Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-15
Denounces Indiscriminatc
Bonuses and Other Pro-
jects of Leaders.
SINGING REJOINDER MADE
TO PENROSE'S INTERVIEW
Declares Boss" Would Direct
Acts of the Republican
Administration.
TAXATION POLICY is FLAYED
Would Add to Peoples Burdens
and Dishonor Country by
ScraPping League.

Especial to Tho Times Dispatch.1
WASHINGTON. Oct. 14.-Stinrin-
criticism of the Republican taxation
/ policy and OF Senator Boics Pcnrosc,
| OF Pennsylvania. who, he declared.
brushes aside with undisguiscd con-
tempt the Federal Constitution. was
| madc by Senator Carter Glass, of Nir-
| Sihia in statement given out to-
| day at the White House executives of
| ilccs.
referring to the position of PEN
rose as the boss" of the Republican
party and the man who dictated tho
nomination Of Warren q. Harding at
chicago. Senator Glass said. sit ia
the liked judgment OF many keeniv
observant persons that not only will
all revenue bills originate with AIr.
Pcnrosc. but likewise all things else
Legislative and executive. which shall
atect The interests OF tho peop,c OF
this country" though tho Constitution
provides that all money bills must
originate In tho House.
ScathinE Reply to Penro.c.
The Virginia Senator made a scath-
ing rejoinder to the recent statement
of Pcnrosc that taxes wouId ho 80
duced by Republican administrator,
He said:
| The pcoplo should clearly and con.
s'antiy understand that not even
senator Penrose. much less tho i'm
noteht Republican Congress-, can
nshleh the burden OF taxation at this
congress or tile next or for MANY
succeeding Congresses, If the various
schemes FOR monstrous expenditures.
such as indiscrlminate bonuses and
other projects proposed by Rcpubl;
can leaders and actually passed by
inc republican House, are put into
erect ny any administrations
senator Glass concluded his stat.-
meht by referring to Senator Pen.
| cose's assertion that he proposed 10
eliminate such incompetent officials
as John Skelton Williams, the present
comptroller OF the Treasury" Tho
virginia Senator said: ..Mr. viii
iiams is not the Comptroller OF tho
treasury; he Is Comptroller or tho
currency. He has many ,,imes boz,
ca!!ed temperamental. but never be-
rore incompetent. It must be a,.
sumed that Senator Penrose tbinrs
| comptroller Williams Is fncomnatart
necanse national bank failures un5er
MS administration have been reducad
10 negligible number. about one a
year and the national banlinr sv.-
'em mas been many times more prns.
peSous than ever before since its cs-
| iaoiishment. Perhaps Senator pe,
roses idea OF Il competent official :,
one under whose management wa
shaiI nave resumption of bank f,i,-
| urcs and panics.
brushes Constitution Aside.
1T !s quite interesting In MOI,
gesture OF undisgu!sed con.emnt ,,;,t,
"hlch senator Penrose brushes ,s;,,a
the Federal Constitution i, ~. -
revision. All bills for
'a's'hs revenue shall originate in
| 'he house OF representatives,
"nat the Constitution says; bu, ons
| must inevitably infer from the state
| n'eht imputed to Senator Pcnrosc fin,
me constitution is mistaken. and thar
"'iis !or raising revenue, at leas. nm.
"er Republican administration. mns.
originate with Senator Penros. yar,
! i'kely this may be true. in the cvn,,
OIL republican triumph at the eI,c.
lions in November.
"t'1i' one Is tempted to specu,at,
rs 10 how Representative Forsn.v
chaiFman OF the Ways and Meao,
committee OF the House, and Other
n'puolican members OF the commit.
'ee' VIII relish this senatorial usur-
p"'ion or their constitutional iuris.
n'c.ion and prescribed functions.
senator Pcnrose tells us there Will,
DC speedy reduction OF taxas ~
| the Republicans prevail at the cI,c-
| tions. That's precisely wha. w,s
said two years ago, just before else.
t!on time. 1t was exactly .bat nror,
Use, along with the purchase Of /,
senatorial seat in Michigan, wh;ch
enabled the Republicans to capture
inc House and Senate in 1915. Eut
nave taxes, either as to their form
or their total, been reduced ono
thriD since tho promise was made.
OF course not.
q. o. II. Leaders Disagree.
While Senator Penrosee now prom
ises that he VIII see to Il, that rs-
duction will promptly follow unon
republican success at tho polls Mr
Good. chairman OF the House Appro.
priations Committee, and other In
huent!al members OF the body chare-
ed by the Constitution with orig.
mating all revenue bills. arc report
ed In the newspapers as declaring
that 1t will not be possible 20 re-
wise the tax laws at either the mex,
succeeding short session of Congress
or Mt the special session which IL Is
assumed Mr.. Harding, II elected, WIN
convene for tho purpose OF scrap
ping tho league OF ns<ions.
These gentlemen, quite accuratsIy,