The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-03-09
LOUD BILL A DEADER
Seccnd.Class Matter Can Con.
tinue to Go in the Mails
at Pound Rates.
DEATH COMES SORT CT SUDDEN,

Trick Being Done by an Overwhelming
Vote To Lay ON the Table-Republican
Vote Badly spIit-vest Tells the Senate
the Sort of Vegetables They Raise In
Alaska-Canadian Paci6c's Business I'm
1897 I'm Goods i'm Bond.
Washington, March 4.-The Loud bill
10 correct alleged abuses of the second
class mail matter privilege, which last
year passed the house by majority
of 144 TO 104, was buried under by an
overwhelming majority by the house
yesterday The vote was not taken di-
rectIy on the bill, but on motion TO lay
il on the table BY vote of 162 to 1l9
the motion was carried. Forty seven
Republicans joined with the Democrats
and Populists in accomplishing this re-
suit, and ten Democrats voted with the
majority of the Republicans. The re-
fusal of Loud to permit a vote on an
amendment at the last minute was re-
sponsible in a measure for the result,
but the strength of the measure un-
doubtedly waned throughout the three
days debate. The announcement was
greeted with a burst of applause.
Analysis of the Vote.
The following Republicans voted with
the majority of the Democrats and
Populsts to lay the bill on the table:
Baker of Maryland Barney of Wiscon-
sin, Barrett of Massachusetts, Beach
Of Ohio Bingham, Boutelle, BrodericK,
Brown of Ohio. Brownlow. Brumm,
Bull of Rhode Island, Burleigh of Maine,
Capron of Rhode Island, Codding of
Pennsylvania, Cooper of Wisconsin,
Curtis, Davenport of Pennsylvania, Da-
wilson of Wisconsin, Dayton of West
Virginia, Dingley. Dovener OF West
Virginia, Gibson of Tennessee, Hopkins,
Howell of New Jersey. Hurley of New
York, Kerr of Ohio. Kirkpatrick OF
Pennsylvania Knox of Massachusetts,.
Kulp of Pennsylvania, Linney of North
Carolina, McEwa of New Jersey. Ohm
stead Of Pennsylvania, Pitney of New
Jersey, Powers of Vermont, Pugh of
Kentucky. Robbins of Pennsylvania,
Russell of Connecticut, Sauerherlng of
Wisconsin, Southwick of New York.
Stewart of New Jersey. Sulloway of
New Hampshire Updegraf, Walker of
Virginia, Weaver of Ohio. White OF
North Carolina. Wilbur of New York
and Williams of Pennsylvania.
The following Democrats voted
against the notion: Allen of Mississippi,
Davey of Louisiana, Fleming OF
Georgia. Hinrichsen. Howard Of Georgia,
Love of Mississippi ogden of Louisiana.
Taylor OF Alabama. Underwood Of Ala
bama and Young of Virginia.
Vest Not enthusiastic Over Aiss,sa.
Washington, March 4.-During the en-
tire session yesterday the senate had
under consideration the Alaskan home
stead and railway right-ofway bill One
Of the features of the discussion was a
speech delivered by Vest, in which he
ridiculed the idea of homesteading any
part of Alaska or constructing railroads
in that district. His motion to eliminate
the homestead feature of the bill by
striking out the first section was de-
feated. He rdiculed the report made
by Rev DR.. Sheldon Jackson upon the
agriculture of Alaska. Alaska" de-
clared Vest, "is notan agricultural section,
and IL never can be made one. | speak
from personal knowledge and not from
government reports" He said that In
that great section-two and half times
larger than the state of Texas and ten
times larger than the state Of Georgia
there was not a single farm: yet the
report of DR.. Jackson extensively pic
tured the wonderful potatoes and the
remarkable cabbage produced there.
He Had Experienced Those Potatoes.
Vest said he knew something Of those
potatoes and cabbages. The potatoes
were large and-full of water, nothing
else. He saw. he said, cabbages that
spread over the ground like the blanket
Of Sancho Panza, and caulifiower that
weighed twenty-five pounds; yet when
they were cut they contained nothing
but water. AS TO the grasses which DR..
Jackson referred TO so eloquently. il
was vegetable blasphemy" to compare
them with the blue grass Of Kentucky.
He thought the purchase of Alaska for
$500, 900 had been made recklessely and
heedlessly. Since 1891 IL had cost the
government SAL, 900, and to REV. Shell
don Jackson, d. D., and Ii. D., mis-
sionary to the Aleuts and manager OF
reindeer, 500, 900 for spending his winters
IN Washington and his summers I'm
Alaska