The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07

"You say sS5,O00! Not $S5,OOOW
 "Yes," said the Pennsylvania Sena- tor. q mean $s5,O00. This amount was not given for the campaign for election, but was given before Mir. Wilson's nomination. I suppose he did it to stimulate the uplift."
 Senator Thomas manifested curi- osity to, know if there had not been some large contributions to President Taft's fund in 1912.
 Mot enough" replied MT. Penrose, "to' pay the printing bills."
 Senator Ashursti renewed his reply to Senator Curtis charge that he had no right to frank through the mail a political letter. He had a telegram read that MT. Taft, when Governor General of the Philippines had sent to Secretary of War Root, in which he described ride he had taken on horseback in the mountains of Baguio. There were more than hundred words in the telegram, and MT. Ashurst explained that it cost the government 52 cents a word, as he had taken the trouble to go to the manager of the telegraph company and find out. The despatch also con- tained allusions to health in the is lands, and compared the mountains in Baguio to the Adirondacks. The Sen ate laughed when the reply to Tafts dispatch was read. The dispatch was: ,Taft. Manila: How is the morse :? Root"
 Here came the dramatic perform ance which simulated the old-time
 
 sometimes resulted in blows. Senator Ashurst, as he finished reading the despatch, leaped toward the middle aisle, overturning Senator Chamberlain as he did so, and rushed toward Sena- tor Curtis, who was sitting next to Senator Smoot of Utah. MT. Smoot shrank back, as if fearing that he was to be the object of MT. Ashursts at tack. But the Arizona Senator, gesti- culating, when he reached MT. Curtis bent down over him and shouted:
 And this Pharisee from Kansas is shocked at my use of the ma1ls! The Kansas senator did not even blink an eyelid. Senator Kenyon asked anx- iously if theNe were not some dispatch in the records somewhere that would tell what really became of Tafts horse, and the Senate smiled.
 Senator Penrose brought the discus sion back to the general subject of the improper use of money. "In the recent lobby, the copper lobby, seeking to have the Revenue bill amended so as to take off the tax on component parts of munitions, the senator from Arizona had the distinction Of pre- senting the amendment" he said.
 Lies, Says Ashurst. '1f the senator replied MT. Ashurst, hotly, says that I was in- fiuenced by the copper or any other lobby he lies"
 Senators sat up. Several Democrats called out to MT. Ashurst to withdraw his epithet. In the galleries they could be heard saying: Take 1t back
 'I think the senator will desire to withdraw that remark said Senator Gallinger, while Vice President Mar shall rapped for order. Friends of Senator Ashurst surrounded him and asked him to remember the rules of the Senate.
 Senator Penrose said that if Senator Ashurst did not offer the amendment his colleague did 50 obligingly, and that MT. Ashurst looked suspicious to him, although he might have been nearsighted at the time. Senator James started quickly to his feet and declared that he thought the senator from Pennsylvania was as much out of order as the senator from Arizona.
 Senator Ashurst went on to charge that when Senator La Toilette came to the Senate he was an outcast and an Ishmaelite because he was honest. Addressing himself directly to Sena- tors Penrose and Gallinger. he charged that they were the representatives of special interests and that they ostra- cized La Toilette because he stood for equal rights of all and special privi- 1eges to none,' while they stood for the opposite.
 -'I trust the senator is not personal" ironically remarked Senator Gallinger.
 ''Oh, not at all I simply mean Sen ator Gallinger, Senator Penrose, and Senator Curtis." replied MT. Ashurst. The Senate laughed.
 The senator should observe the rules of the Senate and not call sena- tors by name," said Mir Gallinger.
 Well, then" MT. Ashurst retorted, T will say the senior senator from Pennsylvania, the senior senator from New Hampshire and the junior sen- ator from Kansas x
 A timely motion to go into execu- tive session drew the curtain on the scene and prevented any further ex- hibits of party linen for the day.