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Show CLARK REELS OFF A YARN I : 1 I , fw In the house cloakroom at Wa'sb ington the other day some one heard Speaker Clark telling a good story about two members. It seems that there flourished here in town a few years ago a literary bureau which furnished speakers with facts or even whole sermons and speeches. The line of "dope" was guaranteed to fit anything from a Chinese wedding to a Masonic funeral. Some of the congressmen availed themselves of this chance to drink of the waters of learning without the trouble of even getting a dipper, and the bureau flourished, turning out productions of all kinds and sorts at will. The same bureau employe woulr write a violent attack on the tariff bill, and then, in a few hours, he would train hia guns on his lata friends. Like the Hessians, the writer worked for pay not glory. Hut one day he met his Waterloo It seemed that two members of congress had ordered speeches on exactly the same subject, unknown, of course, to each other. These speeches were not delivered in the house, but were given in full in the Congressional Record under un-der the privilege of leave to print. Each was a Cne, convincing array of facts. "But," added Speaker Clark, "the only trouble was that the bureau had sent the same speech to both men." |