Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-07-08
YOUNG MEMBERS
REVOLT

All is not as it seems up on the Hill
where sits Congress in all it's glory.
The honeymoon is over and now is
the time for settling down and settling
up confronting the gentlemen of the
House and Senate; also the lone, but
not lonely, inhabitant of the White
Mansion at the other end of the ave-
nue..
Then the special session opened up
everybody was billing and cooling
about how lovely the prospect was.
The country was to be pulled out OF
it's troubles, set on it's feet and given
one quick shove into prosperity, and
then the boys were to go home and
meet the glad extended hand of well
come and the bright smiles and graft
ture of an admiring populace whose
sole desire would be to return the
bringers of said prosperity to the
halls of legislation in 1922.
Now comes the aftermath and trou
BILE is sticking up it's ugly head dis
turbing the harmony and causing cold
glances, hard words and harder real
tiles to come between the adoring
swains and their loving partners. In
other words, hell is about to break
loose. This country is, like the Min
nesota sheriff caught over the line in
Canada and socked in Jail for carry
ing gun and quart, in a devil VI
a fix. The most conservative esti-
mate is that five million people are
out of work and the number growing
each day; conditions surrounding
trade with other countries are no bet
ter, not as good as they were; finance
and financiers are up tree with for
eign exchange always muddying the
waters of business, and the outlook
for pickup in industry continues to
be clouded by hopelessness.
And now comes Mr.. Mellon of the
Treasury with scheme to refund the
debt owed by the Allies and other
countries, which scheme is presented
in very vague and uncertain terms to
the Senate in the form of bill by
Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania. 1t
is whispered that the bill is a concoc-
tion of international bankers who are
trying to save their bacon, and it ap-
pears to have been the cause of COM
ing together of Senators and Con-
gressmen from the South and West.
They reason that there are others to
be looked after besides International
bankers and that the United States
covers considerably greater territory
than Wall Street does, the cause for
their belief being found in the NUT
terings of constituents back home now
turning into bitter vociferous denun-
citation of the slowness of Congress
in remedying conditions.
Combinations of Senators, made up
of both Republican and Democratic
elements, have been formed for var
ious purposes, the word "bloc" being
used to describe such combinations
because of the absence of party lines
and the necessity for an appelation,
until now you hear nothing of Repub-
licans or Democrats, but always of
this or that bloc.
Recently there broke out another
pretty little shindy, due to the fact
that the Newlyweds of the Republican
ilk in the House claimed the older la
dies of the establishment who belong
to the Republican machine, were not
giving the honey a look-in
at the cooking, table-setting, cake
making and other games of chance.
They are real lady-like at present,
and have no desire to embarrass the
dear old party, but-well they just
amt going to be ignored and sat on
any longer. They demand the right
to talk even if there is company pres
ent; to sit in the parlor and play their
own music on the piano and sing the
songs they like. So they have or
ganized another bloc and called upon
all the new Congressman to rally
round and carry on. And that's an
other thing unpleasing to the older
statesmen who thought they had it
all sewed up last November All in
all, there's some mighty fine blocing
being done by all hands.