The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-14
BUCK-PASSING CONTEST ON
 IN CONGRESS
Lower House Made to Take Responsibility for Fina Passage of Big Measures Unfavorably Affecting Po- litical Status of Represen tatives.

Washington, July 14.-House lead CTS are alarmed over the growing tendency of the Senate to pass the legislative .fbuck'' to the lower branch of Congress.
 In previous years this practice was induIged in frequently by the House, which passed its chestnut burrs along to the Senate with the excuse, by way of justification, that the longest terms of the Senators permitted the sins or omission or commission to pass from the minds of the voters and prevented imm ediate retaliation at the polls.
 The Senate is getting ready now 10 send to the House for final dec1slon a soldier cash bonus bill. The bill will carry the approval of the Sena- >ors, and responsibility for its defeat will be placed squarely on the House.
 Enactment of the bonus legislation requires the levying of additional taxes to meet the new drain on the Treasury. The House does not want to take responsibility either for new taxes or for defeat of the soldier bo- nus. Each proposition is charged with political dynamite of the most dangerous character, and the cam paigns for reelection of House mem bers will open in less than one year
 House leaders recall that at the outset of the special session of Con- gress the Senate leaders forced on them responsibility for the decision that tariff revision should precede tax revision when it was the plan of the House leaders to have the two Younger Republican members of the House and many Senators are now complaining vigorously against delay in securing both the tariff and tax revision and the Tightening of Tburd- ems on the people.
 Somehow the Senate leaders seem to have shifted responsibility to the House for the delay in enacting leg islation terminating the State of war with Germany, House members complain. They assert that the Sen ate acted on it's peace resolution be- fore the Administration judged it safe to have done so because of the dltf1> cuIties experienced by the Allies in ation terms, and the House was called upon to help out the Administration by holding up the peace resolution. Immediately following satisfactory action by Germany the House passed a peace resolution. The Senate took it's own time in reaching a decision.
 Protest Senate's Non-Economy.
 Likewise, complains the House, the Senate and the House jointly are pledged to the Republican national pledge of economy, yet the House has not sent one appropriation bill to the Senate that the latter has not added millions to its total of draft on the Treasury. This is true particularly of the Army and Navy Supply bills When protests came from that num- erous class of citizens who demand large army and a large navy as insurance against aggression and war the Senate calmly announces that it sought to provide funds for the two esta blishments but the House ob- stInately prevented.
 The Senate is going quietly about it's business according to time-sanc- toned custom, but apparently is en- loving its new role of passing the buck" It is waiting, caref uIly con ceaiing whatever impatience it may reel over delays for the House to pass and send along it's tariff and tax measures Responsibility for the le- glslation will be evidenced then bv the Senate, which proposes, accord ing 10 senator Penrose, to investigate thoroughly and possibly make many changes in the measures