Show CATCHINGS VALEDICTORY I Mississippian Slakes on Elaborate v Speech in the House i Washington Jan 12 After an hour spent In miscellaneous routine business during the course of which several bills of minor Importance were passed the House devoted today to a continuation of the debate upon the river and harbor har-bor appropriation bill which was Interrupted I Inter-rupted ycstcrdqy by private bill day The main feature was an elaborate 1 speech by Mr Catchlngs of Mississippi I In defense ot the improvement of the I u r 0 I r fthlnOc IQCT UIit > lO3ll M vi ij v > o retires from the PIouse March Hh at l I tor fourteen years of service during I secrnlof which ho was chairman chair-man ot the Rlyer and Harbor committee commit-tee and during all of which time he has been the special champion of the Improvement of the navigation of the Mlssissslppi l His speech today was In the nature of a valedictory It received marked l attention and at Its conclusion Mr CatchIngs was given an Impressive personal ovation The other speeches I who had 1 were principally by members been disappointed In not having special projects provided for in the bill I A bill was passed to change and nx the times for holding District and Clr I C cult courts In the northeastern division J of the eastern district of Tennessee J Several relief bills were passed A O request for unanimous consent to consider i con-sider a bill to restore Frank B Case of Missouri to his rank In the United 0 States navy was objected to by Mr Hopkins Case contracted color blindness I blind-ness while serving on the Jeanette relief expedition |