The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-09
.ELOOD'AMENDMEN7
AIMED AT MACON.
Committee Adopts Provision That
No Officer Shall Receive More
Than One Salary.
RADICAL CHANGES IN BILL
Bascon slcmp and George l.,
Hart Make Statement Con-
corning Real Estate Deal.
RADICAL CHANGES IN BILL
corning Real Estate Deal.
{rrom uor Regular Correspondent

\ (From uOr Regular Corrcspondcnt.)
WASH NGTON, D. c., May s,-Rcprc-
sentative Flood secured the adoption OF
Al amendment TO the diplomatic appro-
,,r,ntion bill in the committee on foreign
affairs today which not only calls attcn-
tor. 10 Il piece Of very loose and cxtrtLva-
CANT business In connection with our
diplomatic service, ana the conduct OF
fairs on the isthmus Of Panama, but
ccrrccts n manifest piece Of Injustice. The
amendment simply provides that no part
or the money appropriated by the diloo-
matte bill shall be expended In the pay
,,lCnt OF the salary or any minister or
ambassador who receives any other sal
Ury from the government.
Aimed at Magoon.
The amendment Is aimed ut Governor
Mugoon. who. in addition TO being gov
c,uor OF the Canal Zone. ut an annual
salary of $1O,G is II member OF The islil-
ltiisn Canal Commission mt $500, ana
our minister to Panama at $1,000, making
Iis total compensation tI,cco annually.
This was out Of Ill proportion to the
lnent, which will almost certainly DC
adopted by Congress, cuts his salary TO
$1,000 It Is asserted by some that ne
~ still receiving more than his services
cntitc him to receive.
But Mr.. shonts the president OF me
TIC government and $1,000, 1t Is said, from
tile Glover Leaf Railroad.
The diplomatic bill proposes some radical
q changes In the service, In so far us COM
pensation Is concerned AT present thcre
are only five ambassadors or the Snltcu
States receiving $3.50, the largest salary
rnjd nm ambassador. They arc hmbassa-
doris at London, Paris, Berlin, st. Ii'cters-
burg and City of Mexico. The PHI on
which the House committee on, foreign
affairs is working ana which will be re-
ported In few days provides to raise the
embassy at Rio Janero. Rome. Vienna
with compensation fixed at sl7,5oo year.
What Mr.. Slemp Says.
Mr.. Bascom semp, son of Representa-.
tive Slemp. and chairman OF the RepuD-
lican state Committed has written me q
letter in which he denies absolutely that
he acted in any way dlshonorabiy IN the
recent real estate transaction In Roanokce
IN which George j.. Hart. whose name
as postmaster OF t!at city, was wltn-
& drawn by the President after It had been
sent to the Senate l noted in his cor
respondencc remarks of several Demo-
Gratis that 1t was strange that while
the President should have withdrawn the
name OF Hart he should have then ap-
pointed Mr.. Funkhouser on the recon-
mcndation of Mr.. Semp. who was the
grantee in the first deed IN the realty
transact ion complained OF, and the grahtor
in the second Mr.. Slcmp says:
.tThcre was no. agreement or under
standing, directly or indirectly, whereby
II personally. or Is chairman OF the party,
or any official or tho party, or any one
q else Shout dhavc received from Mr.. hart
any portion of the cmoluments Of the
office in consideration Of my endorse
,ncnt of him or for any other cause
Nor was there any connection direct or
indirect express or implied. between the
real estate deal above referred to and
my endorsement of Mr.. Hart.
Mr.. Slcmp appends statement from
Mr.. Hart, which accorts with tho facts
as set forth by Mr.. Slcmp. Mr. Harts
statement. addressed to Mr.. Slcmp, IS
as follows:
ask me to make a s,atenen, IN regard TO
your connection with he sale OF SIN r nts u,
syn 4hat some III Tine last fa asked 4
action and you said AL right. so a al, AL.
You wer: busy at the time and no netai,s
sre Esn Submitted bn e an offer Of $1,000 cash
10 the owners OF the property. USING g s',
n t'a,,lS was as submitted in your absence Ac-
cording TO the acceptance a deco was
in your t as sSa hnn p ane
for execution This deed was not submitted
TO you Within few. days after the ac-
ceptancc OF the offer Mcssrs McArthur
Brothers and Company. railroad contractors,
arrived in Roanoke and announced that they
had the contract for completing OF the Tide las,
estate generally were affected, and particu-
inrly along Jefferson Street on ,a account 9,
the dcpots of said road being located . qus
that strtA, and within few weeks THIS
nroperty was resold With the aid Of a real
+ estate agent to syndicate Tor $1,000 Win
which sale you had no connection whatever,
Xii papcrs for the second sale were pre-
nnrci in your absence and without your
knnwIedge and the deed from You was
brought by me to washington and you
signed same, asking me at the timo to