The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-04-06
DEMOCRATS PLAN
TO LOP EXPENSES
IN RUNNING HOUSE
Scheme to Save $4,000 Z
Year In Patronage Is Present,
ed to the Majority Caucus.

Washington, April 3.-After pre-
forged discussion, the democratic
caucus adopted the economy plan,
which, in detail, included the aboi-
'shment Of six standing commit
tees with their attendant clerks
and messengers. The committees
abolished are those on private land
claims, Pacific railroads, ievees
and improvements of the Missis-
s!ppi river, ventilation and acous-
tics, and manufactures.
The pruning policies will cut out
nearly one-third of the House en-
oioyes. and the saving may amount
co $4,000 annually.
Washington. April 3.-Demccrati.
representatives in the Sixty con.
gress, who will control the lower house
Tor the next two years, met in caucus
at 10 o'clock today. The House cham
per was scene of activity early in
the day, scores of new members ar
irving 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 over the post
or sergeant-at-arms, the candidates be-
Ing u. s. Jackson, OF Indiana, and W..
II. 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 a candidate for
Craftsmanship Of the committee on ap-
preparations, which the ways and
means committee report assigns to
Representative j. j. Fitzgerald, Of
New York. This action. It Is believed,
will restore good feeling, which was
upset by the contest for the appropria-
lions commission.
taken up and discussion followed on Q
plan to abolish many positions, It hav.
Ing been estimated that about S113,.
200 annually can be saved in this man
ner
The ways and means COMMITTEES
planned to submit to the caucus its re-
port on its organization Of House COM
mlttees. 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 m
I'll late last night completing It's 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
by choosing Representative
A. w. Ashbrook, of Ohio as secretary,
In short speech to his associates,
Chairman Underwood. Of the ways and
means committee, announced the plan
to cut down the big roll Of house en-
ployes and to give most of the patron
age to those democrats who had not
been given committee chairmanships.
The details Of the plan to save s113,-
600 In the expenses Of running the
House were presented in a report by
Representative Palmer, OF Pennsylva-
MIA, a member OF the ways and means
to whom the work had been
entrusted The scheme not only con-
the adjustment Of many po-
sitfons. but the consolidation of others.