Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-08
Plea for Appropriation Bills.

After you take the special days. the
unanimous consent days. etc. from the
calendar he said. as he shook his fist.
there are but ten more working days for
this session, and i'll those ten days you
have to pass seven enormous appropria-
ton bills. such as the sundry civil bill.
the pension bill, the naval appropriation
bill and others. Net a conference report
has been made on an appropriation bill
in this House. How comes it then that We
have this great wave of morality at this
time? How comes It that we must hasten
to vote on this biz for which no report
was made by the judiciary committee
until yesterday? Let me tell you that be-
cause OF this delay in. legislation Of real
gress has been the most incompetent and
useless that ever sat under the Capitol
DOME
Representative Fitzgerald Of New York.
sore and palpably diSgruntled because of
the continued della. of appropriation busi-
ness attacked Representative Henry, sit
ting almost next to him, with a vigor
rarely seen even in the vigorous Tam
many congressman:
II am opposed to these special rules and
will oppose them ssntil all the appropria-
ton bills are disposed Of he said. Let
me tell you no one dreams this bill will
become law but in order to mislead the
country into the false belief that We want
Il
vote on it. We are wasting too much
time We wasted Wednesday on a San
Francisco exposition bill to provide Jobs
for statesmen whs. are preparing to re-
tire to private lie by arrangement OF
their constituents. Here We are on an
other fiim-f1am bit
Hints at arrangement"
IL don't know whether there has been
any arrangement between the responsible
leaders of the majority to defer appro-
priation bills until the next Congress.
but 1 do know thar in justice to the men
who bear the druGgery of the apprOprfa-
ton work il is nor fair to us to have the
side of the House fail to up
hold them in theic desire to put through
these important supply bills
Representative Lenroot, republican, OF
Wisconsin arising from his seat near the
center doorway Hf the House., pointed
his finger at Mr.. Fitzgerald and said:
THE reason for the delay is the mis-
on t..e part of the men in
charge of the appropriation bills. For in
stance two days were wasted in debating
a single po Mt in fhe District of Colum-
bia bin and whee 1t was all over the
House had chased itself In circle ana
arrived Just where: 1t started.
REPRESENTATIVE Mann, minority leader.
a so called the bisl a fiim-fiam.
1T will never bScome law, he said.
For this Is a House Dill Inc HOUSE
may pass it. but Monday the Senate Will
take up the Senste bill covering SUBJ
stantia.ly the saItze matter. That may
pass the Senate. Then the members OF
the Senate and House can go home and
the representatives Will blame the Senate
for not passing the House bill and the
senator's will blame the House for not
the Senate bill.
Possibly Inspired"
The rule is brctiSht in.'' he continued,
''by the gentleman from Texas. Mr..
Henry, the next Attorney General and
special representative OF the coming Pres
ident on the floor of the House This
thing seems to be INSPIRED from some spe-
cial source to interfere with legislation
so as to throw the appropriation bills into
the extra session. You are foo.ing the
public with this btii. SO as to get the ap-
preparation bills into the next Congress"
After the rule .as adopted by 211 to
SO Il three-hour debate on the bill be-
gan. vote being expected about $3.50 this