Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-21
TRAVEL PAY FOR PRESIDENT
House ApprOpristss $4,000 to Meet
Expenses Of Executives Trips.
PURE FOOD BILL COMES UP TODAY
JOInt Resolution Increasing the
Terms of Representative
to Four Years IL
Defeated,
PURE FOOD BILL CONES UP TO-DAY

WARRINGTON, June 9O.--Twenty bills OF
more or less geaktei Interest were passed
today by the house underi suspension OF
the rules. Among them were, measures ap-
propriatinE $4,000 for travelling expenses Of
the president, which excited considerable
debate, providing for the subdivision Of
lands entered under the reclamation act:
increasing the eficiency Of the bureau Of
insular affairs by comforting the rank ana
pay Of a brigadier general on the chief Of
the bureau, and regulating the checking
Of baggage by common carriers.
The Joint resolution increasing the terms
Of representatives to four years and the
bill amending section 5ls6 Of the revised
statutes permitting national banking as
sociations to make loans on real estate as
security and limiting the amounts of such
loans, failed to receive the necessary two
thirds vote.
The house also passed a rule to begin
the consideration Of the pure food bill
tomorrow and after twelve hours of debate
vote on the substitute TO the senate COM
mittee without intervening motion.
The house at sac o'clock adjourned until
| IL o'clock tomorrow.
Travelling Expenses for President.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to defray
the travelling expenses Of the president for
the next fiscal year was called up under
the suspension OF the rules in the house
today by Mr. Tawney Of Minnesota. chair
man Of the appropriations committee. The
sundry civil bill carried an item appropriate
| ing 325, 900 for the travelling expenses OF the
president. which went out on a point of
order. Mr.. Watson Of Indiana, then in the
chair, and who sustained the point Of or
| NJ ha I'M h.
which the house had under consideration
today.
Mr.. Underwood OF Alabama demanded a
second, which was ordered, and a debate
OF forty minutes ensusdS Mr.. Underwood
asked II the appropriation was V3pr the
present president or future presidential 81.
| Mr. Tawney replied that the ain was
to make It a permanent law, and that with
the passage of this bill the, point of order
against an appropriation carried by the
sundry bill would not lie. Mr.. James OF
Kentucky wanted TO know what oficial
duty carried the president abroad. Isn't
It true that there is no oficial duty re.
aulrinE him to leave the capital?" he
asked.
Mr. Tawney said that while he could not
recall any official duty just at present that
might take him outside the capital, he
could easily conceive how, as commander
in-chief Of the army and navy, he might
be called upon at any moment TO travel
! Cochran Supports Bill.
Mr.. Bourke Cochran of New York sup
| ported the bill, saying he was not willing
| to make partisan matter out of the
measure Mr. Cochran remarked that the
| gentleman could not violate the constitu-
ton of the United states II he tried.
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tion the means OF asserting itself against
even the gentlemen OF the house OF REP
resentatives," he said. Continuing Mr.
| Cochran said:
1.-THE point wanted to submit to the
gentlemen and our side here and TO the
entire house OF representatives is this;
| That I'm the operation Of our constitutional
System. the president has become great
leader OF public thought and public opin-
| ion quite much as a mere executive OF
| the laws and II the circulation OF the pres
ident throughout the country adds prac-
tically in the direction OF improved legis-
alton. giving effective direction to public
opinion, whether that be not an expense
that ought legitimately be borne out OF
tho public treasury"
II think" interrupted Mr.. Underwood
"every public man in the United States
cabinet ofioers, senators and members OF
the house. give their time literally and
freely TO the people OF the United States
in great discussions and there IL no rea
son in the world why this house should
make an exception Of the president. W.
are going to deny passes TO every man ia
this house I believe we are. and l know
we will n the conferees on the rate bill
1 carry out what I believe to be the viii
and the sentiment of this house.
Mr. Cochran: would the gentlemar
deny mileage to membersF"