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 the legislative eye. Taxpayers, too, would have an interest in knowing, day by day, exactly what their elected representatives were doing in Washington's halls. Publisher with this notion was brisk young Henry Hayes ("Hank") Stansbury Jr., onetime New York American reporter and Paris correspondent for Universal Service. Subscription price: $15 for six months, free to Senators and Representatives. Competition in the field of specialized legislative reporting is David Lawrence's United States News, once the United States Daily.

For editor the Capitol Daily has a thorough professional in Sidney Whipple, Dartmouth graduate and United Press's expert on the Lindbergh kidnapping.

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