Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-15 | Page 8 | Solons Given 'Second Guesses' by New Rule

SOLONS GIVEN SECOND GUESSES GUESSES' BY NEW RULE Order Ordel P Permits Them Thern to Change Remarks for Appearance ance in Congressional Record V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON UP The UP-The The h great eat game of or politics has a n new rule today to permit statesmen to escape the thc consequences consequence of speaking first and and- thinking afterward Speaker Henry T. T Rainey has ordered that house members be given givena a a. second guess in hi their debates on government business The order officially and perhaps inadvertently inadvertently in jn advertently exposes the slickest congressional congressional con con- 1 gressional hocus in the political trick bag It formally recognizes the system whereby senators and congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen are permitted to edit temper tern tem per and otherwise revise their remarks remarks remarks re re- marks for the Con Congressional Record Representative Clarence Cannon D. D Mo made the complaint which evoked a rule by Rainey that a member memo mem ber may say one thing on the floor and another in the Congressional Rec Rec- ord What Rainey actually stipulated was that newspaper men and others may not examine freshly transcribed accounts of house debate without consent consent con con- sent of the speechmakers That enables enables en en- ables members to change their speeches before publication if it they desire leaving those who h hear e ear a r speeches to ponder why they do not read as they sound when spoken C Capitol hill bill is not the only federal sector where such privileges may be enjoyed A controversial statement by Administrator Hugh S. S Johnson recently was deleted from an N R A press conference transcript Newsmen News News- men several men several of them understood them understood Johnson to say high wages in anthracite anthracite cite fields and refusal of miners to spread work made it difficult to agree on a hard bard coal code tJ Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania chorused p pro protest r o t e s a t. t Johnson then said he had been quoted inaccurately Recourse to the trans trans- script revealed that the passage in question was gone Senator Simeon D D. D Fess CR R. R Ohio was angry some weeks ago during the debate on ca canceled airm airmail Jil contracts He ventured the opinion that someone someone someone some some- one ought to be in hell The purist Record appeared next day with those words deleted either by the hand o ot Foss Fess loe g or a shocked stenographer One favorite dodge is to alter give and take repartee so 0 that the other mans man's wise crack appears very dull indeed