Show FIOUPIESREPRESETED ry p Unique Speech in House by Cushman of Washington irkcl S et ILLUSTRATES HIS REMARKS n1erc1a1 i ah1eg Rnck Id zt I CarefullyPrepared Charts Used in i His Attack on the River and Harbor rIc Har-bor Bill Ho Criticised Several of Iversely Vr fold from tho Individual Members of the ngthai c wa ex Committee in Breezy Style Be L aftcetj camo Engaged in Half Doson onsols th Spirited Encounters Before He Concluded Con-cluded Appeal for Seattle cVer We ng to t i Ct baa Washington D C Jan 10The 1 Wool S general debate on the river and harbor Jan io bill was continued In the House to pr1ng dayuntll 1 1 oclock when the death of Representative Clarke of Ncv Hampshire 1og12c Hamp-shire was announced and the House adjourned out of respect to his = memory The features of the debute CINQS today were the speeches of Mr Cush pI 2nd WR4 man of Washington and Mi Hepburn meaIjie of Iowa The latter has been a persistent I sistent opponent of river and harbor x bills for years and he attacked the EX bill all along the line Inhis usually I vigwruna nismun c 7rulIpIII Mr Cushmans speech was unique In many particulars lie wusTn favor of sriver pHI hnrbor appreciations C r and IIs complaint was duo to the fact S1l r that the members of the committee AttacheaIJ According to his Ideas hat I located the I by r bulk of the appropriations in their theb Suites and hud given scant attention MMP C to the needa of other States especially ako to the Seattle ship canal In his own City 1j State i Mr Cunhman Illustrated his remarks i With a series of carefullyprepared ri P ti charts Ho criticised sef ral of the I I I I I individual members of the committee iL IUJ in breezy style and became engaged cuect Jn half a dozen very spirited encounters en-counters before he concluded Mem S I oth hers crowded about the area in front of the Speakers desk where he stood SALT LkZt explaining the figures upon the r z charlfl and everyone seemed to enjoy kCansa3 the picturesque performance Immensely CC and Im-mensely When he wound up with a 1L slowing appeal for Justice to the Seattle project he got a stirring round 7 of applause orthand crmeci SHROUDED IN BLACK The desk of Representative Clarke of New Hampshire who died last night 1 Fran at his home was shrouded in black 1 and covered with flowers when the as City House met today ago 6 oni and By unanimous consent the bill lo 3 codify the postal Jaws of the United States was made a special order after co and the disposal of the river and harbor 1O bill billTho LAICE The following days were set aside for Omaha paying tribute Saturday February and 1 2nd at 3 oclock to the late Senator Butte Davis of Minnesota Saturday Feb ruary 9th at 4 oclock to the late Rep t resentative Wise of Virginia January liGth at 4 I oclock to the late Senator LLoUi Gear of Iowa February 3Cth at I ranciscu Oclock to the Into Representative Tooclo Hoffecker of Delaware righam 4 The House went Into committee of the whole and resumed the con I slderatlon of the river and harbor bill d notrU Sir Shackleford of Missouri pro tested against the action of the com mittee in abolishing the Missouri river 1 S commission Di E BURIII f Mr Grosvenor of Ohio replied Gen P ard i briefly to the remarks of pome of the ROFT Western members In favor of appro 3enl MaD3 priations in the river and harbor bill for the reclamation ofarid lands He i appreciated the glamor of the Ufli pros i fleet of watering the arid regions of n the West but he denied the I lvi power of Congress to enter upon a vast scheme 1i3LE nf Irrigation and he questioned its II pro priety JAIJC1T OPPOSES RECLAMATION LANDS i Mr Hepburn of Iowa then took the id JUflC lloor for an hours speech In which he Lst vigorously assailed various features of nd JUflC the bill He said another danger tst was looming up In the West The young f members who now lived at the head 1i waters of the navlgabe stream PaySfl wanfcd the river and harbor bill to rmei3iato contain appropriations for the recla mation of arid lands Mr Hepburn he aald he Mas opposed to the ho veSt reclama he 1e9t tion of the arid lands of the West for l selfish reasons When there arose C agrlcutural necessity for LndIUflC these lands when the present reclaiming agri cultural area was no longer able tnii supply food for the world then let lo the generation to be JUP benefited for nd pay the coat of the reclamation Iier GUSH MAN STIRS UP HOUSE tvrysV Mr Cushman I Washington air followed Hepburn with another assault I the wet3 the bill He Illustrated his upon remarks I the west with an enormous chart which he Jad Payson brought into the hall Members crowd ermC4Jiate ed about to see the exhibit made In 5 figures fiulllclcntly large to be y read from the uil1 CA1 remotest limits of the hall was a list of seventeen States S econd u had members which upon the River and Her bar committee giving the sums priated reeL and authorized In the bill appro Di appropriation amount to U23S i 2CO The authorized appropriations amount to 2lJ57SSj He aald tho seventeen States with imfmberw I tho committee got all the appropria upon H tions with the exception of S lOOOO In upproprlaHdny and authorizations left to the remaining States and Terri tories ten of which got no appropria tions whatever C WASHINGTON VICTIMIZED Mr Ctichmnn said he Was In favor of river and harbor Improvements but a bill for that purpose should be for the benelit of tho whole country and not S for the benefit of the members of the t committee He spoke he said as one who had been victimized by the bill 0 0 1Ic said the committee had over t14 i looked his state as If It had been a r rca5 ° white chip In u faro game Ho rep C ce1lC1 riKpntcd a city that had a tonnngc of ce oU 1c SC000000 and It got a measly sum of anl t he C If you think my vote can be J JOUgitI at that price he said address hug the members of the committee aS 9 yoiuare off your base now aboa WIAT CAESAR WOULD DO C arS 0 Mrc Cushmans criticisms aroused hango the members of the committee and th they kept up a continual fire of ques iVC S tions while he was speaking As a re npiC sult there were some exceedingly spicy C In pcnvcr exchanges anile ci 0 tC Imperial Caesar Mr Cushman oiiig t said had divided all Gaul Into three parts Caesar was an ancient and a ngC provincial Had he lived to the dawn onora I of the twentieth century he would 1 St S ltUI have divided gall Into enough rag meats lo give one to each member of the River and Harbor committee of = = this House PrXCJ1 CHARTS MAKE A HIT UIlt Mr Cuflhm had brought Into the fCX hall another chart showing the proportion 0 uth pro-portion of appropriations to the recommendation Cr recom-mendation of the chIef engineers mi 4trC The States represented by the River nd for and Harbor committee got SC per cent of the appropriations recommended F while the other States got less than 10 per cent I Invite the member11 of the tj csA committee said he to go up against A11iw the frozen facts ot Unit chart sjr PAYS RESPECTS TO COMMITTEE ° ° Ona by onoMr Cunhman paid his rc tho 10 npectK to the members of the commit jtco producing Individual maps show King the appropriation each member A klwd Hpourcrl The district of Mr OLIt aiCIlit Bioitoi of Michigan he said had six l cml imnig5 j counties with frontage on Lake Mlclil I gan and each one had an appropriation I I appropria-tion in the bill Ahd each one has a harbor interposed Inter-posed Mr Bishop Have you ever examined the map of the State of Washington retorted Mr Cushman nmld laughter At another time Mr Cushman declared de-clared that tim Florida member of the committee had secured an appropriation appropria-tion in the bill for a harbor that could not be found on the latest map SEVERE ON OREGON He was especially severe In his criticism criti-cism of the appropriations secured by Mr Tongue of Oregon for his State calling attention to the fact that althoUgh j al-though 3000000 had been spent upon I the Columbia between Portland and the i sea the depth of water today was less I by seven feet than It was before a dollar dol-lar AVJIS expended In this connection i Mr Cushman disclosed the reason for his attack It was because the committee com-mittee had not provided for the Seattle ship canal Ho made an eloquent plea for justice for his State ALEXANDER A PEACEMAKER Mr Alexander of New York a member mem-ber of the committee made a general defense of the committee pointing out how fallacious It was to charge to a State money expended for the improvement improve-ment of the general commerce facilities facili-ties of the country He also pointed out how natural It was that the committee com-mittee should bo made up 01 members whose sections were interested In river and harbor Interests After some further remarks by Mr Mann of Illinois and Mr Olncy of Virginia Vir-ginia time committee rose Mr Hill of Connecticut announced the death of Repicsentatlvc Clarke of New Hampshire and presented the customary cus-tomary resolutions of respect They were unanimously adopted and a committee com-mittee appointed to attend the funeral Then at 105 1 oclock as a further mark j of respect the House adjourned |