Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1914 — SHIVELY DID NOT HELP SLICE THE "PORK BILL" [ARTICLE]

SHIVELY DID NOT HELP SLICE THE "PORK BILL"

tautrifc Senater, Sacking , Be-Meo, Fife tn Take FtaltaHt Fmr of Re- . iscltonSecured By ReC publican Senators. IndlanaptiUA ted., Sept 30.—1 tla being noted by the voters that John W. Kern, junior senator from Indiana, was steadfast to the very last la support of the 3105,000,000 rivers and harbors bill, otherwise known as the “pork bill,” and opposed with bls voice and vote the Republican amendment reducing the appropriation to 320,000,000. He opposed to the last the influence es President Wilson, whose support to the redooed mmsuw woo wen over by the patriotic Republican Senators Burton and Kenyon who fought the steal so valiantly. The vote of Senator Shively does not appear in the final recommitment of the pork barrel bill to the committe nor does it appear in the previous vote recommending the huge redaction in the measure for which the Republicans fought. As Senator Shively has not been advertised as being in Indiana at the time these votes were taken and is not known to have been ill, it Is taken for granted that he dodged the issue and that the sergeant-at-arms who was sent out to round up the absentees was unable to find him.