New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
THE PRESIDENTS TRAVELS
House Refuses to Advance
Funds for Trips.
SOUTHERN MAN OBJECTS
Provision Making Next Years
Appropriation Immediately
Available Ruled Out.
From The Tribune Bureau. !

Washington, May 2s.-Representative
Macon, Of Arkansas, gave a splendid exhf-
biton of Southern hospitality to-day when
he objected to making the next appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the Presidents travelling
expenses Immediately available, despite the
fact that he has invited the President TO
visit his state. Mr.. Macon made point
of order against the immediate availability
of the appropriation. which was sustained
by the chair on the ground that the law
authorizes only s25.O0O each year.
Representative Tawney started long
debate on the point of order, showing that
the Governors of nine Democratic states,
eleven Democratic Senators and twenty
five Democratic Representatives have called
at the White House and urged the Presi-
dent TO visit their states cities He de-
ciared that there can be no meaner man"
than one who desires to make the Presi
dent pay his board after extending an in
vitation to him. Representative Bartlett, OF
Georgia, asked. Where did he pay his
board" Mr.. Tawney replied that If the
point of order were made the President
would have TO pay for his board on part
of his long trip, and he called attention
to the fact that Mr.. Bartlett had been
a guest of the President on his trip.
until Mr.. Macon insisted on his point of
order, and Chairman Mann ruled the pro-
vision out
Long Trip Exhausted Fund. -
1t was the Western and Southern trip
made by Mr.. Taft last fall that exhausted
the White House travelling fund.
Representative Hardwek, of Georgia,
RI To al >>iA
Secretary Carpenter had furnished him a
list of names of Democrats who had &C
cepted the Presidents hospitality
The President. Mr.. Tawney explained. had
made his extended trip through the West
and South at the invitation of Senators,
governors of states and civic organizations
This trip" said Mr.. Tawney, was not
made for his own pleasure. Congress was
in session when 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, Mr.. Tawney said, there was
no appropriation TO meet travelling ex-
penses.
'5'he President informed the chairman Of
the Committee on Appropriations, ex-
explained Mr.. Tawney. that personally he
would rather remain at his summer home
after adjournment than to make that trip
and that the only way he would be able to
make it would be through Congress giving
him an appropriation, which we failed TO
make at the close of the Sixtieth Congress.
Now. after the President has accepted the
invitation Of members of this House and
has visited their states, after Senators and
governors invited him, and while on that
trip he accepted their hospitality. they crit
icise him
This statement greatly excited the Demo
Gratis. several of whom vain1y attempted 30
interrupt.
Mr.. Tawney said the Democratic Gov
ernors Of Texas, Colorado. Indiana, Miss.s
sirpi Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina,
North Carolina and Arkansas had invited
the President to visit their states. He
added that Democratic Senators from Lou
isiana, Mississippi. Tennessee. Georgia.
Missouri, North Carolina. Florida, Colorado
and South Carolina, together with twenty
five Democratic Representatives. had ex-
tended to the President the hospitality Of
their states and districts.