Show Senator McLaurin Explodes a COMMITTE 4 SALT ADE A PORT OP DELIVERY Washington March the today Mr of took the floor to make a explanation tion regarding a newspaper paragraph saying that authorities of Indianola are engaged In arresting for selling phot graphs of and Booker T Washington Ordinarily said Mr a of this character may not be worth at attention but under the he felt that he should refer to it for the purpose of refuting it as it Is entirely without foundation Mr that the paragraph had grown out of a statement made In a newspaper letter wrItten by A J Paxton an of Leland Miss who told of the arrest at that point of three men who he said were engaged in selling pictures of the presIdent and Mr Washington at the table together and also pIctures of obscene character These pictures he said appealed strongly to raCe pre prejudice judice Similar arrests also Mr said bad been made in IL was found upon the hearing of that a CinCinnati concern in publishing the pictures In had many agents out in the Interest of these works For Selling Lewd Pictures The men were tried and some of them sent out of the country and Mr Mc McLaurin Laurin expressed surprise that any community should have permitted theta to be tried Ho said the penalty im imposed posed by the law was entirely and expressed the opInion that the death penalty would not be too severe He added that the arrests were not be because cause the men were selling photographs of the president or of Mr W but because they were pie tures bills were passed Providing for the of a alight light and fog station at the n trance of bay Washington Authorizing the secretary of war to ac accept from the citizens of Missoula for the of the military reservation at that point Authorizing the erection of a building at Sherman Wyo at acost of The bill making appropriation for for wait then taken u All the committee amendments except one for the he of a submarine torpedo boat for experimental purposes and that to the purchase of sites for defense in the Hawaiian islands were The further consideration of these amendments was postponed until Monday The senate then went Into session and shortly afterward ad adjourned |