Show TO ORDER its a mistaken fidei tint senators and finein bees speeches arc written bj their private secretaries said an old of the capitol the da turning slow iv to a stai min after a long study ot the vacant chairs and hire galleries As a thin their anale secretaries don t know iny more than they do hien he topped for A little and drun his stick against the marble ihas while he dropped off again into a stud no sir ho added leaning his chin on his cine ind looking ala ambe straight in tho eye they don t I 1 ve ben trying to make out the composition of a private secre tao I 1 don t iee what congress men want them for unless its on AC count of a kind ot feeling thit chev ought to have komg one around that knows les than they do but as I 1 was saving it dont make any difference about the secretaries they don t write the speeches and to tell vou the truth I 1 think the most of the in both houses now write their own speeches but some of cm don t what you am t surprised t that hv bow long have you been about why as long as can re member theia s en men hanging about the capitol vo write speeches tor M much n line some of them reid mighty nice in the decord and I 1 tell you surprise a rural constituency tears ago these men used to make lots of mone in kliore much of that done now asked the star well its hard to say there s probably not so much as formerly but ou can t tell it s only when a mccurt and two men get the same speech or something like that that you can discover it though I 1 can generally now there s the case mr vest gjoke of where alien and nugan both printed the same speech baili instances have frequently but generally when a man deliver an old speech he goes far enough back in the record not to double up in that div some years ago I 1 IP member i very brilliant speech was printed by a er slow ordinary nun in the house and created quite a cen bation the members district being flooded with the globe of that date bat one of the members disco vend that anc same had been made b a deiy distinguished sd statesman in the house two or three terms previous along about the forty second or for tr third congreso Con greSi or ma be it was tl e forty I 1 dan t iu t remember there was a verv ordinary man in the houe hou e from lennes ee aimel cold welt hf had never done anything in particular and never said inurn until oneda he caime out with a very bal biant speech that st til the house in commotion ind made him quite fa mou but in the hath congre s he was bucce ded by another coldwell who was tall a brilliant tallow ono daiy diy he was thus accosted in the corn mitte loom 1 I met bill blink the other daya ah replied coldwell bot knowing the nime rou know bill no 1 don t remember in 11 vv hy don t you know be s the fellow who w rote our great speech on a ear or so ago leastwise he told mi so the other day 1 ho congressmen smiled grimly I 1 guess it was my he knew wonderful ora boncal dev elopement was explained there are lots of the e basei casei but chev don t ill come out if they did all I 1 duesi there d be some suicides you r remember I 1 the I 1 caio of r wante no why speaker lute of kentucky it is thought gilted kilted hin hinely elf on account an exposure white was a very able roan but he pot caught in a very bad fix he was speak er of the twenty seventh congre Oon gre you know and as I 1 have said he was an able man but bo was so pressel wilh business thit when he had tu deliver hi valedictory he pot one ot thos men who are alwa s on hand to make a little mone to write his address it was handed him ju t a little while before the time be had to deliver it so ha pat it in his pocket without reading when the time come he roie and slowly un folding the manu apt read the ad dresa it was very brilliant but it wa aaron cund camou valedictory to the senate abe beeaker never recovered from the shock he went home was taken very ill nd it is supposed he killed for shame in former dis the old man addel after waiting a little while for hn dis closures to csink deep in tha reporter in reformer das these speech will ers bied to make lots of money 1 don t know whether they do as well or not ahey used to pet 1100 and or a and I 1 know of one speech that sold for ta 0 no 1 never heard of clay or webster hiring any speeches but I 1 know that some of their speeches which wre thought to ba impromptu card fully batore being delivered |