Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-30
may UNITE ON BILL WARSH|PS CUT OFF
Senate Likely to Pass One Re- Democratic Caucus Puts Ban
vsing Metal Schedules. on Naval Increase.
INSURGENTS WOULD HELP May BE FATAL MISTAKE
Impression That President Taft BY Vote OF 81 to 6S 1t Loses Chance
Would It. at This Session.
WOOL MEASURE IS DISCUSSED NO NEW PUBLIC BUILDINGS
to Based and Now Talk of Resembling
the Action Is Heard
BY Vote of SO to 68 It Loses Chance
at This Session.
NO NEW PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Fitzgerald Resolution Goes Through
and Now Talk of Resembling
the Action Is Heard.

In the cold gray dawn OF. the morning
after. the democrats of the House, who
| in caucus last night put the ban on pub
lie building and battleship appropriations
at this session of Congress, are wonder
| ing If they haven't made a fatal political
| mistake. The assault on the naval in
crease was by way of an afterthought.
| After the caucus had been in session a
| couple Of hours it became apparent that
the resolution introduced by Chairman
Fitzgerald Of the appropriations commit
! tee, declaring 1t to be the sense of the
caucus that the present state of the gov
| ernment's finances and the fact that the
supervising architects office is several
years behind in it's work, made 1t inadvis-
able to authorize additional public build
ings at this session.
In retaliation the public building advo-
Gates, angered by seeing the pork barrel
| rolled out Of sight just when they were
hoping for a grand distribution. insisted
on a declaration against battleships
| Speaker Clark, Majority Leader Under
wood. Mr. Fitzgerald and their friends
| fell into line, and both propositions went
through. Representative Burnett: of Ala
| bama, a member OF the committee on
public buildings and grounds, offered the
| battleship amendment to the Fitzgerald
| resolution. which, on roll call, went
| through. 80 to IS.
Although a new caucus rule adopted
| just a few weeks ago provides that such
record votes in caucus shall be published.
| a good many of the democrats were very
averse last night to making the economy
roll call public. But Mr.. Underwood read
| the caucus rule and lifted the lid. Follow
| ing are the democrats who voted to effect
| a saving of approximately $4OOOO.OO0 at
| this session at the expense of federal
| structures and warships:
Those Who Voted for Saving.
Adair, Adamson. Anderson, Beall,
| Boehne, Buchanan. Burgess, Burle-
son. Burnett. Galloway. Clark. Mis-
souri,; Clayton, Collier. Conry. Covington.
Cullop. Davis. West Virginia; Denver,
| Dickinson. Missouri; Dies, Dixon. In
diana; Doremus, Daniel A. Driscoll.
Evans. Ferguson, Fitzgerald, Flood. Vir-
ginia: Foster, Illinois; Garner, Garrett,
| sylvania: Gregg. Texas: Hamlin, Hard
wick. Hay. Helm, Helm. Henry, Texas;
Hensley, Hughes. New Jersey; Hull,
Humphreys James johnson South
Lamb. Levy. Linthicum. Lloyd. Lobeck.
Mccoy, Morrison, Moss, Oldfield. Page.
Palmer, Patten, New York; Pepper.
Pstsrs. Rainey; .u Baker, ! Rauch' Riley
Ru Kefan a6 aaSey anaess
wood. sisson. slaydon. Stanley. steph-
ems. Mississippi: Stephens. Nebraska;
Stephens. Texas; Stone. Sulzer, Taylor.
,s nayoe cSSIaa9 White MSse
Witherspoon and Young, Texas !,
vThose members who resisted the econ
dMy policy of the leaders were Aiken Al
exander' Ashbrook. ayres. Bashr r. Bell
cousin; Byrnes. South Carolina, Byrns,
Tennessee; Carlin. Carter, Clark, Florida;
Cfayens. Daugherty. Bllerbe. Faison. Fer
ris, Finley. Floyd, Arkansas; Fowler, Fran
els. Gallagher, Glass. Goodwin. North Caro-
lima; Goodwin, Arkansas: Gudger. Hamill.
Harrison, Mississippi; Hobson. Holland.
Hughes, Georgia: Jacsway. Jones. Lee,
Georgia: Lee Pennsylvania: Legare.
ray, O'Shaunessys Post; Pou, Rodden-
berry. Rucker. Colorado Sharp. Smith
New York; Talcott, Townzend. Tribble.
Turnbull. Underhill. .: Watkins, Webb,
wicklifre. Wilson. New York; Wilson.
Pennsylvania.
During the progress of the. caucus last
night Representative Frank Clark OF
Florida emersed from thu hall of the
found disgust. Mr.. Clark, It might be
mentioned, is one of the most inde-
pendent members OF the. House, without
regard to politics, who ever stepped in
shoe leather. He thinks freely and says
what he thinks ina loud positive tone.
Calls Them Peanut Economists"
."rhese peanut economists, make. me
weary he remarked last night. ''Of
course we can save money II We don't
spend it when necessary +. might have
become wealthy by this time IL hadn't
bought food and clothes when : neces-
sary. but instead had permitted my
family and myself to go hungry and rag
ged. I don't believe the people of the
country want to see money saved In this
way"
Representative McDermott of the stock
yards district of Chicago also had a COM
ment to make.
We've been out in the cold for sixteen
years" he said. looking obviously
through the windows. and now when we
get inside the house we find there isn't
anything to eat
Representative Hobson of Alabama an
nounced today that he would Immediately
begin circulating a petition for a special
caucus on the battleship proposition and
make a determined effort to have the ac-
ton of last nights caucus in this regard
rcscinded. The public building advocates
say they will not agree to this unless
they are taken care Of
NO public buildings, no tattleships, Is
their ultimatum.