The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-02-09
TORRID WORDS
il the House Of Representatives Over he
Ship Subsidy.
REPORTED FAVORADLY

By the Committee. After Short bs
Acrimonious HeaMng. tn Whsca
the Democrats Accuse the Repub
! hcsos of Breaking Faith IN Rusn
| ing the Bill.
After a short but torrid open hear
ing. reple.e with personal disputes
and acrimonious utteTanees. followed
by an xecatiye session OF an hour,
also filed with dissension. the house
committee on merchant marine an
asheri<s Thursday by vote ot IL
70 : voted 70 report favorable to the
bopse the administration bill! on ship
| subsidy as introduced by Representa-
tive Humphrey.
Ten Republicans voted in favor OF
the bill and FIVE Democrats and eSo
Republicans against it The TWO
"bolters,' we're Wilson tIlls-) and
swasey (Me.). Representative Hob
son. reported to be FOX the osh. ana
Maynard of Virginia. against 1t. oo.a
Democrats. were absent
The Democratic members OF sae
committee were greatly wrought up
over what they characterized INC
..roailroading" Of the measure with
ont consideration or opportunity 70
amend It and they held meeting IN
the room Of Representative Champ
Clark. the minority leader. 70 map
out the future party course against
the bill. I. is expected that INC
measure will meet with the moss
stubborn opposition wnen It reaches
the house and that one OF the naso-
est fights OF the session Will taen oe
precspitated-
Reoresen.ative Spight. ranking
Democratic member OF the commit
tee viii file minority report against
the bill. Mr. Sp:sht declared wsfs
y!gor that Representative Humphrey
and his Republican associates N
rushing the ship subsidy bill through
the committee. had broken oa'en
and bad taken unwarranted acaoa.
N,. spight eaid Chairman Green
Of the committee had assured hfn On
Wednesday that no vote Wouio oe
taken at the meeting Thursday and
that the minority and those opposec
TO ship subsidy would be given am
pie opportunity to be prepared sof a
Ana, vote when taken. Mr.. Green
informed Mr. Spight after the meet
,,p that he did not make any promis-
es for Mr.. Humphrey and could NOT
oreyen. the latter bringing his o'h
to vote.
Nj. Humphrey declared that am
o,e consideration had been given .
,he bill! and Il it were delayed long
er that q measure 10 take its place
would be reported n the Senate.
In reply to this the Democrats stat
"A that the bill had been given no
consideration whatever BY aD!oocy
and that Il had uot even been Ee2o
IN committee.
Thursdays hearing was first given
d the subject. and the opposition
% the bill pointed out that those
heard today were in favor OF ship
subsidy but were opposed 70 parts
>, the Humphrey bill. The Demo
.ra,s desired to offer several amend
nerts and Representatives Suizer.
Clark o, Florida and kusteFnan nao
notified the committee that they de-
sired hearings on their own snip
subsidy bills.
The action OF the Republicans
is an outrage" declared Represents
tive Alexander Of the committee.
We were given no chance to con-
sider the bill or to be heard upon
i, In the face Of direct promises
hey have .railroaded' this bill
through. 1t is an insult TO ,ne
minority OF the committee. TO the
house itself and to the country a
large"
The executive session Of the com
Yittee was characterized by tense
feeling. The Democrats endeavoEeo
% secure an adjournment and to
amend the bill! but were voted Gown.
An amendment was offered striking
ON, the subsidy sections OF the bill
but il was lost.
In answer to the tmDasstoned ap-
oeals OF the Depocrats Mr. HUM
ph.eys turned a deaf ear. answering
that immediate action on the oNi
was imperative. When the final fose
was taken It was shown that Repre-
sentative Humphreys had figured
correctly on q safe majority for bis
measure.
The open hearing given to the
Merchants Association OF New YORK
resulted il a row between N :. Hun
phreys and Attorney James c. Dough
er,y, representing the association
INN mediateiy following which Nj
Humphreys moved that the commit
zee 90 into executive session and con
sider the bill without hearing furthe'