Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-01


take care of both the soldier and
lapor elements in the community
through what will become known as
the Fordney-Penrose tariff law, and
to meet the Democrats in the cam
paign of next year on the issue of
Its results. Should the President
veto the bill, they will leave to him
the responsibility for the continu-
ance of the unemployment of which
Secretary Morrison, of the American
Federation of Labor, already COM
plains.
Want Modified Private Control
An intermediate course of modi-
lied private control has been prac-
tically decided upon as the plan of
the Republican leaders who will
have most to do with the framing of
legislation in regard to the railroads.
Representative John ]. Esch, of
wisconsin. who more than a decade
ago helped to frame the Esch-Town-
send bill, which was largely incor-
porated into the Hepburn rate law
and will be chairman of the House
Committee on Interstate and For
eign Commerce in the new Congress,
has worked out a program which
may be said to sum up the ideas of
his party on the subject. In certain
essentials they are concurred in by
Chairman Fess, of the Congressional
Committee, Minority Leader Mann
and Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
chairman of the Senate Committee
on Interstate Commerce.
To surround the industrial life of
the country with adequate defense,
the Republicans, who boast of the
fact that it was the Roosevelt pro-
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battleships a year which made the
present navy possible, will build a
navy as-large as the results of the
peace conference at Versailles indi-
cate should be built. If the competi-
tive struggle of history is to continue
in spite of the ideals of the peace
makers, the Republicans declare that
they will prepare to make the coun-
try ready for it's full share in it,
just as they argued for such pre-
paredness before the war with GerS
many. And though the entire ques-
ton has been put over for year
in order to await the outcome of
the peace deliberations, they are
generally in favor of some sort of
military training which will not
leave the country in as defenseless
a state as it was before the war.
julius Kahn, the new chairman of
the Military Affairs Committee of
the House, and Senator Wadsworth,
of New York, the new chairman of
the like committee in the Senate,
are in favor of universal training
for several months of all youths of
certain age, limited by certain
exemptions, and it is likely that If
the need is seen they will lead their
party in putting such legislation
through the House and Senate.
Last but not least, the Republi-
cans plan to scrutinize every appro-
priation in order to keep expendi-
lures to the most meritorious and
without waste or extravaganza, and
to provide revenues on the most
equable basis AS soon as the two
bodies are called to order and the
committees announced investiga-
tions will be begun of every bureau
of every department and of the con-
duct of the army and navy at first
quietly in order to determine wheth-
er waste and incompetence are rife.
and, If so, then openly and fearless
ly to, lay bare the need of remedial
| legislation. They declare their pur-
pose to be honest government hon.
estly and economically administered
for the good of all the people, and
hold it self evident that if they can
unearth dishonesty or waste through
their investigation, the result will
promote this pupose and at the
same time point out way by which
similar mistakes and malfeasance,
if any, may be guarded against in
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