The age-herald., 1902-04-03
New Yorker Takes AIIuSiOn to American GirI for
 His Text
BAILEY KEENLY REFERS
 10 THE RECENT MARRIAGE
Senator Depew Then Creates GreUs Laughter by Reference to Admin istration of Women for Youth
 and Beauty" of the Texan.

Washington. April 2-Discussion of the oeomargarlne bill in the Senate today was enlivened by two or three bright col loquys between Senators. MT. Bailey, Texas concluded his speech begun yes- terday in opposition to the measure His argument was brilliant and at times elo- quent and attracted the careful atten- ton of senators both sides of the chamber and of the occupants of the crowded galleries. He was followed by Mir. Depew of New York in a bright and witty speech in support of the measure
 MT. Depew matched his wit with that of MT. Bailey on the subject of the Am- erican girl and the saies of the two | senators were greeted with shouts of laughter both on the floor and in the gal 1 leries. The Texans keen reference to the recent marriage of MT. Depew was most | happily fenced by the New York sena-' tor in his reference to the love and admir- ration excited in women by the youth and beauty of MT. Bailey MT. Bailey, continuing his speech begun yesterday, referred to the testimony of
 
 oleomargarine was a nutritious and whole some and healthful product. MT. Bailey conceded the right of Congress to enact the proposed bill as a revenue measure and every senator who supported the measure to raise revenue was entirely with in his conscience and oath of office but if any senator should vote for it to suppress the oleomargarine industry he would do "vioence to his sense of duty and to his obligation of offce.''
 Was Not to Raise Revenue.
 He declared that the purpose of the bill was not to raise revenue and in support of his assertion quoted the statement of the principal proponents of the pending measure.
 'I undertake to say" said he. that there is not man in this chamber who either intends expects to raise rev enue by this measure"
 He maintained that the proposed bill contained a palpabe and even wicked violation of the constitution in the plac- ing of a tax on the article manufactured and sold within a state. | MT. Bailey sharply arraigned the cream cries and cheese factories of the country, the former, he said, the real packer | of the legislation proposed. He could un- | derstand, he said, the Republican policy of protection of industrials, but this new policy to legslate for the destruction of industries was entirely incomprehensible to him.
 In the pending bill MT. Bailey said in conclusion the majority of Congress was endeavoring to settle a contention among competing manufacturers. It would be as just to place q tax upon cloth which | looked like wool but was not; or which resembled silk, but was a higher grade wooen fabric, as it was to enact the pro- | posed law.
 A Battle of Wits.
 MT. Depew. New York followed Mir. | Bailey and supported the bill. He said he never had heard a speech which had so fired him, which so appealed to his | imagipation, and had had so little eff feet on his judgment as that of MT. Bailey. He had been taught that com- | petition waS the life of trade but com- petition ougsv to be honest. If mer- chant deceived his customers by foistina on them a fraud he believed that man ought to be reached by law, because ev- cry man when purchased an article, had a right to get what he paid for It is perfectly evident that no industry with a good article could compete success fully with a spurious substitute with which the people were decetved
 In the course of his brief speech MT. Depew, referring to an allusion made by MT. Bailey said that the American girl had been put in wrong position before the people of the United States.
 T forgot for the moment" interjected 1 MT Bailey, "a recent occurrence in the life of the senator from New York, or I should not have made the allusion." | Laughter)
 | And but for that occurrence" retorted MT. Depew, laughing he spoke, 'I should have left it to a younger man to I Aafa fNff fha wt-f It was the Senator's youth and beauty (great laughter) which astonished me when he made that remark. If he had been soured and disappointed in love, if the sex had treated him in some way that would lead him to remark about it like that, I should have understood him. But no one can meet the Senator, no one can see him socially or in his grave and dgnified position; no one can see his photograph on Pennsylvania avenue, without recognizing that his geniality, his happiness, his eloquence have come because the American girl has admired him and loved him" Qong continued | laughter.)
 And he never ought to have gone back | on her by saying she is fraudulent spec | imen of living oleomargarine." daugh- | ter).
 Another coIoquy. At the conclusion of MT. Depew's | marks MT. Bailey and MT. Spooner be- came involved in colloquy as to some | legal phases of the bill. twill the Sena- | tor from Wisconsin say" inquired MT. | Bailey, that the object of this bill is to | raise revenue?"
 q say that the object of this bill to raise revenue" replied MT. Spooner. Tn | other words, I say that in the exercise (contInued on Second Pagel