Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-09
SENATE BARS WAY
OF ALCOHOL BILL
IT WILL DISTURB TARIFF.
Results Of Hot Weathcr--Texas and
Observation-Disclosures Racing Badge
The Grand Avenue.

| Special Correspondence.
Washington, May 5.--Free alcohol
seems to have struck snag In thu,
senate. The people who thought that 1t
| would go through the senate quickly
because 1t met with so little opposition
In the house may be disappointed.
am informed by men who have great
weight and influence that this I, is h
measure that must be carefully exam
| ined." also that the tariff structure Is
20 certain extent dependent upon the
tax upon alcohol and that alcohol free
OF tax would mean revision Of tariff
schedules. II will be a serious disap
pointment to a great many people. and
especially to large proportion of menu
beers Of the house of representatives, II
the free alcohol bill should fail to be-
come law.
RESULT OF HOT WEATHER.
A few sultry days last week seemed
to disturb the serenity OF members OF
Congress, and there were hot exchanges
IN both senate and house. The acri-
monous debate between Senators Hop.
kins and Tillman was not the only
thing that occurred, for there were also
vicious thrusts here and there directed
by different senators at each other,
showing that i'll temper has developed.
In the house there We're a number of
displays OF bad blood, and even the
leaders were not able to refrain from
tart exchanges.
TEXAS AND IRRIGATION.
on the day the house passed the bill
allowing Texas to participate In the
arid land reclamation fund Representa-
tive Lacey of Iowa made very inter-
estlng speech In opposition to 1t. during
which there We're some especially bright
features ~ debate. He was interrupted
by Representative Gilbert of Kentucky
when he incidentally mentioned that
state
Kentucky does not need to be irri-
gated" said Gilbert.
"'rhey do great deal OF irrigating
I'm Kentucky" retorted Lacey.
THAT Is a personal matter" inter-
iected Representative Sulzer of New
York.
Speaking Of what Connecticut would
have been had she not turned her large
claims IN the west over TO the general
government. Lacey said that Connect
lieut. would nave been q kangaroo state,
the biggest end behind her:" also that
the only thing that Connecticut saved
out of her territory was the western
reserve she gave up Chicago and saw
ed the western reserve. But Texas
keen, cutting rexas-Kept 1t all---kept
every acre of Il, and now. like Oliver
Twist, she IL asking for more"
MORE ABOUT TEXAS.
Interspersed in Lacey's remarks
there was more about the Lone Star
state He said:
There has never been anything very
modest about Texas. She has been
charged with everything except mod
esty | do not blame her for that.
acquit her of any charge of immodesty.
They made claim to pretty near
everything in sight in the northwestern
" direction. we have been good to
Texas and ought to have been good TO
her. and She has been good to herself"
'She Is stepchild." remarked Rep
~
"She is not a stepchild. and neither
Is She mother-in-law." replied Lacey.
"She appears now and asks equality.
Equality In what? To keep all she has
aud dive up with the rest OF the
states what Is left. She wants TO be
considered as one not only of the orig
inal l3 states. but as one of the 10
irrigated states. She wants to do this
without putting an acre or land INTO
the proposition and to draw out what
ever she can get"
THE GRAND" AVENUE.
Riding along Pennsylvania avenue
I'm the electric car the other day. ]
overheard fellow passenger remark,
81 was here when the horse cars first
began 10 run and SO far as | can see
Pennsylvania avenue has not improv-
ed since that time" He was referring
to that portion nearest the Capitol. and
It Is one cf the strange things that for
more than two-thrds of the length OF
this spacious avenue between the mag
nilicent Capitol brIiilng and :he COM
paratively insignificant bad made
quate White House there has been
little or no improvement In half q CEN
Jury. That part which aas improved
IS toward the White House.
TAYLoRs RACING BADGE.
Representative Taylor OF Ohio enjoy
cd the racea Yhile .hey wer. here and
was frequently at the trick. He had
racing badge" OF course which il a
season ticket of admission. one day
he left the house ard went down to
his automobile, but found that he had
lost the plug which is essential In con-
Meeting the Circuit which makes the
machine go He kept that plug I'm his
oyercoGt. After searching the pockets
Of that garment he tound ne had
taken ers,hsr members overcost. He
HE'D himself back to the house cloak
room. found Ais overcoat and made
the exchange Snd wAs soon speeding to-
ward the track When he arrived,
however he found he did not have his
racing badge. and then recollected that
he had In the beginning Of the episode
transferred his badge from his vest
pocket to the overcoat that he had |
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