Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-26

off from ss1s 100000 in 1918 to s2lO,loO, 900
in 1916
I'VE lost over $lOO,OOOO0O in reve-
nues in one year and displaced Ameri-
can labor with large increase in i'm
portatlons. That is a straw from the
southern Underwood law
Former Shopman.
Congressman Frear was former
shop employee himself. He earned the
first money for college education in
the railroad shops in Wisconsin. He
made. big impression with the shop
men in Havelock.
Congressman Frear went into de-
tail to show the extravaganza Of
democrats in park barrel measures.
Compared with prior appropriations the
recent increase for extra defense reached
about sS40, 900 which leaves s70a, 900, 900
in round numbers in excess of the highest
record ever reached in all our history This
carnival of waste has increased the burden
OF oppressive taxation, income tax. in
herttance tax and war tax which Is gem
orally in times of peace nearly 20 per cent
on the average over and above public de-
Tense items. To this extraordinarily large
sum- however. must be added $50, 900 900
more for land reclamation bill carrying
s42, 900 900 for southern land owners along
the Mississippi river 1t passed the house
last session, but was held up by the admin
stration until after election. and is the fore
runner of hundreds of millions proposed to
be spent for the lower Mississippi under the
delusive title of food control.
Pork Barrel Bill
Then we have the s35, 900, 900 depocra tic
public pork barrel introduced last session
which awaits passage next December. 1t
gives public building of $4,000 to Hazard
KY, which has 537 population, Eminence
KY; Falmouth, Ky; Mount Olive, N. c.;
Roseville, Ga; Clear Water, Fla, all names
of southern crossroads selected at random
which face handsomely. with an average
population of exactly l,lb7 people, Is that
pork and profligate waste? Is 1t lambasting
democrats to show where your money is
going?
Two Nebraskans Helped.
Two OF your Nebraska legislators aided
in this profligate waste according to the
record. l am simply quoting from the
record in making this observation. One of
the most notorious items in the river and
harbor pork barrel is the Trinity river
Texas. which, according to Representative
Galloway Of Texas, and army engineers can
be waded eight months OF the year It Is
about the size of the Platte river and has
thirty-seven lock and dam project
on view. Nearly $4,000, 900 has been wasted
on this stream without producing one ton
70
yet 1t is only 10 per cent completed. and
will require a half century to finish A mo-
ton to strike out $260,00 given to this dry
creek was defeated in the senate by vote
Of 81 to 20. change of one vote would
have made 1t a tie, and Vice President Mar
shall would then haye voted to strike II
out, because he was against the whole pork
barrel. Senator Hitchcock voted to keep
this s25o,000 In the bill as shown by the
Congressional Record of May 25, on page
1904. which also shows Norris voting to
strike 1t out. This is the stream on which
Colonel Richie once Proposed artesian wells
be drilled to help navigation, and Nebraska
pays Its share of the entire bill.
Maguire's Record.
Congressman Mcguire, In the Sixty third
congress, voted for the $50 100000 river and
Harbor pork barrel which was talked to
death by republican senators, and while CIV
ing the record, 1t is proper to say, Con-
gresham Reavis, your present member aid
ed in the fight against the 1915 pork bar
rel, and voted against 1t with 142 other
members of the house. Is 1t lambasting
democrats to give the record vote on such
notorious bills?
recorded by this administration, we also
learn of thousands of new jobs that carry
millions of dollars annually for deserving
democrats--like the democratic platform
provision concerning free tolls for domestic
shipping through the Panama canal, and
like the pledge given for Mr.. Wilson by
that platform to single presidential term
we are continually reviewing a record of
broken promises. I am informed some ex-
cellent southern statesmen are to be brought
into Nebraska to convince you that they
should be given a further lease of power.
If so, would 1t not be well to ask such
speakers where Nebraska comes in during
this profligate waste record, when every
important committee Is held by the south,
with one exception. The thirty-two i'm
portant committees include the judiciary,
rules, agriculture, war, navy, interstate
ways and means, banking, public lands,
foreign relations and a score of others in
Guiding the three pork barrels of public
buildings, floor control, and rivers and har-
bors. It is a startling record, which carries
Its own argument, and 1t controls in secret
as well as in public through the closed
caucus.