Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-12
Expenditures Estimated at
100000 fof paio Money
Trust Committee Precipitate
Acrimonious Debate,
CHAIRMAN FITZGERALD
CRlTlClSES HIS PARTY
Appropriations Said to Break
All Previous Records Made
by Congress Are Necessary
To Meet Current Expenses,

my Morning journal special Ieassd NireI
Washington. Feb li.-A ieneral at
tack ON democratic extmngance'
and "a heated debate over me activities
of the house money trust committee,
were prcciphaied In the house today
hy resolution appropfiaunH $4,000
to defray further expenses of the
money trust investigation The reso-
luton was passed and the total ex-
penditurcs for the Investigation $780,
900. was adopted, after lengthy ar
gument. by vote OF 12a TO IA, many
democrats voting with the republicans
against H. Minority Leader Mann up
braided the democrats vigorously. as
serting that the control Of legislation
was ia the hands OF "disorganlzed
mob" aud that the appropriations for
the session were reaching record
high point Representative Fitzgerald.
chairman OF the appropriations com-
mittee. agreed with Mr.. Mann and de-
cnred that the appropriations this
year would far exceed those OF any
session ia The history Of congress. $50
much sn thai any talk OF revising the
tariff downward would bee IA hollow
morkcry.'
NeprornnUfa ,iaffmer. - Texas.
ana RepfcseniatiYc Lloyd, 1f Missouri.
defended the work of the committee
while AR. Mann's stand wis support
ed IS Representative Hughes, of Wcst
Virginia
The resolution WIS brought IN by
I..t4 4 at a
accounts Chairman puie, of the
money trust committee. explained that
the committee already had expended
about $4,000 of the original $4,000
appropriation and that ii was esti-
maied the obligations OF the commit
tee would reach 500, 600 hy the close
Of the Investigation. He furnished D
detailed stutement OF expenditures and
estimates which showed that $4,000
had been expended for securing state-
ments from banks. S8,50U for statisti-
eal work in showing interlocking di-
rectofates IN the corporations Si,06t
i'm serving subpoenaes. S2,li9 for Wit
ness fees and expenses. and s2.56l for
Dr. C. W. Richardson's trip to Miami
TO examine William Rockefeller. MIR.
Puia said that Zee of $4,000 was
due samuel untermyer counsel for
the committees $4,000 to statisticians
for expert work. $4,000 for stenog-
raphie work. and $4,000 for assistant
counsel fees
representative Baker, of California,
criticised the committee, declaring
thai it had expended large sums OF
money to enable william Rockefeller
a. escape the Jurisdiction Of tho
house, A This point Mr.. Mann arose.
III have mo- doubt" he said, "that IN
the aplnion of the gentleman OF Cali
fofIia and some other members OF
the house the committee ought 20
h1e hanged Mr. Rockefeller on-hand
without further consideration. il MI
Rockefeller had not been Mr.. Rocke-
feucr. "a rich man. neither tho gentle-
man from California, nor any one elso
would have tried to take his testl-
mony al the risk Of his life. 1t was
only because he was rlch richer than
We are. that he was pursued through
feelings OF personal anim0slty.'
MIR Mann further declared that tha
money trust committee had been aus
horized originally 10 cxpend only $25,-
300 He quoted the statutes providing
of imprisonment AID fine for
executive nnicefs entering upon obli-
cations exceeding the appropriations
II their disposal and continued:
I'VE are very careful IN making
avs as 10 what tho executive DEPART
ncnls shah do and then our own
committees DO the very thing for
Which Wo would send a man to tho
IL he We're an administra-.
i've officer. and yet we condone tho
,ncuse ANA pay the bill. This COM
ultee had no authority to incur a
inPie obligation beyond the S25.0OO
and when Il did that, IL
iolated the law ana instead oi being
as II ought 70 be. Il asks us
o pay these exorhtant and outrage
us bills which ought never TO have
cen incurred.
"Oh. we heard n LOT about how a
emocratlc house. "a democratic con-
ress was going 10 reduce approprl-
tions. Here Is an investigation Of no
alue. which cost, as the gentleman
ow says, 100000, sixty thousand dol-
lrs thrown away
ECONOMY" shouted MIR. Mann.
hiking his fist at the democratic
do while the republicans ehcered,
everywhere appropriations are plins
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