Show senatorial jocularity I 1 A SISE sidn SPLITTING proposition TO REDUCE SALA thi tasi Itus buntlin thistle debate leads to a tilt between harris and deorto tle bouse proceedings washington D C april 5 in ill the senate today to day mr of new york five notice that at 2 next monday ion he would submit a few remarks on the pending tarin tariff hill bill some amu was wa created ty by the introduction of the following iego lution by mr 11 george of mississippi resolved that in view of 0 the present depressed financial condition of the people the low price of agricultural and other product it the indebtedness Indebted nese ol of the people and the increased value of money the committee ot of the judiciary be directed to prepare a till bill to reduce by 20 per cent all official incomes not protected by the statutes ot of the tha united SI lee the resolution was waa defered in accord tinco anco with lia its terms while some senators indulged in good natured badgering at the expense of mr george sen sell gray remarking sotto botto voce that it was worse than art an income tax RUSSIAN THISTLE DEBATE al the request of senator clans b rough brough of worth north dakota the senate took up the bill appropriating a 0 million dollars for the destruction of the rum rua BI dlan a n thistle senator of texas A spoke poke in opposition to it basins basing hla his objection upon the tendency towards paternal paternalism larn in government it if tho the russian thistle makes its lt appearance pe arance in the district of 0 columbia it would be the duty of Con coneless Congi gLess under the constitution to take action to suppress it but outside of the district congress could not go mr air kyle pop of south dakota proposed an amendment providing the sum bull litcy should he be divi divided ded pro ta rata ta among the states state B where the thi thistle Is found according to the estimated sti mated coot coat of exterminating it ind and that it if any part of the appropriation should remain unexpended after the destruction it should be divided pro train rata among amone the states tor for the purpose of preventing its ha return mr allen alien fop foil of 0 nebraska supported the hill bill calling attention to the fact the weed was not but ut had gained Is a foothold here andor the laws of the nation the immigration laws senator george of mississippi favored mr kyles amendment senator expressed some zur cur prise that the senator from mississippi george should rive give voice to such undemocratic theories as that the gheral rovern government ment should interfere mith the state stalo governments Government ii 1 I am not makina this speech to in makal aka it plausible to the senator from fam I 1 tennessee replied 1 I know what his views are and I 1 know they are not in accordance with mth the constitution laughter Laugh terl 1 1 I am very glad to have that announcement n no oune ement replied mr than ris la de Ibern tely let it go on record whether it Is oracular or not it Is 13 true was waa the retort of mr george tariff BILL GOES OVER at 2 the tariff bill was laid before the senate as the unfinished business and the thistle bill went over without action sir mr reller peffer WEI was recognized but sir mr call asked the senator to t yield for a motion to po fro into exec executive uthe session ellich mr agreed to on condition tion it should not lat too long and he should be entitled to the floor when the senate re resumed umed its open sess session mr harris harrig however asked mr air PC palter not t in yield as he did not wish the tariff no hill bill interfered with objected to the motion of 0 mr call and demanded the yens end annys the roll was called and the motion pre prevailed 31 to 19 and the senate went trent into executive session which lasted until p m when W hen the senate adjourned HOUSE urgent deficiency bill P asaad and bill 2111 taken vp up washington april I 1 C Boat ners resolution calling upon the attorney gen cen eral cral tor for IL statement as to what the government was doing to protect its interests in the union pacific railway was adopted by tile the house I 1 the house went into committee 0 of the and after some good na aured banter by need on the subject of the billion dollar congress tile the ur roney poncy deficiency clency bill was taken up the bill which carried something over OOOO was passed anith ono one important amendment providing for the continuation or of the work of the census bureau until march marcel I 1 1895 und and providing for tile the publication in a con creps lonal volume of pages of an abstract or all the data procured by the census atter after the deficiency bill was disposed of the consideration of the post office appropriation bill was resume resumed it onla one amendment was sid adopted opted netting aside for the establishment of stir star routes to new post ollices onilea |