Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-07-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.


Senate discussed the oleoniargarint
bill until adjournment Wednosda,
without reaching vote. The debut,
terminated with sensational encoun
ter between Messrs. ingalls, and Mil
Ter. Senator Ingalls, leveled his keen.
est satire at tho poor but honest
dairyman, rs described by Senator
Miller. The latter had pictured the
dairyman rs n class Of superlatively
honest people, suffering from dishon
est competition. Mr.. Ingalls, held ul
two walls of coloring matter, tho In
bells of which guaranteed would i'm.
part tint of tho highest grade Jer.
sey to white butter, and mako it
worth five cents more per pound. AT
ter dwelling with some emphasis up
on the use of these fluids, Mr.. In
gals remarked that the "honest dairy
man" was not averse to prncticing q
little fraud himself. Who he again
held up the vial and deliberately an
nounced that these preparations were
made in Burlington, Vermont 1.-THE
home of Senator Edmunds,) tho sc.
dato Senate relaxed into roar, of
laughter, i'll which Mr.. Edmunds
joined heartily. But Mr.. Miller coultl
not SEQ anything of al amusing char
actcr In it. He arose to reply with n
very serious couutenance and n voice
betokening anger. He suggested TINT
there must have been rohersals for
the scene just then enacted, and said
Mr.. Ingalls, antics reminded him of
his boyhood days when lie used to
sec the itinerant peddler on training
days auctioning off his bogus wares
and elixir Of life. Ho did not know
whether tho Senator from Kansas
had ever had any such experience or
not, but suggested that if he failed
in another directions he might ply
the avocation ho had described adj.
mirably. Mr.. Ingalls, appealed to the
Senate to bear him out in the asser.
ton that he had not INDUCED in any
personalities. lie had been person.
ally assailed and lie replied with the
sharpest weapons at his command.
He said the humor of the Senator
from New York reminded him of the
attemp of hippopotnmus to dance
on the slack rope. He then charged
that Mr.. Miller Ind the strongest per
sonal interest i'll the pending bill, as
no was dairyman and was ndvocat
ing measure which would put
money i'll his own pocket Hn said
tho spectacle WAS presented in both
houses of this bill being urged by
men directly interested in it, rs tire
chairman of tho House committee on
agriculture also owned dairy farm.
Senator PlntLs attention was called
the other day to the criticisms which
have been made upon his assent to
the postponment of tho open execu-
two session resolution until Decem
Der and the Inference that he Ind
abandoned the matter. 81 NOV, d
that it be postponed" said he, "be-
cause nm more concerned in getting
favorable action OH it than i'll merely
securing record of the Senate. I
became convinced that it would not
pass if pressed to vote, but on the
other hand l learned from Senator's
here and there on both sides that
they were thinking over tho subject,
and every now and then one would
tell me that he had become convinced
that 1t was step i'll the right direc-
ton. When the movement began
there were not n dozen Senators
perhaps not n half so many-pro
nounccd favorable. Now we number
surprisingly near. majority. The
matter will be taken up and debated
in December. In the interval Sena-
tors will become moro familiar with
the proposition, and some will doubt
less have an opportunity to learn that
it does not depend for support mere
ly upon the clamor of the press, rs is
claimed, but upon the favorable SEN
timents of the people of oil classes.'
Ever since the purchase of Mrs.
Fassett's painting of the electoral
commission by the government that
picture has hung on the east wall of
the Senate library committee room.
The committee mad not determine,l