Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-15
OVER A BILLION
WILL BE SPENT
|NTHESESS|0NS
Statements Of Fitzgerald
and Cannon Show That
$1,098,647,96O is Reached
in Appropriations.
BRYAN GUEST AT
DIPLOMATS DINNER

Secretary Of State at BOARD
With 20 Other Pan-Amer.
lean Diplomats; McAdoo
Swamped With Sleuths.
Washington, D. c., March 14.-Ap
propriations of the last session of con
gress, including the sundry civil and
the Indian appropriation bills which
are to be put through at the coming
extra session, aggregated $1,09S,647
be0. The annual statements given out
today by Chairman Fitzgerald OF the
appropriations committee and by
former Speaker Cannon agree on that
total. Mr.. Cannon adds, however. that
In addition to that amount, contracts
authorized for public works involve
further expenditures of $76,956,174.
Meetings Planned for To-day.
President Wilson had number OF
Important conferences planned for TO-
day
Represent ative Jones of Virginia had
an engagen. ent to introduce his col
league, Repl sentative Saunders, but
he expected to take up with the presi,
dent the question of Philippine island
Independence for which he has bill
pending in the house.
Other names on the presidents pro-
gram were Representative A. Mitchell
Palmer OF Pennsylvania; chairman OF
the democratic caucus; Jose 2. Davis
of Wisconsin. secretary of the demo
cratic national committee; Gen. Bibb
Grays Of Alabama, mentioned for
assistant secretary Of war, and Secre.
tary of state Bryan, who leaves today
en- ten days trip to his home in Lin
coin, Neb.
The president is scheduled to meet
Senator La Toilette this evening. This
will be the presidents first consulta-
tion with a member of the. progressive
republican wing.
Bryan Dinner Guest
Secretary Bryan who as head OF
the state department is chairman OF
the governing board of the Pan-Ameri-
can union, sat down to dinner last
night with representatives in Wash
ington of the twenty other American
republics which with the United States
compose the union. They were the
guests of John Barrett, director gen
eral of the international organization.
In welcoming Secretary Bryan,
Brazilian Ambassador Damagama said:
"We bid welcome to the man with a
noble heart who for so many years has
been preaching the advent Of social
Justice, OF respect to the rights of the
individual, of reciprocity and good will
among men,"
Secretary Bryan referred to his trips
to Latin-America and said that when
his present Office was offered him 'one
Of the reasons that he gave for being
willing to accept was that it would en-
able him to join with the president in
menting even more closely these ma
tions that live so near together and are
so identical in their purposes and In
their aspirations"
Many After Positions. ..
Despite vigorous denials by treasury
oflcials that Secretary McAdoo con-
templates sweeping the present corps
of u S. secret service operatives out
of office, applications for the positions
of Chief Flynn and his subordinates
continue to pour in by the hundreds
daily. The desk of Col Lyman. the
treasury departments appointment
clerk, Is Uttered with letters glowing
with descriptions Of the qualifications
of would-be sleuths. One man credited
himself with discovering dangerous
counterfeit dime. He sent Secretary
McAdoo two Of the Spurious" coins.
They are genuine. Another to prove
the governments need of him in gum
shoe" work said he could talk freely
and we'll and attracted attention
wherever he went. A third applicant
offered Endorsements of his "ca-ica-
ture and habits"
With four thousand applications on
file since March and no vacancy
in sight, the treasury department is en-
deavoring to stem the tide of appli-
cants.
Rubbers Are Dismissed.
One mournful expert massepr and
two equally mournful assistants who
ever since the senate office buildings
luxurious baths we're opened, have
smoothered back the wrinkles from the
brows OF worried and care-ridden SEN
ators have been told that they are to
be dropped from the payroll Of the
senate. Under the democratic control
OF the upper branch, the reform is to
be instituted at once for Senator Over
man of North Carolina, has issued the
decree. A single attendant unskilled
In the art of massage will rule over tho
establishment. The democratic COM
mittee has so revised the senate pay
rolls that sixty persons are to be drop
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