The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17
TRIP TO ORIENT
 BEING PLANNED BY CONCRESSMEN
Gives Promise of Being Regular "Joy Ride''-
 Families Going Too

Washington, D. C., April 17-Some gress are preparing for one grand. prolonged +tjoy ride'' to the Orient It will be the most extended jun ket'~cf the many made by members of the present Congress.
 This trip will be termed @unoficiar' because the government will not pay quite all the bills The trip is to be made aboard government transport, and each member of the party will be required to pay $1.25 per day for c.L days that will be but a small part of the cost, so the taxpayers will pay the rest.
 The trip will be made on the transport Mount Vernon. Starting from San Francisco early in June, the Congressional excursionists, many Of them taking their families and sec- retaries, will visit Hawaii, the Phil ippines, China and Japan, and will be absent about sixty days. Thus does American fondness for travel assert itself There have already been many Investigating tours by the present Congress, but this will be the most delightful of all and will be made at the most opportune time, when the season in Washington will be hot, but when it will be most de- Hghtful on the decks of government transport riding the waves of the Pacific.
 Criticism of expenses such as this
 
 being made, but apparently the ma jority leaders in Congress are making no effort to prevent the plan being carried out It is being pointed out by some of the Republicans that it is rather difficult to insist that the Republicans in Congress are econo- mixing when at the same time they are preparing to take a fine vacation at the expense of the government on the pretense that they must study the fast looming problems of the Pacific''
 But since the Republicans came into control in Congress there has been one junketing trip after another. One committee went to France at govern ment expense. Excursions were taken to the Pacific coast just about the time the weather got warm The reason gwen was mat the eXcurSlOn- ists '-were Investigating Almost every state was visited. Members travelled in special cars and enjoyed all the 1uxuries.f
 Now it is proposed that there shall be more Investigating. The Repub- icans propose to have committees visit all the Indian reservations for the purpose of Investigating" It is proposed that other members shalJ It is insisted that others shall go to France and to the Philippines and to Hawaii for the purpose of 'tinvestigat- ing" One party has been to the Virgin Islands and another to the Panama Canal
 This explains in part why so little has been done in Washington and why Congress has shown record of absolutely no constructive 1egis1a- ton.
 Repr resentative Fordney, chairman tnittee, and one of the o1d-Iine Re- pub1icans, insists that Representative MondeI1, Republican floor leader, is not so enthusiastic about ''economy'' when some of MT. Monde1Ts pet ideas or friends suffer through sIaShing of an appropriation And MT. MondeIIs attitude, described by his Republican colleague, MT. Fordney, is similar to that of other members. Junketing trips show how sincere is the effort to practice economy in this Con-