Show PROSPECTS OF THE IRRIGATION DILL That was a very good dispatch we had from Washington yesterday mornIng morn-Ing which told of the more favorable outlook in the House for the passage of the IrrJgjulon bill Thero hut been a good deal of uncertainty na to the mood In which the House might iccoivc this measure HO that the assurance of Its passage Is now doubly grateful It hi understood that the chief opponent of it will be JUprcsentatlve George W Hay of New York who always supports enthusiastically every Item In time river and harbor bill that proposes to npcnd money In his State and is extremely doubtful of the propriety l of spending anything for river or harbors elsewhere else-where but grudgingly asjienls because ho couldnt otherwise ret what ho wants for New York He Is uiso moved upon powerfully by tie feat that New York Citys market gardens would be established In this mcuntaln region 1 if the Irrigation bill should PISS and he would weep with a walling that the walling of the Jevva under the walls of Jerusalem would be mere childs sorrow II comparison to see the fertile regions around his childhood home reduced to desert wastes by reason of this arid land competition Mr Hay can easily see that all this would be unconstitutional anything is unconstitutional tutional that he docs not at the first glance MOO is to the advantage of New York His district comprises Browne Chenango Delaware Tioga and romp khiH I counties some of the fruitraisers within Its boundaries noL long ago protested pro-tested against the Irrigation bill as a measure calculated to bring upon them s competition that would destroy their business and It Is In response to this Ignoble and absurd petition that Representative Rep-resentative Ray has applied his constitutional con-stitutional microscope He no doubt will make himself solid with the Ignorant Igno-rant and selfish constituents of his who made that protest but nil the same It Is a thousand pities that such Ignorance and selfishness should find expression In the Congress of the United States and contemptible that It should be voiced under a pretended solicitude lest tho Constitution of the United States should be violated |