The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-14


times as much. proportionately, given
to the members of the millionaire
class.
Promise of Tax Reduction Not Kept
Referring to President Harding's
statement of proposed saving of
$350,O0O,000 from appropriations al
ready made and of the Republican
party promise to reduce taxes, Sena-
tor Simmons, speaking with the au-
thority of one who has been Chair
man of the Finance Committee of the
Senate, said:
According to the confession, ac-
cording to the logical implications of
the act, deliberately the administra-
ton confesses now that it was reck-
less in appropriating the peoples
money in this very year of our Lord,
when they were already in full control
of every department of the Govern
ment, for they now claim they then
appropriated for departmental ex-
penses $3.50, 1000, 900 more than the de-
partments needed. 1t is q mighty
dangerous matter, Mr.. President,
mighty reckless thing, for a great
party, carrying out an economy pro-
gram, to appropriate for these de-
partments here in Washington more
money than they need; for if they do
not need it, they are pretty certain to
find a need for it if it is appropriated.
There is one thing certain, the Re-
publican Party is not, in this bill at
least, either carrying out or even so
much as attempting to carry out its
pledge to the people that Immediately
upon coming into power it would pro-
coed without delay, making it the bus
mess of first consideration upon the
calendar, to reduce the burdeenasome
and oppressive taxes that their lead
ers informed the country in the last
campaign the Democratic party had
imposed upon them and was keeping
upon them. These Republican leaders
may and do propose some reductions
in expenditures to be made up by bor-
rowing money to fill the hole upon the
faith and credit of the United States.
They do propose some reductions in
the taxes accruing in 1922. But in
this whole year, during nine months
of which when it ends the Republican
party will have been in control of ev-
cry branch of the government, there
has been no redemption of the prom
Use of immediate reduction; not only
no redemption of that promise, but
there has not been and will not be if
the pending bill becomes law, either
as it was passed by the House On
amended by the Finance Committee,
and redemption of that promise"
No Leadership; No Program;
No Policy.
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi,
stirred up the Republican members of
the Senate the other day when pro-
pounding an inquiry as to whether or
not President Harding opposed the
proposed adjournment of Congress in
November, but was unable to obtain
an authoritative reply one way or the
other, but did draw from Senator
Watson, of Indiana, the reputed sue
cessor of Senator Lodge as Republi-
can Senate leader, the retort that the
Democratic Congress had simply fol-
lowed the wishes of President Will
son.
This gave the Democratic Senator
from Mississippi an opportunity to
twit the Republican Senators on their
submissiveness to the present Execu-
tive. He said:
"The Senator talks about President
Wilson, and how the Democrats once
acted; that all he had to do was to
speak from the White House and
they acted accordingly; we heard a
great deal about them being rubber
stamps. The Senator should be the
last one in the world to bring that up.
If there was ever crowd Of Senators
submissive to the will of the Presi-
dent it is the Republican Senators at
the present time. You have not any
views on any proposition. You change
and you 'wiggle and wobble' from one
to the other. You have no program
and you know it. You make up one
on one day and the next day you have
changed your policy"
The lack of leadership, of pro
gram of a policy, either in the legis-
lative or executive branch of the adj
ministration, is not only becoming no
torious, but it has been the sole cause
of delay in legislation in this Con-
gress. The Democrats have not used
any obstructive tactics whatever, but