The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-19

mn Daley PIONEER
IsECTI0HAIlsM UNDER
DEMOCRATIC RULE
3.ssr lcoat.ans4 frontPass y
Fletcher ofsFlortda remains the rank
ing member: L b ',I3 ...I
Senator Thomas r. Gore. Oklahoma,
chairman lot committee ion agricul-
ture, with the power Of directing the
spending, OF $22,000,000 . year. ~
- Senator James K.sVardeman,a Mis-
sisstppi; chairman OF the committee
on conservation; :s5 1llf at5t t1f En-
sBSenator2John Walter Smith Mary
land, chairman of committee on the
District. Of Columbia, governing q city
Of 800 900 people; II hi .4z%q o,A Fs5
Senator F.. N. Simmons, North
Carolina, chairman of the 2au-import-
ant committees on f1nance;nI asd, III
~ Senator William JaStoney Missouri,
chairman ofncommittee1 on simmigrar
ton; -. 9}T1 Blazer o viii nj u n&tJ41 III
Senator Frances G.ayNawlands,: q
native of Mississippi; y although tenn
porarily eholding office: inlu Neveda,
chairman of tcommitteer on interstate
commerce.; -5,-" 1.~- b
! Senator George. 3. chamberlain,
another sMississippiian, temporarily
residing in; Oregon, chairman of COM
mittee ION military affairs;
Senator Charles 8 A. Culbertson,
Texas, chairman. ofypthe q judiciary
committee; .@..-@,, -..-.-- Il
r Senator James A. Reed, Missouri,
chairman of the committee on manu-
facturers. -'-. 49,. 80
It will be observed that, the nom
sectional branch Of the South has
succeeded in putting it's brand upon
q fairly large number of important
places.
81 Southern Chairmen.
In addition, there are a32 active
committees insthe house4which alb
solutelya ntrolslegislationain that
body. OF these 80 committees 3
Democratic chairmen genially = &C
knowledged their homes in the states
of Virginia., North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Tennes-
see, Missouri and Kentucky.
There is little doubt but the mem
berss of the cabinet and the chairmen
of the important senate and house
committees deprocate the charge of
sectionalism brought against them by
the North. There are twelve South
ern states, one-fourth of the total
number. They represent Is per cent
If ho If
country. They comprise % per cent
of the area, and about s28 per cent
Of the population; about one-half Of
which for local reasons conveniently
refrains from voting.
i But sectiOnalism is as sectionalism
does. =; Let us take a glance at the
national viewpoint exercised by this
small section of the country which
now happens to be in control, and
which deprocates the charge of Sec
tionalism. The recent session Of
congress, which constitutes only: one
half of the Gath congress, appropri-
ated in cash $1,642, and
specifically authorized the, additional
expenditure of $231,945,275, making
a grand total of $1,S58,384,4S4. At
this rate the total appropriations of
the 6 It'll congress will reach total
of $4,226, 368,968. In round num-
bers the total cost of the Civil War
was $4,000, 100000, so it will be seen
how modestly a sectional congress
and a sectional administration COM
ports itself when it gets it's hands
into the treasury.
Preparedness Not Cause.
Preparedness was a live issue be-
fore this congress, and it is claimed
for it, that it's extravaganza was due
to preparedness, yet an analysis of
the appropriations of the last con-
gress show that $349,103,590 may
be- properly accredited to prepared
ness, and the total remains for one
session of the congress for other pur-
poses of s$1,277,335,619. What may
happen in the next session may be
gathered from the fact that the ap-
preparations of the last session were
3162,398,607 more than the one pre-
Isceding. There will be no election
Epending when the next session meets
and the result of session relieved
of that responsibility should prove a
Istriflek narrowing to the mind of the
Taxpayer. On the subject of prepar-
Iedness sfor which $349,103,590 was
appropriated, the result was an in
Iscrease in the regular army Of 10000
n,swhich is on par with an addi-
ton Of one-half of policeman to the
minneapolis police force, and the Or
Iganisation of 48 Independent armies,
Isoszthat the sectional idea of state
rights: and state control might be
maintained even in the face of ma
Itionals peril. t.~.. .- 1852
The same congress passed a tariff
Ilawswhich was designed to lower the
highaco Of living, and to provide
lrevenue for the government. It did
Eneither. At the beginning of the f1s-
Ecalayear Of 1913, at time when i'm.
Ep0rts were nearly s$400,000,000
Egreater than in any previous year
lconsress enacted the greatest tax. bill