Show PETTUS FIGHTS SUBSIDY BILL he says edmunds could cipher around the truth SENATE washington feb 18 only a few senators being in the chamber when the senate convened today mr bettl grew suggested the absence of a quorum forty anve senators a quorum responded in pursuance of previous notice sir ala then addressed the senate in opposition to the ship subsidy bill referring to senator edmunds re to the author of the original subsidy bill mr pettus said that the distinguished vermonter ler had demonstrated his ability to cipher around the truth he thought tho provisions of the measure justified him in saying that mr edmunds as a senator of the united states could never have written this bill mr pettus urged that the bill ought not to be passed not only because of the millions it would draw from the treasury hut also because of the pran involved he made a constitutional argument against this measure HOUSE washington feb 18 immediately atter the reading of he journal in the house today mr tawney chairman of the special committee on the louisiana purchase exposition moved the dac of the bill appropriating tor the st louis exposition under suspension of the rules |