The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-15
HUGHES |ND|CTS |. HIS OWN PARTY !. ON PORK CHARGE Underwood and Ransdell Show How Candidate Is
 Talking Too Much CLEAN HANDS ONLY
 CAN DEMAND EQUITY In High Court of Public Opinion Re- publicans Too Guilty to Ask Judg-
 ment Against Democrats
 on Appropriations
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

Washington, August 14-(special.) Charles Evans Hughes, in his efforts to win the presidency of the United States, Is destined, 1t begins to appear, to initiate the proverbial parrot which not only talked well-but too much
 His indictment of the democratic party for the passage of alleged pork bills in the form of river and harbor appropria- tions, was, as matter of fact, and in &C., cordance with proof submitted by Senator Ransdell and Senator Underwood in an n- Senate, merely an indictment of the re- publican party
 For 1t was demonstrated that all money expended by the government during the past "A years was in the interest of proj- .ects undertaken by the republican party; and 1t was proved that in the new river and harbor bill, recently signed by Pres ident Wilson, all but 14 of 2s0 projects pro- vided for were old projects. or projects authorized by the republican party
 UNDERWOOD QUESTIONS E The notable contribution to the litera- ture of the presidential campaign was in- itiated when Senator Ransdell. in re- sponse to query propounded by Senator Underwood, made the following state ment which was succeeded by a running dialogue: fy a
 MT. Rarsdeil, In the river and harbor bill signed few days ago there were 2S0 items. Most of those items have been on the books for years, and 210 of them were in the perfect bill passed by Theodore E. Burton in 1So7-the bill which he him. self says was the most perfect piece of river and harbor legislation ever enacted
 MT. O'Gorman. Eighty per cent.
 MT. Ransdell. Nearly all ef them--more for years and years, projects undertaken under republican regime, and necessary for us to carry forward now in order to preserve the commerce of the country.
 Mr. Underwood. There were 2s0 items in the bill?
 MT. Ransdell. As understand yes, sir
 MT. Underwood. And 210. of them were included in the bill that was passed by Senator Burton when chairman of the committee in 1907?
 210 INHERITED
 Mr. Ransdell. Yes, and more. More than 21O came over from the republican regime; but I am speaking about 210 of them having been in the great piece of legislation which the senator from Ala. hama dollbtless heard Senator R1,rtop de scribe with busto so often. that piece of legislation which was never excelled by anything done by the American Congress, according to Mr. Burton, and which was passed just before the close of his term in the House in 1907 which carried about $S6,- GOO 900, and 21O of these items were in that bill
 MT. Underwood. How many more items were there, outside of the 210? Can the senator inform me?
 MT. Ransdell. I cannot inform the sen ator as to that but a cmall number of them. We took on very few new items. and let me tell the senator why. The committee on commerce in 1914 prepared very fine river and harbor bill and at- tempted to pass it. It was filibustered to death by Senator Burton and several other senators on the other side of the chamber who aided him-largely by him. That bill included a number of very neces- sary new projects, in one of which my friend the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Brandegee) was intensely interested-the
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