The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-09
REPUBLICAN
RULE BEGINS
FULL swing
Party Takes Full Possession of
Government Monday with
Franchise from Practically
20 Per Cent of Voters.
HAS BIG OPPORTUNITY
BY MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 9.-On
Monday the Republican party takes
complete possession of the govern
ment- 1t takes possession with a fran
chise from subs tantially 70 per cent of
the voters, and with majorities in the
house and senate rarely equalled by
any party at any tine in our history.
For Two years with mathematical
certainty the party can carry out its
will. And for at least four years the
only thing that could possible inter
fere would be a practically unforsee-
able reverse in the congressional elec-
tions in 1922. A reverse which would
reed to be so large as to be most
Z improbable.
The Republican party takes posses
sion OF its power with enormous
security. 1t is one of those occasions
when party, If it has great and cour
ageous leadership, can afford to ignore
temporary unpopuiarity and do what
is sound and far seeing in the sure
confidence that time will justify it.
What, now, does the Republican
party plan TO do with it's power? Every
epoch like the present. in which one
party or the other comes strongly into
power after lapse of years. is
marked by legislation of such import
ance as to constitute a shift in the
direction of our national history in
1896, it was the revision Of the tariff
in favor Of the manufacturing and
other propertied classes. In 1912 the
Democrats took the direction of re-
vising our banking and currency laws
in the interests of the borrower and
adopting the federal farm loan law in
the interest of the borrowing farmer.
To Better Housekeeping.
This present Republican congress is
going to mark its beginning with legis-
lation in the direction of what may be
called better housekeeping by the
rational government. One of the first
acts which congress will pass and
which the party will denend upon FOR
the approval of the public viii! be the
budget bill. This bill has been de-
scribed as the most important act in
the field Of government business and
finance since the civil war, excepting
only the Federal Reserve banking
act
ss In brief the budget will bring to the
business Of the government the same
compactness economy and centralized
responsibility that has been discover
Cd to be essential in private business.
The bill picks out the secretary of the
} treasury and lifts him out of and above
the rest Of the cabinet and makes him
resnonsible for all requests for money
made to congress and for the spend
ing Of that money.
Other incidents of the bill being a
corresponding compactness and cen
tralized responsibility to the appro-
priation of money by congress. The
budget bill was first passed over a
wear ago President Wilson. while
heartily endorsing the spirit Of it and
the great bulk Of its details. vetoed it.,
because of what he conceived to be
constitutional objection to one of
the details of the bill.
Repass Bill
After this veto the lower house of
congress made the requested change
and repassed the bill. In the senate,
however, the second passing of the
bill was prevented by a filibuster on
the part of one man, Senator Reed, of
Missouri: now however. the bill will
be passed by a Republican house and
senate and signed by a Republican
president and will be given to the
country as the first performance Of
an administration dedicated to More
business in government and less gov
ernment in business"
The second measure to pass in this
field will be known as the governme MT
reorganization bill. This is meant 20
be supplement to the budget bill and
has the same object Of compac actness
economy centralized responsibility in
the government business. The bill
will cure that utterly slipshod archaic
incongruous distribution of bureaus
and heads OF the departments, which
} results, for example, in the publica-
tion of Sixteen different cook books
by 16 different bureaus" or as Mr..
Hoover put it. In the Commercial
Department having charge of polar
bears. while the Interior Department
Agricultural Department of brown
bears.
Two Big Measures
These are the two big fundamental
measures that the Republican leaders
have in mind.
Aside from these measures congress
will turn promptly to the subject of
tariff and taxation. The programme
so far as it has crystallized at this
writing is to pass Immediately three
measures which belong in a group,
which are emergency in their concep.
tion and temporary in their intention
The first of these three measures is
the emergency tariff bill to last for
nent tariff can be made. The second
is an anti-dumping measure designed
to protect American producers against
the importation of foreign goods un
der the familiar conditions known as
dumping" The third is known as
the American valuation bill' intend
ed to prevent the practical nullifica
tion of our tariff by the present
chaotic difference in exchange be-
tween our own money and that OF
foreign governments.
With these three emergency meas
ures out of the way. congress will
turn to the two subjects of revising
the tariff and writing a permanent
tariff bill
Outlines Changed
In revising of the taxes the changes
now in sight are these: The income
taxes and surtaxes on very large in
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