| Show W a I 1 N 6 0 I 1 T W if vaa 9 T ff bill Is defeated by the ridicule of congressmen washington feb 12 A new gavel was dedicated tj to the memory of lincoln by speaker cannon today in opening the house and tho the birthday of tho the martyred marty red president was remembered in the prayer of the chaplain legislation for the district of columbia was taken ut up the bill most interesting on the calendar being th the adams whipping post bill for bif wife e beaters A ripple of interest was manifested when mr babcock at 2 called up the bill to punish with thirty lashes wife beaters in the district of columbia sir ir adams pa in favor of the bill was heard in thirty minutes at once lie he was importuner importuned to yield to questions but I 1 positively declined to be interrupted and began with a re 1 buke of the levity with which tho the subject had been treated for five minutes sir lur stanley ky made fun full of the bill and incidentally took mr adams to task for never marrying it was lie he said a brutal measure of brutalizing a bruie brute all the arguments in defense of the instruments of torture burled buried I years ears ago with barbarism lie he said would apply to this bill 1 I am more surprised continued mr air stanley at this unusual proposition coming as it does from the distinguished gentleman from pennsylvania of all the men in tile the house the last one to shed tears as big as a buttermilk biscuit over a suffering wife laughter it if it had come from a gentleman from utah I 1 could have listened with more patience it if you take all the suffering women in this country there are more of them really in pain that are not married and in pain because of that fact than women who are married and beaten laughter and the gentleman from pennsylvania belongs to the class that is really afflicting more torture than the wife beater the mental anguish is more serious than pain and if you will think of the great number whom ho he has left alone lamenting he should have more mercy on others who inflict agony on the fair sex 1 I shall move that a like ilke punishment be inflicted on him who feloniously refuses to take a wife 1 laughter the whipping post bill was defeated by being laid upon the table by a vote of to 57 |
