The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-03-03
.BOHAH WARNS G. 0. P.
AGAINST lis RECORD
Failure 10 Keep Promises Will
Bring Defeat, Idaho Sena.
tor Precicts.

washington, d. Cat last the
political foresight of the politicians
among the Republican majority in
Congress seems to be anticipating
the effect Of the kindergarten game
OF politics that has been played by
the Hew-tried leaders of that body
during the nine months of Republi-
can control. So loosely have they
lived up to their pledges that Sena-
tor Bprah, one of their number, has
found it necessary to demand in the
course of Senate debate that his
colleagues carry out the after-the-
war economies they laid so much
stress on in the 1918 campaign that
placed them in power.
To date the Republican leaders
have tried to play both ends against
the middle and while promising &C.
onomies they have developed fam
tastic schemes for spending money
that would have put Croesus to
shame. In addition to the Republi. &.
can military training bill, which a
minority report of the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee declares
would cost more than a billion dol
lars year, the Senate majority re-
Gently attempted to put through a
plan for the creation of a new min
istry OF air or bureau of air service.
1t was at this time that Senator
Borah baked and took occasion to
read the riot act on the floor of the
Senate to his colleagues on the
whole majority program to date.
Billions of New Expenses
There are before the Senate
now,P said Senator Borah, with
reference to war matters alone, in
creases of expenditures amounting
to a billion and a half dollars a
yearsNWe have a bill upon the cal
ender, or introduced, which, it is
estimated, will take from seven hun
dred million to a billion dollars to
take care of universal military train
ing. We have bill which will
place upon the Treasury an increas-
ed burden of $59,000,00O for in
creased pay. We are now creating
a bureau (the air ministry, and
the amount which this bureau will
call for no man assumes to suggest
or predict. We start out with an
estimate of something like $9S,00O,-
900, but it is understood that that
is simply the beginning, and how
far 1t will carry us even the authors
of the bill do not pretend to say.
Everybody promised that when
the war was over we would adopt a
policy of curtailing public expendi-
lures, and the party of which l am
humble member made a special prom
Use of that in the last campaign. 1t
was one of the things upon which
the election was fought. Now, l
say to my friends upon this side of
the Chamber that there is not the
slightest evidence in this Congress
that we propose to carry out that
program"
After delivering these few re-
marks 10 show his colleagues inst
what legs they had left to stand IN
ty way ot keeping promises :he
Senator digressed to talk of the new
platform committee of III members
recently named by Chairman Hays
of the Republican organization, and
in spite of the fact that it was an
attempt to unite all of the differing
elements of that party. he declared
that it would have little to do in the
real business of platform making,
which function would naturally hav
to follow the lines OF the record the
present Republican Congress makes.
Fears G. O. p. Record
We have created platform COM
mittee of III varieties said Sena- |
tor Borah amid laughter from both
sides of the House. This Congress
will make the platform. This rec
ord here, as our beginning for the
TOUR years lease of power we are
going to ask for, will be the plat g
'orm and the gifted gentlemen who
ire to give us the platform will not
De able to convince the people
against the records which will be
made here. II we do not keep the
promise made last fall the literary
production OF this prodigious COM