New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-26
THE WA SHINGTON

journal Each member. when his name -
called. will answer according 20 his prefer
cnoc, or, IL he prefers. present" When
the roll call Is concluded the winning city
is to have the privilege Of calllag up its
resolution, and the House may then get
down 20 such details as providing for the
governments participation in the eyposi-
ton. From the way the speakers are lining
Up II may be predicted that there will be
more oratory In the House next Tuesday
than has marked a session OF that body in
many a day. The sweetest singers from
the West and the South are now in training
and the eleventh hour effort TO swing the
vbvering ones will he an oratorcal treat
worth hearing.
REAPPORTIONMEN efforts OF
Representative Crumpacker TO get through
a reapportionment bill at this session have
eliminated in n call for q Republican
caucus for the evening Of Thursday. Feb
rusrv 2 Tho utmost interest attaches 20
the action Of the caucus. The House lead
ers are earnestly opposed 10 the Crum-
hacker bill. which provides for member
shin ~ is3 members, and, indeed, are loath
n take I'D any bill Of this character They
have
submit the matter 10 n caucus, but II has
been their hope that before doing 80 they
could insure a Republican majority against
any such measure How far their hopes
have been realized cannot yet be deter
mined.
COLD STORAGE.-A favorable report on
REPRESENTATIVE Liyingston's bill providing
fr-~ int Ia
storage OF food products seems probanie
as a result OF the testimony given by sec
rotary Wilson. DR. Harvey W. Wiley ana
DR. u. A. Melvin. q the Department OF
Agriculture. to-day. NJ. Livingston toid
Of a woman VINO had inscribed the WORDS
finder please write" and her name ana
address on an egg, and had thus Ieathcu
that It reached the ultimate consumer iouI
wears later. DR.. Wiley testihed that cssS
may be kept IN cold storage nine months
without deterioration. provided tha' tne'
have never been shaken up, ana that "u'-
ter may be kept an equal time IL put III
prime condition. He declared that lsh was
the most dangerous food product to store
At the conclusion OF hearing Chalrrnaii
Scott announced that there was no oisp?si
ton on the part Of his committee 70 oahish
from tho market cold storage producls, Out
merely TO prevent their being soid as
"strictlv fresh" and 10 prevent storage ne
yond the period of safety.
JEFF DAVIS RAMPANT. -- senator
Davis. Of Arkansas. introduced 9 new yer
sion Of one Of Shakespeare's oft qloted
lines in the Senate to-day IN on attempt 10
show how little he thinks OF ex-senator
Marion Butler. Senator owen was urging
an amendment 10 the Indian Appropriation
bill providing that portion OF the N"'o"
to be paid TO Colville Indian claimants ne
held for the payment Of the ATTORNEYS
these being Marion Butler and Colonel COR
don. son of the former Senator from 6eor-
gla. Striding down the middle aisle ms
srms waving like those OF a windmill, Je1
Davis said: "There ia something dead ]"
Denmark 7 have seen that man, Marion
Hutler. lowering around the Senate. Inc
very fact that this man is interested IL sur
fcient 10 nut the Senate on its guard.
Davis then raised the point or order
against the amendment. Senators Bacon
and McC'umber defended the amendment
but Il was upheld 10y tho Chair. on rnotiorl
~ Senator McCumber. however, sl""" Oh
the payment was withheld, 80 that the at
torneys will get another chance u. t. H.