Show FLOOD GETS VIGOROUS gives vent to uninterrupted flow of talk claiming credit FOP democrats in free de livery washington march 16 in tha house today during the discussion ot the postoffice post office appropriation bill air spright of mississippi discussed the negro question and declared unjust the attacks on the people of the south who bad been charged with brutality and barbarism toward the colored race comparing the and burn toga at the stake which had occurred in the south with those in the north he said that the people of the south in meting out punishment to a negro who had committed a fiendish crime never followed it up with violence to ward defenseless children and women as had been done in the north ho declared that president loosevelt Hoo sevelt by inviting booker T washington to dine at the white house had done more to inflame the passions ot the negro and to give him a perverted idea ot tola importance and his near approach to social equality than anything thai had been done for the past ten years mr flood of virginia denied that perry S heath waa entitled to credit or inaugurating rural free delivery he said heath made the claim notwithstanding the tact that he had not yet emerged from the scandal with namo as unsullied as the alpine cenowa thrice bleached by northern blasts mr fanley of south carolina believed in a reasonable and just allowance for clerk hire for all and aalde be would not condemn any member for requesting allowances for separating mall and for unusual business there were he said of the abuse of the franking privilege and that should be looked into mr of pennsylvania suggest ed that it mr fanley personally knew of any such abuses it was his duty to call special attention to the individual mr finley declared ho was not making charges against members of con areas but ad road the in the public press he said the public was saturated with the charge that there was corruption n the post office department and the only thing to do was to investigate it in a speech characterized by in tense vigor mr flood of virginia asserted that the credit for the establishment lish ment of the rural free delivery service belonged to toe democrats it had he said been claimed by mr health 1 I am not he said astonished that a gentleman who was willing to rob and plunder hla government and permit other people to rob and plunder the government ho had sworn to protect should rob an opponent of credit to which be waa entitled ho protested he said against honorable gentlemen on this floor follow tue abo example of perry B heath mr mccleary of minnesota had read i an amendment he proposed to otter i providing a scale of salaries for clerk hire ou the basis of where the salary of tha postmaster id 1000 where it Is 1200 SOO where it la 1400 fwu where it Is 1000 and where it Is 1800 mr williams of mississippi had read an editorial from the new york times of today under the heading As to running amuck having ret arence to an interview with the attorney general on the success ot the merger decision th attorney general bad hi views he mid to hlat the apprehension ot trusts and combinations for fear think abo government was going into ahn of and prosecute prose cut ln them without to affiliation or pat wah pan republican poll c J H ed to je een whether k recal trick or tha X ft police 0 o cunning BOW A strength and brt force bave byln la the amt pmt on the poa bill VM closed by ganeff of who opener an to A ot pension bills vero peg cd 1 at tho bouso adlean ad lern |