Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15


M horns at ALL" Whispered
" the small daushtef of
southern congressman
upon being presented ito the late Sen
ator Foraker of Ohio. along about the
time Senator Foraker was making
political capital out Of southern ques-
tions, and the negro "mammies' useo
to awe obstreperous kiddies py IN
Hoking his name.
That is what the progressive re-
publicans in Congress are finding out
about the old-line republicans. after
close contact with them through
month of legislative session. The ad-
vance notices sent out by some OF
the progressives of what might be
expected from the ''reactionaries I'M
less the progressives were allowed 10
take over the organization OF Con-
Eress lock, stock and barrel have
not materialized in effect. NOT an
outrage has been committed by
single standpatter, nor even threat
of spoliation of the rights of the pro-
pressives. In the Senate progressive
LEGISLATION has been brought In and
Senator Kenyon has been more IN
evidence than Boies Penrose. In the
House. Mick" Longworth has sat
In" regularly with the old guard IN
the steering committee: nobody mas
tried once to put something over.
md. reer as he might under the table
he has failed to perceive single
eleven hoof. They say he mas
: "cbeered right smart" from the de-
messed and foreboding state he was
in when Congress convened
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And the republicans are turning out
10 be regular terrors. it seems "neh
they get to going
pRuNINo KNIFE good with the
KEEN ONE. pruning knife on
estimates of ap-
organizations, thereby SCATTERING an
other popular impression ABOUT .he"'
In the good old past the repuoncans
always were the liberal ones ana the
democrats were charged with oeine
.etinxy. A change has come over them;
actually. they are acting about ap-
propriations almost as If it was their
own money they were loosening up
on. 1t used to be said Of old Senator
Cockreli of Missouri. long time on
the appropriation committee, that
he finally got SO be would glare at .
department chief asking for an ap-
preparation as II PIE we're to 60 down
into his own Satisfactorily jeans
for the same. !
The republican, have Topped ON OF
The estimates thus far something Ike
billion three hundred and nifty mil
lion dollars, and there are loud cries
from the departments who have been
reveling in unlimited appropriations
during the fat days of war.
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Sharp reductions in the Navy ana
Army under the estimates recon-
mended by the
MILITARY ARMS departm It
FEEL THE KNIFE. heads mark the
Z policy of the
republicans; another reversal of form.
The G. O. P. has long been tainted by
the democrats with favoring militar-
ism, as a form Of Imperialism. and OF
intent to fasten. a strong military es-
Establishment upon the government.
If the shades of some of the de-.
parted democratic statesmen who
once made the halls of Congress ring
with denunciation of the republican
tendency to militarism. heavy arma-
ment and big Navy should wander
into Congress they wouldn't recog-
nize where they were; certainly
wouldn't think they were in repub-
1ican House and Senate.
All this wave. Of economy has a def
Unite purpose, of course; it bears upon
future taxation to meet expenditures.
The horriic fact faces the party in
power that prune and pare and stint
and save as ii will. the exigencies of
the case foreshadow immense tax
bills for many years to come, espe-
ciaIly for the year in which will fall
the next elections. when the repub-
licans will have to face an electorate
vexed and bedeviled by high taxes
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There is possibility that the expect
ed great debate over the Knox reso-
luton disas-
CASH NECESSITIES sociating the
MAY CUT DEBATE. league of ma
tions from
the peace treaty may be a flash in
the pan. At least. it may not explode
right.
Some advocates of the resolution
feel that it has already accomplished
its purpose in being reported from the
committee of foreign affairs: that it
has served notice on the allies of
what may be expected when the treaty
comes TO the Senate. But the COM
polling reason for curtailing debate
will be the necessity of passing the
appropriation bills before July j. The
extra session Of Congress was called
Tor that purpose, only two weeks and
one day remain until the beginning Of
the fiscal year and the appropriation
bills are far from complete. II the
Senate runs true to form in talking
on extraneous subjects, it Is feared
there will be no time left for passing
the supply measures. and the repub-
lean party will be blamed for hold
ing up the governmental.
Air. New Congressman, just a mo-
n,rrt please; your attention is ear
nestly invited
tCST A WORD to a measure Of
FOR AGED CLERKS immense nrac