Show DISLIKED BILLS rather not vote on them but must fieo exclusion and canal each i is likely to pass but senators love them not when mason visited commons an entertaining tilt in the house washington march 26 there are bills lii the senate all pressing for action none of which Is well liked and two of which many senators would like to see defeated or postponed they are the oleomargarine bill the chinese exclusion bill and the nicaragua canal bill oleo has the right of way and probably has fewer friends than either of the other measures it will no doubt pass it it reach es a vote but many who feel compelled to vote tor it when the time comes are doing everything they can to avoid any such contingency nicaragua no doubt has more real strength than either of the others but senators begin to realize the responsibility of the undertaking which means the expenditure of about according to the estimates of the engineers and much more in the opinion of others who feel that they are entering upon an uncertain undertaking the exclusion bill must pass in some form the labor interests and the men from the pacific coast and rocky mountain states say they must have this legislation but there is a division of sentiment in the senate some want drastic legislation and some want the enactment reenactment re of the geary law during the life of the present treaty with china probably must pass with the strength there is behind each of these measures it would seem that they all must pass but even with the understanding of the steering committee that they are to be taken up and disposed of there is also the reservation er that appropriation bills and a conference on the revenue bill must have the right of way and any one of these measures which may be before the senate will be put aside to consider the supply and revenue bills it we could only drop the oleo bill into the potomac river with a heavy weight around it said one senator who roust favor it it a vote is reached we would breathe easier it would seem as it the opponents of the canal bill might aleo bo looking for fmc method to shunt senator morgans favorite measure this could only be done by passing the appropriation bins and ae curing an adjournment before a vote Is reached ja all candor 1 I cannot see how this can be done in view of the strong canal sentiment in both houses the only way it might be accomplished complis hed would be by leaving the subject of routes to the president with a requirement that what he does must receive the approval of congress this Is a solution which several senators are trying to bring about our statesmen abroad senator mason of illinois was telling the senate how carefully foreign countries governed their public men and ref erred to the fact that great care was exercised in england and that it one went to the house of commons no matter by whom accompanied be was searched to nee that he did not carry a bomb 1 I wish to say said senator of georgia that I 1 have bad the pleasure of visiting the house of commons at certain times and I 1 was never subjected to such an ordeal 1 bad the pleasure of visiting the house of commons once said mason and I 1 biad to be introduced and to be carefully examined as to my reasons tor being there but it may be that it was on account of my appearance and not because I 1 looked like the senator brofn georgia it show answered bacon that they did not recognize this doctrine ot equality before the law 1 I will agree responded mason that the senators mild mannered appearance pe arance would generally admit him almost anywhere hepburn and williams when representative 0 iowa made his regular assault upon tha river and harbor bill representative williams of mississippi got into quite a long controversy with him suggested that the committee to prepare a river and harbor bill should come from which were not interested in the improvements suppose said williams there were seventeen congressional districts that were not interested in the tariff would the gentleman be willing to have tho men representing them the anye and means committee 1 I do asit know replied what my lda of moonlight would bo it the moon were obliterated from tho heavens 1 I am supposing eup posing a case said williams and tho gentleman is something of a himself because lie la from that and supposes things 1 I will admit returned although the gentleman makes the suggestion with something like a sneer in his voice my yankee origin and that I 1 have a vigorous imagination and its flights even fo me are wonderful laughter and it some times ills me with wonder but I 1 cannot lve of the first proposition of the gentleman it is impossible for me to imagine that there ore within the length and breadth of this country seventeen districts or seventeen coun alea or seventeen families or seventeen man that are not interested in the great system of protection and then hepburne Hep burns republican as cheered vociferously W duatt |