Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-27
Record of Vote,

The record vote for abolition of the
half-and- half was yeas, 1853: nays.
1923; not voting, 1879; answered present,
3, as follows:
Yeas, 15s-Ale1ander, Almon, Ander-
son. Ashbrook, Ayres, Babka, Bank
head. Barbour, Barley, Bee, Begg.
Black. Bland (Mo), Blanton, Boies.
Box. Brand. Brinson. Brum baugh.
Byrnes IS. c.. Byrnes (Tenn.). Cald-
well. Gambler, Caraway. Carew. Carter.
Cooper, Crago. Crisp. Currie (Mich.).
tMo.). Dominick, Doremus. Doughton,
Dowell. Drane, Dunbar. Echols, Ed
monds. Evans (Nev). Ferris, Fields.
Garrett. Goodwin (Ark.). Graham Gll).
Green Gowa). Hardy (Colo.). Hast
| ings. Haugen, Hersman, Howard, Hud-
dleston. Hudspeth, Hull (Tenn.). Igoe.
Jacoway. James. Johnson (Ky). John
Kearns, Kelly (Pa.). Kettner. Kinche-
Landlord. Layton, Lazaro, Lea tCalifD.
Lesher. Lonergan. McAndrews. Nc
Keown, McfAne, Mapes, Mays. Mich
dell, Moon. Mooney, Moore (Ohiol.
Morgan. Nelson (Mo), Nelson (Wis.),
Newton (Minn.), Eieholls 6. ca.
oConner,. Ogden: o,diie na;tn qlivsr,
L
| dale. Rainey Oh. to, Ramseyer, RAN
dali (Calif.), Rayburn. Ricketts,, Rior-
dan, Robinson On. c., Robson Ky).
Romjue, Rose, Rouse. Rubey, Sanders
Sells, sisson. Small. smithwick. sted-
man, Stevenson Summers (Wash).
! Summers (Tex.), Taylor (Ark.). Tay-
; lor (Col.). Thomas Thompson lok1a).
, Tillman, Upshaw, Eenable, Vinson,
! ling. welty. Wilson Ua), Wilson
/ (Pa.). wingo. Woods (Va), Young
! IN d. and Young (Tex.).
! Nays. 129-Ackerman. Andrews
: (Neb), Benham, Briggs. Brooks Ul1),
Browning. Burdick. Burke. Butler,
Campbell (Kan.). Chindblom, Christie
pherson. Classon. Cleary. Coady, Cole.
Cramton, Crowther. Curry {Calif).
Dale. barrow. Davis (Minn), Demp-
sey. Denison, Dickinson (1owa). Dyer.
Elliott, Ellsworth. Elston, Esch, Evans
(Neb). Fess. Fitzgerald. Flood, Focht,
Foster. French. Fuller Ull). Cal
lagher, Ganly. Good, Gould. Greene
(Mass), Greene (Vt.). Griest, Griffin.
Hadley, Hawley. Hayden, Hays. Her
nandez Hickey. Hicks. Hoch. Holland.
Houghton. Humphreys. Hustled, Ire
land, Jefferis, Johnson Is. D.. john
son (Wash). Jones Pa.). Kendall,
Kennedy Uowa). Kennedy Or. ID.
Kinkaid, Kleczka, Kraus, Kre1der, La
NIudTOld, LenlDdCn, Luce, MI
Arthur, McFadden, McKiniry, Nc
Laughlin (Mich). Mclaughlin tNebD.
Mcpherson. MacGregor. MaGee. Mon
tague, Moore (Pa.), Moore Na).
Moores UndD, Mott. Newton tMo).
Olney. Osborne. Parker Peters, Plat.
Radcliffe. Rainey. J. w; Raker. Reed
On. W. Reed CIV. Va.), Rhodes, Rid
dick, Rogers. Rowe. Sanders Gnd.).
Siegel. Sinnott. Smith Gdaho), Smith
(Mich.).. Smell. Snyder, Strong (Pa.).
Temple, Thompson (Ohio), Ti'son.
Timberlake, Tncher. Vaile. Vcstal.
Voigt. Volstead, Wason. Watson Pa.).
Watson (Va.), Weaver. Webster.
Wheeler. Williams. Winslow. Wood
Und.), Yates.
Answered present" Bell. Can
non, White (Me.).
Cramton Against Half-and-Half
/ cede on the half -and-half in order
! that the District appropriation bill
might not fail OF passage through a
! deadlock on this issue. Representative
| Cramton, as one Of the conferees who
! voted against this fiscal system in
! committee, said:
| "Since 1 have been in Congress
every time this matter has come to a
vote in the House | have voted to
: abolish the half-and-half. and l hope
Z and 1t will be no harm to the District,
but benefit. when 1t comes. 1t may
not be improper for me to say that
as member of the subcommittee on
the District of Columbia appropria-
! ton bill. J -oted to put In the Ian
| guage abolishing the half -and-haf.
and that in the fun committee on APP
preparations l again voted to retain
i that language.
Now. as one OF your conferees
upon this bill. have a deliberate re-
sponsibility, and I want to say to the
House that the question that Is before
you now is not whether you will abol-
ish the half-and-hslf. but whether you
will have this Appropriation bill go
into force and effect on the lst day of
July.
IF you send the bill back to the
Senate for further action. so far as /
know, there is no voice ready to be
raised In the Senate on our side of
this issue.
Says Bill Could Be Stopped.
"Now. on the contrary. by insisting
upon this provision, you can prevent