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Show The Weight of the Argument. WashinGtox, D. C, March 1. The Idaho contest was again up in the senate yesterday and Mr. Claggctt resumed his argument iu support of his claim to the scat. Senator Dubois gae a detailed account of his election. Senator Pugh, who signed the majority report in favor of Dubois, made an argument in defense of it. While he was speaking the chair of Senator Sena-tor Vance, who sat close to him, broke down, letting the North Carolina senator fall to the floor with some force and much noise. As Senator Vance picked himself up, apparently unhurt, he said; "I beg your pardon for interrupting." To which Pugh rejoined that he had not supposed his argument argu-ment to be so overpowering. |