The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-22

l
 Lieut.. Gov. Tingier in piIottne the sen
 ators through the threatening courses.
 At the outset Senator McDonough
 oeciared he couldn't bring himself to
 iaNor such subterfuge was planned
 Hi the temporary dropping of the
 names of the Senators from the
 scheme, with the implied understand : Ing that r.1ey were to be restored. 1 He said that if the Senators interested
 were honest to themselves and to their
 constituents they would vote down all
 but the New Haven and Waterbury l appropriations. Senator Mccarthy in i sisted that the names of the Sena tors
 De kept in the measure. and it was at i this point that Judge Perry effected a
 suspension of rule 19 by which proce-
 dure the members might legally re-
 main in the Senate during discussion l of such matters as directly affected
 them
 Senator Isbel1, following prolonged dispute as to whether in the language of the measure, the adoption of the provision by the Senate really carried the appropriation, was moved to I change the verbiage, that there ] would be no question, and the meas l ures were then made to read, Re | solved, That (the various sections of
 the original bill, one by one,) be adopted. This, in the opinion of the
 chair. clarified the situation. but it did not prevent many further wrang1es. I During these disputes, Senator Me isDonough asked that inasmuch as the | whole thing seemed to be somewhat 1 involved. the matter be referred back to the committee on Appropriations, 1 with instructions to report the next | day, with the measures properly form
 ulated for separate action Incident ally he scored the committee for mak-
 ing. the blanket appropriation, to
 which criticism Senator Stevens took l exception.
 l Senator Stevens maintained that the
 blanket appropriation for armories
 was equally as defensible as that for
 hospitals. Senator Mccarthy of An sonia. arguing that New Haven and other places do not need an armory
 and Waterbury does need one, declar- ed McDonough had taken the right view of it. Then Senator McNefI l hinted that all this debate was an at- l tempt to filibuster
 Senator Hooker suggested starting | out anew, with resolutions drawn sep l arately covering each proposition, thus to do away with amendments to amendments and other parliamentary pitfalls. The motion to reconnnait the bill was lost.
 Then the Manchester arnory came up for a vote, this being regarded as an amendment to the amendment to the original bill, and it was passed, up. in regular order. Then Senator McDonough cut loose l fSNpo question about it,'' exclaimed the l Naugatuck Senator. -fIt must have such a, clever move to put through 1 this appr opriation- The Combination has seen this peculiar condition in l which som e-.of- their number will be l placed, and there's no doubt about 1t | that these names are going to be re- l inserted. That's part Of the plan of I the com bination- As they rise, I pro- pose to strike at each head as it shows | itself he continued. ~I propose to vote for those propositions that areI worthy. As for those that are un- | worthy, it's useless to try to beat the combination, but it is my duty to ut ter such feeble protest as may
 Senator McCarthy's motion for roll call vote was carried.
 Senator Hooker secuted the idea of a, combination and said it was but ] proper that the money should be dis tributed throughout the State,
 Senator Mccarthy said if that was the case, he thought he might as well i ask for $50, 900 for Ansonia.
 Senator Cheney told McDonougih he l was like patron whom he had serv- ed when as small boy he worked | in grocery store. He handed out | a piece of pork from the barrel, and l it offended the customer, who there upon withdrew further patronage from | the grocery. MfcDonough, he said, 1 might not have gotten the right sec ton of the pork. Incidentally he paid 1 tribute to McDonough's fearless stand 1 not only in this but other measures before. the Senate.
 While Senator McDonough had been limiting that he might spring a sen-j sation, he withheld it until this june ! ture when he explained just why he proposed to favor the two appropria- ttons-New Haven and Waterb ury-t and them only.
 He declared that the committee on Military Affairs, after considering the matter of new armories, had decided upon new structures for New Haven and Waterbury only. The committee on Appropriations member or mem bers of it-tool1 up the matter with a member or members of the committee on Military Affairs and insisted that T. they be given a Iook-in, in the way of new armories, and that was just what was done, hence the pork bar re1'' bill
 The vicious and pernicious part of this whole natter said McDonough, terlocked and are able to put across unworthy projects, by tacking them on worthy appropriations which they expect to go through. It is not fair. In this case it is not fair to the cit ies of New Haven or Waterbury,
 He read newspaper comment con demning the project of an armery for Bristol ''I know it's useless he ad- mttted, ito argue against the combi nation. It would take something stronger than nitro-glycerine to break 1t, and that would be death.'' He said he was trying to do justice to the citizens of the remote corners of thei State as well as his own district.
 Let any member of either commit tee tell us the needs of ar1nories in the other cittes,'' he pleaded. ''Who ap- peared for them? How was the neces- sity for such enterprises shown?"
 Shaking a menacing finger at Sen ator McNeil, chairman of the commit tee on Appropriations, he said: EfI- call upon the committee to deny-of any member of either committee who will ]