The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-11-14
REPUBLICANS TRYING
TO STEAL THUNDER
Mccormick Asserts G. 0. P. House
Measure is Defective"

washington, d. C.-Republicans
are trying to appropriate the credit
for having proposed budget system
to govern federal expenditures. Re-
preventative Good of Iowa, chairman
of the Appropriations Committee of
the House, suggested the creation
of a commission to study the ques-
ton, but that proposition was killed
by the Senate Committee on Appro-H
priations. Having heard from the
country on the subject the Repub-
lican leaders then decided that it
would not do to adjourn Congress
without first having enacted a bud
get bill. Accordingly Mr.. Good pro-
NOTED the passage of measure
through the House. Senator Medill
Mccormick of Illinois likes not the
idea of a House members getting
credit for the adoption of his pet
scheme" He asserts that the Good
measure is defective, and will have 10
be remedied by the Senate He con-
tends that the bill "does not provide
a real budget in that it does not re-
duce estimates of expenditure.
The Republicans will not succeed
in the attempt to take from the DEM
ocrats credit for the budget plan.
The record is too clear ami complete
to admit of that. President Wilson
and former representatives Fitzgerald
of New York, and Swager Sherley OF
Kentucky, advocated budget system
of appropiating moneys long before
tie Republicans of the present Con-
gress showed signs of realizing that
the country demanded 1t.
In his message to Congress Deem
Der A, 1917, President Wilson said:
"And / beg that the members of the
House of Representatives will permit
me to express the opinion that 1t
Will be impossible to dea. in any but
very wasteful and extravagant fash
ion with the enormous appropriations
of the public moneys which must con-
tinue to be made, unless the House
will consent to return to its former
practice of initiating and preparing
all appropriation bills through a sing
lie committee, in order that respon-
sibility may be centered, expendi-
lures standardized and made uni
form, and waste and duplication as
much as possible avoided"
1t is plain from reading of the Con-
gressional Record to whom the cred
it of the proposed budget system is
due.
The Republican leaders are at
their old tricks again. They are
paving the way to charge the Presi-
dent and his supporters in the Senate
with having defeated the peace ra-
LITIGATION resolution.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge issued
this significant warning: What
ever delay there may be in the final
action upon the treaty will be caused
| by those who are resisting Ameri-
canization by proper reservations.
Senator Lodge, at the time he ut
tered that statement, thought he had
everything cooked and primed to put
through reservations" the Demo-
Gratis could not think of accepting.
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
! described some of the propositions
offered as Insulting to the American
people" insulting to the President, >
and designed ito humiliate the Pre-
sident.
But the words of Mr.. Lodge had
barely reached the public when Sena-
ator LaFollette blocked move OF
Senator Hitchcock (who is leading
the fight for the treaty., for vote.
The action Of Senator LaFolette
was soon followed by report that
a little cotorie of Republicans led by
him and others would send the peace
treaty over to the next session of Con.
gress.
Senator Lodge caused laugh or
the Democratic side by his state
/ ment. They regard him as the Re
publican ostrich with his head under
cover, and y e resi- of his body ex
posed, but all the while imagining
he is entirely out of sight.
| The plans of the republicans FOL
an adjournment of the special session
of Congress have miscarried, at leas
for the present. 1t looks now as i
the session would run into the mex
one. Day after day the Republican
leaders are asked about their lie
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