminous than those of the house were also heavy notably the canal committee hearings which amounted to more than words altogether there more than 40 words worda spoken and reported at the capitol in seven months a record the like of which the world have never bedora known