Show fj Padding the Record I 0 HOMAS L. L BLANTON representative from Texas has thrown the lower house of congress congress con con- con I gress into an uproar by causing to be printed in the Congressional Record an an objectionable affidavit His expulsion from the house is demanded demanded de demanded de- de for using indecent and obscene language in extending his remarks We have not re read d the undeleted document of the solon from Texas but butare butare are are inclined to conclude it is strong to raise rais this furore Padding adding the record has always been a l lar r sport in congress In the pages of the Congressional Record are to be f found und everything everything everything every every- thing from iron an obituary to the resolutions of the uplift leagues back l home home ome It is by byno byno byno no means confined to the congressional business and it it is popular prey for those who would evade the the cost of printing production In justice to some members of congress it may be said that thai they make some search fora for a peg peg pegg g on which the they can connect stray stray documents with the business business before before- the legislative bodies x The ingenious solon might tell the members house that his attention has been called salted os j remarkable document fully illustrative of l matter before the house Permission to print printe i i Ii ame e in the record is granted and no scowling ii i checks the one with the other From the ther J r fes es made in the Blanton case it would seem that the Texas representative was less lessi i reet reet hut but his plight should direct general fhi to the waste and extravagance which ends the printing of the Congressional Record Some definite lines of congressional business s- s sh suld m uld be drawn and the record confined to this fie d. d The people can ill Il afford to finance the minting of every document which authors and sponsors sponsors hold worthy of perpetuation in the ther archives r nives of the nation The waste of the govern govern- l printing office does not end with the re record ord for after the matter has been officially printed it becomes the text of of official dodgers which are sent to all parts of the country at considerable expense not only to the printing office but to the postoffice department as as well Regardless s of what hat they do Blanton congress sho should ld sc see that that the printing abuses of the present day are eliminated f |