Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-07
President Praises Congress
In Letter Reviewing Work
Achieved by Republicans
Hope Expressed That
Legislators Will Adopt
Tariff and Tax Bills.
Message May Be Used
in Election Fight in
State of New Mexico.

oldlC OF lNeW MEXICO.
washington. Sept. 6.-President
harding, in letter reviewing the
aenievements to date of the Republican
aaministration, particularly with refer
,, snee 10 congress, declares that, sur
,,.Is uJIsihs the' national situation as a
"iiole, IL is plain that we are working
uua way out Of welter of waste and
rate" " Anos' Impressive
me letter, made public Tuesday, was
W written by the president, under date
OF August %. to Senator McCorm;ck
OF Illinois; and, it is understood, win he
| used In the campaign in New Mey;co
Where Senator Bursum. appointed to
! IN out the unexpired term of Secre.
eary OF Interior Fall, is candidate
ior electlon. The letter, it also is un-
1herstood, is considered by Republican
i1eaaers as reply to attacks on the
1es,sa.ive nons record of the Republican
democratic national committee and and
other leading Democrats.
we have made such progress To-
mara d len eeeintrenchment and greatly increas-
~ ~ ei1lcency." the president asserts
1 cannot but account it q monumental
accomplishment which has marked tho
a"rk OF the extraordinary session down
70 the time of its recess
Looks to Future.
LOOKING to the future, Mr.. HARDING
Expresses the confident hope that con-
slsss' alter the recess and before tbe
eIo OF the extraordinary session vii,
ADOPT both the tariff and taIs+;an ~,
...;i, maasures and that along with these +
VIII pass the bill to permit fnnd;no tba ~
oeD1 .srb: bMed US by foreign governments.
will Ih's. 81 l nope" the president added.
WI shortly be followed by ar
eal, eange.nents under which the debtor
their ti obligations Likewise an es eon nn
ilaent that the bill facilitating tha fnpd-
ing OF the debt of the railroads tn +bo
anited States will become law DIR
lug lhe extraordinary session. thus in
sulihg so q large and immediate demand
1of employment of men now idle.,'
Expenditures Cut.
The Republican congress nrecad;ne
1he advent of the present adninistrass
tion is credited by Mr.. Harding with
naVing patiently and ass;duousIr
iaoored to reduce expenditures with
results which we can summar;,a T.,
the statement that the appropriations
1or the current fiscal year viii aggre-
sate TOUR and quarter billion dollars
=: ana that this is three quarters of bill
uon no less than the expenditures for
the previous fiscal year.
Inc president, after reciting as ':ex-
lraFagances incident to the war" the
expenditure !, OF three and half billion
aoiIars PVT shipping board; between
and ammunition. and hetween
one and quarter and half h;ll;on
1oilars for the railroad administrator
adds 'oA'0As u a eioh
=, 1t is gratifying to be able to saw.
therefore. that probably no other gov
,rnment IN the world has during a sim
lar period. so drastically reduced ex-
pendltures as has the government Of
he United States during the past two
'ears on the insistence of the RepubH-
'an congress.
Moreover, am happy to assure YOU
nat the administrative departments are
low IN full sympathy with the program
y y rigorous and unremitting economy
nrough which / believe, we will be
lble during the next year to turn back
nto the treasury so large sum that
he aggregate of taxation may be re-
lnced to $500, 100000 a year. 80.
War to Blame.
half the present total expenditures
I the government arise from wars of
be past. Similar burdens are imnosed
pom the taxpayers of other Countries
nd u well-nigh universal protest
gainst possible repetition of gigantic
onflct gives rise to the common hone
hat the conference in November may
ghten the burdens of both armament
nd taxation, not only for this hnt fnr
ther lands. AVA
Almost without exception, the roy-
rnments OF other countries are faced
18th great deficits.
We must not over-estimate our good
ortune and the prudence of our CON
ress. which permits us to balance
evenue and expenditure at a time
hen deficits are the rule throuehout
le world. We shall be greatly aided
policy of progressively reducing
expenditures by the budget law. Re-
ublican in origin, design, enactment
I'D execution.
| do not hesitate to say that in
rdinary times it alone would have
cen considered a highly creditable
aef product of a years legislative
rogram. Yet, in time Of such legis-
tive activity as the present, it is only
ne among many measures of the first
nportance to be enacted. 1t was
,ickly followed by the enactment Of
lie immigration law, calculated both
} limit the inflow of population during
period of depression and to hasten
le day when we may effect the true
of all new comers to
II shores.
The Agricultural Bill
'The series of measures looking to
e aHeleriation of conditions in the
eat agricultural industries would in
her times have constituted a strik-
Z legislative product of years ses-
,n. These include the law for con-
ol of the packing industry, the act
r the regulation Of grain exchanges
d the law for the extension Of cre-
q to farmers through, the War III
nee Corporation to enable them 10
rry theirscrops until the markets VIII