The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-07-22
DEFICIENCY BILL
:. PASSED BY HOUSE
Includes $25, 900 for Taft's
Travelling Expenses.
PETTY GRAFT is CUT OFF
Mandate of Supreme Court Is Dis
obeyed-Tariff Conferees In
! Deadlock Payne and
Fordney Clash.

Washington, July 21.-The urgent
deficiency bill was passed by the house
after four days of tempestuous debate.
The amount carried by it is $454, 1903,
or $2O,408 more than the original sum,
and includes the $4,000 travelling ex-
peDses for the president.
The session began calm enough, but
as the day wore on the members got
into more or less surly mood and this
led to a succession of objections to
amendments and to almost every one
of the remaining paragraphs, some of
which were sustained.
Supreme Court Defied.
After denying the usual extra
months pay to officers and employees
of the capitol, the house threw out of
the bill the allowance for extra work
to committee stenographers, and then
turned in and refused to carry out a
mandate of the United States supreme
court for the payment to j. M. Cebal-
los & Co. of New York of $205,614.
The long-established custom of
granting officers and employees of con-
gress an extra months salary each
year was swept away when Mr..
Wanger of Pennsylvania, the presiding
officer, sustained point of order made
by Mr.. Macon of Arkansas against the
proposition. In vain did Mr.. Olmsted
of Pennsylvania, the father of the pro-
posed appropriation, plead for the
withdrawal of the point.
Messrs. Macon and Sisson of Missis-
sippi were especially antagonistic.
They practically charged graft and
said the time had arrived to put an
end to 1t.
Tariff conferees DeadIocked.
The tariff bill was hoisted above.
the chickering's of congressional con-
ferees and transferred bodily from the
capitol to the White House. Dead.
locked because of the attitude of Rep
resentative Payne, who apparently has
become obsessed with the growing con-
viction that he is in the minority, the
conferees abandoned the usual after
noon session. Senator Aldrich and
Speaker Cannon repaired to the White
House post-haste to consult with
President Taft, literally taking the
tariff bill with them.
What happened at the White House
between the president and the senate
and house leaders is a sealed book
When Messrs. Aldrich and Cannon re-
turned to the capitol they minimized
the differences that had aroused bit
in hn nd
insisted that nothing unusual had oc-
CURED. Senator Aldrich said that to-
morrow would find the conference
committee again at work, and he ex-
pected that by tonight, when all the
conferees are to be entertained by the
president at dinner, most of the prob
lens apart from those receiving the
personal attention of the president
would have been solved.
Payne and Fordney Clash.
Nevertheless there has been trouble
behind those closed and guarded doors
that shut the public from the room
where the real tariff bill is being con-
structed. Some say that the differences
between Senator Aldrich and Repre-
sentative payne have taken such form
that progress is impossible unless the
president has influence enough to COM
pei action. This story is denied by both
of the principals. 1t is not denied,
however, that there was a clash yes
terday between Representative Payne
and Representative Fordney of Michi-
gan over the lumber schedule.
A conference of the progressive Re-
publican senators was held Immediate
ly after the senate adjourned. There
were present Senators Nelson, Clapp,
Dolliver, Cummins, Burkett, Brown,
Beverage, Bristow, Crawford and
Borah. All except Mr.. Borah voted
against the adoption of the senate bill.
Senator La Toilette was not in the
city. An effort was made to agree
upon some program, but after a dis
cussion of political exigencies and con-
ditions In the senator's respective
states 1t was stated that all of those
present could not vote against the
conference report If 1t is framed so as
to meet with the presidents approval