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Show TELL THEMJTO STOP The Democratic Members of the Ways and Means Trying to Eun Out the flockmasters, They Will Also Do Their Best to Make a Total Loss of the Sugar Factory at Lehi BY REPEALINGTHE BOUNTY In Whioh Move Congress is Backed Up by the Mossback Democratic Legis- lature of Utah. LATE WASHINGTON NEWS Jerry flnipson Af,'!n Carves His Name H1bV, I on the Wall or Fame Itusl-nc- i in the House and Somite, With Nolo f rom the Departments. Wasj Ujotoji, Feb. 12. Tho democratic membe I of the ways and means committee held mother conference today ou the Springa wool bill, but like yesterday's con-f,ereneovit con-f,ereneovit ended without any agreement being ttfcd. The members of the com. njittei J P in the city are uearly evenly di. Tided c; it''- question as lo whether or not there sluld be a further reduction made in duties fian that proposed by the special demoeriic wool committee. The arrival of Shivery pf Indiana is awaited, and the members mem-bers of the committee believed then a con-elusion con-elusion aill be speedily arrived at, as the views f Whiiing, the only other absent mcmbr , arc known. Sinpson is an "Amoosln' Cuss." V, asi'ixutox, Feb. 11. The farmers' alliance al-liance Jrrai;;ncd the democratic and renubli. can paifces in the house yesterday ou the charge if extravagance in expenditures, and hiss ed that the parties w ere ignoring the ' legislation of the session in order to p?tr,idc lucrative positions for the favored henchi,ten of lbs dominant parties. Rqp'fVcntativo Simpson, whose sobriquet of '"jW" Socklcss Statesman" has won him natY'tlrepute. was the man to prefer these clil1 against tho dominant parties, and hii jspcech was the most amusing and ex. cil !ig incident of the day. . question of expenditure came up under tl rdaolution reported by the committee on ac -omits to appoint Walter E. Halleek, an e . Union veteran, to the position of assist-a assist-a i doorkeeper of the house. After two or t ec had favored the resolution, paying a h h tribute to Major Hallcck, Mr. Simpson t k the floor. He charged the. two leading plrties with log-rolling, and dividing the aiflitional positions equally between republics repub-lics is and democrats. Ita-u.years, Simpson, "that lep jar-"' is lo' k ' J this attempt to j0r 1 of reciprocity, by E , -, ' a constituent of my WJ4- ,as who ha9 done more fort. 11 regard to 'valuable ser-vicrJ ser-vicrJ EJpefeu id war' than any man recommended recom-mended to a position in this congress. He actually saved the army of General Pope from destruction in 1802, and saved the city of Washington from capture by the rebel army, lie was in the employ of the secret service and went through the lines into Richmond and got Intelligence that saved the army of Pope. "Notwithstanding this, I have been unable even to obtain a messenger's position for that man, simply because lie does not belong to the party in power; simply because he is neither a democrat1 dem-ocrat1 nor a republican. Laughter and ap-plauA. ap-plauA. Yet the great congress of the I'nitfd States has been consuming two or threwdayi altogether making positions for soinnmeu. because members on one side or the ajtlier want to got their friends in office. So yttu have gone on until the whole city of Washington is besieged by a hungry horde of political partisans, who are anxious to reaai dow n into the pockets of the taxpayers anj lake money to pay their political follower follow-er and friends for political services." C at applause. ( npson's speech had the effect of over-wh over-wh Imingly defeating the resolution. |