Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-28
YEARS ALLOWANCE ovERDRAwN
Journey Through the West and south
Last Fau Cost Big sum--Money
to Make Up the Deficit f.
Refused.

protests of democratic members The words
Immediately available" finally were
stricken out by the action of Mr.. Mann OF
illinois, the OCCUPANT of the chair, in sus-
tanning point OF order made BY Mr.. Macon
Of Arkansas, democrat.
1t was the western and southern trip
made by Mr.. Taft last fall that exhausted
the White House travelling fund.
Speaker Cannon, in a speech from the
floor, defended the necessity Of the presi-
dent meeting the whole people and said
that these long trips to various sections OF
the country were necessary.
President Taft Mr.. Tawney explained
had made his extended trip through the
west and south at the invitation of sena-
tors, governors of states and civic organiza-
tons
Met Popular Demand.
This trip" Mr.. Tawney said, was not
made for his own pleasure. Congress 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, Mr.. Tawney said there was
no appropriation to meet travelling ex-
penses
1.-THE president informed the chairman
of the committee appropriations" Mr..
Tawney explained, 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 hos
pitality, they criticize"
This statement greatly excited the demo-
Gratis, several Of whom vainly attempted
to interrupt.
Democrats as Hosts.
Mr.. Tawney said nine democratic COVER
nors invited the president to visit their
states, the states being Texas, Colorado, In
diana Mississippi, Louisiana, Montana,
South Carolina, North Carolina and Arkan-
sas. He added that democratic senators
from Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee.
Georgia. North Carolina, Florida and South
Carolina, together with twenty-five demo-
cratic representatives. had extended to the
president the hospitality of their states and
districts.
rs this southern hospitality9" Mr.. Tan
ner shouted, looking towards the demo-
Gratis Can there be a meaner man than
he who invites another to accept his hos
{. pitality and then kicks him because he
Accepted?"
Mr. Bartlett OF Georgia demanded to
know what representatives had accepted
the hospitality OF the president on that
trip as stated by Mr. Tawney. Mr.. Tawney
named Mr. Bartlett and his colleague Mr.
Hardwick of Georgia.
b. that ic oil kTr
Bartlett exclaimed. The Georgian added
that ne did not ride in the presidents car
but he paid his own fare.
Mr. Tawney said three democratic sena
tors had been guests Of the president or
his western trip.
Fit1geraId Criticises.
Mr.. Fitzgerald said that when the presi
dent exhausted his appropriation for travel
ing expenses he should have had strength
OF character either to decline some O.
these invitations OF to pay his own ex
penses." He dismissed the president
speeches on his trip as more harmful t
the republican than to the democratic part,
and criticised as remarkable proceeding
Mr.. Tawneys securing from, the Whit
House a list OF the democratic governor
who. at the request OF the people In thei
communities urged the president to visi
them.
II am inclined to believe" Mr.. Fitzgeral
said, that after the fifth of last Angus
no republican governor desired the presi
dent to make such speeches as those 1
which he declared the present tariff la,
to be the best ever passed"
The country did not desire to have tn
president away from Washington Will
congress was in session, according to Nj
Fitzgerald. He deprecated what he asserte
to be the practice of cabinet officers I
leave Washington in hot weather and Sc
up their official headquarters in othe
places. There had been no Official account
ing in the case OF these travelling expenses
Mr.. Fitzgerald said.
"The president may think It is proper
furnish my name one who was on b
train" Mr. Bartlett said. 'If the preslder
is satisfied with the propriety. with the d,
cency OF furnishing the names of myse
and my colleagues to the gentleman frol
Minnesota in his sneering attack upon wha
he calls the hospitality of the south, this
IL a matter for him. But the president hs
violated both the rules of hospitality an
Of decent conduct"
Increase in salary.
Mr. Culiup of Indiana, suggested that
had been clearly understood that when III
presidents salary was increased from $50
900 to $4,000 that that amount would cove
travelling expenses, this statement leadin
to a controversy between Mr.. Cullup an
Mr.. Tawney.
IF gentleman is the guest of the pres
dent, must that fact be reflected in h
vote here upon appropriations" Mr.. Har,
wick of Georgia inquired.
Speaker Cannon took the floor and d
Tended the president in his desire to me
the people OF the country. ''As far as h
power and responsibility are concerned
4 Mr.. Cannon said, they are greater tina
those OF any executive on earth, save Il
car OF all the Russas."
He said he would be glad TO make Il
\ presidents salary 100000 annually and
wanted not only the president to be alb
TO travel, but he said he would have a r
ouirement that every member Of the hou
should see the country for which he WI
TO legislate before taking his seat in Col
gress.
Il would risk my souls salvation" N
Cannon said, that neither in Missouri n
any other state will there be found a ma
woman or child who would endorse such
course as is being pursued on this floor