The Washington herald., 1908-04-05

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The words were "that half of the follow
ing sums and had the motion pre-
vailed. the bill would have begun with
the words. "Are appropriated, sc. The
motion was clearly dilatory and absurd
on its face, but the House solemnly went
| through the course of a viva v0ce vote, di-
/ vision, and tellers upon it before it was
/ finally lost The final vote was s. to 81.
| But the flibusterers had not yet wearied
Of their game. AS soon of Mr.. Henrys
motion was disposed of Mr.. Padgett, of
Tennessee, was on his feet, moving to
strike out the following six words. Chair
man Dalzell requested that the motion be
put in writing While Mr. Padgett was
performing this labor of love, Representa-
tive Mann arose and moved that the de-
bate on the paragraph be closed. Mr..
Hardy, of Texas. demanded that this
motion be reduced to writing. but the
chairman ruled him out OF order. Mr.
Padgett's motion was voted on as Mr.
HenTy's had been, by viva vOce vote,
division, and tellers, and was lost. g. 10 81.
/ Then Mr. Mann's motion to close he de-
bate was adopted 6S to ~, and the clerk
went back to reading,
Many more motions were offered on
| the Democratic side. but as fast as they
| came up Mr.. Payne made points of order
against them as dilatoTy. and the points
| of order were sustained as fast as they
we're made.
SuIzer for "City BeautIful."
The clerk got through almost four
pages OF the bill before Mr.. Sulzer saw a
light, and moved to strike out the last
word in order that he might ask ques-
ton. He wanted 10 know how the Dis
/ trict employees were secured by the Com
missioners. Representative Gardner, in
charge of the bill, very politely explained.
| But Mr. Sulzer was not through just yet
He had something on his mind, and he
was bound to get rid of it. at whatever
| cost
He fully realized the importance of the
| pending bill. He wanted TO see Washing
ton a city beautiful, one OF the grandest
and most glorious capitals in the world.
and a whole lot more just like that.
| But he had been very sorry-he wiped
away tear-to see the gentleman from
| Pennsylvania, Mr. Dalzell, bring in his
new gag rule that morning He par
ticuiarly wanted to see the unemployed
men in the District put to work. but if
the majority We're going to gag the
minority he did not see how any good
| legislation was to get through. He
wished his colleague, Mr.. Vreeland, would
not continually bob up and interrupt
his speech. But just there the chairman
ruled that his time had expired. and
with a final remark to the effect that his
time had been consumed mainly by Mr..
Vreeland, the speaker subsided.
Murphy Asks a Question.
Then Mr.. Murphy, of Wisconsin. took
up the hlibuster and wanted to know
something about salaries in the plumbing
department Mr.. Gardner again politely
replied. and a motion from Mr. Vree-
land shut of debate on that paragraph.
Again there was a vote. a division. and
tellers, and the motion prevailed, Il to Al.
After many more questions Of great
| technical interest apparently, but having
little to do with the progress OF the bin,
Mr.. Mann. of Illinois, brought the recent
school, board squabble into the debate. A
paragraph had been inserted in the bill
to provide that none OF the appropria tons
made for legal purposes in the bill should
be employed for the purpose of retaining
outside counsel, but that the branches of
the District government were to rely upon
the corporation counsers Office for legal
advice. Mr.. Mann reserved a point of
order while he asked the purpose of the
paragraph. Mr.. Gardner explained that
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tons action in employing outside counsel
IN its troubles with the former superin-
tendent Of schools. Mr.. Mann averred
that having taken control Of the school
board out of the hands OF the Commits
sioners, il was now proposed. by this
paragraph to put it in the hands of the
corporation counsel Several others then
got into the controversy. and Representa-
tive Champ Clark asked Mr.. Mann his
opinion of the school row. Mr.. Mann
didn't have any opinion-it was simply
"an unseemly sQuabble between somebody
and somebody else" Then he made hts
point of order. and the paragraph went
out of the bill.
Clark Discusses school Row.
Here Mr. Clark secured five minutes to
make a speech. He said the school board
had been IN. a constant row ever since Il
had been In existence, It had been re-
modelled year ago. and the bill had
scarcely passed before the board had
got up worse row than It had ever
had before. So far as he knew, it was
going on yet. He had had a bill passed
giving teachers and others representation
when appearing before the board. and
the board had promptly passed a rule
''nullifying this act of Congress" The