Show ScAp flure lure and tte ilia tariff senator proctors proc torB dry wit and his early sunday school training were combined yesterday in a speech upon tle t le tariff which was an n casts in a boort ot of dreary talk it la is not the first time the vermont senator has brought a smile to the faces of hla his colleagues by his keen sense of humor the first recorded attempt to break down rho interests of oc sheep husbandry he began was when cain slew blew hn his brother abel who wits a a keeper ke per of sheep the motives anil and purposes i which actuated cain were plainly the game sam as al those which actuate his followers today to day it was jealously ot of a preferred and protected indal In duttry apparently obvious to lo the ripples ot of laughter which now stirred the usual quiet ot of the senate chamber senator proctor continued cain was a tiller at 0 the ground and brought the fruits of the ground an offering unto the lord this offering might have been ot of ice of cotton cottan or of sugar the record does not state more laughter but abel brought ot of the first firstlings lings of his flock and ot of the fat thereof to the lord and the lord had bad respect unto abel and ills his offering but unto calit cain and his offering he be hall had no jio red the punishment meted met C d out cut ut to call cain fairly foreshadows fore shadows that which will nill be b meted out by the me people to the promoters of 0 this rne measure asure the mark shall be set net upon them and when nhan the time of 0 retribution cornea comes they will say gay with C cain a in my punishment t is 19 greater ia I 1 can bear 11 then the senator quoted any number ot of biblical references to ill sheep oa no A abraham braham and his ewo ewe lambs lamba at beersheba Boer shoba and the attempt of jacob to imp improve the breed after his bargain with laban ile he emphasized the fact that david wall wair with the sheep when saul sent bont for mm man and finally he strung together a doen doze or more verses from rom the bible to show t that hot the lord was wa always fond ot of sheep and that he put the them urn upon ur n his right hand while bile ilia hie goats went upon the left and after this athla scriptural introduction tion tile the senator made an earnest plea for the preservation of the merino marina sheep sheen in this country Air washington ashington post |