Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-16
REPUBLICANS IN
CONGRESS PLAN TO
REDUCEEXPENSES
Constructive Program Ahead;
Any Good Laws Democrats
Passed Will Stand

Washington, April 16.-When
Congress convenes there will be in
augurated a series of searching in
vestigations into the conduct of the
war and the manner in which the
war powers have been exercised by
the administration, but the beneficial
legislation which has been enacted
by the Democrats during the six
years they have controlled the
House and Senate will not be dis
turbed.
This assurance is given by Repub-
Mcan leaders. At the same time laws
will be amended or substitutes will
be presented and among the most
important from the standpoint of
the country at large will be, the new
revenue bill, which will be drafted
to replace the Underwood measure.
With the passing of the differ
ences over the League of Nations,
which now seems assured, the cove
nant as pivot of dispute in the
next Congress and for the coming
Presidential campaign is becom-
ing less important.
End Impractical Idealism .
The abandonment of impractical
idealism in lieu of a constructive
program which is calculated to up
build the country and restore pros
perity to the industries disrupted by
the war will be sought by the Re-
publicans as Senator Harding, of
Ohio, has outlined, and retrench-
ment in expenditures with halt
to the extravagances of the past few
years will be the party motto, as
Senator PenroSe recentlyS pointed
out in his address before the Man
| ufacturers' Club in Philadelphia.
An actual return to peace basis
and not a merely theoretical one,
| will be sought by the Republicans
| embracin the surrender by the gov
| ernment of authority Invested in 1t
| for the war emergency, the release
| of business from paternalism and
| government control and the en-
| couragement of industry through
beneficial legislation.
Republicans are not so narrow
minded as to denounce all of the
legislative actions of the Democrats
during their control of Congress
| Progressive laws will not be altered
| Old Republican Issues
Representative Mondell, House
floor leader. stated to-day that many
| of the laws which the Democrats
| have claimed for their own were
urged for years by Republicans, and
| merely a combination of circum-
stances resulted in their adoption
| during a Democratic administration
The Federal Reserve law, he
pointed out, was founded upon the
report of the late Senator Aldrich
of Rhode Island, and conservative
Republicans helped the trainers o.
the law in fighting off the radica
Democratic tendencies.
"If there is anything good tha
has come from the years of Demo
cratic control, we will let it stand, :
he said. I'VE will be busy enough
wiping out the bad things"
Among the laws, which it is sait
are accepted by the Republican
forces as beneficial, are the Law
creating the Federal Trade Commits
sion, the Rural Credits law, Fedora
aid to road building, the Webb
Kenyon law, the Sherwood pension
aid, the Webb law allowing combi
nations for export trade and th'
law creating the Department o
Labor and the Children's Bureau
The parcel post law is another whicl
Republicans indorsed and one whicl
was long advocated under Republi
can leadership.