Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1925, Page 16

SEE COURT RULING HAMPERING MAILS Order Applied to Motor En- gines Cripples Collection Service, Officials’ View. i ably will be faced ail collection serv- decision of the Court of i crip e if the YOU AND UNCLE SAM Series of Educational Articles Telling How Federal Gooarn- ment Is Organized and How It Functions—W ritten Expressly /or School Children. No. 26—Uncle Sam s Daily Newspaper BY WILL P. KENNEDY For more than 50 years Uncle Sam has been printing a daily newspaper, indexed copies of which ought to be in every school library and easy of access to pupils throughout the United States, because It furnishes the Lest material obtainable on “eur- - |rent events” and to give material for - [ both sides in debates on public ques- not leave thelr le making col- an iron-clad regu- cour what act the motors a until the de im, he said today he \\e\rr] of ir could not ent state crank the m ance. m:——:m% EDMONSTON & CO. lEl Quick Clearance Sale of ‘All Shoes There is not a Shoe need that is not provided for in this sale, a BARGAIN PRICE ATTACHED:. Regular Styles, Includmg The Smartest of the New Models And All Corrective Styles As Well Our career of nearly 50 years of successful shoe selling in Washing- ton stands back of every sale, guaranteeing Quality, Value and Integrity to the fullest extent. fl | | | u | @ fl E E fl 1097 Discount Women’s Oxfords All leathers and all colors 1334 F Street |—=o|c——=la/c———=Io] tions. This daily paper is the Congres- sional Record, which contains a ver- batim report of proceedings in both the National House of Represantatives the Senate It contains the argu- s for and against each law iile in the making and shows why her legislative proposals were re- a. It shows the iIntent of Con- n passing legislation. and so light on the spirit of the law s on the letter of the law. ins prepared speeches by of both House and Senate, ident’'s messages, lists of communications by Cabinet d other administrative of- of measures introduced ation, petitions from State and organizations of ists of nominations for post- ps and other public offices bmitted by the President for con- firmation by the Senate. First Issued in 1873, sional Record, which is stly publication printed |« ernment Printing Office, has been issued since 1873. that for some years ti ruceedings of Congress were compiled in & pri- vate publication, the Congressional Globe. by Rives Brothers, in. their shop on Pennsylvania avenue at Jackson Hall alley, where Senator Frank Greene of Vermon was shot by a revenue officer in a pistor] battle with a bootlegger. The Government bought up the old plates and whatever copies of the Globe were on hand for some- thing like $100,000, and began pub- lishing the proceedings itself. Theodore F. Shuey, now senior official reporter of debates in the Senate, was a stenographer In pro- paring copy for the old ‘Globe, and has been uninterruptedly in service aver since, taking down the debate In the Senate word for word, even though he is now nearing 80 years. He has been engaged in this work since 1866, W. A. Smith is clerk in charge at the Capitol of the Congressional Record, and has been for all but the first year the Congress took over this daily paper. He has an office in statuary hall, which in the old days was the House chamber, and there he is consulted daily by mem- bers of Congress. The first Con- gressional Record clerk was Wil- liam H. Collins, who after about six months was promoted to chief lerk in_the Government Printing Office. Mr. Collins was succeeded in Before | the Capitol by A. H. Post, who after PAZO Ointment A Guaranteed Remedy FOR ITCHING, BLIND, BLEEDING OR PROTRUDING PILES It is now put up in collapsible tubes with detachable pile pipe making it very easy to apply. Special directions enclosed with each package. Your druggist will order it. (Also put up in old style Tins, 60c.) 159 Discount Women’s High Shoes All regular as well as corrective models All Children’s Shoes Regular and cor- rective models. 109} Discount Stacy-Adams & Co. Mationally Famous Men’s Boots and Oxfords EDMONSTON & CO. Advisors and Authorities On All Foot Troubles (Incorporated) ANDREW BETZ, Manage: 15 Discount Women’s Dressy Strap Pumps and Colonials B e | B | O |n | m o] and o) —=—=|o|c——[a|c—=|a|——|a|c———|a|]c—————a|———a]o|cp——[n|[c——|a|[c— o[ c——2[n[c——] WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1925. about six months also received & promotion, and then he was succeeded by Mr. Smith, who had been his as- sistant. Average Nnmber of Pages. From 7 pm. te 7 am. 50 to 100 pages of the Congressional Record are put in type daily and delivered within 12 hours. The general aver- age for tha daily Record fs about 80 pages, which takes about 9000 pounds of paper. at a cost of about $425. The average anmnual bound Record makes 27,650 pages, depending upon the length of a session and the number of sessions. The total cost of printing and binding the Record tn 1922 was $661,026. The Sixty-seventh Congress (the last before the one mow in session) was the first to have four sessions— in reality, it had five sessions, be- cause there was a spectal, extraordi- nary session of the Senate frém March 4 to March 15. The Sixty- seventh Congress used 29,780 pages of the Congressional Record. The subscription price of the Resord is $4 for a short session of Congress and $8 for a long session, or about $1.50 per month. Single copies of the Record are sold by Mr. Smith at 3 cents for the first three signatures (a signature being speech by Senator La Folletts on rail- roal valuations eome years ago. The Senate proceedings are printéd: first in the Record, then the House pro- ceedings and then the appendix, where speeches by Semators and Represent- atives are printed under “leave to ex- tend remarks” which have not been made in their respective chambers. Ver- batimu reports of proceedings and de- bates are furnished by offictal steno- graphic reporters. Members are allowed to correct thelr remarks, but must have the copy returned to the printing office before midnight. Qccastonally pictures are printed in the Congressional Record. This is done only under special permission from the Joint comimittee on printing of the House and Senate. They must be mot larger than a page of the Record, and can.be only line drawings. The permanent Record is made up for printing and binding 30 days after each daily publication is issued, and upon final adjournment of Congress the time limit for getting in all corrections is 10 days. The Congressional Record Is studied by practically every member of Con- gress before he eats his breakfast, for it comtains the work for the day provious of “his favorite author” and President and' each Senator get 33 coples. Each Representative and Delegate gets 60 coples. Additional coples are supplied to the secretary of the Senate, clerks of the House, sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, door- keeper of the House—for working coples. Fach member of the Houso and Senate has two copies delivered, orié at his fesidence and one at the Capltol. Each newspaper correspond- ent listed in the Capitol press gal- laries has a copy of the Record mail- ed to him. Other copies are dis- tributed to the Chlef Justice and as- soclate justices of the Supreme Court, the governors of States dnd Terri- tories, State Ilibraries, depositaries of Government publications, the Library of Congress for foraign exchange, tht United States and forelgn embassies homes for disabled soldiers and sail- ors. ‘Ahout 33,000 copies of the Congres slonal Record are printed on the daily gdition”and about §,000 coples of the permanent editlon, formerly bound in baif russla and wow In buckram. (Copyright, 1925, by Will P. Kenoedy.) 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