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Show bii:i;c;i tlusts ALL IIS CLCfaiS Ui"!:i?aS of K;5siss!;;J Ialini3tes Crcc!:ed T.e-ccrfc T.e-ccrfc of Voles. : WASHINGTON,' May 19. Speaker Capnon Instanced his confidence in the reading-clerks of the House yesterday. Williams, . Mississippi, during the fill-buster fill-buster against the bill to pay Samuel Lee $10,000 for expenses incurred during dur-ing his contest for a Beat In the Forty-seventh Forty-seventh Congress stated that he had heard the name of a member called and that the clerk had recorded 1im as voting vot-ing when as a matter of fact the member mem-ber was not in the city. He said that he thought 'on several occasions he had heard clerks respond for the names of members, but he could not be certain of this because his own hearing was not good. On this occasion, however, he had distinctly . heard - the clerk vote the member and he thought there ought; to be a more careful calling of the roll. -. Speaker. Cannon replied that the efficiency effi-ciency and integrity of the clerks at the Speaker's: desk had never been questioned; ques-tioned; In. fact their worth and honesty were known to every member. He said that in the great hallr . and with the great membership In the House It was almost lmposslzle at times to , hear members respond, and he thought that in-a-'moment of thoughtlessness the clerk may have recorded a response without consideration.. " He believed that the taking of votes In the House was on a high plane of Integrity.. Williams replied by saying that he did not desire to impugn the motives of the clerks; he only asked for a proper record. |