Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-06-11

the parties purpose solving these prob
lens To this end the Republican party
declares its policies and program to be
as follows:
Constitutional Government.
We undertake to end executive autoc-
racy and TO restore TO the people their
constitutional government.
The policies herein declared will be
carried out by the federal and state gov
ernments, each acting within its consti-
tutional powers.
Congress and reconstruction.
Despite the unconstitutional and die
tatorial course of the president and the
partisan obstruction of the Democratic
congressional minority, the Republican
majority has enacted a program of con-
structiYe legislation which in great part,
however, has been nullified by the vim
dictive yetoes OF the president.
The Republican congress has met the
problems presented by the admlnistra-
tion's unpreparedness for peace. 1t has
repealed the greater part of the vexa-
tious war legislation. 1t has enacted
act making possible the
of the railroad systems or
the country. the operation OF which un-
der the present Democratic administra-
ton has been wasteful, extravagant and
inefficient in the highest degree. The
transportation act made provision for the
peaceful settlement Of wage disputes,
partially nullified. however, by the presi-
dents delay in appointing the wage board
created by the act This delay precipi-
tated the outlaw railroad strike.
Work of Congress.
We stopped the flood of public treas.
ure. recklessly poured into the lap OF
an inept shipping board, and laid the
foundations for the creation of great
merchant marine: we took from the ln-
competent Democratic administration the
administration of the telegraph and tele-
phone lines of the country and returned
them to private ownership; we reduced
the cost of postage and increased the pay
of the postal employes-the poorest paid
of all public servants; We provided pen
sions superanpuated and retired civil ser
wants: and for an increase in pay or
soldiers and sailors. We reorganized the
army on n peace footing and provided for
the maintenance of q powerful and eff
cient navy.
The Republican congress established
by law a permanent womans bureau
in the department of labor; We submit
ted 10 the country the constitutional
an endment for woman suffrage and fur
ulSueu ~ VI tue oc Th'eh
have ratified it to date.
Legislation for the relief of the con-
sumers of print paper. for the exten-
sion of the powers of the government
under the food control act, for broad
enng scope of the war risk insurance
act, better provision for the dwindling
number of aged veterans of the civil
war and for the better support of the
manned and injured of the great war
and for making practical the vocation
al rehabilitation act, has been enacted
by the Republican congress.
Oil leasing Bill.
We passed an oil leasing and water
power bill to unlock for the public good
the great pent up resources of the
country; we have sought to check the
profligacy of the administration to
realize upon the assets of the govern
ment and to husband the revenue de-
rived from taxation. The Republicans
in congress have been responsible for
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