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i / TOM BELL VOTED FOR THE MILEAGE GRAF 4. On April 17th, if. . Uouse of Repre sentatives had under consideration the Legis lative, Executive and Judicial appropriation Bill. Under the lava- it has stood for many years, members of Congress receive 20 cents per mile going and coming from Washington. A proposition was submitted on the date named. April 17. 11'14. to reduce this mileage from 20 cents to actual expenses, which would be about 2 cents per mile. Mr. Bell voted for the extra pay. that is. voted himself $237.60 for mileage, when the actual railroad fare is only $23.76. Mr. Bell says he did not vote for the 20 cents a mile. The Congressional Record is published under the direction of Congress, and every thing done or said while the House and Senate are in session is accurately recorded. Following is an exact counterpart of The Record, April 17. 1914. page 7369. showing that Mr. Bell voted against reducing the mile age to actual expenses: Mr. Cooper. Mr. Speaker. There is a dispute among members here as to the exact question on which we are about to vote. What is the exact question? The Speaker. The exact question before the House is whether it will have tellers, but the thing to be voted on is the mileage amend ment in reference to Senators and Representa tives. the two amendments to be taken to gether. Mr. Cooper. What is the effect? Mr. Fitzgerald. An "aye'’ vote means mileage under the present law; a "no’’ vote means the provision reported by the commit tee to pay the actual expenses. Mr. Barnhart. Mr. Speaker. The Speaker. For what purpose does the gentleman arise? Mr. Barnhart. I rise to demand the yeas and nays. The Speaker. They have already been demanded. Mr. Cox. Mr. Speaker. I make the point of order that there is no quorum present. The Speaker. Evidently a sufficient num ber. and the yeas and nays are ordered, and the clerk will call the roll. These two amend ments taken together reestablish the old law about mileage. The question was taken, and there were yeas. 95. nays. 242. answered “present” 5, not voting. 89, as follows: Yeas —95. Aiken. Ainey. Ansberry, Anthony. Baltz. Bartholdt. Bell. Cal.. Bell. Ga., etc. Nays—242. Abercrombie, etc. The following members from Georgia voted "nay", or against the mileage graft, to-wit: Adamson. Bartlett, Edwards, Hughes, Park. Tribble. Walker; two. Crisp and Hard wick. were absent. It thus appears that Tom Bell deserted his Georgia colleagues in order to vote for this bit of graft, and his denial of his vote now is not only in the face of the record, but is a slander on his colleagues who voted against the graft. IS THOS. M. BELL AT WASHINGTON? IS HE AT HOME ILLEGALLY DRAWING PAY? About July 25. 1914. the people of the Ninth district received a circular letter from lion. Thos. M. Bell, headed "House of Repre sentatives. Washington.” in which are found the following words: "Dear Friend: You are aware that I must keep up my official work and with an average of fifty letters a day to answer, and at the same time carry on a campaign single handed. is no easy task.” , Mr. Bell’s "friend” need not be uneasy. He’s not in 'Washington —he's in the Ninth looking after his own private business, and his "average of fifty letters a day” refers to let ters in his own private interest. Wonder if he is drawing his pay as a Congressman? This is not the first time he has been at home on private business while Congress was in session. Has he ever deducted anything for lost time? If he has not. he has received money to which he was not entitled. Le him answer. He knows. Representative 'Witherspoon of Mississ ippi recently lost four days, and refused to receive pay for the lost time. lias Mr. Bell ever done that? The Atlanta Constitution of July 26. 1914 carries the following editorial which is to the point* Congressional Deserters. Something amazing has happened in Washington. Representative Witherspoon, of Mississippi, has returned to the United States treasury $82.20. representing four days’ sal ary. Witherspoon had been absent from Washington for four days on private business. Little as it seems to be known, there is a stat ute prohibiting congressmen from accepting pay for days they are absent, njcilesa providen tially detained. Witherspoon he could not be otherwise than hones' '"'th -’•overn ment. which means, of co, ..stitu- ents. Suppose the gentlemen who leave Wash ington to campaign for re-election or for elec tion to a higher position, should take this ex alted position. Suppose that all the men who. for the past fifty years, have deserted their duties in "Washington to prosecute private profit and ambition, should return the amount they had drawn to the government. There would be enough left, almost to buy and equip a new dreadnaught. It is a significant commentary that so rave D the spirit of fair, honest dealing with the government. that when just one congress man who has drawn pay for nothing is hon est. he gets into the newspapers. We com mend the it etn to the rest of the deset ers. It is also well that the voters should take < ,'gtii7anee ot (he statute Lxcry congress" man absent save for providential reasons and accepting his pa> is violating the law. There is simplx no way of getting around that fact. \\ e have had outlaws of this stripe in Georgia. I lew they excuse their oil ease is immaterial. The offense speaks for itself, mid they go on .effecting from the government. In the meantime, let us hope that con -ross will have the nerve and the patriotism iisNf to grapple with this matter. The men who are bearing the burden and heat of the dux in Washington should not be penalized and placed on the same plane as the other fel lows. back home on the hustings or on frolics, l.et an investigation be instituted. Separate the sheep from the goats. Make congressmen stay on the job. Or make them disgorge. Mr. Charters publishes the following as embracing some of the policies for which he stands: First: Loyalty to the Democratic plat form. Second: Holding the tariff to the lowest possible levy, placing the necessities of life on the free list, and taxing only the luxuries. Third: Improving the present Income Tax law by simplifying it and rendering it less cumbersome and more efficient. Fourth: The restriction of immigration in order that none but desirable immigrants shall be allowed to enter the ports of the Uni ted States. Fifth: Abolishing all forms of gambling in farm products. Sixth: The placing of the strong hand of the government on all corporations doing an interstate business and making them sub ject to complete government regulation and control. Seventh: The repeal of the present bankruptcy law. Eighth : The encouragement of all rea sonable measures tending to promote the tem perance, the health, the morals and the gen eral well-being of the people. Ninth: The securing of liberal appro priations from Congress for the improvement of the roads of the country. Nothing so much as good roads tends to the prosperity of the farmer and the attractiveness of farm life. Especially is this aid needed in the moun tain districts where the difficulties are many and the expense large in the building of roads. The Constitution of the United States provides that Congress has the power “to es tablish post-offices ami post roads.” The gov ernment Ims engaged in building good roads for the Filipinos. "Why not for Georgians? Tenth: The cutting down of the enor mous expenditures of the Government; the establishment of a policy of strict economy; the safeguarding of the people’s money. Eleventh: A change in the system of the distribution of seed. Let this distribu tion be made by the Agricultural Department after the seed have been tested. Congress men should not be allowed to curry favor with cheap seed at Government expense. Twelfth: The enlargement of postal fa cilities to the end that people living on the farm may have like conveniences as those living in the city. Thirteenth: The repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution which provides for the enfranchisement of the negro; and the filling of all Government positions by white people. Fourteenth: Government aid in the drainage of swamp lands. Fifteenth : No life tenure for any official, whether he be U. S. Judge or mail carrier, or what not. The people should have some voice in the selection of postmasters. Sixteenth: The absolute separation of Church and State. Seventeenth: When corporations violate the anti-trust and other salutary laws, the guilty officers should be punished by impris onment. It is farcial in such cases to merely fine the corporation. Eighteenth : The correction of the abuse of the franking privilege. Members of Con gress should be required to pay postage on all mail matter except that strictly of a public nature. Nineteenth: Independence of the Phil ippine Islands at the earliest practical mo ment. We should never have acquired them in the first place. Twentieth: Strengthen the anti-lobby ing and anti-trust laws; enact legislation for speeding the administration of justice: and jealously guard the rights of the States. BELL TURNS A CRIPPLE DOWN. Is Thos. M. Bell the poor man’s friend? G. N. Sloan, a poor man and a cripple, wanted to be appointed to gather the Hall county cotton statistics, from which the gov ernment’s ginners’ reports are made up. He consulted Mr. Bell about it. Mr. Bell told him the position was filled under the rules of the Civil Service Commis sion. and that it would be necessary to stand a Civil Service examination. Soon afterwards a very prosperous citi zen was appointed without an examination. Here is Mr. Sloan’s affidavit. Read it: Georgia. Hall County. Personally appeared G. N. Sloan, who de poses and swears as follows: That he is young man. a native of Hall county, and has been an ardent supporter of Thos. M. Bell, that he is a cripple with a de- ficiency in his leg. and that he is therefore handicapped in pursuing any vocation in life of hard labor; that in February 1913 depo nent wrote to Mr. Bell asking of him how the I ><ition of gin inspector for Hall county was ti. cd. whether under appointment- or under the civil service rules, and stating at the time that deponent was a cripple and without funds and handicapped in his efforts to obtain a livelihood, and asking that Mr. Bell, if the po sition was appointive, use his efforts in order to enable deponent to secure this position. Deponent also advised Mr. Bell at the time that he was the son of J. E. Sloan of Clinehem district. To this letter Mr. Bell re plied that the position of gin inspector was tilled under the rules of the Civil Service com mission only ami the only means by which de ponent could hope to get the place would be that the incumbent, who was at that time Mr. Longstreet, should resign or be removed by cause, and then deponent would have to stand a civil service examination. At the time deponent made this appli cation I was attending school on borrowed money. G. N. SLOAN. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 19th day of July, 1914. JAS. A. RUDOLPH. N. P„ Hall County, Ga. BELL VOTED WITH THE LUMBER TRUST AND AGAINST THE PEOPLE. TOM WATSON TELLS THE TRUTH ON TOM. How Did Tom Bell Vote? We have been furnished with a letter in which Congressman Bell makes a denial of the charge that he voted with Republicans and for the Lumber Trust. Well, let’s look it up. If we have done the Hon. Tom any injustice, we must make amends as far as posible. It was on April 9th that the House of Representatives was voting on the lumber schedule of the Payne tariff bill. The first division is found on page 174 of the Congres sional Record. When the sheep and the goats went their different ways, on that first test, we find to our poignant sorrow that the Hon. Tom is catalogued as a goat. Thomas deserted the Democratic leader, Hon. Champ Clark, and flocked along with the Republicans,‘who were following Hon. Sereno Payne, the Republican leader. The next division occurred on the amend ment offered by Tawney of Minnesota, the ef fect of which would have been to reduce the duty on dressed lumber. Again nearly all the Democrats followed their official leader and voted for the Tawney amendment. And again to our chagrin and demoralization we find Hon. Tom Bell penned up with the Republi cans. a he-goat by choice and delberate affili ation. Once more, on page 1177. the House di vided on the question of [Hitting on the free list all the articles mentioned in the Tawney amendment, beginning with the words, "Wood, sawed boards, planks, etc.” The great majority of the Democrats, fol lowing Mr. Clark, their leader, voted for the amendment. Once more we sigh and grieve to find our little Bell tinkling in the goat pas ture. along with the wicked Republicans. Now, let us be fair to Mr. Bell. He DID vote with De Armand on the proposition to ad mit, free of duty, lumber, etc., from any de pendency of North America. South America. Central America, or any island of the Western Hemisphere. Our Mr. Bell also voted for Mr. Clark's motion to strike out the lumber sched ule entirely. NEITHER OF THOSE PROPO= SiTIONS HAD ANY CHANCE OF SUCCESS IN THAT REPUBLICAN HOUSE, AND EV ERYBODY THERE KNEW IT. De Armond was voted down by 244 to 33. and Mr. Clark was defeated by 22S to 153. But on the other divisions, where a lib eral and honest Republican, like Tawney, was offering amendments which would have re duced the lumber duties and placed on the free list many kinds of timber, there were Repub lican members who were willing to give the people that measure of relief, and had the Democrats loyally followed their honest and able leader. Tawney's amendments would have carried. IT WAS THE DEFLECTION OF HON. TOM BELL AND THE OTHER BLACK LIST !• DESERTERS THAT DEFEATED REFORM > AND CARRIED VICTORY TO THE LUMBER TRUST. The first of the Tawney amendments, proposing to put square timber on the free list, was defeated by a vote of 194 to 184. [ Had Hon. Tom Bell followed his official leader, i and had the other Democratic deserters done ' the same thing, the Republican leader would have been whipped. The second and third amendments of Mr. Tawney were likewise thrown out by close j votes. Each of these amendments would '• have become a law HAD SUCH DEMOCRATS j AS TOM BELL NOT DESERTED TO THE ENEMY. In the letter to which reference has been made, Mr. Bell makes the point on Mr. Taw ney that he voted against the De Armond ami Clark amendments. So he did. As a Repub lican, he felt that he could not consistently go 1 so far as to place all timber and lumber on i the free list. But his amendments offered immense benefits to the country, and would have dealt the Lumber Trust a staggering blow. FOR THAT REASON, such Democrats as Clark and De Armond voted with Tawney. FOR THE SAME REASON, the Republicans almost solidly voted against Tawney. WHY DID TOM BELL SIDE WITH THE REPUBLICAN LEADER ON THOSE CLOSE VOTES WHERE THE LUMBER TRUST COULD HAVE BEEN WHIPPED, IF THE DESERTERS HAD NOT GONE OVER TO THE ENEMY? (From the "Weekly Jeffersonian. May 27, 1909.) SENATOR HOKE SMITH PRAISED BY ‘ POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESON FOR WORK ON THE PARCEL POST The charge made in certain quarters that Senator Hoke Smith has opposed the parcel post system is refuted by no less an authority than Postmaster General Burleson himself. Mr. Joseph P. Rockmore, of Lo gansville, Ga., wrote to the Postmaster General as follows: “Logansville, Ga.. July 13, 1914. “Hon. A. S. Burleson, “Postmaster General. “Washington, D. C. “Dear Sir: It has been charged that Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, is opposed to the parcel post. I being a friend and ardent supporter of Senator Smith will ask that you write me just what his attitude toward the parcel post has been in the past and greatly oblige. “Yours very truly, “JOSEPH P. ROCKMORE.” Mr. Burleson’s Reply. The Postmaster General replied as follows: “Office of the Postmaster General, “Washington, D. C., July 15, 1914. “Mr. Joseph P. Rockmore, “Logansville, Ga. “Dear Sir: lam in receipt of your favor of recent date. lam profoundly astonished that any one should charge that Senator Hoke Smith is oppos ed to the parcel post. The exigencies of the situation must be desperate indeed when such gross perversion of the truth is resorted to. I sup pose the shadow of basis for this charge is found in the fact that Senator Smith one time expressed a fear that the department might go a little too fast in increasing the weight limit of mailable parcels—an apprehen sion shared by others, some of whom are in the department itself. “Instead of being the enemy of the parcel post, Senator Hoke Smith has been and is one of its most intelligent friends and supporters; in fact, the people are indebted to Senator Smith for material assistance in em bodying in the parcel post law the vitalizing provisions which will enable the postmaster general to ultimately make this splendid service so helpful and beneficial to the great producing classes of our country. Indeed, they owe him a debt of gratitude for what he has done for parcel post. “I have said this much in response to your query because it is due Senator Smith that the truth be made known. “Permit me, in conclusion, to express the hope that this faithful public servant will suffer no hurt because of the circulation of such baseless and unjust statements. “Respectfully yours, “A. S. BURLESON, “Postmaster General.” Protection For Farmers’ Organizations Section 7 of the bill recently reported to the senate, known as the anti trust bill, was placed in the measure by Senator Hoke Smith, after a vig orous fight, and is as follows: “Sec. 7. That nothing contained in the anti-trust laws shall be con strued to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or hor ticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes pf mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organization from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof: nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the anti-trust laws.” The above section is intended to prevent the prosecution of such organizations as the Farmers’ Union as being in restraint of trade. It embodies the spirit of a biff introduced in the senate in April, 1913, by Senator Bacon, and in the houseby Congressman Bartlett and known as the Bacon-Bartlett bill. Since the death of Senator Baron Senator Smith has put the above amendment into the anti-trust bill which is soon to be passed. 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