The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-08-05
VAIN TO HOPE FOR
HELP FROM TARIFF
IN UNSETTLED CONDITIONS
ABROAD-ONE REPUBLICAN
MEASURE FAVORED BY DEM
OCRATS.

AN
MEASURE FAVORED BY DEM
OCRATS.
Washington, d. c., July 30.-Just
as the public was settled in its seat
watching the comedy of making tar
iff bill in the House of Representa-
tiyes for the promotion of profiteer-
ing among the privileged classes, its
attention was temporarily distracted
by the spectacular tragedy of killing
the Soldiers Bonus bill in the House
of its alleged friends.
The reading public already knows
the story of how the bill was killed;
of how President Harding, following a
custom of President Wilson, went be-
fore the Senate and brought about
the recommittal of the bill to the FL
nance committee, where, in the opin-
ion of the wisest legislative observ-
ers in both parties, it is buried beyond
hope of resurrection of this Congress.
This is the first time in history that
a President of the United States has
appeared before either House of Con-
gress to block legislation. President
Wilson frequently appeared there,
but, as Chairman White of the Dem
ocratic National committee said in a
recent statement, always to urge or
expedite the passage of needed legis-
lation.
Neither the Republican Senators
nor the Republican press criticised
President Harding for "dictating to
Congress- the form of criticism
heretofore directed at President Will
son.
The effect of President Harding's
"dictation" is shown by the votes of
Republican Senators, first to take up
and consider the bills passage and
then to recommit it to the private
graveyard of Senator Penrose's Fl
nance committee. On the motion to
take up and consider the bill every
Republican Senator who voted, voted
Aye except Senator Warren. On
the vote to recommit, and thus kill
the bill, the following twenty four Re-
publican Senators changed front and
voted to recommit, following Presi-
dent Harding's speech:
Ball, Brandagee, Cameron, Cum
mings, Curtis, Dillingham;, Edge,
Gooding, Hale, Kellogg, Kenyon, Nc
kinley, Knox, Lodge, McNary, Moses,
Nelson, New, Nicholson, Oddie, Poin.
OChtCi. pHloOt, EOIcI1InS anu w dIS0n,
Embalming the Bonus Bill.
One of the best evidences that this
Congress does not intend to revive
and pass the Soldiers Bonus bill is the
fact that it rejected an amendment
setting a date when the bill should
be reported back.
How effectively the bill was dispos-
ed of, so far as this Congress is con-
parnol k,,p L
Senator Reed Dem., Mo-, when he
declared that ain sending it back in
that way it will be as effectively kill
ed and as thoroughly dead as julius
Caesar" and then said:
IF there is spark of life left in
it, when the veins are filled with Pen
rose embalming fluid the Angel Ga
briel could not resurrect it. 1t will
be in as bad coalition as the corpse
of the mother-in-}aw was after it had
been treated in accordance with the
request of the son-in-law in the very
ancient story-which is the only kind
| know-when he replied to a tile
gram, Mother is dead Shall Gre
mate, embam or bury And he re-
piled, DO all three. Take no
chances
Some of the interesting circum-
stances concerning the defeat of the
Soldiers Bonus bill are as follows:
The Secretary of the Treasury in a
letter informed the Senate that the
additional drain on the Treasury the
bill would impose might cause a finan-
cial breakdown and bring disaster to
the country.
Some Senators faced with Republi-
cancan pledges of economy and evil
IDENTITY lacking courage to vote
against the bill are reported to have
asked President Harding to come to
the Senate and relieve them of that
responsibility by vetoeing it, and also
knowing that he could shirk this con-
stitutiona responsibility if by ap-
pearing personally in the Senate in
opposition to the bill he could induce
that body to recommit it to Senator
Perrose's committee.
Tariff by Steam Roller and Gag Rule.
The making of a tariff bill in the
House has proceeded merrilly to fin
ish under the steam roller methods
and gag rule adopted by its Republi-
can reactionary sponsors.
In the meantime the business world
is chatting under the delay in revisiing =
the tax law, and the discomfort Of
business men generally over the ad-
ministration policy of paying off cam
paign contributors with a tariff hill
while business waits and stagnates is
beginning TO worry even the most
thoughtless high tariff leaders. That
the Senate will side track the tariff
bill for the tax bill when it gets
there seems now more certain than
ever. The principal trouble now
seems TO be that owing to lack of
leadership either in the White House
or the Capitol the party has no def
mite policy or plan on internal tax
alton: at least, not any has yet ap-
peared.
The Republican Free List.
Representative Tlllman tDem.,
Ark.A gave this excellent, humorous
sumn,aS of the Fordney tariff Free