The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-25
DECLARES NATION WILL FACE
ERA OF WASTE IL WILSON
STAYS IN.
STARTS BATTLE ROYAL.
Senator Simmons Tries To Disprove
Charges of Extravaganza With
Figures.

ator Simmons, chairman of the FL
nance Committee, submitting figures
designed to disprove Republican
charges of Democratic extravaganza
and Senator Smoot, Republican f.
nance expert, asserting that the DEM
ocratic party should be convicted Of
attempting to procure votes under
false pretenses, a general debate on
the $205,OOO,O00 emergency revenue
bill began today in the Senate. There
were indications on every hand of a
partisan battle royal to be waged for
several days.
Insisting that national defense pre-
paredness and the Mexican situation
were responsible altogether for the
necessity of special revenue legisla-
ton and proposed bond issue, Sem
ator Simmons declared Republicans
in Congress had clamored for even
greater expenditures for defense, and
having done this, were seeking par
tisan advantage by making false
charges of Democratic extravaganza
to the public.
Senator Smoot, opening the Re-
publican assault on the revenue bill,
said if the Democratic party was to
be retained in control of the govern
ment, the country would suffer an
era of unequaled extravaganza COM
bined with inefiiciency unsurpassed"
His attack was supported by Senator
Curtis, who asserted that the burden
of taxation should not be placed ON
the American people and that reven-
ues should be raised by protective
tariff.
To prove his contentious that nor
NAL appropriations of this session
are not excessive, Senator Simmons
submitted Treasury Department es-
Inmates for the year 1917 showing
that, excluding postal appropriations,
bond issues already issued and
amounts that will not be expended,
revenues must be provided for dis
bursements of $1,126.243,OO0. OF
this amount the total appropriated
for national defense would aggregate
about 1854, ZOO. 900. and the Sena-
tor submitted other figures to prove
that this extraordinary amount, due
to preparedness and the Mexican
emergency, exceeded normal defense
appropriations by about $372,280,-
900.
Senator Curtis predicted -four or
five deficiency appropriations" before
the year 1917 is over, advocated
return, to the protective tariff and
declared the Republican party was
Opposed to a war tax in a time of
peace"
Just before adjournment Senator
Penrose introduced a resolution to
recommend the revenue bill to the
Finance Committee with instructions
that it be amended to raise an equit-
able portion of required revenue from
a protective tariff. No action was
taken on the proposal.
Senator Smoot asserted that the
Democratic party had not kept the
pledges of retrenchment and economy
and charged it with "wasteful and
useless expenditures too long for
enumeration.
"If we could bring the Democratic
party into a court of justice and in
dict and try that party under the
rules of law" said the Utah Senator,
"the evidence that could be submit
ted would be more than adequate to
convict it of procuring votes under
false pretense.
People To BE Judge.
Unfortunately, We can have no
trial under the rules of law, but,
which is undoubtedly better. we shall
have a trial before the great tribunal
of the American people whose verdict
will be given as impartially as ever
was given by jury OF twelve good
men and true, and we shall know on
the Sth of November whether, in the
opinion of the jury of juries, the
Democratic party has kept its econo-
my pledge in Office as zealously as ii
relied upon that pledge during the