Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-04-03
FACE LONG SESSION.
Congress May sit Until After Ma
tional Conventions.
SUPPLY 4! J BILLS 4 ARE FOUGHT |
Deadlock Between House and senats
Might Leave Departments OF Gov
eminent Without Any vlslbIs
Means Of Support.

Might Leave Departments OF Gov
eminent Without Any vlslbls
Means Of Support. N
BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington year in congress-
there has been a disposition to tack
I.extraneous legislation" onto the ap
preparation bills. Under the Republic
an rule no legislation was put on the
supply measures except that which the
party members claimed had a rightful
place there. Years ago there was
adopted In congress what was called
the Holman rule prepared by Repre-.
sentative Holman of Indiana, the
watchdog of the treasury" This rule
allowed legislation to be put on the
supply measures provided 1t was In.
tended to decrease government ex.
penditures. The Republicans repudi-
ated the Holman rule, but the Demo
Gratis have reinstated it.
The army appropriation bill carries
Legislation red uclng the cavalry OF the
army from Is regiments to 10, and It
contains some other legislation which
the Republicans say Is "extraneous.I
The senate is Republican and 1t seems
to be opposed to the action of the Dem:
socrats In attaching legislation to the
supply measure. There are arguments
for and against the course which the
Democratic majority in the house has
followed, but the right or the wrong
of the thing aside, the fact remains
that the senate 10 likely to get at log:
gerheads with the house over these
matters and as result It may be that
congress will sit until a time long
after the national conventions have
been held. l..s \. 4
Produces New situation. 35
III If either house wishes to do It, It
can hold up appropriation bills and BY
refusing to sanction; them can leave de-
partments and branches OF govern
ment without visible means OF support,
provided, of course, that adjournment
comes before the supply bills have
been sanctioned. If the senate shall
agree with the house and pass the ap-
preparation measures with their riders
1t is possible, perhaps even probable,
In one or two instances that the presi-
dent will veto the bills which he does
not like. II he should veto the army
bin, for instance, because Of attached
Legislation OF which he disapproyes,
the army officers and the 10000 or &C, :
600 enlisted men would be left without
a cent Of pay, and more than this,
there would be no money for the pur-
chase Of supplies. This thing did hap
pen once away back IN the time OF
President Hayes He vetoed an army
appropriation bill because 1t had 81 q
rider on 1t, to which neither the presi-
dent nor his party could subscribe. The
matter which was put onto the bill
at that time. however, was to some ex-
tent political and controversial In its
nature Nothing has been put onto
the appropriation bills this year which
is not either directly or indirectly con.
5nected with the, service for which the
money supplied by the bill is voted. It
Is said that there has been no situation
Just like this within the memory VI
the Oldest member. !. q.
Ss5 Indians Visit TAFT.
President Taft was visited day or
two ago at the White House by three
bands Of Sioux Indians from the San
tee, the Pine Ridge and the Rosebud
agencies. The braves OF the Pine
Ridge were led by Jack Red Cloud.
son Of Old Red Cloud, who died
q year ago and who In his day
was one OF the great warriors Of the
Dakota nation. Jack was dressed In
the clothes OF civilization. In way
he looked we'll enough. but not alto
gether comfortable. This son Of q
warrior Of many battles has seen
some fighting himself. He was 'out"
with the bands OF Kicking Bear and
Short Bull in the last uprising against
the whites in the days OF the Ghost
Dance craze. The last time that one
white man who was at the White
House when the Indians called saw
Jack Red Cloud the Indian was tear
ing down the trail leading past the
traders store at Pine Ridge and
smptying his: Winchester with a ,glee-
full disregard OF the terror that he
was causing. ts::3Ys. @
!, At the time Of Jacks escapade in
December, 1890, he was not thirty
years old and he was full of war and
enthusiasm. He had left the hostile
camp beyond White Clay Creek bent
on frolic on his own account. On
his pony, painted, red fanneled, and
feathered, he dashed through the
agency emptying his gun and nearly
soaring the lives out Of half dozen.
newspaper correspondents who hap
pened to be in the trail.
~ L. suIleniy surrendTs. 5,s
Young Red Cloud on that day cir.
tcled the agency, and before the troops
could kill him or arrest him he was
beyond the danger line, headed.
straight for the hostile camp. IT,. VIZ
The day OF the Indians call on the.
president, General Miles walked up
Pennsylvania avenue through snow
storm looking not much older than he
did when he was in command OF Pine
Ridge agency twenty-one years ago
Hast December and January. He was
told that Jack Red Cloud was at the
White House and said that he would
like to see him and that II he was as
good looking man as his father he.
must be fine. outstanding Indian.
The general recently received Het-
ter from Short Bull, one OF the Sioux
!chieftains who Led his Tribe on the
Colds. ~
I Tho idIo man when ha has cold