The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-03
LATTER'S WITTY REPORTS
The Senate is Enlivened by
 Humorous SallieS.
Messrs. Stewart and Spooner Engage in Amusing Colloquy Over the Definitions of Primary"
 and Paramount"

w ApTtt @-blSCuSSioi Vh ehV oleomargarine bill in the Senate today was enlivened by two or three bright collouuys between Senators. Mir. Bailey (Tex) concluded his speech begun yes terday in opposition to the measure. His argument was brilliant and at times elo- quent and attracted the careful attention of Senators on both sides of the cham Der and of the occupants of. the crowded galleries. He was followed by MT. De- pew of New York in bright and witty speech in support of the measure. MT. Depew matched his wit with that of can girl, and the sallies of the two Sena- tors were greeted with shouts of laughter both on the floor and in the galleries. The Texah's keen reference to the recent mar riage of MT. Depew was most happily fenced by the New York Senator in his reference to the love and admiration ex- cited in women by "the youth and beau ty" of MT. Bailey.
 When routine business had been con- cluded in the Senate today, consideration of the bills on the calendar was begun and the following were passed:
 Authorizing the White River Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the river in Arkansas; authorizing the ap- pointment of John Russell Bartlett as a Rear Admiral on the retired list of the navy: authorizing the construction of a traffic bridge across the Savannah River from the mainland within the corporate limits of Savannah to Hutchinson's Isl- and in Chatham County. Ga: authoriz- ing the President to issue to A. w. Hunt ley a certificate of honorable discharge; to extend the time for presentation of claims to reimburse the Governors of States and Territories for expenses ip- cured by them in, aiding the United States to raise and organize an army in the war with Spain to January 1, 1906.
 MT. Bailey CTex) then resumed his speech against the pending oleomargarine bill
 "I undertake to say said he. that there is not a man in this chamber who either intends or expects to raise revenue by this measure"
 He maintained that the proposed bill contained a palpable and even wicked vio- lation of the constitution in the placing of 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 of which. he said. was the real packer of the legislation proposed He could understand, he said. the Repub- fican policy of protection of industries, but this new policy to legislate for the destruction of industries was entirely in- comprehensible to him.
 In the pending measure. MT. Bailey said in conclusion, the majority of Congress was endeavoring to settle contention among competing manufacturers. It wiuld be, as just to place tax upon a cloth which looked like wool but was not; or which resembled silk but was only a high grade woolen fabric, as it was to enact the proposed law.
 MT. Depew (N. Y.) followed Mr. Bailey and supported the bill. He said he never had heard a speech which had so fired his fancy, so appealed to his ina gination and had had so little effect on his judg ment as that of MT. Bailey. He had been taught that competition was the life of trade. but competition ought to be honest. If a merchant deceived his GUS toners by foisting on them a fraud, he believed that man ought to be reached by law. because every man. when he 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 sue
 
 which the people were deceived. In the course of his brief speech. MT. Depew, referring to an allusion made by MT. Bai- ley said that the American girl had been put in a wrong position before the people of the United States.
 T forgot for the moment" interjected Mir. Bailey, "a recent occurrence in the life of the Senator from New York, or l should not have made the allusion." Uaughter,)
 And but for that occurrence" retorted Mir. Depew laughing as he spoke. ''l should have left a younger man to come 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. or if the sex had treated him in some way that would lead him to remark about it like that l should have understood him. But no one can meet the Senator; no one can see him socially. or in his grave and dignified 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. (Long continued laughter,)
 And he never ought to have gone back on her today by saying she Is a fraudulent specimen of living oleomargarlne. Uaughter)
 At the conclusion of MT. Depew's re- marks. Mir. Bailey and Mir Spooner be- came involved in colIouquy as to some legal phases of the bill will the Senator from Wisconsin say" inquired MT. Bail ley. that the object of this bill is to ra's" revenue?"
 II say that the object of this bill Is t" raise revenue" replied MT. Spooner. Tn other words. l say that in the exercise of the discretion which the constitution gives us we select this article as an object of taxation"
 But is it Qhe rasing of revcnue) the para mount obJect?" inquired Mir Stewart (Nev.)
 Tt is the primary object replied Mir Spooner. ,...-.,,, .La Narada Senator.