Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-27
61st. CONGRESS.
Presidents Travelling Fund
And Some Hospitality.
Fund Exhausted objection 10
Making Il Good,
Vote on Railroad Bill Expected
Today In Senate.

Washington, May 26.-Presideht
Taft's travelling expenses, ana the TACT
tina talready he has overdraWn ms al
lOwance of $4,000 year voted by Con-
eress. led to acrimonious debate In the
House today and refusal to permit him
| to use the next years allowance to
meet the deficiency.
| AS reported from the House commit
| tee on appropriations the amount OF
s25, 600 for the fiscal year beginning
| Iuly I next would have become "imme-
diately available" except for the pro-
tests of Democratic members. The
words Immediately available" were fl
nal;y stricken out by the action of
Mann Of Illinois, the occupant of the
Chair, who sustained a point of order
made by Macon of Arkansas, Demo-
crat. 1t was the Western and Southern
trip made by Mr.. Taft last fall that ex-
hausted the White House travelling
funds. During the debate, Chairman
Tawney. in charge of the bill. criticized
Southern Democrats for their attitude
in Directing to an appropriation to de-
fray the expense of a trip on which
they had been the Presidents guests.
f1dTuWlck VI btOTSId ulCW HUN q w
ney the admission that Secretary Car
pentcr furnished him a list of names
of Democrats who accepted the Pres
ident's hospitality. Speaking of the
use of the names of such Democrats,
Bartlett of Georgia. charged that tine
President has violated both the rules
of hospitality and of decent conduct. "
Speaker Cannon in a speech from the
floor defended the necessity of the
President meeting the whole people and
said that his long trips to various Sc
tons of the country were necessary.
The President. Towney explained,
made his long trip through the West
and South at the invitation of sena-
tors, governors Of states and civic or
CARNATIONS.
This trip" said Tawney, 'was not
made for his own pleasure. Delegation
after delegation from this House from
the Senate and from the different states
visited him, urging him to make such
trip"
At that time, Tawney said there was
no appropriation to meet travelling eX-
penses.
"The President informed the chair
TONS" explained Tawney. that per-
sonally he would rather remain at his
summer home after adjournment than
make the triI. and that the only way
he would be able to make it would be
through Congress giving him an APP
preparation which we failed to make at
| the close of the Goth Congress. Now
| after the President has accepted the
l ~ 10
| and has visited their states, after SEN
ators and governors invited him and
while on that trip he accepted their
| hospitality, they criticize him.
| This statement greatly excited the
| Democrats, several of whom vainly at
| tempted interrupt.
Tawney said nine Democratic gov
| errors invited the President to visit
| their states. the states being Texas,
Colorado. Indiana, Mississippi, Louis
lana. Montana. South Carolina, North
| Carolina. and Arkansas. He added
| that Democratic senators from Louis
lana. Mississippi. Tennessee. Georgia.
Missouri. North Carolina. Florida, Col
| orado and South Carolina and Is Dem
ocratic representatives extended to the
President the hospitality of their states
| and districts.
as this Southern hospitality" shout
| ed Tawney. looking towards the Demo-
Gratis Can there be a meaner man
than he who invites another to accept
his hospitality and then kicks him be-
cause he accepted?"
Bartlett of Georgia demanded what
representatives accepted the hospitality
of the President on that trip, as stated
by Tawney.
rewney promptly replied Bartlett
and his colleague, Hardwick of Geor-
gia''
THAT is rot true; that is false" ex-
claimed Bartlett. The Georgian added
that he did ride in the Presidents car
but paid his own fare.
Tawney said three Democratic sena-
tors were guests of the President on
his Western trip.
Fitzgerald declared that when the
President exhausted his appropriation for
travelling expenses he should have had
strength of character either TO decline
some of these invitations or to pay his
own expenses" He dismissed the Presi-
dents speeches on his trip as more harm
full to the Republican than to the Demo-
cratic party and criticized as a remark
able proceeding Mr. Tawney's obtaining
from the White House a list of the Dem
ocrats who at the request of the people
in their communities urged the President
to visit them.
THE President may think 1t is proper
to furnish my name as one who was on
his train" said Bartlett. If the Presi-
dent is satisfied with the propriety. with
the decency of furnishing the names OF
myself and my colleague to the gentle
man from Minnesota in his sneering at
tack upon what he calls the hospitality
of the South, that is a matter for him.
But the President has violated both the
rules of hospitality and of decent con-
duct"
Speaker Cannon took the floor and de-
Tended the President in his desire to meet
the people of the country.
so far as his power and responsibility
are concerned" said Cannon, they are
greater than those of any Executive on
earth save the Gear of all the Rnssias
He said he would be glad to make the
Presidents salary 100000 annually and
he wanted not only the President to be
~h,o a., xro,,av b,t ho III he would favor