The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-04-06
DEMOCRATS Plan
TO LOp EXPENSES
B IN RUNNING HOUSE
scheme to Save $180,ooo :
Year In Patronage Is Present.
ed TO the Majority Caucus.

Washington April 3.--Afker pro-
ioraed discussion, the democratic
aucus adopted the economy plan.
which, in detail, included the abol-
tees with their attendant clerks
and messengers. The committees J
abolished arc those on'private land
claims, Pacific railroads, levees
and improvements of h Missis-
sippi river, ventilation and acous-
tics, n manufactures.
The pruning policies viii cut out
nearly onc-third of the House en-
plcyes, and tho saving may amount
to $4,000 annually.
Washington. April s.-Democratic
REPRESENTATIVES, in tfie Sixty-5G1oIdTsca--
sgress, who will control the lower house
for the next two years, met in caucus
at 10 o'clock today. The House cham-
Der wac a scene of activity early In
the day. scores OF new members ar
rfving more than an hour ahead OF
time to mingle with the veterans in
the Hobbies and cloakrooms. The eau
Gus was called to order by Henry d.
Clayton, OF Alabama. the temporary
chairman.
The principal contest Is owe the post
OF Observation-Disclosures, tsie ccass a:aa.e he=
ing U. S. Jackson. of Indiana, and w.
III. Ryan. of New York.
Fitzgerald to Land.
The first action was the election OF
Representative Albert s.. Burleson, OF
| Texas, as permanent chairman of the
caucus. He had been q candidate for
craftsmanship of the committee on APP
preparations, which the way and
means committee report assigns to
Representative j.. J.. Fitzgerald, Of
New York. This action, 1t is believed,
will restore good feeling, which was
| 1trcof 6ty tha oO,atncte fNr flo d, ~ M, n ~
tions commission.
The question of patronage was hen
taken up and DISCUSSION followed on a
plan to abolish many positions, it hav-
ing been estimated that about $l13,-
900 annually can be saved in this man
ner.
The ways ard means committee
planned to submit to the caucus it's re-
port on its organization Of House COM
mittces. A list OF the committees and
their chairmen has been completed and
contests are brewing over a few of
these selections.
Complete New Rules.
The new rules committee worked un-
TIL late last night completing Its report
for preservation to the caucus. An en-
tirely new code of rules to govern the
next House has been written. Repre-
sentative Henry, of Texas. chairman OF
the committee, stated before the eau
Gus that the committee had used as a
basis for the new code the rules of the
House in the Fifty-third congress-, the
last congress controlled by the demo-
Gratis.
The organization Of the caucus was
completed by choosing Representative
A. w. Ashbrook, Of Ohio, as secretary
In a short speech to his associates
Chairman Underwood, Of the ways and
means committee, announced the plar
TO cut dow the big roll Of house EN-.
4 ployes and to give most Of the patron.
age to those democrats who a no
been given committee chairnanships.
The details of tho nlan TO save Si12..
900 in the expenses of running the
House were presented IN a report b;
Representative Palmer, OF P%ennsylva.
MIA, a member of the ways and mean.
committee, TO whom tho work had beer
entrusted. The scheme not only ron.
templated the adjustment OF many pc.
%sitions. but the consolidation OF others