Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-06-03
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

debate beween Senator AShurst D
Arizona and Senator Bristow o
Kansas on the proposal OF Ashurs
to appropriate 5000 to suppress.
prairie dogs in Arizona, when tht
lie was passed by Ashurst, ha'
been received here.
Ashurst wanted to appropriate
the money because he wanted tc
send a man to Arizona to advise
and aid in the destruction of the
prairie dog but had been advised
by the department that this could
not be done without an appropria-
ton.
Senator Bristow accused Ashurst
of trying to provide job for some
Office seeking constituent and the
debate proceeded:
Mr.. Bristow-Why Kansas farm
ers use poisonous gas or chloro-
form.
Mr.. Gronna-If the senator viii
permit me; with the permission Of
the senator from Arizona; l want
to ask the senator from Kansas il
a Kansas farmer pours it down the
throat of the animal or down the
hole in the ground? (Laughter.)
Mr.. Bristow.-I do not know.
Mr.. Ashurst-I wish TO use 4
moment or two of the time that l
have.
Mr.. Bristcw-For the information
of the senator from North Dakota
and the senator from Arizona, /
will say to these two tenderfeet
who have wandered to the west in
recent years, that prairie dog is
very hard to shoot. would not
advise undertaking to kill him with
a revolver; that is somewhat diff
ficult, but TO move on a prairie dog
with jugful of poisonous gas and
drive him in a hole and chloroform
him SO that he never comes out is
a very difficult feat to perform and
/ do not think that we ought to
have the Army and Navy called out
to suppress him yet; nor to have
any very large government appro-
priation to enable the federal gov
eminent to give Instructions along
that line.
Mr.. Ashurst-Mr. President. !
rose in good faith to propose my
amendment and my friend from
Kansas is first facetious. l have
no objection to that. but he made
a statement during his remarks just
now which l am obliged to resent.
He said that this proposed amend
ment looked to him like an attempt
to give somebody some jobs. a
statement OF that kind can issue
from no one except one whose
brains lies at the root OF his ton
que and if that statement was
meant in the way to insinuate that
my motives, sir, in trying to Sc
cure this small appropriation were
10 secure anybody a job de-
nounce in terms the senator who
would presume to say it. The sen
ator from Kansas ought not to say
that this amendment he believes or
suspected was introduced for the
purpose OF securing somebody some
jobs. 1t is false and you falsify
if you say it.
Mr.. Gallinger-Alr President,
think rule Is ought to be read.
(Rule l6 is to prevent one sena-
tor from rejecting upon another
senator in debate.)
The Presiding Oficer-(Hitch- /
cock of Nebraska)-The senator
from Arizona is out OF order.
Mr. Ashurst-Qn loud and excit-
ed manner)-Of course he is out
of order but he repeats what he
said that anybody who says that
is the purpose of my amendment
falsifes.
The Presiding Officer-The SEN
ator will be required to take his
seat under the rules of the senate. .
Mr. Bristow-Mr. President, I am
not at all disturbed by the empha-
sis of the senator from Arizona. /,
am sure that I was undertaking to
give some valuable information on
the killing of prairie dogs which .
seemed to be a problem here of
very grave concern to the federal .
government. SO far as the appro-
priation being for the purpose OF
giving somebody some jobs is con- 4
cerned | do not think the senator
from Arizona had an army of con
stituents who were trying to get
on the federal payroll. OF course
no senator has friends who want .
to get OH the federal payroll That
is something that does not happen