THE ROLL CALL
The Roll Call ON MEN AND MEASURES Gallingerized! SINCE TIME when our recollection runneth not to the contrary, have the ship subsidy grabbers been begging, elbowing and buying their way into the...
...On the motion to agree to the Senate amendment, in the House, about twenty-five Republican members refused the dictation of the Cannon machine, and the subsidy amendment went out by a vote of 143 "Yeas" to 155 "Nays...
...This they have converted into a speeious argument with which to make easy the way of subsidies...
...Do you know where your Congressman stands...
...If he can be, rest assured that he will be...
...Aldrich, Davis and Watson...
...True, it never gave value received for it—not to you—but it has the mortgage, a political-business mortgage, and it keeps its agents in control of your Government to see that you pay...
...When the postal appropriation bill in the first session of the Sixtieth Congress went to the Senate, the System handymen of the Aldrich machine tacked on a subsidy amendment, providing for an increase of $1,100,000 in ocean mail pay...
...Is he for subsidy or can he be "got" for it...
...It was largely through his efforts that was passed the legislation, which since 1891 has been paying the shipping Interest more than a million a year in subsidies out of the federal treasury without serving either its pretended purpose of upbuilding the merchant marine or the public interest in convincing certain gentry in Congress cf the futility and dishonesty of shipping subsidies as a scheme for upbuilding the national shipping...
...The amendment of the bill in the House requiring it to be returned to the Senate in the closing days of the Congress, proved fatal because of the condition of business in the last few hours of the Congress and it failed of passage the second time in the Senate...
...The System has a mortgage on your Government...
...Persistently and brazenly, session after session, their tools and agents have besieged Washington and the Capitol...
...He will be glad to have you quicken his recollection...
...What use they made of a large part of the money, the managers of the subsidy lobby refused to disclose...
...In the Fifty-eighth Congress, when a ship subsidy bill could not be passed, Gallinger fostered through Congress the bill creating the Merchant Marine Commission to provide for an "investigation," at public expense, to prepare "official" thunder in behalf of the subsidy...
...Bacon, Frazier, Percy, Taliaferro, Bankhead, Johnston, Shively, Taylor, Chamberlain, Martin, Simmons, Terrell, Clarke, (Ark...
...Some years ago, one Marcus Aurelius Hanna was their conspicuous champion in the Halls of the Mighty...
...Bailey, Clapp, Gore, Money, Rayner...
...SINCE TIME when our recollection runneth not to the contrary, have the ship subsidy grabbers been begging, elbowing and buying their way into the public treasury...
...The roll call was as follows: YEAS (All Republicans...
...Its report became the report of the Senate committee recommending for passage the Gallinger subsidy bill of the Fifty-eighth Congress and has been the basis of subsidy campaigns and majority reports in favor of subsidy bills since...
...It passed the Senate and went to the House...
...Permanent publicity bureaus have been maintained at a large expense...
...A change of two votes would have passed the bill...
...Hale, Penrose, Cullom, Heyburn, Perkins, NAYS (Republicans...
...against subsidy...
...The Gallinger subsidy bill of the Sixtieth Congress called for ocean mail subsidy amounting to $8,000,-000 a year...
...The bill was got through the Senate under a pretense that it was an investigation with particular reference to the proposed scheme to encourage shipping by discriminating duties—a pretense that was repudiated as soon as the bill was passed—and Gallinger became chairman of the Commission, which was composed of four other Senators and five Congressmen, a majority of whom were known champions of subsidy...
...To the shipping interest—one of the System's dearest—belongs anything that can be made to look like a "profit" on your foreign mail service, and by the grace of its GallingeRs, the Interest will get it—will get it, unless you make yourself heard in behalf of your own rights...
...But Gallinger was on hand at the opening of the next Congress with another subsidy bill proposing to increase the "good thing" of the shipping interest by substantially $3,000,-000 a year...
...There is ample time under system pressure for tHE subsidy grab to be passed in the house...
...Common-Stock-Holder in the national corporation, with anything but taxes,—taxes to pay a postal deficit of $12,000,000 a year...
...They became bolder...
...Special pleaders in the guise of newspapers and magazines have been hired and maintained to impose upon the patriotism of the people, to manufacture public opinion for ship subsidies...
...C), Tillman—39...
...Bradley, Curtis, Jones, Piles, Brandegee, Dick, Kean, Root, Briggs, Dillingham, Lodge, Seott, Burkett, Dixon, Lorimer, Smoot, Burnham, Du Pont, Nelson, Stephenson, Burrows, Frye Nixon, Warner, Carter, Gallinger, Oliver, Warren, Clark (Wyo...
...Do not be hesitant to "recur to fundamental principles," Your Congressman may have forgotten that he is in Washington to represent you and not the Interests...
...Newlands, Smith (Md...
...Notable among the "Yeas" is the vote of William Lorimer of Illinois, Notably absent among the Democratic "Nays" is that of Watson of West Virginia...
...On the motion to reconsider, it having been voted down on the first ballot, the votes changing from 154 "Yeas" and 162 "Nays" on the first roll-call to 157 "Yeas," and 145 "Nays'' on the final roll-call and passage of the bill...
...This bill passed the Senate in the first session and went to the House, where in the second session, a substitute measure was crowded through by the Cannon machine under a "special order...
...If failed of passage in the House by a vote of 172 "Yeas" to 175 "Nays...
...Insidiously and remorselessly, they have attacked those public men fearless and honest enough to oppose their schemes...
...But the subsidy champions were not discouraged...
...The little graft of a million or so a year provided by the law of 1891 has only served to whet the appetite of the shipping and ship building Interests for "more of the same...
...Guggenheim, Page, Wetmore—39 Crane...
...Nearly a month remains of the present Congress...
...What business have you, Mr...
...Unscrupulously and shamelessly, they have argued, cajoled and begged the people's representatives...
...Beveridge, Brown, Gamble, Smith (Mich...
...For a time the subsidy promoters receded from the broad light of day and put the soft pedal on their operations—but for a time only...
...The vote, until the Vice-President came to the rescue of subsidy, stood 39 to 39...
...Gallinger Leads Fight for Subsidy SINCE the passing of Hanna, the conspicuous champion of ship subsidy in the Senate of the United States has been Jacob H. Gallinger of New Hampshire, friend and servant of all the Interests...
...A ship subsidy booster convinced is—"convinced against his will, he is of the same opinion still...
...Sherman Votes for Subsidy ON THURSDAY of last week, the Senate by the deciding vote of Vice-President Sherman, passed again the Gallinger subsidy bill, carrying this time for the shipping Interest, $4,000,000 a year, or as much more as the "profit" of the foreign mail service shall be...
...Fletcher, Owen, Stone, Foster, Paynter, Swanson, The following Senators were "paired:" for subsidy, Bulkeley, Depew, Sutherland, Richardson, Young...
...Senator Clapp had paired with Sutherland and gone to Boston bearing a message of Progressive Republicanism into the state of Lodge and High Tariff...
...The bill passed the Senate without a roll-call, and was reported for passage in the House from the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads...
...The bill of the Fifty-eighth Congress came later in the short session, and did not pass the Senate...
...A Specious Argument BY A METHOD of calculation of the Government's foreign mail revenues and expenses, which leaves out of account the cost of inland transportation of foreign mails in this country, our subsidy "statesmen" have figured out that we have a profit on our foreign mail service of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year...
...Let him know where you stand...
...The testimony a few days ago before a committee of Congress of the manager of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle of the offer of a bribe of $100,000 to his paper to join the ranks of the subsidy grafters, is an instance of the kind of "patriotism" by which the game is being promoted...
...What business has the Government with a profit...
...Experience and demonstration prove nothing to some "statesmen" when an Interest is clamoring for the people's money...
...Let him know in simple, direct and certain terms...
...Three were absent or not voting...
...Borah, Burton, Gronna, Bourne, Crawford, La Follette, Bristow, Cummins, McCumber, NAYS (Democrats...
...The past record on this measure in that body is a warning which the people should heed...
...Of late they have been as blatant and bold and lavish with money as of old...
...An Expensive Lobby AFEW YEARS BACK an investigation of the ship subsidy lobby in Congress disclosed the expenditure in a single session of hundreds of thousands of dollars to convince "statesmen" of the wisdom and patriotism of passing a great subsidy grab...
...The episode created a mild scandal in those "good old days...
...Always it has been understood that big money was easy for any man with a vote who was willing to be "got...
...Thornton, Culberson, Overman, Smith (S...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 6
