The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-26
SOLEMNITY IS RELHvET
Bottle Taken From South
 carOlinian'S Pocket.
Senate Adopted Agricultural Execu- tive, Legislative and Judicial Appropriations While Gallery
 Laughed at Antics

| washington, Feb. a.-The Senate today passed both the agricultural and execu- l tive, legislative and judicial appropriation | bills. An amendment to the agricultural bill suggested by Mir. Hepburn of Idaho caused animated discussion. It contem- lplated supervision of the interstate com merce laws so as to prevent the transfer | of plants or seeds fraudulently marked \ from one state to another The amend ment started debate on paternalism. It was ruled out on point of order. An amendment offered by Mir. Hepburn authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit interstate shipments of ulisnafned and misrepresented fruit trees provoked q | long discussion. 1t was supported by Messrs. Hepburn and Clark (Wyo.l and [opposed by Messrs. Tillman, Lodge. Hale. Teller. Proctor and Bailey During the course of his remarks Mir. Tillman said:
 A Fool In 0hice. ''We depend too much on the discretion of the present Secretary. Some day we'll get a fool in that officeIas we have had in the past and the result will be bad" l Mir. Teller in opposing the amendment spoke of the growing expenses of the gov arnment. He said there had been no gem eral demand for rural free mail delivery and predicted that the expense of that system would be increased to S100,00O coo. MT. Bailey said there had been great crit- icism of ClevelaRd's administration be- cause the total appropriations had reach ed 2SsO0o,0oe. The people were now paw ing $500. .ooo.Ooo without uttering much com plaint.
 Prefer to Go for Mails.
 Mir. Bailey referred also to the rural free delivery system, saying that s2D0I Io0O.- 900 is now being expended to carry mall tn the people who would prefer to go af- ter 1t. He predicted that 1t would not be lten years before government carriers would be delivering the hats and shoes of Mir; WarFeh, the Senator from Wyoming. lat his door
 Providing the Republican party re- mains in power" said Mr. Warren, inter- rupting and Mfr Bailey turned to the con- Hilton, saying the success of the Republf- can party would be in the interests of the Senator's kind"
 Tillman and Bailey.
 Mir. Tillman interrupted with the obser- vation that both parties are equally chargeable with responsibility for the ru- ral free delivery system, "and." he said, ''I want to take equal credit for it,
 He added his conviction that the system Is great improvement over the old and said that If Mir. Bailey did not consider 1t a blessing he was badly oft.''
 T will have to have further proof" said MT. Bailey.
 'I. too. want more proof" responded Mir. Tillman. "I live in the country where the rural free delivery system ben efits are felt and know more about than Senators otherwise situated"
 ''Oh," said Mir. Bailey, there is nothing the Senator daes not know more about than anybody if we take his word for it. MT. Tillman suggested that there were many South Carolinians in Texas who would appreciate free delivery if Mir. Bailey did not.
 Yes" assented Mir. Bailey ''there are many of them there and we put some of them in the penitentiary." "And." Mir. Tillman interrupted, "occa- sionally elect them to Congress or make Governors of them"
 While MT. Bailey was speaking of tn, multiplication of expenditures he referred to Mir. Tillman as not always voting to keep them down.
 MT. Tillman said he voted for an app7o- priation for the Charleston Exposition be- cause he saw every other State getting the money of the country. Continuing, he said:
 We were paying the taxes and getting nothing back. I paid $10 taxes and got 50 cents in return"
 Yes" responded Mir. Bailey. land un- der this procedure you will soon be pay ing s2O and getting q back. and then you will be $19 out"
 Benny's Bottle.
 While Mfr Bailey and MT. Tillman were both on their feet, Mir. Warren tiptoed to Mir. Tillman's side and abstracted a bottle from the South Carolinian's pocket The bottle contained a colorless liduid said to be eye medicine. Mr. Warren re- moved the cork. smeiled the contents and replaced the cork, and then unnoticed by Mir. Tillman, returned the bottle to the latter's pocket. The Senate and gall leries were convulsed with laughter. hTr. Tillman was still unconscious of the by- play but not so with Mir. Bailey. He was not pleased with the procedure and exclaimed sharply:
 When thls vaudeville performance has ceased will be glad to continue" The chair rapped the Senate to order
 Later when Mir. Tillman had been told of the incident, he walked to the seat of Mir. Warren and taking the bottle from his pocket, offered 1t in the attitude of one proffering a drink of the liquid. The l offer was declined.
 The chair sustained Mir. Lodges poi1t of order against Mir. Heyburns amend | ment and the debate continued. Mir. Clay defended the Agricultural Department against charges of extravaganza iIc also expressed the conviction that rural free delivery system was a great boon | to the farmers.
 Mir. Tillman referred to the incident of Mir. Warren taking a bottle from his I pocket and explained that 1t contained only throat gargle,
 eff I had known" he said. that the ! Senator wanted a drink. I would have provided him with something stronger. Explaining the incident Mir. Warren said that everybody knew that Mir. Tlfl- man neither tastes or handles"
 Don't so too far" interrupted Mfr. Tiil- man. "I sometimes taste it, but l don't get drunk except at banquets, and then I don't get so drunk that have to be carted home"
 The agricultural appropriation bill was then passed as amended and the exeeu- tive, legislative and judicial appropTla- ton bill was taken up.
 On a point of order made by MT. Nell son the committee amendment providing