Show HOWL IN WILDERNESS OF EMPTY SEATS Jeff Davis Soars to Heights of Billingsgate in Tirade on Press Washington ashington May 1 The I.-The The fireworks which Senator JolT Jeff Davis of or Arkansas promised to sot off in the senate to today tolay to to- da lay day proved a great disappointment to those who looked for something sen sen- The Arkansas senator was deliberately treated to tho the sort ort of or a frost that is not hot yel very often otten witnessed In either branch of congress both hoth Democrats and Republicans taking part During During- part of or the thc timA ti-no ho he was wa reading a tirade against subsidized d newspapers and corporate greed onlY ony three senators besides himself w were ro In tho the chamber and nd tho the galleries practically empty Notwithstanding the lack of Interest Interest Inter Inter- e est t in what ho he had to say Mr Davis read for two and a half hale hours some of or the Iho liveliest H language that time the senate has ever over heard He Ito figures of or speech fairly teemed with such words as damnable Impish dev de h and bestial Compliments to tho time Pr Press s Referring to tho the criticisms that have been heaped upon him b by tho the press pre he said Let the scavengers engers of plutocracy howl Truth Truth Gods Gods God's living truth truth truth- I where are arc Its defenders Miserable l travesty upon noble manhood postgraduates post past postgraduates graduates in all arts o of slander and defamation I challenge a subsidized press go damnable Imps of or pelf an and greed reed I def defy your our taunts Tear to fragments fragment In my political career If it comport with your our execrable will Stifle and distort my ri-my every er e utterance Not satisfied If it such bo be your brutal bra bru tal tab la lash h form tnt Into frenzy renz m my poor pOOl Insensibility Then if It be your our further fur Cur ther thor pleasure gnaw from my ny m stiffening stiffenIng stiffen stiffen- lIng ing bones cerry vestige of quivering qui flesh Sesh Howl In lii wretched bestiality through m my Innocent blood as it drips from rom your our fiendish h visage Drag Drago then If It you rou want what re remains re- re mains naIns into filth and vermin o of your our foul toul dens and burn hurn it upon tho the altar alta of or f aal or scatter It before the tho friendly friendy friend friend- ly h. y winds of Heaven to your bettors betters the ho carrion crows of or tho tim field All that hat the they may do all aU that and moro more t It C thero there yet be he open further depths of Or Infamy Islam to n a polluted b besotted lie He He roundly roundly- denounced tariff for protection and declared that John D D. Rockefeller and J. J P. P Morgan ought to o bo be Indicted for treason lIe Ho commended commended com corn mended tho the President for sending messages to congress urging tho the enactment en cn of legislation for tor relief relic from existing evils C of or government I 1 |