Show t AGAINST SHIPPING BILL Senator Vest Makes Speech Opposing Measure ADVOCATED FREE SHIPS Vigorously Attacked the navigation laws of the United States Holding They Were Responsible for the Decadence De-cadence of the American Merchant Marine Bill Made the Unfinished Business of the Senate Being Restored Re-stored to Its Privilged Position Another Supply Bill Is Passed Washington Jan Consideration of the shipping hill was resumed this afternoon In the Senate At the instance in-stance of Mr Fryo of Elaine who relinquished re-linquished the chair temporarily to take charge of the measure on the floor It was made the unfinished burliness of the Senate thus restoring it to Its privileged position Mr Vest of Missouri took the floor Immediately in a brilliant forceful and Interesting speech lasting nearly three I hours He advocated free ships and vigorously attacked the navigation Jaws of the United States holding thai they were responsible for the decadence I j of the merchant marine of America He was accorded close attention by his colleagues on both sides of the chamber The blind chaplain Mr Milburn In his opening Invocation referred beautifully beau-tifully and touchingly to the death of Queen Victoria BIG SUPPLY BILL CONSIDERED At the conclusion of routine business consideratipn was resumed of the legislative leg-islative executive and judicial appropriation appro-priation bill the pending question being be-ing the amendment of Mr Jones providing for the appointment of an Assistant AttorneyGeneral to represent repre-sent the Government In all matters of claims pending before Congress Mr Chandler who opposed the amendment offered an amendment providing pro-viding that the Assistant Attorney General should have an office in the Capitol assistant at a salary of 2500 per annum and be assigned two clerks who should assist him in the work of his office Mr Chandler ridiculed Mr Joness proposition and indicated that he held In reserve another amendment which would provide for the appointment appoint-ment of a similar attorney for other departments of the Government UTAH SENATORSHIP Mr Rawllns of Utah who had endeavored en-deavored vainly to discuss the Senatorial Sena-torial situation in Utah under a question ques-tion of personal privilege at the openIng open-Ing of the Senate was recognized and within the latitude afforded by the Senate rules read some articles from Salt Lake and Washington D C newspapers dealing with the Utah Senatorial situation and discussed them The debate thereon appears In another column After a discussion of the amendment offered by Mr Jones to the legislative executive and Judicial appropriation bill Mr Chandler withdrew his amendment amend-ment and offered as a substitute a provision pro-vision enabling the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior In-terior each to appoint a competent lawyer to represent the United States before committees of Congress when requested by the committee to do so concerning claims against the Government Govern-ment the salary of each to be J4000 The substitute amendment was agreed to without further debate The bill was passed VEST ON SHIPPING BILL The shipping bill was then taken up and Mr Vest addressed the Senate In opposition to the measure |