Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-06
REPUBLICANS TO GO,
DEMOCRATS DECREE
House Majority Decides in
Caucus to Make Clean Sweep
of G. O. P. Employees.
MEMBERS WANT PLACES
FOR MEN OF OWN PARTY
Patronage Pie About to Be Sliced
So That New Men Will Each
Get Share.

Get Share.
Democrats of the House woke up this
morning with the glorious taste of pa
tronage pie. They had gone to bed last
night with large slices of this delicious
political pastry in their mouths, figura-
lively speaking. for, following the long
and exciting caucus of yesterday after
noon, when the patronage committee pre-
sented its report, the party in power went
on record as saying that every job con-
nected with House patronage that can
possibly be filled by democrat should
he given to a democrat no matter how
long and how faithfully any republican
incumbent has served. The resolution
showing the sense of the caucus on that
particular point was presented by Rep
resentative Frank Clark of Florida. and
from within the closed doors of the Sc
cret session the loud applause of the
pie-hungry democrats could be heard in
vociferous volume.
a clean sweep Of employees of the House,
wherever it is possible. Colored BARRIERS
will probably be taken out of their places
and white BARRIERS will be put on their
cussed. southern member made an i'm
passioned speech i'm which he said
II see many places around this House
being held by colored men, and / know
they are republicans. because | never
saw a colored democrat in my life
Old Employees to Go.
An attack was made on William r.
Woolley. custodian of the House Office
building, and all the republicans under
his charge, and despite the defense of
this particular employe, made by Speak
er Clark and Representative Fitzgerald.
the caucus broom swept clean and with
the House Office building republicans will
go George w. Sabine, assistant librarian
OF the House, an old and experienced re-
publican employe.
long standing grouches of many MEM
bers, especially the new men, who
have complained bitterly that they
have been deprived of their rightful
brooding In the House for a long time,
and a committee on organization. COM
posed of Representatives Humphreys
of Mississippi, Covington of Maryland
with the responsibility of a plan for
dividing - the jobs around the Cap
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problem long time and then decided
TO slice up the jobs SO that each man
got exactly as much as his neighhor
Therefore. when the caucus met iyes-
terday afternoon this committee pre-
scented the following resolution. which
was adopted:
Resolutions for Clean Sweep.
1T is the sense of this caucus that it is
neither practicable nor possible SO to dis
tribute the patronage of the House as to
give to all members of the caucus places
of equal Importance or salary. The COM
mittee on organization should be given
broad discretion in the selection of the
empiOyes upon whom we must depend for
the efficient conduct of the business of
the House: and in securing and maintain
ing this. efficiency as first consideration,
as well as for the equitable distribution
of the patronage of the House, we must
trust to the wisdom and sense of fair
ness of the committee. No hard and fast
rules can be prescribed.
Therefore, be it resolved, That the
committee on organization be, and it is
hereby, authorized to nominate to the Of
ficers of the House all employees not here
after excepted, and the officers are hereby
directed to appoint all and only such en-
plOyes as may be SO nominated to them.
THAT said committee shall apportior
the patronage of the House among the
members of this caucus, having in view,
ganization, and, second. the fair dis
tribution of the patronage among the
members of the caucus.
THAT said committee shall keep a
register of all employees of the House
appointed or retained by them. which
shall show the name of the employe,
the position held. the salary paid and
the name of the member. or members, if
any. TO whom each empioye is charged.
Such register shall be properly indexed
and shall at all times be open to in
" Of hi
THAT employees of the standing COM
mittees OF the House, the journal clerk,
rloakroom men and the appointees of
the Speaker at the desk are excepted
from the employees to be apportioned by
the committee.
THAT all employees appointed by the
officers of the House shall be subject
to dismissal by the officer making the
appointment, the fact that such employe
has been appointed in pursuance Of a
nomination by the committee on or
ganizatiQn Notwithstanding.
That chairmen of standing commit
lees of the House, except the commit
tee on mileage, shall not be allotted
patronage.
Disagrees With Committee.
The resolutions had not been read
more than few seconds when Rep
resentative Wingo of Texas, a new
member, declared he did not believe in
the committees contention that it
would be impossible to divide up the
1obs, and challenged the preamble of
the resolution, but the committee was
upheld after a strenuous word battle.
Representative Finley Gray of In
diana, who has been sore" on the
patronage subject for long time made
speech that drew the yells from the
throats Of the newer and hungrier
members. Mr. Gray said he had been
done out of patronage long enough
and he wanted to get what was coming
to him. He had surrendered his patron
age, he explained, in the beginning OF
the Sixty-second Congress. so that F.
Stokes Jackson, an Indiana man, could
be made sergeant-at-arms. Mr.. Gray
did this, he said, simply as an accom-
modation. and not because Jackson had
been Of help to him in the campaign
Mr. Jackson died. and when Repre-
sentative Gray tried to get back wha
he believed was his rightful patronag,
he was told. mo. You already have haf
sergeant-at-arms and that is enough.
II do not believe in the assumed wis
dom of these older members" said Mr.
Gray. 'I think the new men make bet
ter congressman"
Better not let that remark get bacl
TO your district then" advised a demo
crat.
Amendment to Gust Republicans.