Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-13
REPUBLICANS CHARGE ALL THE
BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT
CONTROLLED By DIXIE.
GREAT POWERS HELD
BY VIRGINIA STATE
Seventeen Out Of Eighteen Great Com.
nnittees Of Congress Headed BY
Southerners-Unde Tariff Law
Held as Sample of Southern Legis.
lation-North Gives Men For Defense.

WASHINGTON, Sept. ia formal
charge that the United States IS ruied
by a small coterie Of southerners was
made here by the republican congress
sional campaign committee in state
ment issued by Congressman Tess, OF
OHIO, one of its members.
The south is in the saddle, MT.
Tess said The president ana MS
family are southern in birth and sym
pathIes. His cabinet is southern, the
nve controlling heads are from states
that have less than one-lifth OF the
population and bear less than one-haii
Of the taxation.
The senate, in ieaderships ana
working committees, is southern. The
house, from speaker TO doorkeeper, IS
southern. Seventeen out of eighteen
great committees are headed by south
ern men,
Power Held in Virginia.
Virginia controls four committees
Of the most significant possibilities.
This state. with population IN lslo Oh
2.OS2 900 and wealth in 1872 OF S2,S9o,-
O00 900, with ten representatives upon
the floor Of the house, has four times
the Importance in this congress, II
committee chairmanships nave any
meaning, than all the New England
states, the middle Atlantic states, the
east and west states, the north CEN
trail states. and the mountain and Pa
cffic states combined With popuia-
ton in 1910 of su.000,000 and wealth in
1912 amounting to nearly sl4SOVo,-
00O0
The revenues Of the eight southern
states that control seventeen commit
tees amounted, in the fiscal year Oh
1913. according to the government re-
ports. TO $4,000 coo That is trifie
over one-half of the receipts IN the
single state of New York in the same
wear. that amount reaching slol,o0V,-
600 The receipts of Virginia, which
control four Of the greatest commit
tees, are s9.330.000. while states which
show receipts to the amount of 500
600 600, or thirty five times as much,
have control of no important commit
tee"
Shows Result in Tariff.
Mr. Fess cited the Underwood tariff
law as sample Of southern legisla-
ton.
Sectional in policy" he said, the
Underwood bill removed duties from
twenty products of the north. corn,
oats. wheat, wool, meats dairy pro-
ducts. hay, potatoes. etc. 1t left duties
on southern products. rice cotton. to-
bacco. and Angora goat hair"
Mr. Fess quoted statistics compiled
by the Chicago Tribune of the ma
t!onal guard mobilization to prove that
the south, tho championing the volun-
teer system, refused 10 furnish volun-
teerS.
Reply by State Troops.
When the country needs defense.
he asked, who responds? On Aug. /,
1916. militia on the border vas as fol-
lows: From New York, 10000: from
massachusetts, 1000; from Pennsyl-
vania- 5000: from Illinois. II 900: from
South Carolina. 1900; from North
Carolina, none; from Georgia, none:
from Florida, none: from Kentucky.
none; Tennessee none; Arkansas,
none: Mississippi. none: Alabama.
none: Louisiana, 500"
In conclusion Mr.. Fess pointed out
| that the south governs. appropria:es,
and spends,
The north" ne said, "obeys, pays.