Show NO SUCH ANIMAL AS A U S congressman there aren tt what lias has become of theat hat should destroy congress so quick lyt these were the facet facetious lous questions that passed around in wah wash a few days ago when the cleric clerk of ote tie house of after a search through the tile musty ree os of his office declared that there was no official sanction to he be found anywhere for the word congressman congress ma n P apparently it must have started etor teil all a colloquialism like yoa you nil all in the south ad Ili idear IB in new england or Il erick eirick la in the west the cons titu ton sanctions tio tho use of the words representative and i r as designating those persons composing the houe battle frequently one sees in print reference to I 1 senators eena tors and congress men which is entirely irvng tinee since correct usage would sane sanction tion nothing less than 44 congress 4 meaning both bodies or senators ant aril tires tives 11 custom may make the usage of tase terms correct in time quite ris it ha has the word amerlean it ns applied ex exclusively elusively to the resident residents of the unit ed ea states when father was a boy ca radians and mexican Ilex leans ut a u t 3 also Is to t 0 call enli themselves american americans but they have been forced to give up their claim and now our northern congui call then them selves canadians aad d wo we call the M ars ians I ans ins a number of things |