New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
House Votes 200 TO iIO
for Action orr Subsidy
Wednesday; Democratic
Filibuster Plan Blocked
l6RepublicansTurn
Against President
Foes of Measure Beaten
ON Scheme TO Cut Out
appropriation Sections
From the r,4onmc.s " .sr.eo,os a4rcos


Administration drew ifst blood in
the ship subsidy bate :"-day By
vote of 200 to 10. the House Of Rep
resentatives agreed to vote upon the
measure on November %.
By its action the lower branch of
Congress defeated all possibility Of
the filibuster against the bill which
was the object Of ~. short but bit
ter fight the Democrats made this
afternoon againsl ado:stion of the
special rule governing It's considera-
ton. After three days of general
debate, beginning to morrow. and
three additional days, 'ce'Tning on
Monday, in which to discuss amend
ments, the final vote automatically
will be ordered at 4 O'clock next
Wednesday.
Had the Democrats been success
full to-day they could have dragged
on the debate indefinitely, and have
prevented final vote in the special
session, at least.
To-day's vote cannot be taken as an
indication of the division which will
come when the House vot9s on passage
of the shipping bill next week Many of
the members from the agricultu al
states of the Middle West. and North
west who voted for the rule to-day
will turn thumbs down on the final
vote. While they ar committed to
vote against the bill they would rot
to-day go to the length Of throttling its
consideration, as was asked by the
Democrats,
Sixteen Republicans Oppose Ruie
Sixteen Republicans voted against
the rule and three Democ: its v,."{ .os
it with the Republicans. rho Republi.
can members who oppo:-,! the rula
were Representatives ~ ,ck, of Wis
consin; Boies, of Iowa; Browne, of
Wisconsin; Clague, Of Minnesota;
Dickinson, of bowa; Dowell, of Iowa;
Frear. of Wisconsin,; Hull of Iowa;
James, OF Michigan; Kelle- of Miare-
sofa; Kopp, of Iowa: La:n,i,rt, & Wis
consin; John NJ Neleri:. o. Wisconsin,
Sinclair, of North Dakota. Towner of
Iowa, and Voigt, of Wisconsin.
The three Democrats who bolted
their party leadership were Repre-
sentative Lea. . California; 0'Connor,
of Louisiana. and MeDuffie, Of Ala
bania.
New York members who voted for
the rule were Bond, Clarke, Crowther,
Dempsey, Fairchild, Fish, Hicks, Hogan,
Hustled, Kissel, Kline, Lee, MacGregor,
Megee, Nils, Parker, Periman. Peter
sen, Reed, Sanders, Siegel. Smell. Sny-
der, Volk and Ward, all Republicaos.
The resolution was opposed by the FOL-
lowing New Workers. carcw, Cochran,
Ten Eyck, Democrats, and Meyrr Lon
don, Socialist. New York absentees or
not voting were: An5orge, Chandler,
Cullen. Dunn, Gould. Griffin. Henry,
Kindred, Mead, Mott, Riordan, Ross-
dale, Ryan and Sullivs.
Block Appropriation Attack
Another point of Democratic atsack
was eliminated through the insertion
by the Rules Committee. on mot m os
Representative Simeon Fess, Of Oaio.
Of a provision which prevents the TAX
ing of points OF order against apprrf4t!a-
tions carried in the bill
Under Democratic Floor Leader Gar
rett opponents Of the bill were Man
ming to shoot holes through .he Ad.
ministration program by the Simple
expedient of killing the appropriations.
Under the budget law the App, sI.ria-
tlons Committee has the sa.s 30 yer
to originate money matters, they held.
and were confident of srcgRias the
bill by demanding It be ,ens baca 10
the Merchant Marine Co.n,nisess and
the money items separated
The slightly more than an hour's
debate to-day gave both sides . .hauee
Tor showing of teeth
hn1, l.. :. Z
there might be in the minds of ind,-
vidual members as to the proper
method of proceeding, we will ali agree
that the United States ought to be-
come merchant marine power" Rep-
resentative Fess said. 81 think everv-
body is convinced that it is not a wiss
economic policy to employ our COM
petitors to carry our overseas trade
and that we ought to do it ourselves.
The real Significance to-day is what
are we going to dc with the ships
already built. The big question with
us now is how are we going to stay on
the sea and to add to the vessels VIZ
are already operating and those which
are tied up to the wharves.
Against United ties Operation
Il know that there are great many
people who favor the continuation OF
government operation, rather than sub-
sldy. state TO you frankly that
am not in favor of the government
operation or the government owner
ship of the merchant marine. | think
that the evidences of inefticiencv and
wicked extravaganza that we have
undergone in our recent experiment
in government control ought for all
time to put at rest that particular pol
/ icy of operation. There is no need for
subsidy IL American labor should be
reduced to the basis Of our cornpeti-
tors. but ] take il that no member is
willing that American wages should
be reduced. Without reduction there
must be subsidy or continuance of
operation Of merchant marine by gov
ernment. And favor q subsidy.
The subsidy bill is proposition for
individual benefit" Democratic Leader
| Garrett, of Tennessee, declared. "This
/ Is not proposition OF general in
| terest. It seemed to me also that thess
must be some doubt as to whether we
could rely absolutely upon the assur-
ance land of course do not mean 10