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April, 1922
THE AT LANTIAN
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Why Pick on Farmers* Bloc?
Asks Connally.
President Harding was taken to
task by Representative Tom Connally
(Dem., Tex.), for attacking the “farm
ers bloc” and at the same time doing
the bidding of the “tariff bloc.” He
said:
“Whatever may be said in deroga
tion of the policy of forming what
may be called blocs or groups either
to promote or to resist legislation,
whatever may be said as to the merits
or deemrits of such a policy, the ques
tion does occur in an inquiring mind
why the president of the United States
when he begins his attack against such
a system should single out first and
above all the little group in another
body who are supposed to represent
the agricultural interests of the Na
tion.
“The trouble with the farmer now
is not so much that Congress does
not do something for him as it is
that the Congres of the United
States does not quit doing things to
him—that the Government does not
stop granting favors to special in
terests at his expense.
“ Iwould like to have some one rise
in his place who has the ear of the
upper councils, and point out to the
Congress and the country when it
was that the manufacturers’ bloc, hav
ing for its purpose the extortion by
legislation of tremendous profits from
the agriculturalists and the consumers
of the Nation, was ever called to the
carpet and lectured and its actions de
nounced. When, let me ask, was it
that that little group in New Eng
land, who went before the Comittee
on Ways and Means and asked a tariff
tax on boots and shoes and leather,
and at the same time demanded that
hides be admitted free, was ever the
subject of presidential wrath such as
we are advised was exhibited against
the farm bloc ?
When was that bloc, which some
how or somewhere, induced the Presi
dent of the United .States to come be
fore this Congress and request of it
powers more transcedent than ever
in a Chief Executive in time of peace,
when he asked the Congress of the
United States—the House of Repre
sentatives, if you please—to grant to
the President the power to make and
fix rates, tariff duties and promulgate
then, and upon that promulgation that
they should become the law of the
land, ever placed under the ban ? Un
der the Constitution of the United
States the power to raise revenues re
sides nowhere else.
“And yet, we have the Chief Execu
tive, whose party went all over the
country in 1920 denouncing President
Wilson for the exercise of broad
powers during the time of war, we
have this Chief Executive, elected on
such a plea, coming before the Con
gress in peace times and asking the
House of Representatives to actually,
in one respect, abdicate its functions
and turn them over to the President
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of the United tSates and give him
power to fix the rates of tariff duties
that shall be charged at the custom
houses, and upon his promulgation to
let that proclamation have the force
of law.”—Collier’s.
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Secretary Hughes* Two
Great Mistakes May Cost
Us $241,000,000.
In discussing . the Four-Power
Treaty, Senator Robinson (Dem.,
Ark.), called the attention of the Sen
ate to what he characterized as the
two great mistakes made by Mr.
Hughes relating to our foreign afafirs.
He said:
. “Secretary Hughes is a great man
and a great lawyer. But there stands
out in recent history two great mis
takes that he made.
“You all recall that when the last
election was emminent, he with thirty-
nine other Republicans signed a letter
which was sent broadcast over the
country saying that he favored the
League of Nations, and that the way
to get the United States into the
League was to elect Mr. Harding
President. Nevertheless, when the
election was over, he found he was
mistaken, and he never has made an
explanation of it.
“He made another misstatement
with regard to the question of in
demnity from eGrmany. Under the
Treaty of Versailles it was provided
that expenses incurred in maintaining
the armies of occupation should haye
priority in indemnity claims. We ran
up a bill of some $241,000,000, and
now the other powers are claiming
that since we are not signatory to the
Treaty of eVrsailles we did not enter
into that priority. That was not in
cluded in the separate treaty, so be
cause Mr. Hughes failed to safeguard
our rights in one way or another we
are in danger of losing this $241,-
00Q,000.”—Collier’s.
Two Views of the Republi
can Congress.
Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. Senator
in a speech to Republican members
of the Massachusetts Legislature, Feb
ruary 14, 1922:
I am speaking within bounds when
I say that no Congress in time of
peace has ever shown such an amount
of importance, effective and remedial
legislation as has been enacted by
the present Congress since it has been
in session.” »
The Boston Transcript, leading Re
publican newspaper of Senator
Lodge’s state, in an editorial, March
3, 1922:
“Today the record of the House of
Representatives in the first year of
the new administration stamps it un
mistakably as the worst House in
twenty years. It has done more things