Arizona republican., 1910-05-27
Presidents Travelling El- penses Deficiency Uncovered IN APPROPRIATION BILL
An Acrimonious Debate in Which the Famed Hospi- tality of the South Is Re garded by MT. Tawney as Merely a Myth.

Washington. May 26.-President Taft's travelling expenses and the fact that he had already overdrawn his al Iowance of s25.0OO year voted by congress. led to an acrimonious debate in the house today and to refusal to permit him to use the next year allowance to meet the deficiency. IL was the western and southern trip made by President Taft last fall that exhausted the travelling fund.
 Representative Hardwick of Georgia drew from MT. Tawney. in charge ol the bill, the admission that Secretary Carpenter had furnished him list of names of democrats who had accepted the presidents hospitality. In connec- ton with the use of the names of such democrats. Mr Bartlett of Georgia charged that the president had violat- ed 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. President Taft, MT. Tawney explained. had made his extended trip through the west and south at the invitation of
  organizations.
 This trip" Mir. Tawney said, was not made for his own pleasure. Con- gress was in session when delegations from this house. from the senate. and from the different states visited him, urging him to make such a trip" At that time Mir. Tawney said, there was no appropriation to meet the travelling expenses
 The president informed the chair man of the committee on appropria- tions." Mir Tawney said. that person. ally he would rather remain at his summer home after adjournment than to make that trip. and that the only way he would he able to make 1t, would be through congress giving him an ap- propriation 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 sena- tors and governors have 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 to interrupt. Mir. Tawney said thal nine democratic governors had in vited the president to visit the'r states.
 ''Is this southern hospitality" Mir. Tawned shouted, looking toward the democrats. Can there be a meaner man than he who invites another to accept his hospitality and then kicks him because he accepts"
 Mir. Bartlett of Georgia. demanded to know what representatives had accept ed the hospitality of the president on that trip. Mir TaWney named MT. Bartlett and his colleague. Mir. Hard wick. of Georgia.
 That is not true: that is false" MT. Bartlett exclaimed. The Georgian add ed that he did ride in the presidents car but he paid his own fare.
 Mir Tawney said three democratic senators had been guests of the presi- dent on his western trip.
 Mir Fitzgerald said that when the president exhausted his appropriation for travelling expenses. he should have had strength of character enough to decline some of these invitations. or to pay his own expenses" He considered the presidents speeches on his trip as more harmful to the republican than ln lit utillbCTdllt |
 "I am inclined to believe" MT. Fitz- ! gerald said. that after the 5th of last | August no republican governor desired the president to make such speeches | as those in which he declared the pres l ent tariff law to be the best ever | passed"
 The country did not desire to have 1 the president away from Washington | while congress was in session, accord | ing to Mir Fitzgerald He deprecated ! what he asserted to be the practice of | cabinet officers leaving Washington in | headquarters in other places.
 Mir. Cullop of Indiana suggested it | had been clearly stated that when the | presidents salary was increased from | s50.0 to s75.000. that amount would | cover travelling expenses. This state | ment led to a controversy between MT. | CulIop and MT. Tawney.
 If a gentleman is the guest of the | president must that fact be reflected I in his vote here upon appropriations" MT. Hardwick of Georgia inquired.
 Mir Garrett of Tennessee suggested that the opposition to the appropria- tion was that the money had been used to pay his expenses in making parti- san and political speeches"
 MT. Mann of Illinois, who presided while the house was in committee of the whole, being prepared to rule upon