The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-26

extended. After the last extension MT. Johnson again claimed his attention, saying that he wanted to ask him a question. MT. Landis thrice declined to yield. MT. Johnson reminded him that his time had been repeatedly eX- tended. 1T know that" was the re- sponse; "the house has been too kind to me-"
 Well" said MT. Johnson, sarcasti- cally, q think so myself
 This created uncomfortable laughter. Not long afterward MT. Johnson ob- tained the floor and spoke long and ve- hemently. Several times was he inter- rupted by MT. Landis. At last he re- fused to listen to further interruptions. Landis, claiming that he had been mis- represented was urging his question, when MT. Johnson abruptly said: II decline to be interrupted by the gentle man.
 You dare not be interrupted" :" quoth Landis.
 Turning toward him MT. Johnson re- piled: That sounds like the chal- lenge of pigmy to a giant, and pay myself no very high compliment when I say it."
 There was a lively little tilt --,'''e Jerry Simpson was discussing the par agraph on seeds in the agricultural ap- propriation bill. An effort was being made to strike out the appropriation for their purchase and distribution. Jerry said that three hundred thousand people lived in his district and they were nearly all farmers. The seed dis tribution was about the only thing that kept them in touch with the gov ernment at Washington. Tt is the only benefit they get in the line of pa ternalism," he added.
 Here General Henderson, of Iowa, shouted: Well, you are a connecting link, Jerry"
 "Yes, sir" responded the statesman from Medicine Lodge; "and I am a farmer who farms the farm and not | the farmer
 A Imaginable incident occurred while General Grosvenor was discussing the civil service question. He referred to | William E. Barrett, of Massachusetts. as one who had been suddenly born | into the kingdom of the personal cue | koo party. MT. Barrett a moment af- 1 terward interrupted him by saying that l he wanted report of the words used l in reference to the cuckoo matter. II was evident that he was incensed at | General Grosvenor's remarks. In his | interruption he said: T asked him l General Grosvenor) sotto voce tc whom he referred, and he said that he l referred to me-"
 l Yes" Grosvenor replied, ''there was so much voce or so much sotto that l did not hear the remark Tn the debate on the Indian appropri. ation bill Jerry Simpson made an at tack on the Dingley bill. Governor l Dingley, in reply, said that during Jer- rvs services in past congresses he hao l always dwelt upon the miseries 1T Kansas. In this session not a word | had been heard from him about these miseries. This was an indication o1 progress Jerry shouted back: s'Well I Governor, I will say that Kansas is now under populist rule and has nc miseries."
 That's misery enough in itself, roared General Henderson, of Iowa And everybody guffawed.
 In a discussion concerning the Teller resolution the veteran Grosvenor was neatly turned by his colleague, Jame. l A. Norton. Norton accused him of in l dorsing the demonstration of silver l Grosvenor said that he was not in tn, house at the time it was done "Yol were one of the gentlemen MT. Nor ton insisted
 I was not" General Grosvenor re l piled. T was a humble and n~'--o4 citizen,' MT. Norton shouted. "Yol have always been public and nois. one.''
 The retort excited great laughter, be cause Grosyenor usually comes ou ahead in such contests. l A laughable incident occurred dur ing the consideration of the Indian ap
 propriation bill Mark Smith, of Ari zona, was ridiculing the idea of edu eating the Indian. He alluded to tn
 thousands of Indians in Arizona, an wanted to know what they would d, l with them when they learned to req, and write.
 James Sherman, of Utica, replie that they would make citizens out o them. "Yes," responded Smith, "yo would make a citizen out of him a soon as he could sing psalm."
 Yes" put in MT. Sherman, Wv would make Christian citizen out O him then.
 To which Mark responded: And al that he is able to do is to recite vers and sing a psalm. There are thieves il the penitentiary who can do both''
 q don't know about that" MT. Sher
 man gravely replied; T never was il the penitentiary."
 Another amusing scene occurre, when Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama was comparing the manufacturers dinner in New York, at which Presi dent Mckinley was guest, with Bel shazzar's feast. He said that the dined in a hotel that cost ten milliol dollars, at banquet that cost fifteel or twenty dollars a plate. "Oh, mo-
 shouted Albert M. Todd, of Kalama zoo. "A thousand plates were sprea there at one hundred dollars each"
 My gracious" exclaimed MT. Clay ton, fifteen or twenty dollars ough to have been enough! A man wh
 eats that much at a meal eats a bale 0 cotton in Alabama"
 Yes" interjected Jerry e'-,--,eor "ffteen or twenty dollars would hara,
 pay for the toothpicks at such meal.
 Well" said Long Jim Richardson, c
 Tennessee, "a man who would eat
 hundred dollars worth at a meal woul