Show CHARGES Of GRAfT CRAFT MADE IN THE HOUSE Alleged That Representatives tives Send Telegrams at Public Expense ONE MEMBERS MEMBER'S BILL FOR ONE MONTH House Talks Itself Hoarse Then Declines to Restrict Privileges WASHINGTON WASHINGTON May 24 A A charge that members of or the house were guilty of potty petty grafting wa was made on the door floo today by by- Representative Fitzgerald Fitzgera d chairman of ot the appropriation committee commit commit- tee Th The Tho allegation precipitated a wordy war in th the course of which Mr F Fitzgerald himself was accused of ot having hay hav ing tug submitted for tor payment bills fo for formate mate material ial which there was no provision by law The clash marked the Uie consid consid- cration of the tho emergency emergency appropriation bill Ibm carrying for tor the tio expenses of the house The e bill makes makes' strict regulations on the tho subject of telegrams 41 The bonding of telegrams by members members mem- mem mem niem- bers of this hO house so declared Mr Fit Fitz gerald II has has do degenerated into a crying abuse The Thc chara character of many of these thes telegrams is unjustifiable and not by bythe bythe bythe the widest stretch of imagination could they bo be construed as official And yet yet members sent these messages at ment expense The The telegraph raph b bill ll of m members said Mr Fitzgerald 41 cost cost tho the govern overn- vern- vern mont ment upward of a no year One On tell telegram of a a. private nature had cos cost 60 whilo while tho the bill of one ono member fo foa for fora a single month was wag r S Representative Lloyd of or Missouri chairman of the accounts committee sought Bought to excuse the tho practice and ho said that only one in ten was J a message e of private nature paid for at a at public e expense P Mr Fit took h him sharply to to task for trying to condone even chairman the T rd tho appropriations appropriations committee I sh shouted tive thc Garner of f Texas Democrat and a member o of at tho jho accounts committee committed c ever r ask for lor an anything bin int at the tho hands hand of the accounts committee not provided for by law as 1 think not retorted Mr Fitz Well I can state stat emphatically that tha the gentleman has Mr Ir Fitzgerald made no response Several members denounced the a attempt attempt at at- tempt to curtail tho the t telegraphing le lege ege e contending that the house mi might ht as well wen deprive its members of the telephone tele tele- phone and tho the franking privileges The Tho strict prohibitions finally were stricken en out HO to and th the bill passed Mr rT rr tt of accuse accused tho time Democrats of extravagance extra and sai said tho the carried for tie tho contingent fund was tho the greatest ever voted Hobl Ho bl blamed mca tho the many investigations underway under underway er erway way for the alleged cd extravagance and anc n that the inquiries so far had produced ro nothing |