Show value of the newspaper some republican congressmen were discussing the president s suggestion to shut out from the mails such news papers as have been printing indecent details of the thaw trial in hew york mr littlefield of maine in bulged in a general review of the press its powers functions and eriv lieges if it were not for the bigl ant press of this country with its trained corps ot representatives in washing ton he said I 1 dont know whether I 1 would care to serve in congress con giess my experience here has taught me that the newspapers perform a service of inestimable value to the country I 1 sometimes th that congress would drift into many excesses if the press gallery were not here to keep us in bounds |