Show IVASHIN U I 1 ON DORS raum rauni s 2 grows crom very I 1 interesting LIVELY PASSAGE AT ARMS A I 1 Bt tween the aad and his fanner cooper 11 I 1 11 quiet DIV dnn it coin BOTH boasts I 1 1 1 A ir kennedy defends big amli bit but it will ke j I 1 t 1 I rational lat ional I 1 V lt money 5 tl t I 1 THE bira sirs it tha ike sal and cooper ban bare litell lilt tilt I 1 I 1 sapt sept 17 george B fleming was the first witness today before the hium committee cooper asked if butler filch fitch had not told him that bradly tanner bad given tha the names of 0 alx abc lx or seven pension office employees employee who held hold refrigerator stock tock a witness replied that fitch had heal said EQ so witness had written articles on the c t which appeared in an indianapolis indi so ab im p paper aper and had famished furnished information to a st loula paper six or seven good men besides fitch alp plied anven d witness with information four ot of them being p office employees lie ile bent sent tha the men to tanner to talk with him and bring information to witness he ile fleming flaming desired to use it in his newspaper business ilia object it was not particularly to I 1 binl tit up a case on the commissioner bat but to get at the truth he ile bad had never said he e wa was going after the commis oner because ot of hia his discharge llad said sald be ile would get ovea even with the man who got him oat ont thedore theodore smith and had doco it lie witness bad had been postmaster at charlotte mich and the post office had been robbed the commissioner commis inquired inq aired whether witness had not been involved in some shady real estate transact transactions ious in grand rapids bot but cooper objected to these personal matters therom the commissioner replied that he wanted to prove that the witness was a rascal cooer if it yon you go into that I 1 want to show it i I 1 is true 1 ot I you mei who live in class s sil houses auses should not throw stones the commissioner I 1 think your house is as easy glassy a as anybody a cooper well I 1 defy 3 iou on As the lioner pressed the question cooper exclaimed it if I 1 cant show more rottenness in his It baums Kau aurilo ms record than in that I 1 of a any ny man man in Was baslington Lington I 1 will with withdraw drw reference terence Ka having been made agia again to the robbery of the post postoffice office 0 oper aked if it the commissioner I 1 elpe td t d to show that witness fitce a bad had robbed it the tue cal replied that cooper had bad a tetter latter from a gentleman who slated stated that witness was BUS rut pecked of the lob ob abbery bery at abia he insisted on cutting off the examination into this mat matter malterud terud ui ihara there being no more witnesses wit it nesses the case closed THE SUITE sept 17 blair addressed the amate on a jont resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution on the district of columbia in con coa grets and in the electoral college the ante then proceeded to the consideration of the bills on the calendar the following were passed senate bill to reimburse certain pons who ft ho expended moneys furnished services and supplies in repelling tha the I 1 invasions riv aslon and suppressing res ing indian boa biliti ti liti in I 1 ra nevada N S senate bia appropriating for a monument in I 1 n washington Vas hington to tho the memory of john ericsson dumb plumb offered a resolution to recommit the house bankruptcy bill to the judiciary jadi ciary committee with instructions to amend it to provide for a system of voluntary bandru bankruptcy tey only and gave give notice that be he donld would ask for a vote on the resolution tomorrow to morrow private pension bills were taken up and eighty passed in thirty minutes adjourned THE HOUSE 4 sept 17 the house 1 1 took op up the contested election cas case fro from virginia mVirginia of lingston Lings too vs venable the democrats Demo crata resorted to dilatory I 1 tactics leaving the chamber when the roll was called the clerk finally managed to note a quorum and haugen of Wis wisconsin conein proceeded to ar KW rue the case in favor of the contestant other members took part in the debate dee doe e the last being cheadle of indiana di ra who at the conclusion of his remarks was loudly applauded by the I 1 1 ino moc iTta rAts the cao case 0 then went I 1 ove ote haugen giving notice that ha he would cdell it op up tomorrow to morrow at 2 p w M 4 tho the house took tooka recess 1 bean heavy cond bond sept 17 in reply to the circular cl i the treasury department on Si september 13 inviting v it ing proposals for the sale of tour four per cant bonds boods the I 1 treasury department has re received i red I 1 offers aggregating about of which 10 were purchased l at prices from to IV the thelmi larg I 1 est eat amount at one price being n 00 I 1 at 1 26 74 7 t the next bibb hinbest as t was 3 at and the next A ta at 1264 1204 an official of iha tho treasury department t his afternoon called attention to the t f ct cc that including the parch t ahse se of bonda bonds today to day the di burse meota menta out of the treasury Troa iury sury in 32 days had exceeded the receipts by 1 I 1 1 1 kennedy before tb ike committee 1 anty september 17 A meeting of ida the house juill jull clary committee today to day waa was callet calle I 1 to consider conold tr the conjuring con euring kennedy tor for lila his epel ch atit boost and quay and U t ex plin ge the speech from tho recard kennedy makle a statement lu iu defence de fenie of 4 hia his action and an argument to prove the speech I 1 as in published in the record was within ibe the requirements of parliamentary law the committee decided to report a resolution re ordering the printer to omit the speech from the permanent tien copy 0 of the 11 record cord I 1 the conferees on the tariff bill were mere in aioo this ioe about an hour fiat but little progress ws made I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 |