The San Francisco call., 1910-06-27
PAYNE BOASTS
Of Cash SAVED
FOR COUNTRY
Republican Leader Declares Ap=
preparations Will Not Amount
to a Billion
Democrats and Insurgents Issue
Statements Attacking Ma
iOrity of House

WASHINGTON. June 2e.-The final
.ohdciaI figures on the appropriations
made at the session just closed, ana
lyzed from both the republican and
democratic standpoints. will be given
out by the house appropriations com
mittee tomorrow. Chairman Tawney Of
the committee says that the aggregate
IS less than $1,000. 00O, 600. while demo-
critic leaders charge an excess of that
limit.
Tawney declares that the appropria-
tions for the fiscal year 1911 are less
than for the current year, and that
most Of the bills are less than the esti-
mates submitted for them.
Republican leaders Payne contends
that the appropriations are a substan-
t1sl reduction from those of last year,
without taking into account any in
crease accruing from the increased
business Of the country.
Payne said that while the appropria
lions and expenditures for the current
'HScal year were much larger than those
Tor the last fiscal year. S4.000.00O had
SO Tar been saved by cutting down eN
penses.
Sulzer Of New York, democrat, charges
that ithas been a billion dollar session.
with millions and millions more with
2 vengeance"
CHAMP CLARK PROTESTS
Representative Champ Clark, demo-
- cratic leader of the house. commenting
upon the result Of the session just end
ed, has issued a statement which said
in part:
The republicans have at last be-
gun their old game claiming every
Illng, but II is another case of
-Whlstling TO keep up their courage,
while going through a graveyard
have fulnlled their promises. Their
biggest promise-the promise to
.srevise the tariff dOwnward-they
utterly failed 10 fulnlL On the con-
trarT they revised il upward and
for so doing are in for q good
At Winona. Minn.. President Taft
declared the WOolen schedule was
TOO nigh and ought TO be reduced.
r even months since, the tariff was
signed DE hlm and yet no step has
been taken to lower the cruel rates
Of that schedule
They started this session with
loud pronunciamento about econ
cmy and wound up, as usual. by
. increasing the total of the appro-
priauon bills. The most important
bill perhaps. we passed at this ses-
.:-sion- was the railroad bill. The bill.
as passed. is a very different and
.-rll-h better blil than the Wicker
shaw or administration bill. Almost
p every Improvement was forced into
=1at biz By the democrats and in
March ls we forced through a
- '-- resolution in the house TO elect an
enlarged rules committee. Of which
the speaker should not be a mem
ber- A few days ago. by a vote
OF z0l TO ]. the house adopted a
rule 10 prevent committees from
snOthering or pigeonholing bills.
E. Certainly the regular republicans
can not claim any sort of credit
for the new rule of March 1e, for
every mothers son Of them not
only voted against it. but fought
IT tooth and nail They are sim
ply trying 10 save their faces.
STATEMENT BY INsURGENT
The insurgents" in the house of
much Of the important legislation
passed during the session of congress
just closed, according TO Murdock of
Kansas, one of the leaders of the in
surgent band, The railroad rate bill
and the rest OF the vital legislation
passed was effective and responsive to
the public wiIl," he declared tonight
Just in proportion as the speakers
power was broken, his neutenants
overborne and his machine scattered -
He said:
In his formal statement Speaker
Cannon took pains to say that the
constructive legislation of this con-
gress was the best in 80 years. He
did not acknowledge, az he should,
that II was the activity of those
so called insurgents in the house
which touched all the major meas
Ures passed with a vitality that
similar legislation has not had for
years.
The tendency since last December
has been toward free government.
Tyranny In committees, brutal lee
ture IN the house. arrogance In the
chair have been under constant
- FIRE The tendency has been toward
% free government in the house. Leg
islation has become more and more
o.. the work Of the whole membership
serving the whole nation, and less
and less the work OF a political
ring serving its own selfish pur-
poses.