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THE ATLANTIAN
April, 1922
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E. G. BEAUDRY, President
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has forgotten to speak the language
of the schoolmaster, which puts_accu-
racy above everything else in the
world.”
Concerning the Emergency Tariff
Act, Dr. Aswell said:
“The Emergency Tariff Bill became
a law on May 27, 1921. Chicago
wheat No. 2 was selling on that date
at $1,57 3-4. It went down and still
down until wheat got out of the
farmers’ hands and then the Republi
can Congress thrust $20,000,000 into
the market for buying grain for Rus
sia in an efort to force the price
back—although the-grain was out of
the hands of the farmers before that
was done. Today the price of the
same wheat in the same market is
$1.32 1-2—25 cents a bushel cheaper
than when the tariff bill was passed.
That was an achievement of the ad
ministration.
“Com was selling on that day at 60
cents and is selling today at 57 cents.
The price of sugar under the Emer
gency Tariff bill has declined 1.1 cent
a pound and all other farm products
have met the same disaster. The
Emergency Tariff has not done one
solitaary thing to help any farmer.”
—Collier’s.
Third Deficiency Bill for
1922.
It has been a matter of speculation
here for some days whether the next
move of the administration would be
to call another conference or present
another deficiency bill, and the de
ficiency bill wins. Chairman Madden
(Rep., 111.), of the House Appropria
tion Committee, announced that the
bill would be prepared shortly, on es-
tomates totaling $180,704,286.49. This
will be the third deficiency bill for
1922, making a grand total of $336,-
537,953.13.
As far back as last December Sen
ator King (Dem., Utah.), referring
to a deficiency bill then under con
sideration, said:
“Usually deficiency appropriation
bills come in after the expiration of
the fiscal year, but now before the
fiscal year is half over we are called
upon for deficiency appropriations,
and I am admonished that there will
be further deficiency appropriations,
so that the appropriations for the
fiscal year of 1922, instead of being
substantially $4,000,000,000 may be
$4,500,000,000 or $5,000,000,000.”
It is explained, however, that of the
total amount submitted in this third
deficiency bill that $110,857,318.24 has
been included in the estimates of ex
penditures for 1922, and the reader,
of course, is not supposed to know
that the estimates have nothing to do
with appropriations, or expenditures.
Any department of the Government
can make an estimate of its needs in
any amount it sees fit, and that the
Director of the Budget will pass, but
it is the appropriations that make the
money available and take it out of
the Treasury. Of course, the admin-
that it ought not to have done, and
it has left undone more things that
it ought to have done, than any House
of Representatives controlled either
by the Republican or Democratic
party that Washington has seen in
the last decade. It has broken more
pledges, it has succumbed to more
pernicious propaganda, it has tres
passed in more directions upon the
executive authority, than has any one
of its predecessors in twenty years.
Its presiding officer is helpless, its
leaders are leaders in name only, and
for the most part they represent
either the worst or the most stupid
in either political camp today. Here
and there in our New England dele
gation theis is a Congressman who
is an exception to the rule and there
will be ample time to Call these ex
ceptions by name before the pri
maries. Taken as a whole, however,
the House of Representatives as con
trolled by the Republican party, if
judged by its record to date, is un
worthy another lease of life.—Col
lier’s.
Saves $104,000,000; Asks
$180,000,000 Deficiency.
The estimates for a third deficien
cy bill, coupled with President Hard
ing’s announcement of a saving of
$104,000,000, drew from Representa
tive Byrnes (Dem., S. C.), a state
ment, in which among other things,
he said:
“The President’s statement as to
economies affected by the Budget
Bureau, would indicate that his ab
sorption in other matters has pre
vented his being fully informed as to
the existing situation. Both the
President and Gen. Dawes announced
a direct saving of more than $104,-
000,000, accomplished in less than six
months. The fact is that as against
this alleged saving, the President has
recently submitted requests for addi
tional appropriations as deficiencies,
amounting to $180,704,286.49.
“I rejoice that the President re
iterates his opposition to deficiencies,
because I hesitate to think what
amount would be requested if he was
not opposed to deficiencies."—Col
lier’s.
LET “DAD DO IT”
207 Whitehall St.
Aswell Exposes Impotence of
Emergency Tariff.
The falsity of Dr. Fess' claims for
Republican remedial legislation has
been thoroughly exposed and answer
ed by that distinguished scholar and
educator, Representative James B. As
well (Dem., La.), who among other
things, said:
“Dr. Fess is a schoolmaster, so am
I. But Dr. Fess has strayed away
from the tenets of the faith. The
ideal of the schoolmaster is to learn
the truth and speak it with exactness.
Dr. Fess has played cheap partisan
politics in Congress for so long he
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