Arizona republican., 1918-04-24

N1OnllnueQ rom HdSe OQeb Der of the military committee, said the president should be given power to eliminate the $1 year men" on that body; select those who are efficient and put them to work at reasonable salaries. If this government had d centralized system for the purchase of supplies, he declared $1,000, 900, 900 could be saved annually during the war.
 Too Much Power, He Says
 Frank distrust of President Wilson's use of power was expressed by Sena- tor Sherman. Reviewing the conduct of affairs between the United States and Russia, the Illinois senator said that through it the president carried in his hand blazing brand and didn't know it." He asserted the president made an une of executive power by sending to the Bolsheviki government a message which is used to further its own aims.
 Russian Situation Understood
 I've have thus the spectacle of our country putting its arm around a gov ernment not a bit better than others Senator sherman asserted and he quoted Samuel Gompers with the as-
 
 CTS understood better th esituation in Russia than did the president. Now tehre is some company the president associates with himself, Senator Sber- man continued, which gives me more reason for district. His secretary of war, MT. Baker is half socialist and the other half pacifist. He went into office convinced that he could helr end the war, not by making war. but l by moral persuasioa, by argument l Then the Secretary of Labor Wilson who made his debut into public life by | getting into jail in Cumberland, made a record by violating lis country's | laws.'
 Senator Sherman charged the presi- dent is surrounded by socialists ana demanded that he get rid of them be- fore he would be willing to grant the chief more power.
 Attacks Wilson and BurIeson Secretary Wilson and Postmaster General Burleson. he declared, are stat( ] socialists. Mir. Burleson, he said. is carrying around with him the earnings of convicts employed on his farm ir Texas and, he said, "the last person 1T me world should be talking government ownership"
 Louis F. Post, assistant secretary oi labor, Sherman continued, thinks as does Leon Trotzky that the middle class should be exterminated and ht declared that the publication The Pub lie in which Mr. Posts family is in- terested, defends the l. W. W.
 Walker Declared Radical
 John II. Walker president of tho Illinois State Federation of Labor ant now member of the advisory commit tee of :he Council of National Defense IS Q. socialist of the most radical type, l who is instigating a strike and the murder of peaceful men," in the Illinoi: coal fields.
 Senator sherman referred to Car Vrooman, assistant secretary of agri. culture as a ''parlor socialist"
 Senator Sherman charged that A. C ToWnely, president of the non partisan league, while representing himself tt represent "the oppressed farmers really represents pro- o-German in. fluence. Townley he said, is influen, tial with miners in the Great Lake! iron region and that there will be { strike there eventually. Charges TownIey With Pro Germanisn T charge that he represents pro German influence in this country, tha he has got German money som' 1 place that there will be q strike in thu iron company" Senator Sherman 1 shouted.
 l The name of D. C. Coats, formel i lieutenant governor of Colorado ana later connected with the non- partisan 1 league is also included in the list O men whom the senator branded as SO cialists and unfit to administer gov ernment.