New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-09-23
FESS LAUDS GREAT WORK
OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESS

months in which 1t has been IN ses-
sion the present Republican Congress
has put through a program OF con-
structive and remedial legislation
which has been unsurpassed, accord
ing to Representative Simeon D. Fess
of Ohio, chairman of the National
Republican Congressional Committee.
He says:
LESS than six months ago Harding
was inaugurated President of the I'm
tied States. Within a month he cal
led into special session Congress,
which has been in session a little ov-
er four months Mr.. Harding has
inherited the Government of Nation
whose fundamental principles had
been wholly suspended, if not over
turned, by a world wide conflict. The
war had involved all the world and
had completely interrupted the nor
nal process OF the laws of economic
and scientific operation. The stress
induced governmental interference,
which suspended the laws of produc-
ton and consumption. The new ad-
minstration inherited a public debt OF
S25,000.0O0000, which had been incres-
ed from 973000,OO0 to this bewider-
ing figure, the annual interest OF
which is much greater than the total
cost of Government including Army
and Navy, before the war 1t inherit
ed a running expense that is six times
what it was prior to the war, which
means that the burdens of public tax
alton is that much heavier than it was
in 1914. 1t found the Nations indus
tries over expanded by war demands,
a pay roll overbalanced, the laws OF
supply and demand suspended, the Ma
tons capital and labor menaced, and
the cost of production abuormally
high. 1t found the debts made, but
the bills unpaid,
Disturbed as were our domestic
conditions, they were less critical than
were our foreign relations. The in
trcate problems growing out OF Eu-
ropean jealousies were further COM
plicatcd by an effort to bind the Ma
tion in a plan of supergovernment,
prevented only by the Senate, which
was Overwhelmingly ratified in the
solemn referendum of last Novem-
Der.
"The new administration immediate
" attacked the problem and has eour-
: ageously proceeded in the work OF re-
!. adjustment to the point where in less
, than six months time 1t has challeng-
ed the admiration of the world. Let
the record speak for itself. Our f0f-
. eign relations policy is definitely and
1 certaily resuming and retaining our
/ honorable position of honinterference
: in matters not our own, and our un-
: compromising insistence of rightful re-
tcognition OF our place among the na-
tions, preserving our rights without
!. offending our rivals.
I 1.-THE proposed surrender of Japan of
. our uncontested interpationa, rights in
/. the Pacific attempted by the treaty of
Versailles as evidenced in the Yap epi-
sode, is already recalled, and we are
assured of national composure upon
our view as stated by the State Dep
Iartment and reinforced by including
il in the program of the coming con-
;. ference. The same can be said with
Il Britain on the Mesopotamia controv-
n ersy, which is assured in satisfaction
K OF both parties. The same with Mex
S leo on her attempted confiscation of
n property owned by Americans. The
= exalted position taken with the Reds
= of Russia was final, justifiable, and
3 salutary. not only for us but for the
= Old World, including Russia. Our po-
n sition with Panama is oonsonant with
these accomplishments.
"The war was ended by congression-
: al resolution July /. this year, and
g steps are already completed for the
e conference OF nations called together
x by the President to agree to disar1na-
: ment This much talked about thing
OF world peace has taken longer strides
within the past six months than in
century of dogmatic theorizing in the
past and promises to be the crowning
event of this century All this has
k been accomplished by and with the
d consent of those parties responsible
d for the movement OF world peace at
= home and abroad, and in a manner
e which displays a warmer spirit OF
c cosmopolitan cooperation than has up
e to date been noticed in the conduct
r. OF nations in all our history.
k I'm the four months of Congress in
d special session attention Is called TO a
e program Of achievement not equaled
= bv any Congress in the same length
= OF time. Besides the two deficiency
appropriation bills. the Army and Ma
w appropriation bills have been en-
acted saving S6sS O00Oo0 in the bills
below the estimates Of Secretary Bak-
or and Secretary Daniels
y "To insure against a flood Of immi-
grants determined to escape from Old
Il World turmoil incident TO war, and
a thus increasing our serious problem
S of unemployment, Congress passed at
4 an early date the immigration bill linn
IS iting further immigration TO ) per
e cent of the nationals already in the
: country. This was a platform pledge
n made to the country.
d "The mammoth expenditures called
IS for bv the war, and the incredible
waste and extravaeance in. the use
e of public funds during the war, pre-
n sented a staggering problem and have
l. emphasize the demands as never be-
= fore for fiscal reforms which were
d embodied in a national budget sys-
Is tenn which had been defeated by VIII
e sons veto. but which is now in oper-
d alton with all the machinery provided
re and at work in admirable fashion
j. This IS the Nations greatest fiscal re-
IS form and is one OF the most outsand-
lr ing achievements of recent times. This
ct is the fulfillnent of another platform
pledge. In accordance with this reform
we have reduced the pay roll here ir
nt Washington over 1900 since the ar
Iv mistice.
r. The liquidation Of war condition.
n fell most heavily and suddenly upor
n the agricultural interests. While othei
a industries still sustain high levels, agri