Lagniappe for Mr. Speaker

Speaker of the House John W. McCormack, 43 years a Congressman, is retiring to Boston, to sort through his PRESS papers and write his memoirs. Last week his colleagues voted $55,400 worth of public funds to help smooth his re-entry into private life. The money, to be spent over two years, will allow McCormack to keep his office in Boston's Federal Building, make telephone calls, write letters on $3,000 worth of stationery each year.

The special appropriations resolution also included salaries for two secretaries at a maximum annual cost of $11,934 each. Although a few Congressmen privately complained that Speaker McCormack's going-away present was unprecedented and lavish, they might well have been heartened by the news that 79-year-old McCormack plans to give his papers and memorabilia to Boston University, at least sparing the taxpayers the expense of a McCormack library.

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