At that time there was no expectation they would need as much as it is plain they will need. aind yet. dallying along as the House of Representatives and the Colmmittee on Appropriations has been doing. with no feeling of responsibility in the matter at all. a communication addressed to the House on the 31st of July asking for $100.000 in order to give protection to these Americans by sending them home. the House now onthe 4th of September proposes to Include ili a general appropriation bill an item which can not possibly become a law for several weeks. and our distinguished and beloved Speaker yesterday. with naivetC which was truly interesting. stated that when the bill introduced by the gentenna fron Virginia to make this appropriation was introduced the Speaker. conttatry to the rule. referred it. not to the Committee 011 Foreign Affairs. that had jurisdiction. but to the Committee on Appropriations. which did not have jurisdiction of the bill. in order that it might be expedited. We could have passed the Flood bill days ago. It could have passed the Senate before this time. Even this little appropriation could have been made available so that American citizens. advised by their own country to leave a friendly nation. should not be hanging around the streets of seaboard towns urging for a chance to be given even steerage accommodations il the hottest climate on earth. [Alplause on the Republican side.] And that is the responsibility. It is very like much of the rest that is going on.
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