Show OUR OCR washington LETTER from our own correspondent washington jan itin 28 1887 the united states senate lias has done at least two notable things this week it II lias has given the british lions tall tail a vicious twist anil and it has again refused to PAVO give tile women who want to voto vote a change to submit tile the constitutional amendment on woman suffrage to the state legislatures la tures it la Is interesting to bo be reminded now and then that the american eagle can still detill soar and that the tha ore fire of our revolutionary a sires ires la Is not extinct the belligerent oratory of senators ingalls ingalla frye fryland and hale has furnished ample proof of of till the occasion occa aion was wag debate on tile bill bil I 1 e empowering rt i the president to close tilt the ports of the united states against canadian imports as a measure of 0 retaliation in case great britain persists in violt violating inq her treaty obligations by sub american shermen fishermen to indignities and outrages in canadian waters benator senator ingalls ingalla thought it was waa tima to settle atle the fishery difficulties either cither by negotiation or by war the measure under discussion was distinctly one of of retaliation it was art an eye for a an n lye eye it hall fish tar for a fiall an all insult for an insult hou t countries had been inundated nith bloedon blo odon less leas provocation senator frye declared de clarel that the annala of of history even of the fiji islands might bo no starched searched without finding cases of outrages outrAge po brutal anti anil inhumane all these cases he said had been brought to the attention of the ilia british government fici ent there was not it a line in the history 1 of england forthe for the last years 1 that 1 cave vo the slightest reason to believe that el m the pursuit of win gain in the pursuit of trade slie she would ever permit tj the ie right of another to stand in the way of her ber progress e ss Senator Morgan thou thought glit the law awe could u I 1 a b be e enacted witti without out bloodthirsty threats thi aits and senior vest advised caution when the cause of woman came up in the I 1 tuesday there were about if a hundred ladies from all parts of tile alie country leuders lenders in the woman suffrage Buff raae movement in the tha senate gallery prix ion bously awaiting tile the result benator blair of f new hampshire omans best senatorial friend had bad prot promised alsed to malic make an effort to get e t afrie alio aebli it up for debato ot at this i hour 0 the ile pet measures of beveral veral senators Beni tors were in the way as unfinished bylines budne s but they gallantly voted against their own bills in favor of III the ladies senator beck was ono one of these lie ho had intended to bring up ill hin hill bill preventing members of congress from acting its attorneys for railroads and he mentioned that a lady 1 migs anthony had sent lent in for him three times tile the day before and lia ila had bad refused to go out to see her because lie he knew ho he would bo be unable to refuse icat she would ask ile ha linew silo she would ask him blin to waive the claims of ilia his important question in favor of herl hen the women are not inking asking congress to tolett let them lim vote ate as a congress has not that power flower they rhey ark Can congress gress to agree that the following proposed amea ment to the constitution may bo be submitted to tile the various state legislature tim tile right of citizens of the united swiss to 1 vole hall not bo denied on account accorn t 4 of i meir lex congress shall bave P power 0 r by legislA itai valtion tio a la sin enforce folee tile provo ising sing of tins this ar artille artl tiple cla half a dozen Herna senators tors made short is speeches pee clies for sud against woman suffrage tuf frage anti ehll liy lit it voto latoof 11 ll to tn III hi tile pid lit nn ag legain lejoe ted TI alia laign in ill the illery 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afia fitl of their gen fri driendl endl fourth thula alio their who hollink aln ink front from ne 8 because they aliey var their inability to i pei forin ul uell wid ath thoi alio lw fear tin tile in nainiu nii niu of tile bali Coll immoral alae if anil and 1 1 li I 1 hilak I 1 alii iu 0 ii to tin already silo gave iivo fill 1111 el eloquent quent account of moat tin till good ill arr loithi ilo iiii lit in temperance aiice in libor labor i in it lifting ii 11 llie ille degraded awl anil lobi d hor speech liy by mi all earnest appeal to ber audience to enlist under ilia banner of those who alio ate for ilia ballot |