Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-12-13
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4 NANNfNtifaNs A'tNs III stNN.
qbean Is 4 war on between the men Y 10
bossed Mr.. Mckinley s salnpalaa and MT
/ MEX faley 4 Cabinet The men who hpSsed
the eam,Ainn compelled the kepuhll0nns
4 al the House WaYa and Means Cuushiitieu
"a make reduction IT Twenty-Five cents
net hsgaei ia The heef taS, although u
made 4he total 81 the Revenue Reduction
Tim. now before the House, exceed $40.
900, 900 instead Of Keeping Il inside OF
Ss0. GOO. nNn, as recommended by MI.
1 MCKINLEY. The Cabinet objects and has
been even talking OF fighting the bosses IN
Congress hut a word from Mt Mckinley
viii probably result in making II plain TO
them that the bosses are not dong more
than they were bound TO do. Ono Repub-
/ lican. speaking Of the Cabinet kicks, said:
ssyyhv, instead OF kicking, these men ought
TO be thankful that the brewers are not de-
handing the 81 barrel reduction that they
were led to believe before the election they
would get. These men in the Cabinet
would know a whole heap more about prac-
teal politics il they would work Tor while
with men who raise the money for national
camnairn. OF course, Mac will quiet
them; he knows Some are predicting
that the bill will be allowed to fail IN the
Senate. Representative Richardson pre-
sented the minority report on the Revenue
Reduction bill 1t does not oppose any OF
the reductions made, but fayers more ex-
tensive reduction in war taxes
The Senate has always been an extfava-
giant body. especially in its expenditures
for its own luxury, and the fact that the
Committee on Finance has just paid 81, 1Oy
for refurnishing and redecorating the room
in which it meets shows that it is growing
more SO.
1t was an unexpectedly large majority
1913 to 92-that the House gave the Grout
Oleomaroarine bill. Political lines were
not drawn at all. If any line was drawn,
it was the agricultural against the manu-
featuring.
That everything is being done that can
possibly influence votes for the Ship Sub
sidy bill is apparent to everybody. Even
the bidding for the construction OF the SIX
armored cruisers and the five battleshIps,
authorized at the last session of Congress,
was utilized for that purpose. In order to
create the impression in Congress that the
shipyards of the country were all on the
hunt for work, which the Ship Subsidy bill
would give them if enacted into law,
these seheners had a whole lot of small fry
establishments, which would be taxed to
their utmost capacity to build ligflt-draft
gunboat put in bids for cruisers and battle
ships.
Senators are not showing much anxiety
to rush the Army Reorganization bill
through the Senate, which was railroaded
through the House last week. To give the
Senate Republicans a chance to rush 1t, the
House leaders made the bill substitute
for one that was passed by the Senate at the
| last session. The Senate could have sent
the bill to conference at once. but II
didn't The bill was referred to the Mill
| tarv Committe, and Senator Hawley, Chair
man of that Committee, says the usual
routine will be followed in the considera-
ton of the bill, which began to-day. The
anti-canteen amendment, adopted by the
House to please the W. G. T. T., is already
being made the basis of much contention.
The chances favor its being struck out b
the Senate.
The story of Rathbone's extravaganza
| with Cuban funds, which was quite as dis
graceful as Neeley's stealings, is fully told
in q pamphlet of 292 pages, now in the
! hands of the Senate Committee on Relations
! WIFI A1tlt. AlUtiOtGIt lattOtAoVAC pau tAAA
money out on vouchers, they were vouchers
which he knew no honest auditor would
pass In fact, vouchers amounting to
500, 1921 have been thrown out by the
auditors because of the nature of the goods
/ for which they charged, such as $40 a
month for rent for coachman's house, enam-
eled bath-tub and other house fittings FOL
enc Madam Jorrins and household furnitgIr
and furnishings Of all kinds, including such
items as lining furniture with brocaded
silver and gold, 2 and harness and other
stable paraphernalia. Although these
vouchers have been disallowed, the money
had already been paid from the Cuban
funds 1t will in common honesty have to
be made good, as well as the Neeley steal
ing, and it is likely that the task Of making
good will fall entirely on the United States,
as there is no probability OF recovering any
considerable sum either from Rathbone or
Neeley.
Senator Teller struck those who believe,
or prete.sd te--s2kliers, that we cannot con,
struct the Nicaragua Canal without the
consent of Great Britain solar plexus blow
when he said in speech, advocating action
on the part of the United States that would
be absolutely independent Of England, that
to ask England's assent to the construction
of the canal was to admit that that country
had right to express its dissent. He
warned the Senate that such position
would not be accepted by the people of this
country. At the last session of Congress
the Administration demanded the ratifca-
ton of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty without
amendment. Now, its personal representa-
| tives in the Senate GLADLY afyrea tn having a
vote taken on the Davis amendment, which
provides that nothing in the treaty shall
apply to measures which the United States
will find it necessary to take for securing
| by its own forces the defense of the United
States and the maintenance of public
order, next Thursday, when they know
that it will be adopted. The Administra-
ton is now willing to accept the amendment
simply because it knows that the treaty
could not be ratified without it.