REVOLVERS IN CONGRESS
Plea To “Leave At Door?’
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 7. A congressman urged his colleagues yesterday to leave their revolvers at the front door before entering the Chamber of the House of Representatives for the daily debates. Mr Wayne Hays, of Ohio, startled Congress when he suggested that members were carrying arms for protection. Mr Randall Harmon, of Indiana, another Congressman who Mr Hays was believed to have had in mind, sharply resisted the idea that he was one of the culprits. “I carry a knife, not a gun,” he told reporters. He denied a report that he had shown a revolver to a newspaper reporter who visited him at his office.
Congressmen are exempt from the general rule that tourists, newspapermen and others are barred from taking firearms into Congress. A spokesman for Mr Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House, said that the carrying of revolvers by Congressmen into the debating chamber was not prohibited. but was not the usual practice.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28840, 10 March 1959, Page 10
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