| Show GREAT ON O BilL The Rate Question Is One of the i Most Momentous in ill I Years CLASH Three stell to 10 tho right Fight Which Out UC t of Each In III DUcu lun Special Correspondence Washington March 19 Railroad rate debate ate In the has hns proven very Instructive and Ind Interesting In tho house everything us UK cut and dried and the bill that wu reported was 1111 dos dea tIned to pass without amendment Therefore tho debate In the house housa wan I perfunctory uninteresting No o one knows knols what Is going to be done In the senate enate There Thero neither party part whip nor binds any all one Tho deba I has lias nerved to bring out the strong t u I of the Hepburn bill hili also Its weal Whenever It la Is announced that u 1 senator of ot Is to talk on the tho ho he linn nut not only a n large lan o nu RU of ot hut but there thero Is also a largo attendance of ot members of the house Here Is 18 a case ca e where debute unlimited time for tor con are IN The Is the greatest that has ha occurred In Congress In years ears It has brought out tho best talent on both Hides of ot the tho question or on un the Iho three thre Rides as nil tho light seem to 10 he of ot a II trl angular kind now nn There Thero Is the element known ns ilK conservative who lio think that a H court review rele of ot ratos by b the commission Is III absolutely there N Is the element sup Slip supporting I porting the Hepburn bill ns liS It passed the house hOIl e LIlli then tho element which I nU the hill Is III not radical enough and nurl t commission lon should have ha C more power 1011 thun the bill hili gives It 11 On thu tho title of nr this triangular lire arp ranged nil all of ut the son lion It would b to find finda a 11 half dozen that would agree on nil all propositions It Is tho thrashing out of ot these le views and the tho magnitude of nr tin till Interests Involved which miiko the atc regulation bill hili the most Im measure that we have had II I In Congress 1 for tor ami tho debate debato upon ullOn It of ot such far tal reaching Interest 1 lerest JOgS JOBS IS the of ot the statehood bill hili amended by hy the senate Speaker Sprakel linH lip ll receiving a 11 1100 of lit telegrams asking him to tu Okla homa hOllm to bo ho admitted n M OR a I state Tell Tele Telegraph graph boys follow tollo him about nil all day handing him s tWill who want a 1 new state In tho south southwest west w st The fhe round robin Is III evidently work workIng Ing In Hald the referring to he was receiving He lIe that there all n systematic effort tc te public sentiment for tor the hill hili OUGHT TO HAVi A WIDOW During the of nr the legisla legislative tIle tive appropriation hill bill Representative Livingston lIton of ot was tho committee for tor Its lis ef Ir efforts forts to tel get rid of clerk clerkIn In III the government employ Representative en of ot Tennessee in with nn 1111 Interruption about tho Iho mem members hers bers of or the tho hOIl e who vern ele assured I rt d retaining their positions as all long U it they the lived lIed having nothing to fear from old lIe YeA replied re 1111 1 tOn and you hao an Insurance an nR long ns you OU ar arn ara n a member of ot the house hOIl because the llio house will vote ote your our widow Hut I got a Widow shout shouted ed Well you nu ought to 10 have one re reo Livingston ton while the remainder of o the members fairly ta I 11 roared with laughter PARENTS I 1 would like to In have you 01 como and take it 11 family dinner with mo sali le to Speaker Cannon There will bo no ono one there ther except Mrs IIII parents Just JURt he remembered that Mr 10 III 10 It h was formerly M Miss I s Roose Roosevelt velt ell and Bald Oh yes C certainly Im 1111 glad gla to ac nc accept What hn t day did you OU say Fa 1 BIO BIn n m A bill hili hlll been heln reported favorably In the senate will 1111 dispose of ot quite u 11 large portion of nt that I rt of ot over fr which there has ho more 1110 or 01 less contention North orth of at the i river Is a 11 tract that does not lint contain ninny man Inhabitants Several times efforts been heen made to 10 annex this area aron to and once oneo the I voted it upon a II statehood bill Pait P of ot the strip or region In 11 now In III what In I known a ilK the Ihl canyon forest re rl reserve serve erl It Is IA proponed by b the pending bill hili to tn UHf 1110 n 1 large port part of ot this no nM n II halen of ot refuge e and ground for gimp animals By y building a fence tener for tor sixteen nn nil could l ho he male made to met meet the OCCASIONALLY STRUCK I Hf It I cnn help It there ther shall 1 h no I paltering or da In the consideration tion of ot this rate bill said Senator Till Tillman I man manI I 1 want It understood said Senator that there Is no paltering on the part of ot any nn ono opposed to the bill I r am nm trying to clear Claf my III own on skirts replied Tillman without throwing rocks at one else elso or casting any an insinuations I r am Usually to tomake tomake make myself understood If It I was un to charge or oven to Inti Intimate mate that anybody else elso was al delaying It I would nay ay so In direct Thus Is lire struck occasionally over Ocr the rate bill I |
