The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-07

Washington, May 6.-(Special.)- )-'rhat it is impossible for multimillionaires to leg islate acceptably in the interest of the mass of the people is proved by this fruitIess Congress, at least to the satis- faction of democratic members thereof.
 Four members of the House have this Congress in their grasp. They are the four men whom Senator Penrose, the boss uber alles, made controlling mefn- bers of the steering committee of the House Acting on suggestions from Pen- rose, expressed through Senator Lodge, \ the steering committee tells the House Awhat it can and cannot do.
 l The four controlling members are Rep %esentative Winslow, Madden, Dunn and Darrow of Massachusetts, Illinois, New jYork and Pennsylvania, respectively. These four states, to express the situation in another way, legslats for or against the remaining forty-four states of the Nnion.
 MT. winslow Is very rich manufao- Hurer, banker. and insurance manager, and belongs to a great many great clubs. Idr. Dunn, very wealthy, says in the Congressional Dictionary: He is very ac- lively connected with different business enterprises in Rochester" MT. Madden, an ENTERTAINMENT Dy DlItu, ID plcSiuShe VI Ehe Western Stone Co.,. and director of Ahe Metropolitan Trust and Savings yBank, and has been president of the fQuarry Owners Association of the United States, the Illinois Manufacturers' Asso- citation and vice president of the Build CTS and Traders Exchange of Chlcagos { Mr. Darrow is a millionaire interested in insurance and banking, and enjoys the friendship of Senator Penrose.
 ! Cannonisrn when It's despotism became too despotic was destroyed by "progTes- sive" republicans and indignant demo- crats. There is under way revolution on the part of modern progressive re- publicans and indignant democrats. Up to tho present time the revolutionists have scored successes in the brushes with the entrenched plutocrats, and there is promise that early victories will be transformed into permanent victory. And it is possible that as the revolt against Cannonism resulted in return of demo- crats to power, the revolt against Fem rose and the steering committee may lead to second turning out" of the repub- Ucans.
 The steering committee went Against the wall respecting the bonus whi%h, some of these days, Congress will give to the soldiers. In the first place, the steering committee refused to take up bonus legislation, and did not take it up until time had passed to such extent that 1t was known nothing definite could be concluded prior to the presidential nominations and campaign.
 Then the steering committee instructed the republican members of the ways and means committee to make partisan 1egfs- lation of the bonus. These obedient re- publicans held their private meetings and barred the democratic members It was then that these members, directed by the steering committee, prepared legislation imposing the amount of the bonus-$l,- S00O00 OOO-on the consumers of the United States Every man who made pur- chase. it was ordered, should pay his share of the bonus, which order did not exclude, could not have excluded, >the soldiers expected to be beneficiares Of the bonus.
 When that legislation, prepared in high-handed manner. was reported, the revolution broke out. Representative Rainey of Illinois, democrat, and Repre- sentative Johnson of South Dakota, re- publican, took the "bull by the horns" They decreed that Congress would not let the millionaires impose the burden on the poor, and remove the burden from the 5000 millionaires who had acquired uns told wealth as result of war opportuni- ties.
 The democrats got busy in support of Rainey and Johnson so stirred the re- publicans that 1t was necessary for them d to call caucus In this caucus, the reyolutionists won out, and the steering committee, with it's rich robes resemo1lns bedraggled skirts, retired in high dud- , geon to its privy chamber, and there ! asked Lodge to ask Penrose for advice. ] To conclude the story, the proposed leg islation was ditched, and the republican |, members of the ways and means commit tee instructed to do their work ovef G again. It Is not known what tho next result will be. But 1t Is known that there will be no completed bill prior to adjournment for the conventions
 Representative Rainey. the Illinois dem