Show Wife Beating Bill Tabled Washington Tho house on Monday had sport with the whipping post bill for wife beaters and then laid It upon the table effectively disposing of it by I a vote of 153 fortile Tho most impas sloncd speech for the measure was delIvered de-lIvered by Mr Hepburn of Iowa whO depleted the brutality of the man who would beat his wife and declared that to be whipped was hardly adequate punishment Mr Adams opened the In discussion with a serious speech favor of the bill All of the opposing speeches partook of levity |