The Mena weekly star., 1921-07-21
PASSING THE BUCK
 ON IN CONGRESS
Lower House Made to Take Responsi- bility for Final Passage of Big Measure Unfavorable to
 Representatives
eBy International News Service,

tBy international News SerVice.l
 Washington, July 14.-House lead CTS are alarmed over the growing tendency of the Senate to pass the legislative ''buck" to the lower branch of Congress.
 In previous years this practice was indulged in frequently by the House, which passed it's chestnut burrs along to the Senate with the excuse, by way of justification, that the longer terms of the senators permitted the sins of omission or commission to pass from the minds of the voters and prevented immediate retaliation at the polls.
 The Senate is getting ready now to send to the House for final decision a soldier cash bonus bill. The bill will carry the approval of the senators and responsibility for it's 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 bon us. Each proposition is charged wltI political dynamite of the most dan. gerous character, and the campaigns for reelection of House members will open in less than one year.
 House leaders recall that at the out set of the special session of Congress the Senate leader forced on them re- sponsibility for the decision that tar if revision should precede tax revi- sion when it was the plan of the House leader to have the two revi- sion measures run concurrently Younger Republican members of the House and many Senators are now complaining vigorously against delay in tax revision and the Tightening of burdens 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 wal with Germany, House members com plain. They assert that the Senate acted on it's peace resolution before the administration judged it safe tc have done so because of the difficulties experienced by the allies in getting Germany to accecd to feparatt ttiioF terms, and the House was called upon to help out the administration by holding up the peace resolution. I'm. mediately following satisfactory ac- tion by Germany the House passed . peace resolution. The Senate took its own time in reaching decision
 Likewise, complains the House, the Senate and the House jointly arg pledged to the Republican party pledge of economy, yet the House has not sent one appropriation bill to the Senate that the latter has not added millions to it's total of draft on the treasury. This is true particularly of the Army and Navy Supply bills When protests come from the nuf1er- ous class of citizen who demand g large army and large navy as insur. ance against aggression and war the Senate calmly announces that it sought to provide funds for the two establishments but the House obstin- ately prevented.
 The Senate is going quietly about it's business according to time-sanctinned custom, but apparently is enjoying its new role of passing the buck It is waiting, carefully concealing what ever impatience it may feel over de lays for the House to pass and sepd along its tariff and tax meaures Re. sponsibility for the legislation wll be evidenced then by the Senate which proposes, according to Senator Pfn- rose, to investigate thoroly and possi- bly make many changes in the me4s- ures.