The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-26
PORK BARREL REVOLT
BLOCKING HOUSE WORK
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committee offered an amendment
to increase the S45, 100000 flood
control grant $10,000,000 and
specified that the additional
money be used to build small
ponds and lakes in the great
plains area as water conservation
projects. ,
As leaders anxiously counted
their strength among seated
Democrats, Chairman William NJ.
Wilmington, d., Miss. of the
house flood control committee,
threw his support behind the
Starnes-Jones proposal. By this
time the chamber was in full re-
volt and Majority Leader Sam
Raybum, D., Texas, gained the
floor.
He expressed amazement at
Wittington's bolt, warned that III
we continue to attempt to ear.
mark the bill, we will wreck It,
and demanded that Democrats be
loyal to the wishes of the presl-
dent. Rayburn arises only when
the administration is in extreme
peril.
Democrats cheered him and
then Joined Republicans in APP
proving the Starnes-Jones amend
ment by a standing vote of ll2 to
90. Democratic whips scurried out
of the chamber seeking absentees
and a teller vote was demanded.
Again the administration lost, 1916
to SO. ....,
In quick succession the house
defeated an amendment by Rep
resentative Richard Wiggles-
worth, R., Mass, to force the
works progress administration to
report to congress all salaries and
other expenses of employees OF
WPA information services and an
amendment by Representative
William p. Connery, Jr., ID. Mass,
to earmark S50,000,0OO for and to
victims of the recent Mississippi
and Ohio river floods.
Leaders showed their anxiety
when Representative Millard r.
Caldwell, D., Fla, unexpectedly
offered an amendment to earmark
S3OO. 900, 900 for PWA projects
which have been authorized but
which cannot be completed be-
cause of lack of money. These
projects, as well as flood contfol
work, reached into the districts
represented by many congress
men. They are a ource of JOBS
and thus a luvrative source oil
votes. lhey are hho""
pork. ,.o..o.;uo
Alfred F. Better, d., \. Y, mas
worked for weeks gathering
strength for the PWA fight when
broke yesterday. He was expect
ed to offer tire amendment anu,
although visibly surprised, Better
took the floor in support OF the
Caldwell amendment. Again the
administration sought to quiet the
revolt as Representative Clifford
A. Woodrum, D., Va, warned
that "step by step we are strip
ming the president of his power
over relief" g.
INT their struggle proved fu-
lilo The vote in favor of the
Caldwell amendment was III to
AZ AS members ieered and APP
,,Iauded Representative Thomas
Ford. D., Calf, who lectured the
chamber for turning the bill into
= nork barrel" and Herbert Ben
inmin, secretary of the workers
Alliance. condemned the house
Hnnrk barrel" acts, Representa-
two Wilbur Cartwright, d., Okla,
, Won approval of his amendment
w. wv earmark $150,000,000 for
highways and grade crossing
, "e The vote was IT'S to 90.
" Representative Fritz Lanham'
n Texas, sponsored the amend
, p, aimed at unskilled and ag-
, ;is,,Itural workers and Represen-
tative John Rankin, De- MISS, Oh.
fered the proposal on power
lines. ord of +bo ravolt
- aS"d the White House where
TeaenIu Roosevelt said the Gear
p p,arkinp" approved by the house
raised the question OF whether
tSn reduced appropriation would
the lt ss;";ent to provide for for