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Show I CONGRESSMAN SISSDN DENOUNCES , t HIS PARTY FOR ITS EXTRAVAGANCE A T A Thomas Upton Slsson, Democrat, who has represented Fnu ti, 4 district of Mississippi In the United States House of Rcpres i" A tatlVcB for sfx years, and who Is a member of the Important ' ' A House committee on appropriations, which has to deal with th " A expenditures of the government apologized in the Houso for h6 ' 4 crltlclsnw of the Republican administrations. He repeated hi A apology, April 3 of this year, in the following terms: 8 4 Principle has gono to the four winds of tho earth, ana w t A are writing ourselves down in tho history of tho country t A being the most outrageously and most criminally extravagant 1 A Congress that ever sat on the American continent t 1" A said that In a speech before, In the last session, and when I 1 ' A made that speech, members of the Democratic House came to a A me nnd asked me not to imt It Into the Record because It 1 ' A would be used by the Republicans In their campaign work. 1 A Let them use It. You may use the statement now, 4 gentlemen, because, when Democrats get to bo so violently ' X A travogant that It mnkes Its own record look bad as compared A with tho very marked record of the Republicans, I must apol- X 4 oglzo to you Republicans for having over used tho words 4 "criminally extravagant" in criticising the npproprlotlons that X A you made; for It that expression "criminally extra vnpant" was ji 4 proper to apply to you, MY GOD, THE ENGLISH LAN a A QUAQE HAS NEVER FOUND AN ADJECTIVE S T II O N a A 4. ENOUGH TO APPLY TO DEMOCRATIC EXTRAVAGANCE a ' l' AAAAAAAAAAAAA AA AAAAAAAAAAa. v |