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Show If SS16S EH BILL 1 1 op yjiiLMomy I ;( Gnrtor Ujisuccessful in OMain- I ' iiig Vofc; Smilli Declares Cot- j )! Ion Indicfmciifs Outrage. $ ', By Assoclnlod Press. "' ! !' WASHINGTON, .Tuno IS. Senator i ij Carter's ambition to obtuhi a vote lo- (( dajvon u motion to concur in the house 1 ' amendments to the postal savings bank ' bill failed oC realization, duo to tho 1, 1 difficulty of keeping senators in tho . chamber owing to tho excessive heat. ' . ' The bill was under dismission for a lit- III) (if tlo moro than two hours and then went ' I over until Mondu-, when it was hoped a j voto would be reached. l H Senator Carter's concurrence motion 1 ;jl was discui&od by its author and by ' ,; Senator Smith of South Carolina, who . '.! opposed it. . In connection with his speech, Mr. J li Smith discussed the indictment of a fi number of cotton brokers on the charge til. JJi- of entering into a conspiracy to raise m, M: the price of cotton. Finding in tho. Mr house postal bill provision for the estab-V ''I I1 Jishmcnfc of a government banking sys- ,' j, tern, he charged thai; the government , i ' was preparing lo enter upon n general i' 'If system of interfering with business. L j TlioN'cw York indictments wcro si 1i.f4 specimen of such interference, he said, if i( licforring to (ho charge that the v brokers had cornered tho visible supply J ij,, of cotton, the South Carolina senator id -jf, vohcmcntl3r declared that ''never wis , i a more barefaced falsehood or a greater II $f, friuid perpetrated than in this indict- menfc." i Senator Smith repeated his previous j charges thai tho law had been invoked I to put down the price of cotton in the ,i V intorst of foreign speculators and said I h that .he had been informed that the at- r torney general had been at one time a partner of tho attorney for tho cotton ( exchange. i . . |