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Show WESTERNERS CLASH IN SENATE DEBATE Patterson of Colorado and Clark of Wyoming- Have Tilt House Had No Quorum. WASHINGTON, March 31. The attention at-tention of the Senate was divided today between tho bill for the repeal of the desert, land, the timber and stone and the homestead commutation laws and the poslofllce appropriation bill. The repeal bill was taken up only for the purpose of discussion, and Mr. Clark of Wyoming was the principal speaker. He contested the position taken by Mr. Gibson that there have been great frauds In tho administration of the land laws In the West. He declared that there Is a lobby in Washington In the interest of the repeal bill and engaged in a short colloquy with Mr. Patterson, during which each characterized the statement of the other as untrue. Mr. Patterson said ho was In sympa-this sympa-this with the repeal of the publio land laws, because eight out of ten acres taken in Wyoming and Colorado were fraudulently acquired. "So far as Wyoming is concerned," replied re-plied Mr. Clark, "the statement is unqualifiedly un-qualifiedly untrue." The general debate on the postofnee bill was confined largely to a Bpeech by Mr. McCroary nnd Interruptions by Republican Re-publican Senators. Mr. McCreary charged in the main that the policy of an early adjournment of Congress had becen adopted In order to avoid legislation legis-lation not desired by tho Republican leaders. |