Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-24
FRIDAY, APRIL "a, 1914.
THE MILEAGE GRAB
House Votes a Cut Down to Actual
EXPENSES.

Expenses.
That apparently indestructible ols-
credit of congress, the mileage graz,
saws the Washington correspondent oA
the News and Courier, received anoth-
er hard blow in the house Friday
when on a roll call the appropriations
committee was sustained in It's recon- .
mendatiOn that actual expenses Oh
travel one time to and from Washlng-
TON each session be substituted for the
present system of twenty cents mile
each way.
The committee had been overruled
in committee of the whole before the
matter came up finally in the house.
The reason is simply that in commit =
tee of the whole there are no roll calls
which constitute the only certain way
of putting congressman on record pup :
licly as to their votes. There was not
much doubt that the twenty cent-a-
mile system would be knocked out II
a roll-call could be obtained, but there
was until the last moment some doupt
if the necessary number or "hands
could be got to secure the roll-cal. llt
takes one-fifth of those present TO de-
mand all aye and nay vote).
When the vote came 1T was Dig
victory-242 against the twenty-cenI
grab and only 95 for it. Among the z4z
however, IneTe "SIC OIiiy
from the Pacific states, including Can-
fornia. Oregon, Nevada, wyoming,
Montana, Idaho and Utah. Neither or
those two votes, sad to say, was DEM
ocratic. One was cast by Representa-
tive French, of Idaho, regular Re-
publican. and the other by Represen-
tatiye Kent, of California, an indepen-
dent (not Moose) Republican.
Among the patriots" who voted Win
r
tholdt. of Missouri. the apostle OF
peace: Henry OF Texas, the friend OF
the people; Kindel, of Colorado, who
has no committee assignment because
he rode a high horse" to death; Lee,
of PENNSYLVANIA, the dry dock expert;
alfalfa Bill Murray, of Oklahoma
and Republican Floor Leader Mann.
OF the South Carolina members
four (Messrs. Aiken, Lever, Ragsdaie
and Whaley) voted for twenty cents
mile, and Messrs. Byrnes, Finley ana
Johnson were paired. Mr.. Johnson as
chairman of the subcommittee on the
legislative bill, was one OF the trainers
of the actual expense Recommendation
hut was called to his home in Spar
tanburg, Thursday night. Before he
left he expressed the belief that the
recommendation would be sustained;
The North Carolina and Georgia del
egationS were oVerWneliiilhSly aSaiie.
the grab Not a vote was cast TOT II
in the North State delegation; eight
voting against it and two being absent
and paired, (Small and Gudger). Sew
en- Georgians (Adamson, Edwards;
Park, Bartlett, Tribble, Walker and
Hughes) voted against the grap;
three CHoward, Lee and BelD voted
for it; Hardwick was absent, paired,
and Crisp was absent, impaired.
What the senate will do is being
considered with some interest. 1t is
regarded as probable that II Will ac-
cent the house result. The senate
could attach an amendment making
the new system apply only to repre-
sentatives. but that would take rather
more nerve than the senate is oeneV-
ed to possess in these days. Moreover,
there are about four and half rep
resentatives to one senator, so that
the total Of suffering is greatest on
the house side.