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Show CLARK WOULD SPEED IIP WORK WPJG11ES5 Favors Abolition of Useless ; Oratory and the Congressional Congres-sional Record. i WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Speaker Clark said today that if congress wanted to clean the legislative slate and go home next March 4 he gladly would join I in a movement to eliminate useless ora-I ora-I tory by cutting down gallery space and j abolishing the congressional record and ! to introduce voting machines, j ''It isn't difficult to see that the gal-I gal-I leries and the record cause an awr'ui 'waste of time and money," the speaker declared today as he paused in his efforts ef-forts to outline a plan whereoy a session's ses-sion's work can be done in sixty-three legislative days. "Any time that the galleries are full the orators on the floor i are posing and wasting time. And j everybody knows there are any number of congressmen who talk for the record a great deal more than is necessary. ' The record is not necessary. The English house of commons has none. A journal is kept. Dr. Johnson ised to write it after the day's proceedings were over. He simply recorded who spoke and which side they were on. "I haven't much hope, though, that I would receive much support if I started start-ed to make a fight for smaller galleries gal-leries and no record, so I won't start it. But there is hope that the present method of taking roil calls will be abolished. abol-ished. It is archaic and a time waster." The speaker also favors reducing the house from 435 to 300 members and holding it to that number. Minority Leader Mann today expressed ex-pressed the view and offered figures' to substantiate it that under no circumstances circum-stances could the Democrats have a majority ma-jority in the next house, but that there (was a chance for the Republicans to have 218 members. He further said that ho was not worrying about the speakership speaker-ship and thought it would be much more fun to remain on his present job. |