Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-09

ing arose in the senate to speak in
behalf of his public utility bill, which
had been made a special order OF busi-
ness and which passed the senate at
noon, charged that when Senator Kel-
lahar stated that the bill was full of
omissions and jokers that he uttered
a falsehood, and that he knew 1t was
SUCH, he threw down the gauntlet for
the most sensational debate that has
ever been heard in that body; de-
bate which involved the personalities
of three senator's, members of the
railroad commission, and other indi-
viduals, and in which the short word
was passed so often and which was SC
bitter and vituperative in character
that at its close Senator Miller ap-
pealed to the President Selling to in
the future exercise his power to.
wards the elimination of discussions
of that character,
The Lie Is Passed.
The charge brought Senator Jo
seph to his feet with an impassionet
speech in which he charged that sec
tion after section had been left ou
of the bill for the benefit of the ga'
! companies and Portland Railway
Light & Power company, of Portland
and other corporations of that city
and in which he heaped sentence af
ter sentence of vituperation upon 1T
author. Hardly had he concluded be
fore Senator Kellahar gained the foo
and smarting under the charge, h
asked Senator Malarkey to repeat II
Advancing to his desk and confront
ing him and shaking his finger II
front of his face Malarkey declared
again that when he, Kellahar, mad
the statement, that he uttered a false
hood, and further declared that ever!
statement he, Kellahar, had mad
concerning the bill was false. AS tn,
two stood angrily glaring at eacl
other, a personal conflict was looket
for, but It did not come
Short Again Passed.
The senate had not recovered from
this sensation before another wa
precipitated. Malarkey was takint
Senator Joseph to task for failing t.
have voiced his objections against th'
bill in the committee of the who'll
and demanded his reason The las
word had been but uttered when 10
seph walked up to him and shouted
in reply, because 1t is so rotten tina
it would not bear amendment. Tn,
two were still confronting each other
glaring into each others eyes like
two mad bulls, and hurling words a
each other when Senator Chase in
terrupted the proceedings by makinl
a motion 1t was but temporary
Hun. however, as Malarkey after
discussion Of the bill, in closing pre-
cipitated another sensation when ns
ling to his fun height and waving il
his hand weekly publication o
Portland containing a picture Of Sen
ator Kellahar and an eulogy upoi
him, he derided the paper by callini
It the "doughnut publication" an,
ridded Kellahars business and pub
lie career with biting rldicue an,
sarcasm That looked as though
was enough for one day but the shor
word remained yet to be passed again
and 1t came when Senator Dimicl
arose and taking exception to tn
statement of Kellahar that the mayo
Of Milwaukee was the creature o
Joslyn, pronounced 1t an untruth.
4 Bill for Everybody.
Senator Joseph began with a re
viewing of the movement for publ
utility commission in Portlan
claimed that 1t originated with tn
Arlington club and that no senate
could lay claim to being the origina
tor Of 1t. After this fling at Malarke
. he proceeded to say that It was nc
patterned after the Wisconsin act a
, had been said by Malarkey, but this
: section after section had been elimir
sted The section upon which he lai
stress war that in the wiscor