Show MORE IS WORTH LESS LESSI Senator Baileys Opinion of the 1 Pre of the White House t DEBATE N p N EXPENSE ACCOUNT C 0 DISCUSSED Was on June a lull In inthe the debate on the Panama canal bUt bill to today today day Senator Ha Hale e caU called up tIle the sundry civil appropriation bill and Sen Senator tor Mc McLaurin Laurin c Ills his speech in thin to the appropriation of for the traveling He placed his hib objections to the appropriation on the ground that it makes a class d and said that lac ho was opposed I to that principle He objected not only to the presidents ga gallivanting about f over the country but also to his using the tho mone money to invite such of lIe he press as he might de desire Sire to tn have hae as would give out the kind of information that Would suit him and conceal such as he did not want prInted False Claim Put Up It had llad beeR been claImed that but for tile the presidents trIps about the the railroad rate bill would never h have vc re receIved the popular approval that has laas been given It but asked Mr McLaurin had not Mr B Bryan been advocating this legislation long before the presidents message In 1104 Mr McLaurin disavowed any special reference to the present chief executive saYing that his bis remarks applied to tIle the theoffice office Senator Foraker suggested that as the president is or of the theann ann army and DaV navy he has lias a right to use public vessels for public purposes and Sen benator tor Tiliman said that the time is no 80 completely occupied that he must be considered as attending to public wherever he ma may he be When consideration of the sundry civil bill was resumed after the action on the Panama canal bill Senator Hale Bale said that that vote on the canal bill bUl bad elimInated elimInated the canal question from the bill thus l leaving ving nothing in dis dispute dispute b by the traveling expense item President Above the Lay LaVi Senator McCumber then argued gued that the propoSed law Jaw would have hae the effect of ofa a abrogating the antipass law Jaw If he heid id looking at Senator Heme Hemenway way who sat directly in front of him the sean sena senator tor should accept a pass from a railroad company compan the prison bars would be opened to let Jet him in but If the president invite him bim to ride with him the law Jaw could not BOt interfere with him It amounted to sayIng that there Is I one law for those who bold office and an another other othe for those who do not Dot and none DOP for theet H w whO hd the le lf olt of Be p t Sc the r cannot hn b so as asto to make the InCrease to tb the in ia w og 5 8 t eCI i that an Increase be PJ ed for an anI that I tb the increase be mad mads applicable to the I next ex executive utie Mr Baileys Opinion I He admitted that there might be a aneed I need for enlargement of the ex in income come COnte saying he had bad heard that there had been an Increase or of in ex cx expenses during the incumbency of the pros pres present ent president hI 1 dont know how bow that ma may be he said and ami aU all that I have to say Is that If It is true hc be hAS cost more and is worth less ei than any other president we have bave e ever r had Senator Spooner thought the proposed appropriation could be used by the pres presIdent Ident only in traveling while on offIcial duty but Mr lIr her bel replied that it is not necessary that the presIdent should travel in order to perform his official acts Mr Jr Spooner expressed the opi opinion lon that President Mc was on official duty when hen he be went to B Buffalo anet met his bis de death Retinue of a Monarch Mr McCumber also found in the pro provision provision vision a 8 tendency towards European systems systems permitting a retinue He said we might well look forward to the time when there would be a chamberlain and keepers 0 this thing and that H He did ot want to ape the old worlds methods Senator Hemen Hemenway raid d that the pros pres i Mont Ident does not DOt travel over the country because the people of the country want him in various He also said that It was right nd 00 proper prope that he should invite representatives of the news t ip accompany him and also that s r Similar invitation should be extended to friends when circumstances male make it proper He did not regard tile the trans transportation as increase of the presidents dents salary The Th Intention was to bring the pr en ad nd the people to eth r there was n sr smacking of old customs The was stIll under con COD when the senate went Into ex cx executive session |