| Show WAS C i LETTER i Till 0 oi or j Enny EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE This Tills is th tin st I It t of articles by Rodney correspondent c dent for ful MA 1 Service tr mid and The I on Ilic nico loi-cV loi I 1 I Sluicy who has lias cit been offIcial i porter i-c-porter fur for th the llie senate for 9 9 I I ni nr non 1 MA NIA Service Writer W WASHINGTON Feb Pen 21 21 Sen Sen Senator ator atol Robert B 13 Howell Howll oC of Nc- Nc Ne I Nebraska braska who t is credited with thinking larder harder than thin most other 8 also talks talk more slowly tItan than any other man in the upper house o of congress His Ula words areno are arc areso so carefully eon considered that th he de- de delivers de deliver livers liver about R a minute Bartly Darly exceeding him hint are ar Sen- Sen Sen Senators alors Sam Pain of and M 71 Simmon-i Simmon of oC North orth Carolina who about 1211 William lift William Cabell Bruce of Mary Mary- Maryland Maryland ary- ary aryland land does about ut nod and tile the senate official reporters who 1 roldo these thes figures because Ills his enunciation Is I poor and because 1103 ht houses USeS USe'S far fat more unusual words than anyone oce else the These fIgures and the th tables which follow tollo ere ft tabulated by y Theodore P Shuey who Is just entering his sixtieth year ear as of- of of official reporter tor for the tile senate They sho how perhaps for the very firSt time the average speed peed of Ih the various arlou senators in their speeches on n the thin senate euate floor It JI Is isto Isto t to be b remembered that while tile the fastest orators tal taic up less IMS sean aena- tonal time Ume to cover given civen ground others may be much more effective live tive and still others who never ot 01 seldom make mak speeches do very I ore off oft valuable worl the floor But here hele are the comparative speeds In words per minute Ashurst of Arizona 1911 11 I Bayard of ot Delaware O Bingham of ot Connecticut 1 j 5 Bicas Blease of South Carolina 1 O Borall Dorah ot of Idaho 17 Bratton ot of New Sew Mexico U 14 or or- or orI Louisiana I 1 lie 10 0 Bruce of o larland Cameron of Arizona 11 ii 11 i Capper of ol Kama Reads Kansas Reads hIs llis hi speeches Caraway of ot Arkansas 17 Copeland of f o New Sew York nr Couzens of or Michigan Curtis of Dale Dalo Speechless Yermont of Vermont Deneen of Illinois Ith Dill of ot Washington ton no io DuPont of ot Delaware are Delaware Edge of ot New Sew Jersey 17 l Edwards of ot 1 0 Now Jersey Jersey Ernst of pt of Reads Kentucky I Ferris of Speechless Michigan Fete Fess of Ohio 15 of f o Frailer of or North Dakota qc I George of ot Georgia 12 Garry o of Rhode Reads Island-Reads I of Massachusetts Glass Glus ot or Virginia 1 Goff hoff of o Vest VirginIa of o Idaho lIsle of ot Maine Maln 16 of Oklahoma iso Harrison of ot es of ot Speechless MissourI Missouri so 0 far fr I I HeftilY of 14 I I Howell Howll of ot US Johnson of California 16 li Jones of o New ew Mexico 12 Jones Jont of o Kendrick of ot 15 Key Keyes K y i of o New Nel Speech Speech Speech- leel I s King f o oC Utah U la 1 ett ot of o Wisconsin ISO Lenroot ot of Wisconsin lit eller of o Tennessee Kt McLean t of o Connecticut ll iSO McMasters of South Dakota t of ot Texas Means Man foans of ot Colorado 12 MetCalf ot of o Rhode leland ISland Island Speech Speech-leu less hess Moses Mole of New Nw Hampshire O Neely eely of o oat Wc We lit t Virginia Norbeck of South Dakota 2 G NorrIs NorrI ot of o Nebraska Oddia of ot Nevada Ov Overman of ot North Carolina 17 Pepper of Pennsylvania Phipps o of Colorado Pittman of o Nevada Neada 13 ill Ransdell of ot Louisiana 12 need Reed of Penn Pennsylvania so need d ot of Missouri Robinson of Indiana indians 1 to Robinson of Arkansas 1 12 Sackett of Kentucky 13 ot of o Minnesota 14 of r 1 I I SImmons of t North Carolina I O Smith of o South Carolina of Utah hIS Stock Sleek of Iowa Speechless Iowa Stephens of ot Mississippi Stewart of Iowa Ioa 12 Swanson of Virginia Tyson of ot Tenne Tennessee see Underwood of Alabama 12 Wadsworth of New ew York Wash Walsh of 1 Massachusetts ISO Walsh of oC Montana Warren arren of Wyoming i t Watson of Indiana 10 Weller of Maryland Speechless Maryland Wheeler heeler of Montana 0 Willis VIllia of Ohio l a 00 00 |
