The Washington herald., 1906-12-15
House Defeats the Proposed
Raise by 1873 to 106.
OTHERS PROFIT. THOUGH
Vice President, Speaker. and
Cabinet to Get $4,000.
when Yeas and Nays Were Recorded
vOred IL on Rising Vote-ResuIt
Showed no Republicans and -
Democrats Against and 81 Repub-
Iicans and % Democrats For.

Assuming that Speaker Cann0n's eye
sight was good yesterday. the House OF
Representatives contains between twenty
five and thirty members who are willing
TO have their salaries increased if some
body else VIII assume the responsibility
for the act
After raising the salaries Of members Of
the Cabinet, the Vice President. and the
Speaker Of the House to slZ00 a year.
the House, ON a rising vote Of Isl to 1S5.
declined to add $3.50 "a year to the sal
aries Of members Of Congress.
Representative Littauer. Of New York.
who viii retire on the 4th OF March next.
and who was the author Of the salary in
crease movement. thereupon called for the
yeas and nays, and on the record vote the
count stood 1SS to 1o6 against the proposed
increase. In other words. twenty-nine
members who voted for the increase on
the rising vote, changed TO the other side
when confronted with the necessity OF go
ing on record in Ehe premises.
The vote by which the House defeated
the amendment providing for The increase,
and for the payment Of actual travelling
expenses, was as follows;
For the Amendment, 1O8.
Repub;icans-ATen Il New Jersey. Ames. Bah
cock. Baunon. Barclfeld Bartholdt Bede. Beidler
BtuHct u Nsw YORK. Bingham. Bouruge. BROOKS
d Colorado. Brown, RrImm. Buckmau. Burke Il
South Dakota. Burton q Delaware Butler of Penn
sylvaHia Calder. Cslderhead Cocks Coudrev Cush-
man, Dale. DaizeT Denly. Dixon Il Montana,
Doycner. Dunweu. Dwigit Ellis. Fsssett Fletcher.
/ Fordnc, Foster of Indiana. FulkeFs,n. Gaines Il
West Virginia GilIctt t1rsLsm Greene Grasvenor
k4aa- THrr+4 1rrH rfn
lFgtUn. Jones n Washington. k<uueiy ~ Ohio.
kB0Wland. r. Lands Law Littauer. LonEw0rth.
i4o1d L0udeBslaEer LovQirc Mccall. McCrcsTy.
lIcliavin- NcKinl9y o. California. 1IcLacllau.
Mann. Martin MoudCu. SiUdd Ntadham- Ol-tt
0vCrstreCt Z Indiana. Payue. Peaue Prince Rey-
burn. Roberts. sherman Slcmp. Smith of California.
Smith q Illinois S1uthard. Tauey. Wali0 Wan
g,r Weeks. Wharton. and Wilev of New Jersey.
DcmOcrsts-Aiken Bu-leson. Clark e Florida.
DaFey. Davis Il West Virginia. Fitzc-rsld Gaines
Of Tennessee GolGfogie. GoulJeu. Granger Harl-
glrZ lamb. Leearc- Moore Il Texas. Patterson 4
Tennessee. Puia. RansdeI 4 Loalsiana. Kiordan.
Ryan, Sheyiey, and SslEass-
Against fhs Amendments. 1SS.
Republican, -Ac..eSon. Alexander. Alien q Maine
Bates Bennett q KentIcky. Brsdal. B5uter,
Bowsrs0ck, Bradley. Prick. Rrosulow, Brrleigh
Camphell of Kansas Campbell 0f Ohio CaIT8u
Chsuey CHAPMAN. Cole Conner Coorer cf Penn
sylvauia Cooper q Wisconsin Cousins. CrdEer.
CrImIacker. Curtis. Darrasb Davis Il Minncs0ta.
Dawes Dawson. Deemcr. Dickson # Illinois.
Draper. Drisc0il. Edwards EScb, Gardner Of Mscsi-
gan. Gardner n New Jersey Gilhams Graf
Grunna. Hamilton. Haug6n. HaTes. Hedge, Henry
q Connecticut Hermann Higgins. Hill n CGnnec-
tic1t. Hinshaw Holiaday. Howell II New Jersey.
Howell Of Utah. Hughes. Hull. Jenkins. keissr.
Kennedy q Nebraska. Knkaid Keeper KNAPP.
LACY Lafean- 4. r. lands Lawrence. Le fevre,
Lilley Of Connecticut. Littlefeld Lowien Me
ClCaU. Mckinney. McAi-uan. Madden. Miller.
MouscT Murdoch, Nelson. Norris. Often. Parker.
Pollard. Powers Reed.r Rhodes. Bives. samuel.
SqfH - gufr
Il PCnnsYlvauia. Smvscr Susrry. Stafford Sieener-
son. Stirling Stevens of Minnesota SuIl0way. Tay-
JOY q Ohio. TirrcI. Townsend. Tos;cad Treeland
Watson. Weber. Wesns. Wood. Waodyard. and
Young.
Democrats -Adauson. Bartlett BeaH Of Texas.
Bell of Georgia Bantley. Bro1cks Of Texas.
Brndidge. Burgess. BUrnett. BItlcr Of Tennessee.
Candler. Clark 4 Missouri. Clayton. De Armond
Dixon Of Indiana. ElleTbe. Field. Flosd Floyd,
Garner. Garrett. Gin. Gillespie Gudrar. Hay.
Heiin. Henry Of Texas. Hill of Mississippi Hous-
ton, Howard James, Johnson. ZONES of Virginia
Claude Kiicaiu " W kfchiB Kline Lamar
Lee. Lewis. Little. Loyd. NlcIain. Macon Moon
uf Tennessee. 0vCrstrsgt of Georgia PadEltt Psrs
Patterson II North Carolina. Patterson II South
Carolina. Rainey, Randen q Texas Richardson of
Alabama Robinson q Arkansas Eucter Russell
Smith OF Kentucky. Smith Of Maryland Smith 0f
Texas. Southan Sparknan. Spight. Stanley
STEPHENS nj Texas. Talbot Thomas. Trimble Tn
derwood. Wallace. Watkins. Webe Williams, and
ZeDor.
Not Immediately Effective.
The amendment which was thus lost
provided that the proposed increase in
salaries should go into effect on March
T. 1909 After the House adjourned sew
eral members who are known 10 favor
higher salaries, but voted against the
amendment. said that their negative votes
resulted from the fact that the increase
was not made effective at the beginning
Of the next Congress, or at the beginning
Of the sixty-frst Congress, in 1907. at the
latest. The opinion is generally ex-
pressed that when the legislative. exec
utive and judicial appropriation bill,
which the House passed after voting on
the salary item. is sent over to the Sen
ate. the upper body will reinsert the pro
vision for increased pay. Even if II does.
however. there IS no certainty of favor
able actio2 on the part Of the House.
There is scarcely a Representative who
does not believe the salaries paid mem
bers Of Congress should be increased. but.
as yesterdays vote showed. many of them
are afraid TO go on record as voting for
the change.
Republican leaders are disgruntled by
the result Of the voting Some time ago.
when the matter first came up in th.
Appropriations Committee, the men in
control of the House machinery agreed
that they were willing to take the re-
sponsibility for making salaries $500 in
stead of 5000 if it could be understood
that the Democrats would not attempt
to make political capital out of the mat
ter On Thursday evening Mr.. Littauer.
who. as has been said. is 10 retire from
public life at the end of the present
Congress. and who has been bearing the
brunt Of the salaries fight ever since il
became convinced that the
Democrats were not willing 10 keep their
part Of the tacit agreement and de-
cided not 10 present the amendment for
the consideration of which he had se-
cured unanimous consent earlier in the
day Yesterday. however, representations
were made TO him which caused him to
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To-day at SlOan's.