Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-01


the bill.
Mr.. Wright, of Pennsylvania, ash.
ed his colleague to state what that
trout stream - Kiskiminitas was.
and also where the Conemaugh Of
that was the name) was Laughter.
Mr.. White-The gentleman aspires
to be candidate for the Chief Ex-
ecutive office of Pennsylvania, but, if
he does not know the geography of
his State better than that, he ought
not to aspire to such high position.
Laughter and uproar.
Mr.. Wright-If 1 have to support
appropriations for the navigation of
trout streams I do not want to be
Governor of Pennsylvania. Ap-
plause.
Mr.. White-The people of Penn
sylvan:a may agree with you in that
respect. Laughter. VIII my col
league say, before the House and the
country. that he does not know the
location of the kiskiminitas and Cone
naugh rivers, in Pennsylvania
Mr.. Wright-They are new names
I to me | never heard of them before
! Loud laughter and great confusion
and disorder.
Mr.. White-In the old Democrat
ic days it was Kinkiminitas and Cone
matl9h rivers, that made the western
limit OF ths Pennsylvania Canal reg
ion, which used to contribute 70 the
power of the Democratic party.
"Oh. no, = shouted Mr.. Townsend,
of New York, 1T was the Mononga-
hela that always helped the Demo
cratic party" Continued laughter
and uproar.
Mr. Wright-Iwant to know wheth
er that appropriation was made at
the desire of my colleague.
Mr.. White-It was. and am proud
of my success. laughter
Mr.. Wright-Are they navigable
streams.
Mr.. White-They are.
Mr., Wright-How wide are they!
Mr.. White, stretching out his arms
to their full extent, which members
assumed to be a dumbshow answer
to the question, provoking immoder-
ate laughter)-Over 200 rods.
Mr.. Bridges, of Pennsylvania, ask
ed Mr.. White whether in low water a
person could not step across them.
Mr.. White Gndignantly)-No, sir
you could not step across them. The
gentleman ought to know something
about the great oil region of Penn
sylvania-
Mr.. Bridges-I do know some
thing about it.
/ Mr.-White-I want it to known
to the people of Pennsylvania that
the gentleman has libelled my part OF
the State. Laughter and uproar.l
Mr.. Fills resumed the floor, but
before long Mr.. Wright, Of Pennsyl-
vania, again brought up the question
of the two streams in the Allegheny
mountains. and excited his colleague
(Mr. White) to renew the contest. In
the heat of the discussien they grad
ually approached each other from the
opposite sides of the chamber. and.
amid ihdescribable uproar add con
fusion, wrangled as TO the size of the
streams. Mr.. White hourished a
book containing an engineers report
on the subject, and when, in answer
to Mr.. Wright's oft repeated ques-
ton, Mr.. White spread out map on
which the streams were indicated,
Mr.. Wright pointed at the map with
an air of coi1tenptuohs triumph and
said that (the width of sheet of the
paper) was the width of these streams.
He seized and waved the map in Mr.
Whites face flor they had then come
close together) and Mr. White made
motion as if he would throw the
volume at Mr.. Wright's head. There
were shouts of laughter, uproar, con-
fusion and unbounded disorder. Fl
nally, after four and one-half hours
consumed in this manner, the Speak
er enforced order.