The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-25

ly called other senators to preside and
spent some time in his committee room
and on the floor OF the Senate. Vice
President Fairbanks is In the chair
promptly at IL o'clock and, with the eX-
oeption of the time In which he goes TO
lunch, he remains there all doy Senator
Fairbanks has certainly made good as
presiding officer In the Senate.
New York VS.. Kentucky.
About month ago Representative Hop
kins OF kentucky made rather vigorous
attack on New York City and the evils
Of unrestricted immigration as 1t affect
ed that city. Last week Representative
Bennett, who is serving his first term in
the House and who represents an upper
west side district In New York. replied
TO Hopkins and created n great deal of
amusement al the expense of the Ken
lucky gentleman. He said that he had
been looking up illlteracy and found that
kins. there was of the white voting pop
ulation 80 &c per cent illiteratcs, nearly
one-third of the voting population OF the
county In which he lives" said Bennett
amid the laughter OF the House, He
| compared 1t with New York county and
showed that only II clio of the voting
population of New York are illiterates.
most of thom being foreigners And for
five years the gentleman lHopkins) was
school commissioner OF Floyd county
KY" said Bcnnet,
| New York made a favorable comparison
OF the tenements with Washington; the
capital of the nation, and asserted the
| enforcement Of the laws In his city
when a man makes a lot OF money in
| any other part Of the United States he
comes to Washington TO spend It, said
| Bennet l.,
New York than elsewhere" asked Rep
resentative Simms OF Tennessee;
| You'll have to ask somebody else' re,
| piled Bennett II am not in that Favored
| class, but 1 will say. however. that l nave
never never had any objection to what I get for
my money in New York. | desire TO say,
! incidentally. that there Is one senator VINO
| Is building what | assume Is n house In
| New York who I do not think is getting
the worth OF his money
| He referred to Clark of Montana
He asserted that person could Walk
tho streets OF New York at any hour Of
the day or night in perfect safety as long
as he attended TO bis own business, l .iSS
Sneaking of the police force. he told this
story: Y'We havo a police force In the
| CITY of New York. and we all or Us 1eel
concerning IT e92a ,oa oTai ,uSen .lhS the war
nitb Snain broke out, He was taking
viii some Spanish officers, end they said;
we have transports. we nv n those aopI trans
ports and send them up there, and we VIII
etart the troops UP Broadway, ana tnen
| Yorker send them up ana the pi"a'""s
| SQUAD will arrest them .,,,.o o,,,,,,,o,-,d
Tho New York representative compares
his county TO that OF Breath'{ird iudac n''; opd d
or.
igpp1T y,ore implicated In the kllllng OF
snea ~ attorney 80 they did not like He pointed
ni, an, tbn GOOD wages which are paid In
gu. @ W Hork and declared that the second
a,nnaratIon of Immigrants under the Good
sscbooI system of the metropolis Hec@i'o
! good citizens
Age No Bar.
Tho aged clerks In the government ue
snte never need fear that theE are
49, pi 10 be thrown out, Disseminated
sgai6st by legislation. The senate COIL
mittse will never accept the vic" OF i tte
,nl..oo cnmnIttee and viii knock out the
rlnnsed amendments without ceremony
yyo, could not make the senate commit
,ce on appropriations feel that is was
hor 70 good service TO become on Jus.
ienl, ~ the membership and the ages OF
the committee ,o,, a., so,.on-
SuIson of Iowa, the chairman, rs setcn-
o,,lseyen Hale of Maine Is slNIS-nlne. ,lI1
SuiIom OF Illinois Is seVenty-slN, ferKLhs SLl
oS california IS siNty-slx: warren OF w
ming Is slxty-one, Wetmore OIL hnouc
Island is fifty-ninc: Gallagher OF NcW
ttInnnshIre is sixty-ninc; E!KlhS OF Ncst
VirrInin is siNty-four, Ieiler OF Solorado 10,
~, scventy-Gye. Barry OF ARKANSAS ,s S
n,tS-dyo: Tlllman of South Sarolln9 is
iitYt}ivthrec, and German OF Maryland 10
Sixty FIVE l., .ho corutc inc,ud-
,, members of the appropriations com
niitnn nine senators over seEeht$ I Ine
,,,,,It m,I, for discharge fixed by tho house
aa,nr,propriatlons a,r, committeei fourteen over