Arizona republican., 1921-09-09
What .he consres. Has bond

What the Congress Has Done
 Our Democratic friends have been so persistent in belittling the work of congress many people who have only casually viewed the work of that body within the five months in which it in sion may Fave come believe that 1t was lacking in achievement This the likely because of the prevalence of conditions in which a cratic administration left the country and out of which of believed that the Republican party ought to extricate immediately by sort of miracle.
 We have previously pointed out the necessity which confronted the Republican administration March this year of unprecedented volume of below surface work, the removal of appalling amount of debris and the laying deep of new founda- tions before could much of the supersructure rising.
 Net the Republican congress in spite of all this has given great deal of emergency legislation. By emergency legislation we do not temporary legislation. but legislation to meet immediately most imminent needs.
 Under this head the Hoover-NIeyer sub stitute measure through which Wednesday there was allotted by the finance board s12oooOo to the cotton of Arizona to assist them in the handling of their crops. There is something crete in that something that must offset the news paper and declarations that the Repub Ican congress is fooling away it's time The money coming to the harassed cotton growers talks, talks louder than the critics of the administration Another great industry of Arizona has been given attention of the Republican congress in the bill passed regulation and control of the packing industry the enforcement of which the president has asked and will receive $24O0oo0oo.
 Numerous measures have been passed to afford relief from business conditions Among these is the agricultural credits extending the powers of the War Finance Corporation through which We are to receive the allotment which has been made and which makes possible for the corporation to utilize as much as billion dollars in providing credit for agricultural purposes and to aid in the exportation of agricultural products. For the purpose of faci- tatin our general export the Edge act has been amended
 There, too, is the law by which consolidated the various overlapping and sometimes hopelessly conflicting agencies the relief of exservice men who for months and months had clamored in vain for relief. Under the Veterans Bureau act that law is now functioning.
 And then there is the budget bill whose opera tions under the direction of General Dawes we are daily witnessing. and which will remove annual burden of millions of dollars from the taxpayers.
 These only few of the measures for mme- date relief which at the request of the president his first has already enacted, the while 1t has been preparing the great frame of the two revenue measures upon which the business of the country may permanently rest
 In all this there has been no legislation for any special class or any section of the country, as there was in first six years of the Democratic administration We have within five months had legislation where legislation the most urgently needed regardless of class section.
 The achievements of the congress in this brief time fully warrant the summing up by Leader Mon dell of the house representatives the of the congressional three weeks ago;
 It can be said without the slightest exag-
 geration and without fear of successful con
 tradiction that no congress in American histo
 ry has made better record of continuous and
 conscientious consideration of the public
 business or of meritorious accomplishment in
 a wide field legislation. than the present
 congress
 Speaking particularly from the standpoint
 of the house, only does the record of this
 session compare favorably with that of any
 other session. but after careful review of
 the congress for quarter of century, dur
 ing which have been member of it. and Of
 the congresses before my time, I feel fully
 justified in saying that in no congress in
 American history has the house of represen-
 tatives considered and passed upon in the
 same length of time, many important, far
 reaching and vital problems of legislation as
 in the portion of this session whlch IS now
 passing into history.
 This is not partisan view of the accomplish nnents of the congress- The Republican is not parti san It is bound to tbe acts of Republea1 congresses and administrations. It has not hesitate to criticize as severely though more reasonably tha rome Democrats have done, the tariff bill in it nresent form and 1t will continue to criticize tha work of a Republican house of representatives s long as it stands in its present form. But we ar hnef,l that in It's finished form essential changed.
 We are speaking only of what has been done b ,ba congress and has gone unateraby into tn record.
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