Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-03
Jim Mann's Wonderful Pre-
serves and JeIIieS May Pave
His Way to House
SpeakerShip.

SpeakerSnlp.
Washington Bureau of The Bee
February 2.
By E. C. SNYDER.
LONE of the best results of "ab-
sent treatment" that can re-
call is seen in the passage of
the bill appropriating $l00,0OO0OO
for the needy of Europe. 1t has
been the most grudging compliance
with the executive demand since the
war was declared. 1t will be re-
called that the president asked that
the sum be given me" which called
forth many sarcastic references
while the bill was under considera-
ton. The republicans of the house
almost unanimously voted to let
the Red Cross distribute it. Then
there were 70 votes against the grant
and the bill left the house with pro-
visions to make the distribution by
way of loans instead of largesses.
When it came to the senate, in or
der to get it through, it was made
clear that the Allied War Council
was requesting it as a war measure
instead of altruistic bounty to be
conferred by our chief commissioner.
Even then Is senators were record
ed against it.
The one thing that put the bill
across was a fear that the presi-
dent, having called for it and not
granted, would seriously suffer in
prestige at the settling table.
One senator summed it up this
way: Well let you have it this
time. We do this TO save you hui
initiation. Next time you'll have the
humiliation and no money. The
Enfant Terrible, who asked for
dollar before the company got the
coin that time-but he never tried
it again"
The centrifugal forces have seized
the treasury. Congressman Sloan
said recently on the floor of the
house, Every key in Washington
and Paris opens the United States
treasury. There are none fashioned
to lock it"
The war secretary is authorized
to validate $2,750,000,000 in contracts
entered into up to "a hours after the
armistice was signed, which lacked
legal formality and enforceability.
One hundred million dollars are
seooped out to Europe.
Loans now totalling nearly $4,000 |
100000, loaned to the allies, without
a long time bond taken, as was ex-
pected and understood by great
many of the American people. One
set of sentimentalists are saying,
cancel the debt we hold against the
foreign governments. Another says
sell the due bills we have taken,
while grim old Clemenceau suggests
to Wilson that the United States pay |
its portion of war expenditures in
Cured before we entered the con-
flict.
Another LII Bill /
A bill has just passed the house
authorizing the ultimate expenditure
of $26000000 for one-story hospitals !
throughout the country for the Pub |
lie Health service to care for ex-
soldiers, sailors, marines, civil ser
vice sick and any other person in the
United States.
The secretary of the navy, while
Europeans are discussing the sink |
ing of the German feet, asks for
$900Q00,000 to extend our navy.
The house of representatives votes
its members $1,000 additional clerk
hire and the civil employees at Wash
ington are given an increase of $24O
per year. |
Spend and Spare Not"
Above each department portal
should be written-"Spend and spare
not"
One department, agriculture"
asked for $158000 for rentals for
necessary buildings. The agricul-
tural committee of the house found |
that there was sufficient empty space
in public buildingse no longer in use
to house all these activities. The
head Of the department comedies it,
but insists on the appropriation be-
ing made anyhow, giving it out
quietly that it will not be used.
Meanwhile the sick and wounded
soldiers in Walter Reed hospital in
this city have to do or pay for their /
own washing and not having receiv-
ed their own salaries they cannot
pay it
In discussing the financial affairs
of the country in the Hobbies of both
senate and house the most frequent
quotation heard is that of Nine.
Pompadour, "After us the Deluge."
Jim Mann accepted beefsteak, did
he? l wonder how many opponents
of Jim Mann have accepted some
thing better than a beefsteak from
him." chuckled an old neighbor OF
Mr.. Mann from Chicago. Did you
ever see jim Mann's garden? Well,
it's worth seeing and Jim Mann in
his garden is worth going some dis
lance to see. Why lie knows more
about garden truck than old Doc
Wiley and the secretary of agricul-
ture combined and he knows what
he knows from experience in his
garden and on his farm.
Just Outside Chicago.
That garden Of Jim Mann, out in
the suburbs of Chicago, had been
.,ac-lactad fnr two or three Nears |