The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-07-29
WHAT Al REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
HAS DONE

Il IT xOki Vic SOu6A CS5iOA0A LtCAOAat
Senator Fletcher SpeAking.)
/ | do not know that we would ac-
complish much If we remained in ses-
sion continuously. The experience of
the past few months does not give
us much encouragement in that dir
ection We have been in session ever
since the 18th day of April, working
] quitet diligently, both sides of the
I Legislative branch of the Government,
and what have we accomplished?
We passed an Emergency Tariff Bill
which everybody recognizes was an
arrant fraud, humbug, a pretence.
It does nobody any good, and was
never intended to do anybody any
good, perhaps on the part of great
many.
The next thing we have done was
i TO pass a Budget Bill, which, of course,
was called for by the past Administra-
i ton In fact, everything that has been
done by this administration, beth
i with reference to our domestic and
! foreign affairs, has been done in
pursuance of the principles and poll
cies of the Democratic Administra-
4 tion
We had been given notice, at least,
that one of the first items to be con-
sidered by this Congress was the
Peace Resolution. That had been
pending for about three months. At
last we passed that resolution the 9th
er day,and we supposed that the dove
of peace would settle down upon a
tr0ubledNand ailing world and every
body would be happy. | have not
observed any great change in con-
ditions, psychological or otherwise.
| The blot on the signature to that
joint resolution is symbolic of the
| blot on our national honor and the
marring Of our good faith. Instead Of
a real dove of peace, we have fake
dove in wooden cage, passed around
for exhibition.
! Our friends on the other side of
the aisle wanted to press forward.
| first, tax legislation That is to say.
they insisted that the tax laws should
be simplified, modified and revised.
That was urged by the last Admins
Etration. They have insisted that that
should precede the tariff legislation.
THE majority party in the other body
insist that tariff legislation shall pre-
| cede tax legislation, and there we are.
Over here the majority want the tax
measure to be taken up first, over
there they want the tariff measure
to be taken up first, and thus far
nobody has agreed upon what shall
be DONE
FIRST there came up, Of course, the
Army Appropriation Bill. Our friends
on the other side could not agree to
the size of the army. In the House
they could not-agree to the size of the
army In conference they could not
agree as to the size of the army.
Finally we got through bill which
satlsHeS nobody.
The same thing is true as to the
Navy Bill, They could not agree on
the other side as to the size of the
navy, and in the House they could
not agree as to the size of the navy.
and now that is in limbo, hanging in a
state OF suspended animation.
Tho
publican majority in the House to
pass Tariff Bill-a high protective
tariff Bill. Every manufacturer. ey-
cry merchant, every banker. every
business man, every producer. every
man engaged in industry of any SORT
knows that there is no need at This
time for any high protective duties
in this country.
what is the use Of spending time
discussing that question? There Il
not business man in the country
with sense enough to get out of the
way OF an automobile who does not
know that there is no need and no call
Tor high protective duties at this
time, and yet that is Insisted mon
II the other body as the first thing
on the programme.
so that is about what we have ac.
ccmpiisned thus far AS / say. We
got the Budget Bill passed, and per
haps with SUFFICIENT hell and Maria.
in that we will get beyond the stage
where we are merely '.beating the
ar with reference to the budget.
OF course 1 realize that our friends |
on the other side have had their hands
full attending to other matters. The
country : has been suffering. The
people are struggling, burdened with
taxation. They want some kind of
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