The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-09
DONOVAN SAVES PUBLIC BULL DINCS FOR HIS DISTRICT Defeats Move to Injure Dan
 bury, Stamford and
 Greenwich REPUBLICAN TRICK
 BLOCKED BY JERRY Attempt to Repudiate Con tract Obligations Fit
 tingly Rebuked
fspecia, Ito The Farmero

1 Washington. Feb. 9.-Representative Jeremiah Donovan of Connecticut led ] the opposition to an amendment to the Sundries Civil Bill that would have eliminated appropriations for several public buildings. Among the items Representative Gillette of Massachu- setts included in his amendment to l strike from the bill was $100,00O for l Stamford post office, $55,000 for Dan bury post office and 10000 for Green 1 wich post office, all Fairfield county l propositions that have hung fire for years because of the failure of MT. Donovan's predecessor, F.. J. Hill. to lget the work started.
 l Mir. Donovan has got the contracts for the three buildings under way and has secured the money to the extent mentioned above, that the work may 1 be prosecuted. He caused the defeat of the Gillette amendment in the com mittee of the whole by a vote of 30 to
 40
 He said in part in addressing the l House: twill the chairman please explain by what sort of reasoning the Igentlenlan from Massachusetts (Adr. lGi1lette) came in here with an amend usnt to eliminate the carrying out of an obligation on the part of the United States, when a contract has been let for the construction of building2" MT. Gillette denied that any such
 cases. were carried in the amendnent r.. eliminated Danbury. Connecticut. MT. I Gillette said he did not know.
 MT. Donovan continued: s1The gen.
 tlernan from Massachusetts did not
 know what he was doing when he of lfered the amendment The fact is that
 the gentleman has by his amendment
 endeavored to strike out public build lings for which contracts have been
 entered into and obligations created,
 and he would repudiate them. Now
 that is the Massachusetts way of do-
 ing things without Knowledge.
 Gaughter.)
 MT. Chairman, there has been only Lone public building in my district, a
 locality settled for over 200 years.
 stated while ago that the cost of the building was $250 900. That was the cost of the public building in place lof 10000 population. I find that you
 have passed an appropriation of $6OO,- O06 for Wilmington, N. C., what has Hess than a0,00o population I find too, that the minority leader (hfr. Mann )
 has in the same bill an appropriation for his district of $50, GOO passed on
 February IT, 1918. Now during the
 discussion of that bill, from the first ! presentation by the clerk until the fpa1 vote, there was not the slightest , objection on the part of MT. Mann
 the minority leader, to that bill giving , $600,0O to Wilmington, N. c.
 "The customs receipts of Whining. : ton, N. C., are less than $20, GOO a year yet the great minority leader with 2 $50,000 appropriation for his own dis : : trfct in the bill, by some sort of pro. cess offered no protest to, that way o: doing business.
 For verihcation you will find it 1T the proceedings of the House on Feb ruary IT, 1913. Does the gentleman
 from Massachusetts thinks 1t, prope ' ' to abrogate contracts advertised by . the government, duly let and signed . He comes here and wants to repudiat,
 them. Is not that a fine proposition
 where there should be pair play . where there should be some honor2'' e Earlier in the day MT. Donovan il ' attacking the proposition of spendin. 8 $500. 900 in a town of 30, 900 said: tr U cannot understand why the people O.
 my state have been shanghied all O
 these years. daughter). We have
 custom house and post office in a To
 ca1ity of over 11O, ,o0O souls The re
 Ice1pts of the custom house are half
 million dollars. The receipts of tn post office are over $4OO, ,0oo What hap Ipened to our little state when my pre- ldecessor-the greatest in his own opin
 lion-who was here for eighteen years
 and the only Federal building in hi
 tentfre district with 8 roof and chim l. new on it, cost little over $25o, 900? = What is it that they do to us iron a Ithe Nutmeg State when they get ou v great men down here? Do they talk t. strip them of $500, 600 buildings fo e towns of 3O.oOo popu1ation?" daugh tt ter and applause.)