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Show ' MTTMBLBD LEOISIUTIOir. A tour lax visitor in Washington recently re-cently complained of the aeonstia qualities of th chambers ef ron areas. . I was ia tha bona today," ha aaid, "aad could hear nothing. Tha clert waa calling the roll for vr aa hour and nobody heeded or answered him. Hia voice waa a mere mnmbla." A cynical Waahiagtoaiaa replied: "Some of tb buaiaes that passes tb hone (and th senate, too) should be aaambled. It waa proper that you ahould imagine a roll call whea th special pension bills were he- , ing paeeed. They are the biila that congressmen con-gressmen sever discuss." Th next day tk viaitor bought a copy of tha Congressional Record. It -natained thirty donbl-eolnmned page. Ta a casual observer a telephone di-reeeorr di-reeeorr would b mare interesting. f Here the names were followed bv dol- I lars instead of addreaees. la penaioa I matt ere, ta public i( aever allowed I to learn addressee. William Bavard I Hal ia th World Work. I |