The Press: Capitol Daily

Last week Washington saw Vol. I, No. 1 of a new newspaper called the Capitol Daily. In clear and careful detail, the tabloid-size sheet told of legislative doings in the upper & lower Houses of Congress. "What the Senate Did Yesterday" and ''What the House Did Yesterday," were boxed heads on Page One. Inside the Capitol Daily, proposed legislation was tabulated, smaller Congressional stories ran under one-column heads.

Idea back of the Capitol Daily is to make it a sort of Congressman's trade-paper in which lobbyists will insert paid advertising to catch...

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