The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-09
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OYER FAIRGROUNDS
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there IS no accounting ACCOUNTING Is
what supervision means TO me-"
Representative Parsons declared that
! Representative Gardner was making Sc
rlous statements and asked him TO speci-
~ his charges. If he had any to make.
To this Representative Madden replied.
1.-THE situation described by Mr.. Gard
ner," he said. lis exactly correct This
has been going on not for one year. but
for three years One official OF the play
grounds has visited very nearly every
member of this House in the attempt TO
influence appropriations for Fairgrounds.
Would Give Name to Parsons
There has been an effort to show Us
that former offielal is a philanthropist
and another EFFORT to indicate that he was
doing this work gratuitously. We diseov-
cred that s., 100 year was to this gentle
man. whose name will give TO the gen.
ueman from New York (Mr. Parsons).
Tie complaint have 10 make is that this
gentleman received money from the
United States without warrant OF law.
paid out Of money appropriated by Con-
gress. not specified as being for him or
his services
Il therefore protest against an appro-
priation for supervision for the play
grounds"
That these speeches had their effect on
minds of the members It was evident
At first the House lent willing ear 10
friends OF the Fairgrounds on the floor.
among them Representatives Parsons.
Longworth. and olcott But when the
Speaker had sustained a point of order
against the adoption OF the conference
report and the conferees were discharged
and the bill before the House for action,
the House refused 10 recede. on Repre-
sentative Parsons motion. from its pre-
vious rejection Of the Senate amendment,
a resolution to appoint new conferees
was passed, and the Speaker did so by
remaining the old ones.
Gould Not Accomplish Plan.
Had the House receded from its reject
tion OF the Senate amendment. Represent
atiye Parsons announced he would then
have moved 10 concur in the Senate
amendment, which gives the Fairgrounds
the si7,ooo AS the leader OF the night for
the Fairgrounds appropriation he could
not accomplish this.
What the new conference on the bill
will result in, In the way OF an appro-
priation for Fairgrounds. is largely a
question OF whether the conferees will
listen 20 the friends Of the playground
movement, who expressed yesterday. and
will fight for. the principle OF furnishing
I money for the benefit OF the children OF
the District. irrespective OF any feeling
members OF the House may have against
Fairgrounds officials, to use the language
OF Representatives Gardner and Madden.
| who have urgently sought Us day and
night for appropriations
The wrangle over the report was pre-
cipitated in accordance with the an
nounced plans of the playgralInds man.
ayers by Representative Parsons objec-
ton to agreement in the report on the
bill. He made q point OF order on the
ground that both the Senate and the
House agreed to appropriate $1,000 for
the Fairgrounds, and that this having
been agreed upon the conferees had no
right TO present the report with the item
stricken out In this he was sustained
by the Speaker. who pointed out that
not even the House could strike out the
appropriation for $1,000 without the con-
currence Of the Senate, and so much
less could the conferees strike It out.
both the House and Senate having agreed
TO an appropriation Of $1,000.
Supervision or Equipment.
The whole question at issue was wheth-
er. If there were an appropriation, the
money should be spent for supervision"
as the Senate provided. or equipment"
as the House paragraph in the bin speci-
fed Representative Tawney proceeded
TO make this clear, and said the firm
intention of the managers OF the ap-
preparation bin was 70 make provision
for equipment and not supervision. The
debate then ranged nearly ali over the
House, and resolutions and shouts for
Mr. Speaker were flying thick and fast.
Projecting themselves into the thick of
the fray were Representatives Keller.
Sulzer, Peters. Madden, olcott, Long
worth, Tawney. Parsons, Burleson, Gard
ner, Mann, and half dozen others.
Representative Tawney noticing the ef
feet the speeches of the friends of the
children were having on the House. be-
gan an effort TO get the bin back into
shelter He moved to refer it to the Com
nittee on Appropriations. of which he is
chairman, with Instructions to strike out
the whole paragraph about Fairgrounds.
Representative Mann fought this on par
liamentary grounds with point Of order
similar to the one already sustained bv
the Speaker.
Representative Suzer shouted for new
conferees in an imprisoned speech sup
porting his Republican colleague Mr..
Longworth. who declared that the con-
ferees. by striking out the provision, had
made frank statement that they had
been unable to agree
Tawney Not Humorous.
Party lines were not drawn. and the
Speaker was beset Representative Taw-
ney was in anything but humorous
mood. but he made a motion to refer the
bill to his Committee on Appropriations.
with instructions to report the Senate
amendment carrying the $1,000 appro-
priation. and to make it payable out of
tAAt AClDAiliA revenues VI 4SlD- ne WAS
defeated again by Mr. Mann on the
point OF order that the House cannot
appropriate for anything but this years
expenditures
While all this debate was going on
Representative Parsons motion to recede
from the disagreement with the Senate
amendment. after which he proposed to
concur in it, was lying idle. and ii was
just about to be voted on, and probably
would have won. had not Representa-
tive Gardner jumped to his feet with the
electric announcement that 60 or 70 per
cent of the money In previous years paid