Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-23

efforts of the president anc demo
cratic leaders to reach an agreement
on the rate bill received further
notice in the senate yesterday from
Senators Bailey and Tillman. The
matter was referred to by the Texas
senator in the course of a personal
explanation called out by an article
in the Chicago Tribune charging Sen
ator Bailey with the failure to find
common ground, and by Senator Till
man in a speech in support of Senat-
or Bailey and in presenting further
statement from former Senator
Chandler.
In his address Senator Bailey de-
nounced the article in question, as a
lie and the author and inspirer of it
as liars. There also was a sharp
colloquy between Senators Daniel
and Tillman over an amendment to
the anti-pass provision.
Consideration Of the rate bin in
the committee of the whole was con-
cluded and the measure reported to
the senate, where there will be oppor-
tunity to review and alter all amend
ments heretofore made.
Practically the entire day was de-
voted to the consideration of the
anti-pass amendment, which was
adopted after making so many ex-
ceptions as to arouse laughter in the
senate every time the provision was
read.
The work of the senate as such was
confined to partial consideration OF
the pipe line provision, which was so
amended as to strike out the Morgan
proviso extending its operation to
other countries where the United
States has jurisdiction.
In the course of Senator Bailey's
speech he said his attention had been
called to an article printed in the
New York Tribune yesterday He
said it was of the same character as
that printed by the Chicago Tribune
and that evidently they had been
timed to bring them both to Wash
lngtOn at the same Time. POINTING
to the press gallery he said:
81 intend to put in the record, up
on the statement of more than one
reputable newspaper correspondent
in that gallery, and as a rule they
are as honorable as the senators on
this floor. on their authority | state
that the two chief cuckoos of this
administration are the correspond
ents of the New York Tribune and
the Chicago Tribune.
"And therefore it seems to me con-
elusive that this SANDER proceeds
from the white house. 7 hope, fot
the honor of my country that it does
not proceed from the president him
self. But if ne be a man of high
sense of honor he will see to it that
senator's are not slandered by his
subordinates, and the miserable
wretch who communicated to these
newspapers. and who sought through
them to communicate to the country
a SANDER on me which the people
might discuss, rather than the issues
that have been raised, he is unfit fol
his high Office and the man VINO perpe-
trated that infamy will pay for il
with his position and if the man con
tinues to hold his office it is to be
assumed that what he has done has
been with the approval of his chief
A Rival for the Dreadnaught.
The naval appropriation bill, carry
ing nearly a hundred million dollars,
was completed in the house after one
of the busiest days of the present
congress. The feature of the days
debate grew out of an attempt to
defeat an appropriation for the larg
est battleship of its class in the
world, and the tenor of the speeches
for the big ship was that the Ameri-
can republic must be abreast of the
nations of the world in the strength
of its navy. The opponents talked
for peace, disarmament and arbitra-
ton and insisted that there was no
national need of such a large navy.
An amendment introduced by Mr..
Burton of Ohio, to strike out the ap-
preparation for a rival to the English
Dreadnaught, was defeated, as was an
amendment leaving the construction
of the battleship to the discretion of
the secretary of the navy after the
second Hague conference. The final
vote on the bill will be taken today
For a Sea Level Canal.
The decision of the senate commit
tee on interoceanic canals is in favor
of a sea level canal across the 'sth-
mus of Panama. Senator Carmacks
return from Tennessee gave the sea
level advocates a majority of one vote
and consequently Chairman Willard
was the only one of the minority fac
ton who attended the meeting. There
was no other business before the COM
mittee and it remained in session
lust long enough to authorize Sena-
tor Kittredge to make a report to be
presented to the senate as soon as
the minorit, members may have an
opportunity to prepare their views for
a lock cana The two reports will be
made at the same time. The vote
was had on a resolution presented by
Senator Kittredge declaring it to be
the sense of the committee that the
construction of sea level canal be