Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-15
MANN FLAYS PALMER
FOR ABSENTEE|SM
Pennsylvania Caught in Attempt
to Fool the House on How
He Voted
SbeeiaI 10 The Telegraph

Washington. D. c., July Is. The
House yesterday voted to accept the
Senate amendment to the legislative
appropriation bill providing for a
twenty-cent mileage allowance for the
travelling expenses of members of Con-
gress. The House provision. reluct-
antly agreed to some weeks ago. pro-
vided only bare travelling expenses. The
Senate restored the old rate, and yes
tefday the House, after a debate led by
Representative A Mitchell Palmer in
opposition, and Representatives Mann
and Fitzgerald in favor. by a vote of
1872 to 22. accepted the Senate amend
ment
This item has held the big 100000
supply measure in deadlock for weeks.
The legislative bill will now go to the
President for his approval, with the
sundry civil, rivers and harbors and
ference or unacted upon by the SEN
ate. The rivers and harbors measure
has not yet passed the Senate. and
that body several weeks.
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer
denounced the twenty;cent mileage rate
as graft" He sought to compromise
on a ten-cent rate, and has led the fight
| for reduction in the last two months.
His attitude brought down upon Mr..
sentative James IL. Mann, minority
leader. The exchange of words between
Mr. Palmer and Minority Leader Mann
"Welcome. MIR. Palmer"
when l see my genial friend from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Palmer( in the
come to our city," snapped Mr. Mann.
The gentleman will admit that it is
only recently that l have been absent"
| "Oh, l made substantially the same
remark when the gentleman made the
same proposition in the last Congress.
Mr.. Mann. "rhe gentleman from Penn
| sylvania has just stated that he voted
| for the tlve-cent mileage proposition.
| The gentleman imagines that he was
here. because | have the Congressional
| Record in my hand under date of June
% where the gentleman from South
Carolina (Mr. Byrnes) offered motion
| for five cents mile and among those
| voting is not found the name of the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, but
among those absent l read the name
Palmer The gentleman has been alb
sent so much that he .iforgets how he
votes when he is here"
possible to extend the appropriation
under the legislative appropriation
bills as suggested by Mr.. Palmer, and
committee on rules on anything. He de-
nounced the committee on rules for not
holding any meetings, saying that the
chairman had remained away to avoid
action on the woman suffrage resolu-
ton and the prohibition amendment.
Mann On Mileage
Continuing his remarks upon mile
age Mr. Mann added:
"Now some of the gentlemen think
twenty cents mile Is too much, anc
some think it is too little. | am like
spoken. l do not care whether Con
gress pays me twenty cents mile OF
no mileage. 1 shall not decline nomi'
nation or election in either event. Blu
while / am a member of the House
shall be in Washington in attendance
at the sessions of the House. And
for a gentleman to talk about mileage
graft Vhen he has drawn his salarI
while engaged in political work TO
himself at home. and who has not beer
present in the House; And. when gen
tlemen talk about mileage being graft
have been led to suppose that tn
one who took graft was CRATER
would like to know the name OF an
member of this House who has declined
to receive what he calls this graft;
'I do not believe 1t is graft. If | di
I would not be a CRATER and take II
The gentleman who calls Il graft is
CRATER II he takes 1T; We have a grea
here are worrying about the mileage;
wonder that the majority side OF IN
House does not enforce the law IN reI
erence to absences and salary. The lay
PENNSYLVANIA (Mr. Palmer), who ha
: been away from Washington so long
= snail not receive ms s"i"i'
absent .,, ,.. ~,
concluding "If it is graft to take mile
age which the law. allows, is 1t homes
t9 take salary which the law forbtds
I suggest TO the gentleman from Penn
> svIVania that people who live in gias
5 houses, and mighty thin glass at that
had better be conspicuously quiet IN
stead of rising to debate a propositio
: about graft of other people. He ha
better remove the beam from his owl
eye before he tries to take the mot