The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-08
NO QUARTER FOR
 BOLSHEV|C CLAN
Next Congress Is Expected Will Take Radical Steps to Suppress Reds" Both Domestic and Alien--Vic-
 tor Berger te Be Barred.

Washington, May 3.-The eyes of the Nation will be centered upon the next Congress, which will refuse to seat Victor Berger, the only Socialist elected to the present House of Rep resentatives.
 The coming session will be marked by the enactment of epochal legisla- tion tho correct increasing radical activities, the reconstruction of the country's industries and the estab- lishment of pre-war business condi- tions, such as the turning back to pri- vate owners of the railroads, tele- graph and the telephone.
 While the ratification of the peace treaty and the interwined League of Nations is uppermost in the minds of the public and statesmen because it necessarily will commit the United States to new international policy, yet the backbone of American life, the employer and the employed, are much more interested in legislation along industrial and social lines laws which will restore war indus tries Co normal activities and afford employment for the idle.
 Constructive Legislation to Be Pushed.
 Constructive legislation and the ex- pansion and modification of existing laws to crush the Bolshevist agitators and punish offenders against society and government necessarily will as- sume first and immediate considera- tion in the House, while the Senate is considering the peace treaty.
 The May Day riots and the upris- ings that preceded these disorders in many parts of the country have made it incumbent on the House to pass, without delay, bills to adapt the Es- pionage Act to peace times, for use in such situations as have been wit messed recently. Immigration, per- haps, will be greatly restricted and dangerous aliens of "Red" tendencies deported and other laws passed as recommended by the Department of Justice.
 This radical trend of legislation will be injected into the House proceedings on the. very first day, when the lead CTS of the Republican party, carrying out Speaker-elect Gillette's pre-elec- tion pledge, will refuse to seat Victor Berger, the Milwaukee Socialist, who, altho under indictment for disloyalty, was elected last November to the House of Representatives Since his election he has been convicted and is out of jail on bail pending an appeal to a higher court.
 Berger As Bad As Debs.
 Berger, who has been quite as pro- nouneed in his un-American speeches as was Debs, will not be seated, as there are numerous precedents for the house reclining to seat man who has been convicted of even a minor crime.
 This leader of the radical Socialist party in his speeches and newspaper writings uttered disloyal preach ments and he stands upon an equal plane with Debs( now serving his term.
 Altho pronounced by the jury as disloyalist, Mir. Berger has received more than $1,S00 from the federal government--his pay as member of Congress and that of his secretary for the months of March and April. Un- der the rules of the House member elect begins to draw pay and his al- lotment for his secretary's salary with the beginning of his term. Accord ingly, the sergeant-at-arms has sent Mir. Berger his pay for March and April and will continue to do so until the House bars him from member ship. Thus this Socialist, convicted of disloyalty, has been receiving more than $20 day from the government.
 While conservative members of the House before the radical movement became so widespread favored toler- ance rather than forcible dealing with the radicals, they see that only by drastic and summary action will they put the fear of the law into the hearts of the misguided.
 To Throttle Bolshevism.
 Therefore, starting with the un- seating of Berger, which will be one of the very first acts of the next House, serious consideration will be given to bills having as their purpose the throttling of Bolshevism and the punishments of the leaders fomenting the spirit of revolt against the gov ernment and order in the minds of the less educated.
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