| Show I TO 10 rA PAY PRESIDENTS I t r 1 tL t rt t Bill Providing for Them Causes Debate on Constitution Constitutional al Point COCKRAN FOR THE MEASURE MEASURES Whether He Ito 11 In III the llio nf of thu Juno 90 The bIll Wll appo L 11 to 10 defray the tho of ot the Iho tor or th t the e next fiscal year ivas aa 11 rolled called up r cU UI pension nf ot the rules rul today tody In the Die houw hou by IJ b Mr Minn Inn chairman of ot e ethe the appropriations The Tho win dry civil chIt bill carried an Item i oO for the traveling tu i of the president which went nt out on M a point of oC order Mr Ir Watson Ind md then In the chair and Ind who sustained the point of ot order against K the Item In Introduced IntrOduce ed the th bill III which the house had hid under und r consideration today Mr Ir Underwood Ala demanded a Aon on 1 which wa wee ordered and H H t de do e l hat bate at of ot 40 O ensued lr tr Under Underwood Underwood wood l If It the was wu for tor the present president or for tor the future Mr Ir Tawne Tawney replied that the aim elm was v to make mako It a n perma rma float nent law IA and Anti that with the nf ot this hili bill the tho point of ot order against an In appropriation carried by IJ the sun lIun sundry suntry try dry dr bill would not lie Mr Ir Jamer Janter IK Ky wanted to know what yhu official duty dut carried the abroad Int It 11 true that there Is Ia no duty dut requiring him to leave leRo the capital he Mr r Tawne Tawney aW uld that while he could not recall any official duty Just Junt Justat Ju t tat at pre tnt that might take tat him outside the capital he could conceive how as a of ot the lite army and navy nl h he might be called railed upon at any an moment to t travel rax el I Cockran tN IN Y supported the Ibe lull Jill saying raying he lie was Will not Hilling to In make a partisan matter mattir r out of ot the Mr Ir Cochran Cockran remarked that the th gen gon gentleman tieman could not violate the Constitution tion thon of ot the United States It If he tried There happens h to be hI In the Constitution noah the means luns of ot at u Itself men even the gentleman of ot the house of ot representatives he added Continuing Mr dr Ir Cockran eO n c ald ld Id The point I want to 10 submit to the gentleman on our It I V here hore and to the Ih entire bouce of ot Is 18 thU IhlA That In the operation ot of ot our constitutional u system the president h ha H become elInt a ireat loader leader I of ot public thought an ant l on quite as IS t much as mere IDere executive I of oC the law haws and nd If It the circulation of or the president throughout the Ibe country countr art adds ill practically pr In hi tho di direction rI d of or legislation laUon Riving giving e direction to public opinion II whether that be not nn an expense that ought I to 10 ultimately be lie borne born out of ot the Iho public nubile treasury I think Mr fr eYer cr public man In the cabinet officers senators and members of ot the Ious hou I oUI Eire gire lI e their time thee literally I and freely frely fr I to the people of the United States In great and 1 1 lit Ix no lh this thin hou hOUf house holl milk make sn an exception el of the president Wp We t tar ar at to dany dan to 10 every ever man mann manIn jn In n this bout hou aou I believe we are and Rod I know kno Wt e will if it the conferees conferee on the theTa rite r Ta re me bill carry carr out ou t what I believe lo to be bethe bethe the will and ho sentiment of this thin home Mr Cockran the gentleman deny mileage to members member Mr Jr Underwood No I 1 would not Mr lr It If It the th president travels In the public erI Is III It fair to IC tax t X hint him and compel him to pA pI pIu expenses u that would woul be ruinous In their amount out ou ot of his own n jacket Mr rr Underwood argued that as 18 Con COfI groM U J rt provided a 11 home hM and maintained for the president at thi Ihl the till law la 1 contemplated that he here hor horIn hereIn In concluding Mr Ir Cockran I J hold It at as a very ery auspIcious plim that this u comes come from the majority of ot thU thie houa how hou Mr r throughout this country have hl been biHn I think by the confection of ot everybody the th strongest force t in th UJ thc development of ot public opinion In favor ot ef tb the tHI railroad bill wo V I Z Smith U la M d the Ihl le It legality of ot 0 the measure from a R c point of iet cIting man m n nC eater eases C oF to chow ho that this appropriation l ld not nit be b held to b be an n emolument any construction of ot law The bill WM was w pluM pawed Ii 1 to 14 68 CL th the yeas S Md and na nays hal i being demanded by Mr Ir Un Ua d The rho following Democrats voted tiled with lIh the Republicans rd La Lit Clark Ha n 1 Cochran tN IX X Y 1 Davey DIu U La Fitzgerald N Y N NV V 1 Ola lists tVa t Granger Oranger fRo R 8 I r Hunt Hunto lio ho o tr Maea II Kiln Pa PaI IN N T Y Meyer iLa La Rant I dell deli II La LaJ tN 1 Ryan Rn N NY NY NY Y Sherler Sherley r 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