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Show FILIBUSTER AGAINST "PORK BARREL" BILL WASHINGTON. May 10. The fight in the senate on the annual river and harbor appropriation bill developed aspects as-pects today threatening a repetition of the filibuster which forced abandonment of last year's measure and substitution of a lump appropriation for distribution by the war department. Senator Kenyon of Iowa, who, with Senator Burton, led the attack a year agt), continued throughout all of tday's session the speech he bogan against the bill yesterday, and announced when a recess re-cess was taken that he had only begun. Tomorrow, he said, he would dloeuss the measure, item by item. Senator Slier- man of niinotp, a.nother Republican, gave j notice that he would take up the fight ; when the Iowa senator had finished. J A lump appropriation of 52O,0Ot,P00, the same as that finally agreed on last year, is proposed by Senators Kenyon and Sherman Sher-man as a substitute for the 543,000,000 measure parsed by the house. Senator Kenyon characterized the system sys-tem of annual appropriation bills an a dribbling merhod and declared most of the items werfi drawn with the idea of pro- : vldinff political bait, rather than with the honest purpose of improving the . country's waterways. His statement drew an objection from Senator Ttansdell of Louisiana, In charge of the bill, who insisted in-sisted that a detailed- examination of the measure would disprove It. |