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Show Wife Beating Bill Tabled. Washington. Tho houso on Monday jhad sport with tho whipping post bill for wlfo beaters nnd then laid It upon the table, effectively disposing of It by u voto of 153 to CO. The most impassioned impas-sioned speech for the monsuro was dej llvercd by Mr. Hepburn of Iowa, whij .depicted the brutality of tho man wlnj Svould beat his wife and declared Urn', to bo whipped wna hardly adequate punishment. Mr. Adams opened tho idlscusslou witli a serious speech In favor of the bill. All of tho opposing speeches partook of levity. |