Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-01-14
Senator Borah Replies to VIII
sons Speech in In
dianapoIis.
DEFENDS REPUBLICAN
LEGISLATIVE RECORD
Censures Mexican Policy. Saying
Only Chaos and Disorder
Can Result.

Replying to the Presidents 1ndiani-
apolis speech, Senator Borah Of Idaho
delivered a scathing arraignment of the
Wilson administration in the Senate
yesterday afternoon.
Senator Borah was particularly Sc
we're upon the course which President
Wilson has followed toward Mexico.
He arraigned the President, too, be-
cause of alleged attempts to control
the Legislative branch as we'll as the
executive branch of the government.
Taking up the administration ship
ping bill. Senator Borah said the Presi-
dent had charged the Senate with de-
laying the measure, when it had only
been before the Senate on a committee
report for a few days. He read from
the book of the Presidents 1912 cam
paign utterances sections declaring
more general debate and less commit
tee work should surround lawmaking.
One Measure Passed Over.
Senator Borah said that the ship bill
and rural credit legislation proposals
were pending in Senate committees,
and the latter had been passed over by
the President in favor of the ship bill.
If the former were to be consulted, he
said. he would feel the question of
rural credits to be far more important
than the ship bill. If the President
would consider the ACCESSIBILITY of call
ing special session of Congress for
the purpose of enacting such legiSla-
ton. the senator suggested, 1t would be
"beneficent act.
To refute the Presidents statement
that "the republican party has not had
a new idea in thirty years." Senator
he r
law, the interstate commerce, parcel
post, postal savings bank, pure food.
direct election of senators acts. and
many other enactments as proof that
the republicans had met each new
emergency in the country as 1t arose.
The fact that the present administra-
tion, though in control OF every de-
partment of the government, did not
question or attack these acts, he said.
was proof that they had been wisely
drawn.
Attacks Reserve Act.
Among other acts, Senator Borah
said, was the vreeland-Aldrich emer-
gency currency act.
when the European crisis came upon
u.s." he said, 'it was the Vreeland-
Aldrich bill, republican measure, I'M
der which the country proceeded while
the federal reserve act was cast aside,
a heavy, bulky mass, a sort of ante
diluvian mastodon, too dead for me
nagerie and too much alive Tor the
operating table. designed for the Treas
ury, but seemingly on its way TO the
Smithsonian Institution.
The cost of living August !, 1914, was
higher than at any previous time IN
the country's history. Senator Borah
said vet an emergency bill had exacted
500. 0OO. 900. additional from the people.
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the government under democratic rule
was at that time running at an expense
of over $200.000,000 annually greater
than the cost of the preceding years
under republican control That $780,
O00, 900, he added, was exclusive OF the
S3,000,0O0 1t was now proposed to pay
Nicaragua for another canal route.
Proposed Canal Purchase.
What do we want with another
canal route" he said, II cannot see,
unless 1t be that having built one canal
and given 1t to England, we now want
to build another and give 1t to Ger
many"
In discussing the Presidents state
ment that the United States intends to
let Mexico alone, Senator Borah de-
clared it was unfortunate that such
had not been the policy from the be-
ginning. Only chaos and disorder, he
SAID, could result from the pushing
asiae of Huerta.
He said the President announced 1t was
the policy of this country to let all the
Central American countries alone.
yet at the very moment We are told
that, one Central American country has
officers put into power by a man-of-war
sent there by this country" he added.
''and whose government is maintained
today by the presence Of armed Ameri-
can marines. How can we maintain the
respect of Mexico unless we add to
our words our deeds and actions? How
can we maintain it's confidence unless
we withdraw interference with all coun-
tries in Central America, great and
small?''
Cites Possible Trouble.
The Idaho senator, in enumerating re-
suits Of the taking of Vera Cruz. de-
clared that one of them was notification
to foreign powers to keep hands off,
which, he insisted. would bring trouble
in the future, because this government
had assumed moral. If not legal. respon-
sibility for injuries that may come to
foreign citizens in Mexico by reason of
the conflict between warning factions Of
the republic.
Senator Borah insisted that the United
States had not let Mexico alone and that