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Show The CoiLgrruiotial UecortL The several thousand non-paying and half dozen paying subscribers to that especial journal. The Congressional Record, Rec-ord, now miss its neatly cut and bound pages from their morning mail. It is noteworthy that up to its dying day The Congressional Record was full 0 speeches, some of which were "delivered" "deliv-ered" in senate or bouse two months before, and "held for revision." The veteran statesman nearly always lets his remarks go in the manner in which I they are caught by the official stenographer; stenog-rapher; the amateur statesman l only wauls to revise his speeches, but to read the proof before The Record is put 10 , press. Senator Cullom often laughs at the rather ridiculous zeal displayed by himself him-self when he was a member of the freshman fresh-man class in the house. That was just twenty-four years ago. The then Representative Rep-resentative Cullom had made a big speech , on the polygamy question, and he determined to cee that speech to press. At ihe old Globe ollice he was told the proof would be ready at 2 o'clock in the morning. At 2 o'clock he was told ho would have to wait until 3, and ut 3 his pulse quickened as the proof of his first congressional speech was placed in his hands, lie spent a half hour over the proof and was unable 10 find any errors, typographical or others. The foreman was calling loudly for the proof so the forms could be put on the press, and lha young congressman was determined to find an error of some sort to repay him for his all night vigil. Finally, In a moment of desperation, he struck out a whole sentence and crawled off to bed. Rising about noon ho eagerly grasped The (Jlole, and with humiliation discovered discov-ered that the only blemish ou tho composition compo-sition of the speech was the unliuppy omission of that sentence, whoso absence ab-sence left a number of other sentences well nigh meaningless. Since that night Mr. Cullom has not bothered the government govern-ment printer to send him proofB of his speeches. Walter Wellman. |