Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-29
WARS ON H00KWORM TAWNEY ON THE job
Rockefeller Gives Million DOL Appropriations Chairman Now
lars to Fight Disease. Ready for Panama Trip.
COMMISSION is ORGANIZED GOOD BILL FOR DISTRICT
Noted Scientists Making Will
Conduct Campaign. Help Lot.
MEETING OFFICE PLANS REFORMS SESSION
Donor Glad Something Companies
south-Cure by Some in
ardize
Appropriations Chairman Now
Ready for Panama Trip.
GOOD BILL FOR DISTRICT
New Plan of Making Estimates Will
Help a Lot.
PLANS REFORMS FOR SESSION
To Go After Bonding Companies
Some More in Effort to Stand
ardize Sureties.

The District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill to be framed at the coming
session of Congress will be a good one.
Probably it will be more satisfactory to
the people of Washington than any pre-
vious annual money measure in some
time. The new departure-the require
ment that the estimates submitted to Con-
gress for the expenses of the District
shall be held within the estimated reve-
nues-will help Congress a great deal.
THE subcommittee having the bill in
charge. instead of wasting a great deal
of its time pairing and cutting and elm
mating, will be able to devote it's at
tentton to the real needs of the District,
all of which will be given close attention
At a short session of Congress it is i'm
possible for the appropriation subcommit-
tees to give all the time and attention
really essential to the proper considera-
ton of the various branches Of the gov
eminent service with a view to the ap-
portionment Of expenditures. But this
coming session is the first regular or
long session of the SIxty-first Congress,
and proposed expenditures will be con-
sidered in the greatest detail. Especially
will this be true of the District Of CO.
lumbia."
Chairman Tawney Back.
This is what Representative James A.
,Tawney of Minnesota, chairman Of the
House committee on appropriations, had
to say this morning to Star reporter
in reference to the District of Columbia
appropriation bill and the other annual
money measures to be considered by Con-
gress this coming winter. Next week
Mr.. Tawney will leave for Panama with
the appropriations committee.
Mr.. Tawney was not inclined to discuss
for publication his views with respect to
the proposed horizontal increase in the
wages, wages OF the government clerks in Wash
ington, which has been repeatedly rec
commended by high and subordinate Off
Gals or the government departments dur
ing the past few years.
But it is pretty well understood that
while Mr.. Tawney does not deny the cost
OF living has increased, he is inclined to
feel that Uncle Sam Is not just now in a
position to stand the very great expense
inevitably consequent upon general in
crease-say, 20 per cent-in the compen-
sation of classified employees. He realizes
there is considera BILE sentiment in both
houses of Congress in favor Of such
proposition, but as he is never much inn
pressed by pure sentiment and under
Treasury watchdog. he will undoubtedly
oppose at this time any plan to raise
salaries all along the line.
To Keep Up His Good Work.
This coming winter Tawney will con-
tinue his campaign against the disburse-
ment Of Treasury funds by lump-sum ap-
preparations, except in the few remaining
cases where this method is practically
essential. and against irregular methods
in the various government departments
He viii continue the bonding company
inVeStiga ton. which resulted SO SatSiac-
torily last session, with a view to stand
ardiZing the acceptance of suretieS by
government employees and securing such
protection at the lowest possible cost to
the government. He also has a number
of other reforms, concerning which he
does not desire to talk just now, that he
intends to push to a conclusion this win
ter.
1t will undoubtedly be good news to a
great majority of the citizens of WASH
inston that the prospects of Mr.. Tawney's
reelection to the House of Representa-
tives, following tile general campaign
next fall. look pretty good at present
This another matter which Mr.. Taw-
ney did not care to discuss. but reports
from his district, some Of them brought to
Washington very recently by folks who
usually know what they are talking
about. Indicate much better feeling to-
ward him on the part of his constitu-
antS.
Here's Some Good News.
This was to be expected. \ large part
of the feeling against Mr.. Tawney in his
district was Of peculiarly questionable or
manufactured origin, arising not SO much
from anything that he did. but from the
various things he was supposed to have
done. OF course. the fact that for a con-
siderable period he and President Roose-
welt were on the outs did not help him.
inasmuch as Mr.. Roosevelt was by way
of being an idol in that neck of the
woods. But President Taft made it ap-
parent, when he visited Winona at the
outset Of his swing around the circle, that
he was with Mr.. Tawney,. first last and
all the time, and much appreciated the
self-sa crifcing stand taken by the latter
on the tariff bill.
Incidentally Mr.. Tawneys labors in
connection with that measure. his efforts
to get the best out of 1t he could for his
district and for the country, are now
appealing to his constituents with more
force than at first. All this helps.
Big Men With Him.
Now comes the report that the really
big men all over Minnesota are rallying
to his support, reminding such of his
constituents as appear to need it that
while they may not agree with Mr.. Taw-
ney in every unessential and unimportant
particular, that he is the second man in
power in the House of Representatives,
stands an excellent chance of succeeding
Uncle Joe Cannon as Speaker and Is, in
fact, a credit not only to his congress
sional district, but to the state at large.