The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-16
Bill Is Framed With In
tention of Satisfying
Everybody.
LOCAL DEMANDS
FREELY GRANTED
Long-Promised Public Buildings
Bill Is introduced Carrying
Appropriations of $25.643,SO0.
Filled With Items to APP
pease Constituencies and
Serve as Rewards.
LspeclaI 10 zinc MINES. pi.pateh.l

Washing ton. February lin the
House to-day Representative John J.
Burnett, Democrat. OF Alabama chair
man Of the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds introduced the long
promised public building bill--the pork
barrel-carrying appropriations of s25.
643,Soo
As promised. tho bill was carefully
loaded. II has been framed with the
evident intention or satisfying SO thor
ouehly the local demands of the mem
bcr3 of Congress OH both sides of the
House AMI In the Senate, without re-
gard 10 political Affiliations, that it
viii slip over the legislative ways
without n bump or crack.
Tho responsibility for admitting the
ncaeure to tho consideration OF the
House will devolvc upon two men
Eithcr Champ Clark. as Speaker OF the
House. must he willing to recognize a
honibcr To move the suspension or the
rules III favor OF the public buildings
bili or Robert l.. Henry. OF Texas,
iuuat call tho Rules Committee to-
Sethcr and bring in a special rule.
North CaroIipn's share.
rs usual. the bill is iilicd with items
fui' the satisfaction Of constituencies
regardless OF the actual means Of The
cities and towns for which public build
ines are provided. Taking the North
Carolina item alone as an instance OF
the way tho bin. has been framed it
Is found that Gastonia gets "A $4,000
building; limston. a $4,000 building
farbcro. a $1,000 building; Rocky
Mount, $4,000 building, aud Lumber
ton. $4,000 IN addition 10 an allotment
OF 1910.
Representative Gudgcr. OF North
Sarolina, ais II member OF the Public
Buildings and Grounds Committee
Ohio gains in the appropriation bill
$4,000 for a postofiicc at p!qua, $780,
600 for Il postoflicc at Alliance, $4,000
additional appropriation for the pos:
office and courthouse nj Dayton. To-
lcdo Will receive $4,000 Tor extending
and rebuilding the custom horse. Ash
land receives $4,000 for tie enlar
ment OF tho postofIicc b'ii,ding. Van
vert sets $4,000 for n ,,Csiofiice. Sid
ney $4,000. Elyria 100000. $4,000 for
Fremont. 100000 for Middletown and
$4,000 for Logan, Ohio.
Rcprcs Ashbrook is the Ohio
member Of the Public buildings and
Grounds Committee. and notwithstand-
ms the previously recorded generosity
OF the committee toward the Buckeye
state. there are found on later pages
or the bill tho additional Ohio items:
Coshocton. postofiicc I'll 5000; Wash
ington Courthouse. $4,000; Martins
Ferry Postoficc. $4,000: Kcnton Post
Once. $4,000: Gallipoiis Postoficc.
$4,000.
Pennsylvania's rcccn, conversion
from 4 rock ribbed Republican to a
doubtful state is celebrated with a
series of appropriations and authori-
cations arranged In a single block in
the bill providing for the expenditure
or si,765.000 in fifteen carefully sepa-
rated cities aud towns. Then just as
an afterthouSht. 100000 is thrown TO
Representative Buffers home town OF
Media. Further on In the bill Dubois
gets $4,000 for postofficc. Titmsville
$4,000, pottstown $4,000, Tarentown
100000 and South Bethlehem $4,000.
Soft for Hartman.
This, it is remarked. is pretty soft
for Representative Hartman. of Penn
sylvania. who is a Republican
Apparently to celebrate his elevation
TO the Senate in the Appropriations
Committee, the Burnett bill throws this
item to Representative Rothermel,
Democrat of Reading, Pa. for post
Office at Reading, $4,000
Tho support of Representative I'm
derwood for the measure apparently is
solicited by the inclusion in the Bur-
nett budget OF a Dill pTON1ulnS Tor an
appropriation OF 100000 to build IL
post fflce at Birmingham, Ala. The
bill. just as 1t left Mr.. Underwood's
office, is included in the general pork
barrel measure as section six.
Representative Fitzgerald was in
dignant that there should have been
included I'm the original bill a pro-
vision for the increase and remodeling
of tho Brooklyn nost-office. This item,
amounting to about a360,00o, was put
i'm without any request from Mr. Fitz-
gerald. and after disclaimer by the
appropriations Committee chairman
was stricken from the bill.
Representative Colder had applied
for this appropriation.
A memorial amphtheatre at Airing
ton National Cemetery, at $3.50, 900.
with a limit of s750.0oO. was provided
for.
Provisions for the State OF Virginia
are made as follows: waynestsoro.
$4,000; Farmville. 100000: Norton.
$4,000; Salem. $4,000: Front Royal,
$4,000: Leesburg, $4,000; South Bos-