The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-07-08
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Director of Budget Giving Or.
ders to Members Of Presi-
dents Cabinet.
Hugh w. Roberts in The State.

dents Cabinet.
Hugh w. Roberts in The State.
Washington, July 3.-Insurgency
against Republican leadership in the
house and Senator Lodge and Repre-
sentative Mondell has been exhausted
They are helpless if not hopeless.
At the other end of the avenue,
Gen. Charles G. Dawes is in supreme
command. He is head and shoulders
above any officer of the cabinet. He
has demanded and received authority
to enter unchallenged the holiest pre-
cincts, and to 60 over the heads CT
any and all departments nd libitum.
! This state of affairs is entirely
without precedent. Rock-ri5bcd Re-
publican newspapers are bitrer in
their complaint, and the staid Boston
Transcript has promised, in series
of trenchant editorials, shat The ma
jority in both houses termed by lead
ers "unwieldly," will be- reduced as
soon as the people have an opportu-
nifty to express themselves.
The Republican in congress with
power is Senator B6rah, self admitted
| to be Independent, iFeconcilable,
iconclastic. In the house, Represen-
tative James R. Mann sof Illinois
could easily be supreme were his
health good and were hsa-able to re-
! main permanently on thsffloor. BY
virtue of the headless condition, Rep
resentative. Porter, chaismans of the
foreign relations conasaittee, has ferg-
ed to the front. He outpointed SEN
ator Knox regarding the peace re-
solution but went into partial obli-
WON and total eclipse when he at
tempted to sidetrack the 3Borah dis
armament resolution.
| Riding to Ruin. =
| The administration forces rode
headlong to their ruin when they
| attempted to "put across" the Knox
resolution, originally framed as re-
buke for former President Wilson
and political issue. The house in
| sisted on the Porter resolution, and
congress finally accepted compro-
mise between the two which. is re-
garded as impotent.
But their total destruction was
scored when they stood like wall
against the Borah amendment. In
Senator Lodges committee they man.
aged to "kill it." When it was resur-
rected by Senator Borah on the floor
they brought word from the White
House that President Harding op-
posed it. But Borah, at the head Of
the other Republican insurgents,
stood his ground. Senator Under
wood rushed the entire Democratic
strength to his support. Senator
Lodge thereupon surrendered in the
belief that the amendment could be
strangled in the house.
The great obstacle faced by the ad-
ministration forces in the house was
phalanx composed of more than 100
Independent Republicans, and the
entire Democratic personnel. So
strong was this phalanx that Mr..
Porter, after careful consideration,
deemed it unwise to risk his substl-
tute amendment. 1t died a-borlng,
therefore, and the conferees between
the house and senate had nothing
bfore them but the Borah proposition
At the end of the day President
Harding sent word to Floor Leader
Mondell to withdraw his forces-and
this was done.
The hopelessness of the situation
is illustrated both by the administra.
tons policy respecting the S10,OOO,-
100000 owed by Europe to the
United States, and respecting the
pending Fordney tariff bill. Secre-
tary Mellon has Informed congress
that were the United States to force
Europe to pay it's obligations, the
United States would be ruined be-
caus Europe, even if it paid interest,
could not purchase American goods.
At the same time, the United States,
absolutely dependent on the ability
and willingness of Europe to buy,
and associate and there are many Co.
lumbians shocked and grieved at his