Show A PITIABLE SHOWING We Vc sincerely el hope that the debates on n the thc I tariff question l in the senate will soon c erase ase for forit forit forit it seems t to us that any careful reader who is following fol fol- lorin lowing those debates from day to day daj- can hard hardly 1 fail fail- to lose respect for that body as a whole Every da day they descend almost to the level leyel of 1 a cit city council they arc are filled with per personalities and do not oll once e a n week veeh cc rise riso to the dignity dig that is expected in that supposedly angust august august au au- gust bod body The They sound as though the thc Roose spirit still hovered over the thc capitol and prompted some senator to call another a liar every fifteen minutes But aside from that it is a a clear ease case that not one senator in ten has any clear idea of the tariff question and hence the speeches lack everything like the conviction that comes of rc real l knowledge There should in places be more care exercised exercise in inthe inthe inthe the selection of United States senators |