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Show HAD SPASMS OF FRIGHT House Convulsions at an End When Barnhart's Mistake In Ciphering Cipher-ing Was Discovered. The house of representatives was thrown into temporary spasms of tight the other day when Repiesen tative Barnhart of Indiana, chairman of the committee on printing, an nounced that the Congressional Record Rec-ord cost $10,000 a day per copy. He was pleading for economy, and no one seemed to he paying any attention at-tention to him, until he put this enor mods price upon each copy of t'no Congressional Record, which, if true, would make it the most expensive publication pub-lication ever dreamed of by man. Everybody tried to speak at once. The reason for this was that' each member has sixty copies of the Record Rec-ord allotted to him for distribution in Ms district. i It would not look well to have each constituent read in the Record that this daily compilation of the spoken w isdom of congress is costing a king's ransom. The noise was so great that Mr. Barnhart did not have a chance to explain. ex-plain. At the height of the disturbance Representative Thomas of Kentucky gained the floor. He asked unanimous consent to grant leave of absence to Mr. Barnhart for one week, in the hope that during that time the gentleman gentle-man from Indiana might give close study to arithmetic and the multiplication multipli-cation table. After the noise had subsided It was discovered that Mr. Barnhart had made a mistake in ciphering What he meant was that the entire daily edition edi-tion of the Congressional Record cost the government about $10,000. i |