The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-15
DONOVAN HOLDS LEADER MANN'S GOAT IN LEASH Minority Chief VeXed by Con- greSsnanss Charges Of
 AbSenteeiSm. A HOUSE LAUGHS AS
 MEMBERS QUARREL Republican Denies He Was De- serted by Party Repre-
 sentafives In Debate.
Rvrcur -stan. Correspondent.)

Washington, June 13--ttek'FsSsIft< Donovans of Connecticut virtually neao +ls soaTt, of Republican Leader J1na Mann azzd<vRas leading 1t arouno enS corridors of the Capitol yesterday a1- ferroon TvfzEae the canny leader rom inc CNricagos stock yards danced about
 =, 4Tre floor of the House as though he was sfand1ng7on a hot gr1ddde. Don ovay, es,cusedf fEl1e Republican minority of deserffng its guns on Wednesday and Ieavtngk only one Republican on koe deck of the ship of state
 MT Domovan1 1saad. ssMr. Speaker SviN ouote fromla speech of the rank ing member of the minority on CIlS committee on appropriations, Mr. GIL aetts- of Massachusetts. He sa1o on TnneDe. that the presence of min snritv&nadk the power to prevent epuses. F7avfrr~ fhatS in mind, on the 10th Of rune Isaskedat the chairman of the com n1r1ttee If he, did not think ne ought 4r move to rise because there was only -n-,~, member. of the. minority Fepubli- 1.9-, T,artvs present It is true there .w-rv,p f1areeE members of the Progress fve.p party present well, in the noise mva rnmnunotion which Is generally uwtnrked when the gentleman from IL Rfv,ryfes Inc leader of the minority, rises sFrrrI1 hfsssea4 he stated, according to 4lae Record, that the gentleman rom sr.onnartt~t1t knew that the statement Inc made was not true and ne auoeu ahaA f1ia istatement is not true
 ssrTrs,e fs#aterneut was true, Mir speak CT when smads- I have no other stock a11 trade but the truth
 TT, never make any statement m pup nsr. f7,st eie, not the truth. Just previous Eto that time the gentleman from sVVasa1inghon (AGr. Haimp1reys) having a5eparted, the gentlemen from Iowa rAFr Creen) had taken h1s little nuno4e ~ r,a1,erH and pamphlets and depart [1 ansF that great judicial member sfxorn Wisconsin, who never rises on iffa fHoor of the House but that he IS always fair, MT. Asch, had also. de- parted. leaving. only the leader or the
 TsT5c4v <eassaazve in this country great -,7ar1r1fac4z1rfrsr Interests: we have Tn 1his country great financial 1nterests and hepeop1esofst thel Republ1can party, and especially the members of con wrezs helonging to that party, claim fo represent all those, things want 4n call vnur attention ito how they at tend to their business by leaving this chamber during legislative proceeq- ss7-be great state of sPennsyIvania. at that time had not a. Republican mem ber upon this floor,- except member of the Progressive party The greaf state Of Ohio, the greatest nla11ufactur- ing state or one of them in this couIl- try. not even had the presence Of her rolIege president, notAaL single member of the minority was Fpresent In all New England, not aAmember or rne present. stOL OAA1 -OA 1AAO ! Republican members from the south were present Qaughter)
 MT Speaker, I repeat, not single | Republican member from the southern l states. and there are not many Of t1,ar, although they claim they get T7.s,ra ont ofsthe treasury than any oth- er=they were absent, too Qaugh- ter-3
 From the whole Pacific coast, from fhe Arct5. circle to the. line Of Mexico,
 mt the Progressive member from Wash fngton. That shingle shaver, that shingle taTker, who uses the Record -e than any other member in this fon) abandoned that great interest or the country to the majority
 Here the time oflthe speaker expir- ed
 Leader Mann asked for two minutes and MT Donovan said: I suggest that the gentleman of the minority have five minutes, hesneeds that many minutes to explain his leadership, and why they left him.
 MT. Mann Wast granted 1.-two minutes and said:
 The statementf made byFthe gentle man from Connecticut on Wednesday last that there was only one member of the minority referring to myself, 7nresent at the time, was not true when 1t was made and is no truer today ] when 1t Is reiterated
 s-In plain sight,of the gentleman from Connecticut and anybody else in the House there stood a gentleman from wisconsin (ATr- LenrooD and the 'gen- 4Ienan from Kansas CNdr CampbelD. over to the right a, number of Repub- 1ican members were present And the two members. think, first referred to, at the time were discussing some sup feet in private conversation with the gentleman from Kansas (1Mr. MurdocD sn plain sight of anybody who had sense enough to see I do not know whether the gentleman from Connec- 4icut gets so that he cannot see at that time of the day or not
 MT Donovan asked permission to tn- rerrupt MT Mann but MT Mann re- 1used-
 .-WeII. it is wise that he did not do at,', said MT Donovan, amid laughter Then MT Mann continued: T think myself it is wise because never heard any wisdom fmparted to the House when | did yield to the gentleman and mo one else ever did The gentleman repeats a islander for the purpose of fn5uring members of the House. He himself was hardly present. at any time on Wednesday but came in to call at fention to other gentlemen, and made a statement absolutely untrue in fact and which he must have known was untrue if he ever had the use of his eyes.''
 Donovan had an opportunity to reply further to the remarks of the Repub- Ican leader who. his colleagues say was hotter under the collar than they had ever seen him before.
 The calling of the attention of the House to the fact that only one Re- publican was present was a part of the consistent fight that MT Donovan has made all along against absentee ism. and the colleagues of the Connec- ticuf member were of the opinion that 1 Mir Mann had used up about his last | charge of ammunition when he resort | ed to questioning Mir Donovan's eye 1 z---,E and aid raaz1as. 1n,c,1-e. tl,c.-, 1