The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-20

lin FIST FIGHT.
REPRESENTATIVE DE ARMOND
CALLS JOHN SHARP Will
LIAMS A LIAR.
GAINES, OF TENNESSEE
Also Passes Lie Upon Washington
Newspaper--contcstants Forcibly
Separated-Frst Appropria-
tion by Goth Congress.

/ Washington, Dec. 19.-The wore
i liar" was twice used In anger on
the floor cf the house today, the first
! occasion being when Gaines, Of Ten.
lnessee denounced u local newspaper
for printing statement regarding his
alleged interest in the deficiency OF
the appropriation for seeds for free
distribution, and the second and
more serious occasion when De Ar
mond Of Missouri, applied the epithct
/ to Williams Of Mississippi minority
leader. resulting I'm the two men en-
gaging in fistic encounter which
only ended when they were forcibly
separated The trouble arose over a
misunderstanding regarding con
versation of week ago about some
committee appointments, De Armcnd
insisting that he mad not made any
specific recommendation but only had
asked that Booker of Missouri and
one or two other Democrats from that
state be considered according 10
their special fitness. Williams main
tanned otherwise, and the anger of the
two men increased until they came
to blows.
Curing its session the house got
down to actual work and transacted
considerable business. All that had
remained to make this possible was
the announcement or committee ap.
pointments which was made today by
the speaker, The several chairmen
became alert with regard
to their rights and forced reference
to the committee OF several PROPOSE
tions upon which immediate action
Was ,y,7s dessirsd This was not accom-
less debate, which at times grew
warm.
The first money appropriated ny
the Sixtieth congress was awarded
today. The amount OF $4,000 to be
used in supplying n seed deficiency
by the destruction by fire Of
the government seed warehouse In
this city.
The house viii meet again Saturday |
on which day adjournment for Christ
mas holidays will be taken.
A resolution was offered In the |
house today by McCall of Massachu
setts. postponing until next May the |
question of the location of the sta |
tue of General u. S. Grant In the |
United States Botanical Gardens in
the city furnished occasion for brief |
but lively debate. Smith of Iowa,
objected to its considera'
ton because, he said, the site al
ready agreed upon represented the
best Judgment of secretaries Root
and Taft General Greenyille M.
Dodge. the senate committee on
library. and members of the Grant |
family. Messrs. Williams of Missis' |
sippi, Sherley of Kentucky. and Mann |
of Illinois, sought in vain to get
Smith to permot the resolution to
pass. but he was obdurate and the |
contractors will nsw be permitted to
20 on with the work of building the
1t was represented that in placing
the statue on the site selected many |
historical trees would be destroyed. |
Representative Hill today intro
iuced the following concurrent reso' |
luton.
THAT Il Is the sense of congress
that the secretary of the treasury
should, in his discretion and under
such regulations as he may prescribe.
Kermit receipt of certified checks of
banks in payment of all public debts.
deposit of same in depositary banks
and drawing of checks against such
depositary accounts by disbursing
officers in sub-treasury cities as well
as elsewhere"