The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-07-06
.WOULDN' HELP
OLD SOLDIER
IN CONGRESS
DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF
HOUSE ADJOURN TO AVOID
PASSING PENSION Law
PROMISED IN PLAT
BARNHART BALkED TOO
BARNHART BALKED TOO

The National Tribune, under the
caption More Dodging' gives the
following clear expose of the way the
democrats In the House of Represen-
tatlves got away from the pension
issue, showing clearly that, as John
Moorman said in. che last campaign,
the democrat House could not help
the old soldier if they would. Here
is the Tribune's article with the
omission of the names of the voting
members:
Under the rule the bills on the d.s-
charge calendar come up for consid-
Grafton the first and third Mondays
of each, month. Last Monday was the
third in June, and the attention of
the friends of the veterans was at
tracted as to what action the House
OF Representatives would take on Mr..
Anderson s motion to discharge the
Committee from further considera-
tion of his bill and take it up for
passage. There had been an average
attendance of but 80 members a day
during the week, and it required a
majority of those elected to adjourn
the House for more than one day.
Therefore, it was impossible to make
the customary adjournment from Fri
day afternoon until Tuesday morn
ing, and there were party reasons
why this was not attempted. The
Democrats were not sure of having
majority among the 80 present in the
House Therefore the session was
Icontinued until Saturday evening,
and an urgent summons was sent out
to the absent Democrats to be pres
ent on Monday morning and adjourn
the House then without transacting
any business Members were brought
in from the cool summer resorts,
from fishing excursions and else
where whittier they had fled to avoid
the tedium of the dull proceedings.
BY Monday morning enough Demo-
Gratis had been gathered in to make
the managers confident of being able
to ajourn over without taking up the
disturbing bill. The Republicans were
not so anxious to get in their Mem
bers as they knew that the great dem
oocratic majority in the House would
enable the Democrats. if they exerted
themselves, to defeat them.
The House assembled at the ap-
pointed hour, and the first business
was the consideration of bill on the
unanimous consent calendar. This
was promptly objected to, and st,ick-
en- from the calendar. Then Nsr. An
derson, of Ohio, alert for an appor-
tunity to bring about the considera-
ton of the bill. was on his feet in
stantly and called up his motion to
discharge the Committee on Invalid
Pensions from the consideration of
| H. R. 767, and proceed to its con-
sideration and passage. The Speaker
declined to recognize Mr.. Anderson,
but Mr.. Anderson persisted in speak
ing to his motion and reminding the
Democrats of their promises in their
state platforms to pass a general lib
erai pension bill which his bill would
fulfill.
| While Mr.. Anderson was speaking
Mr.. Macon, (Ark.) made a point OF
order that there was not q quorum
present. The Speaker counted the
House and found that there were 169
present, not a quorum. Mr.. Under
wood. of Alabama, moved that the
House adjourn as "a quorum was not
present. The question was demanded
and the Speaker announced that the
] Aves seemed to have it. Mr.. Mann
the Republican leader. asked for .
vision. Upon this there we're 13O
| aves and 78 noes Mr.. Mann then
made the point that the rcll call
showed that there was not quorum
present, and the yeas and nays were
ordered. This resulted as follows