Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-10
FARM RELIEF BILLS
AND APPROPRIATION
TO PAY BONUS FAIL
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administration. That aroused a de-
bate which continued until the de-
ficiency bill, with the reclamation
provisions as amended in the house,
came up under privileged status.
Tenseness at Close
The item whose elimination aroused
Senator Pittman was the appropri4-
ton of $500 900 for the project at
Spanish Springs, Nevada. Gaining
recognition half hour before the
time set for adjournment, he an
nounced the bill never would become
a law until this item was reinserted.
Severl others, including some of
his best friends on the Democratic
side, pleaded with him in vain to
withdraw his objection and take his
seat. The tension in the chamber
increased as the hands of the ven
cradle senate clocks slowly approach
ed the deadline and disorder became
so pronounced that Democratic Lead
err Robinson suggested the sergeant
alarms "be instructed to restore
and maintain order
With only minute left, Senator
Reed, Democrat, Missouri, then
moved that the emergency resolution
passed five minutes before by the
house be adopted, but Senators
Borah and King Immediately de.
manded ODE heard. While they were
shouting for recognition, President
Cummings announced that the SEN
ate had adjourned.
The house, however, failed to go
through with it's program to adjourn
at Z o'clock. Five minutes before
that hour was reached Representa-.
tive Longworth, the Republican,
leader, proposed Is minutes recess.
The hands of the clock opposite the
speakers dais were turned back. but
when word of the senate adjourn
ment was received the house follow
ed suit.
Special Session Hinted
Although Chairman Warren, OF
the senate appropriation committee,
insisted that authority to make the
necessary expenditures to put the
provided by a special session of con-
gress other leaders of,the senate and
house did not agree with him.
The partially-enacted status of the
deficiency bill caused some senators
to contend that the federal bureaus
to which appropriations would have
gone were justified in proceeding
with the expenditures of funds, and
then reporting a deficiency to the
next congress.
1t was Senator King who also
blocked the navy departments bill
FOR cruisers and battleship improve
ments. 1t had been passed bv both
mousse and senate, but the Utah SEN
ator had a motion to reconsider pend.
ing and he served notice just in the
tall-end of the session that if an at
tempt were made to take it up he
would require at least four hours to
present his objections.
The house drifted along listIessly
during the day but as the wind-up
approached there was more activity,
marked by break in the ranks of
the house "drys' for the first time
since the arrival of prohibition.
WhOops Greet Adjournment
representative Cramton, Repub-
lican, Michigan, proposed that teeth
be put in the prohibition enforce
ment investigation to be conducted
during the recess by the alcoholic |
liquor traffic committee, by giving
it two clerks, and permission to hold |
sessions away form Washington. |
Blanton, Democrat,
Texas, who previously had stood |
shoulder to shoulder with Mr.. Cram
ton and other "drys" on prohibition
the proposal, referring to
the inquiry as slot of nonsense
The committee, which until recently
had not held session for five years,
and is without a clerical force, he
declared. was aiming to do some
during the summer, and
he insisted that its investigation
could not more than duplicate one
which will be undertaken by a SEN
ate committee.
The Cramton resolution was re-
jected 1853 to So, many "drys" join |
ing with members who have persis.
tently worked for modification of
the Volstead act in showing the
measure under Immediately after
wards and without debate, the house
adopted a resolution authorizing
its veterans committee, during the
recess, to investigate conditions in
various veterans hospitals and SOL
diers' and sailors homes.