The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-03
CAN'T FORGIVE DEMOCRATS FOR
 THEIR SUCCESS
Republicans Can't "G c t Over" Way The War
 Was Won.

Washington, D. C., April D.
 Somehow, the Republican party
 seems unwilling to forgive a Demo cratic administration for conducting the most successful war in the his tory of the world, and perisits in talking about the inefhciency of the Secretary of War" said Representa- tive Finis J. Garrett, a Democrat, in
 a speech in the House of Repr i tatives, in which he again barred the real motives for all of the criticism of the administration in which Re
 publican members of Congress have
 been indulging so many months. eff the Secretary of War had been one-ha1f as inefficient in making war l as the Republican party has been in
 making peace, the boys of America would still be dying on the fields of France continued MT Garrett, who
 arraigned Congress for it's waste of | time and money in investigating sub l jects that have already been worn l threadbare and for failing to give | problems, for whose solution the busi- l ness and industrial interests of the country are crying out.
 The House was about to enter, at ] the dictation of the Republican l steering committee upon another | day of debate upon the report of one 1 of the committees of the select
 war investigating committee. Over 1 the protest of Democratic members, 1 the majority had ordered four hours
 of debate on the Frear subcommittee
 report on the aircraft inquiry, that material might be furnished for Re- i publican orators in the approaching ] campaign
 Responsibility for all this waste of
 time was placed by MT. Garrett at the
 door of the Republican steering com 1 n1ittee'', made up of seven members, l without whose approval the House
 majority knows nothing
 When one considers the fnteI1i- ] geaee that is possessed by the indi- vidua1 members of this committee. Messrs. MondeI1, Longwortf, Mad 1 den, Dunn, of New York, Winslow ot
 Massachusetts,, Darrow, of Pennsy1-
 vania, and Speaker GiIlett, when one 1 thinks of their individual ability
 their experience in public affairs, il
 is a puzzle. a marvel, a wonder as to
 the amount of idiocy which, coIIec.
 lively, they can thrust on the House of Represeufives," said MT. Garrett
 '<In all the experience and all the his
 tory of the country. for sheer ridicu-
 1ousness in collective action, I an
 committed to the steering committee
 And the peculiar part about it is thaa
 this committee makes every man or the Republican side dance. an wondering how long they are to con. tinue to dance to the music made b!
 these gentlemen
 Mir Garrett again reminded tht . country that the whole aircraft sub 7 ject had been thoroughly covered b,
 Judge Charles B. Hughes in his ex , haustive inquiry, and that the Hous , investigation, made solely for po1iti 1 cal purposes, at a cost of many thous f ands of dollars to the taxpayers, ha 3 failed to develop one solitary thin , that was not presented by MT. Hughes S 1 The whole purpose of the rule allow , ing the debate, declared Mir. Garrett was to enable the members of tn : majority party to "once again attac
 the Secretary of War and the Presi ! dent of the United States