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Show I" ONE DAY IN SENATE AND IN THE HOUSE Postoffice Bill Again Occupies Time of the Upper Branch of Congress. "WASHINGTON, April 0 In tho Sen-otc Sen-otc today Mr. Spooncr replied to the Democratic strictures on tho conduct of the Postoffice department, and also traversed quite an extensive political field. Ho defended the course of the Postmaster-General in connection with the irregularities of his department, and charged that an effort on tho part of the Democratic Senators to secure a Congressional inquiry was in the interest in-terest of party politics, lie also defended the President against the charge of violating the law which he said had been made by the Democrats, declaring that in nothing was the President so much dlstin-cuished dlstin-cuished as in his determination to enforce en-force the law. No progress was mado on the postoffice bill. The conference report on the Indian appropriation hill -was partially read, but further consideration was postponed post-poned on the suggestion that the conferees con-ferees had Inserted provisions that bad not been passed on by cither house. The bill for tho aid of tho Portland exposition and the Philippine coastwise coast-wise chipping bill were passed llnally by accepting the House amendments. |