Evening journal., 1916-01-25
Mr.. miller OPPOSES
Federal ROADS BILL
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of the committee reporting it, sim
gled out Representative Gardner. OF
Massachusetts,. and Representative
Miller for attack Mr.. Shackleford
accused Mr. Miller Of being against
the measure because large powder
company is in his State. Mr.. Miller,
upon getting the floor. under the
rule which allows a member five
minutes in which TO speak. drew forth
applause as he replied to the Mis-
sourian's. attack. which had occupied
over an hour.
"Mr. Chairman" said Mr.. Miller. Il
have gone over the provision OF this
bill very carefully, and ] have also
listened assiduously to the debates on
the bill in the last few days ] heard
my friend from Texas (Mr Black say
that surely the Delaware member IN
this House should vote for this bill
because Of the proportionate amount
of money ii gave to the State of Della
ware and the amount of roads there.
Unfortunately | cannot agree with
him. and Il is my intention to vote
against the bill. Representing as
do on the floor Of this House the State
at large, / feel that l should state a
few OF my reasons why shall vote
against IT, although it looks like a
good bill to people in farming COM
munity. beg to state that in Delaware
there are far more country cOmmuni-
ties than there are urban: in other
words. the State is almost wholly ag-
ricultural in its area Il would be a
very easy matter for me 10 vote for
this bill, because, apparently, il is in
the interest of the country community.
| But, in my opinion, We should consider
this measure not from the standpoint OF
the particular good IL might do our own
particular district or our own State.
but we should consider it from the ma
tional standpoint as national legisla-
tors.
This bill provides s25,0Ou.OOO to b,
! distributed n over the country. Why
! gentlemen, to nse a mining expression
the surface of the earth would hardly %,
scratched by this S25 100000 know
thet To be T ct that in the case of th,
few good roads that we have in my
state, where we spend hundreds of thou
sands of dollars every year. if W,
should take advantage of this bill anC
receive the Sl03 900. or 2G-lO0 of pei
cent. of the total amount. it would re
, ally do them no good when it came {,
actual constructive road building.
1T is not my duty to call the atten
tion Of the members on my side Of tn,
House to this bill nor that Of tn,
people on the majority side. but I d,
not see how anybody. after lstenin.
TO the address OF the President OF tn,
United States at the opening Of thil
Congress, can cOnscientiously vote To-
this measure. Two very salient point
were brought forth in that address b,
the President namely. the question o
national defense and the raising o
additional revenue; and surely thos
members on the Democratic side an
those members on our side who inten
TO support the President in nationa
defense matters cannot vote for thi
measure that is brought in here be
fore we have considered how tina
Iquestion is to be dealt with. pro o
con, in this body And furthermor,
the majority. as all know in thi
House. is laboring today with one G
the greatest dilemmas that has eve
been put up TO a party in power i
, deciding the question of how to rails
the revenue necessary to run the gov
) ernment for the remainder of the ad
ministration. At the end OF the frs
fiscal year under this administrator
no one will deny that a deficit wa
shown in 1914. one month before tn
European war began, which made
necessary for the administration to re
sort TO stamp taxes. about which on
able leader on the minority (Mi
8 MANN has spoken today.
81 do not base my opposition to th
bill ON the conflict of interest betwee
the country people and the city pcopl
because as / said before. / represent
State which is agricultural in area. a
= with the exception of one city. 81
Z with the important questions that "
have pending before Ms today, viii,
were brought ont in the Presidents a,
dress at the opening of this session.
do not sec how any man can cOnsciel
tiously vote for this bill.
"With all due respec; TO the honorab
committee that brought in this majo
ity report, ! wish to say that that n
por., as compared with the minority r
port prepared by the gentleman fro
Massachusetts air. Walsh is cloquel
] in what IL did not say in favor of IN
hill rather than in what it did say
J favor Of it,
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