The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-27

gia charged that "the President has
violated 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 peopie
and said that his long trips to Varl-
Gus sections of the country were nee
essary-
Defended by Mr.. Tawney.
President Taft, Mr.. Tawney ex-
planned, had made his extended trip
through the west and south at the in
vitation Of senators, governors OF
states and civic organizations
This trip" Mr.. 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, and
urged him to make such trip
At that time, Mr.. Tawney said, there
was no appropriation 10 meet travel
ing expenses.
sThe President Informed the chair
man of the committee on approprla-
personally lie 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 II
would be through Congress giving him
an appropriation, which it failed to
make at the close of the SiXtleth Con-
gress. Now, after the President has
accepted the invitation Of members or
this House and has visited their
states. after senators and governors
invited him and while on that trip he
accepted their hospitality, they criti-
else him."
l. This stGeement greatly excited the
Democrats, several of whom vainly at
tempted TO interrupt
Southern Hospitality
Mr. Tawney said nine Democratic
governors invited the President TO VISIT
their states, the states being Texas
Colorado, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Montana, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Arkansas He ADDED thaI
Democratic senators from Louisiana,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, mis-
souri,, North Carolina, Florida, COLO
RADIO and South Carolina, with twenty
five Democratic Representatives, had
4 extended to the President the hospl-
/ tally of their states and districts
as this southern hospitality? MI
/ Tawney shouted, looking towards the
/ Democrats can there be a neaner
man than he who invites another 70
! accept his hospitality and then kicks
/ because he accepted?'
Mr.. Bartlett of Georgia demanded to
know what representatives had &C
| cepted the hospitality of the President
en- that trip as stated by Mr. TaWney-
/ Mr. Tawney named Mr.. Bartlett and
| his colleague, Mr.. Hardwick' OF Geor-
saThat is not true; that is false" Mr..
Bartlett exclaimed. The Georgian
added that he did ride in in the PF resi-
1 ,
Mr.. Tawney said three Democratic
senators had been guests of the Pres
ident on his western trip
Speech by Fitzgerald.
| Mr.. Fitzgerald said that when the
President exhausted his appropriation
/ for travelling expenses he should have
had strength of character either TO
tdecline some of these invitations or to
Ipay his own expenses
| He considered the Presidents
IL -, t0ar ~r10-
full to the Republican than to the
/ Democrat party and criticised as
remarkable proceeding Mr.. TaWney's
securing from the White House list
/ of the Democrats who, at the request
/ of the people in their communities,
urged the President to visit them.
81 am inclined to believe" Mr.. FitZ-
gerald said, chat after the fifth OF
/ last August no Republican governor de-
/ sired the President TO make such
speeches as those in which he declared
the present tariff law to be the best
/ ever passed"
The country did not desire to have
I the President away from Washington
while Congress was in session, accord
ling to Mr.. Fitzgerald. He deprecated
what he asserted to be the practice Of
cabinet officers of leaving Washing
/ ton in hot weather and having their
official quarters in other places There
/ had been no official accounting in the
case of these travelling expenses, Mr..
Fitzgerald said.
/ MIR. Bartlett Angry.
'sThe President may think it is proper
to furnish my name as one who was
on his train" Mr.. Bartlett said.
whether the President is satisfied
with the propriety, the decency of fur
lnishing the names of myself and my
colleague to the gentleman from Min
lnesota in his sneering attack upon
what he calls the hospitality of the
lsouth. that is a matter for him to
Judge. But the President has violated
both the rules of hospitality and of
decent conduct"
has been clearly understood when the
Presidents salary was increased from
$4,000 to $4,000 that amount would
cover travelling expenses. This state
lment led to a controversy between Mr.
lCullOp and Mr.. Tawney.
"If a gentleman is the guest of the
president must that fact be reflected
in his vote here upon appropriations
Mr. Hardwick of Georgia inquired.
View of the Speaker.
] Speaker Cannon took the floor and
defended the President in his desire
to meet the people of the country.
Gas far as his power and response
lbility are concerned" Mr.. Cannon said,
i"they are greater than those Of any
Executive on earth save the Gar of
all the Russias." He said he would be
glad to make the Presidents salary
100000 annually, and he wanted not
only the President to be able to travel,
but he said he would favor q require
ment that every member of the House
should see the country for which he
was to legislate before taking his seat.
Mr. Garrett of Tennessee said that
the objection to the appropriation was
that the money had been used by the
president to pay his expenses in max
ing partisan and political speeches"
Mr. Mann of Illinois, who presided
while the House was in committee of
THE whole, being prepared to rule upon
THE point Of order, made Macon re-
ltrict his objection to words ITO be
Immediately available" The point of
order being sustained, these words were
istricken out while the appropriation
remained in the bill to be available
after July 1, 1910.