The Washington times., 1912-03-29
SENATORS THROW
SUNLIGHT ON THE
!: FAMOUS SUNDANCE
Kenyon, Lea and Warren
Entertain Senate BY
Their Repartee.

Sunlight was shed on sundance, in
the language of Senator Kenyon from
Iowa. in the course of the debate on
the general pension bill in the Senate
yesterday afternoon. In a speech for
the Sherwood pension bill. Senator Ken.
! Son objected to economy at the expense
OF the old soldiers when such gross
etxtrsyngsnces ext Iva as a $4,000 public build
ing bill for Sundance, Wyo, with its
81 inhabitants, were permitted to 20
! through the Senate without considera-
! ton.
His diversion to this subject led IN
a discussion of the public buildings bills
| FOR Sundance and other small towns in
| wyoming and Utah in which Senators
warren, Lea. and Sutherland Joined.
and at times acrimonious. In fact, al
one time, the lie was exchanged In
indirect fashion between Senators War
rem and Lea, and bad blood was stirred
up.
Senator Warren was plainly embar-
rassed by the raillery of Senators Ken
yon and Lea at the expense of sun
dance and showed It. Senator Warren
over 2s1, but when piled with questions
by Senator Kenyon as to what the
population really was he avoided an
answer and said he would state il in
his own time.
Senators in Wrangle.
It was in denying the correctness of
the figures given by Senators Lea and
Kenyon as from the Census on the
Sundance population that Senator War
ren angrily said he supposed lie would
travel thousand miles while the truth
was travelling one. Senator Lea re-
torted with further citation of the Of
f1cial figures and hurled back the re-
tort, angered at the insinuation of the
wyoming Senator.
The discussion was closely listened to
by other Senators and the galleries.
This Is not the last however that will
be heard on the subject. The motion OF
Senator Lea for reconsideration of the
public building bills for Sundance, Their
mopolis and Newcastle, Wyoming, and
the motion of Senator Kenyon for re-
consideration of the bill for st. George,
Utah, are still pending and will be
voted ON later.
Referring to the rate at which Sun
Kenyon said:
"If it keeps on dwindling, by the
time this public building is constructed.
an the inhabitants can be put in one Of
the Offices Or IN one of the magnificent
elevators"
Flc characterizcd Sundanca as "a de-
serted village"
Senator Warren Answers.
Senator Warren insisted the building
was badly needed, and he retaliated by
saying many Iowa towns had got public
building bills passed when not as large
as Sundance.
IF they have. am sorry" said
Senator Kenyon.
Senator Warren pointed cut. too. that
Tennessee had about SLmO,GO0 in the
river and harbo' bill To this Senator
Lea replied that when this bill came
70 the Senate he wo1d Join with the
Wyoming senator in seeing that Ten
nessee got nothing to which the State
was not entitled.
Senator Sutherland twitted Senator
Kenyon with. the loss of population in
Iowa, when Senator Kenyon said he
mad mad refused to to introduce bill for
town of 1000 population in Iowa.
Sutherland asked the name of the town
and, asked if 1t was because Kenyon
feared the town would decline in popu-
latlon before the building could be con-
5tructed. Kenyon replied that the Sena-
tor need not worry about the loss in
Iowa population, that Iowa was sending
great numbers OF people to populate
other Western States.
, Senator Kenyon in addition to assail-
ing the SundanCe extravaganza, scored
the failure to economlze in the con-
struction of the Senate office building,
and in various minor matters about the
Senate. He read from the report of the
secretary of the Senate, and asked
What brand of economy it was that
!ed 70 outlay for such things as
, oahoruh cure, massage cream" and |
tar shampoo at public expense He |
Teterrcd to another item in the report |
showing twelve pairs. of white duck |
'T3Tusers Tor bathroom attendants"
These, he added were small muttors
but they served to show the absurditv
or the cry for economy at the old
soldiers expense.