Show THE HUMOR OF CONGRESS Some of tho the details of the tho Congressional Con gressional Record are funny One reads the ordinarily dull pages because because because be be- cause they are records and one roust must keep an eye on what the tho servants of the people are aro doing On One must make sure that these servants are earning their salary whatever salary whatever it is But o on occasion the reader Is rewarded rewarded rewarded re re- warded with a gleam of humor For example On a recent day there was wasa a printer mistake in the record and the tho following is Is' Is the tho rift of sunshine in the cellar full fun of gloom Mr PAYNE Mr Speaker I wish to correct the Record My 11 colleague gue the tho gentleman from New York Mr I Cockran calls calls calls' ray my attention to the fact that on page of or the Record of January 15 16 15 1908 a a. portion of or my speech is ts attributed to him and while he ho might be pr proud ud of it It- It Mr COCKRAN I am Mr PAYNE He seems to desire to have it changed I ask therefore that the change be made It is the last paragraph on that page Mr Ir COCKRAN Mr Speaker I would be proud of it ft but I do not want to appear S before the tho House and the whole country as the possessor of stolen goods Laughter The SPEAKER Without objection the correction will be made There Thereas was as no objection It must have had a good erect effect on onte the te legislators tors Like a breath of ot fresh air in a a. musty schoolroom that flash of something even remotely resemblIng resembling lag ing humor must have bave been a revivifying revivify revivify- lag ing influence And the work of serve ing the country must have gone forward forward for tor- ward a n little better for the Instant of nature human-nature mirth That minute wasted in laughter probably was the be best t nt made in tho the entire day |